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grown with the enormous rapidity OF
the beer business. While the popula-
ton OF the country is only about two
and quarter times what 1t was at the
close Of the war, the consumption of
beer Is IL times as great. 1t has gone
up every year by leaps and bounds. in
spite Of the restrictive legislation which
Temperance advocates have fondly
hoped would curb the demon. In the
last 20 years 1t has actually doubled,
though everybody has supposed that
the Temperance cause was making
great headway While other business
has its vicissitudes. with production and
consumption rising and falling in cycles
Of years. the beer business shows every
year millions of barrels more produced
and drunk. Like death. all seasons and
years are alike to 1t. except that every
succeeding twelvemonth adds millions
more to its slaves and victims Even
the ravages Of disease cannot check It
Though beer-drinkers die OF like rot
ten docks. the number swells every
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stupendossness Of These Figures.

The overwhelming immensity Of these
figures can be only grasped by subject
ing them to analysis, and bringing them
into relation to each individual citizen
of the country. Taking in connection
with the beer brewed at home that
imported from abroad ii makes the as
founding total Of between 1,5O0, 900, ,000
he S2.000,0o0 people OF this country
last year. Disregarding all fractions,
this is approximately 20 gallons a year
FOR every man, woman and child I'm the
United States. Assuming glass of beer
TO be half-a-pint. this gives $50 glasses
Of beer year for each Of them, or one
day. Now We know, in spite OF what
the yellow papers may say about the
increase in drinking by women in the
cities, substantially none of our women
drink beer. Those that do are really an
nconsiderable fraction Of the popula-
lion. Nor do the children drink beer.
Then there are millions upon millions
of men in the agricultural districts bust.
ness men and mechanics In the cities,
railroaders, clerks. professional men.
clergymen, physicians, and teachers who
are rigid Temperance men, and never
touch beer from one years end to the
other. There are thousands Of Counties
where Local Option prevails. and drink
ing Is prohibited. There are great Pro-
/
where beer can be only obtained SUE
reptitfously and in small quantities.
Nearly all the Southern States have
fairly well-enforced Temperance laws,
to keep beer and whisky away from the
negroes and ''po' white trash" Conse-
quehtly. IL we put the real beer drink
ers at 100000 or one in eight Of our
population, we shall make q liberal es-
innate. Therefore each Of these must
consume nearly half-a-gallon OF beer q
day, to the destruction OF their work.
ing capacity, their health and their
morals.
The Rapid Growth Of the Evil
Were the beer drinking confined to
this relatively small class Of people, We
could view it with more equanimity. We
could say philosophically that those
who are poisoning themselves with beer
belong to the set that are going to per-
dition anyway, and they might as well
go by the beer route as any other. Ger
tain men and women are born with
self-destructive tendencies and IL they
do not drink beer or whisky, they will
take to opium or some other suicidal
agent. But the rapid growth Of the
beer business forbids any such self
complacent philosophy. The Inter-
nal Revenue statistics are far more
alarming than any Temperance SER
lion. Nothing in the country has
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CHAPTER Xxx.
TILE ARMY SETTLES DOWN IN MUIR
FREESBORO.

Repairing. Rentting aad F0rftfytug-
Works Of Immense Strength Thrown
yp-Need Of More Cavalry-Wheeler
Beaten on at Fort DOnelsOn-C0buFn
Captured nj ThOmpaOn'a StatiOn-Car-
ter's East Tennessee Raid-M0rgan
Receives Severe Beating.
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these enormous works was In defeating
Forests attempt to take a portion Of
them and to secure supplies during
Hoods siege Of Knoxville. Even this
furnishes only a partial Justification for
them. since works costing one-hun
dredth OF the labor would have been
equally effective In securing the safety
OF the stores. Another surprising
thought is that so much labor was ex-
pended upon these works and so little
upon the more natural and vulnerable
approaches to Nashville by the way Of
Columbia and Franklin.
AS TO the powerful armament OF these
fortifications the following 10 the Of
fetal report Of that Of Fortress Rose
Grams alone:
Guns
Eight-inch siege howitzers. $500. II
Twenty -four-pounder James rihed.
Six-pounder smooth-bore. field. l6
Twelve FOUNDER howitzers. neld... 2
Ten-pounder rified Parrott. feld...
Six-poundcr rified James. field. -. Z
Three-inch rified Rodman. field. 80. /
Three-inch rified bronze. field.:...
r-.~S --.-.s -, ~.---s-..
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Eight-inch siege howitzers. :.
Twenty y.four.pounder lanes rided.
r-.~s --s-.s -, ~.---s-.

After settling down along Duck
River. Gen. Bragg put his troops into
Winl..r quarters and began an extensive
series OF fortiications around Tulla-
homa to protect his base there. Van
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travelling or absent from the city for
several months or while their house is
being redecorated or made over.
"0n occasion we have stored q set OF
drawing room furniture which cost SIS, 900
and tapestries worth a small fortune. h
the storage business first started up there
were not many persons who owned such
furnishings. At that time mem worth
800 900 were thou ght quite rich, whereas
We nave in storage now antiques in brio
a-brac and various hangings belon ging to
one person which are worth a good deal
more than SlOO 900. Upholstered furniture
and hangings OF this class always go into
cold storage.
DO woman ever contest storage bill2
There are women who contest anything in
the shape OF a bill. 1t il that very thing
which causes us TO issue a written statement
Of terms and charges, including a lucid
explanation Of every detail Of q storage
transaction to every person who contem-
plates entering into a contract with us.
Even then some women never car under
stand why an item forcartage should appear
in their BILL"
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house. and the birds have refused to be
turned out now that the place has been
made into a cafe. They fly in and out In
great hocks, hop fearlessly along the floor.
picking up crumbs that fall from the tables.
and keep the walters busy protecting the
guests from the pests too importunats
familiarity.
From another great underground passage
the Buna flows a full fedged river. The
cool air that rushes out on the current Of
the subterranean stream makes the mouth
of this grotto a popular summer resort with
HerZegovinians. The shrine OF a Mohann'
medan saint is on a rock near by and its
attendant has charge Of the neighborinei
roadhouse. For centuries, this worthy
said, there has been here a house Tor the
entertainment Of man. One Of the hrst dis
coverers OF the real source OF the BunA
was an early host.
This predecessor OF mine" he said in
telling the story, had a son who was q
shepherd on the upland plains for the non
Ara Of Nevesinje some twenty miles back
in the mountains. One day the old man took
out OF the water a staff which he recognised
as having belonged TO his son. After q
consultation the two made up their minds
to profit by the discovery, for they had
merely found out what we all know now
hat the Buna is only the reappearanosI
altar a ten or fifteen miles underground
course, of a stream that drops out OF sight
In the Nevesinje highlands.
Every morning thereafter the old man
fished out Of the river h carcass OF a sheep
that soon afterward appeared as Fnutlcn
upon his tables. But the Aga OF Neveinys
beoame suspicious and wanted TO- know
why his fiooks were getting so small. ing
bow told him that 1t was the wolves ana
that he had mighty battles, with ne
maursuders. The Aga watched that Mens
and the next morning the hotel keeper
ished the body OF his son u OF me Vs. w.,
and there were no more fresh mutton chops
for The guests"
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a big establishment. Hundreds more have
moved from an apartment Of eight, nine or
ten rooms to one Of six, seven or eight
rooms because OF a raise in rents, and also
to be able to lOp of an extra servant; and
no end Of persons living in housekeeping
apartments have slid out Of housekeeping
altogether during the last twelve months.
There IL nothing fixed any more in the
style Of living Of the average New'Yorker,
as every storage man knows.
We'll, In all these cases the overplus OF
furniture from the house or the larger
apartment, and all the furniture in other
cases, is almost always landed in a storage
warehouse. Comparatively few persons
make up their mind 10 give up housekeep-
ing permanently md sell all their furniture,
or even part OF il.
I'VE shall probably start housekeeping
again next year or ext winter, or after
we come back from Europe is the way
most OF the people I deal with talk when
making storage arrangements, and l guess
most OF them mean IL.
we have one New York woman, though
on our books who has been paying 800 .
month right along for eight years.
In charge Of one OF the storage ware
houses ~patronized more especially by the
wealthy is a man who has been identified
with the business since it's inception and Is
informed in regard to he amount Of bust
ness done in ali the larger furniture storage
places in this city. Said he:
This warehouse. which was one OF the
first to be built and 10 about twenty-three
years old, was just one-sixth Of it's present
size when first opened. It has been even
times enlarged in less than fifteen years.
The cold storage feature OF the business
is only about eight or nine years old.
Instead Of two or three, there are now
| about thirty-hve furniture storage ware
houses in Greater New York. ten Of which
are absolutely ~fireproof, and another huge
affair is being put up in Williamsburg. Al
! a rough guess this gives O,OOO rooms.
In this building alone there are l,SOC
| rooms, which most Of thfnjme are full, and
at this season OF the year re to be crowded.
They are crowded now, at any rate, for the
reason that customers who formerly got
back to town about October 1 now stay
away a month or two later. And although
the price OF storage is 20 per cent. higher
than IL was at the start, the business has
increased out Of all proportion to the in
crease in the population.
A reason2 Well IL takes more than one
reason to explain it, but | should say a do
sire to hang on 10 Possessions for sentiment
tai or other reas0ns 10 largely at the bot
tom Of IL; also a love Of change, Of sx-
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red fez and sash and the little ones crimson
Turkish pantalettes made brilliant spots on
the brown roadway. They showed no in
clination to move, and to avoid running
them down we stopped. The man with a
good natured smile asked us to sit on his
rugs in the shade by the roadside while
he made Us some coffee. The GOODNESS
Of the fellow was rather pleasing and we sat
down to watch him. /"
o a brick oven under a tree he set water
to boif in slender copper pots with long
iron handles. When the water had boiled he
put in sugar and filed the pots with water.
Then he sat down to let them boil more.
Next he put in the coffee. ground to a fine
powder, stirred it until it was thoroughly
mixed and then watched It until it bubbled
up in froth. But before the froth escaped
ron the sides he took the pots from the
Are and tapped them gently on the over
until the froth went down. He repeated
this three times and hen said that he had
Turkish coffee, made as il should be made,
ready to serve.
"A woman in yashmak and a long black
robe that completely concealed her figure
poured a portion OF the froth into each OF
our cups and then filled them with coffee.
The cook stood by smiling. Every auto
mobile, he said, stopped at his place. Just
as We were preparing to leave a touring
car came into sight and as we glanced back
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we saw him and his two little girls standing
in the road ready to stop it,
Many of the old monasteries OF Ger
many nave been converted into road
houses. Some had already been made
into brew cries, schools, hotels and stables
sinoe the ~abrogating acts Of Bismarck's
time and those that remained without any
other use ave apparently been appro-
priated for the accommodation OF the
automobilists. Hunting huts and foresters'
homes on mountain roads have also been
open to them, and mane Of the old chAlets
OF the Tyrol and the Black Forest have
been transformed into country inns. The
quaintess Of these places, their histories
and past associations always appeal to
the tourists.
One OF the odd stopping places OF which
q traveller in out OF way places odd was
a little chapel with a road house annex at
Loretto Of Baden in the Rhine valley. The
chapel is the site OF pilgrimages IN st.
Joseph day for the maids of Baden who
may be in want Of a faithful husband, and
the road house is famous throughout the
country for the excellence Of its beer and
wine. Visitors to one Of the buildings, it
seems, are sure to be visitors to the other,
and in order to facilitate the passage a
covered way connectsth the two upper stories.
Tablets tell Of the founding Of the chapel
in the seventeenth century and double
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Panic G nirns.

FdgetteriMe correspondence ChorEche Obssyrsr.
Night before last this city had enc OF the
stran gest visitstions In all its history-thou-
sands OF Wild geese. ducks. partridg es and the
ordinary song birds Of the woods, down 10
the sparrow and even smaller. They cana
all in a tumble. frightened creatures. and
settled on the roofs OF the tall lid IN.
All night the police at headquarters could
hear the reese honkin 9. the ducks ouaoktnR
and ouails piping. By early morning the
great mass. futterinR and screaming new
away. On Market Square were left hundred.
Of the smaller birds dead. either from rhs
exhaustion from their long fight or SroUo
being pounded and beaten against the aIHonn
trio lights. II opposed that some sudSaH
storm drove them from the wo0ds and swSmcn
and nat they found the tall blocks OF buiidinS
the first perch or refuge "kS
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many new ones lately put up in Harlem.
But to con back to the storage.
Until the persons l speak Of can get the
sort OF apartment they want their goods
stay here, which may be all winter, as likely
as not. But that's not the only reason
we're 90 stocked up Of late. The servant
question has q lot to do with it.
when they left their orders here last
winter and last spring several persons ex-
planned that they wanted a rest from house,
keeping on account Of trouble with SER
wants, and l judge they are still resting.
The apartment hotels rou here n a
little further uptown are ohock full and a
stored right here.
Apartment hotels not cheap? No, Of
cours not. But it's like this.
"A family will get along with half the
rooms in an apartment hotel that they
think they must q in q housekeeping
apartment. 1t is a different proposition
altogether. The majority OF our customers
have Ave or six vanloads OF stuff stored
here, which means that each pays from
$40 TO $50 q month storage bills.
Leave goods here a year or twOI Why.
We ave a patron who has paid US $40
every month for eighteen years. In everal
Gases We rave been collecting storage bills
right along from the same person for ten
years, q perhaps one-third OF our gooCs
nave been here from two to three years"
Our business takes In hundreds OF fat
jewellers not hampered with a lease who
store their furniture often for a month only, y
was the report OF the mana ger Of a storage
building which occupies a block OF a West
Side thoroughfAre. Business OF late has
been q triie more brisk than usual on ac-
count OF the many new cheap apartments
built away uptown.
Many housekeepers stored their fur
niture in the summer waiting for ons or
another of the new fats TO be finished and
meanwhile went out OF the city. Now they
are back and clamoring for their things
faster than We can deliver them
At an East Side storage place the seory
Of crowded rooms was repeated.
And the manager said, every fire.
proof storage house in New York is ~inAjust
the same condition now. ! have heard OF
several no crowded that they CAM take in
more goods till some goods go out.
I'm our own case I explain the congestion
I in this q OF late there hes been a big
shifting Of tenants all along the line, some
from economical reasons, more from choice.
For example, hundreds Of PersOns I know
have lately moved from a large house to
an apartment in order to escape keeping a
retinueSl servants or the responsibility Of
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STORIES OF BIRD LIFE.
Partridses Hatched by Bantam.

EiktoH eO~TrsspoRdeRee PhiIddelphio Record.
Mrs. Mary Smith, wife OF John Smith. q
Hartford county farmer. has in her possession
a chicken that has become q foster mother
for ten young partridges.
Last winter and early In the spring a num-
Der OF Kansas quail we're liberated by sports
men In the vicinity OF Mr.. Smiths farm.
One night Mr.. Smiths cat brought an expect
ant partridge mother In dead. Mrs. Smith
Immediately went 90 the nest. and finding
eighteen Eggs stu warm. transferred them
to q bantam hen. and In a short while ten
hAtchcd out. The little birds are a. domestic
A. ordinary young chickens. When night
comes on they hover under their mother
Just a. naturally a. II they were bantams.
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that many drivers who are searching for
unfamiliar. ways have taken while in the
Adriatic coast land. American tourists
like it because it gives a good glimpse Of
the change from the Occident to the Orient.
Austria, in the general plan Of rehabilitating
the country, has furnished a highway like
a city boulevard, and until the automobile
came had almost exclusive % Of IL for
mail and army wagons The Government
has, too, equipped fine hotels at both ends
Of the route, but the only accommodation
along the way has been at the old Turkish
hans, or inns
A Servian with small capital and an eye
to the main chance rose to the occasion
this summer. At Praca, near the famous
Ranjan Karaula Pass, he put up q road
house after original plans. In the shadow
OF a minaret and near the entrance OF q
pretty little mosque he built q shelter Of
boughs and arranged some tables under
their shade. He stands in front Of his
property and at the Appearance OF a tourist
fairly oozes hospitality. His wife cooks
in the rear Of the bouGh covered resort,
and his two pretty girls. in the most fetching
Of Servian dresses. wait on the customers.
In some way they discovered a particularly
app citing way of preparing eggs and
making omelettes, and they bid fair.to gain
a reputation second in this respect only to
that Of Nine. Poulard Of Mont Saint Michel.
What a ~benefaotion this Servian's place
u.s. said a New Yorker, Il discovered this
summer. On my way back from the Turk
ish border my machine broke down, and we
labored on in the darkness to the first light
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element, and dissatisfaction with a neigh
borhood, an apartment or a dwelling after
starting in to keep house.
Nervous prostration is an excuse which
hlls many a storage room. In all such cases
the first thing a fashionable woman is pretty
sure to say is, Let us Iack up and send our
things 10 storage and then sine pays us a
visit. and we take care Of her things maybe
for years.
We have had customers who left their
goods here, went abroad and evidently
forgot all about them. Every storehouse
has experiences Of that sort. According
to law we need hold goods only one year
or less after the payment Of rent ceases;
but as a matter Of fact we seldom close out
goods OF any value until our statements
ave been ignored W or three years.
I'm one case l remember deciding to
clear out some household goods which had
been unclaimed for more than three years;
and, as 10 customary l had two large wooden
cases included in the collection opened
before the auction began. 1t was a lucky
thing for me and the owner that / did
~One, I found, was filled with massive old
English silver marked with a monogram;
the other with family portraits done In oil.
OF course l withdrew the silver and por-
traits from the auction, certain that the
owner would turn up eventually. And he
cid.
Three months later in he walked, and
when l told him how close he had been
to losing his heirlooms, he was mighty
grateful that I had given him a chance.
He had been travelling around the world,
he told me-; letters seldom reached him
and he had really forgotten all about the
silver until he landed at this port.
Many times I have explained to old GUS
toners that their storage bills Of, say, seven
or eight years were almost equal to the
value OF the goods stored and adv ised them
to sell on, but as a rule all the answer l got
was. oh, I may TO use the thin gs
some time or, They are heirlooms, and /
don't care to part with Them
Sometimes the owners haven't any
, reason at all to give, but they keep on paying
storage, and OF course we are not com
planning at that. / have come to the con-
clusion that most women at least, and some
mcn too, would rather store away valuables
indefinitely than divide them up amor z
relatives or friends who could use them.
There h a proportion Of our business,
however, which has little or nothing to do
| with the kuctIatiOn in rehtS of the PER-
plexities OF the servant question and which
10 OF comparatively recent date. I refer
10 the practice Of storing handsome fur
nituFs and hangings while the owners are