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Show Where Gothamites Worship. Round About New York rp. rtf THE TRAPPIST f t. ofN Gossip People and Things in th Great Metropolis ie V? V 1 - - Sii-U- 6INGULARLY SEVERE DISCIPLINE UNDER WHICH HE LIVES. After the morning prayers have been recited, they go to bed again, but not for long; at dawn the bells are hoard through the convent. It Is time lo go to church again to sing Matins. AfterMonastery Near Rome Where Vowa wards the Trappist attends to houseef Silence, Penance, hold affairs, and then sits down to and Work Are Taken by breakfast, a plain meat eonsisiing of the Inmate. a piece of biead and a hot beverage. Hut the vineyards and the orchards of In that part of the Agro Romano, the cen vent ureof an abundance which where malarial fevers reign supreme, contrasts greatly with the poverty of at a short distance from the Via the numks'Qf-xlBteureTho Trappbts Ostensi high road, appears In its sol- cultivate a very extensive properly, emn solitude the Abbey of Tre Fon-tan- where fruits of all kinds grow plon tho grapes being most abundant at the end of a magnificent avenue. It is a fit place for meditation and melancholy. A Trappist never speaks such is the rule. Ills voice is only heard, monotonous and weak, almost drowned by the notes of the organ which his morning psalms or evening prayers in the lnrge church of the convent, with its huge arcudes and high, dark ceiling. Trapplsts do not cultivate art. In their churches are no imposing tombs, nor do they adorn their choirs with those fine stalls that and ate rfiasterpleces of Inlaid work, and which are to be admired In most abbeys of the Benedictines. The Trapplsts instead sit In poor stalls, the boards of which are roughtly put together. The order of the Trapplsts is most Under the Portico of the Abbey. strict, and requires men having a true vocation and strong will to persevere and of an exquisite quality. In the In It. Silence is undoubtedly cie of outhouses there are over 100 cows and the greatest punishments that can be about 12 horses. Every morning more Inflicted, even temporarily, upon pris- than 400 litres of milk are sent to oners; we mny therefore guess how Rome, as well as hampers of fruits and vegetables, carts of hay and wheat. much strength of will and are required to keep it spontaneously The monks manufacture from the during a whole lifetime. But this is eucalyptus, a liquor known as eucalyp-tlno- , and they also produce an caserne not all. The rule of fasting Is peremptory, and is also observed In case of and an oil of eucalyptus. The mot-esickness, unless the doctor finds It derived from ne sale of these Is used necessary to order a different diet. for the payment of a debt to the The debt was Italian government. The cooking does not afford mapy as meat, eggs, and even fish contracted for reclaiming the Agro ire excluded thus their meals are Romano near the convent. The reader may ask himself how nirely vegetarian. Dinner consists of t soup, vegetable, and fruit; supper of the Trapplsts spend all their money. potatoes, salad, and water without This cannot be positively stated. At ipenklng of all the fasting days, dar- Durban, In South Africa, in a place ns which they only take a little bread, which was once only a desert, the t could not, indeed, be otherwise, for monks bought 12.000 acres, every bit .lie orders of the Trapplsts, or. rather, of which Is cultivated noyr. They he order of the Cistercians, of which founded warehouses, kitchens for the .lie Trappists are a branch, was foundpoor, mills, a telegraphic and teled for penance, and work. phonic office, a hospital with laboraThe bed of a Trappist consists of a tories, and free schools, where thouInia pullet without any bedclothes, sands of Kaffirs are fed and educated. or ne goes to lied dressed, wearing They accomplished all this with the ils everyday clothes. At two oclock money belonging to the order, the n the morning a bell is heard calling amount of which is not known to anyhe monks to church. In the dim light body. Trapplsts never speak, as the if fLtkrrlng lanterns they go down to rule says, but were they to do so they :hurch to recite, jn a chorus, the sevea certainly would not tell anybody about ucuitcntial psaluiB. the mysteries of their "Rules." Self-deni- LIFE BECOMING AMONG THE Ot. HOTEL c AD II' A! YORK. The York ere not Ve r. RICH rich people of only music mad, are hotel mad. Hundreds and vtfio have luxurl-towrjrcd of people houses, as well as country now living in hotels, and aiei, are more and - costlier demand for unabated. continues e!i lea of the Waldorf and be building the subsequent merger with responsible largely for the This hotel, as It stands, e! life fad. and it than $14,000,000, it more to out one how figure jjld puzzle could be made h i large investment The taxes alone are more pay. u $150,000 a year, and this does not ude water rates, Insurance and rest jut It must pay, in spite of the size be Investment, for George Boldth In Its management i drown rich has made his ei Oscar the chef 'r, -' iid"- ill A n .iT --i " aw fine, n As-va- 9 at m SH froD Uti Uk l4 i Pile. Besides the , the nwny HWons In hotels in recent years. Since then they have built the Hptel St. Regis in which has the name of fi th being the most expensive holstery In New York, the Hotel Astor, a magnifl. cent pile in Long Acre square, where not so long ago cows were wont to biowse, and the Knickerbocker at Forty-seconstreet and Broadway. At present they are also at a cost of $6,000,000, an building apartment hotel at Seventy-nintstreet and Broadway, which covers a whole city block, and in which the rents win run as high as $25,000 a year. One of the features will be apartments, that Is, the living rooms on one floor and the sleeping rooms on another, the floors being connected by private stairways. aV fe:; Waldorf-Astoria- . Ufr lDVeBleU ae, d U h two-stor- y wood-carvip- d 1 MmmaokWM.mss!& Vi tr, w'yj 1 I vSOtf a ' y i "4, Jrejii OLD m A5T0R icbo: FASHIONED STILL MAKING lljOUSE HOTELS Beautiful Interior of Trinity church In New York City. self-deni- MONEY dtlajij Lot, enough there are many hotels In New York, out of of the belt where them iy y life reigns, which are still for their proprietors, yn John Jacob Astor built his fa-- u hotel at Barclay street and him it adway his friends told ild be a disastrous venture as the was situated too far up town to ch the trade. Well, the hotel Is doing business and the lessee Is d to have made a great fortune Ml!) lDUl URIOlSLY kAp coin-mone- Ltaq i! RS RS -l Htilk) 4uti of It of people who every year would come to Thousands York not think anywhere else, any more is their fathers and grandfathers ild in spite of 'the fact that It Is in almost the heart of the bust-i- s stopping tsd financial district iei there is the Broadway Third street, which used Cen-i- t to be HONCHO busting Is the sport Evelyn Nesblt Thaw has her mind upon as the thing she ild most enjoy. The solitude of a stem ranch, surrounded by snow-pe- d peaks and nestling in some ley far from the abode of others her race, Is where she plans to which remainder of her life with when he Is free to leave frim Tombs cell room. im so tired of this; oh, so tired, Hd the other day. I want to 7 It all the crowds, the smoke, hlg buildings, the lights, every-- f that reminds me of the past want to go west with Harry Just ;rT and I and when he Is acquit-shall go. I have been in the I know what It Is. I want to way from this dressing, dressing, aal dressing, and wear a short d and a awcater and ride bronchos the" uy Thaw, ! I w 'Ida." to a question, if she would reply the stage If it ever became necessary for her to earn her living again, Evelyn replied with a smile: No, Indeed, I would do anything else first Dan O'ReiUey told me a manager almost wept on his neck and said, Think of all this notoriety going to waste. Mrs, Thaw added that the stage had lost Its attraction for her, and told of her early stage aspirations, saying: In Pittsburg, even as a child, I had 1 longed to be a great actress. Sarah be to was I going thought Bernhardt No. 2. My first rehearsal cured me of that Mr. Jerome told the Jury I was a great actress. I wish he could have seen that rehearsal. I had one line to speak. It was something like 'Here comes the bride.' When I said It, Mr. Lederer looked up and laughed. I lisped a little then and I would say It took him all morning to b wide. me that one line." teach go back on . DIY0RCED MRS. LEEDS HAS LAUGH ON SUCCESSOR liable to LEEDS divorced wife that It was a necklace and with ' having cent 50 duty, additional per a $360,000 laugh. The an 6 was seized. necklace on and the The Interest. expense borne by ds present The case was carried Into the wife, who was Mrs. Stewart Worthington, of Clove-- United States circuit court, where It wh''n she married the million-- " was held that Citroen muBt pay the amount of the protested duty before uoplate magnate. of a $360,000 Is what It cost Mrs. he could appeal from the decision Nof 2 to attempt to outshine the local board for appraisers. Mr. Leeds were heeds No. l in a The agents single article of the treasury deInto "r3r at the watering pluces of forced to pay under pro'PG, Washington, at partment the cost to added be - Leeds to no. 1. was divorced In test, $110,335 ' w necklace. of the "dowry of a cold million. H er husband That Is why the first Mrs. Leeds married Mrs. n0Rton the two women became having a $360,000 laugh. 1 mr society's highest honors. Big. Indeed. Wor hroad Mrs. Ieds i bought a Hiram Ilardapple lookold Whots magnlflceflt ncckluce ns for $223,000. which she wore ing so sour about, Jason? d seomnture Bunkoed." of No. 1. dazzling Bunkoed again? How did that bophol(Urg, B. , - 'f hn r" Mrs. May Stewart Worth- - cam home t0 New York k ? Jh pearls unstrung and cltron. named as the Im-hrr Ir' Beods, swore the ere liable to a duty of only ffnt" not a necklace, eni 80 n,ftny unstrung pearls. "'lUR duty Of $22, GOO was paid I u"d seemed to be in full "''""on of her necklace. however. Zi d a mwut reappralsement, declaring i. c !f PACIFIC CITRUS CROP PRODUCT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VALUED AT $20,000,000. the same conditions were cept that the difference In effect, exIn favor of 1907 was even more noticeable. Last year the total crop aggregated 26,000 Estimated That 27, COO Cars Will Be cars. In 1905 It was a 30,000 car crop. This year the estimate is for a crop of Shipped by Close of Season in 27,000 cars. June Good Returns for the With market conditions as they are Growers. it Is estimated the crop this year will Los Ange'es, Cal. With a total crop bring to southern California close to of 27,000 cars, the present citrus sea- $20,000,000, of which sum the growers will get half, nearly all the remainder son, while not the most successful In the history of southern California, will going to the Santa Fe and the Southbe among the best money makers. ern Pacific. The Salt Lake line has lost 80 per cent of Its shipments, due Shipments to this time have been less to the fact that it has had no overland by more than 800 cars than for the same time last year, but it is explain- service for six weeks. With condied that this Is due to conditions that tions normal the Santa Fe obtains about 60 cent of the business, the prevented the crop from being moved remainder per to the Southern Pagoing at all prior to Feb. 1, while since the fruit has gone to market In volume cific with about. 30 per cent, and the tSCOSeOQCSCCOSCSCCCQCCOCCCCQOCeOSCCOSCOOQCQOOQOOOOOOF more than sufficient to offset the time Clark line with about 15 per cent 'it ts claimed that the three Initial that was lost. For the first three months of 1907 lines no longer pool for the traffic, althe total number of cars sent to mar- though when one system Is short of ket aggregated 12,226, of which 3,500 cars and the others have them to cars were lemons. During the same spare they are loaned for mutual time there had been sent out 2,749 cars Pails police are keen, alert and en to that hardy race known In Euof vegetables, as against 2,532 cars for PEG RECALLS OLD CUSTOM. ngetlc, but they have found them-ielve- s rope to the custom house frontier the same time In 1906, and a total of unequal to the task of round-n- service and elcsely allied to the sheep 2,001 cars of vegetables forwarded In The dog force of Ghent up the thieves and assassin i dog breed. Hair from Heads of Quarreling Couthe first three months of 1905. which as never is be to Increased to 60 soon. thrive, Bcemlngly, In Tree's Heart. So far this season, it Is said by those ples Plugged t in her streets and tlie outlying Similarly at Paris It Is expected MW In position to know, the citrus market llstricts. Conscious of the fact the t that dogs will prove valuable. Greenfield, Ind. After four two-inchas been In a condition that has proveffiThree animals have been purchased ed of exceptional value to the grower, boards had been taken off an oak log, they had reached the limit of because the market has not been over- at James Webb's sawmill, a walnut ciency on the part of the policeman and are all under a year old, bright, Their training crowded at any time. In fact, .cond- peg, an Inch In diameter, was found, if the genus homo, the progressive keen and Intelligent. where It had been driven Into the end resourceful prefect of police, M. has been most careful, for it will be itions never were better. has turned hopefully towards highly necessary for the dogs to leave Inexplanation of the published sto- log. The peg was a foot long and canine. Dogs, the honest citizen alone while harries of an alleged car shortage during reached the heart of the big log where, the police of tho genus to trained the work, are to rying the thief. specially Their lessons are had been Is It driven it estimated, Southern February It is explained at on be the and when given every day at Neullly, and are enlisted force, 75 At of the end years ago. Pacific and Santa Fe headquarters that probably they are fully trained and set to work most Interesting. Independent shippers caused the tales the peg was a coil of black hair, long It Is expected they will soon have The dogs are first taught to reBllken. Webb has Mr. and endeavored then In circulation to be sprung so as venturesome thief and law- spond always to the cry of Help!" to create a bear market that would to learn the history of the log, but every breaker literally on the run, with Police! Robbers!" and "Murder! enable them to pick np fruit at bot- to no avalL As they fly to rescue they remain siOld people of the neighborhood are every certainty of capture. tom prices. It Is claimed that shipThe Idea of dog policemen caifie lent, but once In Bight of their quarry pers affiliated with the California Cit- of the opinion that the coil of hair rus union Informed the railroads at the was placed there In accordance with from Ghent, Belgium, where such a they bark loudly and continuously to canine squad la said to be a perfect guide the police to them. Once they time that they were supplying cars a prevailing custom of pioneer times. success. In former days Ghent was a have picked out the malefactor they a exactly as they were needed, and that This custom provided that when thieves and robbers. Now, are to stick to him, no matter what for or not could paradise wife man and of get In along of fruit danger being reports van Wfesomael. of he does, and to pull him down If po In Burgomaster says of as Instead separating, spoiling for lack of shipping facilities agree. these days, the neighbors cut a lock that city. It Is perfectly safe and Bible. were without foundation. He declares: Duke, one of the dogs, during his It Is claimed that in February, this of hair from the head of each. A hole tranquil. The police system of Ghent Is first training has gained the name of th in a nearby tree, and was bored then moved cars more being werq year, It Is climber, because during the testi driven to the heart class because it Is logical every day than during the same month the locks of hair personnel, but Insuf- he has learned to leap up the side of last year and about the same number by a walnut pin After this It was not Insufficient as were moved daily during February believed the couple would live happy ficient method which Is responsible a polo or tree to catch the fugitive by tor the anarchy In many cities. the fool to which the dog hangs In 1905. And that In March, this year. ever after. The dogs of Ghent's police force ire despite all efforts to shako him off. born and reared to the profession. AftThe others will leap over walls, ,5005c09&9s000090050c0000co000000c0000000a000000 er the ago of three months they are fences or anything else. They are at carefully nurtured, fed and trained dogs,, and part of.tbeli GUINEA-PI- G at a young race horse. They are training Is to learn to disregard clubwere about 4.000 cases. The deaths taught to know nobody as acquaint- bings, kicks and blows. They speedAntitoxin Which Destroys Spotted numbered 3.429. The percentage of ance or friend except the human mem- ily become Bkillful at this. Just as bear Fever Germs Found. dogs learn to evade the sweeping deaths was 73.5. This tremendous fa- bers of tbo police force. o blows of bruins paws. The result Is that they finally caused scientists all over the tality New York. Dr. E. Simon Flexner, world to take up the subject of finding automatons in the hands of their Everything has been arranged In of the Rockefeller Institute for Med- a remedy. masters and totally Indifferent to In- the training yard as it Is In the forest ical Research, who has been searching The germ has the remarkable name fluences outside of their regular or along deserted streets with walls, mensudden twists and turns. It Is thought for a remedy for cerebro spinal of dlplococcue Intraccllularls. Every work. he is The dog force In Ghent now lum- the three dogs, Duke, Black and Bob, ingitis (spotted fever), believes viru- experiment seemed td show that Its II ro was short It was sIbo shown that near the goal. In tracing the bers 30. When on duty at night the will be detailed to active work within a lence of the disease and to discover the germ was to be found In the nose police dog walks ten paces ahead of a month. check he has used Innumerable mice, and pharynx and hence easly comParis authorities are very reticent the policeman. While the latter exA guinea pigs, rabblU and monkeys. out municable. It was found later, how- amines doors and shutters the dog concerning the dogs. M. Simard will practical antitoxin will be brought Is ever, that although the germ In Itself, carefully pokes his nose into all the not allow any persons to witness the as a result of the research, It without attention, might be of short nooks ami corners. training, nor will be discuss the plan , These dogs are not of any fancy He refuses to tell the breed of his Its life, under certain conditions hoped. Dr. Floxncr believes that fresh period of existence was not limited by toy breed by any means, but belong dogs. all the a few months. Cold Is deadly to It guinea pig aerum can destroy Important the with lecccooooooco&oecoscocccoo&scocooooseeoccccoeiccococooc germs present, shall not be Australian Btats Booming. LAW AS SHE IS. you don't see Incorrectly? Answei provision that the number The government railways revenuo that Did you ever have yonr eyes too great examined ? The aerum that may be used as an last year of the state of Victoria, Ausbeon of was the complethe Only once. I applied for a position record, tralia, near largest ts point antitoxin occur ing after payment of the Interest on a railroad and was refused bo tion. Should another epidemic of $1,025,000. The state's exports last cause I could not tell an olive-greeit Is believed that the researches medical Increased the $20,000,000. one. will assist zephyr from a nearly by year Dr. Flexner ha! Gentlemen of the Jury, decided degree "Ah, most a to profession the the witness admits that ho Is colon Villagers Advise Mr. Sage. In taking care of It and preventing Among tho numerous advisers of blind, and yet he has stood up here usual large percentage of mortality. Mrs. Russell Sage none !e held in work and perjured his soul to Injurre my Flexner Dr. of The beginning menin- higher regard by her than Rome of clieni when his own testimony shows was after the corebro-splna- l of the slmplo and unaffected village folk he cant tell a white man from a a winter the during gitis epidemic N. Y. Weekly. who live at Lawrence, L. 1., near her gro. 1904 and the spring of 1905. In the porlod of the epidemic there summer home. self-denia- l, PARIS POLICE DOGS. TO GO OUT WEST WANTS row! When Tilly flourishing Institution. Haynes, the proprietor, died a yeai or so ago he left more than $1,000,000 He also ran a hotel In Boston. It was In the Broadway Central that the Thaw jurors ate their meals when they were kept together. Smith & McNeil's is another old time hotel which has kept its enormous business In spite of the march up town. It is near the Washington market and close to the ferries that bring the passengers from the various lines entering Jersey City. The partners started In with a coffee stand in the market Both of them became millionaires. Smith McNeils has the reputation of feeding a greater number of people than any other hotel or restaurant in Nw York. TIRED OF. CITY; EVELYN nd the Grand Central, the hotel In which Ed Stokes shot Jim Fisk. It Is still a g ttn V Wal yeou see, some Mains firm If he wrote to Hiram and told him sweet of soap 20 packages would sell an au o seven Alaska diamond pin, Inmatlc bootjack and a big would par cubator they self-heatin- old When lllrara had collocIn the all the good and sent him by sent ttons they one-cepieces like those great big use. to used our grandfathers "'Ota "yes. "V g be-or- e h SERUM EFFECTIVE stout-hearte- ' d sea-gree- V I |