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^ prospective order. |
I Four different grades of Fine Linen and
Bond Papers for Letter and Note Heads,
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writer papers. Also Good Grades of
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Well Finished XXX Rag Envelopes and
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F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
n Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
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SAVAGES IN HOTELS.
Plaint ot a Host Wko See* How HI*
Patrons I>tsre»jar<I Decency
and Destroy Property.
In all the big hotels of New York there
a.re rooms that the guests never see or
hear of. Some of them are in the base
ment and some are on the roof, accord
ing to the convenience of the manage
ment. They belong to the carpenters,
engineers, electricians and other work- i
: men who are kept busy every day all
; the year round, says the Times. In
| every hotel of pretensions a large force
; is required to mend furniture, do odds
and ends of painting, put on door locks,
repair broken water pipes, and do any
number of other things that are indis
pensable if the house is to appear in
| good order all the time.
“It is my experience,” says the man
ager of a hotel in Broadway, "that men
and women who will put up with no
end of inconvenience and disorder at
home or in a cheap boarding house kick
mightily if they do not find everything
spick and span at a hotel. A man who
will sit night after night in a frayed
chair in his parlor at Four Corners will
make an awful fuss if he finds a neglect
ed piece of furniture in a hotel parlor
or bedroom. A women who has to light
the parlor stove every day when she is
at home and spend half her time in keep
ing the house warm, will say she is cold
even if the steam is on at full pressure
in her room at a hotel, and she will
| keep a man busy two or three hours a
; day running around to see if there is
i not something the matter with the
| pipes. .£' ■ - •
"It seems to be a weakness with some
j folks to ‘take it out’ of the furniture in
; hotels in order to get their money’s
| worth. A man who will not dare to
j throw a burnt match on the carpet in
; his own house, and who would as soon
I think of flying as of lying on the bed
with his boots on, will do these things
and worse in a hotel bedroom. It takes
! two or three hours to put the room in
! order after he has gone. Often we have
! to send at least one piece of furniture to
the repair shop. If one of the small
furniture dealers scattered around the
j city could get as much furniture to
mend as is sent to hotel repair shops
i every day he "would begin to talk about
i prosperity.
“Perhaps I am putting it strongly, but
in all seriousness, carelessness and will
ful neglect of guests in great hotels—
j men and women from whom such a
| thing would not be expected—puts us
I to great expense. Would a man spit to
bacco on a carpet or burn curtains and
| bed covers with cigarettes if they were
his own property? These things are
j done every day in a hotel. Some men
| will not scratch a match anywhere else
| if they can scratch it on the wall pa
per.
“Again, a lot of room we should like
for other purposes is occupied with un
claimed trunks and other baggage be
longing to persons who have forgotten
to pay their hotel bills. Most hotels
keep rooms especially for this, and they
have anywhere from 100 to 150 trunks
on hand all the time. They are obliged
' by law to hold them three months be
fore sending them to the auction room.
Many proprietors keep them a year.”
PICTURES FROM LIFE,
Wrltera or tne l’resient Day Deal Mora
with Fact amt Lesii with
Fancy.
The number of capable writers w'ho
are telling the various truths of life
in the form of fiction is much greater
than contemporary pessimists realize,
states the Detroit Free Press. There is,
indeed, no corner of human experience
which cannot produce its able, enter
taining representative. Let us take
some traditional forms of the novel—
the sea story, say. Capt. Marryac wa»
indeed a master, and yet W. Clarke Rus
sell and Conrad and Jacobs! In the
work of all of these men one has to ac
knowledge that romantic fidelity to the
facts rather than the fancies of the sea
which I have spoken of as the note of
the modern romantic realism. In the
case of Conrad we have also a writer ot
the first literary importance—a novelist
of action and serious vivid detail, who
does not scorn to write good English,
but who more than that. Pole as he is—
! and there is an additional marvel—
writes English of a quality so English
that incredible as it may sound, his
: words are no less exciting than his ad
ventures. It may almost be said that the
fact of his being a “foreigner” using our
! English tongue has possessed him with
| a regard for classical English which
fostered in him the journalistic impres
; sion of such a vociferous English writer
as, say, Mr. Kipling—Mr. Kipling, who is
patriotic in everything but his language.
Burjjlar lie»».
To the person who knows nothing
about bees they represent the supreme
type of industry. But even the bee com
munities are disturbed by those of their
: own kind who break through and steal.
I Robber bees are always a source of
anxiety to beekeepers, and at this time
of the year the marauders seem partic
ularly active. Having gathered no
honey, or at any rate an insufficient sup
ply for themselves, they will descend
upon a hive, kill its industrious occu
pants and carry off the golden treasure
in an astonishingly short space of time.
We know of a recent instance in which
the attack was developed and the home
| bees killed in a couple of hours. Some
times hive will attack neighboring hive.
In such cases the old straw “skip” was
better than the modern arrangement,
5 for a knife thrust through the top would
break the comb and set the honey free,
at wrhich the thieves w^ould instantly
return to seal up their own store. It is
not primarily in their industry that bees
are human.—London Chronicle.
So Chance.
Poker is not a game of chance—or at
least, the novice has no chance.—(Jhi
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