The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 39

gON 5 THE COUBDa is a great admirer of beautiful horses, and there is not one of her eight that would be given the gate in its class at a horse show. Each animal is chosen for its proper vehicle, and few attract more attention on the boulevards. Mrs. Akers conforms to style also in that she has white coai it-men and footmen. These are but a few of the many expensive sta-bles in Louisville.

Ail along Fourth and Third avenues, Broad way and in the eastern section ct the city may be found stables larsre enough to accommodate several families, where beautiful animals and fine equipages are sheltered when not In use. The pair have resumed their quft life and aire as happy as can be expected in the circumstances described. J-iki is on 'Uhe verge of eighty and his wife not yet twenty-two, so that they cannot have much in common. Both are to be pl'tled, but especially the great man, wbofie closing days -have been clouded through this rash marriage with a girl young enough to be -his great-grand- brick with a slate roof. It contains all the modern improvements, Including a burglar alarm.

Mrs. Con-way keeps but two horses, which are cared for by hr colored coachman. Virgil Parks. The vehicles Include a brougham and depot wagon. The servaints' quarters are over the stable proper.

In point. of architectural beauty, none of the stables excels that of Mr. Samuel Grabfelder. 1632 Third avenue. It is built of rough gray brick, -trimmed in rough while and with fancy iron work the whole harmoniz ing with the The stable is reached through a dr'veway north oX the house-, a carriage entrance being built under a portico.

The appointments of the stable are of the most approved type. Mr. Grabfelder keeps four horses, all sorrels, two having long talis and the others -being of the cob type. He Is well supplied with rigs, having a brougham, park wagon, Victoria and runabout. The coachman, J.

H. Luck-ett. has been with Mr. Grabfelder for many years, and is considered one of the most careful handlers of horseflesh in the city. Unique and artistic in every particular is the stable of Mr.

Gilmer Adams, 1515 Third avenue. It is made of cement and resembles German buildings in many respects. Mr. C. C.

Mengel'a stable is constructed of the same narrow gray brick used in his new mansion. It is fitted with bathrooms and electric llghta Three horses occupy the boxslails, and are driven to a large depot wagon. Though her stable Is not of the newest, there none more perfect In its appointments than that of Mrs. Matt Alters. 92S Third avenue.

Mrs. Ak-era K. ff SM a livery room. All aire fitted out -with 5 -P a view-of cleanliness and comfort. -Hi ieEKI Mr.

Ferguson's Stable. Jjf I -C'lS'" "eW" VS gfigsas band, Maurus," and his young wife laid another wreath on the grave with the inscription. "Rosa, from Bella." Scene In a Cemetery. -Whether this was in good taste Is questionable, but It was well meant as a mark of respect to Mme. Jokai the first.

The deceased tragedienne's relatives, however, took another view of the matter, for on arriving at the cemetery shortly afterward and finding the wreath from second wife on the grave, they tore It to shreds, and then proceeded to destroy the WTeath laid by Jokai himself, finishing up by Sending the broken fragments of both wreaths to the unhappy man's home. The mourner returned to the cemetery to place another wreath on the grave, and this, too, was torn to bits by the infuriated relatives of the first wife. Jokai started legal proceedings and anticipated these by indicting his first wife's relatives in the public press; but public feeling was against him. He felt the hostility evinced toward liim in this unpleasant affair most keenly, and he began to retire more and more to Ids charming villa among the hills of Ofen and to his estate at Fuered on- the Plat-ten See. When all the world seemed to have deserted him Jokai found one friend in high places, and that was Countess Stephanie Lonyay.

formerly Crown Princess of Austria-Hungary. Countess Lonyay went out of 'Iter way to p.iy a visit to Jokai, which amounted to a demonstration against the disfavor with wMch -he was being treated by the court and aristocracy of Hungary, anl to so doing the Countess ran a grave risk of falling into the Emperor's disfavor herself. She bad a long conversation with Jokai. which stlie authorized him to publish. She said tr admiration for him hud increased tenfold when she heard that lie had had line eouruge to con-tract a love marriage in opposition to -his friends and relatives and public opinion.

"We are fellows In this respect." She said, "and Just as I have found complete bliss in marrying the man I love, so I am sure that you. too. will never regret what you have done. I married to suit myself and not other people, and I congratulate you on having done tJhe same thing." Final Touch of Tragedy. The aged may not have regretted his choice, but their quiet life of retirement soon began to become too Insipid for his gay young wife.

Ste missed the glare of the footlights ajid began to feel chat she was losing her opporttunitiiets of gaining fame as an actress. Marriage with a man of worldwide celebrity turned out to be less attractive than site had imagined, and within a year of the wedding she Informed Jokai Uiat could not bear the teUlum of her existence by Wis side any longer, but she must go back to the stage. He was cut to the heart and did his utmost to dissuade her. but sue Insisted, and ihe found it advisable to give way to prevent an open breach between them. She went bri'ck tv -li-er rehearaals and her Stage drill with a light h-etait and confident that, sine was recommencing a career destined to give her the fame for which sie Jonged.

Her first appearance on the stage took place at Press'burg and resulted in all her "hopes being crushed at the outset. The Magyar students had mustered in full force at the theater, and when Bella Jokai made her appearance on the stage they hooted and yelled and pelted her with all sorts of missiles. She had not even -a chance to say a line of her part and was mobbed off the stage with every mark of ignominy. Jokial hurried from Budapost to hJa wife and since that she has made no further attempt to regain the favor of the theatergoing public in Hungary. HtrXDREDS of horses in Louisville eat and sleep In quarters far better than do the great majority of families living in this same city.

Scores of horses daily look through the windows of building? more most of the even in the fashionable portion of the city, anl mors expensive than many of the resiliences on Third and Fourtlh avenues. A few horses belonging to the exceptionally -wealthy receive the care and attention of a patient In a high-priced infirmary. They enjoy every luxury "that human -ingenuity has devised for the kings and queens of the equine world; they wear blankets costing more than do tie gowns of many fine domes; they drink filtered water from a snow-m-hite trough, and eat the cleanest oats and the freshest of hay from enameled mongers. Kentaelky la the horse State of the world, and Louisville Is one of the treat social cities of the country; so it Is so surprise to find that the wealtfcy, whose Mnmig equipages and prancing horses are seen daily on the driveways, should have devoted the same (bought and atten tion to the stable as they Grave done in the mansion set before eta -Eha lawn and have with equal lavlstoess provided for it the proper equipment and ornament that they imva pisnfidcd for the furnishing of the ttramiogHrounv inhere may be cities of equal population wMxih approach. Louisville in the onmher at handsome dwellings, but thtar Is noma vrtbere there are the same number of beautiful edifices, merely Btahles, where In ithe graceful and correct architecture unmistakable proof la iouird that the builder has given the same attention to the aesthetic and the practical as he did in the designing of the residence.

The prevailing conception of a stable, a plain, unostentatious structure, possibly a ramaliackle wooden affair, with tool enough to keep out the rain, narrow stalls and a loft in which to stow away the feed, la rudely shattered when one of the modern $10,000 Stables is entered. Instead of mud amd slime under foot, there is a granitoid ye3, and a matting on the carriage sldo floor, with not a mud track on It The brass rolls on which the blankets are Ebung fiaino like the rail on a. man-of-war. The harness. Instead of being thrown over a few wooden pegs in the wall.

Is carefully arranged in natural wod cabinets, with plate glass doors. The horses move about In great roomy stalls, drink filtered water and eat from enameled troughs. Upstairs Is the feedloft and the living rooms of the coachman, footman and stable bays. There is a bathroom and daughter. His Two Angels.

Writing on his own life in a Huu-gj-rlan journal, Jokai says: "Everyman is attended by two guardian angels, th-i good angel and the angel of wickedness. The bad angel always gives him sound, worldly-wise advice; the good angel urges t-im on to deeds of quixotic folly. There is a date of vast importance in Hungarian history the 15-th of March, 1S1S. On the eve of this day I. with a Whole company of enthusiastic spirits, swore to take my p'airt an effort for the l-lberatii'ou of Hungary from thi lieavy yoke of Austria.

My bad angel tcOd me that I was a fool, a visionary, a madman, and urged, me to take to my heels while there was yet time to escape. My good angel, on the contrary, reminded me that I Mad pledged my wwd of honor and tMait I was engage! in a good cause. If my bad angel had prevailed I might possibly have attained In after years to the dizzy eminence of the burgomastershlip of some obscure provincial town, but I should not have become the author of 300 books, while Hungary would not regard that day as one of the most glorious In her annals If prudence had outweighed goodness." CURTIS BKOW.V. CHILD'S VERSES ARE BEST, New York Takes Poem of -Young Girl For Municipal Anthem. The metrical tribute of Ida Primoff, a little Bast-side Hebrew girl of fifteen years, has been adopted as Xew Tork's municipal anthem.

It has "been set to music by Prank Damrosch, and In her words the city will be acclaimed from the throats of the many thousand children of the public schools at the llay celebratlon of the granting of the city charter. The Primoffs came to Amcrioa thirteen years ago, but until within the last five years lived in St. Paul and Chicago. Aaron Primoff, the father, keeps a store, and Ida Is the second oldest of the six children. She is an artist of some ability, but Is ambitious to become a lawyer and is now studying in the law class ait the Xew York University.

The verses follow: To thee, first city of our land. With hearts and voices blending, We raise a loyal song of praise In strains of love unending. We praise thy harbors and thy ships, The ibays renowned for beauty: Thy parks -with statues bravely decked To tell of faith and duty. Xew York. Xew York, our city loved.

To thee in praise we sing: Let every loyal heart and voice Its trftmte bring. We sing the praise of Dutchman's day? We chant wf England's holding: We tell the growth of weaJth ami trade And freedom'3 cause unfolding, We praise thy heroes dead and gone; We pradlse thy heroes living: Wo rally 'round, eafeh patriot's shrine. A heartfelt tribute giving. Thy civic growth we praise in song, Our Jovous voices blending; We pledge our -hearts, our heads, our hands. To make That growth unending.

And mav the spirit, proven true. On earthly tieMs victorious. Still fire Hue sons in days of strife To make thy -banner glorious. gc Sequels of An The general plan of most up-to-date stables in Louisville is much the same. Viewed from 'the outside, they are wide two-story stone or ornamental brick structures, with an open carriage way in the center.

To one side of this driveway are the carriage and harness rooms and on the other are the horses. Above the portion allotted to the animals Is the feedloft, and adjoining this are the sleeping rooms. The newest, most expensive, the best appointed and one of the handsomest of the modern stables is thait of Mr. B. H.

Ferguson. It was completed last July, and stands in the j-ear of the lot at UOS Third avenue, where his new $100,000 residence is in course of erection. The stable Is built of red brick with white stone trimming and a gabled tile roof. The interior walls are of red brick with a wainscoting of rich, red-brown enameled brick. The woodwork Is of yellow Carolina pine.

The building is lighted by electricity. The entire place is a model of convenience. Hot and cold water run through the pipes; there is a telephone over which any particular vehicle can be ordered for Instant use; at every turn a door leads into some spi-olai apartment, one used as a general lumber room, another for washing the harness, a third for the harness cabinet and the whip rack and a fourth for a lavatory, where the coachman and footman can wash their hands after "hltahlng up" without going upstairs to the bathroom. There are Ave box stalls, four of which axe now occupied by driving horses, two for the brougham and the others for the light vehicles. Into each runs a chute from the feedroom above, and by merely pulling a lever the proper amount of corn or oats is dropped into the enameled bowl from which the horses eat.

Mrs. Ferguson Is one of the few society women who prefer white coachmen, and Julius Burkhardt wears her livery on the box. There are six rigs in the carriage room a brougham, Victoria, runabout, Jersey wagon, drag and roadcart Bivalry Among Coachmen. The rivalry between the coachmen of the different stables is intense, and each corps boasts loudly of the superiority of its employer's stables, horses and vehicles. In none of the stables can there be found any attendants prouder than Mr.

Sam Culbertson's negroes. From Charley Hobbs, the coachman, down, they brag of the stable and the horses, and especially the carriages. A view of the handsome red brick stable and what it contain gives ample Justification for the boasting. Everything needful Is there and in Just the correct proportion. The seven stalls on the Interior contain as many horses, four oobs for carriage purposes and three saddle mares.

The four are all matched, and, attached to the "brake" recently purchased by Mr. Culbertson. will stand comparison with any park four in the East- Used in pairs the horses are 4- -M-r-r-f -s-H-f -r-H- THE CRUISER AT NEWPORT NEWS. VAl'LIHAN WH1TR. i.

White, uf Weal VirglntB Octogenarian's Love Story. driven to the smaller brake, the brougham and the Victoria. Singly any one of the quartet shows well in the runabout or the roadcart. Mr. Culbertson also has a tandem cart, and occasionally drives two of his high steppers In this fashion.

The three saddle horses are all good -types of the oflicer's mount, and have never been taught the American gaits. The exterior appearance of the stable is striking, being constructed entirely of red brick, without omamentation, depending on its graceful lines for its beauty. Inside it is a model establishment. Each set of harness has its particular cabinet: the floor of the carriage room Is covered with matting, and the blankets hung on the brass rollers form an effective background for the rye straw decorations. The second floor of the building Is given over to the feed loft, and the sleeping apartments of the coachmen and hostlers.

Mrs. Conway's Handsome Building. The prettiest view from the street of any of the handsome stables is obtained at Mrs. Margaret Conway's, H03 Third avenue. The residence is built on a lot nearly 100 feet In width, and looking across a magnificent stretch of green lawn one sees the stable.

Though not so large as some of the others, it is one of the prettiest and best designed, Ibeing constructed of red Maurvs JoKai's Social Struggle Since His Wedding To a Girl Actress Correspondence of the Courier-Journal. LONDON. Aurll 8. Although ha Is the Hungarian national hero yet, it -Tvas evident in the public celebnution of his seventy-el g-hth birthday recently that the surprising romance of his old age has considerably dimmed the popularity of Maurus Jokai, patriot, poet. Journalist, dramatist and novelist, whose books, translated Into English, have a great vogue in the Bnglish-speaklng' world.

H-Is career would be amazing, even without the social struggle which Is now making Jokai's latter days lively indeed. He had published a suceessiful novel before he was out of ltls teen3. When he was only twenty-three he wao one of the foremost figures in the stormy days of 184S, when Hungary shed much blood trying: to g-et more rights from Austria. By his fiftieth birthday, more than a quarter of a century ago, he had published no less than 200 books, and since then he has published more than a hundred others, making a total that prdbably breaks all records. AU this time he was actively engaged as a newspaper editorial writer, and even at this day he Is editor-in-chief of the powerful dally, the Nemzet, and writes continually for it.

Mo-re strange yet, considering this phenomenal output, several of his books chiefly novels have been declared bv competent continental to be aniong the greatest of contemporary works of Action. The Hungarians to rank their laureate novelist with Victor Hugo. "Great "Was the Fall Thereof." told me that they were right, and that I ought to be influenced by thetr objections; but I listened to the good arrgel and committed the worldly folly of making' her my wife. This woman, whom others had tried to tear from me by force and separate from me by intrigue, became my beloved and faithful wife, the angel of salvation who rescued me Cram exile and death; the sharer of all my sorrows, the pride of my life. Two years after my marriage my mother, who.

had spurned my bride, came to us voluntarily to recoffnlze my wife as her daughter." Lova. At Tirst Sight. SELECTED TO CHRISTEN WEST VIRGINIA, rarely granted to any one not of royal Mood, He became the national idol. His birthdays and other anlversarles were great public events. Aristocracy and democracy vied with each other in heaping- honors upon him.

And then, all because of hix latter-day romance, taunts and ridicule fell upon him; he he was boycotted socially, and only now, when he is eight years past his allotted three score and ten, is he beginning to make his way back Into popularity. The story of hFs struggle since his wedding" two years ago makea uncommonly interesting- reading. Most of 'the details have been obtained for me by a friend In Budapest, who In a position to give the facts at flrot hand. Jokai's first wife was the celebrated Hungarian tragedienne, Rosa Labor-falvl, whom he married when he was twenty-four and she thirty years of age. Writing soon- after her death, Jokai said: "How well I remember the bitter opposition which my friends and relatives made to this match.

One assured me that liosa had more debts than hairs on her head, and another swore that she had no heart, and that I should freeze by her side; a third reminded me that she was nearly seven years older than myself. My bad angel Has Been Almost As Exciting As the Plot of Any of His Three Hundred BooKs. parity bet-ween their aces exposed the couple to a great deal of ridicule, and It was In response to this that Jokai published a defense of marriage between old men ajid young: women, declaring- tiiat although he had passed the Um-it of three score and ten. his blood still coursed rapidly through his veins, while his capacity for love was greater than, that of the average young man of the period. Tthere were, however, more serious objections to the marriage than the disparity In ages.

The relatives of Jokai's first wife regarded the marriage as an Insult to the memory of Rosa Laborfalrl. and they did not hesitate publicly to abuse the novelist for contracting a second marriage w-ith what thy called Indecent haste. The fact that Bella Weiss was an actress offended Uie circle of high society in which the great man had become flcottyliMiieil to nsfwiate, and wllen it was (H-covt-Med tlrat she was a Jewess her tnd fell Into disfavor, not only with i-ourt and aristocracy, but also with the Magyar stu.Ients. formerly his most en.t-htlf-;a?ti almirers. and with the great mass o( the anti-Semitic public.

a Cut By Society. Jokai soon felt the effects of the change. He received no more Invitations to the most exclusive of court festivities, a.nd when he present at other gatherings attended by members of the- imperial family, instead of being treated with marks of unusual favor, as previously, he found hiimelf coldly Ignore-1. Invitations to dinners and society functions which formerly had been on him were now few and far between, and some of his old friends avoided him with ostentation. Even those friends who remained true to him refused to receive his wife, and Jokai would not have their friendship unless she could share it.

Matters came to a head on the first anniversary of his first wife's death after his marriage to Bella Weiss. Jokai drove out to cemetery where she was buried, as be done on each anniversary of her death, but this time he thought fit to take his young wife with him to pay respect to the dead wife. He had one wreath on the grav with the inscription, "Rosa, frcm her ver-lovins and ever-sorrowing hus Mma Jokai died in 1SS6. and fourteen yeaia later JoltaJ led to the altar M9 Beoomi wife, MJJe. Bella Weiss.

o.n actress, tutitacjied to the permanent staff of th NhiUoJial Theater In Budapest. At the time of the marriage the'brkle-eroom was seventy-five anl h-is bride nineteen. Jokai had made thii acqtwJttf-ajic of the youngr at the rehearsal of one of his plays which was going to be produced at the National Theater, and he fell in love with The courtship was brief, for the agd author wooed his ladylove with all the ardor 'of a youthful cavaiier. The dis- 4-H-f-H-f4-f GROWTH OF THE COFFEE HABIT The fal! the price of coffee tn the Xew York market to the lowest point on i -conl. dti-- to a heavy Brazilian crop coming upon the heels of an enormous last year, calls attention to the surprising growth of the eofffte habit.

In VM2 for tin- time in our history we Imported more than a billion pounds of at a hulk cut Mt more than $70,000,000 and a probable retail price to customers of probably three times that sum. This was a supply of nearly twenty nouuds, at a retail coat of $4, for every person In the United States above ten years of age-; it Indicates a use which has quadrupled in one generation and is now almost universal. In the source of supply great changes hare taken place. When "kauphy" was first drank In London It oame undoubtedly from Arabia, which remained the sole source of supply up to about 1700 A. D.

To-day our "Java and Mocha mixed" probably never saw Java, ajid most assuredly never saw Moolia. Brazil alone gave us 85 per cent of our 1902 3upp'y. and Mexico, the West Indies and other American, countries'13 per cent. The East Indies supply about 1 per and "other Asia and Oceanlca," including Arabia, the home of the roffee cult, furnish only one pound in i'56. The Greek monies on tin- isthmus of S.nat themselves drink Brazilian coffee, so complete is the "American invasion" ct the morld'a market the fragrant brown berry- On top of all this activity Jokai was for many years a prominent member of the Hungarian Chamber of Deputies, in he was one of the keenest debaters and most powerful orators, and in 1SS6 the Emperor nominated h'tn a life member of the House of Peeis, at the saine time conferring on him the Order of St Stephen, which is lIAURtTS JOKAJ, vTio had to sacrifice a nation's idolatry for a girl brid MISS KATI I-'l: I daughter of AiL--it.