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THE JiHOOKLVIN CITIZEN, SUNDAY', FEBRUARY 3, 1901. lo TOMPKINS A SUNFFAGUN. ARTISTS THEIR WORK. that wondersmith of great results Joseph H. Bauland.

MILLER HAGEMAN. PAGANIS BOHEMIANS. SKETCHES FROM LIFE. The Merchant of Metropolitan Brooklyn-- Their Story Told by Themselves. THE DEAN OF THE DRY GOODS HOUSES.

A Sketch of Joseph H. Bauland, Who Has Filled Every Position in the Dry Goods Business from the Bottom to the Top and Can Captain It All. i terminated on the advent of another Rickey. "Ony daughter dyin! he wailed, "Of what? "Tumor. Tumor a girl of that age! Swash doctor ses! Mus have $40 or well die! What has the $40 got to do with it?" Operation savj her life.

"And the doctor refuses to operate? No, no! Dont refuse! Friend mine do aligning! But gut no instumens. Got have inst'mnen's. And it will cost $40 for him to borrow the instruments? Can't borrow special make. Why, where is this tumor? Ri' leg no on lef' hind leg. Thns ri'! "Are jou sure it is tumor?" Suri awful sight for fazzer on'y daughter ni tuiuoi like mountain on hind leg." Whv.

jour gill i only eight ye.vK of age. What would she be doiug with a tumor? Prowler shook his head. Dont nu reniemlii meeting me this morning and getting $2 from me? Prowler looked blank. "Well. I remember lending it to vim and buying inediiine for an alleged si, wife.

You're a humbug. Prowler, and I want you to giro an mutation of a i-oinet shooting out of that door. Go on now. Not another cent, not another Rn key or any Hung el-e. Its your cue to jog.

Fp rose Prowler. Hi- fare was a study-in indignant majesty. 'Ni hern it friend 'Ion said, as he leant witli both hum kies on the (aide Hint imitated the pitching of a ship 'Ni been yer frien.l -x'lnng! You have, that unfortunately but it i all over now." "Won't give up forty? Not forty cents. "Won't save human life pore lil girl with tumor like mountain on lef bin' leg?" Not if she had 'em on both hind legs. I wouldn't give up a rt nt.

Value forty dollars moir'n human life? More'n life lil girl? You bet I do." Do? What call self man or sunffagnn fin? Call self man won't give up forty-save lit girl? i "Wouldn't give five cents to have a hundred girls." "Tim's." said Prowler, pointing, "thas wotti thoss-wuss man snsawtis-a man! I'm! Forty, I'm? Not a tent." Y'ain't no man then no man no man 'tall. Yer jissa sunffagun sunffagun snnf-fagun!" Prowler paused and delivered a blasting glare aa wcl laa blinking amf rocking would permit. "Forty? he inqnired, as a sort of last call. "No: go on! Here comes the dog! Prowler shuffled. "Thossa wussa man 'n mifrieDd? he murmured, buss e's ony sunffagun.

SYDNEY REID. AARON HEALY MEMORIAL i i The Fine Picture Presented by Hia Sons to the Brooklyn Institute, One of the most recent gifts to the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, The Last Honors Paid to Founts Egmout and Hoorn, has been hung and is in readiness for the people of Brooklyn to admire. It has been placed on the line in the largo piituro gallery of tile Museum on the south wall, near the enter, and near the picture of General Woodward. This picture is another benefaction from the Healy family. It was presented by A.

Augustus Healy, president of the Brooklyn Institute Board of Trustees, and his brother, Frank Ilealy. and was ron-iil-ured one of the finest paintings in the collection of their fathei. the late Aaron Healy, ho had it in his possession some thirty-two years. The gift un made to the Museum on Dee. 10, at the monthly meeting of the trustees.

It was tendeied in a letter from the Messrs. Ilealy and. needless to Kay, uas immediately aci-epted, short addresses thanking them for their generosity being made hy ex-Mayor Sihieren, Carl IF DeSilver. Win. J.

Toombs and Robert B. Woodward. The gift is a memorial to Aaron Healy. The pit-lure, hv Fonts Gallait. one of the hoM, if not the very best, of the Belgian paintari of the century jii't past, represents the lying in state of the bodies of Founts Eginont and Hoorn after they- hud been exeented hy the'order of the Duke of Alva, at Brussels, oil June FitlX.

The story of Fount Egmonte life and death has been made famous by Goethe's tragedv of "Egmont." and further increased hy Beethoven's beautiful musir. Britten on that theme. In Motley's "History of the Dilti Republie" the events which led to Eg-mont's evemtion have been narrated. These, events were the prelude to the formal outbreak of the struggle between the Netherlands and Philip II. of Spain.

Fount Egmout nas pot at the time of his evei'itjon an antagoi-t of Spam and had even an active part in the suppression of the outbreak against the rule of the Regent. Margaret of Parma. But he had offended Philip by siding with the Flemish1 aristocracy in its earlier controversies against the Spanish erown, and it nas for this he was made to suffer as soon as the Duke of Alia suer ceded Margaret of Tarma. Honors paid to the dead, therefore, wire given in a satirical spirit and rather with the purpose of intimidating the Netherlander than to show respect to a fallen foe. At the back of the picture is seen a crucifix with tapers on either side, which are being lighted by an acolyte.

Below the crucifix the bodies ofythe dead men are lying covered with a black pall on which is a large cross. Only their heads are seen, and these hare been so arranged as not to be visibly separated from the bodies. Beside the bier are two Spanish guards, one in full armor and the other in everyday attire. Beyond and beside these guards a group of Flemings are pressing forward to view the remains of their friends. The faces of these Flemings and of the Spanish guards are fine psychologic atoidies of diverse temperaments and of various phases of emotion.

The coloring of the painting is warm and rich bnt subdued in contrasts, and the gronp is masterly. Louis Gallait. one of whose most important pictures has thus become an ornn-ment to the Brooklyn Museum, was horn at Tournai in 1810 and died in 18,87. The greater part of his life was spent in Brus-, sels. He ranks as the greatest of the Belgian historical painters of day, having won this position by hia "Abdication of Charles painted in Brussels in 1841.

For this he wag given the Belgian Ord-r of Leopold and the French Order of the Legion of Honor. The city of Brussels struck a medal in his honor and a portrait statue adorns his native city of Tonrnni. A large painting by him of The Last Honors is in the possession of the Government of Belgium and a smaller replica in water colors is now in the Waters collection in Baltimore. Famous Artista and Musicians nt a Little London When a famous musician recently visited Spain the Queen said to him: "Oh, Mr. I want to ask you about a very interesting room in a restanrant in London." The room which the Queen was so anxious to hear about is part of Paganis restaurant in Great Portland street.

From the upholsterer' point of view it is a very unpretentious room, indeed; yet on its walla are written autographs of some of the most famouk artists and musicians of our day, accompanied, in some eases, by little sketches by the artists and a few bars of mnsic from the works of the musicians. Some few years "ago, when a few Bohemians of the best type made Pagani's little restanrant their rendezvous, the names of Tosti and Pellegrini were unknown to fame. Pellegrini's skill as a cartoonist, however, was bound to be recognized, while Tostis musical talents carried him into the foremost rank of the eong writers. Pagani's has grown since, but its traditions cling. Among the musicians is Signor Tosti, who signs his name to the opening bars of hia famous song, Forever and Forever," which.

It is stated on good authority, was composed at Paganis. Another interesting souvenir, this time of a dead musician, Is a few bars of Tschafkowskys composition, with his signature attached. M. Paderewskis autograph Is near at hand, and Signor Mascagni contributes some notes from Cavalleria Kusticana. Pa-gnnis cuisine so delighted M.

Lamhou-renx, the famons French conductor, that he composed a little piece in its honor, and forthwith wrote it on the wall, and not far away from this appears the opening notes of You Should See Me Dance the Polka, duly signed by George Grossmith. A few bars of Funiculi Funicnla, with the autograph of L. Denza, is also among the features of the collection. The autographs of notable musical people are without number. Here we find snch namee as Mario.

Melba, Calvp, Cha-minade. Jean de Riszke, Alvarez, Plancen. Sarasate. Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and a host of others. Very interesting is the appearance side by side of the signatures "Clara Butt and Kennerley Rnmford.

written a year or so before their marriage. The artists who appear in Paganis collection include Val Prinsep and Phil May. The genial caricaturist has drawn a characteristic sketch of himself with the inevitable big cigar. Naturally the theatrical world is to the fore. Julia Neilson and Mary Anderson de Navarro are among the names written on the wall.

Reminiscent of South Africa are the autographs of Dr. Jim and Lord Grey. Royalty has often partaken of Paganis fare in this unpretentious apartment. Financiers who are able to move the money markets of Europe have dined in this little room; diplomats and politicians of world-wide celebrity have examined with interest their novel surroundings while discussing the fare placed before them. If ail the great people who have dined in the little room had written their autographs on the wall the collection would he even more valuable than it actually is.

But while real celebrities have shown hesitation to class themselves among distinguished personages, it hns been difficult at times to prevent little penplefrom placing their names on the roll of fsme. But in spite of its priceless value Paganis collection on a famous occasion narrowly escaped destruction. A newly engaged German waiter decided to celebrate his arrival on the scene by displaying extraordinary zeal for cleanliness and order. Seeing what he subsequently described as "dose dirty wridingrf on de vail. he proceeded to wipe them off with the aid of a pail of hot water and a cloth.

The zeal-ons Teuton had begun to remove Phil May's features when the horrified proprietor appeared and in a very brief apace of time Pagani's knew that German-waiter no Steps were at once taken to prevent any further act of vandalism, and sheets of glass now protect the painted wall on which fignres Pagani's famous collection. London Mail. Os the Trans-Caspian Railway. On the Trans-Caspian Bailway there are two kinds of train the train and the posttrain. And the difference between' them is that the latter has a restaurant-car and the former has not.

The post-train has an extra passenger-carriage, and the train has several good cars, bnt the speed is the same and the discomfort is the same. For what the Russian railway service gives yon in extra comfort on the magnificent Siberian Express, it takes ont of yon in extra fatigue and dirt on'1 the Trans-Caspian. Here there is no first-class at all, and not nearly enough second-class for the number of passengers. The ordinary second-class, too, has narrow, flat wooden seats, with thin, hard cushions spread on them. After a couple of nights on one of these yon are stiff for a week.

There is a carriage which has stuffed seats, but it is hatf second and half third, and the toilet arrangements are ail in the third-class half. Moreover, in the stuffed. cushions are. passengers without number who pay no fare. I still wriggle as I 'think of those carriages.

Now, to go unwashed ia bad, but to share your washing with third-class Russian Asiatic passengers is not only worse it is impossible. Furthermore, while the railway authorities hsve separate third-class carriages for Europeans and natives, the second-class ia open to both Hjoir idea probably was that the higher far would deter the native passengers, but thiiAia far from being the case, so prosperous firih the sedentary Bart become Russian rule. Therefor your carriage is invaded by a host of natives with their innnmenble bundles, their waterpots. and' their teapots, their curiosity, and their expectoration. They do not understand the unwritten lnw which reserves to yon the neat yon have once occupied: they dump themselves and their belongings anywhere, and they are very difficult to detach; they are entirely amiable; they follow your every movement f6r hoars with an unblinking enriositj; and they smell strong.

Henry Norman, ia Scribner's. Aboat the Sian ef It. Waggs I understand each of the political parties in Kentneky is accusing the other of crooked work. Jaggs Well. I guess both nr In the right.

About the only straight thing to be found down there is 'whiakjv Chicago News So by Prowler When He Would Not Lend $40. UNMOVED BY FATHER'S AGONY. Though He Had Two Hundred Dollars in His Pocket He Refused to Lend a Large Part of It to a Fellow Member of the Profesh in Order to Save the Life of an Alleged Little Girl. Tompkins has an opin ountenance and a genial smile, but hi- ha- nut been connected with the businiiii department of theatrical enterprises for ihroe years without obtainiag a large mount of experience which in these times is worth gold. He has become clevn.

ul-o, in making devious exits from promim nt places, that those who have him and laid plans to raise a loan jn disappointed. But if a man has mote nlsjut iu Brooklyn he can't In Ip meeting people, and so it was that Tom, fell into the hands of Prowler at tin Itndge entrance. He had just returned to Uruohltn alter an absence of two weeks ami in-hold Prowler! One moment the nnrmd of the sidewalks gazed, then thus a rush and Tompkins was his. II- had been an assistant doorkeeper hoik a. me for a week one time, and so claim- 1 U- a member of the profesh in go--d -landing.

Good-natured Tompkin- milled grace-fulljr to captivltjr, toi glit beer and listened to the tale of 01 It was a dreadful Mon -obdurate landlord, fruitless efforts to oi.iam work, hungry, ragged children, and. to crimp, all, a sii-k wife and no mon to buy medicine or pa? the doctor. "Pll tell you what I'll do. Prowler. You know-what medicine you want.

I'll buy it for you. But the doctor?" All right. Ill give mi $2 for the doctor. That's the best I un do, as I have just got hack to town aad my money is nearly all gone. Prowler sighed.

He had expected better things. I'll call for the medicine when it is made np, he said, and wandered an ay with the $2 bill. Tompkins went to the hot office and drew $200. Then he made the rounds and, late in the evening, -at in a retired corner of the cafe with his friends, and here it was that Premier again found him Prowler somewhat the worse for the $2 and the exertion of spending it, but able to walk and talk after a fashion. Prowler's mind was the arena of one great idea Tompkins has $200.

All else seemed to he forgotten. even the meeting with Tompkins in the morning. the tale he had told and its results. Prowler, who had been shuffling and snuffling about the corridors, stood still and "pointed like a good sporting dog when he caught sight of Tompkins. Then hia face assumed an expression that would have made his fortune if he had it on the stage to portray the anguish of the distracted father.

Tompkins, boy, Tompkins! he said breathlessly. Hallo! Prowler." responded Tompkins. 'Sense me Ter' p'ticlar! Vef "Yes? Spesk out. These are all friends. "Yon on'y one I 'pend on.

On'y one on'y one! Tompkins What Is it, Prowler? What can I do for yon?" I ses ami wife. Mlisha M'lijah M'li-liza! Y'cs. M'liza. Tompkins, I ses Tompkins er jump off dock! I ses Tompkins nev see me 'gain nev 'gain see pore ole Prowler! "Take a seat and have something with ns, said one of Tompkins friends with hasty sympathy, noting the tendency to tears. The grief-stricken one sat dowu and conquered his emotion, sufficiently to enable him to do full justice to a rickey.

Then he turned to Tompkins again, and in a confidential whisper that could be heard ont on the street, resumed: Nothin to eat three days. Went to manager say go blazes! go blazes! Went to "friends friends, Pve been friendly to, they ail say Go tcll! go t'elir Friends Pve been friendly to toi' me that Do you really mean to say, sir. that yon have had nothing to eat for three days? inquired one of Tompkins guests. Prowler gave him a look of unutterable sorrow and shook his head. But what is it yoa want? asked Tompkins.

Prowler blinked at him owl-Ishiy for a moment and then replied: Forty dollars Forty forty what? Forty devils! Forty cents you mean. "Forty dollars! Forty dollars. Why should I give yon forty dollars? Where -can I 'get forty dollars? An indulgent smile flickered for a moment in tha tragic face as Prowler said with dignity and decision: Two hnnnerd two htmnerd! and lurched toward Tompkinsr indicating bit breast-pocket as the seat of the wealth in question, -r- "But suppose 1 have two hundred or two thousand, or two hundred thonsand, why should I give you forty dollars? Prowler solemnly rose from his chsir and steadied himself on the table. Cause, he eaid. cause you're man! I sea my wife 'M'lisha Mlijah M'liza yes, Mliza I ses hes man Tompkins my friend nev ferget him my friend Tompkins! "Thats what Pm afraid of.

Ton never would forget me if I gave yon the forty. Bnt I wont No, not Dont! Lissen! Jistisaen! Ony chile daughter apple of eye dyin! Prowler buried hia face In hia arms and hia shoulders shook with well developed sobs. Dying your daughter? queried Tompkins. Of starvation? Why dont you run home with the money I gave yon this morning? It i probable that Prowler had forgotten all about the money be had obtained in the morning, also the story ho told "when collecting it His only answer was a vacant glance, followed by more lobbies, which Mr. Walter Saterlee's Striking Picture.

THE NEW ALTAR PIECE." Mr. Woehr Is Going to Move Naw Work by the Rngera Close of the National Arts Club Anetlon Bales and Exhibitions Galore in New fork. Mr. Walter Seterlee ha a striking picture at Hooper's called the "New Altar Piece, and it is as brilliant in its setting as page from the Abbott of Sir Walter Scott. The picture is large and for that reason might attract attention, but the work of the artist is there and it is his conception that we have to do with.

Mf, Saterle has succeeded in giving tlb a fine ecclesiastical picture and his cardinals and monk show up in a manner to give aa a' strong taste for life in the cloister and celL i Mr. Woe hr ia going to movto DeKalb avenue after due deliberation, for rants on Fulton street, in spite of the strenuous times, are going np just in that part qf the city where some of our best merchants do business. 1 1 wont he long before Blank- ley goes and this will mean lots of an-' otter art gallery, for be has some of tha best foreign pictures to be seen In thie country. ft Mr. Julius Ruger has just started on the portrait of a little boy, the aon of Mr.

John Aclielis, a well-known citizen of Brooklyn ho used to live on Pierrepont street. It is a life-size pastel and it will be a stunner hen it is finished. Mr. Bnger hns also executed several portraits of the late Mr. Charles Eschen, who resided on Fifth street.

Mr. Rogers daughter, Amalia, is doing as well as her father, and she has gone into some historical work relating to old Germany which la fuU of legend and story. As to Miaa Roger's work, it ran he said that she is a conscientious, painstaking artist, who ia gradually climbing the steep where Fames proud temple shines afar. At the Schaus gallery thla week can bo seen a very interesting show of It is an exhibition of Meiseoniers works as they appear when etched and engraved by some of the master etchers and engraven. Last Thursday night the exhibition at the National Arts CInb of wild animal life on the plains and in the woods came to an end, and many people must regret this atep, for the show was one that attracted a greet deal of attention by reason of the reputation of the artista who in this line are the best in this country.

Mr. Seton-Thompson, who has been seen and heard in Brooklyn on our public platforms a lecturer, delineator of the wild animals seen in the forests of New York and adjacent States, reminds one of Sir John Lnbbock in his love of the lower creatures, and in hia work as artist we see something of Landseer, We agree with the New York "Times that, if Mr. Howe ia going to present the city with an equestrian figure of Washington it ought to be something original and not an imitation of some conventional work that must have grown weary to Jheeyes. This is a new age as the Victorian hasjiS-L, come to an end, and let the age bring forth something as fresh as 190L Mr. Wordsworth ia now comfortably fixed at the Ponch Mansion and it looks as if ho would do well in hia new quarters.

The Lotos CInb, which is famous for Its art exhibitions, was able to make a fine showing last week with the collection of the late I. T. Williams, who built Up his collection from all sonrcea and from all nations. At Boutons, In West Twenty-eighth street, ia an intereating exhibition of sketchee for the works of some of the best men in literature. The collection of pastel by Everitt Fhlnn, at the galleries of Bonasod, Valadon A has been increased by further sketches made in Paris and London during his trip abroad.

"Marshall Day, which ia Feb, 4. is In honor of Chief Justice Marshall, and Block -ner ia publishing a portrait of him after tho crayon taken by Saint-Memin in 1808 when the jndge was 52. Mr. Gue is certainly one of our beet marine artists for he baa shown in hia recent work of the two picture of the ocean a boldness and freshness that speaks well for his futnre. Mr.

Harrison is supposed to be the best painter of old Neptune in this eonntry, bnt aa he confine himself to the West, we dont see or hear much from him these days. Most of Mr. Gnes beat work can be seen at the Hooper gallery, on Fulton street Warren Sheppard ia a mariue artist of a different type. He revels in Southern seas and annoy climes and be cornea ont all right every time. George IT, McCord la another marine artist, but he differs from the other two and blends a-tory with nature.

Walter Scott Perry. M. Av director of the Department of Fine Art of the Fratt Institute, will continue bis series of intellectual lecture on the History of Art on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock on February 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th; March 6th, 13th and 20th, and April 10 and IT. The subjects will be on Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch and Spanish painting. The first of these on Febraary 6 will Italian, which will include painting in Itnr during the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuriea tha Gothic Period Painting, the Handmeid of the Church; The Monastic Orders; Influences of Giottot Simplicity and Directness of Express, on; Significance of Line and Composition; 1 Drama of Scriptural History: Decora turn of Churches and Public Buildings: Trati-I-tion Feriod; Mysticism Gives Way to Naturalism: Influence of riatic Art; Growth of Tchnique; Revival of Learning and Classic Art.

An exhibition of the original drawing by Henry Brokman. illustrating F. Maii'n Crawfords The Rulers of the South. was opened at Keppel's gallery at 2f F. -t Sixteenth street, Manhattan, on Thurediv last.

There are altogether eichty of thc-o drawings which give a faithful idut of southern Enrbpe. Heavy Squalls. Stubb Tes, the father and child are renting pair. The father rents a dw. shop and warehouse.

Tenn How aboat the child? Stubb He rents the sir from tr.I in until dawn. Chicago News. Things. She has a mania for dunging th Yes; shes been married ant i six times in the past six I Herald. Tkm is a phrase in the air j)ust now in English society.

Such a person hasnt fare enough. The phrase a strong one. bnt it rouid nerrr be usejl in connection with the Bauland Department house which has more (ace than an Jr other store front in the ritjr. Why is Baulands like a wooden Indian? raid a' wag the other night at a meeting of the smart set. Gire.it np, returned the room.

Because its got a block fare. The oldest store in the city I said last week was Newmans, contemporaneous with which would be Jourpeay Burnhams. The youngest store in the town is Baulands. bnt what a youngster. If it keeps on at the pare it has set it will not be long before it will be.

he far as size goes, the commercial colossus of metropolitan Brooklyn. All this immense establishment rerolres around the brain of one busy man, Joseph H. Bauland. He is acquainted with every detail of its vast machinery, and he could, if occasion required, step in and captain the whole army of employees. He hag filled every mercantile position from the bottom to the top, and he knows it all.

He is extremely modest and abhors parade or rant. He has a distinctive genius for business, and is a fine instance of a horn business man. combining sagacity, shrewdness and bard horse sense with courtesy, integrity and indefatigable industry. He is one of the merchant kings of the metropolis and the story of bis straggle and success is a mighty interesting one. Joseph H.

Bauland is a notable specimen of a self-made man. All he hag got, he has got for himself, with no one to help him make hiu start. He was born and raised in Chicago in which city he began urines as cash boy with Mandei Bros, about thirty yearn. He stnek to that firm uatn he net up bnsineea for himself. He did business in Chicago for several years, when seeing what he thought was a good opportunity he came to this city, and 'started to do business on the present site about four and one-half years ago.

He purchased the business. Previously both Wechsler and Offerman had occupied what in now the central part of this immense structure, and which then stood alone. They did a fair business. When Banland came he came with a determination to bnild in time the biggest department honse in the city, and it certainly looks as if he was ea the way to hi word. He has already, as we hare said, the largest front face of any store in Brooklyn.

He has gone back about half a block, bnt he is bow he ginning to extend the structure backward. It in an amasing statement and one hardly belicvahle were It not actually proved to me that in fonr years and a half Mr. Banland has quadrupled the amount of business formerly done in the center store and added on either side two immense wings, 'extending the whole block. Into tbit immense establishment wai introduced an the latest modem appliances for the complete conduct of such a mammoth concern. Little does the casual paaaer by that great front dream that ail along that Kao down below that store is an immense area of hundreds of square feet, all flying with machinery.

I went down into thin wonder-chamber the other night with Mr. Jones, one of the head officials of the bonne, and every inch a gentleman as well as a man of brains. I confess I was amaied at what I saw. They have there the very newest and finest machinery and the largest types of their kind. They have a ventilating machine for the distribution of cool currents of air, which is in itself sight worth reiag.

They have a refrigerating machine for producing an the drinking wtter in the fountains, which in wintry wonder all through sornmer. Over ice coated banka of freaen pipes the water flows from the top to the bottom forever. By the time that it has reached the bottom it is ice water and ready' for asm This refrigerating marvel of mechanical ingenuity at both Sods reminded mo of the great Armour parking house la Chicago, as he once shewed through la which a cow went in at eae end cow and came out at the other canned meat The heating, lighting and rirctiie machinery la an oa the same ponderous plan, revolving in deep cuts with broad flying belts and constituting it a veritable power hooam An this has been added to the plant at a cost of at least $1000X The Banland House occupies more than five times tha amount of Space it did when Its proprietor first took hold of it The business of the concern has in-creased proportionately with its outward expansion. Doting the statedly dull mouths has rna ahead at a most gratifying rats. Daring Christmas it was aU this steer conld do to get the people Iq.

The area of free delivery ef this honse is anywhere within a radina of 250 miles. ithin the last year Mr. Banland has bees joined in bnsinesa by Mr. Menken, who formerly had the largest department store in Memphis, er in fact south of Mason's and Dixon's line. Wed, here we are ia this great mercantile maelstrom whose elevator go np like waterspouts.

What shad say first. We feel lost and hardly know how to pack ad that boom into a freehand sketch. The only thing in to strike not few strokes on H. And so shying the first floor -with its almost numberless attractions of dress and fancy goods, novelties, books and tha second with its furs and clothing, and fine millinery end a thousand other things and ia fart, shying ad of the seven stories of this great basaar but on choose to gratify oar cariosity at that wonderful third floor, tho pride ef the place end the flee do resistance of its kind to he found anywhere. Every one of these great stores is a unique.

Each ha something that none of the others has. This third door of Ban l-v has nothing ehe like it in the city, nor protrallj in the nhole country. ia entirely devoted to groceries, meats and general household provisions and that on the largest scale. It is a complete cyclopedia of eatables. Its motto is, man can do without anything on earth but food.

Thih entire floor of monster area is all railed off in department sections. Fancy a single section devoted to coffee, containing as many as sixty-five different varieties of coffee. Another section to teas, with fifty-five varieties of them. Still another to fruits, another to soaps, another to cheese, all with a full market list of all varieties of each particular product. Think of a cold storage meat closet half a block long with eternal frost just as nnmelting year after year as it lies forever upon Shasta, whitening all the pipes and renting with a snowy beard the ceiling and walls of this great meat closet.

When you order a cut of meat, as soon as it is slieed off it is dropped into a wooden box that takes it to the wrapper to be wrapped, while another box carrier, running in its grooves hprow it speedily returns it. There is everything here thnt there is in any store of Brooklyn and a great deal to he found in none of them. Its outfit extends even to hair dressing, manicuring, harness, and the best and largest photographic gallery to he found. The restaurant is' the largest in any store in the city. It has the finest cooling plant for furnishing cold water of any store in the city.

It has a contract department devoted to household contracts in which it will take a home and furnish it completely from top to bottom. Bnt conspicuons over all the attractions of this wonderful floor is a tall old massy clock, round whose antique timepiece the crowds love to gather and- linger forever as they pass it by. It is a veritable curiosity, and the more intensely eo since it has ho double on earth. This old clock was originally made for exhibition at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia by the Waterbnry Watch Company, but being finished too late was exhibited at tho Worlds Fair at Chicago, where it was awarded a medal. The clock cost the company $80,000, as they proved to the Bauland firm from their papers.

One men, the chief artiehitect, devoted twelve years of his life to the completion and construction of this wonderful old chronometer. It represents the national history of America from the signing of the Declaration to the Civil War, and also the great national manufacturing interests from the mining of the ore np to the finished product. All these phases of national life are represented by marionette-like little figures that with amazing dexterity go through their Intricate mechanical motions In evidence of the facts for which they stand as the pantomimic actors. This old clock is so complicated as to leave it hopelessly beyond the touch of any other hand save that of its maker. If we wanted to move it to-day we would be quite nnable to find any one who conld take it apart and pnt it together ever again, without injuring, if notv destroying it.

So much for a slight glance at this big store. I have not gone higher np the building into the large, carpeting, furnishing or fine wall paper whieh cuts such a figure in the npper part of this great store. Neither have I descended into the lower floor with its vast profusion of crockery and hardware, etc. All this must be imagined by the reader. Such Is tha story of the straggle snd success ef the little cash boy, who, when he began, it is qnite safe to say, little dreamed that some day be should he one of the merchant kings of metropolitan Brooklyn.

"How a Penny Became a Million' would be furnishing a fresh edition In tha life of Joseph H. Banland. I visited the big store on a late evening and made my way through the jostling throng to the private office of Mr. Banland. on the second, floor, just at tha head of the stairs.

He greeted me very cordially. I asked him to join with tha leading representative merchants of tha city In recounting in behalf of young bnsinesa men the story of bnsinesa career, feeling that snch a glance backward over a commercial career wonid he helpfuL Mr. Banland came right to tha point. He was peculiarly modest, and showed, me at a glance that he shrank from notoriety. He simply said: "I can only say, as my neighboring fellow merchants have already said, that a man starting in bnsinesa to-day, has just as good a chance, and even better than his father ever had before him.

If he has more to contend with he has more opportunities for doing bnsinesa. I have very little to say about myself, preferring to let others apeak for me. I came hero determined to make the biggest store in the city, and I am going to carry ont my idea. I propose to develop my idea of a typical department house on a large scale, which la that inch a honse ehonld have within it all that can he fonnd In any city store. I consider my More the best-stocked in that respect of any store of its kind in the town, and I think a fair comparison will show this to be true.

I try to treat everybody with the most painstaking courtesy, to represent things exactly as they are, to make everybody who enters my atom fed at home, and never to try to run my own flag np by running my rival's down." I came away with a moat favorable impression ef the man who in fonr short years has pnt the largest face on hia storefront of any man in the city. I can see juat why this man and ail these men, the atory of whose live has been told in the merchant kings of the metropolis, have succeeded. They have each and all of them been born to business; they have kept right at it from dawn till dusk, knowing no snch thing ns disappointment, and with ail they have been men of marked ability. In other word they have got brains and got them bad. and one of, the -very best typea of this brand of men is WAYS OF THE EARTHWORM.

Interesting Facta About the Small Boys Favorite Fish Balt. Earthworms have a reason for being ever so much more important than to serve a bait for fishermen. For ail their lowly estate few creatures have done more for mankind. Earthworms are not merely the original plowmen they have brought about the condition of the earth's surface that makes other plowing possible and profitable. Field crops, for the most part, grow anil feed upon vegetable mold the layer, of warm, light, brackish earth resting upon the subsoil.

Save hy grace of the earthworm vegetable mold would exist only in those places where dead leaves and decaying growths generally resolve themselves into their original elements. The earthworm. which may he described as an embodied appetite, eats everything animal matter, green leaves and dead ones, twigs, leaf stalks small stones and earth. The residuum of all he casts np on the surfa -e at the rate, throughout pastures and garden ground, of some ten tons a year. Continue the process a hundred years or even fifty, and many inches of fine friable, productive soil result.

Beyond all that, their burrows let down light and air from the subsoil. Sometimes the hnrrows run six feet deep. In winter the worms hibernate in ronndish chauiliers at the bottom.1 The chambers are lined with very small stones or hard, rounded seed. A dozen worms sleep together, knotted intira squirming hall. It is only in the winter sleep that they are thus gregarious.

At other times they go in pairs. Though they do not in captivity appear very sensible of either cold or heat, in hot, dry weather they go almost as far- down as they do in winter. Eyeless, they have yet a certain perception of light, retreating before it to their burrows. Vibration also affects them hence, say tne country folk, the woodcock' habit of dramming to call them ont of the ground. Their sense of smell is acute, and hy the help of it they find their food, either buried or lying upon the As soon as it is fonnd the worms drag it to the burrow.

They 101X01 by pressure of their smooth ringed bodies and by literally eating ont the earth ahead. The digestive apparatus includes a crop and gizzard, like those of birds. After the manner of birds, the gizzards are kept supplied with smati stones to serve as millstones in grinding down the food. The burrows are plastered all round with the finely chewed earth and keep shape often long after they are antenanted. From the dead leaves which make so large a part of their food the worms secrete humus acids, which attack and help to dis-solva the rocks buried in the aoii.

Thus the earthworms not merely transform tho soil chemically and mechanically, but add to the bulk of it since soil of every kind come from the disintegration of rocks. Further, many leaves dragged down into the burrow are only partly eaten1 anil, decaying, furnish gases which permeate the oil and react upon its mineral element. Earthworm are the best allies of those gentlemen, the antiquaries. A coin, an arrow head, a spear point, an inscribed slab, a teeselated pavement, they bury, surely, safely, to await the day of resurrection. The buying is done in two ways by castings -spread above the thing to he buried, and by undermining the soil beneath.

Earth honeycombed with borrows sinks in time of heavy rain or frost Thus, in course of a thousand years, aa object may be many feet under surface, yet remain exactly aa it ML Indeed, the wise men declare the earthworms, in the mass, keep the whole face of the planet in a rtate of gradual evolution. St. Louis Globe- Democrat I wonder why the composer called this a cradle song. Probahiy because it has a rocky tune. Philadelphia Bulletin FIDDLES MADE IN GERMANY.

Place and Hanaer In Which the Violins of the World Are Made. In the of Mittenwald. in the heart of the Bavarian highlands, live the men who manufacture the greater part of the world's supply of Mittenwald hai taken the place of Cremona, although it may take another 200 years before its violins can be mentioned in the same breath with those of the famous Italian town. Of the 1.800 inhabitants of the village, over 800 are exclusively occupied with the mannfactnre of violins, and the gmtput reaches the inoreditahle figure of 50.000 violins per annum. They are exported to all countries in the worid, the better instruments going to England and America.

One organization of makers alone exports 15,000. Each family of Tiolin makers has its own particular trade secret a Sort of trick of the trade, handed down from father to son. Outsiders and. still more, rival makers, are not permitted into a workshop that la not theirs. The people of Mittenwald have an interesting violin school, where the village boys are instructed in the general technical departments of violin building.

In-the hall of this building ia an inscription to the following effect: The object of this school Is to instruct the scholars accepted in it in the various arts connected with the manufacture of stringed instruments, and to educate them as capable violin makers. The course lasts three years, and embraces, in addition, tho arts of drawing, and playing on the violin. In the building of a violin min-W is left to the individuality of the builder. It ia seldom that two violins are exactly alike In every particular. The villagers of Mittenwald are generally of opinion That the varnish with which an instrument is covered is of the first Importance, and attribute the fine tone of the violins made by Stradivsrius, Gnatuerius.

and others, to a secret of Tarnish which has evidently been lost forever. Mittenwald uses maple wood for its violins, brought from the distant forests of Dalmatia and Bosnia, and pine wood of a certain quality and reainousnesa fonnd only in the neighboring forests. The old-looking violins seen in many a mnsic shop window are not infrequently brand-new instruments from Mittenwald. The blackness and shabhiness, tho rubs and scratches, the Italian names Of makers Inside, and the picturesque date-let us say of 1743 are often the work of the Ingenious fiddle makers of this remote idyllic village in Bavaria. We must supply the market, they My in extenuation of this dan of bnsinesa; if we do not.

some one else will. London Leisure Hour. A Natural Qnery. Van Antler I am trying to bring my daughters up to know something. Bilter Is that so? Who's teaching them? Detroit Free Press..