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THE SUNDAY CHRONICLE CTIICAG APRIL 18 1897 17 BEHIND THE CIRCUS SCENES TMIHIPTQURSTHE COUNTRY pf this where there are plenty of dressing-rooms but in tents it do at all If a storm came up and our things were lying about they would be blown every which way so we would never know where they were but if every time we take off pur costumes we fold them up and put them away we know that we can put our hands pn them at a Uj The big room was well filled with trunks Each one of the eight or ten performers Had a trunk the size of which would make a society heart green with envy These were placed about the wall aid in front of them each performer had her own chair upon which she sat when1 dressing The law of property rights seems to be in full force and effect in the greenroom of a circus for if anyone gets on one of these chaifs during the absence of its owners in the ring she is requested to vacate it as soon as the owner appears In the dressing-room all is business and each is interested in making herself as attractive as the thousands outside would warrant While Foy was rubbing Industriously the other afternoon to get her make-up off at the next trunks her two small sisters were folding up their tights Pretty Rose Dockrill the young who rides as a jockey of the Napoleon days was taking off her many muslin skirts and donning her satin breeches And as fast as she took off one thing- her mother stood ready with outstretched hands to take it and place it in the roomy trunk In another corner black-hatred Rosette was tying a gay scarf composed of all the colors of her country about her slender waist and as she did so the rings on her fingers and the bangles on her wrists jingled enough to satisfy any high school girl These women could give their less active sisters on health that might be reached Maricopa being very hungry Iyen-tured out ahd wras prevented from re-entering hut I got and soon caught a train for Tucson where I landed' safely but at the cost of my ring which the brakeman tore off my finger as the price of my box car fide MAKES UP AS AN INDIAN AH this time my broken toe had received no medical attention and it now gave me great pain I finally applied and was received at a Tucson a musty hole built of adobe with no where my toe healed in three weeks I found it impossible to ride out of Tucson in a box car so I resorted to strategy Indians are permitted for some reason or other -to ride on top of freight trains or on the free I painted my face with brown clay and securing a piece of a blanket crawled on top and rode clear to Lordsburg unmolested I tried the same trick leaving Lordsburg for El Paso but was detected and badly beaten by two thuggish brakemen besides being "heavily thirteen miles out of town I tramped back but it took me three days to a train out of Lordsburg and as only one meal passed my lips during this period I grew desperate Stating my case to the town! marshal I begged for transportation to El Paso He heard my story through and then thrust me into the calaboose There I remained for sixty hours -in company with a dozen dirty Mexicans On regaining my liberty the marshal stowed me away In a box car and I woke up fourteen hours later in El Paso I never appreciated civilization so highly before I felt so good that I even walk across the bridge spanning the Rio Grande to see what old Mexico looked like The Mexican specimens encountered in Arizona and New Mexico What the Various Performers Do Before and After Acts System the Predominating Feature in Their Dressing-Rooms The Seeming Confusion of Movement Observed Is But an Illusion Habits of Life and Daily Routine of the Average Road Troupe Ever go behind the scenes at a circus? Well the things to be noted there furnish plenty of material for thought as well as amusement This is about what one would run into if sent into the dressing-rooms while the show is going on System in the dressing-room is one of the first things taught the young performers and when the two little Foy girls came running from the ALFRED PEATS ART WALL PAPERS Buy Your WaH Paper Direct From the Largest Concern of Its Kind in the World There are twenty -nine- recognized wall paper factories in the United States Out of these we carry in stock the choice selections of all but two and in addition our Prize Designs which can be found only at our stores and established agencies also many papers manufactured in France England Germany and Japan We sell more Wall Paper direct to the consumer than any ten dealers in the world We give you ten times the variety to select from Hundreds of designs and colorings in every grade Seeing is believing We invite inspection CROUP OF WASHINGTON LADIES OUR 1897 PRIZE DESIGNS ROSE VIOLET AND POPPY PAPERS VERY FINE LARGE FLORAL EFFECTS DELFT BLUES and CHINTZ PAPERS DAMASK PAPERS NURSERY PAPERS Unique andPretty COLONIAL PAPERS TAPESTRY EFFECTS acfeh REAL PERSIAN EFFECTS MOROCCO LEATHERS JRi 20c roll 10c roll up 7c 10c 15c roll 12c and 15c roll 25c and 35c roll 10c and 15c roll 10c to 25c roll 25c to 60c roll 45c to 75c roll 15c to 40c roll pay high prices for old shop-worn goods We can save you from 20 to £0 per cent on any grade of Wall Paper you wish to buy PEATS 143-145 Wabash-av Tale of One Man's Exciting Experience in Search of Work From Chicago Through the Northwest and Down the Coast He Is Heavily Ditched Now and Then by Strong-Arm Brakemen Journeys Across the Yuma Desert and Rack Home His I suppose I may be called a tramp That appellation is applied these days to men who travel many without in search of work That is what I did I want to tell as concisely and as plainly as may be the story of my travels because I have neither seen in print nor heard related an experience equal to mine as to the number of miles traversed without getting employment of any kind except in a few instances for a few days each I want to say too that mine was no perfunctory search for work I have a trade at which I am accounted an expert In more prosperous times I have earned as much as $150 a month at it But in my tramping I did not confine myself to applications for work at my trade I was willing to turn my hand to anything that a fairly intelligent and fairly muscular man could do How I succeeded my narrative will show I left Chicago on the 2d of April 1S96 bound for any place where there was a dollar to be honestly earned I had but 10 cents in my possession and it was necessary to ride in a box car It was easy traveling as far as Dubuque The brakemen bothered me only once and when they heard my story gave me permission to remain in the empty box car At Dubuque I got out to seek a meal and hunt for a job I got plenty to eat but no work I reached St Paul without any trouble and found the place crowded writh unemployed men I had determined when I started to waste no time in hopeless localities so I remained in St Paul only long enough to wash up and secure a meal TO NORTHWEST TERRITORY Striking out on the Interurban railway line walked the ten miles which separate St 'aul from Minneapolis and got on the front of the evening express which ns to Moose-Jaw Northwest territory 700 or SOO miles between Minneapolis and ioose-Jawr were covered without incident Slier than an occasional demand by the ain hands to off and stay a re-est which I felt compelled to decline on prairies of Dakota and Northwest terri-When I got off I always got on again hade several hundred miles by catching le Pullman car and riding on the steps of the vestibule At Moose Jaw after thawfing out I curled up in a hay car billed for Medicine Hat This was more comfortable traveling than the blind baggage or vestibule steps but the running was so slow that when Medicine Hat was reached I could have eaten the bale of hay I slept on The riding from Medicine Hat clear to ancouver was easy but I ate only three times between these two points at Banff Hot Springs Donald and Kamloops At Vancouver I got work for three weeks and my earnings enabled me to travel to Seattle Tacoma Spokane and thiough the Couer country without begging food although I stuck to the box car mode of progression Corning bark to Spokane from the mining sec-tic of the Coeur D'Alene where the Hoods had busines at a standstill I went to Pocatello Idaho via Huntington Ore in the Union Pacific system I had difficulty in riding and none at all in eating the people are generous in that section Here I struck my second job I vent to work as brakeman on the Union Pacific- at Pocatello A washout near Idaho Falls necessitated the employment of many extra train hands experienced or otherwise During my eight days of service between Idaho Falls and Ogden Utah over 709 knigfiJfc of the road enjoyed through me the box-cW- hospitality that had in some instances been denied to me I knew how to sympathize with them But eight pay 'id not last long and I had to be on the move' gain STRIKES FOR THE MINES One hundred and fifty miles from Spokane ue north and straight up hill lies the ldorado of British Columbia Rossland To this new mining camp hundreds of men were weekly journeying on foot and I followed them The situation as to unemployed men hitherto encountered was very bad but at Rossland it was terrible Miners ere working for laborers' wages and there ere five miners to every job Gambling as wide open and like the labor market ere were ten gamblers to every white eck in the camp After making a few ys on a Columbia river steamer 1 started ek south and went to Portland Ore It the same story there the town was with idle men and no prospect of work the Southern Pacific for San Fran-and had no difficulty in covering the les except for being once on top of the Siskiyou mountains eavily in the language of tramp-gy means being thrown off a train in tion San Francisco like Portland was wded with idle men work was out of the estion I went south I visited Santa uz San Jose and Los Angeles as well as minor points in southern California but only work ofliered on the entire route a job pitching alfalfa hay at Fresno the weather was very hot however it 'as almost sure death for one unacclimated 0 withstand the heat of the hay field so I eclined )ne thing I have cause to remember in this alifornia tour That is the terrific heat en-untered passing through the tunnels be-een Bakersfield and Mojave Junction The itire distance is up-grade and the fireman eeps the engine hot This makes it pleas-ht for people riding the a thermometer were placed on the bag-age car platform it would register not less than 150 degrees TROUBLE IN SIGHT From Los Angeles to San Bernardino eighty miles with towns every two miles I walked Fruit of all kinds was abundant and I subsisted almost wholly on that Across the country three miles from San Bernardino is Colton Cal From that point 1 started on the most eventful and unpleas ant portion of my itinerary on the Southern Pacific across the great Yuma desert At Colton I had a hearty meal It was the last I was to eat for some time When the train was within fifteen miles of Indio I was by a brakeman and the big toe of my left foot was broken by the fall It may seem incredible but I actually hopped bn one foot for a mile until I met a wagon taln going in the opposite direction and with the assistance of the freighters contracted a crutch by the aid of which I ached Indio at 3 in the morning If is misfortune had befallen me in the day-e I should not now be writing this story the vicinity of Indio is 137 feet below sea fevel and on any day in the month pf my the thermometer will register hat number of degrees of heat The attempt to walk fifteen miles handicapped as I was would have meant certain death Leaving Indio on the brake rods of the next freight I was shot at by a brakeman but having missed me he evidently thought I wAen titled to a ride and I reached Yuma Ariz? without mishap 1 made nine unsuccessful attempts before I finally managed to ride a box car out of Yuma and then only succeeded through the kindness of a switchman who jacked me into a half loaded car and locked me in The car was billed for Gila-Bend Ariz and upon arriving there I saved myself from arrest for car breaking by unloading the contents of the car for the owner who repaid me for my labor by having me marched out of the town As it was toward evening I only walked a short distance out and then under cover of darkness walked back and providence-favored Kon caught a box car When the train VI feY NA r- 45r At '55 ls The new administration has brought into Washington society a bevy of pretty girls and' dashing young men the families of the members of President cabinet The girls naturally attract more attention than the boys and society circles of the capital are filled with gossip concerning the attainments attractions and personality of the young ladies One of the prettiest of the lot ls Miss Frances Alger youngest daughter of the secretary of war She is a beautiful girl who has been out of school only a year She is proficient in music and has traveled extensively on the continent She is of the had satisfied my curiosity In El Paso I went to work but my ill luck pursued me The firm failed within a week and I -went to Fort Worth Dallas Houston Galveston and San Antonio accomplishing nothing At Longview Junction I boarded a cottonladen car destined for Shreveport and this car was so comfortable that I wake up until four hours after arrival From Shreveport to Boyce La I rode in a passenger car but to even matters up I had to wTalk to the next station It was very dark and I walked ten miles in the wrong direction stubbing my toes every few steps on the uneven ties The crying panthers on each side of the track kept my heart in my mouth till daybreak when I caught a freight train which carried me to New Orleans Here my troubles practically ended The trip from New Orleans to Memphis was quickly made although I was a couple of times But riding from Memphis to Chicago was so easy that it seemed like a recompense from Providence for having withstood the trying ordeal of crossing the great Yuma desert on my The nearest approach to a railway disaster through the whole journey was I played the leading roles in the dramatic occurrences of being That is my story The west may have been a great country at one time but Chicago will be plenty good enough for me in future Early Exports of Cheese The firsts exports of cheese from the United States are believed to have been about 1826 when Harry Burrell of Herkimer county New York opened' a regular cheese trade with England Another Brand of Svengali Owing to the anti-Semitic agitation in Vienna has had to be somewhat modified Svengali in the revised version is made as a Hungarian gypsy band leader Halibut Catches in the Pacific A steamer arrived in Vancouver the other day with 132000 pounds of halibut The same boat made a record by catching 110-000 pounds of halibut in a day When delivery of The Chronicle ls irregular make complaint to the office 164-166 Washington street Jt t-iss Alger 0 A brunette type of beauty with dark hair and eyes and a clear olive complexion Attorney General McKenna has two charming daughters The engagement of Miss Isabel to Peter Martin a wealthy young mine owner of the Pacific slope was recently announced but the marriage will not take place until next year Miss Marie the younger daughter is a pretty girl a trifle above medium height with dark eyes an abundance of brown hair and a graceful figure She is an ardent athlete but does not ride a wheel Postmaster General Gary has seven daughters of whom but three are unmarried Of these Miss Lillian is a belle of Baltimore society famous for its beautiful women All ring one day last week after they had flown through the air the first thing the small creatures did was to carefully fold their tinsel trimmed green tights and do them up in clean white cotton There was tidiness not to be always found in the best governed household The children of a circus troupe are drilled to be as tidy as they are clever at their work and when they grow to womanhood and manhood the habits are so well formed that they stay with them So besides having their little bodies well developed they are also being trained to be methodical in their everyday life When the gayly pressed women and children come down from their aerial swings or from riding rushing horses they are very like commonplace wives and mothers at home In and about their dressing-rooms they are interested in getting off their war paint and finery and slipping into simply-made frocks The big rooms devoted to the brilliant costumes of the women riders and wire walkers are filled during each performance of the show with women and children whose turn to delight the throng is about due Getting ready to go on takes a long time considering the little that most of the performers wear and they spend many minutes in making a pretty toilet for an act which it may only take ten or twelve minutes to go through with Each one is Intent upon herself and trying to make herself as pretty as possible Here during a performance are to be found women and little girls in all stages of dressing and undressing The pretty bareback driver is getting into her many frilled skirts and the tight rope walker is pulling off her snug-fitting costume and taking down a plain street gown which ls to be donned The little Miss Foy is folding up long green stockings as if she were not the only girl in the world who could turn a double sommersault in going from a higher swing to a lower one and her smaller sister is brushing her uniform that a speck of dust upon it While in another corner a pretty black-eyed arab is taking off her make-up FORCED TO BE NEAT have to be neat that is one of the first smiled pretty Mrs Foy as she came in after flying through the air for fifteen minutes and yet seem out of breath "We each have a trunk and all our things have to be kept in it If we we would never know where we were It might do to be untidy in a big building like Lujan jOccra c'V7 3 yP Miss the girls are musical and Miss Lillian has displayed decided talent Miss Helen Long daughter of Secretary Long has a slight figure and dancing blue eyes set off with a mass of Titian red hair which but adds to her beauty She is an accomplished linguist Miss Wilson who will assist Mrs McKln ley in receiving the public has been the head of Secretary Wilson's household since the death of her mother a few years ago She is slender with dark hair and blue eyes Miss Wilson has won some fame as a writer of stories and short sketches and is also the possessor of a soprano voice of remarkable range and sweetness of benefit to coming humanity They are so straight and sturdy and their perfect physical condition comes from constant care and watchfulness When Rose Dockrill leaves the ring she for one moment walk upon the damp sawdust ground for she knows that she take cold The great big building is so full of draughts that they are all cautious not to get a chill when coming from their acts The women wrap themselves up in long woolen cloaks and as they go to and from the ring tfcey look 68 lf they were in their own homes on their way to the bath After they kre done they are careful to rub themselves well for when they come from the ring they are moist and exhausted witjitbe exertion of their performance The women about the Circus seem content just to be there Perhaps the compensation is in knowing that they are where someone wants them but the truth is they do not seem to care to wander far away from the big covered building or itenUin which they gather They visit and bliat together when waiting their turns to ofP'and seem to have the most delightful times They are very like women anywhere else in life and when the husband of Minnie Johnson the other night was struggling a white lawn tie that forceful rider (rime to his assistance and performed thafGittle service for him She stood befofre hitti in her riding habit and pulled the lorf white string first one way and then the other until she was satisfied as to the equal lengths and then tied it with as much precision as if her husband was going to an assembly ball instead of into one of the three big rings And when Mrs lord was waiting for his signal to enter the arena little Mrs Foy picked up a big pin out of her own costume and fastened his sash to please herself giving It a gentle pat to make It lay in place They talk of their which means pleasure to all the outsiders and they never seem tired of watching their companions do their special acts When they are on the road their entire life is the show After a night spent in a sleeping coach they take breakfast in the dining car and then start out directly for the tent The first thing of the day is to dress for the parade and then after it is over the performers do not take to the train and leave the tent before the afternoon show begins They take their midday meal there and are on hand for the matinees They amuse themselves with ALFRED books sewing or music while waiting for the different pe and their days pass one after another like those in one big family FOX FARM ON A MAINE ISLAND Bushy Tails Are Found to Be a Profitable Crop by Enterprising Yankees From the Boston Globe There is an Island off the coast of Maine six miles outside of Boothbay Harbor where the rarest of one species of fur-bearing animals are found in numbers They are black and silver foxes and it may be said in beginning that they did not get on the island by themselves A few years ago Thomas Morgan of Croton Conn who was summering at Boothbay Harbor conceived the plan of stocking one of the numerous islands in that vicinity with black and silver foxes that are now almost extinct in the wild state He looked around for a suitable Island and finally hit upon Outer Heron as possessing all the conditions necessary to the success of such a colony as he desired to plant Outer Heron is a wooded island of 400 acres or so with considerable elevation and bold rocky shores It has plenty of fresh water and its dense growth of spruces pines and firs breaks the force of winter gales There is a good dwelling-house on the island and in winter a dozen or more lobster fishermen live in shanties around the little cove that serves -as a harbor The island was owned by Richard Emerson a veteran who resided at East Booth-bay From him Mr Morgan obtained permission in consideration of a yearly rental to stock the island with foxes An order was sent by Mr' Morgan to a fur company engaged in breeding black foxes on an island in Alaska for a consignment of the animals and thirty good specimens were started east The journey took many months being made by vessel and steamer to San Francisco and thence overland and when the consignment arrived at Boothbay harbor only seven of the foxes were alive These were put on Outer Heron about a year ago and they have thrived and multiplied from all indications A few months ago a company was formed under the laws of Maine to foster the industry Mr Morgan thinks he will make out of the fox raising business on Outer Heron To a man who visited Boothbay Harbor recently Mr Knight talked entertainingly about the prospects of raising black foxes for the market expect to get any returns right said he when we get the island well stocked we ought to do well Last year there were only 1700 black and silver foxes sold in London the fur market of the world They nearly all came from Alaska and they were fourteen months on the way If we can raise skins here we can get them to London thirteen months earlier than they could be sent from Alaska We intend to breed out all the light strain or silver foxes from our stock A silver fox is by no means a cheap the pelt of a good one is worth $75 to $100 but the black fox is much more valuable the pelts being worth as high as $400 MONKEY HAS THE MEASLES Ailment Peculiar to Humanity Attacks a Simian at a Paris Museum Paris Letter to the New York Press So far as the members of the French Academy of Medicine have been able to ascertain Cynocephalus Is the first monkey that ever had the measles Zanzibar was his birthplace He was brought to Madagascar where he was sold to a superior officer in the French army As a companion for him the officer bought another monkey a vagabond who had no name and whose birthplace was unknown The weather being cold the pets were placed in a warm house a pri- vate in the zouaves who was serving the officii- attended to their wants and often frolicked with them One day went to the doctor complaining of an eruption on his body The doctor saw at once that he had measles and hurried him off to bed another soldier was put in charge of the garden and monkeys Four days later he noticed that Cynocephalus kept to the corner of his cage and refused to eat The same doctor who treated the zouave was called in An examination showed an eruption on body and all the other symptoms of measles The same treatment was given to him as to the zouave The other monkey was in no wise afflicted To begin with it is reported he was not so intelligent or so human as Cynocephalus who seems to have lived ud to his fine name and his place in the Zanzibar peerage and then the two were of different tribes one contracted the disease while the other say the academians "is not at all remarkable for of two persons exposed in the same way it often happens that one escapes and the other does not Making Extract Beef During the season 15000 head of cattle are boiled down into extract of beef every week at Fray Bentos South Am'erica ment of fancy drinks is limited they confer a little while and generally compromise on vanilla flavored ice cream soda In the business districts at least 50 per cent of the soda water sold is phosphates of which there aro many kinds wild cherry and orange being two prime favorites The popular belief that phosphates are brain-building and blood-producing is undoubtedly responsible for the amount of business done in these liquids and so steadily has the demand grown that a line of phosphates is a necessity for any druggist who professes to be in the least up to date In the plain soda made with the fruit sirup and soda water cream is used where ice cream is not wanted and among the fruit flavors the old reliable strawberry heads the list thus lending additional strength to the accuracy of- the statement God could have made a better berry than the strawberry but doubtless God never Vanilla is an old standby among the ladies You will see a group of ladies escorted to the glittering fountain by some liberal-minded matron and then the following conversation takes place: are you going to have Mrs Frank let me see Strawberry chocolate orange raspberry ginger ugh I hate gin- ger give me some are you going to have I believe take let me see orange nectar banana hee-hee that a funny flavor that care' I wonder what it tastes like I guess take and the rest of the crowd trails in on the vanilla basis and the wise clerk smiles as the agony is over after about twenty minutes different with men Two young fellows of 19 blase men of the world and of vast experience step moodily into a corner downtown drug store and the foremost one says decisively "two The clerk looks- inquiringly at the second youth and that worthy fires the word at him The clerk turns to No 1 who ejaculates tersely a The drinks are drawn drank and paid for and the youths vanish Time consumed In transaction two and one-half minutes Number of words in conversation six Women drink very little mineral water It taste sweet and a good1 many of the ladies are possessed of what is known as sweet Yet notwithstanding the increased use of it in households the sales of mineral water are climbing higher every year This remarkable consumption of soft drinks almost entirely sold from the drug stories shows that the American people are taking kindly to a temperance sermon which is being preached to them unobtrusively yet successfully through the powerful force of example Men who drink alcoholic beverages are no longer ashamed to go into drug stores and buy soft drinks and they find the difference in after effects andi present cost is something worth considering A first-class soda water dispenser has as many in calling as a fancy and is continually inventing new drinks to tickle the popular palate Ha command's a good salary is an expert manipulator of glassware in juggling attitudes and needless to say is a great favorite among the ladies It is his business to be andheisa Chesterfield for politeness and patience The question of good times or hard times cuts very little figure with the soda water or mineral water consumer When he gets thirsty economy waits More soda and mineral water will be sold in Chicago during the coming year than can be estimated accurately Roughly calculated enough to finish the drainage canal WHEN OTHERS FAIL CONSULT DOCTOR SWEATY 30 Experience Recognized by the entire Medical Fraternity as The Ablest and Most Successful Specialist in the World for liis wonderful cures in all nervous chronic and private diseases of men and women Prompt and perfect cures guaranteed in all cases undertaken Call and gret his advice UDITr your troubles if from the city Bill I I I Thousands cured at home by letter Let-ll ii i i terg answered in En Irtish German French Italian Swedish Danish and Norwegian Medicines sent secretly Letters confidential A valuable book of information sent free DR WE ANY 323 State St cor Congress Chicago 111 CLAmOR FOR SOFT BEVERAGES Wonderful Increase In Soda Fountain Business Thirsty Multitudes Consume Cool Mineral Waters hy Barrel Time was when the drug stores handled nly soda water at their fountains The different fruit sirups constituted the stock in trade as far as flavors were concerned and pummer was the season in which the soda (fountain crept from gloomy seclusion into a ibright and shining importance and the fizz pf the fizzer was heard in the land But a change came over the spirit of things and certain flavors such as chocolate and coffee were drawn from under the counter where they were standing ready bottled and Alt' era of extra flavors began The evolution of the sodla fountain itself commenced and from a modest and unpretentious structure of one or one and a half stories it grew to be a stately edifice of the genus hitting the ceiling of the drug store in its extreme top-loftiness and costing as much with its variegated (marble onyx and silver front and its bewildering array of faucets pillars and intricate outlines as a first-rate residence would cost to build say from $3000 to $6000 Such fountains are of course very elaborate and are fitted for the various mineral waters Soda fountains carried in stock by the manufacturers range in price from $200 to $5000 The highest-priced fountain ever put up cost $14-(500 enough to purchase a substantial home dn a first-rate residence street The trade in mineral waters is increasing rapidly and numerous new brands of water have made their appearance on the soft drink market The demand for these is steady the year round the consumption of course being greater in warm weather when ithirst quenching becomes so important a feature of metropolitan existence The most popular kinds are Vichy Kissengen Congress seltzer Pavilion and Deep Rock and most of the fountains are run the year round ito supply the demand Many a man who formerly would drop into a saloon for his morning cocktail now takes a drink of mineral water as a bracer and the fact is and can be demonstrated by the figures that the drug stores are doing temperance reform work which is really remarkable MAKES A GOOD PROFIT A certain drug store cleared last year on its various soft drinks for the full 365 days $40000 It was an all night establishment open twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four and there was not an hour no not a quarter of an hour during the entire year that someone w'as not buying a drink In the winter hot soda comes to the front together with hot chocolate and beef tea The saloons themselves have been driven to furnishing beef tea and -cider to their customers As for a lemonade you can get one at a drug store for 10 cents which would cost you 15 cents at a saloon Coming down to the nonintoxicating beers the drug store furnishes roof beer Ottawa beer Peruvian beer and Spear beer and also mead The very best cider is obtainable at the drug stores and at 5 cents a glass is a popular drink A good-sized cup of hot chocolate or beef tea costs 10 cents Common pure spring water costs 5 cents a glass and the mineral waters from 5 to 10 cents a glass In the selection of a fountain the wary druggist follows the example of the saloonkeeper and picks out as handsome a fountain as he can possibly afford to buy The amount of soda water apparatus made in Chicago and shipped from here or sold in the city last year was something over $500000 The average price of a fountain is about $700 These fountains are made mostly from Mexican onyx and the demand for the stone is so great that the price has been very much increased The stone is carved and worked into fanciful designs and the variegated colors of the material add very largely to the beauty of the work The sale of soda water apparatus in the United States last year exceeded $5000000 VARIETIES OF FLAVORS In the different flavors used at the drug stores for soda water may be mentioned plain soda lemon vanilla sarsaparilla pineapple orange ginger orgeat strawberry raspberry ambrosia coffee cream tonic hock claret tea nectar rose chocolate ckberry maple wild cherry c-atawba sherbet winter green banana chickerberry and dozens of others The fancy drinks used are almost numberless and each dispenser has a special drink of his own manufacture The kind of beverage sold by the druggist depends entirely on his location In the residence districts he will sell a very -considerable amount of ice cream eeda The trade is at least 50 per cent cf vanilla Ice cream soda and the balance phosphates or fancy drinks But when they go Into a suburban or residence district drug store where the assort.