EXPENSES OF A BUILDING,

A Smaltt army ef Employees, Many o} Whem the Public Does Not See. “The position of superintendent of a big New York building is ne sinecure,’’ gaid a men who oceupies that position. “f watch the building from top to bot- tom, see that the machinery is kept in erder, look out for wear and tear and Book after the wants of all the tenants.”’ **Do they want for much?’’ was askeel. ‘“‘Well, about everything under the gun and a great many things we carnot supply. There are 300 rooms im the

building, and we burn on an average 9.500 16 candle power incandescent | lamps Notwixhstanding this fact there isa constavt ory for more light. The desire for brilliant illumination is a mania.

“And then there are the lost keys. It would surprize you to know how many keys are required. We buy them by the bundreds. When the tenants lose their outdoor heys, we remove the cylinder from the locks and supply a key of a different pattern. The tenants lose their

* safe kess too. I have bad to drill and / open £0 sales this year. j “The greatest wear and tear on a! building of this kind is around tho} windowe‘and window shades. We keep a carpenter busy the year round repair- ing window woodwork, replacing ropes and fixing blinds. Ome of our greatest annoyances comes from tenants whe «do not keqp office boys amd who try to ms< the porters for erramds. The porter is also the middleman. All complaints eome ‘through him.

**‘Men and women'tenants are about equally troublesome. We have ‘one woman tenant, however, who is mever without the services:of either the «elec- trician, the porter or'the carpenter. The pay roll of ths engineer’s department has-averaged for 1997 $1,113.83 every twoweeks. That amount pays the:chicf engineer, three assistants, three wilers, thres firemen, thres electricians, ‘three amen'to look after dievators, one starter, ten-elevator men, ene doorman and two night watchmen.

*tin the engineers’ department there are three watches of eight houme each. In -addition to those men there is a small army of amployees whom the public seldom sees. They corae into the buildings before the tenants arrive. They are the last:to leave it. Those are the cleaners and sweepers. Thebill for sweeping and dusting a Jarge building isilikely to be imtarestimg to the house- keepers of New York. We pay those women $587.80 every two weeks.

‘“Here is an elevator rope that from Jan 1 to Oct. 1 fas done 12,203 hours’ steady work. The rope has been in use gince May 26, 1885, and is gaed fora few months yet. The elevator ropes are of annealed softvwire. They aost $150 apiece. The ropes are one and a quarter inches in diameter. Those in use in this building are 2,01 feet in length. The ropes operated by hand on some elevators and known as tiller ropes are anly one- half an inch in diameter. They are made of annealed «wire also. Thy cost $26. We carry oa own glass imsurance, and it pays us to take therisk. The small boy does uct find room #o play ball bereabouts, and our bill fer break- age iis low. Since Jan. 1 our expendi- ture.for glass has been $32.59 only.

“We use seven tons of coal every 24 hours. The building is heated.by ex- haust steam. As soon as the steam has done its work in the engines i¢ passes into'the main pipe, whence itisdistrib- uted throughout the building.”—New York Commercial.

Ancient ‘Barbers.

The «ult of the beard, according to tthe ancient Jewish writers, started in ithe garden of Eden. Adam, they tel! us, Was several miles dn height amd was furnished with a grodigious heard which reached to his middle. The .an- cient Jews, presumably on account of this beliewed Edenie origin, held the beard in «uch high esteem that they considered it a greater insult to seize man by hie beard than to tread on his corns. They cherished the hair on their faces as the callow youth of today does bis adolescent mustache, trimmed it in Farious forms, perfumed it with odorous substances and cut it anly as a sign of great aflliction. Sofardid they carry their veneration for its dignity that laws were actually passed regarding the manner of its wearing. This was probably done, however, im order that the chosen people might not imitate the neighboring races that made hair offer- ings to their gods, nor their former mas- ters, the Egyptians, who were great pa, trons of barbers.

The barber’s lot was a happy one in the land of Egypt, where the people had such a high regard for the tonsorial art that the majority of the men shaved not only the face, but the entire head and Capped their bald pates with wigs, while the priests went even further and shaved the entire body every third day. With this constant scraping of chins 80ing on the barber’s trade was an im- portant one in the home of the pharaohs, and its followers were kept busily run- Ring throughout the length and breadth of the land from early morning until sunset. They carried their tools in a” *pen mouthed basket, and their razors Were shaped like a small hagchet with a curved handle, —Lippincott’s Magazine.

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THR DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLUTTETOWN, JANUARY 27, 1898

CREAM OF TARTAR

Repert ofthe Domirion Analysts upon its Adulteration—Danger to our Food from Alum and Phosphate Mixtures.

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It would seem as if housekeepers who have been in the habit of using in the old-fashioned way soda and cream of tartar or soda and sour milk to raise theie cake, biscuit, rolls, etc, would have to make a change, if they have regard for the healthfi less of their food.

The report of the Inland Revenue Depart- ment of Canada gives the results of a series of analyses of sabstances bought for cream of tar- tar extending over a period of four years, made byProfessor A. MeGsill, assistant to the Chief Analyst of the Domitton, Dr. McFarlane. The samples analyzed, wich were procured from the chief grocers amd druggists in every part of Canada, including the Maritimen Provimees, were in all cases bought for cream of tartar, and were from tne stock from which sales were being made daily to housekeepers for baking purposes.

The number of samples thus collected and exatained was one aundred and eighty-three, from as many different dealers. ‘‘Out of this member,” says the amalyst ‘Il bave found only otte sample to vcansist of pure bitartrate of potassium” (cream of tartar). Among the ejulterants found are named alum (ammonia lum in most cases), tartrete of lime, sulphate if line, superphosphate of lime, gypsam, etc. Many samples thgugh bought for cream of tar- tar, had no trace of cream of tartar in them, but were made wp wholly of phosphates, alam, starch, etc.

Seventy of the better samples, which were claimed to be really and actually ginuine cream of tartar, weresubjected to special tests. Every sample but one of these was found to oentain lime, in quantities sometimes exceeding sixteen per cent. of their entire weight. Lime is a caustic, and Tike alum, when taken with food into the stomach acts asa poison,

Sulphuric acid is not a pleasant thing'to take in food; yet over seven percent. of thischemical was discovered in some of these samples of so- called pure.cream of tartar.

These being the best specimens of cream of tartar that can be bought in the Canadian market by chemists who are looking ‘for pure goods, winat are the chances of the hausekeeper when parchasing indiscriminately ‘from the ordinary steck found at tae grocers or drug- gists’ ? So long as she trasts to these sources for the agents to raise het biscuit .and cake, mowerless to protect her ‘food from

she is

dangerous iimpurities, fur she is all the time mixing at with alum end other ‘poisonous

adulteramts.

Prof. MeGill indicates the remedy which the housewife-should apply, amd that as.to give up using oream of tartar aad soda iin the old- fashioned ‘way, and employ a new high-class baking powder, known 0 be faee from all detrimental substances. Inthe Royal Baking Powder, for instance which is a cream of tar- tar powdle:, classed by Pot, Mcfuill:as a most excellent article, the ingredients ‘before being used are refined to a condition of chemical purity. The enormous @utput of the Royal Bakigg Powder Company — prabably one half of all the'baking powder consumediin America, requinmy the use of over one-half of all the cream of tartar manufactwed—makes the use of chamically pure ingredieuts an absolute necessity. Its refineries are the dargest in the world, costing the companry over half a million dullars. hut they have secured to the people what they could not otherwise ‘have had, in place of the adulterated cream ofitartar of the market, a baking preparation .of absolute purity:and healthfulness. “.

The importance of this subject sto the public cannat the over-estimated, for it das a relation to the ihealth of every person dp the comm- unity.

AD CATAGIMBAS

BY A BANKE?.

Bementh the surface of that greatecity‘*which sitteth anm-seven hills,” a city which.at one time was the-¢eqt of the most extravagant.and wan- ton luxuny, and the scene of almost:the severest and most terrible persecutions ever enacted on this eanth—-Kome, once the capital of the nations,.and the mistress of the wowd—lies a vast necrepolis, six huadred acres m extent, honeyconabed with dark creary labyxinths and confused dismal ramificatioms perhaps:hundreds of miles im length (one estimate, which must, however jhe very greatly exaggerated, places the aggregate length of these passages #t more than five hundred miles), placed tier upon tier, corridor wpen corridor, a veritable maae which it would be impossible to map out, and which no one mar has ever explored.

The traveller upon entering these catasombs (formerly tenmed ‘‘ad catacumbas”’) 6 con- fronted immediately with a vast pile of @kulls and bones, camprising al! that remains of over two thousand wictims of a devastating plgue which occured.in the sixteenth ceatury, which in the semi-darkness present a weird and ghastly spectatle, and even now a ndisa@ene odour of dia:h -appears to emanate from the baneful mass. Proceeding down the narrew passages the dasikness now rapidly becomes intense, now and.again, however, an aperture for air {in the mpper galleries) somewhat softening the horror of tis charnel house of centuries. On each side of the galleries we see excavated hollaws one above another, in which repose the remain: of vast miltitudes of decd, Roman Pagams, in some cases, on one

side, Christian martyrs on the other, the form er bearing inscriptions indicating anger at the removal by death of wile or husband, such as “I, Procope, lift up my hands against the gods who snatched me away innocent. She tived twenty years. Proclus set this up;”or, “Oh relentless fortune who delightest in cruel death, why is Maximus so suddeniy snatched from me?” The Christian inscriptions bear an altogether different character and breathe en all-pervading spirit of resignation, rest, and above all, peace: **Valeria sleeps in ‘peace,’ “Petronia, a deacon’s wife, the type of | modesty. In this place I lay my bones; spare your tears, dear husband and daughters and believe that it is forbidden to weep for one who lives in God. Buried in peace on the third before the nones of October in the consul- ate of Festus.” ‘‘Laurence to his sweetest son Severus, Borne away byangels on the seventh before the ides of January.” ‘‘Gemella sleeps in peace.” ‘*Constantia, buried in peace on the Lord’s Day, the sixth before the kalends of July in the fifth ‘consulate of Honorius Augustus In peace.” ‘‘Requiescit in pace. He rests in peace,” (not ‘‘requiescit in pace,” the modern formula, as prayers for the dead were unknown in those early days of Christianity). The whole moral atmosphere of this great resting place of the early Christian converts and martyrs is redolent with the one idea of Peace. The word Pax, or ‘‘In Pace,” abounds at every turn; for these sainted martyrs appeared to entertain not the faintest shadow ot a doubt as to the certainty of their im- mediate deliverance from trouble and from pain, and their sure entry into a heavenly rest.

As the traveller continues to tread these dark and = siruous passages, he passes occasionally the entrance to a dark excavated cavern. -Here, during the terrible persecutions were held the religious services of those dewoted early Christians; here on the Lord’s Day these faithful followers of a crucified Master secretly assembled after the shades of darkness had fallen, to worship Him whom they lowed and adored, and for whom they were willing, if need be to suffer and to die. And here too, sometimes, the Roman soldiery, craftily track- ing them down, fell upor them in thcicheathen rage, put men, women and childrea to the sword, thereby adding ‘their honoured names to the long roll of the noble army @f martyrs who now wear the goldén crown, and bear the palm of victory, reaping a glorious eeward for all their pain and suffering. But though they they were fully aware that they might never emerge alive from.these rude places. of worship, yet they were willing to risk dear dife itself in their desire to honortheir Master by assembling to worship Him and to sing His praises.

But how many @f us would attend church or chapel if we thought there was arisk of being slaughtered by a savage soldiery? A wet day

of a sword-thrust, however, weuld be more than mast of us would care tomsk, Can we be in*girnest as they were ?

STAGE GLINTS.

Nellie Maskell is playing La Frochard in ‘“Tbe TwoOrphans’’ with Kate Clax- ton.

Georgia Busby has anneunced her en- gagement tomarry in the spring Walter Sandt, a New York broker.

dames H. Wallick will.soon produce a new melodrama, ‘‘Dewil’s Island,”’ based upon the Captain Dreyfus inci- dent.

John Drew and his company are now rehearsing a new play, “One Summer’s Day,’’ in which May Buckley and Kate Meek will appear.

Mrs. Kendal has accepted ‘‘The Elder Miss Blossam,’’ a new comedy by Wal- ser Frith, which, if successful abroad, ashe may bring to America in the an- sumn.

Olga Nethersole. comtemplates the production of a new dramatization of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘‘The Light That Failed,’’ im which she -will appear as Bessie.

Julie Kopacsy, at the endof her pres- ent engugement at the Irving Place theater, New York, will cammence a brief tour, opening on Jam. 10 at Cin- cinnati.

Laura Burt will go abroad in Febru- ary, under engagemeut with a London manager, to play June in ‘‘ Bine Jeans,’’ and she may remain in Europe for sev- eral years.

Edythe Wentworth Skerrett, daughter of the late Reer Admiral Jaseph 8. Skerrett, U. S. N., has been engaged for the Empire Theater stock company, New York.

May Irwin has received an offer to present ‘‘The Swell Miss Fitzwell’’ in Berlin and other German cities. She will probably remain here and sell the German rights to the play.

Returns show that 16 persons in 1,000 who are confined in lunatic a*vlums htve been made insane by love affaire.

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A fidgety old gentleman at a reilway station was terribly afraid that he would lose his trunk and constantly worried the busy porter about it, some- what as follows:

‘*Porter, be sure my trunk is safe.’’ A moment later, ‘‘Porter, don’t forget my trunk.’’ Shnmrtly again, ‘Porter, pow are you quite sure that my trun’ is safe?’’

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There is another measure to which tens of thousands of/women are keeping step. It is a slow and solemn measure, and is the ‘‘ Dance of Death.’’ The wotman who fails to take proper care of herself in a womanly way is keeping step to this measure and is unfitted for wifehood and motherhood, and doomed to an early

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Al y:sina is likely to be conquered p>ac: - fuily by Italy, as over 4,000 soldiers inken prisoners by Menekk aresad to have settled in the country refusing to go home. Meanwhile their families are yeritionirg the Government either to g-t back tlhe the men who disappeared af er Adana, or to declare them dead official v, so that their tffairs in Italy may be ee'tled,

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The man came up stairs with a shot- gun in his hands. The office boy had no time to warn the editor, but he was full of resources.

‘*Boy,’’ roared the man with the shotgun, ‘‘I’m lookin fer trouble!”’

‘‘Well, that’s his name,’’ smiled the boy.

‘*Whose name?’’ with the shotgun.

‘‘Why, the editor’s name. Go right in. He’s been looking for you ever since he got down this mérning.’’

‘*Lookin fer me, eh?’’ mused the man with the shotgun as he uncocked it, ‘“*Waal,’’ he conchaded as he softly started down the siairs, *‘you jes’ tell him fer me thet I bet $5 thet he won't be able to find me!’’—New York Sun- day World.

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