Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1880, Page 3

vy # ea Sa See Pa ee ee SILVER-THISTLES. Mrs. Nina Breton leaned back in her vic- Jooked about her. At the lefc hand Was a hedge of dry sticks, where the delicate spring gypen of interlacing vines and shrubs was as yet only a light cloud. At the right was a hich wi She chose to look at this wall in passing, to build it up between her and a thought which she had come out to escape. For though but twen- ty-five years of age, Nina had learned inward as Well as outward self-control. She had been since her childhood the fatherless support of an invalid mother, for more than a year the patient wife of an oid man, and for three years a faith- ful and dignitled Widow. She considered hei self an old woman. And indeed she could scarcely recollect a time when she had felt young, it was so many years since the touch of her dead father’s hand upon her lips had stopped her girlish laughter. Tnere- fore, when a new trouble sets itself before her, she protected herself from {t as best she mignt using that discretion which is the better part 01 valor. Distraction, and distraction, and always distraction: this was her version ‘of Danton’s motto. The wall she set her troubled thoughts to climb Was worth looking at. It was built of stones, and had been covered with cement ainted yellow. But one-half the cement bad ‘allen away, and of the paint remained only soit, gold-colored clouds, like glints of retlected sunshine. Then there were spots of such green velvet as nature made before Genoa put up her looms to imitate it, and flowering pants tn th crevices of the stoues, and, set irregularly, frag ments of sculpture—a lovel. bit of cornice, with mouldings as white as newly laid eggs, a curved leaf from the capital of a discrowned column, scription, or the arm or foot of a vanishe figure. Over it all was a deep, blue cloudies sky, too brilliant to look at. ‘Need we say that this was In Rome? ‘The wall was pass d; there were some houses, then the Colosseum. And there, walking slow ly along the green sward, was Luigi Fontana, her sometime lover, and her present very good friend. For on separating they had both dec’ared tha* they should always wish each other every hap- piness, should be pleased to meet frequently, and should always retain for each other a pro- found respect. Nothing could have been more sensible, polite, and decisive than their man- ner of untying that foolish knot in which they had entangled themselves one moon-lighted night Just 2 month before in the loygia at Casa anca. Moonlight does have an odd effect on the !m- agination sometimes, and balconies are about ie Worst places in the world for prudence to thrive lt. It is really wonderful the amount of onsense that a moon-lighted balcony will sug- gest to the human mind. While these thoughts passed through Mrs. Breton’s mind, her carriage was rapidly near- ing a tall gentleman who walked in the same direction With a proud and measured step learned from his toged ancestors; and she was making a swift reckoning of the precise mo- ment when, the carriage passing him, he would probably raise his bent head and look at her, Ofcourse he would take his hat quite off, and make hi dignified and graceful bow in that fine, serious way of his. Romans do not think it necessary to smile when they salute an ac- quaintance. Fhe moment came, but he did not look up, or he looked too late. Not for worlds would she bave turned her head half an inch to let him know that she had recognized him. There could not have been the slightest Inten- tion on his aay to ignore her presence; for he could as little have expected to see her taking a solitary drive past the Roman Forum, as she to see him taking a solitary walk inthe same direction. Yet Nina’s eyes filled with tears. 1 hope that L was not disagreeable when we last spoke together,” she thought, and began to recall for the twentieth time the words she had uttered in that brief parting interview. She certainly had not told him that be was tyran- nical and exacting to a degree that no free-born American woman could support; but. maybe he had Inferred something of the’ kind. either had he said that submission and obedience are becoming in a woman, and that she was Inde- ndent to an extent that no well-regulated oman could permit; but she had certainly Tecelved the impression that such was his meaning. At all events, they had agreed that there was an incompailbility of disposition between them which rendered their marriage undesirable, and they had taken leave of each other with the most dignified compliments, and Mod a bow and courtesy each a model of its ., “And, oh! what a dreadful thing is incompat- ibility!” thought Nina, and swallowed down a sob, and winked off from her long eyelashes two tears that were making of the portico of St. John Lateran a very blotchy wall, and setting the Apostles on the facade dancing in a most unedifying manner. It was one of the last days of March,witha hot sun, and a fresh breeze trom the snowy Sabines. ‘The grass was thick and bright, the alr rustled with birds, and the field between St. Joan Lateran and the Holy Cross was delicately Mecked with slim-petaled marguerites, some of = white, and others as pink as a us “ Drive outside the gate; get over the first par. of the road as quickly as you can; then drive slowly again when we approach the aqueducts.’ ‘Thus Mrs. Breton to her coachman. ‘ Pass rap idly apy one we may meet, and slacken up whea there 1s noone by,” she added. ‘I don’t wan to be stared at,” she remarked to herself, as sh leaned back, and felt the cool shadows of th> gate fall over her. She was a pleasant object to stare at, how- ever; not brilliant nor striking, but lovely with a soft, luminous beauty. Her height was me dium; her figure pretty; she had curly golden hair, and exquisitely fair, colorless skin, a sweet mouth, and limpid gray eyes. Her manners, too, Were quite as pleasing as her person, an almost pathetic echildishness looking out through the dignity which she considered becoming to her years and state. Imagine this young woman clad in a costume of different shades of brown, from the deep- hued velvet that ornamented her dress and hat, and lay ina band around her head, up to the faintiy clouded amber tip of the lightest in a ‘ait of shaded feathers. For -high Tights there were her golden hatr and certain scintillations which came occasionally from her eyes. ““] ike a pretty combination of colors In a toflette,” she would say, ‘and I am ridiculously fond of reds. But what can one do when nature insists on patting yellow into every toilette that one wears? Fortunately I am old enough for black velvet.” It must be observed that fashion, alias taste, has chapged since this little speech was made. James drove as his mistress directed him, making Lightfoot fly over the ugiy part of the road outside the gate, and drawing him up When the view began to open. The coachman” was, in fact, sympatuetic as Well as obedient. He knew pertectly well, as all the servants did—tor what else are key’ holes mnade, pray?—that there were a pair of lovers in the house, and that they had quarrelled, and he felt himself an actor inthe play. Ié was ung and romantic, and his own heart had becn eee He had exiled himself forever from old England on account of a lovely lady’s maid who had jilted him; and though he did not now care a fig for her, he still could sympathize with sentimental woes. He had no doubt that his beautiful young mistress was at this mo- ment suffering what he would have called “hangu! and he had been trying to console her as well as he could. He had almost convine- ed himself that she must have understood him. ‘That rapid flight outside the gate, the diminu- enco tn solitary pla the swift yet smooth crescendo when he Saw a carriage approaching, the dreamy pace when there was nothing be- fore them but aqueducts tnd mountains.all that arustic variation which made Lightfoot’s small hoofs beat such music on the old road—was Ubis merely obedience to orders? Besides, could she fail to See that he had carefully refrained from looking tnto her face, thus leaving her free to indulge her emotions unobserved? Mrs. Breton, in blissful ignorance of the sym- pathizing heart on her carriage box, tried to ad- Inire the beauties of nature. But a sore heart and dim eyes are great obstacles in such obser: vaUion. Under all her industrious looking about she was thinking that she did not wonder at Luigi giving her up so quickly. She had lived a life of repression for so mat rs, and had been obliged to think for and control those about her so much, that the softness of a woman who looks trustfully to a man for support and protection was quite crusted over by an alien abit. Luigi was strong. dominant, and accus- tomed to direct, and though kindness ttself*to her, naturally did not like her stiff little ways— so she sald to herself. If only he€ould have waited a while, till she would have grown used 'o leaning and submitting! Or if only she could nave been wiser, and broken her ugly habit at once! ‘The tears came so fast, in spite of her efforts to restrain them, that she concluded to go home and shut herself into her room with a bad heaa- ache. Returning, since there were no hills nor aque- ducts to look at, Mrs. Breton glanced along the road-side. and observed that there were a great many silver-thistles. “They are pretty,” she thought; and still looking, ‘They are beautiful.” ‘Then, “They are most exquisite! Did you ever see such silver-thisties in all your life, Nina Breton?—Stop, James!” James leaned b: and pulled up Lightfoo with a suddenness which the command, accom panied by a light stroke of a parasol on his arm, seemed to requ : “James, have you a pocket-knife?” mistress = Por knife?” asked his james’ eyes started wide open with terror. He glanced forward along the (sary ws the gate, but not a carriage was visible, and the nearest bumas figures showed as small asants.) What was she geing todo with a knife? Alas! oniy too well he knew. She ag Boing, to plunge the murderous biade in her Heart, and let him drive back her lifeless pagent cruel lover! Still, the habit of lence was strong, and James fumbled for the knife, bent, Se the’ time he could, and thanking his stars the blade had not been eye gm for a year or more. Perhaps, instead of being a tragedy, it mignt romantic adventure sovestie) i, and arms of Major and Mrs. Graname a around ais neck in @ Simultaneous et: brace, while blessed him as the preserver they | roposed to adopt him as of their niece, and_p gratitude of | |. He imagined the sweet Nina ‘yhen, her foolih infatuation for that black-browed Italian In_ sho. tive Jehu had rt, this ive Jehu gone very iar indeed ‘into the future while feeling for | Ket Where he knew | that jt was not,then in the pocket where it his knife, first in the was, and drawing it laboriously out. “Open the largest blade, please, James,” said ihe lady. : ‘Sighing as if his heart would break, James did as he was bid, and taking the murderous steel between his eae finger and thumb, presented the handle to his mistress. At the same moment he stealthily let fall the reins, and gathered his forces to be ready for a spring when the desperate young woman should raise her arm for the fatal blow. Mrs. Breton rose to her feet. So much the better; he would be able to reach her more readily. He held his breatly his mouth re- mained slighuy open, and he half stretched his arm out and half turned toward her. She Stepped froin the carrlage. | She was going to kill herself there among the thistles, quite out of reach of his saving arm! “Oh, don’t, ma'am! I himplore you, don’t!” James burst forth, quite beside himself, and stretched his leg out over the wheel to jump down, adding, rather ignominiously, “Soh, Lightfoot!” Stay where you are, James,” Mrs. Breton said, with quiet authority; “I can cut them Ed well myself.” And she bent over the thistles, James drew his leg back from the wheel, took up the reins, and became a coachman again. The Liverta, Osservatore, and Fanfulla, the three journals taken in at Casa Blanca, rustled cena bese in upper air, names of kings, princes, and cardinals printed in large letters in eee neognt nee ae Major and Mrs. a to thelr accustomed good- natured indifference, Mrs. Breton cut thistles, tossing them into the carriage, making a little outcry when her hand Was pierced, but persevering enthusiastically. If they had been roses, she would not have looked at them, but she found thistles simpa- ‘chi in her present circumstances. Besides.had one ever seen such thisties in all one’s life! They justified her admiration. Extending for reds along the road-side, and quite filling the space from the road to the wall, each plant made a little mound of itself, and these were so thickly set that their outer’ leaves overlapped, leaving not an inch of earth visible. As toother plants showing their heads in that brilliant and poagent society, they knew better. And what leaves! Some were three feet long; all were curled at the edges, and corded and veined and filmed with silver over and through their rich green. “If I had Aladdin’s lamp,” murmured Mrs. Breton, “I would order the genilto build me a poles with a frosted sliver colonnade,and such leaves as these should curl over for capitals to the columns, and run in a crimped wreath through the midst of the entabiature.” She drove back to the city, her carriage laden with the glittering spoil, tossed all her flowers into the court—there were none from Luigi Fontana that day—and put thistles in their places. She filled the fire-place, the vases, the willow basket on the piano, and even entangled the feet of the little Cupid in the-niche with them. Lastly, she put on a black velvet dress, the evening being cool, and fastened one of thé smallest leaves in her ‘bosom with a ruby pin set in the midst of it like a drop of blood. “Well, if that isn’t hands off, I don’t know what hands off is!” exclaimed Major Graham, coming in at sunse Over the majo houlder, as he stood in the doorway, looked Signor Fontana’s dark and bearded face. “Did you mean it for hands off?” he asked, in his measured tones, glancing about. “*T mean nothing, except that the leaves are beautiful,” she said, looking at him wistfully. “Do not you think them so?” “Certainly,” he replied, in a careless tone. “But they are rather uncomfortable.” She blushed. It seemed to her that he had inted the words at her: pretty, but uncom- fortable! While she was searching for the right word to say he went to speak to her aunt, who was en- tering the room. Again Mrs. Breton blushed, this time painfully. She recollected that, 1n- stead of looking at him with that pleading glance, and lingering by him, she should have greeted him brightly, and fmmediately have Tound urgent business somewhere else. She knew how to doit beautifully now that it was too late. The foolish thistles, too! Of course he took them as a hint. The poor little woman called up all the wis- cony com! ee that she had learned in er trying life, and courageously began over again, putting this new mortification out of her mind. She knew the value of forgetting. She Was hot broken-hearted, nor even deeply un- happy, but she was hurt, and felt like crying. ‘The call to dinner was a welcome relief. There were a good many people in Caso Bi- anca, who were intimate with each other,chiefly they had arranged to have their dinners together in a large hall in the primo piano, There were fifteen in all, and rather a gay ccmpaby, and the Signor Fontana was the only Italian among them. He offered his arin to Mrs. Graham, while Nina walked with her uncle, The dinner table was the scene of a small daily triumph for Mrs. Breton, for her place was be- tween two gentlemen and opposite a third, all of whom were determined either to flirt with or marry her; and the manner in which she steered through these reefs, seeming all the while to b: in open sunDy seas, was asource of admiration t) the innocent beholders. Such delicate and al- most imperceptible snubbing, such cool forgive- ness, such frozen kindness, such placid unconsci- ousness, of remarks plainly uttered and as plainly repeated, never were seen before. And when the daily battle was over, the three would rise from the table wondering if they had made an inch of proeress either backward or for- ward, and Nina would have a private little sigh of contentment that she had passed un- athed another trial, and that no one could say that she had behaved like a fitrting girl. In the old times, before that unfortunate bal- cony affair, she had caught the Signor Fon- tana’s eyes looking at her occasionally, and had thought that He was listening: and during the foolish happy month in which her eyes and brain had been dazzled by that balcony moonlight, he had more than once mentioned the subject to her, had complimented her on her wit and dig- nity, and had suggested that she should change her seat to one near him. They had had, in- deed, their first delightful make-believe quaryel because she had preferred not to change fier seat till their engagement should have been an- nounced. “They are as useful to me as a knife-grinder to the kitchen folks,” she had said tohim. “f whet my self-control on them. and my pride.” But to-day she did not once look in Signor Fontana’s direction. When dinner was over, she rose very promptly, and while the others lingered In groups about the dining-room, speaking a few last words before separating, went directly to her own sitting-room. It was beside her aunt’s, and though the door was usually open between them, there was no dan- ger of any gentleman coming in without an in- Vitation. Signor Fontana would not have taken the liberty before dinner if her uncle had not brought him. ht—thought, She seated herself and thoi deeply and seriously. Her little foolish grief had passed away. She was a baby no longer, but a Woman; and she knew that she could live and be happy without the Signor Fontana, He was kind, very kind sometimes; but she had found that’ he could forget kindness when his pride was touched, He had been cruel to her now, she had toown. He knew that she had had a sad life, and he knew that she loved him, yet he had been severe with her. How often, in spite of his affection for her, had he shown haughti- hess, and how many times she had made hum- ble and coaxing apologies for trifles! At the lime it seemed ‘nothing, for she was generous and loving: but summing it all up now, it seemed toler that she had been treated asa Ree Subject WhO must not presume, as an equal. ‘There was alittle tap at her door, and Mrs. Graham put her head in. “Signor Fontana Wants to Know if he may come in and speak with you a minute,’, she says. Nina consented with some trepidation. Of course she knew what that meant. “If he should ‘be generous I will surely make up with him,” she thought; but she did not feel that joytul- ness which she would have felt If he had sought her the evening before. ‘The Italian’s tall form darkened the doorway. He stepped in, and dropped the curtains behind him, abd came toward Nina with hiseyes fixed steadily and searchingly on her face. She only stood and Waited. It was useless to pretend that this was merely a friendly vis!t; and when he came near, she motioned ‘him to- Ward a chair, and was about to seat herself when he prevented her. Taking both her hands in his, he held them close, and looked from his height down into her changming face. “Were the thistles forme, or for you?” he asked, distinctly. “Don’t talk of their being pretty. Did you mean that you were in trou- sone that you wished me to keep away from “Tcertainly did not mean that you shoul keep away from me,” she replied: “I never Veni of such a thing. It I any motive besides the Deauty of the leaves, tt was made of a noe a Balt upcomacions Lege os You must not imagine, tana, that every- thing I do is by a fixed design.” ; He smiled a little ly, yet with a air. “Own that you were unhappy, It all grated uj her, yet she would be gentle and truthful “Not to have felt a littie sad would eh ie that the professton® of re- which I have made you were insincere. e can not ina moment forget such a tie. When It is broken, there remains a wound.” “And if the tie were renewed, Nina would be more careful in the future?” he suggested, softly. Z ‘she a from him being el haugntily, “for the te will nov be Te- o% to be cage Soares ‘The Taian, himself cheated. She ‘had gazed pleadingly in his tace,and she had suf- ci Nina!” “T quite Son of not combat it,” he angrily. “‘More than ‘that, I compliment you on your address.” She had seated herself now, and she looked 1p at pina still standing. “My address—"sh e re- Anger and ‘tment made the Italian forget both his on and his dignity. He lJoved Nina, and he loved her money; and he bad been accustomed to women whom he could Suspect and command. He could not command her, he saw, but he could accuse her, % ” he said, with bitter dis- “Do you think that I have not per- coincidence between your quarrel with me and the return of Mr. Raymond? He is rich and famous.” '. M., Me She stared at him in utter astonishment. Mr. | Coke. Richard, Texas, 921 Cc Raymond, that noble, ideal man, whom ste hid looked upon with a sort of adoration ever since, scarcely more than a child as yet, she had be- gun toread his poems! Mr. Raymond, whom everybody set upon a pedestal, aud whose writ- ten name was prized almost as the relic of a sain! Did Luigi Fontana mean— Could ne think— It was too ridiculous! Why, of course, if Mr. Raymond should drop a flower out of his | fingers, she would pick it Up. and press it in a 000k; if he should speak to her, she would tell everybody of it, and repeat his words; if he should say it was a lovely morning, she would look out, and study sky and earth to see what he called lovely. And Luigi Fontana was Jeal- ous of him! Why, he might as well be jealous of the sunshine! 4 “You accepted me the day after he went to Florence. You thought that he had abandoned you. You quarrel with me the day after his | unexpected return. You are, perhaps, aware | that he fs at this moment in your aunt’s sitting- room,” A person who gives very penetrating looks vee ae is nothing to penetrate does not ap- vant “Please let us drop the subject,” Mrs. Breton said, quietly. ‘I would like to retain a friendly respect for you.” “Can you declare that you are net in love with this man, and have no desire to be his wife 2” the Italian asked, still probing her heart with bis black eyes. She laughed. “Of course I am in love with hin.! My imagination and intellect are in love with him. All my soul is in love with him. But for marriage Ishould as soon think of being the wife o ‘Apollo or Orpheus.” Signor Fontana turned upon his heel, without a salutation, and went toward the door leading to Mrs. Graham's room. Nina rose and fol- lowed him, bidding him good-evening at the door. He would not stay, but took an abrupt leave of the others. Mr. Raymond was with her aunt and uncle, reading a letter which Major Graham had given him. The light from the shaded lamp showed flecks of gold and a few silver threads in his dark hair. His beautiful proud lips were com- pressed slightly as he read, and his brilliant y eyes downcast. He looked up and rose when Nina entered the room, saluting her with an earnest look, and taking her offered hand. He was as tall as the Italian, but more slender, and not so consci- ously superb. He was more natural and more elegant. “T beg that you will not let me detain you,” he said to Mrs. Graham. “You are going to the theater, and it is now time. As Mrs. Breton does not go, perhaps she will allow me to sit with her an hour.” Nina’s smile showed delight. She had never had Mr. Raymond quite to herself, and had really talked very little with him. She had listened while he talked with her aunt and uncle, who were old friends of his, only now and then herself addressing or afidressed by him. Now he was to stay quite alone with her an hour, He talked in a quiet, dreamy way, describing his travels, which had extended over the whole world, deseribing his house, a royal song-bird’s nest, his eyes looking downward, and her eyes tixed on his face. Then he gently led her to speak of herself,and she told him her story with- out reserve. But now her eyes were cast down in turn, and his fixed on her. When she came to the story of the last few weeks, she was em- barrassed, and stopped. The tale of her early life and of her marriage was told with such sim- pe ree that the eyes that watched her grew rami. “You haye never thought of marrying again?” Mr. \caymond asked, quietly. “Yes, and I am ashamed of it,” she sald blush- ing; and, concealing the name of her lover, she related the history of the last few weeks. “It was a mere fancy,” the poet sald, when she had ended. “You did not love him. There is no reason why you should be ashamed of the affair. You are scarcely more than a child as yet, and must expect to make little mistakes. May they all turn out as well as this one has!” “You are so good,”"she murmured, with a smile, and dropped her eyes again after‘a quick up- ward glance. Something in his Sey ronal her of what Luigi Fontana had said @ him. “T have a wish, which you must not hesitate to refuse if it displease you,” he went on, in his low voice, which was rather unsteady now. “I wish that you would think of me as your lover, as your possible husband, and give yourself tme to consider if it would be for your happi- ness to accept me, I would be very kind to you. ‘You should have no pain that I could spare ou.” yu. Nina Breton clasped her hands over her heart, which had given a sudden leap. “Are you in earnest?” she said almost in a whisper. He smiled faintly. ‘‘I am quite in earnest. 1 went away a few Weeks ago to prove myself— to see if it were Jove which I felt for you. It was and fs love!” Nina sat pale and breathless a little while without speaking. Then she looked at him with eyes that were full ofa startled brightness. ke one about you would be impossible,” e sal “You are thinking of the poet,” Mr. Ray- mond replied, calmly. “That is not what I want, and it would be a mistake if you should accept me in that way. You must take me as I am. The poetry is but a crown. There isa man underneath.” She remained silent awhile. Oh, if she could but tell him! If she could but make him under- stand, now that his love had lifted her to a pedestal besides his own, and made all things ible, how her heart’s blood flowed into all ose wild and seemingly vain imaginingsof the past, and made them palpitate with life! If she could but tell him how, after reading his poems in the old days, she had fancied herself some- tite ethereal and exquisite, and that he loved er! “ All my dreams are come true, or I am dream- ing again,” sbe sald presently, trembling and tearful. ‘I was content to marry an old man for my mother’s sake, to make her life easter, because I knew that’ everything that I could feel of ideal love was already bestowed, laid like a votive wreath on a shrine. When I was Mifteen or sixteen J used to forget the troubles of my daily life in dreaming that you would love me. I was like a mortal that looks upward to where the gods dwell, and is no longer enchant- ed with anything earthly. She wishes that she were a goddess that she might sit beside one whom she sees there; but she knows that her life is mortal, and she tries to be content with it. My god has come down to me; and you ask me to consider!” Fh lonate, and tearful, she poured out the words; and, ending, looked at him with reproachful eyes. He had leaned toward her as she spoke, his eyes sparkling. Astonishment, delight and ar- dent love broke into his calm face. He had, lit- tle by little, learned to put the poems of his heart all into his book, and to live in prose— elegant proses indeed, but lacking the ring and clash of rhyme. He had looked at his coming gray hairs, and sad to himself that he must be seusfied with a gentle and affectionate com- panion, to whom he would be kind. And here Was a sudden fountain of youthful love and romance covering him with rainbows. ‘When she ended, and looked at him with eyes that flashed reproachful passion through their tears, he threw himself at her feet. 1 An hour later, when their attention could be | = ba ‘the poet observed his lady’s odd reast: “Knot. “What a little poem!” he said, examining it. “Silver-thistle is noble pain, and rubles mean | courage. Why, it tells your story, Nina.” “Tt contains my story,” she said; “but it is you who tellit. I should not know what I am nor what I mean, ifI had not you to interpret me.”—Harper’s Bazar. Bridal Dresses. {Great Industries of Great Britain.] Honiton lace owes its great reputation to its | sprigs, which were at first woven into the ground, but latterly opplique’. or sewn on the ground. In the course of the last century the | making of the plain net jproand on the pillow | was a separate branch of the trade. The net Was beautiful and regular, but expensive, as may be judged fromthe fact that the thread by which some of the finer qualities were made cost aS Much as $350 to $525 per pound weight. ‘The werker was paid in a rather curious fash- fon. The lace ground was spread out and cov- ered with gS, and a8 many coins as the piece would accommodate were the reward of the maker. It was no uncommon ing pay $500 for a Honiton lace veil when the business was in its palmy days. The invention of ma- chines for ee lace dealt a severe blow to lustry of Devonshire, and it Ubreatened to become altogether extinct. Mrs, Bury Palliser records that when wedding lace was required for Her Majesty Queen Victoria it Was with difficulty the necessary number workers could be obtained to make it. It was unéertaken by Miss Jane Bidney, who caused [rec hhaal to be executed in the small Patterns were im- so it cannot be repro- DI dresses of the ao ea experienced hands find emp! in restor- they opin i is ereoion in sald mr £27-The London Journal af Science asserts that the to make one thing lacking the ar now supped. <r s CONGRESSMEN AND THEIR RESIDENCES LIBT OF SENATORS. bs , President, Riggs House. B., Iowa, 1194’ Vermont ave. ithony, H. B., R. Le) ee st. Dw. : 209 Baldwin, H.’P., Mich., Ar! Hotel. Bayard, mas F., Del., 1413 Massachusetts ave Beck, J. B.. Ky... 907 18th st. n.w. Bi J.G., Maine, 821 15th st. n.w. Blair, N. H., 205 East Capitol st. Booth, Ne 601 13th st. LW. Bi B.K., eM st nw. Burnside A.’ 3 ten st 1, Butler, C., 8. C., 210 North Capitol st. Call, Wilkinson, Fia., 1399 M st. .W. Cameron, Angus, Wis., 137 East Capitol st. m, Tos K st. naw J. D., Pa, rs ter, Matt H., Wis., 822 Connecticut ave, (0., 918 fen st. LW. st. Dw. onkling, Roscoe, N. Y., Ri House. Davis, David, Til, National Hotel. Davis, H. G., W. Va., Ar! fon Hotel. Dawes, H. L. ‘st. DAW. Fe Garland, A. Harris, [.'G., Tenn., 515 lith st. D.w. Hereford, Frank, W. Va., National Hotel. HL. Ga., 1115 G st. n.w. Hil, N. P., Col, 1407 Massachusetts ave. Hoar, G. ¥., Mass, 919 T st. n.w. Th Kansas, 611 13th st. n.w. Kirkwood, 8. J., lowa, 1314 10th st. n.w. Lamar, L. Q. C., Miss., 9 B st. n.w. , JohD A., IL, $12 12th st. n.w. McBonald, J. E:. Ind.. 610 14th st. n.w. McMillan, 8. J. R., Minn., 211 North Capitol st. McPherson. J. R., N. J., 1409 Massachusetts ave. Maxey, S. B., Tex., 413 4th st. n.w, Morgan. J. T., Ala., 401 G st. n.w. Morrill, J. S.. Vt., cor. Vermont ave. and M st. Paddock, A. 8., Neb., 1323 H st. n.w. Pendleton, G. H., Ohio, 1301 K st. n.w. Platt, 0. H., Conh., Arlington Hotel. Plumb, P. B., Kan., 1121 Ist. n.w. Pryor, Luke. Ala.. 1116 G st. B.w. Randolph, T. F., N, J., 1326 Massachusetts ave. Ransom, Matt W.. N. C.. $26 13th st. Dew. Rollins, H., N. H., 145 East Capitol st. Saulsbury, Eil, Del.,'606 13th st. Saunders,’A., Nebraska, National Hotel. Sharon, William, Nevada, Arlington Hotel. Slater, J. H., Oregon, 1117 G st. n.w. Teller, H. M., Col, 1011 M st. n.w. Thurman, A. G., Ohio, 1017 i4th st. n.w. Vanee, Z.'B.. N.'C., 525 6th st. D.w. Vest, G. G., Mo., 610 14th st. D.w. Voorhees, 1).W., Ind., 1827 I st. n.w. Waiker, J. D., Ark., 519 2d st. n.w. Wallace, W. A., Pa., Willard’s Hotel. v] a ho pelunores Maryland. Willtams, J. 8., Ky., jouse, Windom, William, Minn., 1116 Vermont ave. Withers, R. E., Va., Alexandria, Va. OFFICERS OF THE SENATE. J. C. Burch, secretary, 1025 Vermont ave. R. J. Bright, sergeant-at-arms, 261 East Cap. st Henry E. Peyton, executive clerk, 613 13th n.w. F. E. Shober, chief clerk, 521 12th st. n.w. Isaac Bassett, assistant doorkeeper, 18 2d st. n.e. ‘W. P. McMichael, postmaster, Metropolitan. LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES. Samuel J. Randall, Speaker, Pa., 120 C st. .e, Acklen, J. H., La., 207 East Capitol st. Aiken, D. W., 8. C., 721 12th st. n.w. Aldrich, N. W., R. 1, Arlington Hotel. ‘Aldrich; William, Nii, Arlingtion Hotel ‘Anderson, J. A., Kan., 615 Est. n.w. armiield, R. F., N. C.,'603 F st. now. ‘Atherton, Gibson, Ohio, 223 East Capitol st. ‘Atkins, J. D. C., Tenn., 419 6th st. n.w. Bachman, R. K., Pa., Metropolitan Hotel. Bailey, J.'M., N. Y., Arlington Hotel. Baker, J. H., Ind., 595 13th st. n.w. Ballou, L. W., K. 1, 811 9th st. n.w. Barber, Hiram, jr., Tll., 502 East Capitol st. Barlow, Bradley, Vt., 1601 I st. n.w. Bayne, 'T. M., Pa., 1640 Rhode Island ave. Beale, R.L. T., Va.. 455 C st. nw. W. Bicknell, G.’A., Ind., 211 Nortn Capitol st.§ a J. ue 8 icy ol New York ave. n.w. Blackburn, J. C: 8., Ky.. . Blak ty XD vormley's Hotel Bland, K. P., Mo.,'1310 I st. n.w. Blea M."'N,w., Willard’s Hotel. 3 lel, . . Bowman, 8. 2 Mass, cor. Pa. ave. & Ist st. se. Til, 1412 G st. nw. Bragg, Brewer, M. 5., Mi Briggs, J. F., N. H., 123 B st. se. Brigham, L.’A., N. J., 614 13th st_ nw. Bright, J, M., Tenn., 511 13th st. n.w. Browne, T. M., Ind., 144 A st. n.e. Buckner, A. H., Mo., Metropolitan Hotel, Burrows, J. C., Mich., $14 12th st. n.w. Butterworth, Benjamin, Ohio, 1222 New York av. Cabell, G. C., Va., 617 11th st. n.w. Caldwell, J. W., Ky., 2013 E at. n.W. Call W. H., Ind., 1221 New York ave, Camp, J. H., N. Y., Arlington Hotel. Cannon. J. G. Illinois, National Hotel. Carlisle, J. G., Ky., Riggs House. Carpenter, C. C., Towa, $10 12th st. nw. Caswell, L. 8., Wis., 1407 F st, tw. Chalmers, J. K., Miss., Riggs House. Chittenden, S. B., N.Y., cor. Vt. av. & H st. LW. Claftiin, Wm., Mass., 1409 K st. n.w. Clardy,’M. L., Mo., 523 13th st. n.w. Clark, ‘A. A., N. J., Willard’s Hotel. Clark, J. B., jr., MO., 1325 F st. n.w. Clymer, Helster, Pa., 723 15th st. p.w. Cobb, T. R., Ind., 711 14th st. nw. Coffroth, A. H., Pa., Metropotan Hotel. Colerick, W. G., Ind., 623 Pennsylvania ave, Conger, O. D., Mich., National Hotel. Converse, G. L., Ohio, Willard’s Hotel. Cook, Philip, Ga., 210 North Capitol st. Covert, J, W., N. Y., 1104 F st. nw. Cowgill, Calvin, Ind, 1312 F st. n.w. Cox, 8. 8., sy House. Grapo, W; W., Mass., Wormley’s Hotel. wens. J. E., Ark., 407 G st. B.W. Gro 1421 10Wa Circle, tev iv iath st nw Daggett, It. M., Nev., 717 14th st. n.w. Davidson, R. H. M., ¥ia., National Hotel. Davis, G. R., Ill., 1304 F st. n.w. Davis, Horace, Cal., 1816 1 st. n.w. Davis, J. J., N. C., $03 A st. s.e. Davis, L. H., Mo., 821 13th st. D.W. Deering, N. C., lowa, lotel. De La Matyr, Gilbert, 113 C st. ne. Deuster, P. Dunn, Poindexter, Ark., 914 F st. n.w. Dunnell, M. H. 3 Minn, National Hotel. Dwight, J. W., N. ¥., An bee ‘Edwin, N. ¥., Wormley’s Hotel. Flam, J.'B., La., 621 F St. p.w. Ellis, J. E., La., 1283 New York ave. Erreit, Russell, Pa, 222 1st st. se. Evins, J. H., 8. C.. 721 12th st. n.w. Thomas, Ohio, 937 N st. n.w. Pa, ‘W., N. H., cor. ist and East Capitol ate. Felton, W. H., Ga., National Hotel. Ferdon, J. W.,, N. 1413 K st. DW. Field, W. A., Mass., 1405 F st. nw. Finley, E. B., Ohio, 1407 F st. nw. she Pa., 1312 F st. n.w. Fisher, H. ‘icho! 1o., 709 Sth st. n.W. sae) Ww. He Ale 1116 G st. n.w. Forsythe, A. P., Il, Metropolitan Hotel. Fort, G. L.. TIL, ‘House. Frost, Rt. G., Mo., 1825 F st. n.w. Frye, W. P., Maine, 922 14th st. n.w. Garfield, J. A., Ohio, 1227 I st. n.w. Geddes, G. W., Ohio, 7 Grant Place. inert, BBL towa, 142 Ast me. illette, E. H.. Jor & Wi 1322 G SU D.W. Va., 1405 ii st. n.w. pi FY #ee : MeKensie! 3. A’ By. Ni Re icKenzie, J. A., ., National Hotel. ‘iilfam, jr., Ohio, Ebbitt House. Lane RM. Ma Torr state Money, H. D.. Miss.. 171 Monroe, James, Ohio, 1213 N St. n.w. Mornson, k., I., Willard’s Hotel Mass., Willard’s Hotel. Morton, ._Y., corner H and 15th sts. n.w. Muldrow, H. L., Miss, Arlington Hotel. Muller, Nicholas, N. Y., Welcker’s. Murch, T, H., Maine, 113 C st. ne, Myers, W. R., Ind, 608 13th st. b.w. Neal, H. S., Ohio, 312 C st. jew, J. D., Ind., 1103 Gst. D.w. Newberry, J. S.. Mich., 22 Lafayette Square, Nicholls, Norcross, CG ‘Willara’s Hotel. Amasa, Mass., 1500 I st. D.w. Willard’s Hotel. Metropolitan Hotel. O'Neill, Charles, Pa.,'1406 G st. n.w. O'Reilly, Daniel, N.Y., 312 C st. n.w. Orth, G.'S., Ind., 1320 F st. n.w. Osmer, J. Ti., Pa., 816 21st st. n.w. Overton, Edward. 1r., Pa., Willard’s Hotel. Pacheco, Romualdo, Cal, Metropolitan Hotel, Page. H. F., Cal., 1329 F st. n.w. Persons, Henry, Ga., B15 I st. n.W. Phelps, James, Conn.. 457 C St. D.W. Phillips, J. ¥., Mo., 1395 F st. n.w. T, E. C., Ky., Willard’s Hotel. Pierce, R. V..'N. Poehler. Henry, Minn., 601 I st. nw. Pound, T. C., Wis., 1215 K st. nw. Prescott. C. D.. N.Y., 71ia14th st. Price, Hiram, fowa, 1103 G st. n.w. Reagan, J. H., Texas, 1007 G st. nw. Reed, T. B., Maine, 806 12th st. n.w Rice, W. W., Mass. 1341 L st. n.w. Richardson. D. P., N. 1005 E st. B.W. Richardson, J. 8., S.C., 001 E st. D.w. Richmona, J. B., Va., Metropolitan Hotei. Robertson, E. W., La.. 1328 New York ave. Robeson, G. M., N. st. RW. Robinson, G. D., Mass., 0) Ross, Miles, N.J., Willard’s Hotel. Rothwell, G. (0., ay Steen Hotel. Russell, D. L., N.C., Ebbitt House. Russell, W. A’, Mass. 991 New Jersey ave. Ryan, Thomas, Kansas. 600 13th st. n.w. Ryon, J. W., Pa., 1212 New York ave. n.W. Samfor ., Ala., 601 13th st. n.w. Sapp, W. F.. Iowa, 130 East Capitol st. Sawyer, S. L., Mo., 136 Pennsylvania ave. 8.0., Scales, A. M., N.C., 203 A st. 5.e. Shallenberger, W. 8., Pa., 610 13th st. n.w. Shelley, C. M., Ala., Cutler Ho ise. Sherwin, J. C., I1L,'9 B st. n.w Simonto. ‘Tenn., 417 6th st. n.w. Singleton, J. W., IIL, 909 A st. s.e. Singleton, O. R., Miss., 1307 F st. n.w. Slerzons, W. F., Ark., 302 E st. n.w. Smith, A. Herr, Pa., Willard’s Hotel. Smith; H. B., N. J.,’National Hotel. Smith, W. E., Ga, Sanderson's Hotel. A. ., Ebbitt House, n.W. Stephens, A.'H., Ga., National Hotel. Stevenson, A. E., Ill’, National Hotel. Stone, J. W.. Mich., 617 E st. n.w. Talbott, J. i. C., Md., National Hotel. Taylor. R. L.. Tenn., 909 New York ave. Thomas, J. K., Il., 806 12th st. n.w. Thompson, P.’B., jr., Ky., 725 9th st. n.w. ‘Thompson; Wm. G., Towa., Hamilton House. Tuiman, G. D., 8. C,, 609 13th st. n.w. Townsend, Anios, Ohio, Arlington Hotel. Townshend, R. W., IL, 213 43¢ st. nw. R., Va., Hamilton Houss, iggs House. G., Md., 610 13th st. nw. % E. x Rebs ne Sar oka Van Ael lenry, N. Y., 707 St. LW. Vance. fe Bu'N. C1223 8 5 Van Vorhis, J D., Minn,, 1731 1 St. n.wW. I 210 A St. n.e. 5 , Te: 8 Grant Place. Wells, Erastus, Mo., Willard’s Hotel. White Harry, Pa., Ebbitt House. Whiteaker, John, Oregon, 1303 F st. Whitthorne, W. Tenn., 918 14th st. n.w. Wilber, David, N. ¥,, Willard’s Hotel. Willits, Edwin, Mich., 26 B st. ne. Wilson, Benjamin, W. Va., National Hotel. Wise, M. R., Pa., 1235 New York ave. n.w. Wood, Fernando, N. Y., 825 15th st. D.w. Wood) W. A., N. Y., 1634 I st. n.w. Pa., 1720 H st. n.w. |., Pa., Metropolitan Hotel. ig, Casey, Tenn., 515 14th st. Young, T. L., Ohio, 1112 G st. ‘ ‘TERRITORIAL DELEGATES. Ainslie, George, Idaho, 101 2a st. n.w. Benne . G., Dakota, 1324 Massachusetts ave, Brents, Thos. H.. Ae ee . 17 Grant Place. Cannon, G. Q., Utah. 720 13th st. n.w. Campbell, J. G., Arizona, 737 9th st. n.w. Downey, 8. W.. Wyoming, cor. 6th and E n.w. Maginnis, Martin, Montana, 211 North Capitol st. Otero, M. S., New Mexico, National Hotel OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE. George M. Adams, Clerk, 1013 E st. n.w. John G.Thompson. Son Sener Willard’s. Charles W. Field, Doorkeeper, National Hotel. James M. Steuart, ster, Alexandria. OFFICIAL REPORTERS OF DEBATES. SENATE. D. F. Murphy, 314 C st. n.w. ASSISTANTS. ‘Theo. F. Shuey, 519 13th st. n.w. Edward V. Murphy, 419 2nd st. n.w. Henry J. Gensler, 427 I st. n.w. 8. Boswell, 126 C st. s.e. HOUSE. John J. McEthone, 1318 Vt. ave. William Blair Lore House. ess ae 1V =e ave. ne, J. K. Edwards, Anacostia, D. C. John Hi. White, 516 13th st. n.w. Music in England. Of course music in England centres in Lon- don, where there are a surprising number of lar performances. Such are the concerts of the old-established Philharmonic Society, and the Musical Union, and those of the Sacred Harmonic Society, at Exeter Hall; the oratories and other performances in Albert Hall; the world-renowned “popular” classical concerts gen throughout the winter, on Mondays and jaturdays, at St. James’s; the weekly ballad concerts of Mr, Boosey; the Crystal Palace con- certs, at which the best classical and popular music is heard; the steady course of plano- forte recitals, to which the genius of Von Bu- low, Essipoff, and Charles Halle gives character; the performances of various admirable choirs like Mr. Henry Leslie’s, Mr. Barnby’s, Hullab’s, and the “Bach;” and finally the crowd of lesser meetings at which the best may be heard—all filling the London winter and spring. Mean- while in the provinces music is stirring per- petually, the best orchestral soclety being Mr. Charlies Halle’s at Manchester; the best cho- ruses being those of Yorkshire. Then there are the great annual or triennial festivals at Birm- ingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Wor- ste} Leeds; and in all cester, and parts of the country music is striven for in some fashion— all, Imay say, the result of education and principle, rather than the outgrowth of any native instinct. And in this consists the most curious feature of music in England. The English people can admire and respect what they do not feel, or rather what they do not re- spond with a heart-beat; they can under- idand enjoy scientifically what they can never fathom: but the result of this Is extreme slowness: they must be habituated to an; good before they encot it. Few com sitiors take an English audience by storm; few innovations are made welcome; but the fault les with the temperament, not the intellect, of the le. That touch of musical instinct whi les dormant in the dullest Teutonic mind is unknown to the multitude of English hearers; they must be reasoned wil and always ready and anxious for newsounds, new sensations, is notan El trait. Does not this explain why the Phil onic orchestra of to decline the “Ninth Soi eal and at Exeter Hall, strug- gled hard to convince’their audiences that an oratorio performance should not be desecrated by intervals of song? At present, it seems to me, the taste of the people is with the mediocre or Italian music; the judgment of the people with heavy classical and sacred music; soul of the yple—nowhere, musically 8) since it ‘two rarely touched to be known written down. This looks, perhaps, like an anomaly. Ifthe are Dot soul ra Ne al appear OW Fontal cities are £0 full as London of the very Dest musical performances from November to Fegulariy year atter ear? ‘The answer is found in’a certain well known element in the English ayacter—constancy and. to what ts tangneas the vest ‘Att Gr Selenes: works se ea Hats parts tel oe RS ene sar" Ave clergymen to have no Kissing, priv is @ Boston be IS lias Brg OS wn =THE PUBLIC WILL TAKE NOTICE That the Order of the Postmaster Gen- eral against the Mails of the Louisiana te Lottery Company is RESCINDED. Registered Letters and Money Orders cam be sent through the Mails as for- merly. JL Otistana STATE LOTTERY. A Splendid Opportunity to Wina Fortune. 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