Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1882, Page 2

THE MIGRATION OF THE GIPSIES. | Pheir Passage Thronzh Washington—The En- | campment on the Potomac—Interesting De= | ‘i mn of Their Habits and Movements— The Gipsy Queen Equality of the Sexes— | How the ~ Tell Fortunes—A Curious y About Stealing | Tue Star has made mention several times of the fact that a band of gipsies have been camp- ed for some weeks in the neighborhood of the Chain bridge. A Stan reporter visited them Several days since. The campis a small one, Not more than ten people in all, two wagons and four horses. The band has made its pres- ent camp there to await the arrival of several | other branches of the san | have summered in thenorthern oi { are daily expected to arrive here on their way | to North Carolina, where they will winter. There will be when the entire party meets here about seventy-five in the band that will start out for in North thousand and er southern | nehes of the band that unite city are ERNED BY QUEE! ZELDA, en for this hich position on the nos, “the child of the stars.” Ohio, two years azo. Zanos don athering command r winters in the south, but if about as different thern and western ch band. howev for the coming Jon for her sup- | 1 equal tothe men among | all matters, and there is always @ woman, as well as “a son,” a| man, «%t on missions in which the queen or | eral interest of the tribe is involved. n authority to the queen is Minnette, | h she belongs to the branch now neat | n bridge, is in Baltimore, and will re- main there to await the arrival of some of Henderson’s tri who are soon to sail for Europe efor the coming over of sev- eral : . who are to be employ nnpanies to be any Rye,” the principal | psycamp. Minnette isa woman and is regarded as one of | the most intelligent and b <iueated women ofher entiretribe—she talks several lan-mazesand is an ardent student of astronomy. besides having devoted much time and study to the occult arts. Bhe has written, for the education of the girls of her tribe. several books. one of them being a| work on astrology, which is spoken of by those weil read on the’ subject as a valuable book. Minnette zenerally does all the fortune-telling, thous: in her absence her daughter Celia sup- plies demands in that direction. A GIPSY BEAUTY. Celia is about as handsome a woman as one would care to see. She is about twenty-three Years of aze. Her fiure is fine, and her beauty, gipsy beauty—that healthy bronze tint which | the skin gets from constant exposure has only | heightened her beanty. Her face is oval, though her features are strikingly impressive. Thenose | isGrecian. Her lips,abrightred and senuous. Her eyes are @ study—dark and deep, mellow and fascinating. Her look is or the questioning | kind, which appears to read the persons who | address her. Gipsy beauties always have | lustrous rien black h excep- tion. The luxurious growth was arranged in a | sipsy. twist. She Is in every sense the typical daughter of ma: the queen of witehery, the comforter of weak-minded | lovers, and the puzzle of the scientists. | ‘There were no “stazey” eilects in her tent, such as stufled owls, skelefons, parrots, crows or red Diankets which we now and then see in fortune- tellers’ tents. There was a clean-looking sit +@ rocker, a small chair and a three-legged stool. Pasted on a large piece of card board which hung up In the rear of the tent were | Pictures cut from the Graphic ot “Types of | American Beauties,” probably eight or nine in all. Tie Star reporter found Celia very agree- able-enmpany:) She conversed well, and showed that she was a careful reader, and that her mind was retentive. She said she was born in Wales, thouch her mother was French and her tather English. Her parents’ name was Maddern, thouzh she said as well as she remembered she had never been called by any other name than Celia, no one having ever added the Maddern to it until she heard Tuk Stax reporter speak to her as Miss Maddern. GIPSY LOVERS. She added that she would soon drop the Maddern part of her name,as she wasto be mar- Tied after they arrived in North Carolina, to a Young man named (Osmania Montrose, who, when she heard from him at last was with a party ot gipsies near Providence, Rhode Island. | “He is a real nice young man,” Celia said, in an ki “Here is his picture.” The photograph showed a rather fine looking oung man, who, when bis pleture was taken,— was a tin type,—wore a large straw hat.anda thick looking cloth ot some kind around his neck. *‘That neck cioth is dark red,” remarked Celia, ‘‘and he wears it all the time. He would Jook much better if he took it off.” R SLEPT IN BUT ONE HovsE and that was in a tavern of some York when she arrived in this coun- | try, eleven years azo. “I slept there two | she sai nd then we took the road. | was bornin camp, and if I have my way about it I want to die in a camp.” THE YANKEE BQY AND THE “I had a chance once to lea It was two years ago in Auzust. We were | amped just outside the Charter Oak racing park in Hartford. A frequent visitor was a} gentleman whose father is a large owner in the SY GIRL. 1 , but did not. | ; it means success. | much more to do with us. | orwho have been. curious questions. Now, I never promise to days for business are the three first days of the moon's age; tor marriage, the 7th, 9th and 12th. Ask favors on the 14th, 15th and 17th, but be- ware of the 16th and 2ist. These are all of the moon’s age. To answer letters choose an odd day of the moon; to travel on land choose the increase and for ocean the decrease of the moon. Start new buildings in March. Don't marry on your birthday or on any mar- tyr’s day. . “Which are some of the most prominent SIGNS OF EVENTS, as it were, that cast their shadows before?” Tue Star man asked, realizing that he was getting enough “ points” to set up as a fortune teller himseif. “ Thousands of them,” answered Celia, ‘‘ but T can’t think of many now. Here is one that I have never known to fall: If you meet a white horse, if you are going on cular busin If it is a piebald horse, it means that whatever you have asked for will be given you.” Another: ‘If a pigeon that does not belong to you flies in your house it means success. If it rests on a bed, death. If there are two pigeons, there will be a wedding. Never tell a dream before breakfast. The same dream three times is friendly warning. Had William the Second and the Duke of sucking- ham paid attention to this they would have es- caped death as they did.” TELLING FORTUNES BY CARDS. “How about cards? Do you ever use them?” “Sometimes; but the planets and stars have ‘8 we ure born we are controlled. Planetary influence is a thing the scientist of latter days laugh at, but who can say they are better Informed trelogers of old. Clubs mean happines y joy. liberality and good temp nds mean the opposite, delays, quarrels, Spades are the worst suite, mean- ing £ a I depend’ more « 3, loss of money. For myself the science of astrology tian on cards, thouzit palmistry helps out.” “You read destiny by SEEING THE PALM, then?” “Oh, yes, now and then, but it is not always Teliable. The lines of the palm beara relation to the events of life. Take the Line of Life. It rises where the thumb joint meets the wrist on the inside. The Line of Death separates the fleshy part of the hand on the little finger side. ci irdie of Venus from the extremity of the lowest joint of the little finger. It makes a curve and ends between the fore and middle fin: There are others. but these are the principal ones. As they run or are interfered with by the others we make our predictions. My main reliance, after ali, is from impressions formed unconsciously when coming in contact with my callers. I have been successful—re- markably successful, Now, my impression Is that you will become wealthy, but you won't get married.” Tue Star man said he did not know about whether or not he would ever get married, but he was certain to get wealthy ; that newspaper reporters received such princely salaries that they always ended up wealthy—in their min “There will come here,” said Miss Celia ‘ina few days, Marion, the silent, as we call her. She is now with a party of gipsies near Philadelphia. She is a wonderful seer, but she is dumb, and has to write out everything or tell it to others in signs.” WHY GIPSIES GO THROUGH WASHINGTON. “Why do so many gipsies go south by way of Washington?” Tie Star reporter inquired, hay- ing in view the fact that six tribes are now camped near Alexandria. “It is for this reason,” she replied. ‘‘The gip- sies of to-day use the maps in their travels that their ancestors did. Those maps only show one | Tiver that has a bridge over it, the Potomac, and { we all come this way. This is my second trip this way. Iwas in Washinton for a couple of days, and earned a few dollars telling for- tunes.” What kind of people secure your services?” “All kinds, but mostly Yor WOMEN WHO ARE IN LOVE, They ask us all kinds of bring back alover to them, and but few gip- sles do; though other fortune tellers make such promises. It can’t bedone. If Osmania was to forget me, all the fortune tellers in the world could not Dring him back.” “Do gipsies steal horses and children as often as some peope think?” Te Star reporter asked, apologizins afterwards, however, for the di- rectness of the question. GOOD GIPSIES DO NOT STEAL. “We are often spoken of as horse thieves and child stealers,” was the answer; ‘but I have never yet heard of a real gipsy being convicted of either. Tramps trequently are, but tramps are not gipsies. The Charlie Ross case gave ail of us a great deal of annoyance. We were stopped everywhere and our wazons searched for nearly a year. Every time a band happened to have a light hair boy people were sure they haa found Charlie Ross. Many bands of gipsies looked as earnestly for Charlie Ross as did others, and had any gipsy found him he would have been returned to his parents.” ABOUT CHARLIE Ross. “ What is the gipsy theory in regard to that case 2” “Our theory fs that Charlie Ross, if he was ever stolen at all, is now back with his parents, or at least that they know of his whereabouts. We have children now and then who are given us by their mothers, who ask us to raise them. They say they do not want to place them in orphan asylums, and have no means to care for them. These children grow up gipsies. Expo- sure to the weather tans their skins and dark- ens thelr hair, and by the time they grow up eyare a3 dark asany of us. But we don't I children. We have more offered us than nm take, and why should we steal them? Gipsies are rovers. ‘Ihey are born so, they are reared so, and they generally die rovers. No other life would suit them, and they could not stop roaming around if they would. There are a few exceptions, but they are not many.” GIPSY FAMILIES IN WASHINGTON. Meriden Cutlery company. He asked me to marry him, but [ could not, for I had promised | Osmania. He could have given me nice clothes, nice house and everyth I went with him to | see his parents twice. They gave me a nice | weleome, but somehow I got seured that T might | forget Osmanla and I left them as soon as { | could. That wagon out there my father bought from his father.” “Of course you can teil fortunes?” Tae Star reporter inquired. “Yes. and I tell wonderful things at times; things that I have no knowledge of until I am told of them afterwards. This is in cases where | Lam deeply interested. Ordinarily, anything will do. for most people come to us from curi- osity, and forget everything we say as soon as we do ourselves. I had A STRANGE EXPERIENCE when I was in Hartford. A horseman, whom I saw three years before at Rochester, N. ¥., came | nour camp. He said he was playing in hard | luck, and had been buying losers in the pools. I took his hand and looked at his palm for the Line of Fortune. It strikes from behind the bali or mount of the forefinger across the palm and Line of Life and loses itself near the fleshy part of the hand on the little-foger side. but T could not find it immediately. While tracing it I asked him when he was born. He wave me the date. I don't remember it now, but I remember he was born under three stars, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. When he was born the evil star was in the ascendant, but his good star had been rising steadily. day of the month, I forget whic! that he would win if he bet that d the day of his birth, and 1 told nm. the tent. brought me that pin. I found the Line of For- tnae, and concluded that he would be success- See that sentence engraved in the back of the pin: te lucky as I was to-day. ithe pin was quite a handsome affair—gold, ‘with one or two smail stones, rubies.] “You spoke of lucky days—when are they?” asked Te Stax reporter, determined to get all ‘the information he could on the subject. “Are you a married man?” the gipsy asked in reporter answered that he was not. it was the ninth or the eichteenth | greatest di He left | The top of this building 1s appropriately sur. That evening he returned. and he | mounted with a gold fish for a weather vane. “To my gipsy friend. May she be al- | The fish in this pond are the German “There are three families in Washington who | are gipsies; yet they live in the city nearly all the time. Now and then they take to the road tor a spell, but return to city life after a while. They are engaged in horse trading, and some of the men with us say they are doing well. Did you see the Arab gipsies in Washington the other day? They are in Virginianow. Thoseand the Turks, who passed through some days after- wards, are strangers in this coun: They only arrived in New York in June. They were as curious to us asto other people. In time they will get rid of their bears and monkeys, and live by other means. They are in a wretched condition—poor, no clothes hardly, and unable to speak a word of English. We met them in Pennsylvania in August.” Tue Stak reporter thanked Miss Cella for the pleasant interview and departed. As he was leaving she asked that he call azain before they started on their journey south. and begged him not to say anything in Tue Star that would hurt her people. Tu Stak reporter feels that he has not. o- Fish Cultnre in Virginia. To the Editor of the Evrxrse Srat The propagation of fish ie not only a scientific procedure, but a necessity as well. The gov- ernment gives its support in all cases. Mr. T. M. C. Paxson, residing near Clark’s Gap, Lou- doun county, Va., has a pond built especially for the purpose of propagating fish. This pond coy- ers about three-fourths of an acre, the th being about eight feet. A neat Now I telt little house is ouilt over the pond, which will . for it was | hold about fifteen or twenty peoplecomfortably. Around the house is a table abuut seven Inches beneath the water upon which the fish are fed. The banks of the pond are lined with plank. . and are from fi‘teen to eighteen inches in length. A spawning pond joins the larger one;{t Is very well arranged. It contains kettles in which the fish can winter, and these kettles, or ditches, are also used as traps by which the young fish are The spawning pond has a great many grass in it—these bony, pieced. there for the | Preisargond the eggs. th ponds are fed by ‘The ‘Why?” is hernext question. The reporter told | her that, to be franc regard tantten, in to the he thought that it was because he did not have sense enonzh, if it required sense, or nerve enough, if it needed nerve, to think about such a matter. “Often,” said the gipay, hing, “it re- more nerve than sense. But, be that as ‘ may, the day of the week ON WHICH YOU ARE BORN 1s the best to com:seace business. Pritays ad sh women fairly shudder over rea: Freday a Jucky day. Sundays and Mondays are 1’ formen. Never enter @ new house or Sivan Tease ia April, June or Noveinber. a Bith for any kind of an enieryr © different streams, the water being conveyed by meana of pipes. ‘The spawning pond empties into the large one. The manner of letting the water off and on is ingenious. The inlets and outlets are well from snakes, and all other enemles of the fish family. The ponds can be filed or emptied, or tne water placed at any depth with ease. A fine gravel bank surrounds the ponds, and the who! buitt and white washed plan! an the as- | i caught, then transferred to the large pond. THE BUILDING BOOM. Some Magnificent New Houses—Washington Becoming a City of Palaces—The Growth About Dapont Vircle—Other Localities. A few years ago the street cars that ran out Connecticut avenue to Georgetown passed through a wild stretch of land covered with matted underbrush, with now and then a frame shanty. Like other parts of the city, streets and avenues had been laid out, anda small park, known now as Dupont Circle, was inclosed and planted with shrubbery. People that passed by in the cars must have smiled at this evidence of the confidence in the growth of the city so far in advance of the actual state of affairs. But from the time when the city was jaid out by George Washington, the people of the country have been accustomed to sneer at the wide and spacious avenues and streets running through woods, swamps and fields, and the contemptuous —_ expression of John Randolph, “a city of mag- nificent distances,” has clung to the capital city ever since. The gradual realization of the pro- | phetic wisdom of the founder has, however, stripped the expression of its sarcastic meaning. Still, peopie laughed when ex-Senator Stewart, of Nevada, built his magnificent house (styled “Stewart Castle”) in the midst of these desolate | commons, fronting Dupont Circle, and it stood | there for years the only landmark in the wild wastes. Dut to-day the finest architectural de- | signs cluster around this circle, and each year isadding other magnificent structures. Men- tion has been made, from time to time, in Tus Sran, of the completion of these residences, | but a reference to those now in progress of erec- | tion will be of interest. THE BLAINE HOUSE. Just west of Mr. Stewart's residence on 20th | street a stately pile of brick is conspicuous, now needing but the finishing touches to complete | the details of its handsome design. This is the | residence which ex-Secretary Blaine Is building forhis own use. The house is a very large one, | the ground plan measuring 70 by 75 feet. ‘The | | main entrance opens into a hall 15 feet wide and 45 feet in length, the ceilings and wainscoting | | of which are of paneled oak. There is a hand- some mantel and fire-place in the hall. The | staircase, which ascends from a hail 20 feet wide at a right angle fromthecenter of the main hail, is also of oak. with carved oak balusters and | artistic newel posts all the way up to tie third | | floor. The halls on eaci floor have fire places | at the western end and carved oak columns and paneled oak wainscotings and ceilings. The re- ception room and parlor are finished in black | walnut and the dining room, library and draw- ingroom are in mahogany. All these rooms are on the first floor, the three latter being 20 | by 25 feet and the other two somewhat smaller, and ail can be thrown into one roon The dining room has a wainscoting of mahog. any five feet eight inches high, terminating in a | narrow shelf, on which saucers and plates of | fine china may rest edgewise against the wall. | The library window, like all on the first two floors, isa single pane of plate glass and opens on the porch running across the entire rear of the house. The roof of the porch forms a bal- cony with an ornamental railing around it on the second floor, The library, which has a high wainscoting ot mahogany, is to have book-cases on three sides, made after a special design. These will be five feet high, surmounted by & paneled wainscoting two feet high, all of ma- hogany. A very handsome desk will be made to fitin between the windows. The mantel is between two long windows and its shelf hag } consoles on each side with very elaborate lions’ j heads on them. Above the mantel is a piate dass tnirror with two shelves. ‘The fireplace | vill be bordered with very handsome tiles. | The woodwork on the second and third floors is poplar. The wainscoting is of Georgia pine. Adjoining the bedroom to be occupied by Mr. | Blaine on the second floor is a Russian hot-air bath, as well as the ordinary bath. The cost of the house will be about $65,000, and will be ready fur occupancy in six weeks. OTHER FINE HOUSES. Below Mr. Blaine's residence, on Massa- chusetts avenue, between 2ist and 22d streets, and opposite Judge Hillyer’s home, Mr. Law- rence Sands began this week the erection of two. handsome houses, each 25 feet front. These are to be three stories high, with press brick fronts and brownstone trimmings. They will be three rooms deep and the interior finished in natural | woods with hard wood trimmings... The paglors will be finished in mahogany and the dining- rooms in oak. The corner blocks, moldings, doors, &c., are made from special designs pre- pared by the architects, Gray and Page. The cost will be about $12,000 each. A BATCH OF NEW BUILDINGS. On Monday last Mr. J. C. Hillyer began the erection on Hillyer avenue, between 2lat and 22d and Q and R streets, of five houses. These houses will be of the renaissance style, three stories high, press brick front, with terra cotta trimmings. Each house willbe of a different design, while of the same general style. The in- teriors will be finished in the modern style, with handsome mantels, tiled hearths, and platform stair cases. The cost of the row will be about $35,000. An elegant residence, now under roof, and which will be ready for occupancy this fall, has been erected by Miss M. A. Peet, on New Hamp- shire avenue, just south of Dupont circle. It is built in the modern renaissance style, of selected red brick, laid in red mortar. The interior is very attractive, finished in natural woods, with a handsome carved oak screen on the stair case. The wood mantels, &c.,are from special designs by the architects, Gray & Page. The costis about i On 19th street, south of Dupont Circle, Mr, David Windsor is erecting four fine houses, two with the octagon windows and two with the bay windows. The interiors are finished in elegant style. The cost is $10,000 apiece. Just below N street. on Connecticut avenue, there Is a short street running throngh the block to 19th, which is known as JEFFERSON PLACE. Both sides of the street are lined with elegant new houses, making it one of the most striking inthe city. Gen. Lippett has just compieted in this street @ three-story brick at a cost of | 500. Next to this Mr. J. M. Johnson ts erect- ing two houses two stories high, with mansard roof and modern finish, at a cost of $5,500 each. Mr. George Lemon 1s also building a row of houses in this street similur to the row gai by him last year, the cost being While elegant residences are springing up around Dupont circle in such numbers as to fill the occasional visitor with surprise, yet the VICINITY OF SCOTT CIRCLE can claim priority in rank as to the value of the residences recently erected there and the prom- inence of their owners. There are at least eight houses in that vicinity which, on # fair average, cost $50,000 each, and some of them much more. There is the Broadhead house, which Prof, Bell, the inventor of the telephone and the present owner, is now fitting up forthe occupancy of | his family. Then comes Senator Cameron's | stately mansion, rivaled in size and solid ele- gance by Senator Windom’s, on the opposite side of the street. A little further down 16th street is the house of Sena- tor Pendleton, unique in its modern style of architecture; and next on the corner of 16th and O is the elegant home of Representa- tive Robeson, which he is now furnishing for occupation this winter. On the next square to | the west the costly and elegant residence of Mi Belden Noble. a wealthy New York importer, is seen, and within a short distance the handsome | homes ot Mr. B. F. Grafton, the lawyer, and Mr. Utis Bigelow, the banker. To the south on K street near 16th, Col. Jerome Bonaparte is completing his new residence, which is con— spicuous even in that street of handsome houses. In addition to those named, there are numerous handsome and elegant houses in this vicinity. On O street near 16th, Major Eliiott, U.S.A., and Capt. McNally, U.S. completing elegant residences. The exterior and interior are finished in the modern styl with picturesque outside porches and tiled roofs. The cost is $14,000 each. Above on O street, between 15th and 16th streets, Mr. J. J. Shedd is completing two houses at a cost of ,000 each. On the south side of Massachusetts Sled er bellling tre Gan circle, Mr. John rman 0 houses, now under cover. : | the government $7.44 per day. | who wasn't needed, has been appointed at | ployes, 1 | constant | number of diseli: ; Ning the office i rare DOINGS OF THE BOUNDS’ GANG. Bui ig the Government Printing Office on Star Route “ Business Prin- ciples.” = ‘To the Editor of ‘Tax Evanrre Bran. Once more I infringe upon yourvaluable space to discuss the singular manner in which Mr. Rounds and his henchmen illustrate their idea of running a goverament workshop on business principles. You know we were promised in the Critic, months before the appointment was made, that Mr. Rounds would conduct this office on sound business principles, and we naturally look for some endeavor in that direc- tion. Suppose we take a look into a few of the rooms of this building, and see how the business principle works. The most shining illustration which Mr. Rounds has given was the employment of a Kansas follower of Senator Plumb. who was given a position as proof-reader at $4:24 a day. This man was so utterly incompetent that every proof which he read was again given to a com- petent proof-reader to read as if it had Just come from the compositor. So every cent paid him was so much money thrown away without any return whatever. Nay, eyen worse, for this “dummy,"like all readers, had a copy-holder, at $3.20 per day, whose services also went for aucht. This example of business capacity cost But, then, the person thus favored was not born inthis District, s0 I suppose it’s all right. In the specification room we have some more “business principle.” The new foreman was so fortunate as to be well acquainted with Mr. Rounds, and hence succeeded in his aspirations to become foreman of this room. As he did not quite trust himself to ‘go it alone,” however, ‘office was created for his benefit, that of it foreman of the room, and one of the ds, Mr. William H. Miller, appointed to the position. The salary 1s $5 a day, and is that much thrown away, beceuse Mr. Miller runs the room, a thing which Mr. Rounds’ pro- tege is paid astill higher salary tor not doin: So you see one of the two offices is superfinoy In ‘this room, also, an additional messenge per day. In the bindery, we find poor Harvey Roberts, who is afraid to assert his soul as his own. If he had a spark of independence he would re- fuse point blank to discharge his very. bi hands at the bidding of the business manazer the Critic. But what a man has not got he cannot exhibit. The rest of the departments of this shop will receive my attention in due sea- son, for if I particularize too inuch in this com- munication [night take up more space than would be agreeable to you. : The guillotine still operates among the em- truly sorry to say, and the unfor- ict men engaged here are kept in a ‘ony of suspense. Almost daily a es are made, and they are consummated with such a deliberate flendish- ness that the man who instigates them should be loathed and spurned by every honorable man. What satisfaction ean it be to a decent man to keep poor working men and women such a terrible condition of _apprehens' These words may sound strong. Mr. Editor, if you moved about among the emplo you would deem them none too enphatic. Thave no doubt that the list of be still larger If it were not near the busy sea- son, but what is not done now is simply de- ferred, and I advise every workinan here who is not fortified politicaty tu put lumself in light marching order, fur if the crev tunate Di not ae ‘ongre: man will walk the shop, ¥ y, is run on business omething like ‘the princip! Judze, on which the star route business w: run, Wibr Awak Government P: +e. ng Office Again. No Sran. The fact has several times been brouzht to public notice that M. D. Helm, who ho! the important position in the Government. Printing Office of forethan of the Congressional Record, Is business manager of the Critic, a paper in this city largely owned and controlled by Brady and his star roat Idon't know the in- fluences that were brought to bear upon Mr. Rounds to mal ‘uch an appointment, but have heard it intimated that this man Helm made it appear to Rounds, when he first entered the field as a candidate for Public Printer. or about that time, that he (Helm) was a very important personage; that he fizured conspicuously in po- litical circles on account of his newspaporial connections, and that he could probably do more to bring about his appointinent and con- firmation than most any other party in Wash- ington. It is well known to those who read the Critic during last autumn and winter that its columns were overburdened with the most outrageous and groundless attacks upon, and most malignant and scurrilous arti cles and falsehoods about, the late Public Printer, Mr. Defrees, a more strictly upright and honorable man than whom never held pub- lic or private office, and it is said that copies of these papers found convenient way to Mr. Rounds, the then expectant, who, highly elated with them and being kept constantly under the exhilarating influence of such nauseating stuff, spurned by all who knew Mr. Defrees and his unimpeachable integrity, came to regard Helm really as his chief champion. Nearly every issue of the Critic at that e itemized and editorialized the superior qualifications and almost infinite fitness of its immaculate candi- date, and it is searcely too much to conclude that when Mr. Defrees resigned on account of the sickness that but so recently terminated his earth-life, Mr. Helm the more vigorously pushed Mr. Rounds’ claims, with the expectation and possibly promise of receiving the best place under his favorite. And when Rounds was made Public Printer, Helm was made foreman of the Congressional Record, really the best place under the P.P., and especially so for Helm, because while ostensibly in charge of the Record, he could, at the same time, attend strictly, as he has ever since his appointment, to the business interests of the star route organ, He unquestionably would have preferred and secured the position of foreman of printing, but for the fact that the laws of the United States prohibits the foreman of printing from directly or indirectly engaging in the publication of an: book or newspaper, and, besides, there is a dif- ference in the annual pay of the two positions of only some $300. That the man has any par- ticular or peculiar fitness for the place over hun- dreds of his craftsmen is sheer nonsense. He has an inordinate amount of confidence in him- self that absolutely amounts to what is vulgarly called “cheek,” and buzzes around the office and the Public Printer and foreman of printing as if he owned the one and commanded the others; but it is conceded by all impartial wit- nesses of his operations that he is unbearable to men under him on account of his bullying, pom- pous, tyrannical bearing, and, consequently, it is an absolute impossibility for him to accom- plish for the government as much as any man could who had the respect and good wishes of his men, as his immediate predecessor, Mr. Ford, had. But even if he were a perfect gentle- man, and a really superior workman, and had the unbounded confidence of his employes, such a man should -most certainly not be in the employ of the government. His paper has done, and still is doing all it can to shield scoundrel- ism of the most gigantic proportions by defend- ing those who have robbed the government,and its abuse and’ defamation of our law officers, Newspapers and public men, who have dared to denounce them, are as outrageous as they are malicious. Should Mr. Rounds, as head of one of the largest and most important offices under the governmént, retain prominently In his employ the business manager of such a paper? To this man Helm fs attributed the unenviable credit of causihg the late heartless discharge of District men and women from that office—many ot whom were unquestionably the best work- men in the whole eétablishment. How much more honorable on the part of the Public Printer had he retained them, and “You may be a voter, but as manager of a sheet that is constantly abusing officers of the government I can’t keep You must go, but I shall retain th whom you have advised me to discharge.” Will a man work for the best interests of those he at least consents to see maligned and out- raged? Or, what would be thought of a brother who should give employment to a man who had been robbing his family, or was the defender of those who had been doing so? If Mr. Rounds roposes to kick out of office men who are un- rtunate eno’ foes pe aoe voce — at the dictation Tanager of a 1088 chiet existence depends upen diatribes of abuse against officers of eg Nate tor attemy Hes falthfatly and time that the be | son expects, if he las Inck, to be able to feast his friends npoi i next eighteen months. Caro. ee ™ i ihoning the golden rale: Toledo has one i ie most exer Christian iwe ever knew. 'Whau_ Kissed: fish In every style within the matter brought to yn of President Arthur. It is an out- rage that ands, and I trust may receive, the highest official attention and treatment. ‘October 25, 1882. A “Scottish National Women" is to be held in ( Ea gd og pagogy aa om nse of the duties stil sesponsibilities of the weaker sox, and to arouse “a, LETTER FROM NEW YORK. Langtry’s Arrival—Even Our Correspondent Says She Is Beautifal—The Opera Season— ‘The Political Campaign—Hon. Josh Bil- lngs— Female Gymnasts— Wm. J. Flor- ence, Ete. Bpecial Correspondence of Taz EvENtxe Star. New York, Oct. 27th. The Bernhardt boam was never so great as the excitement over Langtry’s arrival. Every- thing about town is indicative of the presence of the Jersey Lily, and she is the one subject of conversation. Her pictures are for sale in all the shop windows, in the elevated railway sta- tions, and on venders’ carts in the streets. Some of the photographs are highly colored, and not in the least like the original. Her beautiful face is now so well known that when she ven- tures forth in the street people stare at her with abominable persistency, and even follow her about. She is a startlingly beautiful woman, and deserves every word of adulation that has been written about her. I had achat with her yesterday morning. I stood talking with Ab- be , the manager, at the door of his office in the Park Theater, when Mrs. Langtry arrived for the usual morning rehearsal. 1 was presented, and chatted for half an hour before the janitor announced that the stage manager was ready. She is as charmingly frank and cordial as she beantiful, and possesses a volce of sing lar depth and sweetness. She talked al- most entirely of her stage life, and said that she hoped always to be in the’ profession. I asked her what she would consider her crown- ing point, and she said that she would be satis- fled if she could some day own and manage a theater. Rather singular it struck me that the woman whose charms had made her famous all over the world should be satisfied to settle down and manage a theater. One rather pic- tured her as joing on in her triumphant career, conquering all the worlds in christendom and heathendom and ascending into transcenden- talism at last amid a shower of golden light. However, her own forecast looks the surest. A remarkable quality about the beautiful Eng- lishwoman is her strong common sense. She has already half won her way into the hearts of our people by her warm-hearted praise of people and things she strengthens the impre: a modest and earnest desire to please everyone with whom she comes in contact. Her eioquent: prai our native actresses won her the good of ll of {| theatrical people, and her graceful compliments to the beauty of American woman all had their effect. No wonder the woman is popular who is at once so beautiful and clever. There can be no question of her beauty. A prominent factor of it is her superb compiexion. Millais deserves no eredit-for dubbing her the Jersey Lily, for the lily is the first thing that suygests itself when one meets her. I would like to describe this famous complexion, but I don’t know how. Can any man describe the colorot the lily? I pause for a reply. A lady in speaking of the beauty to-day said that she was surprised, not at the smallness of her waist— though the walst_ is uncommonly small—but at its peculiarly attractive shape. She said that 3. Langtry’s belt encircled a pertect oval. The waist 1s deep, but not broad. In fact I gathered that a line running fore and aft would indicate considerable depth that went towards making | and her profile view graceful curved, while a line running across would show charm- | ness, Which in tarn went far towards ing her magnificent bust and shoulders out into the prominence they deserve. Mrs. Langtry would be remarked anywhere as that phenomenon—an English woman with small feet. She will be a success. I say this without having seen her act. for I never saw her in London; but I judge from the universal desire e hier. When. men will pay $18 and €20 for rs at a single performance, and $320 8 it looks like a success indeed. THE OPERA § SON. Col. Mapleson is doing exactly asT prophested some weeks ago. Having made the most glorious promises and ambitious assertions he comes down tamely and presents opera goers with an entertainment that falls little short of | being an outrage. I am still suffering from the dreadtuil effects produced byMme. Dotti’s Matilde. She was the beau ideal of utter incompetency. When she came here many years azo as the bosom friend of the gallant colonel she was known—far too well—as Mrs. Swift. She has reappeared with methodical constancy every time the colonel arrived, often under another name, but always the same fat and thoroughly incompetent Mrs. Swift. This year as Mme. Dotti she is even a worse sinzer than before. Isadore Martinez 1s also an uncommonly bad vocalist, and Ravelli appears provokingly weak. Even Gallassi, admirable artist though he is, has somehow failed so far, and Mile. Filomena Savio has fallen very far short of the colonel’s promises. lt is fully time for Patti to come if the great Mapleson is to keep on his feet. THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. The campaign continues to have that anoma- lous character that it has had from the begin- ning. Asa diplomatic measure the republicans adopted the names brought forward by the citizens who were struggling forreforms. Isn't there something ludicrous in the idea of these gentlemen reformers being compelled to join hands with the wing of the republican party that is all thetime fighting to have things leftas they are? Johny O’Brien, who was nominated for county clerk, is just now clamoring for reform. There is nobody living who can give him points on diplomacy. But Johnny's hurrahing is to be cut short by President Arthur. it is said, who intends to have him withdraw his name. The President has some good reason forthis. That defeat ia inevitable is reason enough. especially where it is one’s dear friend. Allan Campbell isa good man and he would undoubtedly be elected if there was division among the demo- crats. As there is union, Franklin Edson will be elected mayor. In the state canvass there is an utter lack of excitement. The republicans are in a condition of absolute despair and only keep the wheels of the machine going in order to hold the party togetier. Chauncey M. Depew aid one other are the only speakers out. The democrats are sending out campaign docu- ments, but doing little else, for the reason that it is unnecessary. ‘Chey are already gloating over the spoils. HON. JOSH BILLINGS. One of the figures often seen in the corridors of the Fifth Avenue hotel is that of Josh Bill- ings. For sometime he has been invisible, but yesterday he reappeared again—the same cleri- cal, solemn looking man, but more communi- cative than usual. He looked to me more like Edward Everett Hale, the Unitarian minister, than ever. His long, dark locks fell upon his round shoulders from beneath a broad-brimmed hat and turned forward under his ears. His which is becoming quite gray, was trimmed closely to his face. The color of his akin resembled that of an Indian, aud his ja which are usually angular, were well rounds out. He didn’t remain more than @ minute or two in one place, but would stalk around with his peculiar tony, giant stride, swinging his long arms. In conversation the philosopher talks fluently, and not at all as you would naturally ex him to. He makes you laugh frequentiv, but he does not even smile himself. He is all hig! me 88 mien ess — foley His earnestness is simply phenom le makes many gestures with his great hands, and frequently leans to- wards you and taps you on the arm or shoulder with his forefinger. “It is how many people he knows. Almost every second man who came in the hotel yesterday he spoke to. As he appeared to be ina high state of excite ment, I asked him what had happened to put him in such an unstrung condition. just from @ summer trip,” “There isn’t a hair turned on the Jast May—my wife and I— ug! 35 and Canada. Mrs. J. B. did the driving. If you want to see the country, go tl hat way, and you'll eee it.” ** Did you make the journey for pleasure?” “‘We went for amusement and recreation. Whenever we arrived in atown we were i hills and has beena erd in all languages, but it's not right.’ You don’t want to choose either of two evils, do you? SoI said, that of two evils accept the lesser. That ts better. Mr. J. B. took out a note-book in which he had jotted down some fresh condensed wisdom ‘an hour before. The ink was not dry... The last line read: “Kindness is an instinct; politeness a art.” “What is your definition of humor?” I in- uired. quired. “‘Humor must be based on truth,” he replied, ing me with his forefinger and drawing it . “Itis use 8 thing is ludicrous and at the same time true to nature that people laugh at it. Now, Artemus Ward was not a humorist, but he was the drollest’ man the ‘country has ever produced. Writers who make their effects by hyperbole are not humorists. Genuine humor lasts forever, because it is true. You soon tire of hearing a man teli stupendous lies. Doestfcks ran out because he got tuto this vein entirely.” ** What do you think of Bob Burdette and the class of writers to which he belongs ?” “ They can’t last.” “Is Mark Twain a humorist ?” “His humor is genuine. I consider him the best descriptive humorist in the country. He can write as long as he lives.” “ What is your estimation of Bret Harte?” “He's more of an artist than a humorist.” “Why are humorists such melancholy look- ing men?” “Because,” said Josh, ‘what they say comes from meditation and reasoning. A man who can keep his companions in a roar at his ings may be ajolly good fellow, but he’s only a jester.” | 4 The tall, stoop-shouldered, angular philoso- pher squeezed my hand in his big brown one, dropped it abruptly, and he took strides like the man who had on seven-league boots. FEMALE GYMNASTS. The rage for physical development among young women is increasing. Classes are form- ing in gymnasiums where young ladies and girls are taught, and also small clubs which receive instruction in private houses. One of the latest phases of this mania Is an insatiable desire on the part of many young ladies to learn fencing. It has become a fashionable accomplishment in Europe, which is quite enough to make girls here ambitious to acquire it. Last year there were’ only few classes, and they were small. This year there will be scores of young women king swords at each other. One of the best cooen gymnasiumsin the city is within astone’s thrown of the Windsor hotel. The young ladies | who go there for instruction and practice have little retiring rooms similar to bath-nouses. When they emerge they have a costame consist- ing of basque or jacket and trousers. The agility, grace and skill they show at the various exercises is astonishing. They are quicker to learn than boys, I am told, and much more graceful at everything they undertake. At first they are made to make certain movemengs with their fingers, hands and arms. Then they are taught to swing dumb bells and clubs, keeping time to music. As the average young iady does not straighten out her arms properly when in | the first stages of her trainingthe wooden dumb bells haye little brass bells on them that jingle when the movements are made with proper force. One of the exercises theyare put through is that of marching with sticks for guns. They like this very much, and carry their heads with ajaunty air. What young chap is there that would not pay a good fee at the door to see them going through evolutions! But the Pro- fessor rixorously excludes spectators. The ad- vanced classes are required to practice on the horizontal bar. Beginuers at this exercise have great difficulty in swinging their feet over, but some of the persevering ones xo through a great variety of movements with the grace of an acro- bat. Swinging in ringssuspended on long ropes isa favorite exercise. In one corner of the room there are several poles in an upright posi- tion and others inclined at an angle. It is al- incredible, but nevertheless @ fact that women will spend hours climbing those poles. The most popular exercise is that of | mounting and vaulting over a wooden horse. They make a rush at this and spring into a wooden saddle, and after much practice they so ever almost without touching. The private classes usually meet in a garret so many times a | week for lessons and practice. When a young lady who has the physical development craze is detained at home by a rainy day she goes up to the garret and develops her muscle. PRESIDENT OF THE LAMBS. That genial gentleman and popular actor, W. J. Florence, was inaugurated last Sunday even- ing -with elaborate and impressive ceremonies as the new shepherd of the lambs. Mr. Henry Edwards retired in view of along pending de- sire to give the Jolly comedian his place, and made a rattling good speech about the duties Mr. Florence would have to bear, ending with the assertion that the sole value of the post of shepherd of the lambs was embodied in the fact that it offered a good and valid reason for re- maining out all night. The lambs are popularly supposed particularly by their wives—never to go to bed on nights when they are calied to the fold. It is a club composed largely of actors of the best class, with a solid contingent of law- yers, journalists, and business men. The club house is a very neat and cosy ranch in west 26th street, near the Racket club. Everything is cal- culated with a view to comfort, and the admir- able common sense of the club ls shown in the arrangement of the dining-room, which is not only the largest and most attractive room in the house, but is also the most luxurious, easy chairs being present in large numbers, that the lambs, when brain weary, and suffering from the nervous exhaustion that always fol- lows their prolonged dinners may rest com- fortably while listening to the beautiful and touching stories of Billy Florence. The craze of this admirable actor, by the way, for a consul- ship is very remarkable. He still has hopes that the administration will appoint him to a foreign mission and talks of it constantly. A worse man might easily be chosen. but a more anxious one it would be difficult to find. Florence says he has roamed around the world enough, and i: anxious to settle down. Travelling abroad to a consulate fora two or three years term is an odd way o7 settling down. Helm Disch: img the Etats To the Editor of Tax Evenrve Stan. As your paper has always advocated the in- terest of Washington and her citizens, I would | like to know how the mechanics and business people can consistently support the other even- ing paper, whose manager at this time is the principal party who is instrumental in having the District employes in the Government Print- ing Office dismissed from there on account of being non-voters, and thereby compelled to find jabor in other places. It does seem hard, and particularly when we take into consideration the fact that there were no better mechanics in the office than these same Washingtonians. Numbers of these men were even the first to re- spond to the call tor the defense of the city dur- ing the war. Can the workmen of the District sustain a paper whose manager is the cause of depriving their fellow workmen of the right to earn their daily labor in a government es shop. ——— A Man Who Knows When He's Got i Washington From the Detroit Free Press. The candidate who got left at the county con- vention can be told by the way he grasps your hand, braces himself against his gurgling emo- tion, and whisperingly inquires: “Did you ever hear of a case like it?” You never did. You tell him that you never did, and he pulls you into a doorway and con- tinues: ee ant done with politics forever!” “Yes, Iam, and with the party, too!” “You don’t say!” “Oh, but I am. This thing has satisfled me that there is no such thing as honesty in poli- tics, and that a politician has no more word than a oe was sold out.” ible?” “Sold out and lied out. They used money to beat me. They lied about me. They played and knave. Here I have served the ty for nineteen long en office, and the the nomination for a little and never asked | ter, and a green eye-shade. THE CITY MARKETS. ‘Tarkevs Coming to the Front—Fruits an@ Vegetables PlentifulFlour Firm, Wheat Active, Apples Up, Fine Grades of Butter Scarce. The past week has been @ rather doll and sluggish one in our markets, and dealers ia some kinds of products, such as vegetibies and fruits, complain of dull times. The belief though, Is generally expressed that this ie largely due to the heretofore crowded state of the markets in such productions, and that signs are evident now of a reverse. In flour the market is firm, with # scarcity and demand for good grades of superfine and extra, such as are generally used by the bakers, Wheat is active, with a slight advance in old corn; not mach demand for new . The offer. ings of hay have been and are still quite liberal, with market easter; prime timothy meets with ready sales, and rye straw is In good demand, but low grades of hay find a dull market In butter real fine grades are not plentiful and the lower grades are dull. The supplies of eaga are limited and the market is quiet. ‘There is@ good demand for « ry and an inguiry tor live turkeys in good condition. Fruits are plentiful at present, and some losses have been sustained by injury from the warm weather. The feeling ts pretty general that appies will be scarce and high ‘The vegetable market ts well supplied, especially in potatoes, onions and sweet pots toes. Considerable inguiry 1s made for new beans. In the live stock market the sup of cattle have been liberal. with active sales but no advance in prices. Veal calves are scarce and the price advanced. Sheep and lambs are plentifal with a rather dull market. Live and dressed hogs begin to be sought tor. y and cheese are quoted wh —Creamery, fancy, 35e.; fair to good imitation, 24a25e.; tubs, fancy, new, S3eMe.; ood, B0a8e ; Arkin, best, 30a32¢.; good, 25a290.; western dairy, b Baie; good, Wate; fair, 18ae.; westera factory, best, ‘2ia good, 2Wa22e.; poor to fair, 18200. Cheese—New York, 13\al4e.; good western, 11}gal2},0. per pound. FLOUR. ‘Wholesale and Jobbing prices areas follows :— Flour—Minnesota patent process, $7.75a8.20; bakers’ brands, 6.2586.50; Faiily, patent pros ; standard brands, §5 25a5 50; ands, $5.00a5 25; extra, #4 Wad. xt €3.00a3.20; ‘middling. €2 25m 5004.00; buckwheat, N.Y.. perewt., 50; Virginia, Maryland ‘and Penusyiva- da3.25; corn meal, bolted, white, Siusie.; unbolted, yellow, S0aS2e. Grain.—Wheat, choice, $1.08a%1.12; do. fair to good, $1.00a#1 + Tye, 650683; corn, yellow, 75a80; do. white, No. 1 and 2, 83as5; do. mixed, Toa78: do. new, 55a60; oats, southern, Mads, do, western white, No. 1, 45a46; do. western mixed, No. 2, 42043. Mill feed.—Bran, western, per ton, €18 00a $19.00; middii ngs, white, per ton, €22.00ug24.00; do. brown, per ton, $17.00a218.00, Hay, straw, &c.—Rest canotite $16.000#18.00 perton; do. mixed, @14.00a$15.00; clover, $12.00; Tye straw, $10.00; wheat do., ear, $4 50 per barrel; new di Poultry and Game.—Turke Ib., live, 10al2c.; old fowls, live, per ib. kens spring large, per Ib., 12al3c m, per Ib. 12a), sinall per Ib, 12ai30.5 8, live, per It geese, live, each, 40 a70c.; quail, €1.0a$2, pheasants, $4a$t; venison per Ib, 12a15e. Byws r by, 27a2%e.; western, 27a2 ews. Keats, 10c. Vegetables.—Potatoes range from 60 to 7% cents per bushel; some fine peach blows have met with sales at 80 to 85 cents per bushel, and some early rose and burbanks as high as 80 cents, but the general rauxe is as first stated, Sweet potatoes are €1.25 to $1.95 per bushey yams, €1 per barrel; cabbage, €210 6 per hun- dred; cauliflowers, 2.50 to #4 per barrel; ture nips, $1.50 per barrel; onions, 1.75 to 2 per barrel or 70 to 7% cents per bushel; marrow squash, $1 per hundred pounds; Hubbard do., $1.50 per hundred pounds. Green fruits.—Apples, $2.50 to @4 per barrel, as to quality; Catawba grapes, 6 to 7 cents per pound; Delawares, 8 to 10 cents; Concords, 5 cents; Isabelias, 4cents; cranberries, $3.75 per bushel box; chestnuts, $2 per bushel; oranges Sadie dren $5 per box; Jamaica do., $12 per |; lemons, $2.50 to $3.50 per box. Cured Meats. juik—Clear rib sides, 153g; do. shoulders, 153g; eng clear, 15; bacon sides, 173g; do. should 13 to 13%; sugar cared hams, 17 to 18; sugar cured breakfast bacon, 173g to 18 sugar cured shoulders, 13 to 1434; Jowls, 84; smoked beef, 17 to 18; beef tongue, $6 per dozen; lard, pure, 1434 to 143¢; pork, un- smoked, 144 to 1c. Fresh Meats.—The fresh meat Sobbing market is the same as last week and trade dull. The prices are—Choice hind quarters of beef sell at 9 to 10c. per 1b.; common do., 7 to 8c5 choice fore quarters do., 6 to 7c.; common do., 4 to 5e.; choice dressed veul, 11 to 12¢.; common do., 9 to 10c.; live, 81y to 9e.; choice dressed mutton, 7 to 8¢.; common @o., 5 to 6c; choice dressed Jamba, 11 to 18¢.; common do., 8 to 10c. Veal isscareeand the trade brisk. The trade In Chicago dressed beef is on the in- crease; about one car load is sold here per day, each car coutaining from 30 to 35 cattle. ————+e.—______ SATURDAY SMILES, A little three-year-old, whose mother was mixing a simple cough medicine for lim, watched the process and asked If it was good. He was permitted to taste it, and having discov- ered a bitterness in the decoction which was not suitable to the present wants of his he exclaimed: “It's awtul good, mamma. keep it all for papa.” Force of habit: Atthe bauk. Clerk—‘What do you wish, sir?” Rufflan—" Why, I just dropped in to tell you that [am the man that knocked down and robbed your cashier.” Clerk—“Well, sir, I'm very sorry; but youll have to identify yourself, sir.”"—Detroit Free Getting ready: “Do you keep a full supply of base ball requirements here ?” asked a gloomy- browed young man the other day, as be entered a Market street hardware store. “Yes, sir; everything in that line.” “Then you may wrap me up 4 bottle of arnica, a paper of courtpias- I'm going to catch for the Kuickerbocker nine this afternoon."— San Francisco Post. Medical etiquette: A German paper bas a rather good story about a lady who, not feeling as well as she liked. went to consult a physi- cian. ‘Well,” said the doctor, after looking at her tongue, feeling her pulse, and asking her ma | questions, “I should advise you, yea, I should advise you—ahem!—to get married.”. “Are you singie, doctor?” inguired the fair pa- tient, with a significant yet modest smile. ~I am, mein Fraulein; but it is not etiquette, you know, for —— to take the physic prescribe.”"—. Globe. A definition; “Pa, what Is an ae azent?” “Why. my son, he is a man who is very anxious to get work tor others to do. He him- self doesn’t want any.”—Louisville Courier-Jour- nal. When a man says he is satisfied with his lot ‘ou may be sure of one or two things, either e very unen' ising specimen of huiman- ity or he is lying. Transcript. Political misfortune: “But how did you hap- pen tolose the nomination? A majority of the delegates were in favor of you an supposed you would be a candidate.” I, and tt was all owing to a certain man being taken unexpectediy iil.” ‘What man?” “The —_* hired to get the boss drunk.”—Brooklyn gt The committee on Judiciary of the Lime Kila club reported a petition from 230 colored citl- zens ot Ohio, praying the club to use its influ- ence to secure a new ion law. Under the present law the grandson of a man who in- tended to enlist, but never got around to it ow- Capacity of the Chicago stocking: | “Papa,= said a gushing young damsel of want you to give me this Christmas @ scalakin sack and muff, ae A