Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1885, Page 3

Se “THE EVENING ae TAR: WASHINGTO D. ©. , SATURDAYS TT MARCH 21, 1885—DOUBLE SHEET. RELIGIOUS NOTES. CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE. — The collectors of funds to rebuild St. Dom- mic’s Catholic church are meeting with much Success. One of them has been agreeably sur- Prised by the liberality shown by Protestants &nd non-church goers, — The congregation of Grace M. E. church last eveni e a formal welcome to their pastor, Rev. H.S. France, who has been returned and enters on his third year. Mr. R. Gallcher made the welcome address, and the evening was given to music, recitations, &c. — The members of the Second Baptist ehurch, corner of Virginia avenue and 4th street south- east, Rev. E. Hez Swem, pastor, gave a pound party for the benefit of the poor’ of the church On Thursday, and recelved quite a supply of groceries. — Rev. Dr. J. H. Mac E'Rey, of Philadelphia, who has recently been visiting Washington, and preached ina numberof the churches here, was last week Immersed by Rev. Mr. Power, end received intothe Vermont avenue Christian ehureb, — During the past month the interior of Ham- ine church has been frescoed and the exterior painted and penciled, by Messrs. E. Carstins and Howard Markward, respectively. The church will be re-opened’ to-morrow morning, when Rev. Dr. Reiley will preach. —The appointment of Rev. McK. Relly as Presiding elder of the Washington district of the M. E. churches is very acceptable to the membership and also to the non-political tem- perance people. Dr. Riley has been fully as active in the temperance work as in the church Work, but in the last campaign took the ground that a third party would not aid the cause. —The Methodist Protestant of Baltimore, of which Rev. Dr. E. J. Drinkhouse is editor, says: “It appears that Miss Cleveland, sister of the President of the United States, is an active Member of the W. C.T. U., aud just before the hominating convention she joined the women of the society in prayer for divine guidance to the convention in theselection ot candidates, Bhe little thought then that it would fail to her lot to act as mistress of the White House.” — In the Sunday school of Faith Presbyterian eburch, Baltimore, Md., there are 1,254 scholars and seventy-two teachers, —Rev. B. C. Hammond, appointed a post chaplain by President Arthur just before the ¢lose of his term, is a member of the upper lowa M. E. conference. —The Rev. Dr. R.C. Matlack, of Philadel- phia, has been elected president of Griswold college, Davenport, Iowa, an Episcopal institu- tion which has been much enlarged. —Dr. A. G. Lawson has received from the presidents of Baptist theological seminaries the names of thirty students inclined to devote themselves to the foreign missionary work. — Rev. Dr. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Taber- nacle, received 195 persons into his church ‘b 1st, most of them on profession of faith. makes the present membership 2,395. —In Rabun county, Ga. a Baptist minister 101 years old and blin ghurch and preach, and his cen; to his home every Sunday, where he vices regularly. —The Presbyterian foreign mission board (south) advocate co-operation and Christian union by combining the missionaries of differ- it denominations in one ecclesiastical organi- zation, — The late Bishop Wiley, of the M. E. church, bequeathed his library tothe Ohio Wesleyan university in memory of his son, who wasa member of the senior class of the university when he died. —The Jacob Tome Scientific building, built at Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa. is now completed. It has cost about $27,000, and is the gift of the Hon. Jacob Tome, of Port De- it, Md. It will be dedicated next commence- nt. —The bequests of Jethro J. McCullough, of Deldware, made about seven years ago, have become available by the recent death of his widow. Wesleyan Female college and the Home for d Women, of Wilmington, will receive 35, each, —The number of Methodist churches in the United States is now 19,065, an increase of 324 during the last year. The number of lay mem- bersin fall connection, not counting the 182,000 on probation, is 1,604,402, an increage of 4,992 during the last year. — Rey. Edward H. Robbins gave notice to the Presbyterian church in Media, Pa., that he would resign the pastoral charge of the chureh at the next meeting of the Presbytery of Chester. He prpposes. to accept an invitation to ministerial labor in Baltimore. — The trustees of Macalester college have re- cently electéd Rev. William R. Kirkwood, D.D., of Winfield, Kansas, to the chair of mental science and cognate branches, and Rev. Nathaniel S. MeFetridge, D.D., of Germantown, Pa., to the chair of Greek and higher English. The seceders from the Madison-avenue Congregational church, New York, propose, it is said, to found, not @ new Congregational church, but a new sect, with the Rev. Mr. Light bourne as their leader. The name proposed for the new organization isthe “Evangelical Un- sectarian society.” — The bishop-elect for Eplscopal missions on the west coast of Africa, Rev. Mr. Ferguson, will be consecrated this spring. The Episcopal Tobes which belonged to the late martyred bishop of Polynesia, Patteson, have been sent to New York as a present from his family to Mr. Ferguson, who will be the first colored Bisboy under the jurisdiction of the American ure’ — The First Presbyterian church of Baltimore has recently placed a white shaft of marble, surmounted by an urn, to th8 memory of their late pastor, Rev. J.C. Backus, D. D., at the left ofthe pulpit. On the right of the pulpit isa memorial of the same kind to Dr. Nevins, the —— of Dr. Backus, and on the wail are lets to the memory of Drs. Inglis and son, the earliest of the tors. ig church, though more than one hundrea ant twenty years old, has bad only five pastors. ——— 99 A Here of the Lever. ONE WHO HAS RIDDEN THE IRON HORSE AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN A THUNDERBOLT. From the Louisville Evening Times. “I suppose I must have the tmiginary nine lives of a cat,” remarked Engineer William J. Hammet to a reporter of the Times. Mr. Ham mett recently sued the Louisville and Nashville railway company for damages sustained in an aceident, and, after seven days’ deliberation, the jury was unable to agree and was disc! a “I have been killed twice and still I It ly body Is covered with brulses and scalde from head to foot. To tell the truth, there is hardly @sound spot as large as a silver dollar upon the whole surface of my flesh.” A reporter had called upon Mr. Hammett at his residence In the rear of agrocery at the cor- ner of Preston and Caldwell streets. The a gon to be Interviewed looked thin and dejected. He was the hero of nearly a dozen fatal aco dents and two miraculous escapes. Flashin, Dlue eves the only features that gave ani- mation to bis face. Mr. Hammett enjoys the distinction of making the fastest time onrecord on the Louisville and Nashville road. “The first time I ever ran an engine was in January, 1367, on the Memphis division of the Louisville and Nashville road. Mr. James Gutherie was president at that time. My first accident was in 1877. I was then ranning on the main stem and was coming from Nash- Ville to Louisville, with a large number of Passenger cars attached. Among others there were 150 school girls on board. We were a roaching Dudley's Switch, twenty-five miles ‘his side of Nashville, when I noticed that the cross-ties just ahead of us had been removed. I did not have time to stop the engine. In an in- stant I recognized that there was but one thin do, and that was to jump the track. I tol my fireman to jump out, as there was only room for one of us in the eabat such a moment, and it meant certain death to me or him ifhe He had barely reached the sronng ine left the track and a stream came Gshing upon me from tye that I remembered nothing for When I recovered I was told r had exploded and that I had been hiton the head by a piece of flying cylin- der; also a spike had erced my hand.” As proof of this Mr, Hammett exhibited a ter- Fible scaron his right hand. The thoughtful engineer afterwards received $384 from the ‘sengers for saving ihe train. “The time I made my fastest run,” continued Mr. Hammett, his biue eyes lighting up, “and the fastest inthe record of the road was in 1870, when I brought Victor Newcomb, Dr. E. D. Standiford and Colonel Fred de Funiak from Nashville to Louisville. I was oiling the engine when Colonel de Funiak told me that the party was due in Louisville at a certain hour and asked me ifI didn’t think I could get there. He added thatthe way was clear and that ifmy engine was any account to turn her One. wan’ inis was as good as I wanted. Iran sixty miles the first hour and after that they made Me go slower until we reached the city.” This was a memorable ride. Afterwards Mr. Newcomb said of Dr. Standiford that the latter ¢ so badly frightened while the train was speeding along at lightning motion that he got lown on his knees and prayed. The violent Motion of the train, as It rounded a sha curve, threw Mr. de Funiak from inflicted a through life. “My last run,” resumed Mr. Hammett, “was on the night of November 15, 1883. The night Was darks pitch. We had teached Srodke station, and were running at the rate of forty miles an hour, when I saw a train of ation gO olds ser- his seat an deep scar, which he will carry when I recovered I had been killed with others in the wreck.” —— A Husband's Honest Confession. From the Yonkers Statesman. “Do you love me still, darling?’ gushed young Mrs. Crisombeak to the partner of her Joys and sorrows. “No, wife I cannot honestly say that I do,” was confession, the husband's frank “And why not?” asked the wife, preparing tears, to deluge the piaee with “Because you are never still,” came from the hard-hearted wretch, is is unable to go to | * aT THE RINE. THE AMERICAN BEAUTY. Am Hour's Observation of the Giddy | Miss Chamberiain and Her All So- oT cial Triumph in Engle: From the Hartford Times. Itisevening. The rink is made brilliant by the light of the electric jets and by the great throng of lads and lassies and those of more ma- ae age who are not too old to enjoy the scehes of activity displayed by the younger ones. It is an exhilarating sight to see 500 skaters of both sexes rolling around and around the large room in an irresistible whirl. Note the animated faces of the throng as they come trooping along. Ofcourse, all are moving in one direction, and all are intent on their personal enjoyment, and do not take in what is going on among themselves. The spectators in the gal- leries can do tha and gather in the fun without incurring risks of any sort. Analyze some of the features which have ex- pression. Here comes a couple in their teens; she with petite form and graceful movement; he with a boyish air, of “come-up-to-me-if-you- can.” Her face is happy, and as she gildes along, leaning lightly on her youthful escort, she is wondering how she looks, and if@he has Teally succeeded in creating anything of a sen- sation. Ifshe has, her cup of happiness is full. ‘The next in the procession y trying to skate on his head and ts fairly successful. Next comes a lady, just turned the first corner, and, as she Is alone, may have sad thoughts of get- ting left. But in’a moment a gay cavalier glided up to her, raised his hat, and she, too, Was moving along with a companion. The young lady with a rosy face, a queenly form and pleasing movement is made to ap- pear a little awkward from the fact that her gallant is of dudish form, and is not proficient in the art of roller skating. Now comes two school girls, who glide alon ina dreamy state, and seemed to be wrappe: up ineach other. "They are waiting for some- thing; what is it? A’ boy is shot out of the throng of skaters, He came out buckward. He made believe at the start that he had dis: covered a new backward figure, and he evi- dently came to lay it at the feet of the dreamy maidens, and as he landed with it they went forward {n haste to take it up, but overshot the mark and went down. They scrambied to their feet, and with faces crimson with blushes they sped on, and for a few minutes they were wait- ing for no one, and seemed to have passed out of the dreamy state. In the procession were two girls, lovely in form and feature, who kept their eyes moving about uneasily. "To the right, to the left, to the front, their eyes were ceaselessly directed. Those bright eyes were in search of some- body. Finally, after circling around several times, one of the faces lighted up with brill- laney, and, with a nudge to her companion intended t6 convey the information “they are here,” the girl whose sharp eyes discovered the objects of their search assumed an indif- ferent look and stared straight ahead at va- cancy. Ina moment, when confronted by two cavaliers, the girls each let slip exclamations of surprise, as if their coming was wholly un- Oh, those naughty girls ‘Then arated—the girls—and each went off r “teller.” Now look ut this young man. He seems to be anxious to emulate the higher branches of the art of roller skating. He has conquered all the difficulties of plain locomotion, and he is look- ing at the more advanced onés as they show some fancy figure. A man passes him in @ squatting posturé,a hand on each knee, the toes of the skates aiming at diverse pointsof the compass. The wonder is that one leg didn’t start for the north and the other for the south. |‘ The ambitious young man thought that was easy. He tried it, and his legs did separate at a speed which would have dismembered them if he had been six inches taller. The next feat he attempted to emulate wasto skate backward. The fellow he picked out for @ pattern made four backward revolutions in the space of @ cheese-box by touching his toes at intervals to supply the locomotion, The am- bitious voung man tried to repeat it immedi- ately. He made one revolution most success- fully, and then sat down and made the balance of them on the floor, the rollers to his skates Inting heavenward half the time. It didn’t urt him any, and he was directly on his feet ain trying the north and south pole act, in which the attraction of gravitation once more caused him to assume a horizontal attitude. Before he could pick himself up, a small boy tambled over him, and in just ten seconds by the rink clock a good-sized heap of animation Was on the floor struggling to regain the perpen- dicular, ‘The boy was the first to struggle out ofthe confused mass, and seemed to be glad that he had got away with his life. —————+e+—____ Grant at Twenty-Two. HISTORY OF AN OLD DAGUERREOTYPE WHICH IS OWNED BY G. W. CHILDS, The Philadelphia Press of March 16th con- tains the following: George W. Childs will for ward today to General Grant a time-worn daguerrotype in an old-fashioned case. It is a picture of the hero of Appomatox as he looked when a young man 22 years old. There is little in the boyish face that is suggestive of the Gen- eral of the Union armies and President of the United States. It is the smoéth face of a boy with the bloom of health upon his cheek, and the marks of a vigorous constitution in ewary outline of his sturdy frame. He was a néwly fledged lieutenant then, fresh from the training of West Point, and the young soldier appears in the uniform ‘and epaiilettes worn by regular army Heutenants o1 forty vears ago. Thot the face is beardless and immature, a careful observer notes at first glance the firm mouth and stubborn jaw of the soldier who swore “to fight \t out on that line” if {t took all summer. It is Grant, the bey, but it is just enough like Grant, the conqueror, to iustrate the adage that “The boy is father of the man,” Mr. Childs has taken the portrait from among his store of treasures that an engraving may be made from {t to Illustrate a page in the memoirs or General nt rai The history of the erreotype is a peculiar one. It was taken while Lieut. Grant was sta- tioned in Texas. At that time one of his closest friends was Lieut. Bailey, of George- town, Brown county, Ohio, at whose home Grant had made many pleasant visits. Mrs. Bailey and Lieut. Grant also became very fond of each other, and it was to her that the daguerreotype was sent, to let _her see how the young leutenant looked in his complete regi- mentals. Grant many letters to Mrs. Bailey, and these she treasured, along with the picture, until long after he became commander of the armies and President. At Mrs. Bailey's death her treasures fell to her daughter, Mr Lucinda Powe! or eemetanan: Not long ago Mrs. Powers sen’ and one of Grant's old letters to Mr. George W. Childs, knowing that he would value them highly, and express- ing the wish that he might havean ofl painting made from the daguerreotype. Recently Gen. Grant, desiring to obtain a good self as a gman, coming memoirs, remem! ‘the dagui he had sent to Mrs. Bailey. Col. Fred t Giant wrote to Mra. Powers, wheat ouoe fox warded the letter to Mr. Childs. oo Collars Full of Foxes. TRE PECULIAR AMBITION OF THE ¥FOxX HUNTERS OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PA, A telegram to the New York Sun from Chris- tiana, Pa., March 6, says: Fox hunting in this part of Lancaster county is carried on, not for the love of having afox torn to pieces for his brush, but to capture the foxes alive until each hunter has a cellar full. The packs of hounds to be found in these parts are as good as the bestin the land. Their equal can rarely be found at bench shows. Jobn Graham lives a» short distance from here in the hills. He isa veteran fox hunter, nearly 70 yeara old. Ho is better known as Johnny Grimes, and his hounds are well known allover the hills. From his early manhood he has always kept @ large pack of fleet fox hounds, and every winter he has taken a hand jn chasing Reynard over the hills. | Any morn- ing one of his well-trained dogs, in the hunting mn, an Jump a fox, and a good day's » follow: foxes are holed, caught with a twitel and then brought in triumph home, with the yelping pack at the heels of the horses” The foxes are put into the cellar and kept there. It must be a bad season, indeed, if when spring comes a veteran hunter can’t count a dozen foxes in his cellar ready to be turned loose to e Recently a large white-tailed fox was started early in the morning, and, after splendid chase, Johnny Grimes captured the animal at 4 o'clock, and took him home in triumph, where he joined the other captives in the cel: lar. The twitch with which the foxes are cap- tured is @ loop of wire, string, or other mate- rial, which is run in toward the fox. and at {ihlch he bites and snaps until he gets fast and in the eeing anes ‘ahs again, "Ord man Sicties 1 ca : man Skiles s another vete ter, and during the winter he always hes oon I is fleet pack, tives are men, and fences with all the dash of cavalrymen, oo A Step Forward Demanded. From the New York Tribune. : a London Letter to the San Francisco Argonaut, ‘Whatever I may have at any time written to the Argonaut of or about Miss Chamberlain in England has, I claim, not only been borne out by the facts, but has been not nearly as severe a8 what has been thought and said ofher. She Has not been the belle and the success in Eng- land that the general run of American papers would have one believe. What the Chamber- lains are at home or what Miss Chamberlain is thought of in Cleveland I don’t know and I don’t care. Ihave only spoken of her as she ap- peared in England—not to society newspaper reporters or correspondents of American jour- nols, but to English people of the best society, who happened to see or hear her. Now Iain, f dare say, stating what will surprise a good many of ir readers, but it is nevertheless true that the existence of Miss Chamberlain has been, and is, a fact unknown to many English people ‘of the upper classes. The name of Cham- rlaih {s rather a common one in England, and — of 7 Prince een etc ch appears the young lady was the “brig! > ticular star”) “and ‘those who keep au fat of what appears in the society weeklies, I doubt if even lay, should you thention Miss Cham- berlain’s name people would know whom you were talking about. By those, however, who ia and do Know the young lady, either parece. ally or by reputation, the way ‘In which her name has been associated with that of the Prince of Wales has been mately, con- demned, and her parents, in permitting it, have been greatly blamed. You see, this is how it is in England: No young (unmarried) lady can accept the Prince of Wales’ notice or favor in the faintest degree, and retain her reputation. In fact no English young lady Was ever had her name coupled With that of the prince in any way whatsoever. All the professional beauties whom he has ad- mired, and with whom he has flirted and amused himeelf until they became “famous,” have been married women. Take them all, from Lady Mary Craven down to Mrs. Langtry and Mrs. Cornwallis West, and they all have husbands, There isn’t one “miss” among them. Of course-I am ‘talking of ladies, to which class Thave always supposed Miss Chamberlain to belong; and I beg to assort that It would be ut- terly impossible for any English girl who holds in England the rank and position which Miss Chamberlain claims to hold in America, to know the Prince of Wales except in the most dignified and distant fashion. Anything like the public notice which he 13 said to have favored Miss Chamberlain with, no English young lady would be allowed to receive. Nor would he offer it toone. Therefore it is that I have said, and I reiterate it, that in the favore- ble notice which Miss Chamberlain received from the Prince of Wales she did not gain any credit to herself in the eyes of right-thinking English people. To have her come over to England and imagine that she has achieved a rand triumph because she accepted attentions from aman who would willingly—indecd, far sooner—have bestowed them upon dozens of English girls had he dared, seems a trifle ab- surd. Indeed, it is grotesque. Pieturesque Paris No Longer. Letter in Boston Journal. Carnival brings no especial Joy to Paris. Ga- varni used to say that even in his time there was no carnival, and that he had invented the whole institution at fifty francs a lithograph. Certainly his caricatures, so numerous and so persistently followed up, led the world to be- leve that the Parisian carnival was far more generally observed than {t really is. The. masked balls this year are dreary affairs. The only objects of interest at them are the cele- brated composers who feel it their duty to because their music is performed at these festi- vities. Perhaps they go merely to look after their author's rights. At the Eden theater there are:masked balis which are conducted with something of the license manifested und¢r the second empire. But the maskers and the streets grow more and more uncommon yearly. Paris has lost its picturesque features. Fit teen years ago there were more costumes Of Peasants visible in the capital than now; democracy is doing its accustomed leveling” The grand opera bh as been reformed. ‘Thiswili be pleasing to the thousands of Americans who, coming here yearly, have been treated to med- {core performances in the finest musical palace in the world. The new directors, MM. Gail- hard and Ritt, have inaugurated a poliey which bids fair to be brilliant. They bellye in. short and moderately paid engagements for promt: nent singers, and are dismissing all the old corps of the ‘overpaid. Gabrielle Krauss, un- doubtedly a singer of genius, has been receiv- ing immense sums at the opera for a long time; she fluds her salary cut down one-halt—and departs. Sellier, the tenor, whom Edmond About discovered in a wine shop, must go also, as he will not accept a reduction. New oreras are to be produced in rapid succession, and the ld and foollsh routine is to be broken down. Mine. Fides-Devries, one of the greatest. singers in the world, had been engaged for 100,000 france fo reappear, at intervals, singing sixty. Your times all for that snm. Maurice Strakosek will superintend this lady's appear- ance in the United States, where she is expected to make anenormous sénsation. 2 nly The Flat Mania. ‘The building of enormous flats still goes on. Pe of the next towering piles to go up will overshadow the once noted mansion in which the widow of A.T. Stewart spends her lonely daysand nights. It will stand just north of that handsome and costly structure, on the same block and on the site of the old-fashioned house that was occupied by the University club till it moved into the abandoned quarters of the Union League club at Madison square. As the flat will be nine or ten stories high, it will tower so high above the Stewart mansion tbat the latter will lodk like a cottage beside it. It has been a common remark for several years past that the building of big flats is ove lone, Reople are getting tired of them as homes, they on't pay any more, £¢.; but they keep on gol up, nevertheless. | if they did not pay, capital ists would stop putting money into them. There are some which are certainly not profitable, but searule this Kind of property pays bétter than any other, except tenoments, producing ffom eight to ten per cent clear of all expenses, And the proportion, of tenements doi better than that 1s not at all large. A $20,0 tenement from which the owner can clear $1,800 a year, after paying taxes and attending Tepairs, is considered a £ investment. ‘The amount of capital now invested in flats is enormoys. The most expensive of all these buildings are the Navarro flate, on 59th street, fac ntral Park, There are two buildings ‘and their value is estimated at $3,000,000. Mr. Navarro is aSpanish gentleman who has accu- mulated great wealth in New York. He was interested in the construction company that built the elevated raHroads, and he was a direc- tor in Gould and Field’s Manhattan company tll last year. No doubt a large part of his for- tune haa been made out of the elevated roads. But he is wholly unlike either Gould or Field in character. He never comes before the public, and in private life he is highly esteemed, doubt- Jess for his merits, though his wet Leni hav todo with it, too, Nearly ail somet the flats, though, large and small, are heavily moi , in some Cases up to seventy-five cent of their value, and if any serfous trouble occur in real estate it would be decidedly bad for some of the nominal owners.—New York Letter tn Hartford Times, A Curious Story. ADVENTURES OF A MAINE WOMAN IN FRANOE— CHOLERA RESTORES HER MEMORY. Calais (Me.) Dispatch to the New York Tribune. The head of one of the oldest and most res} able families in the state of Maine died several years ago, leaving a property, in real estate and in business investments, valued at $492,000, to his daughter, aged 17. She was the last and youngest member of a family of seven children, and her father was the “last man of his race,” as he used to say. He died while she was at- tending school in Boston. Her guardian, Louis he, was a Frenchman of somewhat doubttul character, though her father had the utmost confidence in him. Roche, in fact, had man- aged the old man’s business for him for seve: years before his death. The will gave $10,000 to the Frenchman and the rest of the property to the daughter. Roche induced the young woman to nfarry him be- fore she was eighteen years old. Two years af- terward the property was sold and Roche went toEurope. They settled in Lyons, near his ancestral home, nnd soon after their arrival a daughter was born to them, Six other children were afterward born, four ons and two daugh: the children ters. Four years the last of died, and Roche, tiring of his wife, induced her to convey all of her property to him and then cut her throat and threw her into the Seine, She was rescued by @ peasant and her wounds were dressed, but she had lost her memory; had even ten hername. The peasant fell in Joye with her, and were married. ey summer she the cholera and came near dying. health she re- gained her memory. The peasant interested wealth; in her case, and an action was tathe courte against Roche, ‘Skec, now in in search of witnesses to ald her in re- ring her ty. Her husband’s brutal treatment will cost Bim his liberty for several pany Mrs. The English Egyptian Question. ‘From the Chicago Herald. “Them English are havin’ right smart ofa time over there in Africa, hain’t they?” re- marked an old farmer from up in Michigan, “Yes, indeed.” “I've been a-watchin’ of ’em all winter, and WHERE STYLES COME FROM. Interview With Man Who Gets Up Men’s Fashion Pistes, From the American Tailor. We are always on the lookout for something new. Sometimes we get a suggestion or hint from a tailoror other person, and will work on it till we produce something acceptable, After getting suggestions from tailors and others, and considering them, perhaps getting the view of a lady, we go off and do as many newspaper men do, “act as we please.” It is well enough to Bet the idea of others, but when we come down to work we have to boss the job and use our Own ideas. It is one of those businesses in which there is no well-lefined method as to originating styles, Observation and study is required. Formerly changes were made in February for spring and summer styles, and in August for fall and winter, and the greatest changes are still made at these periods. The trade for the past ten years, a least, has how- ever, not been content with but two plates per Year-and must now have them quarterly, many of the foremost demanding them monthly. The great changes are in the spring and fail, however, and the others are modifications or improvements on them, not radical changes. e business of making style has increased greatly within the past few years, and there are a number at it, but the bulk of it was done by two or three houses. Of course, there is not 80 much change in style demanded by gentlemen asby ladies. No, we do not get up any styles for particular sections of the country. en We publish the plates they are sent to ever por- tion of the cguntry, and sometimes it is found thatone styl® will become popular in one sec- tion and another in another section, but, as a Tule, the tastes are as much different in one sectlon as another, There are about 25,000 merchant tailors of standing in the country— those who keep a stock and are full up to the times, having the best goods—and with them the fashion magazines have come to be as es- sential as the newspaper. Such progress have we made that even Europeans are adopting our patterns, Formerly the representative merchant tailor might be ‘sald to be ason of poor purents, re- ceiving pattern plates twice a year, and being fully satisfied. Now, however, thé merchant tailor is not, content with even the quarterly plates issued, and it is surpassing those of other countries. They are now ever alive for some- thing new, to have not, only the latest patterns for their customers, but the latest improve- ments of tools and conveniences for their busi- ness. Some were content a few years ago with modest, unassuming places of business, but now the merchant tallor has asfine un establish- ment as any tradesman, ——— Women and the Stage. From the National Review. Actresses, like all other women, have to obey certain laws of social life. If girls come up from the country, go into lodgings alone, and live without personal guardian- ship or social protection of any kind, they may be Unas and Virginias to the backbone, but they will have to pass through mud heaps by the way, and their experiences will be more or less abominable. Also they will be roughly handled by the censorious, and loosely regarded by the vicious. The fact of being on the stage does not emancipate a modest girl from the conditions held necessary for her so- clal preservation elsewhere. And to hold that one daughter may not go toa ball at private house without a chaperon, and another may live alone in lodgings, go on the stage without protection, and trave! about ina mixed com- pany Without the ilimsiest pretense of a care- taker, Is a stupldlty scarcely worth the trouble of discussing. Girls have to be protected against their own ignorance, their own innocence, their very selves, until they have learned somethin life and its dangers and to know the look of bird lime and how to avoid springes and snares. It may not be ible to Incumber the side i and yet we know of in- is done and where girls never set their pretty feet inside the theater unaccompanied and unprotected. This is the main reason why in a family of actors and actresses, bred to the boards from their birth, the women can be, and are, as blameless as & nest full of doves, Father and mother and brothers are all there to watch, to guard, to check, to protect—if need be, to averte. ‘They’ themselves, these doves in tights and spangles, know all the nets spread by outsiders and the pitfalls dug be- hind the scenes, and they | escape where others are caught and fall in. They can cron dress in those tghts and spangles, dis- pense with petticoats, dance breakdowns, and perform acrobatic feats with their toes, with clear eyes and a pure conscience. They are so accustomed to the whole thing from the begin- ning that it is all impersonal and mere “busi- Ness," no more shocking to the moral sense than 1s the low cut and sleeveless bodice of the present day to the ordinary lady. They have never had anything to get over; consequently the; have never dropped part of their moral furni- ture in the scramble. They were born on the other side of the leaping bar, and there is no more difference between their modesty and that of the primmest prude’s than there is be- tween ours and the Chinese woman’s, who holds it a shameful exposure to show her hands, while we have only a gold cord and a bracelet ’for all covering from the shoulder to the finger-tips. er Dangerous Exposure at Funerals. Correspondence Philadelphia Ledger. Frequently now in published notices of funer- als, we find the words, “interment private.” This 1s understood to mean that the friends of the deceased are not invited or expected to go to the place of interment. In many cases—per- haps in most—the immediate connections, or a chosen number of them, follow to the cemetery to witness the last rites, Ifsuch sad commit- tees could always be composed of persons phystcally able to endure the exposure, re- spect for the dead could in this way be shown without danger tothe living. But it is unfor- tunately the case that relatives, weakened by grief, and, perhaps, by a period of watchin and sad excitement, and, therefore, least fitted, are those to whom the duty is delegated or per: mitted. In this inclement season of winter the expo- sure of mourning friends at the side of the open gave ls most perilous. ‘The dwelling house or @ church is the fitter place for the funeral ser- vice, and the ceremony should there embrace all that aan be done out of respect for the mem- ory of the departed or said for the consolation of the living, The last look atthe coffin and the hearing of the fall of earth toearth and ashes to ashes Is in accordance with a sentiment affectionate and even holy. But sentiment should be controlled. We will not make the chilling plea of prudence. Duty to the living is not buried with the dead. With every depar- ture from the living ranks of men a vacan created, which the survivors are called upoa to fill. Henor tothe memory ofthe departed 1s best shown in taking up the work which they have lai down. To forget this is in every prac- tical sense to forget the dead, even though grief in its intensity amount to despair, al The slerey of all the churches are ‘ith a man whose feelings are his sufferers. vocation it may seem a duty to di to peril his own health. But here again the sense of duty should come in and he should not give to the unconscious dead the service which may be Imperative and usetul to the living. The Soglety of Friends have in some directions introduced customs which rob grave of some of its terrors. Among bequest made fo their societies several have funds, the income of which is to provide straw to place upon the coffin and deaden the sound of the falling earth, This may seem a very small matter, but little things are the index of greater, and are the tokens of deep thought. e+ A Mongolian Millionaire. ‘From the San Francisco Call. In a beautiful portion of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, embowered in towering palms and lnx- uriant ferns, lies hidden from the vulgar view of the pedestrian the pretentious residence of Mr, Afong. From its roomy balcony, through the interstices of the tropical forest, glimpses of the famed Nulana valley may be caught—the valley of which it is truthfully said that it is never Without a rainbow. ‘To the far right the tower- ing mountain ridges, with the Punchbowl, an | extinct volcano, in the front, may be seen in all their beauty, while the hum of the busy town floats up with no discordant sound. Mr. A fo. who is vouchsafed this elysium, isa full-blood Chinaman, who, with his native island spouse and numerous family of little ones, leagé an ideal life, Mr. Afong is a solid re ee with ® stone-front store on Chinatown’s chief busi- ness street, and is credited — the ion. ofamillion or two, acquired in honest trade with his numerous countrymen on Oahu and its neighboring islands He adheres to the cl teristic Mongolian accoutremepts, although mingling himself with the most eparant and wealthy: of Hawaii's merchants, and disdaining to interfere in the varied changes in attire which Honolulu fashion dictates to his Mr. has years ‘five. @ mother and the daughters maintain adherence to the rules of Tee | in the dress of white ladies an: en occasion demands the and r older caren ae are in as el G i the demand, 1t may be explained: i nor ey ant jemand, it may be exp! ¥ ently made, ax the has ysalt of SPAFFORD AND THE BURGLARS. How a Deaf Man Nonplussed a Pair of Midnight Marauders. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The burglars who went through the clothing store Tuesday night also paid a visit to the res- idence of Mr. L. O. Spafford, at the corner of Broadway and Jones avenue. Mr. Spafford heard some one moving in the kitchen, and opening the door asked who was there. Imme- diately two revolvers were presented at his sees with the command, “Your money or your life.” “What?” . inot hear vey itt asked Mr. Spafford, who cannot Re Your money or your life,” repeated the bur- “Oh, come now!” said Mr. Spafford,‘‘that’ll do. I think you'd better go away from here. Get out, I want nothing to do with you.” ‘With this he gave the burglar a shove, closed the door and returned to bed. ‘This strange con- duct so puzzled the knights of the Jimmy that after a consultation inthe kitchen they left without disturbing anything. Asa memento Of their visit they scribbled on the wall: “Well done, old hoss. Theodora, From the Contemporary Review. ‘Theodora was the daughter of a bear keeper, attached to the hippodrome at Constamtinople, aud was one of the three sisters whom their mother sent on the stage when they were still children seven or eight years old. With no talent either for music or dancing, her fortune was in her face and her tongue. Her pretty features, her nimble movements, her audacious smartness in repartee, made her the most pop- wlar and notorious in the pantomimes (to use the nearest modern equivalent) which delighted @ people whose taste had fallen below the regu- lar drama. Needless to say what was the mo- rality of the Byzantine stage, or what the life which the young actress led. Her enemies of later vears declared it to have been more than usually shameless and disgusting; but the question, if delicately balanced less or more, besides being now insoluble, need make little difference to our view of hi character. After some years she accompanied @ wealthy Tyrian, as his mistress, to the gover- norship of Tripoli: quarreled with him, left him, and after having been reduced to sad Straits in Egypt, found her way back to EO ce) where, according toa story current long after: ward in the city, she sought to support herself by, gpinning wool in a houso near the edge of the Golden Horn, This looks like trying to turn over a new leaf. "However, she did not conceal her charms, Encouraged by the words of an oriental fortune teller, who had promised her wealth and power, she threw herself in the way of Justinian. who yielded at once to her fascl- nations. He was then about forty years of age —probably some twenty years ‘her senior— nephew of the reigning emperor, and gatherin, into his hands the refns of government which were beginning to slip from the grasp of his aged and ignorant uncle. He was an able and well-educated man, already remarkable for his fondness for ‘theology and his as- siduous attention to, public business, His passion led hint to promise to marry the whilom actress, but a law dating (in substance) from the time of Augustus, and re- enacted by later emperors, forbade the union of senators and other persons of exalted rank to women who had been on the stage. Nothing was left but to Fepeal the law, which the emperor was compelled by the urgency of his nephéw to do, and the statute may still be read in that Corpus Juris whigh so long held sway over continental Europe, a monument of Theo- dora’s arts and Justinian’s susceptibility. There had been, however, a more serious obstacle to the nuptials of the eager pair. The Empress Euphemia was an ignorant and rustic person, who had risen in life too late to acquire the polish of the capital, But she was pious, and she was respectable to the backbone. She had probably heard of Theodora’s earlier fame, for the court was like most courts; anyhow -she knew what Theodora had been, and the idea of her nephew marrying such’a person was too shocking to be considered. While she lived she held out and kept her husband to his resist- ance; but when she died he gave way, the law Was repealed, the marriage was solemnized. and when in a few years the old emperor died Theo- dora was crowned along with her husband, and received the homage of the senate, the priest- hood, and the people. A rise like this had never been seen before, not even in Constantinople, and was never seen again. That such a person should have married an emperor was wonder- fulenough. But that of allemperorsshe should have married Justinian, the studious and pious Justinian, the industrious and abstemt- ous Justinian—here wa; indeed matter for a hyma to Aphrodite, hud there been a poet to Dg ———+e+______ There Was Life in It. From the Detroit Free Press, About elghteen miles above Centralia, Ill, the engineer began to blow toot! toot! toot! and to slacken his pace, and by and by the train came to a standstill. The male passengers rushed out asin duty bound in time to see a man lying on the rails in front of the engine and another man bending over him. When the crowd, headed by the conductor, reached the spot the man on his feet explained: “I discovered him about ten minutes and as I didn’t want to see the train run over him T gave you the signal.” “But why didn’t you pull him off the track?” asked the conductor. “T couldn't be hired to touch a dead body,” was the reply. “What! is he dead?” “Reckon he is that.” Weexamined thebody and found life in It. He wasa poorly dressed man, seemingly in hard luck, and for the matter of that so was the other. “I think,” said the stranger who had stopped the train, that he’s taken pizen and laid down here to mnake sure work of it. If you are a mind totake him on to Centralia I'll kind o' rub him into life and get a doctor to pump him out.” ‘The conductor assented, and_we lugged the body into the baggage car. The case created considerable talk among the passengers, and a purse of 87 was made up for the unfortunate. lowever, as we slowed up for Centralia, and be- fore the purse was presented, there was a great yelling from the baggage car, and we looked gut fo feo the two tramps dusting it across el twase eo ey had wed to a twenty-mile lift. Ls = Doomed to Boston. From the Boston Advertiser. The story of Rugg, “the missing man,” who for his contempt of Providence and defiance of the powers of the thunder was doomed to wander forever, searching in vain for Boston, his native town, is so well known that it may be said to have ripened into a legend. Even to this day he has been seen by lovers of romance, driving flercely along country roads, pur_ sued by the same furious squall that was the decasion of his blasphemy. But ven ary fact—is often stranger than fiction, and the remarkable doom of “ the missing man” finds a counterpart in the sen- terice in old colonial days upon one Daniell felld. As Rugg was nover to find the ¢ity of his home, so Falrefelld was never to leave it, forin consideration of his crimes he was, says the quaint sentence, “to be confined 1b Boston Neck, 20 a8 if hee bee found at any time dureing his life to go out of Boston Neck, that is, beyond the railes toward Roxberry, or beyond the low water marke, hee shalbee put to death upon due conviction thereof.” So stion gan picture him wandering through the little Boston of 1642, or watching the s frigates sall up the harbor, or gazing wistfully over “the railes toward” Roxberry,” while the law’s ne exeatregno rings in his ears complaint of Sterne’s starling “I can’t get out.” Glothed in the trappings of remanee, would not the story of this man, whose country was his prison peninsula, approach very near in inter- est to that rare tale, its natural complement, “The Man Without a Country?” ——+e+______ How Did You Earn Your First Dollar? From the New York World. Do you know about that fortuitous aggrega- tion of oratorical atoms called “The Twilight club?” It is a good place to drop in once a fort- night and heara terse expression of the latest thought. I was there one Thursday evening not long ago, and the question was, “How did you earn your first dollar?” Around the table it went, eliciting a confession at every plate more or less interesting or amusing, till it struck Capt. John inte shipmaster. “Well,” he said, “I earned my first money when I was’ boy. I'hired out as hostage.” “What sort of business is that?” ingulred the chairman, “I ‘was a yol cl and I took the risk,” he ex- plained. Sebarosotan st ate for “6 in stopped at 8 @ cargo, and engaged ‘on Stecertain time. But, on the one hand, he didn’t want to pay for if till he got it; and, on the other hand, the Tajah didn’t want to have it ready till he knew it would be taken. In dilemma the The Dollarcrats of New York. New York Correspondence of the Philadelphia Record. lam very thankful that my ambition does not lie in the social direction, If 1 am ambitious for anything it is something more tangible than to say that Iam on the visiting list ofsome well- known leader of fashion. Perhaps, if I bad noth- ing else 1o do than to think of things of this sort I mightbe as desirons of social distinction as are a great many men and women whom I know. This reflection is aroused by the current gossip in society, which is that Mrs. Bradley- Martin has accomplished the great end for which she had been living, and has been invited to the Belmonts. Society ‘over this bitof as reached the goal of her ambition. Mrs. Belmont is one of the tew leaders of society through whose velns really bine blood fiows. She was a Miss Perry, the daughter of Commodore Perry, and she is related to all the swells of the’ army and navy. When Mrs. Belmont married Mr. Bel- mont and came to New. York to live she saw that society here was made up largely of people with more money than blood, and she deter- mined to set her face against ‘the intrusion of millionaires. So, it once becoming known that it was hard togain admission to the Belmont Mansion, all the women who sought for social distinction bent their energies to accomplish thatend. In the case of Mrs. Paran Stevens I am told Mrs. Belmont has been finn, and that wealthy woman, whose daughter is married to the scion of an English noble family, and whose wedding was attended by the Prince of Wales and no end of titles. has never been invited to the halls of the Beimonts. Outside of the Bel- mounts Mrs. Paran Stevens is quite a social power, buther soul yearns for the one thing thatis unaccomplistied, and though she con- ceals her vexation toa certain degree she still feels it, and does express it on oceasious. Itisa reflection on rk society Paran Stevens is on not bi Mrs. Stevens is an ex but her way is pot what one exp: leader, Personally, I like her, because she is thoroughly genuine aud speaks her mind. | She does not alw: ak her mind elegantl: but she assumes no airs nor graces, and doc not pose for anything more than she is, which is a wealthy and ambitious woman. Mrs. Stev- ens attends largely to herown affairs, and looks after her own investments, That her langu in dealing with the men she meets in busii is not alwa: t of her early education. She er and a vigorous tongue? and she cannot always control tue one nor bridle the althy people, or at t Mrs. Br: y Ido not think that her husba had anything when he married her, whateve he may have to-day. But she came to him with a bank 5,000,000. She is the only child of a widowed mother, and will another $5,000,000 when her mother di The Bradley-Martins, when they dropped int the New York social’ world, thought the best way to attain distinction was, not by giving the conventional parties of society, but to give dim- ners; and they have been yiving two a week throughout the season, which are the most ta- mous dinners given in'New York. They have achef, towhom they pay a fabulous salary, and they lay themselves out to make these dint ner parties 2 notable feature of New York so- cial life. and they have succeeded. But until they began their dinn ng the Bradi Martins were quite unknown, and although Mrs. Bradley-Martin’s father was worth his $10,000,000 he did not hold any prominent so- an position, business, and is makin; | His wife is ambitious, hame beside that of Mrs. A: n, Mrs, Cutting, ar is. "But how to accom are thoroughly such as would have Her ante- pectable, but are not ther into the notice ler mind, however, is set u » and she’ fights bril- liantly and diplomatically to that end. She thinks the matter out carefully, and sces that there Is little chance of her meeting these peo- ple in the ordinary course; so she joins charity societies, of which they are members, and by the force of her money attracts attention. Comunittee meetings are held at the houses of the swell members,and she gains a foothold. The Wedge once tn, then she pushes it gently but firmiy, From @ handsome enongh house on an up-town street *he has moved into a $300,000 mansion on 5th avenue, She turned a decora- tor loose in her new house, and she now feels thatshe can hold herown with the best of them. But to do this she must still be diplomatic. Her husband, a dull, emiable sort of man, with a Sift, for inaking’ money; looks on and siniles proudly when he sees his wife's name among the rich and great; but he does not care much about their society himself, and would prefer any evening to sit at home in his slippers and enjoy an after-dinner cigar rather than to don adress coat aud be dragged out to some social festivity where he will be bored to death for two or three hours, Still, he enjoys seeing the ease with which his wife carries herself in this company, and takes what comfort he may out of that, ——_—+e+-______ Some Really Quecr Customs. From the London Field. The manners and customs of the Masai, as described by Mr. Joseph Thomson in the ac count of his recent travels in Africa, are, to pat it in the mildest language, most peculiatyand @ whole chapter is devoted to the description of them. Their usual mode of salutation on meet- ing is to spit in one another's faces, the more copious the expectoration the greater the friendship; and Mr. Thomson, having been voted man, Was expected to but'so great was the S that he could taking repeated only satisfy his patients by draughts of water, Equally strange is the custom of all the un- married men and women living in villages to- gether, while the married folks live by them- selves; these latter are allowed to eat what they like, but the unmarried ones may only eat meat and drink milk, As soon as a man marries he ceases to be a warrior, and has to tend the herds of cattle. He is no more allowed to Join in cat- tle raids, or that extermination of his neigh- bors which is continually going on, and which ‘Seems to be the greatest delight that the young Masal Is capable of enjoying; and it is probably because they would have to forego the pleas- ures of rapine and bloodshed that these amiable people decline entering into the state of matri- mony, which, after all, is a mere form, for vir- tue, a& we understand it, is unknown to them, They have, certainly, a Rind of religion, but very little even of that, and seem to have no belief in a future, as all dead bodies are thrown to the hyenas, who are so encouraged by being thus continually’fed that if no one should die to provide them with a feast, they help them- selves to the living by taking the children out of the huts, ———— The Fortanes of “ Freaks.” From the Philadelphia Times. Speaking of the savings of freaks of nature, a prominent clreus and museum manager said yesterday: “They are nearly all economical, and nine out of every ten are filled with a de- sire toown a farm. Tom Thumb spent a great deal of money, and yet left a snug fortune. je Christine, ‘the double-headed girl,’ has Tiade. 960,000 or 875000, but sheet ee greater part of it backing the circus of a friend & few years ago. I suppose she isstill worth $20,008, ‘Hanpsh Battersby and her skeleton usband, who’ live in this city, are worth $20,000" John Powers, the fat sian, accump- 4 $10,000. it. Bates and his wife, bi le, are worth $50,000. They have a’ fine in the west. If Lucia Zarete, the Mexican inidget, had recelved all the salary she earned for her manager, she would be worth $25,000. § K Uffner, bas the money, minus ea or $5,000 be has paid to Lucia’s father. $6,000 in bank, ‘Cooper, the giant, has nearly much. The dime museums have raised the salaries of freaks so much that they will all have farms if the managers’ pocket-books hold out.” & ‘The fraternal feeling existing among freaks is aptly shown by the cases of Hubert Ferrer, lon known as the Toronto Giant, and Edw: Skimeer, the Armless Wonder. These two men, th over 70 years ol are now liv! ata little cottage outside of Bridgeport, Ct., where an old colored manand woman, for'many years astableman and wardrobe-keeper with circus tend to their wants and look after the peacefu decline of their days. The cottage, the old col- cored people, the giant and the armless man are all dependent on a small monthly assessment taken up from the freaks exhibited at every museum and sideshow inthe United plied. Call early. DRY GOODS Exrowrnms axp Laces ar LESS THAN COST OF MANUFACTURE, ar BBB A CU OOM AM om Be AA PE MuuM = Ss me ARG EME Seu 24 oo? 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