Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1889, Page 7

——— THE EVENING STAR; QUEER IN N NAMES. The Polysyllabic Cognomens Attached to an Indian Treaty. SYPHENATED NAMES THAT APPEAR IN A CON- GRESSIONAL DOCUMENT—ALL GOES, STAND-OFF AND OTHER PECULIAR PATRONYMICS OF THE RED SONS OF THE FOREST. ‘The lapse of time and the progress of empire toward the land of the setting sun is mai fested every year by the course of legislation in the halls of Congress affecting the Indians. and the committees to whom are entrusted bills pertaining to Indian matters are kept busy in investigating and reporting upon the merits or demerits of them. Bills granting “right of way” to pushing railroad corpora- tions through the several Indian reservations &re frequemtly introduced, and bills to ratify and confirm agreements made by the authority of Congress with Indian tribes are also to be seen. The latest contribution to this latter class is a bill in which it is provided that the United States shall countenance an agreement concluded in 1886-'87. between commissioners on the part of the United States and certain indians im Montana, looking to the ces- sion to the United States of their right to certain lands in that _ territory. In this agreement the names of the Indians signing it appear in their native tongue and spelled out in hyphened words where this is hecessary. which it is in the vast majority of gases, as the names range all the from one to eight syllables in length. Immediately fol- lowing the Indian name is its equivalent in English, and it is safe to say that, should the Dill be read before the House of Representa- tives, it would furnish great amusement to members who are not too seriously absorbed in work to listen. If these appellations are intended to portray the characters, habits. or any peculiarities of their owners, dispositions and manners among the aborigines of America must differ, as among his white supplanters, and observers will conclude that after ali there is cor able ina name. What is also all the more singular is that there does not appear in this large number to be a single repetition in the Indian vernacular, though after the trans- lation into English a few are similar, and all objects and things, animate and inanimate, seem to have been drawn upon to supply mate- Fial for names. serving more clearly to demon- Strate the simple, stern, and enduring nature of the Indian. In the absence of something better each Indian has properly affixed his “X mark. SPECIMEN NAMES. | A few of the names culled from the large and interesting number which adorn this particular | Dill will be interesting reading and will afford | an idea of those of many. The first one the | eye rests upon is ““Medicine Bear,” whose In- dian name, briefer than many others. is Matt: wakan, “Yellow Eagle,” whose Indian nam Wamadege. follows Medicine Bear. He learned to revere the symbol of Americen Lil erty, and bas honored him by taking his name, thus doing a great deal more toward perpetuat- | ing one of our honored institutions than Con: gress, which is disposed to overlook such mat- ters, dear to the heart of every true American lover of liberty. *Deer Tail.” who has proba- bly distinguished himself in the chase with this | class of quadrupeds, is the third signer. “Black | Hawk” next follows. History's story of the | Black Hawk war is familiar to this generation, and the present warrior of that name will lose none of the reputation of his namesake for bravery by belonging to the Sioux. “Big Eagle” next appends hisname. He may or he may not be a bigger man than Yellow Eagle, but his name is not so smooth and agreeable to the auricular organs as that of his brother. He also adds his mite in perpetuating the reputation of the emblematic bird of liberty, in return for what the white man, with his progressive and | aggressive nature, has rendered him—a poor outcast driven to the untrodden, unbroken wilds of the western country before his advanc- ing state of civilization. PERHAPS HE IS A SQUIRMER. In regular order comes “White Maggot,” who also consents to the agreement. It is to be earnestly hoped that this Indian is higher in nature than this appellation would indicate, and that he has risen above the delights of his namesake, whatever his propensities may be for wriggling, squirmi: or infesting that which is unwholesome. n an Indian takes upon himself the name of “Afraid of Bear,” watcha Sloth ie done, it may be taken for nted that, in congradietion of his name. he no mortal fear of anyth: which has the shape of Bruin. This Indian's name is desig- nated as ‘“Matocokepa,” which of itself would frighten a person if it were spoken in his ear surreptitiously or if it were uttered in a night- mare. RUDDY APPELLATIONS. “Red Lodge,” ‘Red Thunder,” “Red Door,” “Red Boy,” “Red Dog,” “Red Hoof,” and “Red Eagle” agree to dowhat their predecessors have done. It isnot known that this allitera- tion in Christian, or, more properly, heathen names has any special significance ‘except to the person himself. Out of them the poet might compose some beautiful rhymes, the writer of fiction interweave some very fanciful story; the muse might sing them out in feet of iambic. dactylic, or trochaic meter; the warrior might inscribe them on his shield and helmet, and the funny man might write puns on them, but tothe uniettered and untutored aborigines they are as honored and cherished as those of our own dear ancestry. The boundlessness of the Indian's domain and their habits of roam- ing at leisure, unfettered and unrestrained, over the land. have educated them to this de- gree of wild fancy. ‘-Rushing Eagle,” “Eagle Ears,” “Walking Eagle.” «Bear Eagle,” have also adopted in part the name of some of their fellows and all indicate to a greater or less de- gree the instinctive and natural habits and in- elinations of these queer people, with their whole nature always alert. “Iron Necklace” Was also present when the contract was exe- euted. Inspired by the thrilling traditions which have descended upon him, he has prob- ably selected this significant name as truly demonstrating the invulnerability of his race as a whole, and apparently rejoices in the cog- nomen. If the ordinary Chicago girl, with the repu- tation St. Louis has succeeded in attaching to her for large pedal extremities, or the Chinese girl of noble family could have seen this bill and have noticed the self-assumed name of “Big Foot” or “Seeahtonka” they would have | breathed a sigh of relief and concluded that after all men. at any rate Indian men, do not regard an appellation of this kind with much shrinking. Of course it is not ussumed that “Big Foot’s” shoe is of a larger number, com- ely peaking. than those of many of his ry friends, but the name, to use a slang “Medicine Bear “White Bill, .” “Good Track” also appropriately append their --X” mark. “Yellow Horse” also shows up with his kin in this agreement. THE LONGEST NAME. Probably the longest name after translation is that of ‘Long Pole” or “Red Lance,” and the longest original name “-Daunkapacetchaduch- which is interpreted as “Don't Stay in The ordinary Sioux woman who has to erticulate these words when her liege lord descends to his breakfast or arrives home late in the evening, would long ago have petitioned the legislature, if such existed, to have her husband's name changed. But probably the mere thought of pronouncing such a name has often had a soothing effect on a heated and overtaxed brain, and in this way have been the means of modifying the severity of aboriginal domestic altercations, Some other names noticed in a hasty look at the bill are: Stand Om, Chief Ghost. Iron Hoop, Porcupine Sack, Egg. Yellow Dog. Standing Cow. Black Horn, Knite River, Flying White Thunder, All Goes, Track, whose Indian name is Oja. Turning Wing, Good Dog. Black Chicken. Yellow Liver, He Has the Crow, Gear Stands High, Kills Lightning. Feather Earring, Thunder Hawks, ‘They Meet, Wolf Necklace, Chicken Head, Kill Two, Par-tlesh-rib, Bring Himself and Little Yellow Liver. eee Novel Cure for Corns. AN OIL MAN SAYS CRUDE PETROLEUM WILL FIx THEM EVERY TIME. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. “You are troubled with corns, are you?” said Pittsburger to one of his friends who walked with a peculiar, limping gait. “Well, everybody hasa remedy for them, but the trouble with most of the remedies is that they are no good without faith, and the man afflicted with corns generally considers his case hope- less. “But I can tell youof a cure that is simple and effectual. Soak the afilicted portion of your feet for a considerable time every night— the longer the better—in crude pe: then saturate a cloth with the same stuff, wra it aroand your toe, put your stocking on and its of this treatment i3e5 to bed. A few ui cause the corn to ppear. I first heard of this remedy when I was living in the oil re- at it But a fists “ioqaity “emseog the ttle im among about the taaks and they belie: red pever led with that the frequent wot of Hoa hed the effect of driving tion—had of dri all yome excrescences away. sare you.” i | words, to explain the other exhibits. | ago by a swell soci VIOLETS, ORCHIDS A} ROSES. They are the Flowers of the Season, and Some of Them Very Expensive. MAGNA CHARTA ROSES AT A DOLLAR AND A HALF EACH AND QUEER-LOOKING ORCHIDS WORTH MORE THAN THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD—GoSSIP OF THE GREENHOUSE. Three big pots of cut roses. looking much outof place in the rough surroundings, stood on the floor of the cold box at a leading florist’s last evening. They were on view for the benefit of a Star reporter. ‘These are about the latest novelties we have in roses,” the florist said. “None of them are really new. They have been brought into vogue again among fashionable people by the steady demand for novelties in flowers. People get tired of the most beautiful roses after they have been im favor for a couple of seasons, and then we have to bring back some of the dis- carded favorites of years ago, just as dress- makers and miiliners do in gown and bonnet styles. This,” continued, touching gently a bunch of big roses, whose soft, rich red coloring struck the eye with an effect some- what similar to that produced on the ear by the full, deep tones of a great contralto, “is the Magna Charta rose, very rare and expen- sive, and just now the pet of fashionable peo- le who are rich enough to indulge their tastes or such luxuries. It is impossible to get them in any quantities, as their season is short and they are not prolific bloomers. The Magna Charta has probably been out twenty or twenty- five years. It came back into favor among fashionable people a couple of seasons ago, and this winter there is a demand for it greater than we can supply.” : “What do they sell for?” inquired the re- porter, who had been devouring the magnifi- cent buds with his eyes and had finally made up his mind to have one of them even if it cost a quarter. NOT FOR THE POOR. “These are the pick of all we had.” the florist said, as he again affectionately placed his hand beside the bunch of sleepy-looking beauties, “and they are worth one dollar and a half apiece. Poorer buds we sell as low as fifty cents.” a The reporter's quarter dropped back in his ‘ket, and he took his eyes off the Magna artas for fear he would wither the precious things, while the florist proceeded, in calm un- consciousness of the chilling effect of his last “These pale pink roses are the Gabrielle Luziet,” he resumed, “and these, which appear almost white at a short distance, but are really a white pink, are the Baroness Rothschild. They are all scarce varieties, and are about the latest novel- ties we have in roses. The standard favorites still hold their own, American Beauties, Jacques. Bon Silenes, and Marechal N always have a good sale. The Puritan out almost entirely. It was not a perf: It was only boomed by those interested in get- ting it before the trade.” “What other flowers are in special favor this season?” the reporter asked. A CORNER IN MARGUERITES, “These Paris daisies, or Marguerites, are used more and more decoration,” said the man of flowers, pointing to several pots of the growing plants in the room. “You see they differ from our ordinary field daisy in having a much smaller yellow center and being gen- erally more delicate looking. They were made very fashionable in New York about five years y man in search of some- thing exclusive in the way of flowers. He got hold of a florist who had the only bush of guerites in America at the time and contracted for every flower of them for the whole season. In that way he made sure of having the Mar- guerites identified exclusively with himself for the entire season, and made the fortune of the flower from that on. A VIOLET SEASON. “But, after all, I think this will deserve to be called a violet season,” the florist resumed after pause, “Last year we sold close up to a mil- lion violets, and from the way in which they | are going this season we will probably dispose of a far larger number before it ends. _ We sup- plied over 2,500 to a single customer the other night as favors for a german. The growing custom of ‘ing flowers as favors at germans is a good ig for us, and [ hope it will con- BIG PRICES FOR RARE ORCHIDS. “Orchids are coming into more general use, aren't they?” the reporter inquired. “I was about to say that the orchid is really the newest thing in our trade,” the florist an- swered. “Last year we had a limited demand for them, but we never raised any ourselves until this season. Here are some specimens,” and the florist brought out two pots with a few sprays of odd-looking flowers in them. ‘Those are worth $10,” he continued, indicating one pot which contained half a dozen small sprays. “They range in price from 25 centa to $3 a flower. For a lunch given early in the week we supplied twenty orchid flowers, for which we charged #1 a piece. They were the scarlet antherium. The flower consisted of an oval disc of brilliant scarlet, from the center of which a yellow finger-like projection grew. It wasvery odd looking. It was the first time, to my knowi- edge, the flower was used in Washington, and, on account of its expense, it will probably be some time before it is used here again.” LITTLE PROFIT IN HIGH-PRICED FLOWE! “I suppose there must be big profit in hand- ling flowers of such rarity,” Tae Stan man remarked. “That seems to be the common supposition,” was the answer, “but it is wrong. If I charge $50 for a bouquet of orchids, people seem to think #49 of it is clear profit tome. The real fact is we make less on these very high-priced flowers than we do on selling bon silene roses at a couple of dollars a dozen.” Where do you get your supply of orchids?” the interviewer asked: “Well, we have begun to raise a few our- selves, but most of them come from a number of large private collections in New York, New Jersey and near Boston. A number of rich men in this country have invested sums ranging from 25,000 to $100.000 in orchids within the last few years. Their greenhouses are at their summer residences in the country, and during the winter their gardeners dispose of the blooms to florists in New York and other large cities, “Here is something that has been a great aid to us in artistic floral decoration,” the flor- ist continued, taking up a feathery spray of as- paragus, which swayed gently up and down, as if bowing ite thanks for the compliment. “The beauty of a bunch of roses is enhanced fifty per cent when a few delicate sprigs of this Beeps out here and there between them and wish off the edges. Then for festooning rooms and decorating tables nothing is more useful or effective. ere are two kinds of it —the tenuissima and the ii er kind. It has been in use for several seasons. The plumosa is more soft and feathery, and has only recently been introduced. It is very rare and hard to get, as it cannot be propagated from cuttings as the FLORAL DECORATIONS FOR THE TABLE. In answer to an inquiry regarding the favor- ite methods of table decoration this winter the flower man said: ‘The tendency now is away from the old set pieces in the center of the table. Taste seems to run to looser and less fom — of sep bem - wealt! le now like e a fine la} of cut gues and solid silver on their tables med fill big vessels of these materials with great bundles of roses or other cut flowers, en loose buds, interspersed ith ra} of feath sigs pi sosttered about the cloth. avoiding any appearance of design. The effect is very pes and strik- ing—much more so than with the set flower pieces. Still, we don’t like this new style. be- cause the old set pieces gave us more work to do, and it is rather ticklish business to have employes handling valuable vessels of cut glass and silver. use of flowers at enter- tuinments is wing more and more profuse all the time, however, although at funerals the tendency seems the other way. MONEY SPENT FOR FLOWERS WELL SPENT. say that the entire cepital invested in the bust- ness here does not fall short of a million dol- lars. Between 350 and 400 men are givengem- loyment in the business. There are nine or n men who have large greenhouses and do a big trade, and fifty or sixty others handle flowers in a small way. There has been a won- derful growth in the trade in the last few years. Iremember that along about 1877 or 78 four men did all the flower trade that was done in Washington.” “Isn't this city. in proportion to its size, a better market for flowers than New York or the other large cities?” was a question naturally suggested to the reporter by the last state- ments of the florist. “Oh, no,” the latter answered, ‘this is not as good a flower market as New York. Philadel- pi op Boston, for the reason that the season ere is so short. In other cities the society season begins in October or November, but here it doesn't really open until after the holi- days. Then in those larger cities all through the summer there is a good demand for flowers to be sent to the neighboring watering place We have nothing of this in Washington, conse. quently it is hard to make the business pay here. And yet Washington has the finest and largest establishment devoted to the dorist business in the country. This is due to the fi that in other large cities ground in the busi- ness portion is so much more valuable for manufacturing or other similar purposes that a florest could not afford to fit up a fine estab- lisnment for his own use,” — THE OLD CANTERBURY. Col. Wm. E. Sinn Tells How He Hap- pened to Found that Institution. IT WAS AWAR VENTURE AND SUCCEEDED BECAUSE WASHINGTON WAS CROWDED WITH PEOPLE— AN EXCURSION TO MT, VERNON WHICH NEARLY LANDED HIM IN THE OLD CAPITOL. “I had some queer experiences in this city during the war,” said Col. W. E. Sinn to a Star representative the other day, “but I don’t know that any was more singular than the way in which I drifted into the show business. You see I was born in Georgetown and after I grew up I was for some time a clerk for Barnes & Mitchell, who kept a dry goods store on Penn- sylvania avenue, between 9th and 10th. Then I went to Baltimore and engagedin the tobacco business and used to come over here and sell goods. When the war broke out I wanted to go south, but was captured in making the at- tempt and placed in Fort McHenry, from which I was released only upon taking the oath of allegiance. Shortly afterward I came over here, but found after working hard for two days that I couldn't sell a pound of tobacco or a hundred cigars, I was stopping at the Kirk- wood House, which stood where the Palais Royal now is, and I FELT PRETTY BLUE. At night Iwent down tothe old Washington | theater, which was on the site of Kernan’s, and found the place packed. I went to Odd Fel- lows’ hall, on 7th street, and found that a ‘faked’ up minstrel party was turning people away. Isaw that there was money in the amusement business, and that, there would be as long as the war lasted. I didn’t believe then that it would be more than a year’s duration. Thad been a silent partner with Leonard Gro- ver in Baltimore, and so knew something of the | business, though I had never taken any activa management. I walked about th asuitable building, and 1 concluded that the old Assembly rooms, on the south side of Louis- iana avenue, between 43 and 6th streets. was exactly what I wanted. The building was then. however, occupied by the government and filled with quartermaster’s stores. I went to see Mr. Young, the owner, and he told me that he was willing to lease it to me, but be had no | control over it, as the government had seized it for military purposes. I then went to Mr. Barnes, m: old employer, and he and Dick Wallach. who was then mayor of Washington, fixed it up with the officers so that I could get the key whenever I could show a lease of the remises. They wouldn't give it back to Mr. Young, for his loyalty was suspected, but they would let me have it. I went back to Mr. Young, and took a lease for two years, at $1,800 a year. Then I refitted the place en- tirely, and opened it, UNDER THE NAME OF THE CANTERBURY as a first-class variety theater.” “Of course you were successful and made a great deal of money.” “I did makea barrel of money. But I wasn’t satisfied with one theater. I induced the own- ers of the ground on which the old National theater had stood—for it had been burned down and a temporary structure of wood and canvas been erected. where Tom King was run- ning a circus—to rebuild the theater, and Leon- ard Grover and I took that also. Both houses made money, for soldiers were coming here all the time, and the city was just filled with peo- ple. I had christened my Louisiana avenue lace “The ogi Habe and it was so known, think, until the old building was finally burned.” “How long did you run the Canterbury?” “Well, after my two years’ lease expired I wanted to renew it for two years more, but my landlord wouldn't let me renew it except under a ten-year-lease. Isigned it for that period, and this time I had to pay $3,000 a year rent. Trun it until February, 1865, when i sold out my lease and the good-will toa man named Geo. Lee. He made money enough in the first two months to cover what he had paid me and $30,000 besides; but the war came to a close, the city was emptied of troops, and he FINALLY WENT DEAD BROKE. “Tused also to engage in outside specula- tions, excursions, &c., and made money on them, though one excursion came near proving a very serious disaster.” “How was that “Well, after communication was opened with Mt. Vernon and excursions were allowed to go down, I thought it would be a big advertise- ment to me, and that I could also make some money by getting up a Sunday excursion down there. I saw Mayor Wallach, and he and some of my friends arran, it with the military au- thorities so that I could charter the ‘Robert Collyer,’ for that was the name of the boat, and give a Sunday excursion. I advertised it very extensively here, and also in Baltimore, The sale in the latter city was extraordinarily large. Isentover fifty tickets, but they were gone ina few hours. I then telegraphed my agent there to have 150 tickets printed as du- plicates of mine, and I would take out that number from my tickets here. Those were in active demand, and by Saturday they had all been disposed of. When the boat started on Sunday I had all she was permitted to carry, TWO HUNDRED HAD COME FROM BALTIMORE and I found a great many whom I knew. On the trip Cgy ae ey ‘a how I was oF dc ting along ington and were partic ly friendly. When we reached Mount Vernon, which we did about noon, all went ashore and scattered about the grounds. I should mention as a matter of form there was upon the boat a guard consi of a corporal and eight men. When 3 o'clock arrived, the hour set for the return, the boat blew her whistle, and the Washi excursionists came sing back. When the last man in sight was on board the captain came to me and said ‘what's became of the rest of your party?’ I looked about and found that all who were Washingtonians were on board, but I couldn't find a single man of my Baltimore friends, I si ested that poasibly they were some ways back the shore and the whistle was blown again and again, but not @ single one came back. I finally told the cap- tain that they had doubtless concluded to wait until the following day, and we steamed back to Woon they. the following day?” bs ey come back lo “Nota bit of it. Some of them never came back, and others didn’t cross the Potomac again until the war was over, Every mother’s son of them used my excursion as @ means of tting into Virgi and then went through fhe lines and JOINED THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.” “Did the actual facts get out?” city to find | NOTED MEN. How Newspapers Make Fame for Con- gressmen. SPRINGING FROM OBSCURITY INTO NOTORIETY— STRIKING CHARACTERISTICS AND THE NEWSPA- PER LETTER-WRITERS—PECULIARITIES OF LEG- ISLATORS IN THE PRESENT CONGRESS. Statesmen become known to the public famil- iarly in various ways. During the past two years names have become familiar to nearly every man, woman, and child throughout the land that before were unknown outside of the districts in which the bearers of the names |live. A man may be in Congress several terms and remain in obscurity; then he may j suddenly burst out as a new light, Or @ jew member may become famed at once. | It does not argue that a man is not able | because he is unknown, nor, on the contrary, does it follow that he is great for being noted. Some very able men in Congress, in the House particulariy, are known scarcely | atall to the country-at-large. Some of them | have served more than one term and are known in the halls of legislation for their true worth, | but their names seldom appear in the newspa~ pers—consequentiy they are without fame. A man’s name may be in the Record every day; he may make speeches all over the country: he may have his name written in red letters on the board fences by the wayside—still he will be unknown in the sense that a statesman must be known unless the newspapers take him up. As soon asa man’s name is taken up by the papers and he is frequently written about, his fame begins. The only effective way for him | to advertise is in the newspapers. Public men are aware of this, and, as a rule, it is their am- bition to appear in print as often as possible, Most of them would prefer being abused to not being mentioned at all. If they can be at- ded and get up a controversy themselves itis of great value to their tame. It is marvelous how some men of no especial mark—not especially shrewd in other matters—cultivate this sort of notoriety ‘until it mesfame, There are some men in ublic life who are essentially advertisers, ey do little else tnan cultivate publi and in that way contrive to be better known than j men who are the ablest legislative workers, ESSENTIALS TO NOTORIETY. A man in entering congressional life is for- tunate if he possesses some striking character- | istic or peculiarity. If he looks like some | great man of far fame; if he has a “classic , face;” if he has an inordinately loud voice, or is extravagantly tall or has a large mouth. it | gives him an advantage over his colleagues, _ If he has an extraordinarily large nose. fiery- red hair, or possesses a ferti abulary of startling inv which he is not timid about | using, his fortune is assured from the start. | Anything that makes the statesman interesting tens him on the road to aman becomes notorious | through no effort, fault or merit of his own, | but merely n the absence of some- | thing more interesting to write about, he is se- lected hap-hazzard out of the whole pit full of men as a suitable object about which to weave ;funny or interesting storie: It is | !to “the _letter-writers chiefly that |such aman is indebted for his fame. He is | Surrounded at once with an atmosphere of in- terest and individuality which is a marvel to | j himself. He is made to say witty things and | to tell bright storics that it was never in his | head to create, aud sometimes he is actually trained by this to appear like the model that is set up for him. netimes he has fashioned for him a “giant's robe” which hangs too | loosely upon him. In that case it is his head | that developes, and the giant's hat, if not the robe, would fit him. This sort of fame or noto- is of much more rapid growth than that is based on firmer qualities. It does not | follow, however, because a statesman is in- debted to a red head or the inordinate prolon- | gation of his sentences for fame, that he pos- Sesses no more worthy qualities. Sometimes a man is unfortunate in becoming known through some trivial peculiarity, when he has true worth that entitles him to more lasting renown. INSTANCES, “Sun Set” Cox has become so well known for his sparkling wit and entertaining humor that it is often forgotten that he possesses the rarer qualities of a statesman. One of the greatest trials of his life is the difficulty he has in con- sing ay public that he is ever deeply in earnes Tom Ochiltree bes. world-wide repitation story-teller. He is in- in the first instance—to the wit of newspaper-writers, who found it more in keeping with their impersonal char- acter to put bright things into his mouth than to say them themselves. This and the fact that he isa very comical-looking man with blustering manner and a fiery-red head have fixed his standing asa wit. He started out as a butt. He improved his opportunities and has tried to swell himself to fit his reputation, which was a few sizes too large for him. Holman, of Indiana, first became famed as an objector in the House. Since he has ceased to occupy this position he attracts less public attention, though he is as active as ever in per- forming his duty in the House. Several men have emulated hisfame. Beach. of New York (now no more), was his first successor. He surpassed the master. Others have taken their turn at it since, and all have got more or less notoriety out of it. REAGAN'S FAME, Reagan, of Texas, after long public service, became famed, not because he left the United States Congress to take part in the organization of the confederacy, was the postmaster-general and secretary of the treasury of the confed- eracy, and then again entered the United States House—not because he was a unique historical figure, but because he has a curious habit of tearing up bits of paper and sprinkling them on the floor while he is listening or thinking, and because of a story told of his being caught in the bath when he wanted to vote on the Morrison tariff bill. The name of Reagan awakes, not recollections of the great historical struggle of four years, but the more recent struggle to get a wet body into tight under- clothing. OF RECENT DATE, A number of men have come to public notice during this Congress, The name of Kilgore is familiar wherever the newspapers are read. He got his notoriety through his hard-headed objection to the bill to make Sheridan general of the army while he was lying on his death- bed. For his “bravery” in rekisting sixty million people, a lot of newspaper men, in a irit of irony, made a mock hero of him. He isa Sony good fellow at bottom, and he entered into the spirit of the thing, so he got written up extensively. Since then he has been kept before the public as an objector. . Martin, as everybody knows, leaped into fame before he took his oath of office, because the story was published about his blowing out the gas. That started some of the rch pd men and some ite the egies of ibe louse to playing pranks upon him and te! stories at py Ling Now, is there anyone in the whole country who does not know Martin? Recently he has demonstrated that he don’t want to be trifled with and he may live to get some other fame. Ashort time heard of Martin, ment out of him. & new member, who had ap, 8 to have some amuse- . “No man,” he said, ‘has become famous as rapidly as you, Colonel Mar- tin. I am a new member-elect of the next House; tell me how to get famous?” Martin looked at him very hard for a moment. Then he leaned close up to his ear and whispered impressively: ‘Blow out the gas!” INGALLS’ INVECTIVEs, However distinguished are Senator Ingalls’ statesman-like qualities, it is not to these so much as to his bold and startling invectives that he owes his wide reputation. His fame is builded on his vocabulary. His series of speeches and interviews, full of and cate! combinations of curious knows how . eastabaree Sree loud voice’ His eccentricities on the floor his the Brit Bayne and Adams are famous, each their looking so mech ino ald Sade Oe eir lool 80 muc! ike an 3 if — has caused much to be written about em. . The name of Bland and the silver dollar are inseparably associated. Where one goes the a see It is the “Bland dollar. ‘yee got his name in the through his repeated attempts to defend the record of Hewitt on the floor of the House. Cowles has earned notoriety through his re- cent defeat of the ways and means folks in the matter of the reference of his tobacco bill. Gibson is famed for his handsome face and Apollo-like form. ason’s name was of the extreme bre: of his speeches, With all his long service Oates was never so far famed until he took charge of the filibuster against the direct-tax bill. Weaver got great fame asa filibuster in the Oklahoma matter. Sowden got much capital from the veto of the Allentown public building. Spinola is famous for the width of his collar. Symes is indebted to his inordinately loud voice for being given a large share of public attention. ceearpcae a red head has been an advantage to ‘im, ublished far on account ith of his humor in some THE NAME OF MILLS has been pretty familar to the public fora number of years, but in the popular mind it was associated with the idea of fire-eating and a lot of wild Texan cowboy business. It is only during the Fiftieth Congress that the real Mills has become known. Tis reputation now is through his tariff bill. He is now known for a well-balanced political economist instead of a fire-eater, Many men who are regarded by their col- leagues as among the ablest in Congress are scarcely known at all outside of Congress, Turner, Collins, Seney and Culberson are re- garded as the ablest lawyers in the House, and they occupy a most eminent position among their colleagues, but, excepting Collins, none of them have anything approaching a national reputation. Though regarded in the House as among the highest Turner's name was practi- cally unknown outside his own state until he got on the ways and means committee. Wilson's service on the ways and means com- mittee has brought him ont of obscurity into the first rank of orators in the House. Sayers and Crisp are men who do not seek notoriety, and have ved scarcely any ad- vertising, but in the affairs of the House they are both powerful, — NEW YORK IN THE STRIKE, And Some Instances of the Uselessness of Making Laws. PRISONERS AT A HOTEL INSTEAD OF A JAIL— PAYING A LICENSE FOR PERMISSION TO BREAK THE LAW—A MOB RIOTS UNDISTURBED IN BROOKLYN—INCIDENTS OF THE STRIKE. Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR. New York, Feb. 1. That portion of New York which behaves itself has been wondering this week if it isn’t a useless waste of time, anyhow, to make laws for the government of the people. There seems to be not the slightest difficulty in break- ing or evading the law if one only knows how. Sometimes a political pull will auswer as a pre- ventive of the law’s execution. In other in- stances it is money alone that saves a man from getting his legal deserts, and sometimes, again, friendships, acquaintancesbips or fellow- ships in the same social organizations answer the purpose of the law evaders. Two men charged with an enormous swindle were arrested the other day. Their offense was so great against the law of the land that | bail was fixed in their cases at the considerable sum of £250,000. Under the requirements of the a man arrested under such a grave charge is to be con in jail until bail is pro- cured or the case is tried, and if ‘Tom Jones or Dick Brown are thus arrested the law is con- strued in its strictest manner. But these prisoners, for whom $250,000 bail was deemed a reasonable figure, were not Jones or Brown, but Ives and Stayner, the “Nopoleon of Fi- nance” and his partner. Did they go to the jail, as the law requires? Nary jail. They went instead to a very delightful hotel on Broadway, where they had the company of a deputy sheriff of most agreeable manners, and where they lived and entertained in most luxurious style for days until their hunt for bail proved all in vain, and only then were they removed, with profuse apologies and sincere regrets from the deputy sheriff, to Ludlow-street jail, where they can still live like the bons vivants they are ungil some clever lawyer has devised a way of gel them scot ree. In the Tombs is a prisoner who was sentenced last June to four years in state prison after a conviction for graud larceny. According to the law of the land he should have been taken to Sing Sing or Auburn within two days after sentence and put at hard labor. If Jack Smith or Tom Robinson had been thus convicted the earliest train next morning would have doubt- less borne them sorrowing to the state prison. But this lucky fellow’s name was neither Smith nor Robinson, He was Col. John D. Watson, and he hada pull. Therefore he is serving his term in the compafative luxury of the Tombs, where he wears no striped uniform, doesn’t have his moustache shaved or his hair clipped, and he gets his meals to order from a famous outside caterer. It is well known to every drinking man that, although the law says no beer or liquor shali be sold on Sunday, nobody need go without his nip if he will only try the side door of a saloon at any time Sunday and tell the Cerberus who opens the door that he “belongs to the club.” It isn’t even necessary to say that “open sesame” at half the resorts. The saloon- keepers break the law once a week with unfail- ing regularity. Why aren't they arrested? Well, take the case of Peter Staudt. Peter was arrested this week and was charged with violating the Sunday law. He told an interest- ing story in court, and it has an aroma of truth hanging around it. Peter says that for four years he paid a “police license” of @3 a month to one Chester Southworth, and that during that time he sold liquor openly every Sunday, but the policemen passed by and turned their heads the other way. After he had a falling out with Southworth and ceased to pay his monthly tribute the police suddenly took ‘an interest in his saloon on Sundays, and finally last Sunday they hired a “Dago” to get a pail of beer, and then arrested the proprietor 5 had sold it. Peter says 500 other saloon- keepers in his district also pay #3 a month, and he is going to prove it. Southworth has once before had the same accusation brought againt him, but it was hushed up, as this affair will no doubt be. The most notorious votes oe of law-defyi: that has occurred recently, however, has 2 the action of a mob of striking car-drivers and. conductors in our neighboring city of Brooklyn. For days they have held all south Brooklyn in complete eaniogeticn Whatever may be the wrongs which they have suffered from their me mar the way to remedy them does not lie in rioting, in cowardly assaults upon other workingmen, and in destro: of the companies and Brooklyn. All this and more, too, they have done in utter deftance of law, and have set helpless an have made an effort to prevent Wednesda; dozen of the strikers on susp’ an Speen for work. He was beaten terri- bly, his nose broken, and kicked so about the abdomen and stomach that he vomited blood. The cowardly mob chased this defenseless man until he fell, too weak to rise, when they scat- tered and left him lying in the gutter. And four policemen in uniform stood by and saw this done, and never so much as lifted a finger to veneer i even chuckled in sppérent enjoy of e = “sport” as a ES ae here and there by the burly ruffians who wouldn't have dared to assault Bim single- handed. Isawa dozen of the same sort of scenes on Monday and Tuesday of this the place and at another stable in cape the a f ae is questioner straight in the eye, n't want to see any of my policemen eked,” he said, sententiously; ‘‘we are here for war.” And there was war, buta very brief one, when the mob charged the car and were charged back again. In an hour twenty cars were runnin and not a sign of interference was visible, And all over the city, wherever @ mob gathered, the lice scattered it; wherever the tracks were Barriceded the police made arrests, and in most instances compelled the rioters to tear the barricade away. If any refused they got either @ punch from a night stick or were run off to the nearest station-house. Every attempt made to run cars was successfully carried out, and in almost every instance where men look- ing for work were assaulted their assailants Were canght and imprisoned. A dudish-looking young chap volunteered to take a tar out Tuesday for the 4th avenue line when drivers were scarce. He did it “just for the fun of the thing.” he said in the Hoffman house last night, when he was telling a circle of admiring “Johnnies” about it, “Ihad a half-pint of cocktails put up in a bottle in my | top-coat pocket,” said he, ‘and while I was waiting for orders torun the car outof the stable I took a pull at the bottle now and then to keep my courage up. When they threw open is aeece Beae ee aak and dirty faces of | bout a million devilish mad-lookin’ fellahs right in front of me. and I would have backed out then if the policemen hadn't hit the hosse a whack that sent me spinnin’ outside with the car right into the mob. I only remember feel- ing tor the bottle and wishing I'd taken another big nip, and I'saw the coppers knocking the fellahs’ right and left in a dim sort of way. I forgot all about handling the brake ‘and the hosees, and the cussed |car got on the wrong switch and started | up town instead of down town, where we'd in- tended to go. The coppers swore at me a little, but I let ‘er go right into the tunnel, and when I saw there weren't any of the strikers in there I just lashed the horses into a tearin’ gallo) When I looked around and discovered it were leaving mob out o’ sight I felt pretty good, and wished some of the boys could have been | there to see me. As I drove out of the tunnel and turned into 42d street I began to get ne vous again on account of the tough-lookin’ fe lahs grouped ulong the curbstones, but [ kept on. I looked at the cop on the platform at my right, and he was a big fellah, and was smiling as if he wasn’t scared. The cop on my left was a little chap, though, and he acted awfully w easy, and when I noticed that the biggest street I wished the coppers would change places. At every corner I expected a mob would rush in from the side street and kill us all. and when I sawa man with a brickI leaned back behind the big cop and prepared to dodge. But we got to 86th street all right and I finished the botth and when we started back on the down trip I felt so good I didn’t care a = whether the strikers attacked us or not. | would have enjoyed it then if they had, and when when we passed the fellow with the brick again I yelled at him: “Drop that brick, you dirty cad’ and demme if the fellah didn't drop it and sneak off up 69th street.” “ Of course business has been almost at a standstill all this week. The shopping districts on Broadway, 6th avenue, 14th street, and 23d street have worn a Sunday appearance, and clerks have idled around frout doors to see the | occasional cars go by and hope for a good, | rousing scrimmage where they could take it all in. Cabs, stages, and the elevated railroads have done a big passenger traffic. The strike is the most determined one yet known in New York, as it is understood plainly that if the sttikers are beaten the Knights of Labor or- ganization will be a thing of the past. The car-drivers’ and conductors’ assemblies are now the only remnant of this once powerful body in New York. H. H. Sous. Saturday Smiles. What's the matter with New York city? She's all riot.—Boston Herald, A man convinced (by his wife) against his will is of the same opinion still—mighty still.— Life. Sometimes a printer sets up a beer adver- tisement, and sometimes he merely sets of the beer.—Oil City Blizzard. Minnesota couple who were sleigh riding. The young man’s right ear and the lady’s left ear were frosted, while the other two were not cold atall. Why all four ears were not frosted is a problem which has been submitted to the high school class in physiology.—Helena Herald. A Salt Lake City Episode.—Citizen (showing Reged epi ia fen eemgro} player)—“Hello! There Elder Plural’s nine.” Base-ball Player (excitedly)—“‘Where? Let's have a look at the boys.” Citizen—*-You mistake me. wives.”—Burlington Free Press. The city editor wrote an article and headed it “Doom of the Bustle.” Then he went out on the street, made observations of the dresses worn by the ladies out shopping. rushed back to the office. and substituted a ““B for the “-D” in the first word in the title of bis bustle arti- cle.—Norristown Herald. A little boy oe o™ his sister g od urposely pushe . Which she denies ler Fetter, taking her aside, said: “Now, Abbie, don’t you go to Sunday school, and don’t they teach you that it is wrong to tell lies?” “We havn’t got so far as that,” she interrupted.— Woman's Work. Women as Engineers.—Blobson—‘Ha, ha! Here's an article which says that before the close of the nineteenth century we shall see women running locomotive engines on our rail- roads.” Mrs. Blobson—‘“Well, why not? Don't you think they would make good ones?” Mr. Blobson—In some respects, perhaps. They would keep a good lookout ahead, any- way.” Mrs, Blobson—‘“Why so?” Mr. Blobson—‘“Because they would have their heads out of the cab window all the time to show their new bonnets,”—Burlington Free eee Temexpovs Stavonrern ™ OVERCOATS. concluded not to carry over one Overcoat if Pulse amilote bee anvehalfed thew nore f RESULT. Lot 8035—23 Wide Wale Worsted Overcoats, sizes 33 to.42, with silk Secings, silt sipeve lining, and: double: SED, Gezee ody-lining, tha were perfect gems at I mean his nine sizes 33 Seay tin ana giaes, sutas nce 33% ie Ss eo Pah Roe eee ee BS -F- that were $15 VICTOR E. ADLER'S 10. PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSE 10 927 and 929 7th st. n.w., corner Massachusetts sve. ‘Strictly One Price, Open Saturdays until 11 p.m crowd of toughs was on the left side of the | | A rather strange affliction happened toa ____ AUCTION SALEs.__ EREMTORY SALE OF NEW TWO-STORY FLLING, No. 21 LiGhTH STREET Eas? CAPITOL STREEI On TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY FY at FIVE O'CLOCK, we will sell im front of ’ PART OF LOT 16, SQUARE 898, eae ; balance im sik, twelve and eixhteen months. notes to bear interest and to be ae cured by deed of trust on premises sold, or all cash at option of purchaser, A deposit of @200 required at sale. Conveyancing, &c..at purchaser's cost. Terms to be comphed with in ten days, otherwise the richt Teserved to resell at the risk aud cost of det porchaser after five days’ public notice of if soue newspaper published in Washington, Abstract shown at sale _fe \____ DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, ([HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer CATALOGUE SALE or MISCELLANEOUS AND CLASSICAL BOOKS, MANY OF THEM FINELY ILLUSTRATED, {ALSO A LOT OF MEDICAL BOOKS AND IN@TRU- MENTS RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR CATALOGUE) SURGICAL CASE AND ONE DISSECTING CASE, AT MY AUCTION Rooms, | TERMS CASH. Jn2i-daeds THOMAS DOWLING, NPSHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. SMALL LOT WELL-KEPT HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS: AT AUCTION CATALOGUES READY, Auctioneer, On MONDAY, 1889, at TEN O'CLOCK A. avenue south. west, opposite Botanical Gardens, 1 will sell withe reser of nearly new furuiture all in good cond | tion, such ax Walnut Book-Cases, Walnut Desks and Secretarys. Book Racks, 4 Parlor Suite, Hall Kack, ard with Mirror. jangings. abie, Kefrigerater, ars, Howe Machi ery fine Electric Clock Walnut Bed-room w ash. JakOndte W242 TER 5. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctionsers, THOMAS DOWLING, Auctionees, INVESTORS, ATTENTION PEREMPTORY SALE OF NIN NEW TWO-STORY BRICK DW s TH SIDE OF P Ski TWEEN NORTH CAPITOL AND WEST. FEBRUAKY FIFTH, atrontot the Duty & Mod) ved by nine pntaining © rooms and m he balan ears; notes to bear interest a in in 1, 2 sk anid cont public no ublished im B. WILLIAMS & 00. Aucts. SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE IN ALEX- ANDKIA COUNTY NEAK THE NEW PREE BRIDGE AND Kos! By virtue of the decree of the cireuit court for Al- exandria county, Va, rendered on the 14th day of r chancery case depending in said Mae her next friend, et B. Lioyd et als. are at Kowlyy, to the highest bid- kuown as lot No. Sin the d's emtate dated Aus. 26, 1¢ following Peal ext st. All that lot of grou deed of partition of R. B. Li a 1881, and the p accompany ing the saune, clerk’ of the county court said county in Liber E P. 408, ef sequitur, bounded and describe ows, Viz: Beyinning at J, the Potomac river, corner t> links to D on said river: wre 3. | nerto th up the nt inning, conta i. Ail that lot of gro nd partition lat and survey, com ‘Quarry Lot, bounded and dese viz: Beginnin “ beach of said ri chains to B: 8. links Of said river, corner to jot No. a stone in the west Ii stake of stone old ditch & links south. an tuMp, Corper to lot No. 2 ot No. 1; thence with said line N 78 chains to the beginuing, coutatning 2 acres land. All this property is situate ou the Virginia bank of the Potomac river, oppusite Georgetown, D. C., is rapidly increasing in value, and isa most desirable in- vestment, | | | Terms of sale; One-third of the purchase money to | be paid i cash on the day of ale, hind on a credit of six months, and the residue on a credit of twelve mouths from the day of sale, the credit installments to bear 6 per cent interest frou the day of sule, and to be by the be purchaser or purchasers, with good personal security, and a retention of the title until the same are fully’ y the option of the purchaser. paid: or cash in full, at coste of the purchaser. ‘Dated, Alexanaria, V. Conveyancing at the ‘a, Jan. 30, 1889. 109 N: Faiifai sty Alenandei N. Fairfax st e1 . JAMES R. CATON, 1028. Pairfax st., Alexandria, _, Special Commissioners of Sale, I, H. H. YOUNG, clerk of the circuit court of the cotinty of Alexandria, Va.,do certify that the special com mers above haibed have executed ith ood persoual wecurity, as required by wuld de Jad] -th&s.8t Clerk Cir. Ct, Alex's Co., Va, JUNCANSON BKOS., Auctioneers, CHANCERY SALE OF IMPROVED PROPERTY, STORE AND ‘DWELLING, EIGHTH STREET, COR. GRANT AVENU Hae FAK PART OF LOT NINE. REAK T Ol COX'S SUBDIVISION OF MOUNT a WITH SMALL FRAME HOUSE THEKEON AND LOTS IN “MONTELLO.” By virtue of a decree and suj tal decree the Supreme Court of the District of Colum! ity cause No. 10270 (Peters va. Brook we will offer for sale at public auction in from Fespective premises. i On WEDNESDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF PEBRU- ARY, A.D. 1889, at’ HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P_ M,, lots numbered 1:33 and 135, in square numbered the village of “Montello,” as the saine appears of rd in the office of the surveyor of the of | Columbia and described in the original bill in this cause as parcel No. 3. On THURSDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF FEBRU- ‘O'CLOCK rt of in et al, of the ARY, A.D. 1859, AT FOUR the bac of = mg of 100 the north 15 27-100 feet fronting on the rear of ssid lot numbered ine <9). by 8 depth of 50 feet, as smproved by 8 suall frame ing the described in the first ph of the eupy bill in the above cause N THE SAME DAY, AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P. jot "numbered two hundred AY HORSE, 7 COWS (FR: Boiretordaterens wbckous AND otmed BREEDS), PLOW! HARROW, CUL’ cy AND FARMING IMPLEMENTS. eee er Oa MONDAY AF TEEROO! ON. will stock isin fine condition. cash. DUNCAN! BROS, & a GRATEFUL—OOMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. ars Sevens ine pects mercies a8 apphcaten five of Mr. Epps has —