Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1889, Page 11

> — * —" i THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, macy 23, 1889—-TWELVE PAGES. PIPES AND PIPE-MAKERS, | cannon. ana the smaller end is put into the | nese tobacco mouth. Hoopah warriors, it is said, like this | Coreans also SMOKING GEAR OF ALL NATIONS. How Savage and Civilized Men Seek the Solace of Tobacco. (SE CALUMET OF THR AMERICAN INDIAN—THE RED PIPE-STONE QUARRIES—SCULPTURED PIPES FROM THE PACIFIC COAST—PIPES FROM AFRICA, 4SIA AND THE ARCTIC REGIONS. —o———— If there is a mountain, or a desert, an island, or an iceberg anywhere between the north and south pole inhabited by man where smoking is ‘unknown, the bird's-eye view of the globe taken by a Stan reporter, through the medium of the National museum, which brings all the world together under one roof, where it can be studied without going to the trouble of long voyages, failed to disclose the spot. « The scien- tifle gentleman who stood by the reporter in this investigation and acted as guide in the ex- ploration of this condensed little world re- marked that one of the most marvelous events in history was one little dwelt upon, and that was the great rapidity with which the knowl- edge of and use of tobacco spread through the world after the first daring voyagers from Eu- rope discovered the properties of the weed and learned from the natives of Cuba how to smoke. Where history is silent concerning the long and hazardous voyages made in their cockle-shell ships by the Portugese and other daring mari- PIPESOF THE * PLAINS INDIANS + ners of the 16th and 17th centuries. arecord has n made in the language of the far-away peo- ple. In Japan the name fatac is given to tobacco, and in many lands almost unheard of two centuries ago a word is found engrafted in the native dialect, which in sound resembles tobacco. But there were pipes long before there was any tobacco, or at least long before tobacco was known outside the limits of the West Indies. Pi dug up out of the mounds in the Mississippi valley show that such imple- ments were in use on this continent in the pre- Columbian age. Metal and pottery pipes have been found among Roman antiquities. Clay pines dug up in England have been supposed date back tothe days of the Roman con- quest, but conscientious students think they | were dudeens dropped or mislaid by the Eng- lishmen of the seventeenth century. What was smoked in the pre-tobacco pipes is not definitely known, but it is supposed that they were used chiefly in connectioa with ceremonials, and that aromatic herbs were burned in them. The pipes of the world are all made on one general | lan, as they have a bowl and a stem, but there an infinite variety of treatment and orna- mentation. In the view of the ethnologist the savage people have a peculiar value, for upon them they expended al their skill at ornamen- tation. Their pipes often represent the high- est expression of their rude art. Studying the pipe. the scientist gets at some idea of the pipe- maker. The collection of pipes in the depart- ment of ethology at the museum, arranged un- der the direction of Prof. Otis T. Mason, — resents the whole world. but it is especially rich in specimens collected among the North American Indians and Eskimos. Some of the finest carved work of the Alaska and Northwest coast Indians is that displayed on their pipes. The — of the plains “infians are fashioned of soft stone, or made of clay. Some are tomahawk pipes. In the days be- fore fire-water and plug hats were introduced among the red men. and when they still re- tained their primitive simplicity and pictur- @squeness, the pipe was the Indian's altar. Longfellow tells how: pipes of signal to the uaf He broke a fragment from the red stone of the quarry, and fashioned it into a pipe head. He took a long reed, with its dark green leaves upon it for astem. and filled the bowl with willow bark. This would not, according to the modern idea, make a very agreeable smoke, but willow bark appears to have been the nearest approach to tobacco known to the Indians in ¢ days Longfellow wrote about. When white men came with tobacco, they gave up willow rk and gave up their lands. too. Smoking with the Indians appears to have been largely ceremonial. At council a pipe was gravely lightly and passed from one chief to another, each taking a whiff. and then passing it on. Indian pipes take many forms. Many of them in the collection are made of the red ~ALASKA~— 4 RUNKIT e or cathnite. Some fashioned from @ mottled red stone quarried in Dakota are highly polished and present a handsome ap- pearance. One of these Mr. Walter Hough, of the museum, took out from its case to show Tur Stag reporter. remarking that it was worth two ponies. It was of smooth red stone and had long. sharp protuberance like a spear-head extending forward beyond the bowl. Pipe bowls made of the same material are in- laid with lead in simple patterns. The Indian warrior gets a piece of red stone from the quarry and carries it around with him, attached to his saddie by means of a thong when he is Fiding. At resting places in his journey or at any intervals of leisure he works on his pipe. ‘There is a case full of the long-stemmed pipes, trimmed with quill work or feathers, from the Sioux, the Northern Apaches, and other plains tribes. The bowls of clay or stone are high end slender and the stems in some cases are five feet long and fiat, Buch pipes are owned only by men of impor- tance in their tribes. Near these are toma- hawk pipes. veritable tomahawks, the butt, or heel of the blade being fashioned like a pipe bowl, while the long handle is pierced so as to serve the double purpose of handle and pipe- Stem. In several instances the heads of these wks bear the names of English and cutlers, who extended their trade by ~Piees of Baimse Columaia— style of pipe. because they can smoke it while sneaking along a trail or crawling through the grass in the dark in an enemy's country. and the light cannot be seen. Some rude indian pipes are made of wood with the bark on. One of this kind, from the Menomenee Indians of Wisconsin, appears to have been fashioned from the trunk of a sspling, a small branch or offshoot being pierced to form the stem. It has acap or corner that fits on so when the Pipe is closed it looks like a solid piece of wood. The pipes from the Indians of Alaska and the northwest coast afford a most interesting study. | The bowls are fashioned usually of the black | stone or slate, capable of a high polish, which they loved to carve. Some of the bowls are a foot long. or rather the figures with which they | are ornamented extend on either side of the | bowl proper so as to make the whole a foot jlong. ‘The savage artist crowded them with | mythologic figures or tokens. A collection of these pipe heads from British Columbia show | skillful work in bone, walrus ivory and stone. Some are fashioned like ships; others have rep- | resentations of houses and men on horseback or in various attitudes. They are often inlaid and ornamented with colors. ‘The Eskimo pipes do not vary much in their general design. The Ungava Eskimo have small, neatly-shaped pipes with slender bowls, and they ornament them with strings of beads. Among the other Eskimo tribes there is one prevailing type, though there is a difference in the amount and character of the ornamenta- tion. This is a pipe with a stem curved some- thing like a bow, and about a foot long. The bow! or head is on the inner or concave side of the bow. The stem is usually thick, and about it are twisted thongs or strings made of seal- skin. The bowl or head, made usually of metal, has a wide-lipped top and an extremely small orifice, like an opium pipe. Attached to the stem is a metal needle or pricker. The Es- kimo doesn’t smoke much at one time. He grinds his tobacco up fine and mixes it with the ashes of a fungus. Sometimes he chops up willow bark and adds it to the mixture. Whether UNGAVA Gee German. | he does this to improve its flavor or to make | the tobacco go further is a disputed point. When he wants to smoke he plucks some hairs from his seal-skin coat and rams it down into the bottom of the bowl. This is to keep the fi powdered tobacco from passing into the stem. Then he fills the narrow bowl with the tobacco mixture, using the pricker to pack it in, He gets a light from his flint, and, fter a few whiff’, exhausts the contents of the bowl. He has a good deal of work for what is apparently a small amount of smoke, but trav- cans say not even an Eskimo could stand more than a few whiffs of the vile compound he smokes. The Eskimo pipe with the little bowl | and pricker is found in Siberia; and Mr. Hough said he believed it could be traced across Asia to the Mongols. In the smallness of the bow! it resembles the pipes of the Japanese and Chin Some from Kotzebue sound have elaborately-etehed ivory stems, One is orna- mented with a series of pictures representing hunting and fishing scenes, Another has a bow! made of a thimble. One pipe from the Congo is double-headed, or has a double bowl connecting with a single neck. Another pipe, made by an African, is European in shape. On the stem. supported by legs of wire, is the form of a bird. This bird is used as a pricker. The smoker can bend it down so that its head enters the bowl. and can be used to pack the ashes or tobacco. When he releases his hand the bird flies back, the wire legs serving as springs. The Africans nearly all have pipes. Many specimens have been brought from the Congo country by recent travellers, y are made, as a rule, from clay, as the natives of the interior of Africa are ingenious potters, One huge bowl in the mu- seum collection was deposited there by Rev. RR. Gurley. It is black, and stands mches high. Among some the Afric: hemp or dacha is smoked ection with religious observances. a custom that may have been commu- nicated to them by the Mahometans, They have a way, too, among some of the interior tribes of making a water-pipe by using a cow's horn asthe reservoir. The pipe is thrust into this in such a way that when suction is brought to bear the smoke passes through the water. Hemp is smoked in this way. and the smoker has only to take a few whiffs when he falls over, his senses paralyzed by the effects of the narcotic. Pipes are sometimes made by the Africans from ivory by boring the tusks. There isin the museum collection a Zulu or Kaftir pipe of wood. which is interesting because of its resemblance to early Dutch clay pipes, robably introduced in South Africa by the Dutch two centuriesago. Near it isa clay pipe dug up at Shoreditch, England, from a depth of 16 feet. This pipe was introduced in Eng- land from Holland in the time of William IIL. nearly of The form of this pipe and the Kaffir pipe of wood are similar, except that the African has reversed the angle of the bowl. Each pipe has the little nub or Sas protuberance at the bottom of the bowl which Seems to have been adopted in the earliest days of English and Dutch clay pipes. Holland seems to have given the first form to clay pipes and many of the Dutch pipes are of fanciful shape. One white clay pipe im the museum has a stem that is so twisted as to have a great loop in it. The Haytiens form pipe bowls of clay. with round, corpulent looking bowls. A Laplander’s pipe deposited in the collection by Dr. Emil Bessels, is a delicate bit of clay with athin stem. It is protected by means ofa wooden case of exactly the shape of the pipe. Brazilians make pipe heads of clay, which are made black by smothering the kiln, so the smoke colors the clay. A pipe that is regarded as typical is the one used by German peasants, hav! jong —— stem and a slender porce! bowl, often decorated, and a metal cay The Turks and Persians in fashioning their pipes seem to have consulted ease. the hookah or bubble-pipe with a long stem. These pipes ai ‘kish pipes of other = are usi ornamented gaudily. The wi is arranged ve @ reservoir of water, ipes have diminutive bowls. The Ere small bowls on their pipes, but they are two or three times the size of those used by the Japanese. For this reason the Japanese say the Coreans are pigs. The Corean pipes in the museum have reed stems 5 feet long, and a smoker would have some difficulty in lighting one in the ordinary Ameri- can way. en a Corean gentleman smokes his servant lights his pipe with a live coal and sucks at the stem until he gets the draught going, when he hands the pipe to his master. From British Guiana is a pipe nimde of joint of bamboo, as simple in construction as one in the collection from Arkansas, The latter, made by a white man. is simply a block of hickory wood with a hole bored in it. The South Sea Islanders have no distinctive Pipes, and it is only those that have come under Opium Pipe. JAPAN. TUAKEY the beneficent influence of European sailors that smoke. The others chew betel leaves. The only people who resist the temptation to smoke are some of the natives of Ceylon and certain of the hill tribes of India. It is part of their religion to regard tobacco as an abom- ination. In one case at the museurh is a complete Chinese opium outfit, presented by Gen. Fitz John Porter when he wasa police commissioner of New York. There is the little pot in which the opium paste is made, the lamp, the needle on which the little ball of paste is fired in the flame of the lamp, and the awkward-looking pipes, with a thick club-like stem, and the bowl, with a small opening scarcely larger than a pin head. Accompanying these are models show- ing diminutive figures of Chinamen reclining on hard-looking lounges in the attitude of smoking. — SOCIETY’S SAWDUST FAD. Rehearsing for an Amateur Circus. From the New York Times. The 400, fresh from the successes of the Academy of Design costume ball and preparing for the Washington centennial, are still finding time to do a great deal of gossiping in regerd to the amateur circus modeled after the Due de Morny’s somewhat notorious attempt a few years ago, when that progressive young man was regarded with affection by Parisan society. Several well-known young men take daily pil- grimages to Baychester, where they are re- garded with ill-concealed interest by the minor who is ticket agent and baggage smasher of that not populous hamlet. They charter a terrible machine, which has in some way gained the local reputation of being a wagon, and are driven to Mr. James Waterbury’s beautiful home, within earshot of the Sound. Lots of these young gentlemen and nearly as many young ladies went up there yesterday. Within fifty yards of Mr. Waterbury’s home stands his stable, an im ‘ing-looking edifice. No sooner had the party arrived on the grounds in stages and drags than they were turned in there, picking their way between all sorts of vehicles, and at last arriving within an exten- sion of the stable which Mr. Waterbury built some time ago as a tennis court, and in which many of the most renowned players of that game have played. This apartment, which, though now used as a practice hall, is to be the scene of the Qreat amateur circus in May, is fitted almost entirely in hard wood and is par- ticularly handsome. Mr. Waterbury has had a thoroughly professional 42-foot ring built in the center of the floor, and in this there are lots of nice clean sawdust, which prevents bruises to the venturesome performer. The top of the railing of the inclosure is padded and covered with white canvas, and in the center stands a queer machine, looking like the result of an arbitration between a crane and a gallows, from the extreme end of which hangs a series of straps, which, with the framework, is known asa mechanic, Yesterday all this was furbished up so that it glistened as the movable beam swung, and the pretty girls and their escorts grouped them- selves in very effective order at the right. The venerable Juck Carroll, who for forty years has taught the young circus idea its proper marks- manship, took up his long-lashed whip and snapped it with the grace of an Apollo over his sun horses, and then there was silence. Of course this was the fourth time this same thing had been done, for every Saturday in the last thirty days these same ladies and gentle- men have gone to Baychester to see some of their set in practicing harness, but all were in- tent nevertheless. Finally three young gentle- men, whose names were b of Confucius, came into the suits and be; which is ne 'Y, save where the heated traveler on an iron steamboat witnesses the play of some Staten Island porpoises, ‘There were somersaults an@ handsprings and wrists, but, as Jack Curroll expressed hing like practice, gentlemen,” and in uence the ladie lauded, Every one granted that flannels were not the things in which to do tumblings because the stitching at the seams is notorivusly insecure, But the gentlemen were there to do hard work, and the ladies were compelled to accept the inevi- table. There were several quite difficult things done by @ venturesome young gentleman who paid much more attention to the admiring glances ot the ladies than to Carroll's instructions, but the most remarkable thing he accomplished was to tumble from his perch and land on the sawdust without breaking his neck. Then came the star performance of the day. Another young gentleman in a still prettier suit of flan- nels was escorted into the ring by a white horse, which evidently was an animal of expe- rience, for he went around the ring like what Jack Carroll called ‘an old un.” It was, in fact, a famous circus horse which Mr. Water- bury has acquired. Tbe young gentleman stood on the animal’s haunches, and then the straps of the “mechanic” were fastened around his chest beneath his armpits and the old horse was told to go. He went, and his rider did his level best to keep up with that horse, but the experienced animal got from beneath his feet at last and the ambitious amateur was left dang- ling in the air like Gulliver was in the paws of the Brobdingnagian monkey, But there were performers who did much better than this, one gentleman in particular actually riding around the ring several times standing on the white horse’s back and making effective hops over a narrow banner which Mr. Waterbury held*for hin te was deafening applause over this, and the performer shrugged his shoulders and blushed deprecatingly over the popular mate of his ability. Luncheon was served in Mr. Waterbury’s house and his guests returned to ihe city by the evening trains, ‘The performance will occur the first fort- night in May, the date not yet having been selected. As has been said, the riding will be done in the refitted tennis court, and the audience will be confined to Mr. Waterbury’s friends, a guarantee that the occasion will be one of great social interest. ‘The would-be performers have already been at work for quite a month under Jack Carroll's supervision, but it is not’yet decided which ones will be chosen for the performance. All! that is still in the hands of the cire commit- tee, composed of Qliver Harriman, F, 0. Beach and Howard N, Potter, and these gentlemen have not yet considered the momentous ques- tion of a program. This they won't do until May 1. There is going to be a trick donkey in the performance, however, and despite all re- ports to the contrary no ladies intend to participate. eS ee The Typewriter Girl. From the Omaha Republic. With the eyes of an odalisque, dreamy and brown; With teeth that would rival the pearl, She quietly walks to her office down town; My darling, the typewriter girl. Her voice is as soft as the whispers of love, Her fluffy hair's tied with a curl, And her form would surpass all the graces above; My darling, the typewriter girl. From the tips of her feet to the flush on her cheek, She keeps me in one constant whirl; She told me she earned six dollars per week, My darling, the typewrit sti- | ART NOTES. “* Sun and Shade” for March has among its attractive photogravure illustrations a striking likeness of's Secretary Blaine, reproduced by that Process from a photograph recently taken. — Munkacsy's two immense paintings, repre- senting respectively Christ before Pilate and the Crucifixion, now owned by Postmaster General Wanamaker, are to be sent to the coming Paris exposition, — Mr. Henry Ulke has been selected to paint the portrait of ex-Attorney General Garland to be placed with those of his predecessors in of- fice on the walls of the De; ent of Justice. Mr. Ulke has recently painted a portrait of ex- Commissioner Colman, which gives great satis- faction to the friends of that gentleman. — Remdrandt's “Gilder,” purchased recently from Mr. Schaus by Mr. Henry Havemeyer, at the reported price of $75,000, is now exhibited in the National Metropolitan Museum in New York, where it will remam for some time. This is conceded to be one of that t master’s best works, and is of itself well worth a visit to the museum. —A party of congerfal Washington artists are planning canal boat excursion, a little later on in the spring, for sketching and study along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, Capi 2 after the fashion of the fa- mous trip of the Tile Club of New York through New Jersey several years ago. The scenery along the line from here to Cumberland is ad- mirably adapted for the purposes in view, and if the trip be made it can hardly fail to be both profitable and pleasant for all concerned. — That all corporations are not soulless, and that some individuals are, is now the fixed opinion of M. Detaille, the eminent French artist. Of all the American owners to whom he applied for the loun of his paintings to re resent him in the coming Paris exposition, ie says that the only one who treated him with courtesy and granted the desired favor was the Corcoran Gallery, of this city, which very gen- erously forwarded “The Passing Regiment,” owned by it. This he considers one of his very best works, — The New York Graphic has this pleasant paragraph about a bright and promising young lady of Washington: I was one of a party who went to the steamer recently to see Miss Daisy Brown, the young artist and pupil of Kenyon Cox and William Chase, depart for Paris to study under the great Gerome. She is tall, willowy, and has dreamy black eyes and dark hair. Although only twenty years old, her progress in painting has been wonderful, and two years ago she captured the Corcoran gold medal for drawing at the Cor- coran art school, Washington, and then came to New York to the Art League, where Cox and Chase taught her. Miss Brown will remain in Paris tive years. and by that time hopes to ac- complish something. Perhaps she may be the future Rosa Bonheur of America. —The Pall Mall Gazette directs attention to the fact that many of the most liberal patrons of modern British art have belonged to the com- mercial class, It says: “Mr. Vernon, who ia said to have spent £150,000 on English pictures, and whose collection is one of the glories of ery, was a horse dealer. Mr. Sheepshanks, whose pictures were the making of the South Kensington gallery, was a partner in a cloth business at Leeds. Mr. Horrocs Mil- ler’s pictures were bought out of the proceeds of ‘long cloth.’ Mr. Jacob Bell, who was the donor of many of the best-known English pic- tures in the National gallery.was a chemist, So far as art goes, ‘culture’ would have been in a very bad way if it had not been for the ‘Philis- ” ‘The same is largely if not wholly true country. — The interest in the American art exhibit at the Morton residence has held out wonderfully well, considering other things to attract atten- tion, and its audiences seemed to grow larger each day, even before the price of admission was reduced, Indeed, the display can be pro- nounced a most decided success, socially as well as financially, and should any considerable number of pictures be sold out of the collec- tion the artists contributing to it would be more than satisfied. So far only about a half dozen have changed hands, but these at satis- factory prices, and there is reason to believe that several other sales may be made before the exhibition closes. But, any way, great good has been done. The Garfield hospital has been helped pecuniarily; the pcople of Washington and visitors to the city wee had such an opportunity as has never been afforded before to see what the younger school of native artists are capable of doing, and the artists themselves have had a chance ina new field, where, if they do not at once reap a crop, they have at least been able to sow seed that can hardly failto yielda harvest in future. With these things accomplished, it would seem that every one connented, with the affair has occa- sion for felicitation. —It is not always easy for the public and an artist toagree as to the qualities in a certain picture which give it a market value, or upon which the asking price is based, but it is still more difficult to exactly understand what prin- ciple or quality determines the artist in fixing the value or price of a given canvas. It often happens. doubtless. that the work which gives the painter most concern, and upon which he has spent much time and thought, acquires a place in his esteem out of all proportion to its ac} artistic merits, just as a mother’s homely, crippled or wilful child is often her greatest pet, while another canvas representing far less of thought or labor is held ata much higher value by not only the general public but also by brother artists. A curious illustration on this point seems to be presented by two pictures in the collection now on view in the Morton resi- i f Boston ; iy styled by his eissonicr of America,” One of these is marked ata price a little more than double the other. The latter isa trifle the ler of the two, it is true, and simpler in subject and treatment, but it is probably safe to say that four out of five artists or picture- lovers of taste and judgment would rather have it twice over than its higher-priced companion, Why these differences of opinion? In other words, what is the true or absolute standard of value in art? Is there, in fact, any such thing? —The resultof the sale of the Erwin Davis col- lection of paintings, which took place in New York on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, was doubtless highly satisfactory to the owner, as the amount realized was far in excess of that representing the original cost of the pictures, The aggregate sum produced was $243,795, or an average of over $1,700 for the one hundred | and forty-three pictures sold. The most grati- fying feature of the sale was probably the price obtained for Bastien le Page's “Joan of Arc.” This painting, which cost the owner only about $4,500, sold tor $23,400, thus making the in- vestment a very handsome one financially, and at the same time justifying the judgment of the owner and confirming in a substantial manner the many flattering things that have been said about it by the press lately, But in spite of the high price it bought, the precise position the picture is to hold in the world of art is by no means settled yet. For the present about the most that can be said of it is that it will be immensely liked by people who like that sort. of thing—or’ think they do. The name of the purchaser has not been made public, the only means of identity afforded be- ing the statement that he was ‘a bald-hoaded man, said to be a Chicago dealer,” represented by the initials “C. T, B.,” though’by other au- thorities he is credited to New York. The same person made many other purchaves, the whole amount of his investment in the’ salo being about $125,000. The other paintings in the sale which brought over $5,000 were the following: Troyon's ‘“Pasturage in Nor- mandy,” $17,500; Delacroix’s “Lion Hunt,” $11,800; Millet’s “‘Hay-Maker,” $9,100. Corot’s “Woods at Marcousis,” $8,500; “The Ford,” by the same artist, $7,600; Troyon’s “Feeding the Chickens,” $7,500; Courbet's “Music,” 7.000; Manet’s “Boy with Sword,” $6,700; Rousseau’s “Interior of a Forest,” $6,500; “Sunset,” by the same artist, 6.500; ‘Landscape and Trees,” by the same, $6,250; Dupre’s “Land- scape and Cattle,” ' €5,900; Rousseau’s “Sun- set in the Pyrennes,” $5,800, and Millet’s “Landscape Near Barbizon,” $5,100.— Since placing the above in type the direct charge has een made in New York papers—and ap rently with good foundation,—at least it (ee not been denied, as it ought to be, if un- founded,—that the sale was in large part a action affair; and that the m: x who gr referred to on that gentleman's account. seems hardly possible that reputable auction- eers would kno’ ly or could be unknowing): (gh ova 80 pikes table @ transac tion, and i¢ likely therefore &® good deal more will be heard of the affair, in one way or another, before it passes out of mind. The offense as charged is, under the laws of the state of New Sakae prio earned aoe way it is Mr, San preees Topoltan Muses [useum Ho inaee, the ctremmatences, he had such » been carried out undgr the hammer, ‘Written for Tax Everree Stan. GEORGE BANCROFT. The Declining Years of the Mlustrious Scholar. DRAWING NEAR THE END OF A BRILLIANT CA- REER—LOSS OF MEMORY—A BRIEF SKETCH OF ‘HIS LIFE—MINISTER, CABIXET OFFICER, AND NOTED HISTORIAN—HIS DOMESTIC CIRCLE. The encroachments of years are beginning to show their effects upon the aged historian, George Bancroft. In physical energy he still ex- hibits that vigor which, like that of Simon Came- ron’s, enables him to maintain a fair standard of bodily health; but the intellectual fires which have illumined two continents, and which have edified and interested mankind for nearly three-quarters of a century. are becom- ing dimmed. The time is not distant when there will be little left but the dying embers of that once brilliant mind. The first indications of this sad ending of all that has made the name of George Bancroft immortal is the loss of memory. This tendency to mental breaking up has shown’ progress by increased ratio of late and to the extent of seriously alarming those nearest to him by friendship and long personal associations. In conversation he com- prehends what is being said to him at the mo- ment and participates with somewhat enfeebled energy, but very soon lapses into forgetfulness and mental oblivion. It has not been many days since the tall but somewhat unsteady form of the patriarch of letters was seen entering the portals of the executive man- sion to say farewell to its young and beautiful presiding ‘lady. It was a scene worthy of the canvas of a master. The aged historian, who had been an honored guest at her table, was much affected. The gentle consideration which he had uniformly received from her, and the isolated and sad surroundings of his own fireside, the veil of eternal ending which hung between him and the fast approaching future, the shifting scenes of public affairs in which he was once a conspicuous figure. formed contrasting conditions which as deeply im- pressed the luring fantasies of youth, beauty and home as they did the disappointing retro- spect of age, decrepitude and the end. HIS BRILLIANT CAREER. The last days of George Bancroft, America’s great historian, are sad and lonely. The be- ginning of his career and its advancement through the subsequent stages of a brilliant and active life might ordinarily have been ac- cepted asasurety for a happy ending. In Worcester, Mass., he first saw the light of earth i Harvard vised ry-two years ago as a Bachelor of Arts. Gottingen gave him her highest univer- sity degree sixty-nine years ago. Heidelberg appreciated his genius by a patent of intellec- tual nobility sixty-seven years ago. The Rev- erend Aaron Bancroft, who doled out doctrine and theology for souls thirsting after righteous- ness and mammon, saw in his hopeful progeny an intellectual capability which made him feel opulent in the detlected blessings which had fallen upon his gon. In traversing the long retrospect of life measured by the years of the active career of George Bancroft, we go back to the school-house, a citadel of ‘knowl- edge which crowned Round Hill in old North- | ampton, Mass., sixty-five yoars ago. A wi pastor and himself divided the honors of the ferrule and for six years propelled the cause of education by its vigorous application to the boyhood seat of learning, as necessity and lag- ging application to study suggested, Fitty- nine years ago he received the suffrages of his friends for the legislature, but refused the honor after he was clected. Fifty-five years ago the first volume of his history of the United States appeared. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. President Polk made him his Secretary of the Navy forty-four years ago, which period was characterized by the foundation of the naval academy at Annapolis, He was minister to Great Britain in 1816-9, He was negotiator for the liberal treaties of navigation and allegiance to Russia in 1867, the North German confedera- tion in 1868, and was the first American minis- ter to the court of the new German empire in 1871. In 1874 he was recalled at his own re. quest and a year after transferred h to Washington. The fifteen been so fullof honors and satisfe aged historian’s constant lament has he did not settle at the capital when 1 hither Secretary of the Navy, nearly a half century ago. as HIS FAMILY. In those remote days of social life Secretary and Mrs. Bancroft, who was a daughter of U. 8. Senator John Davis, known Hones} John,” were conspicuous factors in the ties of the capital. During the later life of the historian in Washington his second wife, who was the widow of a gentleman of fortune. pre- sided over his household with exceptional . Bince her death the increasing burden ears has not been lightened by the sympa- nd affection of his children, His eldest n, John Chandler Bancroft, who has been a member of his father's household with his wife and children for some time. is more in- terested in Boston t in Washington, and asses much of his t there, leaving his family here. A younger son has never crossed the domestic threshold since he incurred his father’s disfavor when he married in Paris twenty and more years ago. The woman who caused this irreparable breach between father and son proved a devoted wife. She is now dead, Two beautiful daughters live to epeak of and cherish a motherly tenderness and solicitude for their care and training. One is Madame Russillion, wife of an officer of the French courts. The other is our own Suzanue, who left her Parisian home as e@ new link of affection between father and son, who shone so brilliantly at her grandfather's side as lady of his house, who was one of the brightest belles of two seasons ago, the maiden companion of Mary Endicott, now Mrs, Joseph Chaniberlain, the herione of the social sensation of last year’s season as Pauline Fuller is of this, and now just entered the conservative sphere of maternity. The 2dof March witnessed the advent of a little stranger, whose name will be George Bancroft Carroll. When Suzanne Bancroft left her grandfather's home « maid and by pri dispensation returned a wite 8 busy tongue had much tosay. A honeymoon in Paris, a home in Washington and a son to per- petuate the name and perhaps the fame of ther randsire are events associated with a happy usband and a devoted wife. While the mental energies of the illustrious Bancroft are ebbing away in isolation almost from those of his own blood, he finds his 2 greatest consolation in his step-son, Col. Alex- | ander Bliss, a gentleman of culture and learn- ing, who was secretary of legation at Berlin when Mr. Bancroft was minister. For a time he made his residence with Mr. Bancroft, but for the past few years, since Mrs, Bancroft’s death, he has lived at the West End. His daughter, Miss Bliss, is one of the favorites among the CAiaty 3 ladies in society. A son is now a student at law in Baltimore. Col, Bliss isa daily visitor at the Bancroft mansion, and devotes much of his time to the aged historian, whose sunset of life is so lonely and sad. DeB. R. K. —————_+e+______ Times Go by Turns. 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