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A RECOKD OF MURDER. Death’s Account as Ledgers of the Criminal Court. f THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY. AUGUST 31, 1889—TWELVE PAGES. in causing the death of George Byron ary 8 last convicted andsentenced to five years Shown by the | in the penitentiary. Benjamin Hawkins is now under sentence of ‘aeuucon Jonny 31 next for the murder of his PIFTY-FoUR cases oF HOMICIDE THaT Have | Wife Cora on March 14 last. COME To THE DOCKETS IN FOUR YEARS—sOME THAT WERE IGNORED BY THE GRAND JURY— THE PENITENTIARY AND THE GALLOWS. Frederick Pinkney is now under indictment for the murder of James eer 27 last. Henry Johnson, charged with the murder of Enoch on June 29, is in jail. Joseph Shorter is awaiting trial for the killing The frequency of cases of homicides and as-| of Edward Smith on July 4. saults with intent to kill coming before the Patrick Burke is charged with the killing of Criminal Court indicate that the increase of | Walter Duvall July 29, but is out on bail. such crimes is fully in proportion to the in- Crease of population. In criminal dockets, 16 and 17, in the clerk's office, there are entries from August, 1885, to August, 1889, of fifty-four homicide cases, but a number of these were ig- HOW THEY BEAT THE SHYLOCKS. The Clerks in the Agricultural Depart- ment Borrow at Reasonble Rates. Bored by the grand jury and in some the trials | HOW DEPARTMENT USURERS ADD TO THEIR IN- resulted in acquittals, The first on the list is the case of the Italian, Antonio Nardello. alias Michael Ross, alias Frank Koss, convicted of the murder of a fellow countryman, Carmine Botunno, in August, 1885, by cutting with a razor. Rotunno was enticed from his lodgings toan old shanty near the new reservoir and | ghviock, murdered for his money. Nardello was hanged at the jail May 28, 1886. The other cases in the order of their occurrence are as follows: Rob- ert Bowie for killing Fielder Bowie, September 20, 1885; case ignored by the grand jury. John Mahoney, killing Patrick Bennett No- vember 16, 1835, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced os 19th following, to im jail oes tonal. killing Gottlieb Eisenbeiss and Christina Somerfield November 23, 1885, convicted and executed April 30, 1386. R. J. Lee alias Dick Sparrow, for killing his wife, Mary Lee, November 23, 1885, convicted and executed April 30, 1886. Lee was jealous of his wife and shot her. Richard Norton, for killing Frank Barnes December i4, 1885, tried February 17, 1886, and acquitted. ae xeo. W. Seamond alias Simonds, indicted for Manslaughter in causing the death of John Biuebaker, March 23, 1886, was found not guilty April 7. : & Henry Walker, for manslaughter in causing the death of Jas. Brooks March 23, 1886, was found not guilty. Delphine Tanelis was found by the coroner's 77 to have caused the death of Robt, Michel, a it without intent, on May 3, 1886, and the | terest became established by custom a great case was ignored by the grand jury. Jobn A. Owens, indicte: having caused the death 27, was found not guilty. Thos. Carter, for causing the death of Jas. Holmes July 26, 1886, was tried for manslaugh- ter and acquitted. The case of Jas. Brown for killing Jas. | a laborer in receipt of a princely stipend of $2 Thomas in September, 1886, was ignored by the grand jury. Andrew White, charged with the murder of Gottieib Shuse October 5, 1886, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to the pen- itentiary for ten years, Grant Slaughter. charged with killing Henry Yates in August. 1836. was discharged, the grand jury ignoring the case. Susan Clark, tried for the murder of George McQuay October 15, 1886, was convicted of mauslaughter and sentenced to the peniten- tiary for three years, George N. Walker, for killing John C. Miller December 14, 1836, was acquitted in January following on the theory of self defense. P George Holmes, for the murder of David Banks February 4, 1887. was July 6 following convicted of manxlaughter and sentenced to three years m the penitenuary. William Langston. for killing Henry Williams April 17. 1887. was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced in July following to two years im the Albany penitentiary. The case of Joseph Lee for killing Robert Robinson May 2. 1337, was ignored. The case of Mary A. Yates, for the murder of her infant April 29, 1847, was ignored. John Daley, forthe murder of Joseph C. G. Kennedy July 13, 187, was found not guilty by reason of insanity Beverly Jones, for the murder of R. E. Morris on September 4, 1887, was convicted of man- slaughter. Jonn Lee and Joseph Taylor, for the killing of Frank Waters August 14, 1887, were con- victed of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. Frank Heiderman and Peter Diggs were in- dicted for the murder of John Wanes but have not been tried, the first named having kept out of the way and Diggs being under recogni- zance. Albert Green, for the murder of James Lucas September 19, 1857, (what is known as the broom drill homicide) had two trials, was twice convicted and sentenced to be hanged aud his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. Lewis Williams, for the murder of ex-Police- man Alder October 2. 1387, has had two trials, the jury having disagreed on the first trial and is now under sentence of death, the date being January 21 next. This case is now in the Court in General Term. The case of J. M. Israel, for killing C. E. Mayer in October, 1587. was not acted on, the killing having been found by the coroner's jury to have been accidental. John T. Sullivan. for killing a man named Lipscomb in February, 1838, in Georgetown, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary at Albany for one year. James Jonuson was charged with mauslaugh- ter in causing the death of Mrs. Catherine O'Neal by driving over her with a buggy March 20, 1888. in Georgetown, and on convie tion aac to pay $100 fine and to ten days ip jall fhe colored coachman, — M. Chase, was convicted of manslaughter, by causing’ the death of Prof. E. A. Paul by riding over him on April 2, 1888, and sentenced to thirty days in jeil and a fine of 200, Albert Dodson, colored, was charged with the murder of Oscar Washington April 6, 1888, and on the first trial was convicted. The verdict was subsequently set aside on motion for a new trial. aud a plea of guilty of manslaughter having been accepted, he was sentenced to the penitentiary for nine and one half years, and opr a fine of $1,000. he case of Thomas Fitzgerald for killing Morris T. Reidy April 16, 1838. was ignored by the grand jury, the killing having been in self defence. Benjamin F. Kloffer was charged by the cor- ouer’s jury with having caused the death of Charles B. Ticlling on April 20, 1888, and in- dicted for manslaughter. On the trial the jury found a verdict of not guilt: William Briggs, colored, was convicted of the murder of William Jones May 3, 1888,—the killing growing out of a quarrel over a hat— and was sentenced to death on April 5 last. ‘The case, however, went up to the General ‘Term on motion for a new trial on exceptions and May 1 last the judgment was reversed. He will probably be tried again soon. Moses Brent charged with the murder of Charles Parker June 3, 1888, was in the October following convicted of manslanghter and sen- tenced to five years in the penitentiary. Frederick Barber was charged with the mur- der of Agnes Washington, his former mistress June 23, 1883, by pushing her into the C. and ©. canal in Georgetown. He was convicted but on motion in arrest of judgment the case when to the general term, where it was argued atthe lastterm. There has been-no decision yet. Ellen Chase, colored woman, was charged by a verdict of acoroner’s jury with causing the death of Anna Wheeler, colored, on June 28, 1898, and was convicted of manslaughter. A motion for 4 new trial prevailed and she was released on bail pending another trial. James Payne dicted with Walker and James Tolliver for the murder of Robert Payne. August 6, 1888, was convicted of man- d for manslaughter in | the great majority of instances they were them- of N. W. Allen on June | selves employes of the department in which | slaughter and sentenced in January last to eight years in the penitentiary. ank Pickett, j ‘tkins, Alex. Jones aud Samuel Broodus were charged with the murder of Charles Bailes and convicted of mansiaughter. Sentenced to five years, Watki others to three years each. Grace Smallwood was charged with the mur- der of her uewly-born infant September 5, 1888, and was sentenced to be hanged. An appeal was taken to the General Term by aaa ha President Hacrison meanwhile commuted her sentence to imprisonment for life. Owen Clarke was charged with having cansed the death of A. J. Rollis September 16, 1888, but the grand jury ignored the charged. Nelson Colbert, for the murder of Philij Wenzel in October, 1888, was convicted an: the death sentence was carried into effect. The murdered man was a boxs at the Columbia car stables and had suxpended Colbert for drunk- enness. and after some words Colbert shot Wenzel, who was an oid man. William Warren, for killing Wm. Brown on October 31, 1588, was found guilty of man- slaughter and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. f Robert Logan, for killing his wife on Novem- ber 4, 1888. was tried for murder i couvieted of manslaughter, was five years at Albany. Jones was sentenced to it who killed vital Taylor Carey, the colored his brother Isaac at the Free: o's hospital on December 28, 1398, saved a fosecueees the trouble and expense of a by dying at the jail a few weeks ago. The deceased was a nurse ‘at the hospital aud was shot with a bull-dog to four and | the interest in half that time COMES—RELENTLESSLY PURSUING THE UNFOR- TUNATE—LOANS AT EXORBITANT RATES—THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATION. “This was away to thrive * * * And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.” When Shakespeare's grasping character, uttered the foregoing words he placed in the mouths of thousands who followed him in his calling as an usurer an argument that allowed them to turn the perplexities and suf- ferings of their fellow beings into opportuni- ties for personal enrichment. Even the name has descended to the present day in conjune- tion with the character which was present in the original—he who preferred a pound of flesh to ten times the amount of money due him. Other cities have Shylocks, but they are more numerous here in a small way because the opportunities are more numerous and more alluring than elsewhere. Your modern usurer follows the department clerk as per- sistently asa hungry shark cuts the water in the wake of a sailing vessel. For many years past the most important per- sons in the government departments have been those who had money which they would lend to those who had none whenever the penniless could bring themselves to imagine that a small loan for a brief period was not too expensive a luxury in which to indulge. As soon as the practice of lending money at high rates of in- many persons embarked in the business. In was their tield of operation, and it must not be supposed that the banker was always the most exalted personage in the little official commu- nity of which he was a part. Often he was only a day, and quite as frequently he was a mes- senger with but a slightly-increased pay-roll remuneration. Sometimes, to be paradoxical, he was @ woman. These people were born wreckers; they had no souls and they could smile benignly while a victim was paying to them the last cent in his or her possession, IN THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. In a general way Shylock still flourishes and waxes fatat the unchangeable rate of 10 per cent per month, with no loans for a lesser period, but he is almost an unknown quantity in the Agricultural department today. But a little while ago—less than two years—he was a power almost to the degree of omnipotence, He was receiving from the department a small monthly sum im return for services rendered. By pradence and economy he had saved alto- gether about $600, and with this little capital he was adding to his store at the rate of $70 a month. He wasa bigger man than the com- missioner, but he was too grasping and is wholly responsible for his own downfall. He had one cterk in his clutches to a considerable extent and the grip was at length so tight that the victim cried aloud to his friends to save him from his merciless oppressor. Assistant Statistician B. W. Snow heard him and when the matter had been briefly discussed a few of the more prominent employes were called to- gether toconter ou and to debate a proposi- Uon submitted by Mr. Snow. FOR MUTUAL PROTECTION. It was very easily seen and understood that a few clerks hada little surplus income after their liabilities were all discharged and everybody knew that there were many clerks who were financially behind and who, burdened by ex- orbitant rates of interest, never could catch up. There must be a remedy somewhere; a compensatory something which would enable those with a surplus to aid their less fortunate fellows without saddling themselves with doubts, fear or probable losses. ‘The meetin; resulted in the organization of the Mutu: Savings and Loan Association. Stock was pur- chasable at the rate of $2.50 per month per share, and the total issue was limited to twenty shares, of which no one person could hold more than twoshares. It was soon discovered that the issue was insufficient, so at another meeting it was doubled and very speedily taken. @ months from the time of the first meeting there were $900 in the coffers of the association, and with this it was decided to commence business. Payment on the shares was stopped and employes of the department were notified that the association was BEADY TO MAKE SMALL LOANS at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, Welcome news was that to many a struggling one, but it almost froze the vitals of the man who, on acapi- tal of $600, was earning at least $840 a year in addition to bis salary. Deep in his soul he de- nounced the new scheme as a trust, and when he found it was on a solid basis he endeavored to have it for his very own. He went at once to the treasurer of the association and tempted him by offering to borrow the entire $900 at an interest of 20 per cent. His offer was rejected and then he wanted the association to borrow his $600 and to pay him 10 per cent for it. This was a big drop—from 120 per cent down to 10— but he was willing to be accommedating. Both offers were rejected with scorn. CUSTOMERS COMING IN, For a while some of the impecunious clerks bung back; they did not want to expose their weakness to the board of directors, through whom only could loans be procured; but as the difference in the amount of interest to be paid was too great to admit of argument they soon made their selection und application, From the fund money can be borrowed on different ropositions by different individuals, Mem- ja of the association may borrow to the value of three-fourths uf their stock, and the inter- est charged is only 6 per cent; when they get beyond that proportion of their stock value they pay the higher rate of interest on the extra loan. A promissory note and an order on the disbursing officer is good enerally for an amount not exceeding €50. mn an ordinary note with a good indorsement— “gilt-edged paper,” the worldly call it—almost any amount in the treasury can be had, but as arule the salary of the applicant has much to do with the size of the loan. Very rarely, in- deed, isit necessary to present the security order to the disbursing officer, but the practice of de- manding it from the borrower is continued, because it nails down all chances of a skin game being played upon the association. Twice id the association run the risk of losing #5— the borrowers having been discharged—but the treasurer was up and doing, and while the stockholders (many of whom are ladies) held their breath at the possibility of such an overwhelming financial disaster he suc- ceeded by ‘his eloquence in securing repayment of the money. The association, therefore, has never lost a cent, and, what is more extraordinary, it never paid a cent for ex- penses, Even its books were donated, When the balance was struck on the first year’s busi- ness it was discovered that 1 per ceut more than the schedule had been made. This was due to the fact that no loans are made for less than in September, 1888, | thirty days, while it is a not uncommon thing for a borrower to return the principal and pay ; then the money goes out again, The showing is made the more tavorable because stockholders are o1 per- mitted to withdraw half the profit which ac- crues to their bonds. OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. It is either 4 sad commentary on the gal- lantry of mankind or a ‘splendid tribute to the unselfishness of Agricultural department women that while the great majority of stockholders are of the feminine gender, the officers of the association are all men, and that the board of directors, with one exception, is composed of mon and, being | p! The Dally Life of the Man Who Selis| The Annual Gathering at the White | A Tramp from Fruit and Peanuts. OF FASHION IN CANDIES—JUDGMENT HE HAS TO ‘USE IN SELECTING HIS STOCK. “It looks easy enough, but it’s'not so easy as it looks,” is what an. Italian, the proprietor of a fruit stand, said when asked bya Stan re- porter about his business. The fruit vender was seated at a three-cornered stand. Around him were piled foreign and domestic fruits of all kinds, and fancy candies made to catch the children's pennies. He was almost hidden from public gaze as he sat among the heaps of tempting wares, but the footsteps of the re- porter brought him to his feet and into view. “No,” the Italian continued, “it’s not such an easy thing to remain about a stand ail day as it looks. From early morning until late at night the stand has to be ‘kept open. So that all the rest a person in this business gets is six hours a day. In the summer I have to stand the hot sun all day long, and at night the bright lights attract the mosquitoes and they make it more unpleasant than the heat, In the winter time, with cold winds, rains and snow storms, it is even worse. The blinds can't be put up.for then the stock of goods cannot be seen and there would be nothing to attract custom. MAKING A SHOW. “In this business,” he said, ‘the show made of the goods on the stand is everything. It is not like a grocery store, where persons are obliged to go and make regular purchases. Sales in this business are made generally to Persons who are attracted by the artistic man- ner in which the choice fruits are displayed on the stand. Of course, the transient trade has to be relied upon to keep up the business, but in many neighborhoods the pennies spent by children really apport the standa. In teaking purchases much care and judgment has to be used. A person must know from experience what sort of fruits suit his trade, and then he must be sure to get fruit in such condition that it will not decay in a short time. For instance, in the purchase of a bunch of bananas you must be careful to get a bunch ot fruit not too green. Bananas that are too green never ripen to advantage and they become a dead loss to the dealer. SELECTING CANDIES FOR THE TRADE. “And such is the case with other sweets sold,” continued the dealer. ‘When a box of peaches or pears or a barrel of apples is pur- chased they have to be counted out, picked over and assorted. Each assortment brings a different price, and it takes careful figuring to make both ends meet. “The same rule,” he continued, “is applicable to the purchase of candies. If bad judgment is used the purchase proves expensive. Candy for such business does not have to be selected always for its real quality, It must please the | whims of the young folks. The children will for a week or two purchase ‘taffy ou a stick.’ The next week they want something different, so that it is not always well to carry too large a stock of one kind of candy. Prize popcorn and other prize packages have a better run among the younger children.” THE PATRONS OF THE STAND, “Who are your patrons?” the reporter in- quired. “They are confined to no particular class,” replied the vender. ‘You see, it Sa upon the time of day. Inthe morning I catch the trade of the clerks on their way to the depart- ments, Many of them, mostly ladies, stop and purchase fruit to take to the office with them usa part of their luach. They always want the finest fruit to be obtained. and are generally willing to pay good prices. Such trade is good in pleasant weather, but in bad weather it is lost because the clerks take the street cars, Then the clerks in the stores are good custom- ers. Asa rule they are not so particular as the oftice clerks, and are willing to take smaller fruit at a lower price. Along during the day and evening the candy trade is good, for it is then that the children get their pennies. ing the day many persons out shopping stop and get a couple of peaches or pears instead of going to alunch room. In the afternoon the newsboys and bootblacks come around. They are not particular as to looks, ‘They want ail they can get for @ penny and will buy the rough and knotty fruit. If they get two or three peaches or pears for a penny they are perfectly satisfied.” THE PEANUT TRADE. ‘How about the peanut trade?” ‘Well, that's about the same the year around,” he answered. “I sell what people don’t help themselves to. You kuow it’s a habit with people when they muke a purchase to take a handful of peanuts, and indeed it is not an unusual thing for per- sons to scoop up a peanut or two as they pass by. During the day the sales are pretty foot. bat the night time is when I expect to sell pea- | nuts. During the theater season the sale: greatly increase. Many theater-goers, or many of them who do not carry peanuts inside with them, will buy them on their way home. I remember the time when it was not an unu- sual thing to sell a two-busbel bag of peanuts in one evening. After the theaters are closed there is still business. Many men visit the fruit stands as lateas midnight and buy a bag of fruit and peanuts to carry home to their wives. That is the last trade for thenight. ‘The lights are lowered and the stand is closed until the following morning. ——_»—__ Saturday Smiles. A man may be very great and very good, and then not attract half the attention that a cap- tured horse thief does.— Milwaukee Journal. Binks—‘‘Jones, you ought to be a dress maker. “Why?” \—'‘So easy to ruffle, you know.”—Kear- ney Enterprise, Husband (impatiently)—“What is the reason my wife don’t come down? I thought she was most ready to go to the ball half an hour ago.” e will be ready in a minute, She has been changing her color.”—Tezas Sift ‘What are you doing nowadays?” ‘Nothing. Living on my wits. ‘Poor fellow! Come and take dinner Binghamton Republican, “I live mostly within myself,” said a con- ceited fellow. nd,” replied his neighbor at the ‘you occupy a flat.”—Tezas Siftings, Mrs. Westend puts on tremendous airs,” remarked Mrs. Riverside Rives to Mrs. Morris Parke; “she calls her cook u ‘chef.’” “The idea!” replied Mrs. Parke. “Why, she only pays her #16 a month!”—Puck. Mr. Bultitude—“Young Mr. Pawdle wants me to give him ition in the office, Flora, a acquainted with him. Is he a man of rains! Flora—“Really, papa, I don’t know. I've never met him except in society.”—Omaha Wortd- Herald, Diggs—*‘8o you've rented your new house, have you, Figgs? Got a good tenant?” igs (promptly)—“ First class.” Diggs—"‘Ah, but how do you know?” Figgs—‘He's making all his own repairs,”— Philadelphia Inquirer, Mr. Kilrain’s friends say that it will not take so much to bail him out as it did to bail out Sullivan. Kilrain never got so full.—Norris- town Guest.—‘And you are the proprietor of this hotel, are you? Why, I was here last d I didn’t think you owned it then; Proprietor.—‘‘O no, I wasone of the waiters, though, '—Time, ‘Travers (to office boy)—‘Johnny, did you take that check down to my tailor’s?” Johnuny—“Yes, sir.” Travers—‘‘What did he do when you gave it to him?” Johuny—“He fainted.”—Clothier and Furn- Visitor—“T e it was because you were sadly tried by adversity that you are confined Febru-} KEEPING A CORNER STAND. |THE CHIVALRY OF THE SOUTH. Sulphur Springs. 4 MAMMOTH HOTEL AND ITS PICTURESQUE 8UR- ROUNDINGS—THE FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF A NEW ARRIVAL—THE SULPHUR SPRING AND THE SWIM- ‘MING POOL—-SOCIAL PRE-EMINENCE OF THE PLACE Correspondence of Tu EVENING Stan. Waite Sutravur Srrixos, Grexnsaier Country, W.Va., August 29, A pleasant surprise is in store for the sum- mer saunterer who first visits the White Sul- phur Springs. He may have been previously familiar with other resorts that are clustered around the copious mineral springs with which the Alleghany elevations are sorichly endowed. But the White Sulphur is in some respects in the lead of all the pleasure resorts of the south. In approaching this favorite and favored spot the tourist is much jostled and pressed and crowded in the throng upon the railway train, but, once set down at the Grand Central hotel, all the discomforts arising from contracted spaces are permanently at an end. Even the long van that meets him at the railway station and carries him to the hotel is said by the facetious porter never to have refused to take in one more passenger. The public rooms, corridors, piazzas and apart- ments are unusually spacious. ‘The visitor is confronted b: scene of unwonted anima- tion. Especially will this be remarkable if he has been sojourning for the past seventy days in a remote valley where he has not heard in that time the whistle of a steam engine nor the rush of a railway train. Here as he alights the band is playing and the company of dis- tinguished-looking men who are taking eas attitudes of elegant indifference in the brii- liant light makes the tourist begin to think he has arrived at a big New York hotel in the height of the winter season. He is ushered into a reception room that opens directly from the piazza, a parlor maid brings a tablet and pencil for him to write his name upon and then an aged porter takes up his hand-baggage and moves up a grand staircase and the guest follows him up and along an inside corridor. On and on, and the two are _passiig doors numbered in the seven and eight hundreds, and the new arrival thinks there must soon be a terminus to this wooden walk iwthe very near future. After a short walk upon a romantic-looking balcony that is flooded with soft moonlight and upon which the cool night air from Kate’s mountain is blowing, the sable guide stops at a glass door and ushers his charge into the main room of a suite of apartments that are richly furnished. Left alone the wanderer, exhausted with his long tramp, goes to bed and sleeps soundiy, THE HOTEL AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, The hotel is set in an extensive amphitheater surrounded by acluster of the Alleghany's peaks. This valley is 2,000 feet above tide water, and the summits of ‘the heights that stand guard about it tower still 1,500 feet farther toward the eternal blue. The main building isa long pclarn dod in Seay three stories in hi a capped by a domed observatory. It faces the northwest and has a new wing that looks south- west, in which are the offices, a reception room and reading rooms and telegraph offices. There are no inside halls of any length on the first floor, as the piazza is a continuous promenade on three sides of the building. ‘Ihe dining room occupies the chief portion of the main building and is over 300 feet in length. The only way persons are able to find their tables again after having been assigned places is by attending to the numbers that are posted upon the columns that support the frescoed ceiling. The room is lighted by are electric lights, and French doors open at convement intervals upon the piazza. To the immediate rear are located the kitchens, arecent improve- ment, and only tully appreciated after living in an old-time Virginia hostelry where the pro- pristor plumes his pride upon having his sul- ery in remote cabins from which it is not pos- sible to bring dishes in palatable to the table. At the north end of dining room is the ladies’ parlor, a handsomely appointed chamber that is almost a» large again as the east room in the White House, At the opposite and southern end is the ball room, passed syria in size to the parlor, The grounds about the hotel are picturesquely beautiful, inclosed by the close copse of the mountains that extends in a thick brushwood far upon their bases. A GIRDLE OF WHITE PORTICOED COTTAGES encircles the sward. In general style these cot- tages are all one story in height, but many of them are set upon high, open lattice-work bases, and the airy balconies are reached by long flights of wooden steps. The large, white folcumanie teat support the roofs give an effect of colonial dignity to the cottage architecture. Rugs and curtains hung from pillar to post give a pleasant privacy to the inevitable ham- mock that so greatly assists in breaking down the barriers of formal reserve between young people. The green sward intervening between the cottages and the hotel is traversed by walks and drives, brightened by borders of blooming plants, and benches are built under the ouk, elm and pine trees that are near the tennis courts, where the beaux and belles in fantastic garb disport themselves in the morn- ing hours. The shops and the post office are in a detached row, west of the hotel and near to the spring. Guests at the hotel must go to the general post office for mail. THE SPRING rises in a deep well. the limpid water flowing at the rate of 30 gallons in a minute, and it is protected by a hemispherical roof raised upon eight Coriuthian columns. ‘The floor about the edge of the spring isof marble, and an iron wicker work surrounds the waters. There are no seats, A boy in attendance plunges a wire cage set with tumblers and fastened to the endof a pole into the well and brings it up, the glasses brimming with the cool, greenish- yellow water that is really a most delightful beverage. Near the classical temple dedicated to sulphur water isa pretty wooden structure of the Queen Anne period DEVOTED TO SWIMMING, In it are two pools—one for women, the other and larger one for men. The water is brought from a distant mountain aid is heated to the desired temperature. The man in charge said his place was always well patron- ized when there were no morning germans at the hotel. The regular suiphur baths are pre- pared in a dilapidated two-story building and are scarcely given in a style consistent with the elegance of all the other appointments of the place, from which one may infer that com- paratively few of the guests visit the White Suiphur for the baths. On the lower floor of the house baths are farnished the men, and on the upper floor the bath rooms are for the use of women. The water used is furnished from the drinking spring and is heated by steam in the bath tub, where the patient li the process is considered a 5 Hee improve- ment over the old methods of heating medi- cated waters. But when everything has been said of the potent natural charms of the White Sulphur Springs it will be found that its social pre-emi- nence is its great drawing card. For more than a hundred years the A gh hmve been a place of pleasure resort. The Shawnee Indians be- fore that date used to assemble here in annual council and declaim of the warlike feats of their ancestral braves. After the Shawnees had moved away out into the west a courtly gentle- man of the old school took possession of the place and reared substantial buildings for the accommodation of his guests, who increased in numbers as the country grew in importance and wealth. For over one hundred years de- scendants of the same families have been com- ing here, and the society that assembles every year is now composed of the best-known people of the south, But somehow that old Indian eat the the or white, with tacular effec FORT PENDLETON. 4A BEAUTIFUL AND ROMANTIC PATH IX THE MOUN- TAINS—NOVELTY MADE THE GOING EASY, BUT THE RETURN WAS FATIGUING TO FEMINIXE FEET—RICH AND ABUNDANT FLORA. Special Correspondence of Tre EVENING Stan. Fort Pexpietox, August 28, I must correct an error of my first sketch. The Brentanos sent me maps of Maryland, Vir- ginia and West Virginia. All cover Garrett county, and on that of Maryland Fort Pendle- ton is noted. It is omitted from both the others. I explored the fort the other day. The shaley rock and slaty hard-pan walls re- main, little worn by the elements. The dug way exit and approach—is it called the rav- elin?—from the northeast angle, where was a block house, runs down the hill through woods the third of mile to the Laurel, near its junction with the Potomac (whence water might have been procured), originally deep enough to cover men walking along its bottom. The earth and rock thrown out on the south- erly side seem to have formed a glacis, along which was once a well-worn way. I found it— long unused—broken, tangled and wild. Per- severing I broke through. made my way down astony declivity, and landed on the one street of ancient Elkins, a century old, dropped into the crypt-like valley of the Laurel. Its post office still retains its name and the Gorman station stands on that side of the Potomac. A Mr. Hoffman, a man of enterprise, and with his associates commanding ample capital, has laid hold of the West Virginia side. e river running northerly at this point, where it takes the Laurel, turns sharply eastward, the en- closed angle is low lying and approaches a level. Here Hoffman HAS PLANTED THE NEW TOWN. Here he has constructed an immense tan- nery. He has gathered the waters of seven or eight springs at the base of the foot hills 1m & convenient reservoir at a hvight to give ample pressure for his works and the houses his workmen, half a hundred of which are in various stages of completion. There has been a wide destruction of the grand old oaks and hemlocks of these mountain woods, and all sorts of wheeled vehicles go groaning over the rocky ways freighted with bark. The Hoff- mann company have a tannery at Wheeling and an immense harness manefactory at Davenport, whither the product of this tan- nery is to be shipped, s0 it is said. The chief at Gorman has another, a no-less interesting and, perhaps, a more’ difficult enterprise in hand—a suit to the real mistress of Fort Pen- dleton, the second daughter of the house—a horse tamer— A GIRL OF THE DI VERNON ORDER. Tall, commanding, finely molded and at her best on a spirited charger, one could easily fancy her riding at the head of a charging squadron of cavalry, her dark eyes flashin, scorn in the faces of the foe. It is his one af- ir and the signs are noted by the half-score of literarily-inclined intellectual ladies of the house and others. The suitor is well looking, of large means, and seems to know what he is about. The maiden may have had romantic fancies, but she is certainly a capable woman, and not without a woman's reasonable ambi tions. A mile above new Gorman is still newer Barrett, or, rather, W. A. Barrett, jr., & Co. They or he in possession as lessee of the Smith- Pendleton estate. The precipitous left bank of the Potomac depresses itself at the mouth of a runlet, making space for Barrett along the rail- road. The townlet is near a year old. A new from the old pike. There is the largest retail store in all this wild mountain region and it is advertised in black and yellow on every large trec and ‘rock near every roadside within twenty miles of it. Barrett is a pleasant, per- sistent, restless young man from the north who understands proclamations. He has a coal mine and the inevitable saw mill. A long row of houses along the end of his new road is rushing to pe, gargs Meantime, whatever may be the result of pending litigation over the Smith-Pendleton mountains. Barrett, jr.. & Co. are in a lively way of realizing their avail- able resources, We rather like Barrett, his pleasant superintendent, Pickens, and the new town. A mile above Barrett, on the right bank of the Potomac, on another little depression caused by the inflow of the Buffalo creek, is Bayard, below which the railroad crosses to the West Virginia side. A little older than Barrett, more populous, its industry is lum- bering and @oaling—that ‘is to be.’ I found also that they were shipping large quantities of spruce in the log, cut into five-foot sections, to be turned into paper pulp at Piedmont, where @ factory is in successful operation, HUNTING OUT AN OLD FOREST ROAD one day, across and over which was a lumber- ing trail, in the scarred depths of the wood I came upon a “skid way” built over a rocky glen, evidently once much used. Mounting it I discovered a well-built newish wooden tram- way leading southerly toward the Potomac and evidently now unused. The oak plank floor was inviting for a walk, over and eoagh the ever-present laureland rhododendron. in one of the noblest of forests,though marred by the ax came to where it struck the rocky valley of what I came to know as *‘Hoy’s creek,” which at this point turns short toward the river, along which and over the limpid waters of the con- siderable stream, which went skipping and leaping in musical cascades, the tramway ran for a considerable distance. The discovery, for such it was to us, pro- duced a mild commotion in our serene yet ap- preciative company, and a day or two later I was permitted to guide x small party of ladies | over the old (a hundred years old at least) to- bacco field, fringed and ringed by the sur- rounding forest, across the woods ‘to the skid way. ALAS, NOT A MORTAL WOMAN would attempt to walk the broad upper surface of the largest skid over the shallow chasm to the inviting plankway. Wallace, ihe Irish set- ter, and Old Smoke, the colly, wagged their tails along and over even the smaller skids, jointly and severally, many times, but the ladies were not persuaded, and there was nothing for it but to cut and teara way up the vicious untimely little stream to a depressed place in its banks, extemporize a bridge over its chan- nel, there running more than a foot wide and fully an inch deep, and tear up the steeper other side and into and down an old log road and I was more than rewarded by the several and altogethery ecstacies of the ladies when their biessed feet were all on the oak—blessed by their being on it. Howsmooth and inviting the way, and ‘they all ran pattering over the well-adjusted plank, every eager mother and maiden of them, with no thought or care of the whither or distance to go, The way turned mysteriously. The —_ was inclined a good deal in places, The ladies were more inclined all the way. What wondering at Hoy’s creek! At points the way was fully 15 feet above the noisy little creek. ‘WOULD IT GIVE WAY UNDER THEM?” No matter; they gave themselves away and went on. They soon reached a part of the for- est where the spuiling ax had not struck; where the huge hemlocks, the dark spruce, oaks, ma- ples and other trees stood—tall, thick and dark— making gruesome twilight at midafternoon, “Ugh? how weir then there was the Browns’ road winding down the wooded hill. “WHERE DID THAT Go?” The tramway went direct to Bayard, took a tury up amid wreck and debris, took another turn, run over the river, now dark with the laurel, and crossed the railroad. It did not take long to do Bayard, to discuss its “mountain and the sobered ladies turned their faces back. ‘The run down was memorable. So many strange and wondrous ‘ey many strange and wonderfal trees! But that going back, every step up hill and still more up, never be forgotten. «What did you mean bringing us here?” This to poor me. re, the distance was talked uy peated Mra. P. “A mile and a half?” weary and indignant Mrs. R. “A mile and a m lulously asked sno’ There to the Village of | flora Bayard. stone road zigzags a fourth of a mile down | and saw of the lumberer. Passing along it I soon | orchids, Had I chids” I m another—an exaggerated immortelle plant,leaf | and flower, all a downy white, only it emits | when pressed a rank odor. In the old field | below the spring. where stands the old log whisky still, all abandoned to nature, who is doing what she can to hide and beautify it, | planting trees close about it, making greener er especial favorite, the grass around it, I FOUND A SEW WHITE patsy, 80 it looked—the same round yellow disk, sur- | rounded by a single circle of white petals, only it was borne by an utterly different-looking | plant. There is, inan abandoned opening by the old pike, an improved form of the so- commoy white daisy, specimens of which were brought in by Miss Randolph, The two outer had become petals—flower leaves—so that there | Were three circles of them, the second nar- rower than the first and the inner were white | world. Could its advocates assemble the a floral —_ congress at Fort | Pendleton it would become the emblem of the imperial republic. I never saw the branched | Variety so imposing. The stalk rises often five or six feet, and its five, six or seven sprays reach off like the leaves of the royal palm, It i iturdy tree. The outer ends of the sprays are just now touchefl, coated with fairy gold the whole upper leaf-like sur- face. It is impossible to believe that the splen- dor is due to innumerable floweretts, as it is, spects lovelier plume variety—I call it, All the flowers open all perfect at the same time— | agolden, gorgeous plume—such as Michael's | soldiers might have worn in Milton's battles of | heaven. We also have the umbeilous variety— | the flowers in ahead, Certainly it is not the white, more like the second. The effect is not great White flowers, to be imposing, must ave large petals like the water lily or wake robin. wane are but a few of the to me un- known flowers of these now crowned and gar- landed mountains, valleys and hillsides, * THE GREEN DRAGON. The Mock Parliament That Holds Its Sessions There. From Harper's Magazine. Awalk of two minutes down Fleet street beled on the lamp “The Green Dragon” and | wearing the appearance of @ public house and | tavern, which it is, Across the window is in- scribed in permanent letters “The Temple | Discussion Forum. Established 1667.” And underneath is posted up every morning a paper announcing the subject of the evening's debate and inviting strangers to enter and engage in the discussion. This is the oldest by more than acentury of the existing discussion forums, and until recently was the most crowded and most interesting of them all. It is no longer so re- sorted to by the debaters and habitues of the | old type. Their falling off is probably due to | two causes: first, the recent death of Mr. Ross, the chairman who had watched over its councils for more than twenty years with great ability and, secondly, the modernizing and tif’ ing of their assembly room bas, perhaps, caused the old habitues to feel themselves no longer AT HOME UNDER THE OLD ROOF. My knowledge of the place, even from tra- dition, does not go beyond the period when Mr. Ross, the veteran chairman, guided its councils, “Old Ross,” as he was affectionately in many ways, Not only washe an admirable speaker, but. as chairman, he great tact. discernment and coolness, which were tests, as I show. He was a man of pro- and varied knowledge, one of the Best Greek scholars in the kingdom, a strong and graceful writer, and contributor to several of the leading periodicals of London, includ- ing, I think, the Times. With all these quali- ties he possessed another that eminently fitted him for his post; he knew how to combine the easy going ways of the Bohemian with the re- finement of ‘a gentleman, to be genial and responsive yet dignified and firm, to the most motley assembly, it seems to me, that was ever GATHERED TOGETHER IX ONE ROOM. It was quite by accident that I discovered the place one evening many years ago, when I dodged into an open doorway to escape a sudden shower. Down along passage was a leather- ; padded door with an oval glass window in it | marked ‘Discussion Forum.” I shall never for- | get my surprise and delight when I found my- self within, seated upon a bench of adamantine | hardness and looked about on the quaint old | room. It was long aud uarrow and low between | decks like the cabin ofaship and also like a ship, it had forms or settees along each wall be- hind a row of mabogany tables, and above, | near the ceiling was a row of square port holes tor windows. Two centuries of soot and to- bacco smoke had died the floor, the walls and ceiling, the wooden-bottomed chairs and forms to nearly the same color as the rude old fire- place. At the topof the room on a great muhogany and horse-hair throne, sat the chair- man, Old Ross, in his long gray beard like the figure of Father Time, but with a glass of steaming toddy before him instead of the tradi- tional hour glass and a very large pipe between his teeth. én the wall above Old bung a quaint old mirror flanked by A FINE PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON on one side and on the other by an elderly | gentleman in the costume of 1830 and wearing | various jeweled orders and decorations. The further decorations of the wall were limited to | framed placards with various tempting inserip- | tions, Here ale and stout were served in hi pewter tankards, spirits in glasses, hot water in antique metal pots with lids, replenished | now and then from a steaming kettle on the | hob. These delicacies were distributed by two perspiring waiters in draggled evening dress, | who flew about balancing trays of glasses and | pewters in a wonderful manner, and mum- | bling in undertones to their customers: “Two of Scotch for you, sir, Thanky, sir.” ‘Pint of bitter, sir. ‘uppence change, sir, Thanks.” | “Hot water, sir? Yes, sir,” all in a breath, | Everything in the room spoke of a bygone age, when the world was not so rectangular and commonplace as it is now But if the room was fascinating what shall I say of the people who sat smoking at a score of tables, waiting for the debate to begin? It was 4 company that would have delighted Hogarth and thrown Lavater into a frenzy. Such varie of heads, of physiognomy and make up, suc! strongiy-marked character and clear-cut indi viduality and wonderful clothes, one might go far to see. 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