Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1889, Page 8

A GROUP OF MOOSE. 4 MUSEUM ATTRACTION IN THE TAXIDERMIST’S HANDS, ——_—_—_ How the Big Animals Are Mounted— A Realistic Canadian Scene to be Prepared—The Trophies of Colonel Clay’s Rifle. a NE of the most etriking objects or collection of ¥ objects in ihe National museum is the Luge case containing what is known as the buffalo group, This represents asmall section of Mon- tana scenery, # spot in the prairie where there is a pool of water anda group of buffalo mounted by the taxidermist in Most life-like attitudes gathered about the pool. ‘The animals were secured by Mr. Hornaday in his famous bunt “for the last of the buffalo.” The scenic aceessories down to the last little tuft of prairie grass were arranged by Mr. Hornaday, and the buffalo were mounted by im. all in faithful conformity with nature, which he had ample opportanity for studying. Soon there will be piaced near this buffalo up another of equal size and importance. it will tell as well as one such coilection can the life history of the moose. Tae Stan last Saturday gave an seccount of some of the ex- loits of Col. Cecil Clay as a hunter in Canada. he moose group will be made up in part of trophies of his rifle, Already wome of the in- dividuals of the group of six have started into Ife-like attitudes in the taxidermist’s work rooms on the third door of the old armory building. The scene to be represented has been ali planned and sketched in black and white by Mr. Hornaday. Mr. Joseph Palmer, the taxidermist, is mounting the moose in the various attitudes they will assume in the com- leted group. Col. Clay, who has taken much interest in the work and has given personal di- rection to many of the details. bes gone on a trip to Canadian wilds, partly for the purpose of securing right from the spot where the moose were shot the trees, shrubbery, stumps and grass required to make the scene a truthful representation of what a stealthy hunter who could get near enough to sucha group of moose might actually have seen. IN THE TAXIDERMISTS’ ROOM. The larger of the rooms occupied by the taxi- dermist is now devoted almost entirely to the moose. In fact there is room on the floor for little else, but the walls and shelves are cov- ered with casts, drawings, skins, antlers and the many materials used by the taxidermist. On one shelf is a cast made from the head of a big moose, suowing the great development of the flexible nose, a provision of nature ‘which en- ables the animal to plow beneath the surface of the crusted snow in winter fn search of the foliage of bushes upon which it feeds in that season, and also aids as a horn to give volume and effect to its peculiar and prolonged bellow when culling to its mate, Ou low platforms on the floor stand the moose already mounted, or in process of mounting. The largest of the group is a cow and the taxidermist has about completed his work up on this animal. This is the huge erea- ture from the province of Ontario, shot for the museum by Col. Clay, and which measured six feet four inches in height at the withers. It is as largess a big horse and weighed 1.500 pounds. It is represeuwd with legs sumewhat spread and its short neck and long head stretched at an angle upward as if reaching ont to seize with its tongue and overhanging upper lip a leat or twig from the branch of # tree. ‘The shortness of the neck, the size of the head and length of the awkward looking limbs gives the creature a somewhat ungainly aspect but the taxidermist has stuck to the lines laid down by nature and not tried to improve upon "nature's handiwork. The neck is so short that it is with diticulty the animal gets its nose to the has to be put on and in this the skill of the tax- idermist fe severely tosted. “The skin baa in the first place to be removed with much care from the animal after itis shot. Then it has to be treaced carefully so as to preserve ali the natural color and aspect of the coat, and be kept in a flexible condition without either shrinking or stretching. Nature's tailoring is done with much nicety, and even when the tax- idermist has nature's own materials it is not an easy task to secure the same exactness of ft in one place or the soft fold in another as that whieh characterized the coat of the live animal, The workman has to study his subject thoroughly in order to have his reproduction ef nature look comfortable in its skin, The group, when mounted, will be repre- sented feeding ina clump of trees, birch and ash, such as might be found in the moose coun- try in northern Maine or. Outario in the au- tumn. ‘The glass case in which they will be placed will be of the same size as that inclosi the buffalo group—twelve by sixteen. In the fore- ground the big cow will stand reaching up and grasping at a twig with its tongue and lip. By it will stand the calf, and the yearling moose will be standing it protruding, litking the calfs forehead, other moose will be feeding near by, The bull moose still to be mounted in the workshop will be postured in what is perhaps the mort char- acteristic attitude. The moose when it cannot conveniently feed upon the leaves of a sappling by reaching upward. will throw its weight against the stem of the sappling. bend it down and walk astride of it, It will then feed at ease upon the succulent twigs aud loaves. ‘Phis per- formance is cailed in moose hunters’ parlance “riding down” a tree, and the moose yet to be rehabilitated will be re presented in the act of feeding on a sappling which it has ridden down, To prepare a group such as this is to be re- quires something more than the art once sup- posed to be sufficient to constitute au expert taxidermist. Not only has he to reproduce ex- put in all his natural surroundings, This, one might say, would be perfectly easy, if one could simply take trees aud moss, shrubs and turf from the forest and dispose them about the case, Tho dificulty is that mosses and grasses dry up and leaves wither and fall from dying branches, A gagup of moose, however natural their posturing, would loose some of their effectiveness if represented in the not of eating wax leaves. It has been a study with the taxidermist bow to use natives’ materials in this scene-setting part of the work. In the room adjoining the big one where the moose are a visitor can get some notion of how this will be do Mr. William Paimer is at work there preparing various groups of smal auimals and the scenic accessories—tre stumps with squirrels’ nests, clumps of rass with the nests of rabbits or ground, and instead of grazing as common cattle or deer do it feeds upon leaves from the tops of bushes or on the lower limbs of trocs, PUTTING ON THE COAT. When Tue Sram reporter visited the work room Mr. Joseph Palmer and his assistant, Mir. A. H. Forney. were at work giving a semblance of life to the legs of a yearling moose which is to form one of the group. Nearby stood an- other cow, about completed, and the eelf se- eured by Col. Clay with the big cow was off in &@ corner by itself ready to take its part in the @reat moove tableau. The calf, which was a Very young one, is distinguished, like its mother, by the length of its legs. A bull shot im Maine stood op the ways nearby, not yet ready to be launched. It was the most intercat- ing object in the room to one who wanted to see how » moose is made—that is a moose made by « taxidermist. It bad not bad its coat pat on yet. @ head was there. a genuine Moose skull with branching antlers and some deficiencies in the bony structure supplied by the skill of the taxidermist. The ee well rounded out and made in the perfect image of a moose was com a 80 faras the eye could see of fine “excelsior” wound and packed and pudded and moulded and wired into the form of muscles and flesh, There were the shoulders and the joints and the line of the back bone all brought out and well defined. The legs had for their founda- tion or base the leg bones of the moose re- articulated by the taxidermist and strengthened and supported by slender but strong iron rods bent into proper shape. About these bones were twined the muscies and tendons of “ex- celsior.” The taxidermist by utilizing the skull and bones of the animal secures oatlines and dimensions for which nature is responsible and cen not be questioned. This half-made bull is almost as large as the greatcow. Col Clay is Rot satisiied with its size, however, and hopes id mice and other reproductions of nature. RIDING DOWN A SAPLING, Thongh ona smaller scale these all require stady. like the moose group. and all bring up the question how to reproduce nature in the grasses and foliage. Once all such accessories were made from paper.wax, or wax «oth, which never wither or fall. Wax leave: are made in delicate molds or impressions taken from the natural leaves, but it takes a long time and much skill to make a leaf so perfect in form, coloring, and veining as to deceive the eye as to the counterfeit, Mr. Wm. Palmer has been experimenting with considerable success upon the natural leaves and grasses, with the view of having nature provide the form and veining at least. He has discovered that when the coloring matter is extracted from a leaf it does not wither and rollup. So he puts the leaf or grass to soak in a strong solu- tion which takes out all the green coloring matter. When the leaf is taken out it is almost perfectly white, but stiff and brittle. To remedy this he souks it in another solution which fills the minute pores from which the color was extracted and the leaf comes out flexible and tough. Then he has alesf perfect in form and marking, but white. He paints the white surface, restoring nature's color, and then has a good serviceable ‘leaf which can be attached toatwig and be war- ranted to withstand all the changes of seascns and never tocurl up or wither. The moose, when they are finally placed, will be repre- sented feeding on indestructible leaves of this kind. It may be some weeks before they reach this point. When they are all mounted in the taxidermisg’s work room they will bave to be lowered t6 the ground by way of the window, asitwill be quite out of the question to get the larger animals down the stairway. Then they will be taken to the be finally arranged in the big case, “GRASSHOPPER TOM.” The Clerks in the District Buflding Amused by the Antics of a Cat. The clerks at the District buildings get a good deal of fun out of the antics of a large black-and-white cat in an adjoining stone yard. From morning until night he may be seen cautiously picking his way among the large granite slabs in search of grasshoppers, Now and then he flushes one and then the fun begins. Tom watches when the grasshopper hghts and makes a flank movement be! resting place of the unsuspecting ini before the latter ha’ time to stretch his wings tabby is upon him. The mode of catching him is the interesting part of the proceeding. Tom springs upon what he evidently considers the correct locality and plants his two front paws close together on the spot and looks around to see if the game is escaping. If the retreating So is not insight he carefully lifts one paw and cautiously peers under. Failin to see his game there the other paw is lifte: When at last the captured game is discovered Tom is all excitement, His tail sudd: \elops new life and moves from i Folding hi and rarely fails in his first attem; the grasshopper in his mouth down and, smaking his chops, moves on for more game. There are two varieties of grass- hoppers in this locality, and Tom is fastidious, preferring the small variety with scant wings, although he eats apparentiy with much relish the larger ones after detaching the wings, The boys have dubbed the cat “Grasshopper out, “Tom's on the trail,” it is the sigual for a general etampede toward the dows, but Tom doesn’t mind baving an audience and continues his hunt un- conscious of their aduriring gage, ——— Written for Tax Bvexre Stan. Pray: ‘Twelve, the sweet bell of the convent slowly pesls, Dim burns the sanctuary’s flickering light, A nun upon the cold fleor prostrate kneels, Offering her watchings, prayers, the weariness she feels, All to prevent one mortal sin tonight. ‘Tweive, chimes the city clocks harmoniously. Swift in {ts course the winding river flows, Down w its backs # man comes rapidly, Arou. 4 deserted corners glancing stealthily. No one the secrets of the river knows. Nearer he draws, yet nearer to the brink; How calm the sleep within those depths ap- pears; heiress one struggle, breaking life’s last ean bey peaceful waters quietly to Into oblivion with his hopes and fears. te ‘ Be gulps hie Faint memories of long forgotten years, In thought he kneels, a guileless child again, Beside his mother's kuee, and lo! like summer rain, Comes the swift flood of penitential tears. actly the image of the animal, but he hus to | TRE GOLDEN-RoD AND CRYSANTHEMUMS AND HOW TO ARRANGE THEM—THE ANT WORK LEARNED BT SUMMER TRAVELERS—THE BEAUTIPCL AND USE- FUL THINGS TO BE MADE IN DRAWN WORK, ETC. Social entertainments have to bide their time in a climate like this, where people are just re- opening their honses, which have been de- serted during the summer months, Then there are so many stragglers, too, among the home comers that it would be difficult thes = lect enough guests for any large gathering, even if each housekeeper were not absorbed in her own particular affairs, Sometimes would- be hostess can get together a number of friends who enjoy each other for a delightful luncheon party where the conversation consists of ex- change of experiences as to various and varied wanderings, Of course the most suit- able and attractive decorations for an autumn lancheon table are the open-iir flowers of the season, Golden-rod in all its glory makes a brilliant table and now its aspirations on the “national flower” question bring it more prom- ineutly than ever to the front as a favorite, A way to arrange its feathery blossoms, which is both novel and pretty, is to have the whole center of the table a square of golden-rod— sbort stems set close among gray-green grasses, A bouquet of goiden-rod 18 placed at the plate of each guest, but instead of being tied in a buneh a graceful arrangement is to have two sprays of the flowers crossed and the stems ted with gray-green ribbons, making a half wreath in effect. is encircles the plate and is very pretty on the table, ae well as equally so later whon worn as a corsage bouquet, Chrysanthemums will soon be the flowers of the hour and they could be similarly arranged fo make a beutiful appearance, ether keep- ing to one shade or with several mingled, by which a gorgeous color effect might be at- tained, ART WORK. This season of autumn gouerally brings other things besides glowing fruits and flowers for beautifying the luncheon and dinner tables. Wherever women most do congregate at sum- mer resorts there are always more or less of the number interested in wnat used to be called by the comprehensive name of fancy work. Now, however, much that is accomplished by these industrious workers ix of such good quality as to be elevated into art work. People from different places bring new idems to each other, aud the results of a summer's outing are often imost advantageous to the beanty of the homes to which the travelers return, Many a morning is passed on the piazzas of summer hotels by those who prefer to look at the distant points of interest from theve and pursue their latest embroidery infat- uation to laborio looking at the hotel from the said distant points of interest! So many persons visit Mexico in these latter days that the present fancy tor MAKING DRAWN WoRE can be traced directly to the inspiration of the beautiful work done by the nuns there, This art has been popular in California for a longer time than with us, through their earlier ac- quaintance with this Mexicnine work, as it has been called. It is not at all fast work, and only patience will achieve much success atit. Ia small specimen is all one feels equal to there are many articles which can be decorated with it. It was never more in favor thn just now, and unlike colored embroidery, for instance, there is uo danger of having too much of it about, The sittle napkins for keeping warm various edibles on the table are both pretty and useful, They are about the size of a lunch napkin of fringed linen, with drawn-work in- side the fringe toas great an extent as the worker desires. Baked potatoes, corn on the ear, hot biscuit, and sometimes eggs, are all served in them. Still smaller bits to decorate are the doilys for bread and cake plates. These are often entirely of: drawn work, and if put over a plate of dark, rich color are especially pretty, LINEN WORK. So much interest is revived in linen work of all kinds that bridal presents of handsome linen are in high favor, These may take the form of expensive towels with drawn work and heavy Ince inserting, of table damask—always fasci- nating to the feminine taste—or of bed linen. ‘The decoration of the latter snould be wide hems hemstitched, with monograms or initials on the sheets, while the pillow cases may be more elaborate. Hemstitched tucks are very pretty, especially so when made an inch wide, with rather more than that space left between. From three to five of such tucks make very cert had § low casés. Those with a wide hemstitched hem and a little drawn work above are also poets and less work, The ornamenta- tion of the sheets should always be confined to the hems, Quce a house keeper thought differ- ently, however, and all over the sheets of her guest-room bed an outline pattern in white silk. was embroidered, This, instead of a delight, proved a penance to’ the unfortunate guest,who Was affected by sleeping on the ridges of work 8s the delicate princess in Hans Andersen's fairy tale was by the pea under the wenty mat- tresses of eiderdown, COMFORT ALWAYS TO BE CONSIDERED. It is well to make comfort the most promi- nent thing in house furnishing, and not let that be absorbed in luxury. The carved chests that have found their way to this country from Holland, Belgium and other places make re- ceptacies for fine household linen that are most attractive, One feminine soul who longed in vain for such a possession invented a substitute by which she made an heir Icom presentable and added a pretty piece of furniture to her belongings. Among the relics of her mother's youth was @ little wooden trunk which had held the simple wardrobe of the then young girl when taking her first journey from her father's house. It had been painted a dark green originally, but that was worn off in patches, the hinges were broken and there was nothing ete? about it, To the present possessor of this generation, however, it showed possibilities; accordingly she made the most of them. She bought lincrusta walton in the first place, which she glued all over the outside; this was then var- nished until it looked like brown carved work in low relief. Large brass-headed nails were put here and there, in one place form- ing her initials. The inside was made into one large sachet, with first layers of cotton on the bottom, sides and top, baving sachet powder scat- tered over itand dotved muslin tacked over that, When it was finished this was a daint: resting place for fine linen pieces, with thei handwork embellishment as well as a reminder of the mother's early days, that always gave the owner special pleasure to contemplate, In some families are odd pieces of hand-woven linen which have been | persed in one form or another, sometimes having never been made up into articles of household use, but kept as tuey came from the loom. To those who have any sentiment in regard to these reminders of long gone-by days, there is an attraction in making them by further band labor into MEMENTOES OF THE Past that can still serve @ parpose in the busy life of today. One lady who had a bit of this sacred linen—a mere etrip—put a narrow band of lovely drawn work across it with, also, a little darned work in pale yellow silk, fuishing it eit with @ raveled fringe, and now it adorns a on 3 hiker, desk belo daughter of the maker of the linen, ears ago @ bride, in looking over an accumu- ‘tion of ancient thi which her husband had fatien heir to, for & number of pieces of linen of firm quaiity, but of unequal These she made into a set of washstand both pretty and ceretia Oo easily uccomplished, short pieces she lengthened by ad insertion and edge of linen lace, making the on! ‘The others she worked in ont stitch working cottons, some in dull blue alone some with blue and dark red mingle adding the lace Clones ends to offset icity of the Fande into scarfs and “ine sine ON THE PACIFIC SIDE. LITTLE NELWS NIGHT OUT. From Spokane Falls to | Her Adventures When She Was Taken Sein hsm Sly for a Walk by Big Giris. ‘THE STRANGE AND FASCINATING SIGHTS ON TEE STRERT—THE YOUNG MEN SER MET WHOM BER COMPANIONS SEEMED TO KNOW—A PLACE WHERE: PROPLE DRANK BEER AND HEARD MUSIC. “Come, Nell, let’s take a walk.” Nell was sitting alone on the front door-step watching the night come on. She was a plump, overgrown girl of about fifteen, with an inno- went face anda double braid of taffy-colored hair hanging down her neck. Her folks bad company, and she was too young to be allowed to join company, so she was sitting there alone, trying to amuse herself py doing nothing. I was very dullemployment, The voice of the big girl from over the way, pitched in such a friendly key and inviting companionship, was welcome interruption of some very gloomy thoughts, “Come, Nell. let's take a walk.” It was the first time the big girl over the way Correspondence of Taz Evasreo Stan Tacoma, W.T., September 20. Crossing west from Spokane Palls the traveler finds nothing of special interest except it be several thrifty villages such as Choney, Sprague, Palouse Junction and others, until he reaches Pasco Junction, the eastern terminus of the Caseade division of the Northern Pacific rail- road and the point where pasecngers wishing to visit Portland, Ore., must determine whether they will do so by the way of Wallula Junction and Columbia river or by Txcoma, As I wished to visit a point in Ozegon I bid adiou to my friends in the sleepyr on the Northern Pacific with whom I had traveled some days and took the train for Walla Walla, where I ar- rived in about two hours, BIG FRUIT IN WALLA WALLA, This young city is bedutifully located in a section of country abounding in agricul- tural activity. It is a live place, filled with energy, thrift and ability. The republican had ever asked Neli to bear her company. She Fey, of the state was in town in force when | ja alwa, seemed too big to associate with arrived, holding » nominating convention. | iittlo Neit'and hed rather eoved doo oo hee Daring my stay [visited by invitation an exhi dition of the products of the surrounding coun- try, and never before saw such epecimens of corn, wheat, cane, barley, potatoes. melons, app: peaches, ears, plums, prunes, berries, vogetables, &c. would scarcely dore to tell the size and dimensions of some of these pro- ducts. Cora 15 to 1% feet high, with two and three large ears ona etaik; upples larger than cocoanuts; pumpkins that one could only carry with the aid of a wheelbarrow, THE BLUR MOUNTAINS OF OREGON. Having a relative in western Oregon, I took atrain for his home and fornd it beautifully located in the Line monntain district. The canons of these mountains are famous for the wonderful growth of fruits of ali kinds. The greatest objection is the fact that you have to ass over mountains two or three thousand feet high to get into the valleys where the fruit abounds, Returning from this place to Pasco Junction I again boarded a Northern Pacific train and continued my journey weet over the Cascade division of said road for about 260 miles, The first 150 miles is ove covered mainly by suge and bunch gr interspersed with beautiful and fertile valleys, and then you enter a great forest belt consisting of rugged scenery, great trees and mountain peaks, and it is in this belt that the Cascade Tange of mountains is crossed. A GREAT IRON BRIDGE, When I left Paseo Junction I crossed the Co- lumbie river over a great iron bridge having a length of 2.437 feet. The first important town reached was Yakima. situated in a valley of the ima river, a finalocation for the raising of stock. The road follows foralong distance the winding course of this river. Ellensburgh, tho next town of importance. is the N. P. headquarters for this section of the line. It has good water and is mainly a manu- facturing and mining town. A LONG TUNNEL. The tunnel! through which the train passes from the east to the west side of the mountain is 9,850 feet in length. the longest tunuel in the United States except the Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts. Prior to its construction trains passed over these mountains by the use of the switchback linea, a marvelous feat of engineer- ing. Coming out of this tunnel on the west side I obtained my firat view of Mount Rennier, how known as Mount Tacoma, TRE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN PRAK of North America, its most elevated point reaching an altitude of 14,444 feet. Decend- ing the west side of the mountains one soon reaches the valley of Green river, which stream is crossed and recrossed a dozen or more times. Leaving this stream and its beautiful valley I soon came to and crossed Milk river, and then flying still to the north- west the train soon reached Puyallup river, the outflow of the great Puyallup glacier and along its side and through its valley the cars passed. This isthe great hop-raising valiey or district and the hop picking is done mainly by the Indians, scores of whom I saw in pass- ing along. It is said that no less than four thousand red men come annually from points in British Columbia and elsewhere to engage in this industry, A brief ran through the Puyallup Indian reservation and we arrive at Tacoma, on the Puget sound, the western terminus of the Northern Pacific railroad, 2,000 miles west ef St. Paul, Minn. H. B, M. Saturday Smil This promises to be the most delightfal fall since Eve's.—Ouray ( Col.) Solid Muldoon, When cold weather comes charity begins to bum.—Nrw Orleans Picayune, A New Jersey man has applied for a pension on the ground that he contracted epilepsy whi'e in the army. He “fit” in the war, it seoms.—Chicago Herald, “Electricity is life,” is a favorite saying with fakirs at agricultural fairs, But when you touch a ‘‘dead” wige in this city you soon come to the conclusion that electricity is death; or, if you don't, your friends do for you.—New York Tribune, asa child Nell ran for her straw hat that hang in the hall end in a moment was out on the street, “Where are vou Roing?” asked a voice from the window, It was the mother of the big girl over the “Neil is going on an errand for her mother,” the big girl roplied, “and I am going with her.” Nell did not have time to anything; companion hurried her on, “You see,” said the big girl, deprecatingly, “I could not goout if it were not for you. am have an engagement with Belle Boyde. It is just horrid to be shut up all the while and not allowed to do what you want to.” Nei! hesitated for a moment, but they were way down the strect and the big girl over the wey told her to come on, in a way to shume ber from turning back, They me: Belic Boyde, who was a little put out at the presence of ‘the taffy-haired buby,” but declared nevertheless that they would have a night of it, PASCINATING SCENES. It was Saturday night. The store windows were brilliantly lighted and lots of people were on the streets, some on late shopping and some strolling about to be in a crowd and to look in the store windows, There were men and women together, gaily dressed; women alone, or twoor three in company without escorts; there were young girls like Belle Boyde and the big girl over th rollicking along the street, now stopping to look into a window, now look- ing back over their shoulders and’ smiling at something that interested them off where groups of young men were standing on the corners or about the store windows, It was a strange and interesting thing to Nell, She had never before been down on the great busy thoroughiares on Saturday night, Belle Boyde and the big girl over the way seemed to be perfectly familiar with the scene, Belle Boyde leading the way, Now they hurried slong the crowded streets, occasionally casting @ quick glance back at something thi tracted their attention; now they loitered about a window and then started up the street ata quick pace. Sometimes a young man on the corner would Icok at them so hard that Nell would be frightened; then Belle Boyde would laugh and say something to the big girl over the way that Nell could not hear, and they would turn and look the impudent young man in the face—they were not afraid. HE TOOK HIS HAT OFF Down Pennsylvania avenue they went, Belle Boyde going out of her way occasionally to call out something in a bantering tone to some other girls she knew. At the corner of 10th street a group of very elegantly dressed young men were standing under the street lamp, Belle Boyde brushed past them and looked back. One of them said something and Belle laughed; the big girl over the way looked back and laughed also. Nell thought Belle Boyde was the jolliest girl she had ever met and knew such a lot of ople, At the brilliantly lighted square in ‘ket id Belle was in, oh, such a jolly mood. They stopped at nearly. every window to look in, and Belle kept looking back and smiling at young men she knew. The big girl over the way did everything her jolly companion did and Nell thor gut she had never had such a fine time in her life before. On 7th street a young man standing in front of a cigar store looked at them and smiled, Belle looked back at him two or three times and = smiled also, Then he took off his hat and stepped up to Belle’s side, A moment later another young man in front of the cigar store, who had not taken off his hat at firet, stepped up and be; to talk to the big girl from over the way. ‘Sci felt sort of sorry she was there, because she did not know the young men and her friends did not introduce them. “Til see you later,” Belle Boyde said, turning ‘st young ran; ‘we are going back with the fir this way.’ Then the big girl from over the way walked on up the street with the other young man and Nell followed along. MUSIC AND BEER. Presently they came to a place where they could hear music and people were going through a door over which burned two or three red lights. The young man proposed that they enter, Inside the door they could hear the rattle of glass when the music sank low. They were in @ place where there were a number of hittle tables and two or three musicians were laboring with some eccentric instruments. A lot of other people were there, ay at lunch, Some of them were eating sandwiches, and on the tables before them were foaming glasses of beer and tes piled up with odd- shaped crackers, coiled up like e8. At one table ag ta inared jersey, witha red bat on her bi and blo bat In front of her was a tall & full of liquor and bits of fruit, with e straws sticking up it; and by her side, very close, sat a youn; man—just such a yo man as the one wi the big girl from over the way. He had before him a glass witha lot of green stuff in it, He had on au astonishing shirt, all striped red and white, with a high collar and a pink necktie. Now and then he would suck at the straws in his glass, then he would turn to the girl at his side and, with his face close to hers, talk to her for several minutes very confidentially. Nell thought it a strange piace, and could hardly help laughing at the curious people. SOME PEOPLE NELL SAW, At the table just next to them was a very large woman, beautifully dressed and with cheeks almost as red as the rosesin her bonnet. She was drinking beer and talking loud to a blonde young man of not more than twenty, whose face was very red and who seemed to be feeling bad, At another table * jolly, yee Lory sat smoking a pipe and now anc en from a big mur ot beer. Witht his: enh ry 4 ~ round-faced as he, who talked to him jerman very ly, to which he replied with an cocnsbonah atime ooo amiable sort. Then oy dirs ie, their beer and laugh until they both had to bold ther Aman and his wife and several out at another table, in the middie of which stood @ baby of about two years drinking from a mug of beer which the mother held to its mouth, while they all laughed and cere their hands. Nell thought that they were the jolliest set of folks she had ever seen, After all, the principal" race troubles occur in paying the bets and walking home.—San Francisco Alta, The man who witheringly wrote “Stop my aper!” willbe found on the Cronin jury.— loomington Eye. There isa silver lining to every cloud—tho man who can’t get credit is never worried by davs,—Boston Courier, “What does the lover bee say to his sweet- heart?” asked the snake editor. “Tam not acquainted with the language of ee replied the horse editor. “What does e Bay?” «He says, ‘O honeycomb to me.’ "—Pitisbur. Chronicle, . “Has your young friend experienced the ad- vantages of travel?” “I should say he had! tells me he has seen base ball played in e league and association city in the coun- try.” A good many people know the value of a dol- lar who do not realize the value of a hundred cents.—Somerville Journal, Theold man in the play is forever talkin; about “twenty long years ago,” just as thou; £ there were long and short years that could be —— out according as the notion seizes you. 'exas Siftings. Why will not lecturers on woman's rights confine themselves to the subject? They are continually talking about woman’s wrongs,— St. Paul Pioneer-Pres: The word “‘cupalo” is still more popular than “cupola,” despite the efforts of the dictiona- ries. Where “cupola” is heard once “eupalo” is heard a hundred times. It ie doubtful if even astuffed club would do any good in this case. The time may come when people will try not to say ‘‘tarpauleon” for * rpaulin, but it looks as if ‘cupaio” will alwaye be with us.—Dayton (Ohio) A bred ore attracted considerable atten- tion at ase house, Squirrel nd, re- cently, by their effusive e: ions of affec- tion, Considerable discussion as to whether they were married or were going to be went the rounds of the table, and was finally set at rest by aremark of the young lady, “Yes, w were married in city hal), New York, and it only cost us a dollar. Wasn’t that cheap?” ‘The crowd tittered and exoused all er an- tics.— Augusta (Afe.) Journal, One of Kansas City’s many charming young ladies, who has recently returned trons viait to Chicago, relates an e: man woman, as joll: i H i i gf i : ERRE te E 2s — ——__SUTURe H. ‘K. FULTON, ausiioucer, CATALOGUE SALE or ax EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION or TURKISH CARPETS, RUGS AND HANGINGS, EMBRACING BOTH MOPERN AND ANTIQUE, ALL SIZES, BEING & RECENT IMPORTATION, AND IS CONSIDERED THE CHOICEST COLLYCTION EVER SENT TO vascrry, =~ EMBRACING FORTY LARGE CARPETS, SOME OF THEM VALUED AT 9600 .ND #700, TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AvLCTION, TUESDAY, WEDXESDAY AND THURSDAY, OCTOBER FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD 1889 AT ELEVEN A.M. AND THREE PML | ASSORTMENT oF ik OST. EXQUISITE Pt yaatl FLOWERS bach SISTING ©, | HAS AND SINGLE HYACINTH, 18 ALL ARD BLE ‘io iS THOS sNOWLEORS 2£Tc,, Kic, on MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH, COMMENCING AT ee OrcLock, within my action all eel » ox it shore talte being. Ainct eluyiseut from Holland. ROMA Dow auctioneer. 80F STEAL collateral note, September 15, Hat our Auction Rooms, 9th and BD st uw, Waahin, db. TUES! DAy Or’ uctopet. aD. Tesh, ae Ons OOLOCK P.M.. 3005 Shares of Stock of the Clifton © and ON EXHIBITION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER THER iA ST AND MADSACHUSETIS AV WES1 (SIDE AND EEAR ALLEY). By NiEtue of a deed of teast, dati November 10, A. D. 1877. aud duly recorded "in Liver Nu. S70, folio e026-5t party secured thereby, 1 pretaiaes, neta Runt of TENTH, 155y, at HALF: Ubi ¥, OCTOBL real City of Washin ct if of Lot So. Nine <9) in the subdiv J} S82: ae ogld subdivision is AKUSTERS' SALE OF 7HE ENTIRE CONTENTS aE LESTACLANS NOKTHM EST OC Teves, Dorth west jortL West, on TURSDAY, OC 2, BIER} Ue, tk bold ‘ruruit O'CLOCK, eli the tar room and house: re contained theres as mentioned in scheduwe A, attached to mud trust ihe p > will be ofered asa wholo and af not ae wil then be sold im detail. rue H. E MINDMARSH, } ne? te Pow, KD 2 Ricy, | Trustees 7 HOMAS DOWLING. Aucticncer. ASSIONER'S SALE OF ENTIRE 0! Tl VE BST ABLISHMED ie: One-third cash, of which $150 must be paid at tiue of sale, balance ‘in one and two year iu equal payments, tobe secured by purchaser's Lots terest fruit day of sale (payable seiuibeate id deed oF trust on the property suld, oF ail cnsh at option of pure cording at purchase plied with in ten days froca the day of sale, cise tras: fee" reserves “right to resell ‘at Yisk ahi sost of bl Geiaut WM. F, HOLTZMAN, _se26-dts 1 ([PHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioncer. CATALOGUE SALE OF ELEGANT HOUSEHOLD FURNITUKE AND OIL PAINTINGS BY CELE #RATED ARTISTS. On WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTORER SECOND, 1839, MMENCING A ‘EN O'CLOCK. I sual sell Biresidence No. 710 11th street northwest an ele- x ond Fay mene Furniture and Sue Oi Palitinve, eusbracity he Asceusion of the Ciigin, painted by Murillo in 161. Latge Oil Portrait of Xepoleon bs Gauban, 2 bine Hietures in Pastel, : oh Last of the Mohigans, on es rnanents. Fige Bronze handsome ped % Liezent Louis XVI Gilt Arm Chairs in Handwork Goblin Tapestry, AND SLOVE Ss COLAND SoU 120K STREET Nu On MONDA). SEPTEMBER THI SU LEN O'CLOCK A.M. at stores Nos, 007 12th wirect norduwest, Just morth of F sweet, fell the toliowiug guods: Heating Steven Katsew aud Latrobes. Grates aud Fire Broek, Bot-air Furnaces Bilt Cons. Watering Pots ik Cans. Wat DMulk-can Stocks, Pit Piste, Stove Pipe, jandle of Vin, summer Pleces. frbecton, Magisters xe duners Toole, aE % and =a, and such other stock as i# ‘usually found im such en eetablishinent ‘Terms casi.” Goods to be removed on day of sale, SACKSON L KALS LUN, A THOMAS DOWLING. Au lioueer, Tustee, fst. nw. bad Figure. the Handsen ery banasc1ie Cocobolo Cabinet, a Hid = Tables, Ha: dsome Walnut Book Case. fen gant oe cet ic hocking Chairs, Embroidered Mantel Lambrequin. Moquet and Body Brussels Carpets, Halland Stair Car pote Cal Very Superior Walnut Chamber Suites. Elegant Chiffouter Folding Bedstead, wit Mattress. complete, deo lnut Folding Bedstead, with Freach Mattress, complete, Superb Walnut Wardrobes. Elegant Hair Mattres-ea, Fine Feather Piliows aud Bolsters, fe quantity of Bedding of every description. Decorated Toilet Ware, Very handsome Walnut Hall Stand, with French _ 9025 -dte a HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. VERY VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY IN GEORGETO! » 0.0. AT AUCLION. On THURSDAY, OCTORER THIRD, 1889, at bt Fast FOUk o “K, in tropt of the prem- bau ‘the followme-deacribed West 15 feet of lot 107, square Bealls to Georgetown, trout 15 teet on Nar #treet by Bdge! 60 feet and fiuyroved gh tenia rae "| IMMEDIATELY AFTER. Lot No, 108. in Hola ‘waddivon to Georgetown, juare 67, froptung 0 feet on Duntarton avenue by sidepth of 113 test and tmpeoeed be wo-story brick aud frame buil IMMEDIATE Y APTER Sub. Lot 207, of square #4, fro 36. Green street and 48.52 f proved by a Ak budding c Dine rowmes, with al) modern laproweue Santly situated at the corner of “Oth aud U streein Terms of ssie: One-third cash; the residue in three equal peymeste at six, twelve and edghteen wou ‘with votes bearing tuterest and secured by a deed of oust on the property sold, conveyance and re- con Ling at purchaser's cost A deposit of €100 will be reguired at the tuwe of sale. sero-d&ds — THUMAS DOWLIN a J Xt _____ HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioncer, THREE ACRES OF VALUABLE ND NF La BRUCKLAN, AD HE Mei RO) = zs BkaNcd, BALTIMORE AND OMG Rati w urror. Handsome Chifo: Sewing Machine, Ta phrrect order, tou Mattiug. it Oid Oak China and Glass W Tricycle and V: ll be open for inpsection 8:30 am, lS pa sid ‘HOMAS DOWLING, . _ Auctioueer. \HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. On MONDAY EVENING, SEPLEMBER THIR- ‘suction roguis, J ahall sell the Mbrary of the late 3. Geldaborourh Brag in ‘whlch aro sone valuable works, Books now ready for examiustion, se25-dbils THUMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. Cc NCERY SALE OF VALUABLE UNIMPROVED » ESTATE. ON THE WE: ginkeruermianuan on wEDNESpAt” GOfUBE 81 1880, at D vive OCLUCE P Moca. the pepe wil well acres of of the estate of the tite siecreees ati ar —— wile autvaradty. ermine valance in one and two years, ‘With interest, and secured by a deed of trust on the green ore cash, Perms to ve complied with in een daye trom day of sale.” Ail recording and cubs Yeyal: ing at Cost of purchaser, A deposit of €100 re- buired at time of sale, sels-dte THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. WOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. WES? SIDE OF TENTH Dseinekts NULIE BY virtue of a decree of the 8 Dist of Columbia bic suchen F OCTOBER, Se vashington aud District of Co that part of lot pumbered one ( at “PAS. FOUR O'CLOCK P.M, front of tac premises West Half of Lot 16, re- 11, iromting part ot 16, reservation 12. fronting 27 it. by a depth of 110 ft, with wide y, improved by a lance 1. rick Di One-third confi, tm: : purchaser, beuri'c © percent wed by Seed of treet on they at one apd two years from the day ost St the rate of G per ceat per aiuuim, payable weit, aunually, which deferred payments are to be secured ween ‘potes of the pul e ud s deed of trust on the pro Whole purchase moucy way Le paid in tion of the purchaser. wan be 4s the property is bid of. If the chasers shall fail to comply with within ten (10) days after the day will be resod at bis or their risk aud “Epahoe Semere eae tet val , tras . 2. WALiEK BW 3 acta, weZ0nd: ‘PHOS. E. WAGGAMAN, iieal Estate Auctioner. F (CK DWELLING, IN GOOD ORDER. axba tat AB # BUILDING LOT, IMPLOVED SMALL BRIC! i THIRTIETH. 1889, i will offer for sale ib lot ). tan LW —4 improved vy Tore house, dered 43 ras t 3 "Terns day of sala. THOSE. WAGGAMAN, sc20-38 ‘Auctioueer, Vy ALIER B. WILCIAMS & 00, Auctioneers. FOR SALE AT AUCTION, ON MONDAY, wor E STiET! AT HA. #-PAB’ FOUR OcLock Pat LUts 8 AND 9, BLOCK 2408: LUMBIA He IGHTS. togsnd 1din sia Wine soteon ahs toae Water ef oO jot ‘at eas, aud sewer at corzer of 13th aud Princeton, abuak one rd cash? bnlence ane end two with tn- ou gach-lot at suns of sale” CO., Auctioneers, sucing aud recordilig «i cov Of purchaser. ive bub, Grec doliare will be reguired on each property at time of THOMAS DOWLING, Auctionser. se 4-6t {fea viD BULWING Lol OOnAEK OF TRIB Sit AND KANESAW SLELETS, COLUM- iEk A HLIGHI 5. On MONDAY APTEKNOON, SEPTEM ‘Hi, ot HALY-PAST FIVE W'GCLOCK, ise ER THIR- we will sell, vt and 170 feet on ot, being Obert the finest suburban lowe ia the District, stscepuiule of advantag division, being’ in the inumediste vicsil girect ahd pear remdenors of Jude Macian, veyanci: plied wit at 1 ADIES S rel Wy i, and Izu J T BAS NEVER BEEN CONTK, —— Dr. BROTHERS : etiot Dy AaB POTOMAC STREETS, 1s iF CULU MB! JR EAD AND BE WISE. DR BROTHERS, 006 DST. *.W., appeared betore me aud made ‘that be ts. Oldest biiewed Lxpert specialist au this city, private, 3 = ® &F