Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1889, Page 18

—_ " THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTO ia, BOTH CREEDS MUST BE SAID. vecd Compulisery on the Five Great Festivals. FF WAS NOT WITHOUT A SPIRITED DEBATE THAT THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL ROUSE OF DEFU- TIES SO DECREED, BUT THE VOTE WAS OVER- WHELMING—COLORADO AS A DIOCESE. In the Episcopal cenicnuial convention in New York Saturday Colorado, the Centennial state, was declared a diocese and the case of Oregon Was referred back to the committee on admis- sions, The question ef making the reading of the Nicene creed compulsory on Christmas day, Easter day, Ascension day, Whit Sunday and Trinity Sunday came up again jor discussion, ‘This compulsory reading is enjoined in a rubric added to the communion service vy the twelfth -@f the eighteen resolutions embodying the changes proposed in the genera) convention Of 1886 for ratification by the present copven- tion. The house of bishops has already adopted all the resolutions, while the house of deputies has rejected the eighth, which permits the Omission of the litany on Christmas, Easter and Whit Sunday. The hoase adjourned on ‘Thursday while the debate on the twelfth reso- Tation was in progress. Rev. Mr. Vauix of A:kansas, who had the floor when the debate closed on Thursday, opened with the deciara~ tion that he opposed the passage of the twelith resoluuon. He said. ‘fhe creed which itcom- els ua to use is not a Catholic creed. It was hurch by the civil authorities, tis @ crown creed and oot achurch creed, and the national church of America should not be pt what is not the uccepted creed of Catholic Curistendom. What is calied the Nicene creed is a Roman creed just as much as the dogma declaring the infallibilty of the pope isa Roman dogma.” A CALL TO ORDER, A delegate from Virginia called the speaker to order on the ground that the validity of the ereed was not under discussion. President Dix ruled that as unlimited license had been given to previous speakers he was unwilling to cur- t ‘a Mr. Vauix. An appeal from the decision of the chair was laid ou the table. “I am not out of order,” said Mr. Vauix, when allowed to continue, “for I um giving’ reasons why we should not be compelled to use that creed. Not @uly is it not Catholic, but the church of Eng- and and the church of the United Sta have never called it the Niceue creed.” A delegate tried to read a in the prayer book, in which the words “Ni- cone creed” occurs, but the speaker paid no Bttentionto him. ‘We should not be com- lied to accept this creed,” said Mr. Vauix, “because both English and Americua bishops have declared that nothing should be required of belief which is not set torth by the general councils. What is only accepted by Rome we are not, therefore, compelled to accept. sop. posing it is accepted by the Englisi church? Are itee American citizens to be bouad by the state church of England? I call on you as 4merican churchmen, as free men, to preserve the liberty you stl! possess, THE NICcNE CREED DEFENDED. Rev. Mr. Christinn of New York tvok up the eudgels for the twelfth resolution, He said: “There are evideutly two classes opposed to this resolution. (ue is composed of men who believe in the Nicene creed, but don’t like to force men to say it who don’t believe it. This eburch and this body cepted the creed called Nicene. There is a s id class who are going on the principle that it is not a Catholic ¢reed. Then this is a Roman Uatholic bedy with two or three Protestants in it who have put themselves on record. Laughter.} Some one has said that @ clause ‘and the son’ was formulated at Toledo in 36%. I am not willing to allow that the Roman church was in existence at that fime. Why, that was before Augustine landed | fm England. Now, the ‘filioque’ clause was Bever known in the Roman litany until 1140. | Be much for its autiquity. As you know, the Nicene creed ended with ‘I believe in the Moly Ghost.’ The council of Constantinople 3 the clause ‘who proceedeth from the F The subsquent council of Ephesus d: at any addition to the creed formulat Bice should subject their formulation to an- | athema. This anathema applies to the clause ‘peoceedeth from the F her’ aa well as to the} addition ‘and from the Son, Mr, Christian went on to show that in spite of the Epbesiaa anathemas the council of Flor- euce, which came the nearest to being a general council of any except the first one, inasmuch as the church was more universally repre- sented, authorized the doctrine of the double rocession and sanctioned the clause “filioque.” he question, he continued, became subs tently not one of doctrine, but one of polit he Greeks resisted the insertion of the * foque” in order to protest against the domina- tion of the Roman church, which was being thrust upon them with the aid of the arms of the rusaders. “If we don’t puss this resolution. he said finally, “it will go on record that this church dees not believe in the Nicene creed. There is talk of changing the name of the ehurch. I know a change of name will come in time and I am in favor of it, but I bad rather bea member of the church called Protestant Episcopal church, knowing it to be in esse cath- , than to belong to a charch called catholic hich rejected the catholic creed.” THE PRAYER BOOK REVISION. Dr. Dix had to check, as out of order as well es out of place, the applause which followed from the floor as well as from the crowded = Among others who spoke, Mr. Fair- ank, lay delegate from Florida, and Dr. Good- Win, objected to muking the saying of the creed compulsory, while Mr. King, lay delegate from Obio. thought that revision of the prayer book Meant elasticity aud uot more compulsoriness. teplen P. Nash expressed his horror that 80 ¥ clergymen apparently refused to accspt the Nicene creed whose insertion in the origi- nal prayer book had been insisted on by the English bishops. ‘The house of bishops spent the day in revis- ing the hymnal. They sent two messages to the deputies. one proposing aconference about the eighth resolution, aud another providin: for steps to divide the territory of the cure! im accordance with the provincial system. ~oo—— Theodore Tilton in Paris. Paris Correspondent Philadelphia Times. In a small cafe in a somewhat unfrequented part of Paris the other day I sawa man who Tecalled a case the fame of which was world- wide. He was sitting at a table seemingly buried in thought of « not pleasant character and oblivious of his surroundings. He had an intellectual face, but on it there were deep lines that told of past sufferings. His long hair was gray—prematurely gray. His shoul ders were bent and there was a moody, brood- ing look on bis face. But he was evidently a tall man, and some years ago must have been Shbandsome man. Ashe satat the table he looked like a strong mun borne down by the Memory of some great sorrow of the past. Presently he arose and walked out without looking to the right or the left, and then I rec- ognized him, although it has been years since I sew bim before. It was Theodore Tilton, the ence famous editor of the New York Independ- ent. But bow changed! In the days of his popularity, tall, erect, strong and handsome; nowa broken, prematurely old man. He is doing some sort of literary work here, but no One seems to know just what it is. I could not but think, after seeing the man, that the scan- dal in which this man’s life was wrecked was more than a mere ndal. Itwas, in fact, a tragedy. The circle of the chief actors in it is Barrowing. The greatest of them is dead; so are others, among them some of the lawyers and several of the jury. Que of the lawyers, Benjamin F. Tracy, is in the cabinet of the President of the United States. Mrs. Tilton is more fortunately situated than her husband, for she has the company and sym- thy of her children. But Theodore Tilton ts out-of-the-way meither friends nor friendships, a miserable Work at ti Norfolk Yard. Workmen will commence this week laying | nearly the keel blocks for the 3,000-ton cruiser to be | tucket —schoolma’ams—the built at the Norfolk navy yard. No headway passage | | “eoots” were eminently practical. FROM OLD NANTUCKET. Some Striking Pecu!larities of the Iso- THE SETTLEMENT OF THE ISLAND AND ITS SEA- FARING PEOPLE—WHALING AS AN IMPEDIMENT TO MARRIAGE—HOW THE CoD “COOFS” WERE TAKEN INTO THE FOLD—FAMILIAR NAMES AND PECULIAR EXPRESSIONS OF NANTUCKERS. Correspondence of Tur EVENING STAR. Stasconset, NantvexeT Istann, Mass., Sept. 23, 1880.—Last week I met at the depot Cap'n Tim Fitzgerald, of the yacht Peggy Swain of Nantucket. Many summer visitors were taking their leave. “Isn't it exthrordinary,” said he, “that the sthrangers leave the island whin the finest weather bezins? September is our nicest month, and by the same token It Is this year, barrin’ the August shtorm wh.ch tuck us in Sep- tember, though it was a wind gale without any rain.” Cap’a Tim's “grandmother was an Irish- man,” but leaving out his buils, he was right, for in this bright and beautiful but funny little city, unfolded from an old hamlet of fishermen’s cot- tages, the first autumn month is the most de- lightfal of the year. The waters on Nantucket shoals are still warm and the prevailing south- east winds receive beat frou them aud trom the Gulf stream, now but thirty miles off ‘Sconset beach. From the hotels nearly ail the guests have gone. By the 30th the doors will close upon the last departing visitor. Many cottazers linger, and it will be the middie of October before the last family will go to their home on the conti- nent. I don’t mean to a hi 1 Europe, but the “continent” as understocd by Nuntuckers, They are “islanders.” and the main land of America is to them the “continent. THE ISOLATED ISLANDERS. While on the subject let me tell of some of the peculiarities of Nantucket speech. Bear in mind the island is forty miles from the nearest steamer landing on Cape Cod and sixty mi from New Bedford. Until fifteen years ago in- tercourre between the island and the continent Was infrequent. The islanders even today sce but little of tie world ex as the world comes to them, x) strong, each season between May and October. Bovks they have, and in ob- taining kuowledze from those perennial fount- ains they acquire the use ef words equa! to the range of our most Inteilizent communities; but the speech they hear, except durng the pres- ence of the visitors in summer, is that which they have heard from ember also tuat the islind was se 17th cen- tary, and th force of circuustan aters, As the whale fisiery developed the interests of the island became more ani more identified with the ocean, and the large portion of its men were ou shipboard fuily three-fourths of their active careers. iheirs was the talkeftheship. Their similitades were drawn from their vocation and its surroundings, aud from them their wives and children learned the same methods of speech. To the stranger many of the expres- sious he hears in conversation are odd. and sometimes they are unintelligibie, unless the surroundings and context will help him to “tish out” the meaning. PECULIAR EXPRESSIONS. I was told the other day that a certain man on the island wii is in perpetual trouble in his aifairs was “always runnin’ atoul ot himself.” “Which way are you heading?” was the ques- tion asked me by old Capt. Folger, as he met me in his box wagon In the outskirts of the vil- laze going to the “town.” The carpenter who framed a ho} for astranger asked him whether he would hi the joists “run fore and aft or ‘thwartships.” By a stranger is meant a visitor to the islaud; but those wiio remain long eny: to get acquainted come to be kuown as “ofl islanters.” I went a few days since with a lady to Wauwinet “ina team.” A “team” in New England is a horse and wagon, and the wagon is as much a component part of the team as the horse. ‘the team was ran by Capt. Baxter, long since retired from active service on a whale ship, and now at eighty-tive years he is still about. and during the season carries parties about the town and over I get in?” the indy asked too high.” “Get in aste said the captain. He puiied out the tailvoard and tue lady climbed in as one would in an omuibus, but not so easily, by any means. After we had started the captain said to ber, “Miss, wou't you shift to the windward a litt he did as requested after learning where the “windward” was, But eveu then be was net satisfied, for in a few min- utes he asked her to get up while he moved lier seat a “little further aft.” Ona dark night a *Seonset woman, when driving from the town in a thick fog, got otf the road into the moors and it was a full palf hour before she got back into the traveled way. When relating the circum- stance she said that she had lust her “reckonin’ in comin’ out.” 1 bougzht an old Connecticut clock in the town and the bric-a-brac dealer told we that he “had lashed the pendulum to the side ot the case, so iuat it woulda’t get adr Of a clergymaa who had been counected with various denuminations aud had died a rit- ualist an old whaling captain said that “if he hadn't peaked his oars so quick he'd have boxed the compass of savin’ grace by j'inin’ the Catho- lies.” A young woman who had accepted a position as seamstress, when asked to do some work in the family, declined, saying that she “didn’t ship for that kind of work.” The batcher and grocer and gardener do not deliver the commodities you have ordered—they “land” them at your “porch;” aud on Nantucket the “poreh” Is the kitchen, though sometimes it is called the “couk room.” “Bring the skein taut,” said a Nantucket girl to me when I was holding the worsted for her to wind ina bail. A tisherman told me that once, when fishing on Tuckurnuck shoals, he fopnd a drowned man in the water. “Was le on the bottom?” “No; he was floating on even keel.” As I write this an old whaling master tells me that Gibbs’ horse got scared this morning on the beach and kicked his owner “on the hand and stove it all to pieces.” RICH IN PRIDE OF ANCESTRY. The Nantucket man is rich in his pride of ancestry, even if he subsists on quoliauys and clams and herring and pollock and picks up a bundred dollars or so by doing odd jobs to pureluse groceries and clothing to carry him torough the year. Time was when the comers from Cape Cod were known in derision as “coofs.” and every effort was made to bring them to a realizing sense of their ignoble line- age. This continued antil the blood of the island patrician and that of the cape piebian mingled ja the offspring of matrimonial alliances between the two, which came about thus: It was the pride of young men of Nantucket to bunt and kill whales in the hope that they might become sea kings in time theinselves, and they were at sea three-fourths of their lives In early man- hood. The other fourth was hardly sufficient, as a general thing, to inaugurate and carry on courtship to its fruition in marriage. “The They saw their opportunity and made the best of it by oifering themselves as available timber, ready hewa Into stiape for active service in home hus- bandship, and the girs, rather than take their chances with returning Nantucket boys, ac- cepted the “coofs” for better or for worse.’ But the supply of matrimonial timber from Cape Cod is exhausted and husbands for Nantucket women are more difficult to obtain than ever. The last enumeration of inhabitants shows nearly 1,800 females to less than 1,200 males on the Island. Probably no such disproportion between the sexes exists in any old settled community in this country. it was caused by the decadence of the principal industry of the island, for about 1845 the whale fishery de- clined and many of the sailors sougit employ- ment in the merchant marine. Some, with those engaged In other industries connected places in Paris, secking | with the whale fishery, started in 1849f to the number of near 1,000, forthe gold fleids of Cali- fornia, and they were the brightest young men of the island. “ Still others went to the main land to seek their fortunes, and Nantucket names can be found in every state In the Union, on the Pacific coast from Alaska to Patagonia, in the Sandwich Islands and on the seas of eastern Asia. From near 10,000 in 1840 the num- ber of inbabitants has dwindled to about 3,000 the nt time. The emigration has been all of the stronger sex. though Nan- graduates of the excellent educational institutions of the island ean be made on the ship, however, until the | —*T? *attered over the Union, middle of next month. as the contracts for the material will not be given out until the first of NANTUCKET NaMES. The great bulk of the islanders are the de- the month. A force of men will be called in | *¢adantsot about a dozen original families,and tomorrow to work on the Texas. About two today the Coffins, and Foigers, and Swains, and huadred men, all Tezas. The steel plating shop will be commenced by the contractors tomorrow. There Row going on at the navy yard Jears—the Texas and cruiser No. 8 bi told, are at work on the | Hussey foundation for the new iron and | mans, is more work | Worths, and than for many | stitute more than half of the . ys, and and Shceaeat pond comet et an Mitchells, and Gil too, the Christian a unique. When the island was settied, over tw Ampbitrite or ing to be repaired turies: , the settlers came from a land and the on her way there for repairs, Sears mares ‘Dames were given to eilidren —~1oo—___— aa they were In their isolation their de- Buicide of a Member of Parliament. ee eng, See ene Sir William Tindal Robertson committed sui- | 7 Tint ‘gue <rawwn apos than in genere- cide at Brighton, England, yesterday by cutting ou ts ttaed Sort haf ay cee years back a scion of one of the original settlers was related to neatiy cwirrbody lee on the island. The dupiication of Christian and sur- Rhames was so frequent that besides ‘janior,” first, and second, aud third, and even fourth, had to be added to disti who was meant when a person was referred to. ful” "2" &ivea it was and is still TRE MOVEMENTS OF THE NANTUCKET MAN are slow and deliberate. His wants are few and simple, and he takes his time in securing the Means to supply them. Or if during the season of the sucimer visitation be shall be forced into What on tie continent would be regarded as moderate activity, there Is an implied under- standing with himself that when the strangers leave he'll make up for the effort by heavy rest- ing. The appearance of the well-to-do native ls in vharp contrast with that of the visiting stranger. His cout is generally a black Prince Albert: his hat usually high, black or white. He bows with a rigid deference to the proprieties and gives you a courtly greeting when he meets you. When visitors appear in slouch hata and flannel shirts and “blazers” and knee-breeches, and carelessly move along the streets with ao evident feeling of gladness that they are away from business and for a time can do as they please, the Nantucket man is a monument of conventional propriety, and inwardly he is shocked that even off-islanders can so tar forzet the dignity that should inhere in them as wen as to dress and act like boys, if only for a week. BUT ON THE MAIN LAND the native makes his mark in conducting affairs. Once away from the island his happy-g: habits of necessity cease. His frugal w ic serve him a good turn at the bezinning, but if he is to succeed he finds that active life and not passive existence mu-t be his rule. Once awakened to the necessitics of the situation he adapts himself to tie new order of things and develops qualities whici insure success. On the isiand the people were always of ne- cessity frugal and plain. Put the advent of the strangers in sammer has had a marked influ- ence. The hearts of the men ot Nantucket were made glad when they saw the visitors drop their ducats into native pockets. But when the nands of their wives and da stare of the season’s sa) never before dreamed of w tokeved a saddened spirit. inthe spring the men go to the steamboat whary to sibt the first stranger whose coming they hope for, yet fear as much, because it means another season of tennis and tourist caps, and blouses, and outing skirts, and russet shoes and the incongruous toggery that city wives and daughters affect in the country but never wear at home, and they know that it will be another object lesson of ex- travagance witicii the Women and girls of the island will be only too glad to Jearn. TEMPERATE TO THE LETTER, But the men are consisteat. If they like sim- plicicy in the women folks it Is not because they are extravagant themselves. In their diet they are as simple as in their dress, At the period when liquor was drunk by all, even »y the mer- chant aud chureh dignitary as well as the hum- blest workman, it was generally taken in mode- ration. When the temperance ayitation began the best elements of society were active in it. At neither hotel in Siasconset is a bar, nor is liquor ever sold in either. In a temporary dis- tress one day I went to the proprietor of the largest hostelry and in solemn accents said: “Mr. Starbuck, there is a lack of harmonious correla- tion between the members of my corporeal es- tate. From the terminal point of the thorax there is a morb.piiec commotion, with bellicose mutterings, ln which stomach, and diaphrauin, and spleen, and liver, and the joint tenants of the abdominal cavity are participants, and I see not the end thereof. In this peritonitic diathe- sis I have not that peace of mind or comfort of body which passeth all understanding. In the confidence that should subsist between landlord and guest let me tell you that I've got the stom- ach-ache, and got it bad.” ‘say, look here,” said Starbuck; “what in thunder do you want to ran youre raft, with a dictionary for a cut-water, head on to @’Sconset tavern keeper who never did you any harm and «care bim as bad as a hundred- barrel tempest? Next time talk Nantucket, or even United States, aad I then can sight the catheads of your meaning.” “Well, as I said, L have got the stomach-ache and I want a glass of hisky very, very bad; have you got any?” Now haven't, and have never bad any in the never tasted a drop of liquor or wine in my 1 But I thought I ought to have some good brandy in the hotel for guests in case of siekne there isno drug store here and sometines no doctor;and the other day I seat to the pharmacy in town for a coupie of bottles of the best brandy. Well, they shipped me out some stuff—I dou't know what it is—but it has got a label on the bottle that says ‘cogy- nack.’” “Joshua Starbuck,” sald I, “let’s see it. [f that catif wretch of an apothecary has imposed upon your confiding nature I want fo know It, aud Vil know the reason why.” Mr. Starbuck produced the bottle; I drew the cork. A glass was quickly filled with the ambi- ent fluid, aud it was as quickly put where it would do the most good. I found it masterly warmi “Joshua,” said I, In solemn words, “if any guest, in illness or even in health, shail beseech you for brandy and you shall youchsafe ‘coggnack’ unto him, be will rise up and cali you blessed, as I bless you now, with my left band on my heart and my right hand stroking my stomach, which even now Is all aglow, and within it all antagonism has ceased.” The expression of Joshua Starbuck’s face had gradually undergone @ change. From that of awe, which my Impressive words bad caused, it came to be one of deubt. Next 1 saw that he had caught his grappie om the idea that he had made some ludicrous mistake. Atlas: he saw what it was and he laughed as seldom a Nan- tucket man allows himself to do. “Well,” sald Josbua, “I guess Iam the only hotel keeper in this country that such a story as this could be told about.” M +o —_____ GOUSE-BONE PROPHECY. Henry Stillman Tells What the Coming Winter Will Be. From the New York Times. Henry Stillman of Woodstock, Conn, Wind- ham county's weather prophet, has made his annual forecast of winter by a goose bone. He says the bone shows clearly that we will have an open winter. The goose bone is accepted by many Windham county people as a better authority than Wiggins or De Voe or even old David A. Daboll, the Connecticut almanac maker. In many farm houses it will be found hanging in the hail, where it is frequently ox- amined, The true prophetic bone, it is said, ean only be. obtained froma goose that has a trace of wild blood and that was hatched out in the spring. A bone taken from a goose hatched in ht by Mr. Stillman shows a row of dots around the keel of it, indicating the probable temperature. The darker these spots are the colder the weather is sure to be. It is asserted that the marks dividing the bone Indicate the thrée winter months, December beginning at the front, Mr, Stillman says he has read the lore closely and finds that it indicates more regular weather than last year and not so severe ag even = i mild (te There will Poets be many days during which running water will Hate rote weather wat Socur a 6 ie of January, and during tha time there will be several’ days of trevsing, Meee the point of She: bous ie ® marked discol- oration, showing that the first day of winter will give pied of the season’s change. Ohrist- mas will ‘green,” but wet and cold, January's entrance will be marked with warm days, growing gradually colder. The coldest day of winter will be January 27. The brief spell of severe weather will be succeeded by heavy thaws, and the traditional Jam thaw will come in February. This month will bea ible one, with heavy snows and rains, An early and decided thaw the promi i foods may be for, There will be an early spring. $00 Montana Honors Divided. The latest returns give » democratic ma- jority of seven on joint ballot in the Montana JEWELS FUR THE FAIR. Novelties in Gems and Precious Metals Offered for the Coming Fair. THE FIANCEE'S GKCRET—TEE LATEST THINGS IX BRACELETS, RINGS AND NECKLACES—COMBINA- TION OF RUBY AND DIAMOND—SIYLES IX STUDS AND SLEEVE BUTTONS—GOME FAMOUS GEMS, ETO. “This is » novelty for the coming season,” saidthe jewelry clerk as he took out of the show case a gold heart, about an inch in length, flat and of small thickness. “Itis to be worn by the young Jady who is engaged to be mar- ried, under her dress at the neck, and entirely concealed from view. To inform any one, even girl friends, that the appendage is carried will be considered to mar the sentiment involved and to be, for that reason, improper. As ‘® matter of course the secret will not be com- municated to members of the family, You see, I touch a little spring and the heart flies open; it is a locket, with a place for a photograph of the happy bridegroom-elect. You can buy one such as this for $14; but one that is made to hold two pictures—one of the young man and the other of his lady-love—costs $20.” “But, supposing that one’s fiancee is sup- ro with a talisman of this description,” said ‘Tux Stax reporter, ‘-what is the proper sort of thing to give her in the way of ornaments that do not have to be worn out of sight?” BRACELETS AND BANGLES, “You might select a bracelet with a very nar- row band, set closely with rubigs, urquoises and sapphires, or a ring with a ruby and two diamonds would be appropriste. Bangle bracelets, as we call these light circlets of gold or silver and precious stones, are going to be more in style than ever this winter. ‘The most costly of them have the metal entirely con- cealed by a single row of gems; others are sim- ply of gold and enamel, in links or otherwise, while many are of plain silver or gold. The newest thing in bangle bracelets is the ‘Shak- spearian,’ each one having a quotation from the poet engraved upon it. Here is one that says: “This, above ali: to thine ownself be true.’ And another that does not sell very well has the ae ‘Win her witn gifts if she respect not words,’ A MORE POPULAR ONE quotes: ‘It is twice blessed; it blesses him that gives and him that takes.’ Coins on bangles have gone out; they are no longer the proper thing. They got to be common. and, when young women took to vieing with one another as to the sumsin coin that they carried about on their wrists, it was time for the fashion to go out. Why, it became so bad finally that many girls did not hesitate to actually demand gold picces—for nothing else was good enough— from young men, on very slight acquaintance. to string upon their bracelets. The heavy bracelet of old times is no longer worn; the light one is prettier, less cumbersome and perhaps less suggestive of the fetter or manacle which it represents, through the survival of custom from the time when woman was a slave.” RUBY AND DIAMONDS THE STYLE. “Why did you suggest a ruby and two dia- monds for the ring?” “Because that is the fashionable combination at present, oran emerald and two diamonds will do as well, The ruby or emerald, of course, shoutd be set between the two diamonds al- ways, and the three stones should be of exactly the same size, Here is a specimen for only $500. Ina general way, the fashion in rings this y will demand ‘fancy’ stones, such a8 sapphires, emeralds, pink diamonds and gems out of the ordinary run.” POPULAR NECKLACES, “How about pearls?” “They will always be the swellest thing for young girls’ necklaces. Neokluces, by the way, will be more in style the coming season than ever before, The correct thing in that way will be a fine gold chain of very small flute- shaped bends, with from three to six pendants of enamel daisies or ileurs de t have $2.000 or $3,000 to spare with ruby centers. One, two or three strands of plain gos beads, too, will be entirely pro- per. And, speaking of pendants, they will be much worn, singly, at the throat. A heart en- crusted with diamonds will be the most opu- lar pattern, or a moonstone surrounded with diamonds will do. The moonstone may be plain, or it may have a cameo cut upon i “AND THE EARRINGS,” “Oh, they are to be smaller than ever be- fore—just little balls or flowers, big enough to barely show when stuck into the lobe of the ear. The newest watches for ladies have per- fectly plain cases, usually with the satin finish that is not scratched so easily as the brightly burnivhed gold. The chains are of the so- called ‘Queen’ style—very short, with some- thing round or chunky at one end, representing an acorn,a fancy knot,a smelling bottle or what you please, in metal. Purses of the old- fashioned pattern, of silver and gold net, will much in favor for women.” “What about men’s studs and sleeve but- tons?” STUDS AND SLEEVE BUTTONS. “The fashion is all abroad about the number of studs tobe worn for dress, You may use one, two or three, just as you like. Enamel still holds its own, though white onyx is be- coming more popular, and little globules of plain gold are a good deal seen. But the swell- est thing of allfor the purpose is three real ‘Is at $28 for the set. Sleeve buttons are of onyx tog, with small diamonds in the center, if you like. They should always be of the link style. Nothing in this way is handso: a mer than lain gold sleeve button with a carbichon— which means a Sapphire cut like a carbuncle— set in the center. “What is the handsomest piece of jewelry you have here’ 4 TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR DIAMOND NECKLACE. “Well, we have nothing much prettier than this diamond necklace. You can have it for $10,000, Every stone is a gom of purest ray serene and selected with indescribable care, For. you see, each stone on one side of the cen tral gem must have its precise counterpart on the other, the whole necklace being thus ar- ranged by pairs, as you might say. And each pair must be exactly alike, not only in size but in shape, style of cutting and color. To pro- duce a perfect necklace like this is a tremen- dous task. The gathering of the diamonds for # was a three years’ task for an expert jewel yer. DANGER OF THEFT. “I don’t think I should care to own neck- lace like that,” said the newspaper man. “I should suffer from incessant aarlety lest it be stolen.” ‘Me too,” answered the shopman. “People who possess such jewels very rarely get much pleasure from them, I . If they keep em at home they are always inastate of alarm about robbers; and so they are apt to be locked up most of the time in vaults at the banks, where they mre little satisfaction to anybody. The best scheme I ever heard of was adopted by a Washington lady who kept her valuable in safe deposit always and wore paste reproductions of them in society. Diamonds seem made to be stolen—they re; nt such concentrated essence of readily- le value, Nearly all the great diamonds of the world have come into their present owner's hands ® succession of thefta, FAMOUS DIAMONDS STOLEN, “The Kob-i-Noor passed by violent means through the hands of many princes in Indis before it was presented to Queen Victoria by in the east. It weighed to H , D.C., MONDAXY.*OCTOBER 7, 1889 GYMNASIUM AND THE WHEEL, A Young Woman who Found Pleasure and Health on a Bicycle. ‘To the Editor of Tax Evexrxe Bran. In a recent edition of the Star I read with interest a letter from an “Active Young Lady” anent a gymnasium for women. I talked it over with a friend of mine and we came to the conclusion that if you could spare a little room tous we should like to help the good cause and relate our experience. Some years ago I went about trying desperate- ly to collect a class of girls who would form the bucleus of a gymnasium. We secured the use of a hall fitted up with all the necessary apjli- ances: bars, rings, ladders, etc., if we could geta class of sufficitnt number together to make it worth while. Permission was obtained for me and one friend tocome for half an hour every day and use the apparatus, while I was oe for the eight necessary ones to complete the class and give us a right and title in the establishment. For a mouth we two went every day, flew into our tunics und trowsers and swung. ran, leaped and frolicked. generally, till we had used up our time, taking with us tremendous appe- tites anda general sense of well being. ‘ihe time flew and we were still as far from forming the class as we were at first. Lots of people were enthusiastic when the subject was men- tioned to them, but they never quite came up to the deciding point. I knew there must be no end of girls somewhere who felt as I did: that exercise meant life, or all that makes | worth having—health and good spirits—but I simply couldn't find them. My friend went away and 1 was left all alone to represent the muscular young women of Washington, and then I retired, for i knew that it was an impo- sicion to keep the place open for me and I de- spared of finding any one who felt and thought as I did. Well, for a time I boarded in the country, and with tennis after 1 got home and my In- dian clubs I managed so weil as not to regret the loss of my gymnasium, but when winter came again and ton in town inaroom too small to think of clubs, I tried to keep wu what I had guined by regular exercises, Batt felt indigestion slowly getting ite claws on me and I began again in another direction. WHEELING, I tried tricycling. It solved the difficulty for me and I have not had anything to find fault with since then. Six months ago I substituted the bicycle for the tricycle, and now, although I would be giad indeed tor the institution of a gymnasium for girls and women, I don’t feel dependent ou that as the only way in which I can get the exercise I want. I am perfectly independent of any others co-operation, I find that my wheel gives me the ability to digest tacks, if I found it nécessary to subsist on them; I sleep without waking trom the time my head is fairly on the pillow; my working hours are long, but I find myself easily able to stand them and enjoy life; I dou’t feel cross any more; I am prepared to find friends on all sides, instead of that dreadful ‘nobody-loves-me” feeling, and, thanks to my wheel, I am as strong and well a woman, I confidently assert, as thero is in the United States—a broad assertion, but then I don’t see how any one could be stronger and freer from ache and pain. Then I get such anamount of fun out of my wheel, Country runs are a revelation to the great majority of women, Think of starting out about 6 o'clock, expecially now when the days are so delicious: getting out in the country and for an hourand a half or so flying up hili'and down dale; com- ing home with every nerve in a tingle, with ad- yentures to tell, and a disposition to sing and Whistle if you are alone, and a predisposition to laugh on the slightest provocation if there i8 any one about to compare experiences with. Thus far I have come across nothing that has done me so great a service, and I am growing more and more enthusiastic every day. Why don’t more girls take it up? Just let them try it for a little and then tell us their experiences, I know the apparent extravagance daunts many and many « girl, but here I can give them some practical information. Go and look st the wheels, learn to ride, and then choose the one you want. Talkto the deaier you decide to purchase from and your experience will be very different from mine if you don’t find that you will beable to make arrangements that will make the luxury you contemplate prove the greatest economy you ever went in for. Say you select one of the most expensive wheels, buying it on instalments, taking a year to finish paying for it. You have the use of the wheel for all that time, you are saving car fare and when itis at last your own you have piece of property worth Within €20 of what you gave for it, not to speak of the fun you have had out of it, the actual money in car fare you have saved, and, above all, the immense im- provement in your health and well being. { acknowledge that I am an enthusiast on the sub- ject, but I haye yet to meet the wheel woman who is not. Won't some other wheel woman help to keep the ball rolling by giving their experiences? “AsotHer Country.” ———— eee THE CHILEAN DELEGATE, Col. Alfonso Has the Highest Opinion of Mr. Blaine as a Statesman. From the New York Herald, Sunday. Col Jose Alfonso, judge of the court of ap- peals of Santiago, Chile, who has been appoint- ed by his government to represent Chile in the congress of ‘‘All Americas,” is at the Victoria ho- tel, The colonel is a man about fifty-five years of age, with a well-proportioned figure, a little over the average height, gray hair and mus- tache. The colonel, who cannot speak a word of gEnglish, said that in his opinion the con- gress of “All Americas” would prove of the highest importance in commercial interests to all. It would prove the means of strengthen- ing the friendly relations between these coun- tries and cause interest in trade to increase ana pears and prosperity to reign supreme. Al- though Col. Jose Alfonso has never met Mr, Blaine, he has the highest opinion of that gen- tleman as a statesman, and thinks as president of the congress that he will do everything in his power to conduct it in such a manner that @ satisfactory conclusion will be reached. The colone! will remain in this city only a few days, and hopes to join the other delegates of the congress at Niagara, In his own country the colonel has held the positions of judge of com- merce, minister of foreign affairs (for three terms), minister of finance, and has held the position of judge of the court of appeals for nine years, —————+o+—_______ RACE WAR IN GEORGIA, A Negro Murdered After Being ‘Warned to Leave the Country. A telegram to the New York Sun from At- lanta, October 6, says: Men who came in from Harris county report the murder of a negro named Rans Gordon by an unknown person. About 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon Gordon and his wife were picking cotton. A sharp re- port of a gun was heard and Gordon fell to the ground dead. The murderer wore a mask and fired the shot from the public road. Then he walked down the road whistling a lively tune. He met Mr. Crockett Whitten and said: “I killed a negro down there.” A short distance further on he met Mr. B, OC, Williams, to whom he made a similar —— Neither gentle- man recognized the masked man, When last ae at acts Se direction of Antioch urc! Some time ago a negro school teacher named ici tees ars eaves He told the negroes a and d them to on as the i i F § tl ral i i shalt not steal. This is also principle of the common law and « rule of equity.” When Swift and Pope made their celebrated excursion into the art of sinking in poetry they never ied cay Saas more or com- plete than Almost as though EP aries of pendent ot cou mara the ofa ota “Prisoner, not bave committed mar- der, but you have ruana through the Sescoben at enna ie uniforms,” Fechape, however, —_s lecg Ly ABRAHAM LINCOLN’s REPUBLI- CANISM, Major Hay’s Estimate of the Martyr President’s Character. The estimate Maj. Hay formed twenty-five Years ago of Abraham Lincoln sppesrs clearly enough in the Century history of the dead President, but the following letter by Hay in Herndon’s life of Lincoln reveals the extent and earnestness of the author's conception of his subject: “Lincoln went to bed ordinarily from 10 to 11 o'clock, unless he happened to be kept up by important news, in which care he would frequently remain at the War department till 1 or2 He rose early, When he lived in the country at the Soldiers’ Home he would be up and dressed, eat his breakfast (which was ex- tremely fragal, an egg, a piece of toast, coffee, &c.,) and ride into Kashington, all before 8 o'clock. In the winter, at the White Hoase, he Was not quite so early. He did not sieep weil, but spenta good while inbed. * * * He was extremely unmethodical; it was a four years’ struggie on Nicolay’s part and mine to get him to adopt some systematic rules. He would break through every jation as = as it was made. Anything that kept the peop! away from him he y nase Som although they nearly annoyed the life outof him by unreason- able complaints andrequests, He wrote very few letters, and did not read one in fifty that he received. * * * He was very abstemious— ate less than anyman I know. He drank nothing but water; not from principle, but because he did not hike wine or spirits. Once, in rather dark days early in the war, a temperance com- mittee came to him and said that the reason we did not win was because our army drank so much whisky astobring the curse of the Lord upon them. He said it was rather un- fair on the part of the aforesaid curse, as the other side drank more and worse whisky thun ours did. He read very little. He scarcely looked intos newspaper unless I called bis af- tention to an article on some spe- cial subject. He frequently said: “I know more about it than any of them.” Itis absurd toca!l him a modest man. No great man was ever modest, It was his intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of supe- riority that men like Chase and Sumner never could forgive. I believe that Lincoin is well understood by the people;but there is a patont- leather, kid-glove set who know no more of him than an owl docs of a comet blazing into its blinking eyes. Their estimates of him are in Many cases disgraceful exhibitions of ignor- ance and prejudice. Their effeminate natures shrink instinctively from the contact of a great reality hike Lincoln's character, I consider Lincoln's republicanism incarnate—with all its faults and aii its virtues. As, in rudeness, republicanism is the sick world, so Lincoin, with all his foil the greatest is PASTEU! Scientists Without Honor in Their Own Country. idence New York Tribune. Paris While Mr. Edison has been greatly honored by all classes of Frenchmen, and leading citi- zens have vied in conferring distinction upon him, M. Pasteur and Dr. Brown-Sequard have not been so fortunate. The papers here never showed great confidence in the reinvigorating virtues of Dr, Brown-Sequard’s elixir. They admitted that the aged doctor, who is really seventy-two years old and looked as much, bad courageously experimented with his elixir on himseif, But they showed that the popularity which the elixir achieved was primarily due to Dr. Variot, who first announced that he had tried the elixir on some of his patients with eat success, Unkind critics have hinted that Yariot reported in this way to bid for the in- fluence of Dr. Brown-Sequard in the French Academy of Medicine, us well as to secure the custom of decrepit’ people anxious to re- cover the strength of youth. They alleged also that Dr. Variot somé years ago attached his name to a quack specific for destroying marke of tattooing and that his experiments with the elixir were made by him as oiticial physician of the Ceutral infirmary of the state prison upon poor and ignorant people, and not in the presence of other doctors. Pasteur has fared even worse with a minority of his coun- trymen, While it is true that a spleudid build- ing was erected in which be might pro: te his researches with regard to bydrophobia, it is also true that violent opposition was shown in the Paris municipal council against making any grant for such a purpose. He has, m: over, just been suubbed in his native place, the town of Arbois, in the department of Jura, where the municipal council has decided, by a vote of 12to 4, that the Rue Pasteur should lose its name and be called hereafter Rue de la Gare, or “Depot street.” _-——ee_____ A SOCIETY WOMAN’S SUICIDE. One of Baltimore’s Fashionable Leaders Kills Herself, Mrs, Emily Rosalie Smith, a leader in Balti- More's social circles and the wife of Tunstall Smith, a prominent young dry goods commis- sion merchant, committed suicide Saturday by shooting herself through the head in the library of her elegant home on north Calvert street. Mrs. Smith had been a victim of melancholia for the last six months and all that medical skill and the devoted attention of her husband and family could do failed to rally her from ber depression, Previous to last spring she was one of the brightest of Baltimore's social stars and was as popular for her genial, happy dis- position as for her great beauty. Saturday morning she seemed cheerful when her husband left her to go to his place of busi- ness, She went down town on alittle shopping trip, meeting and chatting with a number of her friends. About 1 o'clock she returned home. and entering the library played with her three httle children for awhile and then bade the nurse take them to another room, saying that she wished to be alone. She kissed the children as they left the room, and that was the last they saw of their mother alive. Their childish prattle prevented the report of the istol, with which sie took her life, trom being aca by the servants, When her husband re- turned a half hour later and sought her in the library he was horror-struck when he opened the door, On the floor, near the library table, she lay, her hair matted with blood and her husband's revolver by her side. Death had been instantaneous, Mra Smith was twenty- e and a daughter of Col. of Baltimore and a niece of the first wife of ex-Secretary of State Bayard, Her husban Baltimore id is a memver of the Cricket club and is well known in amateur ath- letic circles. ~_____ee___ Remarkable Trotting. From the New York Herald. The time—2.134{—made on Friday by Leland Stanford’s young filly, Sunol, adds another to the list of remarkabie performances that make the trotting season of 1889 remark- able, While neither the 2.08% of Maud 8. nor the 210 of Jay-Eye-See has been equaled, there never hag been a year in which so many different horses have made records of about 2.14 or below. Look, for instance, at this list: ++210% Palo Alto... 2.125% Axtell. PRAIA FAGTS. THE EVENING STAR ts a PAPER OF TO-DAY, not of YESTERDAY nor of LAST WEEK. It prints ALL THR NEWS, Local, Domestic and Foreign, LONG IN ADVANCE OF THE MORN- ING PAPERS. This is conspicuously true of all classeg of news, but especially so in regard to Local News and District Affairs. THE STAR has a very much LARGER and BETTER force of LOCAL RE~ PORTERS and SPECIAL WRITERS than any other paper in Washington ever thought of employing, and ITS MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORK THAN THREE TIMES AS POWER- FUL AND RAPID AS THOSE OF ANY OTHER WASHINGTON PAPER. It ig therefore able to print each day » full report of every trumsaction of pubiic ine terest occurring in the District up te the very hour of going to press. By the free use of the OCEAN CABLES: for REGULAR AND SPECIAL Dis- PATCHES, and with the difference of time in its favor, it is also able to giv® ita readers every afternoon the news of the WHOLE EASTERN HEMISPHERE for the entire day, and up to 12 o’clock midnight, thus leaving literally nothing im the way of news from Europe, Asia, and Africa for the morning papers. —— Equally does THE STAR lead all its contemporaries in the publication of the NEWS OF OUR OWN COUNTRY. Receiving the regular dispatches of both News Associations; with alert and enterprising special telegraphic cor- respondents at ail important points; and with wires leading directly from its owa office to the general network of telegraph system touching every city, towa and hamlet in the United States and Terri- tories, it is enabled to receive and print atonce a full report of every event of consequence occurring @uring the day anywhere between the Atinutic aud Pas citic Uceans, ———— @ NOTE THE RESULT: 9 —— THE STAR HAS MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS and MORE THAN | WIVE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY PAPER IN WASHINGTON. It ts de- lvered regularly by careful carriers at the HOMES OF THE PEOPLE, AFTER THE BUSTLE AND WORRY OF THE PAY ARE OVER, and it is thus read leisurely and thoroughly by EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, They know that it prints all the news, and has only the interests of the people of the District in view, with no partisan measures to advocate, and no private schemes to forward. They know it, in short, tobe THE PEOPLE’S PAPER, and nothingelse. Asan ADVEKTISING MEDIUM it is, therefore, ABSOU- LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL, It ts in fact worth more as a meaus of reach~ ing the public THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS iN THE CITY TOGETHER. Furthermore, in proportion to the re- turns it gives its patrons, ITS ADVEK- TISING RATES ARK THE CHEAPES¢ UN THE CITY. —0: — In conclusion, the public should bear in mind this one significant fact: THE STAK does not rely upon empty boasts to impress the public. ITS CIRCULA- TION IS SWORN TO; its PRESS- ROOM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; and its BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED by any one having an interest in thelr examination. These are CRUCIAL TESTS, which few papers invite, and which those that boast most are least able to stand. —o:— & The esteem in which THE STAB is held by the reading and advertising public is conclusively shown by the fig- ures given below. Im the first six months of each of the five years named the average daily cir- culation of the paper was: umns of The Star during the first six months of the years named was as fol- Arbitration. ; ¢ | | F ft fl lI ifs Ht EE