Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1890, Page 10

FACTS ABOUT STAMPS. red stamp has capped the climax of ugliness, At present the Russian stamps aro the most SONS OF THK PATRIOTS, The Craze for Collecting Them More oe ee en ee - = Men Whose Ancestors Fought in the , “a colors, but they wash, Here Violent Than Ever Before. te ot of Beep aps mes War of Independence. rors? resovatioss 2s rue practice or tae | Which are circular, (ou observe, with | gag socreTy OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION AND MANIA—NOT MERELY THE STAMP NOW, BUT TI PAPER AND PERFORATIONS ANB IMPORTANT— DETAILS OF A CURIOUS BUSINESS. ROWN-UP people, instead | of boys, have within the past few years monopo- lized the business of col- ) lecting postage stamps,” said a dealer in such mer- chandise the other day. The craze lias also be- come ever so much more For example, a collector is no longer satisfied necessarily with one stamp of a kind. It may be that the same stamp has been } fasaed on more than one kind of paper, and in | that ease oue of each sort must be secured. Buppose the government of Heligaland gets out @ two-pence stamp this year on ‘wove’ paper and next year prints the same stampon the collector must have both varie: representations of the pyramid and the sphynx. Tuis Victoria stamp for £10 sterling is the highest denomination used for postal service in the world. It carried gold dust from Mel- bourne to Paris, The West Australian stamps have a swan as their prevailing design, you perceive. The round hole punched through that one in the corner of the page m that the letter it was attached to was mailed bya convict, That is the wayin which all the stamps on convicts’ letters are canceled in that part of the world. These ely stamps with the design of a dragon in a fit are Shang- hai Heligoland is the only country that prints | the denominations on its stamps in two lan- guages — English and German. Most East Indian states use the Britich government stamp, printing the nam the state over each one. Cashmere pripts its stamps in water colors— from ivory—and you observe that the tiuts run pretty badly. Japan covers her stamps with complicated geometrical designs, while Guate- mala employs a green parrot uniformly for an emblem. ‘U. &. DEPARTMENT STAMPS, “Here is a set of the stamps issued for the de- partments here in Washington from 1873 to spend nights of sleepless grief over the vacancy fa his albu. It fre happens, too, that | the same stamp will be aed with different | sorts of perforations at the edyes; one edition of itw:ll have perforations like those of Mr. | Wanamakec's er will have what are calied ‘pin pe another will have ‘rolletted’ edges upon, for tear- ing purposes, wh have no sort of perforation or other ¢ ence for tearing whatever. But all those varieties must be bac | i TO MAC? THR COLLECTION COMPLETE. “Equal importance exists in the water mark of the pxper on which a stamp is printed. Que edition of a Gu stamp is on paper with no water mark at all; another edition of the same stamp is on paper with # star for a water mark, while stil auother is on paper with a crown and the letters ‘C C.’ Ail three of these are necessary to a proper collection of Guatemala stamps. Occasionally it happens thatthe same stamp is printed at different times from a lithographic stone, a wooden block and a steel plate; a specimen of each is necessary to the collector's Lappiness. And so muc fference do distinetions make thata stamp with one sort of perforation or water mark will be worth, m hundreds of dollars, when precisely th forated or water marked in another way has selling value of only a few cents. An otner- wise worthless blue Cape of G printed by accident in red auction in New York the other common one-penny red of the san printed by accident in bine, fetch country, tehed $vu. “That seems “Not for arare specimen. As high as $1,000 | is sometimes paid for s single stamp. You have | no idea, probably, what a mania it is; never has the stamp-gathering fever been so prevalent as | at present. Some of the great millionaires of | Europe have it badly. The greatest collection | an the world is owned by the multi-miiliouaire Ferrary and is worth #500,000, by wh that it would bring that amount at au morrow. Baron Rothschild has a collection worth $200,000, These and one other in posses- | sion of an English millionaire named ‘Tapeling | ere the three great colicctious of the world, | bat smaller ones, worth from $10,000 to $50,001 are common. It can’t be said that money spent | in this way is unproductive, inasmuch as stamps | are continually increasing in value. Rare stamps have doubled in vaiue within the last four vears, and those of the Cuited States have trebled in worth. “Where do stamps come from?" “The dealers are the original collectors, if that is what von mean. There are at present about one thousand stamp merchants in the United States, doing business on a capital of all the way from $109 to $100,000. The dealer ets most of his stamps from the countries issuing them by sending directly to postmasters , With orders aud drafts for If my stock of Shanghai stamps is low Isend a dratt for $100 to the post office in that British colony and receive in return €100| worth of whatever sort of Shanghai stamps I | may have requested. In this way I keep myself | supplied with new stamps of all sorts from every part of the world. But there are MANY OTHER SOURCES OF KUPPLY. “Dealers in stamp-issuing countries make a | business of collecting and trading in the stamps of local manufacture. With them I am in communication and from them I get many stamps that have ceased to be printed. May be I send $100 worth of United States stamps in ex- change for $10 worth of Kussian stamps, thus | reducing the trausaction to a basis of simple | swap. Another thing dealers do is to adver- | tise in y| Pp periodicals that they will p: good prices for collections, which ally being sold out by emateurs tured of the | amusement. Also they buy quantities of waste paper from the ¢: ness houses | that nave much foreign correspondence, and } by looking tu over they secure stamps. | Or they pay so much to professignal buyers of | old paper for the privilege of looking over | at stock, Whenever a great collection present and bid where wre cout’ they want. | is the first stamp ever isaned. 1974; they will be regarded as curiosities some diy. The State Department stamp, you see, Was green, the Treasury stamp was brown, the Navy stamp was blue, the Department of Jus- hee stamp purple, the Executive stamp cat imine, the Agricaltaral stamp yeilow and the Interior stamp vermilion. Ou thia next page It was brought out in England im 1341 and was called the *Mul- ready envelope,’ after the name of the member of the Revel Academy who designed it. You perceive that it is simply a design in outline covering all of the envelope on the address side save the space needed for the address, it represents angels aud carrier pigeons flyin about with messages between shores crowde with strange animals and peoples. One way I should have mentioned m which dealers pro- cure stamps of old isstes is by purchasing the dies from governments, after which they can produce as many of those stamps as they please at an expense only of printing and paper.” —— QUEER THINGS ON GRAVES. Curiosities of an Ancient Cemetery for Washington Colored People. QUAINT FUNFRAL CUSTOMS ILLUSTRATED BY ADORNMENTS FOR MORTUARY MOUNDS—ToYS ON CHILDREN’S GRAVES—MEDICINE BOTTLES AND CHOCKERY—ALL SORTS OF THINGS. A little child’s tea set spread out upon anew- made grave. What could be more pathetic! The tiny cups and dishes ali carefully ar- ranged as if for a make-believe party, with small tea pot in the middle. But the mite of a girl whoshould play the hostess at the lilli- putian feast is lying cold and stiff in a wooden box buried 8 feet beneath the mound of fresh earth whereon the tea set is arrayed. The little grave is but one of thousands such huddled together in an old colored people's cemetery out toward the northwest beyond the city limits and close by the bank of Rock Creek. Acre upon acre of the inclosure is so thickly occupied by the dead that the graves adjoin one another row upon row without an inch of space between to set the foot upon. No verdure conceals beneath its green carpet he crowded hillocks of clay and gravel, nor do costly monuments arise to commemorats the virtues of the departed. There are not even headstones, but usually slabs of wood in- stead, most of them merely shingles and old scraps of board stuck into the ground, and all this not becauss of any lack of love or rever- ‘THE MEMBERS IX THIS CITI—THE PURPOSES OF THE ORGANIZATION—NO SURVIVOR OF THR WAR NOW LIVING. “We, citizens of the United States, descend- ante of the men who achieved independence and established for our nation » government of, for and by the people, members of the So- ciety of the Sons of the American Revo- lution, do hereby, for the purpose of local work, association and government, in accord with the spirit and constitution of our general society, ordain, establish and set our hands to this constitution.” Then they affix their autographs. Comparatively few people know anything about the Society of the Sons of the A: Revolution. The organization has been in ex- istence but little more than a year, its inaugu- ral meeting having been held in Fraunce’s ern, New York city, Apmil 30, 1889, while Millions of the inhabitans of the United States were celebrating the centennial of Washington's inauguration. Since that time its growth has been phenomenal all over the conntry and nowhere hi the recruits been more numer- ous than in the District of Coiumbia, Similar associations have been in existence for many years past, but they have been widely scattered and lacked that essential anatomical part—a head. Many of them flourished for a while and at last perished of too much politics, OBJECTS OF THE BOCIETY. The stated objects of the society are to per- petuate the memory and the spirit of the men who achieved American independence by the encouragement of historical research in rela- tion to the revolution and the publication | of its results; the preservation of docu- ments and relics and of the records of the individual services of revolutionary soldiers and patriots and the promotion of cei- ebrations of all patriotic anniversaries; to carry out the injunction of Washington in hii well address to the American people, mote, as an object of primary importance, in- stitutions for the general dufusion of kuowl- edge,” thus developing an eulightened pab- lic’ ‘opinion and .affording to young and old such advantages as shall develop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties of American citizens; to cherish, main- tain and extend the iustitutions of Amorican freedom to foster true patriotism and love of country and to aid in securing for mankind all the bléssiugs of liberty, WHO ARE ELIGIBLE. Only eligible men are admitted to member- ship. Eligibility consists in being at least twenty-one years of age and a dascendant of one or more who, with unfailing loyalty, ren- dered material aid to the cause of indepeudence as a soldier or sailor, a civil officer in oue of the several colonies or states or of the United Colonies or states or as a recognized patriot. The ladies are not in it, so to speak, but there is asection inthe article on member- ship which graciously admits that thero may be women who boast horoiec ancestors, These females of noble lineage are to add to history without any noticeable compensation, “For the purpose,” says the section, “of making more nearly perfect the records of our revolution ancestors and their descendants, any woman of revolutionary ancestry may have filed a record of her ancestors’ service and of ber line of descent by the registrar, who shall wend a duplicate to the registrar general.” THE INCORPORATORS. Agreat number of eminent men are much interested in the society. This cannot be bet- ter shown than in the list of incorporators of ence, but simply for the reason that the builders of this necropolis are poor. On the piece of board at the head of the grave where the tea set is spread out is this in- scription: MedoRA Evell Cort This is by no means the only grave on which toys and such things are to be seen displayed. On the contrary, nearly every little mound of earth that covers a child’s coffin exhibits some relics of the sort. Near by is # shingle serving the purpose of a head stone, against which is tied with twine a doll’s chair, with a china doll sitting in it. The doll’s dress has had all the color washed out of it by the rain, but it 6: sits there patiently, it has sat for many a month, waiting for its small mistress to pick it up when the day shall arrive and carry it be- fore the judgment seat, Ona grave not far offisa tin box full of empty spools—once doubtless used for playthings to beguile baby hours—and a mouth organ, Tied to another head board is a pair of little reins, and scattered over the mound are several dominoes. A grave that is marked simply “No. 1”—may be the child bad got no name—was adorned merely with a rubber-stoppered nursing bottle. BOTTLES AS DECORATIONS. The nursing bottles seemed to be of all things the most frequent decoration of the graves—certainly the most pitiful Asarule they were partly filled with mad washed into them by the storms, But they were not by any means the only kind of bottles to be noticed on fuli of es bring a consider- able fort alogued | singly— and known colle the ordi- | nary stamps are s. named as 80 many of this c uch are the | ways in which des How sTaMrs “Now, to sell them, they make up packages of | all sorts of stamps, a greater or less number in euch package. at prices running all the way ups.” from 10 ce perhaps. A 75-cent pack- | age. may b ontain 60 foreign stamps of differeut countries, and will be au attractive | investment for a person Just begiuning to col- | lect. In fact, th ges are intended | ehiefly for beg «© collectors of long | Standing would get too many duplicates by | purchasing the : r advertises the | packages und particularly | Fare spe gazine | eisewiere. issues catal Price lists. Approval sheets he a Feady to send « on which a cert the rurer sort are stuck. An application for! approval sheets reaches the dealer from a col lector and, if he Las reason to entertain conti- | has | These are sheets of paper | n number of select stamps of dence Ap} sends several of the sheets « istered mail, The coi-| sheets and detaches from | them as he wants g the rest buck to the dealer to- the money for those takeu off. the | b stamp being marked on thesheet | it, itoften ha # that collect- | Sreater than their | sheets at ail or | er has to bring | big dealers pub- wich cost te. th ' ason to Want ted spaces in iptions ud pic- amps where they } lish albums 1 as muck as @3 good a one a can be bad for outline for the sta ti ot mpsto be put m tures of the designs on the s are desiratie. ors is pro’ tions of the alt Years to previde for fresh aud new edi- | every three For “Are not pos: Pp STAG STAMYS, sed toa great business | ago A. few ye w York w vm large of But the law ay pretenses and very searce!y poss. rience wit rat thing e examines i iT if that bears scrutiny, he inspec then he looks Bt the post cance. ually at the gam wa the back. Jf no fault is found with auy of | these particulars, the stamp is surely good. | The question as to whether the paper is wove or laid and how water-marked 14 iucidentally | observed iu counectiva with the record as to Gate of issue.” U. & STAMPS ON TUE DOWN GRADE. “What do you think of the new two-cent stamp?” | “Unquestionably, it isthe ugliest we have er bad. Artistically speaking, United States | stamps have been steadily running down for many years past, as you may see for yourself Our 6 in- ‘hed in 146% ‘There ful stamps printed ‘They were done in | county, N.J. by ivokiug over my own cuilection here. stamps in old times were very band: deed and you will observe that the ty re. their highest point of b bave never been more beau than ours of that year. several exquisite Colors aud one of them con- tained in about one-third of its surface a rep- reseatstion of the De aration of Independence cture in the Capitol rotanda and so fiuely executed that, as you see, you can make out the likenesses with the naked eye. But we have been steadily running to ever sluce, Until at lcugib the iwo-cent the mounds. Medicine bottles were there in plenty—enougb, indeed, to supply an apothe- cary’sshop with glass ware. As well as could be discovered. it was much the fashion to place on @ grave all the medicine bottles emptied by the deceased during the last and fatal illness, Thus one was enabled to surmise at a glance whether or not the sickness had been very long or complicated. Some graves would have only two or three bottles, while others would make # showing of as many as fifteen. On one mound—not that of a child—was an unmistak- ie whisky bottle, empty. Many of the medi- cine bottles on the other band were partly full. Une head board bore the epitaph: Our babe atept away Quietly to Bulan land Ta the sweet byc-aud-bye. Onthe grave were a rubber doll, a tin fire engine, very much rusted, aud « little china cat, ‘MORE CURIOUS THINGS. A curious thing found on one of the mounds was a cast of a human foot in ordinary plaster of the sort thatis used for houses, Perhaps the father of the family was in that busin Other casts of angels and such things in same rude material were not infrequent. The most conspicuous object in the cemetery was & huge hobby horse placed over a small boy's grave. Many s day, doubtless, had be ridden on it to Banbury Cross. A pathetic ornament, washed down by the rain from a mound, was a child's school slate. Sticking up in the mud by it was a half-used slate pencil. The slate itself was broken, One thing that struck the observer in the cemetery was that all the ornaments and arti- cles of whatever description that decorated the graves were without exception broken or de- prived of their usefulness in other ways, If such had not been the ease they would be likely to be carried away. Even a tin basin on oue mound, red with rust, was punched full of holes. A starch box on ‘another grave was filled fall of fragments of china dolls, and even the nursing botties were cracked. ‘The big p known to colleet- | hobby vorse had lost its rockers and every one | of the statuettes was more or less mutilated. FULL-GROWN COFFEE Pors, with their nozzles knocked off, in very many cases served the use of pots for flowers, though no flowers were in them, of course. The things on the mounds had ina large percentage of instances been washed away more or lesa, Indeed, a really severe rain storm might well | sweep all traces of the individual graves away, He leaving only an unmarked ficld of gravel aud | Jt was captured by a Salem privateer. Mr. ek: Among other things on the graves were a child's tim stove, a broken infant's mug, a tin horse, tin wagons, little tin toy plates placed in order over a mound, ever 60 many sea shells and clam shells, glass crucifixes, a china chureb, a butter dish, a dark lantern, a small ool, a erutch, ® glass cylinder fall of colored pictures aud « toy washboard. Ou one grave are the remains of @ glass lamp, which would appear to have exploded and killed the late lamented. ae ee The Youngest Great-Grandmother. A great-grandmother forty-eight years of age has been found in California, She is Mrs. O, H. Smith and lives at San Bernardino, Cal. | Her family went to California from Sussex She was born in 1442 and was | married at fourteen to Albert Cole, She had sixchildren before her twenty-fourth year, Her busvand was killed by Mormons, leaving her a widow at twenty-five, and bee ——— married QO. H, Smith, who is still living. er eldest child, a daughter, married in her sixteenth year, when she is said to bave been | fully developed and very beautiful, She bo- the local society, as set out in the bill to incorporate, reported favorably by the joint committee on the library, The mames in that measure ° David D, Porter of the District of Columbia, William H. Arnoux and James Otis of New York, W. Seward Webb and Theodore 8, Peck of Vermont, Timothy Dwight, Lucius P. Deming, and J, Coddington’ Kinney of Connecticut, Rutherford B. Hayes and Wilson L. Gill of Ohio, Wade Hampton of South Carolina, Simon B. Buckner of Keutucky, John B. Gordon of Georgia, Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee, Robert 8. Green and William 0. McDowell of New Jersey, Edwir 8. Barrett and Luther L. Tarbell of Massachusetts, John G, Morris, James C. Cresap and W. Francis Cregar of Maryland. A. 8. Hubbard and Chas. J. King of California, Chas, Edward Cheney of Illinois, William H. English of Indiana, Charles H. Denison of Maine, William H. Brearley of Michigan, John B. Sanburn of Minnesota. D. R. Fraucis of Missouri, Hiram E. Hall of Wash- ington, Atwood Violett of Louisiana, Ed- mund de La Fayette of France, Zebu- lon 3B. Vance of North Carolina, William D. Hoard of Wisconsin, Fitz- hugh Lee of Virginia, James A. Beaver of Peunsylvania, John J. Jacobs of West Virginia, Elisha B. Andrews of Rhode Island, H. K. Slaytonof New Hampshire, Joseph F. John- ston and Goldsmith Bernard West of Alabama, Samuel W. Willams of Arkansas, Lyman E. Knapp of Alaska, H. R. Wolcott of Colorado, ‘A. 3: Woodman of Delaware, William B. Alli. son of Iowa and L, Bradford Price of New Mexico, NOT ONE SURVIVOR. The records and researches of the society have established the fact that there is not now living a single soldier of the revolutionary war. The last of those warriors who drew pension died on April 5, 1869. That was Duniol . Bakeman of Cattaraugus county, . For seven days he had the honor of being the only authorized survivor, On March 27, 1868, John Gray of Virginia, but then residing in Noble, Ohio, was his only partner. On March 28 Gray died at the age of 105. Seven days later Bukeman joined the Grand Army of evolutionary eroes and relinquished his pension claim. He was 109 years old, The revolutionary soldier's widow is here, though. Lust Juue there were twenty-seven of her all drawing penvions, Death has made some inroads since then, but at that time the roll badou it the followiug names, with cor. responding ages and addresses, There are a half dozen Nancys in the List: Meridy Smith, 34, Newman, Ga.; Sarah Dab- ney, 89, Barry, JIL; Jane Harrinson, 83, Pinck- neyville, Il; Nancy A. Green, 71, Ripley county, Ind.; Sally Heath,’ si, Titus ville, "Ky.; Susay Curtiss, 97, Topham Me.; Lovey Aldrich, 89, Leslie, Mich. Freelove Barnes, 93, | Waldron, Mi Olive C, Yorton, 78, Elva, Mica.; Betsey lingford, 93, Mankato, Miuu.; Jane Dunmore, 83, Broadalin, Aseuath Turner, 84, Man- chester, N.Y.; Elizabeth Boston, 96, Valiey- k ney Gregg, 73, Collettsville, N.C. Nancy Weatherman, 79, Limeback, Tenn.; Elizabeth Betz, 96, Harrisburg, Pa; Anna Maria Young, 97, Easton, Pa.; Mary Brown, 54, Knoxville, Tenn.; Nancy Jones, 75, Jonesboro, Leun.; Nancy Rains, 97, Carter's Furnace, Ten: N Grove, Lenn. Union, Vt; Patty Richardson, 33, Lowe, 72, Hoiston, bes Newbern, Va.; Mary Sacad, 73, Parksley, Vi HE WAS AN ENGLISHMAN, Extremely interesting are some of the stories brought to light by ths application papers of jeligible persons. Leou 8. Chunnoll of this cily oifers @ good example. He is the son of Avram Vite Joun Chauueli of London, Eug., who rendered the colonics and tue United States good service. Mr. Caannell. sr., was Robertson, 86, Shad Piymoutl a placed on board ® Britisu trausport which Was jouded with supplies for the dMritish army at Boston, Gen, Gage never got those supplies, ‘Lhe transport that he longed for never came. | Chanuell was then in that frame of mind that demanded somevody's gore, so he volunivered as # privateeraman, became a citizen of the new uation, and fought so long as there was auything to figut for or any one to fight. He married @ second time and the Leon 3. Chan- neil of this city, now seveuty-four years of age, is s son of the second marriage. ‘The pri- vateersman was oue hundred and twelve when he died, Roberdean Buchanan, another Washing- tonian, had four yreat-grandfathers and two sreat-great-grand fathers who “tit into the rev- olutiouary war.” Duncan 8. Walker and Rene Bache, both Members of the local society, are direct dy- soendants of Benjamin Franklin. GEN. MEIGS’ DESCENT. Circulars stating the aims and nature of the society have been liberally circulated and many interesting replies have been received. Gen. M. C. Meigs, in his reply, said: “Ido not know exactly conditions of eligibility, but I presume that,asa great-grand- son of Col. Johu Benjamin of stratiord, Coun., who was wounded at the battle of Ri and, accordiug to the famuy tradition, fought under Wayne at Stony Point, and who died | came Mrs. Pendergast. ‘A daughter was born | to her the following year, making Mrs. Smith « | grandmother at thir ‘bis daughter bday | followed the habits of her family, of marrying Dbecam Mre | early, aud at the age of fifteen e Sunuco, the wife of aweaithy Spaniard. A son, the represeutative of the fifth gencration now living, is uow fourteen months old, and | rules the entire house, from the great-grand- | mother of forty-eight down. This extraordi- | nary record is porbaps unparalleled in the tem- | perate zone. partly frou the effects of a builet, which he carried in his body from Ridgefield to his grave, I should be eligible.” B18 ANCESTORS WERK NOT HERE. Bishop John J. Keane, rector of the Catholic University, wrote to Dr. F. O. St Clair: “I should esteem it a high honor to be eligible to membership in such an association, From my heart I bless the American revolution and the work effected by it, and ail the men who took captured by @ press gung in London and | oe, ae ee Fe Se = in it, and I feel something akin to envy those to whom Providence has given the good fortune of being descended from our revolutionary patriots. But at the time that = your W rathecs were win- ning American independence from British tyranny, my ancestors were smarting under its galling yoke in unfortunate Ireland. This fact, while it makes me all the more devoted to American liberty, rives me of the privilege of enrolling myself among the descendants of those who won it. I pray that the association may become a strong bond of loving fidelity, binding all its members to the loyal upholding Of liberties so dearly wou.” THE ANNUAL CELEBRATIONR. ‘The local society will hold its annual celebra- tion on each 22d day of February. There is no universal day of commemoration, Massa- chusetts societies ment on Bunker Hill day, North Carolina colobrates Mecklenburg’ birth; Michigan the day on which the stars and stripes wero first nufurled within its bound- aries asa territory, and othor states in their own fashion and at their own time. This city pays it homago to Goorge Washington, MEMBERS OF TUE LOCAL SOCIETY, The following are actual members of the local society: David D. Porter, admiral; W. 8. Rosecrans, brevet major general U. 8. A; A. W. Greely, brigadier general, chief signal officer; Clincon B. Sears, captain engineers U. 8. A; John Lorimet Worden, rear admiral U. 8. N.; E. D. Townsend, brigadier brevet major general U. 8. A., retired; M. C. Meigs, brigadier generel and brevet major general U.S. A., retired; Jas, D. Dana, leavenant col- onel, brevet brigadior general U. 8, A., retired; John B. Nixon, brevet lieutenant colonel U.S. volunteers and captain U, etired, George A. Armes, brevet major U.S. volunteers and captain U.8.A., retired; James M. Flint, sur- g U.S. Richard C. Dubois, general U. retired; Henry A. Robbins. Robert J. Walker; Joseph Cabell Breckenridge, brigadier general and inspector general U.S.A.; William A. Richardson, ebief jus- tice Court of Claims; Levi Morton, Vice Prevideut of the United States; Wm. P. Frye, U. 8, Senator; John Sherman, U. 8. Senator; Wm. Campbell Preston Breckin ridge, Representative from Kentucky; John H. Reagan, U. 8. Senator; Horatio Gates Gibson, colonel thirty-first U. 8. artillery, brevet briga- dier general U.S. army; Wm. M. Springer, U.S. Representative; F. W. Clurk, chief chemist gevlogicat sur ppleton Prent V. V. Kennon, first lieutenant vi ington, D. C.; Robert Craig, cxptain U.S. P, Langley, G. Brown Goode, Wi . Winlock, W. V. Cox, J, E. Watkins, William | J. Bhees, A. Howard Clark, Paul Beck- with, J. Eastuman, R. Hitchcock and Henry Elliott, Smithsonian Institution; | B. A. Colonna, United States coast and geodetic survey; Felix Alexander Reeve, late colonel eighth Tennessee volt aj. Chas, 8. ill, Roberdeau Bachanen, Gen. Duncan Walker, Granville Fernald, F. QO. St. Clair, chief consular bureau, Department of State; Harry King, chief : geologi ey; vin D. Cowles. first li 23d infantry; McDonald, United States commis- | eries; Louis A. Dent, Rdgar Ric: Edw. A. Mose John R. Gar- homas Ewing, Horace Coleman, Barnard K. Green, engineer Congressional Li- brary; R. A. King, Lieut. Arnold Burges John- son, John R, Graham, Albert Pike, ex-brigadier general, U.S. A.; Dr. J. M. Toner, Daniel B. Clark, John B.Bowman, Ebenezer Burges Ball, Gen. H. V. Boynton. Wm. D. Cavell, Wm. Lee, M.D., Jesse B. Wilson, Charles Albert, John surgeon U.S.A; Al Fly Brackett, M.D., Otis H. Cutler, Josiah Dent, PV. Hagnor, U. 8. A.) Capt. Wm. H. H. Sheets,’ Myron M.' Parker, J. Leavitt Smith, Jesse D. 3. Peters, James T. Dubois, George L. Clark, James F, Duhamel, Joseph’ C, Gordon, S. ‘I. Albert, J. Hoffuer Guisvon, 0. 8, Gliwson, acccakee eee A STATUESQUE DREAM. A Conference That Located the Lafay- ette Monument. To the EAttor of THe EVENING STAR: Lhad been driving about the city, looking at the monumentserected to our great men, and full of the subject of the placing of the Lafay- ette memorial I fell asleep and had a dream. I found myself in Statuary Hall, at the Capitol, alone at night. I was conscious of a whispered conference, which I at first thought was only the wonderful echoes which guides point out to strangers, but listening attentively I soon found that these ghostly looking statues were endowed with motion and speech, Im- agino my astonishment at hearing them pro- pose to take a midnightstroll through the city to confer with various disgruntled statues who felt themselves ill-placed. but above all to look at the proposed site of the monument which a Tateful people were to erect to the noble Prenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette, and his compatriots,who did so much for us in securing our independence. Ouly one of their number declined to join the procession, This was Jefferson, who said | that for years he had endured the scorching heats of summer and the storms of winter in | front of the White House, and he was quite too | comfortably housed at present to care for a | nocturnal stroll. So they marched out one by one, Crea Shad to the east side of the Capitol to invite Washington to join them, but he was so securely fastened in his little house that he declined to break out, expressing a fear at the same time thatif he stirred in the matter of the placing of the monument of his dear old comrades Be himself would be moved again, which, as he was stiff with age, would not be reeable, He said his ‘double” up at the | " was mounted and would doubti enjoy the trip and would feel the deep interest in the object of it. Pessing through the Capitol building the | party glided down the broad steps on its | western side, suluting the chief justice. who | said, in answer to their invitation, that his | chair was very comfortable, and le feared if | he left it some one else would get possession, | At the entrance to the grounds they found the ¥ proposed to | weeping eves” aud They replied that they | montment to Peace, and gallan' the ladies to “wipe their join the procession. would do so gladiy. for they were ver of the dusty highway in which they and begged that they might Le taken to Arling- | ton, where they would be appropriately placed among the thousands of grim-visaged war's victims and proclaiming by their presence that “Peace bath her victories no less renowned than war.” Ali approved of this migration | and the column inoved on, but not til Gen, Garfield had been invited to join them, which he declined to do, a# he suid his voice would not be listened to by the committee of three, | who had closed their cara to all the remon- | strances of the community. and a midnight march would not be agreeable to him, as he must end it by a return to bis disagreeable sur- roundings. Going up the avenue a halt was made at Franklin's statue, but as he was well pleased with his location, they left him in peace with | his four P.'s, muttering to himsel!, some of Poor Richard's sayings, Arrived at Lafayette Square and seeing the | foundation for the new monument all ex- claimed against the site. Numberless com- ments were indulged in in regard to ite unsuit. ableneas in every way. Not a few expressed the opinion that it was unjust, almost insulting to Old Hickory, the victor of New Orleans, to be eclipsed in this way by a foreigner, and per- haps be moved off from the spot he had so long weary stood, occupied, when to the astonishment of | all present the old hero himself took “the word, exclaiming, “Ladies and gentlemen: ‘I am astonisied at your re- marks, You forget that but for Lafayette and his companions there couid have been no vic- tory at New Orleans. They paved the way for | it, uud we owe it to ourselves that this tardy | acknowledgment of our gratitude should have the best location possible. It will detract noth- | ing from the houor conferred on me by my | countrymen that the monument they have | raised tu ine should have a new location. For | myself I should delight machange. Standing | wh Ido above the heads of those who ob- | serve me my horse receives more attention than I—indved I well remember a young lad’s remark when he first saw me: “Dhere’s a good | deai of horse aud « good deal of boots and very | littie Audrew Jacksow.’ In the rear of the White House, where I could be seen from places above me, perbups I could eclipse both horse and boots, Let me join you tonight in conduct- ing these ladies to Arlington. and to give them @ grander escort I will gather all our mounted eat mon whom their country delights to | onor.” So saying he leaped his horse to the ground. The steed, delighted with his freedom, pranced and plunged frantically, but his accomplished rider soon controiled his fiery spirit and reining him in promised to return speedily, ving the group he dashed away and soon came back with the gallant Macpher- son; Thomas with his elephantine steed; Scott | on his splendid horse, which, though with all his feet on the ground, looked as if the ‘speed of thought were in his limos,” and last, but not | least, the Father of his Country, badly mounted, | but most eager to see that the monument to his | old comrades should be appropriately placed, Appiaading Gen. Jackson’ ful yurrender | of his place, reed that it was the most | fitting one for the expected monument—the center of Lafayette Place. Ayel cur, who always barks at the milk- man as if he were a burglar, roused me from my slumber, and so ended my E, Benjamin F. Crouse has be: ted clerk of Carrol) county, Maryland, to till the vacancy eused by the death of Dr, Wm. N. Martin, ‘Written for Tax Evewtra Stam ATTRACTIVE HOMES. An Ingenious Device for Making Much of Little. How 4 WASHINGTON YOUNG LADY DESIGNED AND MADE AN ORNAMENTAL AXD USEFUL TABLE—A NEW IDEA IX BANNERETS—SUMMER woRk, UCH a pretty bedside table has been evolved from the inner conscious- ness, as it were, of # young lady of Washington that I will describe the effect and give the materials, If then any one else is as enterprising as she, one similar may be quite attainable, for any one can go and do likewise. Ina certain beautiful drawing room in town are several small tables, enameled white, of plain shapes and outlines, each covered with odd and protty tritles or at- tractive books. These little table: re the in- spiration of the author of the one aforesaid— composer would possibly be a better term to apply to her, from the nature of her plan of action, In the first place money could not of itself supply her need, for a particularly shal- low small table was necessary for the place she wanted it to fill) This was at the head of her bed, just at the angle of an alcove that pro- jected beyond the wall where the headboard of the bed came, It was Just sucha thing as it would have been hopeless to seek in the stores, Inthe next place such an article, enameled and finished as one finds them on the market, would have been quite out of the question, for, y for her perhaps, her means are “but and ingenw supplies mauy « lack of luere. Naturally, therefore, her fancy wandered to the second-hand furniture shops, those treas- ure houses of the ambitious and impecunious. It we spirit not easy to be discouraged that she bogan a search which might proves of time. Yo her joy and surprise one of the first objects in the first collection of “an- tiques” was exactly to her notion as to shape aud size. To be sure IT NEEDED A PROPHETIC EYE to see the possibilities of the forlorn specimen before her, but a vision of just what migit be made of it floated before her and in five min- utes it was her own for the sum of $1.25. To be exact, it was by birthright a tiny wash- stand with back coming up above the upper shelf, connecting with a small bar on each side, aud was finished in the horrible marbleized style of such cheap affairs, It w: iso badly jammed on one sharp edge of a leg, 80 she stip- ulated to bave all these top fixtures taken of and the sharp edge shaved off the leg 0 as to leave a smooth place, Thero was smali drawer with a gocd brass handle and a shelf low down corresponding to the top. When it came home she began painting it with all eagerness, first with inside white, which comes ready prepared for 15 cents @ can of half ound. A brush was bought for 20 cents large enough to work with easily, Three coats of this white paint wero given to effectually cover the dark color underne: cun of the same siz9 When this can was opened & little yellow tube paint mixed with it | was to make an ivory white, Both these paints dry quickly, so the ardor had no time to cool while waiting for the desired effect and it was soon ready for its position of sentinel at the bed’s head, Then came the pleasant tack of getting covers ready for its two shelves. Asthe room 1s decorated in pink, of course that color must be on the table; so after a little trying of effects a successful plan was carried out. Two little covers were made—one for each shelf— just the same size and having no margin of | wood beyond on the edges. Where the four square legs were set into the lower shelf little notches were taken out of the cover so that it just fitted. These covers are of shrimp pink China silk—an exquisite shade, rather deep in tone. As the silk 1s too thin to lie well on the wooden surface a thin layer of cotton is put under and the raw edge of the silk brought underneath it and sewed to a lining, but with no tacking showing, as it does in sachets, The finish to these, and what gives the charm to the whole table, is 4 LACE HANGING, from the front of each cover only, full nine inches deep. It isa handsome torchon lace, with guipure figures in it. ‘The luce is plaited on so as to hang in slight folds, the lower flounce nearly reaching the floor, As it only hangs from the front, and the rest of the table shows on all sides, the idea of a drapery simi- lar to dressing tables, or of too much drapery indeed, is quite done away with, On the lowe shelt area few books, with a space to lay any thing one may want to put there unexpected] for instance, On top is a pretty place to show off on the lovely pink ground the various orna- ments, A smail cracker jar of Copeland, flow- ered in pink, is well stocked with biscuit for a bedtime luncheon. A tiny Dresden candle- stick, holding a pink candle, sets on a mat of pink plueh, “A smail china tray is ready for a catchall, while a corner is still left for a book or two that oue likes for bedtime reading. On account of the deep lace frills the table 1s left high; for it would look overpowered by them if as low as bedside tables often are, A NEW IDEA IN WALL BANNERETS. If wall bannerets are admired here is a new idea for them, which comes to me from an- other city. Instead of the high, narrow, panel-shaped ones this is wide and shallow and is intended to hang under a picture of the samo shape, @ good dimension being 25x15 inches, The upper bulf is silk and the lower half plush, which are joined in w seam across. This join- ing is covered with iong stitches of shaded silk of the same colors as the plush and silk, in this cave golden brown, An embroidered design of chestuut leaves and burrs in brown and bronze silks begins on the plush toward the lower | right-hand corner and spreads irregularly over the whole bauneret, ‘The work is beautifully done and the coloring most artistic. Another one is of rich red shades, with Japanese chrys- anthemuins in red and gold tones spreading in ous over it. These are hung on suiall er of brass or Wood with carved ends. either rings or are laced ou with silk or fine cord. SUMMER WORK. A good idea of which I lately read may be suggestive in various ways—in giving summer work which will be most serviceable when au- tumn arrives and of utilizing gowns which have outlived their usefulness as gowns. This | is making couch portiere or window drapery | in imitation of Bagdad stripes, Light wool resses furnish the wherewithal, wiuch, after being ripped, of course, are cut into strips ten | inches wide and each strip hemmed. One or | two strips may be Jeft in the light tint if fresh enough. aud the rest may be colored with dyes | any dark, rich shades desired. Several difler- ent colors may be introduced or differeut shades of one color, Each stripe is then | woraed separately with crewels in very coarse feathes stitching, a good idea of the style, being obtained by looking at a Bagdad rug in a shop if necessary. This | is ick dpleasing§ work arrangement being left | to one’s own taste as to the toues and contrast. | Observe also in examining the rug the way | the strips are joined. This effect may be | secured by taking a worsted needle and the light brown cord that druggists use, The | stripes are sewed together over aud over—the | stitches being taken over along knitting needle, | which can be slipped along as uceded uatil the strip is finished, Such a covering for a divan would be worth exhibiting as a souvenir of a stmmer’s holiday, and an experiment worth | trying. If the material seoms too thin when | finished, line with some heavier fabric, Of course the jength of the strips and the size of the rug depend entirely on the piace it 1s in- | tended for. The same article speaks of a some- | what similar treatmentof blue denim, making | alternate stripes of the dark and light side of the goods. ‘Ihese are worked in brilliant wools | in & pattern which may be copied from almost any ‘Turkey rug, a simple scroll or vine being a good suggestion, These, when done, are much like the so-called Koman portieres. COMFOLTABLE FOuTSTOOLS. Foot stools are among the comforts of life which may be made exceedingly attractive. I speak advisedly when I say foot stools, for once more these four-legged little stools are the favorites, to the expulsion of the hassock, which has so long reigned supreme. These small footstoola are quite attainable inseveral pretty | styles, Bamboo, rattan, white painted wood | and gilded wood all to be found in the shops. ‘These are all ready for use without ‘upholstering, 1f one wishes to leave them 60, but many prefer to make a cusiion for the top, | which, of course, makes it even prettier to look | at, All the Japanese prints, stamped | plush or many other materials are with good effect. The cushions may be tied on with bows or fastened invisi- bly. Among the = “thi that were grandmother's” in one family are two of these foot stools with solid legs as firm as when they wero made. They are clumsier than the modern ones and have been entirely covered, generally with frills ited on the sides reaching to the foor. The different coverings to these two stools might be taken asa record of the “fancy work” which has prevailed for rears past, One is now doing service under a deak in echinte-furuisbed bedroom, A full | 1 j Blinks, been spending the greater part | of my salary of late on that infernal watch. I} shouid think that time did cost money. Well, F | walked out of the laiting of the gay-fowered goods is around | t, while on the top, where the feet would soil 80 light e cover, ie a square cushion merely laid | 00, filled with pine needles and covered with dull olive veivetine and finished with » heavy cord with tassels hanging from the corners. srs. os hassle ty WATCH-MENDING COSTS MONEY. Experience of One Victim Whose Time- Piece Got Disordered. IT PREYED UPON HIS SLENDER FINANCES UNTIL, ‘DRIVEN TO THE VERGR OF ACTUAL BANK- RUPTOY, HE RID HIMSELF OF THE INCUBUS AND GOT REVENGE AT THE SAME TIME. LINES broke the erystal of his watch | I the other day—bo never did know how to take proper care of such a delicate instrument anvway—and he Gropped into a jeweler’s on his way | up-town to have another oue putin. The time- keeper had been put into thorough, thongh somewhat expensive, order six months before, and it had been running ever since within two seconds a day of accuracy, until the little glase | cover for the dial came loose, and, in trying to readjust it,it wascracked. That was just Blinks’ superlative awkwardness, of course, but be said to himself that, luckily, it was only a matter of 25 cents. Even 25 ceuts was uot to be despised, obviously, among other things thatsum might be regarded as representing appreciable value in the shape of five beers. However, it could have been a great deal worse. So with a philorophic mind Blinks took the watch into the shop of. fashionable jJoweler and said he wanted it fixed. “It's only the crystal that is broken,” be ex- plained, cheerfully. THE “MOVEMENT” AFFECTED. levers, who was protected from the violence of indignant customers by a sort of cage inclosing the front window, screwed into his right eye a inside works of the watch, gaze with much the same expression as is assumed by the owl of conventional portraiture. “Is there anything the matter?” asked Blinks, a hittie nervously. “Iam examining the movement,” responded of-fact calm of @ pulmonary specialist, who sounds one’s lungs for weak spots that mean ife or death to the patient with as cool an in- asifthe aflair were one of purely scientific interest, | Blinks knew be was in for it then; for when a | watchmaker has any thing to say avout the | “movement” of your timepiece it always means that something costly is the matter, Nor was there avy mistake in this instance; the expert took the glass out of his eye presently, closed the case of the watch and said softiy: ONLY A MAIN-SPRING. “[ gee nothing wrong. except that the main- spring is broken. It will cost you €2 to have & new one put “Holy smoke!” : ejaculated Blinks, with par- donable emphasis, “Why, 1 tel! you that there was nothing the matter with the h until I d the crystal. If you'li puta new one in | to go all right ugaim Mainspring “There must have been seme shock,” the watchmaker, as if sorrowfully. me to show you, And with this he dropped the entire insides | of the watch out of the case with one dexterous | twist of the fingers and, after ove or two more | ift manipul@ious, produced from it an aston- | ishing coil of good-sized steel tape, almost long enough for surveying purposes. | “I didn’t know there was anything like that! inside of a watch!” exclaimed Blinks, in aston- | lament, “This is the mainspring,” responded the | watchmaker, mourufuily. “You observe the fracture?” “Yes, I see it’s busted,” admitted Blinks, re- | luctantiy, “Can't you put in & uew one for less than double?” wo dollars is our invariable price, e cents for the spring, 1s pose, j replied Permut APID ] Draws) an Expert w | Ax | first year, Pian, 01 | Method (publisher D. | tute/aw cor. Sth aud k stanw, .HO ‘Sac The expert in wheels and cogs and jeweled | powerful magnifying glass, and, opening the | into them | the watcb-maker,with the exasperating matter- | and €1.75 because I don’t know how to put it in,” growied Blinks. “Weil, ix it up, aud Pl call tor it Monday.” A PIN THIS TIE. Blinks got back his watch, with its new main- spring, and carried it for two weeks before it ouce more suddenly ceased to run, “Cuss that mainsp “he said, “I do be- lieve it's busted aga: So he took it back to the jeweler’s and the expert goggled at it av before through huis | monocular. | “The mainspring is all right.” the watch- | maker explained. "-"Uufurtuuatety, however, one of the jeweled pins—-the one ‘controlling ecl—hus come out, thus disabling exclaimed Blinks angrily. Why should it come out? Why dido’t you fasten it in if it was loose when you were fixing the watch the other day?” re- z bisbead sadly, 4 un loosened it him- he said to himself, ik he found plied the watch “Lt will cost $2.50 to mend it, Blinks jooked at hima moment, picked uj his watch, and strode out of the shop wit wrath in his heart. “I believe the son-of-a- self for business purposes, | On the next bi | who said he wou d put im the + | for $2. The nex: day he got the watch and | rather ae than @ week passed before it ceased | to gu agal WORE IT IN HIS POCKET. “If I take it toa jeweler there'll be a wheel missing, at least, this time,” said Blinks. “I'll go toa watchmaker who docs nothing else but | mend wate And so he did Suid the wateh , after subjecting the time pivce to @ careiul scrutiny “You have been carrying this wateb in your pocke “Most peop “Yes; but le do the same,” replied Blinks, ou have not been accustomed to s-importaut precaution of ing itin a chamois } The conse- | quence is that a particle of dust has clogged the movement. {t will have to be cleaned thoronghly, and the expense will be €3.50.” “Siniul Mo ejaculated the unfortunate | for heaven's suke doctor up. All 've got to say ia that, if it don’t run after this, it can stay out of order and be hanged to it!” It did rua for osta moath before col- lapsing again, Blinks was not at all surprised when, oue might, it refused to be wound up, He took it the next morning to stil another watchmaker, not previously visited, | and was informed that it needed @ general | renovation, WORKING A PAWNBROKER, “T will see by this afteruoon whether or not I can afford the luxury,” said Blinks with foreed calmness, “(Meanwhile you will do me \ t a xreat favor if you wiil only start it up a little | end make it go for about forty-five minutes.” | “I guess there will be no difliculty about | thet,” replied the watchmaker with a smile. He gave ita shake and two or three pokes in the works with an instrament, “That'll go for au hour at least, J’ll guarantee.” Links took the waich, which ticked merrily ) enough. aud, having thanked the watchmaker, | betook himself to a shop on a neighboring side | cau be consulted strect, over the door of which there hung three | large gilded bulls, “How much will you let me have on this?” be asked of a bald-headed wan, who was fenced in | | behind a sort of coop. | ‘Te baid-headed man put on his spectacles aud examined the watch carefully inside and out. ‘Then be handed it out again upon the | shelf in front of him, as if he had no particular | use for it, and said: Eight dollars.” “TH take i replied Blinks; and, as he | shop with the moxey in his | pocket, he tore up the ticket gleefully and said | | to himse | “Lalways did bate pawabrokers, and now, I've got uhead of this ove. it'll ase up all the | rofits of his business from this time on to | eep that blooming key-winder in running ————+ee---_- A Name of 109 Letters. 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