Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1890, Page 8

=" THE EVENING nt tl STAR: RELIGION OUT OF DOORS What the Washington Grove Camp Meeting Ground is Like. seiptomanaes SUMMERING IN COTTAGES. ———-—___ Recreation and Amusements for City Peopie—The Grove in Its Becinning— Houses Instead of Tents—Where the Ministers are Quartered. ——s—__ T MAS BEEN suggested that the Ameri- can basa good deal of the gipsy in his make-up, if one may judge by his love of nature and the evident delight be takes in being in the open air and in all forms of out-of- door life. However this may be, it is more than hkely that the happiest part of the year with Americans who live within city walls is that part of the summer when they can get away from the old familiar busy scenes for « while and rustieate, and the more rustic and primitive their surroundings may be for that time the more certain they are to enjoy it It is wonderful bow well families from the cities for whom a fifteon-room house may be none too Iarge in December or January, can get along in a two or three-room frame cottage in July or August, providing only that the cottage basa piazza and is in the country or by the seashore. As soon as summer has ar- rived and the sound of the locust is heard by day and the hum of the mosquito at night, then do the mothers and daughters begin to talk to pater familia on the subject of simmer resorts and the need of the whole family for fresh air and recreation. He may happen to see it from their standpoint and then again he may not. If he is willing. and occassionaliy he ix more anxious than the rest of the family to seek green fields and pxstures new. then there are a thousand and one desirable retreats in almost as many directions, any one of which might fer just the attractions most sought after. TABERNACLE AT WASHINGTON GROVE. On the other hand, however, there are many business men who cannot leave their desks in the city for long at a time, and who may not waat tobe separated from their families for the whole summer, What they most want 1s some place not far from their places of busi- ness, out in the country somewhere, at some attractive suburban resort, where they may go when their day's work 1s done and sod a part of each twenty-four hours amid cool and piens- surroundings. For New Yorkers and Phi- vlphians the sandy shore of the Atlantic has more charms in summer time than ail else be- side. They have resorts near at hand where the rich find it all they can do to keep up with the geuveral pace, thers where the poor or the moderately well-to-do are as important as any on Vo many people Ocean Grove is a mest agrecable place to spend a portion of the summer. Washington has her counterpart of Gcean Grove in Washington Grove, the relig- ious summer resort out in Montgomery couuty. How those Maryland groveites do love to be told that their camp meeting ground only needs an ocean to make it as attractive aa ant | pious grove in Jerse The two places really nents and objects, a the train at Washing- i ut from the capital, | the first thing he sees is a long whitewashed | ferce stretching along parallel to the railroad | and marking the dividing between it and the sacred precincts of the grove within. En- tering the gate one # a long craveled street leading off before him and lined on either side With rows of great trees, They're all neatly whitewashed, too. Everything is tidy and clean and one’s first impressions of the place are decidedly satisfactory. Two rows of sum- | mer cottages, one on each side of this long | street. give it a picturesque and pleasing effect. These cottages are none of them large nor showy. but all have a comfortable and home- like expression about them. Little patches of green lawn, a shady piazza covered with vines i hung around with hanging baskets, gen- erally a hammock arouad somewhere. easy ebairs in abuudance. and what more could one ask for in the way of appanages to summer @oufort: WEN IT WAS A REAL CAMP MEETING GROUND. When Washington Grove was organized it Was as a typical camp meeting ground, but the distinguishing features of camp meeting life have, much to the regret of some of the old stagers, been one by one refined away until Dow it is, as one of the trustees recently de- scribed it to a Svan reporter, nothing more nor Jess than “‘a religious summer resort.” If o1 ges out there with the expectation of seeing tented city with all the characteris: f regufr old-time camp meeting ground be will be very much disappointed. In the whole grove there are but three tents this summer. The day is past when the farmers from the sur- rounding country would drive in in their farm wagons, bringing along with them their tents and all their provisions to last them through the meeting time. Of late this class of campers have begun to feel that they are not as im- portant an clement in the make-up of life at the grove they might be and they have be- gun to stay away. ‘Ihe cottagers and perma- Bent residents have more than filled their inces, for the population of Washington Grove is what one might call a comparatively permanent one. People begin to gu out from this city as early as the first part of May and stay until well along into N become @ regular summer resort fcr people from this city. And it is a very pleasant place, indeed, to spend the summer, as it is cool and retired and by no means devoid of amuse- ments, THE COTTAGES. There are about 130 cottages at the grove. Some of them have as many as ten rooms, though the majority are very much smaller and many have but one room apiece. This, however, is divided by heavy curtains into several cosy compartments. The style of architecture elaborate, and, in fact, there tiou from the one favorite the cottages at the upper end of the grove in eighborhood of the tabernacle alike sudsimple in the extr They are one- swry cottages, one large room. The roof is high and Steep and a window in the front up unde: ridge hole makes it look as though there were aroom or loft up there. ‘This is a delusion and a snare, however,though the window docs furnish the most delightful A CORNER ON THE CIRCLE. ventilation in mer nights. The housesmay be small as arule, but what difference doce that make? One person's house is just as good as another's, and then, too, the genuine grove- ite bas no need for a roof anyway, except when walking on the grass. There are atausements. for the children of growth. T is base bail, of course, tennis, croquet, quoits, bicycling, riding and driving, visiting at exch other's cottages, con- certs at the hotel and straw rides in big four- horse farm wagons. These bi the ways th mer residea' away the pleasant afternoons and evenings, THE MINISTERS’ LODGE. This is a small cottage, no larger than any of the others. This is where the visiting minis- ters are put during camp meeting week, that is, as many of them are as have not cottages of their own or friends with whom they may stay. ‘The trusting Stan reporter was informed that within the narrow limits of that dwelling house were ranged side by si-le sixteon cots, whereon the reverend bodies were expected to repose. If that is the case the accommodations mnst be rather limited and one who was of exceeding skill in snoring large sized snores would be anything but a desirable fellow in that minis- terial dormitory. N THE TABERNACLE. Every Sunday during the season serviecs are held at the grove and foraweek in August eamp meeting exercises are kept up in the tabernacle. The camp meeting be: Inst Wednesday evening and every day and ¥ evening during the week services of various sorts are held in the tabernacle by ditferent Methodist ministers from this city, who are invited out to officiate in turn. The tabernacle is a large wooden structure, non the four sides and containing b niticient to accommodate a large cong and also the usual reding desk, organ. com- mupion table aud seats for the ministers. Up in a little tower above the roof of this building is hung a bell, which is rung at stated times during the day shipers to prayer. old bell has for years belonged to Br Laney, ashe is ealled by everr one about grove, an old landmark and one of the & bys of the orgauization. He in a retired } odist minister of the Baltimore conference the memory of man goeth not back to the when Brother Laney was not interested. he and soul, in the welfare of the grove. ‘There is | op dalso to summon the wor- ‘The task of ringing this ther & rumor current, however, to the effect that he | | is not altogether satisfied with the mod methods of running acamp me nd tl he would view with a great dea factio any return to the days of tent life, camp fires, midnight revivals ai the other forms of re- ligious awakening now relegated to neigibor- hoods less highly eivilized. | Around the tabernacle, which may considered the center of life in this s town, is ranged a circle of dwollings, s this center and circle radiate the vations ave- nues of the villag ge. Up one of these streets, a short way from the circle, is located THE SOLITARY STORE. G The accommodations for obtaining the neces- | saries of life in the grove are even more prim- itive than one would expect. “here is but one | store in the place, and while that make a pre- tense at selling a little of everything it is such | an insignificant place that ono wonders how it | manages to sell mach of anything. ‘he store | isan old unpainted frame building with an opening down one side, along which a sort of a | counter is ranged and through which the | variousarticles of merchandise are disposed of, | In addition to this store there is a crude frame | structere—simply a roof supported on four, corner posts—which is dignified by being called | the market. Here the countrymen come three | mornings in the week with vegetables aud gen- eral farm truck to sell, and with their wagons backed up to the market house do a thriving trade with the housewives of the villiage. In addition to the cottagers who keep house alarge number of summer visitura who may | not care to stay the whole season tind very come | fortable accommodations at the hotel or at the boarding houses. of which there are two or three. The following is the directory of the cottagers at the grove, almost all of wioin are from this city: Grove avenne—Norman Reed, Mrs. 8. C. Reed, Dr. Merriam,and family, Warren Choate and family, Dr. M. D. Peck and fai r. Ritter and family, Mr. Gordon and fa Redin Woodward and fanuly, James V erville and family, W. H. H. Smith and famil, Dr. J. T. Winter and Mrs. Carpen W. R. Andrews and famil, Moulton an family, A. H. Doane and i motz and family, Fred A. Bowen and family, Mrs. and family, J. N.’ Bo. fa We . dolly Jones | nd ‘family, Altred Wood and family, Robert Cohen aud family, | Wm. Hutchinson ‘and family, Isaac N, Rollins and family, Burris King and family, Mra Derby, John E. Allen and family, James E, | Padgett and family, Wm. T. Hutchinson and family, Louis W. Muxon and wile, L. Strang and family, Circle—J, T. Mitchell, Jesse Wilson, J. F, Birch, W. H, Allen, wife and their and Fred, W. A. Wells and fami: 5 George T. Woodward amily, 1 and family. L. W. Worthington and wife, George Birch and family, Presiding Elder McKendree Reiley and family, Johu C. Athey and family, H.W. Frankland and family, RW. Dunn and family, J. G. Calhoun and family, Rev. M. F. B. Rico and family, 8. P. Rynex and family,M. Lindsay and family,Heury Wilson and family, E. 3, Hill and family. First avenue—b. 8. Platt and family, Thos, Hurdle and family, L. E. Dean and family, L, 8. Chapman and family, R. O. Polkinhorn and | Set on ite feet again THE HOTEL. family, Wm, Bell and family, Mrs. Wise and daughters, J. R. Riggles and family, Mra. M. D. Knott and family, Mr. Offutt and family. Second avenue—L, P. Altachue and family, .P. Archibald and family, J. L. Oweus and family. Third avenne—Wm. 8. Jackson and wife, Mrs. M. 8. Jackson and family, Thos. Dowling aad family. Fourth avenue—Perry Brown and family, J. Riffard Mickle and family, Mrs. Mary Nash, C. W. Murphy and family, George Gartrell and family, & J. MeCathran and family, Jobn B. Davis and wife, Edwin 8, Potbury and family, Mrs. Kate Harbaugh and Leg | ts. M. John- son. Court Wood and family, E. L. Boyer and family, C. R. Murphy and family, Mr. Lips- comb and family, Chas. Carey and family. Fifth avenue—Wm. Selby and family, W. H. Pollock and family, Mrs. Barnes and daughter, A. N. Meeker and family, Mrs. Alice Day and » H. K. White and famil; Wilson and daughters, Edward Mrs. Ellen wkins and family, Wm. F. ve and family, John White- ae ‘m. J. Palmer and family, Mrs. M. B. Sheridan d family, the Misses Frye, Miss Emma Marche, Alice M. Whi rico and fami ily. Sixth venué—Robert Tretler and family, James Harrison and family, James K. Mo- Cathran and family, J. T. Warfield and family, Mrs. Mary ae: ‘The officers and trustees are: Geo. T. Wood- ward, president; Fred A. Gee, vice prosident; Warren Choate, secretary; R. H. Dunn, treas- Birch, J. Riffard, Mickle, Geo. T. Woodward, L. W. Worthington, Jas. W. Somerville, R. H. Dunn, Fred A. Gee, War- Fen Choate and P. M. Smith of the county. —_——— ite and Wm. Car- he is sleepy or when the rain is falling very] Gladys-Maud, aged ten—‘‘Grammar, how y’ bard. All the rest of the time he wants | spell beas' to be out of doors, and to all a -| Grandma—“BEASTLY, darling, but ances he is, too. And so are the it’s not @ nice word for to use.” and what 4 paradise that is for| Gladys-Maud—“‘Well, 't care I've small children from soy powibie up! to write to mammar and popper, 'n I want to Ruddy, sunburned, healthy ‘ing little shav- | tell 'em about the weather. ersare running around all the time justas| Granadma—“Oh, very weil, pet.”"—New York happy as the day is long. No danger of any | Tribune. 4 foeidents ; NO wagons torun over them| A New York brewer is chickens down sad no ubiquitous signs telling the small boy | on he to them as ‘that it is to his best welfare to refrain from | “home brood."— ES ae a ee AP a es en. Pe ; |= EUROPEAN CAUSERI Max O’Rell’s Praise for American Actors in London. eines renal ADA REHAN’S POPULARITY. elt Lady de Grey's Charms—The Peace- makers and W! They Hope—Uni- versal Arbitration—To Protect the c ities From Crime. > Special Correspondence of Tre EVEN1se Stan Loxpox, August 10. AVE YOU seen Miss Ada Rehan? is the question of the hour at dinners and \fternoon teas. There is a chorus of Praise going up from press and public iu favor of the Daly Company as a whole, and of Miss Rehan in particular. To those who had not seen this actress before she has come as a revelation of sweetness and light. More and more bew:tching in each fresh role, she has put the finisting touch to her fame and to the thraildom of her admirers by her exquisite impersonation of Rosalind in “As You Like It.” She has enslaved us all. Wo men talk of little else for days after seeing her and our wives, sisters and sweethearts, instead of being jealous, are so subjugated by the fire of her acting und the magic of her voice and diction, that they join in the pans of praise, and when we are floundering about, at » loss for fresh adjectives to do justice to her charms, they nobly come to the rescue and supply the deficien Itis a great talent to be able to play such widely different parts as Miss Reban does with equal success. In the modern plays she gives oue that rare sense of perfect staze illusion which makes one feel as if the comedy were happening and not boing acted at all. It is such a treat to sce a company of actors who dv not play to the house, but to one auother.and who so excellently fit in with each other that th form, as it were, a beauti- fui piece of mosaic work. ENGLI-H AND AMERICAN ACTORS, How is it that the best glish speaking company of couedians should be Americans? I am not prepared to say that America has more ood « than England, but it is a fact that England cannot boast such a company as Daiv's and New Yorkers must. be d and proud to see this. New York one off the theatrical honors of the Lon- on season, {7 stands to reason that actors re used to playing together must get ac- customed to each other's methods and be ablo to produce a better ensemble than a group of comparative strangers can do, and it also stands to reason that a company containing stars of tia 4, John Drew, wis must do better mposed of a wugle star and R w poor and faint an iden Miss aphs give of the grace and the original. Photography in the case of some women ought to be forbidden, for it is painfully weak, when not positively libelous, LADY pr orry, Talking of libelous Portraits, the worst I ever saw in that line was in America, I was Sving from Chicngo to Minneapolis and the train passed through # large tract of forest jJaud. Affixed to some t well in view from the rails was a gigantic board with a very ugly suted thereon ing im huge letters the “Would you be as beanti- Then’ use Grey's per- for the advertiser of is practically no law of he tair countess can take her revenge in the assuranve that this earica- ture of her is most likely to act as a caution against those soaps und salves, Even the best poctraits of Lady de Grey do her lujustice, be- cause they utterly fail to give any idea of her animation or to reuder her trang smile and the liquid gleaming of her eyoa that fairly dance with fun when she is telling or enjoying a good story, Outside the door of her London drawing room tuere is a fine bust, which docs Jastice to her bewuteful lines; but statuary is as powerless as other portraiture to render the dundred charms which in her case a fair mind adds to the fairest matter, for Lady do Grey is witty enough to be hailed with delight in Freuch salons, besides being one of the bright- est ornaments of society in London, whieh, by the way, owes her a debt of gratitude for in teresting herself so much in the opera, It is weil known iu musical circies that it is greatly owing to her exertions that we have the opera by Augustus Harris, It was she who obtained a promise from the lead ers of society that they would not give any im- portant entertainments on subscription nights, and practicaliy assured success to Mr. Harris’ plucky undertaking. LONG LIFE TO THE PEACEMAKERS! They have made themselves heard this week in London in spite of the scornful laugh that has gone up from a large section of the press. The peace congress has beon well attended, I was a littie amused at the proposal ot one following ful as Lad | war hater, that covery schoolmaster and sehool- mistress should devote at least half an hour a to teaching their pupils something about good qualities of different people and of their giorious deeds in time of peace. Would it not be advisable first to take away their his- tory books, which are still teaching the rising geucration that war is glorious—when their country ix on the winning side—and that sur- rounding nations are for the most part cowards and traitors? With the exception ot Green's History of the lish People,” is there an ish history used in schools which might uot be appropriately named ‘History of Eng- land's Wars?’ A SCHOOL BOOK NOVELTY, A fow years ago, a French savant, professor at the Sorbonne, produced a wholesome nov- elty in the way of school books, He collected all the splendid deeds of philanthropists, and set them forth in his Tittle volume, devoting also @ good space to a faithful picture of war as it really is, and of the devastation and misery it bas always brought in its train. But, before a book is adopted in French schools, it must receive the sanction of the minister of public instruction, so this one was duly submitted to his serutiny. He examined it and this was his remark upon it: “The work is an excellent one and we will certainly put it into use in schools, when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine are restored to F; 6." This reply is pretty typ- i it all Europe still. When we have got what we want we will be so good. want Trieste,” says Italy; ‘When I have Con- stantinople,” says Russia; “When there is noth- ing more for me to lay hauds on,” says John su A DREAM. If our priests and professors liked they could #0 permeate Europe with true Christianity that there would soon be no more danger of Euro- pean wars. The gospel of peace has beon preached here for nearly 2,000 years, it is tru and we all believe in a theoretie kind of wi that when our enemy smites us on one cheek we should rather offer him the other than smite back again, but unfortunately the same church that has read us these lessons has never lifted her voice in condemuation of battle and blood- shed, but has often blessed swords and prayed to un avenging God to give the victory to her children. Our preachers and teachers might if they would, get Europe ripe for a genera disarmament in about twenty years, I dare say, a as there are Kurds, Tartars, Sou- danese and creatures who will listen to no voice but the voice of the cannon, I cannot see how this project of settling disputes of all nations by arbitration can be anything but a dream, a very beautiful one, but still a dream. Will Egypt disarm, and when the mahdi advances with his hordes of fanatic dervishes, pro arbitration? Who believes such a thi feas- ible? No, I am afraid the last vain for uni- love and peace. Ab! if the world were to give signs of sudden a tomorrow then we might chance to see a pee bal, pander’ ing, too, Enmities and jealousies come ‘ery one would forgive and 4 to an end, and would throw himself into every one arms in brotherly embrace. calling peace congresses grandmotherly gath- erings; “‘it kills some of the superfluous lation.” Yes, modern warfare does tha’ it it al seems to me that the able-bodied men who com WASHINGTON, A ’ jodern warfare, and this fact should cheer ix aed ae that cause at heart. vet superfluous ‘tion, com of the morally nad. physical diseased, the drunkard and the brute, is immense and offers ever-grow- dangers to society. remember hearing, when I was in America, of a society calling iteeif the “Harmony So- ciety,” and composed of doctors and compe- tent ndgos, who examined, free of charge, any persons wi were and wished to know that hb contemplating matri whether they —_ estate, that is to say, so healthy mind and . T never eo across @ member of this excellent association, but that is not sufficient reason for doubting its existence. In my opinion such # set of coun- xist in every civilized country, t should be made a punish- abie offense for people suffering from an inher- ited disoase to marry. There is no sadder sight than that of ‘helpless, innocent child foredoomed to a life of pain and misery be- cause of an inherited ly disease, unless it be that of a hitherto promising young man or woman utterly blighted as the poison of alcohol or insanity in the blood begins its deadly work. STUDY OF PuYsIooxOMY. Tt is ad to think that natural selection should fail to eliminate the unfit, but seeing that to a certain extent it does fail could we not help it a little? We |h a great many sciences in our schoo! How would it be to try one moro and teach t! young something of physiognomy and phreuology? In the boarding schools you ma: girls out at elbows flourishing a pencil an ning drawing, forsooth. I do not say that ¥ case this study may be utterly useless, though I cou!d not help smiling when an in- Spector of schools said to me: “Oh, it will help ca to lay a table neatiy by and by.” Prob- ably uot one-fourth of those girls will ever have to lay adecent table, but almost every oue of them will marry, and I suggest that @ study of physiognomy might help her to choose @ good husband. The villain, Mr. Jerome teils usin his charming book, “Stage Land,” is easily distinguishable on the stage, You know him directly, for he always comes on wearing # high hatand smoki cigarette. But off the stage he is by no as obliging, and declines to warn ua against him by going sbout Inbeled. He may go so far as to wear his high hat, but hundreds of good men do the same. Get him to take it off and then show the girl whom he has marked for his prey the lines of his head, and tell her what they mean taken in conjunction with his obliquely set eyes and sensual mouth, You may perhaps spare her a lifeof misery and the chance of being the mother of future villains, THE CRIMINAL POPULATION, Physiognomy ana phrenology may not tell Us quite as much as some of their ardent stu- dents claim they do. but in combination with other avience sey teach us that most of our criminals have been bora with criminal in- stinets, which were bound to wreck their lives and make themacurse to society. Our use- less and criminal population are more to be pitied than hated, for their plague spots have eon transmitted to them by their parents, aud it becomes a serious question whether it is not the duty of the state to interfere and prevent such people from perpetuating their 5 ‘Lhey are as fit objects for hospitals av any cer patient, and it would pay society to build for them and keep them in hospitals where they could have no intercourse with the oppo- site sex, There would soon be fewer prisons d asylums required, There are p of people who strongly believe that society has no right to punish crime, but all admit that it has a perfect right to protect itself from the criminal. Some of us go furthor and say that ithad a right to protect itself against unborn criminals 2nd moral and physical erippies, who, under the present state of the laws, are adding yearly a larger and more frightful sum to the misery of tie world. There is such @ thing «# false humanitarianism, FRENCH ACQUITTALS. People who read French newspapers must have been struck by the number of acquittals given by French juries in cases of murder of r committed under the intluence of but few know the explanation, which is this: She French law makes a serious distinction between premeditated crime and crime which is done in a moment of blind pas- siou, yet the lightest sentence that it allows a judge to pass on even # person whose provoca- tion has been ever so tremendous is one of from five to ten years’ penal servitude. And so juries, rather than send to the felon’s prison for such term aman or woman who has always borne a good character, but who, mad- dened by passion. kills or tries to kill the faith- less one, bring in a verdict of not guilty, Lut we shull soon hear less of these acquittals, M. Boranger has framed an excellent bill. which is pretty certnin to pass, for its clauses are all excellent, He proposes that oxtreme leniency should be shown to first offenders and a corre- sponding rigor to old gaol birds. As soon as the Boranger bill becomes a law juries will be able to ‘make the punishment fit tne crime” much better than at present. ‘They will have three forms of unfavorable verdict at com- : Guilty; guilty, but with extenuating circumstances, aud guilty, with very extenu- ating circumstances, When will such a bill be passed by the En- glish, who go on “murdering legally” just as in Voitaire’s time, having a law which makes no distinction between the human fiend and the mun who does the killing under desperate Provocation? Human laws should be humane, Max O'Rei. Written for Tur Evextnc ®7an, On the Beach. Down on the beach we rode at even; Sunlight stillon the white sands gloamed; The blue of ses and the blue of heaven Mixed with the gold of the sun’s last beam. ‘The tide was out and the sand hills dreary, Strotching away by the wave-kissed shore, Lay like wanderers, worn and weary, Soothed to rest by the ocean's roar. Out where the horizon’s misty curtain Dipped its edge in the purple Salied with @ motion slow, uncertain, A white-winged bark. like a sea-bird free, Far in the west a snowy cloud bank, Fretted with gold and crimson bars, Roared its castled turrets proudly Upward toward the evening stars. On the sands where the great white surges Dashed their foam-wreathed heads in glee, Or mournfully chanted dreary dirges, A youthful pair rode merrily, She, with hair like « golden And blushing cheeks like a ripene@ peach, Listened with smiles to the old, old story Her lover whispered that night on the beach. What cared they for the radiant splendor Of tinted clouds or of sunset skies? , ‘The music of waves was not so tender As his voice or the light of her sparkling eyes. What to them was the wild commotion Of emerald waves on a rocky shore? Dearer by far was the thought that life's ocean ‘Together they'd sail forevermore, Washington, August 5, —Doka T. Voorma, An Astonished Clergyman. From Brooklyn Life. I heard a story the other day about the former assistant rector of one of the largest Episcopal churches of the city. The gentle- man in question is now the president of a col- lege so far away that he cannot mind if I relate the incident. He was a jolly good fellow when he lived in a boarding house here, and in his off hours was accustomed to join in with the other good fellows of the house at a friendly ame of whist ora smoke. 0) ning when 6 was out at service two of t! tablishment remembered th variable habit uj returni: roundabout vest and cleric off and thrown down, end thea They peeked cau! a jan in his sli {face ss white as a sheet sada look bed eg it, his eyes gre NOT sO “BEFO’ THE WAH An Honest Man Regrets the Degeneracy of the Age. From the Chicago Herald. A gaunt old fellow with sandy hatr and with streaks of tobacco “juice” om his whiskers came down asandy lane driving a yoke of lean steers attached to a creaking wagon loaded with a shabby bale of cotton. A nicely dressed man overtook the old fellow and pleas- antly asked which way he was going. “Goin’ thiser way (pointing), but will go “You are going to sell your cotton, I sup- pose?” “Yas, I ain’t got but a little dab, but I lowed T'd go an’ sell it to git a few yards of caliko and some snuff fur mur an’ the gal modikin of fiat tobacco for ma an’ the boys. Takes a mighty heap o’ scratching fur a honest man to git along these d: but it wan't thater way befo' the wah. Then jonest man got pay fur what he done, but he don’t now. I kin te i poor man has a hard time of it.” ‘Specially ef he’s honest,” the old fellow rejoined. “Ef I wan't no honester than the majority of folks I could make money hand over fist an’ my wife an’ the gals gonid have all the caliko an’ snuff they want me an’ the boys could chaw flat tobactd gli day an set back, as the feller says, and spit over the slash board. But as it is I jest have to grind along with mighty little snuff an’ orliko an’ with a chaw of flat tobacco now and then. Wan't thater way befo’ the wah.” low much do you expect to get for your bale of cotton?” “Jest as much as the raskils are a mind to give me. They don’t give much in these yere dishonest days, but it want thater way befo’ the wah. Then a honest man mout expect to git what his stuff was wuth, but the sun has furever set on them thar days. Whar have you been to?” a ve been out to see if I could catch a few “Wall, some men can afford to fling away their time thater way, an’ I could do it beto’ the wah, but an honest man ain't got no show now.” “‘How many bales did you raise?” “Ouly two—feller tuck one of ‘em far what he ‘lowed was a debt, but I didn’t raly owe him acont. but honest man kain't expect nothin’ these here days, He had a son to go way from home some time ago—went to a town, but tl folks was so dishonest he couldn't make a livin’, so he came back home to his dad, what he knows won't cheat him.” “You should not be so cast down, Doubtless a better day will come after awhile.” No, not fora honest man. Thar was once a bright day, but it was along time ago beto’ the wah. “How far do you go to sell your cotton?” “Taint fur fram here, now—right over yan- 8 { have had some experience in buying cotton I will go over and see that they don’t cheat you.” “Wash you would, Ah, laws # massy, you don’t know how much good it do me to meet a honest man, an’ when I git back home I'll tell mar an’ the gals an’ the boys that not quite all the honest men ain’t dead even ef it is dun atter the wah.” They soon came to a sort of ware house on the bank of a bayou, where there were several men engaged in weighing cotton, One of them turning to the old fellow asked him if he wanted to sell. “Yas, ‘lowed I did ef I could git anything like a fa'r price, but I don’t hardly expect it in these days,” “All right; off with your bale and let's weigh in” “Humph!” exclaimed one of the buyers, “this in the heaviest bale for the looks of it I ever saw.” “Yas, low ground cotton,” said the old fel- low. “It don't look so mighty heavy, but it is owerful to wei They tell me that it is the est cotton thar is, “Yes, that’s all right, but we'll just cut this bale open and see.” foc Non it ain't wuth while; I'l take yo’ word ‘or it.” “That's all right, but I won't take yours.” ‘The bale was torn open and in it was found sycamore log. “Wall, I declar!” the old fel- low exclaimed. “I don't thar. But itis jest like some folks ter around an’ try to injure a man’s character. It has been thater way ever sense the wah.” see. A Frontier Hero. From the Atlanta Constitution. “I think that the bravest man I ever knew,” said the colonel, “was one of the worst, His name was Kit Castle, and for some years, 80 long ago that my hair grows grayer when I think of it, he was sheriff of Utah county, Wyom- ing. Kit had his own peculiar code of morals, like a good many other western men of that day, He borrowed money in the most reckless fash- ion, but he always paid it back to the last cent, He never broke a promise. But he would cheat at cards at every opportunity. He couldu't help it. Everyone knew that he cheated, but no man was ever bold enough to sxy so in his face, for Castle was not afraid of anything that walked or crawled, and he was a dead shot every time his big finger pressed a trigzer, He was over six feet in height, a lion in strength and a tiger when im a rage. “He started out alone on horseback once when hoe was sheriff to capture two horse thieves. He was gone fora week aud people began to think that Kit had got the worst of a hard fight. when he rode into town one even- ing and stalked up to a bar, ** Where are your me! with a laugh, ae ey had slipped him. “The sheriff pulled from his belt three re- volvers and laid them down. Then he weut out to his horse and, unfastening two pairs of tad from the saddle, came back and threw em jingling and ringing on the bar counter. “One of them t?” some one asked olvers is mine,’ said Kit, slowly. ‘All the rest is souvenirs'—‘soovenirs, he pronounced it. ‘I had sixty miles to ride back, and I hadu’t the time to lead two horses with the corpses of two horse thieves tied on their backs.’ That was all he ever said about the fight. “Perhaps a more villainous set of scoundrels was never collected than the prisoners whom Castle always had in the county jail. ‘The jail was of stone and was in the rear of the court house. Inside the place was lined with sheet iron, and along the end ran the heavily barred cells, One evening the sheriff went into the jul to see if the prisoners were all right for the night. One of them had gotten out of his cell and had released four other desperadoes. When Kit open the door into the jail the men started for him witha rush. Kit had time to spring through the door and close it, and his prisoners would have been as secure in the iron-walled corridor as in their cells, But the sight of the five men maddened him, and he threw the door shut with a loud clang, locking himself in the room with the others, “Drawing his revolver he leaped at the men flushed with anger. He was too shoot them. itrength and energy were tremendous, and hurled the five men into one of the iron corn Pushing them and knocking them about, beat them over the heads and shoulders and arms with the butt of his revolver until they screamed at the top of their voices in their helpless agony. Then, his teeth shut close together in his great jaw, he picked them up one by one and pitched them into their cells, securely fastening the ta. lt “Buch daring and recklessness as his could belong only to aman who did not know the name of p! fear. He was a born fighter, and as a soldier in battle would have been re- morse! fierce, But he had one enemy stronger he. Whisky sapped his life when he was in his prime.” ———+e0-____ They Wear Big Hats. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, In Annam, an empire occupying the eastern 2 3 a : i hi tl i i i Fe E g i fd = é FISHERMEN PTUREK A BUCK. With a Rope Around His Antlers He is Towed Ashore a Captive. From the Boston Herald. “What is it?” “The sea serpent.” “No. it's got horns. Vell, it's « fresh water sea serpent; different from those seen in the ocean. This colloquy took piace between Capt. G. P. Sprague and Mr. Rollin Jones, both of this city, yesterday morning as they stood in their little skiff opposite Millstone point, on Lake Wini- Piseogee, whither they had gone to try their ‘luck in hooking a mess of bass, which are said to inhabit those waters. While patiently wait- ing for the nibblers to come along one of the gentlemen noticed a strange-looking object putting ont from the shore and called the at- tention of his companion to it, when ensued the gn conversation. “It tl is a sea serpent,” continued the capmin, “I want a closer jook at it, as our friends in Boston will be inclined to doubt our story unless we can give the fullest kind of de- tail regarding the appearance of the strange- looking animal. They will also declare we paid more attention to pulling corks than we did to pulling in fish unless we can show them some- to confirm our yarn thing “Well, then, if our reputation is threatened by any such danger, | am Mr. Jones. with you,” responded it the anchor rope and their skiff Each manned an car and the little went dancing over the shining waters like & streak of light. When within a few rods of the object of their investigation the captain turned his gaze in the direction of the horned curiosity and immediately exclaimed “It's a deer! it’s a deer—an old buck! pull for your life! He's making for Snake Island, and if he ever gots into the bushes it’s the last we shall ever see of him.” “Are you quite sure it's a buck and not a sea serpent?” inquired Mr. Jones disappointedly, as bo bad been exhausting his strength in the happy anticipation of at last beholding a mem- ber of this somewhat doubtful family of tor- quatas. “Laman expert on bucks,” responded the captain, who was now in a fever of excite- ment. Pull for your life!” he again shouted, as he noticed Mr. Jones’ lagging onr. In a few moments they were abreast of the frightened animal, whose horns rose above the Water like two stout branches of atree. He gave up all efforts to get away, and quieti submittodto having the painter of the kil made fas@Yo his antlers. In this manner he was towed ushore and led to the camp of Mr. Jones, He is a beautiful representative of his Species, and weighs fully 200 pounds. a = ATROCITIES IN MACEDONIA. The Life of a Christian Rated as Noth- ing by the Arnaut Tribes. From the Pall Mall Gazette. After the train had left Uskub and passed Katschanik as it entered the narrow and rocky passages, which all the year around serve as places of concealment to the Arnaut, writes & Daily News correspondent traveling in Mace- donia, the officials all keptasharp lookout The train steamed ont of the tunnel of Kate- chanik, when suddenly # discharge of rifles were heard. About ninety feet above the line some seventy Arnauts were seen, and favored by the slow speed of the train, fired their repeating rifles into the windows as we passed. The stoker of the engine was killed and three of the passengers were dangerously wounded. An Arnaut woman had crossed the line some days before and had been knocked down by the engine and killed. Another train and other people had to pay for it. Not until I got to Pristina did I understand what terri- ble power these hordes of uncoutrolled men have over the population. dares pronounce asentence against an Arnaut, however guilty he may be, for he would be signing his own death war- rant, Atthe same time the minor officials make common cause with the armed bands and take ashare of the booty. The life of a Chris- tian is rated at nothing. A man walks penc bly through the streets, when the never-faili ball of an Arnaut strikes bim from behind. } body cares for the victim, and the authorit would never think of seeking the criminal, All the clans unite when any action is to be under- taken against the Giaours, It is impossible to describe what the Servians and Bulgarians have to suffer under the tyranny of these wild tribes, They are absolutely without protection for Servia and Bulgaria, thongh they are not igno- rant of the state of things, arc too weak to call Turkey to account on this subject. and the pow- ers will not meddle for fear of what the results might be for all Europe. A foreign consul in Pristina vouches for the truth of the following facts. which show what the Servian Christian population has to suffer at the hands of these savages: Last month the Arnauts suddenly entered the Servian school of Pristina, carried off the three masters and the mistress, whom they imprisoned after vio- lating the latter. The Turkish government thought fit to close the school for good after this incident. In a neighboring town the mas- ter of the school was also imprisoned and the school closed. The parents are thus forced to send their children to the Mobammedan schools. A few days ago forty Arnaute laid siege to the large farm of one Mitar Tijanic, near Pristina, who, with household of sixteen men and women, all well armed, resisted the attack. When evening came only the master and his three sons were left and they surren- dered. The Arnauts fell upon them and lit- erally cut them to pieces, Then they threw the corpses into a neighboring maize field, where a flock of eagles and vultures feed upon them every day and can be seen from the town, I will only mention one more of the hundred incidents which form everyday life here. Two boys, sons of a farmer named Lasarevitch, at Prisrend, were in the fields with their father's cattle a week ago, when an Arneut caught them, and, taking them home on his horse, attempted to ill use them. The boys struggled for liberty and the Arnaut cut them both to ieces. He then packed their heads, feet, ands and trunks in me Sage riding with it st the house of their father, threw it down at is door. The Turkish government daily g assurances of ite inability to change this state things. CAUGHT BY A DEVIL FISH. Mr. Anderson’s Queer Experience With a Slimy Creature of the Sea, From the Tacoma News. Mr. C. H. Anderson hada thrilling experience with a devil fish in Commencement bay last Friday evening. He has been cruising about in the little steam launch Daisy with a pleasure party, and when opposite the coal bunkers on the way into portsome obstruction blocked the Propelier screw. The boat was given a terrible wrench and the httle screw began to thump, thump, thump against the bull of the launch. Imagining that piece of kelp had become entangled in thescrew, Mr. Anderson, stopping the engine, calmly rolled up his sleeve and thrust his arm down at the stern and grasped the wriggling mass, the outlines of which were only indistinctly discernible in the gathering dusk. As he the mess io loosen it from the screw he felt a crawling sensation and knew that his arm was being encircled by some reptile, Then followed a sensation as of a hundred leeches sucking, and the of a man be- ing exerted to draw him over Mr. An- derson nerved himself for a final effort, and the tentacle ped about his arm parted from the body of the monster. As he drew himself senpnrnge tegen relaxed its hold and fell back into the water. “I might have held on to it,” said Mr. Ander- son this morning, ‘had I not been more intent ia hol on to my own arm.” “How was it?” “Only a little one,” said he. “How big is that?” asked the nearly off the rod by blades re "8 in an circle, are ® series of little which on seth ee oe KICKER, The Western Kditor Also Has Hie TroubMes - From the Detroit Free Press We extract the following from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker: Tner Gor Lerr.—Fooeling the need of a few days’ rest from brain work, we hied ourself ” Jim's Peak last week, to remain about tem days. Soon after supper a stranger approached us and gave us a hint that the boys were planning a serenade, and that we had better have a speech ready. Ta this western country some words have « double meaning. A “serenade” may meaa sweet, soft music by the band, with a call from & lot of jolly good fellows, or it may mean @ visit from the gang, who are provided with @ rope but no music, In order to be on the safe side we took ap a temporary home in a th and from thence discovered that thts was ” A rope serenade. Some of the bors trom John- gon's ranch had determined to lynch usns ® reat moral warning. t while they unting for us around the andering through the jack pines and midni darkness to safer quarters In one sense, we don't blame the boys so much, An occasional banging ad fe. and it is are to be blamed for # have it on good authority that they meant to hang us with an oid mule chain, There were thirty of them inthe crowd. We make no doasts, but let our readers watch for develope ments. We'll have sheriffs and detectives here after at least thirty-one of them, before the week is cut, and then we shail borrow @ shotgun and go ou a hunt after the odd one Soup Aoatx.—Our eateeme has made another diamai f. he came out in a dout article on the Wharton sh tried his best to prove that we hand in it aud were respousib Johnson's death. At the coron held on that same afternoou, Ma fed ‘I was sitting ata table in th saloon with the editor of the ng and ad an activ it, Blaine testa Red Crone Kicke were there totalk over the McKinley t to take the initiatory steps toward estal another Sunday sch Judge Jo! in. He was pretty drunk. Me «aw I ton atatable beyond us and px The editor of the Kicker kindly asked him te put it up, and offered him a year's subscription to the paper to go_home and take Th judge refused and shot. Next moment Wh: This was the truth « yet our jeaious-pated conte hada hold on us, tried his out that but for there would ha shooting! We used to refer to him as tooth- less, knock-kneed, bow-legged, lop-earcd, b vas-eved and so whole outfit, lone on it, We used to meet him on the street and scare him into kneeling down and begging our pardon, We now let him have his own way. Some day we will bury bim in our private grave yard — some day when he has tired us completely out, Tuy ant Wnoxo.— Those of our cilizens whe are asserting that our late trouble with th postmaster was ca y jealousy of his po tion on our part are doing us a True, we were a candidate for true, also, we area mighty sight better man for the place than the present imcumbent, but we are not jealous, Wanomaker refused to ap- point us and we refuse to wear Vi anamaker's clothing. It's an even thing thus far. The trouble began as soon as th tered the post office. He held & and made us weary in many other ways, We pounded him half to dexth one dey, and for two months be was a model postmaster. Them he got sassy and shot at us, and we left a bullet in his shoulder, other day. He th to prick us with self-defense we sh: and banged hi: h the butt of ti It was in the interest of the wh: public, He'll be on deck in a wee nd for the next three is he work like a steer and be as pleasant as peaches. That lasted tim unt nm goton his bowie knife, of a part of his left ear Good Times Passed Away. From the New York Sun. “There was a time,” said the editor, pub- lisher and proprietor of the [ wn Banner and American Watch Tomer, “when my eoun- try subscribers brought in apples, potatoes, turnips, carrots, squashes, eggs and lots of other stuff as free gifts to the editor, and when I set aside the second column of the third pase for notices that Farmer Smith and ®o forth had laid on our table 80 and so, for which he would please accept our thanks. It has been three ‘ince even a tomato was brought into the hat has brought about this change?” “The daily papers. They have heaped ridie cule on the good old custom until have given it ite deathbiow. And there's another thing. Up to four or five years aco some of my subscribers were certain to pat from §200 to $500 in the rag bag foreafe keeping and then sell the bag to the peddler without membering the money. on at least two items of this sort every year, but they are gone forever now.” “and do you blame the duilies for this also?” “Ido. They poked fun at and heaped ridi- cule on the farmer until he felt obliged to de- posit his money in the bank. Dou't you re- member those good old days when the wite used to put #100 in the parlor stove for safe keeping and her husband used to build a fire without her knowledge?” “Well, it's fully four years since I have had such acase. The daily papers are to blame for it. There was « time when 1 could count on a straight column a week under the bead Ter- rible Accident—Another Farmer Dragged to Death.’ The farmer had a way, you know, of hitchiag the lines around his body when’ he was breaking colt, or tying the rope to his arm when leading a fractious horse to water, He doesn’t do it any more. The daily papers have had so many items headed ther Idiot Gone to His Reward’ or ‘Anothe Heard From,’ that the practice is dew ‘Yes, I know.” “And I could, in those good old times, regu- larly count on what was known as the piteh- fork accident. Why, I used tokeop the item in type on the standing galley and simply change names and dates. Lou remember how it used to run? Farmer, or his son, or hired manstack- " d then sliding down on the times a haymow, but they always managed to hit the fork when they slid down. That fat take has gone with the others and the dailies are to blame.” It seems sad.” “Itissad. You know how we used to make up the editorial page? We'd cut a leader from the Sun, Chicago 7imes, Cincinnati Enquirer or Buffalo Courier and lead her right out, « ply saying, asa preface: ‘That able and well- conducted journal, the ——, says.’ I had to drop that style three years ago. The dailies began to kick and my subscribers to find fault, Many a time I have sheared out four columns of editorial in less than ten minutes, and it makes my heart ache to realize that I can never, no never, do so any more. One of she saddest 8, however, is the last,” total “ 5 drop th hich “Fe us to yp the ‘we,’ wl wae se joug the power behind the throne. You can 1 back to when ‘we’ called into Brown's grocery; when ‘we’ took a run into the country the other day; when did thus and so aud the other thing and were the biggest man in town. All fone now—gone with the other per- quisites and privi! “Why, only last week, when I chucked in three columus of dead ads. to fill up on the fourth page, half a dozen enb- seri our alphabet.” Bho—“What yet Rat eerentint Be—* Eexo2ee doing would have pinta U and I much nearer sack otkee.”