Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1890, Page 8

THE EVENING a STAR: WASHINGTON. FOE TO SHADE TREES. How the Caterpillar Ruins the Beau- tiful Foliage FACTS ABOUT THE PEST. Prof. Rilcy Says That Ite Deprodations Might Mave Beon Prevented, and De- scribes Means by Which a Repe- Ution of the Troubie May be Avoided. T IS TOO BAD thatthe caterpillars should have been permitted to de- vour the trees of Wash- ington this season in the way thoy have,” said Prof. C. ¥. Riley, in conversation with a writer for Tun Sran. “There is no good reason why they should have been allowed to accomplish such havoc as the shade foliage of the city exhibits the effects of this fall A very little trouble, taken at the proper time, suffices to render harmless these insect enemies. “It is the second brood of caterpillars that bas done the damage this year. The first brood appears hore soon after the leaves have become fully developed, while the second brood comes from the middie of July on through August and September. Before going farther let me say something about the life- history of caterpillars. LIVE OF THE CATERPILLAR. “When the cold of winter is coming on the esterpiliars which have survived the season week such safo retreats as they are able to find for roosting places until sey a The cracks of tree boxes serve very well for the purpoze. Thore they spin cocoons end remain in the ebrysalis condition dur- ing the period that it is mecessary for them to hibernate. As soon as warm weather arrives THE CATERPILLAR each chrysalis is burst | METAMORPHOSIS. open and out fliesa moth. The moth lays her eggs as quickly as possible upon a leaf, usually mear the end of a branch, sometimes on tho upper and sometimes on the lower side. These ong aro deposited in clusters, close together and in reguiar rows, On an average 500 eggs are laid by each female. Under the micro- scope the eggs are seen to be of a bright golden yellow color, ornamented by numerous little pits, which give them the appexrance of so many beautiful golden thimbies. A week or ten days after being laia the caterpillars are hatched from the eggs. Without check the off- spring of one female moth might number 125,- 000 caterpillars in early fall—enough to ruin the shade trees in many a fine street. “As soon as the young caterpillars aro Ratched they immediately go to work to spin a silken web for themselves,under the protection of which they feed in company, at first devour- ing only the upper portion of each leaf they attack and leaving the ve.n: d lower skin un- disturbed. Increasing in size they enlarge their web by connecting it with adjoining wes and twigs; thus as they gradually work downward the web becomes quite bulky, and, Deing filled with brown and skeletonized leaves and other discolored matter as well as with the eaterpillars’ old skins, it becomes an unpleas- ant feature to the eye in the public thorouzh- fares and parks. The caterpillars always feed beneath these webs, but as soon as they ap- maturity, which requires about one th, they begin to scatter about in search for suitable places to spin their cocoons in, ‘The enterprising young things thus compelled by a law of nature to leave their web DROP TO THE GROUND by s fine silken thread of their own spinning and craw! about on the sidewalks or elsewhere, affording an unpleasant invitation to the un- wary footstep of the passer-by. Some of them in their hunt for — for hiding make their way uninvited into the houses, Favorite recesses with them are crevises in the bark, gubbish collected around the base of trees and the angles of tree boxes. For this reason, if for no other, tree boxes should be done away with. In some cases they make uso even of the empty cocoons of other moths. The mouth of this creature is white, with a very slight yellow- tah shade and spotless wings. THE CATERPILLAR PLAGUE, “Doubtless you well remember the plague of Caterpillars that attacked Washington in 1886 and laid the city almost bare of foliage. The tows of shade trees along the streets and ave- gues became leatiess and covered with throngs of the hairy worm. Except on the very tall trees, the tops of which were too high for thecaterpil- lars to reach, not a vestige of foliage could be seen, and the bare branches were further dis- by an upholstery of webs tilied with debris. The parks fared a little better, partly because caterpillars will not travel over grass ‘“nless prompted by extreme hunger. Condi- tions are most favorable in Washington for the Propagation of these insects, avenues of the same kinds of trees extending for miles siong every street with branches interlac- ing, so that the worms have an uninter- rupted march, Hungry caterpillars leaving a denuded tree in search of food march in a straight line to the uext tree, sometimes a dis- tance of 25 feet, showing that they possess some keen sense to guide them. In this manner two columns of wandering caterpillars are formed on a street, which frequently move in opposite directions, The almost total defoliation of 1886 produced one very curious effect—many plants and trees which usually blossom in ring coming out with their flowers as late as Sovenber. An artificial period of rest, or win- ter, had been vecasioned for the plants by the Worms, waich was followed by unseasonable budding and flowering. SPARROWS AND OWLS. “The English sparrow, introduced for the destruction of the so-called measuring worms, will not touch these hairy caterpillars. Not euly do they not destroy them, but they do much to make their numbers greater by driv- y the birds that do eatthem. A new enemy is being found for the sparrows, which should be decidedly encouraged. ‘The little screech owl is becoming much more common im the vicinity of cities where the sparrow is Bumerous, and it preys upon the sparrows as boldly does as the sparrow hawk in Europe. Its attacks are made toward dusk, ata time when the sparrow has retired for the night and is not sufficiontly wide awake to escape. Also the screech owl feeds eagerly upon the @atorpillars. If the cuckoos could be induced to build their nests within the city limits they would do much to help the war against caterpillars. If proper shelters were provided for them there would be no difficulty; I think, in persuading them to remain. Tho common crow eats yery many caterpillars and should be protected. ‘To wide attractive homes for desirable birds boxes are not sufficient, because the latter are occupied at once by the puznacious spar- row to the exclusion of the others. In Europe the problem has been soived satisfactorily by fastening bundies of thorny branches in the erotches of taller trees to prevent from climb- ing up, and by forming groups of dense trees and bushes. surrounded by thorny hedges, to keep the cats and other enemies out. In such places euckoos and other desirable birds would be satisfied to find themselves domesticated and would utilize them as soon as they discovered their safety. How TO GET RID OF THE Prsts, “Now, to get rid of the caterpillars would mot be dificult or expensive if proper methods were employed. To begin with, much may be Gone in winter time by the systematic clear- ing away of tho cocoons from the sheltered places in which they may be found. A good — is to rake up the refuse about each tree in fall. The worms will conceal themselves in it for spinning their cocoons and may be read- fly destroyed later on when the refuse has be- come dry by simply burning it When the middie of May arrives, at which time all the eaterpillars are about to begin work simultane- easly, an effectual check may be put to them by spraying the trees with arscnicui mixtures, Oue sprayimg at that time, repeated once or twice later in the season, at intervals of a fort- Bight, will — an effectual protection to of kinda The work can be done at very small cost. With an apparatus ousisting of a water tank mounted on s cart efit iE ; ae should be stopped. It spoiis their beanty and makes some of the city strects look like grave- yards after dark. If lime must bo used it should be made the color of the bark. But there is no uecessity for whitewashing trees here, The lime does not affect the caterpillars in the least and actuaily destroys many of their enemics, I would particolarly emphasize the objectionableness of the reckless pruning yy ticed in Washington. Not only are many of the trees disfigured and hatfruined by gangs of men who go periodically through the streets hacking right aud left without inteliigence, but many are actually killed by the reckless sawing off of limbs, without effort being made to heal the wood by coating with grafting wax, clay or other protective substance. Boring in- secte-—-much more fatal to the trees than cater- pillars—nre attracted to the exposed parts and attack thom. “One thing I would urgently recommend is that the authorities should not permit the fallen leaves in October to accumulate in the sewer traps, as they do in masses of black and decomponing leaves, which are left to fester during the fall and early winter. sending forth malarious emanations from every street corner, ‘This is a source of much sickness, and I would urge that the traps on all tho streots be thor- oughly cleaned immediately after the trees have ome bare. “Certain most desizable shade trees I would earnestly recommend for future plap i Washington, because they are so sli ject to attack by the caterpillar. P These are the maples, the yews, the boach, the honey locust, the tulip tree, the sweet buckeye, the gum, the Ohio buckey and the Kertucky coffe GENTS’ PANTS MADE TO ORDER. How They Are Turned Out by Millions at Incredibly Low Prices. DIFFERENCE between a man and a dog, it used to be said, is that a man wears trousers and a dog pants. Views have altered some- what on this point of late and the notion as to the distinction, a Stan reporter was informed, has been re- duced to this: When one ordcrs pantaloons “to order” from one's tailor they are trousers; bought ready made they are properly desig- mated as “pants More men wear pants than own up to the fact. Furthermore, a man who has good legs— really good legs—is likely to look as well in pants as in trousers; they ate apt to be equally well made, and he fits them, instead of re- quiring them to fit him. A man with bad legs, and they are rather the rule than the excep- tion, is always complaining of the fit of his pantaloons, ALBERT PIKE'S WAKE. A Notable Entertainment in the Good Old Times, RECALLING FAMILIAR FACES. Gen. Pike's Reported Denth and the Cel ebration of ilis Metura to Washing~ ton—The Address in Bhymec—A Feel- ing Response. inde Written for Tar Evrxrsa Stan. EACHING A CERTAIN.or uncertain age we live in the past and are firmly i convinced that there is no time like \Gtho time which has gono by. We ere strengthened in this convie- tion by memory, which las embalmed those who were with us in those days and nearly all of whom have gone before us to the other sphere, They made up the enjoyments of which I speak. They were the animating apirits of those entertrinments which conld not be repeated at the present day, for the changes which time and circumstances have wrought forbid it. Those of us who remain are left with the capacity for enjoying in mem- ory alone “those hours snatched from fate” id fliled with so many delightful, tender recollections of those dear friends whose wit and humor contrivated, made up, indeed, that enjoyment, For eeveral winters we were in the hebit of having weekly entertainments at our respoct- ive houses, where everybody who could add to the entertainment was invited, ‘They came for enjoyment and to aid in making the evening one of unalloyed pleasure. ‘The laws govern- ing “those bright nights, fliled with light and music," wore enforced by the master of the revels, dear old Bev Tucker, with unyielding impartiality. No drones were allowed in our social hive Everybody had his purt assigned him and the program carried out to the very end. It was known what cach one could do and he was callod upon to do it and he never ehirked. Songs were our strong point, We hud an admirable quartet and opened the entertainment with “The Blacksmith,” a rol- licking song and chorus, lud by Marshall Brown, Ashton White, Charley Botelor and your corre- spondent taking the remaining parta, Charley teler’s solo was Dr. Holmes’ ‘Last Leaf,” and with avery fine baritone he rendored it admir- ably. Ash. White, who still lives, was our uni- versal—I might say our_ utility man. He did every thing ‘ond ail he did Through certain modern developments in the business of constructing pantaloons, the “pants” and the “trousers” have in a manner approached one ano ‘aa it were. “Don't you admire me baga?” Tu Stan man heard Puppkins ask at the club. “Dear boy, they are immense,” responded his friend Noodles, ‘Who made 'em?” “Had ‘em built in New York.” says Puppkins languidly. ‘She tailor was d—d expensive, but one must wear the proper thing, you know, and a bad pair of bags will ruin a-man’s repu- tation for dress, I never mind the cost when itcomes to clothes; it’s more dignified, any- way, to owe a big amount than a small one.” Now, the fact is that Puppkins had had that Pair of pantaloons made to order, but it wax on a wholesale basis, and he had paid spot cash forthem. His was a mere affectation of gilded insolvency, inappropriate to a clerk m the Department of Justice. Because it is the swoil thing not to pay your tailor, it is not implied that a government hireling is to expect credit from the man who wields the awful scepter of fashionable authority called the yardstick, PANTALOONS BY TUE THOUSAND. Puppkins’ pantaloons’ were made by a firm that manufactures 24,000 pairs of “pants” every week. Each year it turns out one million and a quarter pairs of such pants, not to mention about 300,000 coats and an cqual number of waistcoats, Pants, however, are the specialty of thisconcern. When a firm makes 24,000 pairs of pants each week it can afford to manufacture them for comparatively little money. This particular firm has a producing establishment in a great city not a thousand miles away, where all the clothing is turned out, Everything is cou- ducted after a business method that is like clockwork. Forty branch shops in ali the im- portant cities of the Union solicit custom. On an average each shop obtains 100 orders for “pants” per day, or 600 per week. ‘This makes 24.000 pairs per week for the forty branches, or 1,248,000 pasrs for the year. All of these pants, as well as the other gar- ments, are made in the distant city atoremen- tioned, The instant that an order is obtained by one.of the forty branches a letter is sent off conveying the order to the main establish- ment. Suppose a man should be urgently anxious for a pair of pants, not being able to go out without s uch equipment for fear of excifing remark. In such a case the branch shop to which he applies telegraphs, at the customer's expense, to the main establishment. The telegram takes somewhat this foria: “Cut at once lot 1243; 33, 27, 29, 31, 36, 26." The number of the “‘lot” designates the cloth to be cut; the other numbers are tho measurements, Atonce upon receiving the telegram the clerk in charge of the business department hands over a corresponding order to the man in charge of the cloths. The man in charge of the cloths measures out tho stuff re- quired by the order for the garment specified and given to the head cutter. Dy tho latter or one of his assistants the cloth is cut into proper shape, according to the meastroments, after which it is passed to the upper floors of the factory, where it is made up. It takes one day to make a pair of pants, at the end of which it is dispatched by express to the branch shop aud delivered to the customer. Thus the latter can get a pair of pantaioons made for him and delivered within forty-eight hours by Measure, Sach 1s the system by which 24,000 pairs of pants a week are turned out, Producing | them in such numbers it is not surprising thats great concern like the one descrivud should be able to make garments really worth the proud designation of trousers for the small price of $6.25 apiece, made to order from the best materials. These, it is trie, are dude garments, half that price or less being usually the charge for pants. But why should one buy even these cheaper “garnitures for the limbs” when “pants” for really traly “gonts” are advertised this day at 90 cents a pair on Pennsylvania avenue; —_—_ Electricity and Milk. It is well known, says the London Times, that during thunder storme milk tends to grow acid. An Italian, Prof. G, Tolomei, hag lately tried to throw some light on the nature of this action, He experimented with electricity on fresh milk in three different ways—first by passing the discharge of a Holtz machine be- tween the two balls of platinum inserted nearly two inches apart in 9 bottle containing did well.” A gentleman named Sealey, who has somehow beeu lost to us for years, comes . ’ GENERAL ALBERT PIKE. back to us from memory’s cells with that beau- titul melody, ‘Sally in Our Alloy.” That was his song, and how beantifully he sang it, The Hon. Meredith P. Gentry of Teunessee added to thesujoyment by his rendering with pathos “My Boy Tammy,” a Scotch ballad of the olden time. Arnold Harris, when the floor was cleared for him, gave us “*Miss Patsey and Mr, Gower”—Mr, Gower was in love with Miss Patsey, and desiring to make an impression on hor ata coming dance practiced in the woods, with sapling for his partner, and Arnold went through it all, amid shouts of langhter. Hugh Caperton “of martial fame” amused us with the Virginia militia wuster, and ‘“Koyal Robt. Ould” recited tichard Lalor Shield’s yap) in the British parliament in defense of the Irish soldiers. Albert Pike told hia French story of the Guerriere, and Jack Savage sang, as no one else could sinz, “Saint Anthony,” from the Ingoldsby Legends.” Senator Sebas- tian of Arkansas sang and recited, accompany- ing himself on the violin, “The Arkansas Tray- eler.” Alex. Dimitry ‘rendered Veranger's songs in the original and the translations i that’ “basso profundo” which through the rooms, 1 RECALL A NI0HT, filled with music, song and s¢ntiment, at the rooms of the Hon. Robert W. Johnson, then on D street, a door or two east of Brentano's, “over a china store,” for wo had no numbers in those days, and if we had nobody could remember them, and it is an actual fact that the original Arkansas gentleman, Cot, Elias Rector, who had rooms on C street, somewhere in the rear of the National Hotel, blazed his way from his lodgings to the hotel on the trees—excuse this digression. At this entertainment, where evory- body had contributed his quota to the evening's enjoyment, our host, Senator Johnson, devel- oped a knowledge of “the lascivious pleasings of a flute,” which so moved the then Speaker of the House of Reprcsenta- tives, the Hon, Linn Boyd, one of the most dig- uitied of men, thathe executed with exceeding grace the Scotch reel, “*T'ulloch Gorum”—wont through it allamid rapturous applause, The tara” who came to the city were with us, in addition to our native talent, and I remember a night at Jonah Hoover's, where Forrest, being | in one of his joyous moods, made the event a memorable one. He told stories and recited “The Idiot Boy" with such pathos that tears filled every eye, and told a French story with such inimitable humor “that laughter held her sides with pain.” With “thes few preliminary remarks” the readers of Tum Stan will be orerea to understand the sociel life of that , which made possible ‘ Wake.” The wit, the humor, the zest for enjoyment displayed on that occasion will be better under- stood, for we had been for several wiuters enjoying these weekly reunions, ALBERT PIKE'S WAKE. The news of the death of Albert Pike fell like @ blow on our hearts, We waited in the most painful anxiety some confirmation or denial of the report, and in the meanwhile Mr. Dinutry ‘was requested to prepare an obituary of our dear friondS It was prepared, “set up” and waited confirmation of the rumor for its ap- pearance in the columns of the National Intelli- rncer, when behold, to our great joy, Capt, Pico arrives, We mot on the avenue and braced each other, and I said, “Dear Pi milk; second, by senfing a battery cur- rent between two strips of platinum at the bottom of a U tube holding milk; aud, third, by subjecting milk to a test tube to the action of'a strong battery current through & silk-covered copper wire wound spirally round the tube, In each case the acidulation was deisyed, not hastened. Three equal por- tions of milk from the same milking thus treatod began to grow acid on the seventh, the ninth and the sixth day, respectively, while milk not trea! with electri was mani- festly acid on the third day. The electrified milk (unlike milk that has been heated to s high temperature, then cooled) coagulates nat- urally or by action of rennet, Just like ordinary milk. Having thus seen that electricity could not be the direct cause of acidifica- tion of milk, the professor noxt tried the ef- fect of ozone and found it distinct!y aeidify- ing. In one case the surface of a quanity of milk was brought close uuder the two balls of a Holtz machine, and the milk soon became acid in consequence, the sooner if the discharge was sileut ent explosive), in which case more ozone forme In another case ozonized oxygen was inade to bubble up through » quantity of milk, which ins few hours was completely acid au: soon coagulated spontaneously. Prof. ‘To- Jo is of opinion that oxygen probably also promotes lactic fermentation (a + which has been disputed). If milk keeps longer in wide, shallow vessels, that is probably due, he thinks, to the cooling produced by evaporation, which is favored by a wide open surface. ———— +7 Stranger (halting at Georgia farm house “Hello, Neve! vaeen ae @ traveler ng! f1 within)—“T kon Sgr ‘ws with the chills, Jim's 1e thought you were dead.” Ho assured m was uot, and said, “If Iam I have not be ‘waked.’" I promised he should be and from that meeting grew ‘The Wake.” On that night ‘the remains” were in charge of the master of those mournful ceremoni Mr. George 8. Gideon, who solemnly moved them into position, where the ‘‘mourners-in- chief,” Alexagdor Dimitry, Wm. M. Burwell, James C, McGuire, John Savage, Robert W. Johnson, Walter Lenox, A. 8. H. White, Bev- erly Tucker, Jonah D. Hoover, Philip Barton Key, Arnold Harris and Charley Boteler, sur- rounded them with the most decorous and sin- cere seriousness, The obituary of Prof. Dimi- try was read, end at its conclusion Mr. Burwell controlled his emotion, said he was gratified to announce, upon the very best authority, that the distinguished defunct had burst the cere- ments with which the news) had en- shrouded him and was again with us, Not feol- ing competent, he said, to do justice in prose to the extraordinary adventures connected with his restoration, be appealed in terms which his Kpstionsn Hat repeat, to relate in song “ second of “ fine Arkansas gentlemen who died before THE VINE ARKANSAS GENTLEMAN WHO DIED BETORE Tue The fine Arkansas gentleman, restored to life Continued to enjoy himself as he had don mt heapealberen ‘concluded he ‘To see some Indian friends he and bad chase the fine Arkansas gentleman ‘ho died before his time. The rumor of his visit had And distant —_ and wunciece coe mene hee fo wasn be reacete tae council grounds much delight he pease ‘Ho went to sleep among these frienés in huts or tents of skin, And if it rained or hailed or snowed he didn’t care a pin; For he'd lnted hia hide with whisky and a brace of roasted grouse, ‘And he didn't mind the weather any more thon if Yystept in @ four-story brownstone front, afoot Fifth avenue house, ‘This fine Arkansas gentleman, Sc. Now, while he was enjoying all that such adven- tare brings, pipe and bottle, and each like for- Diddon things, Some spalpeen of ‘an editor whom the Lord had made in vain i Inserted in his horrible accident column, amongst murders, robberies. thefts. camphine acci- nts, collisions, explosions, defaications, luctions, abductions and destructions, un- jendid binck-borderod notice, the la © news that—he was dead agaia— aint ‘This fine Arkansas gentieman, &c. The other papers copied it, and then It was be- jeve: ‘That death at last had taken him so recently re- prieved; Thoy —— him as a warrior,a poot snd . mp, And with ologios. eulogies, biographies, reviews, articles, critt mn his prejuctions, doubts whether he had ever fought, wrote, ‘hunted Daitalo or indosdlived at all—aad one in- ¢redulous pagan Jobnse Ulooyor of the Mox'romery Mail, aiways dented bis dying plum, shis One Arkansas gentleman, &c. The Masons and the Odd Fellows prepared to celebrat Ilis obsoqules with every form of grief approprl- ate, So sad the tavorn keepers and the faro bankers eel, They craped the bella half an hour and intermit a deal, For this fino Arkansas gentleman, &o. But far above the common grief—though he was good as gold— His creditors, like Jacob's wife, refused tobe con- soied: They — im @ poet and a warrior, if you w But suid they had oxperience in generals, commo- dores, orators, statesmen, Congressmen, actors, editors, letter writers, route agents, conductors and other public characters who rarely paid a bill, ‘This fine Arkansas gentleman, &c. Behold in this excltemont our distinguished friend arrive, “We know him from a remark he made” that he ‘was still alive. Then every journal joyously the contradiction 1otes, The tailors take his measure and the bunksrenew his notes, ‘This fine Arkansas gentleman, &c, So now when he must surely go the way that all must pass, Don’t hold & feather to his lips, nor yeta looking rina: But whisper that a friend's in need of either purse or hi And he'll make a move to aid him—if they haven’t got him damned, This tine Arkansas gentleman, &c. Or try another certain test, if any doubt romains; Just but within his pallid lips a drop of whisky— plain— And i he makes no mortal sign just put him in the ground And let his Maker raise him at his final trumpet ‘ILis fine Arkansas gentleman, £0. GEN. PIKE'S FEELING RESPONSE. At the conclusion of the song Gen. Pike, now recognized as being fully alive to the occasion, said: “My friends, the old whom I have known so long and the new whom I am glad to know, I was in due time advised by our host that dur- ing the ceromonies of this evening I should be cniled on to answer for myseif and give assur- ance that my mortal body was not yot tenant- less. Knowing that something of humor would be looked forin what I might say and that anything partaking of the serious and grave would, perhaps, be regarded as out of place, I endeavored to prepare iyself veforchand to conform in that to your natural expectations. It was in vain, Besides that, Ihave not the gift of wit and humor. I knew that my friend Dimitry was to read what he had written of me @hen he really believed me dead, and though I could not anticipate a eulogy so in- finitely beyond my deserts I did know his kindly feeling for me and that he had spoken of mein terms of affection and regard. In- deed, I could not find it in my heart to prepare to reepond with jest and levity, as if it were a thing to be ashamed of, to be touched and af- fected by atribute offered by generous sym- pathy and kindness that would, it seems to me, tonch and affect the most callous heart, “Nor could I fail to know that on the part of my host aud my old friends there was, in origi nating these ceremonies aud would be in con- ducting them, something more than mere fun aud frolic, and that in the merrimont would mingle kindness and affectionate regard for myself. To respond to this. witha jost would be something Tuwaaesalt: 15 am too atch moved to attempt that, and you will pardon. me, hope, for not pretending to a stoicism that I do not possess; and for the serious tone not, I hope, inappropriate, of the little I am able to say in the way of acknowledgment and thanks for these touching testimonials of friendship and esteem. . . . . 6« -« “Reason, perhaps, teaches, and every one of us, no doubt, when encompassed with troubles, weary of the struggles of life, sick with disap- pointments and disgusted hh enmities and treacheries undeserved, has sometimes thought that if one were indeed laid away to rest in the quiet grave, where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest, on which the hands of affection would plant a flower and friendship drop a silent tear; if one had indeed reached the end of all the toils and heartaches, tho regrets and discomforts of this life, it would be most unwise in him to return if he could i gle in the contests, the rivalries animosities—again to commit the er- rors, to suffer the wrongs and to do the injus- tices that once embittered his existence. . ee ee ee ve that was supposed to hold my shall remain forever buried all my piques, my animosities, my longings for revenge for wrongs, fancied or real. Most unworthy, in- deed, were I of the affectionate kindness and the marks of regard and esteem with which you have oppressed and overwhelmed me tonight, it L could allow an evil passion or ungencrous impulse to finds harbor in this heart which beats and to the last moment of my life will continue to best with gratitude, regard and loving kindness toward each of you who have now repeatedly honored me, making the gen- erous nobleness of your own natures, and not my deserts, the measure of your kindness,” . . . os * 8¢ « The obituary of Mr. Dimitry and Gen. Pike's oe though beautiful, were somewhat saddening, and as the first was relieved by the rollicking song and chorus, so Jack Savage, al- ways equal to the occasion, dissipated ail fane- real sousations by singing, in admirable style, PIKE'S VISIT TO HADES, and his interview with Plato to the air of “Benny Havens, O!” Everybody joined in the cborus, Yielding to the solicitation of friends I give verses of the admirable poem: ola — ferried him across the dirty, sluggish Buthe swore be would not tarry long upon the further side; ‘The ancient gutets came flocking round upon the “But,” ould io, “excuse mo, Imusthave at Coyle’s ‘one frolic more.” Horace and old Anacrom in vain would have him But from All these anclent fogies he made haste to get away; For his majesty, King Pluto, he wae bound atonce ana atiotuing Copie's, on Friday night, alive or dead to ‘He crossed the Adamentine halls and reached the Cg mege 2 gloomy Plato frowned, and where his queen's soft beauty ahone. ag the monarch sald. “Your “Permission for one fie more at Johnny Coyle “As Orpheus came and yet Tetarned to breathe the upper air, So I your royal bounty crave once more to venture Give me one night—no more;—ales! stch nights One mere measonne ot the gods; and then, good world, adieu; “Tis act for power, ee wealth, of fame, Thanker Moe thas love's hisses once again upon my lips Let me but once mote meet the friends that long have been so dear, And who if I'm not there will say, ‘Would God that } be were herel’” “Are you not “wi you ot ua ie Xing el pune, jell, “It lam dead I’ve not been waked and buried 4 Rs tb © ‘And why," the monarch cried, “desire again “We've nectar and ambrosia here; we'd not starve “Dia ‘Sample canvas backs and terrepint” “Thetable Your majesty well served is I dare ‘The courtiers of the good old timea, the geatlemen most rare.” ‘Sala ho,“ With those I'll meet at Coyle's your folks ‘will not compare.” Says the king, “There's Homerhere and all the bards of Ancient Groece, And tho chaps that sailed away so far to fetch the go den fleece; We'vo Tully, Horace and Montaigne. Say he, I'l It youl tot moe Jounny Coyie's nH you ot me to thom on the spot" Plato inqutres “Whom will bring?” and Pike telis him, particularising cach one whose name appeared. “Enough!” old fluto cried; “the law must be en- forced, ‘tis plain; If with those follows once you get you'll ne'er re- turn again: One night would not content you, and your face would ne'er be seen, After that epree at Johnny Coyle's by me or by my queen. “And if all those fellows come at once what would 0 of us? ‘They'd drown old Charon In the Styx aud marder Corbverus; Make lovo to all the women here—yes, sven to my wife; Drink i iny liquor up and be the torment of my “They'd iaugh and sing and rollict here and turn inte dey; ni ; While everyone his best world do to drive dull care away: = take them by installments, sir; so you may e’en remain, And dismiss all hope of visiting the upper world again We Now something rash would have been said by Arkauras, no doubt, But the queen winked ai him, as to say, “Take care what you're about! ” For very mach elated was ihe fair Proserping, At the promise of unbounded fan wits this good company, So then she hung round Pluto's neck and to her showy breast She clasped the cross old vagabond and fondly aim caressed, And while hor kisses, warm and soft, upon bis lips dia rain, She murmured, “Let him go, my love, he'll surely come again.” Said he, “1 won't; have my wa; the supper room and then flowed back into the Parlor, Where the songs written by Gen. Me- Mabon, Ben: Perloy Poore, Randolpi Coyle and others were sung aud recited. Every- body did something to add to the rejoicing id in honor of Pike's return to lite, The Wake” concludes the account by saying: the by, Purser Slamm being called on for a yarn, commonced one, and if completed in time will appear in a subsequent edition.” Levi D. Slamm—who remembers him, for nearly all his cotemporaries are gone? He was one of the most genial companions, and in the days when the old whig party was a power Siamm was the editor of “the locofoco” party journal, as the whigs called the democrats of that day. ‘The firm which published the paper Slamm edited was “Slamm, Bang & Co.” He was the friend and ally of that other glorious fellow, Isaac Fowler, whose sad death caused such universal sorrow. Pardon this digression, but the name of an old friend led my pen to recording some memory of him. The wake, like things buman, ended, and my memory of it is that we—that is, everybody—escorted Pike home and disquieted the neighborhood by sing- ing “Auld Lang Syne. Joun F. Coxux, sos THE CLERK APOLOGIZED, The Way a Kentuckian Introduced Discipline in a London Hotel, The London correspondent of the New York Sun says: Col. James Pepper of Pepper whisky fame, who been on a wedding tour in Europe; sailed with his wife on the Servia to- day for New York, followed by the blessings of many American visitors to London who, ve stopped at the Hotel Metropole. TiWem- ployes of this establishment have never been noted for courtesy to American guests, and this has been the case dure ing the present season particniarly, es the great influx of transatlantic travelers has made the hotel feel independent, It was re- served for Col. Pepper, however, tg introduce discipline. Tho colonel and his wife came home from the theater one night this week and Mrs, Pepper at once got into an elevator, while her husband stepped up to the desk for his key. ‘The night clerk, a particularly haughty and pompous person, was tulking to an En- lishman close to a keyboard, but, though Col, “epper asked hum three or four times for the key, the clerk paid not the slightest attention until he had fiuisli€d his conversation. Pepper took this calmly enough, but when he got into the elevator the Engiishman who had been talking to the clerk said: “I beg your pardon, sir, but I think your really ought to know why that clerk was so inattentive. He said to me when you first asked for your,key ‘He's only an American; let him wait.” ‘The colonel’s Kentucky blood suddenly rose to the boiling point. He sprang trom the eie- awe and whipped a huge pistol from his cet, “Come out from behind that desk,” he shouted to the clerk. a-runnin’,” The clerk came, and he came running like- wise, perspiring with terror. His faco was ashen, and though he was trying to speak his lips moved like the jaws of an expiring trout, and nosound came from them, Fifty people in the great corridors rushed up to sce what was the matter, “Got down on your knees,” cried Pepper in anawful voice, relapsing into the Kentuck; vernacular. “Get down on your knees, or I’ shoot your years off.” The terrified clerk hesitated but a fraction of @second, and came down to his knees on the marble floor, cried the Kentuckian, “you apolo- ery American that ever stayed here for your d—d impudence to the people that keep your hotel going. Repent after me what ‘I apologize to all the Americans in Say it quick.” ologize to ail the Americans in Lon- “Come quick; come Tsay: Londo de atammered the clerk. “For all my previous incivility,” continued the colonel sternly. “For all my previous incivility,” faltered the victim, ‘sand I hereby solemnly promise to treat all Americans with respect and consideration here- after.’ Quick, say it.” ‘The menial obeyed and Pepper then allowed him torise andretire behind bis desk, the bumblest and most crestfallen cierk in any hotel anywhere. Thon the colonel showed his istol to the assembled multitude. ‘It is one ? icked upina curiosity shop in Paris fora iend who hase collection of ancient fire- arms,” ho said, ‘and it has not been loaded for @ bundred years and the lock is rusted out.” Up to date the Metropole clerk has kept his vow to treat all Americans with respect and the reverence he manifested when Col. Pepper was about during the remainder of his stay was casi een ed os 5:59. Ahs! There whistles Number One? And down the tingling grade she grows, Tossing her cloud of tresses dun Back on the twilight’s fading rose, A milo—e moment—and my Kate, From years and half But now we'll smile ut cheated Fate, And keep our Kingdom of the Heart, And—But the world is drowned in steam— A volieying, billowing, deafening cloud— And men there run, asin a dream. And through the thunderous fog they crowd. “An open switch,” I heard ‘Rudy But hited wreck? And sbe haifa hundred -Ab, God! How > away: rom Fave we fleet How cursed c my feet— And yet the rest are — through that misty — -—Heaven! I know not whal—to ‘That I tripped on moved and cried! ar) ‘here she is! My Kate! hate treight. EE g B t;” gald she, “Dear lord, do let me iy Lethim be presentat his wake! You cannot say me nay? T'm sure you do mot love mo; if you did you'd not refuse, When I want to get the fashions and you want to hear the news.” And s0 at last the queen prevailed, as women always do, t mes that once again this gentle- uran's with you; He's under promise to return, but that he means to break, And many another spree to have beside this present wake, The contributions from various sources were read and the pause for refreshments was in order and the ceremonies were adjourned to . SEPTEMBER 27, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. A MONTANA TRAGEDY. The Cruel Murder of a Young Maa by Cheyenne Outlaws. ‘WITH THE SOLDIERS ON THE FRONTIER—TAE BRAVERY OF THE WOMEN OF THE WEsT—nlow THE MURDER WAS TRACED AND THE LONELY @RAvE DISCOVERED, . Special Correspond-ree of THe Evruine Stan. 4 Came Crook, Moxt., Sept. 12. In no part of the world did setting sun wit- Ress a sadder, more pathetic scene than that which sank last Monday amid the hills and valloys ot the Rosebnd river, Mont It was a tale of Indian atrocity and frontier martyrdom that ought to have had its date fifty years §g0—one that sounds hke a page from Cooper strangely out of keeping with the peaceful flow of life in a republic where civilization reaches over iron track into remotest corners and where sccurity and good order are the Proudest boast of most parts of even its wost- ern territory, Of most parts, I say, bat there are still regions of wilderness whore all the Tomance aud horror of the old-time struggle between civilization and barbarism—betwoen the piouecr and the savage—goes on t@jpy un- Seon of the eyos ot any save the small band of those who dare and suffer in the contest. Of euch regions parts of Montana and Arizonn are the most conspicuous examples. In the former territory—we of the army don’t know it yet by its new name of state—anud Stretch of country between the British line and Wyoming on the north and south and the Yellowstone Park aud the turgid waters of the Powder on the west and east. In this huge ares, extending hundreds of miles each way, Toamed the last aud largest herds of buffalo known on the continent. Over its limitless Prairies and among the breaks of bad lands and in its mountain valleys grazed the ante- lope, eik and deer by the many thousands. ere grand and rugged nature and an abun- dant game supply offered a tempting range to the Indian, aud here was and is the last strong- hold of some of his most warlike tribes. Here Crook, McKenzie, Custer and Miles fought some of their stubbornest battles with Sioux, Nez Perces and Cheyennes. Nearly ever: stream that intersects this area is marked with its crossed sabers on the military maps—indi- cating a point of some deadly strife between the blue coat and his Indian foe. Kentucky never deserved so well the sobriquet of “the dark and bloody ground” as does this region. AFTER THE MASSACRE OF CUSTER and his troopers in "76 the post of Fort Custer was built upon the Big Horn, near the scene of hisdisaster. A little Inter Fort Keogh was erected at the mouth of Tongue river, about 100 miles eastward. Off the one railroad which the surrounding area the country is nough to furnish refuge for Indian outlawry, and in consequence these posts have had each season for the past decade ample work cut out for them by Indian ma- rauders and malcontents, The Cheyennes, whose agency is 50 miles from Custer, have been by their annual turbulence the most fruitful cause of trouble, Last April a bat- talion of three troops of my regiment—the first cavairy—was ordered here and has been under canvas and on the alert here ever since. It will be remembered that the murder of a settler on the Rosebud in May and the feeling that itengendered threatened a general col- lision between the Cheyennes and whites, which was only prevented by the surrender of jone the kill- the five Indians supposed to hat ing and by the ceaseless efforts of the troops and some of the Cheyenne chiefs, When the excitement attending this deed passed away it was supposed that trouble between the Choy- ennes and whites was ended for years. The old agent was removed, the Indian ration was in- creased and everything was perfect quiet and content until five days ago, when a settler Gaffney reported that his nephew, Boyle, a young man of twenty, HAD NOT COME HOME THE NIGHT BEFORE; that his horse had returned with blood stains on his eaddie and he was afraid he had been mur- dered by the Indians. There are only three families living on the Lame Deer.and old Gaff- ney's place is among the Indian villages several miles up the creek irom the camp. Gaffney is an honest, hardworking man, who settled in this vicinity before it was declared an Indian some daughters occupy a homely log cabin on tne creek and form a perfect type of a pioneer’s iy andhome. The girls have been bred in all tho self-reliant virtues that have made so many heroines of western women, and during the search for young Boyle no trooper rode farther or more boldly in the quest than they. Two days ago one of the giris dashed bare- headed into camp and reported that an Indian iu war paint and fully armed had just visited the house and ordered them out,that there being no man at home her sister had’ shut the door rode away. It was my lotto saddie up a de- tachment and accompany the girl back home. hiding place. A NOBLE PICTURE, Tho elder daughter emerged, rifie in hand, meet me. the royal spirit woman really forces it into life and flower, report of his nephew's absence a troop of cav- alry was sent from camp to search for him, whole camp was turned ont on the eccond in skirmish line across the hills and valleys, taking in all the country as far as Tongue river, 20 miles away. The third day the search was continued, and about 9 a.m. the young man’s HAT SMEARED WITH EARTH AND BLOOD was found in # dense thicket three miles south of camp. No tracks or other marke were found in the vicinity, though with us were a number of good Cheyenne trailers, ‘tho coun- try around us was one of steep, rugged hills strewn with rock and cut with deep ravines, forming most ingenious hiding places for 4 body. About seventy-five cavalrymen and twenty-five Cheyennes were assembled and carefully disposed #0 a8 to sweep the country within a jus of & mile from where the bat was found. The vailey and hillsides were searched for hours with the utmost miauteness, the troopers and Indians riding five yards apart, This continued until late in the after- noon without result. It was understood by all that the search would continue until the tragedy was thoroughly sifted, and we bad made up our minds to another outing on the morrow when group of Indians was seen galloping at full speed down the road beneath wu. ‘THE GRAVE DISCOVERED, ‘The dead man's grave bad been discovered by one of their number and they wore taking the news to camp and the agency, Dismissing our troops Lieut. Pitcher and myself and sev- i F i Hit R) . § Ly | & i i i [ i i i if i E i g i ti f i Hy ii HH t f among its most isolated rogions is the vast| 4 reserve, His wife and several sturdy, hand- and shown @ rifle to the Indian, who thereupon On reaching the house we found it deserted and iocked. Irode toward the brush on the creek and calling out who Iwas induced the mother and two daughters to come from their and I shall not soon forget the mpble picture she made as, with her handsome face pale with an excitement to which her flashing eyes de- nied the name of fear, she walked forward to could not help reflecting as, after leaving a guard, I rode away, what an exotic possesses is and how littie it 18 suspecsed until stress of danger Upon Gaffney's The officcrs of the camp, after the lesson of last spring, wore reluctant to believe that it was ® caseot murder by Indians and supposed merely an accident to the missing man. Fail- ing to discover any signs of him that day the morning. All day, but vainly, the men rode Among these stood old Gaffney. with bare gray head, caliing reken accents my curse the murderers of the bor. of the spot, the hour and the & inepi by the though: that marder, committed o1 tor boo by savages that no eivilization has yet tamed, combined to form an impression that tew whe witnessed the scene wil! forget. Upon a) terring the body it was found to contain sere eral bullet holes, but was uomeatiiated. it w: Piaced upon a stretcher, carmed corotnily dowe, | the hill aad laid in an ambulance. wile the Fest of us mounted our horses and rode slowly campward, This young man was entirely inoffensive. He came only a few months ago from the cast, He never carmed arms and whon killed was out looking tor a herd of cows in a valley not over @ mile from Gaffney's cabin. He was probably shot about dark and his body carried apon @ | Pouy up into the hills that might, j THE MURDER WERED, It was ascertained by the Indian police later on Monday ovening that the murderers were two young Cheyenne Indians, who couid ascribe no motive for their act. They are now fugitives in the bills and are being hunted for, with results that will be commu . later, A NEIGHBORLY COMBINATION, How Two Mothers Get Letsure Note withstanding Many Children. RS, JONES and Mrs. Smith are neigh- bors on New Jersey avenue, and a@ they are in circumstances that hardiy Justify the employment of servan’ they make themselves mutuaily belp= ful to each other im a vers sensible manner, which was discovered by @ Stan roporter. ‘The friends, Sirs, Jones and Mra, Smith, are Bot what could be calied working woracn, and yet they are vory busy, for with two or three little folks in cither honfe there aro wang garments to mend and wounded hearts to heal. There are clothes to be put on and off, hands and faces to wash, baths to be given and lullabys tosing. It is a constant round of toil by day and oftimes wakefulness at wight, for sometimes Tommie is hoarre with a cold or Jennie has a croupy breathin t causes ape prehension, and the mother us hwppicr in the tender ansiduitics about them than in sleep. Society folks in their low-necked dresses aud hbigh-necked thoughts may scorn such lives as these, and yet who can dony that our house Wife heroines are happy? 4 NEIOHDONLY ComDTNATION. They have introduced method into their bomes, and by @ neighborly combination are growing Up With the country and their children, A year or two is the limit of their residence im the city, and it was since then that their ace quaintance began by chance through the meet ing of their children, Now these women coud give the natives a good many pomts about Washington. Both were school teachers im their younger rears and ono i « © ate, thongh not of the etrong-n They have, therefore, too much sen: their time in silly society gossip or neighbors hood scandal. and have formed a plan of came paign all their own. By system and cconomy of time they found that each could «pare two afternoons a week for doing the town, and it agreed that they would take turus caring for the combined flocks of little folks. They regret that they cannot go together, but have cheerfully accepted the next best th . and after they have made their separate rounds compare their notes. This often leads to @ second visit to the same place for the xetile- ment of some disputed point. and i to waste ont ie added to their sight-seeing tours. ‘ bave “done” everything from the Washington monus ment to the site for the Lafayette statue, an have some opivions of their own ou current topics. WHAT THEY HAVE DoNE. They helped Congress to decide where to put the distinguished French patriot, investi« gated tho tunnel fraud and during the fight oa the Atkinson bill have goue over the ground and studied the District railroad problem, ‘They have visited the art guilery, the White House and the departments, have shook hanus with President Harrison aud bave visited the various suburbs, taking a few free rides to sce areal live boom in suburban prey E Capitol, veiag the most conven as interesting piace, is their most commox resort, They have visited the Scuato and House and have made notes of their tiapressicns of pu men. They have, in short, sized our svlous up aud put them down on paper for future refer= ence and revision. As one of our heroimos is a democrat while the other is a republican their notes are all the more just and enter- taining. : Mrs. Jones, the Gemocrat, happenc’ to be in the House the day of the artiliery explosion when Canvon made his exhibit and tighting was general ali along the & and, as luce ad have it, the republ Mrs, Smith, wae ent when the democrats battc the door open and ran away to return and vote some other day, Their notes were wot altogether complimentary to the patticipating statesmerf, but were truer than the expuage record and may some day be interesting reminiscences of disgraceful scenes. ‘Thus two lives are relieved of the monotonous dradgery of household cures nnd the mothers are better fitted tu be instructors of their chi dren, The world itself kes on a new mo ing and society women with ali « frills and fretwork are but slaves im comparison, New ficlds are never wanting, and there is always something definite to be done in the afternoous out. Occasionally a matinee is attended, and two or three times during the summer pionio parties were formed to go down the river, #0 that altogether the two modes: homes with their many care about as happy as the world affords, aud the neighbor- hood is none the worse thut two moighbors have no time for The Good Old Way. ‘There was a nice young fellow Af ever you did see; Likewise a nice young Indy, Aud just as good as he; And #0 they chanced one day to meet, When they were feeling gay., And #0, of course, they fell lu love, “she goud old way. He feared he should not get her, So be was leeling blue; And she was in conuiption Sts For fear he would not, too; But such thin trouble did not last, Jam real glad to say; ‘They s00u Were married firm and fost, ‘The good old way. ‘Then were the gossips watching, ‘The tattle-Lage perplexca, And Mrs. Grundy itcning, For what was coming next; Bome thought they'd Lave a family, Some biockbeads answered, Nay. ‘They raisod ten children, yeo, wey did, ‘The good old way. enough to save @ cont, Safe, for a rainy day; And peacefully through life wey went, ‘Whe good old way. Dauged them with his ecythe, And then, of course, they died; They bad great, splendid funerals, Tice vest words hott conid engr side by side we buried thei, ‘The good old way. | E P i i & i i 5 i | | i i i , Hil] Hes ti i & 5 Hi lif | : H E | i ! : f i i i fl : i i |