Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1890, Page 11

A TRANSFORMATION That Will Take Place at the Capitol Next Week WHEN CONGRESS WILL MEET. ‘Now Most of the Rooms in the Great Building Are Comparatively Deserted, But Then They ‘Will Be Full of Life and Activity—Changes Being Made in Statuary Hall. ING! Ding! zip! zur! and everything changes. Youhave all seen the grand trans- formation scene, where from darkness and deep gloom in a flash everything alters to brightness and happiness and the ballet skips forward and the premiere danseuse whirls to the center on her toes amid the enthusiastic shouts of the gallery gods. Something of this sort is just what is going to happen at the United States Capitol, that big theater on the bill. This week tho building looks sad and out of sorts; nex: week it will be all life and move- ment. The Capitol, however, has not by any means been deserted during the past week or in fact for any time during the recess. There is al- ways somebody somewhere, if it is only the Capitol police, one or two guides and an open- mouthed denizen of the backwoods gazing in astonishment up at the big During the ast week, too, members o! House have been coming in and pay: visits to the seene of their bors. Then the appropria d up for business anc usually be fo in the committee room, sometimes getting down toa preparation of bills, but usu: cussing the recent election. The Su; Court is im session and the solitar; doorkeeper again sits on his throne the string which opens the portals of this sacred chambe The room just op the House and wu clerks always ha ». In this room ing the session It is nota with the furniture and reporters and cranks lh other in their tion pe- in H. Te were Job to the ti here an or relating the files running with ori and by retreat and chosen resort of that in- feature, THE AMERICAN CRANK. Every crank who makes working ground, and these settled on this little room as ‘The erank is a cute animal en] knows when he sces it. After being ‘asbington a short time he looks on the file id he makes himself thor- Any numb of this order, ebeen as reguler in their attendance iploye. have goae from this room to r the e st documents, &: is the lair, teresting recess, and especially past week, the room has been one ters of activity at the Capitol. Eve n Teaching town drops in here fcr information achat, and the room is usually blue with invectives on the elec THE APPROPRIA Just down the hall is the room sacred to the committee on appropriations, and Mr. Cannon and a number of his fellow members can nes always be fouad here a: work on the xppropriations. The erally deserted, exce itors. Around the H mittee rooms are already open usually discovers the clerks aud sometimes one or two members sitting around with cigare in full blast and feet considerably elevated. £A( ion and cigar smoke. apeep within (CHANGES IN STATUARY ALL. ‘There are always a few visitors in statuary hall, and just now activity especially reigns there, as big ropes have been stretched to the pillars, and by means alleys, a plentiful supply of soap on the floor a umber of workmen the arrangement of the statues is being changed. On the east side Garfield has taken the place of Muhlenberg at the end, Cass now comes next to ¢ Allen follows, with Mublenberg brin; rear. On the other «ide the first th have been changed about Ohio is at the end, with Fulton following. ‘In moving the statues th floor is thoroughly soaped aud the heavy Miairs slide along quite «. IN TRE ROTUNDA. There is always somebody in the rotund First there are the police and the guides. ‘Then | there is sure to be somebody standing in the center looking straight up, as if expec some one to drop something in hia mouth. The settees are always occupied, usually by more or Jess seedy-looking indivic ie Cgpitol even during the pitcetully in the rote Wemories and fumes of SECRETARY'S OF¥icr. ‘You can smoke around the Senate wing now, next week you can't: that will be another of the transformation effects. What a blessing it is to have a recess of Congress and be able to smoke around the Senate wicg. After Friday on approaching these sacred precincts yon have got to run the risk of setting your clothes on fire by attempting to conceal your cigar. Last session the police and doorkeepers had a hard time impressing the great American public with the fact that Senate air must be of a little better character than any other air. On the Senate side the secretary's office is the center of business and here the desks are fully occupied and everybody seems to get through with lots of work. Occasionally « statesman drops in, but the usually i room is very, very quict. ‘The post offices of both the Senate and House are again in full swing. Every member as he reaches town drops in and leaves his address. ] ‘THE HOUSE RESTAURANT. ‘The most sorrowful scene around the Capitol previous to the transformation is the House | restaurant. If there is an active get-up-and- go place during a session it isthe House res- | taurant. It is nearly always crowded and everybody is talking. Here the newspaper man catches the wily statesman while he is off his guard and pumps him. Here there is always a movement coming in or going out. Just now, however, only one room is open and you can always find a seat in that one room. ‘The waiters stand around despondently, while the cashier gazes in the dim distance gnd gathers strength for next Tuesday, when demo- crats will celebrate and republicans drown their sorrows. The sergeant-at-arms’ offices on both sides are open and have been for some time. eee TROTTER'S ENGAGEMENT, ‘The True Story of How « Bashful Man Won a Blushing Bride. FTROTTER is o bashful man. That is prob- ly the reason why he has never married: lacking courage to propose. All the same, his | friends received his wedding cards last week with gratified astonishment. ‘To only one particularly intimate aequaint- ance has the happy bridegroom soon-to-be com- | municated the secret a to how the thing came | about. i “Dear boy,” said he, “Ido assure you that I! don't quite understand it myself. You may re- member that when you asked me last spring why I didn't marry I replied that it hadn't oc- curred to me whom to You suggested the | T Miss Deane, now my promised bride, and i Lproceeded thereupon to pay her attentions. ; I sent her a posey from the florist’s regularly | once a wet k and took her out driving Tuesdays, d Saturdays. und 1 could not get myself up to the, I managed to ay some prett time, and it mast be sai not otherwise than respon- | a know these southern girls; they are ate and impulsive that I could not come to the pop. Luckily I was trouble. summer for Sticki ning last July I took after supper. I said going or coming that was particularly Tam sure. Upon our retarn I was and sat down in the Wing room to . while Mildred went upstairs to take off at or bonnet, whichever it was. During absence the door opened and her aunt | entered, I was so flabbergasted for a moment as to be | unable to make any remarks, and then I saw that the only graceful thing to do was to accept the situation. There had’ evidently been a misunderstanding somewhere, but I perceived it wasa most fortunate one. Toit I owe my piness, since I might never myself have reached the point of the pop nor secured the loveliest of women had it not been for the mistake which Ido not even yet comprehend. You will be my best man, will you not? ONE WISH THAT CAME TRUE. How a Youth in a Dude Suit of Clothes Got an Umbrella, One of Tae Stan's bright young men was on his way recently from the Smithsonian Instita- tion toward Pennsylvania avenue, wearing a ile suit of clothes and an anxious look that was bent upon certain threatening storm clouds which were coming over from the north. “By Jove!” he gexclaimed, “my hat will cer- tainly be spoiled. I do wish I bad an um- brella!” He did not think as he spoke of the fact that the satisfying of a wish is not always conducive to the happiness of the wisher. There did not even occur to his mind the story of the discon tented couple who were granted three request in advance, the first one being inadvertentl expressed by the Wife, who wished for a blac pudding. Every one’ who is acquainted with classical literature remembers how the hus- band, in anger, wished the pudding so obtained on the end of her nose, so that the third wish had to be devoted to getting the appendage off again. And yet the young newspaper man had no thought of all this, as he strode hastily along, with his head bowed against the gale that was blowing, and said: ‘ad an umbrella!" diy were the words out of his mouth when he was struck on the head by some object un- seen with such force as nearly to knock him into the gutter. He was half dazed for a mo- but upon recovering his equilibrium and extricating him-elf from his hat he saw what it itwas that had hit him. Trying its best to twirl like a top on the pavement wasan enormous umbrella of the sort used to cover the driver's on big furniture wagons and such vel his, put up to ward off the commenci sprinkle of rain, had been torn by the win from a cart half a block away and, borne _be- fore t blast like a great b ad struck Tue Stak man in the head with the end of its seven foot stick. It was a glancing blow, else it might have inflicted severe injury. Lut the sufferer could not complain, He had wished for an umbrella and he got it. OBJECTED TO THE BOTTLE. A Kansas Woman Who Wants a Reform in the Way of Christening War Ships, Public ofticers seldom lack for criticisms of their conduct frofa the world at large. The higher the office the more careful the public scrutiny of their acts. An instance of this tendency on the part of the American people to keep watch of public officials was shown the other day in the receipt of a letter at the Navy Department directed to the Secretary and dated from a small town in the far-off pro- hibition state of Kansas. It was from a woman who took exceptions to the acquiescence of the Secretary in the baptismal rites that were ob- served during unching of the new armored eruiscr it New York the other She ¢ part of the ceremony in which Miss Wilmerding, the granddaughter the Secretary, broke a bottle of ex- nt wine, champagne at that, over the bow of the sliding ship, as a “bacchanalian li- bation,” and she went on to say that those who japproved and applauded this act. have not | ouly turned a deaf eur to the wailing of the arts and importuning of the lips of the | others of the Jund in regard to the liquor evil, but have. also committed a sacrilege” against which she, the writer, entered an “unrevokable protest with respect.” o reply has been sent to this letter, and so far as a Sran reporter could learn at the Navy Department it is likely that herenfter, as in the past, of good wine will be smashed over aching ships, the lady from to the contrary notwithstanding. Girls Are Alike Everywhere. From Londen Punc! Myrtle—“Florence is that Fred Dumley’s handwriting?” Plorence—“Yes, dear! I'm engaged to him, you know.” Myrtlo—“Yes, Lknow it, I was engaged to him last summer.” Florence—‘The dear boy! I wonder who will marry bim eventually? th | eats of chore grat wise afe used a repalee Waste, bullding Ussues, and. generating Migitnes Food. prepared wiih miky, fron tothe {iirectiousy foraus Just tue mixture advised by Lie> i | the twelve miles | been isid down IN NICARAGUAL Terminus of the Canal, THE CITY OF AMERICA. ‘The Terms Upon Which Land Can Be Ac- quired—They Are Considered Sufficiently Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. ate NicaRaGva,CanaL oxstBvctiox COMPANY, Sax Juan DEL Norte (Grerrow), NICARAGUA, .. November 14, 1890. AX addition to the plant of the North Amer- ican Dredging and Improvement Company, which has the contract for dredging the harbor at the eastern terminus of the canal, has been made during the past week by the arrival from the United States of a powerful suction dredge, the Nicaragua, and two clapets, thus giving that company two dredges with which to carry on the work here. In order to prepare the way for these machines the canal company's dredge, the City of Paris, has made a channel through the bar and along- side the pier fifteen feet deep and for a distance of about 1,000 feet. A large part of the sand and clay so excavated has been piled up on the pier, forming a bank fifteen high, thus being a protection to that work, which extends nearly 900 feet into the sea. In a few days the Nica- Tagua, to be followed by a second dredge, the Herbert, will begin work deepening and widen- ing the channel, while the bucket dredges be- longing to the canal company will be placed to work on the canal line. ‘There are now seven powerful dredges in the harbor, three of which will be at work by next week, while tho re- mainder will begin operations as soon as they can be fitted up, which will not take long, as nearly every article needed for them ison hand. THE DREDGING PLANT AMPLE. The dredging plant here, together with that which is to come from Colon, ia ample for all the dredging work on the eastern portion of the canal. An abundance of material ison hand for pushing all branches of ‘the work. ‘Three lumber schooners with creosoted tics for the railroad, piles for the pier and wharf and tim- ber for putting up additional buildings have been unloading here during the past week, while a steamer that has brought 1,500 tons of coal is arly discharged. Asasingle dredge of the kind the company owns burns ten tous of coal daily @ large quantity of this article is needed. Work on the large machine and blacksmith shop is being pushed and the foundation for a buildix % greater fucilities for the corps of draughtsmen now engaged here in i of locks and other works uperstructure. . ‘oad construction is keeping pace with that being made elsewhere and of essary to reach the divide, or rock cut, seven miles of the track has and the grading over the entire distance is nearly com)’ CHIEF MENOCAL TO GO TO THE INTERIOR. Chief Engineer Menocal will leave for the interior next week, when he will take possession of the land of the canal route from the lake to the Pacific, for which the government aid $50,000, in order that th egin at once cl i preparatory to extending construction work to that vicinity. West of the lake the country is not so thickly wooded as it er the At- lantie terminus of the canal, it being chieily ‘ture land, yet some very heavy timber is to found there, lurgely of valuable hard woods that have been allowed to stand because of the expense of getting them to the coust where they could be exported. ‘There is a lack of the underbrush which in the unsettled part of the republic is so thick that one can travel only by cutting every foot of the way. The agreement entered into with the contractors provides that they will preserve such timber as may be of use for con- struction purposes and by this method the ties for the railroad which will parallel the :canal are to be obtained. In that way they will be secured at a minimum of cost,while they will be of the most durable wood. It will’ be a strange experience for Americans to travel over such a road and see ties made of wood that in the states would only be used for vencering purposes. ‘The contractors who will undertake this work are all prominent Nicaraguans and they are under agreement to push the work. Labor on the west side is more plentiful than in any other part of the country and there will be no delay on that account. "The clearing will begin at the lake. THE CITY OF AMERICA. Mr. J. A. Roman, commissioner of the gov- ernment of Nicaragua, during his visit here of the past few weeks, has by direction of the gov- ernment arranged the details for the sale of lots in the City’ of America, which was lately laid out at the mouth of the canal. The plan adopted should satisfy the believers in the single tax doctrines as to some extent the plan is in accordance with those principles, and the title of the ground will remain in the hands of government, leases tobe made to those who agree to improve the property. ‘The new town extends along the coast to the north of San Juan del Norte, from which it is separated by a park 2,000 feet wide. The mouth of the canal is about three miles from San Juan del Norte, and it is in this vicinity that it is ex- pected the most valuable portion of the coming City will be, it being also the terminus of the railroad which runs parallel to the canal as well as the tramway connecting the city with Juan. The gov l two classes, according to their desirability, though they are nearly all more or less well ‘suited’ for building purposes. ‘The leases will run for five years. The Jessee must deposit with the governor of Amer- ica $25 upon declaring an intention to take up a lot, this amount to pay his ground rent for the first vear, which ends on the Sist of De- eember, 1891. Fifty dollars must also be de- posited’ with the governor asa guarantee of good faith in the agreement to improve the land by next June, and in the event of a failure todo that the deposit will be forfeited to the government. No person will be permitted to take up more than 100 front feet of land nor less than 50 feet, and for each 50 feet taken up the improvements must amount to at least $500. ‘The government charges rent at the rate of 60 cents per annum for each front foot for the second and third years and double that amount for the fourth aud fifth years, at the end of which time a new Tease will be made on a basis of the value of the ground at that time, the imprpvements belong- ing to those putting them on the lots and can be removed or sold if the sume party does not renew the lease on the terms the government establishes. The above rates are for the most desirable lots, but half the price being charged for those rated as second- class. While the terms of the leases are for yet any one wishing to improve the property with more costly buildings than those required for right of oceupanc: large business how will be granted longer leases by special concession, ‘THE TERMS CONSIDERED LIBERAL. These terms are considered by the govern- ment as sufficiently liberal to attract improve- ments to the new city where buildings will yield a large interest on the investment, while the increase in the value resulting from the prosperity which the construction of the canal is bringing will revert to the benetit of the government. Arrangements for leasing the ground will be completed in a short time, but ‘ouly every other lot will be ranted, the remain- ing portion to be disposed of later on. ‘The United States Kearsarge stopped off Juan « few days ago for the purpose of ing the reported changes that have taken place in the harbor since the construction of the eanal began. Captain Elmer had his officers em- ployed on this work for several days, with the Tesult that the correctness of the latest charts. of the company were proved. The Kearsarge stopped here several weeks ago for this pur- pose, but before anything could be doue sie was called to Colon, it being at ghe time the great fire was raging there. A very sad accident oecurred here a short time ago at the wharf of one of tho storchouses of the company. A lighter load of was being landed, when the derrick used in hoisting the packages ashore dropped, fal on Mr. E. A. Baker, the clerk enguged there in check- ing off goods as they were landed. Mr. Baker Was carried to the ground beneath the weight of the timbens. His back was broken and other injuries received. He died a few hours later. Mr. Baker was a native of Pennsylvania and he intended shortly to return to his home on leave of absence to be married. The remains were buried at San Juan del Norte, the funeral be- and it most Progress of Work Upon the Eastern Tt is notan organ of the canal company, as its seem t0 indicate, but is devoted to name keeping on the ERE RT aoe RAMBLINGS, “He rambled in his walks, Old Song. With the demands of the times for such con- veniences as come with the extension of street railways, telephones, gas and electric lighting, etc., it is likely that our city pavements will always be more or less torn up from time to. time. But is it necessary that a street or side- walk once disturbed, for any of these purposes, shall never again be put in good condition? It looks that way, certainly. At any rate, they rarely if ever are completely repaired, or made anything like as good aa they were before. And not only that, but when the fiends with pick and shovel are once allowed to attack thor oughfare they go to work like chartered van- dals, and, instead of doing their work so aa to incony ublic as little as may be, they seem to take tin making things af uncomfortable as possible for everybods the recent digging up of the foot walk on the north side of Massachusetts avenue from ‘Thomas Circle westward aga case in point. Did the destroying horde go along either edge of the concrete pavement, so that pedestrians would be interrupted ‘as little as need bo while the work was in progress, and that the damage done could be repaired? Not they! Nothing but the very center of the walk would satisfy their august highnesses. And what a mess they have made of it! For weeks that muddy ditch—in some a ridge—has been allowed to remain, as both an eyesore and a source of danger; and it is quite safe to say that the pavement will never again be restored to ite original condition. Never! Nor anything like it. “And this is only one ex- ample in dozens or scores that might be cited,— sidewalks, street-crossings and carriage-wayn, galore! Every reader of Tue Star knows this, to his or her shame, disgust and indignation. Every reader, that is, except the District au- thorities. They don't ever seem to see such things; or, if seeing, don’t care for them. Why this thus, Messrs. officials? Have you no eyes? No bowels of compassion for a much and long suffering public? No inspectors of side- walks, or streets, or eae, or anything of the sort?’ If you have, why are these abuses not stopped? “They may be trifles viewod from the lofty pinnacle occnpied by officials who get their places without the winnowing formallty of the ballot box or a civil service examination, but, like musketos, fleas, gnats, and that sort of small game, they are very irritating. evens All things considered, perhaps the commis- sion charged with the troublesome duty of so- lecting a site for the Lafayette monumont did the best they could in choosing the southeast corner of Lafayette Square for the group. None the jess, however, is it to be tted that partisan feeling prevented its being placed in the position of all others most suitable for it, and for which it is exactly adapted, i. e., the spot now occupied by the equestrian Jackson. And hardly less to be deplored is the destruc- tion of the noble trees whose removal was neces- sary in order to make room for the monument in the place last fixed upon. Every considera- tion worth taking into account ina broad and liberal view of the real subject involved—that is, the artistic adornment of the National Capi- tol,—points out the center of the beautiful park selected by Washington himself to bear the name of his illustrious companion in arms as the one fit place for what is at once the noblest monumental group in the country and the com- memoration of historical matters of the great- est national importance. But political senti- ment proved too strong. Whether it will al- ways prevail, or whether the Lafayette will not be obliged, for some reason or other, to find another resting place later on, remains to be seen. Meanwhile, let it be understood that if it holds the place now chosen for it statues or numents of corresponding moment must eventually be erected in the other three cor- ners of the park. To have one in the center id one in one corner alone will produce a lop- sided effect that proper regard for the fitness of things will not tolerate. wenee The managers of the Chicago world’s fair are having no end of trouble in getting under way. and in fo direction is their tribulation greater than in getting a suitable director of the fine arta department. The position has been ten- dered on a silver salver to a number of compe- tent gentlemen, not one of whom can be in- duced’ to accept it, while on the other hand it has been sought by astill greater number, in no wise fitted for it, And so the problem seems no nearer a solution now than it was in the be- ginning. A heroic effort. which the friends of the enterprise hope will be successful, is next tobe made to persuade Mr. Antoine ‘Proust, who so ably managed that section of the late French ex} m,to come over and take char; of it, and it is proposed to hold out to him the glittering bait of $25,000 a year for his services. One hundred and twenty-iive thousand francs isa princely sum to the average Frenchman, but it is doubtful if even-so handsome a figure will tempt a true Parisian to cross the stormy seas and exile himself from his earthly paradise for a whole year. Besides, having scored a Great success in the very home of art, it may well be questioned whether Mr. Proust will not hesitate about risking a failure among the un- tutored savages of the western hemisphere. eeeee Mr. Thomas E. Waggaman has recently added to his collection of paintings a characteristic and fine example by Millet, entitled or repre- senting “The End of the Day's Work.” Though not familiar to Americans, it is well known and highly esteemed in France, and makes a most important addition to the gallery where it now belongs. It recalls the “Angelus,” in some de- gree, although it lacks its luminous quality end algo the religious sentiment which has done so much to make that picture famous and pop- ular. ‘The hour chosen is late twilight; the theme a tired peasant, of what might be called the lower class, not in the attitude of prayer, but in the act of putting on his homespun coat after a long and hard day's work. ‘This canvas is, it is believed, the only one by Millet owned in this city, and, considering the demand for the works of that artist, Mr. Waggaman may be deemed very fortunate in being able to acquire it. But that gentleman is constantly on the lookout for rare and valuable additions to his large and choice collection of paintings and Chinese and Japanese objects, which. already represents a cost of nearly a quarter of a mil- lion dollars. ‘To the owner's personal friends it, is accessible from 2 to 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoons, and it will again be open to the public, for the benefit of some District charity, on Thursdays during January, February, March and April. ween Editor Watterson seems to have due regard for the dignity of the Press and manfally stands up for the consideration to which its conduct- ors are entitled on ceremonial and festive occa- sions. He declined to attend the banquet re- cently given in honor‘of Mr. Thurman because he discovered at a late moment that the com- mittee of arrangements had assigned him the duty of making the last speech of the evening,— bringing up the tail end of the procession, 80 to k. ‘The brilliant Kentucky editor is wise y and generation. He has attended enough banquets to know that, at their close, if the orator is not himself “too full for utter- ance,” the guests generally are apt to be in that condition when they would rather call for a cab than for any more speeches. | The great thing, however, is to stand up for the dignity of the fourth estate! In order to execute a number of commissions for portraite in that city, Mr. Ub] has taken a studio in New York for the winter, and will alternate during the season between that and his studio in Vernon Row. This he still retains for the purpose of filling orders here as well as to k touch with the class that has been under his instruction for some time past. Mr. Ubl’s New York studio is in the Sherwood Building, on 7th avenue, near Central Park, one of the choicest and most popular of the many dosirablo quarters for artists in that city. Be Comfortable While Yon Travel. ‘From the New York Sun. “Tused to think as you do,” the old traveler said to the young one. got beyond them in point of originality and breadth of treatment. It is destined that this in this kind of art production. This is being arrived at by the development of the conven- tional in design through the application to it of the imagination. We are exhibiting most unmistakably s tendency toward the grotesque. Asingle line in the drawing will lend a gro- tesque aspect to a flower; but unless the imagi- nation is brought into play needle work never gets beyond the mere mechanical in the ex- Pression of form. ‘THE ART IN ITS INFANCY YET. “American needle work of the future will show a development in the direction of the Japanesque to some extent, though no one can tell how far it will go that way. The art in this country is in its infancy. Twenty years ago nothing worth mentioning was known of the science of embroidery. But at the time of the centennial many beautiful specimens of such work were brought over from abroad and shown here. ‘The women who saw them were amazed, and from that time the industry began to grow rapidly in the United States. Today native work with the needle, placed side by side in the shops with the foreign, has much the better and quicker sale. Purchasers seem to prefer the broad and less mechanical method of our designs, even although what we produce is inferior in point of precision and exactness. The foreign embroideresses appear to have no notion of bold effects. It will never be possible for us to rival them in delicacy and elaborateness of finish, because they are paid #0 little that to produce the same work over here would cost ten times as much. EMBROIDERY REQUIRES HARD STUDY. “Embroidery is really an art and is to be learned by study like any other art. The no- tions of most people who imagine that they un- derstand it by instinct are apt_to be altogethe wild. They have no conception of the rul which govern the putting of things together. It may be said, briefly, that there is adesign for | every fabric, 'a stitch for each design and a | thread for its treatment, design and stitch and i thread all having distinct reference to the ob- ject ornamented. For example, a lady come to me and say: ‘I want to have made an embroidered piano cover that shall be as hand- some as possible.’ Task her what material she desires, and she hasn't considered that point very much. Then I inquire what sort of de- | sign she wante, and she docsn't know. Her | idea ig that any pretty fabric artis- tically worked with some conventional de- sign would bo satisfactory. So I have to find out what sort of a room her drawing room is, of what kind and how handsome is the furni- ture, and soon. With this to go upon I can choose the cloth, select an appropriate pattern, determine the proper stitch, for which there | must be a certain thread, and so turn out a piano cover that is thoroughly artistic. But | you seo that it isa matter of rules and not of mere instinct. Taste itself is a natural percep- tion of such rules governing the combination of colors and shades and the Between the very stitch and use to which an object is to be put there isa relation. ‘The coarse stitch suit- able for wear on a chair seat would not be the thing for a lambrequin. “There seems to tendency at present to rather overdo the embroidery business, Nearly every household has its artistic member, who knows it all about art and adorns everything with fancy stitching, hand painting, and par- ticularly bows. I think this covering of every- thing with ribbons, from the demijohn to the broomstick and the gridiron, has been carried to excess. Many really do good embroid- ery work; but the mass of what is brought to me to buy is very bad. LIBERTIES TAKEN WITH NATURE'S COLORS. “A decided change in methods of embroidery has been made of late. This consists in defib- erate departure from the shadings of nature. For example, while the lines of flowers are pre- served, it is no longer considered necessary to pay any attention to making the tints corre- spond. A violet may be made pink, or leaves may be of impossible hues without infringing the propricties, The idea of this is that the object in view is not so much to counterfeit nature closely as to produce something pleasing to the eye. In needle work you do not have to have real poppies, daisies or roses. If you make truthfulness your object you will so ham- sr yourself as not to pr ‘the best results. Everything must be subordinated. to harmony of color. Flowers may seem harmonious | as they grow together in, a field, but) the same blossoms will very possibly not harmonize on a cloth. This is largely a matter of background, which in nature is fren. ‘The green of the fern on white linen is jarsh and unpleasing. Embroideresses are apt to imagine that they must always match ex- actly a shade. Inever use the exact shade, un- less it is really more convenient to do so. ‘If I am going to use a pink rose, I select the shade of pink which will harmonize best with the ground the flower is to go upon. The best! effects are arrived at where different tones of the same color are used upon the same color. Often colors which, thrown together, appear to make the least attractive combination vill, in embroidery, produce the most artistic effect. As examples of flowers susceptible of very easy treatment in the grotesque way, take the chrysanthemum, the poppy and the dogwood. SCHOOLS OF NEEDLE WORK. “There are many schools of needle work all over the United States, which are attended by classes of women who pay for instruction. In New York city is the Society of Decorative Art and institutions of like character are to be found in Philadelphia, Boston and elsewhere. Within the last few years the manufacture has sprung up of special weaves of fabrics for em- broidery, which are made to suit all the differ- ent stitches and threads. ‘There is nothing bet- ter and more appropriate than flowers for such designs. Landscapes or other pictures will never be a success in needle work, except for curiosities. The needle cannot imitate the stroke of the brush or pencil. “Here are some lunch napkins I have been making on a new idea of my own. You sce, they are a set representing in embroidery the flowers of Shakespeare. Each napkin has worked upon it in white sill, so as not to dis- tract the eye from the blossom, a quotation from the poet. This ono has a spray of lilies of the valley and the words, ‘A sweet society of fair ones.’ “‘Darken not the mirth of the feast’ accompanies a spray of ivy leaves, And go it is with the rest. 7 Written for the Evening Star. Chrysanthemums, Rugged wanderers ont in the cold, Waving deflance to Autumn's blasts, ‘Tossing aud shaking your straight rough hair, Out 'mid the unquiet breezes there, Like tattered pennants on swaying masts, Red and yellow aud white and pink, Smooth and jagged, quiet and gay; What are you saying as you are playing, Dancing and bowing, nodding and swaying, ‘To and fro on this Autumn day? You motley crowd in harlequin garb, You stragglers bold, with spicy breath, ‘Who come at the end of the long procession (Patient victims without transgression), Of blossoms marching on to their death. ‘What are you calling out tothe wind, As he files on his course past your garden places, ‘You are hardy and strong, oh Autumn flowers, As you carelessly laugh to the wind and the sky, But stronger than you, or the wind, or the rain, Is the law—the beginning of mortal pain— ‘No matter Row beautiful, all must die. From the Arena. ‘The twentieth century will be ushered in with agitation and discontent, not because the reasons therefore are increasing, but because men are becoming inflamed by brooding over the social condition, the contrast of princely wealth and abject poverty. Poverty is never wise to prevent evils, but it can vote and it can fight, and it will do both. How high the agitation will rise in the next eighteen years it would not be safe to predict, but during that time it will be increased by the war in Europe, which will come on near the beginning of the twentieth century and end in the destruction of monarchy. Nineteen years hence war or quasi war will in ‘this country and the convulsion not be) arrested until about 1916. The six years prior to that date will be by far the most calamitous sas America has ever known. ar it give a lurid descript rible scene that rises before me, but I have said enough. It will be a labor and capital war intermingled with a religious element of discord and with a mixture of the race question from the presence of a po ‘negro element confronting the Caucasian ophobia. It will be a dreary. triumph of the destructive elements, compelling a new departure for the fu- ture anda more thorough democracy. * * * Nature, too, is preparing many ties for us. As the destruction of forests goes on our floods increase in power, and large regions are threatened with barrennose, ‘aa’ in “the Old World for the same reason desolation bas come upon Syria, once like a vast garden of Eden, \d upon the northern provinces of Africa, an; is now invading Greece, Sicily, southern France and Spain. The American statesman has not yet learned that the woodman’s ax is afar greater menace to our future than foreign can- non. Our huge Mississippi has already converted its shores into a vast inland sea, and the levee system of restraining it is proved a failure, Which may continually grow more and more disastrous, as it has in China and in Italy, for the engineering talent to meet the crisis has not yet appeared in action either there or here. The ¥ e-Kiang has become the scourge of erwhelming in ite last flood 350,000 square miles and near 1,000,000 lives. ‘THR MISSISSIPPI 18 BECOMING OUR SCOURGE. And formidable, too, will be the power in the air, the terrible cyclones and the strange sea- sons that are coming among our calamities, when the warmth of summer shall fail and the bounties of agriculture be denied us. The outer world is disordered, and if a huge meteorite shold fail in the Wabash valley this summer, recollect that I have said it is_proba- ble. ‘The coming summer will be marked by destructive cyclones, especially in the west, and the neighborhood of Kansas City will suffer. The cold seasons coming twelve or fourteen ears hence and crushing agriculture will add greatly to our social calamities, aud the flerce | iscontent that prepares men for war. I von- | ture to predict also a very sickly summer this | Near and great increase of mortality, fully doubling the usual harvest of death, mainly by | i i some ten- | ail to take | good care of themselves will suffer. In the | inidst of all these horrors of war and foods a terrible climax will be reached in a geological | convulsion, compared to which the earthquakes New Madrid, of Java, of Lisbon and Caraccas il seem unimportant. The great mass of our continent, and espe- cially its northern portions, are comparatively safe, but out Atlintic scabourd is not. It is safe | to say, but our Atlantic coast is doomed! When- ever Tam on the Atlantic border a strong fore- boding comes to me that our countrymen living there only a few feet above the ocean level are ina perilous position. A tidal wave might destroy the entire population of our coast and | aslight sinking of the shore would be’ still | more fatal. For ten years I have been looking to such possibilities, and their imminence has compelled me to study the question pro- foundly. Permit me now. private) reason: ing my chief (and ug the possibilities and probabilities I have mentioned, to announce my firm conviction that in the midst of our coming civil war the Atlantic coast will be wrecked by submergence and tidal waves from the borders of New England to the southern borders of the Gulf of Mexico.+ There will be no safety below the hills. It is with great hesi tation and reluctance that I have consented to resent this horrid panorama, but truth should 6 our paramount aim, aud if there be, as I maintain, any science which can look into the future, its proper presentation is by the state- ment of the future so far in advance of the event as to constitute a decisive test. HERE, THEN, IS MY STATEMENT. Every seaboard city south of New England, that is not more than fifty feet above the sea level of the Atlantic coast, is destined to a de- structive convulsion. Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, St. Augustine, Savannah’ and Charles ton are doomed. Richmond, Baltimore, Wash- ington, Philadelphia, Newark, Jersey City and New York will suffer in various degrees in pro- pottion as. they approximate ‘the seal level, ‘ooklyn will suffer less, but the destruction at | New York and Jersey City will be the grandest orror. ‘The convulsion will probably begin on the Pacific coast and perhaps extend in the Pacitic toward the Sandwich Islands. The shock will be terrible, with great loss of life, extending from British Columbia down alo: Mexico, but the cqnformation of the Pacific coast will make its grand tidal wave far less de- structive than on the Atlantic shore. Never- theless it will be calamitous. Lower California will suffer severely along the coast. Bun Diey and Coronado will sufler severely, especially 6 lattes The destruction of cities which I anticipate seems to be twenty-four years abead—it may be twenty-three. It will be sudden and brief- all within an hour and not far from noon. Starting from the Pacitic coast, as already de- scribed, it will strike southward—a mighty tidal wave and earthquake shock will develop in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea. It will strike the western coast of Cubs and | severely injure Havana. Our sister republic, | the interest of morality and the g the coast of | i Hit i Pealy will suffer severcly in the shock and the roads of the sen along her consta, “Home will notescape and Naples will suffer. Egypt will be more unfortunate—Cairo and Alexandria half destroved and the Suez canal demolished — its bed washed out, The maritime cities of the Levant will be nearly destroyed: Palestine and Asia Minor suffer, and even Constantinople be badly shaken, though Greece, the favorite of the gods, will’ seem to be shielded. Here woe drop the curtain, as the tragedy is over in Europe. THE LADY AND THE TIGER. A Brave Schoolgirl Lassocs @ Panther Crouched im Her Path, ‘San Antonio gpecial to New York World. A remarkable story of fronticr bravery, the heroine being Pauline Collier, sixteen years old, comes from Chikiress, a new town in the Pan Handle country, this state. She isa pupil in the Childress District School, and, although she lives ten miles from that town, makes the trip back and forth each day on a spirited Texas pony. One morning last week she left home at an early hour and was riding leisurely along when she espied an enormous catamount (zoologi- ermed the North American tiger) imme ately in front of her, crouched in the short ie grass ready fora fatal sprig. With admirable presence of mind Miss Collier seized the lariat hanging at her saddle bow and with great dexterity the animal's neck was encircled with the deadly coil. Ata word from its mis- tress, the pony which Miss Collier rode sprang away ata gallop, dragging the savage but help- Jess monster to death. Upon becoming satisfied that the savage brute’s life was extinct the young lady untied the rope from the pommel of her muddle, leay- ing the beast stretched upon the prairie be her. Proceeding on her way to school several cowboys and related her story. 3 went to the spot where the dead paxther lay and strivped off its hide, which will be made into robe and presented to the courageous girl. The panther weighed 210 p ——— aa When ‘From the Saturday Review. ‘The question is, What amount of leather and stufing must a man have on his hand when he is pummeling another man in order not to commit a breach of the peace? Jf these stupid acts of parliament did not always omit the most important details the diiliculty would never have arisen. When it was decided, in tion of the species, to stop the prize ring it ought to have been’ possible to establish a statutory glove which would have made tights innocent. But members being in a coudition of dis- gusted irritation at the discovery that they could no longer go to “wills” “in decent company hurried fe so fast in such a slovenly fash: this absolutely vital matter was settled. Now, 2s usual, the law courts have to step in and make good the oversight of parliament. That the question would arise might have been foreseen. A moment's retlee- tion would have shown that a glove may be made of any thickness and may easily be worse than the bare fixt. It was thorght, or mer affected to think, that the heaillong progress oP humanity would’ soon_take it into regions far above prize fights. Unluckily humanity bas refused to progress. It continues to like fights, and we have still had to make our minds up as to what is the necessary minimum of glove. ‘The punishment given and received in certain fights secms to show that a thin glove—a glove, that is, which is not a feathor bed—makes the blows more severe and not less. Venezuel ind tous in destiny by of period will be assailed by the quake. ‘The destruction of her chief ci Caracas, will be greater than in 1812, when 12,000 were said to be destroyed. The coming shock will be very near total destruction. From South America back to the United States all Central America and Mexico are severely shaken; Vera Cruz suffers with great severity, but the City of Mexico realizes only a severe shock. ‘Tampico and Matamoras suffer severely; Galveston is overwhelmed; New Orleans is in a dangerous condition—the ques- tion arises between total and partial destruc- tion. _I will only say it will be an awful calam- ity. If the tidal wave runs southward New Orleans may bave only itsrebound. ‘The shock and flood pass up the Mississippi from 100 to 150 miles and strike Baton Rouge with destruo- tive force. DAMAGE IN THE GULP. As it travels along the gulf shore, Mobile will probably suffer most severely and be more than half destroyed; Pensacola somewhat less. Southern Florida is iy entirely sub- merged and lost; St. Augustine severely in- jured; Charleston will probably be half’ sub- merged, and Newberne suffer more severely; Port Royal will probably be wiped out; Nor- folk will suffer about as much as Petersburg and Richmond will suffer, but not disastrously; Washington will suffer in its low grounds; Baltimore and Anna lia much ‘more severely; Philadelphia wi suffer severely on its waterfront, its spires will topple, and its large buildings be injured; but 1 do not think its grand city’ hall wit te Oot stroyed. Probably the not affect injury will more than one-fourth. But along the New Jersey coast the damage will be great. Atlan- tic City and Cape May may be di but Long Branch will be protected by its bluff from any severe calamity. ising will affect Newark, and Jersey City will be the most unfortunate of large cities, everything be- jow the fice and Trinity Church, will be flooded, amd all ite water 3 ‘What shall we sce after the crash and the war? The divers and wreckers will be busy in saving some of the subs wealth. Politicians after the war will look for the crushed frag- menia of their yn parties, but. the people, the common Will bea demo- Te ee ee ee The measures which nationalism to in- troduce by clube will be tatroduong? ty wen, The "rebellion the old order of society will be in conflict with Bovernment, ‘and pre Tient will seem to put itdown, but aa it Grushes it spreads, and finally in demolirhing fe f yf by goverumont will wot tho rallronts’ the ae eg e law | y the encroach | ing waves and terribly shaken by the earth- | 207% t 7S, 87.50, RTD, @0.50, #20. tte ‘B, $1.7 ot OI 214.5, 614 3. 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