Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1890, Page 9

A CELEBRATED CASE. Dr. Gardiner and His Claim Against the Mexican Government. DECIDED IN HIS FAVOR. And the Money Paid Him—It was Afterward Proved to Be = Fraud and He was Tried for Perjury—He was Convicted snd Took Poison im Court—A Dramatic Scene. ‘Written for the Evening Star. __—o-, conviction and death of Dr. George A. Gardiner stands without a paral- Jel in criminal history. The crime, from its inception to the tragedy with which it closed, has no counterpart in the causes celebres of this or any other country. Dr. Gardiner and his brother, J. Carlos Gardiner, came to this city soon after the close of the war with Mexico and filed a claim before the Mexican commis- sion sppointed to examine and decide the numerous claims for damages which were pre- sented by American citizens against that coun- try. The claim was for $500,000 for a valuable mine from which they had been driven by the Mexican authorities, and the documentary evidence was so perfected it substantiated the claim fully and the commission, composed of eminent law- ers, among whom were the Hon. Caleb B. Smith of Indiana, subsequently under Mr. Lincoln Secretary of the Interior, George Evans of Maine, formerly Senator from that state, passed the claim for the fuil amount of the damages alleged by Dr. Gardiner.‘ was referred, confirmed the decision of the board of commissioners. ‘THE CLAIM WAS PAID. The claim was in due time paid. Dr. Gardi- ner obtained the money from the treasury and deposited it with Riggs & Co. and some other vankers, and taking a few thousand dollars | went to Europe for some months’ rest after, as he said, the long and fatyning efforts to ob- tain his own. The Mexican government did no! to protest against the decision of the commission and the arbitrator, and eventually » witness was found who gave the government such testimory as caused it to attach the moncy in the hands of the bankers where Dr. Gardiner had left it on deposit. He was of course in- formed of these proceedings and protesting t them, he offered to return and stand if the government would release a suffi- cient sum to enable him to indemnify the bail he would give for hit appearance. His con- inement, he said, would prevent bis making ch a defense as he felt sure would prove the justice of his claim. WIS PROPOSITION ACCEPTED. The Attorney General acquiesced in the request, and Dr. Gardiner returned from Europe, gave the required bail and engaged thos? eminent lawyers, Messrs. Joseph H. Brad- ley and James M. Carlisle, to defend him. His riends felt contident of his acquittal and sis counsel were most strongly convinced of his innocence. Mr. Carlisle, who was a perfect Spanish scholar, and as such had for years been e he Spanish governmert, i ly the documentary evi d of its genuineness, and they radertook the defense with all their ardor and ‘The late Philip R. Fendall was United distriet attorney and Hon. Henry May was appointed assistant district attorney, and on the 17th ¢ indictment of false ‘The trial wae a very thy one and if ever man on trial for the community in which he had for several years in his favor Dr. Gardiner d bis brother were thus singularly favored. ‘he prosecution was regarded as a persecution i the many friends who thronged the court house relaxed nothing of their confidence dur- ing the trial. The first trial being closed Mr. Feadail opened the case in an address to the jary whieh occupied two days, and gract expec- tations were indulged in when Henry May, an orator whose superior has never been beard at that bar, should close ‘THE JURY DISAGREED. When Mr. Fendall concluded his argument, to the astonishment of every one Mr. Bradley arose and said they had concluded to allow the c go to the jury without argument. The was a disagreement and a new trial was umission Was appointed exico and take testimony there. + Henry asappoiated to head the commission, i nearly a year elapsed before the second began. “Noone but Mr. May knew the ce he had obtained and he kept his own 1. There was no wavering in the confi- Gardiner and his friends. His msel entered upon the new trial renewed vigor and Dr. Gardiner had, if bing. more effectually sustained himsclf svearing, perjury. £e. \ the failure of the previous trial. He was a man ef perfect manners and conducted him- self so medes i member ed the p use the language of ton bar wh e, “he captiva ty who -t with him.” I knew them both, very well, and more uncxcep- 1 manners and general deport- t I never met. The case went on from to day and Mr. May had made no demon- ration of the result of the commission's visi to Mexico until the younger brother, i. Carlos Gardiner, was put on the stand as a witness by the defense. TRE CRIMINATING LETTER. Mr. May left the court room for a moment or two before beginning the cross-examination and returned with atin box, and opening it produced a letter from the witness, which had peen intercepted, addremed to his brother, and which contained conclusive evidence of the fraud. He was handed the letter and asked if it was his handwriting. Maintai + self control he for a moment and said it looks like writing. but Mr. May insisted he should say positively whether it was his handwriting or not. He declined to answer positively, when Mr. May proceeded to unfold the most extraor- nary story of fraud, forgery and false swear- ngever heard in any court. The counsel of Dr. Gardiner were staggered, his friends in the court room, and they were largely the majority of those present, were overwhelmed, and when Henry May rose’ to address the jury the excite- ment was intense. Mr. May detailed to the jury and the court the action of the commission lexico, explaining and enforcing the testi- mony he offered until there could be no of eseape, and the case was given to the jury. ‘The Gardiners fully expected, despite the evi- dence offered by Mr. May, another mistrial, aad the same placid contidence remained with the doctor as before. He was out of the court when the jury retarned and was summoned to hear the ‘verdict. He came in as usual, took his seat behind his counsel, Mr. Bradley, and heard unmoved the verdict of guilty as in- dicted. HE TOOK POIsOS Ix COURT. My friend, seated directly behind him, saw him take something from his vest pocket and putitin bis mouth and asked for a glass of ‘water, which was given him. He sipped it and turning to Mr. Bradley said: “There is no use for my remaining here any longer.” The bailiffs were called and he left ‘the court room and on reaching the jail he fell in a fit at the entrance. Doctors were semmoned and they pronounced it poison which te had taken, but he most strenuously denied it and in an hour or a little ‘over was dead. The news spread through the city like wild fire. Suicide, of course, was con- fession, but there was a deep-seated sympathy and his funeral was most respectably attended, Lis eminent counsel being present as mourners, Asan instance of the perfect self-control he exercised during the long period of the trials and which never for a moment forsook him, at one time im the trial an important paper to the government was missing from the numbers which were being consulted by the and the defense, and as no one but smong Messrs. Carlisle Bradley vere very much disturbed at its ce end told Dr. Gardiner if the not be found boa | would admit its contents as evi- dence, and he said: “Certain; * He had listened considered and Hon, | @Mguage used by Mr. May, and it is my painful he | bef Mexican goverument protested against it and | “/o™S9,(© appear before the arbitrator, a foreign minister to whom it | fenry ¢ and with such commendable | | This lac the deeds were executed was manufact- pred to bear the marks of age in every partica- HENRY MAY'S DISBARMENT. Hon. Henry May, previous to the trial of Dr. Gardiner, in which he displayed the great abil- ity which has left its trace in the history of the courts of Washington and which made an in- delible impress on the Cot in which he served, had been disbarred by the court over which Judges Dunlop and Morsell presided. I think Judge Cranch retired from the bench some time previous, but he was not present when what I relate oceurred. Henry May had been one of the most successful practitioners at the District bar and on more than one occasion the verdicts he had secured had been set aside by the judges of the District courts. A verdict he had jast gained was set aside for some rea~ son, and he was chafing under what he regarded the injustice done him, when a case in which he was counsel was called on the docket and he was summoned by the bailiff from the corridor or vestibule he was pacing up and down like a Pe lion. He entered the court, the case was called and Judge Dunlap asked if ‘he was ready to proceed. with the case, when Mr. May re- plied: “It would bea mockery of justice for me to proceed with any case such a court,” and took his seat. ‘The judges were shocked at this reply, and ‘Mr. May remained holding his hat in his hand as if expecting some reproof. Judge, Dunlap, recovering from his surprise, eaid:,““Will Mr. May repeat what he has just said, that the clerk | may make ita matter of record for the con- sideration of the court.” ‘THE WORDE TAKEN DOWN. Mr. May rose and repeated even more bit- terly and, if possible, more emphatically what he had said, and Mr. Smith wrote it down and handed it to the judges. ‘They consulted together for some time, Mr. May remaining seated, when Judge Morsell rose and said: “The court has i the | duty to announce that your name is ordered to | be stricken from the roll of lawyers entitled to | plead before this court, and you will not be again.” A silence of a few minutes ensued, when ‘May rose and in his most eloquent man- ner said, as he waved his hand in a seemingly contemptuous manner, uring the words of Cat- | aline: “Banishment! anishment! what is ban- | ishment save that I am spared daily contact with the things I loathe.” He removed soon after to Baltimore, and at the next election was sent to Congress and there he began a crusade against the court of that period, which resulted in ite being abolished or reorganized. THE REMARKABLE MAY FAMILY. What a remarkable family the May family was. I remember Dr. Frederick May, the father of Henry May, Charley May, Dr. John F. May, Wm. May, George May and Julian May. were the handsomest family I ever saw, and all of them atiained distinction in the careers theyentered. Henry May, as a great Jamyer, whote power before w jury was almost e unequaled. Charley May, ero of the ‘Mexican war, is enrolled among the immortals. Dr. Jobn F. May, who is, I think, the sole sur- vivor of the boys, is one of the most eminent surgeons. William May of the navy died youn; but not until he had done service for his cou try. George May was a merchant at New Or- leans and Julian died in the army. are Washingtonians of which we may well be proud. ‘The fight made against the aged judges was in no way an attack on their honor or ability, but they were deemed too old, and the mode of rocedure was thought to be too slow. Judge ruston was one of the carly judges who oc- cupied the bench with Judge Cranch. He was very irritable as he grew older and had, it was said, a gradge agaitot Judge Moreell, and ove day when some case was submitted Judge Morsell asked that the decision be postponed, as he de- sired to be enlightened on it. Judge Thruston rose, and grabbing a big hickory cane he always carried, seid, “You enlightened—why, that take till doomsday. I'm going HENDERSON, THE FORGER. Another cause celebre which I findis entirely forgotten, but which at the time created a sen- sation throughout the whole country, was that of Henderson for forgery of the early issue of treasury notes. It was the first issue, I think, and the discovery of the forgery of them shook the financial world, for they were supposed to be invulnerable. Henderson came here some- where about 37 or ‘38. I was a youth, but a precocious one, and Henderson’s notice of me was flattering. ’ He was reared here as coming from Boston, if I remember, and gave every indication of being a man of wealth. ‘The race course was then the resort most patronized, and there Henderson created a sensation by his liberal betting. He flourished here for some months, but there were some of our elder citi- zens who shook their heads and said they didn’t understand where all the money came from Henderson distributed so liberally. Something ‘was wrong, they said, and one day their sur- mises were confirmed by the arrest of Hender- son, who was an accomplished engraver and the head of the gang who circulated a large amount of these forged notes. He was tried, convicted and sentenced toa long term of imprisonment—so long he was there when, in 1541, Col. Jack Dade assumed the con- trol of the “gentlemen,” as he addressed them. My dear old friend, Maj. Donoho, was one of the inspectors, and I used to visit the institu- tion occasionally to partake of the hospitalities of Col. Dade, who soon discovered there were men,” and on one occasion I saw Henderson, and dl and I suppose dead long ago. 1 became a factor in the political opposition to the tinaneial policy of the day, and the name of Henderson, the daring forger, rung through the country. CAPT. B. B. CALDWELL. T received a letter from San Francisco a few days ago calling my attention toone of Wash- ington’s old citizens whose name will be re- membered by some of the few who remain and find pleasare in the columns of Tae Star. ly was the granddaughter of Capt. Elias B. Caldwell, who commanded a troop in the war of 181214. and was ordered by the Secretary of War (Monroe) to a certain point in lower Maryland to prevent the British troops from crossing the Potomac. The granddaughter of Capt. Caldwell, Miss Wright of Indiana avenue, preserves this order, and also the desk of Capt. Caldwell, which beats the marks of the British bayonets. Capt. Caldwell lived at that time in the house so long occupied by Robert Beale, esq., sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. The law ry of Capt. Caldwell was destroyed in the e Court, which was burned by the British. ‘The circulation of Tue Stax seems to be universal. I get letters from one extreme of the country to the other. Today from Florida, tomorrow from an interior town in Pennaylva- nis, the next day from the Pacific coast and now comes one from and old friend, resident in London, all acknowledging the pleasure they find in Tue Evento Stan. SIR JOHN PULESTON. Sir John Puleston. from whom my letter comes, is remembered here most agreeably by those who met him while acting as state agent of Pennsylvania through the four years of the war. At its clore he became a member of the banking firm of Jay Cooke, MeCull in London, and was returned to the rliament from a district in Wales. anker in I. i jneen for overnmers. Sir John Puleston was one of y brilliant set of men who at that period rendered thiy city so much more attractive than the adjacent encampments which sur- rounded it, and for the time the Army of the Potomac lay inactive gave point to the witticism of Senator Nesbett of Oregon. An increase of the army was under discussion in the Senate, and the Senator from Oregon rose to advocate the bill, so far as the rank and file of the army went; but, he said, there was cer- tainly no need of additional brigade generals, a8 the city was fall of them: they crowded the hotels, the streets and the Capi “Only the other day,” he suid, “a man threw a stick at a dog, missed the dog, but struck three brigadier generals, and it was not a good day for brigadlers, either.” Poor Nesbets, that voles that once could set the table in a roar, is silent in death, as are so many of his cotemporaries. Talking the other day with an old friend, who is drawing near his eightieth birthday, and asking about this one and that one, au of whom were dead, I said: “‘Wisy, colonel, they seem to be all dead.” “Yes,” he said, “iike the conclu- sion of ‘Hamlet’—ail dead but prompter and call boy.” Joux F. Com. Brown—“Hiello, Smith! Jones and Robinson Save cums ont Sate Set with me fora day's sport. Won't you join ‘Smnith—""No; thank will | jewel has never occurred to me. good cooks to be found among these “gentle- | Sift THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURD. ATTRACTIVE HOMES. Latest Suggestions as to Home- Made Christmas Gifts, PRETTY AND DAINTY THINGS ‘That May Be Fashioned by Skillful Fingers at Comparatively Small Expense—Neatand Useful Work Baskets and Traveling Cases— Attractive Articles in Lesther. Written for The Evening Star, TS ONE WAY it pays to do one’s: Christmas planning and shopping early, for it conduces to peace of mind to know that provision has been made in season and after that one may rest on his oars as it were. There are also draw- backs to getting things long before the holidays, too, for fresh installments of goods are all the time being received, and no matter what one buys one is very apt to see the next day some- thing prettier and often cheaper among the newer arrivals. At the china stores some of the things intended for the holiday trade have just been unpacked and very attractive they are, too, with novelty both of form and decoration. It is the same in other lines of goods and fresh articles fill up the gaps left by sales, with maybe more to offer in the way of attraction than the first assortment. ‘MORE HOME-MADE SUGGESTIONS. Tlearn by hearsay that home-made Christ- mas gifts will largely prevail this season especially, and so I will continue to give such hintsasIam able for their manufacture. I happened in at a friend's today and spread out was quite an array of small articles which she had made and was assigning to their destined owners. them were several little nov- elties which could even be accomplished be- tween the issue of ‘Tax Stan and the fast ap- Prosching 25th. “Ono useful litte affair, was ifferent in style from the various ones I have seen for the same purpose and that was a shoo button outfit. If everybody was such an ad- vocate of patent ‘fastenings on shoes as [am the popularity of” these little affairs would be impaired, but some do not like them at all, so fortunately button sowing on bids fair to’ be an occasional em ent for some time to come. The case of is made of ribbon, either satin, grain or watered, : as one fancies—two anda half inches in width. ‘Three-quarters of a yard of ribbon is folded together, making a double strip of three- eighths in length, and at the fold a spool of course black linen thread is slipped in and then the ribbon is sewed about it, letting it just as the thread is unwound. Above this—for the strips like a bag, with the spool at the bottom— the two ribbons’ are left unjoined for about four inches and on one side six large needles are evenly stuck, as on a needle At the top the two ribbons are joined together two inches below the ends to make a little bag for the buttons and a hem around the very top has anarrow ribbon run in, which draws up the little button bag and serves as strings to hang it all up by and finish it prettily. A tiny eyelet in the middle of the ribbon at the bottom of the spool has the linen thread passed through it, after the manner of a twine ball, and thus an end is always ready to thread. A USEFUL TRAVELING CASE. I have lately seen o description of a little article of which I have always felt the need in traveling, though the idea of this traveling ie lush 5x13 inches is the case itself, and this is ined with eider down flannel with feather stitch or crows fect on the edge asa finish. A small satin or surah bag is made with ribbon better yet, soft cord or silk tapo—draw strings, and this is sewed on to the flannel lining near one end for rings and bangles. The bottom of the bag is toward the center of the case as it lien extended. At the other end are three leaves of fine flannel pinked and featherstitched to correspond with the edges, while between the two is a space long enough to nccommodate the long pins of which one often has several in use, including the pins for bonnet _ strings. en completed the case is folded three times and tied around with ribbon. On a sleeping car it would be a great convenience to have thi: little cage, so that all these smell articles could be put compactly together ready for use again, instead of being loosely together in a box or compartment of one’s traveling bag. SOMR PRETTY WORK BASKETS. Of course all kinds of baskets, trimmed in all kinds of ways, are among the many things pre- red by industrious fingers for distribution to friends. Among them the shallow Japanese bowl baskets with a bag top of gay silk are favorites, and they are very capacious, too, a work baskets, but there seem to be a dearth of the baskets here just now, as one friend told me she had hunted in vain of late. ‘The pretty little open work baskets with shirred silk lin- ing of soft tinted silk, and the various little conveniences for a stitch in time, always ap- peal toa woman's taste and are ever welcome ifts. One can find now in the shops many of the little Aittings fora work basket which formerly had to be homemade. I have seen in various places the tiny little strawberry emerys in different colors, the wax in fanciful forms and the pretty little tomato pincushions of plush in soft coloring. Spool cases, beautifully made of kid, are very pretty and not high priced, considering the workmanship. ATTRACTIVE EID ARTICLES. Most of the kid articles for sale are'very at- tractive both as to coloring and finish. A mouchoir case of brown dressed kid with bunches of yellow flowers painted on it and lined with tawny orange satin is very pretty and it opens in such a way with accordion pleats at the angles that it will hold a quantity of handkerchiefs. A beautiful sofa pillow is a neighbor of the handkerchief case in the show case where they are displayed. The pillow is of ¢ream white inail cloth, one of broidery materials, and very handsome. @ diagonal wave and looks like silk serge. ‘The pattern has a large cactus-like flower in the center and curving from that very graceful leaves of a tropical form. The whole design i worked in rope silk in gray-green shades, the lightest just off white. The pillow is lined with plush the same tone as the deepest shades of silk, and a heavy cord is around the edge with a loop at each corner caugitt on to the white silk of the outside. Itis as refined a piece of embroidery as Ihave seen ina long time. Another lovely pillow at another placo has no hand work about it, and yet it is charming with its India silk covering of copper tones in the design of the silk and its very wide double ruttie. A pretty book cover is a dull blue with a motto in gold thread on one side. A dainty picce of embroidery is a square of ‘fine fringed inen with a bunch of yellow-embroidered but- tercups in each corner, tied with a bow and ends of blue ribbon. NEW PHOTOGRAPH CASES. Photograph cases are so numerous that one might easily overfill a house with the variety of pretty ones offered. The yery “latest” are the standard frames for cabinet-sized pictures, | softly padded and covered with undressed hid. ‘They are in soft chocolate brown, mouse gra; and frog green, the latter being especially effective where the shade is admissible. The openings for the pictures are either square or oval, tho latter being a revival this year: HANDSOME WRITING PORTFOLIOS. All the leather goods are as irresitible as usual when brought in odorons array before as at thisseason. A pretty Russia leather writ- ing portfolio and blotter has an addition in the way of a dictionary bound also in Hussia and very thin 4o it slips easily into the com- partment for writing paper. The travelin, Writing cases mounted in antelope skin and seal are always in favor as Christmas presents, and hnttle separate traveling inkstands in the same materia) are very pretty. Calendars mounted , plain und silver tipped, also in the green kid, are useful gifts, as well a# memoran- dum tablets and engagement cards, similarly gotten up. signs, no end, one novelty being sour childish in ue dress, eac a large work frm Saran tad cd a is | be the thirteenth sister to me, i wall or what- not as an artistic triumph! poe CELLULOID FANCY ARTICLES. Celluloid, which enters into many of the so- called fancy articles nowadays, is made into various basket shapes and combined very with cise blue, w or ld, or stained of Gwe. same shalon Tell baskets with very high arched handles are quite dainty looking, and a blue one, for instance, filled with forget-me-nots would be a most expressive Christmas gift. Growin be much given as presente, lorists make a specialty of having a fine assort- ment of palms and ferns with pretty baskets or rdinieres to make a fitting setting for them. florists have many baskets as suitable for other uses as for flowers, and several of the reguler sorap basket style have come from a "a. -——— _«-« PNEUMONIA, ‘Symptoms and Treatment of a Disease Preva- lent at This Season. ‘This is the season for pneumonia. The sud- den changes of temperature and the careless- ness of people generally who are apt to expose themselves unnecessarily to wet and cold are fruitful inducements to this disease, the statis- tics of which show a fatality of about thirty in 100 cases. This malady was formerly known as lung fever. It is an inflammation or conges- tion of the lungs, and there are four distinct classes—the lobar, lobular, fibrous and caseous or tubercular pneumonia. ‘The two classes last mentioned not infrequently terminate in phthisis or consumption. The first stago is known as that of “engorgement;” the second as “red hepatization,” when the lungs become the color of the liver. When this brownish color gives way to gray the malady has reached the third stage, that of “gray hepatization.” This is the stage of “absorption” in favorable casea, when convalescence ensues. In unfa- vorable cuses the disease into the pura- lent stage, when death is likely to ensue within a very few days, sometimes in a few hours. ‘The first symptom is uszally a pronounced chill, followed by a sharp laucinating pain within a circumscribed space at or near the nipple on the affected side, A racking cough and expectoration soon follow. This is the stage in which the oval bacteria is found in the sputum. Then follows high fever, pain in the head, loss of appetite, severe thirst, prostra- tion, increased resp’ and pulse varying from = to 190. ae In the second stage pain may cease, but the cough may continue, though less ‘hard and painful. In the third stage the patient, if the symptoms are favorable, will cough less; rea- Piration will resume its normal condition, ap- petite will return, and pain will almost, if not entirely, disappear. One of the peculiarities of pneumonia is that this third stage in the in- temperate may lead to delirium tremens. Once convalescence begins in cases of pneumonia, however, recovery is almost certain. Fatal re- lapses are very infrequent. Pericarditis, or in- flammation of the membranous sac which in- closes the heart, is a very grave complication in pneumonia. he old method of treatment was blood- letting, and some physicians resort to that now where the patient is plethoric. Some be- lieve that the attack can be rendered harmless by @ dose of from forty to sixty grains of quinine. ‘ ‘The course of treatment commonly employed is to give quinine, antipyrine, aconite and an- tifebrines in the first stage, with expectorants, and flax seed poultices as hot as they can be borne applied every twenty minutes. In the second stage the object is to support the action of the heart, and milk punch or some other stimulant is given. Digitalis is also prescribed and this treatment is continued with the third stage and up to convalescence of the fatal issue. h comes when the lungs become consoli- Gated so that the blood cannot pass through them and cannot become oxygenated, and is due to heart failure. Some physicians have have lately used oxygen gas to aid the oxygen- ating function of the lungs and in Germany Vyas have been carried into the open air. in one of the German hospitals a ward Is being prepared specially for the treatment of pa- tients suffering from pneumonia, the prepara- tion including the construction of machinery for pumping cold air over the h f the patients. At some of the hospitals in this country czecs have been successfully treated in tents. The tents are well heated in winter, aa by large stoves, so that the patients, while breath- ing air almost absolutely pure, are not exposed to the cold. Freer atmospheric circulation is common objective point with American physi- cians in the treatment of pneumonia, although they do not go so far in this matter as the Ger- mans. A careful attention to one’s health, the wearing of warm clothing. keeping the ‘fect from getting wet and the avoidance of drafts will enable one to generally escape an attack of this serious discase. — GEORGE ALGERNON’S MISTAKE. Not a Sister, but a Mother, Would She Be to Him. George Algernon had toved her for many, ‘many moons, and at last he felt assured that the burning intensity of his passion had made some impression on her sympathetic heart. Little thingss had brought him to this belief. Little thinge, but then a feather will tell the di- touching interest, whether he used cream in his coffeo and whether he and his father bad similar tastes. She had exhibited the keenest curiosity in knowing which of the two generally stayed out latest at night. After this Inst display of interest George Algernon determined to put allon the venture and declare his deep love and devotion. All boded well at first and George Algernon poured his tale of consuming love into seemingly will- ing ears. ‘The maiden blushed divinely, and as she turned her crimsoned cheek away George Algernon’s hopes ascended to the skies. All, 3 changed when the maiden red gently thine, but B will “Don't,” shrieked the unhapp: ., George, I ean never be yy youth, “don’t t's unlucky.” “I won't, George,” coutinued the maiden, “I was abont to say 1 would be a loving mother to you. Ihave been engaged to your father for some time and-we are soon to be united,” but the cold night had swallowed up the broken- hearted George Algernon. sb NOVEMBER IN NEW ORLEANS. Roses, Violets, Jasmines and Chrysanthe- mums AU in Bloom. From the New Orleans Times Democrat. it requires pilgrimage through the resi- dence portion of the city to make the visitor preciate November in New Orleans. All along St. Charles avenue, Esplanade avenue, Prytania street, Jackson avenue and throughout the gi den district the lawns and gardens present an almost uninterrupted wilderness of flowers in full bloom. And there isa peculiar quality of profusion in the bloom of these southern shrubs. Elsewhere one sees blossoms gleaming here and there through great banks of verdure, but here the great leaves only furnish a slender frame work for the richest and brightest blos- soms. Against a gleaming white wall as a background, one sees arches and festoons of crimson, pink, white and yellow roses, bound together with only a slender thread of green that is barely traceable and almost lost in the wealth of dainty blossoms with which it is laden. The lawns are literally spangled with Violeta, roses, chirysanthemums, dabliar, pan- sies and flowers of almost every variety, the tie tockgrosnd of Worl ploar of sutpauied rount a ture of sur loveliness. : Climbing roses and jasmines twino their per- fome-breathing chains over the cold gray of dead walls and light up weather-stained ee. Sweet odors are borne ice and snow, the air has a soft, balmy qualit ht haa freshness, but not t trace of eilliness ‘Throughout the garden district reveal dainty flower but down town the cl wooden the rection of the wind. She had asked him, with | | * ‘all i hence NEXT HOUSE will have among its members some whose presence will add a picturesqueness to the assemblage. A con- siderable number of the new members who will represent districts heretofore strongly republi- can are men who were nominated without any idea that they would be elected and whose elec- tion was as great s surprise to themselves as to anybody else. In some cases very different men would have been nominated if there had been any apparent chance of election. Anum- ber of prominent democrats who declined nominations now deeply regret the fact. A few ofthe new members from the west are men whose education extends scarcely beyond an ability to readand write, so that their meaning can be understood, with some allowance for in- accuracies. Ade = ie menage Oe aren he isa Prominent campaigner was TAR re- porter the other day of some of hs experiences on the stump in the west. “I was to speak in the town hall at Blan! he said. “A large assemblage filled the hail. ‘The leading democrats of the place occupied seats on the platform. There was a committee of leading citizens, bankers, merchants, mem- bers of the board of trade and the like, to re- ceive and introduce the rs. I made a speech of about an hour celling upon the ‘dem- ocrats in particular and all citizens in general to vote the democratic ticket; to send the republican who was misrepresenting them into retirement. While I telked there was a man in the gallery upon whom my eyes rested, probably because he leaned forward and listened — with icular interest. ere was nothing about him person: attention and _ his ally to | attract attention a iS ice was among less im nt clement of the meeting who were crowded promiscuously in the gallery. After the mect- Tig was over 1 walked out of the hall with, one of the committeemen, and as we got to the door we ran into some one. My companion turned, and, seeing who it was, said in an in- different, half apologetic sort of way: ‘Oh, this is Mr. Jones, our candidate,’ and then without stopping to exchange even a passing remark, led ine on our way, while the candi- date lost himself in the crowd without attempt- ing to cultivate my acquaintance. I merely had time to observe that he was the very mod- est but deeply interested individual who had sat in the gallery. FROM NEBRASKA. Not one of the three new men from Nebraska is personally known to either the Senators or the Representatives now holding seats in Con- a6 from that state. Ryan, the democrat from the first district, isa bright young law- yer, who, while he has not yet gained any prominence at the bar and has not been long in the state, is a college bred man and has the gift of eloquence. MeKeighan is the man who has been referred to as the ne'er do well_ who immigrated to Nebraska from Illinois. Kem, who beat Mr. Dorsey, the rich and brilliant young banker who now represents that district, claimed the votes of his fellow citizens as a Farmers’ Alliance candidate upon the grounds that he had been a farmer in the district for ten years: that he had never made more than 500 in any year during that t that he was the father of six motherless children and that he had a mortgage of $1,500 on his farm. A MILLENIUM FOR FARMERS. In his speeches to his admiring constituexts he advocated the confiscation of all railroads and their running by the government for the benefit of the farmers, the hanging of all bank- ers who charged farmers more than 6 pee cent interest on loans and the destruction of grain elevators whose owners charged farmers more than a centa bushel for the storage of wheat. Ignorant, forlorn and without money he came out of a sod-covered hut and got the votes of his fellow citizens and will represent them in the next House. CANKON'S SUCCESSOR. ‘The man who succeeds “Joe” Cannon is a wealthy man, now engaged in the brokerage business, but he is said to possess some pecu- liar characteristics which will make him a suit. able successor to the fame of Martin of Texas. He has eeen more of society than has Mr. M: tin. He has been a soldier and bears the title of colonel. Just at the close of the war he cap- tured a fort down in Florida, which it is said hed already been deserted by its defenders. During his campaign some of the news- Papers advocating his election published great two-page cuts representing — the capture of the fort, in which is represented one man on the earth works, far in advance of the rest, with a revolver in one hand and a sword in tho other, casting defiance and destruction into the ranks of a ficeing foe. in big white letters across the heroe's back is written the name “Busey.” Mr. Buzey has but one eye and can see very imperfectly out of the other. One of his peculiarities is to bea fear of being abroad in the dark. Jt is said the is never known to go out of his house after dark. THE LEADER OF THE ALLIANCE in the next House, and probably in succeeding Honses if the allisnce membership increases, will be Livingston of Georgia. Me isa tall raw-boned old farmer with 1 keen oye anc glib tongue. He is fairly well educated and is naturally very bright and shrowd. bounded contidence in hia own at thinks that with but a small chanee ho vise legislation which will cure all the farmer complains of. He beii sesses those statesmantike quali euable him to asaist in bringin nomic millenium, He is a mun of very posi- tive convictions and a fund of information cou- firmatory of these convictions. WILL BE A STRIKING FIGURE. Those who are acquainted with Lewis Stew- ard, who has been clocted to the Fifty-second Congress from the eighth Illinois district, ex- ress the opinion that he wi i igure in the next Honse. He is phenomenal demagogua and to ha curious and original notions about statesman: ship. He prides himself on his eccentricities and recklessness of thought. and action. He is an original greenbacker and w greenback candidate for governor of Ulinois in 1876 and makos a point of kis opposition and contempt for things that are. When he was nominated pr Congress nobody appe: remotes! that he could were several prominent democrats in the dis- trict who would have been glad to go to Con- gress, but they could not look upon the pros- pects of defeat with the complacency which marke Mr. Steward's contempiation of all ings. Steward is a man who always takes chances for the improbable. On accouat of his reckless- ness he was chosen to run against Mr. Hill, the republican candidate. When informed of his nomination bi notice that he would not spend any money. If his fellow citizens wanted to vote for him it was allright, but he would not disturb himself about the matter. A man who knows all about him told ‘Tue Stan man the following stories of his ways: Sometime after the campaign opened a committee waited.on him to ask for e small sum of $40 to pay for the printing of posters and the like. “Not one penny can de- ills the 8 thet he pos- which will will you get from me,” he declared, and he stuck to it. He did not want any postors: if the in. the district would not vote for him without posters they could vote for some one else. ‘The committee sneaked out of the house thoroughly crushed and shamefaced. Then they set to work and got up the posters them- selves. None of them would listen after that . Steward was per- to dash about behind his wild black in his usual reckless way, without being importuned or in any way molested by cam- committees. But fiuslly it came to the Printing of the batlots, and then o difficulty Brose. that every candidate shall pay $5 for the print- ing of his name on the ticket. This iss cus- principle not‘to violate ik The vi hat should ference | Ponies are inseparable. He is always driving about with a double team. Through the woods, he bis Senda wherever he poe his ponies and to Washington. It will be a picturesque en he dashes down the avenue to the | Capitol at fnll speed with a corps of mounted icemen after him for fast driving. “What I want,” he says, speaking of his ex- pected life in “is to live a few miles out. I would country residence. I a little late, then I would scoot into town like h—1 and turn the ponies out on the common to graze while I labor for my country.” HOW HE TREATS VISITORS. Last year the president of a Chicago sand and gravel company went out to Plano to look over the grounds. Lew hitched up the ponies and less manner. They whizzed by a gravel pit so close that the edge crumbled away under one wheel and the unfortunate president slipped out and rolled heels over head to the bottom. “Zou a= fool said, Steward, “why ain't you stay in bi : n't you suppose now how todrive?™™ tech On another occasion he drove with an Aurora friend through his park, which is a beauti Place. As the ponies dashed along the wheels of the Dues veraped the bark off some of the trees. The Aurora man expected to have hi brains knocked out and his hair was on end, but the ponies were kept on the run. When the desperate drive was over he got out of the buggy with a pallor on his face and said. ‘Lew” Steward again. AN ILLINOIS PIONEER. Steward is one of the pioneers of Mlinois. He went to Kendall county, Ill, from Penn- ylvania in 1837, when he was thirteen years old. His father, Marcus Steward, bought 600 acres of land on the site of the present city of Plano, and thus laid the foundation for a for- “Lew” added to the original property now he owns fully 4,600 acres of the choicest land in northern Illinois. When a boy he was contifually speculating in land. At one time he discovered that there were 1,000 acres in Lee county the government. He ed to secure this for 75 cents an acre, and the town of Steward, named for him, is now located there. He is a determined, uncompromising man. He was never known to make an apology. One day an Illinois state senator went to see him end caught him with nothing to eat in the house but bread and butter and tea. Lew gravely and silently spread this fare before his uct, He made no apology and gave no ex- ion. AN INDEPENDENT YouTH. Steward’s independence and eccentricity are inherited and ma; raced back to his early youth. When he was six years old his father used to send him to the mill with grist. When he was thirteen he had charge of the stock, One day some of the cows wandered off and he was away three weeks locking for them and at the end of that time brought them home. Ho isalawyer by profession, though he hes never practiced much. He got hi knowledge under peculiar circumstances. worked in a saw mill. After he had started a log on the carriage he would sit on the end of the log as it crept toward the saw and read law. For two years be continued his studies in this way. When President Hayes passcd through Illinois during his administration the train in which he traveled stopped in the Steward lived and all the country about rushed to see him. Mr. Hayes before he presuming on this acquaintance, he introduced to him all'who boarded the tr ill owned eople th A Malden'’s Sad Experi Smiles on Her at Lani. R LIFE HAD not been ai front name was Georgiz:a, name Frances, and uer back name Bilkins, and yet the dove of peace and happiness hed not rested on the twenty-one summers, uot to speak of winters and falls and springs, which had made up her existence. She was wont to sit off by herself and plaintively sing in a low monotone: relief until the next mail came in, when she would receive three or four circulars on new spring trousers or especially etfective safety razors, ali directed to Mr. George Francis Bil- kius, whereupon she would become depressed i It had been so since her birth. When that ts Ceaur Bilkins, bas been biessed with a litile son, who is to slide down under the name of George t'ranc kins stopped inis paper, but the fiat had gone forth, ‘The ink was scarcely dry on the first board- ing school catalogue in which Georgiana's name appeared before i:ate parents were writ- ing to the principal wanting to. know what she racant by admitting young men within the sacred precinets of Amazonia Hall, and the principal sued Mr. Dilkins for certain sums lost upils being removed in spite of explana- tions. Georgiana at one period of her life felt that inate yearning rise within her to pour her gf worl out on paper. She poured to the oxteit of se quires of sentimental verses, and for a compensation a publisher was found. But the critics. Critics are soulless creatares at the best, but with Georgiana they seemed to rdinary lengths in their efforts to ‘They picked the sweet little sonnets to pieces with uarclenting vigor, and arrived at the unanimous conclusion that it was ba: enough for sentimental giris to write such stuf, let alone for men. “They advised. Geor Francis Billkins to try his poetic fervor on aneasuring of tape and calico. But Georgiana's found some admirers, Miss Clara Louise Sweeily said the poetry was too ente for anything and she was just ark, 1 meet Mr. Bilkins, who che kaew was a dreamy youth, with a far-away look in his ey and his hair so long as to leave dandruff on his coat, Miss Sweetly wrote letters to Georgiana in which she expressed her feelings of love and admiration with the openness aud candor of | sweet sixteen. Gcorgiuna answered these efa- | sions and all was merry as o marriage bell until down us usual to the breakfast table, she fo a letter Bilkins. It was nothing uausuel for Georgiana to receive lettera, and even letters addressed to George Francis Bilkins, but this letter was out of the ordinary rau. It was not an advertise- ment of suspenders or ehewing tobacco, but an epistle signed ‘Jim Sweetly,” and conveying ¢ information that Mr. Sweetly would call on G. F. Billkins that day to learn his intenti with to his ‘Miss Clara to rent Cleveland's | Would start for Congress | | show canse why he should not be slain for the | | mas i drove him about his estate in his usual reck- | short breaths, that he would never ride with | town where | one morning, when Georgiana had tripped | Blainly addressed to George Francis | Por AY, DECEMBER 20, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. IHANKSGIVING DAY had hardly been num- Lered with the past when musings of Christ- as and talk about the fat gobbler necessary for n special sacrificial offering began to unfold ting monarch of the barn yard that escaped decapitation on the 27th of November had the more reason to become meditative and de- spondent over the approaching 25th of Decem- ber. Then, indeed, will he be called upon to sake of good fellowship between mankind in general and the proper glorification of Christ- in particular. A well-cooked turkey, | ¥ith appropriate trimmings, as he lies in state upon his garnished platter, is a sight worthy to | behold, and the demolition of the tender, juicy | slices, in conjunction with rich, raby-colored i} cranberry sauce, is an indulgence the gods | themselves could delight i in between the preparation and destruction of the proud old bird a duty before whi | successful, if not graceful. carving thereof. It is seemingly a simple and easy thing to carve a | turkey, a duck or a bird, but ite very apparent simplicity is a test of artfulness, a delusion ai asnere. It is a far easier matter rod dram stick, a, disentangled fizz “pope's nose” from flopping off boring lady's lap than to avoid bavi linen or carving cloth spattered w drip ofa to a neigh- the table Ouse. ‘TRE ART OF CARVING. | | should not know how. itis too often the case that « host is obliged to appeal to the gener- | osity of come one of the guests to help him out of a dilemma, which is not always agree- able to the guesta, nor at any time very com- mendable in the host. The first thing to be | is the condition of the knife to be used. It is in bad enough form to ask a eet, '0, carve, except when there should be other besides the main dish to be carved, but it is perfectly in- excusable tofurnish a dull knife to do the carving with. The edge of the carving knife should be keen and glistening; for ham, mut- tou, beef, &e., a long blade, and for poultry and game ashort and pointed one is needed. All efforts at unnecessary exertions are in bad taste, as they indicate one of two things—either lack of ability in the carver or toughness of the bird. Dexterity and address in the mse of the knife are elements more requisite reall) than strength. The seat occupied by the carver should be sufficiently high to enable him or her to have command over the joints. Some claim that it is best to stand up, and as the piecesare ent off place them collectively on asingle dish to be handed around the table 80 | that “each person may select the slices pre- | ferred. CARVING A TURKEY. A roast turkey is the king of dishes for carv- ing, and it is generally believed that there is but one regulation way by which it may be done, but this is an error. The usual way is to jant the fork firmly and squarely the reast bone, and without removing the prongs cause the wings to slide from their sockets, the inted, the rich, white meat | nd the other portions ginents—when the guests | can be helped each according to choice. But there are other ways, and one is to cut from | the breast thin siices and proceed in the same ay for all the fleshy parts. Though this is an way for the carver it has the drawback of allowing all the natural gravy to escape and leave the most delicate morsels clinging to the carcass. Another way, after the wings have been remoted, is to break the carcass above the rump bone, which remains attached to the legs and forms'a sort of hood, commonly known as the “bishop's This is a good way to carve when table. Chickens and capons ved pretty much the same as turkeys—the legs make two pisces, the wings three, the white meat should pices. COOKING A Just preceding Thanksgi js one of the many armands claim tobe which an old writer called the “ne plus ultra of gastronomic art” and that is braised turkey. An old-time rhyme gives it that: “Turkey boiled is turkey _etet, urkey fost, ‘Tursey ross ta turkey i Dut foF tascey Uraied, te’ Lond be praised.” Of the first two ways there are many well satis- fied patrons. ‘The last is not common, but | there can hardly be a lack of its indorsement j when once tried. Fill the turkey with the best | force meat that can be made. ‘The best is made | with sweetbreads and mustrooms or trafles intermixed, or even chestnut stuffing made tavory with seasoning will suffice.” After ig hold the bird, breast down, over a re to etiffen it aud then lard with strips rk. Place ina large saucepan, breast upward, with sliced earrot, onion, celery and parsley. and cover with broth. Cook, closely covered, it the oven until the bird is tender, basting “it occasionally to give it the desired light-brown color. When ‘done strain and thicken the grary and serve ina boat. For an accompanying dish garnish with stoned olives, small forcement balls made of chicken, mush- rooms and sweetbreads cut in dice, SERVICE OF GAME. Foreign epicures hold that in America a well- cooked bird is truly a rara avis, while expert American carvers do not boast that the Ameri- can people are the finest carvers in the world. Bott may have good reasons for their opinions, buta bird properly cooked by a well-tutored American chef, or under the superintendence of an Americar: epicure, and properly carved is ts divine a morsel as ever tickled the palate of man. When one isso fortunate as to secure game fresh from the field it should not be cooked until after remaining in a cool place for ut least ten or twelve hours; otherwise there will be ob- vervable a gamey taste and odor which is very disagreeable. a wILp DUCK is not always a tender bird and when it is it can sometimes be mad tolerably tough in the kitchen. A canvass-back duck should never be cooked less than fifteen nor more than eighteen minutes, say some councisseura, though others go twenty to twenty-tive. It should be carved inslices and in cutting the wings and thighs are sacrificed. At the residence in this city of a well-known Senator, a royal host, the service of fowl and game is from the side, his most es- timable lady holding to the certainly sensible opinion that a host should not divide his atten- tion between his guest and a roast. A bit of ‘donable vanity, however, tempts the Sena- tor to except canvass-back ‘duck, which he in- variably carves himself and he does it so daint- ily and adroitly that it is « pleasure to see him dois. Two strokes of, sharp game knife and the juicy red flesh separated from the skeleton. Most wild ducks should be served so under- . gers fi 1 tar, it will form a flavor toa close the i E result "ne e cut in slices and the carcass broken into six | { themselves from clouds of thought. ‘The atrut- | £4 sapplies wate Det | Such weather is mnusual for Paris, I am told. there comes | Thanhagiving day ‘the | fully two inches deep. Many of the students Dravest hearts sometimes quail. and that is the went over to the club to get warm, and, wrapped ercoate, huddled around a red-hot stove played cheen and checkers. in their ‘n up, even the pump in our court, who verything had began T to at least one hundred people. snow fell heavily until it lay By the number had increased to seventy-five and @ have models cidedly. air ing from the dish like rain from the eaves | stove makes litte impression. One si be | as a present. for Thanksgiving. It the atudion, revent a Photographer happening in made a half dose or the | pictures of the crowd. The day was en ideal _ oe at ‘as they are all de places upon which evens of at 80 degrees while the other is af The | no justifiable reason why every housekeeper | Students’ League” of New York chool in America, ‘The dim | folticet affair of the Everything was done were epread f | was filled. looked after by those who wish to carve well | to 10 o'clock. From was a continual nging and having @ How euch a dinner charged ia bey. with soup and several courses in between. joutside must have belped | their financial mani | jokes, si | ally Bes I rather thi | fore served « | more than once, as though they | driven crazy. The “Home The found a deli lndies. They kin pie and | enj | entirely, and tistied with, Joneses. Mr. L.—“Unfortunately, no.” pecches were all being the best too late to get any 1 ourselves until Thanksgiving was then we went home tired at Miss T.—“Mre. BurnettJones son. You are acquainted with them! for one hi 1 t i i i el | . i i} it. mk the French wich a wild crowd. ft | iE : I other toasts were * we lightfal assemblage of over 100 hod bad a spread also,with pump- peanuts for dessert, but we were ‘any. We sang songs, talked and gone our day's pleasure. Miss T.—“They are friends of the Barnet was o Robi» 5.2922 3:82 =a