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8 | DIGGING FOR WEALTH. Men Who Are Looking for Riches in the Rocks of Maryland. POTOMAC GOLD HUNTERS. Incidents of @ Trip to the Mining Region— Holes in the Ground Where the Glittering Quarts is Sought—The Descent of = Shaft ‘and Scenes in the Tunnel. GOLD MINE within sight of the Wash- ington monument! Certainly; why not? There is almost everything else to be had in the capital city or near it, and why nota gold mine, and not one, but a half dozen. This does not have reference to a particularly profit- able real estate subdivision either, but to real, genuine gold mines, where quartz is quarried oat, and sooner or later substantial deposits are made in bank. For over a quarter of a century it has been known that there were veins of gold-bearing rock to be found in Mary- land, ir the region of the Great Falls, but it bas only been of late years that this rock has been worked for the precious metal that might bein it. When the big tunnel was made for the aqueduet, from the Great Falls to this city, it was found that about a mile or two this side of the falls the tunnel passed through several veins of white and rose-colored quartz that ap- peared to contain gold in some uncertain quantity. ‘TRE OLD MARYLAND MINE. Soon after that the old Maryland mine was sank, but gold was not found in paying qnanti- ties and the mine was eventually abandoned. It now rs that if those early miners had caly werd a Hite more head work in. their search for gold and had sunk their shafting a little more to one side or run out tunnels in that direction a little way from the bottom of the shaft they would have been more successful aud might bave found that mining in Maryland can be made quite profitable. Work has recently been resumed in the neighborhood of that old mine, and it now as though there was pay dirt to be had in quantities to suit. In all there are now some half dozen mines in the country to the north and east cf the Great Falls, and it has been reported of late that the owner of one of them has been offered more than a quarter of a million dollars for his hole in the ground and One stamp mill other one is to be built in the near future. All is activity and life, and some of the more hopeful seem to think that before long Maryland will be supplying the home market with gold and have something left over for the export trade. There is prob- ably some exaggeration in this, however. & TRIP TO THE DIGGINGS. ‘A Stan reporter recently spent a day among the mines to see what experiences of the Bret Harte order he might have and to make a study of the picturesque side of this new life in 5 Aare ag If —son intends to visit this mining region with any romantic ideas about ftin thelr heads they might aswell give them over before they leave home. Maryland mining the reporter visited, or how many of them. Gold mines are all alike toacertain extent. ‘They are all chunks removed from the earth's make-up to be ground up in the search for the yellow mineral they are supposed to contain. And again, you cannot count on any of them with any certainty until you have the proceeds carefully deposited to your credit in bank. A mine is an uncertain investment, to say the least, and many another bar besides the well- known one at Dy Flat has “‘petered out.” ‘The land mines, however, are in the first bloom of youth and all is rosy. ON THE RoaD. Following up the river along the old Con- @uit road one brisk, sharp morning before Christmas the fizst thing that was noticed was the fact that the wind did have abiting chill and thatout bythe big reservoir it blew at the rate of some hundred miles an hour and ht from the immediate neighborhood of the ¢ north pole. The second fact noted was there was a remarkably large num- ber of country wagons headed for the city, h loaded with something to sell, from a two-ton pile of hay down toalittle jag of wood that would scarcely count for a quarter of a cord and would hardly pay for the trouble of gath- ering it and carting it to market. Yet it was near the Christmas season and every farmer’ son of them needed a little ready money for ta and a general celebration of the ive occasion. Coming back in the early | dusk of the short winter's day those same | wagons were met wending their weary way homeward. The wagons themselves had not so much of a load tocarry, but, unfortunately, the same cannot truthfully be said of some of the drivers. The little jags of wood had disap- peared, but their place was filled by other and ‘More expensive jags. AN UNROMANTIC SCENE. ‘The first view of the first mine was not an im- | | earth, two big windlasses, a rude tool house and a huge pile of quartz rock that was said to con- tain pure virgin gold—that was all, and nothing more. There was nothing of the romantic side i nothing of the wild | miin, | ification of the mining | ler by profession: Truthful Bill were all conspicuous by ot being there. and there was no one to fill the vacancy. Some day a poet may arise to create & fiction sround these effete eastern mines, as | done in the case of the mining carps in wild and woolly west, but it will not be this writer, and whoever he may be he need more pictaresque ma an was coun inst Cook. To all surface appear- the score or more of men who were at most of them of African descent, might bave quarrying out building material or ing stone, and in pomt of fact the macadam ad above the aqueduct is largely made of this same quartz dug up before it was thonght to avo any value as a gold producer. Who Knows but that some day that road bed may be Femoved bodily and rua through the mill and into Above the two shafts tn this new Golconda are big windlasses that lift the bucketfuls of tock from the depths beneath. The visitor to | the mine may godownin one of these big | if he wishes, but tothe a eradowa the side of the sha more satisfactory means of getting shafts ere about ious 5 might the rock to see what it may be. dently gold in the ground of old Maryland. The only question is 2s to how much thei of it and how well it will pay to work it. His Conviction in Rassia—Career as a Spend- From the London Daily News. has just been convicted at Loutsk, was in some degree, spendthrift Creesus. In his youth he was often taken to Paris, and received part of his educa- tion in aschool in the Rue de Courcelles. parents belonged to the circle of the late Prince Demidoff, and when Kroukowski ran through his fortune in Paris and at the gay winter re- sorts of the south of France he determined to organize a gang of bandits and to terrorize and plunder the province of Volhynia. perhaps. were slavislily obedient to him, and from them ina gang having robbery for its object. Peasants were then constrained to accept his leadership. a genius for disguising himeelf. centrates thatare ¢: to add to profits. Most Paar it ieee ie out is left piled up on Se pend seeing the construction of a stamp mill on the spot. SUBTERRANEAN RIPLORATIONS. Underground the mine is rather more inter- esting. The curious visitor, arrived at the bot- tom, must needs pick his way along through the narrow tunnel by the meager it of a tal- low candle. On either side the pinot is not encouraging, for the are composed of slaty or n soft clay-like rock. ‘The narrow vein of gold quartz has beeu removed and now lies piled up above ground. head and under foot, however, one notices this white flinty rock on which the miner builds his ho, or later that too will probably fin the top to join the pile of the already excav. But “ out there!" shouts your guide, and ==, “GOLD on PrnitEs?? you dodge to one side to make room for the wheelbarrow loaded down with rock that is ing pushed along to the shaft. There it is transferred to the bucket. The signal is given, the windlass, with asturdy man at either crank, begins to turn and the loaded bucket starts on its “slow journey toward the patch of light bove and the empty bucket comes down for ite next load of rock. WITH PICK AND SHOVEL. At either end of the tunnel a number of men are at work with pick and shovel on the masses of quartz that have been blasted ont. They handle the stone more carefully than they used todo when they were quarrying for stone for the road, and a sharp lookout is kept for pieces that promise a particularly rich yield. The men appear to be very much interested in the work, and the remark, ‘That's real gold; them'ain't no iron pyrites,” is often heard they examine a promising piece and find e' dent traces of the precious yellow. | It is a cur- ht, and the “mad ‘thirst for wealth” e said to have taken a hold even on those dusky miners as they cluster around a find and hold their flickering candles close to ‘There is evi- — — FRA DIAVOLO KROUKOWSKI. thrift Cresns. Kroukowski, the Russian Fra Diavolo, who rs our Paris correspondent, a boule- d ten years ago ran the rig here of a His His first recruits were his men servants, who, bits of docility allowed him to enroll d_ the schem “Die Rauber.” “So- ustice” wason their banner, and they pillaged the country houses of the nobles, let- ting tue villages alone. Kroukowski had a It often enabled him when hemmed in by troops to evenpe through them. When Ruseia was made too hot for him he got away to Galicia to np afresh. He was there closely pursued. One day he was on the point of being taken. He was in a Russian officer's uniform, and the idea struck him of going to call on the Austrian officer who was pursuing him. As the orderly was taking up his card he jumped on a aaddled | horse and galloped off. He was once offered by the father of a fair prisoner a large fortune if he would marry her and reform, but having a passion for a village girlhe refused. It was at a rendezvous with this girl that he was taken, after fighting like a tiger. As he had never killed any one a capital sentence was not passed, but the prisoner wax condemned to penal serv- itade for life in Siber ——__ee—____ THE FOKCE OF HABIT. A Tale Told to Physicians and Not to the Marines. From the Boston Herald. It was after dinner at Young’s. A well-known Commonwealth avenue physician had been din- ing with a few professional cronies, and as the cigars were lighted the talk drifted to the to- bacco habit, first, in its effect upon the race at large, and then in its peculiar effects upon vari- ous individuals. “Iknow a man,” said the elder physician, whose income, by the way, rans into five figures, ‘‘in fact, he is now in my employ, who is the victim of the strangest whims in regard to the use of the weed that ever came under my observation. He is a Scotchman, about sixty years old. Twelve years ago he deserted from the English navy and came to this country, when I gave him a position as coachman. “One morning I went into the stable and no- ticed that ahole about two feet square had been cut in a partition between two stalls and a little shelf had been nailed up underneath it. I wondered what on earth it had been done for. but Donald was away at the time and when he came back it had slipped my mind. “It was as much asa week afterward before Thad occasion to go into the stable again and when I did I found Donald standing on a stool, leaning his elbow on the shelf, with a long clay pipe in his mouth, smoking ‘away like a one and blowing the smoke through the little window he had cut. Upon my questioning him him he told me that of the twenty years he had seed in her majesty’s service, ten of it had en on board a powder ship, where the rules against smoking were very strict. During all this time he had been accus- tomed four times a day to stand upon a chest and lean out of a porthole to smoke, so that no one would smell him, and when at last he took French leave he found that he could not get any satisfaction out of a pipe unless indulged in in the old posture, and so, from that day to this, you can — him after bpm and for half hour before going to bed, standing on that stool blowing his ‘make through the ite win jow. ——_—_+e-____ ‘What Makes » Man Old. From the Boston Transcript. To himself,a man is asold as he feels; to others, as old as he looks. There is nothing strikingly new in this observation, but it ap- plied well in an amusing case the other day. On a train that was coming into Boston there were two gentlemen, sitting in contiguous ¥ - THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. COOKS AND COOKING. STARVING AMIDST PLENTY. ‘The Proper Kinds of Meat and Vegetables to Buy. Written for the Eveninz Star. 66\(7HAT SHALL I GIVE MY HUSBAND to eat?” writes a woman. “He is out of health, though attending to business; has very weak digestion, but refuses to touch farinace- ‘ous food that would seem to suit his case. Iam at my wits’ end to know what todo for him.” Bun away little girls, rising sixteen, dewy lipped, rose cheeked, perfection trained, for this family talk wor’t interest you. Go to your industrial school, your King’s Daughter meeting, your lesson in German lite- rature, politics or whatever is on the cards for this afternoon. It can never happen that your Jack, Fred or Max, with the tawny, drooping mustache and the imperial shoulders, the languid eyes and gentle, imperious manner will some day find himself ina dyspeptic revolt and that devilled crabs and larded game do not ap- peal to his nutrient forces. He never will grow peaked and sallow, emaciated in temper and fussy enough to spoil the comfort of the family because he hasn't any of hisown. The idea of that supert creature with the perfectly cut coats and perfectly fitting sentiments and pas- sionate clasp of the hand going about with a disordered digestion and breath like a just- lighted match. Tun along, little girl, run along. This con- sultation is not for you. : STARVING AMID PLENTY. But when the money maker and wage earner degins to fail in health a woman may well look anxious and ask everybody what is to be done. Whom should she ask? There is her mother, but that prosperous lady lias not yet faced worse trouble than children’s diseases, and if her husband died of a lingering illness he had “the best of care and attendance,” and all was left to the doctors most exclusively Singular that he died, starved and worn out, in the home he had filled with luxury, with the most expensive wines and malt foods and pre- red foods wasting on the table by his bedside. But the doctors did. all they could for him and that not being effective it was the polite and proper thing for him to die and have a hand- some funeral. His widow knows nothing about disorders but what ix told her by the faculty; and she can only suggest malt, or koumyss, milk, or pepsin broth, or one of a do: widely different for experimenting on the valid. REMEDIES TOO NUMEROUS. One friend suggests going to Florida for the winter, a second recommends Colorado—leav- ing business at sixesand sevens; Irish Ann, taken into confidence, prescribes mil the doctor gave me brudder in de feve cook tries a round of boiled rice, boile meal, farina and farinose. pearl homin fan n mixtures, till the table looks like a grocery advertising scheme. ‘The aunt from the e y who keeps sum- mer boarders and reads healt vises atrenuously two meals a day, fare of baked applies, milk and bread Medical minded friends send in brown bottles with yeasty mixtures to tempt the ap- petite; emulsions of cod liver oil and gum tragacanth, panads of cream, flour and suet cooked together, with a little port wine to dis- guise them: rich-colored sauces of pounded fowl gizzards, with pepsin and decoctions of all the meeds in the garden boiled to concentra- tion, with whisky to keep. The kind housekeepers of the neighborhood take to sending in little messes. suiable for an invalid—corn starch and co teas, rice pudding with, j ‘oatmeal jelliex—always tl lie flat on the paiate and fi ior. which load the stomach like an arm and reduce the sinall strength left to dist Last of ail, the cook tukex to se baked potato every morning for breakfast— tiost Likely a potato with a green end. ‘Phen it is time to start for those hot springs where a banished friend wrote he was glad to set caterpillars fighting for diversion and get his tooth pulled to pass away time. Detter cat- erpillar tights, however, than poor potatoes for breakfast. Meanwhile the man’s cheeks grow thinner his features sharpen, his temper is excitable, he is easily wearied, grows downenst an loses his interest in things which pleased him. up a WHEN TO BEGIN TREATMENT. Young woman, if there is anything you want to learn im behalf of your future husband and | children it is that when they lose flesh beyond re comeliness it is a n sign of some- thing wrong with health. may not sicken and die for years, but it is the beginning of dia order which can have but one ending—decay and death. That is the time when you can send the shadow of life backward on the dial for many degrees. You don't want to stuff your family plump, butall living creatures under fifty year of age must preserve a decent smoothness of outline and balance of flesh to keep from los- ing steadily and fatally in theend. Health and tliness go together in this matter. cople who call on their nervous force as Americans do should take the most stringent care for diet and its preparation. ‘They cannot spare strength for the digestion to overcome hard tasks. In point of fact th y do not geta very good quality of food generally, and with an active business brain drawing on’ the nerv- ous supply of the alimentary organs they fall into disrepair. The food which does not digest, which the fluid of the stomach does not changed to a milky pulp in three or four hours, ferinents the moisture and warmth of the body. ‘The habit of fermentation grows till each supply of food sets. a new ferment, as the cook ects her yeast. Furinaceous food of ull kinds ferments soonest, cansing gaseous distension and d tress, and this is why madam’s dyspeptic hus- band rebels against the wheat and oatmeal, rice and hominy, with which she mistakenly feeds him. 3 SOURCES OF NERVE FOOD. What he wants is nerve food, in meat, jelly or gravy, free from fat, but fresh with the fra- grant osmazone, which three hours’ cooling will evaporate, brown and thick with concen- tration. To this aod a little bread or prepared grains ir shaye least likely to ferment—purch- ing the cereals or toasting the brown bread. Baking heet kills the fermenting principle and changes the sugar of tees wee into caramel, which does not produce the troubles of liver and kidneys sugar is apt to do. To this you should add Vy rimey nourishment and fruite which purge the blood of its humors and are antiseptic to the entire body. In this way you get rinciples of sulphur, phos- phorus, arsenic, calomel and other drugs with- out their hurtful effects. All this is philosophizing, and people desire tical details which cannot be brought down finely. Madam and all dyspeptics able to work must get rid of the idea that tasteless food is best for weak digestions. On the con- trary, it should be most inviting in flavor, for the sensitive nerves get no inconsiderable nutrition from the volatile rts of food. In the acute craving for strong food which fol- lows fever it satisfies a patient to bring a plate of roast beef or turky to his bedside and let him sniff at it, keeping it hot to throw off aroma seat. One of them was gray and bent. As the train approached the station the white-haired man rose, took up his overcoat, hesitated = glanced nervously around. Then he si man, I will be much obliged if will help me on with myo wy = other rose quickly and gave him the as- snked foro sda Some time you may be old yourself t fifty feet deep and are con-| gre “I? Oh! no,” said the old man. “I'm sixty-three old—almost sixty-four,” he said with a sigh. “Indeed?” said the Tl tell you how old I'am. one years old my next y. It was his actual age, but the first man flatly ta Triuredl to believe it and went off with an air as other were trying to play muibér bol pase Practice and Preaching. SES ae “Fo where thea pad hin twenty move f pean and | ye will be glad of @ young man’s as YOO FOR THE YINER SENSES. The support given by this is as sensible as the relief by smelling salts or champhor in faintness. A spoonful of fresh ground coffee to smell is «great refreshment to a convales- cent who cannot drink it. Old John Caius, ician to Ellsabeht, left « pre- ‘usual way of boiling der and falling from the bones. without removing the It is not at all that the best of meat ahould be aed for this extract. Leer TO COOK MEATS AND EXTRACTS. Any clean, bright scrape can be used, and cuts fromthe shoulder thoroughly baked in this way are more tender and rich than ordi- nary roasts. The meat is slowly cooked in its steam, the flavor does not evaporate; the heat bp x stone ware is of different quality from that of an iron utensil, differing from it as the heat of brick oven does from an iron one. Slow, steady heat dissolves the gelatine of meats far more thoroughly than ordinary methods, leaving the fiber far more tender an dissolving much of the gristly matter. The idea of cooking meats in this way was from Count Rumford’s philosophy, and I have used no other method for many years. Game is especially rich in this way, and game broth should be part of the menu for madame’s husband. Pigeons covered with water and so baked will be embedded in a jelly when cold, and almost a jelly themselves. For a change a tempting broil is made by scraping a cupfal of pulp from a piece of “be or mutton and cooking in a hot frying pan wi cover, turning the meat every minute. like abroiled steak, salting at the last and adding a spoonful or two of boiling water for gravy. ‘0 this add a slice or two of good bread pre- pared by slicing when stale, baking brown in the oven and steaming when wanted. In this way one can have the comfort of eating bread as warm and moist as when freshly baked with- outinjury. The pulped steak may be made very Felishing ‘and beneficial by adding finely minced parsley, green sage or any preferred flavoring, either before or after cooking. USES OF CHOPPED BEEF. An excellent thing for breakfast is the chopped beef, clean, bright pieces put through a patent chopper and sold by the pound like sausage meat. Mix with this twice as much boiled cracked wheat,oatmeal or bread crumbs, with herb seasoning, and you have a highly | nourishing and savory dish for family food, | having all the relish of sausage without takin: digestion. Boston butchers sell this prepares beef at 8 cents a pound, and it proves excellent for forcemeats, dressings and a dozen other ses. People do not need to buy better cuts of alf as much as they do to use more care The revelations re none too ready to jarms, are enough to mal y the prime cuts in the best markets. Facte 1 on this point are not reassuring. The ing] tion of meat in England is far more strict in our own country. Buy none but’ bright, firm, clean-lookin, ‘meats, free from the slightest bruise or blac! speck, especially in rib pieces, and cook it thoroughly. ‘There is no need to turn vegetar- ian, for disease springs as surely and widely from inferior flours, from wheat fungus, ergot in rye and heated corn meal, to say nothing of poor potatoes. ure to eat if bre Bread and potato acid, over-fermente ad of the bakeries and «1 potatoes of the mar- food of any animal. Per- will find sons not dyspep vegetables supp but the cereals must receive far more cooking than they do to be inviting food. COOKING OF VEGETABLES. the | reals and other | y the place of poor potatoes, | j efeam ground, Few cooks know how to boil a potato; fewer still know how to cook oatmeal or wheaten grits. A recipe in the late number of a famil journal of deserved popularity reads: “Ei spoonfuls of cracked wheat or oatmeal toa uart of boiling water, cooked fifteen minutes. tis no wond cooked in this Wheat and | great spoonfuls of either to three pintsof | water boiling slowly down to a quart. The | kernels should «wel! and break like } pep corn | | when done, or like tly cooked rice; the | mass will leave the cooking vessel clean wit jout sticking, and the taste will be different | ing you ever ate by od. | npluints of cours ple come of its not being | we | | pure canned ¢ | at bent groceries, Cream. suit 1 spoonful of the m iow sold at reasonable price ground or re or cooked slight be caten as th ond time. PARCHED CORN. Chief of these is the parched corn which physicians are prescribing for diet in most acute disorders of the stomach and alimentat organs. staple diet of t from the time m can hardly improve on it for taste or tion. rhe use of this food freea one entirely from weeks and bein, on persons DARE. NOT TOO OLD TO ELOPE. | Romance of a Grisled ni the Chicago T “Do you see th: elevator entrance—the one with that buxom- | looking woman on his arm?” asked Clerk Cun- | ningham at the Palmer House yesterday, point- | ing out a man apparently about fifty years old, who was the picture of health, and the good- looking woman of thirty-eight who was affec- tionately clinging to his arm. Didn't they look happy?” continued the clerk after the man and woman had passed from view. “‘And they are happy, too. Do yo know what that is? as e of elopement of the old Spar and all that sort of th and his wife are goin: the Pacific coast Pl tell you all arles A. Miller of Anabei his wife have been he first time I saw tickled to death rand a Califor- Spinster, mt se two days and the m I knew he was about something and which he was just aching to tell. So this morning when came “down from breakfast to smoke his cigar the foyer I told him I wished could appear as happy as he did the time. Thatstarted him. He desk and opened his heart. i name was Alice Leland and she lived in town, Cal.—my jovial friend call town—and that is where he met fate. A bachelor of fifty-eight, who had made his for- tune in the gold mines, you would think would be too tough to make any impression upon, but it wasn't so. He said he felt like a schooi boy, only more # “Miss Leland was not averse to her elderly lover, but her folks had always been so anxious to keep her at home that every young man who had shown any ‘lisposition to care for her wus given to understand that his presence was not wanted. This was the case with Miller. The old folks immediately forbude him the house. “‘Alice was determined to have the man she 5 ht | people do not like cereals | ts need an hour's cooking, five | | with gold in filagree | acidity of the stomach, a small quantity is most | | supporting and it is rich in flavor. Ian speak of it from knowledge after living on it for n just going toward the | | little emer: loved, however, and, as her younger sister favored the match, clandestine meetings were arranged and the day of clopement was fixed. November 20 was the date, and the wintr: lover got a team and carriage, and at 10 o'cloci at night Alice climbed down a ladder, and they drove to Sonora, four miles away, where at 11:30 the couple ‘were married, the preacher and his wife getting out of their beds to light the church where the ceremony was performed. After the knot was tied they drove to Stockton, thirty miles distant, which was the nearest rail- way station, and came east to visit relatives in Toledo, Ohio, and Chicago. “He isa wealthy mine owner, having gone to California from his native state, Ohio, twenty years ago. He was fortunate enough to locate Erich claim, and he told me he tock out ¢30. 900 worth of gold in one day and got his money for it through the Wells Fargo Express Com- He ham't worked fa the. pany. \s the mines for = but he still has large interests in them. fe says he intends to spend the remainder of his happy days on a large orange farm he owns Fruits in Japan. the Chicago Tribune. “My wife and I have been in Yokohama seventeen years,” said Thomas L. Boag yester- day, “and we are going back to England to live. Japan is a good enough place to live “If you can't get away,” put in Mrs. ar Siente te ne. but ite ATTRACTIVE HOMES. The Pressure of Anxiety About Christ- mas Gifts Now Removed. SOME BEAUTIFUL ARTICLES Designed by Feminine Taste and Fashioned by Feminine Fingers for Holiday Presents for Friends Described—The Craze for China Decorative Painting in This City. Written for The Evening Star. The sudden pressure that is taken off one's mind when Christmas is past is almost bewil- dering. For weeks one may have been the de-| Pository of many secrets, and the fear of be- | traying what has been confided, as well as all the personal responsibility on one’s own ac- count, makes life a burden at times. Now con- versation can be indulged in freely without a constant overhanging apprehension of saying | the wrong thing to the right person. No more fear of producing consternation by innocently but unexpectedly entering a room where sud- den idleness seems to prevail, though every im- plement of industry is scattered about. I thus paralyzed a fireside group the other day—be- fore the 25th. Now lam wiser and the where- fore of it all is revealed. All over the land ere now the holiday rejoicing is_ going on, whether the “worldly gear’ be much or little. Those who can still enjoy simple pleasures get the most out of Christmas as well as out of life in general, and the interchange of small gifts, real tokens of love and friendship, contributes to such enjoyment. Many pretty presents which I have seen this year have been home- made, and a description of some may be perti- nent to the season. ‘THE RAGE FOR CHINA PAINTING. China painting has never in Washington raged so violently among the amateurs as this year. Every day the studios of the teachers | have been crowded with busy pupils, while every night the kilns have been pve. ved fall of | imaginable size and shape to be pro- | cured in porcelain, which has all been deco- rated by pupils or outsiders, very few of the china painters here firing ‘their own work. From the largest of vases and punch bowls | down to the tiny spoon for mustard or catsup, everything has been attempted, and as I have ad @ good opportunity for judging, I ean truly say, with !arge degree of success. The honors are about equally divided between Royal Worcester and Dresden, those having super- seded all other styles of decoration—here at Many charming little boxes and trays in Royal Worcester, as well as_ th iarger pieces ustally painted in that way. For- get-me-nots seem to be rather the favorite flower for small pieces and it is very pretty on the TTY DESIONS IN DRESDEN. In the Dresden designs are pretty little things galore, tiny desk candlesticks being a form much affected. Thesoare convenient and spe- cially pretty for the little flowers and fine gold work of this kind of painting. Candles which come for Christmas trees are just right for theve little candlesticks and the tinted white ones look well. In this size the colored ones are not pretty, though in a size larger they are very delicate and attractive in cole Otlier small articles are little mustard cups se in saucers, and with covers; also to go. with them the dainty little spoons, and ‘all be- eprigged and gilded they are very inviting. One painter ndds the monogram of the one for whom the gift is intended, which is a pre ividual idea, while another puts on the bottom pieces of china the date of the gift and i h the initis]s of the one for whom she has painted it. Having this inseription burned in seems to | make the China a more personal belonging and as long as it lasts the writing will. Bruch and eomb trays have been also painted in Dresden, a charming one I saw having veveral bouquets with the single flowers pro- duced betwe A DAINTILY DECORATED TEAPOT. One small teapot for afternoon tea, and of very pretty shape, was also in Dresden, with both large and small flowers mingled and atterns. A little silver rainer and tea cloth embroidered ik flowers were added to this before presentation to complete the Two smoking sets were di though similar in decoration basket, te: | was simple but showy, flowers’ of oraugo red being grouped irregularly and without leaves, but ‘connected by many lines and curves of gold, while all the borders were of the gold in road, stippled effect. The set consisted of tobacco jar with cover and a plate or tray to stand upon, also a small tray for ashes and lit- tle open match holder. Some novelties were little trays with silver instead of gold for the borders. This was put on very wide and then stippled, so it made a | broad irregular band, with pink Howers in the center, und was quite pretty as well as some- thing new. MANDSOMELY FITTED UP WORK BASKETS. Some work baxkets of such pretty shades as light blue, yellow and pink were discovered | one day ina shop by a young woman, who took | k, hile the coloring was what found they were unusually ing round and with three er knobs to stand on, something she seen and liked at one>. Of course ntended for Christmas gifts, like all axes made at that season, and she up quite completely. ‘Each was lined with its corresponding color of India iik, a stmooth-padded circle in the bottom and the sides shirred very full, with a double ruitic standing up a little way above the sweet grass edge of the et. Two-inch ribbon with satin edge was cut into suitable lengths and fringed at the ends and then made into needle books, with feather-stitched leaves between, and a little pin cushion in sachet form, all tied with narrow baby ribbon wherever | possible. A was tied on with it and alsoa for wl sb fancy form of wax, while a pair of gold-handled scissors completed the furnishings. They looked quite a dainty collection when four stood in a row all fresh and gay. A pretty sachet for bureau or chiffonier was of white chins cilk tied with little yellow bows and edged with lace. ‘A FIREPLACE CURTAIN. A pretty fireplace curtain was of “cloth of | gold” or tapestry of a name which I have for- | gotten. “There is no embroidery, but a fringe of brownish yellow and white, with deep netted heading, is across the bottom, with » narrow band of golden brown plush to head it, a simi- lar plush band being the finish at the top. Small braes rings attach it to the brass rod run into the fireplace opening. It is not elaborate, but the softly brilliant ground and harmonizing trimming make it well suited to the handsome brown bed room for which it is intended. One of the greatest pleasures connected with the receiving of Christmas gifts is the arranging of all the new acquisitions later, which will agrec- ably take some time with people fortunately or deservedly popular. Nothing Like It. Btouter—“Ah, there’snothing like one of these easy, canvas-seat chairs to throw one’s self in when one is HOW TO CURE A RED NOSE. anevoen sors tte nest “What shall I do for this nose, doctor?” eaid the patient with the inflamed proboscis, anxiously. “If it gets any redder my influence as 8 teacher in the Sunday school will be totally gone. The physician gazed upon the organ sub- mitted to his diagnosis with a coldly scientific eye. “Do you stimulate?” he inquired. “Drink, youmean? Me?” cried the patient. “Not a drop of spirits ever crosses my lips. My standing in the church” “Then it is as I thought,” rejoined the doc- tor calmly. “Yours isa beer nose. Therefore Ido not think I shall have much difficulty in effecting a cure. Permit me.” Holding a powerful magnifying glass at a dis- tance of about four inches from the organ un- der inspection, he gave a more critical exam- ination to what appeared when thus enlarged to be an unpleasunt-looking «welling, with an irregular surface and many small blotches. Having completed a minute inspection, the hysician leaned back in his chair and said logmatically: “Your nose does pretty well for a beer nose, but it might be very much worse. The worst and most persistent red noses are produced by drinking. “Whisky, you suggest? By no means. Wine, especially Burgundy, is the nose-coloring beverage par excellence. Next comes brandy, {he effect of which is usually a rich purple tint, iis ite misunderstand,” ventured “I never take a drop of beer. A little of earsapa- oceasionally. it is trae——" lever heard of a sarsaparilla nose,” said the ‘doctor, shortly. “I must say that yours coun- terfeits a beer nose astonishingly well. If it is not really such you are certainly unfortunate, for a beer nose yields readily to treatment. which is very far from being the case with wi must be the complaint you suifer from. This is, as I now perceive, a trouble of a chronic nature.” . “Do you mean to say that I am likely to suffer from it indefinitely?” _“Teannot My expectation is that judi- cious treatment, surgical and otherwise, in your care will accomplish much. Your tro’ hyperemic condition of the hair follicles is not so very wicommon, and. clergymen ai her persons with whom put and respectability are, ao to speak, professional, much embarrassment frequentiy ensues. The notion that red noses resnit only from drinking isa poplar delusion which has ruined more good men than any other one cause I know of. A victim of a complaint such as yours cannot go around with a placard saying: “I am not an esoteric bummer, despite’ my appearance.” Sometimes red noses much more aggravated than yours are produced by a skin disease known as ‘acne roseata’ and also by incipient ‘Iupus,’a tubercular affection engendered by the same germs that make consumption of the at what can you do for me, doctor?” My method of treatment for all kinds of red noses is with the knife.” “Oneb “Either with the knife simply, that is to say, or with the knife associated’ with galvano- canter ‘ondition from which you. are suffering implies a local degeneration of tieste and impaired cirenlation in the part. fore I shall operate by. thoroughly. kc the skin, and yon will find that when it has healed, ten or twelve days hence, the redness will bemuch less. At the same time I shall apply a 15 cocaine, which has the effect of contracting the superficial blood veasels. If three such operations at two-week intervals do. not produce a cnre I will try this instrument, which, as yon see, has a number of little knives set parallel to one another, with a needle bel ach knife. The needles are connected with a battery of afew cells and @ current passed through them serves to catiter- ize the cuts as quickly as they are made. This lutter process will usually cure the most agera- vated red nose. Atallevents the processes I mention represent the further advance thus far made by science in this line of surgical in- vestigation. It must be understood, however, that it is not possible to. cure an: toddy nose unless the patient ab: toxicants. Why it * that alcohol occasions hyperwmia and degeneration of tissue at the extremity of the nasal organ is more than any one has thus far been able to learn.” Half an hour later the patient was seen to leave the physician's office with his nose done up in a rag. a Upstie Down. Tokio Correspondence London Times. It is not necessary to put absolute faith in the legend that, when the waiters of Dal Nippon first made the acquaintance of botties and corkserews, they were wont to twist the bottle on the corkscrew instead of screwing the cork- screw into the cork. Nevertheless, you may see to this day, at almost any out-of-the-way country inn,a tendency in that direction which seems to lend rome truth to the story. The little handmaid who puzzles over the problem of uncorking your claret or whisky has an lent leaning, until corrected, to solve it ith the bottle.” When your cook bakes a cake in an ordinar in. it is as certain that if left to himself, he will serve it bottom up- ward, and bottom ‘ugared withal, asit is that the batler will open your tins of jam or pate at the bottom instead of at the Japanese books downward from the top. The place for “foot notes” is at the top of the page, and that for the reader's marker at the bottom. Letter- iting, like book printing, advances by ve from right to left, and is always on one side of one’ strip of ‘paper, which is un- wound from a roli as the writer proceeds and cut off where he finishes. To fold the letter it is doubled over and over from one end of the strip to the other. The postage stamp is affixed on the closed seal-fap of the envelope, instead of on its face. As for the mode of address, it isthe exact reverse of ours. Thus “England, Lon- don Printing House Square, ‘The Times’ Office, the Editor,” would be the Japanese way of di- recting this letter. People in Japan are called by the fumily name first, the individual or what we would call Christian name next and then fic. “Mr. Peter Smith” is in this ‘Smith Peter Mr.” The carpenter planes and saws toward instead of from him— the wrong way ax we should say-—yet his feats of planing are extraordinary, Jay screws pet pwede hy and Japanese looks work “the wrong way.” When traveling you fee the hotel servants soon after your arrival instead of at departure. Arrows are launched from the left side of the bow. Babies are carried on the back instead of in the arms. Candles are blown out with the hand or a fan instead of by the breath. ‘The bookkeeper enters his money figures fitst, his items below them. In place of the hot food and cold drinks in which we indulge at our dinners and luncheons the Japanese lean to cold food and hot drinks. Sweets make their appearance early in the repast. Your host takes the lowest place. Crests are worn on the clothing instead of being graven or painted on the household goods. Horses are mounted from the right side, where also are all the har- | #28 of ness fastenings. The mane is trained over the left side. In the stable the horse looks out- ward from his stall and is fed from a bucket forty, if he be anything of a man. The work he will do will be done with the hand of a master, and not of arawapprentice. The trained in- tellect does not see ‘‘men as trees walking,” but sees everything clearly and in just measure. The trained temper does not t work & blind bull ata haystack; but advances the calm and pace of and deliberate determination. | To him the ‘commonest wonderful, both in themselves beautiful and intelligent whole. as staleness in life and its duties he owledge is always opening out B ver cent solution of muriate of | or four | DOGS OF PEACE AND WAR. History of Man's Faithful Friend From An- cient Times Till New. ‘Bow Ir WAS THAT THE OLD AXD NEW TeeTa- ‘MENTS CONDEMNED TEE BY MORAMMEDANS AND HINDOOS a8 UNCLEAX— FIONTING KXOWING AND SWIFT RUXXIXG DOOR. Ty SEEMS very queer that in both the Old and New Testaments the dog is spoken of with such abhorrence,” said a well-known canine physician of Washington toa writer for Taz Star. “The animal among the Jewish ‘people of old was considered an unclean beast, and the buying and selling of him were an abomination. The only reason I can imagine for this fact is that dogs were held in such idol- atrous veneration by the Egyptians,from whose tyranny the Israelites had escaped. Figures of the beasts appeared on most of the temples of Egypt, and in the religion of that land anciently they were regarded as emblems | of the Divine Being. The people of | every family actually shaved themselves when @ dog belonging to them died, as sign of warning. It has been suggested that the consideration which the Egyptians of old had for the dog ed some connection with their dependence for prosperity upon the periodical overflows of Nile. To these floods they looked forward, as they do now, with anxiety, and it so ha Pened that the inundations were customarily ‘announced by the appearance in the heavens of Sirius, the dog star. As soon as that orb was seen above the horizon they hastened to remove their flocks to higher grounds and abandoned the lower pastures to the fertilizing stream. ‘They hailed it as their god and protector and called it the dog star because of its apparent watchfuluess over and protection of their in- terests. One of their deities—Anubis—had the of a man with a dog's head. “In Ethiopia the people went so far as to elect a dog as their king. The animal so chosen was kept in great state, surrounded by a numer- ous train of officers ‘and guards. When he fawned upon them he was supposed to be | pleased with their proceedings, but when he | growled it was understood that he disapproved of the manner in which their conducted. These indications of his will were implicitly obeved. Wher Pythagoras, after his return from Egypt, founded a new sect in Greece and in Italy, he taught the doctrine of the Egyptian Philosophers that at the death of the body the sonl entered into that of different animals the decease of any one of his favorite disciples he used to cause a dog to be held to the mouth of the dying man in order to receive his de- parting «pirit, saving that there was no animal | which could perpetuate his virtues better than | that quadraped. fiat whenever knowledge | of the Jewi: religion read, or an: ite traditions were belicved, ‘there arose an abbor- rence of the dog. The Mohammedans also have always regarded the creature as unclean and never to be kept in any human habitation. In all Jewish history there is not a single allusion to hunting with’ dogs. though mention is fre- jwently found of nets and snares. The Hin- loos likewise consider the animal unclean and submit to various purifications if they me- cidentallycome into contnet with one, believ- | ing that every dog is animated by a wicked and | malignant spirit condemned to do penance in | that form for crimes committed in @ previous state of existence. Even in Egypt p aot now | areas much avoided as they were once veu- erated. “However, in Greece and Rome the beast was highly estimated. Alexander the Great built a city in honor of a dog. Primarily, the saga- | cious dogs seemed to have had their origin in southern Europe, tle fighting dogs in Asia and the swift-ruuning dogs, like the greyhound, among the Celtic nations. Nevertheless, there 4s no doubt that the mastiff, which is a fighter, is of British origin. “In literature the dog figures as an emblem of faithfulness from the earliest time. Homer speaks of the favorite dog of Ulysses, which had not seen his master since he had ‘been a Puppy. twenty years before. The warrior wended his w: homeward, disguised gar, and stood at the entrance of palace door in that character, because his life Would have been sacrificed had he been recog- nized by the suitors for his presumed widow's hand. His oldest and most faithfui ** "Near to! in the Gout bis ascent And. ot thcons-’ Litts to the souna Yet, all he couid—his tail, Salute waster and confess his Jo} “That is Pope's translation. “There has been some dispute as to the de- scent of the dog—whether it is an improved progeny of the wolf or a distinct variety. That it is not a different species is proved by the fact that the dog and the wolf will mate and produce offspring. Nevertheless, it is probable that the dog is ‘merely descended from the same original stock with the wolf, just as man derives his ancestry from the same stock at the beginning as that of which the monkey may rightfully boast. “The dog is found in various ive conditions from the wild animal to the civilized creature. In its lowest form you find it in the beast of India called the ‘pariah,’ which is in | every inhabited part of the country, desolate, | unowned by any one, daring to enter no house | and wandering about in pursuit of a precarious |living. Now and then ‘a morsel thrown to them for charity's sake. There is a dog which is white, with lon, silky hair, and is taught to carry torches an |lanterns. ‘In the ditches surrounding certain fortresses in India alligators are kept as pete and all the pariah dogs which are caught are thrown to the monsters for food. Sometimes also they are fed to tigers in cages, alive, and on one occasion it was recorded that a dog suc- ceeded in fighting off the tiger and afterward the big cat and. his intended victim became such friends that, when the tiger died, the dog moaned for the loss of his companion for a long period. “Australia is overrun with wild dogs called by the natives dingoes, which resemble hun- gry wolves. They are doubtless the progeny Fun wild of domesticated dogs left upon the island continent by carly Cariously enough the my od seldom barks. It has been observed that the dog in a state of nature rarely does bark. In Lower Guinea wild dogs hunt in large packs. They do not hesitate to the elephant, and usually destroy him. “Numerous accounts have been given both in ancient and modern times of =: sacrificing of for religious pi were immo- lated at certain by the Greeks and Homans to almost all their deitics, particularly to Mars, Pluto, Minerva and Proserpine. Also they were offered to the moon, because the di an ightens awa; ters an tons. The Greeks smcrificed many doge in honor of Hecate, because by their of the ‘lower wor! worevery fonkof dogs Sem. ‘Betoee' Cue: were very fond o! ‘s ‘ Chris- Tianity was established among. the Danes, on every ninth year ninety-nine dogs were In Sweden each ninth day dogs were destroyed. But, jater on, not thought Food enough, and every fous if the reigning (rast cao rei ‘ervant did not know him, but conferring as they drew, Tuaster knew, EE eri eislitl morning he had observed hurrying to and fro in a fever- ish way for an hour or more and said: 4 i i F i i il 3 i ; S i E a Le verument was |S attack | tong WHAT A TREE'S LIFE COVERS. ‘How Its Period of Fxistence Makes That of ‘Man Seem Short. Written for The Evening Star. oO REALIZES with some vividness that man is a creatare of few days when looking Upon a section of a great tree exhibited in the National Museum, to which there is attached an ingenious chart showing what great events have been contemporaneous with the life of this monster of the forest. The tree of which the chronology is thas givem iso tulip tree and started to grow, a young seedling, in the Missiexippi valley during the Fear 1558. Its precise age is known, because to determine that point absolutely is simply a matter of counting the rings—one for each twelvemonth—in the cross section, which was obtained by sawing. Thus it is readily seem what particular ring was the bark of the trea, defining ite circumference, at any given year of its age. In 1558 the tree eprang froma seed and saw the first sewson of ite existence when Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne. Three acces- sive coats of Dark it had assumed when Bacon, Ry the time the future philosopher, was born that it had increased ite dim more ring Shakespeare had come It was bigger by ight mo rings when the Massacre of St. Ba:thalomew occurred. Six rings in addition hod incrensed the bulk of the tree when, in 1578, Nir Francis Drake discovered the harbor of Ran Francisco. Seven more seasons, represented by as many Tings, saw tobacco introduced into England from Virginia, and also witnessed the settling of Roanoke in thatstate by Sir Walter Raleigh, While third ring after those events was fo g the Spani was destroyed and Mary, Queen of ded. Fifteen more rings and Queen crowns of Engiand and Sc inthe same veur, which was also that of the famous Gay Fawkes gunpowder plot for blow- ing up the Eng! f parhament. When the tu overcoats, in 10s, of the telescope, ae present version of the Hite and the Duteb settied at New Ye Tings in addity war had began Again two rings Tivmouth, New mized in the sai Still another ring an Jin the colonies. Nine more lay mi Boston was settled: extra one he poet Dryden appeared on the parish regis Still the tree adding to ite fize by three me that, im 1634, Richeli Academy and Mary! Tings on top A was begun, to large size, was defeated at the bishop Laud was be another three rings hed hirty yeare’ war came toan d, and the very next ring grew in the same season when the commonwealch was declared in England and Charles I behended. Four | More rings and Cromwell was made protector. But seven outside of these had to be formed be- fore the restoration of the monarc! in Eng- land. Another ring and Defoe, destined to be the doen assumed the ps suthor of immortal “Robinson Cru was born. Four on top of these and Milton was writing “Paracise Lost” in the year of the great plague of London | and the great fire of followed the dis- aster of the plague. Fifteen rings ond La Salle explored the Mississippi river: an eatra ring | William Penn settled Pennsylvania, La Salle exploring Louisiana in the sare year. Six rings, and there was a reve One ring more England: one riore, and William Mary ascended the English throne. Add eleven | rings and the population of the colonies had | Feached 262,000. Four rings in addition to these and Marlborough won the victory at Bienbeim. Two rings again and Pranklin was born; four more and the piano was invented: four moreand Louis XIV died, George I becom= ing king in the sume year; thirty-six more and ag a pony of the colonies was 1.000.000. t was in 1750. But the tulip tree had not reached maturity yet. rate of a ring a year, hw by the time the Frenc five on top of these an was born more rings anda declaration of righite wax mad: s Mlonics; six more again and Sir Walter Scott was born: three more and the tea was thrown overboard in Boston and Braddock was defeate olution immediately foll ings the tree added before with Great Britain, and five on top when the Constitution was adopted and Presi dent Washington inaugurated, the French rev- olution breeking out in the sume year. Three more rings and ilintminating gas Was tint used; another one and Whitne gin; «ix more and Washington died; five more ‘aud Napoleon was made emperor. Three rings beside the tree had added when Fulton ascended the Hudson in a #texmbout; another. and the slave trade was abolished; three more, and war was declared with Great i and the first steamship crossed the Atlantic; #ix more, and, in 1835, the’ first railway for passengers was in use, kerosene coming in for lighting purposes in the «me 3 Four more rings and friction matches were first employed: «ix more, and the clectrie telegraph was invented: five more, and postage stamps came into use; four more and nnwsthere was discovered; five more, and Sir John Frank- lin started on his expedition to the north pole; three more, and sewing machines were first made. And «till the tree grew. It had increased in circumference by seven rings when, in IMSS, the Atlantic cable war laid. ftkept on growing aring a year during the war of the rebellion, formed a fresh layer of bark when the electric light was invented, in 1874, was in the bloom of old age at the time of the «ubsequent introduc- tion of the telephone and phonograph, and was only cut down in the year 1885, during which Cleveland was inaugurated. It was only after sawing out the section now shown at the Na- Musexm that it was learned just how this pride of the woods had lived and what erful veriee of eventa in. history it hed It still kept on at the vided four more Nine @ wond survived. TO SAVE THE EYEs. From Harper's Young People. 1. Never read by a dim light. it is a com- mon habit for children and even grown people i in the corner of ® room. The strain thus produced is often sufficient to impair « healthy eye, and surely will weaken one that AH i i :: g rs 5 Hl ie i iz

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