Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1890, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1890—-SIXTEEN PAGES. A SOCIETY GIRL’S DAY. Glimpse of the Home Life of a New| « trite indisposed. York Belle. AT HER MORNING TOILET. ‘When First She Wakes—From Bath toBreak- ‘Her Morning Girl Visitors—Jack or the Titled Foreiguer—The Ride Which Settles it au. ‘Written for The Evening Star. New Yonx, Dec. 25.—When first the lashes of Dorothy, maid of precious lineage and resi- dent of the Hill, flutter upward at the reasona- blehour of 9 in the morning, and the luxu- rious mystery of her chamber is unveiled to her sleepy dark eyes, her first thought is of her bath. Last night » white and haggard youth may havesworn to end his miserable life for unrequited love of her; today one may be coming to claim the hand she has sold for # title; these matters do not interest her. “Celine,” she murmurs, throwing an arm out from under the covers and looking in the di- rection of the portieres that separate her bed room from her boudoir. A slim young maid in a snowflake cap and very plain black dress appears noiselessly and, slipping across the carpet, throws the heavy window curtains to one side, letting the yellow ight of day burn through the lace shades. Have the water very hot, Celine,” gurgles the interesting figure in the bed; and then the fair face ix buried in the pillow ‘again and the shoulders give alittle shiver under the tight- drawn blankets, ‘The journey from a bed to a bath tub is not & serious affliction when one can thrust each tender foot into a down-lined slipper and en- velop the shrinking form in a voluminous gown of softest silk. Dorothy rather likes the dash across the hall and often laughs to herself while making it, somewhat as «bird chixps when it flutters down to the edge of the foun- tain and anticipates the refreshing plunge. One must lose sight of the disheveled girl dur- ing the time she is in her bath. With the swish of waters there are little sighs of contentment. Dorothy loves her tub. It is a commendable Passion in the society girl to do #0. A cap of breakfast tea, two thin bits of toast, a chop with a garland of cress about it, and a snowy egg surrounded by an equal napkin are on a tray that rests on 3 legged table in the boudoir. In choicest china or silver this matutinal refreshment awaits the coming of the aristocratic young creature, who has bad her hair dressed by Celine and who en- ters the little satin-lined paradise attired in soft cream eashmere trimmed with black fur. ‘The sunlight falls on her face. Not a trace of lnst nights dissipation is visible. White and is the flesh, the mouth is a deep red, the warelustroas and humid: a picture of per- fect freshness and triumphant loveliness, the society girl turns her thoughts to tea and toast. Hers is a wonderful life. Maris, who lives in Harlem and goes to the dances given by “The Sons of Gentlemen So- y.” would not take off a cream-colored dress trimmed with fur until midnight if she once got it on, but Dorothy could ‘not leave her private apartments in such guise, so she sheds Ler eag and mutton chop cortume immediately after she consumes her second en of tea and Celine lays out for her the more elaborate gown, ich she can feel safe to descend the stairs of her parents’ house. girl in her down-stairs morning very sweet thing. She looks like the wife in the French comedies—exitemely bird-like and kissable. ‘The lines of the igure scem unusually soft. The gentle eurve caserts shakes hands very methodically with all the girls, holding their fingers even with his chin as he does so. “Mr. Rutherford is hat the door with ‘is trap and will Miss Dorothy ‘ave a drive?” ell Mr. Rutherford I am Mh, no, don't do that, he will see mein the park later. Tell him I'm engaged in my sculpture class.” “Oh, Dorothy,” cried one of the youn, women, as the servant leaves the room. “! heard some one order a bracelet for youat ‘Tiffany's the other day. Ishan't let you know who it was.” “Diamonds?” “Diamonds and pearls.” “It's Jack, then, and he must have stolen money to do it with. He's such a dear f How do you like my hair down in a coil?” “Lovely! Is that one of your Worth dresses?” “Yee: rather pretty, isn’t it?” “Awfally. Isn't that loose look at the waist just swell. And those puffy sleeves. They are dreams. ‘How did you ever think of that sweet t's all so soft and float; Ys ota; Szeisime Mr. ena. a toa iy good variety show the other night, gi jan ‘there said he went to a dinner party at McCarty’s. Mr.McCarty served soup first, and man didn't know there was going to be any- thing else. He ate five plates and then they brought on a ten-course dinner. Man sat for three hours full of soup. Terrible bore, he said. Got to go now. Just dropped in to say an aunt of mine in Englrnd has died and left me fifty thousand. Going to give a breakfast to the prettiest girls in town just in the way of celebration. You are all invited. Ta, ta! Re- member me to your mother. No, thank you. Never drink before ladies—before luncheon, i the we mean. = my ee ees more all roun OUP an r assuring ach girl that ske looks tive s pink ress at sat ise. The young ladies laugh, say Mr. Smythe is dear little fellow and then plunge once more into conversation. “What are you going to wear to the Gaster- Dilk ball tomorrow night, dear?” Yellow, I think.” ‘That will go so well with your beautiful black hair. Ob, by the way, shall you be at the Bronson-Sharps this afternoon? “No. T've got to go down and buy 300 pres- ents for that Sunday school on Sth street. Ong society insisted that I should do it and I've got #500 in my pocket at this minute to do it with. Some one has got to help me, for I don't know what the poor little things would like.” “Get them each a pair of trousers.” “But half of them oe child.” The servant enters and announces the fene- ing master. “I ean't fence today, Walters,” says Dorothy. “Tell Monsieur Castiliard I am sorry to have troubled him. I should have sent him word. Ask him if he will not have a glass of port and & biscuit in the dining room. Now, girls, come to my boudoir and talk tome while I am put- ting on my riding habit. Jack will be here in a few moments.” ‘The four young ladies scamper up over the stairs and ‘shut themselves in the soft fumed little room where Celine, the maid, aids her beautiful mistress to exchange her morn- ing costume for the habit. As the door swings to a peculiar harp, which sends forth wolion harmony when agitated, fills the air with eweet- ness. A small tortoise shell kitten in a huge yellow sitk ruffle leaps to the shoulder of the prettiest of the visitors and rubs its face in the fur of the young lady's cape. A running fire of conversation is kept up. Dorothy vanishes into an adjoining room at a critical moment during her toilet and whenshe returns she is ready for her horse, with the exception of her silk hat and crop, which await her on the tab! A knock at the door is answered by the mai bi with acard for her mistress. she says, and the color of young roses rises up from her throat into her cheeks. Down stairs the bevy of beauties flies. Jack is lounging up and down the hall, beating his boot with his crop and hamming an air from “Poor Jonathan.” He offers his salutations to all the young women, and, while preparing to make a graceful remark to the three callers, itself with « more tender freedom than it has achance to do later in the.dav. The dewy freshness of a lately awakened life is in her ry and a crisp, clean rustle in her white skirts. It might be fairly said that the society young woman reaches the true zenith of her pilities when she comes down stairs and Liscker mother good morning Up to that t.me she has been a beauty neglige. Later on she grows theatrical, oceasionally spectacular. Deculedly, she is best at the ripe hour of 10 a. mn., when she leaves her boudoir and goes down to nik ufter the family’s health. Dorothy's mother must be a tall. expansive, Roman-nosed lady, with an abundance of dia mond cluster rings, to be an out-and-out so- ety mamma. A morning costume of laven- der is appropriate for her. It softens the com- plexion and sets off gray hair exceptionally well. She gives her cheek for her ter Oeil Brews to you last night, “Did Brewsale propose to you last night, m: child?” asks the mother. ase: he dauzhter glances over her morning mail that 2waits her on the table. A letter that she wanted ix not chere. She frowns and tears open the envelopes impatiently. “Grewsale was tipsy last night,” she replies to her mother's query. “He pro to me me, in five times—every time he datced with fact. Naturally I refused him. Jack was there.” ‘The mother frowns now. “hat starveling is everywhere,” she says. “I wish vou wouldn t worry me by having a senti- nent over that fellow.” “Oh. Ill marry a foreign lord for you,” re- sponds the daughter ina voice that is almost harsh. “They are thick enough, heaven knows. Perbaps it won't be Brewsale. I don't like the odor of bim. Jack says its gin that makes him like that.” “I have arranged Lord Brewsale’s orchids in the drawing room,” says the mother, ignoring her daughter's observations. “What have you done with Jack’s roses?” asks Doroth: “Ob, I left them in thejr paper. There were only half a dozen of them. There are three or four other bunches of flowers for you this morning, though none from any one of conse- ewe. Vie could hardly be expected that a girl of wenty, with Dig, penetrating eyes and swift flowing blood. would agree with her mother as to who is of consequence and who is not. It is not surprising that she does not even go into the drawing room to see the nobleman's orchids, and that she hunts up that small bunch of roses from Jack and them to her boudoir. Society girls actually have delightful qualities of beart and mind to start with, and occasionally they retain them through the ex- citement of social training. It is rather diffi- cult, however, to withstand the influence of friends and parents aud rive superior to con- Yentional ambitions. Perhaps Dorothy is senti- mental and houest hearted at twenty. but it would be bard to say what she may be at twenty-one. A clever mother can accomplish a good deal in a year. Te is ‘peal of laughter in the hall. A particularly clean-shaven, dignified and stately Young servant announces the arrival of Miss Wan Beeckman, Miss Cadwallader Jones and Miss Fabnestock. These young ladies, by in- Vitation, come rushing. up to the morning room, bringing with them the breezy swovtness of the cold outer air, and Dorothy becomes a target for their caresse Society girls do not chatter, but they seldom abandon their femi- nine predilections +o completely as not to talk with dazzling rapidity. Four of them together are almost as exciting as fireworks, ‘hat is his full title? His father is very feeble, you know, and it would be rather clever, it, to marry an earl?” would: " i “Jack mys be told the men at the club that the best thing he had found in America were the gin cocktails and the women.” “Between you and me. I don't think he wants to marry very much. He ran after the mar- ried women all last night. You were the only girl he took any notice of, Dorothy. How doce igopreas your” “So I thought. And then his whiskers. They are so like my 3.” “Ek wager you are engaged to him within » the finest cxtates in England. Mem" I’ wish my Dick bad been # viscount. me, the test thing he ever did was to get bis nose n playing foot ball.”” “Where are you girls off to?” “Going to get a Turkish bath. We want you to come along.” “Ob, no, Ican't. I'm going to take # gallop through the park with Jack in a half a litte seedy, too. Walters! Walters! ‘The stately vervant eps in from the ball “Bring cocktails,” says the young hostess. As the servant to execute the order another, quite as and ststely as he, en- “Oh, it's Little Teddy be, girls,” cried Dorothy, Write have hiss here & minute.” those thoughtful young ladies kiss Mistress Dorothy farewell ‘and rush from the house. A servant is rapidly escaping through the gloom of the back hall. ¢ house is very still. One may hear the old-fashioned clock at the head of the stairs ticking away the sec- onds. One may also hear — No matter what one may hear. One must be very sharp of ear to distinguish the soft sound. e door opens and the pale light of the street streams into the hall. Down at the curb stand two saddle horses in the hands of grooms. The young people lock at one another and 4 Passers-by might believe they spoke of e weather, “Then that gin-cocktail lord does not stand a ghost of a show?” says Jack. “Not unless you commit suicide or run away, or do some other dreadful thing,” replied the Sirl, starting Concho steps. cones “You're an angel,” whispered runt clone at her sides . “Oh, no I'm not,” says Dorothy over her shoulder. “i'm a society girl. There's a tre- mendous difference.” As the two ride up the avenue toward the park, the people on the sidewalks turned to look at the exquisitely slender figure of the girl who sitsher horse with the confidence and Unconscious grace of an Amazon. She is by all means the most beautiful thing in sight.though cathedrals and palaces rear themselves proudly on every side. “I must be back by 12,” she called to her companion. “I am at work ona hesd that I'm going to give to you. The sculpture teacher is coming at noontime. Call for me at 3 ard Fl let you take me to the oratorio at the opera ouse. As the smooth and soft bridle path of the rk is reached aud Dorothy starts her long- iimbed hunter into a sharp canter the on-looker is not so sure that the difference is so very wide hour. Tm} between the best type of society girl and the alleged angel. ae Onsenva. ——___+e+—_____ QUIET, BUT RICH. Mrs. Hetty Green's Sojourn in Humble Lodg- ings in Baltimore. From the Mlustrated American. Once not very long ago a reduced gentle- woman who keeps a large boarding house in Baltimore received a letter from a lady sign- ing herself Mrs. Hetty Green, asking that two rooms might be reserved for herself and her invalid son, who would be in Baltimore for a few days. The landlady reserved the rooms and Mrs. Green and the invalid boy arrived in due time. ‘Now, the landlady was not well up in rail- road affairs and hadn’t the remotest suspicion that her quiet lodger was the richest woman in the United States and the one of whom an edi- torial wag remarked, at the time of the appoint- ment of the interstate commerce commission, that if the President wanted to appoint a per- son who knew all about railroads, Mrs. Hetty Green was miles ahead of any other railroad sharp in the country. Nothing in Mra. Green's style or manner of ‘living was calculated to en- | lighten the landlady, She did not take the most expensive rooms in house, and the | only luxury she permitted herself was a daily |drive in @ livery carriage with her crippled boy. But in « few days after her arrival a superb carriage p to the door and Miss Mary Garrett sent up ecard. Next came Mra. Robert Garrett, and then the president of the Johns Hopkins University. The Baltimore and ‘Ohio magnates were very anxious to be friendly with Mrs. Hetty Green. This rather opened the landlady’s eyes, but when Mrs. Green a red one evening dressed to go to a splendid | Gasaee qeeen ber by tae Gaxretee tha landiady scarcely recognized her quiet | , for she was magnificently gowned and wore the | jewels that sbe reserves for very grand occa- sions. Then the whole thing dawned upon the land- lady. She found out that the quiet ledger was '& person regarded with respect, uot to say super+ stitious awe, by every railroad te in the country. But the quiet lodger continued as quiet as ever and lool est bill on leaving before paying it. ‘The question of Cleopatra's beauty is an old one, but it has been brought into fresh prom- inence by Sardou's “Cleopatra” and Mrs. Lang- try's revival of Shakespeare's play. The only authentic portrait of Cleopatra that isknown to archeologists is a bust which appears on a series of coins. It ison thereverse and bears the inscription in Greek, “Queen Cleopatra, the Divine, the Younger,” while on the obverse is « portrait of “Antony, Dictator for the Third Time, Triumvir.” The workmanship of the coin is far from food and this accounts in some measure for ‘undeni i Yet the likeness oo far" Es the festures gris o true one, for the other coins of the same series, of a different type, give her the same features—an aquiline nose, a strong chin. a long neck and narrow shoul: fact is that her beauty was not so remarkable us one would th:nk from the spell she cast over Cesar and Antony. Plutarch. for instance, tells us | ‘‘that her beauty in itself was by no means in- comparable nor to amaze thore who w Ker manner, the grecefulness of her move- ments, the persuasiveness of ber conversation and her figure were most sttractive. P| been a life-long fi sharply over her mod- | }° +” but adds that the magnetic charm of | he cae ae oa CAPITOL ‘MEMORIES. But Three Ex-Speakers of the House of Representatives Now Alive. JOHN WHITE OF IOWA. ‘The Second to Cilley in His Duel With Graves —Calhoun’s Prophesy in Regard to the Southern Railroad System—Dr. Gwin and Gen. Jackson. Written for The Evening Star. trate into the vault-like passages behind the gallery of the old bali of the House of Repre- sentatives. and gazing around me, as I had done 80 often in the days gone by, from that “coigne of vantage,” the ghosts of the past came up be- fore me from the time when John White of Kentucky was Speaker. Of all the able debat- ers of that period, whose eloquence resounded through those vaulted passages nearly all have paid the debt of nature. I cannot recall as living any of them but the Hons. George W. Jones of Iowa and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, and the Hon. Hamilton Fish of New York. Mr. Jones entered Congress as a delegate from the territory of Michigan in 1834, and in 1839 he was elected Senator from Iowa. Mr. Jones was for many years a conspicuous figure in the social life of Washington. He was one of the most gallant men then in society and a univer- sal favorite. He still livesand was so devoted to those friends of the past that he traveled from his_northwestern home toattend the fun- eral of Jefferson Davix at New Orleans, with whom he had served in both houses of Con- gress. Mr. Jones was the second of Cilley in the duel with Graves, in which he was killed, and while in public life was marked by his devotion to his state and to the political party he represented in Congress. Mr. Hamlin occupied a seat in the House of Representatives as early as 1842-3 and while there was @ democrat of the most ultra stripe. The Hon. Hamilton Fish came to Congress in 1840 and at an advanced age and with the accu- mulated honors he has enjoyed still lives. Those are all I can recall as living of the Speak- ers whose services, compared with those who came in succession after John White, up to 1850-3. are almost modern, and yet there are but three survivors, Mr. ‘Robt’ C. Winthrop, Gen. Banks and Mr. Grow of Pennsylvania. DISTINGUISHED MEN IN THE SENATE. ‘The Senate of that day, of which Mr. Jones of Iowa, Mr. Hamlin and Mr. Bradbury of Maine alone survive among us, contained the most distinguished men this country has pro- |, Messrs. Clay, Calhoun, Preston, Wright of New York, Gen. Cass, Dan lS. Dit inson, Sam Houston, James M. Mason and others, who have long since paid the debt of nature, Jeaving only those three living mem- bers of a period celebrated in history @ men who occupied seats in Congress in those bygone days were certainly possessed of great ab and left their mark indelibly on the pages of history. The condition of the country may have had much to do with their action. They were called upon from their places in Congress to propose measures for the development of the unknown resources and possibilities which then lay in the womb of the future and in one insta were certainly blessed with the gift of prophecy. In 1815 a commercial convention was held at Memphis, the object of which was to discuss the material interests of the southern states, their dev ment and the modes of procedure to those interests available. Mr. John C. presided over the convention and in his open- ing speech laid out with the precision of the engineer the railroad. system of the south as it exists today; indeed he went farther and ad- vised what ‘is now being considered —direct communication with Europe from what were then almost unknown ports in the south. CALHOUN ON SOUTHERN RAILROADS. He said: “I now approsch the important question, How shall we who inhabit this vast region develop its resources? For this purpose | there is one thing needful, and only one, and that is that we shall get a fair remunerative price for ell that we may produce. If we cai in such prices this vast region, under thi active industry of its intelligent and enterpris- ing inhabitants, will become the garden of the world. How is this to be effected? There is but one mode by which it can be effected—that is to enlarge our market in proportion to the increase of our production. ‘his, again, can be obtained only in one way, and that is by free ard rapid transit for persons and m chandise between the various portions of this vast region and between it and other portions of the Union and the rest of the world. ‘The question then is, how shall we accomplish such a transit?) For this purpose na- ture has been eminentl tly propitious to us.” Discussing the dan; paseage down the Mississipp the peninsula of Florida he added: “Bet this and Charleston and Savannah there may be a connection by railroad to not excced 600 miles and which would be free from e and losses. What, then, is needed to pi and coast is a good system of railroads. this purpose the nature of the i y affords extraordinary advantages, its formation from the course of the Cumberland and Alabama rivers and ion of the various chains of the mountains that all the railroads have been projected or commenced. ul- though each bas fooked only to its local inter- sts, must necessarily unite at a point in De Kalb county, in the state of Georgia, calicd Atlanta, not far from the village of Decatur, so as to constitute one entire system of roads hav- ing natural interests each in the other instexd of isolated rival roads. At that point the Charleston and Savannah roads, each niming at a connection with this great valley, me from that point the state of Georgia is engaged in constructing a railroad to terminate at Chattanooga, on the Tennessee river above the suck, which passes south of the western termi- nation of that chain of the Alleghany which throws the water on the one side into the Mis- sissippi and on the other into the Atlantic. Mr. Calhoun gives in detail the rouds needed to make the system complete, and he knows so well the subject be discusses that he actually gave to the engincer the lines upon this great through system which was to be perfected, and that, too, years before the surveys had been made. ‘The grandsons of the departed statesman, Messrs, John C, Calhoun of New York and Pat Cal- houn of Georgia, are now engaged in fulfilling this prophetic speech, the data for which had no existence at the time but in the mind of the great statesman. The uncle of Pat Calhoun, and after whom he was named, was in the old Dragoons, and with Phil Kearney, Col. Scott and others formed the nucicus of a small club (the Hope Ciub), which rented a house where now the Corcoran building stands on F str Gen. Scott, Gen. Gibson and other old officers were members of the club. For Mr. Calhoun, who may occupy a seat in the Senate, | resembles his uncle very much. DR. GWIN AND GEN. JACKSON. Another one of the men who was a member of the House from Mississippi as early as 1847 was the late Dr. Gwin of California. He had iend of Gen. Jackson and, while in Congress, the Senate and House, left enduring memories of his career. He was one of the first Senators from California and is remembered here so weil by the many who i Jong residence, where igned. The Jast time I in New York, only a few days before hix death, he showed me two vol- umes of letters from Gen. Jackson, a corre- spondence which had been carried on fur many Years between the ex-Senator and the old hero, the presidential chair. ‘Their relations had been in allthese years of the most intimate character, and these letters, wrjtten in the con- fidence of that friendship, revealed the inner- most sentiments of Gen. Jackson during his long life, so fraught with stormy incidents, wi . While they made up the life of the ex- President, contributed to the history of the country some of its brightest pages. Dr. Gwin, as he was always called by his friends. had the idea at that time of preparing this invaly ble collection for publication, bat his death which occurred so soon after he read this letter to me prevented bis carrying out that intention. I presume the volumes are in the possession of the family of the ex-Senator, and it is to be hoped they may be prepared by some one of those who are familiar with the relations exist- ing between two such old friends, whose names are inseparably ‘united by the long years of com- panionship which occupied a very importunt in the political history of the country. In is most interesting letter Gen. Jackson tells Dr. Gvin that, admonished by age and its in- firmities. he cannot much longer hope to re- main here. Deeming it a duty to give testi- mony to the world of the faith that is in hina, and in which he lived for years, and though a regular sttendant at Divine service, he had never formally joined any charch—that i expressed it, “had not been recei the ebareb ada practical member.” Desiring to become one he suid he bad seut for the rev- erend gentleman under whose preaching be had tervening | ginning before Gen. Jackson's oceupation of | sat for so long a time, for the ot for that event. gthy one, says: His came at his request, and the general what his desire was in sendi asked him to and communicant of the church. The reverend tleman told the general the most important ty incumbent on him would be perhaps, to him the har per find it difficult, but it is one of our; Lord's most imperative commandments.” The | c eral said be i difficulty, for his life had been filled pared to say if he could really do so, and the pastor to give him unt consider it. He consented, of course, and praying with the old hero for the n the minister came the next day, as | tho ber of those he had f remember, he sa: ter, though hehad treated me very badly,as you know.” Others he names,and appeals to the doc- tor to remember how unkindly they had acted toward him and says at last: “Yes, I for- give Buchanan for having for so many’ years deceived me a: sed me to do eo much in- justice to Mr. C dhis unreserved and earty forgiveness from a man of Gen. Jack- son's implacable nature was regarded as o manifestation of Almighty power and the sin- cere desire of the general to bec member of the church. The reverend _gentle- man expressed himself as entirely satisfied and it was arranged, as the general wrote, that on the following Sunday he should be. formal received into the church. oncludes this most interesting letter in hit istic style and says: ‘As the pastor was leaving me Teaid to him: ‘I have most freely fo1 my enemies, but, by the Eternal, I forgive the enemies of my dear wife.”’ ‘A REMARKABLE PARALLEL The most remarkable parallel exists between the preparation made for death by Frederick Wilhelm of Germany and Gen. Jackson, as re- lated by Carlyle. In the case of Frederick Wilhelm the king was aware of the near ap- proach of death, and Carlyle says: “Sends for Chief Preacher Roloff out to Potsdam, has some notable dialogues with Roloff, and two other Potsdam clergymen, of which there is record still left us.” In these, as in all his de- meaunor at this supreme time, we see the bi rugged block of manhood come out very idly—strong in his simplicity, in his veracity. Frederick Wilhelm’s wish is to know from Ro- loff what the chances are for him in the other world, which is not less certain than Potsdam and the giant _grenadiers to Frederick Wilhelm and where he perceives, never half 0 clearly before, he shall actually peel off his kinghood and stand before God Almighty no better than a naked beggar.” Roloff's prognostics were not fo encourging as the king had ‘hoped, and after some discussions between them, in which Ro- loff lays before the king some of his public acts, which must be repented of and repaired and says: “And there is forgiveness of ene- mies. Your majesty is bound to forgive all men, or how can you ask to be forgiven?” “Well, Iwill; do. You, Feekin, write to your brother (unforgivablest of beings) after Tem dead that I forgave himand died in peace with him.” “Better her majesty should write at suggesta Roloff. {ter I am dead,” persists the son of nature, “that will be safer!" An unwedgable and gnarled block of manhood and simplicity and sincerity, such a we rarely get sight of among the modern sons of Adam— ‘among the crowned sons nearly never. GEN. BEALE’S BOYISH FIGHT. I learned the other day the true story of the boyish fight in which Gen. Beale was engaged when Gen. Jackson interfered and separated the youthful combatants. They were hard at figure appeared, and, putting his nm them, said: “Stop this fighting,” for they were on the President's grounds, then 4 most volitary place and under a stone arch which formed the entrance to the grounds. The fight, of course, was stopped, when Gen. Jackson said to Ned Beale: “What are boys fighting about? Put on your jacket, sir. Ned Beale sid: “That boy was hallooing bur- rah for Adatas and [was hurrahing for Jack- son.” The President said: “Whatis vour name, 3 ‘Ow You go ah for Jackson—I am Jackson—but md when yon want anything come Beale in the meanwhile attended 1's school on 9th street, now the residence of Mr. William Galt, and opposite, on the corner of H_ street, stood, until a few years ago, the little wooden house where Mr. Charles Strahan taught school. The memory of the old pedagor mn McLeod, remains with many of our 0 citizens who attended that old gentleman I can see now "He was a specimen of the ‘er when Ireland, the land of scholars, furnished the world with teachers. Like the famed Irish schoolmaster, which Mas- ter Burke used to represent as the infant Ros- sious, he adopted his mold of imparting knowl- edge by the application of the rod. “If the mind wouldn't mark, faith he'd soon mark the back, that he would do wid a — of a crack.” ‘The ‘old man would take the culprit by the collar, and, leading him into the middle of the school, point out his motto painted on the arch between the two rooms—Order is heaven's first law”—he would lecture him on his outrage against that motto, closing with: “Order is heaven's first law. "Columbia Academ il. principal.” "I don’t care to ‘whom lated or by whom begot, I'l thrash you, be Jabbers,” and then would follow a severe easti- gation, sometimes so severe as to trench on homanit: An old scholar of Me- relates an instance of the discipline iin the school that on one occasion boy who had been tried by a “dramhead court- martial,” “organized to com ras sentenced to be hung to the bell rope, which was midway in the school. ‘The boy was brought into school with hands tied behind him, the whole school in solemn procession attending, preceded by | Ned Beale with drawn sword and with all the solemnity of realism. Mr. Smith, the assistent, an Irish gentleman scholar, who resembled, a Trecall him, Dominie Sampson, interceded in all the impressiveness of reality, and “old McLeod,” as everybody called him, relente and the’ boy was spared, and he was duly i pressed with the merey vouchsafed such an i corrigible offender. HOW GEN. BEALE ENTERED THE NAVY. After leaving school the mother of Gen. Beale took him to the President to ask an ap- pointment in the navy, where his grandfather, Commodore Truxton, end his father, George Beale, had served with distinction. At this in- terview Ned Beale interrupted his mother's ap- peal and said: “Mother, the President has no time to listen to us," and anid, “I am Ned Beale, who was hurrahing for Jackson, and you told me when T wanted anything to come'to you. other wants me to enter the navy, where my grandfather and father served, and T want midshipman’s warrant.” The President tore | from a letter (we had no envelopes in those | days, but wafers were universally used) a piece the wafer still adh to it and wrote: int this boy navy. A.J.” ‘ake that to the Navy Department, my boy, d the Secretary will appoint you. ‘Thus it s that Gen. Edw. F. Beale entered the navy. A few wecks ago I came across the announce- | ment in the Intelligencer of 1842-3 the arti iven, and among them, | Coy worked involuntarily and his voice vibrated = never | my a esorae ‘You are mistaken, Mr. Jarvit Spor ima not you! don’t fight John A cent and | age Hunter (Alvarado Hunter) as commander and Edward Fitzgerald Beale as master. Mr. Beale of the navy accompanied Fremont across the continent, and was in California when Commo- dore Stockton took porscasion of the country, and I will make an extract from Col. Benton's speech in the Senate detailing that feat of dar- ing by Gen. Beale, to which I have referred in my previous articles. A RELIC OF WASHINGTON’S BEST Days Is an advertisement of the sale of the house on the corner of 6th street and Pennsylvania avenue, where,for lo! these many years Col.Jim Long, the owner of “Boston,” lived and reigned. That is surely “classic ground,” for there for years congregated the elite of the sporting world. I don't mean the “sporting world” us it is re- gurded today. I mean the gentlemen who duiged in the passion for faro and horse racin; when they were the pursuits of gentlemen Imeans;ewhen no. gambler was allowed to on ter a horse for a race and Col. Jim Long, who became as near being a gentleman as any man of that profession, was not allowed to enter a horse such as “Boston.” then the monarch of the turf, under his own name. William Hol- mead, my old and dearly remembered friend, always entered him as hisown. Those were the paluiy days of the turf with Gor. of jaryland as the president of the jockey club and Gen. Gibson, Gen. Scott, the’ President, Jackson, Maj. Hook, Maj. Nicholson, Capt. Brown, ‘Commodore Stockton, &., were bee the charge of Walker's successor, Col. Elias Rector became the victim of Gen. yr | Albert Pike's economy. id him | to Washington as the for him, and | kansas for Pierce and King. and expected “‘a repare him to become a member | mighty nice fat office and some other equally fortable thing, Brown's Hotel at to perform, but it was im-| ness of Perative. his substance in living at that rate an; “General,” he said, “that duty is forgiveness | advised ne of your enemies, and in the long life of political | come to “The Wigwam.” strife in which you have been engaged you may | had taken a house on 41¢ street, where Pike, ivine | Johnson, Sebastian and others were domi- iled, and said: “Go, dine al the necessity and Prindle’ "Yes! I forgive Poindex- | Stephen Girard! ‘ome a devout | With suppressed feeling as he sai “Ha! The courted and admired Bertha Spoonamore rejects the suit, of Hugh Jarvis because, forsooth, he has none of those eyhe- meral attractions that mark the male butterfly characteristic | of modern society ; “If I cannot bring myself to love you, Mr. ren all | Jarvis,” replied the young woman, “it is not That is the way I fascinate you. Ha! Ha!” And he laughed sardon “You do, indeed, M le itself in her’ truthfal 3 thought that if I had such a mug as 3 would hire it out to a paper-mask factor; pattern.” All From Trying to Ki From Life. of Sloop of War at Rio de Janeiro with Charley | naires pitation ip a little court. cosily, like warm fire, on which a dinner was cooking mer- rily, Joan. “Try and think of something.’ Whereupon the lady, rather indignantly, re- marked quickly followed. “You see, it's this way, marm, y “The grocer up at the corner told ns that your society had no end of money that it wanted to | give away and he axed ns several times why didn’ ax for sumpin’. axed, th when you come in what it was I lacked.” ‘Shad; that Col. Rector had come t of the vote of Ar- ” and he was living at the exorbitant rate of $2.50 day, when Gen. Pike suggested in the kind- his heart that Rector was wastin; that he his room and e Arkansas crowd give a v8 at Goode & 's: take room here and save money. 80 | The next day, having been convinced of Pike's much of bitter controversy that he was unpre- | economy, he was there to breakfast with the Arkansas crowd, and, as he told me, “I wanted the next day to | coffee and Pike ordered wine, and then a waiter ter | or Shad came and whispered to Pike, who said assistance of | certainly, and found it was “the first shad’ AFER DAYS AGO T had occasion to pene- Almighty God promised to return the next | atI don't know what,and so on to the end 0 he writes, he told him he had forgiven them all | found my share of that breakfast was more and goes on to tell Dr. Gwin thenainesofa num-| than my week's board. I tell you, Johnay breakfast, and the list came in, and I le, Albert Pike's ceonomy would break old Joux F. Corie. Not His Manly Qualities but His Face That Held Miss Spoonamore Spellbound. From the Chicazo Tribune. He stood before her in the pride of his rugged manhood. His strongly marked features fault.” “If you cannot bring yourself to love me!” he exclaimed with bitterness. “It would re- quire an effort, then, would it? I tractiveness all that wi I speak not of paltry g hand, but not the heart. tractive in personal appearance,” he wont. on vehement): that I am, that you were one who looked thro: judged man by his mind and heart. tured to think, Bertha Spoonamore, that in our frequent interchange of thoughts, impressions, aspirations and hopes we had discov geniality i accidental affinities based on the attractions of face or form. I know that my features are irreg- ular, that m; small, my other, that my forehead projects unhandsomely, and t al at. . It may win the Iknow Tam not at- “but I ad dared to hope, fool fa and bevond the merely exter ven- da con- finitely above the meretricious and nose is. too large, my chin too ws out of harmony with each t my eyexare crossed. My personal ap- ranee is one that repels. I know that well * said Miss Spoonamore kindly, and regarding’ the homely man with interest. fascination for me.” “Your face has a strange “The hideous. serpent- ctor Hugo's disfigured nplain, exercised on those about him. onamore, you are not the womar ge Thave carried in my heart. exist. I interest you? I fasei she doe: ute you! Jarvis,” protested the Jess natere mirroring Ing woman, her gu: es. “I bave often mrs I asa ee His Own Wife. Objects of Charity. Indy well known in Washington for her benevolence and amiable character has become temporarily discouraged with giving. Re- tly she joined a relief socicty for the poor the other day it fell to her lot to visit an ‘couple who had written to ask for assist She found the objects of intended char- in a very small but exe They were sitting aurby and Joan, on either side of a ‘What is it that you want?” asked the visitor, telling why she had come, not without some effort to dissemble her surprise. Joan looked at Darby and Darby at Joan. ‘What do you want, Joan?” ‘asked Darby y,"” replied scratching his head. ‘I'm sure I don't know, Da t the purpose of her coming had nto relieve distress. An explanation ‘id Darby. e So st last I wrote and jough Thadn’t just made up my mind a The Coming Man. the Philadelphia Press. mai Bub!” he called at the market yesterday morning after he had disposed of all of his po- tatoes, “is there any toy store near here?” “Yes, sir.” “Just show mo the way, will you? I've got to buy a fow things f ¥ louse is one of ho moet colaated in Waning | se, jouse is one m e | a [Ph eatStdtancmnesiiencena| Aton eae, a a is re ent of the meme wi hs i | we ragacteed ak Weaeinenerrpfonan sare Craver) ST? YOR going to buy him for ALDERT PIKE'S RCOXOMY. “Tdunno yet. I was thinking I'd git some There was a man named Snow—I don't recall sort of toy a his first name—but he kept the restaurant in | »¢ jai’ Mimme give you a bit of advice, Pe the basement, and an admirable house he kept, ‘love. ingines are toy but in an evil hour he wax visited by the aveng-| mulea won't kick for shucks and | ing power of a nemesis which drove him from | jack knives fall to in a week. If you've the city, and outraged public opinion cleaned gota bor and you want to tickle him most to | out his establishment and tion and run | death I'll sell "you my roller skates for half | existed after the visit of the offended and so | price, ‘cause we ain't got no for skating remained until Wm. Walker apy and re- \. winter and I want to em and spend Lsbilitated the famed restaurant, It was under all in cocoanut candy.” LAST OF THE GREAT AUK. An Expedition Sent by the Smithsonian Institution to Funk Island. HOW THIS INTERESTING BIRD WAS RENDERED EXTINCT—THE SOIL OF THE ISLAND FOUND ‘THICKLY PACKED WITH SKELETONS—THOUBANDS: OF BONES, BUT FEW PERFECT ONES. Written for The Evening Star. HE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION is on the point of publishing a descriptive ac- count of an expedition made under its direc- tion a short time ago to Funk Island, off the coast of Newfoundland, which was the last re- trent of the now extinct great auk. It is now about fifty years since this interest- ing bird, existing a century ago in countless myriads, succumbed to destroying man and disappeared almost simultaneously from the shores of Europe and America. As the buf- falo contributed to the opening of the great west, the great auk played its part in the set- tling of Newfoundland by supplying with food the first comers in that region. For many years the creatures were used for i both fresh and salted, as well as for bait by the fishermen, but it was the trade in feathers that had most to do with the destruction of the species, FUNK IStaxD seems always to have been the chief breeding Place of the great auk, and there it lingered long after it had been entirely extirpated ii other and more accessible localities. It was at no small risk that the sailors of old and the hardy colonists resorted for supplies to the s lonely rocky islet, thirty-two mul Atlantic, environed by reefs and sioals, over which the sea breaks heavily during storms. Lut the supplies had to be got at any risk, and so the work of slaying the birds went y on until the last of their kind nd dis- face of the earth and the had resorted for untold out in the ms and eggs of the birds have been iin museums. The National Museum astuifed specimen and an egg, but in the bone collection only a single @ great auk’s ske be was exceedingly u found. subsequently it came about that Mr. Frederic Thi and , curator of the ao ie of com- anatomy at the Smithsonian, sug- rs that un expedition should be made to Fank Island for the purpose of procuring what remains might be found there of the vanished fowl. His idea was approved, and —subse- ently he was sent to the island on board the ish commission schooner Grampus. AN INHOSPITABLE SPOT. Mr. Lucas found this strange rock in the midst of the sea to be about half a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in width, edged for the greater part of its shore line with steep Dluifs, “A more inhospitable spot could hardly be imagined, and ordinarily it is very dificult to make a linding at all. Even the great auks, which could onlygswim and had no power of flight, must have got considerably banged up virying to secure a landing. y were wi customed to migrate southward every winter, anc it seems wonderful indeed that they ehould have been able to tind their way back again to »stnall a dot in the ocean. This sort of in- act in many animals amounts to a sixth se, which man does not seem to share at all ‘The island ia of red sandstone, but less than a century ago the number of birds breeding Upon it Was so great as to make it look white, and Audubon, in 1833,compared the effect of the Dirds, seen from # distance hovering over the summit, toa heavy fallof snow. It should be said here that the great auk was not the only Water fowl that frequented Funk Island. There were myriads besides of gannets, murres and razor-billed nuke, wi last are very near cousins to the great It was at the west end of the island tha great auks congre- gated, having that part to themse! rock was shelving and cony access, Between this lowand she! the eastern part of the island come up, which was sufficiently great ank from over it. Whereas it was reckoned in 1860 by Dr. Bryant that the total number of gannets breeding on the sum- mit of the rock was 50,009 pair, not one of these birds is now left. EGG-SMASHING EXPEDITIONS. It is the egg gathering industry that has had very mach to do with the steady diminution of these waterfowls of various kinds. The plan adopted on the islands along the coast of Lab- rador and elsewhere party on arriving to sv. ind. Then the birds are gathered up and John's, Newfoundland. against such proces enforce it, in fact almost during er without a visit land by fishermen in search of eggs. go a fog gun was set up on the rock and was a cause of great destruct the birds. At each discharge the frightene murres would fly up in cloud sitting bird tak its thighs and dropping it after going afew yards, ‘There is one bird on Funk Island which has fairly defied the effort of man to exterminate is the little put te a foot in hei ig atep Searce a and po a burrow for its habitation, sometimes as much as four scratching. It is troublesome to efore, and, inasmuch as it bites and claws unpleasantly, it is pretty much left alone. WHAT THE EXPEDITION FOUND. Mr. Lucas and his party landed upon Funk Island with a dory full of provis ments, including a tent buckets, boots and ¢ was about forty-six feet high, was easy enough by a circuitous path. It was at the west end of the islet, however, where the great auk bred in peace for ages, that the expedition bones of myriads of these birds buried i shail slabs of weather-beaten gran- i vout, like o many erumib- ling tombstones marking’ the resting places of thedeparted fowls. On the summiz are the ot a stone hunt, built from these slabs, i iy said to. have been constructed for the umonation of a erew of sealers, who, passed the winter on the were lost except the cook, wed in an almost insane condition. FINDING SKELETONS. The roil was found upon digging to be of two distinct layers, the lower portion, formed dur- ing the oceapancy of the auk, being from inches to one foot in thickness and eon- ig largely of fragments of e; is black dust from decayed vegetation and patches of charcoal from old fires. With two m hoes rapid progress was made in turning over the soil. The skeletons were found jn a compact mass beneath the matted roots of the plants on the surface. In the vi- | einity of the ruined hut the moet abundant deposits of ank bones were discovered, the skeletons of thonsands of birds being mixed to- ether in inextricable confusion. Patches of harcoal and charred fragments of bones lay here und there, showing where the kettles once swang in which the fowls were parboiled to render picking easy. ‘Tradition says that the bodies of ‘the great auk were so fat that they could be used for fue! Here and there were high to prevent the | ig its egg into the air between THE EVOLUTION OF THE NECKTIE. Now the Only Part of Man's Attire Left for the Display of Variety. From the Pall Mall Gazette. In the present somber and unattractive cos- tume worn by the male of today, in which Picturesqueness has been so completely sacri- ficed to utility, fashion has left him but one small portion of his attire where he may yet display a little variety in color and form, and that isin the shape of his scarf or necktie. “Tis here a refined and well-bred man will show his good taste in some unobtrusive ar- Fangement in silk or satin. The abject fol- lower of fashion of the masher type delights to adorn his person with something eccentric in this way. As every man reveals more or loss “certain amount of character by the way he dresses, it often follows the lower and more vulgar the taste the louder the necktie, which | may be instanced in the delight ‘Arry takes in decking himself ina tie of the brightest ver- million or other brilliant color. However dar- ing m point of color a young man may be in his neck adornment. he generally emerges into the staid and more conventional black as he gets to maturer rears, Originally intended as a tion to the throat, the necktie has now degenerated to a Mere ornamental item of dress, and to trace its origin we must go back to the stirring times of the Stuarts. Down to the early part of the seventeenth century the ruff, which hed grown to an enormous size, combined the offices of a neckcloth as well as collar. It was not until the close of the reign of Charles Il that neck- cloths, or cravats, were first worn in England, and were doubtless gladly welcomed asa change from the stiffand uncomfortable ruff. They were usually composed of rich Brussels or Flanders lace, tied in aknot under the chin, and the ends allowed to hang down squa | Still later they were worn much longer, the ends being passed through the buttonholes of the waistcoat. 1690 The lace neckcloth was succeeded by the small | cambric Geneva bands, not unlike those used gentlemen during the reign of Wil |IIL The lace neckeloth’ again became fi | ionable time, bnt was finally | nbandon nt 1735. This w | broad silk ribbon, which fashion ordained to worn round the neck and tied ina large bow in the front. A iew years later white cambrie stocks that buckled “behind were introduced, and these were succeeded about 1789 by the | muslin cravat, which was more comfortable to | the wearer as well ay graceful in. appearance. | The muslin cravat was passed twice round the in acapacious by | which it was the fashion to bury the chin. It was about this period that stiff linen col- lars first became generally worn, and the ruttie disappeared as a part of vdress. We now come to the early part of the present ce tury, when design ani style in costume became still plainer. The cravat modified form and was worn always passed twice ronnd tied in a bow or according to the ts | the methods used to the merit of simplici in the early part of this century cravate were made very W id tapered off toward the ends. in those worn Until about the center Still late Were worn narrow, often crossed in the they front, and recured by a breastpin of large mensions, a greater. vari of patterns and materials also being introduced in their mai ufacta: Thirty years ago stocks and cravats pes began to take their place, an smaller proportion we arrive productions of our own day. ze may occasionally eee the k worn by some very conser’ | tleman that recails a past genera: | t time neckties of English manufacture mand the best prices and are sought after France, America and almost every country ‘orld. being looked upon as the correct |thing by those who would be thought well | dressed. They are mostly manufactured in | London and the neighborhood by three or four this department a A LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY. The Thorough and Sensible Way in Which the German Child is Taught. Mr. H. Boyesen, writing in the Christian Tnion of educational reform in Germany, is of the opinion that the Germans are disposed to overeducate their children; that they pay too little attention to the development of the body and too much to that of the mind. Making due allowance for this tendency he finds much that is admirable in instruction of the primary and secondary German school and relates some of his experiences in the best schools of Berlin. He one day obtained a permit to be present at the lesson in geography in the lowest class, the Sexta. The pupils were all boys about eight or nine years old. This was the second or third lesson of the school year, and accord- ingly very elementary. The teacher, s man, called up a small boy and asked him pleasantly where he lived. The boy replied that be lived in Litter Strasse. There fn Ritter Strasse?” asked the teacher. “Mark on the blackboard the place where your house is. Right. Now, when you started for school this morning, in what direction did you walk?” The little boy looked for © moment plexed, and the teacher said: “Did you walk north, ‘south, cast or west?” “1 don't know. “Then let us try to find out. Was the sun shining when you siarted from home?" “Did you have the sun bebind you or in front of you, or on your right or left hand?” “For a while I had it in front of me.” “In what direction did you walk?” “Toward the east.” “Right. And how long did you walk toward the cast? Or did you continue to walk toward the east all the time?” “How long was that?” “About five minutes.” “Put down the corner of Strasse on the blackboard and bear in mind that the di- rection from your house was eastward and the ‘ J distance was as far on you ‘walked in five min- the ruins of stone inclosures, anciently built, ——— ~ for the purpose of confining the birds until | fet. In what, direction did you they were needed. THE METHOD oF HiaaiNe was to skim off the surface layer of turf and bring up some samples of bones from beneath with a few strokes ef the hoe. If, on inspec- tion, the quality of the bones was’ found to be good careful excavation with hoe and fingers followed. Some of the best preserved bones lay at the entrances to pufiin burrows, having t to light by the ‘of thous funny little fellows. But the tons, as a rule, were so far gone to pieces that the ‘work was’ rather . The breast Bone and ‘pelvis were. rarely found cond . $x speciasan of _ cach won comred’ oul of ny ft were. disinterred. Vary dayewere employed in ezhuming thoa- ya donen skeletons tnd these not abeclui could be Ff i ' f | | i i Wy 5 i i F | followed by | in front, in | scarfs made up | TETANUS OR LOCKJAW. Dr. Landes Has Discovered the Bacilll of the Disease. From the Philadelphia Tinea. Tetanus, or as it is.commonly called, “tock- Jaw,” is one of those diseases which are as mysterious as they are dreadful, and whieh daffie the skill of the scientist as well as the care of the physician, being akin to bydre- Phobia, cancer or serpent bite in ineompre- benmbility of action and rarity of cure. Dr. E. H. Landes of the veterinary — ment of the University of Pennevivania not been content that lock jaw should constantly, carry off its victims without hir efforte being rected toward eliminating tetanus from the list of incurable mysteries against which the best efforts of medical science bad been used in vain. For two years past be has been thinking, searching and investigating, gradually bring ing himself into a similar line of research that pursued by Dr. Koch in his search fore consimption cure and at last satisfying himeelf that he has discovered and is im a fair way %0 onqner the bacilli which was the dread motor of tetanus in its many forms and which, begin- ning with a spasmodic rigidity of the jaw, quickly seized upo entire muscular «yetem, | and ended in a death ax terrible ak mysterious, | Dr. Landes <i his rescarches in the | early part of 18%: y have continued to | this date. Of his suc spoaka: very | ently. Hie says that he this ks be has discoverest | the “tetanus bacilli after experiments which, | even to his cautions m re satisfactory. | before fully claimi: that be bas positively |found the ause of lockjaw, and aga conse | quence the line of treatment for ste cure, be ie determined to have bis experimenta and com | clusions examined into and veritied by profes | sional experte He proposes to secure and inoculate a num- ber test animals, so as to thoroughly Prove his germ theory and to «ubmit ex, Gre dine: right €reat boon bas been conferred upon the World and the heahng art has been Placed under heavier obligations to scientifie Tesearch. - — MONEY THAT CHINA NEEDS, Foreign Capitalist. in the Country—Delays and Reasons Why. the London Standart ‘* from Pekin is that the thirtr- million tael railway lonn still bangs fire. The Chinese go ent, according to ite usual ustom, s@ill hesitates about closing the matter with the agents of the German syndicates, in the hope that some of the representatives of European or American financicra may, at the last moment, forward with better terms. * upon which the loan is rman capitalists being so low |- per cent with an understanding that |fome unspecified eum be spent on railway ma- terials from German manufacturers—and the ment being unwilling that the Joan should bear the imprimatur of an imperial decree, other financial agents are not tempted | to step in and underbid their German rivals. | The situation in Pekin is peculiar. On the one side are the reprosntatives of half a dozen powerful syndic pitalists, representing of fi government,which plays off the one On th hand are the Chinese offi~ other. cials who conduct the negotiations on behalf of the governm { sac jie equally anxious to see the pied treasury replenished by the which means such an opportunity for = eras they have long waited for in vain. The foreign capitalists, however, will not part With their cash withont an imperial decree, while the Chinese officials: down to their posterity a deerve signed by the wate eal of the emperor of China fora paltry, ).0),000 toels jast to velieve a temporary em- ent would be to incur a stigma too to be coun by any immediate on that a large por- a to find ite ack again to the forcign lenders im payn material is awkward, when om cots which the nd that to hand nts without anwilling to imperial ‘loafers’ who and drag out # smail pittance } th | are redaced | poverty tha work they have ample time to and clamor for money from the known as the imperial clan court, the same impecunious state as the jbousechold department. It is the where throughout the great state. ¢ only cause for the withholding of the j imperial decree. The old conservative element | have, since the death of the is Teeng and the present serious illness: nce Chun, exer- |cised all their powers of argument and in- |trigue against the proposed railway, and though the money would be welcome the pur- e for which it orth their tiene the father of the | part in an: | been removed from the political arena there |isno doubt that the imperial decree would ve long ago been obtained, for Prince Cham is the strongest advocate of the great railway scheme as a means of defense or, at least, ase necessary measure of precaution along China's weakest frontier. Prince Kung, the sixth prince, who was de- sd some years ago when Prince Chun and is party were brought into power, has been asked to take the of his brother in ing the loan. The prospect of thirts in ready money almost overcame the poor «ixth ince, who bas been shelved and kept in the kgroundsolong. But the moment he beard the mention of the hated invention of railway Per- | which he had always strenuously opposed, old intolerance asserted itself and he refased to take part in any further negotiations in the matter. So that, though protracted pour- pariers have taken place between the agents of | the European financiers and the Chinese gov- ernment in reference to the loan, upto the time I write nothing has actually been settled, and the foreigners are beginning to think ‘that, after all the negotiations and the vast sums pended in traveling and telegraphing back- ward and forward to Europe and Ameria, nothing may come of the business for the pres ent. It is obvious, however, the force of circumstances will ere long to go into the market ussistance. TOLSTOI AND TURGENIEFF, tion of coftve, eat at the other end of the table. ‘Turgenioff eat on my wife’s right hand and i g i t Hf He i i i {I ti ' d i F §. sf i fi i f p if