Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1891, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, KIPLING ON AMERICA. Keen Cilensil tinatea Praise for People and Customs. WITH THE BOYS IN ’FRISCO. Political Workers at Work—A Whole-Souled ‘Tribate to American Maidens—Diamonds and Typewriters—Comments on Life in the ‘West—A Go at the Negro Problem. Written for The Frening Star. HAVE BEEN watching machinery in re pose after reading abont machinery in ac- tion, An excelle gentleman, who bears a Bame honored in the magazines, writes, much as Disraeli orated, of “the sublime instincts of an ancient people,” the certainty with which | they can be trusted to manage their own affairs | fm their own way, and the «peed with which | they are making for all sorts of desirable goals. | ‘This he called a statement or purview of Amer- | fean politics. I went almost directly afterward to » saloon where gentlemen interested in ward Politics nightly congregate. They were not | Pretty persons. Some of them were bloated | and they all swore cheerfully till the heavy gold watch chains on their fat stomachs rose and fell again: but they talked over their liquor e men who had power and unquestioned ac- eeas to places of trust and profit. FIEIXG THINGS, The magazine writer discussed theories of | government; these men the practice. They | Ihnd been there. They knewall about it. They banged their fiste on the table and spoke of litical “‘pulls,” the vending of votes, and so Forth. Theirs was not the talk of village bab- blers reconstructing the affairs of the nation, | Dut of strong, coarse, lustful men fighting for | spoil and thoroughly understanding the best methods of reaching it. I listened long and | intently to speech [ could not understand, oF | Dut in spots. It was the speech of business, | - Thad sense enough to know that and do my langhing outside the door. Then I be- gan to andersand why my pleasant and well- | educated hosts in San Francisco spoke with a Bitter scorn of such duties of citizenship as voting snd taking an interest in the diatribu-| tion of offices. Scores of men have told me! without false pride that they would as soon | goncern themselves with the public affairs of | the city or state ax rake muck with a steam | shovel. It may be that their lofty disdain covers | selfishness, but I should be very sorry habita- ally to meet the fat gentlemen with shiny top hats and plump cigars in whose society I have Deen spending the evening. Read about pol tics as the cultured writer of the magazi fegards ‘em, and then, and not till then, pay Your respecis to the gentlemen who run’ the | Grimy reality. | IN LOVE WITH AMERICAN oTRrs. | Tam sick of interviewing night editors who | lean their chairs against the wall and in response | to my demand for the record of a prominent Citizen answer, ou see, he began by Reeping a saloon, I prefer to believe that } i } up their maid, their carriages and candy, and with a typewriter and a stout heart set about earning their daily bread. “And did I drop her from my list of friends? No, sir,” said n seariet-lipped vision in white lace; “that might bappen {0 us any day.” RVERYBODY RECKLESS. Tt mag be this sense of possible disaster in the air that makes San Franciscan society go with so captivating a rush and whirl. Reck- lersness is in the air. Ican't explain where it comes from, but there it is. The roaring winds off the Pacific make you drunk to begin with. ‘The aggressive luxnry on all sides helps out the intoxication, and you spin forever “down the ringing grooves of change” (there is no small change, by the way, west of the Rockies) os long ax money lasts.” They make greatly and they spend lavishly; not only the ricb, but the artisans, who pay nearly £3 for = suit of clothes and for other luxuries in The young men rejoice in the days of their youth. "They gamble, yacht, race, enjoy prize fights and cock figh fights, the one openly, the other secret: they establish luxurious clubs; they break themselves over borsefiesh and other things, and they are instant in a quarrel. At twenty they are experienced in busi- ness, embark in vast enterprises, take partners ax experienced as themselves, and to pieces with as much eplendor as their neigh bors. Remember, that the men who stoc California in the fifties were physically and, as far ax regards certain tongh virtues, tho pick of the earth. The inapt and the ‘weakly Ried en route or went under in the days of construc- tion. To this nucleus were added all the races of the continent—French, Italian and German. ‘The resnlt you shall see in large-boned, | chested,delicate-handed women —— elas- tic, well-built boys. It needs no li swinging from the watch chain to mark THE NATIVE 80X OF THE GOLDEN WEST, the country bred of California. Him I love be- cause he is devoid of fear, carries himself like and hasaheart as big as his books. I fancy, too, he knows how to enjoy the blessings of life that his provinceso abundantly bestows upon him. At least I heard a little rat of a creature with hock bottle shoulders explaining that ® man from Chicago could pull, the eve teeth of Californian in business. Well, if I lived in fairyland, where cherries where as big as plums, ploms as big ae apples. and straw, berries of no account, where the procession of the fruits of the seasons was like pageant in » Drury Lane pantomime and the dry air was wine, I should let business slide once in » way and kick up my heels with my fellows. The tale of the resources of California—vegetable and mineral—iss fairy tale. You can read it in books. You would never believe me. All manner of nourishing food from ses fish to beet may be bought at the lowest prices, and the people are consequently well developed and of @ high stomach. They demand ten shillings for tinkering a jammed lock of a trunk, they receive sixteen shillings a day for working aa carpenters, they spend ‘many six- pences on very bad cigars which the poorest of them smoke, and they go mad overa prize fight. When they disagree they do so lly, With firearms in their hands end on the pub! streets. QUICK ON THE TRIGGER. Iwas just clear of Mission street when the trouble began between two gentlemen, one of thom perforated the other. When», police- man, whose name I do not recollect, “fatally shot Ed Hearney” for attempting to escape rest I was in the next street. For these t! Tam thankful. It is enough to travel with n olicemar: in a tram car aud while he arranj Eis cont tails as he sits down to catch sight of loaded revolver. ty informants are treating me as in the old | Tt is enough to know that ital days tn Indin Tene eord to treat the fifty per cent of the men in the public saloons wandering globe trotter. They declare that ¢A*Ty pistols about them. inaman way- they speak the truth and the news of dog poli- ties lately vouchsa‘ed tome in groggeries in- elines me to believe, but I won't. The people are much too nice to slangander as recklessly | ing. Besides Tam hopelessly | rican maidens— next one comes ‘oyo was a darling, but she e. | red | lucked several thin, | You cannot live « ig Kentucky blonde, who had fora nurse when she was lit- tle a uegro “mammy has welded on Ca eastern culture. Europ originality the queer . the quarters, and the result is soul And she is BUT ONE OF MANY STARS. Item, # maiden who believes in education and Possesses it, with a few hundred thousand dol- lars to boot and a tasie for slumming. Item, the leader of a sort of informal salon where gre read papers and daringly dis- al problems —a sloe- | By Feverence, who « ple upon and leave men. item, am money, lone] t sentence tram- f a dozen young . burdened with her with a tongue keen as a fora sphere, but chained up her vast possess! Item, a ing her own bread in doesn't think a girl on ber parents, who rand moves through quotes Theophile ‘ e world manfuily, much respected for all her twenty ed summers. Item. a woman dwho has no history in the past of the present ces of male humanity | on the grounds of pathy” (methinks this | is not altogether # new type). Item, a girl in a | “dive,” blessed with a Greek head and eyes that is best and sweetest in etrives for the + woe is me! has no ideas in this world or the next b the consump- | tion of beer (a c each bottle) and protests that s! the songs allotted to her tightly without more than the vaguest notion | of their meaning. E TO AMERICAN MAIDENS. | 4 comely are the maidens of Devon- | shire: delicate and of gracious seeming those | who live in the pleasant places of London: fas of France, pe deceptive : een the brows wd are ori with unabashed eyes, ber brother. 1 foily and ¥ bave associa bood and can < bave societies and clubs where all the ¢ ed unlimiied tea fichts stsare girls. They are self- ssed, without parting with any tenderness | wet is their sex right; they understand; they | can take care of themselves: they are superbly independent. When rou ask them what makes them: wo eb. y say are better ec we are more sensible in Bave good umes round, but we aren't taught to regard every man as @ possible husband. Nor | ishe expected to marry the tirst girl le calls ee they have good times, y do not Abuse it. ng Menand receive They can go driving with y Visits from young men to'am extent that would @ake an English mother wink with horror and | seither driver nor drivee have a thought | beyond the enjoyment of a good time. As vertain, also, of their own poets Lave said: Man is Ore and woman is tow, Aad the devil he comes and begins to bow. EVERYTHING FOR THE DAUGHTERS. In America the tow is soaked in a solution (at makes it fireproof, in absolute liberty and large knowledge; consequently accidents do | got exceed the regular percentage arranged by the devil for each class and climate under the thies. But the freedom of the young girl hi its drawbacks. She is—I say it with all r luctance—trreverent, from her £10 bonnet to the buckles in her @i8shoes. She talks tlip- pantly to her parents and men old «nough to be her grandfather. She has a prescriptive fight to the society of the man who arrives, The parents admit it. This ie sometimes em- Derracting, especially when you call on aman snd his wife for the sake of ‘information—the sue being « merchant of varied knowledge, the | other @ woman of the world. In five minutes | your host has vanished. In another five his Wife bas followed him and you are left alone witha very charming maiden, doubtless, but sertainly not the person you caine to see.” She | shatters and you grin, but you leave with the | gery strong impression of @ wasted morning. | is has been my experience once or twice. I have even said as pointedly us I lared to a man, “I came to se@ you. x deter sce me my office, then. women folk—tomy daugh- He spoke the truth. The of wealth is owned by his family. plot him for bullion. ‘pence, the kicks are all his own. Noth- Bg is too good for an American's daughter (I (peak bere of the moneyed clases). The girls ake every giftasa matter of course, and yet develop greatly when « catastrophe ‘ives and the man of many millions goes up or toes dowa, and his daughters take to stenog- FoF, Sypewriting. T have heard many of from the lips of girls who tounted the principals among their friends. ‘he crash came, Maime or | as any mei | tellectualls lays bis adversary and methodically chops him to pieces with his hatchet. Then the press roars about the brutal ferocity of the ‘The Italian reconstructs his friend with a long knife. The press complains of the waywardness the alien. The Irishman and the native alifornian in their hours of discontent use the revolver, not one, but six times. re- cords the fact and asks in the next column whether the world can parallel the progress of San Francisco. American who loves his country will tell you that this sort of thing is confined to the lower classes. Just at present an ex-judge who was sent to jail by another judge (upon my word I cannot tell whether these titles mean anything) is breathing red- hot vengeance sguinst bis enemy. | The papers Lave interviewed both parties and confidently expect a fatal issue. ‘TRE NEGRO QUESTION. The negro has been made a citizen with a vote, consequently both political parties play with him. He will commit in one meal every betise that a senilion fresh from the plough tail is capable of, and he will continue to re- Peat those faults. | He is as complete s heavy. footed, uncomprehending, bungle-fisted fool meabib in the east ever took into her establishment But he is according to law a free and independent citizen: uen: above toprol of eritician. Hie aed be diene, this insane city will wait a (the China- man doesn't count). He is untrained, inept, but he will fill the place and draw the Now God and his father's fate made_hit vain baby and a man rol colored” gentleman who m getting me pie when I wanted somethin, else demanded information about India. gave bim some facts about bean, 7 “Ob, h— suid he, ebeerfully, “that wouldn't keep me in cigars for a mon ‘Then he fawned on me fora ten-cent piece. I turned and saw by the head upon his shoulders that he was a Yoruba i there be any truth in ‘ethnological He did his thinking in English, but he ruba negro and the race type had re~ mained the same throughout his generations. And the room was fuli of other races—some that looked exactly like Gallas (but the trade was never recruited from that A insisted ever Kroomen wore evenin; dress. Ay a general rule he keeps hii very far from the megro and sa} things about him ‘that "are not pretty. There are six million negroes, more or less, in the states, and they are increasing. ‘The American once having made them citizens cannot unmake them. He says, in his news- pers, they ought to be elevated by education. He is trying this. but it is likely to bea long job because biack blood fs much more adhesive than white and throws back with annoying per- sistence. When the negro gets religion he re- turns directly as a biving bee to the first ine stincts of his people. [have attended a negro ehureh—they pray or are caused to pray by themselves in this country. The congregation Were moved by the spirit to groans and tears, and one of them danced up the aisle to the mourners’ bench. The motive have been | genuine. The movements of the shaken bedy were those of a Zanzibar stick dance, such as you see at Aden on the coal boats, and even as watched the people the links that bound them to the white man snapped one by one, and I w before me the hubshi (woolly hair) praying a God he did not understand. What will the American do with the negro? south will not consort with him. In some states misce- genation is penal offense. The north is Sear less and less in need of his services. Ana he will not disappear. He will continue as a problem. WHERE THE EAGLE SCREAMED. But this bas nothing to do with San Fran- cisco and her merry maidens, her strong, swaggering men and her wealth of pride. ‘They bore me toa banquet in ® brave lieutenant—Carlin of the V: who stuck by his ship in the great cyclone st Tuamnsel crahould | $2 Apia and comported {fax an officer On that occasion—'twas at the Bohemian Clab— Theard oratory with the roundest of o's, and devoured @ dinner, the memory of which will descend with me into the hi grave. There were about forty speeches delivered and not one of them was average or ordinary. It was ty first introduction, to the American eagle screaming for all itwas worth. The lieuten- ant’s heroism served asa silver-tongued ones turn emselves loose and kicked, They ransacked the cloads of sunset, the thunderbolts of heaven, the deeps of heil and the splendor of the resurrection for tropes and metaphors and harled result at the head of the guest of But geatle giant, Hill ie F z gs | bread, and very naturally hates the employ, | dewy, no heedto the warlike sentiments of some of the old generals. “The skyrockets are thrown “and whenever we get 7S express a desire to chaw up En, a sort of family affair.” And, indeed, when you come to think of it there is no country for an public speaker to trample upon. France has Germany, we have Russia; for Italy Austria le provided and the humblest an possesses an ancestral enemy. Only America stands ont of the to be in fashion makesa ces racket and therefore d bag of the mother Spangled Banner” not more than eight times we adjourned. America isa very great coun- try, but it is not yet heaven, with electric lights and plush fittings, ae the speakers professed to believe. My listening mind went back to the ticians in the saloon, who wasted no time talking about freedom, but quietly made ar- rangements to impose ir on the citi- zeus. “The is a great man, but give thy presents to the clerk,” as the proverb sata. THE INTELLIGENT AND PRETTY TYPEWRITER. And what more remains to tell? I cannot write connectedly, because I am in love with all those girls aforesaid and some others who do not rin the invoice. The ae isan institution of which the comic papers make much capital, but she is vastly conveni- ent. She and a companion rent @ room in a business quarter and aided by a typewriting machine copy MS8. at the rate of six annas a page. Only @ woman can operate a t; ‘a8 $100.8 month, aud professes to re- this form of bread winning as her natural lestiny. But oh, how she hates it in her heart of hearts! When I had gotten over the wur- prise of doing business with and trying to give orders to # young woman of coldly clerkly as- * intrenched behind gold rimmed spectacles made inquiries concerning the pleasures of this independence. They liked it—indeed they did. ‘Twas the natural fate of almost all girls —the recognized custom in America—and I was a barbarian not to see it in that light. “Well, and after?” said I. “What happens?” “We work for our bread.” “And then what do you expect?" “Then we shall work for our bread.” “fill you die?” “*Ye-es—unless—— ‘Unless what? This is, your business, you know. A man works until he dies.” : “4 we—this with enthusiasm—‘T suppose.” id the partner in the firm audaciously: “Sometimes marry our employers—1 least that’s whit the newspapers say.” The hand banged on half a dozen of the keys of the machine at once. ‘Yes, I don't care. I hate it—I hate it—I hate it—and you ueeda’t look so.” ‘The senior partner was regarding the rebel with grave-eyed reproach. “I thought you did,” said L “I don’t sup- American girls are much different from lish ones in instinct.” “isn't it Theophile Gautier who says that the only differences betwoen country and country lie in the slang and the uniform of the police?” Now, in the name of all the ‘at once, what is one to say to a young lady (who in Eng- land would be @ person) who earns her own and out of the way quotations at your head? That one falls in love with her goes without saying, but that is not enough. ‘A mission should be established. ‘Rupvagp Kiesano. SACRED TREES. ‘The Date, the Oak, the Ash and the Legends Concerning Them. The palm, the oak and the ash are, according tos timely and interesting article in the June number of the Deutsche Rundschau, the three trees which, since time immemorial, were held to be sacred trees. The first among them which figures on the oldest monuments and pictures of the Egyptians and Assyrians is the date palm hometan. Tradition of a later period says that when Adam left Paradise he was allowed to take with him three things—a myrtle,because it was the most lovely and most scented flower on earth; a wheat ear, because it had the most nourishment, and a date, because it was the most glorious fruit of the earth. The date from wes in some marvelous way brought to the Dejaz. From it have come all the date palms in the world, aud Allah destined it to be food of all true believers, who shall con- quer every country where the date palm grows. e oak was always considered a holy tree by our ancestors and, above all, by the nations of the north of Ei ‘When Winifred of De’ onshire (680-704 A-D.) went forth on, his wa derin, ugh Germany to preech the Gospel one of his first actions was to cut down the giant oak in Saxony which was dedicated to Thor and worshiped by the people from far and near. But when he had nearly felled the oak and while the people were cursing and threatening the saint a supernatural storm swept over it, seized the summit, broke every branch an dashed it, quasi superni, motus, solaris, with a tremendous crash to the ground. The heathens acknowledged the marvel and many of them were converted there and then. But the saint built a chapel of the wood of this very oak and dedicated it to St Peter. ‘The Celts and Germans and Scandinavians, again, worshiped the mountain ash, and it is especially in the religious myths of the latter that the “Askr Yggdrasil” @ prominent part. To them it was the holiest among trees, the ‘world tree,” which, eternally young and fesented heaven, earth and hell” Ac- cording to the Edda the ash ypgarasil was an evergreen tree. specimen of it (says Adam of Bremen) grew at Uj in front of the great temple, and another in Dithmarschen, carefully guarded by a railing, for it was, in a mythical Way, connected with’ the fate of the country. When Dithmarschen lost its liberty the tree withered, but a magpic, one of the best prophesying birds of the uorth, came and built its nest on the withered tree and hatched five little ones, all perfectly white, as a that at ome fature time the country would re- guin its former liberty. Shoppers Who Look to Beauty in an Article Miss It. ‘From the Ladies’ Home Journal. In one of Miss Edgeworth's moral tales there is a story of a little girl who one day went shop- ping with her mother and whose fancy was 60 completely captivated bya purple vase that she was willing to go without a pair of shoes that the might purchase it. When she goes home she pours out of the vase a dark liquid that it contained and it is no longer a purple vase. from which the | 70" Over and over again do shoppers have to learn from bitter experience Miss Edgeworth's FOR THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. PENSACOLA'S MONUMENT. A Memorial to the Confederate Dead Now Being Completed in This City. HANDSOME MONUMENT to the confed- erate dead of the city of Pensacola, Fla., is nearing completion in the hands of Mr. J. F. | Manning of this city, and will soon be erected | on the commanding site chosen for it on Pala- | fox Hill, Pensacola. As will be seen by the ac- | companying, cut the design is simple in char- acter, but massive and well-proportioned. The fine gray granite used in its construction has been quarried on the historic battle fields sround Richmond, Va. The monument will ‘have an inscription on each of ita four sides; general tribute to the heroism of the men of Pensacola and Escambria coynty whose | lives were given to what they considered their couniry’s cause; one will be devoted to the memory of Jefferson Davis—the first test monial of the kind in his honor; anothe: will be # tribute to the public services of Stephen A. Mallory, United States Senator for Florida before the war, secretary for the confederate states navy and a citizen of Pensacola, It is intended that these inscriptions shall be the condensed expressions of southern | sentiment as thered from united | suggestions offered by the ladies of the south generally. This monument is one of | quitea number of similar works, some of a} public and others of a private character, re- cently erected or about to be erected by Mr. Manning. He has now in hand two other mon- uments for Florida, one to ve erected in Jack- sonville and the other in Tallahi He isalso | gngaged on one for Macon, Ga. one. for | Raleigh, N. C., others for Texas, Ohio, New | York and New Jersey. Of works recently com- | pleted by Mr. Manning may be mentioned the | feannette monument in the naval cemetery at | Annapolis, Md., the Soldiers’ monument at | FairfaxCourt House, Va..averyfine granite family vault at Oak Hill cemetery for J. J. Darlington, esq., the Matthews moimmen? and several others in the same cemetery, the Dismer mon- ument at Prospect Hill and that of the Wevrick family at Glenwood. At the national cemetery | at Arlington Mr. — has E completed two memorials well worthy of their beautiful surroundings, one a granite sarcophagus over the grave of the late Col. Collins, th massive pyramid of the McMillan femily. | Among the works still in the hands of the | designer is an elaborately carved gothic cross of large size, intended to be executed in| granite, and to be, as far as practicable, an | exact reproduction of one of the beantiful | Celtic crosses of the thirteenth century to be | seen on the Scottish and Irish coast. This promises to be one of the most nniqne and ele- Rant works in the cemetery for which it destined and will attract much attention. ——_+o-—____ HEADS OF FAMOUS FRENCHMEN, ¢ other the | How Some Great Characters Are Sclentific Measurement. Scientific Paris ix just at present enthused over anew fad, well known in America—the | shapes and measurements of the heads of | famons people, says the New York World. | Among the recent experiments, made with a measure such as is used by a hatter to shape hats to order, are some extremely curious re- | sults. Of course the exact dimensions of the craniums of historic personages have to be secured from pictures and busts, One of the most irregu which is almost pear-shaped, bulging out su denly and offering a curious number of inde tations. If this ix the philosophical head— udged by philosophy not unmixed with poignant satire | and cynicism—then the legal cranium differs | radi \y from it. | the man who conducted with the mate skill the defense of the mur- derer Pranzini, has a perfectly round head. Gen. Le Bran might represent the military head, almost oblong, bu: Gen, Ferron’s, a brave and capable French ander, is entirely | round. The latter is prudent and cautious in his movements. jambetta had a very ordinary head, coming slightly to point in the rear. This is the French political cranium, M. de Cassugnac hus an enormous bead, almost perfectly round and quite ample enough toharbor all the different feuds to which bh has been « party. If his head is to be taken an illustration of combativencss, as shown @ humerous duels in which’ Le us been principal, then M. Henri Rochefort’, his rival that regard, is almost the opposite type— rather long, narrow and of @ very irregular othe head that wears crown,or rather should wear a crown, if the royalists are to be believed, is narrow in forehead and almost reguiar in | shape. The Due d’Aumale and the Due de Montpensier are similar in regard to the «hay of the forehead, but the latter's is enurmous in its proportions. farshal MacMahon maps and the poli in * @ combination of the a, narrow forehead, small oblong head, a little like Voltaire's, but of much smaller proportions. It is almost the same as that of Gambetta, but not so regular. Avery small head is that of the Prince of Mo- naco, who has never distinguished himself in any particular, whife a regularly long and ner- row one, almost the fac-simile of a foot, be- jes. to Osman Pasha. ¢ French scientists believe that race and nationality have mich to do with the shape of the head. The same military genius who in one part of the world has a long. narrow head, apparent moral—that we should buy enaber tf hoppin; remember my first #1 thought only of beauty and no eT parchnved a azy material for a gown, was pale lavender in tint. Wh was made I wore it to visit s friend who fired by the weaclde: the return neceasiiatedes long walk along the shore after sundown, with a damp wind blowing from the sea. When I home great was my grief to see thst tay fine new gown of cotton and wool liad #o i in the damp salt air as to be nearly uj my knees. Dampening and ironing an “letting down” partly restored it to Ssefelnees but the delicate color faded in streaks ond. realized that in buying the gown I had bonght purple vase. ‘The lesson sank deep, but I for- gotit when a few weeks ago I wanted material to H all over 2 trong that “pink te "aying Cat os bis i 3 i i HH sé i ¥f 3 : g £ f if i i i rt HT 4, z 3 i fi ite | France, says the New York Times,a machine in another part will be small and round: According to them the north Germans, Swedes, Norwegians and Russians are ‘ong-headed, deriving their origin from eastern sources, while the south Germans, the Austrians, the Hungarians, the Swiss, the Irish, the French, being of Celtic orig'n, are round and Broad in the shape of their craniums. orev ees A Water Tricycle. There has lately appeared in Marseilles, of the velocipede type that can be used either on the land or on the water, as the rider may desire. The mechanism is very simple and looks very much like that of en ordi- eied Hite £ i | heard the widow of the gentleman wi gees BOARDING-HOUSE TROUBLES, ‘The Landiady Has Some of Them as Well as the Boarders, You Know. 66 ]XEW PEOPLE REALIZE the troubles which harass the boarding-bouse keeper,” said a Washington woman in that line of busi- ness to @ Star reporter. ““Bhe is even abused ‘and made fun of in the comic papers. Almost, necessarily, she would not have undertaken her occupation, were it not for the loss of her natural means of support through the desth of her husband or otherwise; so that she may be said to have started in upon it with the experi- ence of misfortune. From that time onshe i sufferer. But the woes of the boarder area very popular topic, while those of the boarding- house keeper are not #0 in the least. “One unfortunate experience I have had was witb a lady who was addicted to comatose hye terical fits. She would be attacked by them pee, much anywhere. On some occasions liscovered her upon a landing of the staircase unable to move, so thiat she had to be carried up to bed, and once she had found unexpected repose in the gutter in frontof the house. Such an affliction seemed very sad to me, and I sympathized repeatedly with hot bottles and all sorts of things until there occurred a revelation. Tt was about 10 o'clock in the event when 7} 0 been the third floor back, at that time occu] @ ing the fifth floor front, yell: ‘Oh, she's dead. “Tran up stairs ae fast as I could and found at the top of the first flight the lady who was subject to extended as usual at full length. ““Oh, al dead! cried the widow. “Yes, ma’am,’ said the gentleman who oocu- pied the best hall bed room—he had just ap- peared on the scene. ‘She is—dead drunk.’ “Tt was, in fact, the case, though I bad never suspected that the woman was addicted to drink. She always paid her board regularly. BR WAS A PERFECT ORNTLEMAX. “That reminds me of ® young gentleman I had here once, who occupied the second best hall bed room while he stayed. He never paid me snything, but he was # very pleasing young man, and I am inclined to think that he meant to. A good address will go a long way with a boarder, and he was always ever ¥o neat about his apparel, though, judging from the tailors’ bills that came here after his departure, I am afraid he didn’t pay for any of it. He was em- ployed in what he called the foreign office—I elieve that is the State Department—and used to go everywhere in society. I'm sure that some of the letters I used to find open upon his dressing table were from the most exclu- sive young ladies, of the finest families, and couched in ever so affectionate terms. “I can’t help feeling that fortune was against him—he was always so neat about his collars and neckties—and it must have been on that account that be took too much to drink occasionally. At all events he would be found now and then mate on the doorstep in the morning, dressed in all his most beautiful clothes. "He was always so graceful, even under such circumstances. One night he never came back atall, and I found his empty trunk tightly locked and nailed down to the floor; butsome day I trust that he will come back and pay me what he owes. He was sucha perfect gentle- man, you seo. THE WILY CUBAN. “T hada particularly abominable experience a good while ago. My best apartment was oc- cupied by a well-to-do Cuban and his wife, the daughter of a southern planter. made excuses for not paying me, and by degrees were moved up to the ird floor, then to the fourth and finally to the fifth, their indebtedness having become so considerable by that time that T could not very well afford to send them away. At length, one day, the police came to the house in quest of the man, and, dreadfully dis- tressed at such an occurrence, I sent the offi- cers straight up to his room. On their way up- stairs they met nobody but a big washerwoman carrying a large basket of soiled clothes with a checked apron spread over the top. Although Thad seen the Cubar. come in a short time be- fore they found the bird flown, as they phrased it, though the supposed wife was discovered with her hat and coat on, ready to go out. They recognized her at once a8 a notorious character, though they had no criminal charge to brin, against her and were forced to lether go. 1 never learned that they captured the man, who it seems wasa bank robber who had just made alarge haul in Baltimore. Subsequently the fact was revealed that the washerwoman on the stairs was the robber himself, carrying away in the clothes basket his spoil’in cash together with all his effects, 80 that there was not left in his room even so much as an old pair of shoes. “Then there was the case of another gentle- man who was somewhat of a society man. He came home one evening and found that his dress suit was gone from hi On that account he was unable to go to a party to which closet. he had accepted an invitation, but he refrained | from making a row until he found ont that the colored man who attends to the furnace had | worn the garments to « colored ball. ‘There- upon he had an express wagon take away his trunks, saying that he had “been damaged in feclings to un amount greater than the board he owed—it was considerable—by the fact that his clothes had been ‘worn by a nigge:.’ “The other day I agreed to accommodate with board by the week a party of refined young gentlemen. Last Wednesday I received warning from two of the servants on their account. It seems that, although employed in the Treasury Department, they have most eccentrie notions of etiquette, to say the least. ‘They will playfully throw at one another—they stipulated for a private dining room —pieces of beefsteak and roast beef, so that they stick up against the wall, and if they want hot back- wheat cukes they will plunge a fork through a stack of cool one: while they shout fo: more and stick up them beneath the table. Of course they have to be taken away after the meal. Really I don’t know what to do aboutis.”” miealhcnasha team BRIG ARMSTKON ’S HELKS, Mra. Josephine E. Miller Waiting for a Cheek From Washingtor. From the Philadelphis Press, Mrs, Josephine E. Miller, an elderly woman, temporarily living in French's court, Camden, is waiting fora check from Washington as her share of the appropriation made about four years ago for the descendants of the gallant crew of the privateer brig General Armstrong, which did brilliant service in the war of 1812. Her father, Joseph Metz, was a powder monkey on the brig. While cruising for prizes with the Atlantic the brig was ordered by the United States government to attack the British fortifications on the island of Fagal, in the Azores. ‘The attack was a failure, the vessel was re- pulsed, and « British man-of-war was about capturing the Armstrong, when the Yankees concluded to destroy the brig in preference to being taken. A slow match was applied to the magazine, the men took to the boats and started for the mainland of Portugal, which was then supposed to be a friendly country. Under cover of the darkness they eluded ti man-of-war, and, after undergoing great hard- ships, reached a Portuguese port. Instead being protected, as they expected, they were given anything but a friendly welcome, and for some trifling we Young Mets was con- demned to death. YOUNG METZ LIBERATED. Before the execution word reached this country and Lawyer Reed, who then lived in Southwark, laid the matter before the authori- ties in Washington. The young man was berated and subsequently the Portuguese gov- ernment paid into the bands of this govern- ment an amount of money to reimburse the rh | rie fF i F i i E set i an F 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. CAME FROM Coos, So Did Grimesy, but Grimesy Got Lost in the Shuffle Somehow or Other. ‘From the New York Sun. a looking young fellow, his face very red, his eyes very blinky, the nap of his silk hat brushed the wrong way in spote and his clothing badly wrinkled and rampled, came into an up-towa caravanssry on New ‘Year eve. He made his way gieefally, but somewhat wobbly, to the bar, braced himself in front of it and with many hilarious chuckles addressed the bartender: “Bay, le'lord!” he chuckied, “’s "bes'sing ev’ beard! J) hear me roll up? J hear m’ ch (hic) char'tweels ra‘l—ra'l—ra'l'n ove's'tony Bes'reet? Chilife! Seaey!” anid the stranger, dropping hilarity for the moment and taking the bartender into his earnest con- fidence. “‘Want' tell y'rite (hic) ritere, Petey, “tw'en mene Grimesy star'ssout, by jee, ‘zdlood o'th’moon !" ‘The bartender did not venture any comment | on this solemn statement, and the eonsdential outh remained silent for a few seconds, sway. g gently to and fro. Then he broke into smiles and chuckles again and said: =“‘Say, la'lord, J hear me roll ap? Ch'life ‘dri , ‘Wbessing ev of | Why He Would Not Hire Out Mis Tesmn to & Stranger. “Drive'says, ‘Dol’nhalf.” “Says, ‘Hol (hic) holly jee! Ca’sstan’ it? ‘y8. “Ce'sstan’ no fat dol'nbalf zhisf'm Duf- Spor cea gr! "tia tessa a bowk, rn 8 ‘Sma’ 7 a Ielord? si finth’ fown’n bowl Aa EES ert net mee’ wer” bee Rerenishe'l mer mer’ Dey “That'll do!” said the bartender, interrupt ing the young man's. bacchanalian fefrain. “You can't sing here. but you can ; Talk all you want to, sing.” “Ca'ssing? exclaimed the convival indignantly. "“Betch’ s'ree dol's'ngua’r 't'ik'n ing! Sey! Jis’swant hear mene Grimesy sing "dwat'choy once up to Coos! Ev'been't Co0a, ln'lord?™ ‘Been to Cohoes lots of times,” replied the “Well—li—gness!” was the trinmpbeat ex- pression of the man from.“ ” race town on fa — faceserce! Mene Grimes: down f'm Coos, ’n beteh'life we’ sings! We're stainin’ sings re'r' re'r'n a turkey gob (hic) gobbl’s chi Is'lord, lesh you'nme take a 1-1-li'l’ fall the demon rim, ‘swunce for luck. have? Fert'night'll mer’ mer’ be, Fertnight ‘i yuh wid me'r ‘gin me?” Just then the door opened anda youth with a pale bang showing beneath his small derby ‘hat and with a “where's mamma?” sort of look on his face came in. The mellow young man from Cohoes at last got this apparition within the focus of his linkin 1B eyes and promptly yelled: bs , The youth with the turned and fled juickly from the place. The bartonier grabbed e man with the jeg and shook him. “See here!” he exclaimed: “do you want to be waltzed out of here on a boot?” Bat the Cohoes party simply turned a gaze of astonishment on the bartender and said: «Dit fly, la'l (hic) la'lord, or “dit melt?” The bartender began to admonish his once more, and gesticulated with his across the bar to make his words more impres- sive. The gent from Cohoes the out- stretched hand and shook it “"Sallright, Petey!” he *pol'gize, ‘cause tell y's ht! Cheer up" Ie be gay! Le'th foamin tank (hic) foam! Semmup! Spor'n life ‘salls gay!” ‘The bartender’s dignity was not it against the familiar and irrepressible joviality of his customer, and he smiled as he passed kimm up the bottle end said: “What did you win at Duffy’s raffle?” of aay; it lord!" replied, the convivial citizen oes, chucl gleefully. come Tin Duffturafle. "hoes tne ell up? Chilife! Sayst driver: “Muchizzit? Drive’mye: Dol shalt.” ‘Hol (hic) hoily Jee! Ca’sstan’ it!" ‘Ca'sstan’ no fat dol'nhalf zbisf'm Duf- *How'dj figger't?’ say. e—'n’s bes sing ev’ heard, Petey! Fif (hic) fif'cess for pull'n you,” in't got’ ‘Mus'sav goat, mus'n’ we?’ 1 Do'see howk'n g'long “zout goat?’ says, “Grires'eays, “Ballright! ‘Srafile'n git Duff'ss goat,” ways. “Says, Grascheme! ‘Sraffle!” “So I semmup, 'n Grimesy sem (hic) mup, 'n “Gri say, “Says, ‘Cer nly Duffy didn’ sgnmup, ‘ni semmap again, ‘n Grimesy comamep ‘again, °n Duffy didn’ sem- mup in, “n Grimes sa; us? Duff’ says, “Grimes’ says, ‘Whezz goat?’ “Duff says, “Goa’s eall right! ‘’Grimes'maye, Much ebucait? “Duff says, ‘Fif (hic) fif'cess.” “So mene Grimesy ratiied, ‘n who’ jeink won the goat? A big fel’ 'z one eye! Petey, a big fel’ "z one eye! “T saya, ‘S' skin game!” “Then mene Grimsey ‘n Duffy ‘n the 2 the big fel’ 'z one eye all got j-j-jammed 'na he (hig) Reap, ‘ni went out ‘n ‘set on siwalk to , *i—" s The young man from Cohoes stopped sud- denly.” He gazed anxiously about him. He took his chin between his thumb and fore- finger and rubbed it reflectively. He scowled and looked troubled, as if he had forgotten or missed something. Finally it to him what it was. “Whezz Grimesy?” he exclaimed. After a moment more of puzzled reflection he hand on the bar and said: Gi slapped his “Se'ls it! Tha’s se'ls it! see the raf (hic) rattle somebod' t’ come 'n gi’ *n vem home to Coos! Few'll ‘scuse me, la'iord, aleft 0’ Grimesy Say, ? on ays (hic) sys'sum, ‘and the young man see what he could find of Grimes, 4 SUSPICIOU ‘From Texas Siftings ‘A young man in a southern town applied to the keeper of livery stable for a horse and ss. ! am going to take my wife's mother out for Ddeing business to attend aride. She is not well, and I want her to have some fresh air. I wish you would put a spade and a hatchet in the bottom of the buggy.” “What do you want them for?” “I don't think I can let you have a buggy.” “Why not?” bk I don't want to be hauled up ass SS ee. Thave got my 8 i e CES i SB ag: iti iy ° : i fe ik i ty iu I Fe it it Hit a tt a, by tl eaid, soothingly. | ‘Sallright! "You're all right—risabook! Nee'n dol’ for pull’n yer load!’ says. ‘Sway | all A FINANCIER IN SKIRTS. “PAPA, MAMMA IS DEAD.” Mlustration of What a Woman Don't Know | Reartrending Scene in » Saloon While « of Business Methods. Game of Poker Was Played. The knowledge that some women possess of From the Cin-innat! nguirer herertaptep-- is astonishing, eays the | A party of men were aitting in the back room Kansas City coma | of u west end saloon playing poker a few nights ‘And then again the knowledge that some | 0. There were five in the gameand the limit reeianl on the selfsame topic is | ¥8* 50 cents, mace «mall because the players till dors eeong were workingmen who had dropped m to peap he r thing about woman's | the evening over beer and cards Snlhaaie test, mrpeney wocbn | Things went on slowly for the first hour, It dovsn’t seem to matter how bright she may | When the beer cor ced to get ite work be, as soon as a check gets into the transaction | im. the winners shoving their chips oat more is tn deny enter, | Dolly, which made the losers play more des T bad occasion this morning to pay a bill of | Perstely 7.50, and, with the air ofa man proud of the | So far the biggest lover “or Ate fact that « thinly clad collector did not have to | })\"\. 1.4 Nats Known. ae Wear ont four pairs of shoes chasing him, I the stock yards. Hi. heavy drinker and the walked into the store and handed out a check | more beer he drank the m for the amount of the bill. | plaved and the deeper he go The young woman looked at both sides of the | the loss of every pot be sw: check and studied it carefully, reading it as if | luck and the good luck of othe | it were a continued love story. finally | The clock strack 10 when « thin- | glanced up and remarked: ¢ years approached the table and, “I don't know about this.” to Roberton, said Thinking that she meant to cast some reftec- | . te you. tion gp the value of the check, Iwas jast getting | “All right; 111 be there soon,” was the grnff myself into shape to retaliate, when a smile | antwer, and with that the bor left and the came over the young woman's face as if shehad | game went on, the players hardly noticing the at last reached land, and she said: interruption. “I haven't handled many checks, but I guess | Quick and often went the drinks and livelier T know how.” than ever went the chips. An hour later try Then she indorsed the check, receipted the | of the players were in the hole to the extent of bill, handed them both back to me and ssid in | §8 to $9 each, while Jim wasin deeper thay Avery sweet sny of them.’ The winners were quite merry “Thank you very mucl over their luck and rushed the jac This left me with my bill recetpted ands | considerable vigor, Then, as the hands of the check for $7.50. In other words I was $7.90 | clock were edging toward the midnight hour ahead in the transaction. Lexplained the sit- | one of the players said uation to the young woman, but from the va-| “Let's play ten fifty-cent jack pote and quit Jaced. burly ; whe great distance from ote and cursed bis cant look ou her face it was easy to see that she | That’ Jim: “I think I can win couldn't the mistake. “The check was | ont if you di too much for her. “It's n go," echoed the other I told the story in part a few minutes Inter to © cynical newspaper man and he remarked “That shows what a woman knows about | Dusines®. Did you give the check back?” be asked. ‘Yes. “Well, it seems tome that that shows what you know about business,” was bis next re-| mark, made in a disgusted tone. — Two red chips, each 50 cen £0 im the pot and only 50 cents to draw. What temptation to the loser seeking to get even. And the loser was in every pot, before the draw. after the draw, in everything seve im rak ing down the chips—that pleasure was left te the winner only. Pive minutes to 12 o'clock, and now comes the Inst pot. “Let's make this €1 each.” nllar it is and €1 to open #8.” Nervous Debility, Dr. Strum tn Ueber Land und Meer. It'# a go, with « burrab.” As, along while go, I installed myself in my | And “fore eg ® the pot. fe is rained. Perl new dwelling, I was not a little surprised, on ~ al first inspection, to find «condition of things | guy "Te bs it loeert w Which ran precisely counter to my wishes and Sud the others directions. This disappointment was chiefly | Jim scans bis ha: Aseribable to the multiplicity and variety of bit d | colors that had been selected. Not that my vorite tints had been forgotten, but the great | diversity displeased and disappointed me so much the more, as I had previously directed that a decided tone should be preserved in re- | ®®. spect to all the other colors which were to be | | purely decorative, and that were simply to be rought in unison with the primary tint. | To my representations I received the answer: | “Such a disposition is modern only, and in re- | | gard to the unity or effect I might fully tran- quilize myself. Not until the entire apartments | had been fitted up in the manner proposed | | would everything blend together, and hereby | Dlind to keep the others k, as the pot ts too big, drop in with €2 each. The nd like ®t brings out a V, the rem: : had brought in early in the evening, bis whole week ® earnings, and, with the grace of -time winner, saye Play for three. “Play for four,” «evs the next, the man whe mad the raise. ‘The others concluded it best to drop out, They were not init. Shook banda be Dusiness there. “Play for five,” says Jim. " says the other, for the balance in the bill,” says Jim, @ harmonions effect and ensemble ro- | Calling sight. duced.” view, however. Icould notatall | (N°) caragy concur in, for the contrast of color was so vivid Soar suse oldie Dail that it impressed my eves dis bly in the et "What Gs anys oti” highest degree. To this fact contributed vo it Gave you g that the tints were of the liveliest tone. As «| uence to this disagreeable impression, I ex- | pericaned a certain weakness of this’ organ Which, in view of the frequent recurrence such over exertion, was in no wise slightly | Prejudiced, for the e: ite nerves as well ae | every other organ. The more force exercised former, the stronger becomes its in-| fluence upon the latter, for in the inverse ratio | with the strength of the eye decreases that of | its nervous constitution—a condition which is called nervous debility, or rather nervousness. | We must, therefore, speak of such in respect to | the eye just as in tto any other organ, in vo far as it is nervously debilitated in exact a8 it is itself weakened. acterized for the most part as in a person is, in fact, nothing more than the sum of the nervousness of the individual organ. As a consequence, it is not © matter of indiffcrence how we select the colors of our dwellings. I aily our vision wan- ders over the latter and it will not escape the attentive observer how much the vivid and dazzling irritates the optic nerve, how much a mild and healthy primary tone,'on the other hand, will animate and refresh ‘it. For this reason it is higily important that our eyes be | accustomed to rest upon a prevailing tint with | which everything will naturally harmonize. | This is applicabie not merely to the dwelling, | butalso to our clothing, and 0 on; in short, to all those subjects in which we have to deal with colors, Still more frequent occasions for rendering the eye nervously weak are afforded by condi- tions of light, for too much as well as too little light is equally prejudicial. In earlier times duskiness was agreeable. People at often and Jong in dark rooms, and were pleased to order lights not until it’ grew late—late, at least, in the present acceptation of the term, when ther insist in living as far as pune in a “full light.” But they do not reflect that, as a gen- eral rule, they carry this too far, ‘and that hereby s strong imprlsion is given to un ever- increasing sbort-ightedness. Self-observation and experience will here teach what is the just mean, as I have shown in detail in my work on good; ace high flush here.” H—andd Text then a boy stepped mp to the table. Tt | was the same ind who had called before. bat his face was ghastly white and his eves were wet with tears. As he came up he touched Robert son on the shoulder, and, in p low voice, but heard by erery one present, eaid: Jones—“Why don't Bridget hang this parrot up after sbe is through cleaning him?" the prevention and cure of nervous debility. A third faculty of the eye is ti = ing the shapes and forms around us. Here, too, no excess should be committed in our contemplation of too many men or objects, cially when the latter are passing before the eyes in rapid alternation. is the more important, as without this the eye is ver; exerted, and, therefore, peculiar conditions de- mand corresponding foresight. That reading too much fine print, and so forth, natu rally do injury to the eyes every one of my readers will already sufticiontly know. Not less hearing de- than our organ of sight that of mandsa like care and economy. While men accord to the body, through the agency of ath- Jetic and gymnastic exercises, a systematic de- velopment, this sense has to content itself, for the most part, with what casually falls to its lot. ‘One does not consider the fact that the ear is irritated and weakened by the din of |or the uproar of the street, &c. He is sur | prised, indeed, to find that ‘his ear for music mes more more prejudicially affected by a residence in noisy cities. The senses and e brain must be sedulously fostered if we wish that their power should remain more or less intact. This attention should be accorded ele about this tT a amt ke crersthing house, if I want it done rigi myself.” have todo it sake of our bodies, sustain all the more detriment the greater the damage e rienced by the former. Experience —-——_ +02 A Glorious River. The St. Lawrence is a phenomenon among rivers, says Nature's Realm. No other river is fed by such gigantic lakes. No other river is #0 independent of the elements. It despises slike, rain, snow and sunshine. Toe and wind may be said to be the only things that affect ite ighty flow. Something almost as as the St. Lawrence itself is the fact that there is 80 little ly known about it. It might be safely that not 1 percent of the American are aware of the fact that rivers of the world the St. wrence is & absolutely foodiews Such, oy ad “rim ey Hae fi i ff if &, F # F F zi F FH ; t i E { é { i | i : E i H : e Ht ry & Hi a I H tt i i i i i a § | =