Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1891, Page 9

- a .THE WINING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. WHERE OLD SOLDIERS REST. THE @. A. R—A PLACE WAVE WORN THE ELUE CAN FIND A NIGHT'S LODGING AND A BITE THE HOME SUSTAINED Bi WHERE WANDERERS WHO to EAT. PPE EVENING OF THE CLOSING DAY OF January in this year © f grace — about as dark and dismal asa winter's night could well be. Whenit didn train snowed, and between whiles the wind blowed a hurricane. It wasn good night to sit by the fire and listen comfortably to the roaring blast and driving sleet rattling against 2 ‘dows, And this was just what a party ae vierans were doing when the writer scur- ried, wet and shivering. into the hospitable doors of $17 Missouri avenue. He saw a wide, ‘old-fashioned ball. the open doors of the ad- Jouning parlors showing bright, cheerful rooms ‘ith cory arm chairs, tables piled with maga- gan spers and books, a glowing fire in the Introbe that looked a little out of keepin; gh. with the antique, wooden pillared man- "A roaring open fire of sprace or hickory would have been more artistically satisfy- vat hardly #0 comfortable, perhape, as the rustove. Three or four quiet men at ng or talking in alow tone. Some pic- of heroes of the war and a few flags artis- on the walls, ga iy the brilliantly lighted apart- © general effect was 1 tof a xcil ordered reading room than fem- ome for Ex-Union Soldiers and which is the official title of this insti- jon. The business-like president of the home, Mr. David P. Craig, to whose untiring energy and devotion, 24 well as that of Manager own, 40 much of ite success is due, was ta table in the buck parlor engaged on xs and secounts, whose neatness would credit toa bank clerk. Giving the visitor a comfortable arm chair in front of the latrobe he very cheerfully proceeded to“fill him up with statistics,” at he phrased it, about the home and its objects. “The numerous ex-soldiers coming to thie city im a destitute condition, grnerally on pension business, had long been Fe “tof solicitude to the members of the Army in this city. and at a meeting of 2 Post, No. 3, held im August, 1338, the FHE TEMPORARY HOME. Samuel Kramer, who bad conducted a Inear the propesit e Department jomaé sho: sh somethi : the Bethel for their distressed cthren whe were th ged to resort to the station houses fe ‘The ick a respon Herd in the hearts of embers present, and a circular was sent tment ing their a other posts of the dep: vpluning the objects in view and asl ° majority responé \ramer contributing the been usin porsted with the following gentlemen as «: Rev. Samuel Kramer, James 7 i. David’ P. Craig. aes M. Pipes. The incorpotators and repre es from the tiferent posts then met at te home and elected th ‘man, W. Turnbull: nd manager, Hobbard: fiscal year e W, IW, to be expended for the objects of v direction of the District Com- missionere The house on D street was soon found to be unsuitable and im June, 189%, a re- moval was made to the prevent excellent quar- ters fronting the beantiful mall. To show how eedfal was this noble chari it may be noted that during the vear ending Jane 24 meals were furnisix Land he same per The uis furnished from July 1, and the RULES OF THE HOUSE. rd of ma One of gers is on duty each evening to grant adminsions, the only requisite for which is some satiSfactory evidence of ser- The highest number entertained in one night at this modern Poor ‘travelers’ Inn was wo and the lowest thirteen. There are mmodations for thirty-six. Two tial shed each fast 8 am. dinner at 5 p.m. ving after dinner are served with a lunch if needed. There are no hard and rules as to the stay of the guests. Each <e is measured by its necessities. ‘The house regulations. posted up in the hall, are con- structed nulitary brevity and plainness and are ax follows: 1. No person under the im#uence of liquor will Le admitted. 2 No liquor allowed on the premises, except when ordered by a physician, 3. Loud talking or profane language will not be tolerated. 4. Smoking is prohibited, except im the smok- ing re >. Lightsgwill be extinguished and the house closed at 1pm. Having thus londed the writer with s dropped his pen ‘ng and nee the pice.” nrough the wide bali with its curious rok inthe center, reminiscent of the before fashion hud taken the jump to northwest end of town, up the winding ire we climbed to take # peep at the sleeping of which there are six, of generous pro- ons, neat as wax, furnished with tubular ot with wire springs, husk mattresses, sheets and heavy blankets; very inviting © tired wanderer coming in cut of the © after a day's tramping through the in- je streets. There are two large hall s, better furnished. which are reserved for ai coses. Down stairs again to the bright hen, with its shining tnware. and the pleasant dining room where “soft chuck” in dance waits upon the usually healthy ap- es of the veterans at the regular hours. sident Craig just here paid a high com- t to the skill of the home cook, Mise tem, who has shown her ability to ne fare provided in appetizing style. r breakfast.” he continued, “they have + sausage or fish, with potatoes, bread and butter and coffee. For dinner. a roust with vegetables and tea, and occasionally soup, and the healthy man who isnot satistied wi this bill of fare would probably grumble at the wienu of the Arlington.” Returning te the cheerful back parlor men- tion was made of the opparently slim attend- ance for such weather. “De yo smile said Capt. Craig, with a hat and come with me nes, opened the door of a nd here through a veil of re dlimly seen some dozen or fifteen i around «hot stove, ail smoking. majority using pipes, afew cigars, but not ea cigarette. That hideous modern inven- Was unk » days that they went toit. it “tobacco parliament,” and the jcntly “fighting their battles for ax we entered one stalwart fel- pe in band, was saying: “Yes, Tgot my dose at the Bloody Angle, Spottsy — pe know—.” He halted on sve ing visitors,and nodded an easy “good even- | g.” as did the others. One old gentleman, | clean-shaved and pleasant-faced, in the center of the circle, was especially sociable, and ex- pressed his pleasure at finding euch a haven i this bitter weather. There was a strong suspicion of the brogue in his speech. which forty years’ residence in America had not been able to eradicate. we returned to the parlor Capt. Craig told a funny hittle incident that happened to the old man on his arrival in Washington just a few days before. He was then adorned with along gray beard reachin, to his waist, grizzly hair falling in tangled masses on his shoulders, and a generally patriarchal appearance that attracted the tention of an art student, who met him on F street requested him to ‘come to the rooms of the Art Students’ League and pose, agreeing to give him half a dollar an hour for his services. “The old man gladiy con- sented. for his funds were at low ebb. An hour was appointed, and wishing to presenta | creditable appearance the veteran hastened to | & barber shop, had his hair ent short, his beard entirely shaved off. and himself spruced up generally. He eppeared at the leagne rooms Promptly on time, but his young artist om- ployer failed to recognize in this «mug face the resque mode! he had seen on the strect, ignominiously turned out, to his profound astonishment and wrath. Mr. Chambers, superintendent of the home and the President's ef ient right-hand man in ite management, here chimed in with aa inci- dent that deserves to be recorded. “One summer night about six months ago,” be began. “there came in a little old man, bowed in form. his face reamed and wrinkled like in, but evidently ‘still in the m Jones would say. I co ing his name and military his- tory, which went smoothly enough, viz: ‘John €, tenth Tenne:see volun- the regular arm Mexicun war; prior to that in the Indian wars prior to that in the war of 1812— “Stop "said I, ‘you'll get back in the revolu- ry war if you keep on.” ‘Oh! I was the footstool then, anyhow,’ yenky voice and 7 down in his ~-You were?’ said I, in an awed whirper. ‘How old are you? “One hundred and twenty-four years old come next December,” was the paralyzing reply 1 inspected his papers, of which he p pply. and although they did not prove his age to be all that he claimed, yet they | showed that it must be far beyond that of the average mortal, and as he stouily insisted upon the veracity of his statement it went down so upon the record.” And here the s ent exhibited the home register, name, service and age, as stave: d with: us over night,” he continued. went down to the Hampton Home the nev day, and have never heard from him : THE SUPPORT OF THE monte. ‘Aud now to get back to statistics,” said President Craig.” Congress has given us another $2,500 for the current year. but Iam | afraid the balance will be on the wrong side of the ledger ou the 30th of June, as the increase in applications is already far in excess of those recetved up to the corresponding time last year. Our guests come from every state and ierri- tory, and the dependent pension bill is in- creasing the throng. The most of these old soldiers think that if they can get inside the pension building their claims will go through at once, not considering that there may be tens | of thousands ahead of them, and as justly en- titled. “They can’t be made to realize that they would fare just as well by correspondence from their homes. So our work is incre ing and our resources are not. We are under special | obligations to the various woman's relief corps | and comrades of the departments for donations | of clothing. ée., which is often sadls ed To avoid any mistake you may say ihat very few of our applicants are members of the Grand Army.” The officers of the Home for the present year are David P. Craig. vice president: Amos J. Gunnin, Brown, manager, the board of man- | agemens cousisting of the above and a rep; sentative from nearly every post of the Depart- ment of the Potoma: As the writer wa: ij erans were quietly going upstairs to bed. some | f them no doubt contrasting th ‘omfortable quarters and broth with former experiences of ce d-cent lodging houses, of which they have had xperience. And so we bade adieu to this Mili- tary Poor Travelers’ Inn and its warm-hearted, unselfish managers, who labor without fee or | reward save the pleasure of doing a little to lighten the hard lot of the “boys” who | mashap stood in line with them at Shiloh or | Antietam or Gettysburg, and who nave felt the samy side of life in” the weary years since | the: _ see PREHISTORIC ART. Remarkable Ancient Sculptures From North- West America, From Nature. Mr. James Terry has just published deser tions and photographs of some of the most re- markable works of prehistoric man yet discov. ered on the American continent. They rep: sent three rude. yet bold, characteristic and | even life-like seulptures of simian heads, exe- cuted in basalt. One of these belongs to the author, one to Mr. T. Condon, and the third to Saimuel | ¢} |The THE NATIONAL GUARD. Matters of Interest to Members of the Dis- trict Militia. THE OFFICERS OF THE TWO COLORED BATTALIONS TO HAVE THE SELECTION OF THE NEW MAJOR— A MEETING CALLED FOR TODAY—PROGRAM OF THE FENCTBLES—NOTES. Unless appearances are deceptive the trouble which has brought the seventh and eighth bat- talions into prominence will be atan end this evening. To bring abouta satisfactory concla- sion Gen. Ordway has granted the officers of the four interested companies a privilege that has not been given any of the officers of white commands—the privilege of nominating major for the new battalion which is to result from the consolidation of the two-companied battalions of colored troops. Tho militia Inw | of the District provides that the President shell appoint regimental and battalion com- manders upon the nomination of the general commanding; now the general will give the company oflicers an opportunity to express their preferences by ballot. The following order was issued from brigade headquarters vening: Hage antans Disrmict or Corusmnya Mrte14, “Wasnixerox, D. C., Mare 20, 1891. Orders, No. 34. ies A and B of the eighth ‘onsolidated into one bat- effect and date from the time when the ficid | and staff otficers of the new battalion a designated and the necessary further orders given to govern the details required to eflect the consolidation. Until this consolidation is thus completed the battalions will retain their present designations and will remain under the | command of their present battalion command- ers respectivel, ‘2. The ce amissioned officers of companies Aand Bof the seventh battalion and the com- missioned officers of ¢ Aand Bot the cighth battalion will at these head- | quarters on Saturday, the Zist instant, at 8 ck p.m.. for the purpose of nominating a major for the consoliduted battalion organized by the preceding paragraph. aj. Frank Aldrich, quartermaster general, will preside.” THE FENCIBLES’ PROGRAM. Company C, second battalion (the National Fencibles), has inid out for itself a most inter- esting season's program. On Tuesday even- the semi-annual “plume” drill will take place, when members of the command will compete for the ir W. E. ividual drill championship. Sergt. *rist holds the honor at present and he ¥ continue to hold it, but he will have to do a great deal of high-grade work to defeat some of those who will compete. ‘The judges will be areh of the Kansas National Guard, Capt. company C, sixth battalion, and’ Capt. Waish, ‘company A, fourth battalion. Of course the drill will be attended by the usual crowd and the fair sex will, as nsual, be more than a majority of the assembiage. When the drill is erghe winner and all other members of the will have an hour or two of rational ch-satisfying amusement. tevent in which the Fencibles are inate on Memorial ‘On that public holiday a number of | npanies of the District National Guard will compete for drill supremacy, but the cibles will not be of these tun the contest and pocket the ball park will probs ict and the pro; ternoon. ‘There will be three e a prize for th t first sergean twill be entitled to two repre: lividual contest and the two best propriate The ju will be oticers of the third United States ar- tillery. The committee in charge of the af- fuir—“which is tobe known as the District drill contest—is composed Lee b. Mosher, secre . W. Mortimer Stelle, L. J. Barb ‘and E. J. B. O'Neill. ‘On June 22 the Fencibles will celebrate their fourth anniversury with a parade and other appropriate ceremonies, and when the birth- day is past the drill team will settle down to the steadiest kind of work. The laurels won lust year at Kansas City have but whetted the appetite of Capt. Domer's experts, and this season they expect to do very muca_ better. will go to Minneapolis in September after 000 prize aud they are of opinion that some of that money with be brougnt back by them. Mr. W. M. Brackett of linneapolis (brother of Major Brackett of the second bat- tallion ) is in the eity and Le has been in consulta- tion with the Fen . Brackett is secretary and general manager of the Minnc- apolis industrial exposit id he is anxious to the September drill the finest thing of the ever seen in this country. ‘There will be no general invitations. it is understood, but about a dozen of the finest companies in the United States will be asked to enter the compe- tition. ‘The test will be g severe one, and the winning team will have every on to be proud of its victory. Wo 18 THE FIREDU ‘There secirs to be a pretty thoroughly preva- lent idea in circulation around the Center Market armory that the fire which threatened night was of in Noone who is opposed to this theory has, as yet, succeeded in explaining the, removal of the big dry goods box from the foo: of the steps to the door of the room occupied Prof. 0. C. Marsh,.who referred to it in his address “On Vertebrate Life in America,” in | the following terms: “On the Columbia river I have found evidence of the former existence | of inhabitants much superior to the Indians | @: present there, and of which no tradition re- | mains. Among many stone carvings whick [| saw there were a number of heads which so | strongly resembled those of apes that the like- | ness at once suggests itself. Whence came | these sculptures and by whom were they made?” Unfortunately we have no detailed informati as to the conditions under wi mens were fourd. except that “they id be clawed as ‘surface finds,’ from the fact that the shifting sand danes, whith were largely utilized for burial purposes, are continually bringing them to the surface.” This gives no indication of their antiquity, but t# quite compatibie with any age which their other characteristics may suggest. size of the heads varies from 8 to 10, inches in total height and from 5% to 6: | inches in width. The three are so different | from each other that they appear to represent three distinct animals, and, so far ax 1 can | jndge. they all differ considerably from the | of any known anthropoid apes. In pai r the nostrils are much fartuer from t eves and much nearer to the moutit than in of the apes. In this re: they are more | human, yet the general form of the head and face, the low and strongly ridged forehead aud the ridges on the head and cheeks seem to point | to a very low type of anthropoid. In a lette to Mr. Terry Mr. Condon saggeste “that th were copied from the figurehead of some Malay proa that may have been wrecked on the | coast: but such a supposition is quite inad- missable, since nothing at ail resembling these heads is over carved on Malay proas, and there ix no reason to believe that if such « carving | did come into the possession of the natives they | would ever think of copying it in stone, while these sculptures were found 200 miles from the coast om the east side of the Cascade | mountain Taking into consideration the enormous an- | tiquity of the stone mortars and human remains | found in the anriferous gravels of California, buried under the ancient lava streams and a sociated with a flora and fauns uitogether dit- ferent from that ef any part of America at the present time, Mr. Terry's own conclusion ap- pears the more probable. 1¢ is “either that the | animals which these carvings represent once | existed in the Columbia valley, or that, in the | remote past, a migration of natives trom sowe | » ‘ovtaining these monkeys reached this y, and left one of the vivid impression their forme ding: able sculptures. © pears to me, for many reasons, to be highly i probable: and, though the former will seem to | many persons to be still more myprobable, Iam | inclined provisionally to accept it. —_—_—_+eo____ Drowned in Fording a Stream. Tsaae Uuffard, an Alabama farmer, on Thursday attempted to cross a creck in wagon in which were his wife and! three children. The creek was swollen, and the woman and team were washed down stream. | The three children were drowned, the father | and mother barely escaping with their lives. +00 ‘The Iroquois Goes to Honoluln, Late Samoan advices say the U. S.S. Iro- quois has gone to Honolulu. No naval vessel of any nationality is at the islands at present. The American land commissioner has not yet | arrived. ‘The English and German commiis- sioners are both there, but can do nothing toward taking up the question of land tities until the American commissioner arrives. eee ‘Trade Negotiations With Newfoundland. Mr. Herbert E. Knight of Newfoundland has arrived at Ottawa and had an in- It is } tion, because ; the best shots in each battalio | futosk, company A, second battalion; Second L «J. Harjow, company A, fourth battalion: First Lieut. Richard Leckie, Second firmed. They were provisionally promoted, | but before any final action was taken had to pear betore the board. Lieut. Hiker, Lis by company A, second battalion, nor has ai one explaitied the fire which was discovered the sae building but a week ago. ‘The first attempt was made in the rear of the rooms company C, second battalion, (National Fenei bies) afew days since. It was only by mere chance that lr. L. J. Barber discovered this biaze before the oil-saturated paper had an portunity to communicate its tlaine to some equally tutiammable but more enduring ma rial But itie was said of the ny ome hopes were trapping the firebug. ‘There are all sorts of rumors asto the causes of these villainous crimes, rumors that may be extremely unjust, but they are the natural result of a somewhat strained military tion. RIFLE TEAMS BEING ORGANIZED. The rifle teams of the tiret and second regi- ments are being organized for the match which comes off on the night of Wednesday April 8. Preliminary practice will commence on Mo day evening and within a week both teams will be in working order. At present a number will compete for places and when the competitors have had a fair chauce the regimental inspectors of ritle practice, Cupt. Cash and Capt. Bell, will cach selecta teciu of eight and put them into regu- lar practice. Harles It. Laird bas accepted the proffered position of Commissary serg staff. ‘This appointms 1, for Mr. Laird 1s rtulned of material assistance i and such things. When the marksmen co: to shoot for places on the brigade team he will be uear the rizat of Ime. OFFICERS COmMISSIONED. The following officers have received their commissions during the past week: First Lieut. Char! er, Second Lier Geo. T. Mi Lieut. Michael A. Sess, company 1, fourth but tulion; Capt. Joba M.’ Witham, First Lieut. Lee F. Mider, company D, fourth battalion. NOTES. Corpls. Libbey and Simms ofthe first separ- | ate company have had their appointments cu; didate Q. M. Sergt. ‘I the results were ‘tying, both men, it is understoud, ug high percentages. ‘Light battery A is settling down to work now and there 1s promise of a strong organization within a reasonable period. Any labor per- formed wili have its reward, for about July 1 two nice new Hotchkiss rapid fire guns will ar- rive and be turned over to the gunners. A good attendance at the Thursday night voluntary drills continues to delight the hearts of officers of troop A. Company C, second battalion, has been mak- ing numerous improvements in its locker room at its own expense. ‘The second informal hop of compeny A, Washington Light lutuntry Corps, for the pres- ent season will take place on the evening of Tuesday, the 1st instant. —__ Luck in Losing a Rubber. From the Lewiscon (Me.) Journal. A young man at Peak’s Island lost his rubber overshoe in the road the other night, thereby bringing great good luck to his father. That gentleman, Mr. Chas. Trefethen, lost a pocket book last fall that contained $1,200 in notes and money. and all his search for it was un- a hut while the son was hunting for his lost rubber he came upon the long-mi wallet, with ail its contents intact. ~ ‘The Durham miners, who have been at odds with their employers for some time past, have accepted the latter's terins. BRITISH SHIPBUILDING. ‘Consul Jones Tells Some of the Causes of the Decline in the Industry. Consul Jones of Cardiff, inu report to the State Department on British shipbuilding in 1890, say: “Although 189) wasa year of anxiety and frequent disappointments to ship owners and builders, it was one of the greatest shipbuild- ing years in the history of the industry, show- ing a tonnage launched represented by 874 ves- sels measuring 1,276,129 tons, coming within 50,011 tons of theaggregate launched in 1889 and showing an advance on the great shipbuilding year 1883 of 26,129 tons. The years 1983 and 1889 indicate the full sweep of the pendulum. The former year showed a tonnage launched of 1,250,000. "Then commenced the downward swing, and in three years, or by 1886, the total annual output had declined to less than 500,000 tons, or, to be accurate, to 480,799 tons. ‘the gradual yearly increase set in with nearly 100,000 tons in 1887,over 325,000 tons in 1888 and 425,553 tons in 1589, when the total output reached the unprecedented figures of 1,326,240 tons. As it was in 1883 so it will prove to have been in 1889. ‘The tonnage launched during the latter ‘ear will mark the furthest point of prosperity hat the shipbuilding industry shall enjoy for many Gears tocome. The year justended already indicates a falling off of ‘30,011 tons compared with 1889, and should the annual decline of 1891 approach: 500,000 tons compared with 1890 I shall certainly not be surprised. ‘The down- ward course of the industry will be hastened | by the facts, first, that freights have been for ine last twelve * months 1 continue to be unsatisfactory and unprotit- able to such an extent that a Yast amount of i 1 up for want of remun- erative employment; second, that the prices of shipbuilding material continue as they were at the — beginnin year; third, that wages 1 round are equa! to the rates prevailing in January, 1890. I conclude, therefore, that shipbuilders will not, during the next few months at all events, be ina position to make tempting offers to ship owners in the way of low prices, while the ship owners, in view of the wretched freights prevailing and prospect- ive, will scarcely feel warranted in ordering new ships without some extraordinary inducements on the score of terms. Indeed, everything seems to indicate that the decline of output during the current year, | compared even with 1590, will prove serious to shipbuilding and auxiliary industries, as well as to a large army of artisans and laborers.” ecg 2 — An Interesting Legal Point. In the trial of James A. Miller, alias James Muldoon, for smuggling Chinamen into this country, now in progress before United States District Judge Coxe in Utiea, N. Y., Attorney De Angelis, who was assigned to defend the i an interesting point yesterday. ‘The Chinamen came to this country by a row boat across the Niagara river. ‘The ‘statute provides that it is a misdemeanor to aid or abet any Chinese person to enter the Umted States by'land, or toaid or abet any such to land'from a'vessel. Mr. De Angelis argued and the gov- ernment admitted that the row boat was not a vessel within the meaning of the statute. Mr. De Angelis argued that coming by row boat could not be construcd to mean coming by land. The effect of this construction of the statute would cnable Chinamen to come to this country by row boats. ‘The court held that for the present he would hold the statute broad over coming to this country by ans, but promised to give the question further ‘consideration and change his ruling if wrong. THE OSTRICH HUNT. A Tale of Legs, From the Fliecende Blatter. oo Hot work even for Hottentots. “Aha!” says one hunter to the other. “An idea! Let's hide these eggs and let our victim | sit on our bald heads.” Well hidder in the send the hunters eye the ostrich as she approaches and sits, Mind triumphs over matter. Ham That Swarmed With Parasites. At the village of Centerville, Wis., four critical cases of trichinosis, caused by eating raw or par- tinlly cooked ham, exist. Thesickare confined to two families, but it is expected that others will be affected. as the diseased meat was pape a tainly swarming with PREPARING FOR THE QUEEN. Making Things Keady for Victoria's Stay at Grasse. THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S GAYETIES—A PURSE WEEKS—THE HAWAIIAN HEIR LIVING QUIETLY IX LONDON—BOULANGER IN RETIREMENT. Special Cable Letter to The Evening Star. Panis, March 20.—News from Grasse tells of the gorgeous preparations that are being made for the reception of Queen Victoria, who is ex- pected there very soon. The grand hotel which has been rented for her majesty’s occupancy is the most pretentious in the place. It consists of three stories, covering an enormous amount of ground space. On the first and second stories there are twenty-four rooms, twelve on each. Eight of the rooms on the first floor ail face south. These are intended for her maj- esty’s personal use, and they are divided into a boudoir, a tea room, sitting, bed and dressing rooms, all for her own convenience and exclu- sive use. The ladies in waiting have the re- ™maining rooms on this floor,-and as there are rather crowde |. Half of tke second floor is devoted to the Princess Eeatrice and her pictaresque band, Prince Henry. They occupy the west haif ‘of the floor. whilie the east half is allotted suite. The entire royal par hotel number over forty people. ‘The qneen’s bed, which, owing to long ac- comfortable spots, that ro ries around with her, is di arrival is looked forward to most us lively as is that of its sole occupant. Along with this indispensable bed the silver | and linen of the imperial houschold is likewise brought from London. FRANZ JOSEF'S FLUMMERY. The papers are just beginning to talk about j the annual flummery that the Emperor Francis Josef indulges in in Vienna. On each Mann- day Thursday he gethers together his arch- | dukes, and they in turn tind twelve superan- uated but clean old gentlemen, who are duly washed and perfumed and set up on a platform Jatthe bh fburg. ‘Then the emperor, with his archdukes, walks past these favored and flavored guests aud sprinkles a little water on their feet, which have been bared and other- wise prepared tor the ceremony. All this is done with every manifestation of imperial ificence and when the emperor reaches i of bis dozen he is conducted to the royal bath, where he prepares for the banqu that follows, It is usual for the Empress Eliz~ abeth to get some of her archduchesses together and find twelve ofd women, who are treated the same way, but in the absence of her impe- rial highness'at this season these twe spectable old ladies will have to go unw: It has been determined, however, that, 2s compensation for this uncomfortable m, they shall be made the recipients of an imperial bounty. lady all penditure of money at Grasse and the imperial tomfoolery at Vienna is the distressing suicide of poor woman on the Rue de La Victorie, who has been heretofore in comfortable cir: cumstances, whose husband occupied a g position and when he died a few months a left a small sum for his family, a widow two children. ‘The widow tried in every di tion to find some work by which to support herself, but was unsuccessful and day before yesterday it appears she spent her last centime Tor food. Unaccustomed as she had been to such privations and refined as her education nd former life had made her, she was unwili- ng to appeal to any oue for help and yesterday ended this trouble by suffocating herself a her twochildren, She lett three letters exp was to some rich relations and told brietly d ing her act; one ing in the country {her struggles snd of her inability to pro living for herself and children; the second was to the concierge of the house thanking him for the help he had given her, and the third was to the police begging then not to divulge her name or seud her body to the morgue. It may be suid to the credit of the police they have observed both of these requests. KICKED ABOUT FOR FIVE WEEKS And while this poor woman in Paris killed herself for the want of a few francs. purse con- taining $10,000 in cash was being kickde about the streets of Cronstadt, where it had lain for five weeks mixed with the slush and snow, until it was finally picked up by a passer- day last. The tinder was honest, so the tra- dition tells, and turned over the treasure to the roubles away in a safe and looked about town to see who had lost them. But their search Ut: i been | fallen de was for a long time without result, until fix they discovered that the pocket boc the property of an otticer who ha in the streets five weeks age money was found. ere +. nO doubt the police mind that this wealth hat been lying in the streets ever since. HEIR TO THE HAWAIIAN THROX The present interest in Hawaii affairs call: attention to the presence of Princess Kaiulan who is at present living in the strictest privacy and retirement in London with only a fe intimate frien inted with her where- tending complet ing her education. A few days ago she received, through her school mistress, an official tele- gram from Hawaii informing her thet sh= has been chosea heir to the throne and would in due time become queen of that delightful conn- try. ‘Together with <his notification there enme a pleasant document from the Hawaiian charge Waffaires im England, NEAR BRUSSELS. ave just permitted it to be announced that Gen. Boulanger has taken a | small house in the suburbs of Brussels, where | he expects to remain permane: ‘The raid | that was made on the houses of sever: suspected of favoring Boulanger yest: supposed to have been incited by the f : the general himself taking up his residence near to Paris was abont to. begin a new ernsade against the government. The Boulangers, how- ever, claim that nothing was discovered in this raid that would bear ont any such idea. AGITATION OVER MUSTACH Mustaches are just now agitating Pari They have been mace the subject of noisy mee ings and lengthy manifestoes by the beard French waiters. ‘These people have finally re- volted from the somewhat curious rule, but ex- sensible i ceedingly French res French steamships, that no waiter there em- ployed shall wear a mustache. reavon for this is simple and rational; it recognizes the certainty of a surreptitious nip orareviving draught of soup by the waiter when he chen an’ izes that | Some of the remnants of this hasty meal will cling to the mustache if it’s there and likely as not percolate into the order of some diner. What chances there may be for the restoration of mustaches it is yet too carly in petition to determine. Is i aS Pilfering From Confectioners. From the St. Lonis Globe-Democrat. A prominent confectioner says: “The big confectioners ail along Broadway lose hundreds of dolinrs every season by the ‘candy sneak | thieves.’ That is the term weail use when | speaking of the class of people who come in the shop, buy 10 cents’ worth of dainties of some description and fiich a quarter's worth of candy off the counters. Why don't we put | wire screens over the candy? For this reason: The majority of our customersare wealthy peo- ple who spend large sums of moncy fer. bon- one, candied flowers and conserves. We are pleased to have these people help themselves to whatever is on the counter. ‘They are rezu- Jar customers and we can afford to have them do so, If we had the wire sereens they would think wo were mean and stingy. No, there is no help for it. Thave instructed my clerks to look displeased and all that sort of thing, but it won't work. ‘There is one lady who comes in here regularly once a week. She invariably takes 25 conts’ worth of candies. I calculate to lose that small amount every week, for Iassure you she eats fully that much worth’ of imported candies every time she comes in. One of yny clerks spoke to her one day abont it and fold her she must not doit. She took some more quite a number of these attendants they are | It is made with » crown to Sir Henry Ponsonby and_ the rest of the | y domiciled in the | quainiance and presumably knowledge of its | m in front. At the back ¢ ix’ trimming of carnation berries and dyed grasses, the | |strings being of | red velvey to correspond with the provaaling ion. The wearer of « this tint_must consider her complexion. Par authorities, and they carefully put the 15,000 | | the bonn | of its effectiveness by 3 The Leaning Tower of Pisa Taken as a Model by Belinda in Dressing Her Locks, From the Philadelphia Press, If English women are dressing their fair drawings of “emart millinery” in the London fushion journals the civilized New Zealander a thousand years hence will regard the faxh- ions in head dress today with about the same surprise as we look back on the coiffuresshown in ancient Pryptian sculpture. Certainly the hideous styles at the beginning of the present century were artistic by comparison. ‘The de- sire of the English woman today would seem tobe to erect a structure at the back of her head on the model of the leaning tower of Pisa, and thereby Belinda destroys instead of show- ing to the best advantage her crowning glory. In most cases the hair is arranged in such way as to add several inches to the stature of the wearer. Take, for instance, that which is described as a “most original little bonnet.” ot jet, and a front formed of a kind of ruche of golden galon. At the back and in front the trimming consists of ciusters of lilies of The strings L-colored vel- pretty bonnet, to be perched on tp of oa immense | drawn up ins way that would not thonsan:. t theater “hat,” from Pazis. Thirk of it, ye thenter- goers, and ‘be thankfal you are uot compelled tosit behind it in the parquet ‘circle. — The principal novelty to be noted in connectio with it is the bird tant ened head down end breast ont at the back, something whieh is not 1 wollify the good ladies who are making a crusade | against the slaughter | irds for purposes of ation. Apropos | to the proportions of this hat, it be mentioned that gentle- | men's hats are dwindling—slowly but surely ‘The crowns of silk hats are nearly half an_inch | shallower than those of last year, and. the | brims area quarter of an inch narrower. Felt hats are beginning to lookabsolately potty. Silk hais are not so much belled this season. Another extreme is reached in this bonnet, whichis of Tuscan faney p straw, with wide folds of deep red velvet drawn through the crown and formed into a large bow vet. on is directed to the style of bair | It is safe to say that few Americar women will take it as a model | A front view of this toploftical coiffare, as | . shown in the accompa- nying pictare, does not improve the impression ofa side view. The hat | worn by the Indy is of Mack straw, with a be- coming ben t-x bout im, edged with a bor- dering of black erino- | line.’ The crown is | trimmed with black | e, while the brim is edged with black ostrich feathera on the onter side, and trimmed un- derneath with narrow lines of black v The three-cornerec shape of hats ticularly fashionable at present and very becoming. The spoei- men shown in this il- Instration has the turned-up brim edged throughont with a nar- row pleating of fine black Ince. Right in the peak of the hat in front there is a smali bird of black plumage. It is very effective, but, like the others,” the drawing reveals | com- plete lack of taste and lack of adaptability to the shape of the head in arranging : A Jed improvement is shown in the next illustration, where the style | of hair dressing is a modi- | fication of the Greek, and known as the Diane. The hat is of black faney straw, and made with a crinkled brim of jet and a wreath of wild roses of 8 most deli- | cate pale pink, arranged 80 that they rest ‘on the hair. A jet bird and bows of i, black lace trim the crown, while the strings are of black velvet. This soft Platena bonnet is of fawn-colored straw, bent about in « most’ artistic fashion. ‘The trimming consists of loops and bows of dark brown velvet, two pins with — jeweled heads, and at the back a large upstand cluster of vivid — pix roses snd rose buds. nmuet be admitted ioses mue It nner in ris ar- ranged, yet the picture ix publi faith. ‘The lust in this se hed in good 8 will be adjudged the rettiest by many ES indies. It is a smart hat of rustic Tnsean straw, bent in and out in & very pictaresque fash- jon, and trimmed ‘with loops and bows of moss- green velvet and clus ters of pale mauve lilac and green leaves. In conclusion, it is only necessary to say that the reproductions have been photographed faithfully from the Lady's Pictorial aud Pail Mall Bulget. They must be taken as indicative of the prevailing modes of dressing the hair in England and, if the hats and bonnets do not look so well as to justify the descriptions, it is easy to see why. a oe The Alliance in Politics. ‘The Farmers’ Alliance concluded its session in Creston, Iowa, on Thursday. President L. L. Polk suid the farmers onght toelect more farmers to Congress instead of so many law- ers, because the petitions of farmers for legi ation in their behalf had been disregarded. ‘The alliance intended to go into politics, but not partyism. He suggested the possibility of a new parts in the next presidential campaign and said the principles of the alliance woi triumph as early a8 1896 if both old parties had to be swept away. Gen. James B. Weaver and Lubor Commissioner Sovereign and Congress man-elect Otis of Kansas delivered similar ad- dresses. pei St Ise ee Killed While Trying to Escape. While making a desperate attempt to escape arrest a young man supposed to beFred Poth- cild was shot and killed in Chicago on Thurs- day night by Ofticer Frank Klafta, who discov- ered him and tzo companions in the act of burglarizing a flat on West Randolph street. pelacbene ys ebithendasun sa Silence Considered Significant. A special cable dispatch to Tu Evextxo Star from Berlin says: it was exactly a year ago yesterday since the retirement of Prince Bis- candy and told the clerk not to joke. ‘Talk Leap eed ere en acl ree - eis no wa: . of the ‘candy sneak thieves’ thatl can tos ® A Gain for the Tories, An election for member of parliament wes held in Ashton Manor, England, yesterday to fill the vacancy in the representation of the constituency caused by the death on February 28 of Mr. Georgo Kynoch, conservative. The ‘voting resulted in favor of Capt. Grice Hutch- the Gladstonian party. In the tion Mr. Prostived 3,496 poise: to S113 for Mr. H. 2. Reid, the home rule candidate. ENGLISH STYLES FOR HAIR. donbtless, but | veloped | claim of an unmixed bronze age before the DIGGING FOR SELF-EVOLUTION. Theories That May Constitute a Good Work- ing Hypothesis, but Are Not Yet Proved. To the Editor of The Evening Star " Among the valuable and interesting articles which appear in your Saturilay ines few are more so than the essays (unsigned, but evi- dently written with authority) upon subjects connected with natural discovery as it concerns archaic times. But will the writer permit the suggestion that in the present stage of that sci- ence he is inctined to goa triffe too fast, and to support the assertions of a clique which claims theory as fact--and that is not true acience. In his last article, “Dug From Peep Down,” Under mention of the invertebrates of the early coal-forming epoch, he writes: “The fact [is] thatthey are theancestors of mankind. It is from them that we are all descended. * * * Bevond them we find our more remote grand. rents in marine worms. * * * This is a lemonstrated fact.” Now, Mr. Editor, though we have been exhorted to believe this very often in the past thirty years, it is well once in awhile to take stock of our knowledge, in which care we find that there are scientific men, second to none, who are by no meansee vinced of this “fact” and who deny that it hax been “demonstrated” beyond a donbt. Until it is so wonid it not be more candid to call it the best working hypothesis we now have—but still & hypothesis? Your essayist proceeds: “Originally animal ide itself into two bra janimal and the vegetable: the p away from — mental — organiza- tion. ° e * On the other hand the animals cultivated the powers of loco- motion. In this way it has come about that ; Animals have steadily advanced since the time | of the beginning of things until m: «heen, roduced.” Readers are aware, Mr. Editor, | that Darwiniem has “progressed” so rap- idiy since 1857 that by I888 it was dissipated into no lees than twenty-one | divisions. each differing from Darwinism | proper: end it appears from one of the clanses in the last foregoing quotation that another | {has been added, according to which the nate creation Which we ased to be told w: | grand ev yn from plots | ¥ided itself into two bran hes. was not in the direction of the highest prog: ress. It is true we should not be surprised at such a statement, for after evolution was found occasionally to evolve in the wrong direction as when variation into new species wax over: powered by reversion to original stock the theory was “‘cased” so that it might be claimed to act in either way—forward or backward. The writer of “Dug from Deep Down” con- | ti “The act! war enother fof an! present extinct, which has m ied with certainty. * * . a gap which science is partly able to close | going © backward from the ot end. * * © 4 whole race of ape-like m has been found. * * * These people had skulls of inferior development, &c." Toes an- thropology tench this unequivocally tor? In Huxley's writings we find that the | oldes: human skull known might have been that of a philosopher and Piguier’ mony is to the same Dawson — inchnes to the man appeared with some suddenness upon earth, ax man, and cannot be absolutely proved to have been evolved from some other species of creature. Wonld it not be better to note that theory at present holds to both idens? r one ixaware of the alleged proofs of the im- mense antiquity of man; the depth of the «tre! in which implements and bones have been found; their existence in the glacial period: the ropoid apes] yet been ide one: the co-existence with man, of animals ow extinct, &c.. but there ix hardly one of these points which hax not been either controverted or shown to be doubtful as proof. _ Your estayist wri ‘The long-sought miss- ing link was between this ape-like man and the anthropoid ape. He will be fonnd some day confident of that” In this statement, Mr. Editor, we find it implied that there is now only one missing link and that the completion of the chain rests upon frith. As to the first point, it is a very short time tince it wax admitted thet the ape-like animal of | Darwin and Lyell formed one gap, that the | three-toed horse of Huxley was another, that Hwekel's lemur-like animal was a third: and among other gaps to be tilled are that t tween dead and living matter, that between vegetable and animal life, that octween ani- mal and moral nature, and so on. The first missing link was to have been foun in Africa, until that continent was crossed and recrossed with only the false alarm about “apes” which carried torches when they stole fruit at night. The second was to have been discov in geological strata, and there, — while doing something for the horse's toes, have apparently left’ the nimal himself ag an awful example of non- lution, for he not only appeared somewhat ¥, but with a different ancestor in this country from the one in Europe. The third missing link proves the craftiness of Hwckel, and ix this your essayist follows his lead—it was claimed that there was no gap worth men- tioning, because the link “must have been” in projenitors of human kind | 4 Mr. Eai- | © Z I cg tef~ SARAH BPRNAARDT AS THRODORA, var DIVINE SARAH WRITES A LETTPR. : SARAN Wt To Mrs. HARRIET HURPARD AVER. RECAMIER CREAM it will y not only, Pick: 05 FIFTH AVE Proportion t dass andet Iron Butters, Melon's F Sw ~ ‘arrent i 100 Seerain Capmules J dozen >-rain Cs an imaginary submerged continent at the bottom" of the Pacifie ocean, and if we doubt it we are overwhelmed with the very name invented for it—Lemuria. Science may’be entirely confident that all the missing links will be found and faith isa very noble emotion of the mind, but most of so- called science claims that it is knowledge and that it has nothing in common with faith, so that it might have been more frenk in your essayist not to speak so confidently upon this point. He continnes: “In this manner it has been ascerteined how by evolution the creature man as he is today has been produced.” Would it be too exacting. Mr. Editor, to ask whether all this has really been’ ascertained by the confes- sion of missing links assumed to be covered by water, and which “will be” dug out when oceans drvand mun becomes extinct? The writer of the essay say manifest that physically ss going backward f. ¥ quoted—that “animals have advanced” —would indicate that evolu- tion evolved ina forward direction only till man had become monarch of all he surveyed, after which it began to evolve him backward physically, which may be sound science, but is Incousistent with the mame and claims of evo- ution. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, the supporters of the hypothesis of evolution ‘include’ none who surpass in knowledge Wallace and Virch but what is peculiar to those two men is their admission that that theory isnot yet absolutely proved and their cautions to self-evolutionists to hasten slowly in making unfounded claims. M. <a laceees ® Bulge on Him.” From Life. see A Correspondent Fatally Injured. A Tallahassee special to the Times-Union says: Charles L. Norton, author of “Hand Book of Florida,” came here a few days ago for the purpose of discovering the whereabouts of the Florida volcano about which there has beer somuch talk for many years. J. H. Staley, who resides near Tallahassee and knows every foot of i i ih 1 i marck was gazetted. 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