Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1891, Page 8

La ’ : THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE LAFAYETTE MONUMENT. haps, a certain spirit of internation- | effort, GRAND AND IMPOSING. alism that well befits the subject. a4 AA zl ANU. THE SCULPTORS. ‘The monument was designed and produced by Messrs. Alexander Falgniere and Antonin Mercie, a is of the first rank in France, where they have achieved a fame only slightly less creditable than that which they have se- | cured in this country, both by this and other | Works. M. Falguiere is the elder of the two, | having been at one time the instructor or mas- ter of M. Mercie. The latter has devel i j his art until today he stands shouk shoulder with his former tutor in the ru | of sculpture, in the capacity of what an 4 ‘What the Memorial te Like—How It Came to | 0. would be prone to call a partner. though The Beautiful Lafayette Monument | Recently Erected. | AN ADORNMENT TO THE CITY. Be Constructed—What It Commemorates—/| the more ethical vernacular of France would ‘The French Sculptors Falguicre and Mercie | term him a ——— ‘These two art A ently work together on one production, an ——————————— | Leopepo. gente ey ter veloped | that they have turned ne of the finest Wasmxatows conection oF) SEey enass diteast ciation wins ep statuary embellishrhents has during the | minutes’ waik of each other, in Pari pact few days received quite an addition that | ORIGIN OF THE MONUMENT. has been long expected. Whatever may bethe | By an act approved March 3, 15: insdequacies of its site or the awkwardness of | gress of the United States of America author- its position the Lafayette monument can never | ized the Secretary of War, the chairman of the be other than an improvement to the city. It | joint committee on the libra : ec ‘apitol a8 a comm). byw ieru tnrnsamproncieginnl alaay ce] Poppy precip gators of Washington, whose idea of bronze por-| Jevices thereon on one of the public reserva- traiture must necessarily be largely based upon | tions of Washington to the memory of Lafay- the equestrianism of such examples as George ‘ ette and his compatriots. Thereupon a com- Washington or Andrew Jackson. This new | petition was opened and MM. Faiguiere and monument is not « portrait, it is a gallery: it is | Rot a memorial to one man or even five, but it is significant as the symbol of the aid given to the struggling colonies in the last century by France. It is an idea, not a mass of stone and metal, and in this enlarged capacity, wider by far than anything else here, it will be sure to produce ar educational effect upon bundreds of thousands of Americans. A VARIETY OF VIEWS. =y4 Soy & tigen In"the first has a great | Y Lj — variety of views, any of which are pleasant, un- | Uf ~ less one might except that from the rear, which brings into a «: nence the exagyerate sters who are playing shaft.” Those b to be found with the ever much everybody m: mbination of thing j on to set this bewutiful work down in such an | inappropriate spot. | NOT A PRESENT FROM FRANCE. | Somehow or other the idea has gene abroad | yrercie having been invited to send_in a design that this monument isa present from the | their sketch was finally accepted. The contract French government to this country, in cou-' was signed in Paris December 21, 1837, by the THE WEST SIDE. Memoration of its own generosity. That isa | se Peculiar ides, but none too odd for such a | Jar Fumor-making public as that of an American | by ’. Endicott, Secretary of War, Wm. city. The monument was projected by our | M. Evarts and Edward Clark, architect of the tors and signed at the city of Washington TY 26, 1888.on behalf of the United States, the American people, who saluted in him one gress offered him a sword of honor, which Was presented to him in Poris in the name of the American people. Congress also wrote to Louis XVI a letter thus conceived: “We recom- mend this noble young man to your majesty's attention, because we have found him wise in counsel, brave on the battlefield, patient in the midst of the fatigues of war. third jour- LAPAYETTE. ney to America, 1784-5, was devoted to the joys of triumph and to receiving the testimonies of of their liberators. ‘In 1824-5 Lafayette again America asa guest of the nation and was splendidly feted and honored; at Bunker Hill he celebrated the anniversary of one of the first combats for liberty; at Mount Vernon he rendered homage at the grave of Washing- ton, whose frlendeiip bed been one of the glories ile in addition to all individual ations he was made the subject of an ational munificence in the form of nd of a gift of Innd in recognition of the sacrifices that he had made in former days for the suke of American freedom. RocHAMBEAT. Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, born 1725, died 1807, the hero of Minorca and of Minden, became lieutenant on the west side of the shaft, represent the military element of the aid brought over to DE GRASSE. America through the influence of Lafayette, und by the feet of the former rests the muzzle of a cannon, to signify the character of the service to which these men belonged. The other Frenchmen, being naval officers, are ac- companied by a ‘similarly symbolic device in the form of the fluke of an anchor, protruding in a most natural manner from the background. ‘There is a look of perfect harmony between the various figures, as if their whole movement to- ward the distressed colonies were actuated by some simultaneous spirit of friendliness. THE POSE OF LAFAYETTE is extremely graceful and yet strong and manly to the point of exciting admiration for the man who held to such a great extent the friendship of Washington. ‘The clowk which he has partly thrown from his shoulders floats in the breeze ina perfectly natural flout of folds and curves and his hand is extended as if about to gras} those of his new friends, in whose cause he left his young brid for the uncertainties of a campaign. THE FEMALE FIGURE. There is a softness of expression that the artists have given to the female figure at the base of the shaft, in front, that is both heroic and yet womanly. This is the spirit of America, or possibly Freedom, pleading to Lafayette for aidand tendering to him all that she has to offer, the sword of a soldier, which she bears upraised in her right hand in an attitude that uggests both hope and dependence. ‘THE CHILDREN OF LIBERTY. ‘The juvenile figures in the rear of the monu- ment are highly emblematic. That is, their significance is so remote in this immediate con- nection that their presence only serves to heighten the theory of liberty and freedom for mankind, which the interference of Lafayette and his companions rendered a condition. They are designated as “Children of Liberty.” It is presumed by some that the main object in in- troducing them into the composition was 7 ice the shaft in an emblematic- manner. It would have been improper, from both polite and artistic standpoints, to have inserted another portrait in the rear, and it would have left the monu- THE EAST SIDS. general in 1780, and was sent to America with 6.000 men. co-o vith the forces of Wash ington and of Comte de Grasse and rendered brilliant service in th® Cornwallis campaign. DUPORTAIL. Lebegue Duportail, died 1802, was a captain in the royal engincers when he obtained per- mission to accompany Lafayette, of whom he was the intimate friend. Jn 1777 he was made colonel of engineers by Congress and joined Gen. Washington at headquarters, when he be- came chief of the corps of engineers. He served on Washington's staff at Morristown, Brand wine, Germantown, Valley Forge and Mon- mouth. He was captured in the defense of Charlestown, but was exchanged specially and beeame a close companion of Washington. He retired from the continental service in. 1783 returned to France with the grade of brigadier. In 1790. through his friendsbip with Lafayette,he was made minister of war. During the French revolution he was accused and pro- scribed and took refuge in America. It was not until after the coup detat of 18th Brumaire that he obtained the authorization to return to France, but he died on the voyage home. overnment, contracted for by it with the ders showing the best design, who chanced te be French, and paid for by it to these men, who have thus made for themselves an Ameri- ean reputation that will be undying. It is an American monument ‘tesigned and wrought by | historical society in America and with many | noted authorities on American history, are tol. ‘The subsidiary figures selected by the com- mission, after consultation with aliost every D'ESTAING. Charles Hector, Comte d’Estaing, born 1729, died 1794, began his career as an infantry officer and finally became admiral. In 1778 he re- Rochambeau and Duportail and D’Estaing and De Grasse, the former two representing the army and the latter two the navy. These pairs of heroes are placed respectively to the left and the right of the tal, together with appropriate emblems. ‘The principal figure of the monument, whose services it is destined chiefly to commemorate, | Marie Jean Paul Koch Yves Gilbert Motier, | Marquis de Lafayette, born 1757, died 1834, is known or should be known to all Americans. An enthusiast for the cause of liberty, Lafay- elite received the first news of the American i oung officer in gar- " be wrote, ‘was at put himself in re- lations with ‘an American agent, equipped a ship at his own expense, and in spite of of his family and the formal probibi- the court of Louis XVI, he started Georgetown, 8. C.. in ‘the summer of ‘then twenty years of age. French hands, and in this union of forces, the ‘ene providing the money the other the brains and skill, there has been blended into the $ ELE iF F| H ceived command of twelve ships and four frigates and sailed for Amcrica, where he con- ceried with Lafayette and the American gen- erals the maneuvers which compelled the British to destroy their fleet in Newport harbor. D'Estaing subsequently commanded the French naval forces for the reduction of the Nereis enipht Work, Otenle’ Ge: Grea, rancois , Marquis de Grame-Tilly, born in 1728, died 1788," was destined by his family to enter the order of the Knights of Malta, and in his youth fought on the galleys of the order against the Turks and Barberesques. In 1749 he entered the service of France aud himeelf in the Last Indian seas and subsequently with @'Estaing in the West Indies. In 1781 he left Brest in mand of twent ships, ten tour corvettes, forming the ert of Congres appointed in 3 brilliant service, there being fween France and England? to serve bis country, and li ES i i By Hl i | of 1781 he reached Chesapenke bay erated in the campaign in the of Cornwallis. ‘TSE TWO SIDES. The figures of Rochambeau and Duportail, and c0-op- culminated ment side heavy, to coin “a phrase, if nothing whatever were to have been put upon this side, all the weight on the other th pwoen designed for them. Hence, the rear face being the least important from the specta~ tor’s point of view, it was decided, eo it is aid, to place the proper amount of metal on the north side with certain symbolic attributes. Nothing better could be suggested than that Liberty, being born and thriving here, should send forth her offspring into the world to sow the seed of freedom elsewhere. ‘THE FUTURE INSCRIPTION. There is as yet no inscription of any sort on the monument to indicate to the unknowing the nature of the tribute thus paid. The monu- ment committee, reduced one-third by the re- tirems of Senator Evarts from Congress, will probably hold a meeting within 1 short time and fix upon a suitable set of phrases to be cat into the stone of the two tablets that have been prepared for this purpose by the sculp- tors. It was the idea of the artists that this in- scription should be in French, as “A Lafayette et ses compatriotes.” This suggestion, how- ever, will hardly be followed, as it is the idea of the commission that the words that are to teli the tale should be English, that all Ameri- cans may read and know wiyy this shaft sprang up. WEIGHT AND cost. The monument and upper pedestal weighs seventy tons and cost 245,000. The sum of $10,000 was spent in preparing the two sites that were selected for it. Of the first appro- priation of $5,000 all but #90 was used in set- ting the fine granite pedestal in the center of the south front of the sanare, and when a simi- lar appropriation was made to enable the com- mission to carry out the orders of Congress abont moving the monument from in front of Jackson the foundation was taken up and resot on the southeast corner of the aquare, the oper: ation costing considerably less than the amount provided. No DEDICATION PROVIDED FOR. There is no fund for an appropriate dedica- tion of the monument and so it will stand as it is today, without having been veiled save by the wooden boxes in which it made its long journey from Paris to Washington, a journey taken not only with perfect safety, but without roducing a single scratch or break or chip in The‘caretully cut ‘marble or ihe costly metal. It was the desire of the commission to have Provided for the occasion of ‘the unveilipg ceremony adequate to the significance of the occasion, with addresses by representatives of both nations interested, but it finds itself today without funds for the purpose of defraying the expense of such an event, which would amount to several thousand doilers, and it has there- fore decided to let the monument go without any public dedication. Something may be done by the next Congress to this e: but this is quite doubtful. ee Behind the Mask. ‘You think that laughter must betoken mirth? And yet I laughed today— ‘When ill the bitter pain of all the earth ‘eld all my heart at prey. My laugh was felgned? And yet it rang out true, ‘Ana fe that heard the sound "* =" Had seen no cause to doubt the laughter who Could make the laugh go round. Atleast my grief was blazoned on could not hide it theret ee gh men may laugh, yet mathiess griet will ‘The tell-tale lines of caret Abt let me but this tithe of truth impar> ‘There in no thug so false as human heart ‘Except the human face. OUTSIDE THE MARKET. Sights and Soenes About Washing- ton’s Headquarters for Edibles. QUEER OLD WISE WOMEN. Scenes on the “Line”—The Farmers From the Country and the Huckster Aristocrate— ‘What the Old Medicine Women Have to Sell—Butchers at Breakfast, THE GREAT MAR- ket of Washington you will find the rule of exclusion controlling af- fairs not less rigidly than in what is called polite society, or for that matter anywhere else inthe world. The ex- cluded in this case line the curbstones of the streets outside with their \ iN stands and wagons, pick- HL ing up the crumbs of #__y8 OS profit, while within the huge building the aris- tocrats of the business, white aproned, smug and nmuttony, drive their pros perous trade behind stalls of immaculate neatness spread with the choicest produce of rich acres. Inside, it is noticeable that the butchers and other dealers are uniformly fat, while their humble competitors without are thin—all except the old colored woman, that is to say. On “the line,” which extends along the Smithsonian fence for three blocks on B street, the farmers’ wagons stand on market days, filled with all sorts of country vegetables, enough of them unloaded to elutter the curb with barrels, Lags and boxes. This isa whole- sale market, where the huckstor aristocrat: bny much of their own merchandise, to sell again at advanced figures; but any person who has the gumption can purchase there at. retail also—not a single onion, perhaps, but a small quantity, such as a dozen to- matoes or # small basketful of potatoes. Prices are at least one-third less: than inside the brick building on the opposite side of the way. Potatoes, for example, are ouly £1.50 for a bushel-and-a-half bag, but then you must send them or take them home for Yourself, and there's the rub, wherefore chietly this cheap competition not threaten the trade of the exclusive gen’ in the white aprons, who have a deliver tem highly convenient to their customers. the same, many a frugal housewife with a big market basket makes a saving that counts by dealing on the “‘line.” WHAT I8 REPRESENTED. Each wagon on the “line” represents a farm each farmer, asa rule, “hauling his own stuff to market three days in the week. Now and then, however. one vehicle will haul for several smell farms and the proprietor docs business onasort of commission basis, being looked upon’as rather a big man in his own neighbor- hood. The farmers on b street come from all the country around within @ radius of ten miles. They are unanimous in saying tl there is no money in their occupation. But preducer ofathing never does make money yy it; it is the person who buys of the pro- ducer and sells it again—a huck+ter aristocrat, for example—who gets rich. You can see for yourself that the owners of the wagons are not etting wealthy by observing their suspenders. t be saidin a general way that a man’s suspenders are always an accurate indication of his degree of prosperity. When he fastens them with a nail it is because he can’t afford 25 cents for another pair. Late on a market day is the time for the frugal housewife aforesaid to come with a big basket on her arm and buy vegetables on the “line” when the farmers are trying to get rid of the last of their produce before going home, inasmuch as it will not keeo very well until their next visit to town. You can purchase fresh shud and other fishes from the Potomac iso, Which men carry along in bunches ‘They can afford to sell wem che: too, because they keep no stands and pa! rent. But the wagons are obliged to pay for their places at the curb: cents for aone-horse velic! and 2 cents for a two- horse team. Even the old women around the pavement of the market house itsclf ure assessed at the rate of 10 © ou day each for the space occupied by a plank or t privilege of eelling their tritles of m Nothing is given aw: refuse thrown into the street, wi. a tramp will not disdain to’ pick the local indigent, however. who lives on the fat of the land, and expects nothing less than a quarter of a dollar in response to an appeal for aims. A BUSY SCENE. Along the south side of the Center Market on market days the scene is the busiest of all, the pavement fringed on both sides, next the walland by the curb, with little stands that dispense the small wares of the trade. Mostly they are superintended by women, and those y all colored, who wear shawls uniformly and bonnets ofa sort of Quaker fachion with brims. Some — of sell like “pussley” and mar'jum,”’ at 4 pe a bunch; ladle out chopped pickles and cottage cheese which latter the writer has never been able to abide since he saw a hogshead of it on a farm, prepared for the pigs. Still others keep honey, in the combs and liquid in bottles, while oth yet have flowers m_stock—viclets, liverwort and various such wild blooms of the fields. “They won't let us sell tlowers after dis week,” grumbled one old crone, “because they're afraid of our interferin’ wid de flower huck- sters inside.” FRESH EGos. Usually the women who keep the litile stands exhibit for sale, besides their ordinary stocks, a few products of their own little patches of land in the country, such asa few eggs, a jar or two—perhaps only a bottle—of milk from the family cow, and a fowl or two. For their eggs they are apt to get higher prices than are paid inside the market house, isasmuch as they bring them three times a week, fresh laid by their own hens, and find customers for them in people who are particular in drawing the line between eggs and chickens, relishin, both, but preferring that what they cat shat be unmistakably one or the other. For fresh eggs the venders can always command elevated rates, because they are very hard to buy with’ any certainty in Washington. There is no such gool system here as is operated in the neighborhood of Loston for gathering them in from a great extent of country in the shortest possible time by means of agents who drive about collecting from the farmers, nor is a business made of examining them with proper care for market, each egg being tested between the eye and # light. Theretore, when one breaks an egg at breakfa:t he can ‘seldom feel contidence that a chirp will not follow. COUNTRY MEDICINES, But the most interesting things sold along this stretch of sidewalk, or indeed anywhere in or about the market, are the country medicines. There are several stalls which keep nothing else, and the stock of each comprises quite an extensive pharmacopeia. Each one is presided over by a lady of color, who possesses more or less reputation among her people as a ‘wise woman.” Wise women are much looked up to by their own race in Washington. They are deeply versed in the mysteries of disease, have many charms as well as remedies medicinal at their command, and the greater part of the medical tice among the negroes is performed by Bit. “Not only do they cll rodte aud: herbe for medicine on B street, but they prescribe also for any one who comes to buy and asks what is good for so-and-so, thyowing in the diagnosis tree of charge. “‘T'se got pains in de jints anda tremblin’ all ober,” one such patient was heard to explain yesterday “Chile,” ait the old woman behind the stall, xamining the applicant critically, “stick ou’ ‘o' tongue. Huh! Yo! breif is awful bad iljousness and chills; dat's what's de matier. ‘row in Inatin’ to bark for sore month or throaf, red peppers for the stomach’s sake, tallow root, otherwise known. as “‘Adamand Eve," for headache,catnip to quiet the baby and snake root and hoarhound for colds, with lots of others besides. Together with the medicaments is usually to be found on these apothecary stalls leaf tobacco in rolls for smoking or putting away in clothing to keep the m out. The women gather these roots and herbs over & great extent of territory in neighboring Maryland and Virginia, it being part of their business to know the places where experience and tradition tell that such curative agents grow plentifully. Usually they go out in par- ties of¢two or three or more, traveling far afield—perhaps as muchas ten miles away from home—ta their search for the merchandise. Each one carries a knife, a hoo and a basket, and the hunt is an all-day one. Nearly all of the ‘medicaments are given in the shape of BUTCHERS AT BREAKFAST. One of the most interesting spectacles to be beheld at the market is the butchers at break- fast. Itis to be seen at about 6 a.m. in various small eating houses in that immediate neigh- borhood. There is certainly nobody who eats more breakfast than a butcher, and his morn- ing meal almost invariably consists of coffe and sausage. The fact may be properly con sidered as a vindication of this much-abused gomestible, the mysicrious make-up of which is the subject of so much vulgar paper joking. Apart from bologna, wh is mado so cheap nowadays that it can ouly be profitably manufactured from offal and’ old cigar stumps, sausages may be regarded as rep- resenting the highest expression of all that is pure and good in the edible line. So far as the nostrils are able to detecta ¢hain of them never becomes stronger than its weakest link. If they were not altogether to be aj proved of they would not be the favorite diet of butchers, whose business it is to make them. ALAS FOR WASHINGTON PIR. Alas that another beloved dietetic mystery, once intimately associated with the market, should have so nearly disappeared. These tears are shed for “Washington pie.” How familiar once was the ment-pan big and deep, tilled with a luscious mixture of pretty nearly everything imaginable and covered over with a nice Lrown crust! Five cents was the price for & generous rectangular — Luu! and was it not all the more delicious because it was composed of all that was left over at the bakery, including the broken odds and ends— the mince, the apple, the custard, the squash, the huckleberry, éc., all mixed together in the an and a jolly crust'spread on top? It com- ined in itself all the elements of the most varied deliciousnesses and was therefore a thing incomparable. But now it is almost never seen. Another landmark gone. Boo-hoo! ‘there is plenty that is interesting to see along the block of Louisiana avenue adjoining the market square, where the wholesaie dealers in produce of all sorts do business. You can buy 4 pound of meat or a smail quantity of pre much anything else there if you will do it sly] notwithstanding the strict rules against retail i It hurts a storekeeper’s feelings to r trifling one. Jn_ this quarter see pikgy-wig and piggy-wee sinall penis and of an age to roast, though most of them are actually intended for sale to farm- ers, who buy them ‘for from $1.50 to €2 apiece and take them to the country for rearing to fat and profitable porkerhood." ‘here are calves, too, for a similar purpose or less happily des- tined to the butcher's knife. Also live poultry and other beasts and birds. If you want reed- birds there are always lots of them in the mid- dle of the street, ready to be shot for the pot. Some call them sparrows. When the Itallans capture Washington they will find great for- aging on Louisiana avenue and in its neighbor- hood. will you ———— MISTAKEN ID A Remarkable Instance Comes to Light in a Federal Court in Texas. From the Dailas News. Richard Whitle g trinl betcre and was honorably acquitted of a charge of robbing the Unité States mail coach on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road, near MeNeal Station, in 1887. His arrest revealed a remark- able case of mistaken identity When Whitley was arrested it was thought that he was John Ensall, who was arrested on the charge of the train robbery, but who escaped from jail at Ausiin some time since. On th 17th instant a ranger named Martin saw Whit- ley at Amarillo, He was well acquainted with Ensall, and having heard of his escape from | jaii thought that Whitley was Ensall on account 0! the remarkable resemblance. Martin said e of the rangers: “Yonder is “You want to be sure about it,” replied Caps. O'Hare. “Lam sure,” said Martin: “if you will look on the right side of his right leg just below the | knee you will find the mark of « wound where 1 wat the time of ihe robbery. On of the leg farther down is where the me out. Yy was at once ti leg. the andon ley was brongist t ington, chief dep me was Whit at the time ton got Ensall it to the letter, but he reference to Ensa had been recaptured, convicted of robbing the express coach at McNeal Station, and that now he was in the peniten’ This released Whitley that the marks on his son's leg were caused by him getting it broke: ——<0+— Take Care of Your Colds. From the New York Herald. “Perhaps you wouldn't think 80, but a very large proportion of diseases in New York come from carelessness about catching cold,” says Dr. Cyrus Edson. “A cold is a very simple thing to most people and they pay little or no attention to it. I it were some serious disease they would probably break their necks, so to speak, to get a doctor and to fol- low his advice. But it is such a simple thing and so conmon that very few people, unless it is a case of pix ia, pay any attention toa cold. New York is one of the healthie: on the Atlantic coast, and yet there are many cases of catarrh and consumption which have their origin: in this neglect of the simplest jons of every day life. is commonly known as pneumonia weather is simply that state of the atmosphere conducive to colds and more linble to result in something serious. ‘The climate of New York is not nearly so bad for those predisposed to consumption, catarrh and other diseases of the respiratory organs as that of Boston and other cont cities of the north. to acold, the simplest and most sensible advice ie, when you have one get rid of it as soon as possible. By all means do not neglect it.” |. Mr. Huiti description and Whit) wrote to Austin w A Failure. From Munsey's Weekly. He—“Your husband, madam, sent me to fetch his overcont.” She—“‘Indeed! I'm glad to hear it. My husband died two years ago, and I've always feared that he went to a place where they don't need overcoats.” SS He Was Training Himself, From the Detroit Free Press. ‘A boy sat on the dock at the D. and M. depot yesterday with a fish line in the water and the ice cakes swirling around it, A man who sew him stopped to ask: se to make w sale, even though it bea} nealing in | S$, BEAM MOUTH OF NET, ETC. BIG NEWS ABOUT FISH, A New Method of Catching Them on the East Atlantic Coast. HE FISH COMMISSION announces that a new fish- ing industry for this country has been discov- ered, which adds more than 10,000 square miles to the fishery area at pres- ent available off the At- lantic coast. This means that a nov- elty in the shape of what is known as “beam trawl- ing” has been introduced to the constal waters of | the United States as aj means of catching fish. Up tothe present time the fisheries of the north Atlnntic have been confined almost wholly to the great shallows called “banke,” far off the New England shore, where cod, haddock }and halibut are caught by means of hooks |and bait. But the fish commission has for ;|#ome time past entertained the notion that | the waters eleewhere than on the banks might be made greatly productive by the use of such drag netsas are emploved in British seas for the capture of fishes, most particularly the and other varieties of the flounder, which bri a high price in the market The fact has been known fi the “lemon sole” end the are of the varieties so highly prized by & in Europe, are enorm plentifal on the tom of the Atlantic ¢ . But these fishes have been almost unknown cven to the markets | of our seaports, owing to the fact that no ef- fective mode of taking them was understood. This seems rather curious, inasmuch as the taking of such fishes by ready means under like conditions is pursued ona vast «cale from Bil- lingsgate, Hull, Grimsby and other ports of Great Briwin. “The implement used’ for the | purpose over there is of a very simple chara ter and ix known as the “beim trawl.” The reason why it has not been adopted here is to be found in the the fishermen, | r simple crafts, | ily indisposed to adopt new { evides, it was feared that the | rough for the purpose and the | departure Dottom w: water too deep. However, it was destined that the time should arrive when beam trawling would be given a trial on this shore of the great pond. A few days ago the schooner Mary F. ‘Chie: holm of “Glouces: | to our ! trawl imported from England. She returned on March 30 with an enormous catch of cod, haddock and balibut captured in the trawl 16 5,000 Le wholesal radford, bes on sole, which sold for 4 cents The captain, whose name te d ten tonaof these that they : came up time so overloaded with fish that t difficulty was experienced in get- to the eurfac fuse his vessel was anordinary schooner and not properly equipped for such work. So great were the catches that it took as mach as nine houre to fetch the trawl on board, so that most of the fish were too badly injured to be saved. He estimates that fully 240 tons of tish were taken in the trawl. This was no fortuitous incident, the fish eom- mission avers. The great shelf of the Atlantic, from the northern limits of the banks south- ward to and beyond the capes of Virginia, is aswarm with fishes that are unknown mestic markets, simply for the reason that no practicable method bas hitherto ren applied for their capture. | Vessels equipped with steam apparatus for hoisting pant, after trawls will tly be built on this the models in use at British pe production of fish on the shores of the Atlanthe will be multiplied within the next ten fold. It isa very moderate esti t 10,000 equare miles will be the fishing waters of this side In fi new fsbii pe created, and be prosecuted off our own ne and with use of bait, it will give rise to no such international questions as e caused difficulties between this country Great Britain. And yet a beam trawl is the simplest ap- paratus ¢ able. It is merely a huge net, of a pocket, 75. fect in Length, ¥ a stick of wood, which goes on ners like a sled, so that the net can be hauled over the bottom easily, its lower por- tion weighted with lead and scooping in every living thing that « within its reach, expecially the soles a r flat fish that nd. in summer bottom mostly, but in winter muddy holes for warmth. ‘Logether with the soles ix brought up ® most wonderfully varied exhibition of marine life, and on the deck of the trawler after a haul may be seen the flapping and writhing shapes of the conger eel, the fierce wolf-fich, Ping jaws: the dog-tish and the wic some one has cal with wickedly sx always the fi-berman's mouthed fishing frogs, and *o forth ad i of the F Capt. Colli adop recommended b; mission, ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S INVENTION. A Device He Patented for boat Mr.Edward T. Fenwick writes to Tar Stan 8s follows: Now that the patent centennial cel bration is being held in Washington, and in- ventors and manufacturers from all parts of the country are manifesting the greatest possible interest in the event, and so much is being said and written about the centennial, the his- | tory of the patent system and th | of famous inventors and curions patents, it might be interesting to know that Abraham Lincoln was an inventor and received a patent Jon M 1649, numbered 6,369, for an im- s of combining adjustable bu pers with steamboats or 0 heir draft to be readily lessened ait them to pass over bars or thro! Water without discharging their car- ing Steam- | Over Shallow Places. j aliow goes. These adjustable buoyant air chambers were to the sides of the vessel (which in this instance wax an old-style Ohio steamboat) d were formed with top and bottom partitions posed of a plank or plate of metal of sui cor HE SWORE. | The Old Department Clerk Whose Profanity Was bue to the Force of Habit. That the gentlemen whoare in the depart- ments sometimes swear over their work isa fact that a Stan reporter was made very much aware of the other day. He was passing through the halls of one of the big departments, when he became aware of asulphurous odor, as it were, and presently there greeted his ears such a torrent of profanity as to make his hair stand | onend. It was not one or two strong exple- tives that wore heard, but a series of senten: coming very volubly one on top of the other, | and cach sentence was nothing but a string of | horribly wicked words. | Heavens! how it did roll out! Oaths fell so thick and fast that they rushed pell-mell upon one another's heels, and finally a chunk of an oath bigger*than any of the others marked the Who could it be that swore #o long and hard? He must be some exceedingly talented man like the devil himself, all brains and wicked- ness, So the writer looked in the door of the | oftice whence issued th profanity and was | horrified to see nobody in the world inside but | an aged colored messenger and an older clerk. The former was grinning from ear to ear and the latter was catching bis breath and appar- ently preparing for another effort at oratorical profanity. “Has this messenger been committing arson or burglary or any other crime? Shall I call the police?” was asked. 0!” replied the old clerk. “Then why do you swear at him so bard?” “Oh, that’s just a joke. He likes it. James, | you old —— — — —— —_1 11" Why! the —— —— —— don’t you give the gentleman a — — — chair, — — —--— !!!" James handed a chair. said the old man calmly, “you may —! and sit outside, — it !!” James went out chuckling with every mani- festation of delight. “You sce,” said the old gentleman, coming down, or it should be more correct to say coming up, to an ordinary earthly level, «-Janes and I have been in this department now | for nearly halfa century. Iwas a youngster, and this department wasn't very old, either, | when I came in it and found James hore before me. We grew up in the service and we've grown old in the service, and gradually I have contracted the swearing habit, and James has Inughed at my oaths, and Ihave been put on my mettle to get new jokes for the benefit of the old feliow, until now I endeavor to find ad- ditional oaths for him every day. I really think if Ilive long enough I will be the champion swearer in America. He was too modest. Already he can beat a trooper and even rivals the incessant i that it is said was one of Horace | india rubber or textile able stiffness and with flexible «ide p. material thor water proofed. These buoyant air were very similar in constructio tion to an accordion or a bluck«mith « bellows vessel was also supplied with a main shaft or shafts and with sliding «pars or shafts, the latter passing down through the buoyant cham- bers and made fast to their bottoms; also with @ «ries of ropes and pulleya, whereby by turning the m shaft shafts an one di- nm pyant air cl re would be d downward into th time expanded buoving up the vesel by the th r:and by turning the shaft or shafts in osite direction the chambers would be acted into # sinall apace and secured ist injury hambers and opera- ag It ted thet President Li the inventor of the very ing emptying boats of ws Pa b oln was ious method of re A by ding the bost up stream in an opposite di ‘ion to thatin which the tide was moving « suction Ww formed which very y dre out the water through the opening bored in the bott of the boat. re HOME MATTERS. Seasonable Suggestions and Practical Every- Day Hints to Housekeepers, Caxpues Tuar Have Beex Paozex never arip. Gave Your Cettam 4 Txonovom Cueaxrso out and airing as soon as the weather will per- mut. Scrurerxa Bavsnes should be kept with the bristles down and they will last twice as long. To Loosex 4 Guass Srorren drop a little oil around the stopper and place the bottle near the fire. Ir Spoxcer Caxe 1s Mrxep Wren Coup Waren itis yellow, but if the water be boiling hot the | cake will be white. Srixwacn Juice Covons a Warre Savce pret- tily, and when poured over hard-boiled eggs, liced and laid evenly on the platter, is tempting dish. “A Das or Perren” measures one-quarter ofa teaspoonful; this may also serve as the measure for a of walt. La To Remove Ing From Canrers wet with sweet milk and sprinkle with salt. Leave this fore few hours aud then wash with clear water. A Very Nice Drssent is made of » meringue custard and bananas. Slice the bananas and sti: them in the custard just before taking off the range. Ir Dovonxvrs Ane Cur Our ax Hove before they are fried to allow a little time for rising they will be much lighter. Try cutting at night and frying in the morning. Lemox Jvice will whiten frosting, cranberry or strawberry juice will color it pink and the grated rind of an orange strained through « cloth will color it yellow. A New Wax To Restove Oxp Ixx Starve is to saturate the spots with spirits of tarpentine, let it sonk several hours and then rub between the bands. Wash in warm water. Cuerse Tuar Has Bezx Cor in suitable pieces for the table and left some time becomes . Our way of disposing of it im such a case is to grate itand put it ina wide- | mouthed bottle that ean be corked. It is then ready for use in making patties, omelettes and other dishes. Is Wasurxo Powoxr do not boil or soaid the Goods; it will stand hard rabbing if necessary. Let it get quite dry, then press with as hoten iron as possible, when the silk will look like Silk handkerchicfs should be quite i. ironing to prevent them turning a Never Tunow Away tHe Pieces or Lexoxs after thes have been squeezed with the lemom squeezer. They will come in handy for removing stains from the handsand other articles. Dipped in salt they will scour copper kettles nicely i Hy FEDER H E E i z : : iH