Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1891, Page 8

4 TIMELY sTUpY. Something of Interest About the Housekeep- or’s Enemies. DIFFERENT KINDS OF MOTUS AND THEIR HABITO— HOW NOUSEWIVES DELUDE THEMSELYES—THE BOUSE MOTH 80 COMMON IN WASHINOTOS—HOW ‘To DESTROY THE FESTS—THE CARFET 3UG. ‘From the Upholsterer. GREAT MISTAKE FOLES MAKE IS te await the beat of the summer before watching for moths. Artless young housewives look askance at the bare thought of bugs in their new-built home, but if they stop to squarely consider the subject they must ad- mit that visitors are at any time liable to bring grabs come in contact; therefore, the need for sorieus watchfulness and a knowledge of the wabject becomes apparent. One immediately protests, “But I have never watched specially for moths, and every- thing in the way of clothing and fabrics in my ome bas not been ruined." “True, but yeur immunity from depredation bas been good luck—nothing more. ‘The moth Jaye ite eggs in dark places and the grub which is moves slowly, and its feeding spots are usually within » foot or km lace of birth. If by good luck its of bir! away from a tertile fabric, the texture will not be Bart; if near, it is sure destruction.” SHUT IX, Nor SHUT OUT. ‘The quacks and “preventive” manufacturers have always reaped a rich harvest through the ignorance of people regarding the moth and ite habits. Folks have bundled up their wool- Jeus and packed them away in their chests full of tarboline or carboline or cedarline or cam- plotline, and actually believed that they would up hun- eannot escape from. it simply proceeds to lay ite im the atmosphere, which becomes & second nature to the grab when batched. THE WORM NOT THE MOTH. these articles is dangerous to the colorings of | fine textures. It is discouraging, indeed, when | housewife shakes out her clothes and puts | ‘all destructive. Itis the worm that she should ave been on the look out for, which hatches outof theegg, and as the egy is hardly per- naked eye, a mere white speck species of wool-destroying moths com- mon in this country, all of which are of Buro- pean origin. To be scientifically correct, we should term them the Tinea pellionella, Linn; ‘the Tinea tapetzeila, Linn, and the Tineola bisel- liella, Hommel. THE CARPET BUG AND ITS LOWER STAGE. its full growth in thirty-six days and then, crawling into some yet more protected spot re- | mains torpid during the winter within its case, | which by this time is thickened and fastened at eitherend and is the full-sized cocoon. The transformation of moth takes place within the | ease during the following spring. Such is the | life round of the species. The worm feeds on woolen fabrics, curled hair hair cloth, furs, feathers or anything of that character’ which may porsess an animal deposit, for within the | cellula tissues of hair, there is the same nutri- ment which one finds on a smaller scale within a bone. It is the thirty-six day period, from the time that the eggs are laid to the time that the worm or grub reaches the full that th damage is done, and it is fortunate that all of the eggs that are Inid do not hatch—in fact, but a small proportion ever find life. Fig. 2. Drawn to enlarzed size—the natural moth measuring frou wing tip to tip % ofan inch. The larva or worm. is 3-16 of an inch long. COMMON IN WASHINGTON. The second species constructs its cocoon mainly from fragments of the material upon which it has been feeding, spinning a certain amount of silk, however, wherever it goes, | leaving the trace which one sometimes finds on | woolen fabrics. This species is most common from Washington southward. The parent moth is of » dark straw color and has none of the ts on it that you see on the Tinea pellionella. Tae moth of the Tinea tapetzella, the third spe cies, is readily distinguished from all others by TINEA TAPETZELLA. Drawn to a scale five times the netural size. the front wings, which are black from the base to the body and white beyond, the white por- tion being sometimes crowded with dark gray. The habits of these species are much the same, with the exception that the larva or worm of the last-named is most destructive, using for its cocoon cylinder pieces of the cloth itself on which it is feeding. HOW To KILL THEM. It must be now apparent to the careful reader that it is quite difficult to kill the infinitesi- mally small eggs by reason of their almost im- perceptible diminutiveness and difficult also to eradicate the moth by reason of its secretive habits. A benzine spray is sure death, but there are many objections to its use and danger from its inflammable character; still, if the or- dinary throat spray, which can be bought for a trifle, is filled with benzine and the vapor thrown into crevices against moth or egge it will destroy them, but no light should be brought into a room thus treated until after it has been thoroughly aired and the odor dissi- ited. After a thorough airing of a woolen bric, for the purpose of driving out any con- cealed moth (for a moth abhors light) and after time has been given to the development of any concealed egg, you may be reasonably sure that there is nothing harmful on the fabric; then it in ds safe done up in a paper parcel as it would be if saturated and buried beneath all the anti- moth remedies in existence. Camphor, to- bacco, naphthaline and other strong odorants Pig Drawn ‘size—the natural moth measuring emt Sitea a ogarne p's tip. The larva Grub or worm is almoet 3 160f en tach long. ‘THE COMMON HOUSE MOTE ‘The commonest species are light brown and @istinguished by the spots shown in the illus- tration. They begin toappear late in April and may occasionally be seen flitting about as late as August. They pair off and the female thea searches for suitable places for the deposition Gf her eggs, working her wey into dark corners, qreviees of the walls, cracks in the floor or deep in the folds o! nts, apparently choosing by instinct ‘oot conspicuous places. The moth lays from eighteen to 140 eggs ata time. From these eggs hatch, ina od from three to seven days, the white so’t iy larve or worms (see illustration B, Fig. 1), are only partially repellant to the flying moth and have no effect at all upon the eggs or the worm, which is the destroying clement. The benzine spray is the least objectionable de- stroying agent that we know of. It may be used very safely upon carpeting, but the ut- most care should be exercited in using it on fabrics of a delicate characte:. THE CARPET BEETLE. One should not confuse the moth with the carpet beetle. Frequently housekeepers dis- cover their carpets eaten and they attribute it to moths. Indeed, the carpet beetle is fre- quently called the Buffalo moth. The perfect beetle is three-sixteenths of an inch loug and when disturbed it draws in its legs and feigns death. It is white, black and scarlet, the scar- let being confined to a strip down the middle of the back. It begins to appear inthe fall and soon the species pair off and the female de- posits her eggs on the carpet itself. and not in the cracks or crevices. as gencrally supposed. During the day time these beetles frequently fly to the windows and may be caught there, all of which begin immediately to make a case for themselves the fragments of the cloth upon which they feed. The case isin the shape | of e bollow roll, illustrated also in our first, | group and from a thirty-second to an eighth of | 8x inch long. We have all noticed these “rolls” | ox fabrics and frequently we have crushed | them, supposing that we have thus pre- vented all damage, when’ the very existence: of the cylinder shows that the grub has | already fed. As the worms grow they enlarge this case by adding material which they get by feeding. The worm reaches but they seldom leave the house until their eggs have been deposited. Tne treatment is similar to that with moths. A hand atomizer, charged with benzine, should inject the liquid into all of the floor’ cracks and under the base boards until every crev- ice has been reacheds The carpets themselves after thorough beating shonld be lightly sprayed with the same substance. The inflam- mability of benzine, however, should be re- membered and no light be brought near it until eva Dramatic Points in a Chancery Suit Over a Great English Estate. Leadon Correspondence of the New York Times. In 1884 an Englishman named Gladwyn Care, while in New York collecting evidence, gave to & Times reporter the tirst published account of @ remarkable suit he was about to bring for the recovery of the estates of the former Earls of Newburgh, which are worth about €10,000,000. In the following year Mr. Cave brought a suit, ‘was worsted on technicalities and appealed. ‘The story involved was one of the most strik- 4g and romantic character. The estates were 4 KOMANCE OF THE COURTS. | ‘those of Lord Derwentwater, whose tragic ead | im 1715 was a chief feature of the first Jacobite Fising, and Cave was a lineal descendant of bis. Mr. Cave's claim turned upon the question whether the last Countess of Newburgh, who died in 1858, had a right to will the Newburgh property to her husband, whose heirs now hold it No novelist ever conceived stranger circumstances than surrounded the deathbed Of this old lady. It was alleged that » codicil to the will was framed after she was dead and a pen was put between her cold fingers, which eyed man. bag stuffed with Rn or for a moment of anything else b ae et OR s beaten papers, incapable of thinking his suit. The wr fell was half wild with joy and confidence, ‘Two days ago Lord Coleridge, on a motion — to Sieh dleminned the action as frivol. ous and vexatious. I shall be greatly surprised Mf Cave does not go mad. —————--—_ ‘The Cable Spoiled by = Blade of Grass. ‘From the Chicago News. At a mesting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta « piece of cable was exhibited ts technically called, was produced and the to iw Sonos THE LONDON-PARIS TELEPHONE. Landing the Cable After a Storm—Fifteen Cables Now. From the London Times. The unfortunate difficulties which arose in connection with the laying of the London and Paris submarine telephone cable, owing to the storm last week, were on Saturday evening, March 14, overcome, the cable late in the even- ing being successfully landed in St. Margaret's | bay, about « mile to the cast of the South Fore- | land, thus completing the system which was | projected in 1889. Mr. J. C. Lamb, the secretary of the tele- graph department of the general post office, | superintended the arrangements for receiving | the English end of the cable on shore. It was | expected that the cable would be landed early | in the day, but it was nearly 8 o'clock before the end was run ashore. The cable had be- | come so fouled by the storm that the electrical |engineers on the post office telegraph ship Monarch found it necessary to cut it in order to clear it. After it had becn spliced on Satur- | day it was deemed advisable to relay about | twelve miles of it in order to clear the Calais | and Lepanne (Ostend) cables, which also land at St Margaret's bay, and the Monarch did not reach the English coast again until the evening. | Upon her arrival off St. Margaret's a steam pinnace and three cutters were got out, and the | work of landing the cable commenced, and was completed without further difficulty. A raft, on which the cable was coiled, was formed be- tween two of the cutters, and the pinnace steamed forward with the cable. As soon as the end was landed it was hauled through a trench formed in the beach. The French telegraph officials who had ac- companied the Monarch during the laying of the cable joined the English officials on shore. The cable will be thoroughly tested before the opening of the telephone is formally inaugu- rated. ‘The Monarch arrived off the bay again Yesterday to assist in the testing operations. The total distance between London and Paris is about 280 miles, the distance traversed by the cable being about eighteen sea miles. The cable is said to be the largest in the channel, special care having to be taken to insulate the four wires running through it. ‘The new cable which has just been laid makes a total of fifteen cables which now lie on the floor of the English channel, two running along aud thirteen crose- ing the ‘sea bed. telephone cable runs close to the Dover and Calais electric telegraph ‘Numerically Impossible. ‘From the Binghampton Leader. "| Johnny was hiding in the clothes closet when his father, who held astrap in his band, opened “esate ipa eas eae RS ge “T can’ i , “Tve come first or i'm all lous in heros” —* THE BISMARCK OF ITALY. Interesting Facts in the Career of Francesco Crispl. BUDINI NOT EXPECTED TO REMAIN LONG IN POWER—THE INFLUENCE CRISPI Bas BAD UPON TTALIAN UNITI—HE IS STILL AN IMPORTANT vactos. Written for The Evening Star. ‘ALY AND THE UNITED STATES ARE not through with one another yet. The des- Perate game that the Marquis di Rudini is play- ing, the hard time he is having to keep in power and the almost impossible task of pleas- ing the parties of Italy and of keeping a people loaded with grievances in good humor, which he has undertaken, were all pointed out in Tax Stan last week. Everything has tended since then to demonstrate the fact that Di Rudini is likely to fall atany moment. But whether he falls or not the Mafia episode is certain to oc- cupy the diplomats of this country and of Italy for some time to come, for the ways of the dip- lomat, and especially of the diplomat of the Latin race, are tortuous and indirect, and his demands must not always be taken too seri- ously. Investigations, denials, proposals, compromises and other negotidtions may ex- ‘tend over such a period of time that the final settlements may not improbably be made with Di Rudini’s successors in office. Who will his successor be? ORISPI WILL HAVE SOMETHING To SAY. On the continent of Europe the Italian of the Present day whose reputation is most wide- spread is not Di Rudini, but his predecessor, Francesco Crispi, and if he is not the next pre- mier himself he will be pretty sure to ha’ it deal to say in naming the next pre fe is not dead nor is he sleeping, but taken his place as the head of the opposi and a very tireless and skillful opponent he is showing himself to be. Among the Italian poli. ticians now in active life he stands pre-eminent, and as he has had a great influence Gaara f the destinies of his country and may influence her in the future, and as his hand may yet aj pear in the misunderstanding between his country and ours, it is interesting to inquire something about him. THE EX-PREMIER'S EARLY CAREER. Like di Rudini he is « Sicilian, but unlike the present premier he is not a noble, nor does he come of the noble class. He was born in 1819 of a Greek family living in Ribera, and he began life by studying law at Palermo, although he afterward practiced his profession in Naples.” Tha cassie tas he ccome fro is especiaily the home ofthe Ialian brigands and he certainly ought to know something about the Mafia and similar organizations. ie began his political career when @ very young man by joining witk other young Neapolitans in the conspiracies that resul! in the re- bellion of the two Sicilies against Ferdinand I, one of the most cruel and corrupt tyrants that the nineteenth century has produced. This was in 1816-48, when Crispi’ was not et thirty yours of age, and from that time on is career has not been marked by many periods of rest. Duri this rebellion he edited [ Aposiatona, a revolutionary newspaper. fle became soon after a deputy in the Sicilian parliament and distinguished himself as one of the most outspoken radicals. He was soon secretary general of war and was the inspiring spirit of Sicilian popular resistance. His op- ponents conquered, the Swise regiments were Victorious and Crispi took refuge in France and England. (He returned to Italy ‘again in 1859 and again he was at the head of # new Sicilian rebellion, but this time he was with Garibaldi and Bixio. at Palermo he fought by their side as a volunteer, but was soon made a minister and lent all his energies toward paving the way for the annexation of the two Bicilise to the kingdom of Italy. Ths was another step in his course as the Bismarck of Italy. Again, in addition to his other occu- i he became an editor of a radical news- bh he apprepriately named Ji Pre- IN THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. Great changes soon took place in distracted Italy, and in 1861 Crispi entered the new Italian parliament as member for Palermo. His serv- ices entitled him to the high rank he took from the very beginning and he sustained his posi- tion with an impassioned oratory that appealed strongly to the Italian character. He was the leader of the most advanced and radical wing of the opposition. In 1365 he started his third newspaper, La Rifurma, the organ of the op- position. His watch-ery was reform, adminis- trative and financial, and increase of personal liberty. ~Earlier in his youth he had been the friend and political companion of Mazzani, the republican, but he now abandoned this idea and accepted the monarchy, deeming it a sym- bol of Italian unity, and it was doubtless largely owing to his influence that the radical party became Reconciled to it. His YEAR OF TRIUMPH. The year 1876 was the year of Crispi’s triumph. After a remarkably exciting politi- eal campaign he carried the general elections and was made presiiont of the chamber of deputies. The following year he entered the cabinet as minister of the interior, only to be forced from power two years later. Of the reasons for his retirement there is not much to The world is tired of the domestic of the public men of Europe. The causes that have wrecked Parnell and that drove Sir Charles Dilke out of England into India are not dissimilar to those that drove Crispi out of office. There was a woman in the case, a marriage, or a mock marriage—to put it briedy, a scandal—and for a while the rising man of Italy disappeared from the public stage. His retirement was not for long. how- ever. He soon reappeared and since then his career has been one of almost constant author- ity, although subject to fluctuations in degree of ‘power and influence. HiS FALL FROM POWER. Two months ago he fell from power, but he has not retired. The king has offered him a title of nobility, but this graceful method of putting worn-out statesmen upon the shelf has been politely declined. Although Crispi is seventy-two years old there is plenty of fighting power left in him, and it isonlya few weeks since that he threatened one of his opponents inthe chamber of deputics in anything but a mild manner, saying that while he was s minis- ter he had been obliged to ig ‘up with insults, but now that he was a simple deputy he carri ‘8 pistol as an effective answer to those who vil- Tikea him. It is hard to conceive that » man of Signor Operations being carried on during the great | P® ‘pi's experience would have been guilty of such blundering diplomacy as the Marquis di Rudini has committed. If he should return to wer—a thing that does not seem at all im- probable—the Italian demands upon our ernment may assume a more rational aspect ‘Women’s Proper Dress. From the London Truth. ‘A good deal of discussion is going on in some newspapers about the proper dress for women. The divided skirt seems to be given up by the reformers. Petticoats are to be abolished and are to be replaced by knickerbockers, while over them a short skirt isto be worn. I have never mally tested women’s dress. But I should tmagine thes petticoats with the weight on the hips would be more comfortable than knickerbockers. Be this, however, as it may, @ short skirt in country like this, where it is ‘ty two days out of three, is an improvement over a long one; while as for trains, they are a nuisance to all who do not wear them, and probably to those who do. When I was a lad women took for a time to wearing short red petticoats with a skirt over them, which they ‘could by means of a string draw up above the — they wore balmoral Boots coming ae See This was the most be- coming and practical dress that I have seen worn during my sojourn on this globe. —+e-_____ Just About the Same. From Munsey's Weekly. ‘Lam a desperate man, and I want Footpad—* MLeeyen-"You vegsbonadi Way dash et ise ars panes. the euape tak Gar ‘as you do! Well, ain't I for ‘tryin’ ‘upon THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C.. SATURDAY, TEE POLICE COURT. Changes That Have Been Occasioned by the New Jury. 66(QXENTLEMEN OF THE JURY,” 13 what is now being said in that section of the police temple of justice which is pre- sided over by Judge Thomas C. Miller. The accommodations are not the best in the world, but notwithstanding the disadvantages the cases are promptly disposed of. There iss large crowd of persons in court every day, in- cluding defendants, witnesses an@ppectators of all ages, sizes and colors, besides the jurors and court officers, and on account of insufficient room some difficulty is experienced in the morning in starting business for the day. Under the present arrangement no prisoner can complain of not being able to get the right kind of a trial, for in many cases he can elect to be tried either upstairs or on the first floor. ‘You can pay your money and take your choice, but if « jury trial is demanded and conviction is had the choice is pretty apt to be expensive for the accused, for the costa generally go as e q The ‘plac hole of ‘8 part of the institution, kept in three new celle made for ‘their jone. leutta” is no longer JUDGE MILLER. In the Jury court and in the corridor lends to the cefl room are numerous iron screens an\ rails as well as wooden rails,which separate the court officers and lawyers from the ordinary loungers and witnesses, and another part of the court is partitioned off for witnesses only. Tudge Miller's bench is against the west wall of the building and the jury occupy raised seats ona platform in the corner. ‘There are not enough chairs to go around and, conse- quently, four jurors have to sit on a bench, the seats being arranged along the walls inan L. shape. ‘The witness stand is between the Jury bor and the court and the counsel table is some dis- tance from it. This renders it difticult for the court, jury and counsel to hear at the same time ‘and keeps counsel constantly saying, “Speak louder” or “Turn around this way, which will cause the witness to change either his position or the tone of his voice so that he can be heard. Just beside the witness stand are three steps leading to the judge's bench, and witnesses when told to “step up” frequently start toward the judge instead of going upon the witness stand. A MISTAKE LIABLE To occuR. ‘The witnesses stand so close to the judge that should the mistake “Kiss the judge and look at the book” be made, as it has been, Judge Miller might possibly feel the impression of two thick lips upon his face before he could realize what was being done. : The prisoners’ “pen” is not very far from the center of the room. It is a small, square place inclosed by an iron railing and gate, and across the room from the corridor leading to the cells there is a wooden rail, and on top of thi iron screen, which is intended to prevent any possible escape of prisoners. Clerk Potts has a desk on a platform directly in front of the court, and around his desk there is also a railing which keeps lawyers away and prevents them and others from interfering with and misplacing the papers. SWEARING THE WITNESSES. The witnesses as they appear are handed a Bible and “You solemnly swear that the testi- mony you give in the caee on trial will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” is the oath administered. The form of the oath is objectionable to some witnesses, who say, ‘I affirm,” and some- times it happens that the witness raises his hand and the clerk, through a mistake, admin- isters the same oath and the witnesses never grumble, but simply lower their rignt hand and accept the oath, showing that they either don’t understand the difference between an oath and affirmation or else that they wish to avoid kissing the books which have been pressed against many thousand lip In the morning the first cases tried are those in whigb jury trials are not demanded. The prisonérs form in line and march into court, standing beside the iron screen heretofore men- tioned. ‘Sometimes, especially on Mondays, the procession is long enough to reach across the entire court room, and seldom does s proces- sion appear in which there are not several familiar’ faces. The same old story is repeated over and over again and in the average pets case all the Judge has to do is to ay, “Five dol- lors” or “Thirty days,” while every now and then it becomes necessary to remind an old offender that he iscoming too often and give him a home for a much longer period. pSince the dignity of the court was raised by e jury being provided ‘ger part of the bed sch donnie tn the Glatt shee eosee and most of this week has been series of investigations of the aswell as of the particular court. devoted to a Policy business cases before the ‘THE JURY. ‘The defendants in*this particular e cases included men, women and the witnesses have included the same classes of Persons of both colors. Among. the witnesses are those who are fa- miliar with the courts, and many of them are well a with the wi i the prisoners are benedit row added to the list, but no witness was asked to give its numbers. “1-2-8” and “¢-11-44” a to be the most familiar rece Bere Tow,” “blood row” and “ a row” were played oftener than any other. But fe Se vitnecens over say Chey maces “hit” or “struck a gig.” Some divide up ‘Lawyers Williams and Carrington have prac- tically » monopoly of the policy business, and they are more than satisfied that they have a Jury to hear their cases, for formerly they were sent to the upper court. made on Sse basinses f tele pie peta, on the ess tty gam! % which Lawyer Williams Was once by the government when 2 license fee of $1,000 was collected. ‘‘And,” said counsel in a case, ‘the first court house in this city was erected with policy money.” After argument the jury have a duty to per- form and that duty isto retire toan upper room and reach a conclusion if possible. In that room the jury find things uncomfortable, the only chair init being for the use of the deputy, who has charge of the twelve men. Whether this is intended tomake the jury agree without too much argument and force them to reach a verdict or whether it is attributable to the poverty of the self-supporting institution is not known, but the latter is probably the cause. This court, like all others, has rules which must be observed, and among them is one de- fining the duties of the court officials. “Smoking in the court room at any time,” reads one rule, “whether during a recess or after adjournment, is positively prohibited, and any official of the court allowing the same will be held personally responsible.” The last rule provides against loungers and Persons having ‘no business there spending eir leisure moments about the court in the way of those who have a duty to perform. After all the business of the court is over for the day and the prisoners are taken off the janitor appears, and, while going through the working of cleaning’ the rooms, he can sit on the bench and say “Five dollars” to empty benches ag well as the judge can say it when he can enforce it agahist the prisoner at the = a COURTESY ON STREET CARS. Some Remarks From Different Points of View on the Subject. 66]DEOPLE ON STREET CARS ARE CER- tainly much more courteous in this latitude than further north,” said Sniffkins last night at the Platypus Club. “The only trouble Tever had on such a vehicle was witha man who plumped himself into the seat I had vacated for alady. Said I: I got up to gi this lady that seat; I'll thank you to vacate it? “Ho refused, and soI added in a gentle voice, stooping over so that he might hear me: ‘I'll give you just five seconds to get up and then T'll smash your head through the window.’ “He saw my advantage, inasmuch as he was seated and I was standing, and he promptly rose.” “That reminds me,” remarked Noodles, “of an occasion when I asked @ man on acar to take his valise off the seat in order that I might sitdown. He didn’t do so, and I told him that he was a hog, indulging in various objurgatory epithets. WhenI found that he was not die- posed to respond with violence, either in worda or action, I grew more warm and demanded of him wherefore he would not take away his bag. Upon which he replied very mildi: “The bag does not belong to me. “I had a worse experience than that,” said Poopsby. “The night before last Thanksgiv- ing day I boarded acar going up town. All the seats were filled, but one was occupied by a huge turkey ina brown paper bag that be- longed to 8 jolly-looking fat man with a con- vivial nose. I was tired, and suggested to him rather disgustedly thatI would like to sit down. He replied that Icould if I would take the turkey on my lap. This made me exceedingly angry, and I was almost on the point of trying to thrash the fat man when I concluded to ap- peal to the conductor. That official, instead of giving me any satisfaction, declared that the turkey had a right to the seat, because the fat man had paid 5 cents extra for its accommoda- tion. So I had to ride on the platform.” can beat that,” said Podgers, “with an oc- currence that | was a witness to on boarda Georgetown car. A rather ancient spinster— for such I should judge she was—was trying to occupy an extra seat with a pet pug. A deter- mined-looking ‘man with spectacles and very shortlegs came in and asked her to remove the beast. She refused point blank, upon which the new passenger, as if it was quite a matter of course, plucked the dog by the back of its neck. chucked it gently out through the car window and seated himself in its place You can imagine the scene which followed including the exodus of the maiden lady in pursuit of the animal.” is nothing to an adventure that I was a witne: to onthe way from Camden to Atlantic City,” said Binks. “It was last sum- mer. One man on the }, On our car, wanted tohoga whole seat with the assistance of a bundle. At a way station a person entered with flery side whiskers and a determination not to be imposed upon. He demanded thi removal of the bundle, and, when his request ‘was not met with a sufficiently prompt response, he sat down upon it. By unlucky chance the bag contained two or three dozen eggs, conse- quently the man with the fiery whiskers no sooner sat down than he got up again, anda terrific row ensued, the owner of the eggs claiming damages for the destruction of property, and the other party to the contest— is garments all adrip with yellow liguid—as- serting that he would have satisfaction for the injury to his clothes. It required the utmost efforis of the conductor to quiet the row.” “All the same, "observed Squabb, who is recog- nized aan authority in matters of dispute, “there is no doubt whatever of the fact that manners on street cars in this latitude are very much better than farther north. In New York men are too busy, apparently, to pay any atten- tion to the comfort of the gentler sex, and in Boston it is a rare thing to see a man get up to give his seat to a lady. In Washington and Other cities south, on the other hand, it is equally rare to seea woman standing in a street car.” eee Stood Up for the Baby. From the “Jack, old man, I've just been made a god- father.” “How's that?” “Why, while I was in an elevated car today a woman entered with a baby and looked around for a seat. I stood up for the baby.” ——_-o-—__—. It was probably the man who married a rich wife who first started the joke on the dificulty of finding a woman's pocket.—Puck. APRIL 18, 4891-SIXTEEN PAGES. 4 DIVERSITY IN WRAPS. FIVE MILLIONS WORTH OF FIBER. Some of Redfern's Latest Designs for Spring | A New Industry in Florida That Will Save Styles. the United States This Sum Yearly. Once more all fashionable society is in that | 66 PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY PAY whirl and flurry in which ite members delight, €5,000,000 each year for sisal hemp but which to an outsider appears so very frivo- | fiber grown in Yucatan, wherewith to make lous and fatiguing. Weddings, receptions, | cordage, binding twine, and so forth,” said a dinners, dances, the entire winter program is | government official to a Stan reporter. is resumed and is hurried through with in order | a great waste of money, because the same ma- that the end of next month may find the gay { terial can be produced just as well in southern crowd ready to disperse to its country houses, | Florida and of better quality. Capitalists are or to the summer resorts, or to start on its Fu- | interesting themselves in the matter, and « Fopean trip. And allday the streets are gay | new industry of extensive proportions is to be with equipages and the pavementsare thronged | developed on the with callers and shoppers. * Most of these have | Sisal, besides being one of the most admir- gladly taken advantage of the milder weather | able fibers in the world for the purposes men- tolay aside the cumbrous winter ‘ents | tioned, iss most interesting plant. It is « Trin Dare Decome Durdensome and 80.008 | crows of huge quem bayonet dhaped luvin, Se new meres Pima. Anka oe each one from fourands half to six feet in assortment of fine feathers these lively birds ‘s Present. Their gowns, to be su length and varying from one and one-half ral rovemblance in strle and = inches thick at the base to half an inch thick at ere is a bewildering diversity in the Wraps | the center. When it is from six to eight years and the masculine mind is puzzied to under- n stand how such very differing garments caa | Ol and quite mature it sends up from ite mid- all be in the fashion. “The wearers, however, | dle with great rapidity a huge central stalk or of this motley array calmly go their way: | mast twenty-five feet high and three inches in This one complacent in a cavalier cape, with | diameter. From the upper half of this stalk feather-tipped collar, her neighbor equally | small branches grow out, each branch. bearing happy in * Louis Quinze cont, with ite brocaded tulipshaped blossoms, | Presently the blossoms walstcoat and lace cravat, while the next comer | wither, the petals drop off and in their place trips jauntily along in a» straight-fronted | leaves appear. Within a few days where ‘each double-breasted tailor-made jacket utterly de- | flower has been a complete little sisal plant has Void of trimming. And oné is as, correctly | developed, attached to an extremity of the gotten up as the other. Let us follow this | parent stem. When it is mature it drops upon stylish woman ty Redfern’s and see what takes4 the ground, and, if it manages to come in con- her fancy. Ah! No loose garments pendant | tact with the mother earth, proceeds to take from the shoulders for her. Here is her choice: | root and become « growth like its progenitor. 4 UNIQUE METHOD OF REPRODUCTION. This is a method of reproduction found in no other plant save the sisal and a few of ite near relatives. Inthe ordinary course of nature very few of the ung ones succeed in striking root through the thick grass that covers the ground; but as many as 1,000 of them may be got and planted from a single stalk, as ripen from day today. The sisal reproduces itnelf from suckers thrown out by the Toots, thus having two distinct ways of perpet- uating its species. Many authorities consider that the suckers pi i and that they are pretera! on this account for cultivating purposes, but this is disputed. Mr. Charles Richards Dodge of the Depart- ‘ment of Agriculture has just returned from a trip to Florida, the object of which was mainly to investigate the prospects for sisal hemp in that state. He found it growing wild in vari- ous places along the coast line of the southern half of the peninsula, as well as on some of the keys. Here and there steps were being taken to cultivate it and in nurseries ad been established, one of which contained about 100,000 young plants making out as soon as they should be big enough. The Florida variety was unquestionably superior to the Yucatan sisal. In the northern part of the state it is grown in gardens for ornamental purposes, but ite cultivation for commercial uses will be necessarily restricted to the region routh of the frost line. The little plante that drop from the stalk branches are remarkably tenacious of life, #0 that they may remain for months out of the ground and still retain vital- ity. Some that Mr. Dodge brought back to Washington with him had been kept for man; Weeks in a pasteboard box, and now they are growing beautifully in the green houses of the department. MUCH BETTER THAN THE IMPORTED ARTICLE. At present more than 80 per cent of the sisal hemp raised in Yucatan is imported into the United States. In Florida the plant is already Present, of a better kind, and it is so readily propagated that very few years would be re- quired for the establishment of plantations suiticiently large and numerous to produce all the material needed in this country and shut the foreign article out of this market. What is particularly required is a machine for ob- taining the fiber from the leaves. At present there is nothing better for the pu than the crude contrivance used in Yucatan and called a “raspador.” It is merely a revolving drum with blunt knives on its peripbery,which scrape and remove the pulpfrom the long bayonet-like leaves as the latter are passed into the machine, thus releasing the beautiful paral- lel fibers, which have only to be and baled. One advantage of sisal is that it will grow well upon the poorest and most rocky soil, such as will not support anything else worth cultivating. ‘The flowers spoken of are Unpleasant to the smell when kept ina room for a while, somewhat resembling to the nostrils the bouquet of mouse in an advanced state of decomposition under the floor. —aaecniee MADE THEM LIE DOWN. Along coat of Stanley brown cloth, with loose fronts lapping clear to the left shoulder and ornamented with appliqued brown velvet, with a touch of gold. The waistcoat is of suede- | colored cloth, with a delicate tracery of gold | abont the edges. This hes small pocket flaps, | while the coat proper has diagonal-slit pockets, with the velvet trimming. A Horse Thief Robs His Would-Be Captors With Ease. ‘From the Kansas City Star. LL Somers, a sewing machine agent, living at Lee's Summit, was dri’ ing in Cass county, about four miles west of Harrisonville, the other morning, when he passed a man driv- ing ahorse and cart. Somers recognized the horse and cart as property that had been described as stolen, and asa reward of $50 bad been offered by the Anti-Horse Thief Association for the capture of the man or the Property, Somers determined to do some capturing. ‘ He stopped at a farmer's house and endear- ored to borrow a gun. The farmer did not have one, but joined Somers, and the two drove on to the next farm. Here they also failed to get # gun, and driving on they met the man in the road endeavoring to sell the horse to an- other farmer. There being three of them they felt bold, and the farmer w: mers spoke up and told the horse thief that he might as well surrender. At this the thief laughed loud andlong. Draw- ing a large, old-fashioned Colt’s revolver from his pocket, he commanded Somers and the farmer with him to get out of Somers’ two- horse wagon, and then made the three men lice down with faces to the ground and about ten feet from each other. He then proceeded to search them. He found nothing in the farm- er's pockets, but took « silver watch, $12.50 in money, several society badges and other small articles from Somers, got into Somers’ rig and drove away. Somers and the farmers then got up. ‘The thief had left the horse and cart, but the horse ran away and Somers and farmer No. 1, who went after it, did not catch it until ithad broken the eart to pieces. ‘Then they walked into Lee's Summit leading the stolen horse Mr. Somers One of the new driving coats is also selected. It is not so long as the other model, but stili reaches well over the hips. It is of a deep blue | gray, with wide pointed vest. of pearl white, his is buttoned with a braiding of black and ilver and collar and sleeves are trimmed to match. Talking of driving coats leads us natu- rally to the subject of driving and the daily in- | crease tho tall English dog cart, with its spidery | wheel making in our favor. A small cart, |six feet from the ground, and a couple of | spirited high steppers driven tandem may be | dangerous, but it is certainly a pretty sight, | and the soupcon of dangeris just sufficient to | make the whole thing delightfully piquant to a | good driver. English girls are mostly good Whips, and Lady Brooke, the late Miss May- | nard, may often be seen driving about the | green Essex lanes in one of these dashing carts, | bad started to capture. | her lithe, erect figure sitting well up in front, | _ A posse from Lee's Summit spent last night | and perched at the back a diminutive boy in | in searching for the thief, but did not find him. This morning, however, Mr. Somers’ horses on in good condition. turned them loose to | buttons blowing an enormous horn. | Brooke w: in-hand through the crowded city of London in iv is o "i r- | Walked home with the also the first woman to drive four- It is supposed the thi | the busiest hours of the day. Our girls here | #¥oid caught and came to Kansas City on are many of them nearly as expert, and after | foot. | the opening, of the coaching season we are | likely fo tae some good displays of the feminine | an viz armgeas trength of wrist and a skillf; dling of the r, Felenting, then consenting. ea Brag) of beauty boast in your eyes; Hil agarte ty The season of kisses is nearly here, and soon | Ffow the fre gleaming in your glance beaming : blush in we shall see girls, burnt brown by a passionate | p Borrowing ruses, your fun, boating, fing and yachting fags Tossing your favors to suave ant’ fone isthe age for outdoor Pastimes, and if such | Aye, you are rare 40, and maddening fair a0: | rational pleasures rule the roost the next de- Coquette! | eade will bea bad one for the doctors, Ire- | member a time, no matter how long ore, Boone Glesovers, Distracting your lovers, no hen | D’Not even Jou, Your unrestful | mind, no young woman who had any respect for les | aougi Sosy | covenances would ever stir out in the sun with- | Tpmgi ted adore you; Ife is are bilud,” | outa oe ‘and would have shuddered at the | Mistaking kisses for surest of idea of paddling her own canoe; and I remem-| As your lips coax them with passion beset ber when the yachting girl suffe muchly | You may seal lies so, even 80, fered from mal de mer. But there, I shall on remembering and remembering till I you all if I do not put a curb on my pen. A Social Test. From the Boston Giobe. A frontier town has settled the social quee- tion ina novel manner. Those who put ont their washing belong to the aristocracy: those who do their own laundry work are members of the middle class, and those who take in | washing form the lower class. THE CAREER OF MR. McCAFFERTY’S TROUSERS. HOW THEY DESCENDED RIGHT THROUGH THE FAMILY. From Puck's Library. Joaquin Miller was in Chicago two or three months ago, and he was happened i here some time, but a little incident that made him feel like moving on. The second day he was here he was invited to a reception on the south side, and he went There was an CAMERA CLUB GOSSIP. An Exhibition to Be Given on the Sith at the Cosmos Club. SOW THE CLUB ORIGINATED—SOME OF THE m- PORTANT MEMBERS—A CIRCULATING ALPUM— PHOTO-MICROORAPHS, FLASH-LIONT PICTURES AND LANTERN SLIDES—Por CAMERA WORE. WASHINGTON CAMERA CLUB 13 going to give an exhfbiton of the work of ite members on the 27th of this month at the Cosmos Club. It is expected that the show will be the most successful of ite kind ever given in this city and that !¥ will imelude more pictures of merit. Much'fnterest ie taken by the members in a project fora new elub house, which is to afford all the fucitities for making photographs, including an ample skylight, to gether with a ball for lantern-slide displays, lockers and other conveniences. At present the club occupies quarters at No. 1420 Penn- syivania avenue. It was in 1883 that the club was orignally ganized under the name of the “Argent title having reference to the fact that silver salte are mostly used in photography esa sen- Sitizing medium. The membership was lim- ited to twelve, and it was only by the oceur- Tence of a death that any one outside could get in. Mr. Smillie of the Nat the originator of the affair am ings were beld at the muséum. ssi, the “Argenta™ Teorgaiion! thetneelves as * wit ‘or- —. the “Camera Club,” ship, and a year later theif on was in- corporated. Since then ve met twice s month for discussion and toe. the tion of new and inte; Processes. At in- tervals they bave given fuuk@rmalide tions and photographic vs. From time to time at pleasant seasons the club celebrates “field days,” as they are called, on which occe- sions the members go in flocks’ to pictaresque spots not far from Washington im various di- Tections and take shots at everything, to the astonishment and even alarm of the natives. An album is kept for the preservation of the best photographs produced from ume to, tlme by the club, a committee being appointed select such works as are worth keeping. 4 CIRCULATING PHOTOGRAPHIC LIBRARY. Some of the members of the Camera Club be long to the “Postal Camera Club,” which ise sort of circulating photographic library. Once & month it issues an album filled with the best that the members, in various parte of the country, have been able to produce, and the volume is mailed from one person to another until it has made the round and got back to headquarters again, each recipient writing his or her criticisms on the work in blank provided for that purpose. _ Some of the eriti- cisms are very funny, while others are so biting as to be calculated to injure the feelings of sensitive amateurs. But it isall in the wa; of amusement and instruction. Most of the members have never met each other, and the Judgments passed have therefore an altogether umpersonal character, Most distinguished in the Camera Club are the two honorary members, Mr. Smillie and Mr. Adee of the Department of State. The latter is an active writer for phi 1c four- nals and devotes much attention to original in- vestigation in the of photography. Of Inte he has been aang =a considerably with making “freak photographs,” of the sort im which one individual, taken several times on the same plate, is made to form a group all by himeelt. As for Mr. Smillie, he ts well known as the generally informed photographer in the country. Max Hansmann, preetient of the club, besider being one of the most popular men in Washington, is one of the most skilifal amateur photographers in the United States. His work is especially fine in technique as to composition and lighting. Itis mostly land- scape, but he is also very successful in portrait- ure. SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTORS. Prof. W. H. Seamen of the patent office con- tributes many admirable photo-mierographs to the work of the club. He takes great interest in developing the usefulness of the lantern slide. Dr. 8. H. Griffith of the United States navy, Who is now away at sea on the Dolphin, is another member who takes much interest in photo-micrography. Perry B. Pierce, au ex- aminer in the patent office, does both and landscapes well. Robert J. Fisher, jr., late Assistant of patents, Pat attention chiefty to landscape work. E. B. Wight, the newspaper man, habitually carries three or four kodake sround with Lim and takes pops at everything it. im sight U.H. Painter is another kodak enthusiast. His specialty is old market women, and be has a fine collection of such genre pictures. Fred Perry Powers is oft times seen with bis “Hawk eye.” Mr. 9 Lothrop, the dry merchant, is very clever with landscape Sraphe and with, tran cies. M. B. Waite, tologist of the It bids Department of ure, has not been long in the club, but fair to rival the older members in the produc- tion of artistic landscapes, bromide wed pia num being bis particular vanity. J. Albert Cole of the supervising architect's office in the Treasury Department is very successful in making architectural photographs. Richard Lee Fearn, another newspaper man, is great on instantaneous views. He is fond of doing such things as taking a single tear on the drop, and he has quite collection of small dove in the act of diving off wharves. W. E. neider is a photographic inventor. He has devised camera of hisown. Dr. Thomas Taylor, who recently resigned, was likewise « constructive genius. He discovered « fixsh- light powder of exceptional quality, made from the silk of the milk weed, or the milk of the silk One of the one or the other. ablest meml of the club is Miss F. B. Johnston, who has done some most successful work im tes navy bas made some remarkable photographs of landscapes and na- tives in Polynesia. George tired naval officer. He does exquisite land- scape work, and every autumn he returns from the Adirondacks with lowe of pretty things. He is particularly strong on pictures of plants and flowers for conventfouallzing in Seccrative Any one who has never attended in ¥ fr . i FREES nearly to paintings of invention of « satisfactory method ducing colors by the camera is necessary lift this art to @ position unsurpassed by ee One Good Turn Deserves Another. From Munsey’s Weekiy. t g