Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1891, Page 7

JAPANESE ART STYLES The ‘emiie balan by Oriental Painters, FUNNY PERSPECTIVE DEFECTS Some Japanese Legends Which Furnish Sub- Jovts for Artiste-A Resident of the Coun- try Only Cam Appreciate Their Delines- HERE IS A GOOD deal of art and ingenuitY displayed in a Japanese fan,” said a dealer in ntal bric-a-brae toa reporter of Tux Sram | the other “Lapent nine in Jupan,” | he co: , “and yet I bave never seen an article that shows as om & fon illustrates some proverb, familiar legend or story. While nearly wholly deficient fn perspective, these people are unsurpassed im brilliant coloring and their pictures are fre- quently drawn from When summer in painters and art ations de- ring tntil orchards of | Perspective They are “The wall and the Bowned for and Tokio Shiba are re- eanty and correct painiings, vet the ne Te PrasrectivE. fan I hold in my band nd, in which e of them ters several 1 gar porting im aetreama are nearly a large as the th the drawing, called the of food in Japan mg aud @ half foot ot styles of schools ~ily recognized by fans is most pop- used on the “kake- nd scrolls, seen in I another in fold- ke In this last | very rich and the details | Th the second the salient t, but the picture, while emuch to the imagina- | at every hon~ traved. autely potnte are emy suggestive, len they sbow great taste, but | ¢ n fully | altivated Jap. * on account taste for the + caricature ir mand na- | ey to ex- 4 wo vet it wandering. MAxorwo WoNKETR rm are countless gods and 4 that howls a peaks of Asama The terrible typhoon } is the work of | the deep soa world of mye dusaltic rocks i strange, which are the end- drawings Sometumes sbt may be seen under «= dragon, the real | wu, but the supersti- | the sigbt account for on in take forme new a: leas models for whon it is very dar! the water which re cause of fous peop @ous realities. The wax-work maseum at Ascksa-tera possemses Sy ures of exrcnted crimi- Bale and woorpees in a state of decomposition hick forma collect: riot to tle fated “chamber of horr JAPANESE 1G: De “Tn order to give an idea of the imaginings| find peculiarities of the Japanese, I will relate afew legends which are popalar throughout Jepsen, and from whieh # good many drawings are made by of tlustrations Under the weters of the Straits of Simonosehs is a oF rather & temple, incrusted with j@ and mother of pearl. It is called the our and ie situated in « place where the Young Mikedo-Antok was submer with his guite as be ded from the fi Die partianr une monsters and rnisbed inexhaust- ? has inspired the strangest ar istic « “Tade Yama isa very high mountain with a | California | gulf the horrified traveier beholds « basin filled with human blood. and this blood boils and surges, heated by the volcano. A LEGENDARY WERO. “Great respect is dno to printed books. The bronze Raizo having ina moment of anger de- stroved the library of bis convent was after his death changed into a rat, condemned to gnaw of paper end old fragments of books as ly foo A woman who had great revenues refused to marry. Her motive was pure avarice. When she was dead her sisters inherited her property, and one of them who liked to adorn herself with adress which had belonged to the dead | Woman, and who hung it on a nail at the back of her bed rocm door, every night saw a long lank arm protruding from the dress and sbak- ing it violent}, REGARD FOR ANCIENT TREES. “Tree worship, which has existed among all ancient races, is limited by the Japanese to very old trees. When the lord of Yamato Wished to furnish his house from the trunk of dar im his park, the axes of the ded from the bark and large flowed from every stroke. This, says the legend, is because ancient trees have a. ul, granted to them on account of their great wey are also capable of eympathy with tunes of who place them- er their protection. More than one unfortunate warrior on the point of falling into the hands of unplacable enemies bas found a retreat in the trunk or branches of some old ouk. INART. “The worship of Inari, the deified introducer of rice into Japan and the patron of fo is common'throughout the empire. He deceives le. injures them, traneforms himself a beautiful woman and lures men away by bewitching them, but he is worshiped in order to insure his good will.” aoe ae FOUND IN THE PARK. Things Patriotic Philadelphians Left Be- hind Fourth of July Night. From the Philadelphia Times. The lost and abandoned articles found in Fairmount Park on July 5 indicated that the celebrating army of Fourth ef July patriots had been unusually reckless, There were apward of 500 articles collected by the gnarde, but many of them are so insig- nificant that it is not likely that they ever will be called for. The following list comprises the most notable article Aisa COULE saseee pemmaccuamoticn Dinner pint 3 Dau ore, % bairp nz Many of the above articles are of value. Many of the articles of personal adornment, as vome of them are prettily inscribed with Monograms. a Difference in Gold. “Most people suppose,” an assayer in the London Tid Bus, “that all gold is alike when refined, but this ws not the case. An ex- perienced man can tell at a glance from what partor the world # gold piece comes, and in some cases from what part of a particular gold district the metal was obtained. The Australian gold, for f redder than the and thie ditterence in color is always perceptible, even when the gold is 1,000 fine. Again, the gold ol d from the placers is yellower than that which ie taken direc from quartz. Why this should be the case one of the mysteries of metallurgy, for the acer gold all comes from the The Tal gold is the reduest fou where. Few people know the coior of gold, us it is sel- dom scen unless heavily alloyed, which renders it redder than when pure. Tue purest coms ever made were the £50 pieces that used to bo common in California. Their coinage was abandoned for two reasons—tirst, because the Jows by abras so great, und secondly, because the interior would be bored out and Jead substituted, the difference in weight being too small to be readily noticed in so large o piece. ‘These octagonal coins were the most valuable ever struck.” oo THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY, JULY 11. 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. THESTARS ANDSTRIPES Harriet Prescott Spofford in Harper's Bazar. ¢6Q)4,” SAID ANNA, “I NEVER REAL- ized what s new country oursis. It makes me ashamed to cail it ours.” said Prisoy. “all our houses built of wood, wooden side- walks in balf our towns, wooden steeples to our churches, mothing ancient, nothing pictur- esque.” “The Hudson and the Delaware Gap and the Notch and the Yellowstone Park arepictaresque enough for me," said Prisoy, biting bit of lemon leaf. “Ob, I mean palaces, cathedrals, ruins!” cried Anna, moving impatiently under Jane’s hands, unsecustomed till Istely to the minis- trations of a maid. “We look as if we were born yesterday, as if we never had sucha thing ag an ancestor “We have just as many ancestors as the big- est duchess exclaimed Priecy, “and if we can't just lay our finger on them, neither Ceo And she wouldn't want to ifshe cou ‘ag Xov are s0—to very coarse, Priscilla,” said oe hanks all the same.” “I don't wonder those women behave as they do and—” “Turn up their noses at us? They can't. Those great high bones! And if they did what earthly difference need it make to us? We shall be out of this p) resently and never | sce one of them ag: if they are wo very high and mighty at home why don't they ata: athome? They weren't so well off there but that they thought coming out here would make thet better off. Ou, they're a parcel of frauds! That Lady Dilyl—she looks like @ spec- |4men for the Smithsonian; her osseous struc. | ture is remarkable. If she and her daughters show what generations of high living and breeding come tolam glad were the first of la! If any one should hear you.” “Well, wo are, aren't we? They're proud of descending from the first of their mame. We haven't descended, that’s all. And as for blood—if biood tells, look at them and look at us. Great nough for a milkmaid and the other lanky a lath. No style, no grace. ‘I'm little, but, | ob, my!”” sang Briscilla. ‘Look at your shin, the blush of a tearose;at your eyes, creat sapphire stars: at your nose, euton a’ cameo: at your black iushes, lon; enough for curl papers: at your blue-blac hair that you can stand on; at your figure, like ® young queen’s—at least a young queen, or an. old one either, would give her crown for it. | And look at my cheek,” streaking her little finger down the side of her face; “that oval line, the peach bloom on it.” “Cheek enough,” laughed Anna. e contrast of my dark @: fluff of yellow hair, my little white throat, well, my nose is tip-tilted. But look at my feet, twoand a balf A's. Look at Philippa Dilly’, sevens, if they're an inch! Look at that instep! It wouldn't take an Arab long to way which of us was the lady, Miss Anna Maria—" “Priscilla, don't. The Anna’s bad enough, but the Maria! It's worse than Priscilla.” “Mighty lucky name for me, though. Poor Aunt Pricey!” “Somehow we don’t even seem tohave decent nawes. We might at least be Ethel, or Gwen- doiyn, or Eltieds. “We've very good names of our own if wo choose. Queen Victoria's no better than Queen Annegand I should like to know why Virginia and@eorgia and Carolina and Louis) ana aren't a# good as their old Saxon dot-und- go-ones.”” “Well, I only wish I'd never seen these peo- ple and heard them talk of their old feudal glories “If ever—— Why, I don’t care a copper for their glories. Poor Anng, I don't believe its the feudal glories or the American clapbuards that trouble you. It's just Hubert Dilly. I wouldn't marry him tomorrow if he were ets. Aud bis mother will never im marzy you, if you wished. Just think of the sweet lile she'll lead @ daughter-in-law! remember the mother of the duke in light of the Duchess?” Do you believe Hubert Dilly won't ned applause, or will keep off the old mother-cat’s claws?" “I'm ashamed of you, Priscilla Alston!” ‘ou needn't be ashamed of me. Be ashamed of Browning. Ido hope the ship will be back before you're in for it with that young man——” “there, Storer, that will do!” cried Anna. iow 1 have some jasmine flowers.” torer! Her nauie is Jane.” don’t care if her name is calls her maid by her last name “Poor Koge how she struggles with those | bay-colored locks! She gets tiem up to look like what Jane—I_ mean Storer—calls a hoo- ronr’é nest in a haystack. Are you ready, Anna? Td like to put those diamonds on you for once, just to dazzle Lady Dilly’s eyes out of her head. They te in the leather trank— no, you may say box. What a. thing it isto have your busband a diamond mer chant and die and leave his stock in trade on your hands! At least what @ thing for your hieces! There's the two combs, fasten them to- Sether und that makes a tiara. There's the ear- rings—ob, how perfectly gorgeous! ‘Theres the necklace, a triple rowand a pendant, ‘There's these piee for astomacuer. Now the bracelets rings. Prostrate yourself, Jane Sto: | she lock like a nymph just out of the water, | all dripping with spray and sun? You ought to | bea queen, Auna! Ob, what a pity we can't keep them and wear them, instead of selling them and investing the price! But, then, that will make things so that papa can leave off geing to sea. How much do you suppose theyre worth? Fifty thousand? Eighty? Ob, my! What was that? Who was it! Didut you see a face—going by the window —turned full on—like w mask on a pole? it was Lady Dilly! And she's seen ls! And she ihinks they're yours! ere'll be music! I should like to look imside the mechanism of that thing she calls her mind aud see what she thinks about our having such jewels, anyway. I know what she thinks about us. Two young savages—one a litle more savage than the other. Me! Well, L don’t suppose you really can wear them down” “No, indeed, not one of them, after all that has been said about Americans wearing dia wonds. “That's the very reason I wonld. Well.” It was while this conveution was going on in the rooms occupied by the Alston girls, Pris- cilla fluttering trom one to the other as she talked, that the person mentioned as Lady Dilly was sitting in her room, observing tho movements of Rogers, her woman, who was trying to give to her work on the hair of Miss “Gladys the touch that wus so nat- [ural to Jane Storer's fingers. The room | Was at the other end of the long low hous, » my my— Jane. Lady now the Doesn't ‘The Atmosphere and Mainsprings, | Which wasall the public house there was on * . en his lonely isl the hi : Your mainspring ie broke,” was the pori-' Kirton lic left lis tee ieeetca Mere Capt. tive declaration of a jeweler to a young man as he entered and walked up to the counter, meanwhile probing for his watch. The young man hadn't said # word, so it is easy to im- agine that he was astor at having the cause of his being there thus promptly and Positively foretold, says the Buttalo Express. “How did you guess it,” he asked, whon he re- covered from his amazement. “Didn't guess it; L knew it, jewellers reply. “That is, I could almost have sworn to it when I saw you feeling for your watch. Lguesed then that sowething was the matter with that article, and, guessed that, I was ready to $25 to $1 that it Was the mainspring that was broke. Aud Pll you why: There's a certain time of the year —and this happens to be it this year—when, if I have two or three ersons come to me with broken mainsprings, I can make up my mind that I'll bave twenty or thirty more of the same kind of customers within a very short tim Now, it's just 4 week and came to Lave job of this kind done, and up to today I've had no less than twenty mainsprings toputin. ‘They break voluntarily; atmos heric condition has something to do with it. | Now, DL put a new spring in your watch, which Tguaraniee for a year. It may last two or thres years, and, again, it may not last two days, one day or an hour. Youcan'ttell; they're fo break any time, no matter of how good quality they are. I've had new springs break right after I have put them in.” ——+e2—_____ By the Sed Sen Waves. ‘From Life. = ‘Ah, Jim, we poor folks has our trials!” ikon Ts, ted 's good many; batt ain't the trials what annoys we verdict they deep exeter in ite sumuiit. "On looking inte the | brings in arterwarda.” | day ago that a man while he pursued his voyage, fearing the coast fever for them if they were exposed to it, hav- ing brought them over seas to fulfill some forms of iaw and take possession of the legacy left them by their Aunt Prise | “E think,” said Lady Dilly, as Gladys dis satisticdly turned the hand giass, “that if you ran the comb in under, Kogers; now a hair- | pin—no; that is too high.” I must’ confess I do not see how those American girle—I mean—I would uot have you imitate their bold, bad ways for any consideration, Gladys; but 1 make no doubt they have the’ last style from Paris, for your Aunt Conyngham wrote to me Lady Edwy was wearing—" am sure I would be glad to imitate them. Tnever saw anything half so fetching,” said uple Gladys. “Bat you can't imitate « rose lea! with pink chalk; you can’t imitate spun gold with tow, nor Parian with dough.” “I sbould think you had never seen a pretty faco betore,” said her sister Philippa. “Lam. suse there are lovely English girls." “Not in thie family,” sighed Gladys. “There, | Rogers, you can’t doit. I may as well be re- to my old ugliness.” My love,” said her mother, “you may not be a Beauty, but you have « pleasant face—a | dear sweet face to me—and I would not change it for ull the red and white in America.” “Thank yon, mamma,” said Gladys, with a mile on her face, sallow, it must be owned. would rather hay z ‘And as for your manners, it would be idleto mention them—your dignity, your repose— beside their forward chirping ‘and skipping. ‘ancy! Sparrows are not 9 restless.” And barbarians are not so rude,” said Philippa. “My dear, they are barbarians," said the mother, impressively. “You might let down Miss Philippa’s frock tomorrow, Ro, way those girls show their ankles! you believeit the younger one, the calls herself F e who riseilla, told me’ that herds of | buifaloes pasture along the sides of the streets where they live, and t! ey gO out with some- thing she calls a la: nd take @ bison ride of twenty miles for exercise. She says it's the great American cure for dyspepsia.” “Why, mamma, she was—she waa guying ou!” said Philippa. “For she told me they | lived in New York city above the park, in lodg- ings built so high—I forget how many stories, bur so many that the lift rans express to the bag Pepe raed lay ogeal said it was in the upper part of the city,” said Lady Dilly, conclusively, of ‘“K remember the spoke of the view from the ig-mouthed girls, one of them stout | | several thousand dollars’ worth of dis iow—they hook together | roof,” said Gladys, “the top of the great pines near the Yosemite, and the rainbow over Niagara, and how fine it was by moonlight.” “I don't know that it signifies. Barbarians? Why, she told me ys ate with her fin- pressed my horror she asked me, really asked me, if I expected her—fancy—to eat with her toes!" “She was trying to shock you, mamma.” “She juite capable of it. And I don't ine she's at all worse than the rest of the le. Poeknd some of those people, she says,” re- marked Philippa, “actually have as many wives as they want. One—she didn't know a she had about him—bad more than ity 1” “Philippa, I can’t allow you—" “And, mamma”—with a deepenin; “she says they buy » divorce as ea: do gloves.’ “Oh, my dears, she is a very demoralizing young person, and I really must beg you to feep our own side of the house as much as pos sible.” Tdon't know,” said Philippa, after her mother had stepped out upon the gallery, and was pursuing her constitutional around the house, like the wind in the riddie, “I suppose it's very much by the way and not at all what one ought, but it dovs secm as if some of these Americans had—had—a very good time. Ido wish, Gladys, that Rogers could fit our dresses as theirs fit.’ Lock at our waiste! And that Miss Anna Alston's waist makes her look like a lily on a stem.” “It wouldn't make any difference, Philippa,” ighed Giadys. “I'm only sorry that Hubert’s here. I wish he had gone up into the mount- ains, as he mea And while they were murmuring on their motiver swept back and flung herself into the bamboo ehair. ‘Oh, my darlings?” she exclaimed, breath- blush— ly as they lessly, “1am afraid we have made a great mis- tue.” Those Alston's are no poor sea captain s daughters, you may be assured. I was passing their windows and it happened to me to glance in, and the® stood Miss Anna dressed ont im twenty thousand pounds’ worth of diamonds, and no less mama ! What did it mean? Can you conjecture? What can it mean? I sawit myself. There is American girls all have them, mamma,” Philippa. But so many. And never shown before. It is very mysterious,” said Lady Dilly, suaking her head. “Do you suppose they are going down to dinner in them” asked Gladys, with a light of expectation in her pale eyes. “I don't know—I don't know,” seid Lady Dilly, gloomily. “Can it be that these girls are by way of being anything dishonest?” “It smfeh more likely that they are two rich American girls, of those millionaire people, out on a lark, mamma.” “On a what, Philippa?” But when, a little later, Lady Dilly saw tho two young barbarians in their black net gowns without so much as a gay ribbon abe was still | more confounded. Where were the jewels? Why were they put on’ Why were they taken honest property or were they What did they imply? Could they do anything but draw with them the boundless wealth of mines and railroads and prairie cities! There was only one w: Ive the problem. She crossed the broad gallery by-and-by,where all lingered under the ‘pretty ‘colored lights, listening to the sea, and sat down by Priscilla. 5 dear,” she said, “as I passed your win- dow tonight did Inot'see your sister drossed with—with rather a costly—with parure of | diamonds?” “Oh, I dare say,” said Priscilla. them Gn sometimes when we are a ‘They are Aunt Priscill yb!" said Lady Dilly. irlooms, then. if you choose to call them #0,” said “We put ttle home- fortunate to have such treas- ures,” said Lady Dil “Do you think so? are a8 Common as cows in New York. hey have such foriunes there!” sighed Lady Dilly. “Of course one could not afford to keep money locked up in jewels uuless one had many times as much more behind them. s ways,” said cilla nd then you couldn't tend your name up to the agency for titled husbands if you hadn't the jewels all ready that a baroness, or a countess, or a duchess, or whatever you register for ought to have. I believe Anna's up for prince. She thought she d like that an English lord, cost just the sume. it's much more Towantic, and the Iuiian an- cestors are longer, and when you are paying for them you may as well get them long as short. Tin not registered yet; bus then I'm going to be.’ “My dear!” gasped Lady Dilly. our mother vecmed sort of surprised,” said Prisey to Miss Philippa afterwards, “to inink we had diamonds. I believe she thought we were like little naked savages ing with precious stones and not knowing their value.” Philippa blushed to the roots of ier thin drab hair, whether on account of the little savages or the divination of ber mo “But mamma surprised, your modesty in not wearing know, like other American —' “One gets out of the babit of wearing them. | It’s so inconvenient always to have your gun loaded, and when we go out on Broadway with nonds on, We either must go armed or with a detec- tive. To be sur ney “To be sure, if any one should hold us up—' “1 beg your pardon— “What for? Oh! 1 mean just rob us—ho would be strung up on the neat electrie wire by the crowd, Americans are so chivairic. But to escape mto the prairie and be lowt in the jungles there, thet it's just as well not to provoke assault. “ifow nusty! How extraordinarily nasty ! I don't see how you can live in such a terrible | country Why don't you come to England and be saf ‘errible country!” cried Priscilla in shrill asure. “Well, unfortunately we like it. elike the smell of gunpowder. We often ve gunpowder burnt at weddings instead of ng towers.” u have never been in England, have yous” asked Giudys, joining them.’ “You ought to go, don't you know. You would like to see our place. ‘The park is ideal, and the gardens, oh! the gardens used to be, in grand- pas time, a dream of beauty. It’s very much goue by, to'be sure. But it poor papa only hud the money to keep it up, we -houldn’t be down here in this latitude. It will be Hubert's some day, dear boy. He is the best and kindest boy. You really don't appreciate Hubert on first ac- quaintance. “suppose,” said the reckless Prisoy, isn’t as dumb as ie looks.” “Dumb!” “1imean—you don’t mean to tell me—be hasn't an impediment in his speech? Isn't disp! W h tongue-tied or something?” “Oh?” exclaimed Gladys, “Hubert! Dear me! You ought to know him better. You ought to hear him make a standing speech. Why, he—he finishes it. He's—he's eloguen When he told us about a hunt in the hills one it really made me shiver.” id he kill anything?” should think he did. Fancy! Kill any- thing? Why, he—' “1 suppose so. An Englishman is never happy, never enthusiastic, never aaything ex- cept about killing. Or about the beer,” added Pri as an after thought. ‘ow,’ vaid Priscilla to Anna, im the depths of their own apartinent—“now I guess she won't have much more to say tome about my terrible country.” “It ism t twit,” said Anna. It isn’t right. They have the old country aud all we fine old noble ways, aud we are crude a» mineral paint. You really ercep.” ‘Make you creep!” cried Priscilla, ina re. Preseutly you will say I make youcrawl. You are on your knees to them now.” Priscilla had reuson to be ina worse rage soon, for the Dilly tamily, with a unanimous change of front, were taking Anna into their arms. “They ai ters,” said Lady Dilly, ‘and, of course, one has the same fortune as the otlier; and Mise Anna is much the more practicable, the more quiet and teachable and presentable. ‘That boisterous, gushing, dashing Priscilia can be easily dropped, with the sea between them. And Lady Dilly was praising Anna's hair, and offering to have Rogers dress it; and Philippa was asking her about the cut of a hunting coat: and Gladys was telling her all about Hubert’s graces and nothing gaucheries; and Hubert hii trolling with her on the beach or along the high bluff under the fortifications, confiding to her his hopes aud his griets, the pity of it that he was obliged to be here with his father on this little station when his tastes fitted him fora diplomatic career in which he should un- doubtedly win a peerage. And while he had the ear of Anna, another was trying to occupy the attention of Priscilla and keep that war- like maiden from open hostility. “They have evidently come to the conclusion that where there is gome smoke there must be fire—smoke meaning diamonds and fire mean- ing stocks and bonds and houses,” said Pris- cilia, “We were nobody and nothing till the mamma saw those diamonds, afd nor" “I don’t agree with you at ” ox- claimed Anns. “They are English. And the Englich «lways wait till they ure sure of your breeding before becoming familiar. And Dilly says she new I was of patrician tastes the “It isn't kind. Young girla with diamonds | moment imagine how kindly Lady Di She says|she feels so much for motherless girls ‘and feel} like a mother to meand wishes I were going to th them here till they go back to Dillydaljydale Tower. Itsanold Irish round tower, modern additions, among the Wer! But they can't afford to live there; and it’s usually rented. She says if one had money, living there would be all one cold defire onsarth. She's not at all ashamed of being pinched. They're not Iri lo themsclfes, you understiad; only this old Iriah estate is|in the family.” “Yes. | I know what old Irish estates are.” “How prejudiced you are, Priscilla! Imust say I shduld like to see it.” ‘And put it in order with the proceeds of your dismonds? Half of them are yours.” “No, ihdeed. Dilly would want me to y| diamonds when she presented me to in. “Oh, thy gracious, has it gone so faras that?” “She }asn't exactly said so, you know.” Vhatj has she said? ‘She bail how magnificently they would look on/a bride who went to court, and she | should of course present Hubert's wife. And she bad qaid she wanted me to know Hubert, and Jearn what a really fine character he is; just wha} an English nobleman should be.” “A protty character to give one—an English nobleman! And what elve—what else?” de manded Priscilla. Not njuch—only—” Vell-tonly?” That+I—l wae—a dear child—and—and just the girl she would like for her son Hubert. ‘And she knew—because mothers know things instinctively—that Hubert felt as she did only he was sq modert. 1 fa, hunti he great, gawky, slow, stu unting, beer-drinfking’ deli! cried Priscilla, And si snddenly|swooped down on Anna like s young | eagle anc caught her shoulders ag if she meant | io shake ix ud burst into tedrs and threw her armb round her sister's neck. “Oh, Anna,” sihe said, “don’t you be # fool! Just as soon ap it comes to marriage settlements they woujd find you had no fortune, only that reninant pf Aunt Priscilla’s husband's stock in trade bejween us. For, of course, I shail di- vide it with you, you know. And what would | that be inl their ‘¢ Not enough to mend roand Dillydally tower.” on, if everything isn’t broken off in & way mofe mortifying than their first treat- ment of ts was, then what sort of treatment | would you have all your life from those people who worship money and rank and all th: “What fort of treatment? Why, Lady Dilly told me she felt like a mother to me now. And some day, you know, I should be Lady Dilly, to ‘Oh, Ana!” cried Priscilla, ins fury. do believd you are a foo! “I don’t think it’s right for you to talk to me 80, Priscilla,’ suid Anna,With great dignity. “If Tcun't have sympathy from my own sister, I know whpreIcau have it. Lady Dilly would like nothihg better then for me to marry him tomorrow, And it would be romantic, too—s | runaway thatch with a nobleman’s gon.” “A nobleman’s fiddlestick! I don’t believe he’s anyttjing but an accidental knight who got hia title thr fattening a prize pig or presentin, an addres} or somothing of the sort—that re old rongb Sir Joun—and he's the best of the bunch, anyway ! And 'theh Ansa burst into tears and had tobe sunged, kd finally Priscilla left her in « cotaforting slumber and went down to the | white besch, where Jane Storer, the person | whom their father had taken with them, and to whose unsceustomed services they never could wont theniselves, was picking up the wonderful shells of the warm seas. “I want you to kecp your ¢; moment that I um not by, Jano,” said Priscilla. ud the fest of the time be getting things to- gether so tbat we can pack and lock the trunks no time, I don't mean to iet her go out of ur sight|and hearing ull my father comes. m here before thi j1 don't ee what keep. him. Oh, if he shouldn't come; if he should be wrecked pr drowned—oh, poor dear papa!” | with a shudder, and covering up \ her eyes—*then 1 might as well throw myself | off the cliff and be drowned two, But I don't \Delieve it, Jane. He bus had bead winds: be | will be here presently. And, oh, it would | break bis heart to have Anns treuted as these people would treat her. And she is 60 | Simple and yielding, they—they willkidnap her, Jane! ‘My goodness me!” cried Jane. And with- out another word she dropped her apronful of us shelis and ran up the beach to mount om that instant. quick ery,and then she wiped ber eyes and laughed just as hysterically, and in between- while she searched the sails on the horizon asa young fish hawk scans the waves. How softly | the suile stole by, like dreams of clouds, far oif aud low down! None drew near. “Oh, why don’t papa come?” rhe exclaimed, and ex- claimed again. And then it was tune to go up and dress Jor dinner and relieve Jane Storee. | dwenty times the next day did Priscilla at unoberved moments take her opera glass and | survey the horiaon, the offing, the ships com- | ing into harbor. ‘There wasa’red and yellow glory of a Spanish flag just going out; ‘a dis- Sppointing French one tiat for a’ second halt mised her; half dozen English ones, more or less, that excited all the evil spirit in her. Not a single ship from home; nor was one likely to enter, unless putting in in. dis: till her father should come for them. She used to row outon the placid water in skiff for a mile or two, and again put up the gloss, but all in vain. ‘And one day and an- other wont by, and # whole week of them; end they seemed eternitics to. Priscilla as she | levelled her giass from the galleries, from her windows, from the shores, and never saw the ship she wanted, And ‘before the week wasout Anna had become aware that she Was under surveillenge, and was evidently | making up her mind to something desperate. Aud by that time the first terror of all | was always in hiding near her heart from the Guy her father sailed till he came back—if per- adventure be bad suffered shipwreck; if he were in) drowned; or if he were starving and scorching on some barren rock. She lett off caring for her pretty gowus or her fluffy hair or |for Anna's tea-rose color and jewel eyes; and when one day Hubert ‘awkwardly avked her if she were ill, and she an- swered, in Francisco's phrase, that it was Ditter cold and she was sick at’ heart, and he replied that he supposed he was slow, but he was hanged if he knew what she meant by name | ing it cold with sack a beastly sun as this pou ing down, she burst into such uncontrollable laughter that the young man became dread~ fully red and embarrassed, and standing first on cue foot and thon on the other, exclaimed to Anna: . “Ou, Tsay now— There isn't— It can't be— Is there a—a—a mad streak, eh, don’t you know, in your famil And at that Priscilla langhed all the more. Oa,” she cried to Anna, when they were alone again, “what can he want to marry into a family for where one is a fool and the other is mad?” and she rushed down to the shore to cool her wrath. An official whom she knew was pacing up and down there; and presently, aa he’ saw Priscilla zing over the water, he came up and offered for life glass, which was vastly more’ powerfel than her own. She took it mechanically and swept the sea line with it, then looked away, steadied it and looked again. And eudden she saw something blossoming out in the field, something vivid as a star, a color, and another, and then she knew it was'a flag—red, white and dlue—the stars and stripes, and presently @ name, her fother’s ship, the Aunt Priscilla. Priscilla, waited to utter only one word of thanksas she gave back the glass, and ran breath- lessly tothe house. “Oh, Anna!” shecried, run- ning in and falling on her kneesbeside her. I've been awful to you, I've been so worried! But I'm going to turn Over a new leaf. I'm going to pet you to death. And you take your para~ sol, there’s a denr,—just to let me see you for- give me—and come down and jet me show vou velivst thing you ever vaw in all your ‘And before Anna could summon mind enough to resist she bad been swept along by the im- petuous girl and into the skiff and out upon the soft, shining, purple-blue sea, and was looking ‘down through the clear water, that seomed to take on all ‘deep, dun, brilliant hues of fire opal and Brazil topaz, of sapphire and beryl, as the sandy und corals and sea growths mingled and lent their dyes, deep in whose lucidity Hsh darted that seemed to be scaled with living jewels. “Oh, it is beautifnl,” said Anna, leaning over the boat as Priscilla swept it along with great strokes, regardiess of sunstroke or heat or blis- tering or burning. “Keep looking,” panted Priscilla, ‘till I tell you to stop. What you'll sce presently isa great deal more beautiful,” and she rowed on with all the might of her ‘strong young arms. “Now,” she said at last, “look up! Over your right shoulder! We the air. What do ou call that? Icall it the loveliest thing ever saw. A flag? Ob, it's more than e| flag! It’s a country, » home, a father, a protector, @ savior! on our father's ship. And it's saving you from crew of fortune hunters! You needn't scream, and you needn't spring up and tip the boat over,” as Anna apparently tried to do both. “You'll be ashamed of yourself as soon ag you see Hope's dear, great, honest red. face, Sad bless me all your life afterward. y boat for us.as soon as he sees on her every | Priscilla sat down 4 moment to have a good | retaken possession of Priscilla, the terror that | gamong the coral sea caves,*dead aud | a have, and if Hubert Dilly wants you. it will be easy to find you.” And Priscilla drew in the oars and ste] over the thwart, and sat down gy 4 Preps en two little angry hot hands in hers. “You'll forgive me, Anna, dear? You didi really care for him, did you? know you didn’t. Yon didn’t love that great clothes pole of a fellow?” 0-0-0.” half sobbed Anua. “Of eourse I didn’t, Bat I thought, maybe—” “Never mind, then’ Let's forget he ever existed. Papa's worth @ thousand of him. Just think of having to runes and od al prime to Lady Dilly, the yy, all your fe! Ob, how happy I ‘Anna! I tell you I was glad when I saw red in that flag come shaking out into the light. No flower that grows could be so beautiful as that—the line of red, the line of white, and all the glory of the stars in_ the blue. | wouldn't give them up for all the old union | Jacks there ever were! Do you know what| those stars stand for? Just for infinity—the infinite growth toward infinite virtue that the freedom of America was meant to give. There | the boat comes! Oh, Anna, it’s _ in the storn! He sees us, the dear old heart! But oh! I'm not sure that I don’t love the stars and stripes as much as I love him!” “I don't,” said Anna. QUEER HOMES OF BIRDS. ‘Three-Storied Nest of the Goldfinch and the ‘Wood Thrush’s Little Domicile. From the New York Herald. True birds’ nests are not yet seasonable, but it will not be long before it will be possible to discover them hidden away in all manner of nooks. Birds do not sing their best until they have mated and selected the place for their home. | Then their notes are delightfully rich and full. This time will soon have arrived. One of the surest of the signs pointing to this ovent is that a well-known ornithologist | of the city is now engaged in overhauling his eabinet of birds’ nests and preparing to make | additions to his already large collection. His | hobby 18 collecting birds’ nests, and he claims that the best way to study the peculiarities of birds is to carefully inspect the formation and structure of their neste. He has a peculiar looking nest, and the other day he told this The Youngsters are Alwa: pear in Cases of Excitement. Bo: BOYS EYERYWHERE. BOYS IN the First to Ap- blazers and fine long stockings, boys in no stockings and no coats at all. Little boys and boys so big that they are almost men. White boys, black boys, yellow boys. They come in troops, flocks, processions, single file and double file. They spring up out of the earth or they drop from off the trees. It grows boys or rains boys. Yet ten minutes ago you might have looked down K street and up | 17th street and you would hardiy have noticed @ boy. But all of a sudden there was a fight, ow, and a man ran down the street away from the policeman who went tearing after him. Then the boys appeared and they followed in story aboutdt. He said: SECTIONAL VIEW OF NEST OF THE GOLDFINCR. WOODPECKER'S NEST. | “If vou will examine this carefully you will | fee that it is a combination ofsthree neste. You can see the lines that separate the first | from the second and the second from the top one. It ise gold-finch's nest, but is altogether it for it is much larger. | “The nest at the bottom was built first | two eggs w | pect to do any more building. However, in | their absence, a cowbunting, the dread of all the smaller birds, deposited one of ite egga be- ide the egga of the owners of the nest te avoid the trouble of building «nest of its own. The a | goldtinches were so disturbed when they saw | | thin egg that they built another nest on the | | top of the first, covering up their own eggs well as that of theirenemy. But the cowbu ing coolly Inid another egg in the second nest | with the one which the warbler had deposited. “The persistent birds once more fought against fate and added a third stery to their | for 4 deserted there were two of the cowbunt- ggs with one of the warbler's, This man claims that the examination of a nest will reveal the habits and characteristics [ofthe buildes One of his noste is that of a humming bird. NEST OF THE HUMMING BIRD. It is an exceedingly dainty and delicate structure, built of the softest vegetable down, fastened together by numberless wrappings of cobwebs, and bound on the branch near the extremity. The whole outside is covered with a coating of lichens, held in place by cobwebs. ‘The owner of the collection claims that none but an exceedingly modest and retiring bird | would build a nest af this sort. The builder is | plainly shy and prefera concealment to pub- | icity, for the whole so nearly resembles a knot that, uunless its situation were betrayed by the movements of the birds, one might search the tree carefully for hours without finding it. GUARDING ITS EGGS. The humming bird takes great pains in building the nest to prevent the eggs being | shaken out by tho wind. On the inside @ rim projects for about a quarter of an inch and | thix removes all ordinary danger. The uest from which the ornithologist drew his inference was one and one-quarter inches in total diameter, three-quarters of an inch in- side diameter, one inch high and a half inch in depth. ‘The wood thrush’s nest is often found in the fork formed by two slender saplings crossing each other in such a way that a moderate gale would separate them and destroy « happy home. ‘The male bird exercises the greatest care not to betray the location of the nest. He flies swiftly from tree to tree, andas he passes a certain part of one of them he utters a soft, happy love note. He then returns and fre- quents for a moment the branches surround- {ng his home, cheering his mato with his song. ‘he nest is covered on the outside with lichens and dark colored vegetable down to conceal it, and is pendent from some branch, to which it is attached by countless turns of thread, cobwebs and long grasses. NEST OF THE VIRCO. The nest of the mourning dove is avery care- lessly constructed home. In many cases‘it is composed of fine twigs #0 loosely put together thet it is with, the greatest diBeuly thes one can be transferred from the field to the cabinet. Itis nothing more than a frail latform, almost flat, with scarcely any protec- ion to prevent the eggs from being shaken out ‘The nest is sometimes varied qntirely of grass and placed in pecker of Ohio. Itis a Portion ofthe limb of a dead tree, as ipeckers gene! ‘select dead decayed trees in which they can casil “aig The depth of the excavation varies with the speci and inclination of the builder. All dig ob- liquely for a short distance and then turn di- rectly downward, widening toward the bottom. Here the eggs are deposited on the fine wood without any attempt ata nest. trances are generally as circular as though they were bored with an suger. il ‘Two Unfortunates. Eugene Field in the Chicago News. In answer to inquiries, Gen. McClurg said that the Rev. Dr. Gunsanls bad gone to Eu- rope accompanied by his brother-in-law. Mr. Charles J. Barnes—“How did they pen to start off to Ei #0 ° Gen. MeClurg—"In Plymouth Ch cles it is icing in Firmen apting ing with acute nervous prostration. Dr. Gun- rent from the ordinary nest of this bird, | laid in it, for the birds didn’t ex- | | nest. This was aleo invaded, and when it was | the chase until the miscreant was caught, pant ing and puffing and pale with fright and ex- citement. The crowd of youngsters grew, and when the patrol wagon came along to take the captured man to the station house it looked as though there must be a thousand boys gathered about and not more than six men. ‘y, sonny,” said Tur Stax toone of the bors who was running tothe eoonsen fast ae his lege could carry him, “what's the row about?” “Don’ know, mister; ain't got no time to talk,” and away he dashed as though he was an old-fashioned fire engine racing to get to the fire before any one else. Say, sonny. what's the row about?” again Yentured the reporter to another boy. was « black boy, and be responded: “Tse gwine ter see. What yer take me fur! Tink [se gwine ter stop'n chin? @'long dar!” and he went off in a hurry. ‘Then the writer Went along himself and saw the capture and was told fifteen different stories about the cause of the disturbance. There is an old gentleman in Washi who is an authority on mobs and crowds, and bo seys that he never kuew a quick crowd gather that it was not started by the boys. The Teason was obvious. Aman walke the street, as a general thing, with some purpose in view: either he is taking exercise or he is going to som ven point, and be ix not to be deterred from 8 purpose by any chance circumstance that comes across bis path, unless it is of some con- sequeyce. But with boys it ig different. They are of the street simply for fun. A runawa; horse. adog fight or, best of all, « man fight, are what they are on the lookout for and they dash in pell mell to enjoy the sport upon the slightest suspicion that there is any sport tibic. ‘They start the running and adults join in later. In old times in Washington the boys sed to be divided into certain sets or crowds. The territory of each crowd was defined by fixed boundaries, and woe unto the unhappy urchin who bappened to walk out of his proper pre- cincts and encounter any members of another crowd on their own ground. Itgenerally fared bard with him and he would be obliged to fly back to his companions. But this never reached the proportions bere that it used to have in other cities and probably basin other cities now. When you meet # crowd of boys look to your- self. Ifyou have on # peculiar hat or anew coat depend upon it, it will be made the subject of derisive comment. If you walk inany way manner you will be hooted have on a tali hat it will target for snow balls. ‘his the year for snow balls, but the writer romem- bers that last winter he was in New York when | snow balls were in fashion, and was walking down» side street off Sth avenue when he wudds came across a crowd of boys. After | he bad perceived them he realized that a re- | treat would insure pursuit, so he pretended not to notice the boys and walked straight on into their midst. Their attention was occupied for the moment with # drunken man whom they were plaguing and badgering cruelly, but he took refuge speedily in a convenient grog shop, and then the boys looking for @ new vic- tim spied the fine silk tile that one of Washing- | ton’s best hatters had supplied. i dere, Jimmy! look at de dude wid de | dicer on, will you” cried one of the boys, and Jimmy and all the Jimmys looked at it and re- | solved to bombard it at once. ‘The rest of the story is not a very agreeable recollection, for it consists of an account of a man in «new silk hat skurrying down a narrow street at the rate of eight an hour, with a howling mob of boys after him and snow balls flying about his head. He cecaped, but his. new silk hat pre- sented anappearance not unlike the battered top ofa monitor after she has been in a severe action. It was, in short, so full of dents and #0 badly scratched that it was useless as an article of or- numental apparel ever afterward. A Of course, at this season of the year there is no danger of snowballing, and even bove, al- though they are said to be cruel by nature, forbear from throwing stones at an inoffensive ser-by, but they make up for it by stoning jim with their tongues. When a gentleman is nfortunate as to get caughtin the rain without an umbrella, it is not kind of the boys whom he meets to hallo out, as they are apt to do, “Just cltch on to the dude making fun of the weather. fun of a man who has on fine clothes? They will let a ragged, slouching man go by without a word, but # man who ix fashionably dresved | rarely escapes their derision. They will call | him. ‘names, and, if possible, will disfigure his ‘appearance. Probably they consider it un- manly $0 dress up, and as boys are generally riglit it must be so. Are people aware of the fact that the reason why street boysare not as bad as they used to be is because of the greuter efficiency of the police? Boys at heart are just as riotous and mischievous as they ever were, but they are afraid of being “run in.” Cesern S KENTUCKIAN BURGOO. A Southern Colone! Discourses on the Prop- erties of This Remarkable Dish. From the Cinctunatt Commercial. “Burgoo,” explained Col. James Orr of Cov- ington, “iis one of the oldest Kentucky dishes we have. No one knows who first made ‘bur- 00,’ nor does any one know where or how it got its queer name. “‘Burgoo' is an out-of-doors creation, and pote of ‘burgoo’ have simmered over « hot fire in the sun at every big political gathering in the state since Henry Clay was a boy, and years before that, too. “{t is not only an extremely palatable dish, if youcall it that, but it's very nourishing, ‘Burgoo’ is a cross’ between a stow and a soup. It is always made in the open air. 'The ‘burgoo’ the Blades of Grass ate today was very rich. “How was it made? Well, I took a big cal- dron, put some red-pepper pods in the bottom, added some potatoes, tomatoes and corn; then put in half e dozen prairie chickens, as many nore tender “yellow logs,’ and a couple dozea softshell crabs. I'd have added some young squirrels, but they could not be obtained. “When everything is in readiness there is enough water put into the caldron tojust makes the contents ficat. ‘Then it is put on the fire. It must be allowed to simmer slowly for six hours and must be stirred constantly @ith » hickory stick. “iq Lickory stick ts best and always used, but another might doas well, When it isnearly done itmay be flavored to suit the taste. It is“done’ rien the ments are‘thoroughiy shredded, not before. When itis done—Um” and Col. Orr's eye uparkled at the prospect. aie cy From the Detroit Free Press. "A young fellow, and not the most provident one in town either, bas « best girlon $4 street, and he went up to see her one evening last week. During the first few minutes, and until the accident happened, the young lady's small brother assisted in entertaining them both by his innocent and childlike questions, alwaye so interesting to @ visitor, especially on such an arene ch?” asked the boy, after he “You got « wat a Dod tals tase hoquisien tam Seer oc seme made. “Yes,” and the man outs very nice litde twolve-karet gold Gcker, ‘which tke boy seized upon. ‘Does it run?” “Certainly.” The Mother Was Not Superstitions, for Her Baby Was Beyoud Danger. From the De'tott Pree Press It wasa woman's voice crooning sweetly the old lullaby: “Hush -my-dear-lie-stt!) nd-siumber.” And as she sung she rocked an empty ere- dle with ber foot, keeping time with ite mel ancholy refrain. From the nestling of the biankets tt looked as if the baby had only Just deen lifted out, Aman passing beard the singing and re traced his steps so that be could look through the open door into the little plainly farnusbed “put I noticed that cradie. J reckon you never beard of the super stition. “Lam not superstitions were rocking an empty said the woman: “Holy-angels-guard-thy-bed.” “Excuse me, ma'am, but folks told my wife that if she didn't stop rocking the cradle whem the baby wasn't in 1? something would happen suit tt did. The baby died when he wasa your m angel these three months, om when I feel so bad that I can't live another minute I come inhere and make believe he's asleep. It does me good, an’ mebbe God lets him know and it comforts him. is that super stition?” “No, ma'am, I reckon not, an’ I bope you'll excise m) The man walked on, bearing bis own burden of sorrow with him, and the desolate mother rocked the empty cradle and resumed ber plaintive monody oe to Ride Atter That. Why is it, anyhow, that boys always make | Some of the women in the car anid the com- ductor was a “moan thing, anyway,” but they were forced to admit that his provocation Was great, says the New York Sun. When his car stopped at 1th strect two band- somely dressed women bustied in and est down. They bad evidently been one shop- ping expedition, and as they talked vi- vaciously about’ their pure and where Going to spend the summer, sation in th Parsengers inspected t the conductor ap; for the fre. Each wo opencd bee poc book slowly 0 that the other might have an portunity to be generous, The woman wl Was nearest the conductor fished = cent out ef her pocket book and placed i im hishand with the request that he would “wait @ minute." Two more cents followed the first One and then two very batiwered looking cop- pers, ‘The conductor had shifted uneasily from one foot to the other during this proceedi: and looked bored. Th twinkle satisfaction in the woma Posed of some coins that were not Space they occupied im her pocket it Pleased the other passengers, too, because the conductor represented a big monopoly and was therefore fair game. Woman's friend hed been watching the little comedy with a smile, and when the con- ductor heid out hus other hand for he fare sbe dropped a 10-cent piece into it. The conduc tor’s opportunity to make « “mean thing” of himecli bad come, and he dropped bis five ile assorted coins into the second woman's band and walked out to the rear platform mui pleased with himself. The passengers sailed. he victim of the coins looked reproacht at her friend. Then both women con that they didn't want to ride any further. se: Boston's Base Ball Gamblers. From the Giobe-Demorrat. “There isn't any city in the country where Pools are bought on base oall so extensively as the business is done in Boston,” said Fred Gilder, a gambler. “At the big pool rooms here during the base ball seacon the amount of Money put up on base ball poole is really sur- PEBINE. On a good day wonething Mike $8,000 we been played in one bg pool room that I | could menuon. The people who frequent the pools are of all sorts and conditions. are siatecn combinations that can be played om four clubs, aud the pools often pay 27 to4 when the short endors win, and the figure has Tunas high as90to1. The most playing done on do's and don'ts. That's the name, it means that the people who go into the come binstions bet that clubs will win oF woo. Sometimes the tail-end clube win, and then the peuple that had the short end are happy. “In these pooi rooms you ll have seme vary curious and interesting characters. Evers bets on base ball, from the man that comes im from a bard day's work to the dignitied man of business that @oesn't care so much for the money as he door for the glory of winning. | He bets on principle. I suppose in a season there are a good many thousanus of dollars that are lost and won ou these pools. A dollar & pool, and the pool may win several hundred dollars. If only a fow people have the | the individual profit is pretty good. isn't any other city in the country where such poolsare sold to any extent, but in Bostus they are all the go.” Bather—Catch on tothe dude on the spring ing board. See me have him. Bather—“Say, light?” Tam acquainted with « gentleman whe be Syed cnagie cole eg armen wpe life-long study. When he dictated to male stenagmpunne everything went eonoethly. The sentences were round, even and concise and he never became confused. But when this cool i 5 F Hi 5 i rf ini: if li