Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1891, Page 10

10 = é THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, When Fashion’s Followers Have Re- turned From Their Outings. SOME SUITABLE COSTUMES For Morning Negiige—When the House is to Be Put in Order and the Children Cared For—Indoor Costumes—Dresses for Those ‘Who linger at the Seashore, Bpectal Correspondence of The Evenine Star, ‘New You, Angnst 29, 1891. ETURNING TO town from a week's sojourn at one of our fashionable seaside re- | | sorts, Iwas not a little surprised to note the firet faint glimmer of automn colors in ‘% street costumes. As You must go to town to get the sweetrst milk, the freshest eggs and the finest flowers, so must you turn from green fieids and shady lanes and betake your- self to the flagging stones of the city to cateh the first glimpse of the fall fashions. In tho old world all roads lead to Rome, all comes from London and all fashions ome from Paris; in the new world the great metropolis of New York combines all three of these centers, to wit, the intellectual, the fina: cial and the social, which is another name for the ble." The country is, strictly king. never fashionable except in so far as takes its form, color and material from the town. The country is too much in earnest to lead in matters of mode, but it is pretty gen- erally very willing to follow. I confess that I delighted to get something solid to stand upon—e whole week of moist and yielding sand quite reconciled me to the cily pave- ments. a My initial illustration pictures a visiting cos- tume, very *ppropriate at this season of the year. as it typifies the retarn home of the lady ‘whose presence is needed to set her house in order for the winter and to get the children ready for school. ‘This visiting costume may be made up in silk or woolen. The xtrle of make-up is very original and tasteful. The skirt has no foundation, but the buck breadth is somewhat rand is lined with muslin half way up. At the back the corsage extends quite to the bottom of the wes, which are Tay I gathered on it, Front and back the corsage has as indicated, framit a plain plastron of MORNING NEGLIGE. Thave spoken of the carcfnl housewife who hastens home at the coming of September to get the children ready for achool, but it’s quite Possible that one of them may not have gradu- ated from the nursery yet. In my eecond illus- ‘tration I set before you a view of this Fie ant as le appears in one of his serial Sights commonly Lown es being tome Up. | He is clad in a morning dress of embroid- ered batiste, the front of which is ornamented With an insertion and bands of the embroilery. ‘The back of the dress is gathered on the wast, which is pleated and has an embroiiered insertion. Itis cnt out at the neck and fin- st with an embroidered ruitle. Blue bows are on the shoulders. The mother wears a rich Reglige gown, consisting of pale bine overdress of soit silk over a corn yellow skirt with black figures, and a’corsage of pelisse crepe de chine below the waist line. The fore sleeve is @f the figured material and the standing collar of the blue silk. A white lace cap completes this eloguat morning neglige. HOUSE PRESSES. With the approaching end of the season it is very natural that the thoughts of a lady of fashion should revert to house dresses. Once ‘the sir loses its soft, baimy warmth, then fp good earnest all roads lead to town, at lenst all railroads. The city residence has no longer that stuffy feeling about it, and an upholstered ebsir is not a bad thing at all. confess I dropped into one with quite a feeling of relief after grimling my elbows for a week on the arms of a veranda rocker. Interi Promise to be rich in garniture and color, and, if posuble, even more urtistic and Picturesyue than they were last season. I sand sometimes and bold my breath at sight @ this ever-increasing elegunce and retine- ment of dress. But there is one comforting Soughs about it, and that is the men are grad- y a ing more of color ani richness to their ‘ularly their summer costunies, 80 tatand alone at the bar when the drew reformors lanuch their dread indictment et our pour weak beads. ‘The third illustration pictures one of those delightful creations in the line of indoor toilets altogether charming either m bengsline, muslin. It should i v & ° 5 tt i t i I & i E i it | The skirt has a crenelated border, the ‘openings being filled in with ince. Jacket im the enme ‘opening on a chemisette of white surah, vex buffant with deep tight cuffa The lit te lady on the right wears a very stylish dress DAINTY CosTUMrs IX CLoTH axD ciftrox. in blue crepon made over an adjusted lining. The bottom of the skirt foundation is orna- mented with a pleated flounce.so that there isno need of an underskirt. In cutting out this dress, which consists of a front and a back breadth, you must have # fullness on ench wide and not cut ont the arm holes and neck until you have finished the pleatings at the waist and fastened them to the fining. “In order todo the pleating artistically you must outline the waist with basting thrend. The square cut ont is orna- mented front and back with a gathered lace collar and the bottom of the skirt has two flounces of gathered lace. DARK BLUE WOOL, FOR THE SEASIDE. The last illustration represents still another scene upon which children of all ages, from the wee tot to those of larger growth, play their daily parts until Father Neptune's weather- beaten face is wet with the spray of northeaster. seaside resort is often able to hold its patrons till the middle of September, when tke fash- ionable crowd has long since abandoned the rock-bound coasts of Maine and Massachusetts. This lingering bird of paseage wears a very stylish gown, consisting of dark blue stuff with a deep corselet of velvet. The front of the | corsage consists of a pleated chemisette of Pink ‘and white striped batiste. Ribbons to match are arranged brace-fashion and are also used to garniture the sleeves and skirt. Dark blue het trimmed with blue ribbon and white wings, white sunshade and lace shocs complete the costume. RIBPONS FOR GARNITURE. I may add that ribbons will continue to be much used for garniture this autumn applied in every conceivable fashion—in single bows, in knots, in bunches and as long streamers, in the manner of braces or as epaulets, or setting off the corsage in the outlines of ‘figures. A white foulard with figures may be charmingly ornamented with iris-colored velvet ribbon. A double ribbon starts from the back of the neck and sweeps graceful and to the front, where it crossesand is held in position bya pretty buckle and is then tied with long ends at the back. ‘The new form of ceinture, a belt in fant leather or passementerie, wider in front th: at the back and with two points, promises to be very popul:r. In fact we ure tohave w number of ‘novelties in the Delt line all of eccentric hapes in leather or velvet, with beaded or painted ornamentation. Li will be worn, the lilae and pale grav. Until you fina 3 k on the summer resort the yellow shoe aud will hold their own by a while with all evening costumes the white shoe not slipper, promises to continue popular to the very last. white, ages. Written for The Evening ‘The Capitol, Washington. ‘There's a flerce majesty about thee, Dome, Crowned with thy time-defving Liberty. Whieh says, net only to our States at hoine, But to ¢ must and stall be freet Jest:ned this to be, Like stall, weak streams to the inain channel flow, ‘Till in resisciess power they all unite— ‘Then is the Deluge! ‘Then shall tyrauts go, Unmourned, unhonored, to the depths bel And Man. ‘Shall equal Man, aa wil the All Supreme! Tox Doxouo. tee TITLED AMERICANS. ‘There Are Many Subjects of Uncle Sam Who Hoid Orders of Nobility. From the Epoch. It is well known that the Constitution of the United States frowns upon titles and orders of nobility, yet there are many native-born Americans whose dignities range from the humbler orders of knighthood to the exalted rank of princes. And Iam not now alluding to heiresses who have been raised to the peer- age by marriage. These instances are already familiar to the public. What is less known is the fact that many American men have won a similar elevation by direct grant from aforeign crown. : The famous scientist, Count Rumford, was a plain New England Yankee ramed Thompson, who went abroad, attracted general attention by his chemical discoveries, and was ennobled by the King of Bavaria. In our own days Edi. son bas been made a count, and Pullman, of parlor car fame, 8 marquis, by King Humbert, but neither of them cares to sport the title, and it is only alluded to in a jocular fashion by their friends. ‘ihe pope has conferred the order of chevalier on several Americans, the most nota- ble being the millionaire Joseph Brannigan of Vrovidence, R. I. ‘The father of Edgar Saltus was knighted by Queen Victoria, and has the right to call himself Sit Francis Salts, but has the “good taste never to exercise that right. Marmaduke Richardson, a well-known Yorker, was made a count by King Humbert, but never sports the title. There ate many Ameri ww living abroad who are not so modest. A certain Americxn criminal, well | by numerous other aliases, is now living in Bel- gium as Baron Shinbaum. And a former Bos- ton spiritualist, Charles Hamilton Fiske by | name, made his appearance in Wurtemberg @ } Feat or two ago as the Count de Vernois, and for a period enjoyed the highest favor of | king, until he was deposed by concerted action | on the part of the native nobil iu both i f [ a + I F t t i l i ff 5 ts i i ‘ i fl RES Hid | i 2 i & On the warm Jersey const the | j, ntil jute in the senson light Suede gloves | | known to the police here as Max Shinbauin and | © ut yf } 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. TRAITS OF CHILIANS. How the Rich or Ruling Class Deport Themselves, THEIR EXCESSIVE POLITENESS ‘The Middle Class Imitate Their Betters—The From The Star's Traveling Comnisstoner. Coxcrrciox, Cuus, August, 1891. T= STRANGER TO THIS REMOTE COR- ner of creation is apt to imagine that the Chilians are a semi-barbarous nation, wretch- edly clad, if clad at all, with little refinement and leas education, superstitious, cruel and bloodthirsty. When first arrived here—as- tonished by the magnificence of “los Ricos” (the wealthy class, who, though numerically few, yet rule both church and state), their splendid casas and numerous schools and Places of amusement, their costly living and stylish dressing and dazzling display of jewels, and their graceful and generous hospitality— he jumpa at the conclusion that his previous impressions were absurdly and entirely erro- neous. But as time goes on and he learns how the “common people,” who make up the bulk of the population, liveand move and have their being. he reluctantly comes back +0 his first opinion as concerning a Inrge majority of Chilians. There are so many conditions of existence in the land, and consequently such a variety of churactcr, that one may say of these Je with equal truth, they are both highly civilized and sunk in barbarism; profoundly educated and densely ignorant; rich as Crawus and poor as Job's oft-mentioned turkey; that they live in palaces furnished with every mod- eruh aury and in mud hovels with nothing but deans and raw clams for “daily bread”; that they are the most warm-Learted,genial, hospit- able and thoroughly delightful ‘people in the world as well as the most treacherous, revenge- ful and never-to-be-depended-upon. Certain ational characteristics may be clearly traced through all classes of society— such as the quick, eensatioual and emotional nature, which makes the Chilian soldier a ter- foe; the Chilian citizen ready to lay down ife at any moment for a point of honor or the cherished institutions of his beloved coun- try; the Chilian lady or gentleman a most gen- erous and devoted friend; the Chilian lover, male or female, ardent toan extravagant de- gree, hardly conceivable by an Anglo-Saxon mind, and ‘inclined to jealousy as sparks fy upward. ‘THE TYPICAL RICH MAN. In Chili the typical rico (rich man), young or old, dresses every day in figurative purple and fine linen. For him there is no “second best” attire in the way of a rough-and-ready morning costume or business suit. for he has no need of such, being like the lilies, in that he toils not, neither does he spin. His clothes ere always fine, dainty and fashionable as an artist tailor can “create” them: his polished hair carefully parted in the middle or brushed straight up a Ia pompadour; his immaculate shirt cuffs, with conspicuously jeweled but- tons, extending toward his kuuckles just far by a hair's breadth; very small, sharp- toed, high-heeled shoes reflecting his beauty as in twin mirrors; his monogram-embroid- ered handkerchief ' delicately scented, and in his eyes a handsome diamond’ ring and scarf pin are no less essential than shirt or trousers. He has been taught de- | portment trom his cradle and mastered that science to perfection at an enrly age. As often ashe meets you, be it a dozen times a day, he holds his slender cane delicately in one well- gloved hand while tipping his faultless tile with the other, Bows gracefully and low and shakes | you by the hand, with never the slightest per- ceptible variation in the depth of his obewsance or the warmth of the shake, unless you happen }to bea man and an intimate fricad, in which | case he may embrace and kiss you. If, being only a casual acquaintance, you call upon him on an errand of business or plensure, dressed, will smile on you benignly through a drift of face powder, with a touch of rouge on either side the nose, and assure you in soft- voweled Spanish of the pleasure ‘she feels in thus forming your acquaintance, and make you believe it, too, which is the best part of Fellow foreigners teil us that all this tropic courtesy meuns little, and is only “skin deep. But who cares to go deeper? It is delightful, li the sume, and quite deep enough to outlast the occasion. We, who profess to be a cultured | | people and are inclined to stiffen our necks | | with Yankee conceit when our wars are com- pared with those of other rations, might learn | from the Chilenos a good many needed lessons |m ‘common politeness. For example, they | never enter or leave a coach, strect car or other | | public vehiele without Lowing to all its occu- | pasts. No Indy or geutleman to the manner orn over sat down to or arose from a table | Chili, either public or private, without an ination of the head to all present. shopping, they bow to the merchant or his salesmen on entering or leaving a store. That sort of thing, it seems to me, is much more human between fellow travelers on lies short journey than our don't-cnre-for-anybody way. POLITENESS GENERALLY PREFERABLE. Says one: day is whether, fora transient acquaintance, it is better to meet an Englishman who will be biuif and bearish toward you and make you feel like an intruder, while his heart is over- flowing with good will toward you. or one of fi these more courtly southerners, who flatters you with politeness until you are ‘ease, whil bother fer the perfectly ut cull the time he is thinking what a you are." The gen y of people pre- ter. without taking trouble to sound * is pleasant sbam- When oar truest us “good-bye,” how many of them mean it in the full breadth of its original “God be with you;” and when they say “farewell,” how inany of them go into the of wishing you good ‘meuls and clean beda? A greeting is not likcly to be more honest because bess cordial, any more than our good-byes and farewells are more forcible because abbreviated and meaningless. iurick Heine remarks of hie countrymen: “German simplicity still regards rudeness as mark of courage and honesty, but « peep into our prisons would suffice to show that there | are rude rascels as well us rade cowards.” It | was long ago decided that it was better for | society to be even politely hypocritical than to be honest and rude. Isee no reason for dis- trusting hospitality simply because it bears the | semblance of hospitality. Tho Chilian “udios” sounds like a mother's blessing, and “que passo ud bien” is a whole benediction. In the streets, however, the average Chil might learn some good’ behavior trom Ge mans, Englishmen and Yankees. Here gentle- men consider it a proper tribute to female beauty to stare into a lady's face as long as she remains within the range of vision, whether she appears to like it or not: and in passing, though she bean entire stranger, to address | her some complimentary remark. such as beso feus manos, senorita, “I’kiss your hands, mise,” or “you are very beautiful,” “your eyes are like the heavens,” &. When a group of gen- tlemen are conversing on the narrow sidewalk and s lady approaches they seldom think of making way for her, or at most will move nearer to the wall, leaving her the curbstone, and at the table. The priest in the pantheon takes & L- F : Ex; his more aristocratic neighbor, at least in“ont- use, may be amon Darren of faruiture and the wolf may sometimes “ry jen, but at Ell times his manner is precisely like that of “patie | Under Fire of the Rebel Guns at ward appearance. His prowl dangerously near the prem Jos Ricos, and his clothes as nearly theirs as cirenmstances will permit. Chilian “‘Roto,” the acknowle/ged poor man, isan entirely different being, who never apes gentility, having no style to eustain and no am- ition to'rise above the caste in which he was He has no relations whatever with his richer neighbor except to serve him for pay whenever occasions require, and he : the “Rico” as a great pei whore dignity he would fight for any day. ‘The Roto wears a slouch hat, always mangy from long wage, dirty breeches rolled “up from the, bot tom and a garment of indistinguishal hue which he calls a shirt. If the weather is warm he perambulates bare- foored; in cold, he clatters around on a pair of clumsy clogs with wooden soles an inch thick— that is, if he enn afford them: if not he goes bare-footed both winter and summer. When chilly he dons a heavy blanket called a poncho, that has elit in the middle through which he thraste his head. Me is not a beauty, thick. coarse black bair, hanging straight from the erown, high choek ‘bones, wide mouth and skin the color of an old shoe; but he has dazzling white teeth, and ¢mali hands and feet that any Gringo might envy. He has no yearnings after the unattainable ‘and his few wants are easily supplied: He desires no better palace than the one-room adobe but, with straw roof and dirt floor. His furniture consists of a rude bench or two by way of chairs, 9 pine table oF per- haps a dry goods Lox’ in lieu of it, a hide in one corner upon which to sleep, another rough box, which werves for trunk, closet, cup- board and the shrine of hixpatron saint, n mate- cup and « pot of charcoal upon which ‘his wife prepares the beans and gurlic. Like all igno- Fant people he ie extremely superstitious, be- Kieving in charms and amuiets us powerful to drive away diveases, and that the devil roams about in various guises, perpetrating mischief upon man, end that saints and angels and even the blessed virgin herself will come in person, if importuned, to wrestle with his satanic ma~ Jesty. He is slovenly, slow and patient, but a man whom it would be wise to. avoid when his anger is aroused. He knows how to use the terrible curvo and would think no more of sov- ring your wind pipo with it thua the neck of « chicken. His numerous sons und daughters grow up without education, and their most hopeful out- look upon the future is to serve in the rich man’s casa. Happy, indeed, is the young rus tie who can beco: lot or majordomo to a gentleman who will pay him the splendid salary Of $6 or €8 per month, fecd hits from the refuse of the family table and clothe him in the cust- off “purple.” ‘The highest aim of the Roto maiden—excepting, of course, the morenatural ambition to marry and set up a home of her own—is to become a cook, with salary all the way from $3 to $10 per month, or a lady’s maid—who falls heir to her mistress’ draggied finery. NO OBJECTION TO WOMAN'S RIGHTS. In this country there is no objection to “woman's righte’—that is for women of the Roto class—so far as the right to labor in any avenue is concerned. They are not only em- ployed as strect cur conductors, but they do the strect cleaning, and gangs of them with short willow brooms sweep the dirt into the ditches long before sunrise. Outside the cities they keep the shops, the hotels and the drinking Pisces, Dosides doing all the garden work. hey occupy the markets almost exclusively, selling meats a4 well as vegetables. ‘The Rotos Wife will carry a basket of fruit around all day on her head, peddling from door to door, o will seat herself somewhere in the sun and patiently await customers, content with the profit of a few pennies between dawn and dark. ‘o buy anything of her a lengthy negotio is in- evitable. If she expects to get £0 cents for a basket of peaches her first price will be $2 or 3. Then she will haggle and chatter and plead and remoustrate with you, and if you start away will abandon other customers to follow you until she finally splits the last straw of difference and goes buck smiling at her own business ability. If the husband is a ranchero, the wifo or daughter must drive for him the yoke of oxen, itehed by the head toa Inmbering cart, and sell the farm produce. or wood, cut for. burn- ing. The poor lnvenderas (wash women) seem to have the hardest time of it. With dresses pinned high around the waist they stand all day knee deep in the river pounding i from other people's clothes, In Chil never heuted for washing purposes, neit soap extensively used nor fabric destroying blenchers, and tubs and wash boards are wus kuown. “The lavendera, with a bundle of soiled“ clothes upon her head, se: favorite spot on tire banks of a runnin, where is 4 projecting rock, and thee, standing in water which is almost ive cold during heif he year, she moistens the garmenta one at a time, and laying them on a rock pounds the dirt out of them with a» club or wooden paddle. I never Whiter linen; but it requires three or four d to do s washing, every piece being wet, pounded and bleached over and over again, until white aa snow. L have watched theso poor women during the winter monthe when chilly, penetrating h their garniats, and I shi flannels, the cold stream six In Santingo and Val- paraiso, wheze a river or public fountain is not t hand and the people are more learned in the World, the luvenderas wash trays, kuocling upon the their own doors, and use acids Tot the clothes. YTIING EXPEXSIVE BUT MUSCLE. everything is wonderfully expensive but musele, and that is of comparatively little value. A lidy’s bonnet costs from $30 to $100; vard, and the modiste will charge you trom mnaking it, In Santingo I paid £12 the dozen for linen handkerchiefs, small size and ordin- ary quality, and $18 fora pairof button boats which at home would have cost about $4.50. am informed that a gentleman's suit of com- mon clothes costs from S60 to 2100, « pair of patent leather shoes from €15 to 30 anda silk hat not less than €25. Bread stuffs are correspondingly high and far beyond the reach of the poor otos. But there is one luxury in which the poorest Chilian woman will indulge, whateve: elve may be wanting, and that ia u ‘stillly starched w etticoat. “Ihough her dress may be regged, wer fect and head bare, she would no more do without it than a Nautncket skipper would dis- pense with his pipe. I have scen them spatter ing around in the mud, displaying beautifully jaundered white skirts trimmed with hand em- broidery or crochet lace u quarter of a yard deep, adorning dirty brown logs tint wore ex- posed to view above the knee. ‘The first essen. tials of dress for a Koto woman, young or old, are a voluminous white petticoat, a black manta, a cigarette and a box of musk—gown, shoes and other toggery being more uecossories. Fassig B. Warp. ———+e2 ‘The Light of the House. Beyond the cheat of Time, here where you died you live; You pace the garden walks, secure and sensitive: You linger on the stair: 1 ‘The harpsichord is sak sleep. ‘s lonely pulses leapt the dogs’ idok up from Years after and years after. you keep your helr- dom i if Youth about you, your Joyous face i Willy unapprehended, with waking sense red; And still to house ts happy that hath so dear jor To every quiet inmate, strong in the cheer you bronght, Your name 1s a8 @ wpell midway of speech and And unto fhoso knocks an awe-struck visltor ‘The sunshine that was you floods all the open door! pefbomtiniest 5 ose Work Done in Playing. From the Galfynani Messenger. A Philistine in art has appeared in the person of Dr. Neitzel, who has startled the musical world by an extraordinary compilation of figures with regard to the strength required by the ordinary pianist to play the pianoforte works of the modern composer. With this ob- ject he has dissected Chopin's beautifal “Fun- eral March,” and Etude arrived at’ the followi grammes for expressivo and 3,000 grammes for fortissimo. ‘These figures refer to single sounds only. Tho weight required for striking chords is in- Verse to the number of notes, as four sounds together: need on! re of 4,000 oF 5,000 EEE 3 g i Hi Hf | if i H i grammes, given that ee striking one note grammes. that in Chopin's Etude 2minutes 1.150 from to 350 for | THE FIRST TIME. Petersburg, THE CAPTURE OF A REDOUBT. 4 Baptism of Fire and Blood—A Promotion Earned While Making © Debut—The Ter- Tible Grape and Canister—A West Poiat Graduate Under Fire for the First Time. _— bee MAC D— OF OHIO DID NOT attend the reunion of the “Boys in Bine” at Detroit this year. He is now fighting his hardest battle with @ tenacious and painfal dis- ease, and his well-known pluck and energy are in continuous requisition. So he sits in a big arm chair upon the portico of a pretty cottage overlooking the nation’s capital, and contents himself growling at things in general and bod- ily ills in particular, while his leart went with the boys in their annual encampment in far- away Detroit. It was while in a roflective mood and imme- diately after a successful struggle with hisarch enemy, rheumatism, that tho writer came upon the captain and was invited to pull a chair alongside. ‘The annual encampment, of course, was the starting theme of conversation, but gradually the captain was weaned away and with a far away look in his deep brown eyes commenced telling a taie of the war wherein his first laurels were won. He said: “It was during the siege of Petersburg. I Joined my regiment in the evening. I found ui ning. my colonel in his tent surrounded by seve olticers, He received me at first very blunt! but when he had read imy letter of recom- mendation from Gen. B-— he altered his manner, and addressed some civil words to me. “I was presented by him to my captain, who ustant returned from reconnoitering tho movements of the enemy. This captain, though I had scarce time to observe him, wns a tall, sunburnt man, of a repulsive axpect, but a fighter in every way the name applies. He had | been a private und had gamed promotion after promotion in the early battles of the war. His Voice, which was hoarse and woak, contrasted oddly with his almost gigantic height. They told me afterward that he owed his strange Voice toa ball, which had cat his windpipe across at the first battle of Bull Run. I might add that he was from the mountain district of East Tennessee and his description wiil becom- plete. “On learning thatI had come from West Point, he made a grimace and said: “My lieu- tenant was killed yesterday.’ I understood what he wonld have added: ‘It is you that should take his place, but you are not iit.” An angry rotort was on my lips, but I contained ‘The moon rose behind the complicated and almost impregnable breustworks of Petersburg, situated about half a miie from our camp tire. It was large and red, as usual at first rising. Bat on that particular evening the moon seemed to me of extraordiuary size. For an instant the rebel works stood out from the dark nightagainst the blood red dise of the moon. It looked like the cone of a volcano at the mo- t of an eruption. n old soldier, neaxy whom I stood, re- marked upon the ‘color of the _moon—‘She is very red,’ snid he; ‘it is a sign that it will cost us dear to take them—these 1amous works! I | have always been supertitious, and this augury, especially at that moment, affected me consid- | erably. | “I went torest, but could not sleep. I rose, jand waiked about for some time in the dar looking ut the immense line of watch fi which covered the surrounding hills and shone flickering through the woods. “When I found the night air had sufficiently cooled my blook I went back to my tent. But sleep fled my eyciide. My thoughts uncou- | scionsly assumed a gloomy aspect. I reflected | that Thad nota single friend among the thox- sands around me. If 1 were wounded I would | ed to a hospital and treated without re- norant surgeons. All that gical operations came into my mind. My heart beat with violence and mechanically I placed, asa kind of cuiruss, the handkerchief and the portfolio which I’ hud j With me about my breast. Fatiguo over- whelmed me: I grew sleepicr cach instant, but | some unlucky thought flashed in my mind and I woke up again with a start. “But fatigue prevailed, and when the drums | quiet day. “About $ o'clock an aid-de-camp galloped up bringing ah or € fell into line again; our sharpshootcrs spread themselves over the intervening space: we followed them slowly. The artillery began a brisk fire-upon the enemy, who replied vigorously, and the works around Petersburg were very soon hid under a thick cloud of smoke. “Our regiment was almost secure against the fire of the enemy by arising ground in our \front. ‘Their bullcts—a rare thing for us— (for their gunners fired very accurately) went over our heads, or at most covered us with earth and little stones. “As soon asthe order toadvance had been given us my captain eyed me with «look which obliged me two or three times to puss my hand over my young mustache with as unconcerned | an air as Tcould. Indeed, I was not frightened, | and the only fear 1 had was lest any one about | me should imagine I was afraid. ‘These in- offensive bullets of the encmy still continued to preserve my heroic calmness. My self-esteem whispered to me that 1 run a real danger, and that I was under the fire of a battery. I was delighted at fecling myself so much at my exse, and I thought of the pleasure with which Tshouid relate the capture of Petersburg to my dear friends at home. “The colonel passed before our company; he said to me, ‘Well, sir! you are soon going to | make your debut.’ “I smiled, with a martial air, brushing at tho same time the sleeve of my coat, upon which a bullet, that had fallen about thirty paces from me, had sent a little dust. “it seemed that the enemy had perceived the bad success of their firing, for they commenced using grape and canister, which could better reach us in the hollow where we were Suddenly a stuuning blow knocked off my cap and a ball killed the man behind me. “ J congratulate you,’ said the captain to me as I put on my cap agein; ‘you are nafe for the day." 1 knew of the military superstition which holds that the axiom non bis in idem has its a] plication on the field of battle as well as in the court of justi I put on my -. somewhat haughtily. “This causes one to ssiute without ceremony,’ said I as gaily as 1 could. This wretched pleasantry, under the circumstances, seemed excellent. “I wish you joy,’ replied the captain; ‘you will not be hit again and you will ‘command a company this night, for I fecl sure that the furnace is heated for me. Every time that I have been wounded the officer behind me has reecived some mortal ball.” “1 felt stout-hearted now; many have done as I did, many would, like myself, have been struck with these prophetic words, I felt that I could confide my ventiments to no one, and that I ought only to appear coolly in~ trepid. “xt the lapse of about half an hour the fire of the enemy sensibly diminished, and then we sallied from ur cover to march upon the worl “In moving out from behind the shoulder of the rising ground which had hitherto protected us we were met by volleys of musketry. which, however, did little cxceution among our ranks, The whistling of the bullets surprised mo. I frequently turned my head and thns excited considerable plensantry among those of my comrades who were ni iar than ms ‘Taking all things,’ not so terrible @ would ore fs With thia kind of mosie, said I to myself, thing after all.” “We advanced ata ran receded by the skirmishers. All at onc the chomy set up three yells—three distinct rebel yells Shey remained alent and entirely consed fring ‘don’t like this quiet," said my captain; bodes us ne good.’ I found our people vecom- ing rather not the moment sees earth scattered by diers ation men who & 52 4 the scone whi part of the smoke had like “A roll of drums reeounded through the re- —_ ing lower agi a = the man at the cannon pull the string. ut My eyes and then aly terrific Steshorys, followed b; nd i my wed by cries a1 St aot on eyes again, surprised to find un- harmed. ‘The redoutt was, in — in smoke. I by and stretched at m: pounded by a bullet, and Was spattered with his blood and his brains. Of all my company there remained alive only six men besides myself. “A moment of stupor succeeded to thie | The colonel, putting his hat on the point of his sword, clambered ap. the parapet the first, velling encouragementto the boys hind,and he was soon followed by the survivors ef that awfal discharge. I have no distinct | recollection of what occurred. We entered the redoubt, Idon't know how. We fought, man to man, amid a smoke 90 thick that we could scarcely sce each other. I must Rave struck like the rest, for I found my sword all bloody. At last Fheard the ery of “Victory, and the smoke diminishing, | saw that blood and dead bodies almost covered the ground in- side the works. The cannons were almost buried under the heaps of corpses. About 200 | of our boss were grouped without order, some | charging their pieces, others wiping their bayo- nets. About fifty prisoners stood by them. “The colonel Iny stretched, all bloody, upon abroken wagon, near a defile. Some soldiers pressed around him. 1 approached. ‘Who is | the senior captain’ ho asked of a sergeant. | The eergeant shrugged his shoulders in a most expressive manner. ‘And the senior licu- | tenant? ‘This officer who arrived today" waid | the sergennt, calmly. The colonel smiled | sadly. ‘Come, sir,” said he to me, ‘you com- mand in chief. You must at ouce fortify the | worksand barricade the breach with wagons, for | the enemy is in force and will return to the | attack; but Col. C—— will support you.” | ~“Colouel,’ said I to him, “you are seriously ‘Mac, my dear fellow, but the redoubt is taken.’”” — +0. A STORY OF TWO PIANOS, Two Young Women and Two Rival Music Firms in a Merry War. From the Courier-Journal. Why a handsome new piano was standing in the middle of the sidewalk at @ist stroet and Broadway Thursday afternoon and night and until yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock wasa mystery that hundreds of people who passed that corner tried to fathom. It was not ine bor, neither had it any sort of covering to pro- tect it from the elements. It was Just as if in 4 parlor, with a stool before it, in a most invit- ing manner to the passer by. ‘Two squares below, on the southeast corner of 28d street and Broadway, on the same day that the instrament was placed in the street. the neighbors were attracted by the efforts of @ number of men to carry another piano into the residence at the corner, and an equally de- termined effort on the part of the ludy oceu- pant of the house to keep the piano out. Since the foregoing occurrence, which was on Tues- day last, a detective Las been oscillating between the two corners, thus adding turther mystery to the affai ‘The story of the two pianos isa Reculiarly complicated one, in which two music houses in this city and two West Broadway families are the parties involved. Miss ida Barnes isa young lady who lives in a neat little cottage on the northeast corner of 2ist street and Broad- way. She occupies the house with her father, who is usuaily away from home on business. Two squares below, on the southwest corner, lives Mrs. W. V. Shepardson. Her hi travels fora lumber firm, end he has been ab- sent from home for some time. ‘The two families are close friends, and when Mr. Shepardson, before his departure, bought | 8 piano froma firm in this city, Miw Barnes, who was also negotiating for one, decided to | try it at the same place. The latter part of last week the pianos were delivered at the rexpective | houses, and for several days Miss Barnes aud Mrs. Shepardson spent much of their time in examining aud testing the now purchases. Last Monday, they claim, they discovered that the firm charged them for the pianos £50 more than the list price, and they notitied the house to call for their instruments and take them away. ‘The music house denies this and says the pur- chasers were influenced by the salesmen of @ rival establishment. ‘The two ladies had, how- ever, signed contracts for the pianos, besides making a cash payment of #15. They were willing to lose $15 provided a release was given them from the contract. This the music firm refused to do und they also to send for the instruments. ‘Then the trouble began. Mrs. Shepardson and Miss Barnes listened to the persuasions of a xales- man of a rival firm and bought two other piauos ata lower price, At the same time they hired two wagons and had the first pianos removed tothe store from which they bad been pe hey were unloaded and given to the original owners, who refused to recei them, and they were left standing on the side- walk from Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday morning. Shortly before noon Miss Barnes and Mrs. Shepardeon were surprisei to see wagon drive up to each of their doors and a inno unloaded and carried into the house be- | fore they had realized what was really going on, then it dawned upon them that they were once more in possession of the first set of pianos. An hour later they had hired wagons and the in- struments were on their way again to the store, in front of which they remained until Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Determined to enforce the agrecment expressed in their contract with the now dissatisfied purchasers, the firm had the pianos reloaded and redelivered. But this time the women were prepared for the move, aud the men who were in charge of the wagon found that they would have to meet with ser- ious opposition. Upon driving to Miss Barnes’ house the piano was lifted from the wagon, but before it could be moved inside the young lady rushed from the front door and grasped the gate with both hands. A parley ensued, but all to no purpose, as she defied them to touch her and refused to get out of the way. An agent of the honse had been sent along, and he was deter- mined not to haul the piano back again. So he ordered his men to place the legs under and set the stool in place, and leave it on the side- walk. There it remained all the afternoon in the blistering sun, all of Thursday night in the | dew, and again in the sun all day yesterday until 4 oclock in the afternoon. Sirs. Shep- ardson’s piano was taken to her house. She likewise resisied, but after three hours’ persist- ency, it is said, the men succeeded in carryi it indoors. Mrs. Shepardson got so exci that she became hysterical, and wasin a serious condition ull day yesterday, having to call ina physician. Private Detective Louis Summers was hired yesterday morning to watch the two houses | and allow no one from the music firm to enter. | esterday afternoon about 4 o'clock Mrs. | Shepardson and Miss Barnes hired wagons, and the pianos were removed toa public warelot where they wero left subject to the order of | the original owners. The latter deciare that | they will not reccive them. if it costs them | —~ +00 ‘When Deafness is a Sweet Boon. ‘From the London Graphic. Henceforth a “‘musical attachment” is to turn bicycles and tricycies into instruments of—“music,” it is to be called. Let us trust allows that musical ideas are ER to be done with the | regiment in pontoons, under a brisk musketry | end of the bridge. | should survive uninjured, see that his body was Written for The Evening Star. A TALE OF A BATTLEFIELD. A Premonition of Death That Came to Soldier m a Dream. LOWELL, THE DIPL@MAT. Reminiscences of His Modest Life While Minister to Spain. From the New York Sum. When Mr. Hayes appointed James Roswell Lowell minister to Spain in 1817 the Madrid press was very much in the dark as to the position filled by the new representative of the United States in bis own country. Span- iards, unfortunately, perhaps, do not read the | “Rigiow Papers.” But one Madr: owspaper, the Epoca, after much research, published rather an elaborate sketch of the successor oa a ' A STORY ANOUT FREDENICASBURG—A LIEUTENANT WHO WENT VOLUNTARILY INTO THE FIGHT, BE- LIBVING THAT IT WOULD mE MIS LasT—oN SKIRMISH DUTY—THT BERGFANT'S rRowst. WARD THE DREARY CLOSE OF THE month of November, 1862, the Army of the Potomac found itself stretched aiong the left bank of the Rappahannock river, opposite the almost forsaken city of Fredericksbarg, whose | Caleb Cashing, concluding as follows: “But, principal occupants were the outposts of the in speaking of the poet Russell, we must not confederate Army of Northern Virginia. At the | forget the diplomat Lowell, extreme right of the Army of the Potomac the | It was always a mooted point im Madrid first regiment of Delaware volunteers was can- | Whether the writer of that article thought thet toned at the foot of a low ridge of broken hills, | Mr. Lowell was.a Siamese twin or not. At all goliow pice. ‘The location, forlorn onongh a6 | ON don wary mnedoon tome in ne Lae the best, was rendered inexpressibly uninviting ab anita by mud and slush from frequent rains and iW-health of his wite, who was @ snows, to which was superadded the ever-pres- invalid. ‘There were ne important ent apprehension of an intrusion by the enemy, in Mad: « between the two countries, Gen. Fhe A ~ . ishing having settled the Virginius affair and which this exposed position invited. luded au extradition treaty. Mr. Lowell Lieut. D. and Lieut. T. of this regiment were essed intention was to take a long test aud as closely bound together by the ties of con- ly to negotiate a commercial treaty i The treaty was geniality and friendship as by the military necessity which compelled them to be associates inarms. Lieut. D. was tall, slightly built, of a sensitive, retiring disposition. His comrade was stalwart 'in form with m reckless, rollicking leagues were Count who had martied a Mise idge, Mass, and who is now : Count Cha Moulton of Cam ambassador in Lon of France 8 most fa nature, unsusceptibie alike to melancholy or ° 7 us diplomats. pune fear. He was at perfect type of the born sol- est bed “es Mr. Lowell hha mot feel 08 dier, whose indifference to the perils of his | poms among his colleagues. When asked calling and his unqaenchable hilarity made his nat <4 on 7 ased with lus eecentingy he presence always sought and acceptable around Tepted tha: ws of men he bad heen an the {habit of associating with in Cs | Boston were of such a superior present place. hey were tr whiie Mr. Lowe the cump fire or on the fick of battle. bridge and In a short time after the army had become es- tablished im this position a demand was made for details from the regiment to assist am ce structing a series of earth works for the shelter of artillery on the bluffs along the river bank. Whether this was intended as the preliminary step for aggressive action by the arm: cover for the evacuation of the pe t, he was not in touch with them. ed diplomats and busy men, Was @ poct and not a particu: larly industrious The routine of fogation, life bored him. Misstonarics were always get- Hing inte troable and claims had to be pressed pentape Hermalin Glasgow omg against the Spanish government. Even vint- whore subordinate relation to the evouts these | {4K American® were a source of anboyance te doings foreshadowed compelled them to resort | Bim, Maitrid mas, however, have expected too to «pectiation to ease the pangs of curiosity. werecnct “od He followed « wiflicult man te Atany rate there was n portentous feeling | St°ceed—Caleb Cushing. Then, though Me, abroad which was especially impressive on th Lowell is generally supposed to have been ® sensitive nature of Lieut. D. One nigit he | Tet lin he couki not ak Spanish, started out of an uneasy slumber and awaking He could read it, th twas all. e mame could Lieut. T. informed him that he ha had adream | PS x iaid of hie Italian. “When be whose influence he could not iguore. ‘Phat he C#!lee the Ltalian thinister, e latter uddressed Mr. Lowell in the lang owell could not rep plained it afterward by saying that t ¥ diflerent patois in Italy that be bad (time to master them all Mr. Lowel''s itupression on the king wase very fa le one. Mr. Lowell arrived im Madrid in August, when the court was at La Granja, a benutitul spot in the mountais after a few days’ rest he went the present hie credentials. The pre mony was simple. ‘The ™ sadors,” as he is calle: duced Mr. Lowell, wh prevalent in our diy ing drew in the day time. pleasant, boyish feliow been for that evil pander who had married the widow of the Duke de | Morny, he would probably be alive today. The king aske was sure it forbode the death of one of them in a battle which was to occur in the imn diate future, and concluded by say Charlie, I think it meaus yours effect his announcement had upon his cow ion was to evoke the characieristically gc natured but derisive reply: i, being killed | is one of the things I am here for to sleep again, but Lieut. D. s« ened and aroused his comra the dream had becn repeated: but that he was now clearly impressed that the fate it foretold was Lis own. it was impossible for him to dis- pel the depressing influence of this dream. His | friends used every artifice of reason and ridi- | cule to dispossess his mind of the presentiment, | but without effect. He seemed to have no spe- | cfal fear of death, but was filled with a pathetic | horror of being buried in an unknown grave. ORDERED 70 ADVA’ His mi and if alk, and treated b On the 11th of December, a tew days after | with pes scstealaneal this dream, the regiment was ordered tond-| Then the routine legation work began, and Mr. Lowell served bis term of office without being disturbed by complications of As suid Lefore, missio: the Lrotestaut religion Catholic Spain eppealed to th Americans in vance with the rest of the army in the move-| ment against Fredericksburg. Lieut. T., finding that all efforts to remove the melan- choly of his friend were fruitless, requested the ‘commanding officer of tle regiment to Procure the dctail of Lieut. D. to some duty that wouid keep lim out of the antici- pated engagement and succeeded in getting him assigned to a command in the working party charged with the duty of preparing the quivt, res approaches to the contemplated pontoon | Cigrions ware Hit man ron’ bridge across tho Happahannock river at the | 11:0. “Dut when he left M, Lacy House. 5 While the preparations for the construetion | jit to the prestige of li of this bridge were in progress the mouths of | soot hundreds of cannons discharged a rain of fre | and iron upon the town below them and plain | A Fisherma: beyond it to keep the coufederates from mass- | From the lecroit Free Press ing troops enough in the strects to offer a) Hesat in the hotel office all by himself, ap- formidable opposition to the constructing of | parently in the brownest kind of the bridge and the passage of the river. These and he did not respond for several mome after a friend had taken « chair by his side and stapped him on the leg. Wheu he didapeak be sai explosions, together with occasional responses from the coutederate guns on the opposite hills, were as incessint as the discharge of musketry in the hest of an action. Every sound artillery could produce,trom the spiteful | “Ever ha erack of the three-inch nfic ‘to the sullen roar | the wholesale fish dealers are? of the siege gun, and the whirr, swish, bissand | “Oh, yes, lots of times,” answered the other explosions of ‘the projectiles therefrom on | man. their merciless errands of death and destruc-| “You've seen those fish cars there? Hold « tion, contributed to the At | ton npiece, don’t they?” times the air vibrated so the | *More'n that, #o1 "How many of those cars do you suppose pen to go along the river where strain ot the unremitting reverberations. To | come into I jit every day full of fishy” the troops massed on the plainsandinthe| “Oh, there’ ly fifty. 1 don’t know woods at a distance in rear of the batteries the | but more. whole universe get med in x state of palpitation. | *-That's a hundred thousand poundsof Ssh.” Unlike the gunners they were not supported by tion, aud regarded | Toledo bas ‘em the same way, with a feeling akin to reef the coming of an occasional stray confederate sbell, which, ex- | nd Cleveland and Buffalo and Erie pending its expiring energies iu skipping over among them, afforded a momentary diversion, even though its vengelul hiss were sume poor fellow's requiem. CROSSING THE RIVER. During this turmoil the crossing of the river byadetachment from the seventh Michigun more'n er aud Chicago. us, they come inte every aud Milwaukee g good grac town on the Like: lions and millions of pounds of fish, too, I s'pose?” fire from the “Louisiana Tigers,” who oceu- pied the houses and fences ou the farther bank, occurred. No more daring act than the dis- lodgement of this fu: mand by the “forlorn hope’ from the seventh Michigan and its supports wusever performed. awn till the evenin | and eatch just one three-pound and by thunder, get called a liar wheu I tell of that ! How is it, D sav? He coutmucd to glare at the other man fore | moment, but,receiving no answer, be lit a cigar and relapsed into a brown study. Well may auy one wiro is éntitied to a share in | the creuit of this achievement coutend for due | acknowledgment for his se at occa- sion. In every feature of heroic grandeur that passage pars at least with the defense of ‘Th mopyle, the assault at Balaklava or any of the other actions which are universally recognized as types of patriotic and soldierly devotion to — A Sudden Attachment. uty. Early next morning the first Delaware, on ite way to cross the river, reached tae north D., who was still in charge of the tg d impelled him of the regi- tending fight | superior to hi to hasten tothe commanding ment with the plex that as the por would be the first his company wou! pate im since his promotion to the licuzeuancy he could never face his comrades again if he should be prevented by anything bat absolute disability trom participating m the dangers and hardships to which they were vo oon to be exposed. He obtained permission to rejoin his company. He expressed to his first sergeant his firm belief that the coming engagement would be his last, and sccured the sergeant's promise that when he fell he would, if he removed from the field and buried where it could be identitied, so that it might efter- be removed to the church yard of his peaceful Pennsylvania home. THE FATEFUi. DAT. Early‘on the morning of the fateful 13th the i some litter of dead and writhing f ‘Ainong Denese Tarnis side, They had just ‘Ne Discount on This Saglish. = - From the New Yor: fun. mo aen Seep Go ten pum seen Ge 4 valgar little human insect, whe calls him- Tibet Di on the tenise ot thigh, ‘self Bam Jones and who really doss not deserve | with it s large portion of the mutilated = a this free advertisement, remarks: ~ exerting remaining strength in final be Philadeiphis Times. “A man isn't considered much of a sinner in effort on exclaimed in tones of plain- = word, this country if he pays his bills and wears good sie eaten aa the life blood. puised in tor- Sould you mindy bering © wth Ba ttt i eerie pay one's bills and wear good slothes is to, at. | Your promise!” Waium Timpatt. | “Well, expect my girl's father slong tn © conts a soul falls to ‘the man whom | will anil from Reme for New York shortly to Joris in the golden ol your be the Piacenzas’ American Institute for a *