Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1891, Page 12

12 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, this gown may seem to be a very simple one, yet it is in reality quite complicated. You imust first make up the foundation, place it on adress form and then construct the costume THE FADS OF FASHION Some of the Appropriate Costumes for Autumn Wear. THE STYLISH TAILOR-MADE. Vartety in Material—Many Ways of Using RibbonGarniture—The Kequirements of the ‘Dinner Party—A Suitable Costume for Call- ing—Simplicity in Style. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yorx, September 18, 1891. FTER ALL ITS A great consolation to} get away from hot} weather, even if it does enable us to wear those gauzy and cobwebby textures s0 much praised by the poets as | | enwrapping oar figares | / like the fleeey clouds, and to get back to cool .‘ days again, when « glove-fitting tailor- made feels so delight- fully comfortable and > the glow of health may be worn upon the cheek without bringing per- spiration with it. The STRIPED SILK DINNER DRESS. | upon it in order to get the correct arrange- ment of the stripes, which are in some places straight and some bias. The back breadth is fan pleated and there is a ceinture of pearls which extends to the middle of the back. The (q | Sleeves are of gray-bluesilx covered with white poetic, pieturesqueand | tutie netting. There is a small plastron of the wsthetic girl may re-) tulle with a feather collar having a low bow of gret the passing of —s white ribbon somewhat at the side. summer days, but the thoroughly stylish woman. who knows the possibilities of darts, gores, bins and bones, welcomes the coming of those clear, crisp autumn days, with their crys- tal atmospliere eo admirably adapted. to bring ‘out in strong relief ail the ral lines of a perfectly fitting gown. And speaking of prom- enade costames, it is surprising how few women succeed in dressing with perfect good taste for the street. They may have no difficulty with their dinner dresses, ball dresses or reception dresses, but the very moment they step apon the sidewalk the artistic and educated eye dis- covers that something is lacking in style or make-up, that there is manifestly a tendency ther to overdress or to violate that first enon of the true art of personal adornment, to wit, that that which is out of style must be out of | place inasmuch as the particular charm of fash- | jon is that it is fashionable. ‘The oid adage that hat every one saya must be true exempiities is principle. This may be paraphrased as follows: What every one wears must be the cor- rect thing to wear. VARIETY IN MATEIAT. There is a great variety of seasonable ma- terial to choose from: charming woolens in delicate tone and soft textures, plaids, beiges, Persian lilxe, gray-blue, striped cashmeres, white and gray ribbed cashmeres and Sevres biue and navy blue cheviots. A very pretty autumn costume tor the week or more at the country clubs vay be made in ared mousseline elaine with white figures, either with triple arts or. if you prefer, wih three large gath- ered volants. ‘Le « should be with burques and bave a pleated plastron. Lace jackets are very popular, worn over foulards, only you must be careful to wear white lace only over light-colored materials. Black lace Promises to become very modish, worn over colored material. \\s CALLING cosTUME. In my last illustration you will find a spirited reproduction of a strikingly beautiful calling costume in mauve silk, beautiful not only as an artistic combination of color, but from the standpoint of pleasing originality. The bottom | Of the skirt is ornamented with chenille fringe, headed by a band of scalloped garniture. The A STYLISH TAILOR-MADE. basques also have a double row of the chenille In my initial cut I set before you a sample of | fringe. which run down til they meet a third the very stylish tailor-mades to be worn uN bend of the fringe on the bottom. The corsage - sham is tight fitting and has revers and ceinture, the season, made up with cutaway basques, "YQ jitter being fastened at the back with a rosette. double pelerine taking the place of the tower-| ‘The entire corsage, sleeves and basques are ing shoulders, the bottom of the skirt being | covered with chenille netting, and there is a ornamented in the same style. The corsaze | jabot of the chenille. has revers running to « point at the waist and | cambiscets ae ernie: the round front is set off by a small band ent | r on the cross. The rear breadth has fan pleats. | One cannot fail to note that many of the essa aac: | prettiest autumn costumes are exceedingly Velvet ribbon will continue to be a favorite | Simple in make, it being the manifest intent of garniture for woolens, as it will also for | the designers to gain effect by contrast in color A | or by some elaborate trimming of lace or gui- interior toilets, such as foulards and other | pure. The insertion guipare with long pornts thin silks. In some cases I see it used only as on each side is very flexible and readily adapts pier for the corsage, outlining the arm- itself to a variety of shapes, but is more espe- oles and starting from the back and passing | cially novel in application when used to cover around the figure under the arms and crossing | completely a corselet or deep Swisa belt. Many e itis held im place by an old | of the lace and fancy guipure yokes extend Then again it is applied with a | down the front, and sometimes the back. asa lavish band. producing beautiful effects, pro-| pointed plastron, which gives a very dressy ¥ided there bea complete harmony or artistic | effect: but many plain corsages have insertions corttrast betweenitscolor and the material upon | Inid on the outside, and they appear, to all in- which it is applied. | tents and purposes, a8 a specially made yoke Another very artistic application of velvet | and plastron combined. Fibbon as garuitare which attracted my atten-| ae Se tion was a half mourning dress fora young ee person, a white batiste with black figures, THE TOBACCO “SPONGERS. made up with a deep flounce headed by black velvet ribvon, which also served as trimming. le. having a bow at the waist and long vis and «bow oneach shoukler. The cuffs were likewise of the ribbon and at the elbow the bouffant sleeves bad bands of the velvet ribbon | How Some Chewers Work Their Cheek fora Free “Quid.” From the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. “A plug of —tobaceo,” sid a young man the other evening, as he walked into a cigar store and laid down a dime. A Globe-Democrat revorter was standing near the counter and overheard the call, which w: for acertain brand. Knowing that the cus-| tomer wasemployed in one of the large fac- tories in the city, having met him while at work, he expressed surprise that he should have to buy his tobacco. “Well,” replied the tobacco employe, “I oughtn’t to have to buy any, as the men work- ing in my depar‘ment are expected to take what they want for theirdaily use. They don't have instructions to do so, but no objection is made when they do. But, would yon believe it, lots and lots of times I get up in the morn- | ing without a chew in my pocket. and often, as | tonignt, Ihave to go out and buy a plug after supper. Here's how it is: eome out of the factory, and before I get half a square away I hear something like this: ‘Hello, Charlie, got any tobacco” “I don’t like to ‘be mean, and though I only know the fellow as one who ‘sponges’ all the | chewing tobacco he can, I hand out my plug; | others of ¢ men do’ the same thing, and | t fellow gets through he probably | ‘y'Bsupply. Well. I don't go fur untib| another ‘sponge’ stops ‘me, and thin goes on until, when i have run the gauntlet, I must turn toand buy tobacco for my own use. I'm just about getting tired of the ‘sponge,’ and I th we'll inaugurate a boycott on him. If an acquaintance it would be different, v if he was hard up for a chew it would be ex: wypble, bat, Lhave known lots of cases where “sponger’ had a plug in his pocket when he OTTPOOR CosTrMR. | As the cynics of all ages have taken particular | e Pleasure in instituting comparisons between us | {], Women and the weather, possibly it might be | came up to me. advisable for m> to outline the plan of a pretty | “There outdoor costume for Indian summer, when for | bacco atany time. In my department ten days or more autumn puffs a warm breath | “ways la day's supply. Then in in our faces and indolent buds make haste to | partments we are given a pound of finished Durst into bloom before a nipping frost cuts | Plaga week. This goes to the foremen of the Off all their chances. This very pretty out. Y4Tions departments for distribution, and for door costume is charmingly pictured in my | this the company must tear up revenue stamps second illustration. It iss foulard with a flower | to cover the weight. Even this pound shoi pattern, made in princess form. bordered with | ™U2 @ man if he was not ‘sponged’ upon. & ruche of crepe de chine, and there is also ———_e- —___ Very stylish yoke of the crepe de chine garni- Navigating in the Mud. no exense for us to have to b tured wi ested bertha. There is a slight cut-out, which is finished with « small ruche of | 7° the Chicago Inter Ocean. the crepe de chine. The siecves have bouffants | The big steamer Emily P. Weed took 105,380 of the crepe de chine at the shoulders and also little ruche at the wrists. As foulard silk is — must —a care in cutting ias strips upon which the ruchings Se sewed. The wamiem front of the bodite ust be gathered somewhat at the waist. There need be mo foundation left under the yoke. THE DINNER PANTY, that most starchy and ceremonious of all par- ties, will soom Legin to assert its sway, for, strange to say, pcople give dinner parties not because they desire to do so, but because they | wre obliged tod) +o. The iron-bound code of | forbias you to decline ah invitation x. and, naturally, having accepted, you must make good your sucial obligation br giving edinner to those who gave you a dinner will square this dinner account but exactly in kind. You may repay a | by @ swell luncheon or you may dance account by gi | bushels of corn down the river and out into the lake the other afternoon. She had twotugs | abreast, and all the power of her own engines was required to make the trip. She was draw- ing fully six inches more water than there was in the river and literally ploughed her “ has been found to be much better adapted for this kind of navigation than a wooden one, the mud offering far less resist- ance to steel than to wood. Steel boats draw- ing sixteen fect have been dragged twoand three miles by main force in fifteen feet of water this week. It is all right so long as the tags kee them moving, but once stopped for any cause the force required to start them again is redoubled. Mud navigation is said to be p science by itself,and the Chicago tugmen are ex- perts in it. It is very risky, however, and the ps are numerous. | ‘Two of a Kind. From the Detroit Free Press. He found her alone standing at the library window when he entered unannounced and she hardly started as be put a fond arm about her waist. “If you are the girl I take you to be,” he be- gan tenderly, when he was interrupted by baritone voice. Up just as straight, act in @ manner aud possibly suffer IN SOUTHERN CHILI. Among the Unconquerable Arauca- nian Indians, THE MUD PALACE OF A KING. A Horseback Journey Throngh the Domain of the Lianistos and Conestos—Productive Farms and Comfortable Houses—Chicha the Favorite Drink—How It is Made, From The Star's Traveling Correspondent. Vaupivia. Carct, August 25, 1891. THEN WE CAME DOWN TO THIS IM- portant German city—which is located in the extreme south of Chili, many miles up the Valdivia river, with Corral as its seaport—it was not considered safe to journey in the usual Foute (by ocean), on account of blockaded ports and rebel cruisers and various calamities that are liable to overtake vessels in Chilian waters during these days of war. The only alternative was to travel across country, most of the way on horseback, through what is yet known in the Spanish history as the “In- vincible State,” being controlled by those un- conquerable Indians, the Araucanians. It will be remembered that many years after the Spaniards had taken possession of the rest of Chili they abandoned the hopeless task of trying to subdue the Araucanians, who are the bravest and most interesting Indians in all South America, and magnanimously gave them what they had always possessed—their inde- Pendence, which they bive ever since. main: tained. "Their territory extends from the Andes to the sea, between the Bio-Bio and rivers, and comprises some of the best agricultural sections of the country, as well as the heaviest forests and wildest ‘mountai Centuries ago the Araucanian Council of Wise Men” passed a law which punished with death any Indian who should sell his lands to the white man. ‘THE THREE TRIBES. As they now exist those Indians are divided into three distinct tribes—the Pehuenches, who rove the pine forests (Pecheun) of the Andes; the Lianistas, who inhabit the interior Usnos, or plains, and the Castinos, who live near the borders of Araucania, cultivate the soil, raise cattle and have voluntarily submitted themselves somewhat to the federal covern- ment. Not many yeata agoa journey across any part of the Indian domain would have been impossible. To this day it is entirely out of the question to visit the savage Pehuenches, for the fool-hardy i their dark forests and gloomy mountain never returns to tell the tale. the open plains of the Llanistas requires no small amount of courage, but a spice of danger adds zest to such an exp to pick up many curious bits of information concerning those remarkable aborigines, not to mention the barbaric trinkets which every Gringoe’s soul covets, earrings, bracelets, spurs and stirrups of beaten silver. THE PARTY. Onr party consisted of nine well-armed gen- tlemen (mostly Englisbmen and Germans), led by one who was familiar with the route, having traversed it many times on a mission of trade, which made him welcome among the Indians; several Valdivia ladies, who had come north to Visit relatives, without considering that the exigencics of war might make return to their homes « difficult matter; myself and young lady stenographer, « half-breed interpreter and a number of servants. We were abundantly supplied with extra animals, tonts, edibles and ammunition, besides the photographic outfit which accompanies your correspondent and her assistant as closely as their shadows. Thus equipped for three wecks’ life in the wilder- ness, we cantered out of the military capital of Angol one early morning and proceeded due southward in the best of spirits. THE CASTINOS, who inhabit the borders of Araucania, have farms and comfortable homes, and civilization has done for them what Spanish cruelties and force of arms were powerless to accomplish. ‘Today this tribe of the redoubtable Araucanians are plodding laborers and have somehow be- come wonderfully bleached in complexion. Their broud-shouldered women work in the fields, outdoing the men in feats of strength as well as surpassing them in intelligence, and whenever a Castino husband gets drunk or un- ruly bis gentle spouse makes nothing of giving him a sound flogging. RICHES FOR THE GATRERIXO. It is related in history that when the con- queror, Valdivia, desired to recruit his army while vainly endeavoring to overthrow the ancestorsof these dusky people he caused his favorite mare to be shod with shoes of pure gold, put on with headless nails. Then he went up to Peru and induced one of the native princes to race horses with him for a high wager. Of course, Valdivia expected, the golden shoes fell off and were left on the field. When some of the common people picked them up and took them to their owner in hope of a reward he said to them grandiloquently: “Keep them, my children; keep them. In the land of Chili, whither I shall soon return, riches are to be had for the gathering. There gold and silver are 80 common as to be of little value; here they will serve to allay your hun- ger.""’ Iv is needless to remark that ‘afterward the shrewd genera! found plenty of recruits. His statement comes nearer the truth today, for in this part of Chili riches may truly “be had for the gathering,” but in golden grain and silvery wheat, which, when harvested, Yields frora forty to sixty bushels to the acre. All the land lying along the Bio-Bio and in the great plains of the Rio Veragara is wonder- fully rich and requires little cultivation. ‘A LLANISTO VILLAGE. After more than a week of easy traveling, latterly through unbroken wilds, frequent pic- nic haults being made for fishing and hunting, we suddenly came in sight one afternoon of a Llanisto village. At the same moment a young Indian sppeared in the path and stopped the cavalcade to inquire who we were and where we were going. He was evidently acting from authority and had been sent from the Village to intercept us. It was afterward dis- closed that keen eyes and silent footsteps had been shadowing us for several days, though we had not suspected it. Our interpreter dis- played a written passport from “Ihe Great White Father in Concepcion” (the governor) and assured the Araucanian that we were friends, who had come a long way to visit the mighty’ chief of the Llanistos and his people. Thereupon the smiling warrior exhibited a splenditl set of ‘whitest {vory and informed us iat, though the great chief lived farther down the river, the sabchief, who was ® man of sur- passing Valor, would be happy to welcome us. IX THE INDIAN CAMP. I confess that it was not without some trepi- dation we followed our new guide into the id | center of the Indian camp and halted in front of the largest dwelling. It was a three-room palace of mud and logs. roofed with dried grasa, and in its doorway stood a man of powerful frame, with an extremely ugly but rather intel- ligent face and an abnormally large head, whose size was exaggerated by a bushy shock of coarse hair. Having been told by the in- terpreter why we were ng through his country he shook hands with each of the men, but of course his dignity forbade such an act of cont ion toward’ “squaws,” though they were comparatively white ones—a circumstance we did not regret. An army of boys had con- gregated in open-mouthed wonder, and bid- ding them hold the horses his blanketed high- ness fecha to kage the eee 18 numerous wives were spreading guan- aco skins on the dirt prey os to sit upon. He even unbent so far toward us unsignificant “women folk” as to introduce his favorite squaw, bya jerk of his thumb in her direction and ours, wi d biting Se in our boots, and gloves and holding up our watches for the tion of the other women. “Pm not; I'm her Titsend ber ate Even to cross | | \ fe IP, or pretended to, after spill- ing it in the long, thick fur upon which we sat. Chicha is. not uaplensant to the taste, whether made of corn, wheat, apples or wild grapes, but we knew that in this every dirty female in sight had had a band, or rather a tooth. The Indian way of making it is truthfully described by a gentleman who recently saw it done in this part of Araucania. BOW CRICHA 18 MADE. He says: “While the women were engaged at their usual avocation one of them brought out & dish of meal, slightly moistened, and a small earthen jug, both of which she sat upon the ‘ound. One of the girls approached, took andful of the meal and made it into a ball, which she stuffed into her mouth, and, with both cheeks distended, retarned to her ‘work. Another followed, and another. until all, from children to blear-eyed old crones, were’ busy munching and chewing, with their faces puffed out like balls, but still managing to keep up ring. In a few minutes the first returned and l:fting up the jug emptied into it the whole contents of her mouth. She took another mouthful of meni and went off, che ing and jabbering as before. The rest { lowed in due time, and so it went on until the meal was exhausted and the jug was full. I approached one of the women, being puzzled to comprehend these proceedings, and pointing to the jug inquired, ‘Chem tua’—what is that? ‘Mudie,’ she replied, ‘cume, cume'—good, goo “Just then the guide came along and I asked him what on earth the women were doing? “Making mudia, or Indian chicha,” he ex- plained composediy. “‘Great Scott, the liquor that I have been drinking for a month past.’ edhe very same,’ he repliod: and without observing the nervous twitching of my mouth, went on to describe the process minutely. A quantity of wheat is boiled over a siow fire for several hours, after which the decoction is strained and set aside to cool. To this a jug full of masticated gram is added, in order to roduce rapid fermentation, and'as soon as fermentation begins the liquor is fit for use. A bumper of the fresh-brewed was offered me that ‘evening, which I respectfully declined. This process of beer making is not peculiar to the Araucanians, for Mr. Herndoh in his ‘Val- ley of the Amazon’ speaks of @ native drink prepared if the same way.’ A RICH CHE: Warmed into confidence by this “loving cup.” the chief informed us that be was a very rich fifty ponies and many that his subjects were loyal and con- were all the tribe to which he be- longed. They were at peace with the world, had good homes and enough to eat. What more could they desire? True, the smallpox visited them pretty often and ‘carried off a great many people, but notwithstanding that depopulator the Llanistos were the most pow- erful nation on earth. RELICS OF BATTLES WITH THE SPANIARDS. Through the interpreter we replied that we were not Spanish nor descendents of Spaniar and thet we had read with pleasure how bis ancestors had withstood the conquerors; that we sympathized with his warriors and knew from those facts that they were very brave. | The delighted chief beamed from top to toe with pleasure and whispered something toa squaw, who left the room and presently re- turned with an armful of human skulls. From most of them the face part had been partially gut away, and ail were worn perfectly smooth. The grinning chiet assured us that every skull was once the cranium of # Spaniard of high tank, who had been slain while fighting the Araucanians. Some of them had been handed down from generation to generation through several centuries and were used only by chiefs and wise men to drink outof on great occasion The others had been taken from enemies du ing his own time and were used for drinking cups at ordinary feasts. RELIGIOUS BELIEF. One of the party, anxious to learn something about the religious belief of these strange peo- ple, asked the chief if he were not afraid those dead Spaniards might return some time and claim their heads. “His lordship replied, with perfect aincerity, that he did not think it pos- sible. because they were fully occupied up in the clouds fighting with the Indians they had killed, and being themselves killed, over and over again, through all eternity. in reply to the question whether all Indians go to the clouds at death he said that only warriors that had distinguished themselves in battle were permitted to go there. When a common In- dian dies he immediately becomes a bumble bee, having nothing to do but to wander up and down the earth eating sweet things and stinging his enemies, IN THE SPIRIT LAND. The Araucanians never have a feast without putting some chicha, sugar and other good things on the graves of their dead, so that the bumble bees into which the departed have entered may have their share. When the war- rior spirits in the clouds are angry the friends on earth ean sec their wrath in the form of lightning, and when they have a great battle with their old-time enemies and the latter are vanquished it is known by'their howls of dis- tresa, which we call thunder. A very great chief, who has led his tribe through many suc- cessful battles, goes toa better place than the clouds—he is turned into a yoleano, and when things on earth do not please him be shows his rage by spitting out fire and smoke. After an hour or two of this edifying conver- sation we begged permission to retireand pitch our tents for the night. ‘To this not unreason- able request the chief was loath to consent, saying that we must remain in his house, whers his wives would serve us well. Being placated, however, by the gift of a red blanket, a pair of yellow leggins and o omall relue- mirror he tantly let us go. rr Warp. s00 AS CHILDREN SEE IT, A Miniature Drama With a Small but Pro- gressive Heroine. From the New York Recorder. Alice is seven. She was visiting at Teddy's house in the country. Teddy is six. They were playing “keep house” the other day when it rained. “Ill be the father,” said Ted, “and go to the office. You are tho mother and you must at home and dit the dinner.” * rejoined Misa Alice, “I must go to business, too. My mamma always pute on her bonnet and goes to the office right after break- fast.” (Her motber is an editor.) “Who dits the dinner at your house?” agked Teddy, thinking of his stomach. “Nobody. We fe get things to eat at some Py urant, or we have them sent in. “Haven't youany kitchen in your house?” “No; we have only mamma's ‘room, the sit- ting room, the study and my room. Don’t you ever tell any one, but my room is just a corner of the study behind the screen.” Ted sat thinking. Then, crossing his short, fat little legs, he snid, with the air of a man who has thought much and deeply upon the woman question, “Well, when I dit married Ishall have a kitchen in my house and my wife shall cook the dinner. I fink it is funny for mammas to go to offices. I fink they ought to stay at home.” ‘To which the small but progressive woman replied: “It isn’t funnyone bit. It's good deal nicer than cooking Winners. When I am grown upI shall havea stylograpic pen and wear it behind my ear just like mamma. Iam not quite sure, though, whether I shall be a Writer-woman or a doctor-woman like Aunty ‘Ted looked at Alice seriously out of his bi Til marry you the it brown eyes. ‘“Idon’t fink I was finking I would, maybe. ; “Idon't care,” responded Alice, flippantly. “Eve wiped dishes once and I don't like te. You might cook your own dinner andsee how'd you like it fora while. My papa sayshe can make cocoa just as good as he wants it any day. Idon’t want to piay house with you if you want me to cook dinners. «You play you're sick and I'll div you some medicine. Let me feel your pulps; where's your tongue?" The eavesdropper tiptoed to the door for a ‘at these wise children. Alice was stand- ing over Ted trying to keep her mother's eye- Erubby looking fag baby, andy Jodgig scrubby i Fag baby, the dejected look on his rouy begun. cozy little house there is a multiplicity of medicines, surgical instruments and all the prevent the re 8 | once introduces an ¢l>ment of skill, from | once in the net THE HEAVENLY PHOTOGRAPH. From the Boston Transcript. T ONE OF THE GERMAN OBSERVA- tories plans were laid to photograph some parte of the heavens. An assistant, Stammers by name, was commissioned with this experi- ment. Full of the importance of such a com- mission, he went into one of the cupolas of the observatory, placed his photographic apparatus before the ocular of a the opening in the telescope, pushed back roof, and began his tedious task,fthough he was sure that many trials would be failures. The assistant looked first through the tele- Scope, only to assure himeelf of a heaven clear enough to begin work. A feeling of satisfac- tion crept into his fully clear sky. With a certain heart when he saw a wonder- curiosity he commenced his first proof. Carefully he got under the green cloth that hung over the apparatus. He had to wait at least half an hour, until the sensitive plate should have received the impression of the most minute stars. After this lapse of time he looked curiously But his first look told him that something had gone wrong. He spots on the same, spots which moved to and fro on the plate. Iv at the plate to see how his first attempt had «1 ed. succeed: saw no dark sky nor light, bat a light surface with dark e put back the green cloth und looked toward the end of the telescope to find the cause of this peculiar phenomenon. Again he looked a bright star; it w: white fog. Stammers rose quickly at the plate, and saw at first again driven away by the looked upward. He could hardly trust bis eyes, and an exclamation of There through t! of his colleague, straight into ‘only angry surprise escaped him. he opening peeped the face lighted ap" bra lanterns, ¢ telescope, who now burst into ted to ask you,” said Dr. Hilbert, “if any one should fetch beer or wine for you? Fearing to trouble you if Icame up the stairs I took this more uncommon way. A noise wax heard. The la: of Dr. Hilbert’s hay rn slipped out ind and fell through the open- ing of the roof down into the room, while the apparition itself disappeared. Dr. Stummers was co. irprised that at first he could find no word to Tespond, but now hit anger broke out i in such left in full force and found ex- language that it was just as alone to listen to it. Con- vinced of its uselessness he put in another plate and began his wor! k afresh. The photograph- ing of the heavens had lost mlich of its attr: i thoughts were only balf with his work; secretly he revenge. was working out « plan of Dr. Hilbert was a young man of twenty-seven years and was the fortunate possessor of a large perce: Besides that he had a bappr cheer- fal disposition, mii ixed with a good deal of fun, which often brought a ray of light into the solemn faces of the it agreeable with his astronomical doing a sweetheart, and surrounded the ob le had found to have the beautiful garden that servatory was of itself rea- ronomers. son enough for that. For what lovers could have wished for a better meeting place than a garden strictly closed against outside mortals? It was toward evening. softly through the The wind rustied acacias and over the hazel- nut bushes, golden rod and black thorn. Young spruce and fir trees gave to the whole a some- what serious aspec! A rendezvous went slowly over t. had been fixed. Dr. Hilbert r the gravel-covered walk toward tne little side door where he alt awaited bis belove girl with roguish, Aud they sat on the making plans for # d. She came—a young lively large eyes and fai e cozy stone seat talking and he future. Hortense, the daughter of a rich merchant, was, although not yet openly announced, the future bride of the astronome! Yes, she was hi isten we would h bride, for if we were to r them talk in happy obli- vion of that fature time. The announcement was goin, to be made jin the next few days. And Hilbert drew the young, blooming girl softly and tenderly toward him. He pressed a long kiss on her rosy lips. But there was another that enjo} perhaps more than the lovers, who waited for this ki photographi noticed by Inspire thinking of his Stammers crouc! ‘And they kissed other long and fervently. The It wasa heaven, and other. ic apparatus bad ‘Oy tho. feel ft a by ie feelin of revenge an is spoiled heaven photograph, Dr. ied beside it. the kiss actually iss. Behind young trees s been ed un- each other and held each kissed each r. Stammers hastened to take the cover from the objective of-the apparatus. Dr. Hub bert was missing during the next few days from the observatory. He had given Dr. Stammers three announcements of his engage- ment, one for himself und two for the other two colleagues. Conscientiously Dr. Stammers did this—he did more than was asked of him. Added to the announcement card was the tograph, which created great mirtb, through’ the good lik 10~ Poh eness and the original way in which the lovers were taken. Hilbert reappeared a-happy m ‘One hastened. te mest him tocon: servatory. gratulate him an photograph. He groom. egan at the ob- @ thank him for card and caine 2” asked the astonished bride- to think that Stammers had Thaps photographed him when he in perhaps pi grap! teed epesped on him on the roof, and see the Picture. Terrified he'stepped back. That he ad not expected membered the situation. ‘away from the picture. There to see. And still he well re- He could not wipe it was. He and Hortense on the stone seat of the observatory garden, just when “That was your to Dr. Stammers. they kissed each other. doing,” he called, turning “My work, my work!” laughed the latter. “The revenge for graph! The pictur the spoiled heaven photo- re is good, is it not? "Or do you wish anything changed? Moreover, the plate is waiting to be made manifold.” “How—what—you would? That must -not be!” stammercd poor, terrified Hilbert. “You must give me plate and photographs so that I can destroy them. A great sea of © the young groom. motion arove in the soul of He thought of the possible wonsequences if the picture wore circulated farther. “Giadly,’ The disgrace—and Hortense! dared not think furth answered the one addressed, “but He he became so terri only with one condition.” “And that is?” asked Hilbert. Unable to bold burst into of laugh himeelf longer Stammers ter. “The penalty which you have to pay is,” said he, “that you take tiresome job of pI my place: You gah and I bave upon yourself for me the ographing the heavens in spoil heaven photo- photographed your heaven. ow it is your turn again. Poor Hilbert had to put on s good face and do the tiresome work which was going to the frst days of his happiness, and be operate the same with many 8 apparatus. il to the cupola and evening in ‘igh under the green cloth of the The Game of Tema. ‘which iscalled tera and which is an adaptation of Japanese polo. This is the way it is played,according to a young woman who claims to be proficient: eighteen inches in diameter, called the goal, and having a net behind it. Twenty feet <7 isa roped-in area in which the players ‘They are ranged in sides,the whiteand the red. probably "be vision, w! Intertere with the lated and manenv. throws are ‘up of the ball isa. while it is almost in it, very h is ¢ renders less which coms Reapia tae in its favor. é there is ut that of fates Ina recent case in one of our Indian courts a jury had before them evidence that could not curls. | of Arete then comes and lays his hand upon D.C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE BLOOD TAX IN THE PYRENEES. For Murders Committed im 1375 the Peasants Pay Money to Spanish Neighbors. From the London Times. The Independant .des Basses-Pyrenees pub- lishes a very interesting description written by M. Alfred Cadier, a French Protestant clergy- man at Pan,of a ceremonial which he wit- nessedashort time ago on the frontier of France and Spain. This consisted in the pay- ment of # blood tax, and it appears that there are two or three places in the Pyrenees where the custom, founded upon the belicf that “a murder committed by the inhabitants of « village or canton upon those of an adjoining village or canton must forever remain a bur- den upon the descendants of their descend- ants,” is still observed. Thus, about tho mid- dle of the fourteenth century, the inhabitants of the valley of Lavedan, having the defenseless residents of Aspe, were condemned by the pope to pay a perpetual tax of 30 sols, which was levied upon twenty-two villages and paid up to the time of the revolution. In the thirteenth century, if not earlier,» similar crime was commitied between the valleys of Baretons. in French Navarre, and Roncal, in Spanish Navarre. The blood tax which the inbabitants of the ANGLOMANIACS IN LONDON. | An Infatuation for Everything English. London Letter to the San Francis-o Arona’ One of the glaring anomalies observable im | the actions of wealthy Americans who come to | London in these days is that they almost in- variably stay at the old-fashioned hotels con- | ducted upon the English plan. And not only do they select those which are merely different in their style of general mavagement from American hotels, but eagerly seek admittance to those whose ways and customs would have been sntiquated in the reign of Queen Anne and are renowned for the observance of all | those petty rules which make the lives of the English upper classes ridiculons in the eyes of the rest of the world, but without which there are some people who fervently believe the nation would not be safe nor the crown secure. | Why Americaus should do this is past com- | prehension, unless it be the result o infatuation for ever: controlling t hat blind | hing English which is the principle of the anglomaniac’s ex- | istence. It cannot be because they like it really like it. If it be done for the gratification | of curiosity, purely and only, we might be | able to understand it, If American ladies and gentlemen of and unlimited means want to see what a characteristic English hotel is | former were ordered by the to discharge | like, and go to it so to see, it is one thing. But is paid still, the ceremony tal ne place amily if they go because English people go to it, and on July 13 in the mountains, abont seven | that, therefore, itmust be “the correct thing to hours’ march frou Ouee, | do, don’t you know,” it is quite ano Lem La Peyre St. Martin. Iti | afraid the latter motive controls the whole bus- ‘adier: “A crowd of people is to be seen mak- | iness. All l can say is, it is pitiful and enough ing their way tothe rendezvous. The sep. | t0 bring a blush of shame to the faces of real herds of the Baretons valley, with their red | Atiericans. It is not as if there were no hotels Waistcoats interspersed with dark threads, the | i London conducted on the American plan, mayors and delegates of the villages of Arette, | “ud. as in the days when George Wilkes wrote Laune, Aramits and Issor, the foresters of the | “Europe in « Hurry.” there were nothing mountain, the custom house officers without | PU dark and dingy little English hotels to | their guns, the clergy, represented by the | 0 to. But there are dozens of hotels such as priest of St. Engrace and two curates, are the rule in America, and under the roots of | few English tourists from Osee helped to make | Which you would be justified in eupposing an up this singular assembly. When ‘we reached | American lady or gentleman would. feel thor- the narrow stone which marks off the frontier, with the name St. Martin inscribed upon two sides of it in French and Spanish, we found ourselves face to face with the Spaniards, who formed an imposing group. “Firat was the alcalde of Isaba, who was to act the part of lord chief justice. He was wear- ing a black robe bordered with red, and a lar collarette by way of bands, while he carried in hig hand the wand of justice, in the shape of black stick, with a silver knob. The alcaldes of three or four other Spanish villages were similarly attired, and they were accompanied by a numerous suite made up of delegates from the general junta of the valley of Roncal, the notury, the veterinarian and others, the escort consisting of seven or eight armed carrabineros and guards, while in the rear were a number of ‘bourriqueros,’ who had come in the hope of selling ‘the skins of wine with which their donkeys were loaded. “It was about 9 a.m. when the ceremonial, which had been observed without interruption since 1375, commenced by the French mayors donning their tricolor scarf, and by the Spa alcaldes advancing toward the frontier stone, accompanied by a herald bearing a lance'on which was Plinted a red fame, the symbol of justice. The two parties having halted ata distance of about twenty feet from their respective frontiers, the herald substi. tutes for bis red flame a white one, which is the symbol of pacific intentions, and the alcalde of Isaba exclaims in Spanish, “Do you wish for peace? To this the French mayors reply in the affirmative, also speaking in Spon- isb, and, in order to testify to the sincerity of their intentions, their: herald lays down his Jance upon the top of the stone in the direction of the frontier, whereupon the Spanish herald comes and inserts hi nee into the French soil, resting the shaft against the form a cross with the French oughly at home. At anyone of the modern hoteis any American, with en Awerican love of comfort, might be contented. There they enn have hot and cold water, bath rooms, a bar room, # billiard room, an elevator and a table | erything (with perhaps a slight | Englich tinge) which they ere accustomed to in America they can have at these hotels. Yet | Americans seem to preter the opposite. Instead them —the sort of hotels which open | minded English people are generous enough to | admit are the best hotels in the world— they turn their backs upon them and rush to Long Claridge’s and Morley’, where they are no more reall it home than & bird would be in a cage Asa rule, the bet dks not stay at hotels in London. Some do, of course; but the majority have town re of their own, and when in London during the season they’ live in them. But sometim when obliged to be in town when the season over, they may go for a night or two to a hote —and to hotels such as Long # and Claridge 6. But they go to hotels of this kind simply be- | cause they prefer them, and they prefer them because they have always been accustomed to them. They would so: upstairs than be carried up by a “litt;” they would rather have their bath ina portable tub by their bed- side than in the most elaborately appointed bathroom; they would sooner shave themselves than go down to the hotel barber shop, and are decidedly happier with a small cau of hot water, brought ap by the chambermaid, than they would be if drawing it the silver-plated tap. The very thir like ina hotel, Americans do ( very things ‘they do like, Ame: (or ought not to). Yetit is ail re Americans come to Londo: Another thing: It costs a lot more money to stay at Long's or Claridge’s than at the Ameri- can hoteis—or rather those English hotels which are kept on the American plan. Besides which all and every of the great swells of high lite, whenever they may be compelled to go toa London hotel, always go to Long's or Ch idge’s, or one of the other leading West E } “family” hotels, In which case their arrivals and departure 4 the cross so formed, a Spanish alcalde places his right hand upon thatof the Frenchman and the other mayors and alcaldes do the same alternately. “Last of all the alcalde of Isaba steps for ward and, lifting his wand of justice over the pile of hands, pronounces the oath, which all Seca ee ee nee | euaned tne ‘aehionatle Intelligence” dataus’ (peace in the fature). column of the Morning Post. The American- anew concluded, and to ratify their having | Plan hovels do not soar to thisteight Lue iven up all idea of vengeance the men of |Steat puzzle to Englishmen in this respect is Koneat order the escort to disc! | why Ameri Want to show off in Engl guns in the direction of France. hen comes Tenaga poy demny se the reception of the blood tax, which used to nice things and tolive mgood house consist of three perfectly white mares, but | ## they themselves do; but what they do notcom- owing to the difficulty of getting them exactly | Prebe! mq alike three white heifers have now been sub- | ' swagger in. ; 1 stituted for them. The three heifers presented | truest sense and meaning, is indulged in only this year were worth about £25, which ina |i England. I allude, of course, to the best | large sum for the district, and after the Roncal | People. Thev swagger at home because 4 wa | in ‘drawn ups proces verbal, which | Perfectly legitimate that they should. Itis | was signed all round,» repust was served at | their right and privilege and habit to do swag. the expense of the Spaniards, toasts being pro- | 8&F things and to be thought very swagger b; poved in honor of Spain, France and England, | people beneath them. Jt is the snobs who the introduction of England being due to the | *¥#gger when they go abroad on the astonish- | presence of several British visitors. After the | the-natives principle. They cannot swagger at Tepast was over dancing followed, and we then ar fe they go —, oo te pend ‘g00d-1 year. nd, the really swagger people in England are = schol uiot, unobtrusive and cimple when they travel | or go to stay anywhere out of England. If | you see a man traveling with balf a dozen serv- | ante, showing up at every station and a great row and noise going on wh ever he makes his appearance, be he is aretired tailor or butter maker. dukes and earls go about like other people. ‘They keep their swagger for their own country and do not assert themsclves abroad. fore, they cannot imagi: Americans have a standing at home are not content with | it. Tsuppose you might talk and write til | dooinsday, but “you could not hope to impress | these American broad with the utter “bad form,”"in English eyes, of the things they do. Of course they have aright to do! what they like—if they can pay for it. But be- cause » man is able to pay for a thing is not a justification for his doing it or having it. Tonce met a great, big, burly, overbearing man crossing over trom jogne to Folkes- stone. I will not say what nationality his was, | but will remark that be made himself both de~ | testable and ridiculous to the other passengers by his self-asserting manners. When we got to | the train for London he was occupying a first- class compartment all to himself, and it so happened that the train was so crowded that | several ladies wore forced to wait for the next | one. Still this creacure peered out of his wi dow, and, in reply to some of the plain-spoken comments which filled the air, remarked com- placently: “Well, Lean pay for it, can't I? Whenever I have since heard people justified for what they do, by being told that they can pay for it, I always think of this man. Ob, uo, it isn't a’ matter of ability, but good taste. And that money will not carry it off bas been shown in the baccarat case, where the Wilsous got such a scoring from the solicitor general. pe Se RE Lucky With Dice. From the Utica Observer. “Today is the sixth anniversary of the death of Edgar K. Apgar, man this morning. in New York city. I had to return to Albany by. the 11 o'clock train. At 10:30, while we were going up town, Apgar suggested that be had €10 to lose, and proposed that we should stop at John Morrissey’s. So we stopped and resently he was engaged in a game called, I Paliove, ‘French bazard, which fe played with three dice. If you hit three of a kind the bank ys 180 for one. Mr. Apgar played with vary- Eig success until 1045, when f told him I must j “All right,’ he said, slapping down €5 on ie three trays, ‘The old fellow who was keep- ing the game lifted the dice cup, and there were three trays. He had to go ver to Mr. Morrissey to get the €900 to pay Apgar with. Then we left. “It was some years later that Mr. Apgar, ‘accompanied by G. Hilton Scribner, who was * ain Queer Plants in South Africa, From the Fortnightly Review. In the spring, in the years when rain has fallen for two months, the karoo is a flower garden. Asfaras the eye can reach stretch blotches of white and yellow and purple fig flowers. Every foot of karoo sand is broken up by small flowering lilies and wax flowers; in space a few feet equare you may sometimes gather fifty kinds. In the crevices of the rocks little, hard-leaved flowering air-plants are rowing. At the end of two months the bloom {over the bulbs have ‘died back into the ground by millions, the fig blossoms are with- ered, the karoo assumes the red and brown tints which it wears all the rest of the year. Sometimes there is no spring. At int of a few years great drouths occur, when no rain falls. “For ten or thirteen months the sky is cloudless. The karoo bushes drop their leaves and are dry, withered stalks; the fountains fail and the dams are floored with dry-baked mud, which eplite up into little squares; the shee} and goats die by thousands, and the karoo isa desert. It isto vide for these long rainless periods that all tue plant life in the karoo. is moditied. Not ‘that cannot retain life ha- bitually for six months, and-at need for twice that time, without rain, can exist here. karoo bush itself provides against drouth by roots of enormous length, stretching under ground to a depth of many feet. At the end of a ten months’ drouth, when the earth is brick dust for two feet from the surface, if you break the dried stalk of karoo bush ‘three inches high you will find running down the center a tiny thread of pale, green-tinted tissue alive with sap. Many plants live by means of fleshy bulbs buried deep ander the ground, and in years when no rain falls they do not above the surface, or flower. Many plants have thick, fleshy leaves, in which they 6 against the time of need; common sorrell and dandelion, become ice all over their fleshy leaves and stems ure little diamond-like drops, which when broken are found to be full of pure water, Uittle plant sometimes having & eupful stored 708 other wa; intense dryness modifies vege- dass cis ecmear eens etiec ay maleaenel tion are eagerly #0 ter by a an fan unusual number are protected by thorns or yeah an, intense bitterness that no animal toucl m. plant protects iteelf by asvuming « curiouslikeness toa white lichen t covers the rocks; the plant has inted green, a these are, place their nt ward, on tip of each leaf isa little wi ‘ite q it is not till you pao 9 Even on insects stern con- ditions of life have a marked effect. Imitation is more common here than elsewhere. One little insect isso like the white pebbles near which it is always found, and lies so mo- tionless them, that of going to the sort of hotels they have been | E | but kind o' surprised, GHOSTS SEEN TO PASS. A Story That Has Created some Excitement In England From the Liverpoo! Post Having been concerned in a most remark- able and altogether ine bie adventure the other evening, which happened to me in Thomas lane, Knotty Ash, I have been induced, at the earnest solicitation of many friends, to communicate the following partieu- lars of the same to the Liverpool public as be- ing of more than ordinary interest. T was proceeding leisurely on foot to Broad- green, he proceeds, when on passing the church At Knotts Anh my ‘attention was suddenly ar- rested by the strange and uncanny appearance of its graveyards. The time would then be shortly after midnight. The whole burying ground seemed alive and glistening with © thousan small blaish lights, which appeared to creep in and ont of the different graves, as if the departed spirits were taking a midnight T stool. petzitied, not knowing whet make of it, at the same tim: ling of horror which sudden plete possession of me, Just at this moment the moon, which bad hitherto been more or eas obscrired by « moving panorama of passing clouds, came, as it would seem, to my assist- ance. giving me for a very short time the bene- fit of her companionship. And now appeared most starting phenomenon of all, a phe- nomenon which caused my bait to stand on ond with fright. a cold nambness of horror paralys- ing me in limb, for advancing up the road directly opposite to me came « funeral train, the coffin borne along with measured ml, with an immense bieck pall, 1 up in the midnight wind. thought IT mustsurely be dreaming, ri t f be ly was not, for 1 distinctly felt the mi and was therefore satisfied as to my waki a ness. “What could it all ?° Lasked m: eelf as the cortege gradually approached me and I began to distinguish general outlines of the bearers, These appeared to be elderly men and to have lived in a bygone age. were dressed in the costume of the latter part of the ghteenth century. ‘y wore tis wigs, and some had «words, as well as walki sticks mounted with deaths heads. Lobsere only one really young of followers, walking just youth, in comparison with the others, per- haps mace me take especial notice of him. He was dressed in what appeared to be biack vel- vet, the whitences of hie ruitles standing out in marked contrast to the somber nature of hie general attire. He carried « sword, bad dia- i buckles in his shoes and wore his dered hair ina queue. The face of thie young man was deathly pale, as were also the faces of ail the others accompanying him. Instead of the procession advancing to the gate at which I stood it turned suddenly itered the burial ground by the one situated ata few yards’ ‘distance. As the coffin was borne through this gate all the bine spirit lights seemed to rise from the graves as if to meet the cortege for the purposes of escorting the body to ite last resting place. These awful lights added considerably to the ghastliness of the scene as they floated over the coffin and Beads of the mourners. Slowly the procession glided up the pathwax, passing the main entrance of the church, and, continuing ite way in a straight line, finally disappeared at the back of the edifice. Where this most extraordinary funeral went to or what became of it I cannot tell, but this much I distinctly aver, that coffin, mourners lights—even the pale, flickering moon- all disappeared as mysteriously ae they me, leaving me standing in the i nstixed with astonishment and fright. Upon ring together my somewhat scattered # L took to my heels and never I found myself «fe in my own fact L scarcely remember how 1 got e. gs little from the sbock I immediately aroused a female relative who had retired for the night and related to her the above particulars. She asmred me that I must have been suffering from mental ballucination, but seeing the great pertarbe- tion of my mind and at the same time knowing my natural ith regard to all «o- called supernatural p mena she came to the conclusion that, after ali, 1 might poesibly lave seen what hax been described above. we next day I made inquiries at the neigh- ood of Asb and ascertained from 4 very old woman that she remembered im her youth having reterence to the ous and sudden death of an old oc Thingwall Hall, who was hastily and buried, she thought, at midnight, in old Ash church yi It so, was this a ghastly repetition of the event got up for my especial benefit, or was ita portent intended to fore- shadow the coming of the dread visitor to my- self? Now, as I bave before stated, I am no believer in ghosts, but certainly this very re- markable experience of mine has entirel wet all my previously conceived notions subject, leaving me in quandary of doubt. On the oveninig upon which I saw the ui ottr the had likewise retreshed myself at the public drinking fountain placed at the top of Thomas lane. Strange that «few hundred yards fur- ther down the road I sbould encounter so ghastly an experience—an experience I shall never forget to my dying day. ——oo_—_—— He Was Some Other Girl's Brother, From the New York Tribune. ‘The following is the experience of a boy who [had sense enough to keep bis mouth shut at the proper time: “I war waitin’ on Johnny Greene said* “jess acrost the street from my house, far he did mean my sister. “Joss then the door was opened and be says to me: ‘Come in, Jotinny, and talk to me while Tam waitin’ for’ my card togo up.’ So I went in with him. ~ You're a nice little say be, ‘an’ I've got a pocket knife which I'll give youif y romise not to lose it,’ an’ so I promised not to lose it, he gave it tome an’ I felt of the blades an’ saw it was a beauty. take this quarter an’ get some ty soon! “And then 1 grinned, for I knew what pretty soon meant—jess a 300n as my should come down. Only you see sister at all. That's why grinned, and I ‘Thank you. I'ligo pretty soon.’ An’ be: again an’ tried to pat meon the head, but didn’t like to be patted on the head. Pretty soon Jobnny Greene's sister _omes in, a to me nice, ‘cause she likes me, an’ I showed her my knife, ‘en he smiled at me till I wanted to laff right out. Bat J didn’t say anything ng te the quarter, ‘cause I knew she valdn't i. He says to her: ‘You bave a fine little brother, haven't you?’ An’ she looked pleased, rp ‘says thatJobnny was a hittle bit mischievous, but meant well. 1 jest nned again. cr nye Jobnny came down stairs, an’ wher I heard bim in the I guessed I'd go now, but she “cause the man seemed to like “Joba looking sourat me. “"Oh, no,’ says she; ‘this is Jobnny's chum, who lives acrous the street.” Ee Wimaap pon thnewner of tite howe, Benadl®