Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1891, Page 9

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW. Stories and Gossip About the Greatest After-Dinner Orator. HOW HE LOOKS AND TALKS. ‘The After-Dinner Speech—The Lecture Stage aud the Stump Are Declining—A New York Audience the Most Critical—Foreigners as Chauncey Sees Them—Stories of Lincoln. Special Correspendence of The Evening Star. New Youx, Oct. 14, 1891. HAD A LONG CHAT today with Chauncey M. Depew on after-dinner speaking. He is the greatest after-dinner orator in the United States and, by and ail, he is one of the most re- markable men in this country. As @ lawyer he stood for years at the head of the New York bar, and as attorney ior the Vanderbilts and for other great corporations he bas held his own against such men as Roscoe Conkling, William M. Evarts, David Dudley Field and other great lights of this the strongest legal center of the Union. As Bierident of the New York Central railroad he for years managed one of the biggest cor- Sage the country, and as a leadinz New ! fork politician refused the United States senatorship and has declined the request f the republican party of his state to have his name put before its national conventions as its candidate for the presidency. | minutes’ when it onters anew field. Tho trouble with most men is that they have only one pace and they never get oat of it. They confine them- selves to thinking about three things, their business. themselves and their families.. They run at this business and personal pace their lives through, and if they ever chance to speak in public they use business and their language is that commonplact with the most pz they never get ont of it. Now, the dinner table is a higher one than ness life, and in preparing for a speech I find I must first get my mind ona différent level from the one I have been working on all day. Ido this by reading McCauley's Essays. Ten reading turns my thoughts into a new channel. I cast off the clothes of every-day work and my soul seems to be rehabilitated into more intel- leetual ana critical garb. Ican then think of the audience I am to address, and by remem- bering the people Iam to meet adapt my re- marks to them. It doesn’t seem to make much difference which part of McCauley I read, and few minutes changes the pace of my mind entirely.” “Do you write out your speeches, Mr. De- ot my after-dinner shes,” was the re- pls. uly write out such as I have to make for an important occasion, as, for instance,such as my speech at the celebration of the Bartholdi statue. “I try to think up my speeches before I gotodinner. On most occasions I leave my office at 4 o'clock and Icompose my talks be- tween 4.and 6. 1 first take a taste of McCauley and then go over my line of thought, fi far as possible what I am going to say. § however, that my speeches that I make at din- ner are often far different from those I plan out. Lhave dictated, I venture, at least 100 speeches in the street cars and under the light of the street gas lamps. Newspaper reporters who are assigned to report the dinners find that it is not convenient for them to be pres- entand they often come and ask me for my speeches the afternoon of the evening on Chauncey Depew has all his life been asso- ciated with monopolists and capitalists; still the masses and the laboring men look upon him as their friend, and though he isa strict republican the democrats delight to listen to his hes. He is one of the busiest men in the Gaited States and apparently the of our greatest business men ba’ the most leisure. He attends more dinners, perhaps, than any other great railroad president in the country and makes more speeches than any professional lecturer or noted statesman. He Feceives ten requests a day to deliver ad- Eresses or to reply to speeches and toasts, aud he told me this afternoon that he made more than three speeches every week, year in and year out, and that his average had been more than a hundred speeches per annam for years. In these speeches Mp Depew never repeats himself. ‘The charge thagfe retails bis own stories unt they become chgstnuts is not true, for all of bi speeches are p@blished and he speaks again and again year after year to the same associa- tions, and of course has to have a new speech every time. How he does it isa wonder to every one. The only explanation of it is that | he is @ genius and that he knows how to work his genius so that it will produce the greatest | results. THE PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL The daily life of a man like this ought to be interesting. I have had some chance to study ‘Mr. Depew's habits today. I called this morn- ing at the New York Central offices and spent & part of the day watehing the president's work, noting the stream of callers which tlowed almost constantly in and out of his room and ehacting with his private secretary, Mr. Duval, about bim. Mr. Depew’s desk is littered with papers, and You note by the postage stamps on_ his letters that his mail comes from all parts of the world “He receives,” said Mr. Duval, “an average of fifty personal letters « dy, and his business mail rans up into the hur@reds. Some of his mail he never sees, a_parvf it he stenographers, but the most of hi letters receive replies in his own handwriting. He is a very rapid writer, is rarely ata loss for s word to express his meaning, and he dictates quite as readily as he writes. He gets to his Otice between Sand 10 o'clock every morni and first takes up his mail and his newspaper ppings. He is probably as much quoted as any man in the country and he receives com- ments upon hi« work from newspapers both in this country and in Europe. As soon as Mr. Depew Th ets to the office his besiege him at his begin to come. residenee befo are here in for number waiting fifty. according to mopered that he re- e rest of his officers areangry. He never gets worri loses his grip and he works stea g from the time he about 1, when he gees out for HOW CHAUNCEY DEPEW SPEAKS. Let me give you a picture of Chauncey De- pewashe makes an after-dinner spegeh. Jooks more like a preacher than a club man, and he stands ewinging his glasses in his hand, 1 Oat of his sober the table, his cultured, ¢ wonder when he stepped out of the pul whether after all it is nota mistake and he is grace. He begins to talk. me ircely and naturally. He little as he tells a good story, aud bis | he w:ttily roplies to the | sally of one of the men from the other the table. Ashe goes on his face beams with | ood fellowship and you note that his fifty | ‘eught years have not made him old, and that | though his hair and beard are frosted silver his soul is a8 young as that of any boy about the board. As he continues you find that bis | ‘speeches are more than stories. You note that ‘be has ideas as well as wit and you realize tha the speaker is not only an orator, but a man and tbat a great one. THX AYTER-DINNER STAGE. Returning to Mr. Depew’s business life, I waited for several hours to have an interview at his office, but imperative work kept pil Bp, and it was 3 o'clock before I got access to | wim. At3:15 be had to make the train for his | summer home at Pawling, two hours from New | York, his engagements were all full for the morrow, and he finally suggested that I jump on the ‘cars and run up to Pawling with him and we could have our talk on the traia. He wrdered = pass for me, and ten minutes later we were seated in a chair car on the New York Central railroad, the train going at forty miles an hour, and Mr. Depew talking in response to may questions at the rate of « hundred and fifty “words per minute. The following is the eubstance of our talk: 2 THE CHAIR CAR. Said {: “Mr. Depew. how do you find it pos- sible to get-your mind away from your business hard sometimes,” replied Mr. Depew, ‘but I have the faculty of leat business success ar I have had in CHAUNCEY AND THE REPORTER. which I am to speak. They sometimes come to the railroad offices, but as I haven't composed the speeches I can't, of course, give them to them. When they insist, however, I tell the to come to the house at 6 o'clock and I will dic- tate the speech to them before goi dinner. Ava rule, however, I don't ge at my composition until nearly 5 and it is often 6 before Iam dressed. If I am not ready for them when they cali they wait, and I often have them jump in the cars with me and I dic- tate what I am going to say «2 we go along. ‘The dictation is sometimes concluded in front of the banquet hall, and, I think, I dictated at least twenty speeches in this way last year. When the speeches are published the diiference be- tween the dictated speech and that inspired by the surroundings of the evening is often ap- parent, but I find that the dictation enables me to make a better speech. It clarifies my thoughts and gives me a better control of my ideas. “How long, Mr. Depew. do you think an after-dinner speech should be?” “The platform orator of today who peal more than one hour at a time,” replied Mr. Depew, “is a fool, and no after-dinner speech should’ extend over forty minutes. Twent minutes is better than forty, and the speecl should be short and pithy. CRITICAL NEW YORK. “Mr. Depew, you have addressed audiences in every city of aay size in the United States. What is the most difficult after-dinner audience New York dinner party, by all means, was Mr. Depew’s reply. “Tl ‘here is nothing li such an audience on the face of the Un States. Take oneof our big dinners at wl two hundred distihguished ‘men sit down, and you have as able and as critical an audience as you will find in the world. Some people sneer at them as a collection of do-nothing millionaires, ‘They do not understand the men th k of Ninety-five per cent of the guests dinner is composed of self-made men. 1 have come to New York from all parts of the United States, because they have grown too big for their surroundings elsewhere and have needed a larger field. New York city is made up of that sort of men, and these are the cessful men of New York. Do you know Weill, out of every one hun- i York takes the whole country and these men are the cream of New York. They are well-read men and they are men of brain They aro men to whom time is money and wi appreciate it. They feel that they to waste a minu' if Your speech drifts into prosiness or is loaded with ‘chestnuts’ their watches come out and the eyes of every man call ‘Time.’ They want new ideas, and unless you ean give them they don't want you. ‘The same speech which will be applauded in a country town, where the diners come in on the bi and expect to be pleased, will fall York, and most of our so-called ‘sil "t afford at one of our dinner itself to a amounts to nothing. The men at the table have not come to eat. They are used to good dinners, and many of them have better dinners on their own tables than you will get at any club dinner. They have come for the feast of reason and the flow of soul, and they are not happy unless they get it.” DEPEW'S FIRST AFTER-DINNER SPEECH. “Will you tell me, Mr. Depew, the story of your first after-dinner speech?” “It was at Yale College, repl; self and several of my chums had been ated into a Greek letter societ} “My- initi- t | after we had gotten in, that the insolvent. It had been made up of spendthrifts,who had been drinking and «pree- ing, and it was loaded with debt. We were too poor to waste any money in this w: da discussed the situation and debated wheth-r hould change the character of the fraternity or leave it. We decided to make it a good fra- ternity. We organized a debating society, and before the end of that year we hud mada it » first-class college literary association. We then rented a halland gavea dinner, and at this dinner I made my after-dinner speech. I don't remember very much xbout it, save that I got through with it all right. “How about the English? Are they good afte: m ‘h an important an kes makes up such an important part of the Amer- ican character, and they don't appreciate the fter-dinner speech as we do. Y | some speeches at their dinners, but it is not uncommon for a speech to be two hours long, migio™ about his love for American girl?” “That is truo,” replied Mr. Depew: “the prince is fond of American girls, and I am not Surprised at it. He likes their vivacity, their independence and their originality, and they are quite refreshing in English -society, where the girls are taught to be timid and backward. T have, however, never heard of any scandal being connected with the Prince of Ws any American girl.” GLADSTONE’S WONDERFUL VERSATILITY. “How did Mr. Gladstone impress you?” I asked. “Mr. Gladstone,” replied Mr. Depew, “is un- doubtedly a very great man, but I do not think he would be as great in America as he is in England. He is in some respects the most wonderful man I have ever heard of, and he is the most versatile man I have ever known. We have no one here now nor in our history who compares with him. The nearest approach to him wasEdward Everett. Daniel Webster wase reat orator, but he confined himself to politica. Roscoe Conkling was another great oretor, bat he never spoke excepton politics. Our greatest preachers never get out of the pulpit, but Glad- stone can make great speeches in half a dozen different fields and surprise youby his wonderfal ability in al ‘Iremember,” Mr. Depew went on, “an evening I spent with Mr. Gladstone. I was the only guest at a dinner which a gentleman gave to enable me to become more acquainted with him. We sat two hours atthe table and during the meal Mr. Gladstone talked of the great questions of European and American politics, and I found him thoroughly versed in all the issues relating to this country. He discussed tters with equal facility. After the over it was proposed by our hostess Il go to the opera und Mr. Gladstone consented. During the opera Mr. Gladstone was absorbed. He did not speak nor take his eyes off the stage. Between the acts he talked of music. He showed au inexhaustive and critical knowledge of all the great composers. He entertained us with a lecture, as it were, on the present opera and its rank among the other great operas of the word, aud be ieit me ived at his wonderiul know!ed, s the same in art, and Idoubt whether there is as versatile a man in the world today as he.” A PICTURE OF LORD saLrsnuny. “Can you tell me anything of the premier, Lord Salisbury?” “Lord Salisbury is undoubtedly a very able man,” replied Mr. Depue. “tAs to his foreign policy, both the English people and the states- men of other countries consider it the ablest England has had for years. As to his ideas of home rule an: other matters there is,of course, great difference of opinion, but no one disputes his ability in foreign affairs. I met Lord Salis- bury while [was in England and I fonnd him a very pleasant taiker and a man of ideus. He is over six feet tali and he is a man of great in- dependence of thought and action. ‘This gives you the impression ‘at fret meeting that he is ‘an egotist, but this wears off upon acquaint- ance. GERMANY'S YOUNG EMPEROR. ever meet the young Emperor of I esked. “Yes,” replied Mr. Depew. “I mot him four ears before he became emperor. At this time father was living and his grandfather, Kaiser Wilhelm, wqs the emperor. I met him with them and I was then very much impressed with his strength of character. I regard him as agreat man and a strong one. Noone buta strong man would have acted as he has done since he nas come to the throne. The policy of hie grandfether's and his father’s administra- tion had been dictated and coutrolled ty one man, Prince Bismarck. He was in fact the em- eror, and his ability and statesmanship was looked upon as the greatest in Europe. A¥ soon as the young emperor was crowned he began to think for himself. He crit- cised the policy of Bismarck in that the working man was oppressed and kept down as a natioual foe. THe wanted to give him a chance to see what he could do for himself. He wanted to give him more liberty, but Bis- marck told him it would never do, und that if he acted 0 he would lose his throne. Bismarck insisted upon this, but the young emperor thought differently, and told Bismarck that he intended to try it. “In that case,’ replied Bismarck, ‘I hand you my resignation.’ “‘All right,’ replied the emperor, ‘I accept it? ‘This, in plain every-day language,” con- tinued Mr. Depew, “is ule story of tho trouble between Bismarck and the eniperor. A weak man would have submitted. Only a strong one would have refused, aud I believe that strength here was allied to greatne! SEW STORIES OF LINCOLN. Iasked Mr. Depew something as to his con- nection with President Lincoln. He replied I became well acquainted with President Lincoln during the war. I was. secretary of state for New York and went to Washing:on to tuke the vote of our soldiers, and I think this vote carried New York for Lincoln at his sec- ond election. Iheard a number of stories of him at this time, some of which ave never been published. "One I remember related to Joba Ganso mocratic Congressman from western New York. Ganson was a war demo- crat and when he came here to Washington he rather felt that the republfean President was under obligations te him tor supporting him. Lincoln was anxious to please thiy class of northerners, and the relations of the two men became quite intimate. As the war went ou,how- ever, disasters contiued tocomeand in the dark- ext days of the struggle when calamity followed calamity und when Congress was asked to vote money and men only to see the first apparently Jost und the latter destroyed many of the mem- bers became ansious to know what the Presi- dent's policy was. son was among them and he called at the White House and had an interview with Prosident Lincoln. Now Gan- son Was peculiar in that he did not have a hair on his head. His pate was as bald as an ostrich egg and his face, whether from shaving or from nature, showed neither a hair nor a bristle. He’ came into President Lincoln's room, was received cordially and made a most earnest plea for information. After saying what he had given up for the cause of the re- Publican party aud for President Linzoln he continued: Now, Mr. President, fales and | be you know what I've done for you and for the Union. { don’t wi you todo anything for me. but I do want you to take me into yourconfidence. You're a law- yeraud Ima lawyer, and you kuow you can trust any secret tome. Now, won't you tell me your plans?’ “| marry you you' CNoE" GANS, WHY Don't rou suave? “As Ganson said this his bare, sober face be- came more sober than ever and the serious look in his eyes seemed t/ crawl up over the if a minute and then his homely mouth twitched, nd a two-hour ‘h without the humorous | element has to worth listening to.” GREAT FOREIGNERS 48 CHAUNCEY SEES THEM From after-dinner speaking the conversation drifted to other matters, and Mr. Depew chat- ted with me concerning some of the noted peo- ple across the water. He is » close friend of the Prince of Wales. He Knows Gladstone in- timately and there is hardly a prominent man in England with whom be has not been more or less associated. I asked him to give me an idea of the Prince of Wales. Said “The Prince of Wales is more of a man than he gets credit for being. The English govern- ment is so constituted that iu Es othe it Brits way he ap oF | i (i leaned extraordinary good to be | leane a laughing look crept into his eyes aul he over and, putting his hand on Ganson's . said, in the most quizzical tones. these uttered them, and wi inished they juestion at issue like a glove and supported idea better than volumes of logic. WHY HE REFUSED THE JAPAN MISSION. Chauncey Depew was offered by President Lincoln the to Japan when he was still under thirty. Had he accepted it he would pty have been the youngest foreign min- in our history. “name was sent into confirmed, but re- F i E F i fused to E i t E i | E F. _THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY.AOCTORER 17, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. it does It, ‘upon abroad I will habits, no money and fit for nothing but tics. If I stay in politics 1 may then ‘and the Benate, but. these ‘not pay me, and when I will be dr out and Af Eat Me Is es poor hand, if I stay my practice will grow soon have enough to get married, and t to go to the Senate or get a mission when I grow old I can get it, and so I decided to stay at home and I have never regretted it. ‘Yes,"" said I, “and after you had made a reputation and'a competency you had a chance fo go.to the Senate. Why did’ you not accept “We lied Mr. Depew, “I had not thea gotten to be prochdant os the Now Tort Castel railroad. “And how about the future?” “A wise man has no time to think about the future. As for me. I find it keeps me busy to keep up with the present.” By this time the train had reached Pawling and our conversation was over. Mr. Depew and myself got out of the cars together. The arms of the rich railroad president were full of bundles, which he was carrying home to his children, and as he stepped across the street to the hotel Mrs. Depew, a couple of bright look- ing little girls anu young Ch uncey Mitchel: Depew were on the steps to meet him. As] stood on the steps of the car going back to New York I saw Lim kiss them all aroand, and as tho care whisked me away hiv hearty laugit mingled with taat of bis children rng out, he seemed ax fur away from capitulists, ronds, politics and society ae though these things were not in exisience and his oniy world was home. Prayx G. Canreyter. eae BOWSER, = if MRE. AND MR: Some Old Recollections Revived und De- nied. From the New York World. “1 see,” said Mrs. Dowser, as she sat reading the paper the other evening, while Mr. Bowser was trying to dig a peg out of bis shoe—“I wee that another Brooklyn man has run away and left his wife.” “Has, eh? Well, I don't wonder at it,” ro- plied Mr. Bowser. “Did you read the item?” “Oh, but I knowhow it all happened. He found out that he couldn't take a bit of comfort in his home, and he left it. No one knows the misery that poor man suffered before he took that step.”” “It doesn’t eny he was unhappy.” “Of course not. tice, to say nothing pit t fered & thousand deaths before he walked some lonely spot by his own 1, dear, you'll never be driven away by any act of mine,” she said as she went over and kissed him, what in thunder are you doing?” shouted Mr. Boweer ns he dropped the shoe and sprang T kissed you.” up. “Why, “Weil, I don’t ‘want anybody blowing into my ears or spitting on my chin! What struck you all at once’ time, Mr. Bowser—there was a “When you suid that if I would kiss you you would be the happiest man in the whole world.” “Never! Never even hinted at such a thing! I wasn't that sort of a noodle head !” “Mr. Bowser! Why, there was for threo months, while I was waiting to make up my mind to marry you, that you said you could hardly live trom day to day.” iting! fou waiting! W tickles ‘ne—ha! ha! hi id his wide ell, that is cool! ke shouted, as you said ‘yes’ so ur tongue in doing it! The iden of me pining and wasting away be- cause I feared you wouid say no!” “Do you renrember ihe pet name you used to me?” she asked. ‘t seems curious to me,” she continued, thout noticing his sarcasm, “that when a ung man is courting a girl no ene can make him believe that che is not a perfect angel. He can’t work days uor sleep nights for think- ing of her, and the sight of her n mile away vets his heart to boating Itkean engine,” “It does, eh? It might be the case of a spoouy young noodle-head, but it wouldn't wich @ sensible feliow. I never lost any sleep on your account.” early all your letters to me wero dated anywhere from midnight $o 4 o'clock in the morning, and— “Never! Never wrote you a letter except in the aiternoon, wien I hadn't anything to do and wanted to’ use up half-an-hour s time,” re- | plied Mr. Bowser. “And every one of them speaks of how lonely you were, and with what joyous anti pations you looked forward to your next call. “Lou y nticipazions! I'd be apt to be lonely when there were a dozen or more mjghiy good-looking girls after me, wouldn't I? “But in a few briet years after marriage how theaverage husband does change,” Airs. Bow er, a8 If speuking to herself. “Yes, that’s it, You hunted me dawn and got me to marry you, and now you are trying to make my home happy. If yon are feeling bac don’t yougo and make yourself sume “Husbands talk abone happy homes,” she coutinued, as she looked the what do they do to make it ha; “Yes, pitch into husbands! growled Mr. Bowser. as he swept over the shocpeg and ly kicked at the cut, which came to rub st his leg. ey are courting they are all smiles and soft talk, but the houeymoon is no soouer over than they stand revealed in their irue ithe castle and burnt it to the ground. It was, of 4 itching right in, Notuue ike a fauit-Ban pleasant! “Do you remember that Fourth of Jui; ever ing when we sat on the veranda? she’ aske- “Pshull always remember what you said that nightand how much the situation affected 03 “Affected me! What on earth are you talk- ing about?” “You took my bandin yours, Mr. Bowse:, you wsked me to please try and learn to Mrs. Bowser ® Wife to make home love you. “Never! If you'd swoar to that on sixteen family Bibles I wouldn t believe it.” “You aaid that life was but a dreary waste a before I crossed your path, aud—" “I never did—never! i never he shouted as ho sprang up. “No one but you ever charged me with being an idiot or a lunatic!” % ir. Bowser, didn't yon say that if I didn't ‘d eurely kill yourself?” idn't yon once show me some baking powder in a pill box and tell me it was strych- that you'd take it if I married any ‘Aud you deuy that when father came out ening and threw you oif the stoop and told you uerer to come back that you wrote me you-—’ “Threw me of the stoop! Your father! By the great hornspoou, but this is too much ars, Bowser! Threw me! I'd like to have wen the whole caboodle of yoyr relations throw ‘me off & stoop!” “Perliaps you don’t remember how you nsed to compare iny eyos to stars and tell me that it the one effort of your lite to make Tcame home ex; on abappy evening in the vow of ay family aud you've gone and knocked itall over! That's the way with the bicking'and complaini There was a time when Loo wife fony't day that she's Maaaieg fe forty times a day star she's recdy to kick and make bis home Imay be driven out any day now. # ve seen Sreontion, for the last two years, but I was cy WITH THE ENGLISH FARMERS. A Washingtonian’s Visit to Some Old British Towns. ‘ THE CATTLE AXD SHEEP MARKET, AND TRE ADVANTAGES TO FARMERS—HOW THR ANIMALS ARESOLD—OLD CATHEDRALS—BUINS OF BATARD CASTLE—THE ENGLISH HARVEST FESTIVAL. Correspondence of The Evening Star. benefit to buyer and seller. . \t first, perhaps, a market as extensive and Beventay, Yoursume, September 20, 1891. | Well conducted as ‘the Beverley and. Drifield T WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A | Dutisece and peregveranee would fae ie of aa world <a ee — | cure popularity and a liberal support. general interest than THR HARVEST FESTIVAL. territory, which is pre-eminently the garden of | 4 few days ago I attended a “Harvest Festi- the kingdom, inn agricultural sense, and, in| va}. at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in addition, possessing @ very extensive com-| Drimeld. The churches of ali denominations metce—the largest manufacturing establish- | in the farming districts of England have their ments in the world, and unsurpassed for | regular annual harvest festivals, which gencr- mechanical skill, Then, again, the antiqui- | lly continue three days,from Sunday till Tues- ties, curiosities and scenery of this land are | 28%. evening, s seascn’ of thanksgiving and —_ raise to the Giver of all good aud boantifal hers ee ees es rvests. There was another attraction about ‘orkshire ngland's largest county an is richest in minerals, manufacturing industry, this chapel. It took me near to the «poi that once contained the old “meeting house, where John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, often preached. present chapel is comparatively a new structure, comsnodiions and pleasing 5 gen- eral appearance, particularly 60 on this occa, sion, being profusely decorated with ever: j and the choicest flowers, with which th |tion of England is so abundantly supplied, |The large pulpit, altars and table were one | mass of flowers and vines, while at the base were arranged fruit and vegetables, showing the products of a well cultivated soil. of the broad windows were covered with 4: THE TOME OF JORN WASHINGTON. Just nine miles from this ancient and il- lustrious city of Beverley is Cave Castle, a large and noble structure and once the home of John Washington, the groat grandfather of George Washin From this identical axtle John Washington emigrate! to America it the year 1657 (the last year of the reign of “Bloody Queen Mary”) and settled at Bridge's Creek, in the county of Westmore- tacd, Va. During the brief reign of Mary, four and’ half years, 237 persons suifered martyr- dom and nundreds fled from the country to It is possible that John d hia lifo wax at stake to remain aud sought the new world asa refage from religious persecution. Ina history of Yorkehire, printed in 1822, T find the following brief description of this e . peaches matoes. These essential articles of food for man and beast the cold, wet and cloudy climate of England refuses to produce. Mond: : ing a sumptuous supper is kerved to Lers and Visitors at the small cost of « Tuesdxy the entertainment closes by an auction sale of the fruit, vegetables aud other articles, jine miles from Beverley and twelve from Holl, and situated in a hollow, is avmall market and post town calicd South ‘Cave, in a very pleasant tract of country. The parish church is a plain and neat edifice, dedicated to All Saints, built, as it appears by an inscription in the inside, in the year 1601. Near by is Cave Castle, now the residence of Henry Barnard, eng. (the Barnards still own the estate). The mansion is a large and noble structure, orna- mented with s number of turrets, battlements, buttresses, &c., which give it an air of mag- nificence. “The embellishments of the interior corre- spond with the grandeur of the exterior. It contains many spacious and elegant apartinente, with a very select and valuable collection of pictures by the best masters; among there is a portrait of the late celebrated Gen. George Wasihingtou, the founder of the American re- pul se FREAKS OF ZUNI WORSHIPs A New Collection of Curious Fetiches at the National Museum. A NEW AND VERY INTERESTING CASE in the east wing of the National Museum filled with curiosities associated with the re- ligious worship of the Zuni and other Pueblo Indians in New Mexico and Arizona attracted the attention of a Sran reporter the other day. ‘There is in the collection a great number of fetiches of many sorts, but the most remark- able of them are images in stone representing the gods themselves—especially the “prey gods,” in the shape of animals, which the hunter invokes for success in the chase. In order to make it clear just what these beast deities are it is necessary to cuote from the account of the creation given by their ‘votaries. When all was new mankind lived in a cavern in the bowels of the earth. The place was dark and crowded and the le were unhappy. Heariug their lamentations the great sun father sent his two children, armed with the rainbow, the arrow of lightning and « magic knife of flint. With the magic knife the ebil- dren cut the face of the earth and led out the People into another cavern, which was not +o dark. There they multiplied and grew mis- erable again, until the children were persuaded to conduct them into a third caverh, yet bigger, where there was a sort of twilight, the rays of the sun sifting through the roof. Here, however, they were not content, and 80 they were firully taken forth into the light of day. They were black and nuakel, with eyes like hose of owls, so that the sun blinded them. Previously the wortd had been covered with water. Now it was damp and unstable—in tact, a great morass, frequently disturbed by earthquakes, and through ite surface strange mousters and beasts of prey rose up to devour the people. ‘ihe two children harder.ed the surface with fire and burnt up the ferocious animals, the forms of many of which can be seen to this day among the rocks, shriveled and distorted. No creatures like these (fossiis) live at the present time, which shows tha’ everything was different in the days of the new. RUINS OF BAYARD CASTLE. Midway between Beverley and Hull are the almost extiact remains of a mansion that ranks with the first in the line of antiquity and romance, called the rains of Bayard Castile. In the immediate vicinity of these ruins has sprung up a beautifal, healthy and populous village, called Cottingham, where the wealthy and business mon of Hull have charming cot- tages, gardens and parks. The history of this romantic town dates back to the time when the “Domesday Book” was compiled—to the time when Wm. Stutesville, sheriff of York- shire, entertsined King Jobn at his house, in A. D. 1200, and obtained ‘from that monarch a license to hold a market and fairs bere, aud to fortify bis castle. This mansion remained monument feudal magnificence the successive possession of the Sta villes, the Bigods and the De Waker, until’ the reign of Henry VIII, when it was destroyed by fire. The story of the con- flagration of Bayard Castle is curions and | characteristic of the monarch in whose rci i was destroyed. Henry, who was then in Hull, hearing that Lord Wake had a very beautifai wife, sent a message to his lordship. informing him ‘that it was his intention to dine with him the day following. piece of information Lord Wake received with the fecling that tly troubled the patriarch Abraham when ficrent, condemended 1 motice him en eo. count of his wife Sarai (Geni. xii, 11, 12); to say that Lady Wake was his sister would have been unavailing. Her lord, therefore, took a stili more effectual means of preserving his wife's honor aud his own head, for on the very night that the message was received from the king the wteward, by order of his master, wet fire to in THE. VARIOUS DYITIES. While as yet all beings belonged to one family, the great father, Po-shai-an-kia, lived in the city of the mists, guarded on all sides by the six prey gods. ‘On the north he was guarded by the mountain lion, on the west by the bear, on the south by the balger. on the ‘east by ihe wolf, in the air above by the eagle and in the carth beneath by the mole. Among these subordi- nate deities he divided tue universe, cech the part above mentioned as appertsin- ing to each. At present it is their duty to carry messages between the great father and man- kind, for which reason they are prayed to. POINTS OF TUE COMPASS AND THEIR COLORS. Among the Pueblo Indians six points of the compass are recognized and each has its color. North is yellow, west is blue, south is red, east the upper regions are many colored and the lower regions are black. All the prey are reprovented by their images in these six colors. For example, there is th in lion of the north, the bl lion of the west, the red mountain iiou o! the h, and so on. Likewise it is with the other beasis, and thus a very considerable number of course, given out that tho fire was accidental, but it appears from certain family manuscripts that it wasasaerifice made by a subject to avert the consequences apprehended from the ing presence of a licentious prince. y expressed great sympathy for the baron's misfortune, and offered to advance to lordship £2,000, which was at that time a muuiticent sum, toward rebuilding the castle, Lut the housele:s baron was in no humor to receive presents from a person whose friend- ship he so much dreaded, and this once famous edifice has been suffered to sink inio utter ruin. TRE PARISH CHURCH OF COTTIXGHAM large and handsome Gothic structure, built 72 and dedicated to St-Mary the A stately tower or steeple aris: s trom the center. The interior is commolious and well lighted on a clear day, and the walls are adorned with many elegant’ monamenis, espe- cially those of the Burtous. In the choir is an old tombstone without date, nearly as old as the church, erected tu the memory of Nicholas | de Stutevilie, the founder. | ere are numerons springs of: excellent and about the town, and those called en remarkable’ churacter.~ They begin to flow in the s ontinue for two or thres months, when she water total and the ground continues pertectls interval ot two, three or four ycars. Daring the long suspension the springs are moat forgotten, unt the reappearauce brings tiem to tue rememb ance of the iube who im ticir ‘amiliar language are com o say, “Keldgute springs have broke out must receive ution lest chey get augey revenge themselves for the ni bear «iid im the true story of Mi-tsi. Mi-tsi had become careless about his (as whem he was cutting corral posts along came a bluck bear out of a thicket. e ran aud climbed up a dead piue tree, but the bear climbed after him and ate his ivot off, so that he was .amed for ite. PETICHEN YOR THE HUNT. When the buncer is abou: to set forth upon an expedition he tes bis image of the particular prey god he desires to propitiate and h: joaded by @ pricst with the spirit of the di fe hangs it around his neck and performs mauy ceremonies, scattering sacred Pp meal of seed corn, emblematic of productive- © and magaiilce! hess, and praying the trecs wud thickets of the and otuer ancient structiire, which uave | forest to hold and entangle his game. When he bidvlefiance to she storms for nearly thou- | revenes u spo beast he is in pursuit sand yours, of bus lain down he goes through more hocus- THE CATTLE MARKET nouxDE withous wuich he belicves that he would cover space of about two acres, inclored by uo show whatever of success in the chase, » high and substantial brick wall. The surface | (230/, the p=lests ure able to make the images of in level, sotid, clean and evervthitig with the shan oliert kik a [had two objects in view by visiting Bever- ‘ey—one to attend tho reguiar semi-monihly attic market and witsess the maun spove of their surplu pork, and how the WAYS OF THE Kiowas. Interesting Indians to Figure in the Smith- j= WASHINGTON CHESS CLUB MEETS ever) evening. Visitors always welogma DIERS—OAMES OF THE INDIAN Doe—Feats oF | 910 F streot, * BRAVERY—DOLLS OX HORSEBACK. 1E EXHIBIT OF THE SMITHRONIAN titution at the world’s fair in Chicago will include a display illustrating the manners and custome of the Kiowns, who are the most interesting of all the indian tribesin the United States. Originally they were, perhaps, the wildest, carrying their raids from their home in the Indian territory as far south as the City Of Mexico and as far to the northwost as the No. 17. nbas, Ge posed for The Eventne Star, call the attention of our read re! Sod “cauti'a!"suates au whe nelly reap | spent a; om at — a a Black 6 pieces, long before their lands will bo open to the in- vasion of a horde of boomers. What renders them chioily remarkable is their extreme con- servatism. While othor aboriginal nations have mostly adopted the white man’s ways and more or less of his costume, the Kiowas are much the same intelligent savages that their forefathers were when Columbus discovered America. PrCULIAR One of their pe: burial. Their come THOD OF PURIAL. arities is their method of cies are up in trees. A ¥ hi'e—12 preces. White to pley aud mate in three mowes, OBLEM No. 1K frame work of strong withes is constructed | By 0. HPSSE, Betiviehom, Pa among the branches, and on this the bodies of (Conjowed tor The Evening Stan.) cach warrior wrapped in his | Aclan-cutfour-wover, | all bis property cbout him. Back —2 pleces. ld ever venture to use any- { belonged to a person defunct for fear lost the latter's spirit ehould haunt and destroy him. At the risk of the lives of him- . Mooney of the Lurcau Tecently procured one of thore yria! piaisorms, taking it down from the tree in which it was built. Also he brougt away a lot of boues that were found on it, and the whole will make @ feature of the exhibit re- ferred to. ‘THE TRIDE'S PALLADIUM. There was one curiosity of the Kiowns for which Mr. Mooney would almost nave been willing to give bis own head, but neither he nor any other white man has ever been per- mitted even tolook upon it. It is a bag con- taining the palladium of the tribe—ail the grand medicine paraphernalia, &c. Not least importent of the coutents of this sacred re- ceptacle are 300 scalps of white men and Mex- icans, taken in war or by murder. Also there is the outfit of the famous sun dance, in which young braves acquire their title to warrior- ship by passing lariate through stripe of flesh in their breasts and backs, fastening the other w ‘White to play PROBLEM No. 19, By 3. A. MOSES. & wv $ ends to the saddles of their ponies and causing aK QB KES ER? the latter to tear the ropes loose at fall gallop. & jong the things which Mr. Mooney did socure are a tomahawk that has killed six men aouns and @ spear with a long steel point which has slain twelve persons in fight, wielded by the big ebief who owned it. THE ORDER OF THE DOG SOLDIERS. The most interesting battle trophy obtained, however, is « standard of war belonging to an order of knighthood among the Kiowas, which is called the Order of the Dog Soldiers. It isa staff six feet high, wrapped spirally with otter skin in strips and ornamented with eagle feathers and Lelis. When the tribe fought one warrior was chosen to bear this standard. He was always the bravest, because he was pretty sure to be kille His duty was to rush as far as possible to the front and plant the staff in the ground, at the same time fastening himself “to it in sacha manner that he could not leave it. He carried with him a broad strip of tannid leatuer with a slit in onc end of it, through which be put his head, while throu a hole in the other end he thrust the staff as he ‘White to play and im’ in three moves PROBLEM No. 20. By GEO. E. CARPENTER. vba & Ww mea At Q5 ‘White to play and mate in two moves. ‘The two fol! selh? fie fellgwine problems were diagramed ineow PROBLEM No, 21 (Problem No. 11—Corrected. ) @wksaAtres t AtQ7 KB KAG Ki? Q85 KBZ Qo Qk Que w i 4 atQs AB KB planted it in the earth. Thus he stood, bound White to play and mate in two moves, to his post and immovable, while the fight = raged around him. Under no circumstances FROBLEN Be. 28. (Problem No. 13—Corrected.) By J. J. HANAUER, Dayton, Ohio. was he permitted to lift the standard, although a fellow warrior might release him! “No re- treat,” was the motto of theso fierce wild meu. DOLLS ON HORSEBACK. Like the Comanches, the Kiowas lived, as they have always fought, on horseback. Con- sequently when on foot they are awkward and bow-legged. The very dolls of the little girls usually ride. Each female child in the tribe has her “doll stick,” as itis called. It is a stick Of wood, on which is mounted and set a-strad- die three or four doll babies, securely fastened. Sometimes cach doil has a little saddle beneath it. One of the doll sticks secured by Mr. Mooney has four doll babies on it. One repre- sents a woman with a pappoose on her back, another is a miniature warrior carrying a shield with a scalp attached to it, a third isa girl and the fourth isa boy. Some ot the bigger dolls, which do not ride, are very elaborate indeed. There is a warrior doll two feet high, with long hair that evidently once belonged toa dog. a shield with a picture of a buffalo painted on it, a quiver, a bow and arrows, bair brush and two wooden xpoonsattached tohis belt. The face of the doll is mace of buckskin, with the features marked upon it. Such a one the little Kiow girl does not carry in her arms, but in a sort « cradle on her buck, because that is the way in which she will carry her own children when she has them. Attached to the toy cradle ia always a little bag, which is @ miniature copy of the beaded receptacle iably fastened to the cradle of areal child ig the Kiowas. In the latter case it contains the life of the infant, mother who Permaitiod this precious a be lost would be considered guilty of a he: crime. When the child is big enough to it wears the bag around its neck, and in later years ic is put away carefully aud preserved. You may purchase the bag itself from a Kiowa Indian, but never can you buy what it contains, which is simply the umbilicus of the owner. ack mates in seven tie (a) The ‘siuoro Pumnmwstino. binck casties. (ec) It berms to get a little int aiter all. (d) Now the fireworkscoumence.(e) hie @) it or ts pevitw grotecinicn, This ‘very fine. ‘xP inimuediate mate or lom of the queen ie) Weve a dinsttam Biack— Wayte. White—Feaden, Black to play aud mate in seven moves. GAME No. 11. GAMES oF THE KiowAs. Very interesting are tue games played by the Kiowas. The boys are very fond of tops. They | 4" = nw q Gamba. are always whip tops, of the same shape as | 3. Pk wes aS those used by Caucasian youth, with pegs of | & PAM > SE bone. These atolescent savages are wonder- fully expert in mocking them whirl and take great pride in their skill at the sport. Another form of amusement is throwing with wooden lances at a target made out of a with od im circular shape with a network of rawhide strips. Counts are made according to the distaace from the bull's-eve of tae mesh in wiicu the lance | Siicks. The boys also play a sort of shinny with a leather bail stuffed with decr hair. Still another favorite sport ix the throwing of smooth bones plumed with feathers along the ce in wiuter. Among the men the most alar game is played with strips of wood variously marked, which are thrown upon the ground, counting according to the marks that tall up- vermost. Atthis much gambling is done for i Rx Is hens ih GBs Pots, Res a) 0. Pa 20. Pes And blavk mates in four moves, ool He knows that he can make it ha after the rook wore. (oy Mo wes te, ‘oun BRA. ta) = Tig cs} 9. Kt. kao of Raa A i * zi may be definedasan object in which a 5; catablishinont ia the most perfect order. Three | been induced to dwell for the benefit broad alleys oxtend the entire k owner. It goes without saying that uuless the Js, nnd between the alley: object is constructed inthe proper manner aud tor the eat | painted correctly the spirit will not consent to stay init. These spitiis are very particular } about such thinge. “Quce every year there isa poste teny inche jday set apart for a couneil of the fetiches, and five tect higi, painted white, and bara | They are ail arranged according to their kind ofrowad iron one inch in diameter to conttruct | and color in front of an altar. ‘The quadrupeds ie that hulds from eight to twelve cattle. i The sheep pens are emailer, more nutucrons and rade of lighter maceri. the entrance to the grounds is a newt bulidin; On she right of for the use of ‘the vaperintendent. aud ards Fscs OF other propert ‘The great women's game is called the “game of the two dangerous Rivers.” It re- sembles backgammon somewiiat, the moves being determined by the throwing of five sticks. Whena plaver’s tarow lands one of her pieces in one of the rearned. (b) Looks “ ” wey deve ne” SOLUTIONS AND SOLVERS. white «ets Indians sit around a fi Lannches,ench one holding a fan before hiseyes to shicld them from the heat, his assistants, books, ree i the sealon the | Platform outside aRjeinin and doen from x nom, ane weight ol ani ni cea in its pasaag@over the iron platform. “All the beef cattle sol at auction of at private sale are weigh d and the weight eutered on a ticket given to tke owner. As 200 or more are weizhe:, one ata time, be- fore 10 o'clock in the morning the weighing The two last it E