Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1891, Page 10

10 white hare fur and white chiffon, « fair fascinating white lady, only not clad to FASHIONSFORTHE FAIR Handsome Costumes for Street and Evening Wear, move with regal grace across the ot the ball room. Sometimes these dreams of by gold lace or gimp and at ly wears tan shoes, tan ‘and tan gloves. QUEER FASHION’S MANDATES. ‘The Popular Gored Shirts Which Still Sweep the Streeta—Kussian Styles in Headgear— Ball Dresses for This Season—Furs for Win- ter—Two Interesting Little Fads. Byetial Correapundence of The Evenins Btar_ New Youu, December 25, 1991. NY MAN OR WOMAN can write an epic poem,” said Alexander Dumas, with s sneer, “but it takes s genius to invent a new disb.” Dumas himself wrote a ook book and hence spoke feelingly. Somo- what in the same vein as Dumas’ quaint quip, I am inclined to my that any one ean paint ® picture or soulp a statue, but it requires FANCY WAIST AND scanr. In the fourth illustration will be found the sketch of s yery original fancy waist in crepe de chine, appropriate for afternoon tea or evening reception, with which is worn s gauze scarf. The Tatincuve featares of this bleuse- like garment are its basques of unequal length and its ruffled effects ab the neck and at the sleeves. The coliar, too, is made up in folds of ‘the material cut on the cross. This picturesque garment must be made up ona lining which closes in front with hooks and the gathered ef- fects must be worked out with basting threads. Great patience and no little skill will be necesary to give this fancy waist all the fi zee nd pleats which appesr in the justration. FURS AND Furs. Said a leader in the world of modes tome the other day: “I really grow less and less fond of my furs every year. Furs have become so common. Everyone wears them. Itis like popular gored skirt, called the “craze of the season,” with its true line of beauty and small but graceful tain. Whata pity wo do not know the name of its designer, #0 that the many thousends of our sex who have taken so much real pleasure in seo thetr by this ne to thank. zouk | not winter walking dresses, they ‘ound for about three inches, and, with the coming season of mnd and melting snow, will call loudly to be taken up and carried. It 4s hard on gloves and hard on sleeves, and iast, Dut not least, hard on the bands and srms of ‘our not over-robust women. But what are we ‘to do? Surely not disobey Queen Fashion's man. date and appear in the street in trainlese skirts? Never! As a well-known society woman ox- “T must follow the fashions or the on't follow me!” A very wise saying Iknow there sre some women who would rather go cold than wear # long wrap, just as there are many men who would rather run the risk of pneumonia than muffle up in an ulster; but for the sake of the reasonable ones I pro eved to describe a very handsome long cloak, of which you will get a very good general ide th, made up in # brocaded woolen and is atied The sides of the back cross @ 8 SKATING CosTOMES the gentleman's dress suit; the waiter, the valet and the man who answers your bell sll wear dress suits.” There is no doubt abont it, furs have become dreadfully common of late years. The dainty shop girls flirt their boas in the winter breeze aud thrust their hands into muffs onee only carried by ladies of upper ten- dom. But there are furs and furs. A wealthy American lady who prefers the old world to the le of blue fox which hhion it and cost A famous French actress paid €4.000 for her fars, and the fur robe which the city Irkoutsh presented to the Empress of Russ was valued at £20,000, and yet weighed only one und. It is not at alf likely that such Rie will, be much worn’ this senson. Many a maiden must ueeds content herself with a plain boa, such as is worn by the fair skater in my last illustration. The small muff has hitherto been a fortunate freak of fashion, so far as the Indy of limited means was concerned, but now we are threatened with muffs of enormous proportions, such as used to be carried by our grandams, who, without any exaggeration, oftentimes staggered under their look” When the famocs Tos Thumb went to Enrope he had no difficalty in crawling through Queen Victoria's muff upon his presentation at court. But we shall sce whether this age of artistic tendencies will submit to any such ridiculous decree of fashion, but in modes as in manners the pendulum often swings from one extreme to the other. MIRROW VELVET. In union with the fur trimming so popular now I note the use of anew style of velvet termed mirror velvet, 6 brilliant, so satin-like is ite surface, reflecting the most delicate tints. ‘The green especially is the most modish, all on account of those Russians, but let us not grumble, for it isa most elegant and refined trimming and goes so admirably with fur. ‘There are two little fads of which I wich to One is the tiny gold or silver charm made in the shape of an acorn or olive and filled with perfume, which is permitted to eseape drop by drop. and thus keep the wearer enveloped in an atmosphere of aubtly fascinat- jor; the other is the prevailing fancy of wing up bouquets with a bit of lace. Think of it ta delicate fillet to bind a handful of roses, violets oF lilies of the valley together for costly shred of Verice point, ciennes. Well, it all goes to help the pale-fuced lace maker, for surely no cavalier would make use of the muchine-made web. Brice FELT. Now that France has falten so violently in love with Russia of course everything Russian goes in Paris and we feel the effect of this craze ever here. I'm not sorry for it, as the Russian ladies have a style of their own. which is often charming. Being a cold country, their come im most appropriately for our winter season. and one sces extremely ing Russian shapes in felt hste. One in par- ticular attracted my attention. It was what ts called the Russian turban, made in black felt, faced with black velvet and trimmed with wide velvet ribbon around the crown, the same rib- bon Soop in frontand fastened on with @ rhinestone buckle. A panache of black os- reminding one of the driver. It has a black tee! buckle, and » hat worn by the drosel Telrgt bow im front, with a ste kl. Diack pliced on the side. The ming of the Cronstadt may be charmingly varied by @ folding of white lace on the brim all around. If you don't fancy these Russian turbans ou might like an old French form, MLoaie XI, cach as I eet before you tn ~———+4e—-. RESULTS OF COKONERS’ QUESTS. Gome Queer Verdicts Made at Sittings Half = Century Ago. From the Boston Daily Globe. Some of the coroners’ verdicts in the country fifty or sixty years ago are very curious. The following are some the causes assigned for death: “he come to her death by strangulation in testimony we have sit our hands and seal the day above wroten.” end illustration, a very stylish bit of bh fm beige felt. tobaeco . cream and tobacco brown ont of 2 bow of velvet. hb ‘The elect’ ts very dressy aud refined and alto- —" unique. Forms of » Food New to Hurepe te Be Cooked im Kitehens and Distributed Free Among feta vie ayant vot aad rte | OUR CORN FOR EUROPE| Senses polished floor struction in th Efforts Being Made to Introduce American Maize Abroad, CORN BREAD AND FLAPJACES] corn the People—Agents for the Department of Agriculture Giving Lessone—To Help Amer- ican Farmers _——_— UGGESTIONS FOR SENDING SHIP- loads of corn to feed the famine sufferers in Russia seom likely to be carried out. Word has been conveyed to this government from 8t. Petersbarg that aid in such 9 form would be very gratefully recetved. Coincidently with the shipping of the grain an agent of the De- partment of Agriculture will visit various parte of the exar’s dominions and set up kitchens for the purpose of showing the people how this sort of food ought to be prepared for human gonsumption. Thus utility will be combined with charity and Uncle Sam will later on reap ‘an advantage by securing through the intro- duction of this cereal a now market for hig most important crop. For it must be remem- bered that maize as an article of diet is un- known in northern Europe, When vessels with it were sent from this country to Treland a few years ago to feed the famishing there the nutritious fre! nigh rejected fit for jo fodder, Good WoRE IN OzRWANY. During the last few months i because it was eonsidered only special agent of the Department of Agriculture has been in Berlin trying to teach the Germens to eat corn. Having set uj of that capital, small kitchens in different parts be has distributed corn bread, corn flapjacks, eorn dodgers and other propars- tions of ‘the grain amon, them hot and either {ree nal He ifthe peopl of chargeor at PI bas suceecded in interesting that government in the subject to such un ex- serving a nomi- tent that corn mized with rye has been recom- mended officially for the rations of th ‘Owing to the fact that the caar bas army. prohibited the exportation of rye from Russia on account Of the threatened famine, Germai ply of that cereal has been cut posed, therefc toldiers sball be y's main have acquired » taste for the American vegeta- ble before long and so become a regular pur- chaser of it from the United States. Already @ merchant named Wilzynski has opened a great store on one of the principal telling by wholesale and streets of Berlin for retail bread made of rospect of obi ves of the new food can of six loaves of the old the inducement got for the [soced ‘ora. the point of view of the toiling masses is v Great. Ut is anticipated that Defore long ths ere all over ~~ ofcornand rye. Anot about to go into th will be baking brea er firm in Berlin is manufacture and sale of cornmest, mush, pat up in packages of und ‘oted to cooking and domestic economy gen- erally. An agent of the Department of Agri- culture will probably be sent there to make s show of corn and the methods of preparing it. SECRETARY RUSK'S IDEA. As for the project of sonding shiploads of corn to Russia, Secretary Rusk says that it is like throwing bread upon the waters with » string tied to it, But he adds that the time has come for American exporters to actively take up the business of introducing the new cereal abroad, following up the initiative of the gov- ernment, he cannot be ex Uncle Bam may ted to open up trade, but dram for eux m. There isnowscall for the exertion of individual enterprise in this matter. The only form of corn at all known in north- ern Europe as human food is corn starch. It is mostly sold in Great Britain under other names to conceal the fact that itis a product of maize, 80 strong is the an article of that the leading cereal not ha wo bitter been adopted old world, where the cry nd_ agonizing. of the new as for “cheap Hopes aro enter- Prelvdice against the grain as fiet. It seems very surprisin, world should aff in th bread” is tained, however, of teaching these peoplos across the ovean to use maize by cooking it for them publicly, b; distributing literature vertising its qualities and comparutive cheap- the increased demand would be of great bene- fit to the farmers of thiscountry. It is reck- oned by Secretary Rusk that t an advance of five cents a bushel for corn during the next decade would add $1,000,000,000 to the value of this crop during that period, ‘NO COUNTRY CA¥ COMPETE WITH Us IN Cony. While American wheat meets with compe- tition from Russia, Indis and the Argentine Republic no country in the world can compete with our corn as to and climate of the qpality or price. ‘The soll ited States produce a superior growth of the grain, the cold winters hardening it and the warm summers bringing it to perfection, and a comps Firstrate railway facilities atively short ocean voyage afford to the domestic product a great advantage over corn from the Argentine and. India. trips over seas through the heat cause the grain to “swe: inferior grude of corn sumed to a considerab! Long of the tropics and deteriorate. An wn in Italy is con- extent in thatcountry. From southeastern Europe comes the corn of the Danube, a small variety, for chieken food to the of mush, f mMerican, size of the grain. In Ireland corn in called 1, A which is preferred to the form tirabout,” bas been slowly coming into favor, and is largely used when the Rotate crop faila | The tuber is proferred in of plenty, although corn is more nourishing. Europe. Ireland corn as human food than poleperch country in PREJUDICE AGAINST CORK. Ciroulars, inc ‘as to where the ean be obtained, may be handed around at the meetings. There is room in Ew for the consumption of several hun- dred ma bushels annually of American corn, much of it as food for human beings who not now get enough to eat. It has already been that American my ye ufacture r. Fi from Russia, but, owina to" the ca oot that ut, owing to ure o} crop, they have been com to look in other directions for a supply. It was decided after Many experiments that the oil obtained from cago. that fore long amount to 80,000,000 or 40,000,000 bushels yearly. WHERE THE COBY CROP IB PRODUCED. Although the greater portion of the crop of ‘maize is produced in whst is knowg as the greatcorn belt of the northwest, inclading Parts of the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohi valleys, it may be ‘said of this crop that it is the only one which can be raised abundantly and italy in every state and territory of the Bnion. It grows well In Floride, is cbuadaut in Minnesota, obtains Inxuriance along the At- lantic and Pacific coasts, and is a valuable and indispensable product ‘all over the United Btates. With an acreage of 78,000,000 acres it 4s the largest cultivated fd grown im any eountry and the possibilities for extending ite production are almostunlimited. ‘The acreage now planted in a single year is greater than the total surface area of New England, New York and New Jersey combined. equals in extent the total cultivated land in France or Germgny. It represents the most important branch of American agriculture. About 06 per cent of the crop is annually con- sumed in this country, and more than 80 per cent of jt is virtually consumed on the farms where it is grown. On tho farm it feeds the working animals, fattens the beeves and hogs, ig an important constituent in butter and cheese production and forms part of the family vation. Itappears on the table in American homes both as meat and bread, and again the form of tempting and appetizing delicacies skillfully prepared from. soine of its many pro- Th forage which its blades furnish makes up @ large portion of the winter teed of farm animals in many sections of the country, where it supplements and sometimes takes tho place of LITTLE VARISTY IN BREADSTUFYS. Under present conditions there is but little varioty in the breadstuffs which form the daily rationsof the populousempires of China, Japan and British India. In oriental countries, for existence is most fierce, and where the search is continually for the It more than upport if there might be a wide field for the introdue- tion of corn. In China and Japan the native populations among the lower classos are hard Pressed by the wants of nature, and if they could be tanght that maize furnishes acheap food stuff of exceptional values demand of onormons Proportions migut be created. In Europe the ind of grain used marke the differences between the weal and the poorer classes, Wheat isthe aristocratic and rye the plebcian grain, and there is but little gradation between these extremes of breadstuffs. ‘Tho introduction of maize and its products might give » welcome addition to the dietary of all classes—those who dine upon the dainty white loof, as wall as those whose subsistence is largely upon the coarse and cheaper breads from rye and other grains. ‘To the first will be offered numerous foothsome dishes, maigonas, starches and other preparations, while for those occupying lessfavored stations in life a cheap grain eapa- bl definite variationsin preparation, both nourishing and healthful, will give moré-vari- ety to the daily food supply, and bring addi- tional comfort and contentment into the lives gf the great mass of the old world's populs- tion. Written for The Evening st: God With Us. From the German of John Peter Langs. L God with ust EArth’s daily portion, , dark world, wake from repose; Earth no jonger an abortion, ‘Now shall blossom as a rose. Lo, the curse from her remove, God makes her His house of love. 1. God with ust In flesh appearing Is the one eternal word! ‘That sweet smile of heaven wearing, Ah, such wonder hast thon heard? Lo, the grace, clust’ring mild, ‘ Of the new-born, heav'nly Child! U1. God with ust A wonder stranger ‘Night and darkness to disperse, And thus cradled in a manger, Here 10 take earth’s sin and curse. From the Tree of Life the bloom Fragrant makes the stable room. I. God with ns! Our battles fighting, ‘Ye, who oft in bondage go, One has come, the wrong uow righting, ‘Smiting down our deadliest foe. Biood-stained there behold Him stand, Reaching out # Savior's hand. v. Goa with ust To death descending, Walking with us through the vale; Ah! the glimpses, sweet, transcending Of that wondrous Easter tale! Lean your head upon His breast, Homeward takes He you torest. VI. Goa with us! Through countless ages Anh! the compact atill extends! Swiftly turn although life's pages, Still the wonder never ends, And this manger shines afar, An unsetting morning star! J. H. Ranks. ——_oo—_____ Stories of Daniel Webster. From the Boston Globe. The following anecdote of Daniel Webster, “| A HISTORIC LOCALITY. Recollections of the Old Houses on the Site of the New Post Office, HOMES OF PROMINENT MEN. The Evening Star's Old Home—Fanny Kem- bie’s First Impressions of America—How She Chose the Stago—Gov. Shepherd's Recol- lection of Dr. May—The Tariff asa Stumbling Block, Written for Tux EvExtNe Stam, HE COMPLETE OBLITERATION OF the buildings on the square opposite the office of Tux Evexrxa Stax, to make room for acolossal building for this city post office, is another stride in the onward march of im- provements which will in time make this city the equal of the capitals of the old world, It may be, too, an advance toward the contem- plated oeeupancy of the south side of the ave- nue for public buildings from the Botanical Garden to the White lot. Looking back at the advance which has been made in 8 comparatively few years, it may be confidently believed that such an improvement is in the range of probability. That neighbor- hood as I knew it from my boyhood has seen many and varied changes. I can rocall it for more than sixty years. The honse in which I was born was built as early as 1800 and rebuilt, after its destruction by a fire, about 1810. It was an imposing structure for that day fore welling, some forty fect front, and next it, to the east, was the residence for years of Mr. John Sessford, an old and respected citizen, who came here with the government and was far years in the Treasury Department. Mr. Bessford was also for some years one of the commissioners of the city and supplied the Nationai Intelligencer with reports of the im- provements made yoar by year. I believe the family, thongh quite a nimerous one, is ex- tinct, though some members of another branch of the family remain, represented by Mr. Bese- ford of the Smithsonian. Beyond that old house, I remember so well, was one occupied for years by Mr. Tongue,atinsmith, and then a vacant lot, which was for years used as a hand ball alley, before the days of base ball, which in that day was called “round eat.” The large building on the corner of 11th streot, built by Mr. William J. Stone, whose widow yet live member it, by Col. Peter for: e office of the National Journal. In the library of the Georgetown University I found some volumes of the National Journal of 1825-6-7. It was the organ of Mr. John Quincy Adams, and while Mr. Adams was Secretary of State it was charged by the National Intelligencer, which was in op- Position to Mr. Adams and in favor of Craw- ford for the presidency, that the National Jour- nal was edited by the Secretary of tate. The Journal was the organ of the administration of Mr. Adams when he became President. Mr. Philp R. Fendall and George Watterson and Richard 8 Coxe wore editors of the same Paper. Subsequently, in 1833-4, the year of the cholera, it was used as a hospital, and there a Gentleman afterward inayor of Washington, john T. Towers, was a resident medical student, ‘The samo building was the home of Txr Evewino San under Dug Wallach and remained until it outgrow its limited quartere. OTHER RESIDENCES. On 1)th street were some small homes and the residence of Mr. James F. Halliday, who was for some years collector of the city anda member of the board of aldermen and common council, and next door to his residence tho Washington Library, a literary resort in those ys. ‘The remainsof that institution are to be scen at the Young Men’s Christian Association. Passing round the corner to C street I can re- call the home of Mr. John T. Given’s father, and the house was standing and in good condi- tion a year or two ago when I passed there. On 12th street were some small houses and “Waters' wood yard,” a favorite play ground, and then came, at the corner of D street, a grocery store, kept for years by a Mr. Myers and John and Dave Morgan, and next, a small brick, where Mr. Hauptman lived and carried on a tin shop, and bis son lives on 11th street above the avenue in the houso his father built and where he moved on leaviny D street, and that was many years ago, for Mr. Seutferle cecupied it when his ‘son, Mr. George Senfferle, of Jackson & Seufferle, was a small boy. In about 1836-'37 we removed from there and then the march of improvement was begining in a small way. Opposite, on the ave- nue, at the corner of 12th st: large tavern, nota hotel in those days, “The Foun- tain Inn,” with 4 swinging sign, kept by David Appler, and afterward by Jock Douglass and next door to him was the music and sta- tionery store of Wm. Fischer and Pishey Thompson's book store, and then came the tobaceo store of Lewis Johnson and the dry cods store of John Allen, some sort of a store fy a Mr. Gibson, and on thecorner, where Tue Evesiva Stax office is now, the drug store of ‘Wallace Kirkwood. In that store, as a clerk, was his brother,Samuel J. Kirkwood, subse- quently governor of Iowa and United States Seuator from that state, and who still lives. WHERE VAN NESS RESIDED. Going back to the south side of 12th and D streets is the house, modernized somewhat, where Gen. John P. Van Ness resided while the ‘Van Ness mansion was being built, and next to the corner on D street Mr. Richard Cutts, who was secretary of the Senate in the early days. An old resident of that locality is Mr. Henry A. Clarke, who lived on 12th street just above the avenue, and opposite lived Col. John H. Riley and Henry M. Moffitt, a leading member of the bar, and Henry Ashton, marshal of the Dis- trict. THE OLD KIRKWOOD HOUSE. Years after, and I cannot recall when, the Kirkwood House was built and kept by the brothers John and Albert Kirkwood, and they took asan annex the house of Col. John H. Ril There John C. Breckinridge, Laz Pow- ell, Senators from Kentucky, and Albert Pike resided. But that was in modern times. Darius Clagett, for whom my father built the house, - € ' THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. Falstaf’ of the American who left mer- cantile life at mature age, who for so long a time mado that and other’ cl his own. The Kembles made their debut in America after resti Hamlet on Bianca in aa actor named xy, who was nervous and imperfect at the rehearsal and who was su as Fazio, and says: “What on earth will he or shall I do tonight?” A friend asks her if she is apprehensive, and she writes: “No, my troth, Tam not. Not because I feelsure success, for I think it probable the Yankoes may like to show their critical firent and independence by damning me, but becanee I do not care whether they ‘to ornot. The whole thing is too loathsome to me for either failure or saccess to affect mo in the least, and there- fore I am neither nervous noranxiousaboutit.” 1 WAS NOT STAOR STRUCK. This may seem indifference, but it is well known Fanny Kemble was not “a stage struck maiden.” She had not been reared in the Glare of the footlights, and her home was dark- ed by the failure of her father asa manager and other speculations. She adopted the stage for the purpose of aiding ber parents, and so sudden was that impulse she had only six preparation under the tutelage of herad- mirably qualified mother and it, Mra. Whit- lock. Her grace and youthful beauty and the prestige of her name aided her more than the talent she displayed on her first apy She had to encounter the rivairy tresses as Ellen Tree and Helen Faueit, and jecessful as she was she had no love for the stage. It may have been the desire to from what she called “loathsome” which induced her to embark in matrimony with Pierce union which was soon severed. The “journal” becomes more interesting as it Proceeds, and is written with great freedom, indeed too much, for one who was treated with great consideration. I cannot recall with any distinetness Fanny Kemble's Julia (a character which she created) in the *Hunchbaek, cept that one point which she made so ous: “Do it! now leave the task to me,” scene with Master Walter. Her daughter, ‘Mre. Leigh,owns the estate on Bt. Bimon’s Island,Ga., which ehe inherited from her father. Mrs Komble Butler's sbolition propensities or gpinions made her unpopular in that region. ler readings were wonderful. All the characters in the plays she read were brought before you by her extraordinary powers of personation. I will return to this jourual or part of it where she treats of Washington at that day. Her tour was a most-successful one. DR. MAY's COURAGE. All that relates to the older citizens of Wash- ington I take pleasure in recording in this eol- umn. Soon after the death of Dr. J. Fred’k May his son, Dr. William May, received a letter from Gov. Bhepherd dated Batopiles, Mexico, May 24, 1891, in which he said: “Noticing the death ‘of your father in the newspapers re- ceived this day recalls an incident which oo- curred about forty years ago. In the easly part of 1852 1 was crossing 15th street in front of Rigge’ Dank, when, hearing loud shouting and yelling, I looked up the avenueand saw four or five ‘roughs’ near the corner of 15th street who were intoxicated and ugly. A poor old woman happened to be passing, with @ basket on her arm, when the brutes knocked her down and were ‘maitreating her, I started back, hen sleigh drove up and tall, splendid looking man Jumped out, and with a couple of well-directed blows from the butt end of his whip knocked two of the fellows stiff, while the “ee ran off. fat a hie “This man was your father, an courage and promptness made an impression on me 0 great that the scene is as vivid as thongh it took place yesterday. Boy as I was at the time it gave mea lesson as to a man's duty which ‘bas lasted me thus tar through life's journey.” THE TARIFF Will doubtiess be one of the issues of the eom- ing presidential campaign and will occupy the attention of Congress. Orators will make th welkin ring on both sides of the question, but eré is probably no measure so little under- stood by the general public as that predomi- nating question, which comes up in various {grms every few years. It has defeated more than one presidential candidate, and the political history of the country is filled with speeches of statesmen who have, in the changes of events, spoken with equal ability on both sides of that uestion. Going back to the early davs of Webster and Calhoun, I find Mr. Webster be- gan life as one of the most pronounced free traders, and Mr. Calhoun started out in his political career as » protoctionist, believing, as did, that cotton could be more advantage- ously manufactured where it grow. Mr. Web- ster attacked the tariff bill of 1824, and an- nounced himself us against it “as an obsolete and exploded idea of protection,” and in Mr. Calhoun he found an able ally. The tariff of 1823 was a very high tariff, protecting raw material such as wool’ and hemp, and yet Mr. Webster voted for the bill with Mr. Van Buren and Ben~ ton, while his colleague in the Senate, Edward Everett, and Iswac Bates, in the House, voted against it. It was this high tariff Calhoun re- volted at and threatened uullitication. John Randolph was so opposed to the tariff that he said “he would walk a mile to kick a sheep,” a: it embodied protection of wool. The com mise tariff, called Mr. Clay's tariff, provided for & sliding ‘scale of duties to run ten years, and then a reduction of all duty in excess of 20 per cent: in fact, all duty over that was to be abol- ished. The whig tariff of 1842 brought no re- lief, and in 1844 Pennsylvania was carried by “Polk and low tariff.” while Clay, the embodi- ment of the protection idea, was defeated. It ia a very dangerous weapon, and has eaused many itaieaman to straddle the question. I met a few days ago Mr. Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania, who was elocted Speaker in 1861 on the meeting of Congress July 4. Mr. Grow entered Congress severel years before. In 1859 the debates were persoual in the ex- treme and Mr. Grow came into personal col- lision with Mr. Brancls of North Carolina and a challenge passed. The thirty years which have dsince he occupied the Speaker's ehair ave added but very little evidences of age in his appearance, for he looks just about the same. While occupying a seat in Congress he was one of the friends of our city and looks with pride upon the improvements he aided by his vote. Joun F. Cone. SS Love Laughs at All. H MENDING MAIL SACKS, ‘How Uncle Sam's Mall Bags Are Repalred— 250,900 Locks Kenewed. ove IN EIGHT YEARS ALL THE LOCKS ou United States mail bags must be changed, if not oftener. This is because after awhile ® good many lost keys get sround, and they are not very safe to have so distributed. Just now the equipment division of the Post Ofice Department is making over 250,000 old locks, merely for the purpose of rendering them different. ‘They were very good in their day, and sre 80 still in other reepects. At first it was suggested that all these 250,000 locks should be thrown away. The junk men were asked how much they would give for them, and they said 20cents ahundred pounds. This did not seem large, inasmuch as the post office had originally paid ST cents apiece for the locks. Therefore it was concluded to make them over ‘again, and this is being done now at the repair shop om C street, at a cost of 63; conts per lock. It isa very pretty sight to see the workmen cut the old contrivances apart, polish them up on rapidly revolving grindstones, which give out showers of sparks, reorganizing the tumblers and putting together the pieces inte as good sbape as tho new lamps which the magician in the story of Aladdin exchanged for old ones. MATL BAGS. Theso locks, as has been said, are to sccure mail bags, but even more intresting are the ‘mail bags themselves and their histories. Nat- Bralty, in the course of human events, these re- ceptacles wear out now and then. This being Tegarded as inevitable, in former timos they were turned over ptly to the junk men. Now, however, it is all very different. Accord- | ing to the regulations, as fast aa the bags show | symptoms of wearing out they are forwerded | to Washington from all over the United States. | Thus one finds in the equipment shop on | Streot great rooms heaped with enormous Stacks of mail sacks in all stages of use, decay, and, one might almost aay, of decomposition. Upon arrival they are conveyed by a big elevator to the third floor, where 110 women fit sewing with conrse thread. The bags are made of {ute, Some of the women wuar dunce-caps of brown paper on their heads, and all are busy asso many bees. They are all sewing upon mail sacks, and whenever one has Gnished wer task she holds up her hand. At once the fore- man in charge goes to her, takes the bag she has finished and lays it ona pile. In exchange, he gives ber another, which he takes from # stack near by. The sacks in the latter pile are in all stages of dilepidation, and the rule is ag exch worker must tako the gue, that ie on jen partition shuts ot women from sight of the pile, because some complained & while ago that it was ible for others to eee when there were sacks on top, and so escape bad ones. It islike the system of “takes” in a newspaper office. WHERE LEATHER RAGs ARE MEXDED. ‘Thas far only the jute bags have been spoken of. But there is another room in which the a mail pouches are mended, twenty-two workmen being employed for the purpose. This system has grown up within the inst four years, So short a time ago only eight women and three leather workers were employed to do the work. But it was believed that a great economy would result from devoting attention to the mending of old sacks, and this has proved so far true that many thousand fewer are made an- nually now than were required in 1887, although the post office business has increased one-quar- ter since then. ‘The bags are manufactured in New York state. READY FOR USE AGAIN. When the mending of cach bag is finished it is inspected by a man who is the only person in the United States with whom the decision lies as to when @ mail sack is worn out and shall be used no longer. Condemned ones are a Utilized in one fashion or another. The be parts of them are used for the bottoms of sacks that have to be repaired, while other portions serve for patches, the ragged bits being slashed off with sharp knives. Buch rags goto the funk shop. each sack has been repaired it is taken to @ room where drawing its mouth together is strung through it by a blind woman. “Another room is devoted to the making of coin sacks, in which postmas- ters send money. Jee eS FIFTY YEARS AGO, NEARLY. & piece of rope for A Glimpse of Affairs as They Were in the Year 1843. 66] OOKING BACKWARD” FIFTY YEARS oF 80 one gets s more vivid conception of things as they were then from a newspaper of that time than in any other way. Ouly yes- terday a Stan writer picked up scopy of the Madisonian, a daily publication issued in Wasb- ington, dated “Wednesday evening, November 8, 1843." It wasa four-page sheet, about the length and width of Tux Stax, with type not Very unlike that in which these words are printed, althongh in broader columns. The | from tte pockets FAGIN IN REAL urn A Veritabie Academy of Theft in the Shame of Melbourne. From the San Francisco Chronicle, Of the habits of the prosiding fablishment to warrant a litte on this institution for budding in this and other lands. brought hisname under the tectives somewhat prominen courts, have given their ad street pickpockets and citeumstance naturally common to them all. . but, as may be imagined. ting positive proof scomed and so it proved tobe. A 5 tenoed to threo months few months ago for pocket street, and haile A rogular clans of instr A and the inds wer inate: prosch it quie very radimentar: After the lads in approaching t wae substituted for at. then put himself up to be The pupils in tarn direction of re ‘img aud chain and broastpin if they were feats without rudely attr the good-natured mod ina fair way to a by ay it my hie y cy person, they were tustructed cate and dan, concealed pii In other orda, they were contents, and special a ladies’ pockets, which offe the confiden: street brigand. The pupils, when they had & pocket-picking out into the streets to exnay wary denizens. Bonanza Ores Were From the San Francisco Pxauner. towers ha’ near Leavenworth, al They are both very broad an have brick enough in them to. buildings. the famous Selby smelting « There from the bonanza d as 1885 the great chin and emoke. They never over the domes at night time, of men toiled in and about t and shoveling ore and slag, bullion and refloing it to pure and cop) move its wor underground It was kn: je that cons the ground and silver settla advice of whiied pany dng w ruin Etount of soll, to the d transferred it by tor Port Costa. There the stuff of slag and mineral-perme remained. They aceor Paper was yellow with age, At the head of the editorial columns on the second page was a declaration of the Madisonian’s policy, as fol- lows: “No Bank—No Abolitionism—A Revenue Tariff—No Publie Debt—A Strict Construction of the Constitution, as by Jefferson—An Eco- nomical Administration of Public Affairs.” A leading editorial declares that the most ex- citing item of news by the recent steamer is “the armed dispersion of the people of Irelend at Clantarf and the subsequent arrest of Mr. O'Connell and eight others upon » charge of conspiracy.” Beneath the editorial columns is a communi- cation from a correspond who argues that the observance of Thanksgiving day should be adopted in the District of Columbia. Follow- ing it is a half-columa New York letter, dated four days back, which of the be ing elections ‘and expresses bopes that the democrats will win, although they are “some- what split." Then come some abusing Mr. Clay. “tle « potri how!” fairly shouts the indignant Madisonian. In anotber part of the same page it is stated that the navy agent has commenced paying out treasury notes, of which “the public begins to discover the availability for business put e Bays the Madisonian: “As this isan experiment we are disposed to give it encouragement and a fair trial.” Under the head of “Indian News” it is stated that “the Texan commissioners place. The ground was sold rouse the youthful maletactore belonged which flourished at the address that seem, } Tnquirics wore made as cautioasly as mgbt tok rt of lay figare was After the p + the multifarious chances offered by If they happened spoil they were expected and eompolied to dis- Gorge @ share of it to their benefactor, see GOLD-LINED TOWRKS, flame and volumes of soot circled in th With the chimneys, as well as c about, was permen! the works and, it is said, realized not less than 500.000. 0.000. Kelby & Co. did not dream that in the towers which were leftstanding and in t A regular callege for pickpockets has been lighted on in Meivourne, and th ent it is impossibe for the po: rrest, sufficient evidence has been collected agh at pres © to make an genius of the es light being bet im cerimimality. The lemee of the house, who ie also the sole and only instractor of bis promising pupils, is © person who has seen the interior of prisons Me has for some years past been known tothe police under the gen- erie sinr of a “bad character,” bat what has notice of the de- tly of Inte ix the coincidence that several offenders of tonder age, who have at intervals figured in the police Jdresare at this bonne, The offenders have only been of one ons a nt eome Bourke nctia certain dexterity a living model ead of the school rerimented upon. heir hands in the watch m his person, and lish ‘these little ting the attention of wore accoun’ oma in FeMOVIN rally worn on the in the more deli- ‘ous branch of prospecting 1oF shown how it is possible for a thief who knows his business to take bank notes and purses from a man'e trous- ers pockets, to undo coats and waistcoats with- out foolish parade of any kind and egtract the tion was given to the fairest mark to become tolerably sense, were sent their fortunes in their un- to gather Wealth in the Old Chimneys Where the Kefined. For nearly « quarter of « century two tall tood at the foot of Hy street ost on the edge of the beach. One rises to the height of 110 feet and the other reaches more than 50 feet in the wir. 4 thick, and they construct several They are relics of the flush old days of the Comstock mining era, when Flood, O'Brien, Pair ang others banded together and erected J refining works. of 1868 to as late 's belehed forth fire pod. Wreaths of wir z molding bars of silver, guld, lead in 1085 ‘the Selby Company concluded to wn that the old ted the furnaces iderable of i with gol and solid metal, On the aropean experts the com- run thr: doved the end nothing was ‘tought about it for a long time. Some tit Merchant the ground on which the old e ago W. B. Cluff, present sing pile and chimneys remain. the well-known d politician of this city, acquired works end the a consists of five fifty-vara lots, or two and = quarter acres. Meantime he had several ex- perts make examination of the brick towers and the surroundin motal and black They reported that the dust of the towers was @ veritable mine of wealth, and that the grimy matter that filled the interstices and in one form or another permeated the brick reeked with valuable minerals. slag which had been carted blazing furnaces in primitive Also that the gray from the contained ct da: large quantities of gold and silver and should be worked over. “Promptly Chaff secured the silver and and thedebris. He is said to for the chimneys alone, His thereupon Mc. old-lined towers ve paid @40,000 object is to work them up and get the money out of them. “Ido not think Iwill have any trouble in tting the gold, silver and other mineral out,” ge he said yesterday. English expert that Selby & “It was on the advice of an Co. took alot of the debris to Port Costa, aud Iam informed they got over $500,000 out of that. Several skilled mining men have come to me lately and offered to buy me out or work the chimneys, slag and soil on a percentage closed with any! and do ‘There i» an immense amount of slag there. some places it is 200 feet deep. 4, silver and lead, with we I bave not not think I shall. In It ail coutains some copper. I To illustrate the strength of the prejudice against corn in that part of the world mention may be made of an instance in the city of Glas- gow, where it was pr. by a member of he poor-ouse board to substitute maize for costlier food in that institution. The uggestion brought a md fenseloss paupers 8 food which was only fit for Piss, Americus canned goods of all other inds are largely sold who was in 1796 © member of Phillips Exeter Academy, was related to a friend of mine by Samuel Lawrence of Exeter: A fow days after Mr. Wobster had entered Exeter Academy he returned to his boardi house one evening in a very despondent m and told his friends there that the city boys in the academy were constantly laughing at him beeause he was at the foot of bis elas and had come from the backwoods, kopt for years a dry goods store on the corner of 11th street and tho avenue where now is Bren- tano’s book store. Years after Robert Farn- bam and then Blanchard & Mohun occupied it a8. book store. Carusi’s Saloon, on 11th street, now a theater, is among my enrliest recolloc- tions when his annual May'ball was the event of . Ithad been a theater long before andI have often heard my mother extol the layers of that period—old Jefferson, Blissett, Francis Warren and others had the ground «ssa; 4 about there, too, and it all shows up well. in some places it is “Paul Burns came to his death by emule y with a waggon and being thrown have met the Comanche and other Indians at their council upon Red river. A friendly a exists ad all — . = @ most interesting paragraphs reports the fact that “Audubon, the ornithologist, bas arrived at Philadelphia from the far west He has brought with him anumber of large boxce fill “yz, rich.” ir. Cuff's intention is to tear down the great towers, whicn have vo long been landmarks in the history of the city, and can be seen from miles out atsea and in other directions, and wrest from them their gold aud silver lining. oo “From causes unknown to the jury and having no medical attendance.” “Came to bis death from national causes.” VSTEM. i ; aa i two large rocks, perfectly spherical. which he | gay change Deprecated by One Who Has upon their oath do ‘rope, but onnned | “The next day Mr. Nichols Emery, who was FANNIE KEMOLE'S Frust VISIT. Young Bertie—-"‘Oh, darling, here comes your | *¥0 large rocks. perfectly spherieal. which he death i following manner, by falli ¢orn is almost never seen there. Ifa demand | the: assistant tutor in the academy, urged to the old theater and actors of 8 forbidden me the house.’ ured Mad Long L-apertence, ho piank brides nivilental wile irping | for it could be ereated ft would mean hundreds | {yeaa casistant tu nothing uth beste aad tae eee seine : A waters of the Missouri. called Connee Ball that long past recalls» diary of FannicKemble, published in 1835, whicn fell into my hands some days ago. The journal begins in 1832, while she and her father, Charles Kemble, were ‘on the ocean, en route to fulfill her first en- gagement in this country. She was then cross the stream and was drowned.’ “The foceres on thare oanthe do tay that he to his deth be So AKO the could not ything else matter. his death from the following it: from some suddent cause to the unknown.” of thousands of dollars yearly to the prie- tors and workers of our canneries. ‘aoe ot the Department of Agriculture have been ex- Sen Sree area ope of ing le e it. Wherever cre iin farms arts bare mreer cor ins of alg so have been received ao favorably as 10 give good expectation in this re- Recorder Smyth im Beritner'a There has been some criticism of late in the Aiscussion of lawyersas to the adviaability of river, from the fact that numbers of rocks are found in it resembling cannon balls in shape isa added that all would yet come out right. The advice was , and at the end of the frst quartor Mr. Emory, mustering his class in a line, formally took the arm of young Webster and him from the foot to the extreme At the end of the second quarter, when the claws was mustered, Mr. Emery said: ° xperionce, that in «great majority of cases “Daniel Webster, gather up your books and | fathe: ‘are @10 each. A dealer publishes the | «, ed ato, the tomato and | take down your cap 2 days! A great space is taken up with her ex- foot teat = just received two new piano- | Be decision of gry ~~ eter i vos bis own band.” in, hae | The boy ‘obeyed, and, thinking that he was perience on board and the passengers, and not fortes, which can be examined at Stationers’ | ticular case have been just od-weg ‘Disability caused by Innacy. com- | about to be expelled from school, was sorely | {uteresting to the general reader.” Sho dev Hall. ““Vileloths, suitable for halis end pas- | sometimes surprised me to see how mon be- ‘Being run over by two coal seems | troubled. scribes the visit of th rsink and sages," are advertised by another m t, | longing to the business community, and un- det from the nen. The teacher soon di led the ilinsion, for | of a “news collector,” who brought news of the who informs the public that he bas on band “a | aqnainted with the intricacies of the law, have “Come to his death by tender No. 7 jumping he continued: “Now, you will pleage re- | cholera raging and the contest bet Book of Samples, eight different | made distinctions between different evening gown, chrysan’ the track. on which he was riding, either jump- ore Tewwesil te the tenaber of the first class! son and the whige on th patterns of the newest styles. being the motif. If one doesn't care for em- Sg gr Sins of, 0nd cugine sensing over hiss, whic a accide! 1nd You, yo) tlamen, will take an affoc- Hionate ‘ickve ef your elasem Rover see him her way to the hotel, way and Barcla of the houses in lower of offenses, and have brought mm ver- which conform exactly to the legal re- quirements of the cases. It bas sometime thr. that the La ceenen jt and no fault of the announ it that the * s) , loption of a grocery propaganda would ar aid materially in introducing the food. Under our elassmate, for you will {Erne camerosope a fn for showing dioramic paintings” will be ex- way as “gla haps, that jarors bave been dn They never did see him in that class room | white and red straw color and hibited st “Apollo Hall for one weck oniy. | Loner pevune ts this plan a few fect of space might be hired in came ™ i - en 7 facts of a case to one ce more eatablish ee ee as when the eyes of the 'N.B—The Minstrels aro fora | renders Sack dese mak irginia few knights and due notice will be given of $99 soir fi ° “Drawing From the Antique” , From Tite ve or aro advertised for sleowhere ‘by "the, commis ‘WHAT SHE THOUGHT OF AwEnIcays. Her first visitor was Collector Saml. Swart- demanded So Se wout, who subsequently obtained notoriety aud handkerchiefs, cotton shawls, ebirting, ee ees coer eat e a to and and fency ae was disgusted “‘with the rabble.” yer ee, payee ge ormlifon pei : ee ae saperryibamidepdr sty wb as olin, ap fa Fie a exhibit themselves and to examine others.” ao net TS “The women aro dressed, with a — Crabs With Human Paces in Japan, eee Ae ood ‘From the Brandon Buckmw. ‘oat of armor to night. it ‘nd oees One of the most singular looking creatures abe war against her rivela In it sho ‘in “The that ever walked the earth or “swam the waters or is defeated. The bodice of the of weep- under the earth" is the world-famous man- Dall toilet is new absolutely molded to the astey of faced crab of Japan. Its body is hardly an figure from neck to every line being ac- “Tbe ex- in length, yet the head is fitted with a face curstely fitted. | Bat isa disposition to phy inch . make the evening corsage higner and gloser in street which is the perfect counterpart of that of » the neck in order to give leugth to the figure, Chineve colle; » veritable missing link, with Heals mere Sring g of talle ox at Tha tiny Sais cot parang casa eles "Be 2 or ategem hel 5 ‘deined” Tht vulder seen an; grat bears to cnt the bodice low there must bes ‘which seem to ‘trom the top of ite chiffon or some other sof! HETG? Hi Hi ie at ag