Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1892, Page 13

AGE CANNOT WITHER. Old Heads aa White Hairs in Pub- lic Life at the Capital. IN THE NATION'S COUNCILS. Senator Morrill, > hty-one, is the O1d- est Man in Congress—Philetus Sawyer and Mr. Dawes Come Next—The Septuagena- rians Are > wo when David was a lad SANG IN THE IND HOMER, camps of Greec ng the flocks of Israel, uttered one line in the Ouiyssey that many a thoughtful boy, read- fing. has never forgotten er than their fathers; many are his song said: re and te they be fom A boy in te of human wis They House, comp e Fife S and up- . 222, of over one-half, are fifty JOHN QUINCY ADAMS’ RIPE OLD AGT. in pubke places was never better in the case of John Quincy he harness ateighty. He nf the House, tof the old ablet commemorating he plice. was in Congress at «ylvania on Was seventy-six s bed, and as he was dying the concluding chapters of his ‘Thirty the momenta and the words sy ng out the long service of Mis John Taliaterro ginia was in Con- e years, and e was serving his coun- Treasury Departme: Jackson was the oldest man ever act- ing as President of the United St He was t after Van Te he tock te ‘aete Years, BUCHANAN the next oldest, being within twenty days of seventy when Abraham Lincoln was inau- gurated to succeed him in S61. William H Harrison was the oliest President ever in: being sixty-eight at that time. jer,” be used to say often carry me here whe and gone.” the emp He his men: amen s had been a Un . who was in ¢ ther, Was seven! X MILE STONE. have passed the at marks the three score n of the ps sixty-uine, Na- ss thirty- n in th golden mile stone th Congress years f ¥ prece © Morrill, will be | THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. were hard and the water low r cutting them up and selling them a little later, wher money was easier. Then he went to Wis- consin and discovered that he could not get Tich farming, and again took up lumbering. In a red shirt, ax in hand, he went at it in the woods When he found where the pine was he bought it, and then rowed to buy more, and kept borrow- ing and buying. When the war came with its’ high prices and the rapid development of the west that followed Mr. Sawyer became a millionaire and was elected to the House for ara and in 1881 to the Senate. His eda- cation was limited, more from choice than otherwise. Nature, however, endowed bim liberally with brains and bis sagacity vi tural strength of mind it imagine what he might have been if ‘The longest speech the Wiscon- nator ever made in the Senate occurred in a controversy with Mr. Van Wyck of Ne- braska, who wanted to through an amend- ment toa bill forfeiting a railroad land grant. Sawyer was chairman of the committee on rail- isand had charge of the bill. Van Wyck ing there was strong opposition his the streams and to amendment was making a stren- | who the | row near the aisle, was seen to be twit Te were seventeen was not in pre se: and A Wa’ chman elec ph is to him ® recent even He remembers even George III died in a private mad house. mis Dar Every day Mr. Moi ant home on Th end performs the duties beat as clear and a man mark th ar from his pleas- le to the Capitol f his place with a T as vigorous as man of person he is now somewhat stoop shouldered. ris that of the polished gallant of fifty vears azo. In conversation he is bright ead dryiy humo He has « handsome face, chia cut as man in the 2 and is goo There is no abl trine in public life today than nator. FROM VERMONT TO Wisconstx. ‘When Mr. Morrill was six years old and hay- fg 2 gloriously good time getting spruce gum ead wintergreens in the woods, going to see the soldiers on training making maple taily soon as the sa rau in the « T & great other litt! who is see seniority. This is P tus Sawyer, who enteen © mont was x good state his father 100 for his time. In New York he saved up $2,000. buying the | when | exponent | to move from, and paid | of these | mon | sawlogs when the times | cian, too, comes Vice | has lived and toiled at | street, and since the uous for the it. Senator time in the Sawyer, argument sat for around frequ ‘om his v Van Wyek stopped ipe his brow. When he made ready to rtagain Sawyer bobbed up, very red in the - nd to Van Wyck he shouted “If you'll stop your d— yawp, amendment and pass the bill.” In two minutes the bill had passed. SENATOR DAWES. Mr. Sawyer was born September 22. 1816. Six weeks later,on October 30,Senator Dawes of Mas- sachusetts was born in the state he has so long represented in Con- gress. Unlike Mr. Saw- he enjoyed a thor- h education, gradu- Pll accept your red Congress in 1857, at the age of forty-one, and his service has been continuous since. Dir. Dawes is the suc- cessor of Charles Sum- SEXATOR DAWES, ner in the Sen ‘e ‘The year 117 was well long in the sere and yel- low autumn when ‘the bright bine eyes of John ? M nator from roe and the jent was then returning to Washington from the longest western j up to that time by any Presi- ATOR PALMER. gent or prominent public man, having visited Detroit. Monroe did not know what a fine old fellow had come into the world that fall in that nt Kentucky or he would hare there 'o pay his respects to one sears ago last oneer hom hy would in itself be an ex- the politics of the last half history o! He ntar To look at Mr. Edward Scull of Pennsylvania dream that he was born before compromise. He is seventy- ands six feet tall and wears a long A score of men were Mr. Scull was born Braddock’s defeat. He Somerset i-headed republican poli- m makes a speech, but has a nce. tician whe trong votin: e THE AUTHOR OF “BEN BOLT. Thousands upon thousands of American have the good old song of “Ben Bolt” who will be sarprised to learn that Thos. Dunn English, who wrote it, is a democratic member of the Fifty-second Congress. He is almost the Medicine him as an able and hon- ut authorship and journal- a have been his chief pursuits. He isseventy- two. It is over forty years since Dr. English gave to the world his famous song and the story of “Sweet Alice,” but with his gray hairs he 18 still as mellow and poetical in feeling as ever. ouly literary man in this Congress. el THEY CROSSED THE LINE TOGETHER. Senator Pugh of Alabama and Senator Bar- bour of Virginia crossed the line a year ago. They were born, one a few days before Christ- mas the other a little after, in the year 1820, Mr. Pugh was in Congress “before de wab” ed when Alabama drew out of the part- f states. Mr. Barbour is Riddleber- He Was a railroad president g the House in the Forty-seventh vas twice re-elected and then sate. His hair and mustache are DEST OF THE MPN OF SEVENTY epresentative Charles O'Neill of who is now serving his fourteenth House and is as activo as any other clor on the floor. He is a man forever forbids word or nake an enemy, and his popu es every member of the House. mong his friends, is sixty-nine. handsome young man with a soft rd when he entered Congress thirty- a He is still hale and vigorous work of two or three men every ife. His experience justifies the ages in old men. He has the of the fox, the sagacity of a weasel, alion. No man in public life is or kinder in heart. His poliey large expenditures of public mee from his acquaintance and sym- with common people and a strong de- io for them as he would be done by A VETERAN OF TWo WARS AND EIGHT CONGRESSES comes next on the roster of old meu and wise. This is Gen. Wm. Henry Forney, one of the mainstays of the House committee on appro- ns. He was a first lieutenant in the an war and surrendered at Appomattox, ng the rank of a brigadier. John Sher- will be sixty-nine in a few days before the His politi- whig during the Mexican ¢ entered Congress seven years later. nelected to the Senate six times. Taylor, Garfield's successor in the Ohio tion in the House, is a few weeks younger Sherman. He is in his seventh Congress and is an able member of the judiciary commit- of which be was chairman in the last Con- gress, Ix Tue 1824 cLAss is Leland Stanford, who may be seen any fair day walking down Connecticut avenue. John ‘T. Morgan of Albawa is also in this year. He can make a better epeech than any man in the Senate, but is apt to be rather long than strong. He talk four days against the force billlast winter. Colquitt B., of Georgia, whose iNaD father before bim sat in the Senate, was an 1824 aby. So, too, were Gen. ‘homas J. Henderson a f the Illinois delega- #Ttionin the Honse and Mr. Randall of the New Bedford and Fall River, SENATOR STANFORD. Mass. district. Gen’ Henderson is an able-bodied republican with « fine war record. Mr. Kendall is a benevo- lent, white-haired old gentleman, who retired from business twenty years ago and enjoys | life in the House as would a picnic. Eli Stackhouse, anew mem- er from South Caro- ‘ina, was born where he farming all his life. fought under He Long- war has kept out of polities and devoted himself to farmug and writing for agricultural papers. In this 1824 was admitted to tle | President Morton, who named his fine Shore- ham Hotel here after the spot in Vermont where he first saw the light. And here, also, appears Col. Lucal Miller of Oshkosh, Wis. ‘THE FIRST GREEK TO SIT IN CONGRESS. He says in his biography in the Congressional Directory that he was born in 1824, bu doesn't know any such thing. The fact is, he and another little Greek boy, sup; to be his brother. were found on the battlefield of Missoloughi by an American officer named Miller and brought to this country. The little boys seemed to be about four years old at that time. They were cared for and educated. Thirty years ago people in Oshkosh called Col. Miller an old man and congratulated him when married a young and pretty wife. He was in Vermont when he was nominated and did not hear of it until the next day after the con- vention adjourned. He would have declined if he had been at home. His entire campaign expenses consisted of two barrels of apples and a $20 bill. DORN IN THE YEARS 1825 AND 1826. The year 1825 gave four men to this Con- gress—Willinm F. Parrett of Evansville, Ind., who has been a prominent democrat for forty Years: Moses T. Stevens of Massachusetts, a nice littie white-haired gentleman, who has gone on the waysand_imcans committee in his rst term: James J. Belden of Syracuse, the ¥eteran politician, and George W. Houk of Daston, Ohio, who was a delegate to the Charles- ton convention in 1860. Anno Domini 1826 was a year more fruitful of statesmen. There came upon the stage Gen. Joe Hawley, theableeditorand genial politician from the nutmog state; John Davis, one of the Kansas representatives of the eople’s party; Senator loar of Massachnsetts. who has the seat once filled by Rufus Choate: Senator Stockbridge of Michigan, who comes from halamazoo and is worth several millions; Senator George of M sissippi, an able e: nder of the Consti- onator John Warwick Daniel, Vir- | ginia’s fiute-voiced ora- | tor. who sneceeded the | SENATOR DANIEL. — Wiry Mshone; Ransom of North Caroliaa, whose martial statue and snowy enffs have long made him conspicuous in the Senate, and Congressman George D. 'Till- man of South Carolina, a biuff, honest old mem- ber, who has served his party well. ‘A SMALL CROP. In 1827 the crop of great men fell off again. But four were con- tributed to this Con- gress from that output. These were Senators Platt of Connnecticut, Voorhees of Indiana, Stewart of Nevada and presentative Green- leaf of Rochester. N. Y. Platt is one of the ablest men in Congress. He says litte, but his knowledge of the law and his unerring common sense are priceless factors in the work of the Senate. The tull Sycamore of the SENATOR PLATT. Wabash is beginning to show his age. Now and then some unusual theme arouses the old fire and eloquence, but not oft | enator t's state | has but 62,000 popula- | tion, and this fact, it is is one of the | strongest arguments in | agitation for an aneud- | Ment to the Constiiu- | tion providing for the | election of Senators by the people under some reasonable _apportion- | == ment law. Mr. Green- | leaf is one of Gen. nks' old officers, and SENATOR STEWART. isa new member. He makes locks—time. combination and key locks, as he explains in the directory. His wiie, Jean Brooks Greenleaf, is a prominent woman suf- frage advocate. In 1828 were born Gov. Bullock of Florida, who once came within one vote of being elected to the United States Senate, and is the father of thirteen children; James F. Wilson of Iowa, who began life as a harness maker, and is one of the best lawyers in the Senate, and the long- bearded giant from Schagticoke, N. Y., Mr. Quackenbush, who is a farmer, he says, and a speculator in farm products, In 1829 the propitious fates were busier and cight statesmen came between New Year and Christmas of that year—Cullom of lilinois, who looks like Lincoln; Allison of Iowa, “the velvety statesman,” as Mr. Ingalls described | him: Logan of New Orleans; r of | Massachusetts, the anti-silver man; Mr. B. G. | Stout of ‘higan, whose poetical parent: named him after Byron and Gray: Mr. Cok who was once chief jus Banker | Haynes of Fremont, an old_typesetter and a next-door ne t of Rutherford B. Hayes, and Caine, the Utah delegate, who is a Mormon, but not a polygamist. BOEN IN 1330, In the 1830 clan are Barnes Compton of Maryland, Judge Chip- man of Detroit. Senator Paddock of Nebrask: Senator Jones of Ne. vada, Zeb, Vance of Buncomle county, North Carolina; Mr. Warwick, who has Governor _dickinley's seat in the House; J. D. Taylor, also of Ohio, and David Culberson of Texas, whom Mr. Har- rison besought to go on me the interstatecommerce | commission The sixty- SENATOR WASHBURNE. | year-olds who were the babies of 1831 are: | Congressman Baker of Kansas, Scnator Frye of | Maine, Sam Stephenson, the millionaire lun berman, who represents the northern pen- | insula of Michigan in the House; William D, | Washburne of Minnesota, Gen. W i of Mississippi, Congressman Grady of North Car- | olina, Mr. Sheil of South Carolina and Senator | Proctor of Vermont. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY IN TEN YFARS. Of Senators and Representatives born be- | tween 1831 and 1841 there are just 150—a host | too numerous and indistinctive to mention. | After 1841 we are getting down toa time when | any of us might have been born, and the di tinction of old age ceases. There’ are in this Congress who were bor 1541—and some were born a good Some of our legisiators are growi time passes. They shout and joke like b y throw their arms around one another and make the welkin ring with their hearty peals of laughter. Nothing suits them better than the ir and excitement of a busy session, and a deadlock, with its all-night features, is welcome asa feast. The leaders in bosh houses are clderly men. Upon them fall heavy burdens, whic! they accept and bear safely and well for the comimon weal of the people, their masters. SEBS Saas Pante Caused Among Factory Girls, A fire occurred in the six-story factory building, Nos. 492 to 500 Cherry street, New York, ehortly after midnight Wednesday night | and caused a damage to the oceupants and the | building of $20,000. About 100 girls were at work when the fire broke out, among whom there was a panic, but all finally escaped with- out injury. younger | eee Foreign we Briefs. Lord Salisbury, who has been confined to his room with a severe cold, was reported much better yesterday. ‘The Marquis of Lorne has been selected to succeed the late Prince Hokenlohe as constable of Windsor castle. ‘There were 954 cases of influenza and fifty- seven deaths from that disease in Copenhagen during the past week. ——__—————— Murdered by a Rejected Suitor. Aspecial Thursday night from Shepherdstown, W. Va., eays: “Pretty Susie Ferrell, aged eighteen, was shot and killed about 6:30 this evening by Harry Smoots, a disappointed suitor. The couple had been out watching coasters, when suddenly Smoote grabbed her by the arm while he pressed revolver to her head and fired. The girl fell dead at his feot. Smoots was arrested a short while afterward and lodged in jail at Charlestown, W. Va., threats of lynehing having been heard bere. Great excitement prevails.” ——— A Curious Mental Study. The death of David Glassburn, teacher of the Mines School in Bullskin township near Allentown, Pa., recalls » singular cir- of the present | % | scorp | inherent strength which has | thi 13 NEW YORK NOTES. UNCLE SAM’S CHANGE COUNTER. Toples ef Interest Being Discussed fn the | How the New Silver Coins Are Being Dis- Metropolis. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yonx, January 22, 1892. 0 THE HOUSE RESTAURANT IS TO Pass under the protecting wing of “Tom” Murrey. Permit me to extend to the states- men of the south wing of the Capitol my pro- found congratulations. Murrey has had hopes of being Congressman himself and he would bea better one than many who get the degree of M. C., but as the feeder of statesmen he will be, as it were, ‘in their midst,” and he will serve the state fully as well as though he had the right to bawl “Mr. Speaker!” and “I ob- Ject!” Mr. Murrey, if not M. ©. is 8. G., that is, he is sui generis. Heis like that solitary man who was simply @ private in the late war, or who never heard “Pinafore,” or has not had the grip. He is inaclass by himself, and it’s a most at- tractive class. Had his political aspirations been gratified he simply would have been spoiled. We should have had just one more ordinary Congressman, and where would have been America's unique savant of the range, the Edison of soups, the Emerson of culinary philosophy? Speaning more seriously, there are few, if any, Americana more learned in that “art preservative of all arts,” good cooking, than the newiy elected Iandicr of the House. As the author of a series of cook books his fame is na- tional, and his practical knowledge of where good cooking may be found, as well as wherein it consists, is extraordinary. One of the moat entertaining take I ever had with anybody was with him in regard to places in Now York city where special dishes could be had or the stand- ard dishes found in their perfection. In that aluable talk I learned from a master where in ll New York the best Spanish omelet was cooked, where pigs’ fect were served with the acme of relish, where French snails were to be had’ as nowhere’ else, the place of ail others to visit for lobster a la Newburgh or for a tenderloin steak with sauce Bearnaise served with sweet peppers, Spanish style. Yes, and whero to get the best bread (for genius in gas- tronomy, as elsewhere, shows at its zenith in implicity)and the finest soup and the supreme Ah, let the gabble go on overhead, the real fun in life, at the south wing, will be on the ground iloor with mine host Tom Murrey. BEDOUIN VS. STREET ARABS. Tho Arab, time out of mind, has been a proverb for an untamable ferocity that made him fairly ahuman zebra. Whether hurling himself on the squares of Napoleon at Aboukie or engaged in desperate conflict with the Brit- ish in Soudan or swooping down, like the wild beasts which share the desert with ghim, upon the caravans which cross the deserts of Arabia and Turkey, or when, in his most formidable aspect of ali, he gathers around the luckless tourist at the Pyramid of Cheops and demands backsheesh, he stands for all thrt is fierce and uncongueruble. But here as eleewhere civiliza- tion triumphs over crade and unassisted nature. he Arab does very well in Arabia, but he of very small’ account when he comes into collision with the Arab who has had the advantage of being born and raised in New York. Hence it is that we hear acry of distress that becomes articulate in today’s papers. We Jearn that the Arab and Armenian residents of New York are so maltreated by the local and indigen ety that they have called a pub- lic meetin nize in self-defense and to seek the protection of the law. Several of these haughty children of the desert, it seems, have been pelted with projectiles ranging all the way from cobblestones to « eats, enforced by ® vocabulary of abuse which ouly the choice pre- of the fourth ward and its environs can supply, anc they feel that they must either get protection here or go back to their tigers and ns for real repose. Some of the victims are Turkish officials, and wear their official in- signia, 0 who knows but that Turkey will soon be putting its formidable navy in fighting trim and be demanding an apology of Tammany Hall at the cannon’s mouth? THE CHILEAN WAR CLOUD. This remark leads me to allude to the war rumors which have been flying pretty fast and thick here during the week. I have yet to find the first man, however, who seriously thinks we shall go to war with Chile. The universal expression is that both countries will go as near the brink as is safe and then politely step back and decline to make the pl That the government has been getting ready for the event of war nobody longer doubts, aud the: is very general praise for the proof the admi istration has given of its ability to cope with the crisis. Our merchants here feel that the chief effect of the dent” wili be on stronger nations « Our demonstra- tion will have @ very tonic influence on our military representation abroad. Again, America has displayed its unique gift for rising to meet an emergency; showing that ways been un- derestimated by foreigners, because they could not understand the genius of self government. It is axtonishing how much pluck the meekest ill develop on his own behalf, and when entary fact in human nature is multi- 900,600, 0 the aggregate ability »uutry to take care of itself im any eud- At such a time it makes «great dif- ference whether you are a subject or whether You are your own sovereign. © we do not ¢: + New York to be m. We are sup- posed to ants of the tories i of the “peace-at-any-price” copperheads, and [fancy that the war. if it were begin, aid be very unpopular here. Most of the ewepapers have ‘been vere friendly to the government's posit at the same time it is easy to see that their war fervor isartiticial, and, as I have said, the citizens have never treated the war alarm seriously. What might happen in the event of hostilities, of co: no one can tell. We are not 2 blockade or of an invasiou, but that nation or any other could eastiy tit out a swarm of privateers that would m under the American flag, cituer to foreign lands or along the coast, more exciting than might be comfortable. ONE MORE PLAY HOUSE. Of theaters there seems to be no emd. Hardly has the superb Madison Square aggregation of hails been completed when we find another mié in the shape of a great com- jouse on Broadway, almost ad, w Broadway Theater, which has #0 approved itvelf to the amusement publi of the city. ‘The leading spirit in this new ven- ture is Manager Frohman, who has already leased the property from its proprietors and managers, and will add it to his chain of thea- ters. Mr. Frohman is rapidly becoming a “Napoleon,” and he is avoiding’ the errors by which somé of his more pyrotechnic rivals in tine haye met their Waterloo. ‘The new play house, it will be noticed, is located in the very heart of that coming focus of the city of which i spoke last week. Henny R. Extior. ——— HAWTHORNE’S BET. He Won a Barrel of Madeira by Not Marry- ing Early. From Harper's Monthly. Although Hawthorne while a collegian rarely sought or accepted the acquaintance of the young ladies of the village, he had a high ap- Preciation of the sex. An early marriage, Low- ever, did not enter into his plans of life. ‘Tho evidence of this fact is among my papers and runs thus: Bownorx Coutrar, Nov. 14, 1824. If Nathaniel Hathorne is neither « married man nor « widower on the fourteenth day of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-six, I bind myself upon my honor to pay the said Hathorne a barrel of the best old Madeira wine. Witness my hand and seal. (J. C.] JoxaTHaN Crnier. Bowporx Contzar, Nov. 14, 1824, If Tama married man or a widower on the fourteenth day of November, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-six, I bind myself upon my honor to pay Jonathan Cilley a barrel of the best old Madeira wine. Witness my hand and seal, [N. 1.) Natwanrez, Hatuorsr. This instrument shall be delivered to Horatio Bridge and if Hathorne is married within the time specified he shall transmit the intelligence to him immediately, and the bet—whoever shall lose it—shall be paid within a month after the expiration of the time. JowaTHaN Citiey, wa ‘ ; Natuanren heron is very formal agreement was inclosed in a closely poet de package, indorsed in Hawthorne's writing thus “Mr. Horatio Bridge is requested to take charge of this Paper and not to open it until the 15th day of November, 1836, unless by the Joint request of Cilley and Hathorne.” On the designated day I broke the seals and notified Cilley that he had lost the wager. He admitted the loss and, after the delay of a year or more, was making arrangoments for its pay- ment and a meeting to taste the wine, when his tragic death in the duel with Graves settled the account. — eee Sir James Spaight has died at Limerick, Ire- land, of influengs. | tributed to the People. QUVER CHANGE OF THE NEW PaT- terns is being dispensed at the rate of thousands of dollars daily over what may be called the change counter of the nation at the treasury. It is done up prettily in little paper roleaux, each containing $5 in dimes, quarters or halves. Also it is put up in coarse muslin bags holding $50 each, with paper tags at- tached. On every such tag is marked the weight, which should be 2 pounds 123, ounces for new and unabraded ‘coins, together with the date of weighing and the signature “J. which stands for Jerry Jones, the official weigher. Ordinarily such subsidiary pieces are not given out over the counter in sums of less than $5, but to satisfy popular curiosity and also for the sake of getting it into circula- tion, every one is permitted for the present to Procure the freshly designed silver money in as small quantities as may be desired. * The new coins are brought from the Phila- delphia mint, where they are all made, in wooden kegs, In each kog are five sacks hold- ing $1,000 each. They are delivered by the United States Express at the basement door on the east side of the treasury,and are wheeled on small trucks to the counting room. In this apartment deft-fingered young ladies sit at | tables with stacks of glittering silver in front of them. They take a double handful at a time, quickly spread out the bright picces in single layer over the edge by the numbers necessary to fill the rouleaux. “For making these rouleaux, small paper tubes are prepared by the messengers the division in their letsure moments. The rapidity with which they are filled and closed | at the ends is astonishing. Finally they are | placed in drawer-like boxes, each of which con- tains exactly #200. So accurately are they made to hold just that amount that the absence of asinglecoin would beiikely to make the short- | age visible. Every such paper roll of silver is | hed after being filled, in the same way as the bags are. It is interesting to stand behind the change counter upstairs in the cash room and see how board, and. pick them off | | STRANGE AND UNCANNY. ‘From the Chicago Herald. An English officer tells the following strange and most uncanny story, which ought to be given as far as possible in his own words: “A great friend of mine,a fellow named D—, one of ‘ours,’ was engaged to the daughter of an old clergyman in Leicestershire. They were awfully in love with each other and were to be married in ten days. He had asked me to be his best man and ail the arrangements were completed for the wedding, when he received & telegraphic message from the father of his bride saying that she had been taken suddenly ill and to come at once if he would see her alive. Of course he started for their place immediately and was so completely cut up abont it that I went with him, feeling that he ought not to be alone in such a condi- tion of mind. We found the ead news only too true; the poor girl was dying, and as they both greatly desired that he might have the right to be with her until the end the old rector per- formed the ceremony and they were made man and wife, It was the most affecting thing I ever saw. Her mother drow off her own wedding ring, which the poor fellow placed on the finger of his broken lily of a bride, who lay there so white and wan, the only calm member of the agitated group. Three days afterward Il was over. Unable tobear his old life, D— sent inhis papers and left the service. For several years Lcompletely lost trace of him, | and then, from an English surgeon who had proffered his services to the German author- ities during the Franco-Prussian war, I heard a tale so weird that it might woll seem impos- sible. Finding the monotony of his life un- endurable, D—, it seems, entered the French army, and withont much difficulty, through is previous connections, obtained # commis- sion in one of the regiments which had been ordered to the front. After the battle of Sedan among the many who had been carried to the hospital mortally wounded was D—. ‘Was it a vision?’ he thought, that as he lay dying he si bending over him his old love, his dead wife, in the garb of a Sister of the Red Cross. | He saw the startled white face and the deep bine eyes that he knew so well all filled with an the business is carried on. The official in! charge is enclosed within sort of wire cage, urrounded on every side by stacks of money | in every shape. Piled on the floor are the bags | of silver and boxes filled with rouleaux, just us | they have been brought up by the elevator | from the counting room beneath. Besides the smaller coins there are bags of silver deilars, #50 or $100, rouleaux holding seach, nickels in muslin bags of 25 and paper bags of #1. and 5, and pen- nies in muslin bags of $5 and paper bagsof £1. | At the left of the paying teller is a drawer | divided into compartments exactly the size of greenbacks and filled with bank and treasury | notes and silver certificates of every denomi- nation. The aggregate sum at hand seems enormous, but people come in such rapid suc- cession to the window that presently the supply of small bills runs low. In rexpouse to an order conveyed bya messenger two packages are brought, eacha foot cube and neatly done up in brown paper with a label. The official in charge of the changecuts them open with is penknife. In one of them are found 4,000 $1 notes, and in the other as many $2 notes. Whenever the tel- ler needs more cash of any kind he simpiy fills outs blank and signs his initials. The vault clerk delivers to him the money and charges it againat him. All the fractional paper currency that comes | in for redemption is handed directly over the change counter, new money being given for it. One day last week a package of it containing $71.73 was received in this way—the biggest single consignment that has reached the treas- ury forayear. ‘The little notes, neatly done | up ina bundle, were so old and worn that the | engraving on them was hardly distingnishable. Some curious story might have been told about | them doubtiess, Perchance they formed a por- tion of some miser's hoard, hidden away ever since the war. Any one who has a portion of a Dill aud has lost the rest can get a fresh and whole one for it by applying at tue same counter. Three-fifths of a ten-dollar note is worth £19. Two-fifths is worth £5, but a less fragment must be accompanied by an affidavit telling how the balance was destroyed. Among the coins seut in from good many mutilated and foreign ones. ‘They are thrown out in the counting room. All old copper cents are kept and sentto the mint for recoining. Likewise it is with the nickel 3-cent and bronze | 2-cent pieces. a MYSTERY IN A CAVERN, Does It Contain Booty Secured by a Once Notorious California Bandit? From the Oroville Mercury. On the north side of Table mountain and near its top is an opening in the lava that has since early days been known as the “lion's den.” It was so named from the fact that for years it was the lair of a band of ferocious Cali fornia lions that, when this country was di voted largely 10 sheep raising, made night! depredations upon the flocks and caused the owners much annoyance and loss. When pur- sued the animals would scck refuge in this den and no hunter would dare enter it. The ground about the entrance to it was covered with bones and remnants of shecp and other animals. With the increase of popula- tion the tions have gradual though as late as last spring two of the animals were ween to the cave nge to si no man has ever penetrated to itstulicst depth. ‘The mouth fs about four or five feet high and three feet wide, and the opening descends with ssharp incline for about 200 fect. Further than this it has never been explored. Now, however, a party of young men have made arrangements to explore it, and, if pos- sible, penetrate to its bottom. That it is of great depth is certain, for one can stand at the ing and heave great stones down the declivity, and the sound will gradually die away in’ the distance. The young men have procured several hundred fect of rope, Jan- terns, torches and ladders, and will thoroughly explore the cavern, What adds peculiar interest to the expedi- tion and gives zest to the explorers is the well- known fact that in thegevday of his career a «bandit Joaquin Murietta and his band of faithful followers made the recesses of Table mountain their base of operations in this sec- tion. From there they would swoop down on the miners, and then laden with gold dust, re- treat to the mountain, Search as they might the officers could not locate them. It has been supposed by many that perhaps in this same cuye was where the famous outlaw secreted himself. It may be, too, that down deep in the bowels of the earth’ Joaquin hid the greater portion of his ill-gotten, but nevertheless just us potent wealth. ———_+-e-—___. Not of Much Account. From Babyhood. A mother was calling the attention of her little boy to the moon, which was to be seen clearly but pallidly in the early afternoon. “Why, you can’t see the moonin the daytime,” replied the youngster. “Oh, yes, you can— there it is over the trees!" The little fellow | eh: awakening wonder. There was a sharp ery and the sister swooned away. ‘The surgeon in tendance hurried up, and giving her in ‘ge of some of the other nurses returned to the excited mun, who insisted that ke had seen the face of his dead wife. The shock was too much for his enfeebled condition, his wound broke out afresh and ina few hours he was dead. DELIRIOUS WITH BRAIN FEVER. “On leaving his patient, who no longer re- quired his services, the doctor found the Red Cross nurse delirious with brain fever. Over and over ain she lived what seemed to be the last weeks of a previous existence. She was a happy promised bride—she was girlishly ex- cited over her trousseau and pretty presents— sue talked proudly of her handsome and de- voted lover and finally of a solemn deathbed wedding. ‘That was all—over and over she seemed to live again a former period of her life, but of the time since the doctor bad known her there came never a word. A year or two before he had been connected with one of the London hospitals and had been greatly inter- ested in this woman, who had been brought there and placed in the ward for the insane. ‘The only pomt upon which her mind seemed af- fected was that she had no recollection of the past and seemed entirely oblivious of her own identity. Her name had been given as Mra. Ciark, and the people who left her had never appeared again. Showing herself most capa- bie and intelligent, with the one exception staied, she was kept as an assistantin the wards and gradually became one of the most expe- rienced of the hospital nurses, When the doc- tor decided to go to the seat of war it occurred to him to take her with him, not only on ac- count of her acknowledged competency, but with the idea that change and excitement might ossibly touch some chord that would awaken er memory. Lat she died without recovering consciousness and the mystery was unsolved. Among D—'s effects, however, the doctor found a letter directing that his few papers, &c., should be sent to me in case of his death, and & photograph in a frame which was 50 marvelously ike the dead woman that be at once wrote snd gave me ail the par- ticulars, not only of D——'s death, but of ‘irs. Clark's" life while under his observation. He forwarded at the same time a plain gold ring, ) Which was on her finger when she came to the | hospital, and which had simply a date of thirty | years back engraved inside the ri. Feeling | that the strange coincidence—fur it eould be | nothing more—was hardly enough to warrant | me in disturbing the family by awakening pain- | ful memories, f concluded at first to say noth- | ing about it, but the affair troubled me, and at ‘eugth I grew fairly haunted wich the idea that | there was more in itall than I liked to think | possible. I fivally found myself en route for | the Leicestershire village without any clearidea | of what I really intended todo. There I found | changes; the old rector and his wife had both died; their only remaining child, aon, had gone over to Canada, where h.s wife's people lived. |i knew no one; ali the faces were strange to | me. I felt that eerie sense of living in the past, of having nothing to do with the present, that comes over one sometimes. While waiting tor the afternoon train, which was to take me back, I wandered into the churchyard and sought out ihe graves of the vid couple and of my triend’s br: ‘Mary’ was written on the headstone, beloved wife and daughter—died May 15,18—.' But did she die then orlong after? ‘hat is what hauuts me to this day.” “Do you mean that she was buried in a nce?” said the listenei ‘That is what I believe,” he answered. “I think that her rescuers were afraid of the law, aud, finding signs of life, hurried her to a hos: pital, where herentire lapse of memory tempted ‘bem to keep the matter forever a_ secret. Thinking it over Ideemed it inexpedient to take any steps in. the matter. he publicity would have been painful; they were all dead. it could do no good, and'so I’ let the matter rest. Butfrom that day to thisI have been doubtful whether I did right or notin not carrying the investigation further. ——_-- eee — ‘The Persian New Year. From the Galicnani Mesenze ‘The annual ceremony of No Ruz, when the Persian new year begins, is thus described by Mrs. Bishop, the English traveler: “Some hours after the close of a splendid ceremony in the audience chamber, chieily religious, at which the shah burns incense on @ small brazier, he descends to the garden. and walk- ing alone along an avenue of royal guards with the crown of the kajars, blazing with jewels, carried in front of him, he seats him- self onan alabaster throne. The foreign min- isters have been received previously. “The throne isa large platform with a very high back and parapets of bold stone fretwork, supported on marble lionsand other figures and is uscended by three or four steps. Tho popu- ce, which to the number of many thousands are admitted into the garden, see him stated on his throne, their absolute lord and master, the lord of life and death. A voiceasks if they are content, and they say they are. A hymn of congratulation is sung, achicf of the Kajar tribe offers the congratulations of the people of Persia, the hakim of the people hands the king looked, and had to admit the fact that he saw. it, but he added: ** “fain’t lighted, anyhow.” a jeweled kalian, which he smokes, and showers of gold fall among the populace.” From Puck. TOO PRECIOUS TO BE JEOPARDIZED. COLUMBUS’ LIFE HISTORY. How It Will Be Told in the Exhibition at Chicago. OBJECT LESSONS THAT WILL TEACH RISTORT—THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA TO BE FITLY REPRE- SEXTED—TRE OPINION OF AN ENGLISH AUTHOR- ITT ON THE WORK IX PROGRESS. Sir James Dredge, the head of the royal com- mission of the British government for the world’s Columbian exposition, has published ‘an article in the Journal of the Society of Arts as the results of his recent observations while in Chicago seeking information concerning the plans of the exhibition. He includes in the ar- ticle the collection of Columbian relics which isto be made under the direction of the De- partment of State: “Mention has been made in another part of this paper,” he says, “of the reproduction of the Convent of La Rabida, which is to be con- structed on an elevated tongue of land pro- jecting into the lake to the south of the pier: it was in this convent that Columbus found long and frequent intervals of rest and shelter. It is part of the exhibition echeme to do all Possible koncr to the memory of the great ex- plorer whose four hundredth anniversary is to be celebrated, and to make as complete a col- lection of the relics of Columbus as time, money and labor will permit. The work is, believe, chiedy if not wholly in the hance of the Forernment, at all events it comes into the ‘tin-American department of the exhibition, and is placed under the control of agovernment official, Mr. W. E. Curtis. The project is a very comprehensive one, and Iam enabled to give a somewhat detailed account of it, which Ido with much Pleasure, because it will be found of interest an Docause it may be the means of in- lucing those who may be possessed of Colum- bus relics to lend them for the enrichment of the collection. The first part of this historical exhibit will include maps, models and fac-similes intended to ‘illustrate the condition of navigation and the knowledge of geography before and during th time of Columbus. This section will also com- prise such evidence as is available of the dis- coveries that are alleged to have been made at an carlicr period, whether by the Scandin vians, Danes, Welsh, Irish and other nationali- ties. Here the famous Leif Erikson will be | thrown into relief. His statue will form part of the exhibit and near it maps and charts of his alleged voyages and the settlements which, itis claimed, he made in Greenland. The lo- calities associated with his name will be shown by photographs, and there will be a number of models of the Norse ships of his period. There will be a very fine collection of navigating and other nautical instruments in use before and during the time of Columbus, and the depart- ment is now trying to induce the Danish gov- | ernment to send over part of its exhibit | the original sagas of the Norsemen. ‘There i good chance of this being done. Finally, in this historical section there will be @ large and very interesting collection of charts, including ali the known ancient maps, either the origi- | nals or copies, from the earliest representation of the earth by the Hindus to the globe of Mar- tin Boreheim at Nuremburg. Probably the original of this latter, which exists in the town hall of Nuremburg, will be lent. ’ LIFE misTORY. “The life history of Columbus follows this more general section. This collection will in- clude illustrations of the various cities that claim him as their son—Cogoletto, Quinto, Genoa and others. Models of ail the houses in which be was supposed to be born will be given. There will be photographs of the Uni versity of Pavia, where, it is stated, he educated. His life in Portugal and in Madeira is followed step by step until he became asso- ciated with Spain, and in this connection pho- tographic and other views will be shown of all towns and buildings with which his name can be linke: s stage of the sory includes the Convent of La Rabida, in Valos, which is to form the casket in which so many priceless Feims are to be enshrined. As you are aware, Palos is a little seaport in the Spanish province of Andalusia. It faces the Atlantic, and it was from Palos that Columbus started on his first voyage on the 34 of August, 1492. An ex- tensive picture gallery wall next attract atten- tion. In it will be arranged all the paintings, | either originals or copies, in which Columbus figures, and as these are very numerous, and the subjects very varied, they will present an almost continuous, though, perhaps, not har- monious, life story of the ‘great voyager. A separate room of this gallery will contain all the alleged portraits of Columbus that can be collected and which have any artistic merit; already forty-five of these portraits have been brought together and it is probable that the student of this really remarkable series will be sorely puzzied to know what manner of man the discoverer of America was. Supplementary to the Columbus picture gallery will be au- other referring to the court of Ferdinand and Isabella ut the time of Columbus, with » large collection of historical portraits 18 FInsT SHIP. “Probably the interest in the collection will center in the model of the Santa Maria, the caravel in which Columbus sailed from Palos on his first voyage. The Santa Maria, as well &3 her consorts—the Pinta and the Nina—were small and ill-found ships, actual particulars of which either do not exist or have not been dis- covered. We may, however, expect that much taore will be kuown about them before long, as an officer of the United States navy has been instructed to obtain full information and after- ward to reconstruct a correct model of the Sauta Maria. Lieut. Little, who was told off for this pleasant task, has, I presume, suc- eceded, for lam informed that he is now in Spain, where he is occupied in building the caravel. Should time and funds permit both the Pinta and the Nina will also be recon- structed, and this copy of the famous old world tleet will be navigated across the Atlantic. It is intended that this ship, or the whole fleet. if it 1s built, shall take a part in the great naval review which is to be held in New York harbor in 1893, and to which all the maritime govern- ments of the world have been invited to send their ships. The Santa Maria.on that occasion, and atterward during the term of the exhi tion, will be manned by Spanish sailors in the costume of the time, and she will be rigged and equipped as nearly as possible (except, we resume, as Concerns rations) as she was dur- ing her first voyage. After the naval review the caravel will be taken through the canals and lakes to Chicago, where it will be anchored be- the walls of the convent of La Rabida during the period of the exhibition. *-Fac-similes of all the busts, monuments and statues of Columbus that are known through- ‘ont the world are to be reproduced and shown, as well as models of his two burial places in San Domingo and Havana. As the first named place possesses a casket containing his alleged bones (which will also be represented) it may possibly have the greater claims to the privilege. ‘Thus it will be seen that it is the intention of the Lxtin-American department to present acomplete life interest of Columbus, 60 com- plete indeed that it would probably astonish the great admiral with many of its details. It is pretty certain that after so much painstaking investigation the history of Columbus will have to be rewritten. ae JUST IN THAT WHICH 18 LEAST. Italy’s King Acknowledges His Mistake in @ Dispute With a Peasant. The good nature of Italy's king is well illus- trated by an anecdote from the days of the last royal hunts at Monza, says the New York Sun, King Humbert is accustomed to take his sport with the gun in pretty much the same clothes as other persons and without attendants, thereby distinguishing himself from his im- perial German ally, who has insignia of his high office all over his hunting costume and is | i big? BEESES 4 % : A Hy H THE LATEST FASHIONS. A Driving Coat and # Spring Gown Designed 2by Redfern. ‘We are becoming #0 luxurious and ertrava- gant in our tastes this winter that the materials which our foremothers would have considered Tich and costly for gowns we utilize with the utmost nonchalance as gown linings. Satin marveilleux is the Intost extremity te which fashionable prodigality can go in the matter of skirt linings. The garments in question bang better with this soft pliable material as lining than with the somewhat harsh corded silk of @ few weeks back. It may be thought by the in~ experienced in snch matters that a cloth gown is a cheaper investment than the velvet or silk reception gown, which is usually deemed an ex- Pensive article, but cloth of the kind which fash- ton condescende to admit within ber realm this feason is quiteas expensive as materials which ‘wracdition says is the apparel of the rich In- stead of purple and fine linen the modern Mira, Dives clothes herself in far and broadeloth. Brocade ¥ used for po and 4 opular as linings to eimple house Ely economy which ie really prectionble fe in quantity of material used, for skirts are still gored and scanty, trains, though certainly cutting into a little extra material, not requir- ing half the amount which the Araperies of three years back hid in their voluminous folds. Complaints and gramtlos still continue about the obstinate trains, without which no stylish woman considers bersclf im faultless attire. For to y and spotless marble pavements, oak siaircanes and polished floorings, these graceful tails are all “very well, bat eye has not lately been offended by those wearers who sweep the dusty etreets with their gowaa, the charwomen of the metropolis,” es some caustic wit describes them. ‘ of A stylish gown and one which is cheerful and feasonable is a russet brown tweed trimmed ith pheasant's gee This ts made quite simply with jacket, bodice and demi- skirt,‘ cravat of coarse yellowish lace being the vy! extra garnishment. This gown was seen in Paris intely, and though so simple had many warm admirers, A driving coat has just been designed for « lady who is rather addicted to this particular amusement and who likes to appear in some- thing swell. This «mart coat is of fawn-colored, cloth, neatly stitched, with tight-fitting waist- coat cut a little low and loose fronts, which can be buttoned over at wili. worn with it. The most telling point is the titching across the shoulders and whioh complete and correct imitation of @’ man’ nd will therefore recommend itself to who like to affect a little masculinity. The second sketch is a dainty spring gown of le gray-green faced cloth, braided in the nglish style. The little coat is an open eut- away, the revers being silk faced like a man’s dress coat: a portion of the rever is decorated with braiding. sleeves are half cloth and half silk. A full silk blouse of old gold is worn with this coat, a pretty chiffon cravat is tied under the rolled collar and a “rucked” belt of the cloth is carried up like a corsage. A small turban of green straw is worn with this gown with the inevitable bunch of spring violets et the front and back. evennoretiiiocnpenee A Young American Abroad, From th yw York Sun. Hienry Rosenfeld, the young American whom heavy play and large winnings have been the sensation of the week at Monte Carlo, is an extraordinary character. His home is in Chicago, where his brother is « well-knowa business man, and he is one of the heirs of Michael Reece, the famous ten-fold millionaire of San Francisco. Rosenfeld attained his ma- jority and his fortuneabout four yearsago. Since that ime Chicago Lit wera in ire tien bak visit ung of ten ‘8 durati an ad To arriled from the wen ent left for the eastward, having been each around the world. Ho varied the monotony this trip last year by buying an interert Cleary Loudon Opera Company.that left in July to make a tour along the east and coasts of South America, and accompanied organization for the fun of the thing. He sook the opera company in the Argentine public, however, aud went on to Chile to the war, but arrived in V: the tilities ceased. He got back to Lon three month ago, and left for Paris and Carlosoon afterward. He is now en route Teal Fayied g i it a Egypt and Japan and thence for San Francisca, Chicago, New York and London once more. Rosenfeld, who is smooth-faced, pallid and slight, does not look twenty-one of but he is considered one of blers in Europe, either with lette table. year he players at Monte Carlo who num at the same table at wheel and guve the bauk a bad He left Monte Carlo a loser ever. Today he is reported £€75,000 and @100,000 ahead Rosenfeld. rpen ‘months each year in London, i Hy il is H Lf t j f é j i | a F } i fi 7 i i 44 be Westminster Abbey or ‘or visited the Pant or any other pl terest. Itis doubtful even u of asking who was premicr of England dent of Franec. ‘the other band the best cooks and the i it [ F. . i i Fi i i