Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1892, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, fs D.C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. A CASE OF TELEPATHY WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR THR EVENING STAR BY JANE FINDLAY EVANS. AM NOT A SPIRIT- uslist. Years ago when Twas very young and sundry fair saints in- terested themselves in the condition and des tination of what they = were pleased to call my soul, I tried to modify the rade materialism of my id It was then I united myself with the Society for ical Kesearch, and many a blood-eurdling ghost story have irun to earth—literally—in behalf of that body. Ihave lent myself—and tried to lend myseif—to all manner of experi- ments in hvpnotism and telepathy. but I Proved powerless as an operator and hopeless as @ subject. Of course I investi; various phenomena iuvolving slate writing, knot untying and the production of Sunday sehool bymns without human agency from the profane « on. Ibave been impressed by some of these exhibitions, I coniexs, but an evening with Hermann or Keller always sufficed to eradicate the influence. All this was years before I experienced the one mysterious—I was going to say miraculous—incident of my kif e. Thad been for two vearsin Spain pursuing My profession as a mining engincer. Just after landing in New York, on my return, I Teceived a lett from my brother Jit who was avd is a in in a cavairy regiment, then serving on our remote southwestern frontier. Jim ys a sanguine soul, and he wrote me that he and several Brother oiicers had staked ou as safe to break the record that had ever wanted lis gold mines ught wealth to their posses- me to visit him at his post, pat I should my e p concerning the amount of capital necessary to open up this bonanza, i I was glad enongh to accept this invitation, for besides my desire to see my only bri whose band Lhad not clasped since we were both boys, Thad never been west of the mountains. Indeed I had in our own country : seven years old. Tad recerved my education at one of the gr versities and bad merely visite At that tinme—ten brother's post it was necessary to go to San Francisco by the Ceutral Pacific and from there turn eastward again and travel two days and three nights on the uncompleted Southern Pacific toa little station which was then the terminus of that road. Jim's diree- tiens concerning my route from that point were somewhat invoived, ‘acing probable buck boards, possible an nees and certain hospitality from the offic: t the two army acrisons I should be obliged to pass through fore reaching my destination, which was 150 miles from the ra “to reach my cover two army gers, one a cap- : n Fegiment, the other a Young heutenant of infantry stationed at one of the posts I should pass through. We three fraternized very promptly and I received and accepted an invitation to spend a few days with Lieut Jameson before my acquaintance with that young man was three hours old. When we reached Bryant, the railroad terminus, au ambulance was in waiting for my traveling conrpanions and of course I shared it. Lad seen thestate chariot of the lord mayor of London, besides the royal conveyances of al- most every monarch in Enrope, but none of them impressed me as did that ambulauce. e had been bestowed in the lighter articles un: the seats. when the whip had cracked and the driver we oaths bad exhorted his mules to felt as if I were making at least a ogress. The six great mules seemed to There were the harness and ‘iver’s seat was yloity and Lis appear- Of a cowbos. h felt iattered over the ach olier after I ceived three invita mbodied my id: bachelors’ din- far mato the ni that I been almost a week ave of it. The pay his “is should be his com- ds through a ning the eircam- Tespectable pers 1 irritated b; ¢ of dotlars of government money we him. few minutes before we left Fo Jeet, while the packed ambul jon Wagon were standing be for us to start ing of the rep Apaches—a numbering lexs tha: . but who Bad caused sever: valrymen to march as marly miles over inhospitable trail and to lie for months in hot ‘The very young offi these expeditio: but such a cam reak of a band of ribe articularly naughty little su aby pared buc as a summer's diversion if to the taste of the more ed. possib! of rations when the rolls ives them a chance tor pro- ceeding some distance on their way without being missed. Then they rendezvous a co, siaying with playful jariation men, women. children who may cross their path. Howeve: h most interested us just then that sometime in the c se of their flight ¥ wUst cross the road by which we were to travel. The on! it would be between For Fort Will- data, twen re miles distant, or between that j moe and our fh: Jestination. As it was Le- heved that they had left the reservati the night before there was rea! able doubt that we should be Fort Wiliam without encountering the Maj. Seldon was pathetic in his inabilii to decide between his fear of the foe and his desire to le , whose command- ing officer king terms with. ‘The latter gentleman, who was himself never make up decided for jered the escort wagon to move on. The paymaster climbed into the ambulance almo-t in tears. “He is actually ordering me off his post?" he fairly whimpered. “Never mind, major,” I said. “If we meet the telegraph line, and had been staked to the ground with fire built on their stomachs. ‘There was the skeleton of a wagon to whose wheel its Mexican owner had been bound, tobe slowly roasted to death. I repeated these inci- dents, which dated only a few months back, to the major, adding a few effective details, while we lunched by the banks of a little stream and tried to ‘rid myself of some of By own qualms, by inflicting them | on him. As we drove into Fort William about 5 o'clock that evening he remarked that every one of those Indians must be accounted for before he would risk the government money by proceeding any farther on his jonrne: ¢ found the post in a state of great excite ment. The garrison consisted of six troops of cavalry and one company of infantry. The cavalry bad taken the field at daybreak and only the infantry company was left to protect the post. There were dispatches from Fort Mountain giving warning that the road was un- safe between us and there. The commanding officer of that post ordered that the paymaster should be detained at Fort William, and on no account proceed on his way. Upon this the major immediately began to champ his bit and pew theearth in his anxiety to be “up and at cm.” He recalled hie gallant achievements during the war of the rebellion and was only restrained from joining the forces in the field by his responsibility for the public money. ‘The only officers left in Fort William were the captain of the infantry company, who had a chronically lame? knee and could not walk, and whose company was consequently not generally considered available for active serv- ice, and @ captain of cavalry, who was too fat to get on his horse. A second lieutenant of infantry had taken the troop of the latter into the field. There wasa contract surgeon and there were several ladies. We were presented with a large set of bachelors’ quarters whose proprietors had gone to the war and were told to prepare our minds fora delay of several weeks, Fort William was not a spot to inspire one with a desire for an indefimite residenco there. It was probably the hottest place on earth, and certainly the most malarial. It was the chosen home of the tarantula, the écorpion, the centi- pede and that weird beast, the Gila monster. ‘The water was so alkaline as to be impossible, except in the form of cold tea, There was no ice, there were no lemons and beer was £1 bottie. The major and I would sometimes buy it, wrap the bottle in a wet towel and_sus- pend it in an open window, in the hope that a thirsty breeze might find it out. There was but one mitigating circumstance, and that was a girl She wasa very pretty girl, with an amount of experience in being fascinating which was simply surprising in view of the fnet that she could not have been more than nineteen years old. She was the daughter of the lieutenant colonel of cavalry who bad taken the forces into the field, and being motherless she was the most com- pletely unchaperoned giri I ever saw. I soon came to the conclusion that chaperons were a erfluous institutionand had a stupefy- ing effect on their churges. aT LAMIE. Her name was Evelyn Sainton, and I thought it almost as pretty as herself. Of course, from moment that I saw her, which was fifteen minutes after my arrival, she was he most interesting person on the post to me. I rather expected that the would be it: astateof be- reavement for some absent warrior and that I should have no chance at all, bat seemed to ake a very happy impression. Perhaps it ‘as because 1 was an entirely new kind of man tothe young woman, whose experiences had cen exclusively among the military. At all events my rivals were out of sight aud seemed tosbare the proverbial fate of the absent. which I should not have tho: t ander the most primitive conditions of y. 1 began to believe in Daisy Miiler, whom I had seoffed at a8 an apoeryph: after re passed on Miss Sainton's -piagza, re mameck. She friends and easn: es of the post as se sume ladies confided to me with tears in her eves that she had tried to be a Christian mother to that poor orphan child, but her ad- vances had been received ina manner to pre- clude their repetition. ‘inton regalarly rs heou and dinner ar-old brother being the member of the family, but I inva- Thad a ste zation of of propriety in the Chris- tian mothers next door than n would-be hostess and, at great personal saci ayself three times a day tot over What was known he pay master and his o his son, wore being tof meals by the I So the cont ion at the mess, ed with a hi cae pase n, Who treated him with he very largest ears 1 setat right angles T cartilaginous part of them was remarkably thin. During dinner he used to mit with his scious back turned to anopen Western door. and the settingsun sbone through those ears with a peculiar radiance. At that season the afternoons at Fort Wil were spent by every human being in his bath tub. My striker, who was one of the paynias- ter's guard, had orders to while away his morn- ing how curing tine specimens of taran- centipedes and scorpions, and if he wi ssful Miss Sainton and I would diversify the evenings by watching a three-cornered fight between these reptiles ina box witha glass cover. This considered to be a harm- less if not a distinctly moral amusement, and ed that it called down a severer rep- m the neighbors than some, to me, more unballowed practices. ({ heard murmurs of cruelty aud cock fights.) One escapade I did enter mto against my conscience, and that has an evening expedition to the neighboring town of Laxie. ‘his was a mining village, ex- clusively inuubited by the worst class of min- ers, gatublers and cowboys. Shooting out cach other's lights was the most pacific be to his bead and the up diversion which engaged the denizens of Laxie and vendetta murders and lynehings were the — exclusive ies of conversation at the saloons, which prin- cipally composed the town. ‘There was a small drug store, which had bi soda water fountaim a few fore, ostensibly im the cause of temperance, but after most of its faucets and all of its superfluous ornaments had Leen playfully removed by buliets the proprietor’s views on the liquor question bad moctitied sufliciently for the inocuous sirups to Le rep 1 by the asual beverages. ‘The soda water fountain was the objective point of Miss Saimion's excursion. I had not Visiied Laxie myself and only eame into poses- sion of these interesting particulars about it r,or 1 should have refused to share her cutures. ‘The first of our experiences was the coting with three very drunken soldiers, one of ¥ companion promptly recognized as , or suldier servant, attached to her own household. She was « young woman of sin- galarly simple and direet methods of thought and action—or soit seemea to me—and it was with dificulty that I restrained ber from stop- ing the trio in the road to remonstrate with Riiey om his condition. One peep into’ the interior of the drug store, where a fair num- ber of the representative citizens of Laxie were assembled, way sutticient to discourage any further desire for adventure on the part of my intrepid little friend, She arrived at the post in tears, after having beard her personal appearance freely commented upon, in « manner chiefly complimentary, to be sure, but in terms not suited to polite feminine ears. ‘These episodes during our retreat were eo fre quent that 1 was forced toabandon my declared intention to return and chastise such imper- tinence. I was bardly prepared to “clean out the town” single-banded, and my own peculiar- ities as a tenderfoot bad’ called down much un- kind criticism. However, on the strength of our mutual ad- ventures, 1 kissed Miss Sainton good-night that night for the first time, and, as it turned out, kind to m orance—gave he: messages slowly, and repented them. aay. "namber of times—so, in three weeks, although I could only communicate myself with the most painful deliberation and could not catch more than half of a message sent with the usual rapidity, I was always able to take down Miss Sainton’s remarks with absolute accuracy. Thad, asI said, parted from her very ten- derly that night, though I hid then no idea that it was for the iast time. The major and I consumed a bottle of that donbtfully cool and undoubtedly expensive beer and I had gone to bed with a cigar and n two-weeks old New York newspaper, when the click of the instrament attracted my attention. Boys ai ‘Thank you so much—good-night!” I replied: “What for?” “Er ung,” the instrument clicked back. This Was too laconic. My pulses beat faster. I vainly tried to draw out something more explicit. My correspondent was silent. I returned to bed and the paper. Bat news, even if it be veritable news, in the sense of being something unknown before, lacks excite- ment when the date of tl heet which con- sit shows that the lucky people in New York have been in possession of it for four- teen days. So I promptly went to sleep, THE MESSAGE. and the most delightfully sentimental mes- sages clicked through all my dreams. The telegram which contained our sentence of exile from Fort William—that is the way I had learned to regardit—came early on the fol- Jowing morning, and the major at once deter- mined to start in the afternoon and make camp on the river abont fifteen miles distant. 1 was beginning to feel quite seriously on the subject of Miss Sainton, whom I had at first approached in a spirit of criticism, so that there Was more regret than relief when I received marching orders. She said good-bye to me with copious tears, which I afterward learned to fear were lightly shed, and I sct forth with adelicately moist little handkerchief in my breast pocket asa souvenir. Ab, how quickly they dry these tears! The uame of the stream on whose banks we camped that night is synonymous with heat, sand, malaria, Indians and mosquitoes, and wo found it with all its most unpleasant features conspicuous. Tue Indians, to be sure, were only a few hideous squaws from a neighboring friendly band, begging watches and tobacco, but the mosquitoes were with us in force, and we knew that rattlesnakes lurked in the tank and unwholesome undergrowth. I wasin some- what ofa melting mood. so when the major produced a cribbage board by the evenin smudge I consented to play with him, thong! it is not a game to which [am addicted. Fur- ther, Tlet my thoughts wander back to Fort William, and when we parted for our respective tents the major was cackling over repeated victories, T went to sleep promptly, as is the cus'om of youth and health, and I was first aroused to Consciousness some hours later by the terrific noise of @ tropical storm. My tent fly was fastened back and the rain was driven in upon me in torrents, The lightning was blinding and the thunder echoed deafeningiy from bill to hill, The sentry who was walking before our tents paused to exchange remarks with me about the storm, and the major and I shouted ateach other as'to the condition of our tents and clothes in the matter of humidity. We were both drenched and the major was very un- happy. But as the storm did not threaten any direct danger to the United States funds he could not be less philosophical than J, and presently we both subsided with the storm. “I wrapped the very simple drapery of my couch about me, imagined myself a soldier and re- signed myscif to inevitable discomfort, while I aused on the gentle words the telegraph had whispered to me last night. So musing, I again went to sleep, and having no idea st what time the thunder had first awakened me. I do not know how long I slept. 1 returned to sonsciousness slowly when I next awaked, and lay with my eyes shut, pleasantly aware of my surroundings. The storm had re- ceded. ‘The lightning was faint, and the thun- der bat a distaut, soothing rumble. The odor | of the wet earth reached me agreeably. 1 think I must bave been lapsing into sleep again, when a snecession of light sounds at my very ear de- tached themselves from the noe of the retreat- ing storm. Tn my condition of semi-conscious- ness 1 imagined, or rather felt, that I was listen- ing to the ticking of Miss Sainton’s messages, ou which I hud been meditating, but soon, memory and reason asserting themselves, realized that it was merely the water dripping from the branches of cottonwood which overhung iny tent, on to a tin bucket which 1 had overturned "beside my tent when Speaking to the sentinel. But I listened in of myself, and. though of course iacking tue characteristic elick of the instrument, those sounds were consecutive, dot ing each other ummistakubly. IT'S A PRACTICAL Joke. Twas fully awake. ‘This was no dream, A message wus being delivered. I thoughtof my early efforts and failures in search of occuit experiences. As I roused myself the wind, which had subsided to a breeze, concentrated itself intoa momentary gust, and the rain came down, in a rush for several minutes. ‘Then it stopped. All my senses were on the alert. It must have been a full minute before the dro began to fall again. I listened intensely. ‘There were two or three meaningless splashes, then these words were plainly, slowly and unmistakably spelled out “The Indians are between you and Fort Mountain, Return to Fort William. “EvELYS Sarwtox.”” I arose, threw my blankets from me and walked a dozen yards from my-tent. The rain had almost ceased. There was no moon and perfect darkness surrounded me, save for the spot of light made byafire near the guard tent. The sentry was at the far end of his beat and the only sound was @ remark—proba- Diy about the weather—from one of the mules atthe picket line. Certainly I was in fall— almost abnormally acute—possession of ali my senses. Iwas awake, sober and sane. I re- turned to my tentand sat down on the bed. ‘The dripping bad ceased, but in a few mo- ments it resumed as the rain was again falling, and atter a preliminary splash came precisely the same words. ‘This was simply horrible. I was in a cold perspiration. After covertly jeering at the major's fears how could I confews that I shared them, and, further, that I had been moved to terror by something which any waking person would naturally call a nightma: the mes- sage, without variation, wis ticked a third time before I pocketed my "pride and went to the major’s tent to wake him. I made a narrow When we reached Fort William, about 10 o'clock in the morning, found that my position there was very materially changed. My quar- ters were in poxsession of their proper owner— & young lieutenant of pleating appearance, whose charms were further enhanced by a wound in the arm, which justified the wearing of an interesting sling, but did not confine him otherwise. He was most hospitable, bat I was ranked out of the room which contained the telegraphic instrament. conse I went to seo Miss Sainton before I had been many minutes in the post and told her of my strange experience. It seemed even more impressive when I learned that in terror for my safety on first hearing of the danger to which I was exposed and the desire for o¢cu- pation for hands and brains—having failed to persuade her father to send the exhausted sol- dicrs to our rescue before daybreak—she had several times tapped that identical message on her instrament, while desiring with an over- Powering concentration that I could receive 1t jut when I attempted to thank her with cer- tain demonstrations which 1 had reason to be- lieve would have been kindly received the day before, I encountered an offended surprise—my day was over. Ibad only been a pis aller after During the fortnight of enforced waiting hich followed I often heard, as I lay awake in a neighboring room, the industrious click of the telegraph, and resolutely stopped my ears as Lrealized the very personal tenor of some of the messages. It may be seen that this story is deficient in some of the elements of pociic fitness. Misa Sainton ought to have united the life she had saved with her own, instead of which shomar- ried that lieutenant. And, after all, even if I had not received that ghostly message, the sol- diers would probably have overtaken us before the Indians. I fear that all true romances lack symmetry, and my occult message, like most Supernatural occurrences of which we hear, was not justified by any important conse- quences. ——+0+_____ GRIPS THAT ARE A BORE. Some People Who Give Handshakes in Very Painful Ways. 66/J\ HERE IS ONE THING THAT BOTHERS President of the United States which Thave never seen alluded to,” said a Congress- man yesterday toa Star reporter. “It has to do with shaking hands, but the ordinary tedium of the infliction is not what I refer to. Thero are unfortunately a great many individuals in the world who think it a clever trick to give a painful grip to any one who may have the mis- fortune to grasp hands with them. Almost in- variably they pretend that the thing is quite unconsciously done, but in fact they take a pleasure of a mischievous nature in the act. Theydhave various ways of perpetrating the offense. I actually knew of one case where a man wore a ring for the purpose of causing any one whom he accosted to regret the circum- stance. “Chester A. Arthur told me once that he was obliged to be constantly on_his guard against ople who did that sort of thing. Ona num- er of occasions he was caused annoyance and even pain by individuals who gripped his hand in shaking it with the evident intention to hurt him. Were I President I would sce that any one who perpetrated such an offense was promptly arrested. It could be easily done by aving an officer conveniently near. Obvi- ously such action need only be taken in an extreme case, but surely the chief executive should have some means of defense against wsault in this form. President Grant, I have been told, complained of similar annoyances, and I have no doubt that every President of the United States has suffered likewise. I will venture to say that Gen. Washington would have promptly knocked down any man who attempted such a thing with him. SERVED HIM RIGHT. “I once had an opportunity to inflict a well- deserved punishment upon a man who was ad- dicted to committing the offense I speak of. He tried the thing on me three or four times, and I learned that such was his habit, inasmuch as he entertained a particular vanity respecting the force of his grip. Accordingly, 1 decided to teach bim better manners and for that pur- ose I engaged the services of a young farmer in the neighborhood. The latter was the big- Rest man Lever saw outside of a circus, He meausred six feet seven inches in height and was built proportionately. Itook him with me day along a country road where I bad on to expect to encounter the man I was after. By good luck we did so, and I ventured to introduce the giant. The two men grasped hands. but my friend’s enormous paw, which was ax bigasan ordinary ham, fairly incloeed the other's arm almost to the elbow. Smiling plons-\ antly in his face he said, ‘Happy to meet you!’ and proceeded to slowly crus the member. Positively, I could hear the bones ‘scrunch’ as he did so, “Let go, for God’s sake!” the fellow cried out. “The mighty grip was relinquished, and after wringing is own hand in an agonized way for some minutes my victim said that he under- stood the lesson which had been conveyed and that Le woula profit by it.” gamed Sa HE ENCOURAGES THEIR BLISS, A Father Reverses the Usual Process Men- tioned in Newspapers. From the Boston Globe. A-story is going the rounds which makess well-knownsociety young man and a wmillion- aire’s pretty daughter the principal characters in a rather laughable comedy. The young man, who is noted for bis hand- some bearing and winning voice, accompanied the young lady to her home one. Friday even- ing. and, as all true lovers do, lingered yet little while at the gate to bave a lover's tete-a- tete with his fair companion. ‘The night was beautiful, no one near to in- trnde, and, above all, he loved. Why shouldn't she kiss him? With msidenly modesty she refused. Ho implored. She still withheld trom him that which would fill his cup of happiness, The request was repeated several times, and 80 engrossed did the young man become in wooing that he failed to notice the approach of a parental step. ‘The old gentleman, who bad been there him- self and did not dare to intrude upon the hap- iness of the young couple, quietly stepped Pekind a convenient evergreen and weited, thinking the young man would soon leave. In is he was mistaken, ‘The lover tarried over the request until the patience of the old gentleman was exhausted. A voice the couple well knew sroused them from their happiness ina tone of impatient anger by saying: peatliges young idiot and let him go ome ———— ‘The Russians in Cashmere, From the Indian Mirror. Col. Grombchefsky, the Russian explorer of Pamir, who was stopped from entering Cashmere to pass the winter by the British resident there, Col Nesbet, has exhibited his soreness on the sub- ject to M. Barnes Stevoni,who gives an account of his interview with Col. Grombehefsky in the new number of the Imperial and Asiatic Quar- terly Review. The Russian explorer is indignant At the ruspicion that be was engaged in a polit ical mission, and he said to M. Steveni: “The ezar, before giving me permission to 89, distinctly impressed upon me—and these ure almost tho identical words of bis imperial majesty—‘to avoid anything that would give England the least ground of complaint; other- wise I will not let you go. Ido not wish for more territory. My lute father has left me quite sufficient. All I wish is to keep what I have and to develop its resources.’” escape from being shot for a hostile Indian be- fore I succeeded in arousing him. He tried to treat my story with a lightand airy incredulity, but most people who-regard ghost stories as food for babes in broad daylight are willing to lend a fearsome ear to them when night and circumstances weem to suggest their probabil- . ‘The major, bis son aud I eat upon my bed for fully half ‘an hour, trying to coax that phenomenon to repeat itéelf, but it was useless. ‘The rain fell with a stupid monotony. “Well, major, what shall we do?” I asked. “1 believe it's @ practical joke on the part of some one at the post,” he began, stoutly. I made no reply to the manifest imbecility of this remark, and he proceeded: “I don't know whether 1 should be justified in pushing on under the circumstances, in view of the amount Tm carrying. Now, if it wore only myself, you know—" and he paused, suggesting the insanity of valor which he would show were it only a for the last time, for the next morning the paymaster received a telegram saying that the road was safe and the troops at Fort Moun- tain clamorous for their pay. I have not yet mentioned what proved to be the vital point in my little story, which was the circumstance that Col. Santon kept a tele- Mir. Geronimo ‘cr his’ friends the old man will Ve wat on by a court of inquiry, and our blood will not be shed for nothing when they recom- mend hima to Le trie The major objecved to tobacco, s0 I sat on the box with the driver. This driver had a surprising store o/ bluod-curdiing tales touching the road we traveled. Every rock and most of the trees we passed were invested with a Grisly interest us having been amociated with some tragedy. Here was the spot where « couple soldiers bad been surprised while repairing graph instrament house. Of course, his ughter, wit Uneasy energy, long ago mastered the alphabet and ured the ine strument constantiy and . lieutenant to whose quarters I had had educated and equi himself to keep her im practice, and I was often arrested at pected hours—snatehed from the bath tub question of his own skin, while bia son winked disrespectfully behind his back i terrupt bis arguments to justify himself in my eyes and bis own in retreating. tended in our starting at daybreak to return over the road we traveled the er —. a terete We had not wa fam when we mvt small detachment of William when we cw in A Thing Apart. From Life, ATTRACTIVE HOMES. Much Bad Advice is Given by In- competent Writers. SOME THINGS TO AVOID. Excellent Suggestions for the Treatment of ‘Walls and the General Furniture of a Koom —How the Colors Should Combine Harmo- niously—Lovely Design for Tapestry Dye Painting. ‘Written for The Evening Star. F ONE'S ATTENTION is called specially to the subject of the home one cannot help fecling that more bad advice than good is given on the whole by those peo- ple who write on such matters. When a per- son feels doubtful about having the right ideas herself and has to de- pend on some one else for help and sugges- tions she seldom has the discrimination to pick out the tasteful from the tawdry in written descriptions of thinge, However, it is sometimes the cgse that the abil- ity to recognize what is good exists without the faculty of combining and arranging, and then some outside ideas may be of much serv- ice provided good ones are found. Those who write on such items, howover, are so often without any natural taste themselves that it is exasperating to any one with it to read of the atrocious arrangements and articles advised by thom and fancy how many people are gnided by these same writings in adorning their homes. ALL SORTS OF EXCRESCENCES. Such writers aro prolific in expedients for breaking up what one calls the “terrible monotony of the cubic boxes we live in,” and £0 all sorts of excrescences are contrived and advised to clutter our houses under the guise of improvement. Cranes supporting portieres sprouting unexpectedly from the side walls of Tooms, improvised recesses made of wood, with ornamentation in papier mache, papered and colored in contrast to the room and «ct wherever there is wall space enough for them, to be filled with bric-a-brac on cabinets or shelves, and many similar devices,are invented to add to the beauty, socalled, of houses. Most houses are too crowded with furniture and ornament, anda clearing out instead of adding to the hoard would be a good step. LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI STYLRS. In one of the late papers a description and sketch are given showing the general differ- ence between Louis XV and Lonis XVI style There is 80 much said about these two fashio in furniture and decoration that it is well to havo the distinction made plain. In brief, then, as this paper pute it, the Louis XV style ismore florid than the other, the curves are more numerous and prononnced, the designs et the textile fabrics are in largo flowers, with ten- drils and stems, making and accenting the iso. In the Louis XVI style the curves ified and more severe lines appear in the forms of the furniture, the design of hang- ings, embroidery and materials of this kind in- troduce the striped effect in connection with the flower forms ands return is made to the beading in the Greek style as a finish in shapes for furniture. A LOVELY DEsION. A lovely design for painting in tapestry dyes was lately drawn by an amateur by observing the shadows cast on an opaque shade drawn down over a sunny window full of growing plants. Two smali palms of different heights and several plants of various-shaped foliage Were so distinctly and gracefully shown that without any different arrangement a charming band fora portiere or book-case curtain was drawn from the shadows and the idea further carried out. As there was only foliage, no blossoms, sage green was made the color for the dye, which was put on bolton sheeting. A heavy Outline of silk was a finish to the painting and the background was then darned ig in long stitches of a gray blue, which, as a related tone tothe green, made an artistic combination, something of a gobelin tapestry effect being the resuit, and all the inspiration of the sun's pretty silhonetto on the window shade. EFFECT OF GREEN AND BLUE TONES. A whole room furnished in these green and blue tones would be extremely pleasing and not difficult of accomplishment, Charming papers in tapestry designs come in these color- Ings, while tapestry furniture can be gotten in like’ tones, Hangings of velours, the color either green or blue, or with two-thirds of one color and the upper third of the other, divided and edged with a heavy cord, wouid be good for such a room, while « few smnallarticlescould Ve in either one or the other piuin tone. A di- van iu one plain shade, with plenty of cushions, some in tapestry coverings, wome with em- broidered covers and some with silk covers in lighter shades of the green and biue, in almost changeable effects, would be a desirable piece of furniture. Cushions made in exactly the seme way in which was the portiere band just described would be particularly effective and would be inexpensive and easily made, though ie conventionalized forms would be better than the natural ones suggested for that. Beau- tifal designs are being all the time printed in the art papers and often are of the kind which have four sections alike. By looking at one of these a fourth part can be drawn, or an adapta- tion of it, which cau easily be repeated by transfer paper and the whole cushion made entire. By such means less hackneyed patterns may be obtained than when one is ch a popular stamping place where there is never ge variety of one style. A WALL TREATMENT THEME. An idea was read of in an art paper which ‘was adapted to a small room most successfully, @ wall paper being the theme. Some little changes were made which seemed improve- ments and the result was entircly satisfactory. ‘The wall was first covered plainly with burlap, which with its brownish tone made a good background for the many etchings and other black and white pictures which were to be hung on the walls. The widths of the bur- lap were tightly stretched on the wall just overlapping each other and were fastened with large, flat brass nails of the dull, “old” finish. This gave e paneled effect, which was made more marked by the picture rod of wood painted a light brown. ‘The small panels of the frieze formed by the rod and brass nails were decorated ve ceca | in an effective manner. A large design was first drawn on a sheet of heavy paper. then it was cut out, and the sheet was tacked tightly to each space on the frieze between the brass nails, and with a brush charged with thin paint of a deep yellow brown the stencil was painted over. ‘The de- sign was bold, but not complicated, scrolls with leaf fornia “making ‘a gracefal pattern, touched up with a little deep brown. ‘The pat: tern just fills the spaces between the rows of nails, and was repoated in each one. ‘The pic- tures were all framed in narrow oak frames with wide mats of cream white, and a very Pleasing effect was obtained. THE TONES IN THE ROOM. Yellow apd brown were the tones carried out in the room; the portieres are unique, the upper third being golden brown velours, whil the lower part brown cord fini course, many little deta: these are the princ id attractive room, w! good deal of style of itsown. The ceiling, of which I have forgotten to speak before, was made a deep buff by stainin; tho plaster; or kaleomining, as it is called, anda rod like the picture rod con- the edge of the burlap at the top of the ‘as just above the baseboard. - cinatskcntsdedhcueg are left out features of this odd an hat ‘From the Chr'scian Register. ‘The drama appeals to the emotion and per- ception rather than to reason; it appeals to the imagination rather than to the understanding. s v i i 5 id Hs i! 8 I in DUSKY WIVES TO ORDER, Lovely Maids of New Guinea to Be Bought : for an Ax Apiece. ‘A LOW-PRICED BEAUTY FOR A PIFCE OF CALICO— WHERE A GRASS PETTIOOAT IS A SUFFICIENT GARMENT FOR A YOUNG LADY--ADVENTURE OF 4 COLLECTOR AMONG TRE PAPUAXS. UCH OPPORTUNI- ties for matrimony a were offered me in New Guinea a few years ago I never expect to enjoy again,” said Art- ist Sherman F. Denton of the U. 8. fish com- wy. > mission to a Stam re- HF CAS porter. “My journey ‘ through the land of the Papuans was made for <x. the purpose of collect- ing specimens of all sorts, such asa natural- ist seeks to gather, but the people themselvesare the most interesting savages I have ever met. The men and children go about entirely naked, while the women wear only short grass petti- coats T employed a young black fellow named Roboor to help mein ‘my work. His hair was a bush of kinky fuzz and stood up on his head in & mass ux big asa half-bushel measure. I found t that he was in love, but he admitted with a th that he was too poor to marry the girl of hoice. ‘You are young and strong,’ «aid I. ‘Why do you not go to work and earn enough to sup- port yourself and your sweetheart?’ *‘Youdo not understand,’ he replied. ‘I have a good garden that would supply what food we wanted; besides, I can throw the spear farthor and truer to the ‘mark than any other tan in this district, so that I can get ple kangaroos and pizs. But they will not bi girl Her mother wants ‘an ax for her, and that I cannot grow in my garden or hunt in the forest with my spear." he poor fellow groaned, made several do- spairing remarks on his prospective mother-1n- law and finally said that if he did not love the young woman so dearly he would go away and never come back again. But, my boy, You need not despair,” said I. mu of an ax will seenre your give you one. I want many paradise birds, for in my country people think more of them than of axes. If you will help me get as many birds with the long plumes as you have fingers on both hands you shall have ‘the Ax on the day we get the last one.” “He accepted the proposition delightedly. At length, with his assistance, the ten good birds were procured and the ax earned. Twas resent when Roboor bought. his wife with it, hey were married the following morning, the ceremony being concluded with a wild dance and singing by a chorus of girls. PAPUAN GIRLS. “Papuan girls are sometimes very pretty. Once, when out shooting, { met a strikingly handsome young woman. She was frightened at first and turned to run away, but 1 quieted her fears with a small offering of beads. I should judge thut she wax sixteen or seventeen years old, rather tall, of fine figure und as sup- ple and graceful asa swan, She was very light and the warm blood glowed through the brown color of her skin. Her air was brown and curly and clustered about her face in the most attractive manner Her eyes were dark, with a mischievous twinkle; her nose was straight, and her mouth, handsome enough for a Venus, had a dimple at cach corner when she laughed. Altogether, she was a beauty. A CHANCE TO SELECT A WIFE. “One day, after we had been in the country ‘® good while and were able to talk pretty well in the Papuan language, a friendly native named Lohier came to us'with something jm- portant tosay. After receiving assurance from us that we liked the people and the region, considering the latter as beautiful and as fer- tile as any we had ever seen, he asked: **Do You possess wives in America?” ““"No.' We replied. ‘lave you sweethearts?” “No; we have bud, but they are all married.’ “«‘How do you like the Papuan girls?’ “‘Some of them are very handsome and pleasing.’ “Would you like to get married in New Guinea? ** “That depends on circumstances.’ F “ ‘How much do you pay for a wife in Amer Levit ct * ‘Some are very expensive and others very cheap. Usually the expense gomes after they are married. ‘Ihe parents of some girls are 8o auxious to dispose of their daughters that they buy husbands for them.’ hep Voust you marry any you have seen ere’ “‘Hardly, You see, Lohier, we came a long, long distance to get to New Guinea, and, as we aro rich and very good looking, we ought to have the best your country affords." “At that Lohier started up with a whoop and a yell and was off. We went on with our work, thinking no more about the matter. ‘As we were preparing our dinner one after- noon a titier and a giggle were wafted to our ears. Looking around we beheld Lohier in the midst of a group of fifteen or twenty girls, many of them of superior beauty, who we laughing and peering at us over each other's shoulders, ‘They ail wore flowers in their hair and bands of green leaves adorned their arms and ankles. Each maiden had on her best striped petticoat and some wore necklaces of dogs’ teeth. “At length Lohier, stepping forward, said had visited the that he had been a long. wa: biggest towns of his country, back with him the most beantiful women of is nation. He hoped we would each select one that would please us, marry her, and settle down in New Guinea. The parents of some of the girls had come also and were standing in the background. Our friend explained to us that the prices were high, as they were the finest girls in the land. He arranged them all ina giggling line, that they might be seen to the best advantage. Beginning with the first he toid their names and gave their different accomplishments. THEIR MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS. “This young lady’s name is Mime. She can sing, dance, work in the garden, cook kangaroo and is good tempered. ‘fhe price for her is knife and # looking glass. What do you say to ‘What about the next?’ we asked. “This one’s name is Bimena. She is hand- some, very shapely and has nice hair and eyes. Her inther is rich and she can make earthen pots and fish nets. Her father is the chief man in bis village. He wants two axes for his daughter, but if you will live in his town he will give you part of his big house and a yn. garde about the next,’ we said. @ nice little girl. Her name is Kioto. She is very affectionate, is kind to her aged mother, knows how to make brooms, can cook # pig without burning it and is economi- cal. Her garden has no weeds in it and she raises excelient bananas. She wants to get married and her mother will let her go for a Picoe of calico laxge enough to make @ petti- coat “I noticed the beautiful girl whom I had met while out shooting among the number of the maidens and I was anxious to hear what Lobier would say of her. She still wore the string of beads I had given her and looked xs pretty and modest asa violet, n he came to her he said: ‘This is Lucena. Is she not lovely? Her arms are round as bamboo; her form is supple as the climbing vine; her skin is smooth asa Young banana leaf; her hair is soft as spiders webs; her eyes are bright as dew in the mora- ing. "She can sing like a bird and run fast as a Kangaroo; she is a good housekeeper, an affec- tionate daughter, and comes from a good fam- ily, for her tather is a great warri “The value set upon the beauty was an ax, a nite, a pieve of ‘calico and a string of beads. e a made affair might turn out seriously perhaps, but we turned the matter off by declaring that we were Unable to make a choice among 40 3 distcibate presente creatures at pre to ut Ail le ‘o most of rls we ve colored cota te we Ga Sy brase bation in each. "To KALAKAUA’S NAVY. The Dusky Monarch’s Guns Hed te Be Pawned. From the Seattle Press-Times. Reminiscences of life in the southern seas were being told by a number of acquaintances who were stopping at the Occidental They Were all commercial travelers, and two of them had been to the islands. “Old King Kalakaua’s ambition to own « navy,” said Frank Albrecht, “ended in one of the best bits of international comedy I ever heard of. I think the story, which is perfectly true, is not generally known, and I have never seen it in print. “For yenrs the genial old barbarian had gazed ‘Upon the greatness of the navies of other nations and cherished the desire to be repre- sented and havo the dignity of bis kingdom sus- tained by a real armed cruiser. “The more he saw of the war of otber nations lying in his own barbor more it At last the happy day preyed on his mind. came when he bad saved enough, notwith- standing the efforts of his cabinet officers, who tried to tempt him to play freeze-outand other games of hazard, to buy a navy for his beloved government. He had already selected the ves- sel be was to buy. “It was the American ship Ethan Allen, = serviceable craft bought of Americans and armed with four ten-poundera. “Then Kelakaue conceived an adea of reci- procity witlr Samoa, the nearest neighbouing group, whose dignity approached that of Ha- wa ne fine day the Hawaiian navy sailed off on its mission and in time reached the harbor of Apis. The flag of the sugar islands was» pretty sight to the commander of the vessel and the gorgeous ‘man-of-war’ drove the Sa- moans nearly wild with envys ““A brass band, made up of Kanakas, played the national anthem every night for ‘lights vut,’ and every day the dusky crew strutted along the beach and looked disdainfull poor natives of Apia. “After while the stores ran low and the Hawaiian navy was still 2,000 miles from home. ‘The commander went to the merchants of Apia and ordered a store of salt horse and sea bread. They wanted their pay in advance. The naval officer told them with considerable dignity ‘to charge it.’ “*To whom? they asked. “To King “ihe oticer pitiod thei ignorance, but he couldn't enlighten them Snough to'get any stores on tick. He finally pawned the beautiful ten-pounders for enough to last during the homeward passage. “Ihe navy is now anchored in the harbor of Honolulu, serving a8 a quarantine station. It is said that the last days of the king were shortened by this set-back in his life's ambi- tion, and that frequently when he looked up from an ace-high hand there was # pearly tear on the side of his nose. Observers thought it was because he couldn't win that he wept, but his cabinet officials who sat at the game with him knew differently.” eo Reloved Servants—Not of Today. From the Gentleman's Magazine. Relations between master and servant, or employer and employed, have undergone the same kind of change that has come over our general life. In place of the welcome of mine host or mine hostess in the old hotel, the resi- dentin one of the huge caravansaries recently built finds indifference and apathy. The em- ployer of thousands of hands knows perhaps 5 per cent of them by sight, and men with establishments may easily be unable to tell names of some at least of their servants. Every- where the relations more purely busi- ness-likeand fivancial. Human nature changes little, however, and human sympathies put for- ward their tentacles now as before. Not wholly extinct is “the constant service of the antique world,” though pessimists have, through all ages, insisted upon a continuous decline that would long ago have brought about its de- struction. In a delightful book called “Faith- ful Servants” Mr. Arthur J. Munby, M. A. F. S. A. has collected close upon 700 memorial records by masters to the worth of their ser- vante, Many of these epitaphs are supremely touch- ing, aud most of then arcluonovable te al sons cerned. Now and then I find an attempt to in- culeate the doctrine that the poor are to be contented with their lot, and imitate the vir- tues of a day laborer who, with common wages and without parochial pay, “supported in cleanliness and credit” a sickly wile and thir- teen children. Such cases are, however, the exception, and Eauiion the expressions in- dicate that the loss : ced that of Seinter, a mother ora child, What more than the following can be said: “To the beloved memory of Ehzabeth Painter, fifty-five years atriendand servant tthe Hone and Kevd Gerard Noel: ‘blessed memory” of this same woman her employer erected a stained-glass window in Romsey Abbey. In another case a woman is described as “a most devoted servant and be- loved friend.” One of the eldest monuments is in the Collegiate Church of St. Mary, Strat- Amy Smith who being abovt ye age of | sixt yearsand # maide departed this|ife | at Nonsvel in Svrrey ye i3th day of Sep. | Ao DM: 1626 she attended vpon the | Right Hoble Joyce, Ladie Carew Covn- | tew of Totness, as her waiting gen- | tlewoman ye space of 40 years together | being very desizova in her life tyme | that after her death she might be laid | in this chvrch of Stratford where her | lady ye said Coyntesse also herselfe | intended to is bvried, & accordinglie to | fvifill her reqvest & for her so long | trew and faithful servis ye said Right | Hoble Covntesse as an evident toaken | of her affection towards her not onely | cavsed her body to be brovght from | Non- svch heither & here honrably bvryed | bvt also did cavse this monvment and | svperscription tobe erected ina | gratefvil memorie of ber whome | she had fovn 60 good a servant.” In- dian servants and negroes are the objects of no less honorable mention. Mr. Munby's book would Lave delighted Charles Lamb. ——_—+es_—_____ She Crushed Him and Then Saved Him From the New York Tribune. A bashful young man bad rather a trying ex- perience in an elevated train the other day. ‘The car was crowded, as is always the case in the busy evening hours, and about as many people seemed ta be standing as were sitting. ‘The bashful young man seemed very uncom- fortable in his seat. Several times he moved uneasily as if he intended to give up his few inches of room to some one else, but he alwa; sank back in a discouraged way. At one of stationsa woman got on the train. She was not very pretty an: was not very young, but she bad an extremely pleasing face. After trying to reach one of the straps, she balanced herself in aisle directly in front of the young man. Casting two or three glances at er, t up. “Woutt you take this sont?” he said. o, I thank you,” she said, with « pleasant “Please keep it yourself. “But I'm not going very far,” he said, look- ing dejected and beginning to blush. ‘[ don't mind standing in the least,” she said, smiling again, but looking firm, The young man sat down and intently watched his shoes, while the crimson faded from his face. ‘Shortly afterward some one else entered the car. There was a convulsion among the crowd of people who were standing, as if a ram were at work on it out by the door. An opening was made in the and through it came a short, ‘There was a good deal of if her eyes told the truth She did not snarl, though if From the New York Herald. ‘The number of Central nad South American, visitors to this city has so largely increased in Tecent years that there is a decided rivalry bes tween many of the leading hotels to secure their patronage. The majority of the residents of the Spanish American countries who come bere are wealthy and to secure them as guests is deomed the most desirable thing. In consequence the hotels catering to this trade employ runners, who keep posted about the arrival of steamers in this port from Aspin- wall and the eastern coast of South America, and use all the persuasive arte at their c m- mand to capture the strangers. — not the ordinary = such mortals, whose appearance repels ra than attracts custom, but well-dressed, nicely mannered men, who speak French, English and Spanish with equal fluency. When they are not at the piers alluring passengers stories of superior accommodations of their ro-~ spective hostelries they States. Such well-educated Chileans as Minis- ter Pedro Montt and the fugitive premdent, Ciaudic Vieuna, when they reached this city could not um the commoncst phrases in English. ——_~es_—_____. THE WATERLOO BALE. Reminiscences of the Famous Dance Just Hefhre the Battle. From the Tlustrate: American. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond age itv- ing ina fine hotel on the Rue de Is Blanchis- sere, which stood on its own grounds and had « fruit and flower garden extending to the city famparte, Their graces moved in all the so- ciety of Brussels and entertained a great deal. The duchess, who had issued 220 invitations for her ball, proposed to recall them when she heard that Napoleon's army was advancing. But the Duke of Wellington, to prevent alarm, Fequested that the ball might take place. Nevertheless, many English families were frightened away from Brussels, and post horses were kept harnessed in the Duke of Richmond's stable, in case bad news from the scene of the conflict should make it advisable for his chil- dren to be sent to Antwerp. The majority of the people of Brussels wore violent Bonapartists and were prepared to en- tertain Napoleon im great style should be force the British army to retreat and enter their city in triumph. it was that the Duke of Wellington and many of his officers went to the bali after the business of the day had been attended to. While the merry couples were flying around & dispatch from the front was handed to Well- ington. He asked the Duke of Richmond for # Private room where he might consalt with some of his generals who were present. T) duchess’ dressing room was the only conv ient room which was safe from intrusion. Candles were hastily lit on the dressing tabl at which Wellington sat with a map before bi and having explained certain points to his staff they all rejoined the company. They left the house before 10 o'clock, and succeeded in do- ‘so without attracting any attention. ‘ery few, if any, of the dancers ‘near at hand was the crisis which was to decide the {ate of Europe, and it never entered she of the young girls that some of thei part- ners were danc' ‘fe “dance of death.” About midi it the general officers were quietly warned and disappeared from the seam. An Injured Brakeman’s Nerve, ‘From the Omaha Bee Pat Conley was rear brakeman on eSeuthem Ohio train that broke in two while he wasom deck. He made for the brake whegl toheep the rear section from dashing into the forward Part of the broken train. The brake chain wheels and in an instant he had both ous off below the knee and one band ‘What was left of him was burried upen the engine to the station, fortunately very near at hand. The stumps were fmpatied and dreased without anmsthetics, being too sudden and summons too’ hasty them, af the man's life was to be Pat never uttered » sound. Quivering pain, white and perspiring with agony, he #0 much as winced. Gangrene set in and arm bad to be — off above the elbow. the brakeman neter uttered @ moan. Late one night, when he was still the second operation, the ital the shat! form lay brok fell to the floor, the bandage was his leg, the ligatures burst, and but quick section of the nurse ‘Pat Conley would we bled to death. When the surgeon arrived the brakeman's face was drawn with anj He was 90 week from loss of blood it grew doubtful whether lifecould be coaxed back snto his frame. Everything that could be done was at- tended to at once. Fainting, sick, racked with inexpressible tor- ture, the poor fellow looked up at the sergeon, who was compelled to stoop catch the feeble words. In # whisver that was inaudible to the rest of the room Pat mur- mured: ‘Doc, how —long— ought « feller siand this before be hollers? I can t stand it—-much longer without—eryin’, but i don't want to do ‘the baby act.” “For God's sake, Pat,” cried the doctyr, “ery if you want to. It'll do you good.” for the first time in all these days of aE Pat turned his face to the wall and wept ‘achild. H 8 ad . ii fas Z I [ : § Habits of Authors, From the Irish Times. Paessiello did most of his composing while lying in bed wrapped up to the ears in the bed cover. Cimerossa is said to have received the inspiration of his most beautiful operes while in the midst of mirth and the bustle of the Mezerai worked on bis bistories only but aiwaye by the aid of lighted in the da; sEFE etl itt | i] E cE ul HE E i i rt i i H : Hil il lise i f fH E t g a