Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1892, Page 10

10 reason of all this is obvious. THE WANING SEASON. |*8*sbestite st SHE DID NOT SEEM TO MIND. It Was the Young Man With the Blonde | The Experience of an Old Map Whe Died Bang JUST PRGGEHD ON. “iui JACKSON'S CABINET. Z|MID ARCTIC SNOWS. gnrai ne are gent tel Toomer emma Roe memes Some Late Styles for Fashionable The Break-Up Oocasioned by the Her soon ca was lin "tonpeny is | Lieut, Peary May Find the Lost Col = ae We AGioas ENTLEMAN WITH A BLONDE | an aus oe ae ap we ae long ago ® wan known for miles and miles around as Old Joe Kimpton. Old Joe came to Kansas in 1856. He brought weak lunge with him from the “ager” swamps of Indiana, but he plugged along and wae ailing off and on for the reception room of s fashionable Washing- ton physician one day last week and looked abouthim for a seat. There was only one vacant, owing to an unusual crowd of patients. He took it and sat down to wait, making s pre- Commodore idge, the enpanrel preny ter? soloetie triacs oat ver} thom the Dritien hip Hesolution, with $23,006 in specie on board. Afterward ‘she captured the British sloop-of-war the Peacock. which, strange to say, was the first to bring the news Women. Eaton Episode, OLD HICKORY'S LETTER. onists of Greenland LEFT-OVER DEBUTANTES. INCLOSED BY WALLS OF ICE,| “*? 73* Dirricuurr im azronxme. Exquisite Gowns to Suit All Styles—A White Surah With Cream Feathers — A Pretty Dancing Dress for a Young Person—Fur ‘Trimming Still in Style—Bodiees and Corse- lete— Fashion Notes. of the Hornet. His Peremptory Demand for an Pxplanation— Campaign Charges of Administrative Ex- travagance Fifty Odd Years Ago Were as | ¥ ‘Numerous as They Are at Present—The/Loss of her loss. “After the death of Lawrence Capt, James Biddle commanded the Hornet and Joined the squadron under Commodore De- catur. and being blockaded in the harbor of lew London, eseaped and joined Decatur in the ernire to the East Indies in January, 1814, who captured another British sloop-of-war, the Penguin. She was sctively employed until pence was declared, and from that period had ‘The Norse Settlers Who Were Shut Of From the Rest of Mankind Six Hundred Yeare Ago—How It Is Known That Greenland Wee Once # Tropical Coustry-How Peary May Reach the Pole. [X72 Fancy Parr op 1860 aN shortly after my shipwreck, of which I wrote Tar Stan some time ago, one of the own- iow, if you were only an engincer, I could give you a Position.” To this I readily replied that I could fill the bill tense of reading the while. He soon gave this up, because there was +o little Light that be could not distinguish the Print withont difficulty. Besides bis eves were weak. Infact that was the reason wherefore he was making daily visite to the ophthalmie sur- gzeon. The day was stormy outside and the curtaing were drawn. a number of years, when be was “ook down” with lung fever. It went into quick consump- tion and one of his lunge was gone before be knew it, The doctors guve him upand didn't think he could Live through the winter, But be just plugged along and allowed he'd pull through somenow. The children wore little tots then snd Joe ought a bunch of ealves that spring end said HAT A TREASURE trove an old scrap book is to one who indulges among other commanders Commodore Stephen Cassin of Georgetown. sos CONSTANT AND VALUED SERVICES. Few national vossels have over performed in remembrances of the | such constant aud valued services. Her vari- Jong ago, and such 4 | ous commanders were among the most distin- , treasure I found the | guished heroes who have contributed so la S other day in the por | share to thelr country’s uaval history. Wi such a record it seems strange that the history ension of an old friend, | Cr this il-starred vessel and the sad fate of hee There is surely nothing quite eo dismal as the iting room of an oculist. The paticnts sit around and eye Onennother slyly,each one w dering what is the particular touble which af- flicts this or that other. People who have trou- bles of this sort are very apt to be morbid. One may escape reflection for a time upon the un fortunate condition of a lung or a liver, but anything the matter with the organs of sight haunts the patient continually. The fact was I bad filled several positions in the fire room, and as aboy knew some- thing about steam engines. This reminds me of my first experience in engineering. On this occasion I was fring aboard a steam tug. A companion, a few years my senior, wasa hand on the same boat At the dock, after our day's work was done, and in the carly morning, before starting out, Bpectal Correspondence of The Even‘ns Star. New Youx, February 19, 1892. 8 THE GOOD BOOK saith: Out of the full-} nese of the heart speak- eth the mouth, and now that the Lenten season | is drawing nigh and the pleasnre seekers are | SHOULDNT BE AT il surprised,” said & distinguished ethnolo~ gist toa Sran reporter: “if Lieut. Peary, in whose behaif an expe- dition is about to start for the arctic, actually he \fuensed hod Lave them anyhow for the children to go to school on. The doctors told bim be couldn't pomubly ces through the next Winter and he made hts will. He hung around the house and coughed most of the time, and the children belped him about ve choresin the cold weather, He had his spells and everybod, ight he would die, but Toe be just ong and allowed bed pull chrough somehow. The next year and the next and the next be them CREPE DE CHINE BALL GOWN. the dancing before the season closes, my ears daily are crammed with gossip of the dancers and tales of their beau- J 401 toilets, for I must wemaind you that the lady of fashion holds back seme of her more ravishing gowns until the lose of the season. She wants to expire in bg Sitting glory; she sims to leave such a void that the perm will not forget ker by the time another seston rolls sround. In the fashionable world, as in the financial or busi- ‘ness world, a leader can only maintain her by constant effort, by untiring de- to the srt of pleasing, by making friends ‘gathering in admirers—in = word, by it preserving popularity. In the ‘illustration I get before yous dainty combination of striped faille with white Jace being most tastefully applied both on the corsage ‘skirt and the gown having abso. 3! Bo other ture. pert im the art of dress ornament is ‘butof the best, for quantity in ‘serves to accentuate lack of qual- mus for her good taste in mat- one evening asked to admire in ball dress 18 Fe} as there was too muc! for astonishment ‘season quite a number of last year, by which I and three who would ‘They don’t dare as- i auine you i i j i : not this ity. ters the that abe could not for HE. ‘WHITE SUBAH WITH CREAM FEATHERS. Is the second illustration is represented one Of those gowns—s charming figured silk, white ‘nd cream, made up very simply and very aintily set aff by feather tips on the shoulder hair, which is with white fan to mateh. I over- ask a witty society woman lady's age. “I used to Teply, “but she bas grown ‘Tecollection. fe PINE GATT! 43D WHITE MOUSSELIVE & famous designer of gowns was once mis- taken fors poet. “Poet!” he sneered, “poets only stir the intellecta I reach imaginations; “and when I gaze upon sch an czauisite gown os the one third illustration I'm faclined to ‘think t the creator of modes? was Fight. Here you bave an altogether lovely ball seems to have taken euch a strong hold upon | popular favor that nothing save the breath of May flowers will frighten it aw: willeven be willing togo then. Itis simply , if, in faet, it YOR-TRIMMED WHITE SATIx. Tea negliges, reception dresses, street gowns, ball toilets, all display their fur trimming. My attention has been specially attracted by the positively lovely little jackets in velvet, made sleeveless and left open to show the neck and the chemisette and edged with fur. But this season fur has not been content to border skirts in the plain, old-fashioned way; it has wound itself in graceful curves upon trains and even diagonally around a gown in serpentine coils; it has edged the corsage, coming in direct con- tact with the fair skin of the wearer: it has acted as ceintureand even nestled amid the wary tresses of the lady of modes. In the last illustration attention is called to a very charming ball toilet with fur trimming. It isa white satin garnitured with soft gray far and old gold, the old gold being embroid. ered with black’ silk stars. To compiete this elegant and showy costume you need gray gloves and a black fan. Baby bodices and deep corselets are in great favor. Ihave seen some very pretty effects attained by a deep corselet in velvet and jet, and then below astylish hip puff, Huguenot fashion, so called. Greens are much affected, particularly for tea gowns, which take on more and more garniture and accidentals, as the music people call them. You can produce a very taking little costume by making up a silk blouse in some pale color, cut V shape. and wear a black corsclet with it and black skirt, and by simply adding a net or gauze overskirt you achieve much brilliancy. FOR THE SHOULDERS. So far as can be seen there is no intention to relinquish those effects by which a greater breadth of shoulders is attained, only there is an apparent inclination to substitute the shoulder frill, which gives an aspect of breadth without making it seem so like # trick or device. To this end you must bave recourse to a yoke, from which hangs a loose but not over-full frill of the material. In tea gowns and honse dresses you make nse of some cobwebby ma- terial hke chiffon, with sprigs of embroidery and button holed’ at the edges. Lace, too, is very modish for shoulder frills, Chantilly, Brussels, Spanish or guipure. You need not encircle’ the bust entirely, but stop at the shoulders in epaulette style, and in this case you may carry it down in cascades to the point of the corsage in diminishing width. Guipure in faint yellowish tinge is much worn, spread ing itself in wide pelerine style over the shoul- rs. ‘A real novelty fs the Russian blouse in scarlet serge, tobe worn with a black skirt. ‘The blouse has a narrow black velvet yoke, outlined with narrow strips of short fur, from which it falls. ‘The sleeves are of black velvet, tight fitting, with fur cuffs and loose overslecves of the scarlet serge reaching to the elbows and also edged with fur. There must be a belt. of course, and the skirt should be fur trimmed to match, making up an extremely quaint and pretty Louse dress. ———+or____ HER WEIGHT IN GOLD, ‘This is the Price » Mexican Paid for a Pretty Wife. From the New York San. “There is an old lady living in southern California, at the patriotic little mountain aet- tlement knows as American Flag, who isan object of much interest to strangers from the fact that she is probably the only woman on earth the valuation of whose person was ever literally appraised at her weight in gold,” sai a New Yorker recently returned from a trip across the continent. “She is sixty-eight years old now, and the widow of one Jesus Castro, a Mexican. ‘This Mexican was one of the first miners who struck « fortune in gold in the pioneer days of California. He lived in the Santa Catalina mountains, and returned home more than loaded down with gold dust. “He fell passionately in love with his broth- er’s daughter, a handsome girl of seventeen. She returned her uncle’s love and consented to marry him. ‘The priest to whom they applied, learning of their close blood relationship, re- fused to marry them. Castro offered as bigh ae €5.000 to the church as.an inducement for | demon, in which he sar sos! - give usa daily history readers can remember. time-stained devoted to the dissolution of Gen. Jackson’ ‘8 | ubiquitous, or, better said, everywhere you | cabinet, caused by the Eaton episode. From | least expect to find it, and I must admit that it | this record of that interesting period it seems has pressed feathers very closely this season. | Gen Paton challenged Mr. Ingham, the Secre- tary of the Treasury, for the reflections cast upon his wife in the refusal of the Secretary and his family to visit or receive Mra. Eaton, The United States Telegram, which Was published by Duff Green, contained an article on Mrs. Eaton which Gen. Eaton considered as emanating from Mr. Ingham, as the Telegram justified Mr. Ingham's refusal. Mr. Ingham declined to be held respousiblefar the articles pubiisked in the daily press, an‘ charged in a lett to Gen. Jackson that Gen. Eaton, Col. Jobn Campbell. United States treat smith, register of the assistant secretary of zecond aucitor of the ir. Wm. Jones and Amos Kendall had met at the Tressury Department for the pur- ose of useaulting him on his way to bis o} ¢ old general addressed a letter to these ge I wish you tostate to me if youor either of you have had any hand and to whatextentin the illegal misconduct imputed in his (Inghem’s) letter herewith inclosed. Isurely have been deceived in your character i pable of so far forgetting the re- sponsibilities of your station us to participate in the reprebensible conduct charged. In the serious charge coutained in Mr. Ingham’s letter, which gave me the first intimation that have bad upon the subject of his difficulties, I wish you to give me a prompt and explicit anewer-” ‘Jo this letter euch of the gentlemen replied on the same day, denying any knowl- edge of such mecting, and Maj. Smith in his letter i r. Ingham, in making charges of such grave import, had not thought to refer to the authority upon which he based his allegations and awuited the issue before he left the city.” Gen. Eaton addressed ‘personal letter to Mr. Blair, asking the publi- cation of a letter of denial in'the Globe. ‘THE REORGANIZATION OF THE CABINET. John Macpherson Berrien, who was Attorney General under Gen, Jackson, was one of these whose resignation was requested, with Mr. Branch, Secretary of the Navy. The letter Mr. Berrien is very lengthy one. He say Uninfluenced by those considerations whic! have been avowed by that portion of my col: leagues who have voluntarily separated them- Selves from. you, totally ignorant of any want of harmony in your cal which either has or ought fo have impeded the operation of your administration, I perform this act simply in obedience to your will.” The reorganization of the cabinet, which took place in 1831, brought into the Treasury Department, Louis McLane; into the Navy Department, Levi Y into the War Department, Lewis Cass, and into the Attorney General's office, Roger B. Taney. Mr. Samuel D. Ingham was @ member of Congress from Pennsylvania and Mr. Ciay and his friends attributed the action of George Kremmer, the member from Penn- sylvania, in charging on Mr. Clay bribery and corruption in accepting office under Mr. Adama, to Mr. Ingham and Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Clay ignored Kremmer as merely a tool. ‘Gen. Eaton, on leaving the War Department, {was sont as minister to Spain, where he re- mained several years. CAMPAIGN OHARGRS OF EXTRAVAGANOE. The political history of the country of the period furnishes, it would seem, the usual cam- paign charges of extravagance against the isting administrations on the eve of every presidential election, The specch of “Jack” Ogle, as everybody called him, on the extrava- gance of Mr. Van Buren when President and his description of the “gold spoons” and the sums paid for flowers and wines, &c., was not without influence in defeating Mr. Van Buren. In one of, the politieal papers of the day dated May, 1828, the New York Enquirer, vpecifies in the expenditures of tho Department of state the items of $100 paid for a gold medal of John Quincy Adams, and after expending consider- able space on such extravagance, says: “If you give away $100 for gold medal for the President what is to prevent+ the pay- ment of a pension to him and an allowance to his eldest sony’ M. M. Cruickshank, for & blue velvet portfolio embroidered in chenille, with goid tassels, 2100." “Monstrous! $100 for a velvet portfolio!” “Cash paid Richard Rush for sundry books and papers procured by him in London, £799.98.” *‘Neurly #800 for for- eign newspapers!” “Do., do. to Kobert Ellis for ‘Lives and Portraits of ‘Eminent Englishmen,’ ).” “Has not President Adams cient proof of his attachment to eminent glishmen without making the freemen of thie country pay the expense? Is this a proper ex- ‘ash paid W, is, 16 reams English laid 4to post pape per ream, gl44. Well done, Ame. m. Mr. Clay, the father of the sys tem, expending $144 of the people's money for English writing paper.” “Cash Greeubury Gaither for one dozen silver pens, $2.50. Sil- ver pens, ‘vanitus vanitatam! Why a dozen silver pens, if plain continental goose quills would not answer! One silver pen might do.” A ONCE FAMILIAR WASHINGTON NAME. Greenbury Gaither was the old silversmith who kept a shop on the south side of the ave- nue, next door near!) Jith street. I have not heard his name in thirty years, Iwonder if my young friend Hamilton Clements remembers the tall, serious old man by that name, the contemporary of the father of the Messrs. Galt, and another contemporaneous silversmith on the south side of the avenue near 12th street, Charley Pryse. The old house remeins just the same, next to penditire of public money A. Davi columns of a period few of your Here are columns to Harvey's, corner of | b; of the Hornet and left it to command the Natchez. Another extract from the Intelligencer of August 4, 1827, announces tho arrival of the Nortk Curolina at Norfolk, commanded by Commodore John Rodgers. ‘The list of her offi- cers will recall names familiar to onr old citizers: Master Commandant Matthew 0. Perry, Lieuts. Isaac Mayo, Andrew Fitzhugh, Allen’ Griffin, Midshipmen E. B_ Bontwell, Sidney L. Lee, Robt. G. Robb, W. W. Hunter, Cary W. Selden, William D. Porter, Sam'l F. Dupont, H. H. Bell, Fred’k Chatard and Fred" Rodgers. The mustine officers were Capt, Charies R. Broom, Lieut. A. A. Nicholson, the father of Admiral ‘urd Major Nicholson of the marine corps, and the surgeon was Dr. Bailey Washington, who for years resided on 6t street northwest, and aniong the midsuipmen transferred in the Mediterranean were John R. Goidsborough and Charles W. Hunter (Alvarado Hanter). Jou F. Core. ue emcee tt THE STAKED PLAIN. A Texas Wonder Which Bothers the Geolo- gists. From the 8t. Louis Giobe-Democrat. ‘The geological mystery of Texas is the Llano Estacado or Staked Plain. It lies south of the Canadian and east of the Pecos and west of the 101st meridian. “In surface features,” Prof. Hill saya, “the northwestern half of this plain is similar to the plains of Colorado, Kaneas end northward. But there is this difference. Instead of extend- ing to the Rocky mountains on the west or im- perceptibly grading into the level of the eastern areas, it is surrounded on every side, except a few miles at its southeast corner, by a more or lesa precipitate escarpment of erosion resem- bling palisades. ‘This isolates it from the sur- n except the Edwards plateau, which is its southeastern connection already mentioned.” The Staked Plain ia there—a great, stecp- sided island in an ocean of land. ‘This elevated surface embraces 50,000 square miles. ‘The aphical tradition is that the Spaniards the name because they hud to drive stakes to mark their way across. ‘This accords pretty well with Prof. Hill's description. He Says that this vast surince is perfectly smooth, with the exception of an occasional depression —so much so as to resemble the level of the ocean at dead calm. It is unbroken by trees or bushes or deep drained channels. It is car- peted with a rich growth of gramma grasses. ‘The new railroads of Texas and New Mexico have made accessible to the geologists this largest of ail Texas plains an try. The small amount of surface water few widely distributed flow around the plain. They are the and feet below the level. Neither or them receives any surface drainage from the plain. Yet th rainfall on the Staked Pisin from June to Sep- tember is from 20 to 25 inches. The soil is rich and from 6 to 30 feet deep. It seems like a lake deposit, and it differs from all other parte of Texas. Notwithstanding the rainfall the plain is cov- ered with nutritious grass. As one approaches the edge of the Staked Plain rises like a preci- pice. This wall canbe seen at a distance of Sfty miles, The edge is serrated and cut into by the rain washes to such a degree that it is evident the wearing-away process is going on rapidly. This extensive washing is the came Kind ag that to be seen in the edges of the Had Lands of the Dakotas The geologist easily estimates that the Pecos and the Canadian, flowing around the west and north sides, and the Ked, Brazos and Colorado, heading near the eastern border, bave already worn away onds. Two streams Canadian great slices of the Staked Plain. The top of a book resting on a flat table gives a good idea of the Staked Plain. This plain, taking it from the top downward, consists of, first, porous sediment of soil, sand, gravel aud salt in hori- zontal layers to depth of 200 feet ‘Then comes @ great floor of sands.clays and granites. Part of the floor is composed of the Trinity eands. Part of it, where the sands have been worn away by the convulsions of nature, is of the red beds. ‘The conditions are very curious to the eci- entist, but the main question with u practical generation is about the water condition of this great plain. Running water in Dickens county is the only streams on the vast plain. It is a bright, sparkling stream that suddenly breaks out of the ground, ripples over pebbly bottoms for a distance of ten miles und then mysieri- ously disappears. How is this abseuce of in- | running water to be accounted for on 10,00 miles of country possessing u fair rainfall ‘The answer is the great capping strata of the Staked Plain are as porous as@ sponge. Every drop of water either evaporates or sinks down- ward through the soil. Until recent years the Staked Plain was considered utterly waterless. But there have now been dug into these porous strata more than 1,000 wolis. ‘These wells do not flow, but the water from them is pumped freely by wind mills, and the Staked Plain is thereby made # pasture for countless herds of ler the ground and is stored in the mortar beds and grits. It is kept from going further down yy the underlying red beds. It constitutes one of the most remarkable sheets of underground water in this country. ————+ee_—____ Big Fees for Directors. From the New York Times. The fees that directors of business corpora- tions receive range from $5 to 915 for attend- perhaps the | greatest and least studied plateau of our coun- | which is not drunk up by the soil is found in a | Pecos. Both have cut nearly 1,000 | ing early times in Greenland. One of these colonies was entirely cut off from civilization and lost,ns is recorded in the eagas aud other traditional histories of those people. Winters greweolder, and, oneun- precedentediy severe season following another, the little gathering of squattors in that icy re- kind t slong the snore and the heap- ing up of mighty tee cliff, through which there was no passage and over which is was im- Possible to climb. IMMURED FOR SIX HUNDRED YEARS. “That was six hundred years ago. Since then expedition after expedition has sought these lost settlers in vain. Owing to geographical indefiniteness in the original accounts written on the subject not even the locality occupied by the colony conld be Yery nearly ascertained. levertholess it has been the hope of every ex- plorer in that region thut he might come across some traces at all events of the missing people. Many scientists believe tint the descendants of these vanished Norsemen, somewhat less than 200 in nuntber, still dwelt in a sort of ico-bound oasis, without cithcr entrance or exit, as they | themselves have for vo many gencrations be- | lieved. To ail intents and purposes they are so many Rip Van Winkies, having no knowledge of the world without, save such as las been conveyed to them through tradition respecting affairs as thoy wore ix centuries back. So far as they have been aware there were no other human beings surviving on earth. Their mun- | | ners and customs are those of 600 years ago very slightly modified, although their dress hi necessarily been accommodated to t vironment, as wellas their way of li many respects CENTURIES Ago. “Greenland was not always « wilderness of | ice. Its rocks have preserved in their strata | the story of a time when the island—if wach it | is, and not a continent—was covered with lux- | uricnt forests of palmsand other trees peculiar | to the torrid zone. In theso primeval woods the smilax aud many climbing vines festooned. the branches. In short, the climate and the plants which i8 fostered were such ax are now j found in the latitude of Egypt. Giant ferns, nd exaggerated mosses covered the | ar remuine are discovered xt this day in extensive coal beds toward the north. A PUZZLE To OROLOGiSTR. “That Greenland was once upon a time a tropical country has long been known. What caused its change of climate iy to some extent | & puzzle to geciogists We know that the | United States as far south as Philadelphia and | St. Louis was, during a comparatively recent period, covercd with ice. Many authorities are | of the opinion, which appears most to prevail, | that such wonderful alterations have been | eilected by a shifting of the axis of the earth. | Not so very many centuries before history be- gan, although no one can estimate the poriod ectirately, arctic glaciers spread over Europe. | During that epoch herds of reindeer waudered over France and Germany, and the men who lived then fed upon them’ and carved out of their horns artistic implements which can be seen in museums now. ‘Thus, while Greenland was once a tropical country, we know that the arctic at one time spread as far as the Medi- terrancan, and the remains of a polar fora and fauna are yet discovered in southern Europe. Itis even thought that the E.uuo ure very probatly tie descendants of the people of the early stone age, Whose bones are dug out of the ancient river drift, BOW AND N&XT SUMMER. “Peary is now at Whale sound. Nex$ sam- mer he will strike nortuward, with the inten- tion to determine the coast line as far as it extends. If the lund stretches as far as the pole he may attain that long-soaght goal. In such an event he as likely to hate diiiculty in finding out when he has arrived there and in establishing its precise location. At that paint of no motion, the extremity of the earth's axis, the ordinary methods of figuring out one's position fail. Standing there one could not tell in what direction New York was except by the watch. Away from the pole it is easy enough to go north by the aid of the pole star, but what is to be done when that orb is exactly overhead? NOT A DANGEROUS PURSUIT. “The popular notion ie that arctic exploring is a very risky pursuit, but in reality it is not ao. Fishing on the Grand Banke is much more dangerous. As Mark Twain says, “The great- est peril which people encounter is not met with in traveling op the ——— bus in going to bed. Most people die in be” Only three expeditions out the many which bave been made have involved lous of life. Franklin'sparty starved to death mainly because there were too many in it, while Schwatka traveled 3,000 miles away from any base of supplics, living off the country. Three boats leit Jeanette. The fro be company was composed of suilors who no notion of the way to get along after their vewel was lost. Mclville bronght hia boat through all right. Chip and his eom- ions were never from. De Long leit Bis shotguns behind in order that the reo ord books might be carried. His party keptouly their rifles to shoot birds with, audgrhen their provisions were ull but gone ry passed ‘within four milesof a hut in which were six reindeer. When wolves travel over barren country they officer, Lockwood, attained the furthest north ever reached, beyond 82 degrees north lati- tude, was subjected to awful sufferings, man: of Bove witb him dying because of too my way, for long months, we kept it up till Mull and T felt ourscives full-flodged, and were clmorous for development into’ broader ‘ope. Alas! We were challe One fine morning, whi drill, we were hailed: “ to the stream we descried a vessel nal for n “tug.” qual to the Occasion, we cast off lines backed out and in a shor: alongside the vessel with “Capt.” Mull to the “Where do you wantto go. captai ‘The destination being fixed an: mutually agreed and the Kate w being duly reache “not an egg broken. the price ove up y.the whut wel docked and turn to our wh make the Kate suug and fast at her accustomed place ere our ineer put i pearanc poitings—Mull at the wheel, those gentlemen in waiting on the wharf. ‘The lutter gave us » familiar smile, while the for- mer greeted us with: «Where have you rascals been?” As th akindly recognition from our per" on tendgring the same, but * smiled he.” You can dot it down as the last of Mull and I practi aged “skip- g steamboating. Bat to go back. 1 was duly imstalied in the neer and filled it to 5 We were position offered 1 the sacisfaction of my emplorers. some thirty miies irom New York, on the Jersey coast, and during the memorale campaign” I joined the “Wideawakes’ Night after ‘uight the boys went marching through the strevts of the adjacen: towns, viz: Newark, Elizabeth, Rahway and New Bruns- wiek-—while the eir was rent w strains of our accompan we boys had lots of tun playing came election day. "Iwas m it weat for “Uncle Abe.” Important as that first vote secmied to me it is strange that it was my last—but such is the fact, In the course of events I: mand of « vessel. On the 4th of March, Lincoln's inauguration, I remember our ‘shi was lying at West Philadelphia. It was a cold. blustery day and we were loading a cargo for Richmond, Va. We set sail aud in due time reached that port, to realize that war was not a thing spoken ‘of merely, but in actual progress. At Richmond at that time and unde- the ex- isting circun.stauces it was even « * ranks [tell you Then first vote—and oldier. quired the com- be safe.” Daring our stay in port “mam” had | been the word with our crew. My iuate, an “old sea dog,” always on the alert, had been keeping an to windward aud more than onee he had said, “Captaiu, we're not guing to | get away from here, We finally discharged our cargo and business matters were arranged for our departure. Our vessel was well up ut the licad of the “basin.” We off li and started on our way, entering the lucks at the Kockets, and the gxtes were closed after us by the lock-tender. lll bid fair for the E. Headley and erew to soon be tuirly under way toward home; place more con- genial to our sentiments, But, to the contrary, we soon found the lock- tender surrounded by'a mob. ‘Then the wick- ets were closed. At this juncture I demanded to know the meaning of all this. A rather consequential-looking sort of a somebody stepped forward as the spokesman for the gung andeaid: “We have seized You cannot leave here. we, and by what author: 3 Pulling a large document out of his pocket “In the name of the southern What about the crew?” To which “The h— with them, it’s the vessel The fact was our craft was rather attractive, something of a sailor, and her epars and gen- erai make-up gave Ler much the appearance of @ “cutter”. rather than that of a merchant vessel. 5 Realizing that we were caged, for the time being, at least, I left the vessel'in charge of my wate and crew, giving them positive orders not to surrender or abandon the vessel in my abgence. Remembering that my father was » Virginian and knowing thatin my consignee I hada good friend, Lat once repaired to the latter, und soon we were pulling wires that reached the cars of Gov. Wise, effecting our release. In th:s happening there was w rather singular coincidence: my father at the same time was at Norfolk with bis vessel. He was captured by the “rebs” and hiscratt about to be scuttled with other vessels as a mean of biockading the harbor, when his release was consummated through the eiforts of our mutual Lenetactor, Gov. Wise. Upon obtaining the release of my vessel I lost no time in joining my mate and crew, Who were in anxious waiting, and soon our craft was on her way down the James. Meantime my mate and se discussed the probiem as to our destination. ‘Ihe fact was our charter called for the delivery of a certain cargo at Stichmond. thence to proceed to « point on the Chickahominy river for a cargo of wood for New York. Ordinarily the close call we had just expe- rienced at Richmond was enough to intimidate us from entering another “hot bed,” and noth- ing but our recent good fortune rather than pluck and fighting qualities was the incentive that enabled us to carry out our prescribed charter. Even at the best my mute and crew were not in harmony with a stop anywhere within range of the enemy's guns, so that our stay on the river was deoiledly uncomfortable attended with numerous { ings. During the loading of our cargo my mate was Poraistent in believing that a watch was kept over us continually. exid “that we never Nt thing was for | le—when we beheld both of e was a V in the job we iad hoped for er a simile fact that that was ‘Lincoln in the half-lit room. Some copies of the L don Punch on the center table were evidently intended to supply a lugubrious quality of humor for anybody who seeded checring up. A tame biack equirrel clambered np and down the portieres and iuduiged in an occasional chew at the woodwork. it alvo was palpably there for the purpose of supplying a subject of agrecable interest. 7 sa ring at the door bell, and pres- iy a young woman in a height of atyle muggestiy 18th ona Wednesday afternoot Was paipably near-sighted, to be that she hud lera her lorgnette in be Tinge outside, Hesitating for a momen waiked over to the nearest corner a: y sat down in the lap of the young man with the bionde baa, \d the fact chanced | He ba relingu once. Some young women might have be embarrassed undersuch circumstances. Why ono is really things, and is not discomposed by elevent of « triling nature. The L inarks the caste of Vere de urbabl if Indy rose, quickly, From her manner er might have imagined that she had vec! all her life to sitting in young gentlemen's laps. Of course, this was not the case, such not being the fashion on I strect. An impr which 1s fashionat be such ato Morals must alwa; certain extent dictated by custom. “It may be set down al rule, at all events, that no selt-re female will sit in the lap of a person of opposite sex until he has been Introduged to her. If the young woman in this instance ex- Libited self-possession the wate cau by No means be suid of the youth with the blonde bang. He stammered “an apology, which was haruly due from hum, and, picking up bis hat and cane, slid out of the room. That was more than a week ago. He has made his regular visits to the physician daily since then, but he has not once ventured into the reception room preferring to sit outside on the trout steps and await his turn. There he can be reaeouably contident that he will not be sat upon by any one—teust of all by ncar-sighted young women who come in carriages ease iiceni . FOOLING A PLUNGER. A Story Which Shows Phat It Does Not Do to Follow » Woman's Lead. From the Lou.sv.ie C. wer SUT wal. A rounder is tcliing a good story about bow down last year. The betting man ascertained tat the wife of the jockey had received instruc - ions from her husband how to bet, and, get- ting an introduction to the Indy, he beeame a sort of chaperon, always afterward oceu pying an adjoining seat inthe grandstand. Pre- quently the plunger speiled the odds for the jockey and his backers, so the latter, after as- certaining the soxrcs of the leak, set about to set things straight again. Oneday the ruaner hastened to the stand and told the jockey’s wife her husband said put £200 on « certain horse. Knowing her Usual form of betting the plunger was aware the sum named was large one for her to ard, and when she sent the money to the he followed and literally smothered the bookmakers with bills on that particular performer. Wen the race was over, how- that corner of the stand was very’ quict, ie good thing failed to get » place. "The in question rode the winner, and after Sonning his everyday clothes walked up to where his wife was seated, and, displaying @ handful of winning tickets amounting to several thousand dollars, handed his wife two crisp $100 bills to make good her lossex. ‘The plunger tumbled to the dose given him, and since juat time there has been @ vacant seat in the ladies stand, — Sooks for the Blind. From the Queen. Foreign Blind Association have embossed over 8,000 Looks in English, French, German, Italian and other languages on the “Braille” system for tho use of the blind. In this way about 800 different works have been written out, many of them extending over a great number of volumes, such as Lord Lyt- ton’s “Harold,” Justin McCarthy's “iiistory of Our Own Times,” Sir Kt Gall’s “Story of the Heavens,” Sir Walter Scott's “Old Mortality” and George Eliott’s “Romola. —— A Unique Tum-Tummer. From the Bangor Cotm:nwerctel. The finest guitar in Portland belongs to a lady who thirty years ago took lessons of Angucrra of Boston, who was one of the best guitarists in the world. Under bis super- Vision this guitar was made for her alter an old Spanish model. There ure very few like it in this country. The box part is curved. It was made of rosewood thet bad been sew soned for 100 years. It is consequently now 130 years since the tree was cut. — 00 At Made a Difference. From the Cincinnati Enguirer. The young man made up his mind that he was not going to have any more nonsense from that girl. It was late, He had stayed the other man out end now she looked right at him and said: “You bave stayed long enough. You can just go home.” He was between ber and the nyhow, and he looked very black as a noted jockey gave « big plunger a hard throw- | " bought calves and steer a hose memory of that | osicors and crew should have no fitting place A mects with the fam0e8 | 21» compenion and I wer Bo Do yoeeds eee wih Gen Manto Dane, fun] OOS ‘Santee, Gennes sien making what the run-| if you exhaust it making verses you mastn’t Jong past is equal to| in the anuals of the ‘navy, wud this account ie X.Yiost cotonists of Green- Meeambeating = kate Aapectiqnediathad old ladies, « very fashionably dressed girl, » | hiatal somehow. Summer Joong oe Ed ners call a spurt, that | 6xpect to find that your fast season's gowns \ the hoards of ecraps| cule] from the scrap book I have alluded to, land. You know that | iris ane man with ocoatsh, two stout wenen tm black | O5, ‘built ef abditins aoe canlin Ga ia, in thi ‘scort of | Will appear to good advantage when nobody and old newspapers | hich was prepared by Capt. J. F. Newton of the | Norsemen estab | Pots and) wenld coed ae ered down the | silk anda child with ine goggles sea tiny | tug ad coughing absent mindedly. Hie wose ig, = carbene i all | BSS been Genines Sir oe eae ore age r | the navy, who, for soven years, was on board lished sattiements dur- ould respond to chem. In this | waiting, Siataal tus ache eee democra and bis chief dissipation wae his at tendance on the county convention every year jvd the state conventions when they came. got to Le known asa large cattle buyer, strangers who saw him would look and wonder which underteker would get him. But old Joe used to take a grim delight in counting up the doctors whe had given him up and whe had since died of natural causes ves, Every winter he would have his «pelle amd every winter he would @ell the doctors betweea ‘hu coughs that he would just plug along and agh omebow tcuded the funerals of ten doctors bilis he bad paid for pronouncing bim vyoud bope and for tiptoeing tuto the room to tell him they feared the worst. He bade bad peli inst winter. They said it wae the £hp combined with the old cough, but old Joe Aumpton dicu't say anything, though he tool ther medicine with the old repraachful look, 4s if to Bay the old words. Old Joe was along in tho old man was known aud lived, he will be rise. His peculiar case may pass into tredi- on apd child stones may grow from it ebea® aking, grim old man who couldn't die, - ooo HE WAS NO MUFB, Though Me Happened to Be Doing Lastio Errand for Mis Wife. Prom the New York Herald. ‘The other day « well-dressed man et ine Boulevard car going up town, The dey was cold, the car was full and the usual discomforts of surface transit were turned on. The man mentioned was the ebserved of all observers. He carried «common black muff on bis knee, his hands thrnst in either end end had e fer way'look in bis eyes, The ladies exchanged amused (lances. ‘Tue gentiemen regarded the mui with various degrees of wonder and con- tempt. ‘Newest style," suggested ene gentleman to another. “Yes; it's going to bea cold day tomotrow. When you see the pigs carrying straws—” “That beats me!" came in = stage whisper from across the way. “Wonder if he wears corsets?” said another. uf.” “Wust is it, anyhow “Sorry I forgot ms 4 “IU steal my wife's sealskia id llow! Somebody ought to see him mid these remarks the man witb the Sat quietly looking out of the window. must hove overlcard some of them—he must have known that he was the curiosity and Cy appeared, bi r, that ho was only coll himself for some final effort, for when he arose Poicave the car at Tad strect be suddenly eon tel fronted hi “Daas as back and get it, see anything funny in thet 1 erence nemenhipprmaremcee DEBUT. And 1n His Part Was a Bowling Success for Ove Night Only. ‘From the New York Commercial-advertteer. In one of the leading New York theatrical stock companies there is a young man, the son of rich but bouest parents, who ts liable to end his carcer asa star of much magnitude. Bor months previous to his first engagement be pleaded with bis purse-proud pa for permission to go upon the stage oud was refused with de- pressing regularity. Finally, repested on- slaught buving weakened the ital resolve, he c his off»pring’s allowanoe, gave him « 1 theatrical managers im vm thet the young man had bis = permission to During the yer just ended the British ana | 6°" im at S15 selt at a profensi boarding house. Here be learned the patter of the be. coame acquainted with a number of peroxide of hydrogeued soubrettes and met several callow Thesp' him as s For six months he rey ‘at the stage door night after might at 7 o'clock and on “ ceived paymeut for the same. At inst the man- ager sent for him. ‘ ~D'm going to use you in the next piece,” he said. “Thank you, sir,” answered the young man with « turob of expectaney. “You're to do an English flunkey and carry e tray of glasses in one of the ag ‘The young man felt like one who had been guddenly, sind-bagged. “I can do that te the life, sir,” he pluckily 5 be bas bad oveck saent Gliowe ‘about the house tor years and 1 know their ways to T.” The manager, who had rather = explosion of wounded pride, ended the imter- view and the young man went home @eeply despondent ‘The night of the opening of the new play arrived. ibe young man, ‘in livery, with powdered bair and calves, upward from the wings just before hie entrance aud discovered his parents with ‘of their absolutely ewellest friends sented in an upper box. In a vague wa: bad learned thet their son was to muke his debut thet even- ing aud had come to witness it, They scanned the program vainly for bis uame, and aimed their opcra glasses ateach new character in the hope of discovering bim. ‘The moment came and the prodigal msde door, ! ‘ the Nay: i Barge’ | he said be wouldn't. 1 | his first entrance. a the priest to perform the marriage ceremony, | Crowley's oyster house. His mother, one of | ance at each meeting. It isa fact not generally =e . ad ly finished taking in our curgo, | be sai 4 on twill leave you, f made bie round with Sas este nink mets, carnitared with silk | bo5 tho offer wae refused. ‘Thet, 2a the old | the bert of women, ira’ Booth, was che ct t: | known that there ave some men in ahs tows Department bed kept inogprointedrendeavous | and abiding » favorable opportunity ‘masie ne eerie oat Ban” Ho conghs ber | oo pueies koeeste lates gapeen ie Sere dark green velvet. ‘Tho white surah un- | Wilow story gece, Castronsked hepricst what | dat vii» ofthe cholera, which she caught | who enjoy very handsome incomes from thls | ty CaP tnt tutte at ste Seoded down fo he mouth of the Jamon fee | wens schucr wrist, bat eho hook vigorously, | He, eucountered Ave wony sod Gerekirt is draped with muslin, panel style, | (poem ‘with the infantion and ex. ered. A martyr to her charity.’ "| Source alone. Of course they are men of| there would have been no trouble. It is the ‘It was just our luck to strike an eastorly apeli | *4¥ing: “Aren't you ashamed of yourself, you | *“f » Seeing roe wb. enced” Sevelsbon | Pertaton of tmpremng Cictro wih thu ope | "frome ibe charge “Cach paid Davia | welt oa high busloume sanding whows repo: | puna mh encoun Rost {fons rane | ine Wanin Te promeed ase Mo | a Ma HO! datas.” “Timah edo yeseenrahr tae petermae, land a jewsness of his ap) replied: ‘orce for printing bY CO) k ti " 4 good must over satin overakirt us bordered with fowreta, which | “Now, the Mexican maiden, while not being | Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, | Relive Vand for instance, would be wel- | two. No lives were lost, but the natives on Z “You will have to.” ™ > | _, Zon minetes lator he Suan 9 est 58 Ge over buxom, was well-to-do in figure for one | Patrick Henry and other venerable patriots! | Pierpout Morgan, for instance, w ssi See —retie a. reed ghave to." “I hate you. ‘door which assured him that all be SS the skirt |r hee age, but Casto did not even yause long | what would you say ould yon be taming with |comed im the dtestory of any, business cor- | shore bare been sing chronometer otass for South Afvice Exported $50,000,000 Werth or | “You can stay till You got over it.” “U-o-e, | nk oo ‘chest atandon the Vases abe ww ettein vesal draping, you leave the | Cough to ascertain what her weight might such ex] res in tieth year of Ameri- Sem ‘umes in Thirty Years, 4 ing | return home. But the memory of man- PO pd pe fat ginagpendencel To make peop pay | tunchumbe, of commerce hag the reputation Pare oemeeey Prom th ners hel rt oe gy we Zan dave hented thoroughly. “At theback the | apn yh cedar sates to be brought, and | 96 Sites einer oat eaaceasta Deu” |Chner uta ia Now Yorks Bommel Sages ant | _<cTbero ie no posible doubt that the north | "Oyuich farming is one of the important in | EEAMEY “Ze Whispered: “You ‘hurt me.” | slaughter of » certain fatted calf ete Sthevenae ‘akirt is gathered and there is a dewi-train. On | , “Them he ordered scales rnp gb ‘ Fees | far behind him. Mr. Jay Gould ‘alao be | pole can bereached by ono method—namely, | duatries of South Africa, which, - | “You have burt me,” be “Let gol” i a i begging the girl to stand side of them | temptible and beneath the character of a free . Jay i wenees toward a) wh" Panes. “lasger Gears Game tae caghe TanT_ Tone weaeh | no oures glltesring: gold aust into tne ores | end autightoned people” In the mine pense f, multifarious director, bus, of late. years | by making gradual advances toward tbe goal, | nishes the bulk of the ostrich plumes for the re Sf the back and the ribbous are tied in a bow | Side until the preciousstuff balanced the weight | is @ speech of Mr. Barbour of Virginia, the | Be, bes given Lagat ~ etining = a Visions can be cached, | @**ket of the world. There are probably sortie ¥ ad ay and goon y with ends reaching quite to the boitow of iho | Of bie inamorata. The priest was dumb with | predecessor of the Senator of Virginia who | 804 st pf Lee eh pte gr Bea lg Wi 200,000 domesticated ostriches in Cape Colony. | Swauted: “Ob you can't let go; you think I | Phy ter the young mau as be throw his shirt. ‘Tho crossed portions of the cormge | “mazemeut aud it was a long time before he | slaimed “that the expenditures of the adminis. | Hotlly | sontrols. | ‘the | president of ‘one wp lack. of food supply. ‘No danger | Each bird is supposed to net his owner @40 per | Ped neo ngeteay eeu Tam tata a0 | cr the feet of ihe pretty school teaches, “ Borlha ta alt main’ acd iis avant pti; | that mace tbe wainveae. “Casto kad wou bis | sigan and. weald: bunkeupt the. teeaieye | Say thabvalihough ho, ras dircetor incom: | erin tet the provisions once pisced would'be | annum ‘The lacloaaren in, wbiody then oor | Ronin pee eee, Wil, bat ou need ‘od would go to the world's end for fp chahpipearleeretlger berms Le walked Pt pry pe ge mrap rs Les wil No taba, “Ts thie wo be becee wits eartor paratively fow cor focs amounted | disturbed. Ainong the people ‘who dwall ma hept are umally built of stove, but wert stece moment, then kt go, watching her narrowly. | ese “i is a cost of unde o! joarded | and he co . » - | you. Intron between the ribbos, thefe ara ancl | Sold. Ho hed a enug lotTett however, and the | of patent forbearance?” ba whose insoms. from dinectars’ fees ales | Seomcrenen reues oceche weaned. Noth-| is ‘not abundaat wire fences bave been em. Bee ee el te eae furiously, with her | ”' you gould mob go to the world’s end for me Fofiles of the muslin running to « point Story i that he lived long enough: to ae the ‘THE Loss OF THE HORNET. ranges froma $3,000 to, €10,000 a year.” N with one, and even in such a case he | played with bqual success. The birds are com- | Prevy brow e aaid: “May 1x0 FOR 4 YOUNG PEuSON. than her weight in gold for the wife bis saute: | ‘The United States sbip Hornet was lost, with | all of the concerns pay their di-| slways leaves payment behind for what he | monly plucked ones every eight months, yield- | now?” “I dows No prettier dancing dress can be imagined | ful ardor placed so great a value on.” all on board, on the 10th of September, 1829, | rectors $1 aati Desevery mnccting ther takes. Snow shoes and extra clothing are bung | ing one pound weight of feathers each, but “ “t leve you.” than pink silk muslin over surab,with a draped — “ee She foundered in a gale off the const of Tam. ihe money, ix usually paid in gold and is Sp ip the open sir in summer, and are ss safe) many farmers only pluck sixty feathers at « corange ornamented with alarge rosette of pink A MISSED OPPORTUNITY, pico. The first intelligence of ber loss was | board room. in’ some oases the, custour pres | tate eee eae bic city | Persons | time, v0 as n0b $0 cause too muah irritation soa pode dag eatin ribbon ‘The ceinture isof pink satin from Commodore Joseph D. Elliott, who writes | vails of making pool at each meeting. which warm pe a Seal oil is buried 3 the | infammat which is very injurious to the ‘time uhe gibbon, and closes at the back uuder large | Wich (he Cobmnn Mogratted Me Had Not | fo the United States ehip Falmouth, from | in divided ameng the dkcectore ie ateeadanne round, in aga of akin, Meas a heaped upon | ealib of it and leone the nan crop of men when on wea sho p neath oon Where there are Aftesn, members of » board ‘wees, which ate pecied these large fclds poteog Lace sleeves set of wi From Texas Sittings Uined the infestation from s'tetiee fisen Cope: | dincctors S100" in’ ege-deliee "eead vice cs | Eeeworzas order fo keep bears from ellmbing | plenty of food, rarely having tebe for oon his bende are very Thave seen some charming | A New York cabman was brought up before | Mccall of the Peacoc! whieh ship was captured | crisp new notes is placed an a in the} up them. Little sticke with sharp points up- mealies, beens, lucerne or other cultivated food little face ig wauve says mauve gauze over a | Judge Duffy for running overa man and se-| by the Hornet ey British ip 1813, while | center of the directors’ table and the members | ward are buried in the ice to distract the at- | prod . fiercely ote catent Hat of the eam oles Sent verely injuring bim. in command of Capt. Lawrence, whose expiring | who are present when tho meeting is called to ee ats gas laid varies fromeighteen “It's all Bp with s bunch of fenther tips aad there tea | _‘“Why didn't you assist the man after you had Po imemgrtegterr ochlirgor pl gabe ges be go Reece? Pe ee tag teres vee eae i bat bees beds 4 feather tips on the shoulders. run over bim?” asked the justice. 5 pry nat ip — anes sip one ‘Capt. | the plate. This method promptness assisting in the incubation, faking turn about pound any- A tevaly ball gown is ictured in the fourth | “I didn’t know he was hurt or I would have | Otho Norris, Lieuta. Daniel i fase bedeospe frog ve agghe 3 incubation that | thing? _s Galion of whitsath’ cline with | gone back to him,” replied the hack driver. Jesse Smith, John L. Thomas of Easton, Md., the plumes oa toe best, and manyere| He little fuze spotted | ©, Hamil utterly spoiled for commercial Ei alcpuat Th pauocs ced Si'bome of ted nn ne | Eeceriger Peamageykoting art Edel | pr grain’ neues Ieeyeat arti inetetng Nas?Onbe co os * oon 7 . to and with perfect too hile satin, gray gloves, This gown has tho] | “Sudge, Til ewear I didn'thnow the man was papa ome as, Gane; | Laura (ponsively)—"There is been found that fower ogge are apeiied by tins | he: word as picturesque quaininess | hurt. I'll prove itto you. Ihave had a spite | Assistant A. Brooke, A about the Bermudas that fills my heart with method end that the ‘thus batched are | turned maid at thet man for over # » but he is too big | Edward Lamb, Richard L. ‘Tilgh: melancholy and that brings tears to my eyes, no less vigorous than kose broaght by the | his band rustle for me to lick. Now, if wn he was so | Washington, Mester's Mate Thomas W. Robin- Can you think of any cause for 90 strange birda themselves. at ex | of oxiep little crippled up efter Tran over bim that he could | som, Acting Guanee Joba Darna Sailmaksr | Cre = = ported from Cape Ce ‘end not You suppose I would have taken | John Adama ‘Hornet ‘very romark- years advantage of it and would have gone back and | able career, Be ag ES, eomeot} Larry (languidly)—“It's in the air—ew, Weight being aboss 1,300 tone, fudge, tat tan’ go bak ag 9 399 208, most distinguiabed of the sors. | den't yen bnew, Taure, The aie. is another chance to best ‘Be life ous of Secon Beat in the world on thls him” James Lawrence ‘the you: _“