Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1892, Page 11

FASHIONS FOR SPRING. The Tailor-Made Dress is the Perfeo- tion of Outdoor Garments, . STYLISH WALKING DRESSES. ‘The Tailor-Made is to Ladies What the Cut- way is to Men—How It Should Be Made= Post Lenten Dancing Dresses—The Spring Jacket—The Plain Skirt. ——. i Svectal Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yorx, April 8, 1892. CELEBRATED AU- thoress, who displayed most excellent judg- ment and @ very keen appreciation of the beautiful in “dressing her female characters, was once asked why she took so little pains to adorn her own person. “Oh, 'm the awful ex- ample.” she replied laughingly. “I sharpen my imagination by the contemplation of my own plainnesa.” There isa fine philosophy in this reply. It means that you must suppress personality if you would De great in art; that in order to be a thoroughly well~iressed woman you must dissolve self and Pour it into the mold which fashion furnishes Jou. The moment you attempt to createa Style to suit your particular case you become fn eccentric. You may look picturesque, but yoR can never hope to look stylish. Take, for instance, the present ultra-modish skirt: OU Must accept it or reject it. To modify it to ruin it. If must not show a wrinkle, and there is but one way to accomplish this. Make ap the skirt with its silk lining so as to reach an effect of one thickness and wear it over a euirass underskirt fitting the hips like a glo in one piece, as it were, with the of the corsage. STYLISH APRIXG WALKING DRESS In the initial illustration will be found repre- sented a very stylish spring walking dress with Jacket in chocolate woolen stuff, with added basques longer at the back than in front, and siurt, sleeves and plastron in an embossed ‘velvet in light and dark shades of brown. The skirt is cut bias, just grazes the ground, and is lined With silk. The revers should not be lined in order to get a better draping effect. ‘The large sleeve puifs are sewed on with re- versed seams, and the puffing should be com- leted before they are sewed to the lining. straight collar is e of of strip taken on the cross and has a seam in the middie in order the better to match the design Of the velvet. The coming season will show no weakening of the rage for old French styles, very epoch will be drawn upon for novelties, #f you will pardon the Lull. For example, the Valois will furnish us toques and puffed Louis XIII will contribute lace effects, in particular; Louis XV will anggest silks, ribbon effects, and Wat- ids and jeweled buckles. From Louis XVI_ we shail get, among other things, the Marie Antoinette ‘fichus, while the directory Will make iteelf felt in the line of inrge revers and pocket tlaps, and the times of the Empress Josephine will be remembered in our girdies and low necks, g LACE AND VELVET CAPOTE. A dainty capote is shown in the second illus- tration, a thing of dark green velvet and passe- menterie, the velvet being a double fold in front and resting u # broad band of maui, on Bee seatong of gold lace. fluted with an aigrette and ostrich tips at the back. The tailor-made waking dress will hold its place more tenaciously than ever, and it de- serves so to do, for the great designers have literally lain awake over the problem of how to make it more fascinating than ever. No woman will admit that she doesn’t look well in a tailor- made, and I can't help admiring her courage, for an artistic tailor-made is, in one sense of ‘the word, the gown of today. You can't be in ‘the fashion without it. It corresponds to the entaway of male attire. You may, as the men do with that, wear your tailor-ma where; hence is it an economical gown, when it costa you considerable money. & MopIsa TAILon-2ADE. This gown of today w pictured in the third illustration. It is the very perfection of out- door garments, with all the provailing points of style: the bell skirt, the jacket. the vest and the sbirt-front effect. This particular gown ie made in Russian green woolen material, the skirt being in one piece and having two rows of black galloon on the bottom, and the two pockets set obliquely and also trimmed with the galloon. The jacket has cvat-tails and the back pieces are cut all im one with the faring collar, and in order to fit the lining to the ma- terial they must be cut on the cross. The lin- ing of the collar must be sewed to the side pieces. The shoulder seams extend to theedge Of the collar. The seams between the coat- tails and the side pieces are left open so ax to fnsert the galloon, which runs to two points, marked by buttons, man style. The fronts of the Jacket are double, the corselet forming the pointed vest. The plastron shirt front may be either in beige or gray cloth or in gold yellow Bengaline, aud is made with a single pleat in ‘the middle with small gold buttons for orna- ment only, as the plastron hooks under the | ten pleat. The sleeves are puifed at the top and end in faring cuffs trimmed with the galloon, and #0 are also the fronts of the jacket and the ‘Dasques. The cuffs must be stiffened with Duckram. DANCING DEEssas. When Lent ends, the dancing will begin egain, and fortunate are those who have not exhausted their supply of party dresses. But dee: party dress has made half a dozen public appearances ia uo reason why it should hot make as mans more. It all —h the ingeaui owner. Some = proveon talaga over, ont Freie Ibonds often skillf to gives dress suc! oc yance that ite most. intimate friends would fail to recognize it, Truc, this i» ite as much of a talent as skill of origi. patty it is of a different kind. in the strict sense we mo one canbe original either in music, Kterature, dress or anything else, but one can always be quick at adaptation. ‘Jefferson didn't originate the Declaration of independence, he adapted it EFFICTS IX LACE AND BIBBOX, The fourth illustration represents @ charm- ning costume in damack, « straw. ground with old rose and blue flowers, richly garnitured with lace and ribbons. The lace bertha is very rich and elegant and has high epaulets of Ince and bowa There is also a lace front over a colored transparency, caught up with bows, while below syaight ribbons continue to the edge of this lace front. In some of these elegant evening costumes the deep lace bertha ends each side of the Watteau pleat and cascades beneath it to a point below the waist The delightful little sleeveless figaros are much worn, and they fit almost any house dress, but it is quite essential that they should be richly embroidered. You may chodse either velvet, an old brocade or old Venetian guipure. The long Rassian blouse is also in vogue. With it you must wear a Byzantine girdle, passing it under the Watteau fold. I need hardly say that grays are to retain their popularity—light grays, silver grays, nickel grays. Z ‘THE GPRING JACKET. ‘There is every reason to believe that the spring jacket will figure at the cool seaside and on the mountain during the entire summer. This modish garment is so long that it really constitutes almost a gown in and of itself, and is made usually with a double row of buttons. The material may be a light cloth in harmony with your costume or in some neutral tint that goes with everything. I hear that it will take on a summary character Ly being made up in fancy materials, whole back coat cr paletot style man fashion. It will be very taking and very useful as well. In fact it will not be the only straight garment which does not fit the figure, for the expuchines and pelerines will have no yoke, the pleats starting out directly from the neck. Many such garments will be made up in changeable glace silks, trimmed with lace and jet mixed with gold and fringed all around. ORAY CLOTH AND PASKEMEXTRRIE. In the last illustration you will find a very stylish design for a gray gown. a silver gray vicuna cloth, with passementerie corselet and braces, the latter parsing under the belt and tothe bottom of the skirt with fringed e bottom of the skirt is also edged ends. with the passementerie. The skirt is made of a single piece of the material, taking the width for the length. The corsage in pleated at the xeck in front and the sleeves have long cuffs buttoned. The straight collar is also pleated. The corange passes, under the skirt ancl hooks invisibly at the back. The front has gio seam. SPRING TOILETS FoR IXDooNS are garnitured with lace, black as well as white and brown, for which purpose you make use of Alencon and Chantilly, not forgetting the Rus- sian, with its oriental richnese of gold, silver, pearl, turquoise and coral, is extromely decora- tive when applied with artsitic hand. In order to atone for the striking tightness and plainness of the skirts there is at times an inclination to over ornamentation of bodices. This should be most carefuily avoides, at the very most not introducing more than three different kinds of materials, two being the safercourse. Silk and velvot are safe combinations witl, jet trimming. the velvet being a darker shade than the siik. ‘Two shades of cloth, one very much darker than the other, are seen in many spring costumes. Written for The Eveninz Star. Repartce. When coruscations scintiliat And sparkling wit, in nashing, fies, Alert promethean minds create ‘The points that barb the quick replies, ‘Then flint of mind encounters fint, And thought-tipped arrow-words of wit Project as darts and leave a dint ‘In metal armor where they hit. So he who leads in this regard ‘Must be expert at repartee, And turn the shafts that come too hard Against the one who cets them free; Or, otherwise, the lead will go To him who parries back the shafts And lays the would-be leader low, While every former victim laughs, —Buxton T. Dore. ———__+0- —____ ‘One of London's Charms, From the Contemporary Keview. It is not necessary to describe the misery of a London fog to any one who has been com- pelled to reside in the metropolis during a few days of its prevalence. The painfal irritation to the eyes, the choking sensation in the chest, together with the general depression of spirite and many other ailments, are the lesser sufferings that few who are exposed to it eseape. But it is not yet what an amount of serious illness or how many deaths one week of London fog causes. It muy be ac- copted that every ten days of this terrible viai- tation kills 2,500 people, and if we calculate nive serious cases of illness to each death, we have 25,000 people laid upon Leds of sick- ness. ‘To » certain extent the cold that always vails during these dense fogs may be ci with a portion of this sickness, but not to any great extent, as neither fog nor cold in country places produces any such change in the dea: rate. There can be little doubt thatthe extreme discomfort, aswell as the deadiiuess of the London fogs, arises from the poisonous gases with which the damp air gets saturated, and increasingly so the longer the fog laste. The | smoke, which gives the fog its yellow appear- ance, and is so dirty and unpleasant, is not in- jarious, being only carbon; probably, indeed, it prevents the poisonous gases [rom doing more harm. Zhe fog, it is needless to say, is caused by athnospheric conditions which keep the lower stratum of the air comparatively stationer; and prevent smoke from rising as it ordinarily doeg even when there is no wind to move it Consequently the air in our streets remains to a great ex- it unchanged daring the prevalence of @ thick fog, but it by no means remains in the same state, for the gas generated in the 2,500 miles of sewers is rising through the grids and mixing with the air. which is also being corrupted by the emanations from the millions of men and animals that live in the metropolis, It is difficult to realize how foul must be the condition of the air Londoners breathe after two or turee days of fog, and the eronder is not THE EVENING STAR: Many Business Men Who Have Gone Wrong to a Large Extent. A LAND BOOM COLLAPSED. ‘Two Cases of Fraud That Excite Much In- terest—Urgent Demands of Unemployed Laborers for Work—One Town Which Seems to Have Been Prosperous. Correspondence of The Evening Star. Metnovnye, Febroary 20, 1899. RAUD AND CRIME of all descriptions have been, for some time past, almost an every- day occurrence all over the colonies, But all other charges on the calendar of the sittings of the centrat criminal court, Melbourne, for this month sink into insignificance before those against Larkin “4 and Taylor. The hear- ing of the Larkin frauds will not be heard till about the end of this month, and will then inst about a week. This will postpone the hearing of the Taylor complications till next month. Matt! Larkin (late secrotary) and Patrick Cleary stand charged with conspiracy to defraud the South Melbourne Permanent Building and Investment Society of £2,410.15.2 divers means and artful devices and de- frauding the society of certain titles of lund, &c. Although the presentment against Largin and Cleary ure limited to the above named sum, & deficiency of £42,000 has been confessed by the accused, and the mysterious disappearance of unaccounted money belonging to the nociety Feaches the enormous popular estimate of from £90,000 to £120,000. Larkin was looked Upon as one of the most straightforward men in all businesa and monetary transactions; Moved in the beet society; kept a splendid e tablishment; was very generous and some time ago put up for parliament. George Nicholon Taylor (late manager of the Land Credit Bank) will be charged with the comprehensive term ‘fraud asa banker’ and particularized as wiping out wi debit account by his own check upon the Land it Bank by way of overdraft and omitting certain material particulars in the books of the bank. He is also charged with takin promissory notes, one given Jesrio P. for the sun of £ G. N. Taylor for £1,2W. ‘hese ure the only ums named in the presentment, bat strict ox- amination of the bank's books have reached a deficiency of over £100,000. ‘Ihe case is sure to excite a greut deal of public interest in legal as well as financial circles, owing to techniculi- ties involved in the presentment. Another ntleman very much “wanted” is P. W. Wort- ley, a stock broker connected with the frauds perpetrated upon many Metbourue tinauciers Shrough the mediums of forged transfers of the Silverton ‘Tram Company. Powell w: member of the Melbourne stock exc although a good many people with whom he had transactions were Guder the impression to that effect. He was eimply a stock Jubver. It being the custom of the exch mau to operate asa jobber in the h ment of a fee of £25 per annum. Pow an eye fo business, was not backward in ; ing himself of the privilege. As yet le at large, and up to the present the number of people he has vietimi: 1 me public, but it is well kuown 5 en something consiuerable, au by no means ends the list of swindlers in this colony ‘A PARTIAL CAUBE OF THE CulsIs. Bidney, in the neighboring colony of Kew South Wales, has bad its share of sharp practi- tioners. Bell & Davis clenred outin a schooner which they purchased with the sum of £50,000 in sovereigns belonging to one of the financial institutions of that ¢ But their operations were nothing to be compared to Lariaius’ com: plications, He had caried on bis manipula tions of the vooks ior over turev years x would never have beeu found out but for hiv self-confessed deticiency of some £10,000. ‘Lhis brought about au examination of the Looks, curities, &., beionging to the society ‘a: which revealed the trne state of affairs. Larkins and Taylor 4% the means of bring! of tust year, the “muc and financial institunious beuring of these frauds were naturaily auxiods about the coudi- teetings nO condition to e¥ bad bougut land during the some three oF five years ago (whe fetching biz prices) with the us by the pubite, But siuce then th collapsed and th vome cases nal value. ‘So when 1 fortunate enough to m Jnnd was deporited d boom” e value of land bas fallen, in than o Were compelied to stiapend payment. Two oF three othersain a sound Auancial condition, bat auable to reahze in time, were, turough the obstractive stand taken by some two or three sign au ageeemeut money for ra) forced inse liquidiu is not the only culouy whose trade is almost ata standstill, The wade of other colonies is in un equally de; lorable condidion, and distressing scvouuts of the dullness of trade appear daily in every paper. So bad ts it that ouly a few days agoa uumber of cab- men migrated to Geelong. ‘hey intended to try their luck there (uot that it is any better in that town) as they cau oniy earu 15 shulinge a week ($3.75) in the metropotia. Of course as trade js slack the labor market is ina very de- preswed ste, aud the unemployed in OM arne alone number several tuotisands, DEMANDS OF UNEMPLOYED Lazonens. These unfortunate people hold meetings daily, and deputations wait on the minutry to impress on that body the advisability of start ing works to relieve the distress now existing in all branches of trade. ‘The government hus complied with their request as lar as practica- ble, and bas sanctioned, although very tue money is available in the treasary, the con- struction of one or two railway lines, reclama- tion of certain ewamps aud otuer pablic works. Of course the action of the late premier in carrying his policy of retrenchinent to. too Grout u degree 1s weverely criticisud at these gatherings, “but for whose ineriness business would bave stil been in @ flourishing condi- Hon," aud not afew of their mouthpicovs try hard to utilize the genuine distress ior politi- cal purposes. Bus these are listened toby very few, and any one advocating advanced ideas is tories in Lape and in formation throagn- fony. During the pot factories then nd ‘The last shipment of the season to Lon- don brings the yestly total (1891-1892) up to 2,148 tons. The value of this veason's shipment is nonrly £250,000 hard cash, which comcs to Victoria. V.EKE ——__ CAPITALISTS IN HARD LUCK. — What's the Good of Noing » Millionatre Where You're Not Known? From the New York Sun. Three men, representing millions, eat on @ plush-covered sofa in the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night and “allowed” that they were in hard luck. One was Tom Lowry, who carries around in his pocket the surface railroads of Minneapolis, and who says that the New York republicans who go to the national republican convention in June can roost on the plush- covered seats of his vehicles or in the tree tops if they prefer; the next was A. B. Stickney, chairman of the excutive committee of the Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City railroad, who also lives in Minneapolis, and who eurned renown by rising in the convocation known as the “Gentlemen's Agreement” in J. Pierpont ‘Morgan's home a year or so ago and declaring that while he would discount the notes of al present he wouldn't take their word for a vent, the last man in the little party wus ex- Senator Warner Miller,wlose portrait at ono time was as familiar to the new: ir reader as that of Lydia Pinkhew, _— Tom Lowry began by telling in a 28d street car downfall of rain. jamped into = car bonnd for the 23d strect ferry,” said he. “The conductor asked for my fare. I fumbled in my pockets and by the time I got to oth avenue I bad fished ont a lollar bill, I didn’t have a cent iu change. I got down to 7th avenue, the con- ductor ail the time abreast of me Waiting for tho nickel. I fumbled in every pockct and not a penny did I have short of the five-dollar stamp. I handed it out, Me scowled at mo and handed it buck. I suid I had nothing smaller. Ho grinned and started to pull tae bell to stop the car aud let meget out I looked around end, will you Lelieve it, not a man, woman or chiid in the car offered to lend mo a nickel. The conductor thought 1 was playing Lim and he toid me to get out. I did getout. Tsjashed down to the terry, but ll never forget that New York wouldn't lend n ents ata pinch,and anybody who was in experience yesterday during the heavy “2hut's nothing,” said Mr. Stickney, ‘to what Texperienced yesterday. You know that my Minneapolis tailor always builds my clothes My folks say they don't fit. ps they don't,” and Mr. Stickney looked down ons suit of clothes that fitted him like mu ell, Ideternined on this trip.” tinued,"“to order a suit from a New York tailor, Letrolled down the avenue yesterday a sqaure or two and dropped into a tur shop. ‘there wore others in the place. ft was sweil, T cat tell you, and Thad to take m, he great mau in charge fou to turn to me. 3 ido for you? suit of clothes, hend to foot and siz, but I'do not th: suit ordered hee. customed io our price: vat. Peri ay bo con- : ‘Excuse me, | could pay for a "s pretty good,” Fu ‘and possibly ‘mye ce with a phote- grapher on Friday wil © you. Dowit here | on Broadway I stopped lt looked imo a photographer's window. T admired the speci- | mens, and, thinks I, 11 step in and get somo T trandled upstairs @ office, and, ax ix customary in kuch he ovder Look and before the cumura. | me and wad. | wi T hadnt been accustumed to | giving deposits 0, parin ork until it | was performed and I clea H a this the three Huanciers bad mile and | tion toan ot Members of the journalistic trict xecountal my | ci are liable to the vexations aud expenves of | hel suit if they are reckless as to the harges they make in reference to the conduct of citizeus. ‘Lhis iv all weli enoxgh, for journalism while it mart necessarily deal with persons should 80 conscientiously and trathiuily. and not cording to the personal dislikes, quarrels eumities of the journalist, 1 orwing to that | e for detraction and slander which with some men seoms natural and instinctive. But while the profession of journalism is | rightly held up to this lofty staudard the Senti- tw to know why it is thas the legal »ro- fession should in practice be almost wholly ex- empt frow it. A iawyer may stand ap ina| vom in presence of the assembled pub- | lie and launch pon the individual whose wait | «upon that individual's wit- | cases and friends whole torrents of vitupera- a to account for it und without liability to be | allied t the Dest, parest and most ty sovking jas- 4-ce in the courts may Ye made the victim Of the foulest, vilest_ and most damaging ou- slaught upon bis reputation, standing and churucier, and has absoiutely no redress what- ever. Helis but «common citizen, wuile tie lawyer is “privileged. Of coarse there are high-minded gentlemen the legal profession who would scuru to in- ge in this vituperation and slander. Were are others who delisht in it, whose principal stock in trade it is, aud who ure per- haps sometimes empioyed by dishonorable uents solely on account of their ability and Willingness to vilify aud ubuse. And, mdeed, it may be raid that the license accorded ‘to sawyers in this respect ig a standing tmpta- tion to the entire processio: Now, ail this is wroug. ‘The lawyer should no J to reckiveily libel and -eitizens than” sbould the ‘The power of pabiie opinion should be brought to bear against personal law practice as Weil as against personal jourualiem. And the lawyer who Uunecessarily assuils individual character, reputation and motives, and faisely attributes immoral and wrong duing tocitizens ius courtroom, should be mude legally re- sponsible therefor us much ax the juurualist who does the same things in the cult per. ither lawyer nor joaranlist be held an in n ut gteeted with the cry, “We don't want social- ism, we waut work.”’ The main difficulty is to please every one. A great deal of indignation has been cansed here by the severe criticiwns of the English diuancial press on the tendency ef the Austra. han colunies to over Lorrow. ihe preseut atti- tade of the British capitalists (wito are strongly oppused to any more borrdwing, at jeast for te preseut,) has been brought about not ouly Ly over borrowing, but alvo vy the imprudent way in which the Loney Lorrowed hus buen spent. Victoria's credit ns suifered through the blua- ders committed during the Giles udimiuistra- tion, during the latter days of which several millions of borrowed capital absolutely weut to waste through the construction of railways, Wiieb, since their construction, Lave proved Toremiucerative and cauved an average lows to the raitway department of £1,000 a week. Great oppusition is shown to the action of Mr. Munro (Late premier) in appointing himself to the agent generalship of the colony in Lon- don at the expiration of Sir Graham Perry's term of office in that capacity. Mr. Munro has given anything but satisinetion (while hol the prei ip) by his administration of the affaire of undertakings ip Australia and chief, and yet when the Victoria railw, commitiwe wanted to visit Mildura they fou way, e renek that colony, ‘by rail, north- of transis and iF re i 3 & ce M of i respouaible for anything said or printed in good faith aud with uo intention to do injustice or the public interest requires thut the lawyer aud the peu of the editor shall be alike free; but as no public interest ix abserved by personal slander, libel, talsshood and reckivss avuse of individusls by the editor, sono public interest and no requirement of justice iv subserved through the slander, vi- tuperation and personal abuse of individuals ou the part ef the lawyer. Both journalist and Inwyer are indeed uecewsarily “privileged” in the true and nobler sense of the term, but ueither should be privileged to disregard the rights of citizens or to commit wiliful wro! ag Cae March 27, 1892. page’ ——o2—___—_ Crushing Evidence, From Judge. | {i |reript, he cot ovloguy and ubuse without being called | “ MEMORIZING SPEECHES. Representative Burrows’ Forensic Ability— Mr. Blaine, Cari Sehurs, Conkling and Others Whe Could Quickly Commit te Mem- ory—Representative McCreary’s Political Life. HAVE HEARD A great many orators in oth bouses of Con- grest,” said ex-Senator Ferry of Michigan toa Stan reporter as he stood upon the floor of the House in front of tho Speaker's desk shortly before the gavel was rapped calling tho Houre to order. * think Jalius Cesar Bur- rows of my state,” he continued. “tis the mot pleasing orator of the Present time. Ho isn man of an exceptionnbly wide range of information upon public affaireaud is well ubreast of the times in every detail of Political science. For many years past he bas made on ospecial study of the practical pro- blems of tho revenues and expenditures of the government, When he arivcs to address the “House upon any branch of that sub- Ject bo ie recognized at once as a man well equipped, who spenks as one having authority, nod the House spontaneously concesies to him that attention which is denied fo the average Keproontutivo in Congress. Al~ though he is well informed upon every detail concerning the income of the governinentfrom customs slution nud internal revenuc taxcn he never fails to thoroughly propare hituseif upon every occasion and oach apoch delivered by him in the House falls from his lips asa per- foct and symmetrical forensic masterpiece. Mr. Burrows is not only gifted by nature with & magnificent voice in which the ofotand toues prevail, but is a finished elocutionist, and in that domain of oratory has been for some time unrivaled in Congress except by the nc- complished and seholustic Ingalls. Another charm of hin oratory is the fact that it flows on continuously without interruption and occasionally swells im volume like a mountain torrent, ‘There is method and rea- wou in the fact that his public utterances are | wade without hesitancy. He has that bappy fuculty of memorizing his speeches without any Kreat effort. He can, after writing x spcech and Correcting it, commit it to memory by reading it over a couple of times.” MEX WHO REMEMBER WELL, “Have you ever known other mon possessed of that faculty of ready commitmeni?” “Yes, L have known several men whose charm of oratory is largely duo to that fact. I was once informed Ly Mr. Biame, when he was a meiuber of the House of Representatives, and @ information was given to me several tor by bia when he was ii et writing his speech upon a eacing it over asingle time, i reader in weare drive ttn bi the oration wituout a “Carl Schurz wa. specches to memory, but be acknowledged thut ii required some effort on his part to do so. Wheu a speech was comm:tiod, ho impreweu on bis min cou him with hix a er axpeech of ce looking at th elex#, he would tu the 4 deliver thy © pages tm: Iy with his hand aud continue the atterance of bis seutiments and arguments, WHEN SENATOR 31 CAEERY FORGOT. “While I was Vice President prot occasion I discovered the fact that Sena Oreery of Kenineky i: to memory, He was t an in yansioned tmanuer und i. of course, veiug in the chair, as looking dircetly at him, wa couriesy re- es of a presiding oticer. 1 noticod that in tue misist of x flowery sentence he hesitated for aword. Fuiliug tv remember that one word, his entire speech was lost, and he gradually sank inte bis eat xs thougl he bad coucinded hisrewarks. sucdcniy, Lowever, the .o-t word came to bin, wher and proccede.i to the © sion O¢ his wadreas, wluce lusted more than « kalf hour MX. CONKLING AS AN OKATON. Ir. Conkling was # re te, as he had been i user came for rant Vhen, with the onire at to memor effort and rise in hiv pine aster of the situation. His to be extemporancous and ve cn credit for a remarkable memory, be- in the courge of his uttcrunces, he wou'd reter to the remarks made on the flour Guru ¢ the de quoted the words of lus colleagues verbatin. Upon no occasiun wos he ever iuterrupted by any Represcatadve ot Senator as other spaakers so often are, wite deriand that he ebange his quocations of whut others bad said, because he was right. Inasmuch as his species were thor- oughiy comuitted to memory und were always accurfte im every detail, 1¢ 18 not to be wou- dered at that he approximated p.rfection as an orator. Every puviic utwrance of Mr. Conk- ling was the re.ult not only of that geuius witich was recognized by all who knew ium, but also by the geuius of labor. Hw speeches were the product of honest moutal toil. “air. Frye of Maine is almost always an ex- temporancous speaker, and it may be truly said that he uever uukes a poor speeeh, aithouga nowe of his utterances are almést peerless ox- halations of genias. DLACKBURY’S READINESS. “Joe Blackburn does not speak upon all topice in the Senato as be used to do ia the House, He is protably the best example in the country of constant oxcellence in extem- poraneows oratory. Ido not think that he oiten weites hig speeches or commits them to memory. I think that the prepuration of a studied oration by Mr. Biackburn would be a nowble exception to the general rule of his public career. His most powerful pabiie utter- ance was the specch which he dulivered two years ago in reply to Senator Ingaila. The celebrated Loanerges from Kansas had no sooner taken bis seat than Joe Blackvurnu was reeug- niged by the Vice President and proceeded to deliver, without a momeut’s preparation, the most Soathing and unavswerable denun- ciation to which Ingalls was ever subjected. It was manifest to everybody that Mr. Black- burn’s oration was without the opportunity of a single moment for preparation.’ M'CREARY aXD M'CREERY. When Tax Stan reporter asked Representa- tive James B. McCreary concerning the correct spelling of the name of ex-Senator McCreery, to whom Mr. Ferry referred in the above con- versation, Mr. McC; Me ways spelled his name with a double “e.” it is & singular thjng that on account of Cousin Tom Tieft the practice of law when I wus very young to go into politics. ‘My father had stu icine in the office of Tom's father, who was ‘fret whoever performed the hip ly. The families were ry to the Es HT iH | eS. ouors, further t TE argsie rs er. it was | committed nis speech | on tas straightened up | 4 yom Judge. WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. am sitting where that itand as P this reverie your friend, om tion opened, the correct of thought | law books, | people and I te Correct, “It is strange how family nomenclature is changed at the will and whim of individual various generctions. There was George W. who was Secretary ‘resident Huyes and later a United btates judge. he spelled his name sw ido, but when be went west and located in lowa bé coueli letter “e" was unnecessary in his nome and he droppod ft without a quulm of conscience. He was iiko the rext of our fomily, with very large body and very aml arme an MeCrary, ander ber on one and inyeet Cousin Tom Ax we stuod that we were vuilton the set of rules, adopted. 1 ¢ vote On United States of America, the delight to honor. country and Iam as who wore the federal SEXATOR FERRY TOOK RIS PLACE. “Tam reminded of this circumstance and of he was acting Vice President of the United States and when the tel be present to the Ferry took bie place and declared the exposi- tinguished cous minds me of the fact that it was on his ne count that the whole course of my life was changed, when I wont inte politics and left m: “he Avenue” together and stepped iuto a photograph gailery iw have our pictures taken. what bad never been noticed vetore, namely, compuratively small iugs und arma. Aly sou is acteristic extends to our entire family.” solar nent Life on « Pirate ship. From the National Leview. The customs aud regulations most commonly observed on board buccaneerare worth noting. Every ptrate euptam, doubile articlos that. seem to havo been generally o decided what diz THE CHEROKER sYLLanaxy. ‘The Interesting Manner ta Which as In- 66 48 A work “OF INGENUITY THE alphabet of the English language fe not in it with the Cherokee syliabary,” said — the government which feating our armies I within six feet of the spot at a the Egoral Unies the feat of ¥ ion, republic which I ‘This ‘is certainly a great — of it as any man oa? cated, not even knowing hew to read any language. But he had become acquainted with the principle of the alphabet—namely, that markscan be made the symbols of sounds. Accordingly this untutered genius conceived the notion that he conld express all the sylla- Dies in the Cherokee tongue by distinct char acters, “He first west to work to collect in his mem- ory all the syllabic sounds in the Cherokee language which he was abletorecail, He found the number to be eighty-six, and for each of these he devisod a peculiar mark. At the be- ginning he drew the marks iu the sand and after he had them made to his satisfaction he transierred them to paper. For some of them he took the le:ters 0; our own alphabet, using Various modifications of the Roman le thers, to- gether with some characters of his own inven- tion. for the rest. Each of these eighty-six characters stood fora certain *yliabic sound and the entire eigty-ex comprised all the syllables used in the Cherokee language. With these symbols he set about writing letiers, and by means of them ® correspondence was soon actually maintained between Indixns of his race in Wills valiey and their relatives beyond the Mississippi, Ave bun- dred miles away.” ‘This was done by midivid- vais who could not speak English and who had never learned any alphabet except this #yllabie one, which Se-quo-yah bad invented, taught to others aud introduced into practice. RAPIDLY LEAKED, “Tne remarkable point about this ayliabary ‘Was the rapidity with which it could be learned and utilized for writing and reading. After the English alphabet has been learnea a con- siderable period of schooling is required before the most intelligent person can read or write the language composed with it. But, with the aid of this set of Cherokee symbols, the av by the mention of the name of ex-Senator Ferry. At that time jegram was received nt Grant stating that he could not open exposition Senator You only usked me to give you spelling of the name of my dis- and I have led into « train ant’ told you more than you jee the mention of his name always We MeCroarys ure a Scotch Iri ‘think that the spelling of my name of War Wheu he lived in Aurora, Ind., iced that the legs. 1 remem- vecasion, when Judge McCrary were members of Congress and ‘uy in the Senate, we walked up there before the camern, 1 nouced 11 SOME POINTS anouT INKA, Invisible Kinds for necret Inks and India Ink. Is VERY EASY TO MAKE AN IN- visible ink if you wish to insure epecial secrecy for your correspondence,” said chemist toa writer for Tae Stan. “Yon bave only to do your writing with a solution of sugar of lead in pure water, adding to the mix- ture a email amount of gum arabic, eo that it may flow well from the pen. The letters traced with this preparation are not visible when it has become dry, but when the manuscript is held over a jet of sulpburetted hydrogen gas ‘they come out intensely biack. This gas is the sameus that generated in bad eggs, so that One oF two of those might serve to do the read- ing by. However, one may avoid the necessity of being tortured with unpleasant odors by selecting some other chemical for an ink. ANOTHER PREPARATION. “There is nothing better for the purpose than bromide of copper, whicb you ean prepare for yourself by mixing one part of bromide of Potash. one of blove vitriol and sight parts of water. adding a little aloohol and gum arabie. Writing done in this solution is absolutely tm- visible until exposed te beat, when it imme- diately beeome Any dealer in chemi- cal supplies will sell you chloride of cobalt, to which you can add gum arabic. It makes © pink soript, whieh di when dry, be- comes green when heated, disappears when cold and is pink again when damp. Wi done im ice water cannot be seen when it te. but turns blue when was much employed a in Indin. Invisible inks have for postal cards. oe “Colored inks are made in all sorts of ways, out of wniline dyes, dye woods and chemicals of various kinds. Groand Brazil wood is used for red ink, campeachy wood for . wood for violet, sulphate of indige Tor bite on yerdigrie and cream of tartar for . tar £0 employed in these.” You can manufactare for yourecif om excellent black writing ink by soaking of bruised galls for twenty-four bours water, straining the Ounces of sulphate of Ley arabic and « few ay Upon oo vide: aod the cerbotie send is intended to keep the ink from ail fellows ot robust body aud | Indian, without a: Tevious instruction in the written sigus ot any language, can learn toread and write in Cherokee iairly well within two weeks and fluently within four weeks. A more than ordinarily iutelagent person can learn to read and write with the symbols in a week's time. : wame physical plan and this chute Dy Gexenar vse. “Ae soon as Se-quo-yal lad published bis in- voution interest in it rapidly spread, until at jength young Cherokees would travel for great distances to obtain instruction in this easy method of writing and reading. Within a few days they were able to begin writiug letters, eturuing home to their native vil- y taught others. At present the syliabary is in general use among the Chero- had his own sa traditional but there were cert, he captain had a stato cabin, « iu electi a double sbare of some veswels it was the captain tiou to but thia aud other “matters of monicnt were gtaerslly “setied ‘a vote of the com. | Kees aud thero is uo part of the nation where } pany, the cartu's vote counting for two. ‘The | i is not understood. “Iu uo other language can | officers hud as da hiait ora suare and a | the aft of reading be aequired with nearly the Every man had @ iull vote am every wflair of | wports | Arms were always to service and nitted bis | in bathe wae pu e | ceived 6360 saciff of wou: aad toes, eof b pair wouil ! p.rate io ax fn their ow reported io i honor and | practice to «: 1 Sue was ouce ci not fuga | bat Paul Jou sates fas Iu truce | of piracy. gardener to | wath aw detser roof the plunder, aud the satlors each | Leoty was divided with scrupuicas | ts ship a wun woo was ctappied in batt re- © WHe fist avied a tulsou buird ber ove: Litoe | same ta: ‘dhe first vook priated im the ‘8 Was probavly a collection of Chero- ana % was the penalty of at- ua, published i 1829; but previously ping to defradd the general company if | t thet, iu 1028, the first mambers of the Chero- to the amount of a gold piece or a vollar, | Ate / hanes, a weekly newspaper, Were tsuod } at New Lchota partiy j the sylabary. ALMOST ENTIRELY SYLLABIC. “This Cherokee alphabet is altogether syllabic except for one letter, which answers to the En- Oui of the common stock anda | 8885, and is placed between the syllables to was awarded for lesser | sive a ising sound. There is not a cousonaut d £150 for the lows of | 4 the whole eighty-six charactera. Iu the 1s instituted a sort of | Cherokee langcage there is not « sound f, j, p am Engiish'and partly sn be clenn and fit for ruon of the ship or qaurte shed with death, On i de be mids that entended tears, ingore | 40" ¥. ‘The tongue is guttural, aud @ person Cherokee can all day cud not pactle the captain's power was ab- | UAVs vccasion to close bis lips. Se-quo-yal lish uame was George Guess. He was bort | iu Georgia iu 1770 of a Cherokee mothe if sbe proved Was entitied to the best parr of wd above hts divi- pistois were greatly coveted and | sedi fox as much as £30 from one ther. commonwealth the pirates wore uve bee severe Upoa tbe mg Ltuberts’ erew it sears OF nOKe OF auy 1g his feliow. ‘as How atiaches to what ble tame of the pirates is comic. I intormed that the father of the “ashe has been called, was scl Gist, who Was with Wasuington eat and who was taken prisoner vy the Cucrokees, among whom be | remained uve or six years.’ Atter returning to | his own people Col” Gast became the husband vf Miss Juuita Cary Bell of Virginia, by whom he bad several children, aumong th ie Biewoe, whose grandson was Atter his marriage Col. Gist estate where, it is em bt Rewacreected SE-QUO-Yaul's BOYHOOD. jie-yab is said to have had asa boy no iking tor the rude sports of other Indian youths, preferring to stroll aione in the woods, where he employed himself in building litte houses with sticks. His first attempts in the dreet of hus invention were addressed w vevising word signs, but be svou found that this plan wo.id require too many characters, Abe “syllabary was adopted by the Cucrokeo council iu 1643, asilver medal being awarded 20 the inventor as a token of admiration for his euius and of gratitude for the service he had rendered to bis people. he medal was made iu Washington. “Four years later the American board of foreigu missions defrayed the cost of casting # foat of type of the characters, and from this Aime on puviications in the syllabary began to multiply. At present the literature of the Chervkee language, composed with these signs, cousists Of scores of Looks aud pamphlets, in- eiuding persodicais, almanacs, school books, iructs, laws, the Cherokee constitation, the wuole of the New Testament and most of the Vid. ‘Thus there came into use a new system of recording language, the invention of au illit- erate mau, iguorant ulike of books and of the various arts by which knowledge is dissem:- nated—a practical system devised by @ native American for the perpetuation of a uative ‘American language.” eee ‘The Trees in the Capitol Park, To the Editor of The Evening Star: ‘The ivy which is growing upon the trees in the Capitol grounds is gradually but surely killing every tree upon which it is allowed to cling. While there may be some difference of opinion as to whether a creeper will destroy @ tree or notif only permitted to invest the truuk of the same. there is no doubt that decay and death will result it the parasite grows upon the limbs. High authority can be given in proof of this statement, but there is A Grasp for Wealth. practical evidence, in’ the above named grounds, that should be en to con- vince aimost any one of the f that in some instances will soon be irreparable, Let me specify a bass wood (variously known, as tilia Americana, lime tree, American linden, << Sg 2 bel et fluid acts ing an intense becoming moldy. To mak nk you have onit {0 mix three pints of? tbe’ bieck tak with aus pint of glycerine. are burned to produce the lampblack, finest quality is obtained from pork fat. lampbiack is ubjected to a sifth through silk bags io order that it shall derod as five as possible. In the manufacture of the iuk the frst step is to melt ine pote quantity of a particularly excellent glue from buffalo hides" ‘To this a much nmpbleck ry added as mill cons a soft » which is kneaded with the bande, cmall quastiyy ot pea oil being put in also.’ The mixture is made into flat cakes and left to “ripen” pore aiter which it is compressed in eylind: molds ‘The cylinders, in which Product is sent to market, are dried a but il % * thateternal want of pence, roy preats Liyrteat Momologwn. uiwues"e cloud, Which venge pepe: Water —Macberh has upon its hands an clephant, Nay, two—our guod Smithsonian Inetitute— ‘With many anvther ugly, useless brute, ‘That off, ‘tis feared, with pangs of hunger pam, Congress, the Secretary growis, won't grant ‘The funds to feed ‘em, and the claims to euit ‘Of Keepers, since It is beyond diapute Men work not jong and well on wages scant. Ye rulers wise, (7)" hear now what ye should @ Be just, und make @ fair appropriation For these poor beasts, and thelr ican guardians, tee Or else abolish wholly the Park Zoo, Lest your economy disgrace the nation, And saddle us with debis absurd aad new. u. T cannot bear to see the bears #0 bare Uf comfort, climbing sow an upright log; ‘The long, lank snakes without « single frog: The starved coyotest ‘With their idiot stare, ‘The eagie, that should free be as the alr, ‘Cooped tp a parrot with litte prog; ‘The peceary, which # sort of hog, ‘Not fat, complaining of his slender tare, It Is no Joke, ye well-fed Congressmen, To be deprived of freedom, kept for show, Hail cared for, too—it stirs my indignation. Tsay, of bird, beast, reptile, ope the pen, And let them Ww tueir oid constituents go, OF their long session ease by appropriation, ‘On means, tt sceins, that are but Ualf enough The very monkeys wax morose and gruff, And the dear deer lose liveliness and apee@; The birds for grain with rancous voices plead The lion rosre for meat his maw to staf”. ‘That in its cramped museum, the Institute Has happier specimens. ‘tis plain to see— Crammed once fur ali—how well-behaved em@ aute! Those im the Zoo thetr fodder would pot sult: ‘Those bring it vast responsibility, And, if negiected, tuto ill repute. Iv. ‘The houses, barns and dens are far from stost, Wherein are Kept our captives in tne Zoo. Just think—on Sundays what a hubbaboo ‘There'd be if some wild (1) creature should get oust ‘Suppose ola Doak, with lifted, angry snout, ‘Should chase the children, and their paremts, tost ‘Nay, should our monkey-cousins bare break ‘trough, Wie chamsering Sesee—-guet Renvens then whee ‘Suppose the suakes. thet have nor feet nor hands, ton!