Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1892, Page 11

WHEELING STATESMEN Representatives Who Find Recre- ation on Bicycles. CONGRESSMEN ON WHE The Congressional Bicycle Club, of Which Jerry Simpson ts President---Ex-Speaker Reed's Experiences on aWhecl--How Henry George Has Made Converts Among the Representatives. MONG OUR tional states: the newest fad is the “Con- gressmen’s Bicycle a. "of which Jerry \YaP IN simpson 12 president. 6 2 ExSpeaker Thomas B. y \ Reed is said to be its Intest acquisition. Only full-fledged Represen- tatives are eligible to membership. Augast and reverend Senators t officers have no show in esident Harrison to apply nhe would be perempto- is this umique or- joes it draw the line Representatives. All the mem- siastic wheeimen. and sev- are exceedingly skillful riders. most expert. besides Jerry Simpson chief, are Representativ: e twenty-first Ohio dis- . Washington of the sixth Ten- A. T. Hull of the seventh lowa, Sperry of the Siret Connecticut, Warr F. Daniell of the second New Hampshire and m M. Springer of the thirteenth and Scott of the fourteenth Ilinois districts, CONVERTED BY WENEY GEORGE. The idea of the club originated with a select terie of talented Congressmen who sit near eachother inthe hali of the House of Representatives. Henry George of New York, though not # Congressuian, may be held pri- marily responsible for it. When the genial socklesa “sage of Medicine Lodge” left Kansas inst spring and visited New York to teach the stock brokers and other moneyed men there certain unknown truths about sound finance, Na- and were eve humbly for admiss: rily rejected. so REPRESENTATIVE SIMPSON ON HIS WHEEL. he unwittingly fell m with the single tax apostle, who in due time made him familar With the pleasures of the wheel. Kepresevta~ tive Johnsou likewise recently came under tke spell of George's influence, aud ihe, too, be- came a con’ _Kepre- Dp sit next shington in the House ant rapturous — praises of ly repeated, the young Ten- nessean Was soon induced to tempt fate on the revolving wheel. Ex-Speaker Reed, it is said. was also prevailed upon by Johnson's elo- quence to link his fortunes for sport, at first in & tentative and honorary capacity, with the budding organizction. “Jerry Simpson was chosen president of tne club on account of his activity in promoting its growth and welfare. ‘Thus the charmed circle, first formed but little over a month ago, has been gradually but steadily enlarged until now it is gaining sev- eral new congressional recruits every week, and promises eventually to. embrace represen- tatives from every state in the Union. The expansive streets and avenues of Washington, paved with the finest asphalt and the smoothest of conerete blocks, afford ideal facilities for bicyeling, and the club avails of these superior conditions to the fullest extent. OVERCOMING LOCAL PREUDICE. ‘More than an ordinary amount of nerve and courage is required of Congressmen from cer- tain parts of the country in contemplating for themselves such a frivolous, or seemingly friv- clous, diversion as bicycting in this capital Gity ofthe nation. where the eves of the entire public, so to speak, are constantly centered upon ‘them. Indeed, such a deep-seated Prejudice exists in many agricultural com- munities im the west against bicycling, O% THE CATITOL PLAZA. tennis playing and kindral mild forms! pyeetane B petilctics that the | nding rom those sections, espe- cially men like the alliance advocate, Simpson. deserve to be heartily cougratulated on the | grit they have displayed in joining the club. | ‘The members, while not secking to conceal | heir fondness for the exhilarating exercise, | hare not courted publicity on the wubject oF | sought to be interviewed as to their accom- | plishments on the wheel. A story is told that down in Kentucky afew years ago a certain eastern capitalist, filled with modern ideas of | progress and invention, undertook to make the race for Congress in one of the blue grass dis- trict, using a bicycle of primitive pet tera ‘on bie stumping tours from p! to place. He annonueed to his te fve constituents that be believed in — frightened at the hood ia raising occasion at the wader an «t days for statesmen the ipsist on Knowing the personal as well as tho public careers, and even the harmless sports, of thetr Representatives in Congrens, SOME OF THE ERPECTE. handicaped with fully 300 pounds of flesh? Ho is one of the most jovial men in the present House. with a ruddy, smooth-shaven f dinck hair and rotdad figure. jeorge, Who prefers a light-ruant it machine, he uses a strong wheel of standard American make, ball-bearings and pneumatic cushion tire. Notwithstanding his pouderous avoirdupois be has mastered the dillicult feat known as the “pedal mouat,” aud in eddition is able to execute perfectly some of the most intricate figures of fancy ridiag. So onthuai- astic a friend of bicycling is he that he has taght not only his wire. but three of his little ently takes his whole family out for an airing “on the road.” Representative Jorry Simpson, on the other hand, cares nothing for speed or faney figures, but finds an infinite amount of delight in can- tering straight ahead ata moderate gait. He rides at any hour of the morning, sfternoon oF evening, sometimes with his friend Hull of lowa or Johnson of ( . in soli- tary meditation * He turns the street corners warily in the most leisurely manner possible, and in general conducts himself literaily like a philosopher on wheels, He lives he Hill” near the Capitol, and when the debates in the House happen to grow unboar- ably dull, as they often do, he slips over home kets out hisevele aud t quiet little spin by way of mental and pirysical refreshment. WHERE CONGRESSIONAL WHEELMEN x: Occasionally he meets other members of the club by prearrangement on the open plaza at the east frovt of the Capitol, when they all have a happy-go-lucky race over the smooth asphalt. ‘Then, after they have sufficiently en- yed the keen air whistling about their ears, they return to the House in 6 to vot@ depositing their wheels in convenientnooks aud crypts on the basement floor, ‘They couldn't have done this in the last Congress, for there was an inflexible rule against the storage of bicycles inside the House end of the building, to the discomfiture of the page boys wh formed the habit of riding to and from their daily work. Chairman Springer of ways and means is an old hand at the wheel and one of the early pioneers among Congressmen in the use of the rapid vehicle. Unluckily his late illness has prevented him from joining his colleagues in their regular practice, but his heart has been with them all the same and when be fully re- covers his heaith he will make up for lost time. Representative Washington from the outset exhibited a marked degree of piuck and energy in addressing himself to the difficulties that always beset beginners on the wheel. With the assiduous coaching of Representative Johnson, however, he has become one of the best riders in the club. He uses a very light machine and discards ail the unnecessary appliances. EX-SPEAKER REED. Ex-Speaker Keed, who has the reputation of riding the biggest upright wheel im the state of Main2 when at home in Portland, ie context hers in Washington with a low-seated safety. IX THE MONUMENT GROUNDS, Itis related authoritatively that when he first essayed to mount the monster in Maine he dished his wheel twice and broke the delicate attachments with the same easy grace and inimitable sang froid that characterized him in his fracture when Speaker of the parliamentary traditions and precedents of a hundred years, Representative Reed was a rider when the modern wheel was almost a nove!ty.in Wash- ington. He used to ride a wheel of the pat tern known as has a strong the fierce biaze of publicity which obtains in Washington, and rarely consents to a little run here, and then only in the least frequented rendezvous of the club. The other members of the club are anxious that he shall excel, for they have it in mind, it is said,to deputize him to represent them should they be called upon to annihilate some outside competitor for wheelmen’s honors. ENJOYING THE SPORT. Representatives Sperry of Connecticut, Dan- iel of New Hampshire and Scott of Llinois can be seen on their wheels almost any bright morning now bowling swiftly over the delight- ful boulevards of the fashionable northwest. Mr. Sperry affects a wheel of home manufac- ture, as does Mr. Daniell, while Mr. Scott is equally pleased with an’ imported or domestic wheel, provided it 1s a good one and easy to ride, Several of the “extremely young” Congressmen from New England and elsewhere have a divided preference for both uprights and safeties. and are regarded as con- noisseurs as to best styles end makes. While the asphalt streets leave nothing to be desired for ease and comfort in riding, the cial favorite trysting place is the magnificent drive- way called the “White Lot,” between the Executive Mansion and the Washington moau- ment. Thither the Congressmen gaily repair after the House adjourns in the afternoon, and there they enjoy themselves immensely, with comparative immunity from observation and interruption. ‘The only drawback there is the occasional passage of a swell equipage or dashing equestrian rider, and this tends to un- nerve th aker brethren,” often causing an inglorious tumble, A Dress of Spiders’ Webs. ‘From Notes aud Queries, Mrs. White mentions as a great curiosity the dress made from spiders’ webs presented to the ,faeen by the Empress of Brazil in 1877. Most ‘certainly it is and to most British minds such a thing might seem incredible, but if your cor- respondent were to Fiji—which is famous for its magnificent spiders—he might, perhay have less cause for wonder. ‘The web made by the big yellow spider bere is very large and strong, but in addition to the web proper, in | which lies, mosquitoes, &e., are caught, 1t spins a cocoon of orange-colored, silky. gosea- mer-like stuff, which. if taken up in the fingers requires quite au effort to brosk. ‘This stuff, I can conceive, might be woven into material for adress. ‘Might not the dress in question have been composed of similar material made by the Brazilian spiders: . I can hardly. even now, believe that it could have been composed of what we understand to be the ordinary spider's web. I can quite imagine, however, tnat such a material might be of some commercial value, as one frequently hears complaints at the present day of & want of fiveness in fibers or materiais used for scien- title purposes, I may add that onr cockroaches are huge, too; but, bya merciful dispensation of Prov- dence, our spiders are in proportion. particular enemy of the covkrosch here is hot the big Fellow spider above mentioned, but a long-legged,formidable-look: a spider, called the “hunting spider. pool out that this species spi web, but apparentiy it depends upon securing ite STATUES OF COLUMBUS Monuments Erected to the Great Dis- coverer in Various Countries. SOME MEMORIAL GROUPS. —————#. ‘The United States Pat to Shame by Other Na- tions in Worthily Honoring America’s Dis- coverer—The Most Noted FullaLength Statues—Tributes by Genoa, Madrid, Bar- cclona and Mexico—Projected Monuments. T THE MEETING OF the Literary Society on Tuesday evening at the residence of Mr. Mar- tin F. Morris the fol- lowing paper on the statnesof Columbus in different parts of the world was read, which will be found of un- usual interest just at this time, when every_ thing connected with the great discoverer at- tracts gencral attention, A request fromthe president of the Literary Society to give some account of the various statues and monuments which have been erected in honor of Christopher Colambus re- called at once to the writer's mind that famous chapter devoted to snakes in Ireland. Not that it can literally be said that there aro no statues of the famous navigator in existence. and no monuments standin ¢ to commemorate his fame end great achievements. but, considering the debt the world owes him and’ the long period of timo it has had for discharging the obliga- tion, the fact that such memoriais are dis- ereditably few in numbor and wholly inade- quate in character cannot be disguised, Why this should be it is hard to explain. Especially is it difficult to understand why a nation 80 rich, progressive and appreciative as ours claims and is conceded to be should be so tardy in ac- knowled, some aypropriate and durable form its creat indebtedness, But, whatever ex- planation may be offered, tho general truth re- mains that, whatever estimate may be held as to the character of the maa and the moment- ous results flowing from his discovery, and whatsoever of justice may have been done to both by the literature cf the world, art has done but little to perpetuate his lineaments or commemorate his deeds, FULL-LENGTH STATUES OF THR DISCOVERER. It is perhaps proper to explain here that for want of time and opportunity for inquiry and investigation it has not been practicable to in- clude in this hasty sketch mention of any of the so-called portrait busts of Columbus, sov- eral of which are known to be in existence; but since their authenticity is not well established and even such information as can be gathered in regard to them cannot be considered wholly as reliable. it has been thought best not to enter that field, but to limit these observations to a few of the most conspicuous and import- ant full-length statues or monumental groups erected or projected for the purpose of honor- ing his name and keeping his achievements fresh in the memory of succeeding genera- tons. IN GENOA, As should have been expected, the city which claims, and probably claims justly, to be the birthplace of Columbus was among the earliest if not the very first to rear a monumental group in his honor, and, whether by accident or design, it is happily 40 placed as to be one Of the first objects to attract the eye of visitors to Genoa, occupying, as it docs, » commanding position in the Piazza Aequaverde, directly opposite the great railway station, and not far from the principal steamer landings. Com- posed wholly of marble and reaching a height of nearly forty feet, according to the recoliec- tion of the writer, it is at once a striking and pleasing object SYMBOLICAL DEVICES. ‘The base is enriched by four handsome sit- ting allegorical figures, typifying. respectively, Religion, Wisdom, Strength and Geography. Other symbolical devieca are appropriately in- troduced as accessories, and the whole is crowned by a colossal effigy of Columbus, with one hand resting on an anchor, while the other touches a kneeling figure by his side, which represents America. Both in detail and gen- eral effect the monument may be said to take rank with the very best of itsclass, It was inau- gurated im 1862, but the writer has not been abie to secure the name of the artist, nor to learn any particulars in regard to its erection beyond the fnct that the monument was the grateful tribute of the municipality and peo- ple of Genoa, BARCELONA'S MEMORIAL. Much more ambitious than the Genoese group, and one of the most striking to be seen anywhere, is the memorial which the city of Barcelona dedicated to the memory of the illus- trious navigator with great pomp on the 8th of April, 1888." This conception comprices an ex- tensive landing stage at the harbor front of the city, flanked on either side by the hull or prow of a vessel, one representizg the Pinta and the other the Nina, with a magnificent’ balus- trade adorned by statues of famous exnlorers of various nations, Behind this streve ample paved square, shaded on its sides and rear by rows of ornamental trees, and from this in turn rises a lofty and elaborately deco- rated column surmounted by the colossal figure of Columbus. holding in his Jeft hand a marine chart and pointing with his right hand to the newly discovered land. ‘This monugaent is com- posed of stone, iron and bronze aifd reaches an gntire height of nearly 200 feet above the sea level. THE BASE gND ACCESSORY FIGURES, One group of Which represents the provinces Leon, Castile, Arragon and Catalonia, the other portraying the patrons and friends of the intrepid admiral are of stone. The eight colossa! lions guarding its base and the main shaft itself are of ron, while the four graceful figures of Fame or Renown, the panels, with their elaborate re- liefs and the other decorative devices which enrich the monument and the crowning effigy of Columbus, which isa little over eighteen feet m height and weighs some thirty tons, are all of brouze, cast from the cannons con uted for the purpose by the Spanish govern- ment. This monument was the work of several artists, the principai figure being the concep- tion of Ratael Atche, a Catalan seulptor, and the cost of detraying it was borne party by the city and partly by voluntary subscriptions from various municipalities, corporations aud private individuals, HONORED BY MADRID. The city of Madrid has also honored itself while honoring Columbus by the recent erec- tion of his effigy in bronze of heroic size in the Paseo de Recoletos, one of the principal prome- nades in the Spanish capital. ‘This representa- tion portrays a benign and reverent expression of countenauce with the figure clothed in the ordinary costume of his period, wearing over it s short fur-trimmed overgarment. He stonds on a lofty pedestal, or rather crowns a column of considerable height, -his left ban outstretched as if pointing to the newiy dis- covered land he hed reached after so many hardships, while the right upholds the furied flag of Spain, the cross-tipped staff of which rests upon a miniature semblance of the globe, which, in turn, rests upon the head of a capstan, about which # corduge cable is gracefully coiled. IX HONOR OF QUEEN ISADELLA, ‘There is still another menumental group in Madrid, which, while it was erected in honor of Queen Isabella, may be said to honor Columbus in — degree, though his effigy is no part of it. This conception represents his royal pa- troness in brouze, hol: aloft a cross und seated on a richly caparisoned horse, whose reins are held on the one side by a monk and oa the other by * paldier with an _unsheathed sword resting on arm, arrange- ment and accessories do not lack a certain resents the discovery of the Island of fan Sal- vador, while the fourth reproduces a i$ of a letter from beneath which is monument ig te munificence the city is for the me- ‘morial, SURROUNDING THE PEDESTAL four life-size figures, in bronze, stand above the basso relievos, representing respectively Padre Marehena, guardian of the monastery of Santa de la Rabida; Padre Fra Diego Dehesa. confessor of King Ferdinand, to the encouragement and support of which two men the hardy advonturer owed the royal favor; Fra Pedro de Gante and Fra Bartolome do Jas Casas. the two mission- aries who most earnestly gave their protection and services to the Indian natives of the soil. Surmounting the whole is the dignified figy of Columbus in the act of drawing aside the veil which hides the now world. In both con- ception and treatment this monument is con- coeded to rank with the best ot its class, even in the old world, BRONZE GROUP IN COLOX. Inthe Colombian seaport which was christ- ened Colon, in honor of the famous discoverer, but to which modern commerce has given the Jess distinguished and iess appropriate namo of Aspinwall, stands a bronze group of Columbus, the gift to thet place of Eugenio, late unfortu- nate empress of the French. It represents its subject clothed in the somi-monkish garb which he sometimes wore, with his right hand touching, as it to protect, tho half-ciad Indian woman by his sido, and is on the whole a pleas- ing though perhaps not highly artistic monu- ment, IN st. Lovis, In the year 1886 statue of Columbus was inaugurated in the city of St. Louis—the gift of Mr, Henry Shaw, a public-spirited citizen of that piace. It consists of tho single fi;jare of Co- lumbus. in gilt bronze, of heroic size, standing on a somewhat lofty granite pedesta!, which 18 enriched by four bronze panels with reliefs por- traying prominent events in his illustrious ca- Yeer. Ho is represented at the moment when, on the evening of the 11th of October, 1492, he imagined he saw a light in the westward, and is looking forward with an expression, half anxious, half triumphant, to this beacon of an unknown world. ‘The face of this statue is copied from that at Genoa, previously referred to, which is generally regarded as an authentic likeness. 1¢ may be added that the figure was modeled nnd cast in the celebrated Muel- ler foundzy at Munich, CONTEMPLATED MEMORIALS, A number of uew Columbus statues or mon- umental groups are projected or contemplated in different cities both on the eastern and western hemispheres. Several of these are well under wey now, and, whether all are eventually completed’ or not, there is every reason to believe that the present number will be materially increased in the next few years, Among others an important one is to be in- augurated with much pomp and circumstance in the city of Palos on tho 3d day of August next to fitly mark, with other appropriate ceremonials, the four hundredth anniversa of the day the intrepid navigator, fuil of faith, hope and courage, sailed from that port on his first voyage to the westward in search of that new worid he was so certain he would find. NRW YORK'S PROJECTED TRIBUTE. Nor is our couutry wholly wanting in prom- ise in the same excellent direction, and the prospec’ is that at least one will be completed nd ready for dedication on next “Discovery day,” which ought, let it be suggested here, be made by lawa national! holiday for all the years hereafser to come to this great and happy republic. It is to be erected in New York, a tribute and gift from the children of Italy domiciled in that city. ‘The somewhat ambitious design selected is that of Gaitano Russo, an Italian sculptor, and the work will be done in Italy. ‘the ‘conception contem- plates a round marble shaft, some sixty fect in height, ornamented by twelve vessels’ prows, ‘The Columbus figure will be about thirteen feet high, and the whole structure wili reach # height of eighty feet, ‘The base or rather the platform upon which it rests will be thirty-six feet square. and at the foot of the colamn four figures will be placed, one representing an Ainerican, one « Spaniard, another an Italian, and the fourth a winged genius, IN OTHER crTrEs, Chicago also hes an original group in con- templation, which it is intended shail be ready for inauguration with the Columbian world’s exposition in that city. Johannes Gelert, who executed a statue of Grant lately erected in Galena, has submitted a somewhat claborate and imposing design for the work, but since it has not been chosen by the committee having ‘the matter in charge any description of it at present would be utimely, Columbus, the capital city of Ohio, has also taken steps in the sume direction, but as yet. beyond the appointment of the several com- mittees required to provide the means and carry on the work, together with the inspec- tion of a design submitted for it by Mr. R. HL Park, the Aterican wealptor, resident in Florence, nothing serious has been accom- plished, FRUITLESS APPEALS TO CONGLESS, It is no fault of the writer of this hurried sketch that Columbus will not be worthily honored by a statue or monument in the na- tional capital by the 14th of October noxt. More than six years ago he urged the project by newspaper paragraphs, followed by letters to and persistent personal interviews with prominent public men whose official positions made them proper subjects for assaults of this character, but without tangible results. They all approved the idea and expressed a willing- ness to wid in carrying it into effect, but no member of either house of Congress seemed called upon to take the initiative steps. and so the seed thus sown with somewhat of faith in human appreciation and gratitude and watered with reasonable effort failed to germinate, pemrctorses WHEN MOST DANGEROUS. ‘The Fascinating Period of a Woman's Life —Beauty vs. Brains, From Harper's Bazar. At what age under the old regime a woman was considered passee it would be dangerous to say—presumuably soon after she had quitted her teens. Swift wrote with cruel candor of Stella's fading charms, and sent her as a birth- day gift a rhymed “Recipe to Kostore Her Lost Youth,” at a period that we should con- sider the prime of life, The caustic dean of St. Patrick's wondering ‘How angels look at thirty-al Proves a sharp contrast to amore modetn writer, Mr. Lewes,who, in his “Life of Gethe,” speaks of 33 as a fascinating period of » womans life, being that in which he considered her to have reached the full development of her powers of mind and body. Such a sentiment would once have been con- sidered rank heresy, yot thirty-three was the age at which Frau von Stein proved dangerous to the heart of the poct who had survived the more youthiui charms of aGretchen, a Char- Jotte anda Lili, Mr. Lewes’ view seems to be based on the old and honorable position ana limitations. No people, perhaps, appreciate more perfectly the innocent tlower-like beauty of adolescence than the French. Like the loveliness of childhood it is to them a joy and delight to be made much of while it lasts, fad, like that period. it iv expected to have its definite limits, The line between jeune fille and vieillo fille is in that polite lind drawn with sharpor and more merciless hand than in our own; yet it is tho glory of that French life, with its cleagand practical limitations and its adoration of youthful beauty, to have pre- sented the finest flower of courtesy that the world has ever known to women who bad lost the charms of carly youth and ruled the minds and even the hearts of men by their wit and their wisdom, their Vivacity and their graco. Tt te im le to read any description of saloon life ia Paris without realizing the im- mense power that such women as Mme. de Rambouillet, Mme. Defiand, who could toler- ate everything but the commonplace; Mme. Necker, her brilliant daughter; Mme. de Stael and her cherished friend, Mme. d’Houde' exercised in literary and political as in social matters, pst Eee Not » Satisfactory Way to Pay Checks. * From the New York Trivae, A man in « restaurant the other day, when he received his check from the waiter, opened his Pocket book to pay the amount and then got into a final conversation with a friend on the 23, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES, THE FOUR HUNDRED. Not Those of Washington, but of New York. SOME CHARACTERISTICS. How These Exclusives May Be Distinguished —The Opinion of an Expert—The Inner Circle of 150 Not Yet Clearly Defined—The ‘Women Better Than the Men. RE YOU IN THE 4007 The question was asked by a writer for Tue Stan of a Now Yorker who comes to Washington every spring, because he finds the climate so much ploasanter. He looked a little surprised and answered with the de- liberate ease of the hoavy swell: “The 400? Ob, that has been narrowed, you know. ‘Tho thing now is to be in the 159.” “Ave you in the 1602” “Pon my word,” ho “I kardly know, Ever since the 400 was started I've been in it, but fé has hardly been settled definitely who e and who are not in the 150,” How isa man to find out? The list is not printed yet, nor is it likely that an authorita- tivo list over will be printed. The members of this most exclusive set are not branded, so that you can tell thom on sight, and they have not ali got strawberry marks upon tho left arm. ‘There are certain ear marks, as thoy say of the cattle in the west, by which you can identify the people who compose the 40, but that new 150 is_a tribe which has not yet beon properly classified. A New Yorker was asked by the writer to draw the portrait of « typical member of the individual characteristics of the noble band,” he replied. Well, just let’ us have the prin and not go into the subdivisions.” HOW 10 TELL ONE_or THE 400, “A member of the New York 400,” he said, “may be known from the fact that he has the unmistakable air of the man who docs not work for a living. No bu: imitete him in this, and you can tell-the man with au occupa- tion who is temporarily loafing from the pro- fessional ioufer ata glance, upon an income which some one else was kind enough to get for him, and. the tf. never has had to earn'a dollar in his lite has made him find other means of passing tho time than the ceaseless struggle to make a liv- ing. He has a lazy walk. a slow method of specch, an easy indolent way of doing every- thing that it takos u lifetime of loafing to a quire. If he lifts his lund to his head he does it slowly: if ho hails a hack and gets into it he spends as muck time over the operation as pos- sil ad al ones y is he 80 slow: moving quickly h,” said the expert in the science of the 400, “you don't understand the point. ‘Tho member of the 400 is trying to kill time. He has nothing to do with his time, so he tries to kill it, If he should be quick about anythi 1s ‘he would find himself brought to e standstill with vast spaces of hours before him and no means of bridging them over. He gets up as late as he can, he spends as much time in dress- ing ashe can, he cats breakfast 2s slowly as he can. Although he does not read much of his newspaper it takes him longer to do it than it would take you to go through all the morning papers, When he goes down the street he strolls, The fire engines muy go dashing by and everybody may rush to the fire, but he never rusites, The two professional loafers of ‘the worid are the man who is born rich and be- comes @ member of the 400 and the tramp. Neither ever makes a penny. yet they live: neither ever toils, yet they enjoy life. People support them both. The one has the park bench and the saioon where he can loaf and the other loaf: clube.” “Hold ou,” said the writer, ‘you don’t mean to draw a comparison tetween the 409 and the tramps, do your” ‘hy, yes,I do,” said the authority. laughing at the strange conclusion that his own reason- ing had brought him to, “Of course it sounds startling, but it is true that the 400 are more like tramps than they are like any other class of the community. A CIRCLE WITHIN A CIRCLE. But the 400 isn’t the 150, and before proceed- ing any further it will be well to ascertain what the 150 is, It is simply a circlo within a exrcle. Mr. Ward McAllister says 400 is too large a uumber of exclusives, so_he narrowed it down to 150 exclusives, thin the 150 there isa smaller ring, and a smaller one in that, and so on until you find a small dot, which stands for the most exclusive circle of ull aud is repre- sented doubtless by McAllister himself. If matters keep on at the present rate the French Academy with its forty immortals will be large in comparison with tho exclusive society circle of New York. As it is now it is like the toy Chinege boxes—each box you open contains a smaller box, until finally there is a box so tiny that it can hold nothing. However, this is the stato of affairs tlat con- fronts New Yorkers now. Those that had got securely settled among the 400 find themselves shaken up by the institution of the 150, and now, of course, every nerve must be strained and every stratagem resorted to in order to get established in this new band ot brothers, But how canany one get in unlets there isa vacancy? If the limit is Stretched then it ceases tu be the 159, But whatever the 150 may be now, like the 400, it will come to express an idea soon rather than the exact figures of a social circle. There are some of the 150 here, but how many it would be impossible to say. Of the 400 Washington has a considerable number, for ithas become the truly fashionable thing to have a cottage at Bar Harbor or Newport or Tuxedo and house in Washington for the winter. It is true that a person supplied with sidences in this way dues not spend much time in New York, but to be a New Yorker it is not necessary to live there, but simply to have been identitied with the’ place at some time in the past. But if all the New York peo- ple who have cottages at Newport or other fashionable summer resorts and houses in Washington were admitted to the charmed circle its numbers would bo nearer a thousand than 400, KNOW THZM BY THEIR CLOTMES, A pretty certain way to know a member of the 400 is by his clothes. They have the un- mistakable air of having recently been put on. ‘They are uo better than the clothes of many professioual and business men, but they have not been sat in or worked in so long. The toilet, whichis a mere circumstance in the daily life of the average citizen, is an event in the day of the member of the 400. As he has bardly avy other necessary ocempations each day beside drossing, cating and sleeping, it is, strange to say, found necessary by him to hire aman to help him in the dressing part, and the orthodox 400 man onght to have a valot. Those ways of spotting one of tho 400 apply to his appearance. If you speak to him you can tell what he ts at once, usually drawls and he has an accent that sounds affected, al- though it may really be perfect; ‘uses the 3 ate wi would be hard tofind oue of the 400 who doesn't use it. ‘They take their time in talk- ing, as in everything else. and this is doubtiess due to the fact that their brains are sluggish. ‘THEIR SELF COMPLACEKCY, But there is one characteristic that they have in on extraordinary degree, and that is self What is the objection FP Zeke HiT af ‘The latter lives | that he! CHILDREN AND STAINS. How Their Finger Marks on the Walls Can Be Avoided. A DADO WILL DO iT—HOW TO PREPARE STAINS YOR FLOORS—A CHAIR THAT WILL WORK OFF MARRIAGEABLE GIRLS —Fisil XET FOR DECOR- ATIVE PURPOSES, ‘From the Upholsterer. It's ali very well,” was the plaint of a sweet ‘woman recently, “to talk decorative art, bat what in the world is’ one to do with four such children as Ihave? Almost everything I buy nowadays must be considered from a finger-mark standpoint, I would ike to have dainty walls and delicate furniture, but how can 12” ‘To this class we wonld say, nse @ dado along your balls and up your stairs particularly. Children will. insist on putting their hands on wall paper, but it's an easy matter to have a dark dade four and a halt fect high, and above this the fancy may rua free and fearless into the color delicacies, without danger of limitation. it's unneces- sary to put dark brown colorings on to every- thing. In dining rooms or other apartments Where ebair backs are likely to rub the wall a dado is not but classic, and they can be got tterns and in imi- tation of leathers, If in time they are soiled they can be rencwedg without the expense of coveriug the entire wall. It is astonishing in these days of decoration that so littic is known of stains, The subject is not complicated, If you wish to stain your floors get raw sienna, Prussian blue, burnt sienna or anything of that sort, and dilute it with turpentine till it gets to the consistency of water. Burnt sienua makes almost a ma- hogany fi Raw umber makes an excellent stain, if greatly dhiuted, aud very thin Vandyke brown on a Georgia pine flooring has a very ood effect; on white pine it is better still. The variation in color of a stain depends simply upon its dilution with turpentine, For 8 yarnish hard-oil finish is the best aud cheap- est, Never use water in cleaning it, When the varnish loses ils freshness wax it, but not in the old-fashioned wey, which meane endless toil, but with some of ‘the wax preparations which are made. The secret of a nice-looking hard-finished joor lies in the use of a hair broom and a mop slightly oiled. Never use a coarse broom or a carpet sweeper or water. ‘These are the things thet make waxed floors an abomination, a “str cLosrn” cH, If ever there s & chair that will rida household of marriageable girls it is the new double-seated thing into which two can crowd in the “sit closer” fashion, which regulates our American horse car, b y furgiture calls to mind rivance that “is, as Bab would put just simply lovely; and that ie the swinging | chair t pout in unesi It ys neitter more nor less than 2 chair suspended from a triauguiar frame that runs up a height | of four feet and which holds, like a swing sus- | pended from across bar, a very comfortable sort of skeleton chair, The chair is of the you can kick it into sofa up like a saw-horse, and there yor can lie and swing with a forward- and-back motion that is simpi ih We do not have th place iu the hous: the spirit suggested an “y A mock or am hearth is arranged with little trouble. ‘The angle of the wall is simply built across | above » height of five feet from the ground, where an old-fasbioned mantel shelf runs and | holds the usual appurtenances —placques, cait- | diesticks. &c. The wall above is hung with corn husks, and an imitation brick interior fitted into’ the mock firepiace beneath. Ke tles are hung aud andirons and the ther aux: iaries, together with an artificial gas device which throws ont a crackling blaze from an as- bestos Jog. complete the strikingly cheerfal effect, especially when utilized for the corner of a broad hallway. FISH NE DECORATIONS, With the advent of summer we will find » very great and varied use of what is generally known as fish net. It is, however. a netting designed especially for decorative uses, ‘Tb mesh is about three-quarters of an inch in di- ameter, and it can be readily understood that when draped in colorings that harmonize with background draperies it is very handsome. It comes in various widths and im all kinds of colors. It is sometimes splashed in gold. or bronzed or silvered. Some of the 72-inch widths are applied to the walls direct and with a mirable effect—a silver on a blue wall—a gold upon a rose wall—a copper upon a bottle green wall; sometimes the goods are festooned around a room as afrieze, We have seen it utilized also, especially in seashore decora- tions, for curtains, draped from a boat hook or oar instead of # curtain pole, and caught back and looped with the aid of ropes und pulleys, shipwise. Folks who attend the Columbian exposition see among other exhibits a collection of products of the American upholsterydom. ere was a time when anything good in furni ture coverings or drapery materials was ported, but that day is now past and tapestries in silk and wool, brocades and damasks, broca- telles, plushes, chenities and those ‘lighter things that are generally known as Indie silk are allmade in this country. The most de- Lightful sort of garniture, “fringes and brass Work are all made here , and the industry has reached an artistic plane on a level with that of the great French marts and a mercantile titude aggregating au annual production of ‘over $35,000,000. ‘The manufacturers will have a special sec- tion devoted to them and heir exhibition will Le one of the most interesting in the great forty acres of exhibits in the department of manufactures, demonstating as it will the art progress of our American artisans. CLEANING LACE CURTAINS, People who send ont their lace curtains to be cleaned are often surprised whon told that it will take a month or six weeks, but the fact is that the couscientious dealer no longer permite the baphazard laundryman to clean thee re jut intrusts them to ot lace curtains has been ene but LF elses been tempted country unt ie years, ‘About ten one ‘the fzm started the busi- — but this sively toa ited field cee - as the day they left Heavy | make auy United States, The darkies of quently gather them for pillows, end of it, the south and that's We have had cornices and curtain poles bute combination of short pole hooks, as shown in the illustration. is partare from oid-time methods aud makes very graceful arrangement, not to be found in the trade ornamental, burgisked. frequently in duil silvered, stamped or embossed. —_——s Fairy Belle, Written for The Eveuing Ster. When slowly fai the shadows C'er the valley sweetly fair And softly, ever softly, ‘Throush the dreamy. dors ate Comes the distant mystic Hakling Of the airs feicy belle Re-eewoirg ever fauntly Lhroug the wountaine’ biden della Methinks I hear them telling In their tolling o'er the jea, “He is comming, uo is coming, He ts coming back to thee.” Hear them ruging im their swinging While they're singing merriiy, “Lem coming, yes, Pm coming, ©, Pm coming home for thee.” “Twas ta the far-off gloating, When the worid was free from cara ‘That we pasted in the valley— Ta tine vals bricht and fairs For he said, coming back for thea, To live in love forever In my Lome bey ond the ses.” CLIFFORD HOWARD. Washington, Apri 23, He Sat on His Own Jury. New York Corres Pat Aphia Press. In the opinion which Judge Andrews gave refusing to release the murderer Webster on bail he went as far asa judgo could possibly 60 in intimating that the jury which tried Webster, or some members of it, were infiu- enced by improper motives. Judge Andrews said that on the evidence Webster shoaid have beon convicted and that it was amazing to him that a jury should not have been able te agree upon such finding. “Juries,” aid exJudge Dittenhoffer, in speaking of this opinion of Judge Andrews, ‘do some very queer things. For instance, i hada client who was sued by a creditor for n debt. My client had nothiag, aud it did not ference whether judgment was aken out against him or not, Hecould not have aid it had one bee 1 went to the that on to my office send for m tome at chent, nd if the case is cn In about an hour 1 nd said the case was call to the court room i could not find m She opposing conssel was already mak. sol said to my cierk: “I will go back | once corraliod his twonty ed you can | & clerk came | this she When I | press tae grativade teit for t 1 An Old Stager Whose Coolness Saved the Lives of Wis Passengers. From the Omaha Boe. ‘The heroism and bravery of Robert Emery is an example to every school boy in Nebraska today. Gage county has the honor of being bis bome and Beatrice his nbiding place. In 164 Robert Emery was « stage driver slong the St Joe and Denver route. In Aw Bust of thet your cocurred the great Indian raid, when vo many settiors lost their lives There were nine possengers in his coach, seven mom and two indies. Although exceedingly dangerous, he offered te drive to Liberty Farm, where bis brother Cheries lived. The moi of Angust 9, 1964, wae beantifal. The was clear, end 2 cool, refreshing “op from the northwest, The coach left the sta tion of Big Sandy with ite freight of human lives drawn by four large and mottled steeds, in which the driver bad unbounded confidence wd over them perfect coptrol, The journey ‘was without accident or noawual ent -un~ Ul about 11 o'clock, up to witich time no signs of Indians had been secn. But just as the Jead horses had passed over the bili and were on 2 spur thet led into tho bottom Jand or valley. thie was natrow and bordered on either tide by deep ravines, worn by the water— before the coach had commenced the descent the driver discovered a baud of Indians about thirty rods in advance. He wheeled the horses inan instant—two rods further on he could not have accomplished the tarn—and, laying the whip to their backs, commenced an im- petuous retreat, The passengers wero terri- fied and were at once on the , suid: “If you value your lives for God's enke keep your seats or we are lost. The Inaians, about fifty in mumber, chase with their terrifyypg three miles, which were accomplished in about twelve minutes, pursued and pursuers wade the most desperate offorts at spood. The sa age yells of those bloodthirsty villains and the wails of despair of the men and women in the coach are past the power of pen go describe. Pet 0 lory of the driver be it said that be only steady-nerved and unexcited von in this memorable chase. The coach bris~ ted with arrows, “like quills upon the fretfal porcupine.” ‘They grazed young Emery on every mide and cut the tarett off the head of the wheel horse, but the young man heeded noth- ing but tus driving. There were two points at which all would have been Jost but for the driver's wonderi— Presence of mind. There were two abrapt turns in the road where the coach would hw been thrown over bad be not brougi: toa halt aud turned with care. This he did, to the dismay of wome of the passengers, who saw excape in speed, but their subsequent Praise of his conduct was as greaias his cou! and calculating. George Consta- asx conducting an ox train over the w the coach about # mile abcad, and at cous. The ssengere into Words could’ wot ro and de- ht they em- hanked ‘that way ve driver drove his mine or and watety liverer. In the a braced and kiw rium of deli diam and ing an address to the jury in which he wasseor- | he had beld the lines and that they were in « ing my tomy intense astonishment jurymau No. 9 wax say own cliont, He sat there listening with Perfect composure to the attack which was made upon him. [wns too amazed to speak for awhile, but finally I interrapted the counsel and said to him that I thought he had better ask for an adjournmeut. He refused at first, until I said to hima, ‘Why, my own clicut is sitting m that jury box: how he got there 1 don't know, but there he ii Of course the case was summarily stopped and Judge Larremore was so indignant that he was going tosend my client to juil for contempt, bur I saggested that the man may mi have intended anything wrong. The judge summoned hun to the bar and asked the man how he happened to get jury. -Why," suid the fellow, called my name.’ We looked over the panel of the | clerk and found that thet was exactly what happened. He responded to his name when it was called and took his seat in the jury box. ‘The coincidence was extraordinary. Judge Larremore said it bad never happened before and that if the client had not been e compar- atively ignorant man he would certainly have severely punished him for contempt. The man did not realize that he was in any danger supposed it was his duty if his to go into the jury box. He expre sorrow afterward that the caso had been w journed and frankly told Judge Larremore that he was far better qualified to mt upon the jury than any of the other men who were his aaso- because be knew all about the case and didn’t.” Seite, Columbus’ Three Ships. From the United service Gazette (Loudon. “The American naval officers sent to Spain to ascertain the details of design of the three craft which forme] Columbus’ fleet on his voy- age of discovery, with the design of having the vessels built and navigated for the Chicago exhibition, have been very successful in their labors, and, indeed, many points of dispute have been settled as to the type of craft, and generally the famous painting by Bragada in the museum at Madrid bas been found to be correct. In the search the log of the admirai of the fleet was found, as weil as charts and sketches made by the pilot, Juan de In Corsa, Columbus’ boat was the “Santa Maria,” aud the escorting craft were named “Nina” and “Pinta.” The first named was the st, be- ing about seventy-five feet over all. kee! was sixty-two feet, the breadth was twenty Jeet (only four feet of length to one of beam, whereas now it is nine to o7 The hold was about fifteen feet deep and the capacity be- een 120 and 180 tons. The crew consisted of ninety men and they were accommodated in houses forward and aft ‘The latter extended v0 the center of the ship and consisted of two stories, somewhat after the style of the stern of our old two-deckera, “There were three masts, with all, including a Jil foresail and a mainsail of enormou. area, with a large cross punted on it, as was the custom of the Spaniards aud Por- tuguese to distinguish their ships from those of the godiess. Above the maineail was a top- sail, while on the mizzenmast there wae what might be termed « three-cornered Iug-sail— something between a lug-sail anda jib. The mainmest had « military top; the speed got was cieven knots an hour, Sbe had very small guns, By the way, the main flag had four squares, on two of which was a lion rampaut, and on the others a castle, the arms of Castile. Aragon was excluded frow this honor by order f Queen Isabelia, as it refused to contribute to the cost. The pennant had the initials of ‘King Ferdinand and queen, Isabella. The constraction of the Santa Maria aud the other two vessels is to be commenced forthwith.” dscns cece nuivs doners of late years with regard toa certain form of residence known as “flat.” Not many years ago the idea of living in «fiat was so littie appreciated that apartments of that kind could hardly be ssid to exist at all in London. A few unwieldy biocks of buildings were built after the American fashion, but so little did they suit the English taste that for a long time they remained almost empty a avery low rent to the other ad they offered to their occupiers. Now, di the last three or four years, the inhabitant London seem to have 4 li f i et tlt i i vent severely. I glanced at the jary and | pow | j that nour, for wherever he was knowa his | marks with a | the tanut prod | ing. on where they coulll not interfere. noble steeds were wot torgution, The petted them and cast Useit arms about uecks with feelings of grate This memorable drive would uever be for- Rotten. though not recorded here, for the story would be hauded down to posterity by the suc cessive generations of the saved, The hero of that day's chase won not his vest laurels im tie manucr and kind deeds ‘won for him « wel- come in every heart. Devoid of boastful pro- tenve. he wore meekly bis well-deserved honors and silently carried «bero’s heart, His health was frad and in about a year he was with fever, ond wile upon his Fet still conscious, Mra, Randolph, the umber he saved from o horrible death, placed upon his finger » beau- uiful gold ring 1u which was cograved the fol- lowing: “FE. Umphrey C. Randoiph and Hattie P. Randolph to Robert Emery, in se- kuowiedgment of what we owe to his cool con- duct aud good driving Tucsdar, August 9 1864." Soon after this he passed away from these scenes of warfare to the silent and | ful realm of the dead. The doctor who at- tended him iu his ast hours culogized him as = hero and one of the nobicst of mau- a ‘The a WONDERFUL SHOOTING, How the Texas Ranger Handles « Ride ore Revolver. From Harpers Weeks. ‘The rangers were the largest men I saw in Texas, the stato of big men. And some of them were resark handsome, ime eun- burned, broad-shouldered, easy. manly ‘They were also somewhat shy with the stran- gers, listening intently, bat speaking little, and then in asiow, gentle voice, and, as they spoke #0 seldom, they seemed to think what they had to say was too valuable to spoil by profani When Gen. Mabry found they would not tell their adventures he asked them to show how they could shoot, and as this was #0) they could do, apd not something already done, they went about it as glecfully as school! “ recess doing “stunts.” ‘They placed a board, ‘one foot wide und two feet high, some sixty feet off im the rie. and Sherif! Schecley opened the beatilities by whipping out his re- volver, turning it in the air, aud shooting, with the aights upside down, into the buil's-cye of the imprompta target. He did this witbout discontinuiag what he was saying to me, but rather as though he were punctuating bis re- able commas. think as you would let a little cne-penny sheriff get inthe first shot on you.” He could afford to sa} this, becaus» te bed been a ranger himeelf, and his brother Joe was oue of the best cap- tains the ranges ever had, aud he and all of his six brothere are over six feet high. But ei an instantaneous volley from every man in the company; they did not take the trouble to rise, but shot from wher- ver they happoaed to be sitting or lying nd talking together. and the air rang with the reports. anda hundred quick, vibrating little Soaps like the singing of « wire string when i 1y tightened on a banjo, ‘They extubited some most wonderfal shoot ‘They shot with both hands at the same time. with the hammer underneath, holding the rifle in one hand, and never, when it was & revolver they were using, with a glance at the sights. They would sometimes fi shots frow a Winchester between the time had picked it up from the ground and before it had nestled comfortably against thew shoulder. it xeoms that to shoot a Winchester you have to pull a trigger one way and work a lever backward and forward; this would naturally suggest that there are three movements—oue to throw out the empty shell, one to replace itwith a cartridge and the third to explode this cartridge. Capt. Brooks, as far as E could make out from the round. used only ome movement for his entire eight shots, guessed, the trial wes more to show Brooks’ quickness rather than his ship. I paid vo attention to the devoted myself wssiducusly to the trigzer, and in i wt i ut adi fit it i i i i | iy ih [ | | | i if i | : gFF & & f i I il I f iH i J i i