Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1892, Page 7

te "hora THE Fe Pal te oe es a EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. Sch ATURDA Be 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. instruction in cooking has been given to mote party of eastern who were to arrive “Well, when I went to do the washing that y WONDER TALK ABOUT POLLEN. HOLDING DEVIL'S DEN. A MODERN MISSION. ats eekene ng betes One gekiegine te A CALICO WRAPPER. range near ave Talks Sinan ong neon Teumbied thom inte the “eaat teal ioped oc JHE RICH AND LAZY. Curious Little Vegetable Germs and the | An Interesting Reminiscence of the Battle took ap the work of teaching cooking, end the ie i role pomesion of the ranch. | the red wrapper, pinning” up the snperduous ‘Work They Perform. of Getiysburg. Carrying a Knowledge of Cookery bring about the introduction of the new work in the public schools. For many years classes Tt Made an Effective Riding Habit “Gringo had not taken half a dozen strides before every pin had ripped out, and, as I flew Chatacteristics of Three Species of EW OBJECTS SEEN UNDER THE microscope ate so beautiful and interesting T IS A LONG TIME AGO NOW—AN cient history to the rising (or risen) genera- ive it a = from public schools were sent to this cooking be got eo interested in re Be- | down the street with my ruddy gown as the pollen grains of plants. Readily gathered | tion—-but that sulpharous day in July, 1863, Into the Highways and Byways. school for special instruction. As, facilities on a Memorable Occasion, frothod’ Hint T'waa oblivions of my eurround-| ping shout Gringus spotted lege and my mk, the Genus Plutocrat. in the garden or in the field, their varying forms | when it seemed to us around the picturesque ve increased in. vat schools ‘scl a was ready to scream wit Ma wi letto old "1 ni 1 bas been Telieved from these extra burdens and Evelin when the wild Welahman ‘seized hor for out behind. anol pees afford a most entertaining study to the amateur | old Pennsylvania borough of Gettysburg as it TEACHING HOUSEKEEPING. able to pursue its special work among the en- tirely neglected classes of “the children. ‘The WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY hawking on the demesnes of Dawfyd with the ‘one eye,’ when a pull at my flowing hair startled sereamed fore, sweeping cloud. while the sombrero spread above me like ahuge white umbrella, looked more like a A RICH MAN OF LEISURE. naturalist. Each flower bears pollen of a shape Peculiar to itself, so that by examining any bit the lid had lifted from the ‘bottomless pit is as vividly before me as though the tremendows work of the public schvols has in no_wise ISABELLA WORRELL BALL. me and’ I in dead earnest as I hur-| maniac than a moderately sensible. younglady. ofhoney one can discover Just what kinds of | events that have made it forever memorable superseded the work of this school. How- Hiedly glanced up and faced big; burly Indian, | “As Gringo halted suddenly before the store blossoms were rifted of their sweets by the bees | had occurred but yesterday. ‘An Taterecting lation School tm This Cty— | over "extended 8 aystom, “of public jm blanket and moocasing aid paint. who had & | Tsaw but one face in tho dozen curious ones | The Only Events Which Rouse Hs Slugeish | to make it, ak Ghd ain @ Say QR, ~ a instruction may become, private en’ ise s tay hair, ing it at length so | turned u me an it was ‘8. To his jan—Elegant Loafers Whose Ancesto: ec ‘ Poco eee ee ee erate Cune’,|isalways needed in order to “gather up the SEE THAT MISS] the sun would shine through it. startled exclamation as I dashed up Thadoniy | "= Wns Man Whe Srecde te | pene Ae eter #0 many wonderful things to | mand, the fourth New York independent bat- Themssives--A Scene ine ig Clase | Fr rmentatitnothing be lost THe teed Mea: ‘Mantis: Gibdets | "Wed be ‘orpnserSamga teu: soap’ looks he | seater: forked—The Man be told about pollen. Everybody knows that | tery, then near Emmittsbarg, received orders Details of the Management. of the very destitute which Gen. Booth talks so to the present stiff style prot’, as I darted up the steps, nearly uproot-| ‘ ‘The Indians! ‘Money His Father Made. the “stamens” of a flower are the little stalks | to rejoin the third corps, to which it belonged, much about exists in great part because there ing the locks he held in my baste to get out of “And then I fainted, one of the strangers with yellow bea:ls which Gettysburg. elev ; were " it a of Wing habits and n 6 ¢ : Sete Hae ae are scattered around, | at Gettysburg, cleven miles away. As we is a residuum of neglected children growing u his reach. catching me in his arms as I slipped from in, j vedi ee on _ took N THE FUTURE THE | to ineficieney and consequent iene un plesiis for » return to| “You can't havo it, though,’ I retorted | Gringo’s back. Written for The Evening Star. Panton center. These heads are called | then guarding the Hagerstown pike it vice. To get of these in time and direct L poor man’s wife will know how to cook. That is to say, if the their course toward skillful and helpful indus- try is the work of this mission school. The During the past winter more than 200 girls @ visit to our mutual friend, Mrs. Barton in weakly, as I gained the doorstep, and reachi inside the. room grasped my rife, which lay across a chair, where I had left it the night be- oxen, nor an: else for you, 80 clear out.’ down the basement stairs, “In half an hour from the time I mounted Gringo on the ‘claim’ a dozen armed men were on their way to rescue mamma, as they rather going from their reservation in Nebraska to LIKE TO FOLLOW them about,” said “Like to follow what ber of very small yellow grains, which are the pollen. Under the microscope each of these which constantly heep up sort of vibratory era depend for the accomplishment of this upon some time to withdraw the pickets and get things in readiness for the march, ao that it wag i i . ins is found to bea single cell, which has | filly 4 o'clock in the morning of that fateful sonal attention and friendly watchfulness fore after target practice with papa. expected to find the house of siege. On = peer man to tol ont in the fi : lore we ewung oF men have the good for- | which the teacher of the public schools cannot tury. I wonder howa| «Ugh! Me no want scalp lock. Me good In- | the way out they encountered « faod of all = wetter for Tam Ean | Ses geld when eee, Soke ete ee reams wpeweng bank cuxtel wp te tune and the good sense | give is here provided. Princesse calico wrapper | jun; me want ox!” dozen Indians accompanied by an interpreter, the other day. soon « great many extremely minute ‘grandes, | ber je mee nec ghe ne and dasty pall tomerry the graduates THE PUPiis. would fillher idea of the | ' ‘‘Ox,’ I repeated stupidly. ‘We have no| from whom they learned that the Pawnoce were “ " y minute granules, | put it was xtraight to where the guns were a Sk ei artistic in flowing lines | °*°?: t , | Soir i about?” he was asked. | motion. These granules are composed of starch | POomInE. and the entire command was eager to sassch ef cackacy ana | Dave attended the cltioes of this mission schodl for “riding habits?” “amp th eee kneel cae inbereeec aid ata at an cence ee “Why, the rich swells, | 824 Protoplaam, the latter being the germ sub-| Po M,N front. We reached the ground be- housework of this city. | They are in great part children who for one We all looked up in | ‘ : very ugly in crossing Kansas, and that my in- ofcourse,” heanswered. | ““Tihe anthers, as soon we the pollen within them | *PPresched a peach orchard —now famous in Jat now thereare some | Fetonor another are not able to attend the | amazement, for what the elogant and wealthy | ‘Ox ther,’ he replied, pointing to the baso- | truder- was Shan-tavan-tahy a chief, but that By following them he | is ripe, buret cad cater theif ens em | Ristors—1 noticed thet the fences hed boom fifteen colored. girls in Mra, Barton could possibly know of calico | Trememiered the. quarter of beef, T larned | Caner nies Pater f complaint was Jodged did not mean that he did | fntended by nature that some of the grainashall | {tte wus of this bios’ emmbe astied ths piske fone class and a number wrappers or their adaptation to so unique ister that the Indian ‘English’ for all beef is| nearly dead from fright, bat no date, so in the body, bat in | fil npon ie itigme” at the top of the “ie-| before, tun, faintly indicating the reepective of white girls in another Purpose not one of us could even conjecture. | ‘ox.’” Papa remained with mamma and sent a neigh- c spirit he followsall their | are gituated above the stighis, But mane flew. | Lines of the two greatest armies on earth that class, besides girls who are able to pay for their “We” were four eghteonveat-old chums on] , “Hlostarted upthe porch sepa though to go| bor after me. T ad fallen into. very good puaeiainaa kanes all day. ‘ hands, however. ‘The gentleman who rescued ‘ Sasnand ether tose ota RETWREN THE LINES, instruction. These girls are not all of a mar- Chicago. We were Boston girls, bred under | front of him, when mamma came on. the scene | me in'my faint, when the nel fase? Rep fa tin cpirdetgersadieatige) fae por gtr ier ragga wowed . = pear: , ‘ y faint, when the neighbor presented “ . — r riageable age, but they will be a bate the dadow of Bunker Hill, cad ii was with ev-| and complicated: matters by ecreamingsand | kimedlf Sim tis te ‘wagon, assured him that T | W878 and habits of the rich leisure class just as | Covered with pollen ‘while secking for honey, | Before we had reached the orchard a young evident that there are not enough to go aroun among all the young men of this city. The cooking school and its pupils should be an object of interest to young men and also to rious misgiving that our four mothers finally consented to this momentqus trip west. “Without a chaperone to Sara,” said mamma to me as.I was superintening the packing of my fainting dead away. juaw heay temptuously, as I dropped. my rifle and spran to pick mamma up. Rat iams frreak damfool.’ he grunted, con- | dismissed could not endure the jolting of that vehicle and ismissed him. Then he went out and hired the only light vehicle in the country, except mamma's carriage, and lifting me into this some people make a study of dogs or horses. This man has become so expert that he can tell one of this class the instant he sees him and and then rub themselves accidentally agains the pistils. One kind of plant is described by the botanist Gray which can only be thus “fertilized” by an actual fight between bees. officer came spurring toward ua at full speed from the direction of a wheat ficld on the east, waving a white handkerchief to attract attention, A halt was sounded, and as he rode by " sar i i = ina few minutes give him a classification | However, in whatever way the result is accom- be trunk. “Really, I consider this trip quite to|Iforgot my fear. Isnatched up my riffe by| placed himself beside me, and all that two | C@™ i ‘i H "i ~ informed us that we were between the lines and the community in general. The gospel of good hazardous for gitls of your tender years to take | the barrel and rushed at him as though 9 | fniles, which hever ceersed. so''short meters | 88 distinct as if he had analyzed a plant accord- ree ee ine Position of reat peril We accordingly cooking bas been preached by social reformers unattended.” strike with the butt end.and I must have looked | treated me as gallantly as though I was attired | ing to the rules of botany. the latter, and presently something astonishing | ‘""€! sharp to the right and drove at « trot and others with so much force that its import- In an agons of terror lest she carry out her | such a terror as to frighten him a little, for he | in the height of fashion instead of horrible old | | “Which variety of the lazy swell do you like | So¢ura ” S| into the whent field before mentioned and there il reeey rigid ideas of propitiating the proprieties by | backed off the steps toward his pony, which | red calico wrapper, made with a train and | the best?” he was asked. m OUTER coat omy the battery, awaiting orders. Here we Ree harap gE seat piecing woin charge of some one o€ my old stood at the corner of the house, still demand- | trimmed in cotton lace. ‘THE HIGHEST SPECIES, aaa bois ues banuds ain + | ay, keenly observant of the movements wround This mission, as ite name implies, sel maid aunts, of whom the supply was unlimited, | ing ‘ox!” - “Soon after the Indian epirode we p: He answered with an enthusiastic description eet ce = inner coat | us, showing hurried preparation for a coming reach those who are unable to avail themselves T promised all eorts of impomible and improb-| "I'd have given him the whole quarter of] to return to Chicago; not, however, unt Shan: | feet uagh acsthan et At the fellow | P*#*e8 through it in the form of a tube, which | battle, until about 1p. m., when Capt. G. be the advantages offered by the public schools. able things, and talked against time to such | beef if it had been out of doors, but I couldn't | ta-wan-tah had been apprehonded, tried. con- Deer en eee itly enters the stigma and passes downward | Randolph, chief of artillery ‘ome of the children live in alleys and what- AT THE OVEN. advantage that the dear little motherkin had no | bear to think of letting himeinto the house. As | victed and sentenced to five years in a military | ¥80 is born rich, whose father is born rich,who | into the upper part of the pistil, called the | came up, and directing me t hanuisdes thay bueel theastel r- | Cooking classes of the public schools. At the | opportunity to think of,much lessinterpose, any | the distance between us was increasing as he | prison, besides losing two of his fingers, of | has never done a stroke of work, whose father | “‘style.” ing ite way through the latter until | the guns, piloted us to a steep and rocky ridge tee fund, fo the: human stomach is gafeed | ening of each season representatives of the | more objections to the delightfal trip. Fant foward his pony I grew very brave, and | which my trusty rifle bullet relieved him. ’ He | never did a stroke of work, who has no partic- | it reaches the “ovarium” at the bottom of the | running north and south, he extremity of ing food for the human stomach is ed | school go into the alleys and byway through-| This evening we were “not at home’ to| thinking he had no gun I broughi mine to my | died in prison before his sentence expired and | ular interest in life, pees gets through it) style. This ovarium is a sort of seed case | Which was known locally as “The Devil's Den.” mainly froma haphazard experience in their | out the city and find the neglected children, | callers, but were taking solid comfort in loose | shoulder and told him to clear out or I would | so Tescaped the vengeance he vor against —— and with the least possible exertion | formed of several chambers arranged like the | Here I was ordered to take position and bold i They int t the children and parents by de- wns in Mrs. Barton's sanctum—a suite of | shoot. % me. to imeelf, whose brain is sluggish. probably “figs” of an oral in each of which is an | atall hazards. We hanled the pieces up the crest scriptions of the work to be done and the talue | rooms exquisitely lovely in turquoise silk hang- | ““ ‘Hugh,’ he said, with an ugly leer, ‘aquaw | | “‘Enrly in September we left the ranch, much | because it has never had any exercise, and | “ovule” or seed. In fact, an orange ms actually | of the “Den” by band, ns the horses weve weet of the knowledge they will receive, and thus in- | ings, white satin wood, onyx, gold, silver and | heap big ‘lie! Her ‘fraid! Her can't shoot | to my regret, for the strange gentleman and 1 | comes of generations of brains ‘that neces had duce them to attend the classes.’ Ifa girl be- comes irregular in attendance during the winter the teacher always visits the house in order to learn the cause and if possible to remove it. canvas draperies. On’ one ‘aide of the cosy room ift which we were gathered was a real ol fashioned fireplace, with mantel of blue Mexi- can onyx, and directly nothfa’!” “By that time I was so enraged that I had not an atom of sense left. I turned to the target of became firm friends. That summer was the turning point in my life, for it led me to dis- card the butterfly existence of fashionable so- any exercise, fellow is never actively vicious, In proper season he falls in love and marries; then he settles down and his main sub- ject of thought afterward becomes the planning such an ovariuin, and the pips or seeds are the ovules. Each ovule has a small hole in it, as you may di-cover by soaking an orange seed in Woter and then squeezing out the fluid absorbed, less among the huge boulders and broken gullies that seamed the ridge. IN DEVIL's DEX. There was room for four guns only on the oppesite this portieres of | the night before, a tin cup hanging by a slender | ciety into which I would have naturally drifted which will be seen to issue from the little ori- a Gus lemon 0 wech io given te cochciaas Geremgh | tarquaias. plik, heey vite silver Gabeckhare, | zope from tha ecatae of the ewitg posts, andl los Ugsee Gan rs of when he shall move from the country house | fice. It will be ived presently how essen- | CTe*t, the other two being placed about seventy= course of twenty-eight weeks. The classes con-| covered the archway leading to Mr. Barton's | sent a ball crushing through the cup not five} “Every summer Mr. Barton and I spend two | into the city house and what horses he shall | tial this orifice ix to the urpose of nature. five yards to the rear and commanding the sist of not more than fifteen and the attempt | room. feet from the Indian’s head. or three weeks on the ‘claim,’ now an ideal | transport. Ordinarily, from each pollen grain several | gorge of Plum ran, which cut through the is made to teach plain cooking and the princi- ples of cleanliness. It isthe artof making good and wholesome things to eat. Beside the instruction in cooking, itis intended within another year to carry on classes in housework. The children will be taught how to sweep and dust and all other things necessary to make them useful in keeping homes comfortable and t and Janie, half buried in a white bearskin rug in front of the roaring fire, were playing with kitten, Blanche was idly touch- ing the keys of the pinno in the alcove and Mrs. Barton and I were reading newspapers, when she startled us with her odd observation, “A calico wrapper,” echoed Blanche, coming “With a whoop of disgusted amazement he bounded to his pony’s side, jerking from its trappings a wicked-looking carbine, placed the animal between us and leveled the gun at me over its back. “I was paralyzed with terror, and stood with my gun half raised to my shoulder, unable to Es stock ranch, but mamma has’ never been in- duced to go there since that first summer.” Mrs. Barton paused, fairly breathless with her rapid recital, and broke out with an impatient “fiddlesticks” and, tweaked the kit- ten’s ears till it spit at her angrily and bounded away. GREAT EVENTS. There come great epochs and crises in this man’s life, as for instance when he goes to Europe and when he mast think it all out. Of course, he goos to Europe rather often, but when the purpose of tuking the trip begins to dawn of these little tubes proceed. Some of the grains, like those of the nasturtium, are triangular, and one tube comes oug of each corner, while other kinds of grains emit quite a number of tubes. The tubes, ing down through the pistil to the ovarium, direct them- selves into the different chambers and enter the ridge to the south. ‘Two regiments of infantry, fourth Maine, Col. Walker, and the one hundred and twenty-fourth New York (the “Orange Blos- soms”), Col. Ellis, formed in my rear to cover ~ —— stretching away to the base of “Round Top.” We constituted the extreme left of the Union out of the alcove. move a muscle. The Indian evidently had more | We stared our amazement and Mrs. Barton | upon him, when he and his wife take up active | several ovules or seeds. Very often the seed is | line, and I soon found that we were placed hore tidy. “For a riding habit did you say?” questioned | sense than I, for he dropped his carbine and | said gently: “Why, Janie, child, what is the | operations of thought and plan the journey, | not in such a position that the tube can find its | to prevent, at any merifice, the enemy's ad- It is felt by those interested in this work that med: the best possible gift to the children of the poor is the power of doing something useful. ‘The Margaret, struggling to a sitting posture. ‘Yes, a calico wrapper, which once figured a a riding habit.” ringing on his pony exc! ati ara heap’ brave! Good Injun no shoot brave squaw,’ and disappeared from my view matter?” “Matter enough!” she pottishly replied. It Tig such asplendid story, and then to end in- there is mental exertion of an unusual character for him. If he builds @ house or alters one this, too, is a momentous period of way to the orifice it weeks, but, just as it is descending, the seed always turns itself 60 as to . The vance on Little Round Top. the slope, was ns In front, me fence, and beyond, the confederate right. down eee work of the school can never be open to the o8-| Mrs. Barton was a superbly beautiful woman, | up a big ravine that ran by the stable. that frightfully prosaic way—I think it’s just too | work. ‘The events of his life are such as these. | granules which the pollen grain originally con- AN ARTULLERY DUEL. x jection brought against many efforts to assist | tall and graceful, with the carriage of aqueen.| “The report of my gun had brought mamma | mean!” The giving of @ dinner party or a ball oo-| tained make their way down¢hrongh the tuber, | We had no sooner got into position than the ———— ss the poor—that it encourages* pauperism. On | Her hair oe away from her broad, low | to her senses, and she screamed hysterically sev-| Mra. Barton's eyes began to twinkle. “Let me| cupies his brain to a painful , al- | and some of them are convefed into each seed. perfec TME SCHOOL BUILDING. miserable homes. They know how to make bad coffee and the other dyspep- ngredients which are supposed to the contrary, it helps these children to help themselves. THE MANAGEMENT. The school is under the immediate direction forehead ina tly natural wave, was caught low on her neck in masses of shining braids. Four pairs of eyes scanned her mercilessly in the attempt to establish the degree of relation- eral times before I collected my wits enough to answer her. ‘The brute has gone,’I called at last, and dropping my rifle, Iran to her assist- ance. “She was sitting on the floor, a picture of ab- show you the identical dress,” and,rising as she spoke, she opened a curiously inlaid Indian cab- inet and brought fortha sondal wood box. In- side its perfumed lids lay the red dress. though the entertainment itself does ‘not. Conversation does not. tire him. because he never converses. He responds briefly to any questions that are put to him, and he While these granules are yet within the tubes they are seen to develop into new cells, which form the rudiments of future plants, ‘Thus the germs are conveyed into receptacles ball opened, the enemy's guns getting our range with astonishing precision, We promptly responded, and for about an hour an artillery duel ensued without any «pecial results. A : E ship existing between the calico wrapper and We crowded about her picking and pulling at | never puts any questions himself. When this | where nourishment has been stored away. for | little after 9 p.m. through the lurid atmosphere thee. The chikdven of tle seed Sener ns | cen Woodbury, while the clames are teught| t30° distractingly lovely lace and sill’ “ayna-| joct missy. ‘We will all be. ecalped, and Lam | it, sorcaming Cas ene ea ening ot | never ‘laughter arrives at the age when she | their use by the parent plant. ‘The pulpy mat-| { maw the confederate battalions’ tnaesing for @ — _ op Png go beet ph tc| by two capable assistants, who devote nearly | phony” in which she was arrayed, but could not | sure of it. I have felt it in my bones ever since | raddy cotton folds out against her exquisite tea | should make her debut there is necessarily ac- | ter contained in the seed consists of starch and | forward movement. education of this kind would bea welcome ange, not only in the alley home, but in one that has more pretentions, all their time tothe work of the school. For anumber of years the expenses of the school were borne by Mrs. Woodbury herself, with the reconcile the two, and I remarked that if she ever had such a combination garment she cer- | try. tainly never had worn it. we decided to come to such a barbarous coun- ihe cried. ‘Frightened as I was I had to laugh at that gown; then we set at her to put it on. “Bless you, I couldn't begin to wear it now. Iam four inches taller, fully, and twice that tivity in the household, and if he manages thangs cleverly he makes her mother take her to all the festivities that are given while he stays these nutritious substances are fed upon by the growing embryo, just as the chick develops in ‘the shell from the germ to the The supreme moment for us had arrived, and every man in the battery felt it and braced himself for the shock witha Hood's swarthy warriors. As the heavy gray assistance of some of her personal friends, prin-| “Yes, I wore it on two memorable occa- | sally, for we had been wild to come, and the| much larger about the waist ‘than when. that | at home and enjoys a well-merited repose. downy bird by absorbing the yolk and white of | lines advanced our guns were served superbly WHERE COOKING IS TAUGHT. cipally in Massachusetts. Within the past few | sions,” she replied, ianghingly, as she adjusted | thought of Indians had never entered our heads. | was fashioned. I think, though, I have some- MISTOOK HIS MAN. the What food the embryo plant absorbs | and every shot told in the dense mass of in- This interesting work is carried on in the old- for the fashioned brick house at the southeast corner of 13th and N streets northwest. There is no mis- take about the house, as there the outade two signs. Mission School of Cooking.” The second is years an organization has been form Purpose of assisting in the management and nancial support of the school. Among those interested are Mrs. A. L. Woodbury, Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, Miss Tuckerman, Mrs. . C. Miller. Miss Hosmer, Mrs. W. H. Smith, Mrs._W. B. King, Mrs. Robert Stead, Mrs. Hibbard Thomp- the priceless lace about her wrists. “And 80 highly did I prize it that I have kept it to this day, and value it more highly this moment than Ido this ‘inspiration’ from Worth, although this tea gown represents in dollars and cents the worth of all the calico in western Kansas at Thelped mamma to the couch, where she sank limp and white; then I flew for restoratives— camphor, whisky,ammonia, anything that would amell or amar After revived sufficiently I fortified her with a little ‘22° that would have frightened her into spasms had it ‘gone off, thing Janie would rather sce than this. “Dear Mra. Barton, what can it be? Not Gringo?” cried Janie breathless); “No,” said Mrs. Barton, sadly. “Poor Gringo is dead, but come and see for yourselves? And lifting the silver-embroidered portieres Sometimes this man receives rade mental shocks, which come from people who don't un- derstand his breed. One of those plutocrats Happened to be traveling once and encountered a lively young man who was full of curiosity from the contents of the seed, however, does not for the most part contribute to form those portions which are afterward to be developed into stem, root and leaves. ‘The bulk of it goes to produce the temporary “seed leaves,” which appear—sometimes one and sometimes two fantry. but only partially hindered the advance of those ragged veterans of « hundred battle ields, “Close up, men!” was constantly heard above the deafening roar of the fight as our canister tore great gaps in their line. And. still ther i ot the time I wore the calico wrapper. You see it | but she insisted 1 ving it to protect her- | she led the way into Mr. Barton's room. and knew about as much abont the rich leisure | when the growing germ, fattened upon the | advanced, while our guns wore fited as fat a still more appetizing and appeals to the general | son, itrs. C. G. Dulin, Judge Arthur McArthur, | sithvnecscir ig care salt, ieee ot tientn cary take “There are the trophies of my pioneer ranch | class.as he did about the turtles of tho dead sea. | sugar and ‘starch of the ‘seed, bursts’ the en. | ther could be londed without spouting. The public in theannouncement: “Nice Home-made | Sfrg_ EL. Stelleerer, Dee A G. Warne Mn - Cakes of All Kinds for Sale. PRACTICE LESSON. “It was asmany years ago as you have seen “By that time it was in an awful snarl. It life in Kansas; examine them for yourselves.” The writer happened to be seated behind them velope of the latter and “sprouta.” ing. rocks scattered so plentifully about the base of Shellabarger, Mise Force, Dr. 8. C. Miller, Mr. | summers, Janie, when papa found that his | hung tomy knees in heavy curling masses, and| Pressing forward te saw on the wall above | and overheard. the conversation.» The lively A PART OF TRE STARCH the ridge afforded excellent shelter for the J, 0. Johnson, Mr. W. B. King, Mrs. U. H. | health was failing and his old wound troubling | you can imagine its condition. Just as I got | the mantel a slender little rifle, a silver stirrup | young fellow sat down next to -the do-nothing originally stored away in the seod is intended | *2*tPshooters, who swarmed in front of their Painter, Mrs. Lewis E. Atkinson, Mrs, Freder-| him. He was rich enough to -rest, and had | the tangles well out of it L hoard the bellowing | anda pony halter mate of fancifully braided : > ick D.’ Power, Miss Childs, Mrs. Prof. Ward, George sense enough to take it. est for active men of the cattle in the corral. Hastily twisting my rawhide. “Arranged as a frame about this fan- plutocrat, and, looking at him, applied the usual rural measurements to him, and seeing tonourish the young plant while the latter is advancing columns, and the effect of their a diy skill was soon felt. Men commenced to Mrs. Comstock, dirs. P. Whittlesey and | like papa. however, means change of scene and | hair intoa knot I snatched from a bracket a| tastic decoration was the picket rope of curiously | that he was very well dressed naturally con-| beginning togrow and unable to feed itself. | ¢ — the pieces, but the rest gallantly stood, Mrs. T. B. Hood. employment, so he concluded to go to Kansas | slender stiletto, which papa picked up on the | braided horse hair, black, white and chestnut, | cluded age was commercial traveler, or, } This portion of food is sometimes, as in the pea | to their posts and worked the guns rapidly and In connection with the school and helping to | and file on his ‘soldier's claim,’ as they were | battlefield of Chickamauga, {ayd thrusting it| while higk above all hung the white sombrero. | to put it in vulgar parlance, a drummer. He | oF bean, absorbed into the tissue of the seed | effectively until the enemy bad reached the meet the expenses of supporting it is a pay | called then, and start a stock ranch, where he | through the mass rushed outdoors. Just as 1| Janie found her tongue first. “Oh!” she once followed that calling in a small way | leaves, which subsequently vir up to the | stone fence. Here they made @ momentary school, where the cooks of some of the best-|could go every summer to rest up and take | reached the ape ae greeted | murmured extaticallyy ‘and so Mr. Barton——” | himself, and was proud that he knew some of | plant, as an infantis fed from ottle, until | halt preparatory to final charge on the bat- ordered households in Washington are eent to| brother Bob for an outing. Mamma and I| me; then with hideous yells that horrid Indian| “Is the man into whose atms and heart I the phrases with which drummers usually open | the true leaves and root are sufficiently de- | tery. Gen, Hiunt, ebief of artillery of the Army, perfect themselves in the high calling of wanted to try it too. dashed by me on his pony, ine vo | slipped thut awful day.” @ conversation, so he plunged in and said to his | veloped for its support. In other cases the re-| of the Potomac, had just before this come up paring healthful and delicious dishes for “Papa had not counted on this, but as mam- clog to me the powder almost burned my Isanet Worrett Bart. | companion: serve supply of nutriment occupies a separate | to the crest and urged me to keep them at bay employers. Though so large a number of girls | ma’s health was wretched and mine none too | cheel 3 “What line are you carrying now?” receptacle, closely resembling the yolk bag of | until the Union forces could occupy Little are reached the ex of the school for | good he consented to take us. He went atonce | | “I caught my rifle from the floor and fired,! yg pareonTOLOGY OF ANY USE? “Eh, what line?” said the plutocrat. anegg. This latter arrangement is made for | ound Top. year is only about 21.100. The reputation of | to western Kaneas, located his land, contracted | this time with murder in my heart. With a jag tcl ol A gy “Yes,” said the lively young man, “what | all plants that bear one seed leaf, aa well as for | “Hold them for thirty minutes, captain,” he ‘the school extended much beyond Wash- | for a four-room house with a basement and, | howl of pain the Indian dropped on the side of ‘Maj. Powell and Prof. McGee Claim That It some that bear two, like the ash and horse ington and some contributions for its support come in from other cities, where its manual is used and its examples are approved and followed. But of course its chief support must come from Washington itself, and a growing pride in the modest enter- prise has made this increasingly possible. For some years the Commissioners have ap- turning all over to an agent, ordered it to be tarnished and ready for us by the Ist of June. “We made but little preparation. Mamma and I packed a few of our plainest clothes and abox of books, Bob concerned himself only with his guns and other hunting traps, and within six weeks after the decision was we his pony away from me and all I could see of him was the toe of his moocasined foot as he lashed his pony and was soon ont of sight. “Watching till I made sure this time that he was gone I turned and rantothe corral. A Grealfal sight met my eye. Three of the fine cattle were dead, with their throats cut, and Has Value. 6¢\X7HAT IS THE USE OF PALEON- tology?” The question has been asked in Congress this week by Representaitives, who freely expressed the opinion that this goods are you showing’ Great Scott! here wasa noble scion of plu- racy mistaken for a commercial traveler. He gasped slightly and answered. “YI do not carry any goods. Iam not a drum- mer.” “Well, I declare, I surely thought you were: but now that I look again, I guess you must be chestnut. It will be observed that the veges table, just as the animal, parent provides for ite offspring until it is able to procure nourish- ment for iteelf. DO PLANTS HAVE mRarxs? Only recently has the idea found acceptance that plants possess intelligence. The natural shouted, “and the battle is won.” From the destructive fire of the sharpshooters and the fact that our guns could not be sufticiently to do much execution at the base of the hill our situation was becoming desperate. In this extremity I called on Col. Ellis and Col Walker for help. They gallantly responded, and with a mighty shout the “Orange Blos- stepped from the car in the little village of In-| over the hills to the south the éther three were | branch of science was of no value whatever. | an advance ngent of « theatrical compart. - : ral} coms” and the Maine boys plunged through ae ae aot ioe gnough in- | portioried #100 to this school from the fund for paige on the very border of civilization. | just disappearing in mad flight. Regarding it from this point of vigw they pro-| ‘‘No,” said the plutocrat, “the truth is I do | philosopher, being unable to account otherwise | the battery, down the slope, over rocks and —an nagers of the school wo be glad if they did—to wish to know something more about the school than the mere sign can convey and this interest should lead him or her to ring the bell, it is quite likely, especially if itis about 4 o'clock, that through the open door the sounds of class instruction woul heard. These sounds come from the second floor and the visitor would be conducted thither, as a STAR reporte> was the other day by Miss Payne, the visible executive officer of the school, an energetic New England lady, fall of zeal and determination. Have you girls ever been out on the plains? queried Mrs. Barton, as she paused for breath. “We passed over them on our way to Santa Barbara last summer,” answered Margaret for the trio. “I'm sure’ we do not care for any closer acquaintance.”” “Well, you don’t know anything about them at all,” continued Mrs. Barton. “You never can have any conception of the joy that comes from just knowing that you are alive antil you have your lungs with the air from the plains for weeks ata time. And then the glorious at- mospheric effect upon the view! You have “My first thought was to get word to papa. Iran into the stable and there lay the pony har- ness cut in inch pieces and my beautiful silver- mounted saddle utterly ruined and the silver gone, all but the stirrup. Dashing the tears from my eyes, I turned to go to the house and met mamma Staggering out. “Oh, my darling child,’ she cried as Icame in sight, ‘I thought you were killed and scalped surely. ' What does it all mean? Do let us get way from this awful place at once !” “*T told her of the last catastrophe as T hel her back to the house, and suggested that posed to give no money to it in the appropria- tion for the geological survey. In order to get a word or two on the other side of the question a Stan writer asked Maj. J. W. Powell to ex- plain what paleontology was good for. “To begin with,” said he, “‘all the sediment- ary rocks of the world are characterized by cer- tain fossils of* animals and plants which they contain, The rocks are classified by their fos- sils, which indicate the age of the formation in not follow any occupation.” The lively young man looked sorry and asked it he was just out of a job, and what he pro- d to take up next. it seemed impossible for him to grasp the idea that there are people in the world who loaf always, THE SECOND CLASS OF PLUTOCRATS. The student of this class of mankind, who was quoted at the beginning of this article, ex- plained what he called the species of the second class of the genus lazy plutocrata. These are the rich men who inherit the money that their or many wonderful’ phenomena in the vegeta ble world, has yielded to the conviction that trees, shrubs, and even grasses, have brains oF something to correspond to them. Their brains are in their roots, which seek for water with such unerring instinct,and do many other things equally indicative of what may be fairly termed thonght. If so much be granted is not the op- eration of intelligence equally evident in the elaborate fanctions performed by the little germ cell whose story has been told? How wonderful it is to consider that perhaps even so minute and significant a thing as a grain of pollen pos . straight into the jaws of death, for ey were met at the fence by an awful sheet of flame, before which they melted the survivors straggling back and forming again to the right and left of the gans. It was a costly sacrifice, but it held the enemy back, and every minute ‘counted now in the race for Little Round Top. ° ASSISTANCE FROM MAINE AND PENNSYLVANIA. The nincty-ninth Pennsylvania here came up and formed on our left and rear, the “Orange Blossoms” and fourth Maine having been with- A = h case and the epoch at which it was laid ~ - sesves sense! TS THE CLASS Rooms, seen those exquisite canvases of Bierstadt and | for papa at once. ‘was terrorized at oe . fathers made, with whom, in fact, loafing is not drawn. But the gray-brown masses press on— ‘The first impression was of the extreme neat- no doubt noted the soft purplish haze that al- thought of remaining alone, but as there was | down. Thus the study of the rocks ig the study | an hereditary trait. This class is generally A Conscien ‘Nevada Judge. Benning’s brigade through the gorge which our ness of everything. The class rooms are very ways seems to envelop them. Well, you can’t | nothing else to do, she consented. Not waiting | of the fossils in them, and we call that study plainly furnished, but the floors, benches, tables begin to appreciate those marvelous bits of west- for anything after that I canght up Bob's white ‘paleontology.’ By its aid we learn the history more obnoxious than are the hereditary loafers. Money is a thing that they have not From the San Francisco Examiner. fire could not reach, and so flanking the bat- fally got | ““A.conscientious judge, adorned the Nevada | ", While the enemy in front swarmed up the ern scenery until you have enjoyed the reality. | sombrero and started for Gringo, who was run- fia cacth, aad fi used to, and not to work is a delightful i : ‘ ai | slope and on ‘othe guns, which we were forced to and cupboards had evidently been thoroughly Reuibece call laed ig ea city, Sak vetiges | stigcn Gir lech nape: nections quater ot 6 < pies borer ae See gree aro that does not come naturally to The | bench. In his court asuft involving the title | jeare. We drs'sod buck to the other two posted scrubbed and the tins shone like silver. There Iwas considered myself wedded to its con-| mile away, down in a big ‘draw’ as they call | Duilding ar ry op consequence is that they want to enjoy them- | to some mining ground was pending between | in the rear and opened with canister at shors were twelve colored girls in the class, from veniences and conventionalities, but I cannot | the ravines out west. I thought that very | life upon it. selves, and they are sometimes vicious and take | two companies, In another part of the district | range on the confederates pouring through the twelve to fifteen years of age. The first part convey to you any idea whatever of the exhil- | fortunate, too, for if she had in the stable] ‘‘Paleontology is the basis of logical | their a eee spices thrown in. Mental | the judge had some claims which were looked | §TS, nd with such sudden and terrible effect of the lesson was from @ manual of elementary aration of feeling that cdme over me as after | her throat would have been cut, science, It has elevated mining mere | sloth, which is apt to protect the heredit ® on “wildcat.” Ho had for a year | **t their column was broken and they sought prepared by Mrs. Woodbury, the four days in those gtuffy cars I bounded out on| | “I needed no saddle. I did most of my riding | guesswork to the status of exact knowledge. | loafer from going into anything actively bad, oo, 4 coh =. money to open bis | *bélter in the adjacent woods. But the ranks and head of the school. ~ A copy of this the tiny platform laid in front of the freight | ‘bareback,’ and my clean-limbed little piebald | All the work of the mii of the/is no seen J in the case of the man who | cinima, New ete ted phen A ty quickly reformed for a cl across the “‘val- is furnished each scholar and a lesson car, which served as a depot, and drew a long | was so trained that without bridle or saddle she | world depends uj it. © most valuable | merely its the money and has not inher-| Shares, and held them: ‘at Sleach, with the un- | /¢¥ of death,” now held by tt axe asennad e ——— breath, actually painful in its delicious purity. would answer the motion of my hand or pres-| minerals are sought for and discovered by the | ited any habits of using it. His mind derstanding that 20 per cent of the money re- | *¢ fortieth New York and sixth New Jersey. ; was on ‘tip-top bis- | the relief of the poor. But the superintendent | And the view! {exhausted all the adjectives in | muro of my knee, ‘I was really an expert lyre- | study of the rock formations, which can only be | being active, his pursuit of is active, | ceived for stock should be set aside as e corks AT A CRITICAL MOMENT. The simple and straightforward direc- | of charities will not hereafter recommend this} my vocabulary in the first hour. town | back rider, much to my patrician mother’s dis- | traced by their fossils. All’ the coal in the | and, after a’ while, he begins to find ing capital, Bat nobody would buy. One| At this critical moment the welcome roar of of the maanual bad been carefully studied, | apportionment. His reason for this is that the | Ccnsisted of half a dozen tiny houses and a| gust, and’ whea I condescended to. burden | United States is mined by such means., Many table only where it is highly seasoned. | 1S, C Pte late the frmpye foo ~ ey it of Little fw ne. Mgorous cross-cxamination as to the | enterprise is educational rather than charitable, | Gozen or more tents and there was nothing to | Ciringo with fachion’s trappings it was in defer- | beds of iron are in like manner. related’ to the of thessmen die of drink, but itis strange | Ent, Ehumber dood Ae wae the, pre idee cx | Hazlett’s guns from the summi ng how and why of the different steps was well | and that the school will be more independent | Spstruct the gaze. ence to her wishes. sedimentary rocks, All the lead of Iowa and | whatasmall proportion of them do. A good | fr. that was plaintif? ‘atthe tinine | TP thundered the glad tidings that the Union sustained. The next thing to be done was | and prosperous if it turns resolutely all | “The prairies swelled away on all sides of us} “All out of breath with running, when 1 | Missouri and tho silver of Colorado are ob- many of them are reformed drunkards—that is, | he, COMPANY mining | forces had taken ion of the goal for for each girl to wash her hands—not a difficult | thought of pleading for a wy peration and one t perhaps, but obviously important, ¢ importance of which it is feared public subsidy. “After acareful consideration the managers of the school agree with him in this view. An in- like billowy waves of the ocean, The immense stretches of country, with gentle undulations, reached Gringo I jerked up the picket pin. and, not wailing te unbuckio the halver: eprang ot veins and fained from rocks whose, bearing nd y conta’ lodes are traced by the fossils men who at some one period of their lives were victims of the drink habit, who injured their at your claims over on the east which the confederates had been fighting three - y . “and I believe thee long hours, and we knew that our task was done, 4 —H emerald-hued in velvety grass, rolled on seem- | her back, and at the pressure of my knee on her | Thus you will perceive that, in great measure, | health or had some serious ‘crisis which made lyre Relieve they,ere | and that the blood poured out and the brave many servants do not sufficiently appreciate. | crease of about €500 in the amount of the | ingly to the very verge of the universe. And | shoulder sho broke into a swift gullop. I drew the riches of the carth are derived from and | them rudely aware of the fact that they must cheerfully sold him 10,000 worth. lives lost at Devil's Den had not been sacrificed annual private subscriptions will give the | ver all was the sky, a deep ultra-marine, arch- | the picket Tope in loops over my arm as she | civilization depends upon paleontology.» _| stop or become disgraceful dead beats, When f in vain. school an adequate revenue for the work it has | ing itself in clo splendor above us, and | ran, holding it well out, so that the: picket pin| ‘Paleontology is recognized as the basis of | men of this class do With the two guns we then retired through undertaken. Of this amount sbout #400 must | over and enveloping all was that utterly inde- | would not strike her flanks. all the Gage hop surveys of — ‘and Asia. the'woods to the Baltimore pike, leaving three be raised at once to meet an impending defi- | scribable bluish haze. “On we sped over the prairie, choosing no path | Next after tology in point of importance on the crest in ion of the enemy, not» ciency, and the school appeals with confidence | “rhe agent met us with a wagon, for there | and stopping for no buffalo wallow. At my low | comes the study of the chemistry of rocks, and costly to pay for the time we had gained to friends old and new to maure its continued | way no hotel in the place, 80 we of recessity | whistle Gringo flattened out to the race and we | after chemistry ‘lithology’—that is, the study of by holding them to the uttermost limit and so prosperity by contributing that amount, rather than choice went directiy.to the ‘claim,’ | flew over level after level and hill after hill till, | the crystals of rocks—is to be considered. In- ing our forces to occupy the key of the po —_—_>— which was two miles from town. We were too | reeking with foam, she tore up the one street of | cidentally an interesting and veluable eontribu- haw 4. ‘The | sition, Little Round Top. . Origin of the Word Caucus. tired to think of preparing a meal, though the with tion to science is affor by studying the ani- 5 oo i fad oar James E. Sana, From Harper's Young People. agent had laid in a store of wo ate mals and its whose remains are found pre- ‘deposited in ES ieee of the Late Capt. 4th N. Y. Independent Batvery. Do you like polities? If yon do, you have | the lunch we had with us and retired. served in the rocks. tell the story of the disagreeable bore to wn account and $4,000 to the eat read much about “caucuses” and more about| “We all about getting breakfast and life history of the’ world. However, that is | of doing nothing has really never been mastered DEFENSE OF THE PEACOCE. “pesses.” About 1724 Samuel adams, the | enjoyed the eg Aa Mamma was a only a matter of secondary impo: Let | by these men. ——_—- father of Samuel Adams of revolutionary fame, | famous cook when they were ‘married, so papa ‘THE THIRD CLASS and a score of so of others used to meet together in a hall at the north end of Boston, where the ship yards and rope waiks were. This club was destined “to lay plans for introducing certain of richddlers are the men who have made alot of money themselves and have retired to. live He Has Not Ugly Feet, as is Said—How He Courts His Mate. i oe Ss a ———— me and, I | a1 = iene Seaters. Tay Nave Nota too eetne i ‘Wood of the Smithsonian Institution to a Stam ms into places of power.” Itwas made me a woman, earth, . world ‘a time ever able — rgely compoved of men in the ship-building | “Papa got Bob and me each a pony and some cations and uses of the knowledge thns required | sink into a state of jute inactivity. They reporter. iim pane perp sing industry and hence was termed “the Calkers' | fox and greyhounds, and we are many and varied, and yet they have int they follow them and keep Bonssase over since I wes a child, ander IN THE RECITATION ROOM. Club.” | Thus arose one of the best-known terms | the country, hunting antelope, jack rabbits and | the chiefly to science, which is now, as it ever | them die in harness, although they stand that it is recorded as an ornithological After thio the class and teacher went into the in p ties—cancus. coyotes, and for mamma we bad s nice light hhas been, the foundation for the future. It is| may have ceased to make money for years. truth in classical Greek and Latin. You will front room, down the center of which runs aj _ In the year 1765 John Adams made an entry | carriage and pony team. s b; She knowlege of today thet enables men not THE RICH MAN'S SUMMER MOVIXG. ‘come across mention of it even in fables. To long narrow table. The teacher took her place pot meg cdi yt mi he ge oe Lan yat trap dag pnd only to pi but to control the events of to- my mind it affords an illustration of the fact end, with the girls be 3 ers to cancus ready taken out west—at ut mamma moro that Siuat arvatgad. Ghanesiven Sn codes dines an| wrote: Obie dy. lnerunl at’ the. Chaaas| poueeen cabacnen influence of Kansas | a lations, car- that most people never use their own sides of the table, six on each side. The first | Club meets at certain times in the garret of | skies that we did not the light work in tion they senses actively, but for their notions of girl on the right answered a question as to the | Tom Daws, the adjutant of the Boston regi-| the least. The washing was our galy worry. ‘9 Moree and a yielded the will be the gravel of the summer re- life and things upon tHe observation of others. first step, measuring the flour, performed that | ment. There they smoke tobacco until you | Half the time we could get no one to doit, and telephone the electric the ‘of one of “Ihave just finished mounting this pair of part of the work and passed to the foot on her | cannot see ‘from one end of the garret to the | though we were liberally supplied with clothes | and foe serious un- peacocks, Imn't the bird a beanty? You side of the table. The first girl on the left told | other; there they drink flip, 1 suppose; and } we were to ioe nl open Bae some- | and ‘away what 3 engaged eee how much baking powder was , meas- | there they choose a moderator, who puts ques- | times, and as mamma simply not do it, I few clothes can see are decidedly ured it out and to the foot oh her side. | tions to the vote regularly, and selectmen, as-| had to learn. ‘buy o pretty, well shaped and rather emall in propor- Girl number two on the right added the salt, | sessors, collectors, wardens, fire wards and rep-| “Indeed I did, girls,” she asserted with a ‘moves tion to his size. They are very slightly bigger girl number two on the left sifted the flour, apd jilously at her white " ‘From the Detroit Free than those of « turkey and are decidedly hand- ‘so on in rotation, each girl having ry turns Pert pe ‘The train had act totes thet cash epusetor or did. ber teak cor- esbow. 0 rab? tion and the poor the latter is as to other A conreany “qurz.” and rinse, clear starch cae the feathered Kingdom ‘as Chin-Kee before the comparatively uausual looked at them female is more she it 's first move st stocking the ranch was | it “What is ‘in the head of Texas ‘long ‘over him. to observe that the male on ~ in “Is chosen mate approaches of iported Poll zt Ti ipraised Neckesrd, ‘Themen ‘the corral until | bine ei odin ma ae the house, but was trunk to the next ‘As for aday nasariebastt SH