Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1892, Page 10

‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 18. 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. FASHIONS FANCIES. Quaint and Dainty Gowns for Sum- mer Wear. 8 ON OF RICH COLOR. a mey Toward the Picturesque in Dress—Gorgeousness One of the Character- istics of Summer Styles—Some Pretty Cos- tumes Designed for This Season. Correspondence of The Franing Star. New Yorx, June 17, 1892. 8 I HALT IN FRONT of the show windows nd look wpon the aint types of head- bearing such mes as Moth ar, Goose, Mother Hubbard, Welsh Hogarth and awaiting pa- for b peasant, hi s their turn dainty girl head to come along a und m Tm ost inclined to think hat this fondness for the quaint and pictur- esque is the first symp- tom of discontent, the first manifestation of bristling, now at may- n the point loose and ts with oh, of itt 2 do go be worn in designers will style and ) : prevailed for a number of vears hap the gracious 4 iy fold we shan t look might ima “Y | the abracadabra of a base ball score. is cuffs are emb: At the summer wed. ( be shot Bat ‘upon sach rich bright tone ix mast ensity, by wearing «ilk unde rn with all the coquetry you a raising your dres: as you trip a das or go out on the prom ing walk. Silk « wear, bati-te ance toilets and placed with white ilk [k mg t aud for ¥ be re- admissible they may ‘You will find an elegant dinner or reception dress pictured in my second ilJustration—a green satin, trimmed with Chantilly Ince—a very charming combination for a woman no Jonger youn, Prevailing style of round bodices, over the skirt fits. and the use of corselets or the whole being set 0 or natty bolero or a all go to show that the mre is to be the summer the poor girl of dump to use all to keep pace with who fails She will this sprite of the fa-hic superbly tall and willow: ceed in spite of sue! ase dumpy figere. There le no waiter's jecket, no mathe how becoming it may be, that can offset a pair of fine eves or fill the of a satiny skin with ww of the peach in the cheek and the red Of the cherry on the lips. These tittle jackets of which I have spoken ug material or in guipare, To attain the luarming little gar- a tasty frout « into your color- ments vou need some sort gobwebby stuff tat will m "Fine inveution of the electric light has only added to the effulgence of the summer fete, but it has made it a thomand times more enjovabie by illuminating the ball room with- out heating it. The young people may walt With some comfort and also feel that the deli ate combination of color in their toilets are Preserved in their exact tones. SUMMER FETE cosTUME. ‘Those are things to be thankful for. But the Young people don’t have it all their own way Qt these hotel hops. They are the soft and tender petals of the heart of the rose. On the utside come the larger and grander leaves with a deeper glow and a richer texture. I those women whose fect, alas, have grown just a bit too heavy for the springy measures of the modern dance. They must content themselves with looking on and re- In my third, iljustration I set before you a| gown for an evening fete. It may be made up cither in silk or satin. The Wattesu edfect should be in watered satin and the skirt i epauleta and short sleeves. red and must be glove fivcing "at the the shoulders be narrow lace should be set on very full to gsin pete z i plates, who looks so | | brain if you expose it The — She can't talk @ trombone down or even com: | pete with two violins and a base viol. Such» woman is very apt to love the soft and graceful attire of the boudoir or drawing room. MOKNING GOWN. My fourth illustration pictures a very charm- ing morning gown, made up in a flowered n stuff with an embroidered front, At k there isan embroidered plastron with 2 pleat on each side, ‘The loose fronts yaust be lined with silk. The silk cuffs have an undersleeve of lace with an elastic. The front inay be mate of fowers of muslin chiffon em- Droidered with colored flowrets. ‘The Russian blouse, in colors that will rival the gorgeous peony and outshine the dazzling poppy, will bea great favorite with the young Joiks ce"summer®resorts, and it will Benoove them to kee; they excite the ire of the pompous turkey cock. The girl ina blouse is really quite an end of the centary production, for the garment signi- fies that the wearer belongs to that class of womanhood known as the emancipated. As rule, the girl in a blouse flouts the idea of a riale gscort, unless, of course, she wants him. she storns to be dependent upon an out- stretched male hand at every turn. She is usu- well up in athletics and has even mastered 2 SILK BLOUSE. In my last illastration I give you an excellent iew of the girl ina bloase,and to look at her it would take very little imagination to con- cludg that she haa come over: the fence rather then away around through the gate. biouse is of surah and has no seam at the back. The velvet ribbon simulates a Swiss belt. The | lower piece extends around to the back, the lends crossing. The lace collarette has a velvet | ribbon border, which ends in a bow at the ‘The deep cuffs should be covered with lace. | way the wind blows then it might be as well to | bid our summer girls a long farewell, for there « no predicting where their hats will legd them. | To lunacy! I hear some erasty old bachelor e: im: but not «0, for there’s plenty of method | in all this madness. These curious bits of head- gear are all springs to catch male woodcock,and | the eup-and-saucer hat is the very latest novelty in this line. The brim isthe saucer and the crown the cup, the latter being filled with tall daffodils or tulips or with even an entire plant of a dandelion. But in some the flowers— roses or double violets, devoid of stems and folinge—mercly Bll the 'eup erown. Anyway, of fan- the nd-eaucer hat is u pretty pi tastic headgear for a round, girlish head with a saucy face in front of it. As usual the fash- ionable girl will follow the natural procession of flowers, starting out with buttercups, dafsies, dandelion and fruit tree blossoms, later in the season revelii her hat with the fruite and berries. It is quite | safe tosay that the pancake or flat effects in hata have seen their last days. The tall smothered in flowers has of existente, SCENES OF THE DESERT. | To Be Viewed Sor PERE ARE SCENES FROM A TROPI- cal desert to be viewed in Washington,” said the philosopher to a Star writer. “I gaze upon them nearly every day at this season as I stroll along Connecticnt avenue, You can see them yourself if you choose to look.” “Where, pray?” asked the scribe. ‘Walk up the avenue any sunny day at about ngon and you can see a beautiful mirage. | When you get to M street look northward | toward Dupont Circle, Possibly to your sur- prise you will observe that the street cars going | around the curve at the circle are apparently uj in the air,abouttwo feet from the groun ‘The people, too. in the same neighborhood walking in the air. They look rather as if they were walking on water, because their re flected upside down beneath their feet, just as they would be in water.” “Goodness me! And why is that?” “It isa real mirage, on the same principle ae that of like phenomena in the Desert of Sahara. 1 i ‘tum of hot air radiated from the 3 refracts the light to the eye from jects observed so as to make the latter appear as if elevated by a foot or two above their normal position. But you ean take note of it yourself any of these days.” “J will look for it tomorrow. ‘Well. after you have seen the uirage turn about the other way and walk southward along Connecticut avenue untit you reach I street, | Then look toward the Potomac and you will | behold another desert scene, with group of | palm trees and an oasi: it is another | llusion, the palms being in reality » group of telegraph pol but the deception to the eye aite remarkable, though in this caso a litile | Unagination is required to assist it.” pi sariabeba te a Women’s Bonnets in Court. From the Boston Post. vi A young lawyer of Boston was asked the other | day why in the Englislycourts a womah must remove her bat. He could not answer the ques- tion. But an old lawyer, to whom the matter was referred, recalled the opinion of Sir Ed- rd Coke on the matter. It was at « murder trial where the prisoner was a woman and poay-r Loar yh court with her head ir Edward Coke ordered the woman to remove her bat gad exid 1A woman may be covered in church, but not when arraigned i tice.” The accused tartly replied: gular that Washington on Any Day at This Season. t + Imay wear my hat in the of God, but not — presence go pe isn’t strange at all,” i judge, lor the reason that man, with bia ‘weak inte cannot discover the secrets which are known to God, aud, therefore, in. investi where buman life is in-peril pen Sgr thy Mey tacles removed. {soften the index to the mind, and it is fitting that tho hat should’ be therewith the shadow that it a pk gy age = at-ahe was allowed, for , cover her hair with kercbief. “Don't you thgsmnsrit nore you but there is no reason why she should lose he taste for dainty attire and all the flimfam | modishness. If a woman converses well she needs a quiet place to show off her abilities. clear of country barnyards, lest | in roses and still inter decking | IN THE PARKS. All Classes of People Make Love - There in Summer, WORDS OF WARNING. Sounds Travel a Good Distance im the Night ‘Time, and There May Be Some One Who ‘Will See the Love Making From an Adja- cont Bench, WERE WALK- . ing through the equare after the sun was down and befére the stars were up. The time of day was thus » perfectly proper one for a young man and @ young wo- man to be returning from a walk, but hardly be the proper time for them to be starting out “SS for = walk. As they went slowly through the leafy pathways she said—but before conversa- tion is given let us, for convenience sake, call him John and her Mary, and put it dramatically. ‘This is how they talk Mary—‘“John, did you ever sit on a park bench with a girl?” ! Do you suppose I would do ing so improper?’ —'Is it very improper, John?” qe cteh Mary, especialy when it is stl Msry—‘But John, there's a seat over ‘there, tite dark.” where it looks John went over and sat on the “A And Mary a1 bench and they were fully an hour later in get- A tan than was consistent with the notions of Mary's mother. NOT ALWAYS SAPz. This sitting on the park bench is not always & carries in the still night air, and it is equally surprising how sharp some people's eyes are. If 4 man is mean enough to do it he can collect any number of tender conversations during hot weather, and sometimes he overhears whether ; he fair to “give people away,” but it is only right to warn them, so that they may be on their uard, For instance, when the young man and is very best girl—at least it is to be hoped sho is the one he cares for most—come around the bend of the serpentine pathway, where the lights of the street lamps are obscured; when he raises his right bapa and quietly ‘brings it in contact with the hand that grasps his left arm; when the owner of hand that ps his left over on. the "starboard side, yacht in a stiff breeze; takes a semi-circular movement, and the sem: circle is not an empty void, either; when her head takes a dip downward, leaning over at a ter slant than the rest of her body, just as topmost branch of a tree bends over in the summer wind more than the rest of the tree; when hia head bends downward a little; when both stop still in their walk for a moment— why, when all this takes place, how very mitch embarrassed the two young people would be if they knew that some one was quietly sitting ona bench nof adozen feet away teking the whole scene in. These things sometimes bap- pen. How often do they happen without being Observed? If the benches ‘had tongues or if the trees were reporters there might bea tale of love or \v of disappointed hopes for the papers every summer morning. 4 WISE PRECAUTION, ‘Then there is another thing @hat those who ‘use the parks on summer nights abould be care- fulebout, When they take a seat they should ook and see that no one else is on the bench, It is very annoying when a lady in the dark sits in the lap of a gentleman who happens to bave re-empted the location. If he is # wise man apologizes and moves away at once, although he has done nothing to spologize for. And if a bench and an unseen man is at the other end— what a pretty pickle they are all in then! If the two begin their love-making at once the Unwilling eavesdropper does not like to throw them into conf by making felt, and yet he does not like to listen to their t ; and if they find him themselves he is in danger of real inconvenience adminis tered by the other man, who will think he has sneaked up to enjo himself On the whole, the a at expense. | it way is for him to walk off and abandon the field af soon as they sit ere he bee frog or heard is os only inning, and the chances are that they are so engrossed with one another that they don’t stop to think at all about him, or what he may have found out. ‘SLL CLASSES USE THE PARKS. Tf you come to the question of the public parks and love making you have encountered one that is alost universal in its bearings. Rich people like to sit in the open air as much as poor people do, and although the former do not use the park benches as trysting spots as openly as poor, people do, they nevertheless do use them and that, too, not infrequently. In ‘one corner of a Washington park this very even- ing there may be young Crassus uafolding to woman he adores all prospects of coaches, town houses and country houses and all the luxu- ries of fifty thousand a year,and in another cor- ner may be the salaried clerk trying to convince his lady love that they can live pretty comfort ably in one room at a boarding house on #15 9 week, But if both men are talking to good Am girls Crosus won't succeed in his suit because of his money, nor will the salaried clerk fail inhis beeanse of his poverty. ia that there ts something enticing. in the con- versation on the park bench. ‘It is free from the constraint that belongs to parlors and draw- ond visitor,who always comes to call just at the time when he is least wanted. ‘There is no pos- sibility either of one of disagreeable ‘sit ting matches, where two young men make arti- ficial conversation with one girl and wait and wait, eaeb one hoping that the other will realize how much he is in the way and will go home. ‘WAYS TO DISLODGE 4 BIVAL, ‘There are several good methods of dislodging a rival when this state of affairs arises, but they must be applied with tact and caution, One method that succeeds often with a modest man is to talk him down, that is to monopolize the conversation and not allow him to get ina word. He will soon leave in disgust unless the lady in the case resents the talkative man's tactics and stops bis ownward of words by a flank movement of her own. Another way to your rival is to turn the conversation into channels that are familiar to the lady, but are notsotohim. For instance, ba her at some where he was not you may ask her how she it discuss all there. ¥. fini ; rid 4 § His tee a Ss BE. safe pastime. It is astonishing how far sound | he wishes to or not. Perhaps it is not altogether | when his left arm | loving couple sits at one end of & Jong park | 2” bis presence | ‘ing rooms. and there is no danger of that seo- | Experiences of a Soldier After the Battle of Gettysburg, A WEEK OF ADVENTURE. Left Behind by the Troops—How Two Men ‘Were Put Down on the List of Captured— Roundabout Trip to Get Across the Po- tomac—Joining the Army Again. English Washington as “a park with houses in it,” and he paid the city the com ¢ when he said it. ever have too many every one and harm iDiatee SIE REMARKABLE AUTOMATA. Historical Images Which Did Almost Every- thing but Breathe, From Harper's Young People. Dr. John Dee \-as one of the most’ coftspicu- ous figures of the sixteenth century, an emi- nent mathematician and learned besides in liv- ingand dead languages and natural science. He studied nineteen hours out of the twenty- four while at the University of Cambridge, and wheri asked to manage the mechanical effects in the production by his fellow-students of a comedy of Aristophanes, contrived an sutoma- ton which led to his change of residence, so wild were the surmises which attended its exhi- bition. This automaton of Dr. was an artificial beetle, the exact reproduction of the scarabeusas faras the eyo of the spectator could see, but so filled with springs and wheela that it flew without external aid from the floor to the ceiling of the theater, earrying a man anda aaket of provisions on its back. | There ‘was so much unpleasant gossip in consequence that Dr. Dee went out of the country, though he afterward became one of the most distin- guished men of the court of Queen Elizabeth, One of the great men of modern times, Rene Descartes, mech philosopher, born in 1596, filled Europe with the fame of ‘his bold mind and store of learning. Scientists today nc- knowlege their obligations to him in mechanics, He is said to have made an automaton which he designed to be a daughter to his old age. He called it Francina, and in looks and gesture, beauty and grace, Francina was all that 9 doting father could have desired in flesh and blood. So goes the tale, a strange one. For Descartes, the philospher with whom Aristotle and Plato were compared, grew to love this mechanical maiden as the apple of his eye. She was said to walk with him at evening in his garden, to rise and greet him with a kiss when he returned home, and to pass her hand now and then, as be sat at Work, caressingly over his forehead, She was indeed cared for ua tenderly it neemed as a real Francina might have been, Once Descartes took Francina on a sea voy- ago with him, for he traveled much about Eu rope. The captain of the vessel supposed, of course, that he had two passengers, and set two places st the table of honor. But while the ‘young woman walked on deck and sat by her | father’s side at other times she did not come to the table to eat. And it was observed that she alone of all the passengers was nnaffected by seasickness, And so the crew and the captain | ceused Francina of being a witeb, and seizing her suddenly hove her overboard, her great weight, her failure to resist or cry out and her master's despairing cry teaching them, too late, | their mistake. One of the best known of the more modern | automata was made at Boulogne in the seven- teenth century and was called the Necromancer of Boulogne. It was a mannikin dressed in oriental costume, about three inches high and was endowed not only with the power of loco- motion, but could juggle as well. ‘The figure played with cups ‘and balls ona tiny table, after the fashion of human prestidigitateurs, It would take in its left hand a little egg and pass at it with a wand in its right, ‘Then a bird | would break through the top of the egg anth| flutter its wings with a motion like that of the humming bird, sing a strain or two and dro back into the egg. jecromancer also tool curious objects from a little box and made them disappear back into it with deft motions, At the beginning of the eighteenth century Jacques Vaucanson lived in Paris, He may be styled the prince of automaton makers, His duck was called one of the wonders of the world. It was the fac simile of a barn-yard fowl, with feathers that could not be distin- ished from those of life, a bill that opened and shut and emitted an occasional ‘quack, id an eve that seemed to see the gravel at which it nibbled, and which it really ewallowed. ‘The accounts from credible sources of what thi bird was seen and known to do are a tax even | on nineteenth-century belief. It walked with | the waddling motion of the barn-yard fowl, bit off blades of grass, waggled its ‘tail, and was actually declared to absorb what it took into ite stomach. It was in 1740 that Vaucanson d this marvel of ingenuity hibited now in a city like New York it would not fail to attract erowds of the curios, As an automaton it has never beep surpassed, ‘The flute player, however, was the master- iece of Vaucanson and was exhibited in Pari 1738, Its lips actually increased or decreased the volume of the sound. Vaucanson had arich uncle who laughed at his madness, as he called it, The poorer folk thought the cunning artifi- cer in league with the devil. But the inventor took advantage of a protracted jlineas and thought out the mechanism of his gigantic flute er free from interruption. It isa't every valid who takes advan' f his illness to do something useful. But he did, and as each de- sign was finished a faithful servant took it to a goldsmith at Grenoble and had it made. When ‘the houy arrived that saw the completion of the last one of these i. and Vaucanson with trembling hands fitted them together for the first time and wound up the works his servant felon his knees with anxiety. As. the first round full notes of almost superhuman beauty fell from the giant's lips the tan embraced the master's knees and would have worshiped him ‘as one more than mortal, |. It was a remarkable scene to which « now un- [known French inventor once invited Louis | XIV, at the chateau of one of that monarch’s | intimates near Paris, In the exact eenter of a | grove was # smooth expanse of level ground. on | which, as the king approached, an automatic | group was performing. It was the coach | Snd horses which Comes, tho greatest of mod- ern European magicians, describes, Conjurer ‘Comus reached the height of his fame just after the beginning of the present century. "He used to travel all over France and had no equal as @ wizard. He left $20,000 a year to his grandson, Ledru Rollin, the famous French orator and | agitator. He is a good authority in matters of this kind. Comus had been invited to accom- pany the king. As they looked the coachman his whip, the horses pranced and started away on their circular course. Nota straw ora pebble marred the smoothness of | the driveway. There was a vacant thronea | little to one side about half way around. Op- | posite this throne the horses stopped short, a | footman came down from the box, opened the | coach and assisted a lady to descend. She stepped forward slowly, and with profound courtesy laid on the steps of the throne a peti- tion she had held in one hand. ‘Then she backed toward the coach, was helped in by the footman, who closed the door and climbed back on the box. ‘Thereupon the horses trotted back to the t from which they started. This toy is aaid have given the king much pleasure and tohave beena favorite amusement with him for years. —__+0+____ The Mischief That Rumor Does. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “The manner in which reports about any- thing become exaggerated as they travel from mouth to mouth on the shoulders of babbling rumor was conspicuot in my town ten years ago,” said rks, ‘none, HE BATTLE OF GET- tysburg is considered by many to have been the turning point in the war of the rebellion The defeat of Lee after one of the most stub- bornly contested con- tests during the whole gwar, in which perhaps i there was more individ- ; ual bravery diplayed * than in any other sin- gle engagement, turned. the tide of affairs for the Union troops, revived thehopes of those who were fearful that the scene of conflict might be transferred to the northern states and relieved the fears of those in Mary- land and Pennsylvania who were on the ri of what would have been the rebel leader's line of march. Thwarted in his efforts to overrun and lay waste the beantiful farming country of western Maryland and Pennsylvania Lee was compelled to retreat across the Potomac and to seek his old familiar stamping ground in Virginia. He was closely pursued by Gen. Meade’s victorious army, and the chase from Gettysburg down to at least Warrenton junc- mn Was a very lively one. The feint that had been made upon Rich- mond by Gen. Dix in order to prevent Long- street and his force from joini in his northern expedition accomplish and when it was known that there was no longer any possibility for the force about Richmond to be of any important value to the rebel leader the Union forces under Dix were ordered to Join the Army of the Potomac at Gettysbur order came to us on the peninsula at mi night on the 4th of July, 1863. The headquar- ters of our force were’ at Harrison's Landing and the main body of the troops were some miles in advance toward Bottom’s bridge. remember that during the 4th of July it had been an extremely warm and uncomfortabl day, and with but few officers in the different camps or about headquarters the national holi- day ha been an extremely lively ening, however, 1 de- celebration of some kind, \d I walked over to the camp of the 141st New ‘ork, baving an orderly carry a good-sized demijohn comfortably filled with commissary.” ‘There were about a dozen of us that assembled in the hospital tent there and we proceeded to full of patriotism and also “commissary.” Te was no regular form of exercises although thore were several impromptu patriotic speechos and the hope was expressed that before another anniversary ef our national independence the cruel war would be over and we would all be celebrating the occasion in our respective homes, It was nearly 11 o'clock before we broke up and I went back to my tent at headquarters and re- tired. Thad just got comfortably asleep when Theard a horse galloping up, and’a voles which I recognized as that of Cape, Cox, an aid to the meral commanding, called ont “Get up, rank! We are going to move at daylight.” AN EARLY START. Itumbied out of my berth, opened the tent flap and was informed that orders had been given for the whole force to move back down the peninsula as far as Yorktown, where they would take boats for Washington, “I'was to have five days’ rations ready for issue as soon as the force should arrive. then I waa to load whatever of the stores could upon the boats there at the landing and destroy tharest to pre- vent their falling into the hands of the enemy, Tt was a busy time from that on till about 5 o'clock, when I had everything ready for issue, had loaded such stores as the boats would take and had set fire to those which remained on the ground. Iwentdown the river on the boat from Harrison's Landing and went direct to Fortress Monroe, There I met the force which had embarked at Yorktown and we came to Washington, going right straight through the city from the wharves to the Baltimore and Ohio depot, where we took the cars for Freder. ick. On the way down to Fortreas Monroe w learned of the fall of Vicksburg and conse- quently beeame greatly elated at the suc- coas of Gen. Grant. We knew nothing about the battle of Gettysburg until we! reached this city, and then learned for the first time of the terrific fighting that had been going on there. When we reached Frederick our | brignde was entirely broken up and the differ- | ent regiments were assigned to other brigade was lett at Froderick with one ‘clerk to sets p the brigade commissary accounts and sen rns on to Washington. I had a wal tent pitched very near the depot for an office, another one for my own quarters, and with an orderly, who also acted as cook, 1 anticipated having quite a pleasant time for a few days. On the third day, however, the quartermaster of the regiment came down with a wagon and told me that he was ordered to load up my entire stuff and that we should join the regiment at once. As Thad no horse at that time it was o question of a march from Frederick to Berlin. fekept up with the quartermaster and his wagon for a while, but the sun beat down with | great intensity and finally we turned into « field, built a fire, made some coffee and took a | rest. We finally arrived at Berlin shortly after dark on Sunday night. Thinking thatit would be impossible to find the regiment at that hour we pitched our shelter tent on the hill and went to deep, determining to kant up oar men the first thing in the morning. THE ARMY DISAPPEARS. When I awoke and looked about me every- thing had a sort of a deserted air, and I noticed | that there were very few soldiers about, and those who were there seemed to be in small and detached groups, Upon making inquiries I learned that the entire army had crossed the Potomac the morning previously. Here w were, two men utterly ignorant of where th army had gone or how to reach our company. Timmediately went to the chief quartermaster | and explained to him the situation, telling him how we had been left at Frederick to scttle up | desired trans- | I wy | | ul | some accounts and that now pogtation ¥ evr regiment. ae juartermaster was a great big mar, very grat fe mantor sad’ pe debt bel cele prtenee sorely tried in the arduous duties that had been called upon to perform for the week previous. He looked at us a moment and id: “Well, there's the best transportation imaginable, there's a good pontoon bridge and an open Tasked him if he thought it would be wise and pradent for two men to attempt to follow an entire army twenty-four hours behind the and run the risk of getting gobbled by bush- whackers, Well, he said, he thought it was | rather risky, but that that was the best he could do for us. i tola that I thought I knew a trick that was a deal better than that.and then we went down to the depot, where a train being made up to go to Bultimore, I found -[beame AN ARMY ASTRAY. its purpose, | E| owing. | ing | whom the three | ing party he aw sight we were sitting on the wide of the hill watching the long line of moving soldiers, and a8 our regiment came up Ce the boys saw us safe and sound a cheer went up which made us | feel that we had not been entirely forgotten. | As soon as the command halted we went down | and joined the regiment and I went direct to the ‘colonel’s tent and reported. The first | question he asked me was: “Where is your parole?” SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN CAPTURED. we had endeavored to follow the regiment and | had been captured by guerrillas. The quarter- | master and the men whom he had with him had been captured and had bean sent ou to Bich- | mond, and it was supposed that my companion |and myself had shared the same fate, and I | subsequently found when the mail that had come up from Warhington on the train with myeelf was distributed that my father had writ- | ten a letter to my tent mate asking for the full | particulars of my capture, | _ I then told the colonel my own story and how | Thad avoided running the risk of finding a Jodgment in some rebel prison. | “Well,” said he after he had heard me en- very giad to find that you run sny risk of cap- y, I don't believe thero 1s an- other man in the regiment who would have had | the gall to have taken the course that you pur- sued. Strictly speaking, you ought to have kept up with the quartermaster's wagon and shared the fate that happened to the quarter- | Master and the men with him. That was your | duty asa soldier. When you dropped back and | allowed the quartermaster and his team to get away from him you were really disobeying orders and by court-martial. tly captured while you and your companion were endeavoring to “follow the army on your own hook a technical charge of desertion might have been made st you. You took the course | which your feen common sense dictated was | the best for your own preservation and it has | turned out all right. I am not di to | take any exceptions to what you have am only too glad to hay | only I teil iewed by only to the strict construction of regulations.” [told the colonel that I didn't see how I Gould have done anything different to what I did withont exposing myself to unnecessary Tink, and while, strictly speaking, I might have ty of disobedience of orders in failing | to keep up with the quartermaster’s wagon, my | conscience did not reproach me in any | for having overtaken the army by wi ington and Alexandria instead of adopting the lin and ma m road.” Faasx T. Howe. pe Ss Ba FOUR DUELS IN FORTY MINUTES. True Story of the Remarkable Feat M. Roulez Performed at Longchamps. Paris Letter to London Telegraph. It is greatly to be feared that the warm weather now prevailing has had ‘the effect of developing the quarrelsome tendencies of cer- tain temperaments, To this, perhaps, more | than to any decline of French courtesy, must be attributed the four extraordinary duels | which tock place at Longchamps yesterday, and the details of which were briefly | transmitted to you by telegraph last night. | The series of engagements, generally described aka “quadruple duel,” are today the talk of Paris, and M. Roulez, the vietor, who literally laid low | four antagonists, one after the other, is the lion | of all circles and the delight of his own, He regarded as the counterpart of D'Artagnan, the | 2°. hero of “The Three Musketeers,” who pulled out his sword at the least offense, and was ever ready for his enemies. The comparison, how- ever, does not hold good all around, for M. Roulez, although one of the best fencers ina city prolific in proficient wielders of foil and the rapier, 1 by no means a seeker after strife. in any case the four duels from which he has issued covered with glory were thrust upon him in a manner which, to say the was not in accordance’ with the tradi- tions of the famous French school of chivalry. This testimony to bis conduct has been given by men capable of judging it and who are loud in praise of his prowess. It may be Drecapitulate the history of the affair, owing +o the attention which it attracts as an event in the annals of Parisian dueling. M, Roulez is an electrical engineer and an able inventor. He is about fifty-seven years old, tall and and he fought in the Franco-German war, gaining the mili medal for distinguished conduct in the He is an excellent shot as well as an expert swordsman, and, according to a leading a thority, his’ fencing is the more redoubtable io his singular coolness, his skill in fix- eye on every movement of an ani onist, and, above all, the strictly mathemati- cal precision of hia ‘style. It was this man del, Dumoulin and Leclereq—insulted st the ra the other night during an entracte of “Salmmbo.” It appears that M. Roulez was talking to. ballerina when the trio passed by | sald sneering. They made some jokes about the | age of M. Roulez, who was as unknown to them | as they were tohim, The engineer, being in- sulted, eslled upon the young men ‘to retract their ‘words, but the appeal only made them | more vituperative, and M."Roulez, lifting his cane, struck his insulters several times. then oceurred a general scuffle and the disput- ants were separated by the employes of the | opera. Cards were now exc and 04 M. alez, having resorted to physical violeue® in the course of the verbal quarrel, was the offend- ited the challenges, On Tues- day he received the visits of six seconds and the duels were arranged. Each of the three young men was badly wounded, and one of their seconds having, contrary to all the canons of the dueling code challenged the victor on the round, threatening to strike him in the faoe if ¢ refused to fight there and then, also ‘came to ief.” This gentleman—a M, A) t—re- fourfold by the gathered victor grou roun ‘round waiting calmly togive a taste of his steel to anybody else who migkt be inclined to try conclusions with him. His seconds, however, had b; i at avense of their duty, vented him from accepting any more lenges. Such is the authentic of the famous four duels fought in forty minutes which all Paris is discussing, ———_+e-—___ Wearies Both Calves end Heart. From The Club. Gothaire—“It seoms strange, dear boy, that you never dance at these affairs,” Tohmark—“Oh, I do; Idance the most swery- interesting | p, oung Parisians-—-MM. Blon- | and Personal Reminiscences of Every One Since 1844, When the Firet Effort to Abrogate the Rule Was Made—In 1860 It Was Dove | Away With, Both at Charleston and Balti- more, conventions, The republican convention, which met itt Philadelphia June 10, 1856, nomi nated Gen. Fremont. Mr. Blaine’ wax one of ‘the secretaries of that convention. This con- vention nominated Fremont, whose election was prevented by the continuance in the feld of the Ameri ‘orney, throngh Mr. Belmont’s liberality, supplied the means of con- tinuing the canvass, and Mr. Buchanan was elected. There was another convention, which was engineered in the interest of George Law, and which nominated Gen. N. P. Banks for t and Gov. Wim. F. Johnson of Peunsyl- vania for Vice President. The last whig national convention mot at Baltimore ber 17, 1856, and nominated Fillmore Donaldson. Edward Bates of Missouri presided over this convention, and was subsequently Attorney General under Mr. Lincoln. "At this convention Mr. Hiram Ketcham of New York read Washington's fare- well address. Still another convention w held in 1856 at Syracuse, which nomtnated Gar- rett Smith for President and Samuel McFar land of Pennsvivania for Vice President. on Tuesday, the 2st in- = stant, the battles of 1844 ‘and 1848 are likely to be Tepeated in the effort to Tepeal the two-thirds almost @ cardinal prin- ciple in the party. No effort has been made for some years to abro- | Gate that time-honored rule, but indications | Are not wanting that such an effort will be made in the interest of @ candidate who may have on the first ballot » majority of the convention, A review of the contests which took place in the democratic convention of 1844, when the rule was first ad and again in 1848, when the defeated from New York withdrew from the convention, may interest and in Measure instruct the present generation in the Political inner history of the party which is S00n to assemble in convention to select the Standard bearer for the coming dential catetet November next, The first conven- with which Thad any al ex ce was the democratic convertion presiied over by Hendrick B. Wright of Pennsylvania, which met at Baltimore on the 27th of May, 1844. ‘The nomination of Mr. Van Buren was gener- ally expected, as it was known he had « majority | of the convention in his favor. The friends of | Gen. Cass, it was charged, in order to defeat Mr. Van Buren offered a resolution requiring two- thirds of the votes of the convention necessary to the choice of the nominee for Presiden’ Vice President, This was follo out the plsn first adopted in 1882 and which been he rule of democratic conventions after tbat time. A long and bitter debate ensued, Robt. J. Walker leading in favor of the rule and Be: jamin F. Butler of New York in opposition it, Mr, Butler denounced the rule as un- wise and dangerous and c} it was intended to throw Mr. Van Buren, who had a majority, out of the conven’ Mr. Romulous M. Saunders of North Corolina and Messrs. Hub- and Toucey of Connecticut denounced it, but it was adopted by a vote of 148 to 118 and has been reaffirmed by the conven- tions which have met since that dav, The nomi. nation of Mr. Polk was made on the third day, bat previous to the nomination the barnburn- ers withdrew from the convention. BARNBURNERS AND HUNKERS, Tn 1848, May 22, the democratic convention met at Baltimore and Andrew Stevenson pre- sided over its deliberations. The two-thirds rule was again the bone of contention. ©. C. Cambreling, Gov. Samuel J. Tilden and Pres- 352 ck yy. Mr, Seaton then saw but failed to move fee .8 rie &F on the 23d of April, 1860, and was presided over by Caleb Cushing. The fight in that tion began as soon a i majority and minority, Tesolutions were so radically 07 other that they were recommitted in the hope of some reconciliation, but on the wixth day the convention the same reports came back. The south withdrew from the convention. Gen. Cushing resigned the presidency and Mr. | Ted of Ohio took the chair, and the balloting |commenced, and on the last ballot Judge Douglas having received 181%; votes | was, Om motion of Judge Sanford E. Church, deciared the nomines for President and Herschal Johnson of Georgia the nominee for | President. A convention of those delegates who had withdrawn from the convention at Charleston met at Baltimore and nominat | John C. Breckenridge for Premdent and Jos. Lane of Oregon for Vice President. Cushing presided over this conve In both these conventions the two-thirds rule was abrogated. The republican convention met in Chicago in May, 1860. George Ashmun of Massachusetts Prexided over it.and Mr. Lincoln was nomi- nated on the third ballot Jor President and Hannibal Hamlin for Vice President, and the convention adjourned, having «at only one dav. On the 9th of May the American convention met at Buffalo and) nom! dency and the vice | met at Cleveland and nominated Fremont. Its influence in the campaign was is . Lincoln sreceived 180 Judge Douglas 12 votes and John C. Brecken- ridge 76 and Bell 39 votes. In 1864 the repub- lican convention met at Baltimore on the 7th of June and renominated Mr. Lincoln for Presi- dent and Andrew Johnson for Vice President. A TAME CONVENTION. On the 29th of August, 1864, the democratic convention met at Chicago and nominated Me- Clelian and Pendieton. Gov. Wm. Bigler pre- sided over the convention. Gov. Tilden was chairman of committee on resolutions and Gov. Sanford E. Church was chairman of committee on credentials, The convention was a very tame affair, and though Thomas H. Seymour, Frank Pierce and some others were nominated there wa@really no contest. On the 4thof July, 1868, the democratic national convention met at New York. Mr. Seymour presided over theconvention. Hancock and Pendleton were the principal contestants for the nomination, and when the former had reached 157:¢ votes the convention adjourned for the day and the next day Seymonr's name was sprung upon the convention, and he de- clined, saying, “Your candidate I'cannot be,” and while declining accepted, in violation, it ‘was said, of a pledge to decline and nominate Gov. Chase. Gen. Francis P. Blair was nomi- nated for Vice President and put some vigor in the ticket, which fell likes pall on the party it the country. In September of that year I visited Mr. Seymour at the request of ‘President Jobnson to proffer any aid in bis power to scare his election. ‘The interview confirmed my opposi- tion to the nomination, and justuied the #ug- of the National Intelligencer, the navivania October election. that the names on the ticket be reversed and Gen. Blair's name be substituted for Mr. Seymour's. Tho New York World, without any consultation, simul- taneously made the same suggestion. The soldiers’ and sailors’ convention, which met at the same time, presided over by Gen. i indorsed the nomination. ‘On the 20th Mav, 1868, the republican con- vention met at Chicago and nominated Grant and Colfax. As the delegates to that con- vention were Gen. John Cochrane, Gei.. Daniel E. Sickles, ex-Senator Joseph E. Brown of Georgia and other war democrats, HORACE GREELEY INDORSED. In 1872, July 9, the “democratic convention met at Baltimore and adopted the nomination of Horace Greeley,which bad been made at the liberal convention which met in Cincinnati. The republican conveution met at Philadelphia on the 5th of June,1872,and renominated Gen.Grant the | and Henry Wilton amid the greatest enthusiasm. James L. Orr of South Carolina attended the convention. The republican convention of 18 met at Cincinnati on the 14th June and nomi- nated Hayes and Wheeler. The St, Louis con- vention of 1876 nominated Samuel J. Tilden for President on the second ballot and Thomas A. Hendricks Vico President. In 1880 the demo- cratic convention met at Cincinnati on the sth July. Judge Hoadley, now residing in New York, presided over it, and on the second ballot Gen. Hancock was nominated for the presidency and Wm. H. English for Vice Pros | ‘The republican convention of 1840 met at Chicago and nominated jd and Arthur on the sixth day of the convention, and on the $d June, 1884, the republican convention met at Chicago. Ex-Senator John B. Henderson, now of Washington, ‘over the convention ine was nominated. In 1884 the ic convention, which nominated Cleveland for the first time, ‘met at Chicago on Sth July, and the «ame ticket was nominated at St. Louis in 1883 and President Harrison se- cured the republican nominahon the same year. ONLY TWO ATTACKS ON THE TWO-THIRDS EULE In this long list of democratic conventions which I have attended (except that of 1848) no attempt was made to repeal the two-thirds rule xcept in twoinstances. In 1843 the “barn- burners’ of New York tried to have it repealed and failing to succeed withdrew from the con- vention. In 1860 the rule was abrogated by the two conventions which grew out of the split on the slavery plank in.the platform. That, how- , would hardly be pleaded as a it to followed. On the contrary it should serve as & warning, for the result led to the war between states. I donot remember further back, any of certainty, than 1844, but then I have attended every convention, and democratic, with one exception. Joux Corie. ieomstoninen A Worthless Remedy. Weary looking man—‘Doctor, can insomnis be cured?” Doctor—“Nothing iseasier. Any one can fall into a sound sleep by trying to count » thou- sand. Weary looking man—“*¥-e-4, but baby can't count. fii in i } rif Fl i at i ae | | | ! i i i ii F it i 8 : uF : & i i No Baking Powder Equal to Royal. ‘QUask me whichof the various baking pow- ders you shail use. i say, without hesitation, use the ‘Royal.’ it is in every re- Spect perfectly satisfactory. “ My business, you know, calls for the use of large ‘quantities of baking powder, and I have samples of all sorts sent tome. After an honest trial, I have always returned to the old reliable, the ‘Royai’; none suits