Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1892, Page 11

em” SS 7 - —— Jow ume hours t body persisted i he could which the: TRACTS s. worn cil ANGE OF STYLES | acy; frame eotap ana ‘ane ee scatbed ton po GREAT ME DR Kk pple A per minty ily Sw lingual SEA BE ACH COMBE \ | Board ef FOR THE MILLION. TALKS TO ERS. ANU ‘ ). half a dozen sense, Sot it matter. nite 4 + fe mere BS proper me peed {’ rs . | ong lagna’ Park, iar in py cay prem Among | The Feil Effects Upon € ren of Too Muck Another promenade costume is present m and went on for some with othe: si scratch, jeathen at Home roma. ndutgence. Re a ceca the fourth be rape ear = bey rs = sa errs soggy epee is A FAVORITE ENTERTAINMENT. A croayric puermacs—Tae ener waane poo | WS HT ne Star by Olive Thorne Miller. . : that same lady who-pleads guilty to thirty, . Fy “Mr. as saying” — a .. ° A { ee « ey Fickle Dame Fashion and Her Un-| trons herself om the merey of the court for | A Comparison of Drunkenness in the| “Reports trom ihe commitiee su tervitories," {Gathering Wreckage and Other aes eeARAE AMEE He ae | acaennnes ‘Suien stapenivanesoeoeas-? we D WE THINK OF A PER. everything over aud above that figure. Itis « . said Mr. Ingalls, in the chair. . residents of Asbury Park is going Soler on eum OG Sk. sina Sele Oe ob ated a thistle by every expected Decrees. | brocaded foulard, the skirt being trimmed with Old Times and New.: “Here, stop!” exclaimed the unbelanced Sen- Spoil of the Ocean. see the shadow pictures. These are to be ob- | TO* TO THE SW | winning effort of watering and care, a4 whea a double-headed ‘ruffle, separated by an inser- ator to the reading clerk. “I will not be inter- served after dark from outside the tents at | pactemsaige yaaa ome Jit had grown tobe = strong. plant, repelling - tion of lace. The jacket is double in front, the a rupted! Ocean Grove. They are said to be very amus- | WILL TRATNED Some Dainty Gowns to m is amazing. of the New Testament in Hebrew from the | this strange world of ours, Prom thonghtless: at the | Crossed fic! ed with a ribbon belt,| Attract Ati $0 Sh: Contrasta | He rambled on, not to say maudied, but| the Past—Profitable Wrecks of Long Ago—| one of them last season twenty persons were * es a A - - poopie paces eth eesngen enteral Py onto pe wide with a rosette | yew Servants on Hand to Take Cae or | Maly consented ‘to be lel away. indeed, | stew stir Gecine oe Now—Placer Mining | ®¢commodated, the proprietor having «large |BwIS of an agent of the American ‘Tract m tenderness, she enltivntes a S er Resorte—Sultable Costumes for | 554 has long 6 The sleoves are set off with Sr pl ngoehapanars Tir RRS among’ the stories told of the House when it | 483 4 family of her but finding room for several | Society. -Baron Hirsch having set aside ree (han thistles and ts astom- Lawn Parties —Notes on Styles. ¢ insertions as shown, ‘Their Masters—An Abstemious Congress. | met jn whet is now statuary Nall 8 be, ot 0 long Shore—“Heart Culture, boarders. ‘The “‘tenters,” as they call them-| great fund for the purpose of — assist- ved when they come ont in dheir OR EVENING USE. —_——-— member who was permitted to keep his valet in selves, vie with exch other in respect to the ing Hebrews to reach America, ther - — a WRAPS FOR ates cnily ‘eigal < ‘aceasta the cloak room to take care of him when he be- neatuess and tasteful adornment of their quar- | iy : a in & aa - 7. ae ~~ j her child Special Corresponlence of The Evening Star. windann yy i aialeriee S cae we sctapipinicptonies: alogeed came helpless, and another of a chairman who | Correspondence of The Fvenin= St ters. A tent of the finest sort consisis of a two- . { Enerchting Somber, On on 3 Corrempontence ni i on, . New Youx, Ang. 5, 1892. nodes gives w moment she her makes all women look graceful. SKIRTS GO? that the mistress of the s no time to prove anything, and the wers that ollowers are becoming Who can tell what moment the deeree may go forth that beil skirts must henceforth be the only wear and that they must absolutely clear the ground? m b t p ch block is a pump to supply fresh water. ihe p i | on tea. m republics are proclaimed e . ti at . The most popular of all Well, there is no use borrowing trouble. The | her costume, To give a lawn fete and not have | Gna o Pere yore Heotare before sere and oo alee and round himself, so that he could walk with anauibiniache sateen: cntited “The Swearers | Oru ann prevailing style of skirt isa joy for the time | this splendid er > for a — | vested. Bloody strikes are always inaugurated | down on the floor and talked conversationally | #t 9 if done up inan enormous bundle. Unfor-| ty short the arrangements are admirably | 2 copies have been sold. When this ere Lender wey being, and there is no wonder that the summer | vinity would have peon Tike 1116 0 Sith the | P¥_men who get the highest wages. to those who were not too disgusted to remain. | tunately, it soon came on to rain and then | adapted for housekeeping on an economical TRACTS IN INDIA. | and flow trouble gurl is reveling in its charming potency to trans- | Tepresentation of “As You tale oe will ti | So it is that where drunkenness is common it | Jim Sprigg drank as much as he could get ad | froze, the result being that Jake's self-assumed | scalo, and it is not surprising that a good many trouble is reported from Inéiia, which | some, comes in natural seq ate form even a dumpy figure into something al- | @ver fair and gloriou Hosalind le rders to | Sttracts no attention; it is only where it ix very | was made very happy by it. One night he | envelope became immovably attached to him- digs he a favorite field for mission: rk. That | untenthfalness. ‘The w spain Ges most slender and willowy. August is upon ns, | 80 the mistress of the house d prbtte Lncommon. indeed, that men are shocked at it. | had a bar room fight with a loafer and had an | self and #0 heavy that at length he fell upon peep) tug 10 take no interest = 5 art culture, saad gahat Sh arbh cba r Rirtere the and there 1s naturally a rush to display eummer | bare the silk ornaments changed ot ones. | | That is to ay. it ‘is the abnormal only that| ear bitten off. “Wo weleome back to Ken- | the sand unable to'move anothier step. Berea eae ion ae ae ee populated part of the woftd te Good < without the toilets before the cool breath of September | |, The young people after all are despatie thes | Considered worth noticing or recording. | tucky,” said Prentiss in the Louisville Journal, | hours later he was found, and because it was | 8t Ocean Grove during the summer. It is not | with tracts sent out by Christian publishing ithout the makes them seem ont of seas DAINTY GOWNS FOR LAWN PARTY. Lawn parties now cail for ereations in foulards, surahs, crepon: crepes and silk muslins set off with these dainty #. batisies, | Ince, chif- fon, ribbons and velveta. Many of these gowns are enchantingty be sutiful, especially when the i irrepressible summer girl gets im thera and gives vou the idea that for the gown and not the gown for her. would you like «changeable fo green, wewn and flounce in old point? Or, wouk of one of e was made How . gold and ith white flowrets, with a bertha i you pre- Add to the Glories of which at the b: | tion of the tailor-made THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY. AUGUST, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. under part being covered with a crossed lace fichu; the upper part hangs straight and is fitted to the figure by means of 1 single dart, ‘This part is slit into tabs and filled in with lace, ck forms a doublecascade. The and they are frequently turned back from a plain tight-fitting serge Plastron, ornamented with crimson embroidery around the neck, waist line and coat lapels. This coming autumn you will see the glorifica- irl. Her full-skirted, arter-length co th high collar in mer girl reigns supreme. She knows her power and exercises it at times like « true tyrant. heard of a case where she refused to attend nm fete unless the silk trimmings were changed so as to harmonize with the tone of the yeanger they are are. Sell gocmmer girl to me the other day: If I had only known mamma before she be- came so set in her ways I couid have improved It a hopeless task now. I must take her as I find her.” al STATESMEN IN THEIR CUPS. | When Inebriety Was So Common as Not to | | ERBERT SPENCER first revolt—that slaves | seldom rebel, but free- men on whom some slight burden is laid often do. The French dom, remitted taxes, prohibited torture and es- tablished reforms for the benefit of the work- | ing people. America plunged into a revolution | against a mild monarch toget rid of a 3-cent tax THE VIRTUE OF THE FATHERS. A hundred years agoa man would have got merrily laughed at for staggering into Congress | and making a maudlin effort at oratory, and a | few would have considered it really disreput- | ble, butno newspaper wonld have thought it; worth mentioning and no committee would have investigated it. the land occasionally or frequently got drank | 4 sporadic case of tipsiness caused no comment. hhe fuss that i made over ‘a transient and doubtful lapse from temperance on the part of three or four me high tribute to the general sobri Congress. When half of the men in |, “is the gentleman from — endeavoring ,to address the Senate?” asked the presiding offi- cer, coolly. No, —— it!" was the response, “the gentle- man from —— is addressing the Senate!” caused great usement and consternation by board furnished with choice wines and every visitor was regaled with brandy toddy—singular and plural. But the habit of constant drinking seemed to be with many an insurance against sottishness, THREE OF A KIND. all whigs, I believe. ‘They were all of them regular rounders and liable to disgrace the House any time. Marshall, in fact, was pretty | sure to be drank when anything great was ex- ‘ted of him. I have seen him attempt to “all there is left of our gallant fellow citizen, Hon. James C. Sprigg.” Felix McConnell should have been named Infelix. He was a very brilliant and erratic member, quick at repartee, witty, well-informed and the delight of the House when on his feet, drank or sober. But le was sensitive ang humiliated, and one morn- ing just before his term expired he committed suicide here in this city. But why multiply instances? With increns- ing civilization come improving manners and morals, and even if it were not a logical deduc- tion it must be obvious to all careful observers in Washingtun that every Congress has been MEN ARE NOW LIFE SAVERS. Beach Combing Important Industry in J., Ang. 5, 1892. was making his. way along the beach, of what is now Asbury Park, to- | ward the Shark river— | then, as now, a locality | been thrown up by the se-. For some time he was puzzled as to how he would carry this valuable prize, but finally he solved the problem by wrapping it round | impossible t&extricate him from the carpet on | the spot he had to be literally rolled home and thawed out. The wreck-strewn sands of Jersey's inhospi table shore have yielded since time immemorial ‘@ regular and profituble erop of flotsam and jet- sam. If all the xhips whose moldering skele- tons are buried along this treacherous strand were to be resurrected they would suffice to carry half the cargoes of the world, Formerly all this coast was a hunting ground for “beac combers,” who, if the stories told of them do | injustice, did not hesitate on ite by false lights or otherwise | and sleeping rooms, the tent pabt being ing sometimes. A great deal that is of interest | | is to be learned by a study of life in the tents. | The latter are wonderfully comfortable little dwellings, and the number of occupants crow: into many of ther In! room wooden cott 13 by 18 feet, with a tent , 3 beige, crimson or blue éloth, finished around calls attention to the suddenly insisting on going to bed, gavel in yy: 14 by 16 feet in front, and for such a one tioned every day, and the religions organi aot enn Gat ROVE ALL ie psoralen para | band, under the Speaker's derk, “Such things tae the, Tent is €100 for ‘che season, furnished | tion referred top blish a Hebrow | old fast that Se : jo net happen now. y _— roughout. © writer was permitted to| othe: amo-Gei lor | omaD good,” doem’t apply t0/ ity wondarfal popularity, Cresta serge. makes dox that it is those who | “Every house of any social standing in Wash- Porson of aninclination {examine one of these curious houses in| qr vere snaanolber in Judmo-Cerman, for| | SEB WoRE ony aan a fashions, for the reason | up in very fetching styies, with Eton jackets are least oppressed that | ington fifty years ago was equipped with a side- notoriously convivial, | Bethesda block on Pilgrim Puthway, It | ‘ie Purpose of converting them to Christianity vem an, Gane contained four reasonably spacious living ided | into two by curtains. At the front was a small | porch, over which there was an awning. The rance opened upon a parlor, rather tiny, but big enough to contain both an upright piano , 3% in 1789 i > F | and an organ. Behind the curtained partities | the support of which it contribates tached to a certain style ‘style, and silk-faced lapels of enor- in 1789 rose and cut off | ‘There were three terrible drunkards in the where intoxicants were | 8 pa aA the forthwith cianges it at a et thehead of the bestking | House just fifty years ago—the last year of perelinasble— when bo | ered Thee tee neg en ae | innolantiont : + inelud- say So tay be CUT Tare, tor instance ee they had ever had—a | Clay's service—Tom Marshall and Jim ‘Sprigg {. came acrous a roll of in- | bode in the next room "and back of tenn, ranarsyhir eect and Aniacie sin tas to hattonen N present trained skirt,which | ” But for the moment none of this. The sum- king who abolished serf- | of Kentucky and Felix McConnell of Alabama, grain carpet which had | cozy dining room with convenient cupboards | e@S%* | A shed added at the rear served as the kitchen, | the hea the range being large enough for all purpe and the accompanying utensils included pots and pans hung upon the latticed walls. In | true, ax has been alleged, that evei resides there is compelled to attend divine sere ice every day. Most of the *tenters,” however, are enthusiastically devotional, They belong to the class which finds no other form of e: citement so entertaining and stimulating as | that which is to be obtained at camp meeting. | It is with them, in trath, a species of dissipa- tion of a religious character. There are cot it changes in the performance at the Audi torium, which is nominally and by advertise- ment open to any Christian organization. At the same time the fact is that Catholics are | rson who | | tailed Chinese and ¢ | tian | work of this deseription is enti SORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND IMMIGRANT Hebrews reached New York city from the old world during the last onlendar year. Every one of them, upon landing, received a © how A sure the ane my a mother im every one with 2 dina average 400 of them arrive at the port mon- anything, admi rent n. hia Few people have any 1 on which the business of jon of the vast xcale abliching Christian Publi ice hunting Dyaks of Borneo, th re, the skin Ish whim tracts are distribu’ every must their own re eocivties. native § In reply to it scurrilous y witha ghastly fixion has bee presses are multiplying and many - of them publiching anti-Christian s from hie lecerves by ricates, he the all are ti to One ¢ Bible devoted the Anothe: ty Contradict A frec-thought pul fer a nile green crepon set off with white surah. with a belt composed of a ribbon tied around the waist? Or, ly, you would make choice of a manve foulard, with an old guipure flounce and a white ribbon corselet? Or, might not an ecra batiste. with white satin . white belt and ecru lace, suit you bet- ter? Well, whatever you choose choose quickly, for mmmer is more nimble of feet than stylish winter, and the fairer the day the more quickly it passes, Since more sober and better behaved than its prede- asus a list of ‘Of the wisdom of the Fifty-second it does not become me to speak, but probably not one has contained so many total rs from spirituous liquors since the re- public began, A. Crorrur. the wrecks which were to them a source of gain. That portion of the beach which is now called Asbury Pack was originally bought by three speculative individuals from the government for 13 shillings an acre, for no other purpose thin to secure a first claim on wrecl or whatever else might be thrown ashore. FAMOUS FOR WRECKS, the close of the war for the Union drunken- ness has become, for the first time in the his- tofy of the human race, thoroughly disreputa- ble, not only in. Congress, but in all public bodies and in society everywhere, Hus there been seand xhibition of drunkenness in Washington in a year by any well-known man? Aslate as when Kossuth was in this c inebriety was common. The banquet in his : honor was held at the National Hotel; speeches ue ee were made by Cass, Webster, Shields, Seward | 2 : and others, and several prominent ‘guests got | Correspondence of The Evening Star. into such a condition that they had to be | Aspury Park, N. J., Ang. 5, 1892. helped away from the table. The great Magyar | There is an old atory of a little child that was and his suite were carried back to the Metro- | gilded all over to represe t Cupid ina Roman olitan (only six doors distant) in c: | Methodism rules, The eloquence of | 3 Bichop Phillips Brooks of Boston would _pro- | duce no favorable impression on audiences here, held spellbound by the emotional of Talmadge or Moody. There lies | precisely the distinction: these worshippers | want preaching that appeals to the emotions é 1 i and not to the intellect, This spot is farnous for wre Right here | Rum and tobacco being interdicted as well as the New Era, a full-rigged packet of 1,328 tons | gambling, diversions based upon the mutual at- burden, bound from Bremerhaven to New York | yom es = Spain peepee —— yith passengers, ran ashore on the morning of | 5.0, that tho foung men and quis’ he in November 13, 1854, in a blinding snow storm. | By" Ome thrones satlecd ‘the fecnne pen | Of the 410 persons on board all but 155 were | Tepper wn des Anditerticn ant doco | = [Semen DimallSes on “he coset | uurposes of flirtation. However | 1, with o:he Ingersoll’s and other # Among these “My Path to Ath Text Book,” by Br the same list. the . with the es of Moses’ the larg a Mrs, es have tic venta child abs ‘The infa | Why Not Have a Babi and AT SUMMER RESORTS. The watering places are now in the very height of their glorv and the fair women who throng the hotel verandas and dawdie along the prome- th stuff of this dese: calls upd we wtrings and wtter that will ha their p) printed SILK BLOUSE AND CLOTH SKIRT. Another outdoor costume is represented in & tendency to hglhaase’ vinge | ors ona is : Hoge | chiefly for : overcome the evil influenc | wo thing: Fre tele eet at She toes. arash: | the last picture. The skirt is of chamois-col- | but one warso helpless’ that he twrsbled feo | PaFade, the operation subsequently proving ihisdiaster brought them,” Of comme meric | this may be in fact itis trae that an elderly | While young girls in American churches are | pyr anes og Rens. eennenss aianen, chs, seertish a one af tha laced chavict, an the Uleuse la a fhadec® wiih [1b “Uciaal bel” ithe hie: b On, and re- | fatal to the victim. ‘Though never so gorgeous, | 51 Crane ii-tatel Germans on tle ship had | Woman got up in an “experience meeting” here | doing their best to e ee laundrvmen | that he soon grows ap. it is mot long before things va doat the ‘springs. buy trifles | a large Japanese figure. The corselet belt, the | fused to be disturbed till morning. the loveliness of this golden infant could not | M104 the, jllsfated Germ the other day und rai by spiritual instra and take as long as possible to do i ribbon. 2 pair of gloves, a box of bottle of perfume. The summer gi! te go shopping, especially when her the lite bill. Itis so ineconvenien to get at one’s pocket book. If you lieve it watch the summer girls in soda water fountain. The second picture presents the enmmer girl | shopping attire as whe appears loaded the purchases of a whole morning. it. yor a rl delights mcort pays tat times do not be- front of a down with She wears PPING ATTIRE. a very pretty white multi colored cre ron it is ornamented with a bow with incess with figaro in passementeric. pon, made The long ends. The deep cuff are made over lining, likewise the co The crepon of the corsage is stretched over fitted lining by using a dress form. The figar shade of the grow: is made over if cream. i A é orn off and other fine writing paper. For that | be offended if he were presented with a leatlet a Floats in the breeze as it sighs. j p : service the old-time beach combers were trans- kind of auntorial I wil is eo handred- | conveying a warning against gambling and in- : It bas been well said that a mirror tells more about it, and no reporters watched, as they now| One of the little carriages was made in the = i ~ ing | Kind of material I will gir oo f . At Burzard’* Bay fruthe than are ever spoken. and I might add | Out on the ocean to grapple in ight, would, to see who. went in and out at Pendie-| shape of a big slipper, and in Tt, was the old | formed into lifesavers, many of them taking | weight, Iteading books’ are worth 80 ‘cents | temperance, and it Would not ‘io at all to offer | | that it presumes upon speaks plainer and plainer every year, “Don't you think I look very ol Ssked « wife of forty as she stood T glass. milk of the jong acquaintance and id today’ in front of her “Escute me, my dear.” replied her husband, Talwars make it a point to Ask the one in front of you. A GLACE sURAr. For the third picture vou will find a charm- ng gown for the woman no longer young. You | bit of | | | i collar and the shoulder bands are of pluch or velvet. The belt must be made upon a firm lining and be boned. The scallops of the ekirt are bordered with bias strips of the silk. The skirt is made with a demi-train. You may any light woolen material for the skirt, on or Indian cashmere, lined with satin: blouse in this style of costume may otch silk, surah or batiste. When » batiste make with turn-down collar and man’s cnffs. A neglige tie goes with this style and a leather belt. BOATING COSTUMES. Now that the season for reguttas is at hand the summer girl may exercise her ingenuity and good taste in devising boating costumes. Blouse and sash of black and white figured foulard goes well with a black mervellieux skirt. Of course rough blue serge is the proper material for a boating party, made up strictly in sailor style, with very deep collar of white fisnnel, trimmed with dark blue braid and tied with a blue knot. In some eases the bodice is vet off wi square zouaves, opening in front to dixplay a poppy red silk ti and trfmaned with long geld tails trimmed in the same manner. The skirt is left quite plain, eave three rows of gold braid at the bottom. uuttonholes and little round gold buttons; coat | CURIOUS TIMES, THESE. ‘There was more intemperance in the Senate in 1804 than there is today, but it brought to the bar and tred for “habitual drunkenness | and profanity on the bench” one of the United | States judges, und the man was convicted. ‘The ity was adreary mudhole then, full of ague and monotonous misery, and there ix no reason | to marvel that Congressmen, when they left their unfinished quarters, drank deeply, bet ily and amused themselves with dog fights and cock fights. There was not only bad rum in those days, but there was plenty of rough- jand-tumble prize fighting. in which men lost their eyes and noses. A tall gallows appropri- ately stood at the foot of Capitol Hill. IT WAS DIFFERENT THE: We have fallen on different times, indeed, when a man cannot get drunk in public or be seen emerging from a gambling saloon without injury to his reputation and credit. Different, indeed, was it in the good old heyday of “Blitil | and Black George,” when Pendleton kept open his “palace of fortune” on the avenue and pre- sided at a sumptuous dinner every day at 5 in full dress and surrounded by twenty or thirty members of the House and Senate, cabinet isters, generals, diplomats and judges, attr: by the pldasures of the duplex table, the faro Ri | bare and from her shoulder: approached that of the god of love who figured in the great baby parade here—a festive display the like of which cannot be seen an: where else in theworld, The part was taken by a little girl four years of age, whose small and ump body was clad only in the slightest possi le drapery of ganzy pink silk. Her dimpled arms and legs to above the hips were entirely sprang a pair of ga wings. She had hair of purest gbld, which fell in fluffy curls about her rosy face. Altogether she was a picture well worth coming | miles to see, fact, many thousands of people camefrom New York and all over this part of the country to witness the parade. Anybody who imagines that the American public does not take a k interest in babies would have been undeceived on observing the enthusinsm exhibited by th assembled crowds. It was in truth a wonder- ful spectacle, particularly in respect to the in- ventive ingenuity displayed by the mothers in the devising of novel decorations for the baby carriages. “There was not a cross infant in lin the very young ones having each received fresh bottle of milk before starting, and the slightly more aged toddlers regarding the occa- sion as highly provocative of joy. As a rule the babies were wheeled along by their respect- ive mammas, who were all smiles and beaming horror of the affair 1 certain predatory spirits from | isiting the wreck at night when the | rest of the beach-combing gentry had temp: rarily suspended operations. They made thei way to between the decks, where many corpses | were floating around, and proceeded to rob them of such valuables as they could find in the pockets. denjglly the man who car- ried the only lantexn dMpped it, so that it was extinguished, and the panic which ensued in the hurry to get away is described at this day ivor of the nocturnal expedition as ble, the dead bodies, cold and ig thick about them and coming into moist and gruesome contact with them at every step. After they had tumbled into their boat an escape he said all the | riches in the world would not have induced them to return. At low tide off Asbu shore, instill to be vee waves a portion of the boiler of the big iron steamship Pliny, from Brazil, which was wrecked on this beach ina great May storm ten Fears.ago. She was from Rio, filled with coffee, Which, ‘after the disaster,’ was heaped i windrows for miles along the coast. Russell White, an energetic resident, collected _ nearly 400 bushels of the valuable merchandise and sold it to dealers in NewtYork for 40 cents a « Park, not far from projecting above the “Dm asked to tell my experience in_ religion. Waal, my experience is that I can’t hold on to my darters at ali. ‘They are firtin’ all day long, and spoonin’ under umbrellas with pious young men from New York on the beach, and I can’t get ‘em to so much as say their prayers.” > YER WASTED. PAPER IS N Not White Paper, at All Events—What Old Metals Are Worth. 66PJ\HERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WASTE paper,” said the junk dealer to a Stan reporter. “Hardly a scrap of white paper is ever wasted. Every bit of it that is thrown away is carefully gathered up and finds its way eventually to the mill again to be made over. ‘The note book in your hand may furnish ma- terial for the pages on which you will write a letter six months henc®, and perhaps a year later you will unknowingly find it incorporated in a summer novel with yellow covers. Thus the stock of paper that supplies the world is used over and over again indefinitely through the medium of the scavengers, the dealers in junk and the factories, which are continually he knows be ceived Thu ether or hie tor fathers wt tell truth. Now, mn why a mother should pre- eversthing: son enough the if that whe % to take a dignified pos: child's respect by admit- os not know, though wt should honostly try te find vecastonaily, ofte vious wives in China, the Chinese Tract So- ciety distribu millions of documents in that During the year 189 the Americ Tract ‘Society published 3,454,200 3 of tracts, It prints and circulates six periodicals, two in German and four in English, Two axe weekly and four monthly: three are’ for adults and three for children. For the latter ~~ Child’s Paper” and the “Morning Light” ave illustrated monthlies, and the “Apples of Gold an illustrated weekly. | Of these periodicals 2,331,900 copies were sold during the twelvemouth.” During the last years the agents of the society, known as olporteurs,” have sold and given away 15,000,- iterature. In the same 13,000,000 family visits, nearly 8,000,000 instances they have advantage of the opportunity to pray with the families called upon. A GIGANTIC BUSINESS, These few figures are given for the purpose of showing what a really gigantic business the distribution of tracts amounts to. To scatter them profitably requires both common sense and experience. A recent writer in a mission- ary paper speaks of the difficulty so commonly found in expressing one’s self in a letter toa such obstac much better, then at first and retai ting fra lalgence on improper food and ticular form of baby killing cian will admit is far from un mewhut later, of bad axsoctates, other caunot control: how does of an indulgent mother fare when mother as a buffer betwee as aM Awa child he is disliked and avoided by every one. Ashe grows he is the dread of teachers aud he is snubbed by his employers—when be gets them. When be reaches manhood, having no true idens of life and his own insigniticans place in it, filled with conceit and self-aseure ance, he makes few friends —— e plduay ‘ " eee Segre were bushel. It wae an agrecable reminder of the | engaged in transforming the discarded material | friend or business acquaintance. Under such Written for The Evening Star. Pua ruatae ed eee rae Pane eae RSE Te enone good old Gagy: Bolom light lenees wereniatie| kako teak oak Sleus akaoae circumstances he says that it fs most desirable Off Cherbourg. ‘The wines were bought at auction when bank-| At the head of the procession was a very | 4nd the life-saving service organized, when the BROWN PAPER. to have on hand a large private stock of tracts Our flag swung free from the oid Kearaarge As she rode at the mouth of the Sc And on the horizon’s seaward marge Both snowy sail and shadowy barge ‘The force of the west wind felt. Fluttered the carnet aloft at the fore, Smartly our crew sprang aboar<, Blue-capped wiiddies and sailors more, Salts just fresh from a cruise ashore, ‘To serve where the broadsides roared. Point her prow to the Frenchman's coast, Off Cherbourg the pirate lies, Like the Fiying Dutchman's stormy ghost, While her saucy pennon, #0 full of boast, Open her ports to the gans! Away from the shelter of neutral right, ‘To the briny sea and the cannon’s might, And the battle that bursts and stuns! Far in the offing steams the ship, A rakish and corsair erat ‘That British stiver and gold equip, ; = : : forth a cry with wonder Trangh ‘The bristling Yankee to taunt and whip, . . baby, wl obliged conti: y | portant feature is a sort of placer mining. The | dumb bells I buy and sell as such when they are | annoyed by any imagined personality. One a eons. she a1 on Her steel guns fore and aft. Pere pe a igelneme at erties ed bree Re ey ren | ccapaestfcg thas pactioclar parsetias thedatier | on quel mingh saelion* railroad ticket agent found {ts most effective a a Bl, Fife and drum quick to quarters play, Cheer the erew in the shrouds, Breaking the calm of the summer day With the crash of arms and the flash of fray, Asdeath bolts fly from the clouds. Winslow stands at the quarter dec “Fire!” he shouts, dark speck Sinks in the waters a helpless wreck!” As the broadsides thunder aboara. L ‘Shell her astern and shatter her side, ‘plinter her, timbers and mast! Driven her men to the swelling tide, Dips her flag as the chain-shot gilde, And the heat of the combat is past. Set@es the hull of the rover rag With her blackened canuon and crew, Her bowsprit last, like a treacherous snag, No more on the ocean to bluster and brag, But the waves with her wreck to #trew. Shame on the Briton who steals from the scene ‘With Semmes and his foreign horde, ‘To cheat of their laurels so fresh and green rupt German dukes sacrificed their cellars, Everything was luxurious and scores of distin- | guished gamestera cha ory chips | around the green baize jorning came | in with its glow. Humphrey Marshal being appointed’ minister to China in 185% dropped into Pendleton’s the night before he | started to play “tone farewell game,” and he | Jost all the mones he possessed, his entire out- | fit and six months pay in advance—and then | Pendleton Jent him money enough to carry hitn | to the flowery kingdom, where he doubtlsss taught the fuany game to the almond-eved | celestials. And when the good Pendleton di the mayor of ton and Senators and members bore his pall and President Buchanan wept at his funeral. And there was no scandal ton’s. Ah! Times have changed! Tie sTyLe 18 FreLpiNe’s Time. But even that day was visibly more cireum- spect than society in England a hundred years earlier, for then it seems to have been the fashion for every man to get drunk at ever; dinner or ceremony he attended, for servants | were on hand whose business it was to loosen | choke to death. SOME SHARP CONTRASTS, In this Congress there are probably some scores of men who takea drink occasionally, | but there is not « confirmed drunkard in cither House. Even the half dozen who sometimes drink too much have not lost their self-respect and they pay to temperance the tribute of con: cealing their weakness. There is no man in | either House so unconscious of the disgrace of drunkenness as McDongail or Tom Marshall | used to be. It will be remembered how a cer- | tain man of prominence made his way into the Senate one day about a month after he had | ceased to be a member of it, and, being inter- | ested in the bill under consideration, leaned | ‘on a convenient desk, and, addressing the Vice President, said he would like to offer a few | reasons in favor of its The Vice Presi- dent kindly recognized him; his late colleagues | forebore to call him to order; but after he bad been talking a minute or twoa member took him by the hand and whispered a word in his ear, and retired with him to the cloak room. ‘There were four other men of jrregular habits in the Senate about the close of the war—three gruff-looking policeman, six years of age. He was dressed in full uniform, with a club nearly as long as himself. by the aid of which he cleared the way. Then came a full-grown band, ttired in surprising and picturesque costumes, after@which marched twenty little boys and girls, armed with pails and sand shovels and dressed in bathing suits. Following them was Cupid, harnessed with a broad pink ribbon and driven by a pretty little girl in pink gauze. ‘Then came a great many little girls, each push- ing a miniature baby earringe con or more dolls. Some of the more ones had as many ava dozen dollies. Both dren and dolls were all in their best attire and the carringes were decorated with flowers and flags, woman who lived in a shoe, together with her numerous children, Another such vehicle car- ried two large dolls, a boy doll and a girl doll, each nearly as big as the owner. Many of the doll carriages belonged to little girls who were not rich enough to possess dollies of the costly sort, with eyes that shut, real hairand squawkers in their chests, but they! were Just as prowd of their babies. ‘One stall tat hada very trouble- toise-shell kitten and it would insist upon k’ek- ing, having no interest whatever in baby parades, It may be confidently stated that the matnmas of the real babies were not prouder of their offspring than were these sweet little actors of the part of maternity. Following them came a litile boy ina small cart drawn bya big Newfoundland dog in red harness, and then two carts pulled by goats. The goat between the vbafte of one of tie ve. hicles was rather baiky, and it was with some difficulty that the youngster who drove it kept up with the procession. Next came an old- fashioned wooden cradle with a baby in it ear- ried by four boys. The cradle was decorated with flags and labeled “Fourth Generation,” signifying that three ancestors of its occupant in direct line of descent had been rocked in. the same quaint little bed. ‘Then came a long line of baby ea: decorated in all soria of fan- ciful ways and pushed by proud and happy mothers. A long string of them were adorned with flags, a special prize being given for taste and originality in that style of ornamentation. An interesting feature of the parade was an In- dian mother, carrying on her back a papoose and following her husband, who walked al with a pipe in his mouth. "Both “parents and Jersey coast line afforded rich pickings to those who made a business of seeking for them. On one oceasion an old beach comber came across a box which contained, packed in cork dust, a | Doitle that held a pi Wiahalf of rare and costly attar of roses. He sold it for 315, which | nly a small fraction of its actual worth. Having anointed his own salt-Havored person with a small quantity of the concentrated per- | fame he subsequently declared that “begosh, he couldn't get the smeil of it out of his clothes atall, and they continued to have the most Veautiful'odor ‘long after they had been made into rag carpet. A TRANSFORMATION. With the inauguration of the life-saving employment as surfmen at the government stations along shore. For so long a period, however, were the people of the coast accus: tomed to seek for the spoils of the se | some of them and their descendants to tl Ys exhibiting the force of habit and heredit; make a regular business of hunti trove on the beach. This carried on very Its most im- part of September and later. At about the middle of that month always comes a great storm, which gives rise to a very surprising phenomenon, ail of the sand being actually carried away from the beach by the ocean and leaving an unsightly bed of blue mud in place of the shelving bank of fine quartz grains and pretty pebbles on which the bathers here are at precent disporting themselves so merrily. As much as twelve feet in depth of sand is bodily removed, to be returned by old Neptune a few days or weeks afterward. Now, it must be remembered that during all the summer thousands upon thousands of peo- | ple are continually amusing, themselves on the ch, usually in recumbent attitudes. They lose ever so many small articles of value, out of their pockets or otherwise. These, of which scarce any are ever recovered by their owners, because they are heavy, make their way grad- ually downward through the sand until they reach the hard blie mud layer. There they rest, the blue mud being a compact mass, knit | together with a network of very fine seaweed and containing many old cedar stumps, relies of a vanivhed epoch when the blue mud ‘was dry land covered with forests of cedar trees. Geol- ogists say that the coast of New Jersey is sink- “Brown paper, however, is different. Be- cause it is composed of nothing more valuable than straw it is mostly thrown away and never used again. I would not pay you 25 cents fora ton of it. “A few years ago old newspapers were worth 4centsa pound, being made of rage. Now they are manufactured out of wood pulp and straw and their market value is only a quarter of acent a pound. Oflice paper, such 8 old bills and such seravs, are worth the ame price as newspapers, while what we call ‘office sweepings,” composed largely of envelopes, are quoted at 15 cents « hundredweight. “The kind of paper for which I pay the high- est price is such stuff as ledgers with the covers per hundred pounds.. Ordinary mixed white paper has a value of 15 cents a hundred. Old metals I purchase just as T do waste paper. For old iron I pay 25 cents a hundredweight and for old lead $4 cents a pound by the quantity. Old copper is worth 7 cents a pound, and old brass fetches from 5 to 6 cents. There are people who deal in second-hand machinery, but I only buy it as old iron. Safes, wheels and Perilous Riding on the Iron Horse. Frou the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. “Did you ever ride on a locomotive?” asked 0. G. Haskins. “I tried it once and have no desire to repeat the experiment. It was out in Colorado, where you sometimes run so close to bottomless chasms that you could drop vour hat into them and make turns so short and sudden that it nearly disjoints your spinal vertebra. ‘The master mechanic was an old friend of mine and gave me permission to ride over the road on the engine of the lightning express. ‘The engineer did not appear to fancy my presence much, but treated me civilly. We were behind time, the night was black as Erebus and a ter- inte the world {ull grown letters; he has to without ku wiucate himself. An uld have tender and loving but | firm control of her child from his first breath, She should as carefuliy shield him from selt conscionsness, it and willfulness ns she does from scarlet fever and whooping | She should, above all things, set him a dai ample of justice and truthfulness in the #1 affairs, In most cases the mother herself tim of bad training, and her duty with herself. Only by taking the matter ser Jously in hand and trying to overcome her weakness can the conscientions mother hope te avoid passing on ber own faults to the newt ncration, to produce a fresh crop of weaious people whom we ineet and with whom we con- verse. Distribute them on steamboats and cars, in whops and business places and in homes as you call.” THE DISTRIBUTION. It goes without saying that some discretion must be exercised in the distribution of tracts. ‘One must not fire them off indiscriminately at ire wtrangers. A respectable merchant might | fut. in hor geandehi ‘The Fisherman's Daughter, Raby Ruth, 1 da Win Tings amd heer coils a Tu her innoceat, sportive, childish way toa conscientious Christian matron the structive fragment entitled “Do Not Beat the Chila.” i on in such matters goes ntly toward th: ‘The wrier above quoted says that an excel- lent way to distribute tracts is to leave them in the waiting rooms of railway stations and on the seats of cars, where individuals are at lib- erty to pick up what strikes them without being Baby Ruth, lan to hand outa tract with each ticket that Pevsold. The publication entitled “Ten Broken Commandments Ilustrated™ is good for miscel- laneous circulation, inasmuch as it does not hit anybody in particniar and no one is accused of having infringed all of them. TRACT SMISKIONARIES. There isa popular tendency to ridicule mis- sionaries, which is seriously deprecated by the thoughtful. In the comic papers they are usually represented, pictorially and otherwise, as being eaten by crude and ignorant savages. Happily no perils of the pot or frying pan are encountered in the distributing of tract, The sparsely settled of the country, as well as the slums and plague spots ‘of the cities, are reached by the Chicago News, — His Attitude Declared, From the Rome Tribune. An individual who aspires to the particular seat in the House of Representatives which be- longs to the bloody seventh was talking tom crowd of voters in a neighboring village. Our of the party anid to him “Colonel, I understand you are projecting fur @ seat in Congress Phe colonel nodded. “Well, we would like to know how on the Mills bill and the MeKinley bili? Wall,” said the colonel, “I ain't much about it, but I am inclined to think the rific thunder storm was pg ee engineer wasdetermined to go in on and the way he rushed, around those curves and across canons was enough to make » man’s hair turn gray. “The oe thing about those mountain cagines la that they do not take « curve ike any jer vehicle. lunging straight ahead Sintil you foal sare tins thay ore clear of the track and suspended in mid air, and then shoot Mills bill onght to be paid first, as it isthe oldest of the two.” ———+ee—__—_ The Worst Luck on Earth, From Judge. col some of whom work in the mining camps in the mountains or go from one cattle tench to another in Texas and New Mexico. Others labor among the civilized tribes in the ‘One district “in the city of mile square contains 428 saloons and 196 known houses. "Ninety per cent of the resi te are fe ted mile agclicny ys tro - ru sahaly whabealndeae as freely may fix her age. A woman has the privilege of | The heroes who harvest of victory glean, mentioned: they were gentlemen ever in thers | ebild were most elaborately attired in feathers, {386 atthe rate of two feet evory merge fhe’ Jou have, been saved. "The treks tah ihe | tif Ht wae in India or inthe wilds of Aiea. being quite as young as she can iook. ‘This| Their sickle the patriot sword. tipsiness, and careful not to make an exhibition | beads and aborigine® bijouterie. Se ee eit at tae aciely Ok, Min ut] Tr vin Gs cease atom can AMONG SAILORS. costame in a glace surah and its jacket corsage | oP tieir infirmity that would be publicly ije: | Many of the other carriages wore most beau- | 48 represented by the stamps can. be formed. 5 super- has a pleated plastron of white lace e —— waist. At the back the a box it, which separates to let The belt is el pase. is velvet, tied in front. Plaiting of the corsage ix held in place by silk jacket has the skirt The embroidery, which also appears in the skirt in two rows. FOR THE MORNING HOUR. Another very charming costum @ for the Morning hour may be made upof a white nding in a | ‘The Alabama lies deep in the sea, ‘The English channel her grave, | While the states of the Union are one and free, With slavery over, and liberty Our glory on land and wave. —Davip Granam ADEE. Yarrow Farm, Lauret, Md. Aug 1, 1892. oa coe Mud Is a Good Sign. rious. FORGOT WHERE HE WAS GOING, But absent mindedness hath its victories no less renowned than King Alcohol’s, A curious incident occurred toa member of tho cabinet not more than twenty years ago, which I at- tribute to the first mentioned of these mischief makers. “Very well,” said the President at the close of tifully ornamented, wonderful effects being produced by simplemenns. One of the prettiest was decorated with white cotton batting and white tissue paper, the latter fringed, co that the effect at a little distance was that of swan's down and ostrich plumes. Another was all white Ice and buttercups. Yet another was covered with daisies and white ribbons, Still another was adoj merely with vari- colored paper napkins, made into rosettes 80 as THE SEPTEMBER STORMS. When the big September storm arrives the beach combers are on the alert. During the progress of the washout each succeeding tide carries®away its portion of the sand, leaving more and more of the blue mud exposed. It get up very rst raya of early in the m and with the structure is so arranged that it consumes more time in making the turn. With the playing about the mountain peaks and closing the frightful gorges and swollen tor- rents, the, great iron leviathan swaying and innging along "y, serpentine Firwt realized the ‘of railway travel and ity of the, sullen man who on the throttle and his eye on then that these enterprising persons daylight Se. the shore for treasures. What oa é “Mud?” meeting. “if .d we will | to cover the carriage with them, the baby's cap | do they find? It would be better to ask what and a lace yoke cut in "i But how is that desirable?” fe us meet at the Baltimore and Ohio depot at | Another yet was covered with blue and yellow | coins, brooches, pins—everything, in short, that White ribbon that ‘was worn @ sleeveless fannel.with white moire wal shape and run with is tied ima series of little ‘It is a guarantee of the purity of our Potomac water,” said the professor. “That seems a paradox. “Perhaps. But the fact is that the very muddiness of Potomac water is the best possi- bie proof that it is healthful. Chemists have discovered by experiment that there is no pre- cipitant equal to a little sewage in water. If there were any sewage in the precipitate the particles of mud and the water drawn from the river would be comparatively clear. “But the mud in it——" “Demonstrates absolutely that there is organic matter in the water. It may not be plewant to drink, but you can be confident that it will do you no harm. There is no more wholesome water in the world than that of the Missouri river, which is so notoriously muddy. “Then it would seem to follow that water of crystal clearness is not to be trusted?” “On the contrary, one should beware of it. Its clearness is very apt to mean that it con tains organic matter, and very sparkle isa dangerous d e filter?” avoid sign, “That is no reason for not “Not at all. However, in the kind that gets foul and has to be frequently.” Pentesase Rie Itisn’t until a man gets to be reasonably rich that other ‘come to him and tell hiss how Le prareelas of money.—Somerville Jour- % it would | 8 o'clock in the moruing—8 exactly.” Tt was agreed. When that hour came all were present except one—a very conspicuous Secre- tary. ‘They waited an hour and then the special fon went off without him. And he? Well, he got on a car at his house and the next he knew he was at the navy yard. “Didn't you know any better than to bring he indignantly demanded of the conductor. “No, sir, you didn’t tell me nothing. I didn’t know wheré you wanted to go,” answered that official. climbed angrily out and "Again bis brain went wool thering and he woke to consciousness at ‘At this point he was too mad to speak to the dentseoon bat bs pohowionh tock paver formed into rosettes nd tied with rib ns. ‘Then there was another that was di and ornamented with grass-green silk and white lace. Still another was so interwoven with | real pink roses as to look as -if made of those flowers. One very funny one had comic little Japanese monkeys bobbing all over the um- oe of the ibulators: Oo eraml were 1; aI yellow posed of golden rod. One was rein & eunflower for a recious firids its way to this pay stratum of m, The objects are usually discovered in little pockets in the mud, pieces of silver and copper money being most humer- ous among them. The ocean is of metal —-