Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1892, Page 10

= co A BALL IN THE WINTER PALACE THE CZAR AT HOME. All About Alexander III of Russia and His Life at St. Petersburg. HIS TURKISH NEIGHBOR. How He Looks, Acts and Talks, and How He Goes Alone Upon the Streete—His Wonder- fal Muscular Strength—How the Empress of Russia Looks—Her Fear of Asassination. Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. Sr. Perezsscna, August 15, 1892. i HE OZAR HAS RE- turned with his family from a visit to Denmark and he is now dividing his time between his two favorite suburban palaces of Gatchina and Peterhof. He never spends his summers in St. Petersburg, but he comes to the city about once a week, and it will be surprising to Ameri- cans to know that he Grives about quite like an ordinary citizen. I sew him on the Nevski Prospect, which is the Broadway of St. Petersburg, a few days ago. Bis carriage was a rich dark-blue landau and he rove without outriders, the only sign of his vans being his liveried coachmen and footmen. Down at Ga:china you may see him almost any afternoon walking about the palace grounds and ow and then takings stroll outside of them He may have a guard about him, but if soit is invisible, and as far as I can see his majesty has = attendants than the other monarchs of | ope. The mostof our information conceru- | fog the czar comes from England, and the English newspapers disseminate more false re- porte about public men and matters than sny | Other newspapers in the world. They represent | THE czar. his whole time trembling say he isa tyrant and a sensualist und that he never has a peacefal moment. The truth seems tobe just the verse. Of ali the people I have met i including many enemies o} 1 found one who could say Private character. All say that he is a and conscientious man aud his relations to his | Wife and family are the models for the empire. THE SULTAN AND THE CZAR. ® year or so ago and the contrast between him | and Alexander III is striking. The sultan is a Jean, sallow, nervous fellow with a frame face for all the world like that of Jay riage by his sid trembled as he passed along on the wav = the mosque and he inspired me rathe: with pity than with respect. I'was told at Con- stantiuople that he feared to go to bed at night nd that he often site up until daybreak. bis watchmen always about bim, and in the his palace there ure guards who are ever on.the lookout. The czar has nothing of the coward about him. He looks like a mon- grch and every inch of his six feet four is kin Remanoff family from which he come always been noted for th ite members, and Alex: stands «ix feet he weighs 250 qrouad 98 the ordinary, strength is prodigions. He shoe. I am told, and bend it double in his ls and be can tke a gold coin the size of a ¢ aad fold it in halves with bis ingers. His bea: rises above those of his suite and the Russian costumes which he wears make hita look even taller than he is. When I saw him the other ine Jong overcoat and his trousers were thrust into © pair of top boots. His uniform was that of one of his regiments and he wears different uni- from time to time in compliment to such panies of his soldiers as most see him. A | silver. | beautiful lady CROWN PRINCE. fegiment considers it a great flattery to have the caar wea: its uniform. and this is one of the in which he shows his approval of the drill ot Vin soddiore.. He lo very fired of bis soldiers, He addresses them gs his children and they call Ihim the “father czar.” NOW THE CZAR EXERCISES. ‘The daily life of the czar is simple in the ex- treme. He keeps his great frame in good con- dition by regular exercise, and like Gladstone, sorts of manual work. He isan athlete of th first order and he is fond of playing with his children, and during his stay at Denmark he had a number of wrestling matches at the pal- ace there, in each of which, Iam told, he came out victorions. He is fond of horseback riding and he has 150 saddle horses in his stables here. His stud contains some of the finest horses in ‘the world and he knows all about horses and is anxious to improve his stock and is very care- ful as to the character of the horses which are brought into the army. He often drives him- self, with his wife beside him, in a phaeton about Gatchina and he holds his reins with his arwrs stiff, in the Russian fashion. I visited the THE PRINCESS XENIA, museum in which the imperial carriages are kept the other day and spent hours wandering at through the hundreds.of golden coaches nd gorgeous landaus, each of which is worth many, many thousand dollars. I handled har- ness which was inlaid with precious stones and the metal work of which was of solid gold or Isaw harness cloth embroidered with pearls, and the total value of these trappings aud coaches runs high into the millions of dol- lars. As I looked at them I could not but think of the simple carriages which the czar really uses and how far his spirit is removed from | that of ostentation. He leads a more simple life, in fact, than many of his nobles, and he cares nothing whatever for style. He i: one of the hardest-worked men of his empire. He rises at daybreak and takes a cup of coffee, says his prayers and then begins work, looking over his state papers. At 1 o'clock he takes breakfast with his wife, and after breakfast he exercises for a while before going back to work. He keeps ins system in perfect condition and his stomach never goes back on kim. He has his dinner at 6 o'clock, but, like many big men, he eats little, and his’ drink is confined toa He always dines with bis iy. and his family relations are most beautiful. IN LOVE WITH HIS WIFE. The Czar of Russia is in love with his wife. This is an extraordinary thing for » Russian mouarch, and both peasants and nobles have spoken to me in the highest terms of his purity in this regard. Hw «pends his evenings with his family and-often reads to his wife while she | embroiders, and there are a number of stories i illustrate this part of his character. Years since he attended a ris and there met ie. All the beauties of the Paris court Were present, and as the empress chatted with him she asked him to point oat to her the most in the® room. The future ezar replied that he was too much of a bar- barian to thiuk any woman more beautiful THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA, than his own wife, and his actions toward her from that time to this have shown that he bas continued of this opinion. Still his marriage to her was one of diplomacy rather than of love. She is, you know, the daughter of Chris- tian IX of Denmark, and her name was the Princess Dagmar. She had been engaged to the ezar's elder brother, who died at Nice, and in this way the present czar became heir to the throne. The Princess Dagmar was much in love with Alexander's brother, and she did not want to be married to her present husband. Alexander himself had a sweetheart whom he was anxious to marry, but state reasons made both these young people give up their cherished ideas, and “Alexander tit wooed the Princess Dagmar and married her. Love came after the marriage, and, though this was more than a quarter of a centary ago, they are lovers still. The Empress of Russia 1 the reverse of her ly. Her nose is slightly trousse, but her features are otherwise | as hard at thi robes would make an village rich, and thelr value surpasses com] In’ the treasury at Moscow I saw the empress’ corona- afoot has majorty's foot has « high in- ‘SHE FEARS ASSASSINATION, The empress is the member of the imperial family who most fears the assassination of the czar. Sheisin suspense whenever her hus- band is away from her, aud every time that his fhat she is no fond of dancing. She can forget herself when she floor, and as long as the mad gailop goes on sh © dote not feel the resence.of the specter which continuously over the Russian throne. The czar nar- rowly escaped assassination at the funeral of his father. He knew of his danger and he went away with his wifeand children down to Gat- china, talking about other matters as though nothing had happened. It was not until the children had gone to bed and that he was out driving alone with the empress that he told her of it. She was terrified and she wept bit- terly. He told her he looked upon it as. mat- ter of destiny and said he was ready to do his duty and he would do it whatever happens, THE CZAR AND HIB NURSR. An incident occurred here at St. Peter sburg a short time ago which illustrates the character of the Czar of Russia and which shows his braveryand kindnessas a man. His English nurse, whom he loved groatly and who taught his baby lips to. prattle “in the Anglo-Saxon tor died. This nurse was living at the winter palace, and I think she died there. The ezar and his brother came to see her while she was sick, and after she was dend the two lifted her with their own hands and placed her in the coffin. At the time of the funeral the czar ar- rived five minutes late. He came in walking and sai 'y friends, Tam sorry I have kept ‘ou waiting.”’ It was the English woman's de- ssiro that she pe buried after the ceremonies of her own chufch, and the services were held at a Uttle English chapel on the Nova. In going to the church the emperor walked bel seat in the church during the services. While these were being pronounced he seemed greatly moved end held his handkerchief fo his eves. Wéth hat fn his hand, he walked behind the hearse in the middle of the street to the cemetery. This was quite » lon, distance. The streets were lined with crowds of people, and such policemen as were present must have been in citizens’ clothes. rough these masses the czar marched without visible ards. When he reached the cemetery he neeled down in front of the grave and then he and his brother lowered the coffin into the grave. This is only one of a number of funerals he has attended in this way, and whenever he goes to a funeral he walks, after the Russian custom, behind the hearse, He is pre-emi« nently @ religious man, and he believes in the Greek Catholic religion. He goes to mass every morning and crosses himself often and pyays much, He gives a great doal to the church, and one of the chief troubles with him is that he is too much influenced by the church. The church is the millstone around Rnssin’s neck. It drags financially to powder. The priests of Russia are continually bleeding the people. They are opposed to education and advancement and their whole tendency is backward. The czar is the head of the church, but he is influenced by its priests, and itis largely through them that the persecutions of the Je nd the restriction of free thoughtcomes. The czar himself is very kind to his people. They call him their father and he looks upon himself as such. He ve & large part of his imperial revenues to the Fimine and millions of dollare wegt from his own pocket into the hungry districts. Both h and his wife are very charitable. They visit the various hospitals and they are always giving. THE CZAR'S CHILDREN. I don’t suppose there is a family in tho United States which has a more happy home life than that of the czar. He has five children—three boys and two girls, The eldest is the Grand | Duke Nicholas, who is now.twenty-four years old, and who shows himself to be a bright, ag- gressive young prince. He has had charge of the whole of the famine fund, as he has worked his father does at governing jhisempire. He is afar different looking man than his father. He takes after his mother, and his slight form and delicate features look | but little like those of the Romanoffs. He is of studious temperament and his manners are pleasant. The second son, George, who is now | just twenty-one years old, has more of the Ro- wanoffs about him. Hoe is said to take after his father. and is rather obstinate and ca- pricious in his disposition. The eldest daugher, Grand Duchess Zenia, is a beauty. Thad a present of a photograph of her fro one of her friends this afternoon, She looks little like her mother and her form, thong] small, is beautiful and her face isa winning one. She was seventeen years old last March and the question of her marriage is one that is al- ready whispered about here at St. Petersburg. She is probably destined to marry one of the great princes of Europe and she will not likely have much to say inthe matter. She is very bright and she is said to have one of the sharpest tongues in St. Petersburg. She knows a number of languages and she has considerable artistic talent. All of the czar’s children speak English; French, Russian and Danish. The czar himself speaks balf dozen different guages, and the empress can talk in French, mai, English, Danish or Russian equally well. HIS. SIMPLICITY. With all his greatness the czar is more simple in his manners than any monarch in the | world. There are no frills or furbelows about him. He talks in a simple way to his friends | and to his officials, and though he is the czar in | every sense of the word, he is not puffed up with conceit. He is probably the richest moziarch in the World. His income amounts to more than $10,000,000 a year and he owns more land than any other personinthe world. Hebasmore than amillion square miles of cultivated land and for- estand he has gold and silver mines in Siberia, and his receipts are so large that no one knows how large they are. He uses his money just as he pleases. No one has any right to criticise his cash account, and his will is law over his | subjects. No matter what the laws of Russia |may be the czur's will or the czar’s word \is above all law and things are right be- |cause he says they are right. I wish I {could describe for you his wonderful pal- |aces. There are nothing like them on the | face of the earth. I saw a single crown in the | Winter Palace which had mbre than « million dollars worth of jewels in it, and the treasury at Moscow contains cartloads of gold and silver plate. The Winter Palace is so large that it covers acres and there isa story that when it was burned not long ago a cow was discovered | in fbi the unused pag Byeo as hog | had been keeping it and of | palace knew eo about it. ies two | thousand acres about one of the summer to keep these in order and the palace of Peter- hof surpasses in its beauties those of Versuilleg, Paanx G. Canrenten. ———_+-____.. Cork Soles in Autumn Shoes. From the Shoe and Leather Reporter. ‘The heaviest shoe of the fall styles for me: ‘wear have an intermediate sole of cork. Cork ind the | coffin with his hat in his hand and he took his | the people to the earth and grinds them | palaces near here, and it takes jx hundred men | People ABOUT OUR GIRLS. Prince Poniatowski Says American | was an Young Women Are Artificial. THEY HAVE OHANGED. Striking Physical Changes as Testified to by Ladies’ Tailors, Shoemakers, Corset Mak- ers, Glovemakers and Physicians — The Causes of tt All—Changes in Notions of Propriety. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yonx, Sept. 9, 1892. RINCE PONIA- towski remarked the other day in conversa- tion that American girls seemed to him very arti- ficial—that they were “always posing.” Now this opinion must be regarded not lightly, inasmuch as the author of it has been Newport's most conspicuous beau this season, for whom Mh all the unmarried young women of the smart coterie have set their caps. Certainly it is surprising to note such a view of Yankee maidens who have hitherto maintained #0 marked a reputation for naturalness of de- meanor. Indeed, this was judged to be their primo and distinctive charm, though the Prince of Wales thought it carried too far when one of them dropped a piece of ice down tho back of his neck. ‘The American girl of a generation ago rep- resented a distinct type physically. But her delicacy of physique appears to have been lost, partly through the adoption of athletic habits in imitation of the English. The most famous ladies’ tailor in this country told me yesterday that within ten years the average native-born oung woman of twenty has become one inch Inrger in bust measure and more than one inch bigger around the hips, as shown by his meas- urements, BETTER DEVELOPED FIGURES. “Their figures are better developed aito- gether,” he said, ‘and they do not need nor use so much padding as formerly. I attribute the increased measurement about the hips chiefly to tennis playing. American young ladies have bigger waists than they used to have, but that is because it is no longer good form to lace much. Of course the corset should compress the figure somwhat, but in the best society tight lacing is ruled against. ‘The practice must go, for the reason that it has been relegated to persons of inferior station. “What do I think of the figures of American girls? They are charming, of course. But I will say frankly that there are no figures in the world equal to those of the English girl. They represent the perfection attained through gen- erations of healthy living and good exercise. We employ English girls only in our show rooms and their figures are the admiration of our customers. French women have well- developed busts, but their legs are too thin. Thin legs are considered most correct in France. A ballet master once told me that American girls required lesa padding for the stage, as to their lower limbs, than those of any other nation.” A great Broadway manufacturer of corsets said: “The American girl of today has more arms, neck and bust than formerly. Twenty Years ago her arms were apt to be skinny and the bones in her neck showed. To a cer- tain extent these things are true now, #0 that it is often remarked that English young women have better necks and shoulders than those of this country, though their faces are not so pretty. The present style of corsage makes the bust seem high and the waist as lon; as possible, the latter effect being heighten by making ‘the corset so as to repress and confine both bust and hipa. One must com- mend the first point, which isan improvementon the old fashion requiring that the bust should be low. A low bust is a mark of an inferior phy- sical type, as you may observe in many tribes of savages. ‘In that respect it is like an over-lon; waist, which can never properly be consider beautiful. After a while we shall see a revolu- tion in the style which will demand that the hips shall appear as high as possible, so as to give apparent length to the limbs and the most graceful effects of drapery. Look at the Greek statues and you will understand what I mean.” CHANGES AS TO FEET. A‘mannfacturer of ladies’ shoes said that women wore larges sizes than they used to. “It used to be the case that a woman would never acknowledge wearing a shoe bigger than a 5,” he declared. “Dealers were obliged to mark Twand 86 down to lower numbers, else they could not sell them. Customers would say that they could get smaller sizes to fit them at other shopsand would go elsewhere. Now ladies’ shoes are sold up to 9, and the wearers are not ashamed of them. I don't (hink that the female foot has grown bigger, but that the development | ‘of common sense in dress has brought about the change. Within the last five years it has ceased to be the fashion for little girls to wear shoes with high heels. Most of the shoes made for them nowadays have no heels at all, and ladies are adopting the same fashion. French heels seem to be rapidly going out. “Women usually wear low shoes in summer, though it is claimed that they enlarge the aukles. Vanity about the feet seems to have diminished of Inte years. Even the dandies no longer pinch their toes. Feet in different parts of the country vary¥o much in shape that dif- ferent forms of lasts have to be used in manu- facturing shoes for various sections georaphi- cal. New England feet are particularly flat, | those of the women being flatten than the men’s, with very little instep. The western foot is wide and thick in all its parts, from the ankle to the toe joints. In the southern foot the joints are small, the ankle is delicate and the instep is arched and high. It is not blood but climate that determines these matters. In Kentucky, where people have the smallest feet, the eame rule appears to apply to animals, even the horses being remurkuble for the smallness of their extremities.” A manufacturer of gloves made a very unex- pected statement. Said he: “American women wear smaller gloves than formerly. We have been compelled to notice the ditference within Ten the last few years, ears ago we sold very few gloves of sizes 5; and 6, but now a greuter part of our trade is in those sizes. The tend- ency is to plain gloves, and the fashions in them change very little, whereas they used to alter constantly, often leaving a big stock of unsala- ble goods on hand.” A PHYSICIAN'S VIEWS. A fashionable physician of celebrity was asked to account for the physical improvement of the American girl, He said: “Physical culture is accountable for it all. On sunny akernoons,when I go driving in Central Park, I often see as many as seventy young girls playin, tennis on one meadow. ‘To me it in delightful spectacle, because these are the mothers of the coming generation. Women walk nowadays and indulge in many athletic sports. It is no longer the fashion for young ladies to be delicate and they de not chew slate pencils to give them what used to be considered a becoming and interest- ing pallor. Unwholesome girls are not in demand for wives. Toa certain extent, the girls of to- day suffer ill-consequences from the tight-lacing of which their grandmothers were guilty, but it must be said for the latter that they had more’healthful habits than their de- scendants in respect to going to bed at_ proper hours. The chief danger to be apprehended, in my notion, lies in the fact that American families are’ ceasing to produce offspring. Nowadays parents who have one or two child: ren consider that they have contributed sufti- ciently to the population. There is everything in breeding. Look at the wrestlers of Japan, They and their women have belonged to a: ox clusive caste for centuries, being obliged to intermarry within it. ‘Consequently they tower head and shoulders ubove the ordinary of their own race.” ‘Any one who goe#out at all in New York so- ciety can hardly fail to be strack with marked absence or scareity of beaut; exclusive circle which is called the x , a WASHINGTON. D. C.. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ‘-| which ornament the Paris ——— 10, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES, — TOO MUCH CHAMPAGNE. Here is a true story in point: A young girl of not more than twenty-two, while on a yachting party one day last summer, took perceptibly too much drink. Everybody supposed that it unfortunate eceident, but during the subsequent winter, at s ball given in a private house, a similar misadventure happened to her, ber condition —— that two young men, who had been on the yachting party aforesaid, were obliged to hide her away upstairs, pac be guarding her, so that she jd not escape and make an exhibition | < a. There See ane LA sg aroun isl at dinner parties, at balls, champagne on the lawnat fetes champetres—always champagne, accompanied by other tempting drinkables, with which the young women are plied by beaux who have more than commonly taken more of the same than was good for them. Any observant person who will take notice of the fashionable women on coaches at the races or on festive occasions at Ne will remark that they quite usually exhibit symptoms of hav- ing pariaken too freely from the bottles that are kept convivially popping. What wonder thet young married women hare frequently to powder their noses. Do women dress to please the m:n or to sat- isty the criticism of other women? That is a much-disputed question and probably it will never be decided. Presumably, it is somewhat of both. General condemnation by men will not kill fcshion. The men all laughed the ““grecian bend” to scorn, but the style ran its course. They made unlimited fun of the ugly masses of Zulu hair, called ‘“chignons,” which women fastened on their heads awhile ago, but they held their ogn. Bustles likewise, notwith- nding the ridicule of the eomic papers, and imilarly with the new-fangled suspenders for females. But, though men may make fun of women’s fashions in the abstract, they encour- age them in the concrete. Is not every man articular and even anxious that his woman- ind shall be dreased according to the fashion? It is true, as has often been remarked, that men take in only the general effect of a woman's costume. whereas other women regard the de- tails. Therefore she always takes pains to sat- isfy the keen criticism of her own sex, while secking to set off her person for the admiration of the masculine brute. It is often asked, “Who make the fashions?” They are chiefly created by the designers for the dresemakers and milli- ners in France and England. Not a few of them are started in vogue by actresses, A Parisian artiste may take anotion to weara bouquet on her right shoulder and so originate aetple that will spread all over. the civilized world. The Empress Eugenie, in the height of her charms and power, was a maker of fashions. Did she choose the Princess of Wales today might exercise a like influence, but she does not care enough for dress. NOTIONS OF PROPRIETY CHANGE. A.great manufacturer of women’s stockings told the writer that these articles of apparel were sold now in the same sizes as hitherto. Without going further into the discussion of 80 delicate a subject the inference to be drawn may be left to the reader. It is stated, and probably with truth, that the average Ameri- can girl of today is taller than twenty years ago; furthermore, that the girls of the eastern states are bigger than those of the west, #0 that one often sees them looking down upon their partners in the dance. After all there need e no hesitation felt in speaking of the clothing for the nether female limbs, even though it were of garters, inasmuch as women are no longer ashamed of having legs. Do not the new- fashioned gowns exhibit them almost as plainly as if the wearer had on tights? There has been a revolution in thinking as to this point within the last generation, and grandmothers nowadays vainly try to convince their grand- daughters that they should alwdys sit with their feet close together on the floor, so as to convey an impression that they are built solid from the ground up, like the ladies of Noah's family who come in toy arks. When the fin-de-siecle American girl sits down at the table she eats ahearty meal, not being ashamed, to have an appetite, ° like Lord Dundreary’s young Indy who ate nothing to speak of in’ public and gorged herself in ivate. This is another matter in which ideas formerly accepted have been overthrown. If the Yankee young woman has grown one inch in bust measure in the last ten years, and over an inch around the hips, to what proportions will she have attained a century hence, her feet becoming steadily more sensibie in size and her hands smaller? There is no difficulty in making an estimate on the subject. It is simply a mat- ter of figures. A FLOWER BOULEVARD. The Novel Use Which Paris Has Found for Its Military Zone. Paris Correspondence of the Morning Journal. To all the wonders of this most wonderful of cities, Paris is about toadd a ‘‘flower boulevard.” urrounded, for the entire eighty miles of its circumference, by what is called the “military zone.” This is a wide strip of land which must always be kept free of all buildings which cannot be removed at a few hours’ notice, because Paris is a fortified city and must have a certain space in front of her fortifications clear for military purposes. Of course, no manufacturer will build on this land, because he is in a position to have his whole establishment swept away if war comes. Nothing but market gardens of the cheapest sort, small restaurants and the cabins of equat- ters and interlopers are to be found in this military zone, which causes such a surprise to travelers who flash across it daily in express trains. On one side of it are the huge and frowning fortifications, on the other ,acres of vast six-story ouses, built of vellowieh-white stone. The stranger asks: “What means this dilapidation and desertion just at the gates of the great capital? And the brief answer is “Military gone.” At last afl this squalid expanse of plain and rolling upland is to be beautiful. Paris is sim- ply going to turn the military zone into a gigantic conservatory. Of course, if war ever comes up fo the gates of Paris again this conservatory will suffer. But meantime the ugly blot upon the beauty of Paris will have been suppressed. ‘The idea was bequeathed to the city by M. Alphaad, the old director of the city’s public works, who was in office fof a quarter of a cen- tury. "The city engineers, foliowing out his idea, have decided to break up the horticultural laboratory, which at present occupies a great leweet milk made up his | over the mountain to Harper's F number of acres between the park of La Muette | a steep road, but worth the effort. FOUR TRAMPS. Government Clerks Who Walked During Their Vacation. AT HARPER'S FERRY THEY FOUND MUCH TO INTEREST THEM IN THE REFLECTIONS OF THE RAID OF JONN BROWN AND THE FATE OF THAT PIONEER ABOLITIONIST. OUR GOVERNMENT CLERKS AND A H kid who were spending their vacation tramping through the country after three days’ walking along the canal de- cided to strike out through the country. The log of their journey says: At Point of Rocks we left the canal, with its hot road, | monotonous scenery and aggravating curves. | In the early morning we passed over Catoctin mountain and entered into the great farming | district of Frederick county. It was a welcome change, and as we climbed along the cool, shady mountain road the spirit of the first day was roused again and the woods wero made more or less vocal with song. three days in the blazing sun with nothing new to attract attention, the shady road, rip¢ cher- ries, beds of shy strawberries end sparkling «prings were doubly refreshing, while the occa- sional glimpses of the valley below and the blue lines of the far off Allegheneys beyond were | revelations of beauty. | | open country the spires of Jefferson were in sight for hours before we reached the town. Onevery side are evidences of agricultural Prosperity. Cozy farm houses, with oce stonat brick mansions, always surrounded by substantial barns and numerous ont houses, making each farm seem a little settlement in | itself, while ficlds of wheat just taking on the golden tinge of harvest lny on either hand, and as the breeze touched them w: billows of | motion chased eaeh other in the giad sunshine. AN IDEAL FARMING COUNTRY. Frederick county 1s an ideal farming coun- try, and in the development of its rural indus- dustries will compare favorably with any farming community in the country. Its fertile | soil and the thrift of its @ultivators are at- | tested by the clean, well-fenced, well-housed | farms, good roads and the general air of pros- | perity which pervades. George saya it re- minded him very much of certain English dis- tricts because the byroads are lined on either side with trees and because there is a large pro- portion of grass land. upon which aro pastured jerds of sleek, well-fed cattle. This may all be true or it may be only an opportunity for him to air his knowledge of foreign parts. The roads are a special feature, and ther general excellence is an indication of the thrift of the community. Jefferson lies upon both sides of the famous Frederick pike. up which Stonewall Jackson's ragged veterans passed on that coolsSeptember morn when they gave Barbara Freitchie ber place in patriotic history. It is a village of which but too few are left, typical of that ante- bellum style of country towns which were the pride of the gentry of the eouth, the home of the owners of the smiling acres that surround it on all sides, Both sides of the pike are lined with noble old trees, whose boughs interlock and through which even the midday sun can only straggle in patches, There is a quiet, restful air that invites the traveler to loiter at the town pump or stop for a gossip at the corner store. Perhaps the most striking feature ton person passing the first time, excepting always the features of ita pretty girls, is the rim neatncss that appears on every side. + Every lawn is just so green, the grass just so short, every fence has the sate shade of daz- zling white, every graveled walk bordered with round stones of the same size and pattern and every house bright with fresh paint. In mem- ory itecems like one of those little Swiss toy villages, stiff and prim, that, with the Noah's arkand’ wooden animals, share the warmest affections of childhood. If there were a single house in the town that was not newly painted we did not see it, and while there were some fearful combinations of color the whole effect was delightful. Itwas the neatest, cleanest, freshest Village which was found on ‘the whole trip. 3 TOWARD THE LINE OF BLUE MOUNTAINS. Turning here sharply to the left our course led toward the line of Blue mountains, in which ja deep depression told where the Potomac assed through and beyond which was Harper's erry. Walking on the pike through a district not so level as to be mopiotonous and not so hilly as to be tiresome, with a bracing air and a partly clouded sky, was positively a luxury and the mile posts seemed too close together. — One of the finest wheat crops of recent years was just beginning to ripen and in the big barns and tool sheds creaking grindstones, rasping whetatones and the ring of steel told of prepar- ation for harvest. Harry is ambitious to ap- Pear quite at home ‘under all, circumstances, ut his unfortunate near-sightedness occas: ionally brings his weil-meant effort to naught. Passing a beautiful field of timothy. with long, feathery heads, he remarked confidentially to | the owner, who contemplated us from the op- posite cide of the fence, that this was one of | the finest pieces of wheat that we bad seen, ‘The native seemed surprised and so was Harry when a head was handed him for inspecti By this little incident he learned th: fields were brown and all timothy meadows green, This enabled him to recover his lost prestige a little later by complimenting the | Owner of a late wheat field, which bad. met be- | gun to ripen, upon the fine stand 0 timotify he fad. ‘That’ wheat could be both green and golden in color was too much for # near-sighted city farmer. This was the first day which actually led | through the country, and it developed charac. teristics in the party which the days that fol- lowed only served tostrengthen. ‘The kid came | out strong. Instead of plodding along with the crowd, imbibing wisdom from the conversation of his elders, he romped through the fielda, chased butterities, climbed cherry trees, hooked apples and worked off his animal spirits | moying every dog on the road. He not jonly outwaiked ‘every member of the party, but he.performed gastronomic feats that were marvelous. He was always hungry and yet al- ways eating. Green fruit, raw onions and standard diet, yet neither death, nor even cholera morbus, claimed him. AT HARPER'S FERRY. After reaching the Potomac at Knoxville we followed the road to Weaverton and then, rather than again follow the towpath, crossed It was m the (so much visited by Americans every summer), | top there isa wonderful view and you have the Rue de Siam and the Avenue da Trocadero. | your choice of scenery, pastoral, river or moun- Here are established the marvelous hot houses, which have long been the envy of all other Eu- ropean cities. All Paris turns out once a year, when the azaleas are in bloom, to visit these hot houses, which cover acres and contain al- most every variety of plant and flowering shrub under ‘heaven. These vast conservatories are now to give way to two streets and new ones are to be established on the military zone, from Neuiily to the Porte Dau- hine, in the first instance. This zone. is enceforth to be the great nursery from which the public parks and squares of Paria will be supplied with trees and flowers, and a boule- vard will furnish an elegant promenade be- tween the gardens and conservatories all the way around the city. ‘The hanging gardcas of Babylon will be distanced by thia gigantic im- ovement, which isto cost not less than 400,000 for the first installation. OF course, ten times that amount will be needed before the wor is complete. ‘The gardens in which plants are prepared for the parks will cover about fifteen acres and this space will be quadrupled shortly. The forcing houses are also to cover many acresanda school will be established, in which gardeners will be taught the delicate and difficult art of laying out parks and garder ‘he famous La Muette establishment, now to be broken up, was founded in 1855, after the exposition of that year, and was in’ some re- ta the outgrowth of it. It was located on thesite of the ancient “Clos-Saint Georges,” and ite thirty immense hot houses were among the chief wonders of Europe. was one for the camallias, one for azaleas, one for palms, another for ferns. There all the flowers parks wero first called into being, aud in the vast cellars, lighted by thousands of gas jets, the tuberenlous plants, the tulij i , the hyacinths, the nareissi, Wrere thieided from cold. ‘There were eel climatized, end the chief gardener used to re were tropical ite palekacusia ast asin ine comearaions of Paris. ay seen a. Leary purely ® century ago, may now be seen Muette, |tain. At the Ferry we seemed somewhat ob- jects of suspicion, but a glance in the glass at | the barber shop’ showed # good reason. ‘The | dust and stam of four diys was not conducive to neatness in personal appearance. A stop- ping place was at last secured ou the top of Bolivar Heights, upon the brazen assurance to the landlady from Alf that we were not-tramps, but gentlemen. Finding that she was a Wash~ | ington woman George sought to do the agree- | able by professing a personal acquaintance with | her husband, and Willis, not willing to be left | where the fair sex was concerned, complimented | her upon the intellectual charms of ber daugh- | ter, w he insisted he had met some years |ago. They were getting along swimmingly, until sho dropped the observation that she was | achildless widow. Of course, the mistake was the result of similarity of names, Harper's Ferry is a place of historfe associa- tions. It also hasan ambition to pose as a summer resort. A casual conversation with the average inhabitant leaves it doubtful whether they most prize their past association with stirring events or their professed freedom from mosquitoes and malaria, They mix both in their conversation, but the general drift is to set forth attractions to draw the summer boarder. Whichever inducement is # jouse where John Brown and his little band | defied the military power of the state of Vir- /Sinia and of the federal government, whose fall marked the beginning of the endvf ‘slavery in this country, has been transferred bodily to Chicago to form a penny show in that town, where sentiment is appreciated, as it is meas ured by the standard of the almighty dollar. It is hard to decide which most deserves censure the city that would offer money for a priceless relic, which but so much brick and mor- tar when moved from its surroa: tions, or the people and accept such an offer. battered walls of the Alamo to eri P After marching | belonged to the latter, but he changed the deen which bad upon, bu the AN'S STUDY OF ANIMALS. much to precipitate the “inevitabie | Stories of the French Philosopher Concerm- of change did conflict.” The understanding was that in the mountain country of Virginia and Tennessee there should be united effort to assist the slaves, of the valley ¥ country to escape, the most intelligent to remain in the work to their ing Brute Intelligence. From the London Truth M. Renan bas gone to Brittany, where he Renally spends bis eummors, be and Mme. unfortunate fellows, | Renan taking with them grandchildren, birds the rest to be conveved by an undergronnd | and domestic animale, as well as domestics, railway toa free land. The mountains were selected because in their fastnessos email bands could successfully elude or fight any force sent after them. The iden was to barass slave Ttamuses him to contemplate the animals, Frenchman like, he is fond of cate and ie @ hold- | lOFer of dogs. Before he left town he descanted ers by rendering their property insecure, and | With me on “dog individualities,” and on the at the eame time teach slaves in ever widening canine and feline traits which bad given him Circtes that there was freedom for them if they | m would but make the effort. both simple and efficient, acd the very ge BY of the countrr seemed to invite it. Whe ywn gathered afew armed and trusty men and turned his face southward the inner circie | are © supposed he intended to begin this organized and sto fort. The news of bis insurrection and cap- | are, on the wh: It was a scheme | differed ch pleasure to note. The mind of a dog little from that of a bright, affection- ate child. ‘The lights and shades of one are common to the other M. Renan's personal recollections of doge ss. and be might alla book with traite ries of themand of cats. He thinks we le. better than our seventeenth ture was as startling to his friends in the north | century ancestors, aud asks for no. fuller proof as it wasto the south. Why he changed the | then what lies in the presgnt day manner of plan or whether the fiery old fighter ever in- | joo! nale artes and the philos- tended to follow it no one knew, and there was consternation in prominent abolition circles at the thought of what might be revealed. He misjudged the temper of the slaves he bad come to aid in expecting them to rally to him ready to fight for their liberty as mach as he misjudged the sentiment of the north, if he ex- pected a popular rising to support bim. His rashness hastened the end, but who will sar Coming down into the | that the original plau would not have so harassed the alaveholders as to have soon brought about the same result. A stow Ix TOWN. There was a show in town the night we spent there, and citizens stood on the street corners and discussed the flaming posters on the bi boards announcing a lecture by a reformed negro cannibal, Brazanja by name; he was t tell of his gastronomic experience with tough old sailors, dry mistionartes and tender, Juicy babies from captured tribea. The kid wanted to see this relic of barbariem,but it was pot out to him that he himself was 0 ound plump that his appearance might tempi a re turn of the old appetite to Mr. Brazanja to the injury of our party. After dark, in search of amusement, we eat on the ston nee around | the old gfavevard on the hill,watched the flash- ing headlights of the engines in the va low and heard the ceaseless rush of wa two rivers, while Alf p stare, groups facts’ and figures, until we could laugh no longer. Our hilarity was uproarious. Great is the scientific man! BW. THE MAN WHO STAMMERED. Fun When He Tackled » Telephone—Sad Scene in the Hospital. From the New York Herald. It’s great fun to be around when a man with an impediment in his speech tries to talk through a telephone. As a rule he doesn’t try it often, but sometimes he can’t help himself. Such was the case with a clerk in « railroad office down south where I was employed some years ago. Like many others similarly afflicted he stammered most when he tried hardest to stop it. The superintendent happened to drop into the office one morning and asked him to tele- hone to @ certain firm of stock dealers who ad been making inquiries about the matter that they could ship a certain quantity of mixed stock in the same car provided they double decked the car. . “Pl , sir,” said Jobn—that was the name by which everybody addressed him—“I’m raid I c-c-ca-ca-ca— “What's that?” queried the superintendent somewhat harshly. ‘all right, sir,” responded John, meekly, convinced of the utter futility of trying to ex: plain to astranger that he generally got stuck on words beginning with ad” worse than on any other kind. John succeeded in establishing connections {rough “central” all right and then the trouble n. gan. “That stock you d-d-d-d-d. Will go all right,” he shouted, “it Then he paused to take afresh start and the | | being badly burned or burned to death, ¥ think | it a pity that the breed of Coruh was not care- His breath gave ont and he stopped to take ina fresh supply, while the other man prob- ably inquired what sort of an idiot ‘wee trying to ‘alk to him, or something of that sort, for John’s face grew very red. “Blame it!” he yelled at the instrument, “put a b-b-bulkhead in the car.” But evidently the intending shipper was not up in nautical terms and must have implied as much with the addition of ~sundry reflections | concerning the state of John’s intelligence. Whatever it was it made John madder than ever. With a supreme effort he again tackled the telephone and shouted: ““D-d-d-damn it! put a_f-fence through the car, and if that don't do I c-c-can lick you John was a good fellow, though, under strong Protvcation, slightly disposed to be pugnacious. shall never forges the last time I saw him. It was in St. Luke's Hospital, this city. The bead of the department of the railroad in which he was employed was a selfish brate and made bim work a great deal of overtime without any ex- tra pay. In consequence his health gave way and he came north to get well, but got worse and had to go to the hospital. He was without a penny, and those who had been his associates in the railroad office made up a little purse for him. I found his wife by his bedside when I called tosee him. She was a sanguine little body and bogan to talk sbout how she intended when | 5 'bigh opinion of birds, and likes parrots. He | was bequeathed Coco,’ the John got a little better to start a small candy store with the money that bad been subscribed for him, and thus support him until be was able to go to work again. John listened in silence for a time and then said sadly: “*Y-y-es, it will do to b-b-b"— He was unable to finish the sentence, but he made a downward gesture with his finger and burst into tears. It was painfully plain what he meant. Buried he was a few days later and with the money that had been subscribed by his former companions. ee WHAT ENGLAND PAYS Her Great Dependence on Other Coun- tries of the Globe. From Blackwood's Magazine. Asconcerns each great class of articles the expenditure is divided roughly as follows, in order of amounts: Breadstuffs, oats and ferinaccous stances. Sugar. Meat of ali kinds... Butter, margarine, checee and eggs. Tea, coffee and cocoa. only saw in them machines. ey were wot ke autogata to do cer- tain things. Their suffering conid not be deep when they were beaten or otherwice ih If there are now vivixectionista in whom ast of cruelty goes sometimes band in with the love of science there are people to enforce Martin's act a ‘Grammont In! The world, says M. Renan, is jateral and far Their poor Cast in narrows ives —ix tin animals. ike ours, ba ithe germ of every faculty hearts and brains, ast of in the das beasts and d, says M. Renan, with « shrewd glance, vealed in the vain imaginings of the- Bat the divine motherhood was in a symbol-loving age for the ct of lower mammalia and birds taught the lesson figured by the ~ of the Virgin Mary, Queen of es on the platform of superior Tights for their sex will be pleased to know that the illustrious author of “La Vie de Jesus” places the winged or the four-footed mother om a far reatures of the maternal it not to have ighor plane than male same specion, I thall be disappointed on going, death, behind the other side of the cur- tain, to find there is no paradise for animals (if there be one for human beings), and not to find the females on a higher level than the Should not in all justice the hen that brought up clutches of chicks be exalted above the strutting, vain-glorious cock? 4 known any number of in- sagacity in brood hens. He go too far in regarding cate 4 known as humble rela- iid he bad for a neighbor # dog that, disliking the Friday's dinner of fish and potatoes, used regularly on Thursdays to 0 looking wbout for bones, to hide them for his meals next day. How did he know that Thursday pre Friday? Another dog asso- ciated Sanday with personal cleanliness, and used, as regularly as it came round, to go and take « bath, unless the weather was very cold, when he gave himself absolution. Hix name was Jocko. Another dog, called Corah, was known as the guardian angel for miles around. Were there 4 Montyon prize for canine kindliness, Corah would have deserved it. Her particular mis- sion was to amuse sick children. Whenever a child was ill at Tregaer Corah was sent for. Knowing on what mission she was called, she went bounding to the house where the little sufferer inv, and gamboled about its bed until she caused hearty iaughter. Another duty with which she was charged was to prevent the young children of the family, of which she looked on herself as « member, going near the fire in their mother's absence. She was a sweet-tempered creature, but as soon asa child she was left to watch ran near the fire, she become a vixen. She was sent also with children living on the quay, to see that they kept from the water's edge. No child confided to her guardianship ever came to harm. When I read, as loften do, of infants fully perpetuated. The master, in memory of her, called a charming little pup after her. Corah was, what is rare in dogs, very discreet. She was always asking leave (with her eves) to do such things as, when M. Renan was suffering from iliness, jumping into his bed and erouch- ing down at his back to warm it, She was wont to vit for hours motionless on « chair looking at him, waiting for him to tell her to jump into the bed. M. Renan found his cat friends less intelli- t than his dog ones. But what lessons the former gave in deportment! ‘They wore often affectionate, but neger gushing nor familiar. The cat hates gush or familiarity, but the dog likes it, and is, when allowed, boister- ously affectionate toward his master; but Tom | or ¥ takes no liberties and permits none to betaken. M. Renan had sometimes taken in | stray cateto rid himself of rats. He never knew one that did not behave well or that had not a distinct personality. They reasoned on | some facts that were forced on their attention. For instance, an ownerless Tom, who was et- tracted by ‘a rat invasion tothe flatof M. Renan, would, when used roughly, come to the parlor to complain. M. and Mme. Renan, who had ready sympathy with animals, quite understood from the tone of Tom's mewing that he bad a grievance to air. If they called the servant to inquire what it was the cat at once showed itself satisfied, and rubbed itself against one or the other, or both, and purred as bard as itcould. M. Renan has juet of Mile. Desclee, the actress. It was » bird with an as- tonishingly fineear. Mme. Viardot used to sing scales to Coco, and he would repeat them just as they issued from her mouth. aaeenenmibee Love on the Arkausaw. From the New York Sun. Twilight had come again on both banks of the Arkausaw. It hadn't costa cent,and the bus- bandman lighted his pipe and sat down to men- 4g | raised one of her tally declare that he'd be dodgoned to catfish if be hadn't struck « soft snap. The Widow White stands in her front door looking out into the gloaming—gloaming is also cheaper than cornmeal on the Arkansaw. Now and then sbelfts her plump hand toewat a mos- quilo nestling on her chin; now and then she rubs Ler back against the ‘door post to agitate the spot where a gallinipper tried to bite her in two at one mightyeffort. Asshe rubs she mur- mare: ide, but if I hed yo’ in “Dyrn vo'r_pesks my hand I'd frizzle yo" to deat am yan skillet!” ¢ gloaming grows deeper, and that also without extra charge. jow White had just marble feet to kick a 5 pup, when her heart gives asudden jump and she ‘grabs up the splint broom and Fruit. sweeping the puncheon floor. A step—e cough Fish. “i be-be-be!’ A middieeged man of swemey Vegetables {| aspect and demeanor stands in the door. Spices. . “Whyab, Mistah Perkins, but whate fright Poultry and game. -.-. 1” | yo'un give l'un comin’ up so soft! Come right Sundries—Ice, olive oil, yeast, pickles, &0. 134 | inand take a cl “dhseters around meas’ oug! see into; but when we turn back again from cost to origin, and seek to divide out the total paid for each class of food among the various countries that have shipped it to us, we get into complications with which it would be use- in most precious to them. The old engine | Ge less to attempt to struggle, for an exact table of the source of supply of ‘every of article consumed by us would fill with arithmetic. General indications will serve all purposes ‘The United States stands first in the long catalogue of our purveyors, for we spend some forty-seven millions with them every year, while rmany, who comes second in the list, takes i ‘two-thirds of receive thirteen millions from us which are for sugar). France and only ten millions Austria ot powerful this eavenin’. How's co'n e-gittin’ ‘ovah yo'r way?” “-Co’n's pore, Missus White—very pore. Bin chillin’ any lately?” “Chilled two days ago, thank yo’. Beye’ ee a good yer for “Sorter replay. Mighty chills, T reckon, “Ti cotin the’ doh if yorus doan” mind.” “Of co’se Idoan’. I'll sot with yo’. chance in the doah to slap 'skeeters, Taylor cum along this mawnin’, and be'un was a-tellin’ ‘bout enix. ‘He'un saye tik ae re, tous ems te ff