Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1892, Page 12

—_ Piccnx, | THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY. EE ol 31, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. HA LL : o F THE NITRATE KING. A Visit to Col. North, One of the Richest Men in the World. - THE that country. He invested in a number of di ferent #)eculations and made money. He then began to buy nitrate, and kept buying from time to time until he at last got control of the MILLIONS FROM SODA. - Bis Stables and His Horses’ Turkish Baths What His Steeds Have Woo for Him Hie Income Five Million Dollars a Year A Visit to His Country Home. - Written for The Evening Star Pz: THEGE lest sporting ev the coming year will be | the American d | which to be run in| Chicago next June, and inwhich the pick of the | horses of the world will | take part. One of the | heongdithoge mgranc gh co. JOMS THOMAS NORTH. this race wil! be Col. | Licgest nitrate fields in the world, He made John T. North, the | by buying guano, and it scems that famed nitrate king of | everything he touches to gold. Engiand. Col. North CYRUS W. FIELD ON NORTH. Sho: interv we would ever have a billionaire in this world. s before Cyrus W. Field's denth in an w with him I asked bim if: he thought Jas nearly # score of horses in training for thi face, and ag these area number which have sequiret 4 world-wide reputation for their peed in the past. D: this fall T visited the st Were in training aad spent som mansion of their owner in Kent. was there the colonel was offered £ bis horse Nunthorpe, which had just won in ne of the great races of England has in am. tay in London hy plied: Jon't know. A billion dollars is a greater sum than the human mind can grasp, but when | we have men like Col. John Thomas North, with | the wonderful 4 of a continent at his . You can't tell what wili happen. [ don't © what Col. North is worth, but fam told his possessions run high into the tens of ns. the: Ql probebility ght back to the nitrate | “While Iwas in London I heard a number Bing the money witch be had lost on bim in | of estimates of Col. North's fortune, and the the “city and suburban race,” a OF so | most conservative of them pat him at froma ee . £20.000.000 to $100.000,000. He is wonderful feo. At this time Col North backed Nun- ° ia hix work, and he manages this im- thorpe to the extent of about £500,000, and | mense sum with greater ease than Jay Gould hen he was left at the post the colonel’s face ever changed. and from his + fappore he bad won rather than Among the horses which he will b-ing here did his vast fortune. He has an offic and he comes into this every day. Loa- He has would ports from these ects what is to be Colorade, Lady Hermit. El done concerning the With respect to his dertch Roberts, Idd South American investments, he uses the cable | Bheldcake. Lucy Locket a very freely, and on some days he spends what well-known horses of would be a big annual salary for an ordinary which have been bred i: own stables and a man in telegraphing disxpatehes. He is not at all afraid of spending money and be believes in doing everything on a grand scale. THE RICHEST MAN IN ENGLAND TALKS OF BUSINESS. Col. North talked about the condition of the times the world over, and he told me that the outiook for good times in the near future was by no means good, Sard he: . “There is plenty of money in the world, but the people are afraid to i few of which are prac wn as yet. Tt is almost imposat to describe the care that ix thon of these horses and the wonderfal arrangement: vi North has for keeping them in the best of health and training. They Gre more exrefully exercised t fighter and the stables at Eltha senitar than man iby steam, and tkish bath, by which « horse caa be thrown into « perspiration and the cold THE DINI ROOM. Steamed out of him. The walls of the stab stockings or in the safe deposit are lined with costly tiles. The box « They are buying safe securities which ef bardwoud and the floors are of ceme' colonel s horses during the past year have been managed by Lord Kandoiph Churchill and his Winnings from the ¢ enormons. Two Of the horses which he brings to this country Won $50,000 for bim im a single year and he ite ae mach bisiness into his racing as be does to the management of hie immense nitrate Gelds iw Chile, which mske him one of the Fichest men in the world nd the outlook for specula- prises is bad. The trouble which ed the financial crash at the time of the losses fis still felt, and I don't think that Gladstone's election has made things bette when he was nomi- f those men who are like when you put your finger on hiss you find he is not theres” Bt What do think, Col. North, of the chances for young men who want to make for- tunes? Are they as good now asthey have been n 4 any # 1X SODA. No one im fact knows just how much John T. North is wor’ I doubt if he knows himself. He bas ventares in nearly every part of the Globe and bis nitrate fields are better than any gold mine in the world. One of his most inti- mate frienis told me in London that his ex- every year outsid business are ." replied Col, and its resources et hardly been tapped. Take S . is @ vast continent, a great part of which ts Jed with gold sand it will in the y hundred millions tothe wealth I believe that it is @ good field ent today, and the young man who will learn the Spanish language and who has the right spirit of enterprise and business ca~ pacity can «lo well there.” “What do you think about the interconti- nental railway scheme? Will we ever have single line of railway running fram New York down the west coast of South America to Chile and then across to Buenos Ayres?” it til he saw them pening to pass them in a trip to the continent he noticed that it was of a superior qua! aught the whole fleld. He has now place immense works wiichemplov thou- by fends of bandsand be has pat up for hi I don't know much about that and I doubt cnttages “and whether the scheme will succeeé. Still you wale for them. can't tell, and the reports of the civil engineers will show the possibilities of the line much better than any prediction I might make. As for me. i doabt very much whether it can be carried out.” . He Beas other works of various kinds in England and his investments in Chile extend to guano beds as well as nitrate fields. During the war Between Chile aud Pern his fortune was fora time in danger and Malmaceda was to « large @xtent his agent. It was he that helped the Tebels and it was his money that bought the arms that carried on the war. Had he failed he Would have lost militons, and ashe saw the silver ge by bushels he never blinked his eve. but pat Bp again and again until be won. He is, in . © big, bold gambler and his stakes are r Wow NORTH MADE KIS FoRTUNE. During my stay at Col. North's house I took Juneh with him and the family, and after this batted with him for some time about himself and other matters. He is now about fifty years ld and be weighs, I judge, about 160 pounds. He is about five feet ten wehes high. His eves re blue, his face is roxy, and his bair and ‘Whiskers are of « rich red hue. He puts on no | and as we walked around the an | of the great monarchs of Europe, and it is a somewhat | thousund times more hospitable and happy. It among | is im fact, s gigantic home in which the guesta, is an Englishman by birth and he | as well as the family, do and act as they ploase, ire. His father was » coal | and where there are no brasg buttons nor severe ought him up asa civil en-| eyes to distarb you. I met Mr. North th it him into business as soon | his intimate friend, Col. Tom Ochiltree, and’ I thing for himself. He | was made as much at home as th: house f 8 if weahing = = ‘OLD FATHER TIME. He Has Quite a Talk With a Star Man. the center. The vestibule, which is about thirty feet square, is finished in South American mahogany and it is lighted with a of stained ginss. At each corner of it stands upon its hind legs a stuffed bear, and the immense animal at the right as you enter was shot Inst summer by the Grand Duke Nicholus of Russia and presented by him to Col. North. In another corner stands a life-size figure of a man in armor, and the front doors of the hall in front of you are wonderfully carved and they cost $1,000 apiece. The floor of this vestibule is of colored marble, and the walls are wainscoted in marbles of dif- ferent colors. Looking to the right you see a door which ms into an enormous picture gallery, at the back of which there is a marbl balcony for the musicians when the room is used for dancing, and you pass into-this gal- lery between pillars of marble through a hall the walis of which are of red and yellow mar- bie set in panels, and separated by great ‘flat marble columne, which bave rich Corinthian capitals of gold. The dado is of a rich red which shines like jewels, and the marbles grow lighter as they rise to the ceiling. The ball is lighted from the top. and between the marble wall and the ceiling there are curved windows of stained glass, cach frame or window being set into the marble and each made in honor of some of the famed sculptors of the past. This hallway is lined with marble busts on pillars of onyx anda namber of these busts are family portraits of the household in marble, A VAST ROOM OF ONY. The picture gallery itself would be an orna- ment to any palaco in the world, It is a hundred feet long and about fifty feet wide and the ceiling in at least twenty-five feet above tM white mosaic floor. The finishings of this room are of Mexican onyx. You think you are giving | a nice wedding present to your friends when you present themn onyx clock a foot and a half h. What would you think of a vast room fin- ished in this rich stone? Every bit of it is of the finest quality. ‘The doorway to the room woald be large enough fora cathedral. The columns at its wide are two feet thick and they rise fifteen feet ubove the floor before they support the archway made ina ridge and aa big ax the end of a good-mzed cottage. ‘The walls of this room are covered with pictures and there are some very fine paintings, among them. One which struck me was that of “A Meeting of the Four- in-band Club” in Hyde Park during the jubilee. ‘The plunger, Benson, wax looking at thix paint- ing while the artist was making it, and ax he watched the brush doing ite work he concluded | he would like to have it, and he said to the artist: “What do you want for it?” “Would you like to be in it?” replied the artist. “Yes,” said the plunger. “What will you take for it and put me in?” “Two thousand pounds,” was the reply. “I'll take it,"" said the plunger, and the sale was made. In time the plunger had to sell it, and Col. North bought it. Among the notables at this meeting were Col. North and his wife, and the two are represented in the picture nearby the Prince of Wales. THE TROPICS IN ENGLAND. Attheend of this grand hall there is a sun parlor, and beyond this are the conservatories, where tropical flowers and plants bloom and | blossom all winter long. These conservatories | consist of vast rooms under glass. They have | waterfalls in them, where tho streams gash out of rocks and play in and out through ferns and tropical plants, and now and then spread out into pools almost big enough for fish ponds. N OLDER THAN CHRISTMAS Is New Year Day, Which ts the Celebration in Which the Father is Interested—flow to Obtain Good Luck and Avoid Bad Next Year. oe oS OLD A MOMENT, MY son; I've been looking for you.” ‘Tae Sran man turned around at these words and there saw Father Time himeelf. Now, Tae Star rep- resentative isa most in- trepid person, but he must confess that when he saw who it was he quaking at the greeting, be solicitous of society unless he is planning de- struction, His benevolent expression, though, coupled with the fact that he was, to all ap- Pearances, totally unarmed—not a sign of a seythe ora sickle or any of those reaping im- plements with which he is popularly pictured as going about and mowing down helpless nocuous machine, a lawn mower—reassured ‘Tux STAR man, so he stopped as bidden. “Aren't vou the young man whose inter- view with Mr. Christioas I noticed in your Paper a week or #0 ago?” “Yes, sire,") replied Tax Star man, selecting as respectful An address as his memory could muster up, “I did have a little talk with Father Christmas. “Mr. Christmas, if you please, my son, Iam the only person in the world to whom the venerable title of father rightfully belonge. or call him Santa Claus if you prefer, or, indeed, other of his aliases, but not Father!” He did not seem to object to my #o address- ing him,” ventured Tue STAR man, “Chaos and old night! my son, he was in such ahurry, judging from the way yonr account read, that he hardly knew what ho himself was ta:king abont, much leas what you were saying. But then it is quite likely he wouldn't object aayway, for he feela vaatly experienced and old, docs Mr. Christmas—the couceit of youth, the conceit of youth,” muttered Father Time. ‘And though, to be sure, Mr. Christmas is among the very few of us who will probably live always, he should bear in mind that he has not alwa lived, as is the case with toe. Holy Isis! I was a graybeard when Mr. Christmas was born. He is a promising young man, though, a promising young man, and [ liked what he said about the perpetuating of the old holiday customs, only like most self-centered people he was too selfish in his remarks—talked entirely of himself, and his celebration and his fetes, when minoxo closely press on them that it really looke—only that I know his hy f doing things so well rence to mo as if the omission of any refe: were intentional. at's the very thing that I want you about, my son,” he went on ‘ow the day of my celebration is a most significant time in the year, for on that day by doing vertain things or ueglecting to do others people can bring positive disaster or positive joy upon theniselves for the remainder of the year. Half of them are ignorant of all this. They have | forgotten the traditions of their sensible fore- fathers and they are living too fast to relearn ansthin tas I like Washington—admire ithas of conserving the past in its tional museum, in George Washington's home and in preserving old landmarks—why [ will just give you a few items for your paper that if heeded by the people will result in their being the most favored mortals in the United States for this entire year, and for all years ns long as they pay attention ‘to these great facts. Fore. warned, you know, is forearmed.” THe STAR man acquie: hor Time that he was convinced that he was e sentiments of the Washington pub- ying that he would be only too de- lighted to know how to act or how not to act in order to insure a year of prosperity. “Do you keep a ‘colored man servant, my terrogated ‘Time. Star man, much surprised-the ques- 1 seemed 80 malapropos—confessed that he had not yet attained to that luxury, great were hia aspirations in that direction. “But, he added. as alook of disappointment passed over Father Lime’s wrinkled visage, “there is one about the house where I board. I believe.” (He didn't know but that Father ‘Time desire@ an errand of trust performed and was looking for a mossenger with references. ) “Probably goes to his own bome nights, as ix | largely the custom with your Washington serv- ante, eb?” “Yes,” said Tax Stan man, again completely at sea, «That is well. that is very well, indeed.” said Father Time, and thea coztinuing, “now, my son, if you will see to it that this colored man servant ix the very first person to enter the house tomorrow morning it will insure good luck to that house for a whole year. A dark. complexioned white man would do, of course but it isn't well to put one's self at the mercy of chance callers, for the firs: ove might be a man of fair skin, when it would be all day with vou, or still worse, the first visitor might bo a woman, when Jupiter preserve you, for nothing ia so unlucky. “Back two hundred years, were much more sensible in this particular than now, since no well-regulated household would be so wild as to think for a moment of passing New Year eve without the presence in its nidst of some dark-complexioned man, who, | just before the stroke of midnight, would go out of the house and remain till the New Year had fairly arrived, when he would knock ut the door for admittance. After the inmates had fairly assured themselves that no trick was being played upon them by the enemy in the guise of this dark man the door would be swung open to him, when ageueral merry mak- ing would ensue over fo auspicious a begin- ning of the New Year. So just keep your house tightly closed, son, till the arrival of this colored man servant of yours, “But thisisn't allshades of Minervaand Juno, no! It ts merely one item. The next thing to insist upon is that something is brought into your house before anything goes ont, even if it isn’t anything more than a piece of coal. There are some wonderfully true verses which embody this great truth ina compact form: ***Yake out, then take in, Bad luck will begin. ‘Take in, then take out, Good Inck comes about.’ “And if any one wants to preserve his family circle intact during the coming year he should be exceeding careful that no light is taken out of the house on New Year day, for that means the death of some: one of them without the slightest shadow of a doubt. ‘Tux Stan man thought to himself that euch a warning was quite a work of eu tion pense of wrenching down a gas fixture it wouldn't burn when it was fairly got out of the house, or what possible object either could there be in carrying the piano lamp into the yard, and lanterns, the only species of light for which there could be the faintest excuse. were of no earthly use ina city. So he was feeling quite secure on this point till he bethought ‘hinwelf of the lighted cigars that daily emerge from the roof tree in the months of their A momentary chill went over him at the ides till he finally decided that an exception must be made in favor of this, since if such a notion held good Washington's population would have been annihilated before now as completely as ever were Hercuianeum’s and Pompeii's, “And there is one day,” chuckled Father ‘Time, ‘‘that { guess your Washington house- keepers willbe to let the man have a rest. Being interested in Washington, as I just remarked, I of course read Tux Stan, and seen no end of complaints as to the dereliction of the garbage man in the matter of <n ‘This put Tuz StaR man in mind of what his landiady had remarked on that FAUST AND MARGURIEE. Here you may study the botany of half a dozen climates, and you find here planta from all rts of the world. ‘The different rooms are ept at different temperatures, and you can go from one zone to another in passing through it At the entrance to the conservatory among the statues of the sun parlor is an extraordinary life size figure of Marguerite, and as you look | at it you see Faust, also life size, looking most lovingly at her from behind. You imagine thie Faust to be a second statue until you come close to the figure of Marguerite, when you see that the back of the statue is carved to repre- sent Faust and what yousuppose to be a second statue is only the reflection of Marguerite’s back in the |; mirror behind it. A RICH MAN'S PARLOR! The halls and parlors of this nitrate king's palace are papered in the finest of satins and are finished in woodwork of mahogany and other fine woods wonderfully carved. Money has been lavished to such an extent that every inch might be plated with gold leaf and not ap- roach the actual cost. ‘The dining room itself more than one hundred feet long and is hung round with the golden and silver trophies which Col. North's horses and dogs have won. He | has kome of the finest dogs in the world and his greyhounds have taken many cups. One of his dogs has won nearly £10,000 in stakes for him, and he has great solid silver cups which will hold a gallon, wonderfully carved, which have been won by his famous canines. . The Waterloo cup which his dog Fullerton won is worth @2,500 and on either side of the mantel are great disks of silver and gold, the prizes of dog contests. You can seat fifty ‘people at the jing table of this room and it is bigger than the state dining room of the White House. ‘The drawing rooms are proportionately large and the bed rooms are each big enough for parlors. THE CHAMDERS OF THE RICH. It may interest you to look into the chambers of the rich. There are, I judge. about thirty bed rooms connected with this house, and these are all papered with satin and silks of various colors, An clectric light hangs over each bed and a bel! button is within easy reach. ‘The | hall is finished in brocaded velvet, and Col. | North lays his red head on a white down pillow in a room the tint of which is old gold. All of bis toilet articles have handles of siver, and great cases which contain his many suits of clothes are of polished maple. One department of the wardrobe is devoted entirely to short sack coats, another is for dress suiteand a third | is filled with overcoats. He never has to worry about the buttons on his shirts, and if his pan- taloons begin to bag at the knees he has enough in reserve to givehim a new pair without speaking to his tailor. 1 wish 1 could describe Miss North's bed room. It is the sweetest little symphony in blue I have ever seen. The walls are of blue atin and are covered with pictures and photo- gtaphs. The great brass bedstead has a rich curtain of the finost satin brocade,and a wonder- fully decorated quilt of satin, embroidered in Japan, lies on the bed. There are easy sofas about the room, and the dressing room adjoin- ing the bed room is finished in tho same way. Mrs. North’s room is equally fine, and the bath rooms of this house form a suite of thomselves. They are walled with marble of different colors and the light comes into them through panes of stained glass and you roast your feet as you walk about on mosaic floors among pillars of marble. They include Turkish baths and Rus- sian baths and you can have any sort of » bath you want. During the latter part of my visit I went down into the strong room in which is kept gold and silver table services which belong to Col. North and where the ladies store their jewels. It is floored with cement and walled with granite, and we went through many iron tes, the doors of which were guarded with aurgiur alarms and combination locks to get into it. and I found the treasures kept in iron cages about thirty feet under the ground. I looked at them, feeling like the penniless boy who glues his nose against the candy store win- dow and feasts his eyes on the sweetness within, and as I looked I wished I were rich. But a second thought showed me that these bolts and bars were merely one of many of the worries of the millionaire and I went away comparatively | angel happy. indeed, people Fuaxx G. Canrexter. | since his visits. like ee and far between. An Easy Substitution. ‘Now, do Father Time retrospection of Tux Stan man, ai Tegioald Wyckoff—“Bah Jove! When I| that nothing is so peculiarly unl = ‘sweab off on the Ist of Januawy I find it ex-| have any waste aot af tha hoomioia coedingly difficult to keep me wesolution for and food, taken out the west of the yeah.” ; Jack Lever—Why don’t you swear off on the Sist of December then?” “John,” said Mrs. self at the hotel breakfast reminded her of one, those of angels, were so few was nay From Puck. <o— —— felt a slight inward | since Father Time is not generaily eupposed to | humanity, he even being guiltiess of that in- | @ and assured | i] no indeed! for you will rey be fecal fo ordering your movements ensuing year. Jar way in which you must do it is this: Before have some one band you the Bible. ‘This is done ¢o that you may not know whether Genesis or Revelation is under the top cover. Then, quite at random, you must the book aid place your finger on « chapter. My son, that chapier will be prophetic of your coming year. If it augurs ill why, vou see, you are aj in time to change your course, while, on the other hand, if it is good, {ou will not only have the good when it comes, at will be possessed of the joys of anticipa- tion as well. ‘Oh, this season is full of the whisperings of futurity,” went on Father Time. “You can even tell the general ition of the year by observing the direction of the wind this even- ing. Tl give you a beautiful poem of one stanza containing the whole thing ina nut- shell and whose metrical form will help to fix it in your mind: ‘It New Year's eve nicht wind blow south, It betokenet warmth and growth: If west, much milk and fs “in the sem: If north. much cold and storms will there Ifeust, the trees will bear much frtt: If northeast, feet, man und brate” ™ Tux Stan man.didn't quite agree with Father Time as to the merits of the poem as a piece of literature. but after his encounter with thé touchy Father Christmas he thought | it the part of wisdom to limit his views on all points whatsoever entirely” to_ private opinions when in the presence of dignitaries #o very much older than himself as the great Fathor ‘Time and his confrere, Mr. “The Scotch Highlanders, Time, “are the one remaining class of people | who ‘still put implicit faith in thoee signs. | They are a canny folk, a canny f0Uk. If all the | world imitated them it would be better off, and | yet some people ridicule them for heeding | these omens. Ridicule a folk who have pro- duced a Burns,a Scott, a Samuel Johnson, a Carlyle! The presumption of it! “Are you married, my son?” Buch “a point blank question following so losely on dreamy discurviveness almost took but he managed tly to answer ‘No.”” “Mayhap you do know definitely when you | will wed,” remarked Father Time tentativel | and Tur Star man not vouchsafing any eluc | dation of the subject he continued. in any doubt you can settle the matter conciu- sively at the first appearance of the first new | moon of the year—lct's see, when does it come? —by going out and gazing at it and repeating this stanz bet | Tae Stan man’s breath aw: | to recover suffi Sew moon, new moon, I hail thee yy all the virtue in thy body, ant this wight that 1 may see Who my sweetheart is to be? “And the night following this invocation not only will your future dream, but she will inform youas weil of the | date of the wedding. Not the least doubt in the world abont it, not the least doubt in the world.” Tue Stan man blushed to think what « figure he would cut should he follow Father Time's directions, standing out on historic Penn ia avenue and repeating these inane line Indeed, if ho escaped being captured for a lunatic’ he would be lucky. And for the benefit oi ¢ young women of Washington,” “Which is to be re January new moon through a silk handkerchief | that has never been washed—a good ure to put | some of those senseless Christmas presents to and assure as I am standing here, as many moons as rhe sees just that many moons wil be till she marries. T noticed that Mr. Christm: torical while talking to » | self on people he had attempttogo into ¢ by the great Osiris! my son, if a man who bas ing, mind you, in all pansive universe and in all ages and s from long before the very beginning of this wo a subject why there would reaily be no ending the conversation, There is one little poi though that I would like to mention just for the purpose of pointing out to people how prone they are to get off a subj. It is ubout Christmas presents,” he begun. “Now people think that the notion of Christ mas presents originated in thevast love that they entertain for one another. Nothing of the sort, nothing of the sort. Mr. Christmas, of | course,didn't know to the contrary for the very | excellent reason that the germ of the custora of gift making existed long before tat excel- lent young person's time, and thus proper belongs with my festi father than with his, since it began ori bya rejoicing | over the return of another year. “How wore they to settle just when another year begun?’ he repeated in reponse to a query of Tnx Stan man. “Why, by the fact that the sun, which bad hitherto been retreating and thereby rendering the days shorter und shorter, on December 22—the day following the short: est one—began to wheel back. Even now, though midwinter, the days, as you well know, ¢ lengthening, and their extra light will bring them in good time life and spring. Well, the recognition of this fact of the sun's return is the true origin of the Christm the holly and mistletoe with which ed their houses being when first used back in the prehistoric past merely tosymbolize the freshness and renewed life that was soon to follow in the path of the returning sun, while the fir tree hung with presents, represented the fruits and general plenty that were also to ensue with the increase of his ray worshipers, those peopl j ball of fire, the sun, as the great life giver, was their god. Why, even 3 Fuie, which you now consider as almost ident ‘on immense old word meaning wheel, which was what tbey called the sun—the fiery’ wheel, one of their ceremonies celebrating the sun’s return being to roll wheels of burning straw down a steep bil “So you can see that all this commotion that you've been having lately, mstead of being due to Mr. Christmas, originated with me and no- body else, Mr. Christmas simply coming along and taking them and adapting them to his own purposes, I did not object though. If I bad I could have kept them out of his hands easily enough, but let every dog have his day, say I, and [had got pretty tired of the b self. Ikeptit up well enough till in Queen Elizabeth's time, when I got thoroughly dis- gusted with that’ sovereign at the New Year gifts—they made their precentson New Year eve almost entirely, even as Inte ne that—she exacted from her subjects, for by Cheops! if she didn't get most of her magnificent ward- robe by that process. So when Mr. Christmas came along one time awhile after Elizabeth died I just gaye the matter over i Thave led 2 much more peaceful life ever You don't seem so hurried as Mr. Christ- mas, truly,” remarked THe STAR man, ‘No, my son,” said Father Time, winking his left eye humorously as he spoke, “I have all the time there i And Tue STAR man, as he wended his way the office, wondered if thet was Father Time's ancient and rock ribbed way of making a joke. tory Repeats Itself. fe appear to you in a | ent on Father Time, ‘let me | things till now, as I have, should begin on such | ur word | cal in meaning with Christmas, comes from an | FOUR RESOLUTIONS. How a Society Man Will Begin the New Year. HIS IDEA OF REFORM. He Will Go to as Many Parties as He Can Get Invitations to, Stay as Late as He Likes, Attend Afternoon Teas and Marry a Rich Girl. HE SOCIETY MAN made some resolutions for the new year toa writer for Tae Stan the other day. He suid he bad for some time past endeavored to ab- stain from much “‘go- ing out” and had actu- ally declined invitations to parties which he really wished to attend. He had thought he would pose asa ‘solid man" and try to get rid of the title of society man. He had spent some very stupid evenings in consequence, and so he bad resolved for the new year to do what he chose. What a unique resolution. Most people, when January 1 comes ground, make high moral resolves and map out for the new vear a course of conduct as exemplary and self-denying as it is disagree able. ‘They keep to their intentions for a week and then gently slip back into their old ways, but their consciences trouble them as they do itand they have a guilty feeling, because they have not acted up to their theorie rociety man just alluded to will have aglorious time for the year 1893, because be has deter- mined toenjoy himself. Let us seo what his various determinations are. WILL ACCEPT ALL INVITATIONS. First, he says he is going to accept all the invitations ke gets, provided they don't con- flict, and when they do, he is going to attend the party that promises the best enjoyment to him. He does not intend to let any obligations to different people interfere in this matt | Thus, if he has been honored by a dinner party Jat Mra, Blank’s and soon afterward she asks jhim to a smail whist party and on the same evening with the whist party somebody whom |he knows but slightly gives a german, he i | going to cut the whist party at the eleventh moment and go to the dance, for the simple | Teason that hs does not like whist and does Lke dancing. Of course this will be dis irs. Blank, who has invited only a limited wum- of guests and expects thore who acc be present, but he 1s not run is with a view to other people's solely with refer he is going in search wants them. He may, during his temporary periods of good behavior, have resisted the im- | pulse of paying his respects to people simply | because they wre rich and entertain, but he will resist no lon; He says he will make it hix that he will show them atten- | tions, call on them, get invi' ms to their | parties and go. If to do this involves the | giect of his old friends, then he will neglect them. WILL STAY LATE AT PARTIES. Second, ho declares he has resolved to stay | late at parties as he wishes. Heretofore he bas, | as the emall hours have come, always been both- ered with the reflection that ‘the next morning will find him “rocky” and that he will go to his | office with an indigestion anda headache. On this account he has frequently gone home an | hour or more before he wished to, but now he | will not care a rap about the next morning. | but will «tay as long as he is enjoying him and will eat and drink whatever he wants wit out stopping to consider whether or not it ix | good for him. The next morning can take care | of itself. Snfficien 0 the evening is the evil thereof. Aa for hix office, that, too, can | tuke care of itself, He will go to it, of couree, | but he cannot reasonably be expected to do much work, and if any over-sanguine man does pect it he will find himself disappoin | When Lent comes perhaps ie w iety duties and perform the ot he has made the attending wholiy to the business of wit His third resolution is a sing declares he will go to afternoo: out and out, dyed-in-the-wool, co and italicized society man affects to consid: teas as bencu dignity. He will call in the | afternoon, and w ing will take a cup of | tea, but to go to teas is a thing he | to the | younger men, the sprouts of society as it were. He, u full-branched, tough old oak of the draw- ing rooms. cannot d the ample shadow of his er the motley | howling assembing an aft | noon tea, but the man whose resolutions ure | being given here is determined to go to ters | during the yexr 1893, and the reason he giv for doing so is that he really likes them. al- though he bas always, heretofore, pretendew not to. He says in his opinion an aftern | tea 1s not as good as an evening party, an even- ing party not as good as a dance, a dance not a= | good asa german, a german not as good as u |dinner—the dinner being the acme of ent taining. But in the afternoon he would rather | go ton tea thaw take a walk or sit at the club, | and, therefore, he intends going to a tea when ever the spirit moves him. WILL NOT BENEFIT HIM ANY. It will be seen that the life that our society man has laid down for himeelf is hardly one that will be of any physical or mental benefi tohim. If he eate and drinks anythin, and everything at all hours of the night it will be only reasonable to expect his liver to arise in it» wrath and smite him hip and thigh. He will be yellow and unhealthy in appearance long be- fore Lent comes. Then, again, the remark of Lord Byron about the necessity ‘of inebriatior may be paraphrased by the sentence, man being human must get sleep. And how is he to get sleep it he arrives at his home at 3 0” in the morning and at his office at 9 o'clock? That aliows six hours for the process of un dressing, sleeping, dressing and eating brenk- fast, which is altogether an insufficient amount of time. The consequences of this course of life will be a jaded, feeble air, which, perbaps, may be temporarily overcome by strong waters, and if the society man takes to that he may end by giving society up entirely and putting the jurswit of bacchanalian pleasures in its pi je will not have the time to take any exer in the open air, but of exercise in close rooms in the dead of the night he will have more than enough, for he will get over miles of space in dancing. Just calculate the size of a room where there is dancing, then calculate the num- ber of times a good dancer traverses it from the one end to the other in the course of the even- ing, then count the number of revolutions he makes while he is whirling from one end to the other, add it all up and you will be surprised to find that in one evening aman or a woman may actually have danced eighteen o- twenty miles. The people who can walk that far are not nu- merous, yet many people dance it without thinking they are doing anythingextraordinary. Even with a square dance like the lanciers the number of times the couples go forward and back again, swing their partners, chasse to the right and left and whirl around in the grand chain goos to make up a very respectable amount of exercise. ean be no doubt that if the people who go a great deal into soci- ety and are fond of dancing would dante in the oper. air, or even in the daytime, they would be ina state of athletic training which would e: cite the admiration and envy of all the rest of the community. In the generation before the nt oue it used to be no uncommon thing for a belle ata ball to literally dance through the soles of her thin slippers, and nowadays the dancers generate such heat from the friction of But the | ; | of en, society man quoted here has determined not to inquire into. woman's actual worth, but to set himself to find out positively what she actually is worth. He says be doesn't want a good home woman either, but «fashionable wife. He wants to make a good appearance in the world and he mself aud his wife mast doit forbim. He Wauts a good house prettily furnished and be expects to getit for the price of a diamond ting. What other men work and toil and | scheme for he expects to get all at once by « | Iedicious marriage. Will he succeed? Willa fond | papa allow his daughter to margy « penniless man | and then support the couple in Suxury after. ward? Some papas will not, but dthers will, and beside that there are orphans ia the world rho have large fortunes and no obdurate pa- | rents to suspect every society man who comes along of loving the, money and not the girl. The latter will not’be very apt to object. She | may, and doubtless doce, know that the man wants both her and her money, bat she knows also that be never could or would marry « poor girland he might easily have selected some other rich girl instead of herself. So she mar- ries him and takes care of him and they live a very comfortable sort of life sometimes and rable one at other times. On. ti nsidering how many marriages there s character, it is quite remarkable j that such « smail proportion of them have | turned out seandalously. Now, to recapitulate what our society man’s determinations for the new year are, first, he is going to as many parties ax he chooses; sec- | ond, he is going to stay up as late as he chooses; | third, he 1s going to afternoon teas; fourth, be is going to marry a rich and fashionable girl. If | he carries out this program he will be a rounded out character. = HOW HAVE YOU FARED? | | | Reflections That May Echo in Many Minds | About This Time. | wr THE GREAT AGONY IS OVRL. Drawers have been unlocked, myster- ious scufflings have censed, and suspicious- looking bundles have shed their wrappings | Merry Christmas has sounded the tender | chords, and hearts are touched by human | things. Plum puddings have been duly eaten— if not digested; the usual number of articles that did not fit have already been exchanged mentally if not actually, and everybody will now begin te take account of stock. | Inquisitive children have found that their dolls are stuffed with sawdust some of th elders baye hada similar e ¢ with liv- ing idols "and while sorrowing over the fra: erly longed for toys take their first }son in the delusivenest of worldly desires Husbands, mindful ‘of the many bank note they have handed over during the last month jor “Christmas money,” gaze dubiously at the mufflers which they found in their stockings, and which they know were sold off cheap to make room for the holiday goods, sitently won- dering what became of all the money. Oth hat their expectation turn to amaze, nevertheless assumed the proper apy delight when their wives compls vented them with some piece of honsebo ture or bric-a-brac, which they weil rewem ber she bad more than once expressed 4 wish~to possess. Another is gi pleaeed with a box of cigars, r the agreeable surprise of finding them his favorite brand, httle dreaming that they The wife who received a bewild ment of dazzling hose of variety pattern j “ill probably never let her sponse go shopping | again, and the one who had hinted for a seal- pe and received instead a fancy lace ar- ngement for the neck that no sane woman of her age we dead will, out of Teapect to thin the Dutehms “ , but think. | ing them how very useful the wonder: made and f ally decorated shaving pa- best girls, in their turn, ar ng to anxious friends the brac tick pins or expensive trifles wii ruit of Inst your's work mouchoir cases and embroid DISAPRC Then there is the handsome present your rich relative intimated she was going to vend you, | You could hardiy afford to give her that cut but felt you must. and now her resent has Mf into a And ¢! n of colors udy, with the | dhat'set your artistic ‘ne | by a great aunt in the co diaily hate and seldom se you can do with it, and straightway fall to pox dering on whether you bad be turu the or a pottery Here isa little reminder simple message, “A | from the wing of time,” confirms your guilt, | and sitting down you dip it in the ink to write a long, remorseful fetter. Thy ristman fades away, having | brought, perhaps, some disappoin’ heart burnings, but many happy surprises and kindly thoughts. Generous impul flowered into quick deeds, and thc troubled, even though they may ni ai proof of remembrance, eweet sympathy from Iping hands would hav lad love but the warrant love ense."” Car Written for The Evening Star. ‘The Song of the Sea Ghost. Uttle one, little one, listen ton ‘ome hark to the song t And the moments are fi Phen little one, little one, disten to me. ‘The bells that are tolling the knell of the year Are telling the knell of the loved and the dear, Whose spirits have silently drifted to sleep ‘On the fathomiess sea of the infinite deep— ‘The ultimate goal Of the sorrowing soul— Oh, little one, littie one, listen to met Verna! blossoms of life "neat bine Are bathed fn the sparkle of love's gentle dew To vanish in mist {n the summer's caress Ere the chiif winds of autumn tn cold wantonness Watt the flowers of breath ‘To their wintry death. ‘Oh, little one, little one, listen to me! the heaven's false Aye, little one, little one, llaten to me: *Tis thus that the life of all living must be; The heart this {s throbbing, the spirit that glows, Allsorrow, all joy, will forever repose In eternity’s deep, *Neath the vigil I keep— Then little one, little one, listen to me. —CLIFPoRD Howasp. 0s In Case of Diphtheria. 'C. G. B. Klophel in the Ladies’ Home Journal. First, stripes of linen or cotton fabric, about eight inches wide, folded several times, and long enough to reach from ear to ear, should be wrung out of ice water (if in winter), and if in summer put direetly upon ice. and then applied externally to the throat, and as fast as one cloth gets warm another should be ready to take its If the child complains of being i nd hands should be bethed in ng it may be readily ascertained if it or not by feeling its hands and head. circumstances should hot applica throat.” If the child ts old patient's clothing needs protection in f1 | may be dose ing back of the neck | filly i f Wants his wife to asset. He wants to entertain | like | P - | bishop MeCh | was Perugia iu modern Tuscan: i | A Pen Sketch of the Man Who Re- stored Dr. McGlynn. HIS MISSION TO AMERICA, He Does Not Understand Newspaper Met ods Here, but as He Cannot Speek Ping! A COUPLE OF the past there has been living mt the Catholic University © man who i¢ probably the most prominent ss © in Catholie ircle in thts antes This man o« bop Satotli. whe Are} came over from Rome ber as the cial repre we the pope at the dedica tion of the Columbian exposition. He thas re- mained b king his bend ngh his duties brief intervals e bas giv theories and suggestions, for it has been realized that hy antry wt mportarce lute alee pope's jubilee and back to thi coantry orter was told at the tly that there wasn mor. Archty Satoilt bas rlain duties intrusted to him by the pope and be will remain at least until they are performed ost ow that he wil be here for Apostohe of p invested mae bie th orn the privethoo Taboos toe ndowt auchorsty wita ot the may past rm of the church as be finds it in this couniry APSOLUTE POWER IN Speaking of Mgr. Sate of New York said in is the ERTAIN © Ducey Aret know thi over h Th court as Arc here for tine p on the | nignraticg something I power of the pope, but th rheatly denied by various church dignittties whose position is such as to give weig er they taay may on the matter. ne he is but carrring eat burch andon the | to the ground he is to « he is to purene PAPAL RFPRESENTATIVE the first | "This is by no dignitary be mean trusted with States, In went over with ky of N rtant commit t In 1853 w York. he bad ne to carey out a archbishop of Thebes sho | was sent as papal nuncio to the court 4 Was ch joned by Pius T Washington for th rpose of friendly letter to Pre mmr preseutar ties to perform ax M found obstacles placed in bis way on He urged strongly the autonomy of th lie Church in America; he pi er | pointe tes of the another name, but the germs of the latter-day movement were even then erewn, Neither ix this Monsignor Savoili's first visit to the United States on ‘an important epectal t mission. At the dedicntor ercinen Cathohe University in the fall of 1889 he was | here as the represen’ of the pope. He delivered an address in in and ako © ducted the pontifical high masse that wan one the moat imposing ccicbrations of the sort ever seen here. At that time be met President Har- ison, Secretary Blaine and other members of the cabinet, and +ince he bax been in the city this time be has taken occasion to again call to pay his respects to the Provident. A REMARKABLE PERSONALITY. Apart from the great interest that attaches to him from his high office Mgr. Satedli ix a man of most remarkable personality. He is a deep faud broad schola verwed in eccle- sinstical politics asin theology. He is a per- sonal friend of the pope aud hae ulwaye oocu- pied « place very close to him. His old home und bere his cllect and powers were dew yd under the very eye of Cardinal Pecci, arcubabop of that ancient wee, who later became the head of the church under the XIIL The pope, soon after ne w Rome, rent for ‘the Peragian ix: aame of Leo an called to clearly the line of demarkation betwoen the Tights of the stateand of the chureb. He ts not ‘one of those who would refuse ail right to the state in matters of education. but be inaints With as much vigor that the other rights be not ‘encroached upon. Hite interest in education extends toall its brarches and be appreciates aa much as uny one the advantages of higher ‘education for the clergy. During the time of his stay at the Catholic University he # delivering two lectures a week to the students on the the- ‘ Tet si 3 & E i