Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1893, Page 10

10 > , . . THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, safvary. aA, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE FORUM OF TODAY. THE ETERNAL CITY. The Forum Not So Much Crowded as It Was. rolled led to the world—Rome—always the eternal city. Stand by the Col- rking one era, look up at the forum, ‘d then to the right at uses which tell of the present, there, all within a stone's | throw, and the most arrogant of ail is the mod- b [ern structure. Rome may be somethat top- | heavy with history, but sho is alive also in the | : NS } A sri ty nour. NOR IS THE I “| Itean be taken for granted then that the fo- | - rum isno longer “crowded.” ‘There ia a good 4 Considerable Stir in Rome. ‘The Trav- | How the Hotel Men moaning and wailing and gnashing of teeth which comes from the broken and blasted real estate boom. Like » good many other cities. Rome has overbuilt herself and is now com- pelled to stop and rest until her population [eatches up. Up to a short time ago specula- | was rife in the city. It was believed that ashort time the population would in- | deal of « “stir in Nome,” however. There is | | | | eter Koset by Beggars amd Restaars! atpat aary $, 1892. ¥ Is THE FORUM rowded? What means stir in Rom question bas re- mained unanswered for so long that it seems and settled it once and fer all. In the first place the %@ not crowded, # it be with mem- ories of the past and with aix Tremaine of the ancient | Dail tings and thers area few) tourists armed to the teeth with « | Dut that ie.all, The foram bas now be entirely excavated and et a better realiza ween the present bas elape & th ancient level of Kome's forum | to forty feet below present | level of the city. The forum bas been dug out and you can wa! down on the rema: propoes to deser:b do | intend to draw the Colinerm. it! It would be | — iene ie eee eta | thirst for revenge was fiendish. PUBLIC WASHING. round of With the time on his poecped peers salary the soldier's lot is a happy one. cares he for the fit of his uniform when it requires constant to devise schemes for spending his come? The during spent six or seven years learni works at it during his enlistmentfor the berefit of his fellows he gets 4 cents a day. Yet there [y who try to evade their mili- officer is still more in clover. captain gets about $30 « month, lieutenants from $20 to $25. A good many peo in Italy, as has been said, manage to evade the military service. Some of them are caught up at last, however. ‘The barber who shaved me one day was an instance. He was very sad. Hitherto he had escaped the army as being the only and sole of his mother, ther bein; Genk Hie mother bad taken in washing and supported herself, but that was no business of the government.’ Lately, however, his unnatural and cruel mother, without the slightest regard for her barber son, had mar- Hled again, and he was no longer her sole and only support. A ing government, ever on ihe’ walch for more barbers and soldiers, bad 6 date he must don a uniform eight sizes too large for him and buy a big safe to hold his salary. It was a very sad case, but it was im- osible not to recoil with horror at the cold ear‘lessness of the young man himself. His Some day he said he would shave his father-in-law. Ifhe ever does the father-in-law will arise from the chair and curse the day he was born. The garrison at Rome contains samples of ail the Branches of the Italian army. ‘The in- fantry wear dark blue coats, gray trousers and white leather belte. The grenadiers are in- fantrymen, distinguished by a red grenade worn in the cap. What are known as riflemen | form an elite corps. ‘They wear a dark biue uniform, with crimson facings and a dark feather plume worn on the sideof the cap. ‘The cavalry wear blue coats, gray trousers und hel- mots. Tho artillery have the same, with yellow facings. To these troop# must be added a large force of carabieniri or gendarmes, who patrol the city. ‘They are a fine-looking and efficient corps. The uniform is biack, with red facings and white shoulder straps and cocked hats, THE MARKETS ARE INTERESTING. In any city the markets are interesting. This an insult to suppose von dor © all about Without commerce was no firm basis for esult of the overconfidence is | bers of half-finished houses crease tremendonsly. d in all but the most neces @tther. Only the «nme edie " - red guide books There aie a good many s| M: the noble fami im the Coliseum, thoug’ and rvom for a good Nat proposals of marriage to a rich Am ho replied that she would like m: 4, but really could not stand a | "is | husband with ‘a red nose. What a blow was | 4S | this to aristocratic pride and blue blood, which, | howerer, insisted on becoming red at the ex- tremities. ‘THE WEATHER WAS COLD. Some stir ix caused in Rome by the dissen- | sions which still exist between the more active | of the supporters of the pope and of royalty. | This, however, is a mere tempest ina teapot | compared to the noise made by travelers run- ning up and down to keep warm. There is no disguising the fact, it is cold in Rome when the north wind does blow, and it blew all the time | of our visit. In future, whenever you rexd of orece a picture of anancient Roman going around dressed ina thin white toga and with bare legs, vou want to sneer. Tie your face into the hardest kind of a sneer and you will only do faint justice to the enbject. If any old Roman went skipiisg around in a toga and a bare legs he in awful cold in his head, not to speak of rheumatiem. Think of Nero with «a cold in hin head. Think of Marc Antony saying: ‘Hachou': Feens, Bromans and Coundrymen.” What those old Romans really wore were fur-lined overcouts. All that toga business was gotten Thoro | up by the Roman hotel keepers for circulation tor, and | in Ganland Great Britain, in the hope of in- hich would | ducing the innocent and unsuspecting Anglo- Then the Saxon or Gaul to pack his grip and hie hiraself which must | down to Rome, with the intane idea of skipping ise for the men between | around in « linen duster and without trousers. Coliseum my- | It has always been a mysiery to me what the ancient Roman policemen meant by carrying around those big, heavy, unwieldy faaces. Now, however, Iam morally convinced that the big handles contained coal oil stores. “aie US 4 PEXNY.” to the Coliseum on the score of safety. was almost an entrance for every sp ft would have Coliseum bad c: the acta I kno self, because « Tean't divulge + away A good deal of Rome's historical stir is | caused by the animated street scenes. There Binet have are centers of animation and one of theso is the for the 2 Pinctan Hill, a bigh elevation with a splendid pers In the Coliseum is a p | outlook over the city. The Pincian Hill has funnel which Commodue used to use in gotting | been a pleasure spot from ancient times. It ts froca his palace Inid off in gardens, walks and drives, and con- have main tains « large number of statues and busts. Here in the afternoon, and especially on Sun- day afternoon, can be found » tremendously ‘THE PINCIAN HILD. j {nto wraction must bave disgusted the gladiators | large crowd. The Civic Band plays in an open Borribly. Commodus used to get down in the | space, while the driveways are crowded w' Fing and cut and slosh like a good fellow, but | vebicies of all descriptions, The crowd on the Pat yourself in the place of tue gladiator and | Pincian Hill is rather an upper class crowd rust have beon. What | and bears the usual family resemblance to as- be should have punched | sembiages of this inany large city. There bis imperial nose, orse | is an extra sprinkling of military uniforms, under the foarth rib with a| priests, uniformed school boys and tobacco It could not be done, and the | smoke. The Pincian is a bad place for a emperor was privileged to cut and pare to his | private soldier to get. His hand ia kept in Beart's content, and the only revenge the| constant motion saluting the bund: of gladiator couki get was to wait for kim in the | offic: secre: passage I mentioned and stick a knife in ie back. This was done so many ti Bis back resemble a lone-ased pincne! ‘the emperor himself took an u Like to the secret passage, in De was enced at ia«t ‘TE ITALIAN SOLDIERY. You can see a procession of some sort in Rome at almost any time andat any point. | There are processions of priests, processions of A OVERWORKED REAL ESTATE ROoM. A lady in Rome told me I should go to the Colisenm at night. She said she often did and | @njoyed it. She picked out a nice, cold, damp | scone and sat ox it. stant marching and countermarching of sol- diery and police. Shut your eves at any time in Home, walk ahead ten stepe, open your optics “t ‘Then. as the moon rose | and in nine cases out of thing you ‘ever the ruins and cast ite pale rays down on | sce isa soldier. Uniforms erywhere and look the the erambiing stoves, dot Y the The ps | oficers are rather naity looking and the | vetes might bell it were ext fertheirclethen Fire average uniform of the Italian private would debghtful. We came near | make a misfit dealer hold wp his bands in holy iy asked her if she | horror. _ It is pini have a sort of ever saw St. Sebastian im the crowd of martyrs i comes along, end she mid often. That settied it: you see too pair of trou- Many pictures of St. Sebastian in Italy to care ‘fit him, and fi te look at bis ghoot. i i # | the on is especially so in Rome on account of their general outdoorness and from the bright colors and the animated talk and gestures, Most of the markets are situated in some corner of a square or open space and consist of rows of booths. The Romans are great people for green things, and all sorts of green vegetables Are displaved in profusion. They are also strong on the question of young lambs, Almost y meat displayed consists of long rows ng lambs hung up by their legs. ‘The re usually crowded and the venders keep up a constant, monotonous calling out of their wares. The women predominate as buyers NOT A PRINCERS. and a long and exciting haggle as to price precedes every purchase. With the exception of the upper clas, the women almost invariably go about withont hats, while their costumes ran largely to reds and ellows. Some of the women are pretty and fome are not. The “nots” predominate. Women of the lower and even of the middle class are decided!y unconventional in the mat- ter of shoes. Many of them dispense with the article altogether. Others tie old slippers on with the melancholy fragments of n pate of sus- pendere, and go around with a happy and con- tented smile. Most of the people are, of course, brunettes of the darkest hue, although blondes are not as rare as might be thought. Every day is wash dayin Rome. In the poorer districts the large tenement houses constantly present the aspect of having been decorated for = democratic celebration. From the windows hang a variegated assortment of clothes drying. In Rome, but more especially in the suburbs and outlying villages, you see the women wash- ing their clothes at the public basins, which are constructed ina convenient and solid manner. ‘The women in this way do their washing and at the same time, judging from the noise, de- Tive the benefit of acharming focial inter- Inthe matter of gossip these basins fill all the requirements of a sewing A MINISTER'S FUNERAL PAGEANT. Recently there was excitement in Rome over tho funeral of Admiral Saint Bon, the late minister of marine. The admiral was a popu- lar man and with a splendid record. He was the practical founder and developer of the new navy, which has already shown itself formida- bie in the line of increasing the national debt. On the dey set for Admiral it Bon’s funeral the streets through which the procession was to pass were crowded from an early hour. The crowd seemed rather more bent on » holiday than anything else. The faneral itself wasa private one. The procession, however, was of an imposing, character. aX, several ‘of ke ares artillery were cor wus headed by a brass bend composed of sailors from the royal navy. Following the various came the crews of ‘ips, ing s fine appearance. The sailors seemed generally to be men, and while not in size were stoc! and well iit. The uniform consisted of the usual naval biue with wide collar. Tho sailors carried short carbines and and wore white spats. The body of dead hauled. ee re a Fe came loaded filles ie inger give anything to a beggar they follow along, with the calm assurance that ina few moments they will get a fare. The cab drivers, however, donot makes fortune ona singlefare. For one- horse eab with three persons the fare fora single trip ie 16 cents. By the hour for three 1s the rate is 40 cents. The low fare, howevor, Fesnits ina much more general use of cabs than us, tched him at once, and one week from that | with CAN’? GET ANEAD OF THESE ROMANS. In spite of their low cab fares the Romans must be recorded as a:aong the best chargers in the world, and this is especially true at the hotels. This reputation has been gained by a rsistent attention to the charging business. Nothing for nothing and mighty little for a quarter is the hotel rule, and the bills consist of long rows of little items. In the matter of eating the only safety is the regular table d'hote. The restaurants have charging down to perfec- tion. You goin the restaurant and sit down, and yot are immediately charged 50 centimes for a cover, whatever that is. Then you are charged for bread, butter, salt, wear on the utensils, ice, &c, The other day e man came in the restaurant to get his breakfast. He wanted a cup of coffee anda roli. Beforo had hardly seated himself a bell boy came rush- ing in to tell him his mother-in-law had fallen ina fit in the ofice. Had it been his third cousin or his wife he might have finished his coffee. Being his mother-in-law he got right upand went out. It wasa'l true. His mother- in-law was having a fit. He told the porters the number of her room and went back to his coffee and roll. He had, however, only seated himself when another bell boy told him his wife wanted to see him p.d. q., or words to that effect. He knew that when his wife wanted to see him in‘‘words to that effect” her yearning was not to be denied. He went, therefore, to his wife. She informed him that he wasa brute. Thero was « certain lack of novelty abont this remark, so he went back and finished his coffee. The bill was brought— 50 centimes for coffee, 50 centimes for bread, 150 centimes for covers. Ho romonstrated. “Ah! monsieur,” said the waiter, “you sat down three times. Three covers, 150 centimes.”” The logic was irresistible. Once aman came in the restaurant with a camp stool, a knife and fork and a tin plate and cup. Said he to the waiter: “I want no nonsense. Get me coffee in that cup and a mutton chop on that plate, I want neither bread. butter, salt, pepper, mustard nor water.” They beat him, thong. ‘They charged bim 2 francs for wear and tear on the waiter’s feelings and he died of a broken heart. It is hard to get ahead of these Romans. TON oo Written for The Evening © ‘The Eime of the Sleigh-Belles. AFTER “THE NOTE OF WINTER.”* i Brightly shines the full-orbed moon Over roofs of slate and shingle; Echoing rings the steigh-bells’ tune— How they jingle, jingle, jingle, Blithe as songs of birds in Junet Let your voices with them mingle, Sing. each merry, rosy sleigh-belle, ‘Maud, and Marian, May, and Mabel; Song itself ts buta jingle. nu. Thongh the scene is bleak and drear, ‘Though the winter air ts tey, In our robes elose snnggied here, We have summer warm and spley, And no frosted noses fear. As our breaths together mingle, ‘Taking toll when crossing bridges, We are gay as sunset midges; Love itself is but a jingle. ut. In the merry month of May, ‘Though ‘tis sweet to rove with day-belles, Wooing, chasing care away, What are these to winter sleigh-beiles? ‘Night is better than the day. In the winter night let mingle Kiss and jingle, song and laughter, Joys remembered long thereafter; Life itself is but a jingie. —W. L. Snozwaren. “By J. S., Tre EVENtNa Star, Jannary 14, 1886. — ~ GIRLS DO NOT KNOW. They Sometimes Reject the Most Brilliant and Best of Suitors, From the Brendon Bucksaw. Rejected lovers may find consolation from the knowledge that some of the cleverest and handsomest men have been refused, and that they have nevertheless managed to live on and win fame and fortune. Shakespeare is gener- aliy credited with considerable knowledge of humanity and its ways, and he describes Romeo, the prince of lovers, as being rejected by the fair Rosalind only just before Juliet fell in love with him. A certain John Scott once proposed toa Miss Allgood. While smarting from her dis- dain he happened to enter a village church dur- ing divine service and there for the first time he saw the pretty Miss Surtees. He wooed her and, as the father would have nothing to say tohim, he induced her to elope, and this though three wealthy suitors were already at her feet. John Scott lived to be Earl of Eldon and lord high chancellor and never regretted the day Miss Allgood rejected him. Byron was refused several times. Ho pro- posed to Miss Milibanke, a great heiress, and was rejected, though the Indy expressed a wish to correspond with him. He then proposed to another lady, and his suit was rejected, too. Nothing daunted he renewed his proposal to Miss Millbanke, and this time received a very flattering acceptance. They lived together, however, very unhappily. Ohe of the most persisterit suitors who ever Proposed and was rejected was the eccentric Cruden, compiler of the concordance to the Bible. Miss Abney, who had inherited a large fortune, was the subject of his attentions. For months and months he pestered her with calls and lett When she left home he had papers printed, which he distributed in various places of worship, asking the congregation to pray for her safe return, and when she returned home he issued others asking the worshipers to re- turn thanks. Miss Abney never became Mra, Cruden. —-+e. Necessitated a Change. From the Chicago Inter Ocean. May—“How did you come to change the day for your wedding?” Helen. ’b, foot ball that d: . there is to be a big game of ¥ and Peul couldn't get away.” THE DRESS SUIT. Its Cut and Appearance of Value to the Society Man. TWO SWELLS DISOUSS IT. One is on His Twentieth, Showing That He Has Been Very Much in the Swim, and for = Long Time—The Fate of One Traced to the Ena. Se ee RE YOU ON YOUR fourth or fifth?” ‘The strange question was put by one howling swell to another in the hearing of a writer for ‘Tae Stan the other evening. What did he mean? A man can be on his fourth or fifth decade of life, and be forty or fifty years old, or he can be on his fourth or fifth matri- monial venture, and in that case death or the divorce court has been kind to him above the general run of men. He may, if he isa reck- Jess man, be on his fourth or fifth cssay ata tumbler of intoxicant, and if that is the state of affairs he is in danger of talking too much, or, perhaps, of not being able to talk at all. But the man addressed understood the remark per- fectly, for he replied at once: “My dear fellow, I am on my twentieth.” Of courso, if he was on his twentieth decado he would be two hundred years old, aud it was clear that he was not more than forty. To be on one’s twentieth venture in matrimony wonld be to beat Blue Beard or Henry VII. No man could or would accomplish the feat of getting married once a year for twenty vears; and if a man was on his twentieth drink he would be so drunk that he would.not be able to answer questions, “You say.you are on your twentieth?” said the first speaker. “You really are doing well. And what has become of the old ones?” 4 CURIOUS CALCULATION. This was getting a little plainer. It began to look as though clothes were being discussed. But a man of forty has worn at least 160 pairs of shoes in his life and about 175 pairs of trou- sers and about 480 shirts and about 1,600 collars nd abont 3,000 enffs. He has used up, if he is Sifted with the carefulness of the average man, 1,049 collar buttons, which allows him the lux- ury of losing one a week for twenty years. He has gone through about 1,000 stockings and between 75 and 100 hata, He bus destroyed about 250 cravats and about 490 preces of underwear. His total destructiveness in forty years bas thus amounted to at least 8,295 Pieces. Allow his shoes to have averaged $4 a pair, his trousers $8, his shirts $1.25—but the calculation is getting too complicated and statistical, Itis safe to ray at a rough guess that his clothing has cost at least 7,000. If he had never worn clothes and the money «pent on them had been saved he would be worth a very respectable little fortune. TT WAS A DRESS SUIT. Now, a glance at the above figures will con- vince any one that no ordinary article of man's apparel was alluded to when the swell said he was on his twentieth. The truth came out at length. ‘These two men of fashionable society were simply talking of their dress suits, and they were using them thus in a figurative sense to express the number of years that they had been “‘in society.” ‘The man who was on his twentieth dress nit had begun early in life, and had given himself no rest, for he must have worn out one dress suit a year in his twenty yenrs’ career, and to do that he must have worn it night afler night. Let the solid domestic man whose entertain- ments are not numerous and seldom of the grand order which are denominated ‘dress suit affairs,” reflect upon the fact that there aresome men in the world who, by the time ther have reached middle life, have spent #1,600 inthe purchase of swallow-tail coats, and there are yet others who have spent a great deal more than that upon this garment. ‘The sum would be sufficient to make the first pay- ment on a house and lot or weuld carry a boy through two years of a college course. It would take a man to Europe and give him the benefit of several months of interesting travel. It would furnish a house very comfortably or it would be a great boon to an orphan asylum. There are really a great many things that one could do with $1,600 beside spending the money for dress suits. THE DOMESTIC MAN'S ONE SUIT. Now, the solid domestic man probably has one old dress suit that he got married in, and Perhaps once or twice a year, upon some gala occasion of extra solemnity, he puts on this old suit. The odor of respectability clings to it, as well as the odor of the camphor in which it has been preserved. He is not comfortable in it, and it must be confessed that he never was comfortable in it, He haa a sort of dread of it, and well he may have, for it is associated in his mind with awkward feelings. When he wore it the first time. at his wedding, he felt decidedly awkward, as « groom invariably does, and since then his figure has enlarged, perhaps, and the dress suit has remained of the same size. ‘The cut is a little antiquated, but that does not matter, as all dress suits resemble each other, and the garment that was the fashion forty years ago would muster even at the present day. Nevertheless, the dress suit expresses an iden to the domestic man, just as it does to the fashionable man. ‘The former never sees it but what he thinks of the day when he first wore it, and the happi- ness of his married life, it is to be hoped,makes him forget in some degree the extreme torture he endured when he stood up before the audi- eneé and went through the marriage ceremony. In this way, although he hates to wear the old dress suit, he likes to know that it is stil! a part of his belongings. But to the fashionable man it expresses jolly times out of number. If it could talk it would tell of dinner parties, dances and suppers out of number. It is a sorry day for the swell when he gets in a place where he can’t wear a dress suit. IT SAVED OXF MAN'S REASON, Here is alittle story about this that came to the writer from the lands where there used to be buffalo and where there are now booms and real estate agents—the great and boundless west. He wont away from Washington, where he had been for many years ono of the jeading lights of society. No party was complete with- out him, and conversely 1t may be said that he never had a complete fecling without a party. It was a dreary enough little town that he went to in the west, and the parties there were few and far between, and were of a most primitive order. The Washington man used to sit over his fire in the evening and think of what was going on in the gay capital, He had it all mapped out in his mind, and he knew just what evenings it was probable his ‘old friends had ‘selected for their din- ners or their rmans. He had the Star sent to him regularly and after supper he used to pore over the society columns as he had never done before. Sometimes, as he read tho notices and saw who had beon at a certain ball, he would be carried away by bis imagination and would think-thet ho was there himself. He would carry on an animated conversation with a young lady whom he used to love. He would go into su} and champagne. finaliy he w RO | now, because i |COINS OF THE WORLD. HG Es the slightest idea that he is one of his own most glorious making fan ‘garments. Ae ES Souvenir Coins. | In compliance with many requests, Tue Stan has secured, for the accommodation of its patrons, a supply of Columbian Exposition Souvenir half dollar coins, which will be fur- nished at cost price,—one dollar each. Apply at the counter of Tux Stan business office. Local Advertising—Pointers for Business Men. ‘W. A. Hungerford in Dry Goods Economist. Paradoxical, but true—advertising pays and doesn't. Judicious advertising pays. Success will come to all who have something good to sell, have it interestingly and instructively written up, then properly displayed and con- splcnously pleased in the right mediums. It is strange that business men, counted «mart and shrewd in other directions, know little or nothing about the true science of advertising, for judicious advertising is really a scienc You’ may write excelient business announce- | mente and waste their force by placing them in poor mediums. You may know the best me- dinms and then not be able to write “business | bringing” advertisements. You may know the best mediums, and be able to write good busi- ness announcements, and yet not receive the faliest returns possible through unattractive display or undesirable position. Test every medium you see, Secure itesworn circulation, insist upon a price consistent there- with, and testeach medium for a given time with special articles or inducements readily traceable. Do not expect too much, and abore all do not expect instantaneous results, If suchcome so much the better. Advertising is cumulative and, all things being equal, the results from the last four months of a year should almost equal the first eight. Word your announcements plainly, honestly, forcibly—talk in the papers as you would by word of mouth. Underestimate rather than overestimate. Shan sensationalism or any language ealcu- lated to lower your personabdignity, the char- acter of your merchandise or the standing of your establishment. what you are aiming to secure. You can make an announcement to the public that will put thousands in line awaiting the opening of your doors—but unless you them fully what you led them to expect it is bad advertising. business—new customers continuously—to show a marked increase in your business month after month and year after year. Unless it does this the advertising or the store is at fault. Right here it ie well to remark that all the ad- vertising possible to do will not make a business continuously and permanently successful un- less the store is right—unless the goods are bought right and sold close; unless legitimate competition is met—unless the business is hon- estly conducted, thoroughly systematized, un- der brainy management, assisted by competent, neat and polite employes. It is not ® science or a secret to conduct a business successfully. A men who thoroughly understands his business and is constantly alert to the requirements of his patrons, commer- cially “abreast of the times.” has a little fore- sight, tact, enough common sense to be honest, and will advertise, can become successful. Study seriously'this question of advertising. Do not permit your early advertising expe- rience to be so costly as to shake your confi- dence in its ultimate efficacy. Go fast slowly. Fight shy of all single isme mediums; that is, fair, entertainment and other programs and sarmodicallyismmed journals, wary of hotel blotters and registers, may clocks, directories and thousands of similar Any advertising from which trade cannot be directly traced in not the best advertising. While it is advieable in many instances to print catalogues, pamphlets, brochures, circulars, &c., explanatory of your business or a feature or two, they are not necessary except where a “mail order” business is done. Newspapers are absolutely the very best mediums for advertising, and the time will come when nine-tenths of the advertising money will go into them. Firms are frequently jndged by their Dusi- ness announcements, and it is exceedingly im- portant thatthe “tone” of your announce- ments should be clean, clear and forcible in order that a good impression may be created. If you have not the time, inclination or talent to write your advertisements place the matter in the bands of some competent, intelligent and trustworthy advertisement writer or agency, just as you would give your legal business to a lawy jum up, buy advantageously, sell closely, have system, conduct your business upon & generous, honest, straightforward basis, keep “abreast of the times.” make these facts known through the newspapers and your success is assured, The Mannish Girl. From Truth. She begins innocently enough. She has a troop of brothers, perhaps, and is drawn into their sports in spite of herself. She catches their contempt of girls; cuts off her hair like Maggie Tulliver; takes pleasure in a riding habit and its odd accouterments. Horses and dogs are her favorite companions. So she falls out of sympathy with her sex. She loses its delicacy; she is reckless of ite conventions. That is always the peril of the mannish girl, But the fact that a woman in body, he tries to be a man in mind, exposes her to the animadversions of the ribald. As she mingies with the world, she feeds a kind of vanity by being mannish. To talk slang, to smoke cigarettes, to ride to hounds, commend her, ina measure, to her male com: anions. They declare her to be jolly, fetch- Ing, stunning. ‘They cultivate ber ‘society. They take her yachting when they leave her companions athome. They love to chat with her im a box at the horse show. They even Propose a surreptitious visit tothe Arion ball Bat tl it idom thinks of the mannieh girl. He knows that the arts which she attracted him will be just asat- tractive to others, He knows that lack refinement, which has a kind of zest in the of twenty, will turn to hopeless vulgarity in matron of forty. tse do Sa he" iar oe iontoes on her career and on her reputation. eo a ‘Warburton's Warburton—‘‘Mamma, may I have a slice of bread and jam now?” Mamma—‘‘No; you mnet not think of eating Keep in mind that permanent results are | ‘The sole object of advertising is to create new | ing The National Museum to Exhibit Them at the Columbian Fair, HOW CHANGE WAS MADE. Metal Cash im Strange Shapes—“Knife” Money, “Ring” Money and “Hog” Money— Odd Things Used for a Medium of Ex- change—Mintages of Columbus’ Time. ——_—— HE NA'IONAL MU- seam is preparing for the world’s fair an ex- hibit of ite collections of coins and other metal money, which, thongh among the most re- markable in the world, have not hitherto been shown to the public. They include ever #0 many quaint and curi- ous specimens, both ancient representing the development of this medium of exchange incidental to the progres of man- kind. Whereas now among all civilized nations such objects have invariably the shape of disks stamped with values, it is surprising to find how many odd and even grotesque forms gold and silver, copper and bronze have been Trought into during past ages for use as ready EXIPE Moyer. Among the oddities of this kind possessed by the museum are pieces of the “kuife money, which was circulated in China aa late as the first century of the Christian era, These coi if euch they may be called, are of iron and have | inches long. Th from an anci peculiar f« om wh: medium of barter. They were worth 8 cents. In the year 15 4. D. the reign had a pretty taste for financierir large numbers of them to be gilded, | arbitrary value of 80 cents api | which were treated in this war. ordered tunately Uni the gilding soon wore of, which circurastance inspired widesprend dissatisfac’ ith the improved currency, and on this account it was abandoned. At present Inmps of gold, commonly in the shape of shoes, are employed in China to represent large sums, being siamped with their value by the government. GOLD ORNAMENTS. Other interesting specimens are pieces of “ring money,” such as were worn as ornaments anciently in Great Britain, as well as by the old | Gauls. ‘Those barbarians used to carry their | entire fortunes on their persons in the shape of | articles wrought out of gold and other metala, These objects were only incidentally for pur- poses of adornment. Their most important | Use was to serve as ready cash, and to this end | they were made of astandard weight and purity. like modern coins. Often they were so con- stracted as to be readily divided into two or more equal parts. _In the year 1700 a specimen was dug up in Staffordshire, England, contain: pounds and two ounces of pure gold. It was four feet long and #o flexible that it could be wrapped around the arm like a snake. In comparatively recent times it has been cus- tomary for travelers journeying through a strange country to pay their way by detaching one link after another of a gclden chain. SALT AND TEA FOR CHANGE. The museum collections inciude all sorts of curious things which have been used in lien of coins or other money by different races of people all over the world. For example, in Abyssinia, the country of Prince Rasselas, bars of ‘salt are employed to this day for *mall change. The salt 1s dug out of the Softa moun- tain and carried to the king's storehouse, where it is molded into bricks for the purpose. Tribes of men who live far from the rea in parts of the earth where commerce is difficult regard salt as a great luxury, so that it is util- ized profitably in barter with them. Tea, pressed into bricks, is a common circulating medium in Siberia, in parts of which the prices of all other commodities are absolutely regu- lated by the price of tea. In the central of South America, even at the present time, pins, soap and legge are current as money. a Columbus landed the aboriginal Indians were using for the same pi disk-shaped Pieces cut out of human skulls, the teeth of alli- gators and the tusks and other bones ot the extinct mastodon, as well as “‘wampum” made from COINS FROM THE SEA. Some of the Indians who lived near the ocean procured from the sea very beautiful coins ready made. ‘These were furnished by marine animals called “erinoids,” which re- semble plants in the manner of their growth. Certain varieties of crinoids are covered with limy disks,each of which bears a star with ravs, sks served admirably for money. The early settlers in America were so at « loss for that corn, peas and codfish were current in New England. In revolutionary days musket bullets of full bore were made by law tegul tender as small change in Massuchusetts,though nobody was compelled to accept more than twelve of them at one payment. This regula- tion served incidentally a8 a millitary provision, it being desirable that every houseliold should have a private stock of ammunition. At the samo period shell money was in common cir- culation in New England, the best black shell beads being worth 10 ‘per cent more than silver, weight for weight. In Virginia tobacco was the best accepted currency # century ago. It is worth mentioning, by the way, that the ancient Hebrews used precious stones as money toa large extent. THE EARLIEST AMERICAN COINS included in the museum collections are those which were minted by Cortez by permission from the Spanish crown. They are of copper and the design on one side ropresents the Pillars of Hercules. They were issued at about the date of Columbus’ death. In this connec- tion it is interesting to record the fact that in 1869 Gen. Montgomery, Meigs was stationed at Corpus Christi, Tex. “A fisherman living near by on Padre Island gave him in change a cop- per coin of the Columbus epoch, bearing the portraits of Ferdinand and Isabella, When questioned regarding it, he would not tell There he got it, but it was learned that he had mn passing similar coins in great numbers in the town. On investigation it was found that he collected them on apart of the beach of Padre Island, where they were washed up by the waves in considerable numbers, some of them cemented together in chunks and all of them blackened by age and corroded by sea water. There could be no doubt that they part of the treasure of a Spanish galleon which was known to have been sunk in the time of Cortez, about 1520. The coin secured by Gen. Meigs he gave to the museum. HOG woxer. It is believed that Cortez coined silver money also. After his issues the earliest American money was minted for tho Bermudas early in the seventeenth century, However, it was manufactured in England. The metal i H | £ i i i Hl ] ft i Hi it | | i if t | i i ip i iH i i and modern, | somewhat the shape of razors, being about six | emperor,who | are not easily deceived by exch chante, MAKING CRANOR. Until recently, whon the praction was for- bidden by law, the Mexicans out their aflver coins into pieces for small change. The same ictice was followed in the United States early m the present century, and in Virginin it was customary to make five quarters out of each | dollar by hammering it out prelimmarity to | chopping it into serments with a batebet or other instrument. The “reeding” or corruge- | tion on the ‘edges of modern but meorrectly termed * DUCTILITY OF GOLD. | One of the qualities which has rendered gold | most available for coining is ite wonderful | ductility. This may be illustrated by the fact that a single grain of the metal can be made to cover a space of fiftytix square inches, and | the same quantity can be drawn into «| wire | 809 fect long. The amount of gold contained | in a $20 piece will perfectly gild a silver wire | at ing from New York to Chicago. It is | interesting to know that every ton of sea | water holds a grain of gold and that the walls of the brick houses in Philadelphia con- | tain many millions of dollars of the precious metal. Gold is distributed everywhere, the | only difticalty being to separate it profitabiy | from the other substances with which it i found combined in nature. The museum's cal- Jections contain a number of battons of gold and silver, each stamped with the seal, which serve a in Ninm. Alno there are specimens of the “hook money” of silver, h used to circulate largely in Tndia, being nothing more than silver wire bent into a shape resembling fish hooks SHRLL MONEY. The collections of the National Museum would be incomplete if they did not contain of the shell money, which served as coins asa means of exchange ove the precious metals were discov- It seems strange to find this form of ed to thie day by many nations im Aria, in the inland of the Indian and in a substity es be cmploved, for the reason that ft averient sizeand the natural supply ted, so that one cowry shell may be represent a definite amopnt of | labor im the process of finding, and there is no | material chance of a sodden inflation of the by the discovery of a great deposit of Une hundred cowries are worth two MAINE'S _ DARING OUTLAW. How Nadeau ia Prepared to Resist Cap- ture. From the New York Herald. Many efforts are still being made to captare Nadeau, the outlaw. Three unsuccessful at- tempts have been mae within the last fort- night to serve a warrant upon him, but all whe have approached his cabin have been driven away at the muzzie of a rifle, He is still living about twelve miles beyond Fort Kent, Me. There are several other settlers within a short distance of him, but most of them are friendly to Nadean. His cabin ise few rods from the road, and no one not known to be in sympathy with him is allowed to pass without being challenged. He is said to have stopped several teams, and, rifle im hand, gone to ave if through the drivers and their around hit in disguise, for recently two Portland have been spring on the outlaw, en- deavoring to catch hit | Nadeau saya, “I'll never see (by which he means he will never be taken al To guard against surprise in the the outlaw tag dug «long pit or trench front of his cabin. At the of this has driven stakes pointed any one unfortunate en He has cor such a way that itis made ground, and with Nadeau on rifle it will take more than one to pase it, ‘RE IS STRONGLY INTRENCHED. To be able to use his firearms to better vantage the outlaw has cut loopholes four wails of his cabin, and J of approach that he cannot terior. Since he has been a tice Nadeau bas been well with firearms and ammunit His cabin is #0 located that view of the country for two miles rection. When the outlaw sleeps pended over his head a revolver aimed the door, so that if snddeuly awakened he only to grasp the weapon and fire. Between Nadeau and his neighbors @ code nged, extending for v8 s ee i i i f i i 3 as E | He a relay signals has been arra miles up and down the road. The method is for the first man seeing @ picious character approaching to fires shot. The next hears it and fires his and this is continued until the one nearest Nadeau gets an answering signal from the outlaw. By this system the outlaw is made aware of theapproach stranger when he i NADEAU MAS FRIENDS. The facts herein related were learned frome peddier who strayed into the settlement and who, being harmlose, was allowed to call at the houses and show his wares to the women folk, Tne peddier, having sharp ears for his customers being femaies, able about Nadeau and his movements. The farmers thereabout are not only to help the outlaw keep ont of the officers hands, but would fight for him if it were neo- essar. Thev contend that the man has been wronged and did right to resist arrest, though they have nothing against United States Marshal McNally, whom Nadeau shot. They say that the warrant ae first taken out against him was sworn and ex- ecuted a year after he had and selling ramand was the spite. ‘The farmers in speaking of Me credit for great sand, but aay if he will keep away from Nadeau in the jut emuggiing of an enemy @ KAT ton that the present marshal wishes to postpone the climax until his snccesor comes into office. He on whom the duty devolves will have neither « very pleassut nor a@ easy task, ———+e-—_____ ‘The Word “Jolly.” From the Davenpo t Democrat. “Jolly.” On the adoption of this word inte the English it had the meaning of beautiful, century speaks of our firet mother as ‘‘the jolly In time, however, it came to mean Eve.”