Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1893, Page 10

——s 10 THE EVENING STAR: WASHI NGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. ‘ outside speakers, and we called in Lincoln to make seven or eight speeches for us. When he came to Cincinnati to’ him to his hotel. After we moments he told me that he would like, if pos- tible, to be left alone during the afternoon, and t ‘No, T don’t mean that,” he replied. “I mean that I don't want to see strangers. I want you to stay with meand we will bave o chat together.’ T then sat down Aid the donveteation soon turned to the debate with Douglass. Lincoln Tefal of af the tent aad bo told me the whole story, describing situations v Srematioaly, Ashe went on in his talk couid see that the presidential bee had already begun to buzz around his head, that he was studying the signs of the times and was ready to take advantage of anything that might arise. He was very modest about his state- ments and he proposed everything for the sole . = advancement of the party, but the logical con- = clusions from all hie Statements ssstned to ie “SID y DRAWIN y N RARY, | selection of himeelf as the } ea EX-PRESIDENT HAYES DE WING OOM AND LIBRARY. date, 1 had seen him before sbie when ho came nected with » large factory in Fremont, which | (2,0 ucinnadl 19 argue a case there in connec: HAYES’ LAST WORDS, | mztesctsze: te carbone wnich ‘re ised in | Stanton war sant to have mubed Tinie yi electric lights all over the country, and the | Was connected with the case and I remember — son promises to be a bright, energetic him, but Ido not recai anything about his asiness man. Miss Fannie Hayes, the ex-| being snubbed.” p President's only daughter, is the head of the w at Men and Measures | household at Fremont. she is now a charmi a eee: Interview Abou 2 » | Young lady, and tho fact that she played in the | “Do you know,” Mr. Hayos went on, Given by the Ex-President. White House when her father was President | “that Abraham Lincoln was in many of his . has not affected her manners. She is well | ways like Henry Clay. Ihad seen Clay some 23k SA | seers pre aero ae arg enient | time before I had heard Lincoln speak and my ce} e = , HIS BEAUTIFUL HOME LIPE. | lishment at Spiegel Grove fer youre Te gpoie: | #f#t thought as I listened to him waa: ‘Here is - Henry Clay over again.’ The two were very ” pa Pie order. much alike if their speechmaking. Both were PRESIDENT HAYES AS A FRESHMAN OF THE CLAss | carnest, simple and easy to 4 tand and ‘The World Grows Better About His Private oF 1896, their methods of reaching their hearers were Papers and Hie Dinry—Keference to His] Speaking of Miss Fannio Hayos recalle a ca- | Much the same." you heard Henry Clay last Southern Foticy and to the Length of the | rious conversation which I had with President | speak, Me Haves" aie Presidential Term—Some of His Reml-| Hayes as we sat together with the family at | ‘It'was when he was an old man. He spoke wieconres. luncheon. During the meal the conversation | Clearly, melodiously and forcibly and his man- turned to Russi«, from which eountry I bad | ner was that of talking quietly to his friends - -_——_—- just returned, and we chatted of Tolstoi's ideas | ¢xcept at the last, when he warmed up and for the improvement of the world, and I asked | closed in a burst of eloquence which contained Written for The Evening ‘Mr. Hayes whether he thought the world was | something of the fire he always exhibited in his Wo WEEKS AGO owing better as it grew older. rime. It was about this mme time that I ‘Tux Sram published He Ra rapes ‘Of course it is. The people of or bay sagen He oa = we ite cise i lay in manner of , but 1 the fret part of my in- | t# World are better and purerevery year. Why, | Clay in hi ha 97 ings terview with ex-Presi- dent Hayes and today I give you the remainder. It is the only long in- terview that was ever held with him as ex- President and it con- tains the last words which he bas given to the public. When I met him at his home in 8 few weeks ago ox-Prosident Hayes had the best of prospects for outliving ry. He walked from his house down ended in a powerful effort. I remember he spoke in the open air, and shortly after begin- ning he begged the pardon of the people for putting his hat on his head, ‘He maid: ‘I am an old man now and I know you will @xcuse me for wearing my hat.’ He talked for two hours, and it was during this speech that he denounced those who were trying to read him out of the whig party. It was about the time thathe left Tyler's cabinet, and he had many enemies for his action in remaining in it. He said: ‘I warn these — who are trying to read me out of the party. I belong to the party of Washington, to the party of Hamilton. Tama whig and I'warn those who are trying to read me out of the whig party that they had better de-careful or they will find themselves outaide of it’ ” STORIES OF TOM CoRWrX. T suppose you have known all the great Ohio men of the past, Mr. Hayes,” said I. ‘Yes; Iknew Edwin M. Stanton quite well, It was a biting cold leeks, ro87 with theeald. shone out ¢ the silver of his bair and whiskers an 5 Bl blue exes fairly sparkled with life. During . \ and I was well acquainted with Ben Wade and my stay with bim I was again and again sur- | ® Tom Corwin. vised at bis wonderful intellectual and phys-| the old Greeks were the greatest scoundrels | ‘Tell me something about Corwin,” said I. a! health, and I could not realize that be was /who ever existed. By the way, I have been| ‘He was, indeed, wonderful man and seventy years ofage. While | was at Spiegel | studying a good deal of the Greeks lately. You | wondefful orator,” was the reply. ‘He was in Grove my photographer took several photo- | probable have not heard of it, but I am acol-| the field of oratory what Joseph Jefferson is raphs of him, and these are undoubtedly the | aes student. My daughter Fannie and myself | upon the stage. was the best story teller I photographs that were ever made of Gen. | gre both freshmen in the Chautauqua University have ever known, and his power as @ speaker Hayes. He gare me license to photograph course and we will graduate in 1896. That is if | was such that I have heard him make the same speech over and over again, and it seemed each die,” said Mise Fannie in an un- | time fresher and more interesting than before. will carry on our studies on the | Ihave heard Jefferson many times in the same play, and he is always fresh and new. I could everything in bis house from attic to cellar and | w I wok pietures of his library, his dining room and uumber of otber Before I left he gave me a photograph which be said he | And he a alwars fresh “and could liked better than any other. It was taken about see him a bun mes same part an five years ago, but be aged so slowly that it isa | 5. wesbtnck ts biteee ber ag saa ty not tire me. It was the same with Tom Cor- jood likeness of him at the time of his death. | _©x-President Hayes paid no attention to poli- | win. He was an actor as well as an orator. He * tics after he left the White House and he did | had the most wonderful facial power of any not meddle with party matters, As wre | ian Thave ever mot. By the mere movement through ¢ fter Iunch, | of his features, without uttering a word. he eceupied I think, that he died, | peernl rapes = oe fare fossa could throw an audience into tears oF convo end hese bo cpent 0 great part of his leisure | ere as told tue thet be nas thoroughly | {Bem with laughter. He could imitate one, have heard id of satisfied thatit was the proper one for that uime | him thet he ‘was the ort chat ont dart and the future. He said hie southern policy | who could move his ears and his nove ty had long been uccepted by the country as| the samo time or separately at will while being corr d that though the force bill en- | Keeping the rest of bis features in repose. tered into the last campaign every one knew | Speaking of hi wers of imitation I remem. {hat it amounted to nothing and it cut no figure | per one speech which I heard him make during in the making of votes. He was very decided in | the great campaign in which Zach Taylor wee his expressions as to the length of ‘the Presi- | elected, and in this speech he imitated Zeck deat's term and he told me that it would be | Tayior, Martin Van Buren and Lewis Casa At good thing for the country if the term could be | tho start h spoke of the three by name, but as extended ‘to six years and the President be | he went om dropped the names and by the | made ineligible to a second election. | mere imitation of the voices and actions of the ait of the bad government of the pat has | men, and by throwing into bie v resulted from the possibility of the President | gestures their well-knewn oharaotociatie securing a re-election. If Re has been once | fave his ideas of them, When he spoke of Vex President his old officials feel bound to work | faren his voice became oily and. he a for his renomination and re-election if he| to be the gentlemanly diplomatic politician. | should ever bes candidate again in years to | He made the first index fioger of bis right band ome. I think it would be better to limit the | go up and down through the air, illustrating the President to o single term even if the duration | galloping of a fox, and without mentioning Van Li of that term be left at four years, as it is now, | Buren's name thal fox-like statesman wes ap-| and I think that such a ion would re- | parent to all. When speaking of Taylor he put | BAYES’ FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPH. form the civil sert Imake it more efficient | on the ficrce features and bluff tones of old hours. The room bas many portraits of Mre. | than it can possibly be under the present rule.” | Zach. and when he referred to Lewis Cass his Hayes and the drawersin his bureaus contained | ex-paesipeNtT MATES’ DIARY AND PAPERS. | appearance brought out the whig idea of him th of photographs,« number of which | Much of my time with Mr. Hayes was spent | ®# ® money-lending, grasping politician, About represented groupe in which was Mrs. Haves.| i. bis tibrary looking with him over bis teou. | thi time there had been a story published con- He seemed to like to speak of his departed wif macy Seching. =i him over a"! cerning Cass which stated that while he was wed sands of books and taking peeps into his valu- | civil governor of the northwest territory he yy | able papers. He showed me drawers which |had taken poor -woman's cow” be- 4 to fill his life full of work to prevent him-| contained autograph letters from the distin-| cause she could not cbt, BT tte trif from brooding upon. her lows, and I found | guished men of ‘the world and he has left thou- | Corwin brought out the y making his ferough my tik with him and with his Ohio fands of letters which are full of unwritten | band move in and out like the running of « nde that he was oue of the busiest men of | history. Hiseonversation sparkled with remi- | cow, and when he spoke of Cass his face was the _ niscence, and Pasked him if be would not leave personification of that of the ideal Shylock, , | something in the shape of a book of memoirs Corwin was one of the most wonderful Mr Mayes? prrapasr rich arg see wag | 8nd whether he had arranged as to the publica- | talkers I have ever met. He was the center of rans Senee ie tion of his papers. He replied: - every crowd he entered, and if he were here it did honor to the great office } “No, I am doing no literary work of that | with us today he would monopolize the con- which he bad heid) He never allowed bimeeif te drop into being an existing nonentity and hie * were spent in doing good. He was con- ved with nearly all the great reforms of the md of the country. He spoke to me of bis privom work and be talked enthusiastically ef the movement for giving industrial educa- tion to the colored children of the south. I foand hie mode of living perfectly simple and Unostentations. There was no red tape about Spiegel Groveand be told me be answered | every letter be received. He did good in a hun- dred wave which I cannot mention here and be | bad the highest ideals of hfe aad duty. NX-PRESIDENT HAYES AND HIS BOYS, I was charmed with his relations to bis family with his wleas as to the value of bis time in of money. He was f thousands of dollars | ° I asked him | y making | ~ “To not allow matters of that kind to| THE DINING‘ROOM AT “SPIEGEL GROVE.” bother me I have given all my business over — — — eG o—aieananat tn te my by pre i eon penton aS nature and Tdonbt whether my papers will ever | versation and would talk for hours. We would pat of fan oie the morning just 2,Published. I find my days so full that I | be glad to listen to him, and it was vo every- to Baltimore and in have not time for an autobiography. I have ; where even to the time of his death.” eyes became sericus, and every one bent forward and death are indeed strange! From the Chicago Dafiy Tribune, Barbara, has a story that attracts eastern tour- ists to its shores,” said W. W. Hurt yesterday. dominated the Patific coast this island played an important part in the history of that period. | The old monsstery which stands on an en nenee back of Santa Barbara wasa haven of Test for the Franciscan fathers and monks on | their way from Mexico to the Mission Dolores | at San Francisco or the monastery at Monterey. The occupants of the island wore co stantly changing, and frequently it was de-| serted for weeks’ with the exception of the monks left in charge, It is a great curiosity toeastern visitors to this day, especially the dark and noisome dungeons dug deep into the mountain rising hundreds of feet above the old Spanish dome. coast of Lower California had an exccedingly beautiful daughter, who attracted much atten- tion from the wealthy young men of the sur- rounding country; and, indeed, her rare beauty Was a matter of comment even in court circles during her stay in the City of Mexico, where an attache of the American legation fell deeply in love with Senorita Inez, and his at- tentions were so agreeable to the young | senorita that she became greatly attached to | him, This state of affairs was discovered by the priests, and her father was at once notified that his ‘daughter was going beyond the bounds of the church and forming an alliance with a foreigner. Being under con- trol of the Franciscans and fearing their | power the father consented to surrender the | girlto the church. Without warning ehe was | abducted from the City of Mexico and taken long, weary ride over the mountains, angi after | tLe o weeks of uninterrupted journeying reached Santa Barbara, where she was kept under sur- veillance in the monastery. In somo manner she managed to send word to her American lover, acquainting him with all that had bap- pened and begging him to come to her rescue. | gind of it, “The young man bravely undertook the | fonducted_-to bet hazardous journey and reached Santa Barba: insafety. “Awaiting his opportunity he rescu the yonng senorita from the priests, who, it is | said, had almost driven her crazy with grief and fear, and together the couple escaped to Cata-| my notice. Itis the sight of nuns, Bisters of lina Island. The whole surrounding country | Charity, attending ‘a millinery was searched for miles, though yo one thought of the little island ten miles at sea. These two ‘only food being shell fish and what finny deni- zens they could catch. Finally they were taken off by some sailora. from a whaler, They had come ashore for water. Later the couple reached San Francisco and joined Gen. Jobn C. Fremont’s forces, where they were married by the chaplain of the camp. They had a son, and today he is known over the entire Pacific coast as ‘Murphy, the Cattle King,’ who is said to be the largest land owner in the world. From the Jenness Miller Magazine. size, must be placed so near the carver as to give him or her full control of it. Fowls should be placed breast up. Put the fork into the breast and take off the wings and legs first, without turning the fowl; then cut out the breastbone, so as toleave the well-browned off the side bones and divide the care is leftin two from the neck down, leaving the rump on one part to be served in’ a separate ala Hpekere 4 diary or sort of ‘note boo HOW ToM CORWIX DIZD. whiel jot down from day to day thi “ which interest me in the way of vente and bina Wee Seen ae Pe nara Ten . th < part of my intellectual life ee plied Me.. Ha: nae ae. - as. 1 suppose, cone into this set of books, and | “Yes,” rej ir. Hayes, “a1 a Fether, that's tov much, I don’t think "| I keep the work up still.” never forget it. . It happened in Washington in AM . Bnet OUK TWO OREATEST PRESIDENTS. December, 1865, at a reception at which a col- “Who, Gen, Hayes,” said I, “do you con- | lector of the military debts which the general ther ret ad en Pod vernment owed to Ohio gave to the hs ox-Presilont laughed | sider the greatest of our Presidents beans ‘Washington. sees ved om 1 think,” replied President Hayes, “that | gtreet, in what is now the most business part of MR. Bares’ curtpREN. Abraham Lincoln was the ablestand the greatest | the capital. His rooms were comparatively Tepent some time with Rutherford B. Hayes, | of them. He was the broadest minded, he was | amall, and {t was known that the assemblage ® Rud” Haves during my stay. He ia | “losest to. the people and he was our most | would be large. We knew there would be no oo Ske Gusaiie ut Seamed aie representative American. Next to bim I sup- | chaira. Corwin was not well and he could rfot cashion im one of ans mont and % ®| pose comes George Washington. But Wi stand for any time, and ho told me before the my mee ~ ~ t sete, ~— _—, | byte . Te omate Regiek ways | event that he would not and could not come. I the rest of the Hayes boys, he is » | an was not typical American that however, that he couldn't keep away, and busines man, and I found that President heen ‘Dischant Linesin wen.” — sar 1 ou you knew President Lincoln "sid L “Can you give me your idea of him? “Yes,” replied the ex-Presid if rit id pencege aw ain Py ime and 1 havea picuire bare white Shows thm bisa then.”* . DASIRE WEBSTER ON THE STUMP. candidate and he was opposed by 2 of bis ebildren. They areall of | Rufus P. Ranney of Cleveland. You must re- Sees tan colina ility and every one of | member him. He was one of the war govern- therm seems to be of practicel com- ors of Ohio and when Lincoln called for 10,000 mou sense. W Hayes isa very successful | he sent 30,000 instead and sent men to lawy Toledo Webb's boy, Sherman | W. acceptance. 1 Raves, io as bright « little four-vearvold | hima and will Gnd He grabbed bis grandfather around | he died, I think, about ten yearsago. Ranney his knees when be came into the house during | wasa it da , and as such was very popu- my stay and Vrecident Hayes told me that little | lar. fle was te secse Texpects Geonemle ot Sherman was the best of all the things he bad | Dennison. but Denuison was the sbrewder poli- fesbow we. Auviler of the Hayes boys is con-/ tician. Ihe situation was such that we wanted bim stood Salmoa P. of the Suvreme Court. The two Sherman the and the Senator, ‘We had Bares snd enclgetiar etiate emai: cet | MANY Bob Schenck and Phil Sheridan. —s were there, and among them James A. Garfield, and ‘These and many many others were chatting ther id different knots about the room when Tom Corwin walked in, He had sta; at home as long as he could, but his old servant woman, knowing he would want to come, had laid out his clothes for him, andas the time opproached she told him to get up and go. He was lying in his bed ‘Cicero de Senectute,’ or ‘Cicero on a Happy Old Age’ in the and he laid the boa face downward on bed and dressed himself and came. Ashe entered the room a ery went around, ‘There is Corwin! Corwin!" and everyone rushed forward to greet him. I ean see him now as he walked through that room, his face shining and his eyes glistening, and I can almost hear his voice as it rang out when he said ‘Gentlemen, we are all boys tonight,’ and made an apt quotation from Cieero, I caught hold of him and asked him to take my seat. He resigted. but I got in front of him and slowly but surely fot him back into it. Then the crowd gathered around him and he began to talk. In three minutes the other corners of the room were desertedand the party had all gathered around and were listening to him. Men were down on their kneés to get to hear him to let those behind them see over their heads. This was the case with Ger- field and Schenck,and later in the evening I re- member that Ben Wade stood just behind Gar- field. Corwin had recently returned from Mexico, w! he had been minister, and in re- oeaey to questions he talked foran hour or more out the country while these people hung on his every word. "In poetic language he de- scribed the beauties of the Mexican country and he gave glowing pictures of the beauties and es of the senoritas. He curdled our bh with his tales of the brigands and he kept the crowd laughing most of the time and once or twice mo" their tears, When he was in the midst of his jesting Ben Wade, who had been listening intently and now and then burst- ing into « horse laugh after all the others were through, suddenly asked: “««They say, Corwin, those Mexicans want to be annexed to the United States. What do you think of that idea?” “Corwin's face changed from gay to grave, his to hear what he might say. He raised his hand and attempted to speak. His lips moved, but no words came, though his hand still moved in gesture. Then it was seen that something was the matter and we moved back to give him air. He raised him- self suddenly from his seat, reached foeward his hands and fell into the arms of his friends. We carried him into the next room and laid him upon a bed, and he never spoke again. He had been struck with paralysis and that night he died. He wasa great man and we all loved him and admired him. He was one of the best classical scholars of his time and he was fond of reading the classics in the original.” As Mr. Hayes thus chatted of Tom Corwin’s last words death seemed to be afar off from him, and I recalled the fact that Corwin had that night told the story of a man who died, as he did an hour later, of paralysis of the heart. Now Hayes tells the story of Corwin’s death, and within a few weeks he falls in the same way from almost the same disease, neuralgia of the heart. The coincidences of the story of life Franx G. Canrentzn. —_+ + —___ AN ISLAND EDEN. Its Adam and Eve Were the Romantic Parents of Cattle"King Murphy, “Catalina Island, across the bay from Santa “In the early days when the Franciscans “‘It is related that a Mexican ranchero on the Ne lived for weeks on Catalina, their | POINTS OF VIEW What Newoomers Are Apt to Think of the National Capital, THEIR FIRST IMPRESSIONS. ‘How the Feminine Mind Regards Washing- ton st First Glance—A Good City for Light Colors—Ah! the Monument—Uncle Sam's Untidy Home—Alas, No Library—Why the Boston Woman Wouldn't Live Here. —__.—__ __ Written for The Evening Star. ORTUNATE BEING!” apostrophized a fair occupant of one of the big hotel parlors, as she leaned closer to the win- dow to study a pretty passing pedestrian with fur-trimmed gown and Jacket, muff and furry turban, all bordering unmistakeably on a golden tint,*‘to have the good luck to live ina city where a lovely tan costume like yours is suitable even in mid- “That's what I like about Washington, Went of, turning to her companions, “‘one can dress eo much daintier at all seasons of the year, for there being no soot and coal smoke hero, there isn't the slightest reason in the | here. When I had swallowed this sorrow I. be- | gan to look around for our own celebrities and | Promptly to imagine that every well-looking world why one shouldn't wear as many light things as one pleases, even in winter, indeed ‘as warm fabrics as one desires in light colors, and, of course, any one who bas any sense of beauty when really desiring to look well would please to thus array herself, since light colors are infinitely moro dressy one secret. indeed, of the | charm of a blonde's hair, it gives her a more | ix! v ‘ fixed-up and elaborate effect, justas s light | Washington, aside from its political interests, is | theater hat is more attractive than is exactly | fast becoming the chosen residence the same style of hat garnished with dark.” ‘The light-locked members of her audience here looked as if saying amen to her theory, while the owners of darker tresses, quite nat red incredulous, n in summer, too,” dently wrapt up in her theme, here all the pretty thin gowns in light colors without the wretched accompanyi that one is going to look like a thunder cloud by the end of the afternoon at the very latest, as is the case with my afflicted sisters of the than dark, which country and is even threatening Boston with a snatch’ at its litera he went on, evi- ‘one can wear enced upon first entering the rotunda of the | Capitol were my strong first impressions of | Washington. | another does the sam: “It is a surprise, you know, if one has never | that they will invite him. One goes in hopes of | loft mitten there been there before, to go from the rooms with | finding the people out and another hopes to find ceilings of not extraordinary height into this | them in. One wants to see his hostess and the at first seemingly roofless place. ‘Why,do you know of what my home cit minds me?" she inquired tragically. reminds me of some fabric originally white, which for lack of pure water has been washed in in muddy water till ite very is discolored beyond regenera- home do make a desperate effort clean, and it is indeed right- fully considered one of the most tidy cities in the matter of well-ordered streets in tho wert, but efforts to keep it clean with all that ‘oft coal smoke to contend with are as futile as an attempt to render spotless some mildewed ‘os, the women’s light dresses, and particu- larly in winter, is what struck me on my very here as the most remarkable thing about Washington, and Iam reimpressed with the fact every time I come here.” FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIE “That was your first impression of Washing- ton, was it?” spoke up one seated by the fire- “well, that proves what different points of view different people havi that impressed me when I first saw Washington | looked when they were | House to attend one of the big public reception them I, of course, recognized the fact that I partook of the general oddity. cellent opportunity, too, to have observed this peculiarity of dress that you spoke of, but I was 60 taken up with the whim that we all looked like animals marching into the ark that couldn't gee anything else. It wasa ig idea, too, and I was glad that it oc- ince it counteracted the tedious- pees of traveling at the rate of six feet an ou! things totally different in aim.” Now the thing | had been softly touching the piano and who whecled around on the stool as she spoke, “will always be associated in my mind ¢ | with the first morning that I saw it | when there was bright sunlight on snow, out of which the Capitol, the monument and the white government bu | tions of the drifts. Through this bi | piloted by a girl tall and. slim as a lily stalk, | and with eyes the color of a wood brook where | quite ti the sunlight flecks it. The cold air made her | go south till it gets quieter, cheeks delicately pink,-and her golden brown hair curled about her face asa vine's tendrils might overlap its flower. She was kind- | bverybo hearted, too, as well as almost angeli and the world laughs with your” and, con- versely, get tired of the world and the world | wouldn't like to drive to | will be tired of you. It was an ex- diver curred to me, A CITY OF CONTRADICTIONS. “Well, I should say points of view did differ!” exclaimed another, “for I was impressed by her education was finished. During that time | neither of these features, but instead by Wash- ington being a city of contradictions, for, to begin with, it is a queer combination ‘of city and country, since, setting aside the which are ‘scattered like oases throug! and pavements, there is that wide stretch of rusticity ing and buttercups grow, and is occasionally made, and ull | alongside of a great thoroughfare. Why even | the streets are protected like | iy insult to them promptly avenged, for just after coming here I read of a man who was made to forfeit a good sum for | hitched his horse where the animal could nibble the leaves of a tree. ‘The horse didn't break the branches, nor was it | tied to the tree; it merely cranod its neck from where it was fastened and lunched off a few leaves. Ita owner, though, was fined, and I was the way I like to see a city other things than utility taken into consideration. ‘One other contradictory thing that I have noticed here may exist in other cities as well, but if so it has never happened to come under have forgiven her for thus murdering th she did it #o delectably. | desert of buil we wandered through Center market I never long, saw meat and vegetables and all the other ma- | terial products, so dense was the atmosphere of beauty she cast about me. At last we halted before a flower stall and to prove that the spell she wove wasn't made up of my own imagining let me inform you that the young man telling flowers gave her just four times us many for her money ax he did any one else, doubtless reason- ing that anything more than amere nominal sum in transferring one flower to another—for he looked at her as if he classed her among the La France roses—was a sheer waste of business | talent. | where robins even where hi the trees edgi 0: 2 hind her—upon the beauties of Washin, looks of interest in those most wor she, too, was in love with it bonnets—that set strangely upon their un- worldly faces. I was at aloss to account for such a spectacle till I learned that their interest in headgear was purely incidental upon their vocation of procuring means for their good works, their way of money gettin, busingss having to do with femin: mentation, in which ealling, of course, to be s they must be informed, even at the pause, “the ‘cynics affirm that no woman was ever known to admire another woman or to be Able to ee her pretty points?” “All this is nice, very nice, indeed,” said the P feminine Boston tourist (one felt from her tone | T° *¥® #8 alway that she meant jast the reverse), but notwith- standing I couldn't be persuaded to live in bapessg Washington if the town were to be given to me wedded or being about to wed?” interrogated 01 would keep house better. Now, the most casual observer can see at that his residence, the is fomewhat of an item of expense to keep a suff- cient supply of these cards. and, although no- body would ever think of doing it, it would be | & great convenience if, at the end of the season, | there might be an exchange of cards among a i » the various household: Teer id be sent belor's hall, since he never dust bis statues | A Brilliant Scene Witnessed Only tack to the pespis who inte Shag snd io and bric-e-brac, though manlike and with an agricultural instinct th&t he possesses in com- mon with some of the rest of his sex he keeps his grounds beautifully. But his interior! Dear me! Do you know it positively makes me quite ill to look at the representative of Peace near his front door, she does need a bath so dreadfully. I always feel as if she were holding her hand up to her neck not because it is a pretty position for that member—which was of course the sculptor’? idea when he placed it there—but because she thereby hopes that it will conceal ina measure her beemircined neck. If something isn’t done for het soon I shall fee! strongly tempted to go to her rescue myself with a peil of water and « scrubbing brush, queer as the proceedings will look. Her com- panion War, on the opposite of the door, is nearly as bad off, but his shortcomings aren't juite as noticeable because, you know, one t expect as much of a man. “Unele Sam did give his groups Civilization and Discovery on the buttresses of the Capitol, a Turkish bath last summer—had workmen there for weeks scraping off their epidermis, and why he didn’t do something for poor Peace and War, whose sad predicament is only more emphasized by the regeneration of the groups, I cannot understand.” CELEBRITIES AT A DISCOUNT. “Speaking of the Capitol reminds me of my first impression of Washington,” said a caller who was waiting for her hostess to appeat I had always lived in the country and the a Washington was the first of any length I had ever taken. Now, certainly I might have known better, but would you believe that I was sadly | 4 disappointed in not finding the streets more or | less thickly strewn with people from foreign nations in their native costumes, knowing of | course that each country had its representative man was the honorable so and #0, and ever} comely woman the wife of the honorable this or | Toval | that. Ilearned though after a while that the | fact that Washington is the capital of the na- | eve tion, though a very potent factor in its career, and of course the one that gave it ite impetus, after ail nowadays only a factor, and that | Sim re paying calls, ity of the | calls of duty a | call these distinguished-looking people that I met, while they might very properly belong to the clase of chosen politicians, might with equal truth be plain lay citizens. IN THE ROTUNDA. “This fact and the odd feeling that I experi- upon myself.” their seats, too, without permission and whis- | per and sometimes are indifferent to the teach- er's remarks, as well as to the recitations of their mates,’ They have holiday vacations —oh, wellgone could go on endlessly, for never was therBe resemblance so striking between two “Washington,” said a young woman who | nd taking pity on my unacquainted te had asked me if'T Ket with her; that she was going She pronounced it ‘floweahs, ade of Noah Webster himself would IN CENTER MARKET. | “T gratefully accepted the invitation and as ‘And’ yet," said the spenker after a slight | in Washington. IN THE GAY SEASON. | timing over of the corners For one reason ‘There Are Calls of Duty and of Pleasure— The Average Conversation of Caller and Hostess—Trials of a Hostess—Visiting Cards corner and « and the Extent to Which They Are Used. BRILLIANT SCENE presents itself to the | eye of the Washing- tonian who walks the streets in the residence portion of the city cn a bright afternoo: kay season of the year, and a visitor from Bos- ton remarked upon it Stan n few days ago. - He said it was a posi- | A PENNSYLVANIA HOUNTRESS, tive pleasure to himeelf in a place where every! to be enjoring himself. And so it is. pleasure to look at it all, even if Youare not a part of it yourself. ash from house to house, } | ones an: tty women, young 1 old ones, are going up and coming oung men, middle-aged men and din shining silk hats and long coats, are walking the streets, are sleck and well groomed, and rich with silver and even ‘gold ornaments, and the coachmen and footum arrayed in broadcloth box coats and vy fur capes. Everybody seems glad to see ybody else. The clubs, too, have their flags ing and men with holiday mien are going im What is it all about? ply the season is at its height, and people There are calix calls of pleasure and even kind that are meant here are Inurel wreaths. So all | those visits among friends which society ¥ quires should be made asa mark of respect, or ome other reason equally good. | handsome CALLS OF DUTY AND PLEASURE. | Now these calls are calls of duty or of pleas-| the weather for running foxes is just right ure, too, and while they are usually of the latter | She says she knows all the runways the foxes | kind they are not always so, One man pays | bave, and when she goes afield with the hound calls because the people whom: he visits have | she wears rubber boots and a man's overcoat is, dinners or parties, and thing because he hopes asked him to their ti fi I really felt | next man wants to see some one else who he | thix winter, and she owns a big otter and asif I might soar unless 1 kept a firm hold | hopes will be found calling at the same time with himself at the same plac CONGRESS LIKE A SCHOOL ROOM. | callers ha “Tam a school teacher,” put in one hitherto | silent, “and the first thing that strack me was the resemblance of the Senate and the Hoffse to my place of business—a school room—for the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the | House are the teachers, the stenographers a about as follows: class evidently called up ‘to wrestle with copy | books, while the members are the bulk of the pupils. They have their little desks—many | disorderly, just as in a school. They leave Some of these something new torayat each house nd some say the same thing over again. ping « moment to consider this phase of the in- stitution, it will be found that the constant pay- ing of calls is a decidedly severe tax upon the mental resources of the ordinary mortal. A goes to see Mrs BT! ‘onversation is | How do you do, Mrs. B? Tamso giad to | part with them, o glad tosee you. And what have | piace loing since I saw you last?” & dinner parties, ger- | snapped the and let her ga. on, and T do as to what he e saw him last he been doing since replies Thave been to several parties, but don’t vou | it. I waited till Leney think they are a de people do go out so very much in Washington get tired of each other. me and depressing, and I think [ll that th Let him go by He is not half as tired of the peo- ple he meets as they are of him. e than they bore him. all me THE TASK OF THE MOSTESS, But what a quick change of mood the hostess | has to go through with, jolly with a jolly man and dolefal with a growler. if | She has n mood of her own, perhaps, but each | Nettle valley, where she was intend one of her callers brings his own mood with him and insists upon her conforming to it. must be confessed that a woman on her recep-| "he does not get very much maintaine, conversation with her guests. T long. and even if they do she is being inter- Caused the steam-like su rupted by people who keep coming in or going She docs not say ver she asks the same questions of ‘each per- son who comes in and receives replies that strongly resemble each other and can be classi- tegories, as the lively the stupid reply and the bright not much chance for the last named, and even if visitor does succeed m “"T don't know him,’ she explained as 1| PetPetrating a joke he is so well pleased with looked inquiringly at her hugo tissue paper | parcel, ‘but he really does give me such a lot | of flowers for a dollar that I can't help rather liking him. I’ve bought flowers of him now for | She is obliged to be | ain much, and vers fied into four gloomy repl reply. it that he carries it on with house and it fast gets worn out and becomes, before the day is over, nothing better than a Moreover, there is something about a reply of this kind that invariably gives it away, as it were. You can always tell ether the joke is fresh or whether it has been laughed at by several distinct sets of man goes calling on a gloomy as he enters the parlor hi from house to | stupid reply. ston, for | thus “It is never gloomy here, “Oh, how kind of you to say #0,” she says bog Kind, | Wasa fact, and he said it was true, eth cada Ang! | shame, and it's illegal,” said Mrs A WORKED OVER COMPLIME The hostess being pleased, ally be, at this ttle compliment, he lets it loose | to the headlight ax I can get it.” Mumford Service thus year after year, until they got worm out. | TURNING THE CORNERS Another queer custom of the cards is the | You turn the upper left-hand corner; to turm | the lower left-hand corner means something j else, and to turn over the whole end bas still another signification. There ts a condolence corner, e congratulation corner, a felicitation ner of personal friendship, but it is doubtfal if these are taken much into consideration nowadays, the custom being simply to turn down the upper right-hand corner to show that vou leave the card your- self and do not send it by a messenger. What is the origin of calling and card leaving? Why are the streets of Washingt. The |answer has been given when calling simply as a custom custom has its origin, we ar feudalism of centaries ago, whe tomary for ret their chiefs, this being ing call that no man or wom at the present day wi that are required by —_— find | body seemed | Mra. Charity Hartlet, Who Runs Foxes and Does at Tackling Rig Game. Scranton Corres! noe of the New York Son Mrs. Charity Hartley, the wife of Mr. Jona- than B. Ha js the most successful fox hunter in the Dutch mountain region of Sulli- van county. Mr. Hartley, who owns a small place on Wolf run, has been a cripple for number of years and Mrs. Hartley takes care of him, works the land and does a good deal of hunting in the fall and winter, Mra. Hartley ie forty-five years of age and weighs 160 pounds, Sh had no children and much hard work doors has made her «trong and healthy. She is vivacious and jovial and she likes to tell about her experiences in the field with bound and gun. Mrs. Hartley is left-handed and firesa riffe or shotgun from her left shoulder with case and wonderful accuracy. She keeps two fine foxhounds, but she never lets both tun on ® at the same time. She works one | of the hounds one day and the other the next, | 0.a8 to have afresh one every morning when belted at the waist. Herhands are kept warm by yarn mittens knitted by herself. In the hole for her trigger flager when she gets ready to fire at @ fleeing fox. | Mrs. Hartley bas killed nine foxes and a @large mink cape made from the fur of ani- mals that she has shot or trapped. he my husband got lame, | Hartley the other day, “I had learned to atamark, and had ‘killed two doer down Buttercup ravine, but had never shot a fox or an otter. J > we were mi good hounds the fal wanted me to sell the obed: ani work on the made up my mind to see if I xes and give the nde all the first snow dog shanty and took stot Axh bill, 4 ks before and I un- had ‘told me where the regular ranninge |were, and I stayed near one ti so chilly that I thought to give up and go home. Le loud up and down the leave her, #0 I gave my by and went to minutes, a fox arrived and the fastened the strap to ber and amrried the home. Jonathan showed me bow to « . and ina few weeks 1 could remove the hide from a fox in a minute and » half eleven foxes that winter, and with Leney or Major @ good ma I didn't get a fox. Ihave hunted £. falland winter since and bave killed 105 all. We raised two of Leney's pups and sin Leney and Major died I have ran foxes with | the young hounds, M Hartiey told the writer about secing | steam pou ing out of a hole in» large leant poplar tree in the Dart forest in Wildcat nean foxes that forenoon, and when she steam in the frosy air n that it wa the of a bear in the bol desire to find xnctly breath the tree overcame her and she tied the heund to a sapling some distance away and built s fire at the butt of the poplar, thinking to smoke the bear out if one was wing in the tree, Mra. barrel shot gun, Ieaded with 5 B shot, for foxes, and when she ha got 8 goéd emoking fire started she cocked bey gun w yards from the lout of tae bol- low trunk and began to pnff and snort and rub its eves.as though the smoke bothered & Mrs. Hurtley blew the bear's brains out, and imstead of going ona fox hunt, she got a manto draw the bear to her home on a bobsled. She skinned | the bear, which "was a 550-pounder, and divided the meat among her nearest backwoods neigh- bors. Some one told Mrs. Hartley « fewwintere | ago that a lazy fellow named | killed three deer one night with the sid of a headlight in the neighborhood Ravine. Mra, Hartley But iwon't take the law on you ths tithe, | Bob. If Lever catch you hunting dee with « headlight, though, Fil put a bullet justas near ‘The dish, which should always be of good skin over it, as also the shite met then cut ‘ass which 3 then remove the second joint from ing, as they are much more managed on’ the plate when thus thoz- dissected. loin of beef should be placed on the dish with tho tenderloin underneat stices should be taken from the side carver, then turn over the roast and carve the fenderloin. A portion of both should be Belped. Be careful to cut across the grain of the meat. Jeg of mutton should be carved across'the lie of the bone first,and then from the a until the gristle is reached. A veral ways: by cut- ting long, delicate slices through the thick fat down to the bone; by running the point of the knife in a circle in the middle and outting thin, circular slices, thus keeping the ham moist, or by beginning at the knuckle and slicing up- ward. The last mode is considered the most economical. A tongue cate slices, its delicacy dependi greatly upon attention to this. The rom conside: iy at 4 informing t nite incongruous, “Another seeming mismatch that one may see daily on the streets of Washington is the Hints About Carving. embryonic colored citizens selling flowers. I may be alone in my idea, but a small colored ta,” ashe announces one variety of his wares, seems to me striking antithesis. I frequently buy of v is because I desire the flowers than sensation the transaction gives cores ured solemn accents, of this ilk, re ton tourist, “which is on}; government officials high in office and limite number of their retainers and friends, is only COLORED PEOPLE. “Yes, in my northern home a colored person is a rara avis and the first civic parade that I witnessed here, with those lovers of excitement, le, lining the street on either lation to me, while their adoles- cent representatives that kept up with the van of the procession fairly fying from it like suow fore a mow plow—only, of course, they made me think of another snow. an a reason of its unavailability, though set right in their midst. The citizens of Washington are the col 0 1e colored pe situated much as was starving Tantalus of old, side, was a reve from really cannot the procession was all about,”” The conversation was plainly ak f game, “What is my thought sentimental-looking youn; come in from a round of THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN WASHINGTON. ‘als eaia \up! cated?” she inquired with scorn, why, the standard authors—Dickens, Thacke: ‘i etl should be carved in very thin, delt- terrogated an indignant chorus. “IT HAS NO LIBRARY “No library!” Wholly accessible to ggravation tothe mass of the people by yond “Yes,” said the Boston tourist, “to be sure ou ean, if you will ‘ike’ to draw only euch | UP ks ag are duplicated. ‘And what are di that eve + 2 t Pee in the next house he visite, “ \ - next, and then in the next, but each time it 1s | Because,” said the Boston tourist in meas- Fiithaad, attach aac: bie hanthons os Vashington lady did under | r circumstances, “How often have ejaculated the brisk brunette | paid that compliment this afterno hysterically. “Well, I'd like to know what you call the Congressional Library,the sixth library in the world, inde: nd then in the tamer. The former class gu to see their old hav woman asks you to cannot satisfy her in any other way than by calling upon her afterw: flowers, you may inner, for instance, y. question of leaving the ‘another important phase of the visiting card. THE QUESTION OF VISITIN If you stop to think of it, it is rather a singn. card naturally brings ae & vele i i t t il | ry i | i i Fy i it ir Fk i broke the beadlight amd reformed. soe ‘ Simultananeous Games of Chea, From Blackwood's Magan: The perfection to which chess may be carried almost implies its imperfection as an amuse- was obliged to confess that he had done so six | ment. Chess giants like Mr. Blackburn and times. 1s is not every man who likes to a “ 8 even in Washington, where the peop! ipebior yee nee ipemerg OMe caterers a) [er a see thy lad pleasantly. Some men do it because they think they ought | took to earry oneiehteen games simultaneous to, and some do it because they really must. | without looking at the boards. The perfur nds, not | ance did not end very satisfactorily, for afer because they wish to see them, but because they | more than two days’ play the mental acro general rule that it is a respectable thing | eurrendered the contest. But the fart of to do, and the others go to return civilities that | ing carried it eo far implied « bewildering feat who with tempting food within plain sight was | Cimnot be satisfied in any other way. If «| of cerebration: for if yet obliged to starve since it was just be the reach of his finger tips, or to change the figure, this deplorable literary condition re- minds me of Coleridge's ‘Ancient Mariner, with ‘water, water everywhere, and not a drop the late Herr Zukertort act as warnings rather than ideals to ordinary people in search of amusement. The latter gentleman once ander- either side in veightoen games make You may send her | the appalling total of 1,2,000 possible combi- a party in herhonor, | nations. y ith her, you may do anything. tod in short, but nothing will absolve you from the | player, and he hus actually #uc “Youcan make a deposit of @5 and draw all | uty of calling at ber house, asking if she is at the books you like,” interposed « mild ‘voles from the other end of the room. Mr. Blackburn is unrivaled as a blindfold ceeded ning the majority of twelve simaltaneousgaines Without the assistance of wight. The pessibie variations in the first four moves of these num- ber 864, miliating impression of infinity— it us toowach of good thing. ‘One ean scarcely rmagins how a brain, on to steer through suck vast and barren complexities, can have any factities ‘in reserve for useful ratiocination.