Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1893, Page 7

‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY? APRIL22, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES —— = THE USE OF LACE. Important Part Played in the Orna- mentation of Garments, THE REAL AND THE MACHINE. What to Know to Talk Intelligently About Lace—The Foundation and the Pattern— Pillow, Needle and Bobbin—Some Exam- Ples of the Use of Lace. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Yorx. April 21, 1893. N THE ORNAMEN- tation of the garments that have been sketched for this week's article lace played an import- ant part. Its use is general, yet fow women know how to discrimi- nate intelligently be- tween the many kinds and grades. Many women think that no ince that is not yellow is valuable, in other words, that no “‘real” lace is made now and that if you have no grand- mother to give you some there is no chance of Your getting any uniess you steal it or, per- haps, get a lucky chance to buy some. As a compromise you could get a good machine lace and wush it in coffee. This will decei many people. Many believe that to refer to Ince as “thread lace” is to mean that it is real, | ribbon. and other women consider that there is no | real black lace. Of course it is not necessary to know mach about lace, because so few know e genuine thing and to ve able to de- plore with grace and confidence the use of ma- | chine lace. The class of people who shudder | popular music” used to be very impressive, | but as soon as we all knew how to shudder in the right place the other folks cessed to be effective. THE REAL AND MACHINE LACE. First the mesh or network of real lace is likely to be irregular. while that of machine lace is absolutely symmetrical, Just this much is ough to get rou through toa limited extent in your eriticiam of ince. A certain value is attached to lace which was made before ma- chines for lace making were invented, because sack age isan absolute guarantee of genuine hese, but some lace m theberinning. Ti i made now just as it was mak oldest, with 1 or pins on a . ‘The last imicates all varieties produced by the othe: methoda. ‘ow for afew terms. You should refer to the net or foundstion of the lace as the “reseau” and to the pattern as the “fleur.” ‘This will be enough to make the average per- son you talk with treat youand your knowledge of iace with respect. You can fill in by phrases abont the delicate reseau and the ex- quisite detail of the fleur. If more is needed it will be as well to know that the standard meshes are the square or diamond-shaped, which are used in Valenciennes lace, and the six- sided mesh used in point d’Alencon. Chan- tilly Ince has an odd mesh of four-sided big holes with little triengular holes between. D'ALZNCoN. Another name for lace made on this resean is it de Paris. Just study that over a little, jor it is somewhat mixing. There are other sorts of reseaus, but these will do. You don't want to go into the thing too far, because you will run the risk of understanding too much about it and being in the position of the mu- sical person who really does shudder at popular music. !t isa great deal more comfortable to beable to know when it is correct to shudder without really wanting to. After the reseau is made the fleur, or pattern, is worked on it. {t is in the working of the! itern that the chief difference between pillow | and needle lace lies The latter is the choicer. It has a distinctness of outline in the fleur, while the pillow lace is smooth and soft in | By just remembering this you can, if | outline. you are sure the other woman does not know any more than you do, refer at random to a sample as bobbin, pillow or needie ince. In the last the pattern is outlined by running s thread with the needie in and out of the meches of | the reseau. If the outline is to be very much in relief it is either mad> with quite » coarse thread or even corded with horse hair, as is done in point d'Alencon. When the outline of the fleur is a!l done then the rest of the pattern is made by filling in the outline. ‘The point d’Alencon is ranked the queen of It is the very choicest of needle laces. its characteristics, you very well even on quite s de- tailed discussion of fine lace. D’Alencon has has to go through ts done. First » de- the design is traced reseau. and the outline strengthened and emphasized by juetion mto it of horsehair. When Tesean is complicated by twist- meshes together here to make bigger holes, and thus a tothe mesh. ‘The outlines of the i] E LEE Hi if 3 ovreces. design oor fleur are next filied in with a sort of but- ton hole stitch, thus making a very rich, heavy ef- fect that is almost like embroidery, and con- trasts with the delicacy of the reseau. ‘That is 8 good sentence to memorize just as it stands. Be sure you are really talking about 2’ Alenco though, you use .t. Another thin; about this especial lace is that it is made pi by piece, and then the seperate pieces are sewed together by an invisible seam (if you really want the name of it—the raceroe”). The making of all the pieces into one by means of the point de raccroc is called “assembinge.” If you can get your grand- you, so that you may make ro mistake, that it Fealiy is point d’Aleacon you can easily study ts in its making, and you are sure i Beside, if you really get = ‘of this queen of laces, it is aa well to ‘used to calling it that. You can make a stagger at talking about most any needle because the d’Alencon has all the ies of all the cther needle laces com- Different specimens of it will, of im beauty or value according to of the different parts and intreacy HL i f i great | | sleeves were in two large puffs and were tenes for knowing just as much about | laces. Getieacy in the re- ity that greater in the re- seau bad not made the beauty of the assemblage more a matter of marvel. It is sgrest comtort to make a person feel miserable way when they have started in feeling good and when you are sure that they really don't know,» thing more about the matter than you do. | | VALENCIENNES. If you will read all this again and then spend alittle time coaching up on some specimens, you can talk very safely about any one piece of lace, but if you io be more practical you | will be interested in the way the garniture is | employed m the models sketched. A neglige | cap made of pale biue surah, white lace and | narrow bine ribbon is the first of these, The [ribbon is drawn through the crown three times and looped behind as chown. The | crown is full and the shape is reguiated by the A pretty dress for a young matron follows. As designed it was of grar-biue sicilienne, the girdie of velvet a few shades darker and th whole garnished with old rellowed lace. skirt was trimmed nround the top with of velvet put on length vals and trimmed with narrow lace. fichu was held by a velvet bow in front and the ends bebind fastened by tiny stick pins. The | trimmed with a wide lace ruffe laid in pleats at the inner seam. CHANTILLY. The pointed evening bodice of the second | picture hed a full rufile o the neck and the sleeves were full puffs, | trimmed with @ wide ruille of lace or of the | sar... material. | Further on the seated figure wears a neglige | made of pink silk, with fine white stripes. The | skirt has a wide tlounce at the top coming down | almost half the length of the whole, and edged | with lace. ‘The jacket is tight fitting behind, but the front is loose and the fullness is contined | by aribbon belt. It is trimmed with lace, and | has a yoke-like arrangement of alternate strips of silk and lace insertion in front, finished with a gathered Ince rnfile. ‘The latter forms a jabot | in front and then continues down the baci, | where the ends meet in a point at about the center. A ribbon is passed under the turn- down collar and is tied with a bow in front. Tight cuffs of silk and lace insertion. trimmed | With a iace ruffle, coraplete the sleeves. ‘The final exaurple is a spring toilet with just suggestion of the airiness of the suminer about it. It is cut princess and has a skirt which betokens a sensible wearer, as it clears the ground. Tne material is tan colored whip- cord. There is a collarette of binck velvet, short behind, but having tabs reaching to the | bottom of the dress in front and edged with | a gathered ruttie of black lace about five inches | wide, a narrower lace finishing the high stan ing collar. The skirt is trimmed with two ruities of tan cloth around the bottom and the whole costume is lined with siik. With the cos- tume is worn a bonnet of tan straw. the inner brim covered with biack velvet. It is trimmed with prim roses, biack lace and an sigrette. —<6e— A Moral for Contributors, From The Critic. read,” said an editor tos writer in the New York Times, “iaundreds of roiled manu- seripts. and I never yet found one that I cared to print. I have decided that the «tupidity which rolls a manuscript cannot produce any- thing worth reading.” A rolled MS. is a d perate thing, but there is another that is | almost worse—the one that comes to you with | the last page on top and the first page at the | | bottom. A MS. war once rent to me ed in | this careless manner. ‘There were 500 or 600 of it. Do you what i did with it? | back to the author with a note in ised him before he sent that MS. on its travels to show sufficient interest in it to ar- range the pages properly. I hope for his sake that he acted upon my advice. If he did not, Idoubt that his tale ever gota nearing. Life is too short for the imvortant things tobe done as ther should be, and it never could be long enough for one not only to do his own work properly, but to rectify the careless work of others. A rolled MS. shows a thoughtless i S ged backward shows a is insulting to the person to and argues ill for the intelli- gence of the writer. An aitractive-looking | Manuscript goes along way toward winning the favor of the “reader.” Even if refused, | it is refused with genuine regret; but “reader” is only too giad to find the carelessly | estas it looks. I have the patience that induced Mr. George Haven Putnam to read the MS. of Leavenworth Case,” for it was carclessly writ- ten in lead pencil on common paper. and by an | author then unknown. But he had his reward. — A Common Trick. From the New York Jowrnai. “How much for this bottle of perfame?” inquired ish young man of the night | clerk in a Broadway drug store the otner | evening. y conta.”” it a dollar and a half and I'll take i | replied the young man. Athuing a small label to the bottom of the | | bottie the cierk wrote “$1.50" on it, handed | the perfume to the young man and received | | half a dollar. “That's a common trick | an astonished custome young fellow's jin love with a girl; he haswt much money, but be wants to make an i ‘ion.”” i | | | | direct jurisdic empire cape around | jt | close and both parties claimed fraud. Blood- shed followed and four of the Jones faction were killed. 1 was sent with a troop of cgvalry | rock, he observed to | T WHAT THE FUSS IS. Maj. Jack Hayes Tells About the Choctaw Troubles, TRAITS OF THE PEOPLE. Light Shed Upon the Causes of the Dis- tarbance—A Nation of Civilized Indians— How They Live and What They Do—A Country Big and Populous Enough for @ State. re AJOR “JACK” Hayes, U. 8. A., is in Washington. With troop of the fifth cav- alry he was sent to re- store order in the Choe- taw tribe last autumn. Now that the trouble has broken out again he says that the facts might as well be made known as to the causes which have brought it about. Newspaper readers have generally but the dimmest notion as to who and what these people are, who, to- gether with the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Creeks and Seminoles, compose what is called the Indian nation. The Seminoles came origin- ally from Florida, the Creeks from Alabama and Georgia, the Cherokees from North Caro- lina, and the Choctaws from Louisiana and Mississippi. They were transferred to the west of the Mississippi river between the years 1832 nd 1857, for the purpose of getting’ them out of the wav. It wax not realized then that civ- ilization wonld ever get so far toward the set-| sunas their present habitat. “The area occupied by these five tribes is enormous,” said Maj. Hayes yesterday. “It is big enough to form a good-sized state and has a sufficient number of inhabitants to adinit it as such to the Union if they were made citi- zens. The territory owned by the indian nation covers 31.090 square miles, Wita.a_ ita limits dwell 17,000 Indians who pag for. fuii bioods, 31,000 of mixed blood and 17.000 whites and freedmen who have intermarried with the Indians, esides these there 1s an alien popu- lation of more than 100,000, consisting of gov- e:nment employes, railway men, coal miners, farm laborers, mechanics, squatters, claimants to tribal rights, en: zers and other classes of tresspassezs. ‘There i4 a steady increase in this foreign nd a steady decrease population. ‘The cattle ce by tho use of ons who claim tribes tor the purpose of ob- se constant trouble. PEST FOR THE INDIANS TO BE CITIZENS. “It would be best for all parties concerned if | these Indians could be made citizens of the | United Stater, and be thas brought under the tion of L Sam. As things w they may t be said to form a for- st of the United States. own laws and elects its mn legivlatu: governo: Tne United tes yovernment exercises only a general erwise allowing them to ves. ‘There is a United States , arge of the agency for the Indian ; also United States marsala, who keep and a United States court for trying offenses ageinst the federal laws, such as bring- | ivg liquor into the territory. Each tri #1 conneil horse for the sittings of its Iaw- makers. The Choetaw council house at Tush- in the pro grazers € a taining proper’ 000, e recent trouble staried at the election for the governor of the Caoctaws last autumn. There were two candidates sand Jackson. Thi to be a full-blooded Indian, looks like a white Enghsh. Jack-on, AD: nce of a fall cated in Virginia, possesses ence and is familiar with of the whites.* The electi: is very man. He knows ver} on the other hand. blood. He was ed) considerabi hi to Tushkrhorama to restore order. There was no further disturbance at that time. I was present at the counting of the votes, Jackson bud a clear majority, but some of the precinets which went for him were thrown out on tecbni- cal grounds. so that Jones was declared elected governor. “Nevertheless, everything wont off quietly. Bat recently the Jones party tried to arrest certam persons wiio were engaged in the kill- ings of inst au! in with a view to fetching them up for trial before the Choctaw court. They sought refuge with an influential man named Locke ant refased to be taker So Gor. Jones ordered out the ‘light horse,” as the tribal militia is called, to capture th Loch ase into a ignting resultes ave rend in the news- nited States agent or- orse’ to disband and federal : 1 sent for. “such is the simple history of the recent e among these people. Though civilized of elutes as the The ghize for righting m country a” deputy | arrest a person, must | t. He presents his 4 his warrant in the A living white man, they oniy way which wrong is to = other. ts ia such a eapacity | must be brav i ove all, quick on the trigger. Thi dreds of ‘these deputy marshais ia th ranks are gradus indian territ From their saple, the Dalton gang. » famous lately. Not deputy marshals in the : w little house in the was perched on an over- © situation was fairly im- Indian nation mountains, whi hanging erag. 1 pregnabi CAPTURING A HOUSE ON A CRAG. “The house on the crag was owned by a haif- breed Indian, who hid murdered several men. hoz garrisoned by three of the criminal’s friends. For some time a fusillnde was kept up by both the assailants and the besieged wituout doing any damage, every one being under cover. Finally, one of the attackin: covered by volleys from the rifies of companions, rau across an | op toa point beneath t hanging re he coolly fixed a big charge of dynamite with a fuse attached. He effected his retreat in safety, and about three minutes later there was # iremendous explosion. The whoie rock on which the house was built was torn into fragments and thrown up in the air, together with the stoues which had composed the dwelling and the mangled bodies of its oc- cupant 1 of thy It is very ra pistol elung ime a whize man # in that country go armed. | of them’ without At the fe so long as To iliustraie | + on human life, | iain, widow of & | the Chociaws. who was the e suid to me that he was very good in ail bis fife he had ‘only killed p 5 w owns @ hotel at | ahomuta, where che keeps beardere dur- | She and is a great sup- porter of ‘The regular s ferred toare forty days ‘ora get $5 per diem, lined to indulge in the of exira se-sions, e Choztaws are an agricultural people, but few of them do any work themselves. ‘They preter to rent out their Innd to aliens, ‘The soil in thai region is extremely rich und the farmi lands cf the Chickasaws are among the finest in the world. ‘The Choctaw country is vers rich in minerala, It has coal fields equal to those of Penusylvania, ‘There are several coal imines in operation, employing 3,000 men; but I don’t betieve that this number includes a single Indian. The mines, like the 9 fields, are ieased. Strangers must all of the council in lengia. The legi and so are much duxa pay a poll tax and the industries in which they engage are taxed also. Ifanon-citizen puts uparaw mill, for instance, every log chat he cuts is taxed so much. “The revenues thus obtained go to support the government and to sustain the schools, which are very liberally provided for. ‘The schools are excellent, though attendance is not com- pulsory, the teachers being nearly all white. MARRIAGES BY WHITE MEK. Many white men have married into the tribes has | © | trom taxand other taxes which are ger — ee roportion ites among the Choctaws is abbut one to four. Full-biooded Indians are very few. Itis astonishing to find large num- bers of le in that country who call them- selves Indians, though they look as white as youorL Ex-Governor Boyd of the Chicka- saws ia to all intents and purposes a white man, with blue eyes, sandy hair and a florid com: plexion, He has. the finest residence in that region, surrounded by # model farm of 1,200 acres in the highest state of cultivation. “Anybody out there who has a drop of aboriginai biood in his veins is eager to claim the property rights to which as an Indian he is entitied, As I said there are numerous pretenders to tribal citizenship who make » Sesiod togetiee tor toe mrpoen.of mamtetee for the purpose o! in- ing possession of lands. There are many negroes mixed in with the tribes, who call themselves Indians. Ai the Seminoles and Creeks there is much negro blood. In the old dars down south runaway slaves sought refuge with them and intermarried with the Indians. On a journey through tho Indian nation a short time ago I lost my way and made inquiry of a person whom I took for an Indian woman. She Feplied civilly in English and in bidding her jood-bye I asked what tribe she belonged to. ler answer was: “I b'longs to no tribe. I'se a nigger.’ “The Ini are very indolent. They are coe fo do ans Dut smoke; eat, a gamble. ‘They are very fond of great American game of poker, and bave » weakness for whitky, which is fetched surrep- titiously into the territory by smuggiers. These smugglers are called ‘bootleggers.’ They are desperate fellows and occupy a good deal of attention at the hands of the deputy marshals. ‘The liquor they import is of the poorest quality but they can easily get $5 « quart for it. The Indian, if he wants a thi..g. will pay any price for it. ’ He does not realize the value of money. He will spend all he has on a fine carriage and pair of horses, though his squaw may be in rags. The carriage is left out of doors, ex- 'd to the elements, and in a month or two it is destroyed. THE PEOPLE ARE IMPROVIDENT. “The people are very improvident. Their tendency is not to congregate in villages, but to dwell much scattered. Apparently they like to live alone, without neighbors near at hand. Once in '® while they bave fends, which are proseented with the utmost vindic- tiveness, They have come dishes peculiar to themselves. One of them is calied ‘Tom Fuller.’ It is made of corn, which is beaten ina kind of mortar. The mortar is a log of hard wood hollowed out. In this the grain is reduced to thé size of coarse iw...iay by pound- ing with a pestie. The corn thus prepared i boiled, allowed to ferment and finally eaten in the form of soup, without salt. It has a sour Havor and is not at ail agreeable to the pal: of the uninitiated white man, They make all of their cornmeal im the same way by pounding the corn in a wooden mor that is ground in a mill after the ordin: fashion they will not use. dish of theirs is stewed skunk. itasa first-class delicacy. Ih: go into a howse where it was coo! smell was too much for me. “To give you n notion of the manner in which the Indians 1 sed On respecting money to a pryment of money yment Which wag made to e Choctaws nut long ago. ‘The amount was 00.000. By the time thie sm had passed hihe hands of lawyers in Washington and had reacked the Indien nation only ab. 21,600,000 of it waslefi. On its being dis- tributed to the persons who are entitled to it, jews than $1,000,000 was divided. ‘The finances of ail the five tribes are in excellent condition, who are consid- ess men among the They regard mpted to ing. but the oles are hereditary chiefs for generat: said to run the tribe. Capt. Jo great store stocked with In a sort of scrip representing pur his establishment, which passes current among the people. ‘he Indan nation has been thoroughiy Christianized. The Choctaws are meciings are frequently heid, ‘ne Choctaw Indians are still pientiful in Louisiana. The women come into the market ew Orieans looking like Rip Vau Wink goblins, with enormous bundles of goods on their shoulders. Among other things they sell prettily colored cane baskets, for which they get material from the canebrakes; also pods of gumbo, whieh they raise. ground for soup. ‘These people used to fiatten the heads of their children. ‘Though living on the Missiwippi river, not one of thein could swim, on which zecount much fun of thei was made by other Indians. THEY FIRST BAW DE soTo, “The Choctaws were among the first to see De Soto, the discoverer of the Mississippi. Even at that early time they were agricultural, living in houses, keeping stock and building i e terraced mound. The tirst behold them was Cabeza de Vaca—anglice, Mr. Buil’s Head—who started with an i 2 Domingo via Caba for the purpose on the mainland, eventually eross- ng California with the whites enc issippi and 31 resniting. Andrew Jackson condacied a war against these indians, and the latter nearly occasioued serious dificulty between the val government and the two states mentioned, becuse the states did not treat the cop; d_ people fairly. Their transfer to the Indian territory was eventually mate by Gen. Scott. Previously the American board of foreign missions had sent among the Choctaws Cyras Byington and other good men, who accompanied the Indians to their new place of residence. To them is due much of the prosperity which the Choctaws have since enjoyed. Byington wrote a dic- octaw language, ” tiouarygud grammar of the Ci ——— cook. e Close Connection Be: ween the Kitchen and the Saloon. Is it much wonder that people compelled to live on sour bread, heavy pancakes, grease soaked meats, watery vegetables, sloppy coffee week after week should resort to stimulants for temporary relief from the disc 3 and ments engendered by such abomiaablo diet? With such conditions existing, saya Mrs, Emma P. Ewing, superintendent of the Chautauqua Assembly Cooking School, why be surprised at the prevalence of drunkards? ‘The whole ter- ritory of the drink question lies contiguous to that of the food question and overiaps in many places, A deranged stomach longs for stimu- lants. Of tho 50,090 drankards that die in the United States every year a large pro- portion have the appetite for intoxicat- ing drinks aggravated, if not implanted, by the food that constitutes their di diet. A healtby stomach has no abnormal craving. Nutritious, well-prepared food katis- fies it perfectly, and, when eaten in proper quantities and at proper times, leaves na iank- ering for candy or chewing gum, for cigars and tobacco, beer or brandy. ‘There is a terri between cour bread and sour mash whisky, and for mnumerable feet the ignorant cook paves the way to the saloon, Without good food there can be no wholesome growth in any direction, And'the enlighteued spirit of the nineteenth century demands a much higher order of cookery than exists at present. It de- mands an order of cookery that is inielligent, economical and healthful. Shall not that de- mand be heeded? Shall not our kitchen inter- ests be lifted up and placed upon a level with all other interests of our daily life? oo —__—_. Another favorita | ‘There were a number of big tights. | THE HEIRESS. M. A. Worswick in Frank Leslie's Weekly. HIS IS THE ROMANCE OF A MIDDLE- aged man—the romance of an old head and syoung heart. I am gray-haired and forty, and yet aa I sit at my desk in the gloomy little | office of Harman's mill a face comes between | my eyes and the columns of figures in the dusty ledgere—a young face with clear, brigh: eyes—-and I fall into a day dream and forget that I am old and poor and commonplace. She is the only child of Jere Harman, the millionaire mill owner, and as gentle and good as she is beautiful. Ihave watched her grow into womanhood. I have watched her character deepening and widening and developing toward the ideal of my dreams. And all these years I have been learning to love her. Surely love is not wholly wasted though it is hopeless. Iam a better man that I have loved Nellie Harman. No. I build no air castles. Iam forty and she eighteen. Tam only her father's bookkeeper and she is the heiress of millions. es . . . ‘There was a time when little Nellie Harman rode on my shoulder, hunted my pockets for goodies, and escaped her nurse's charge several times a day to toddle down to the mill in search of “thor Jack Spencer,” Later she brought her | school tasks, the incorrigible Latin verbs and | the unconquerable examples in fractions, to the same old friend. who was never too busy to be bothered by little Nellie Harman. She is as unaffected and cordial in her friend- liness as ever, and sometimes when she lays her hand on my arm and looks up into my face and asks why I come so seldom to the Hall, and have I grown tired of old friends, of her—then I find it bard to answer lightly, to smile calmly, and I go away with a heartache. The girl does not lack for friends. Grim, stern old Jere Harman's little bright-faced child, motherless since her babyhood. long ago found a tender spot in the hearts of the village folk. In the cottages hor face is as welcome as sun- shine. The children hang on her gown, the | women sing her praises and the roughest mill | hand has aiwavs a civil word for her and a lift of the cap as she passes. She has her young friends, too, among the country gentlefoik. Young Harry Desmond is often at the Hall. It is rumored that he is the fortunate suitor of Jere Harman's heiress. He is a fresh-faced, good-hearted lad. Love is for youth and they are young together. Gray-haired Jack Spencer, what have you to do with “love's young dream?” «6 6 « The strike ‘The mill is shut down and the strikers gather | in knots along the village sireet aud discuss ion. The cut rates have ceused the Jere Harman isa hard man and a | cr. He holds the fate of these people [in his hands, A few cents less to them, a few dollars more to him, This seemed to ‘him to The times were duil—he would redace wages. The Harman mill opera- tives went out in a body. ‘Uhe iirst day of the strike Big John, tho weaver, who headed the strikers, came to Jere Harman with ao delegation to ‘arbitrate the m Harman said: “Return to work at | my terms or stay out und starve. Monday I hire new hands if youare not back in your pluces. As lorgasIown this mill I shail be ter here, ‘This was his final answer, and no words of mfne, no warnings of the murmurs and threats that ‘grow and deepen among the men, will skake his will. ‘Lhere is talk of firing the mill among the mad-brained ones, but Big John shakes bis he: hat were chopping the nose off to spite the face, men. If the mill were burnt how would that help us to work and wages? Nay; it must be othcr means.” “Ave, we must live; but if we do not get our rights by fair means wo will have them by foul,” cried another. ‘hey mean mischief. I have warned Jere Harman, but he will not heed, 1 8 eee ‘The strike is over. ‘The night is ended, and I sit alono in the office in the gray dawn, sick and diz7” with the horrors of the night's experience. 1 shut my eyes and the picture stands out before me—the dark night, the Hall with its Lights glowing out through the windows, the gay party of young people in the drawing room; the gieam of Torches outside, the mob of decperate men, the angry, upturned faces, There was a tramp of feet, hourse shouts, and a stone crashed through a window and shattered the chandelier. ‘The music stopped with a discordant crash. ‘There was an instant confusion and above it ail there were the hoarse cries for Jere Harman. through the piazza window and ‘hey knew me wel!, and Big ght. and talk it over enimly.” 1 urgsd; “not at night, like a mob of ruffians with stones for arguments.” Jere Harman hed come out to them. They greeted him with an angry shout, “Weare tobe put of no longer. rights by faiz means or b; Your righte— Jere Harman in his harsh. stera voice. Tsnw th had slipped out to her father’ hand pieadingly on bis shouldex. did not fear the angi for willingly not one of a hair of her dainty Tsaw that sho wonid have pleaded with with them, yelied a voice in the crowd with an awful oath. He was drunken or surely he did not see the gi:l father's side. A stone whizzed through might have been Jere Iarman's iastead, it struck her. It cut a sh just above the temple. prang coward her—her frionds, her lover—but Neilie Harman put her two hands ont to me with a sharp, gasping cry. “Jack, Jack!” she said, and 1 caught her in my arms. T have lived over the ngony, the joy, of that moment all through the long, lonely hours of this night. It was Big John himself who brought the doctor and cried like a child when t: him she was dying. His littls ci she had toved and cared for, and it had died in her arms. ‘Aye, and that harm should have come to her, who was more gootl and innocent of wrong than the angels!” mattered Big John, brokenly, ax he went away softened and sorrow- fal. Jere Harman set me out to teil the men and in the silence of death Is itour foul, Jere Harman?’ ¢ ix over. here in the gray dawn, waiting, fear- ing, dreading the coming of the morning and the'news it may bring. { hear the clair of horses’ hoofs. It is a servant irom the Hall rid- ing to the village on some errand. “What news?’ I call out hoarsely. and learn that the worst is over aud tat ehe will live. a8 ase eae Nellie Harmaa hovered between lifeand death for long weeks, and I worked as I had never worked before. Jere Harnian left much of the management of the mill in my hands, and I put heart end brain in the work or 1 should have gone mad in those weeks with the longing to ses her face. When she was well again I spent | many evenings at the Hall, talking business th her father, who came seldom to the office in those days, ‘He had broken in health with the recent troubles and had lost energy, but he was geatler and kinder than of old. Harry Desmond was always there. I was but adull guest. I could not endure his light- heartediness, the triumph in his eyes. the ba: piness in his laugh. I could not endure that should call her by name or smile on her. I was a mad fool! Itold Jere Harman that I must go away; thas I must have rest, change—a vacation. Gor- don, the young foreman, could take my piace, I urged, and he consented, though grudgingly. ‘The Inst evening I promised him to spend at the Hail and go over the accounts with him, jever had Nellie been brighter or gayer., I vague pang that my going was so little to was great—I was going away—justto tate © with “ae the memiory of s moment's heaven! T xissed her. re “Forgive me,” I pieaded, desperately. “You thought me your lover, Desmond, and I was cruel, mad, to take that kiss. Nellie, forgive me.” “Bat I kissed you, Jack,” she whispered. “Aud you won't go—oh, Jack’ you won't go when I love Fou 0.” Juck Spencer, gray- mon-place and poor —4 ‘That is my romance. so MANY WAISTS For CUOICE. Pretty Bodices of Changeable Hues to Brighten the Wardrobe. The novelty cloths, which are legion, enter first into these fanciful adjuncts to the well- equipped woman. After them come lawns, silks, grenadines and the richly figured Russian, Turkish and Syrian stuffs. They are made in many styles, from the ancient but perennial blouse to the heavily boned and elaborately trimmed luxury, which, worn with dark, plain skirt, is not too “dressy” for an effective magp- ing on the beach. ired and forty, com- joved him! TWo OF THE aDsUNcTS. The cloth waisis are airways of some figured or ombre silk and wool mixtare and the others are brilliant stufis adorned with velvet, satin or extravagances in lace. One on view the other day wasa China silk, Whose fullness was drawn into the point of a na purple velvet girdle. The silk itself was white, with a heliotrope figure. velvet defined a round yoke and served to sup- port lace, which was cascaded and knotted all around it, Anoiher, in shaded tan and bine, was folded tightly across the bust like a French waist, Un- derneath a vest of Syrian red worked in gold beamed forth. There were also stiff revers upon the original structure. A third was large figured grenadine over a silk lining of red. ‘The grenadine was black, bearing a scroll work in heavy yeliow. Dark red velvet revers. made themselves remarkably con centricities over i the belt id its best to go up and subdue them. The ‘tility’ waists are calied English shirt. They button down the front soberly enough and end in the neat round ribbon belt without any out- breaks whatever. Starched lawn, sheer cambric and other wash goods compose these blouses, which weil merit the name utilit ———+oor—____ TOILETTE DE VISITE. Corn Flower Flue Woo! and Petunia Velvet. There isn’t much satisfaction in describing a particularly lovely fabric, for it is quite likely to bean imported piece which can’t be dupli- cated here for people who are so unfortunate as not to have chance ai it in time. Of course, American manufactures are ve the continental article, but a are not quite so daring always so artistic in their combinations. ‘The carriage and visiting costumes made in these exclusive patterns are the very flower of new and ultra colorings. An up-town coutouriere has sent one of ber fair customers to create havoc in this ‘sym- phony.” The body color is soft bright blue, the blue of the corn flower, and its composition | is wool and silken threads stamped with tiny circles and Jong curved figures in brocade of rich brilliant petunia, IN TRE NEW COLORS Petunia blossoms everywhere this month, out petunia with corn blue is novel. The ekirt ix not too fall for grace: trimmed uniquely with a puil of plain blue gauze, running once about the bottom of the skirt, then up the front, where it ceased, with petunin velvet bow. The round bodice had a fulled front of Ince reaching to the broad crash velvet belt, Double revers, the under pair velvet, the upper lace, sprang from the belt in front and disappeared into it again at the back. Over the breast was tied a jaunty bow. The sleeves were leg-v'-mutton and not velvet, either. coe Kome at Night. ng crickets e stars blossom i And twilight’s gloom has And blurred the butterfly: k tae walk, When locust blossoms And up tae tizer lily ‘The giow worm crawis and clings and falls And giimmers down the garden walls: Ww bozzing things, with double wings and raspish tiutterings, Go whizzing py so very nigh ‘One tainks of fangs and stings:— O taen, within, ts still the ain Of crib she rocks the baby in, And heart and gate and lateh's weight ‘Are lifted—and the lips of Kaie. —James Wititcoms Riney. — see Good Ont of Evil, From Life. “This ought to be a prosperous month,” said the club treasurer. “How go?” asked the secretary. “House cleaniug,”” was the answer; “and the men’li all be here.” Street dress of ligh! ‘with satin, Seams are puftings. Twenty Years Ago. wo ned tg explain thet thistemarsable-somporiion or ‘and solidified ol! was the softest best door covering made. Now that people know iss af 7g,nevecouly to ceation them Backs so tat they cam be eure they afe buying the Tandoomest and most aurebie. | IN WICKED MONTANA. Stories as to the Contest for the United States Senate, |LAND OF MILLIONAIRES. How Votes Were Bought—Montana Mines aut Their Profite—A Story of =» Big Game at the Silver Bow Clob—Montana Sapphiresand How the English Are Invest- ing Millions im Them. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star Hriexa, Moyt., April 10, 1893. WRITE THIS LET- teron the golden roof of the American con- tinent. The clear biue sky of heaven fits close down over me, and on every side stand the snow-capped Rockies, the rentinels of God, watching over this wicked Montana capi- tal. Ax vet the ruin of Sodom has not been let loose and the legisla- tors and the gamblers go on their evil way re- |Joicing. The stories of the recent senatorial fight still fill the air, and no one pretends to say | that money by the tens of thousands of dollars | was not spent in the contest. As to just how | this money was given out is not known, but I am told that thirty-seven $1.000 notes were presented at # single Hel- bark for exchange on the day jfoliowing the adjourameat of the 3onta: Jegisiature, and another story is that 200 21,000 notes were sent from Helena to the east shortly after the 4th of March. The writing of it from ita origin to its concinsion would till ‘8 book, and I can only give it in a few lines. It | had its origin in a fend between two of the rich- est men in the United States. These were Marcus W. A charK. the rich copper miner, and W. A. Clark, the noted miltionaire of Butte City. Both Clark and Daly came to this country comparatively poor, and botl lave made enormous fortunes. four dhe drove a yoke of eattle across ‘olorado when he was just twenty- d therefore not | three years old. He worked in the mines near! Denver for wages, then dri north to Butte City and began to invest is sorts of things in Montana. peddled goods to the miners, going about with » wagon from camp to camp, and after he had saved a little money founded a store, which id bim well. He got hold of developed mines, and before working them went back east to Columbia College and studied mineralogy and chemistry. With his | increased knowledge he came Lack to Montana and began to make money hand over fist, No one knows how much Marcus Daly is worth. je owns. 1am told, a fourth interest Anaconda copper mine, wiich pro- dnces millions ever ear, and he has electric roads, bank: ver mines and gold galore. To come to tl contest. It was a ‘lark and Daly owned close to one another, rouble between them Fight to acertain part of the jropertr. in 1892 Clark wanted iach togo to the Senate, and he decide into the contest and make it go. As thestory goesbere, he pulled wires in every legislative discrict, and when the Daly had apparently made no fight against him, and he expected to sail in like a bird. When the legislature was polied. however, it was found that there were twenty-sevendemo- ts, threo popaiists and twenty-five repudli- ‘The democrats had acaucus and inth:s cau- Tk received sixteen votes, Hauser, another PANNING OUT GouD. millionaire, cleven, and Congressman Dixon nine. Clark bad « majority of the eaucus and by rights he should bave been the caucus nomi- nee. “Had he been #0 in reality he would have urely been elected, but here comes in Daly's tine work. The men who voted for Dixon were | his men, and they withdrew from the caucus and refused to be bound by the result. To make a long story short, eight of these men held out during one of the longest senatorial contests on record. and they finally compelled an adjournment without a Senator beng elected. ‘The result was that the governor, a republican, appointed Lee Mantle, the candidate who had received the republican votes during the latter part of the contest, and Clark is going about with fire in his eye and his hatchet at his belt, longing for the time when be can get a chance at Daly. As to just who spent the money and a8 to how much of it was spent must be left to the senatorial investigation. HOW SENATORS ARE MADE IN MONTANA. All sorts of rumors and stories concerning it are floating about through the pure ozone of Montana. One is that a certain candidate had rooms in the Helena Hotel which were occa- pied by his friends and that the tables in these rooms were piled with $1,000 notes, 2500 notes, $100 greenbacks and $20 gold pieces. A su) posediy corruptibie legislator was led by cappers into this room and was talked with somewhat as follows: “Now, senator, we know that this contest is « fal one. You feel that our man ought to be elected. You cansee that that is the logic of the situation. Now we want to make it easy for you. We're going out of the room and if in thinking about this matter you can see your i you are at The worst feature about this whoie election is, it seems to me, the unblushing way in which the matter is talked of here in Montana. I have yet to moet the first man who questions the the aio trom bi ppt the state course, but there are more Marcus Daly is to have said the other 9 that his that of « patriot. for 2 i peer pic men ca aor tren borkced ‘of 6000. He inn aery ress polaied by the governor ts one of the brighi- est young men of the state and he would be the Uigutined bets worth s ensll Senet candidate for the United States Senate in the first state legislature and he bas heen one of the leading republicans for the last twelve years, He was born in Pngiand and moved from there to Utah At the age of twenty-four he was driving an ox team. and two rears Inter be had tenreall telegraphy and had become one of the telegraph operators of the Kecky mountains, It was this, I think, Lee MANTLE the state, the Butte City Jur. be ix make » good epeech, i fond of is not averse to a good game of poker. The j Stakes played for here are large and, according | to one of Mantle’s friends, he was at last ac- | counts about $30,000 ahead of the game. | Card Playing and gambling are more open | Within the last de- corporations bave sprung ap. The and Helena (and very substan. v are © been built and there «as mach bu here ae anywhere <i habits cling to the ves ou as openly im Mon- as it did when the mines were first OR LIFE IN MONTANA. rived at the club life of these west- | €rn cities. Helena has one of the richest clubs | in the world. It is now building @ club honse j which will compare favorably in ite interior hings with ny im the east. [found a ortabie club at Great Falls. and Butte City bas aclub called the “Silver Club,” the meinbers of which represent as much moneys § b in the United States, ‘These clubs tuagniticently hed and you meet an them ihe cream of this western country. the world, and they a aged men. full of energy and pluck. ‘The most of them are bred Fou will find as well-dressed and as well- as im New York. The majority young men. They are men ore making money rapidly y that von do not find « half in the Silver Bow. The library.a good billiard room snd parior<@&nd reception room. It hase eard room as well, and around the tables of thig tome of these placky millionaires and others now and then take a hand at . Thestaker are often large, and they tell story bere of « traveling drummer who came into the Silver Bow Ciub one day ina rather blustering way. He saw a group of men plaring poker about one of the tables. He considered himself « rood poker player, and be thought he would like to take a band. I think he was introduced to some of the party. Among them was, as I understand it, Marens Daly, Lee Mantle and Connell, » very rich man of this region. As he greetod them the drammer said as he rubbed his bands tozether: “Ab, gentlemen, youare playing poker, I se. I play some- what myself and I venture vou would mot ob- Ject to Lave me Come into the game.” “Oh, no,” replied one of the men, “you can plas if you wish, but you had better get some chips.” 8 bluster: “Well, I guess you may give me $200 chips.” A sly look passed around the The men were too polite to laugh. but one of them said after half « moment, come in, give him a chip,” and. to of the drummer, he was banded his £100. Ashe looked from it to table, representing thousands, he concluded that he'd better stay out of the game. and shrank perceptibly and apologized and retired. FOUNDED OX GOLD DUST. ‘This city of Helenacontains about 20,000 peo ple and it is founded on gold dust. It has es fine buildings as ron will find in any city of abundred thousand in the east and ther are built along the edge of the mountains exch side of great gullies. The main street of Helena rans down a ravine known as the “Last hence Gulch,” and from under its paved side walk thirty anillion doliare worth of gold was taken. The city is buflton what was once the most famous placer diggings of the United States, and all about it you see the gravel which bud been thrown up and washed out for gold. Even today it is not uncommon in build- i here for miles in every direction cont and some of the most famons mines United States are within a short distance Helena. New mines are being discovered every now and then and old ones are boing reworked with profit. I virited the government assay office here this afternoon and saw there a block of gold about as big asa 5-cent loaf of bread, which was worth $22,000. Ithad just from the Old Penobscot mine, which lying idle for years, but which bas ‘opened and is now paying weil. It al it twenty miles north of Helena discovered by an oid fellow by the name thaniol Vestal years ago. He sold $400,000, took “his money to Wall to teach the bulls and bears how to speculate. Of course be failed. ‘The mine was again lator on for 98,000, as the lead seemed played out, and became the property of « named Longmaid. He did nothing with his two sons urged him to work it. not doit and they bought the mine of ‘This was about four months ago they have broaght in this $22,000 is the same with other mines and tana turns out millions upon millions lars’ worth of precious metals every mountains are believed to be full of oped mines and prospectors by the hundreds will start out this spring. FORTUNES IX NUGGETS, Right bere about Helena some of the most famous placer mining of the past wasdone. Along about the close of the war many men made fortunes, and one mugget was taken out which was worth €59,and another, so lam told. was worth more than $2,000. shade antl t s ty R Hi E i ebae fit where