Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1893, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. MILLIONS IN LUMBER. now WGRAW MADE A FORTUXE. MeGraw’s boyhood was spent in hard work and by the time he was a young man be had THE MONTH OF MAY. Some of the Many Superstitions in Regard to It. MAY DEW AS A COSMETIC. How the Dames of Olden Times Used to Beautify Their Complexion—The May Pole Dances and How They Were Squelched by the Puritans. ROUND THE MONTH of May cluster almost as many traditions and superstitions as around the winter holiday sea- von, and for the same reason, #0 say the ar- it partially rallied after seventeen years, it did so only to finally die thirty-six years later. Fancy | had indeed given way to fact and superstition | to science, aye, and what is much worse, in | this age, the agreeable and poetic has fallen | beneath the iron feet of the disagreeable and practical, for wewadays if we do unything out- side of the ordinary routine of life on the bonny Ist of May it isto engage in the soul- harrrowing and temper-ruining employment of transferring our lares and penates from one spot of earth to another. ONLY A BAG OF FLOUR. A Tragedy in Five Chapters at the Expen: Little Miss Isabel Fry was at her accustomed tricks, The warm May evening was dark, and therefore favorable to her purposes. As she leaned out of the second-story window she held in her hand a shapeless white object. It was a ball of muslin, filled with about half a pound of wheat flour. To it was attached a string. the other end of which was fastened to her wrist. Miss Fry had eleven years, as the French say, ‘SOME GREAT CHANGES That Have Taken Place Here and in the Monumental City. THE BALTIMORE RIOTS. Memories of Incidents Connected With Those Events Interestingly Told—An Ex- perience at a Spiritualistic Seance That ‘Was Mystifying to Say the Least. ——_+—__ WAS SHOWN A FEW days ago by Mr. L. F. Moore of Georgetown some very interesting letters from Mr. Joseph s Gales, the father of Mr. \\) Gales, the editor of the oe | brandy obtained its name. Primitive days, in- | deed, they were, but the old fellows cling to the memory of ‘them and refuse to be consoled by all the improvements of the present. ‘THE FIRST POSTAGE STAMPS. ‘The gentleman who delivered the first post- age stamps to the post office of New York, Bos- ton and Philadelphia resides here and told me the first amount ordered for the wnole cou try was $65,000 worth. He left at the New York post office $4,000 worth: Boston, €4,000 worth, and Philadelphia, $3,000 worth, and the rest of those printed were distributed’ in ike proportion throughout the country, aud he then sealed up the plates and deposited them inthe New York enstom house. ‘That was early in the forties—he thinks Cave Johnson or Mr. Wickliife was Postmaster General. I did not inquire, for it was hardly necessary, whatis the yearly supply today—many millions, of course. Spenking of Baltimoreand the old times aad her old citizens Iam reminded of an experi- ence I had at the only spiritualistic seance I ever attended, and as it relates to an old Balti- , [may imelude it in this “ominum 4 inflict it on the readers of Tue {A SPIRITUALISTIO SEANCE. Thad an old friend in New York, the proprie- FOR LITTLE GIRLS. "=" Some Dainty Costumes for Embry- onic Belles. SUITABLE FOR SPRING. Common-Sense Dresses—Pretty and Sweet— Yokes and Trimmings—Comfortable and Becoming. apnea Written for The Evening Star. FEW WEEKS AGO ‘Tue Stax gave a whole article te the boys and ‘entirely neglected the poor girls, and it is only fair that they should be Styles and Materials—How to Make Some wee Indy in a wash is made of all-over embroidery and is with ruffles of narrow lace. The neck of dress, which is cut equate. is gathered fall held "in place at the waist by the Joining these casings pleated sash is ee oneach side and tied ina large bow in back. ‘The skirt has three wide tucks, —— saved enough to go into business. He failed, however, and awoke one morning to find that e fe and family on his hands and onl The Forests and Shingles of the Mma hapeeet. Medecliad tr leciewne Puget Sound Region. and go west. Saying good-bye to his family he chwologists, the legen- | and also an appetite for mischief. Her favorite dary lores of both dates, | sport was the innocent game in which she was according tothem, being | now engaged. It consisted in “‘socking” such descended to us from | a ball as the ono above described at passersby. the fire worshipers,who, | The material composing its envelope was of so He 240 of bi at the winter solstice, | loose and “sheer” a texture that, when the memorandums in his ae dead, = Se ope an = only 942. He sent €40 of this to his wife and i werybody | missile struck anything, tho flour contained in vossession was a small | seling were thes br erage wiht id RE US Se ba ere pti ee hel Fee Buld | knows, occurs at es " christmas time, | it distributed itself on all sides as readily as | volume of the constitution and list of membera | Btd Hot the heart to disturb his belie, but rend boys. sai i them with interest, for they were beautiful, a: s the reins of a bobtailed car for several weeks, | celebrated the wheeling back to earth of their | through a sifter. of the Columbian Typographical Society from | coming from aloving mother. He invited me | There is always something pretty and sweet all the while looking out for something better. | god, the sun, by feasting and games and by ™m CHAPTER 1. 1815 to 1836, w! volume was printed | one night to go toa a = a} reg girls “4 — nd it is a pleasant task © Romantic Career of Gov. McGrar One day while driving down Kearney street he | decki , by Blair & t fe in of those who | other friends I went. The usual darkened | to show some of the becoming wash dresses in = sain - ‘ae 3 learnay stro jecking fir trees with candles and gifts as sym- zis y Blair 's. But few remain of those 3 a Se ee ee La en ne ere ee bolic of the weather of light and greenery and| Mr, Benjamin Buggs was on his way to the | *gucd the roll even as late as 1836, ‘The early | oom, &c., aud some manifestations in which [| which they can be comfortably clothed. Wort Were Discovered With u Spy Glass— “BUY SEATTLE Coal.” Z see y bi felt no interest occupied some time, and then ‘The Rosy Future of ruget Sound. The words stuck to him and he kept saying | Uosoms that would attend his coming—sn aot | Plrtypus Ciub, As was invariably he case with | Signers were Alex. Gordon, Wm. Duncan, An-| ¢5 my surprise and amusement, which I tried to ¥ is festi f | hi nf ig | drew Tate, the father of one of the early pub-| conceal, the spirit of Nelse Seymour, the negro it over and over, and wondering where Seattle | Tpich Stafted en to the Christian festival of | him after 6 p.m., he was in evening dress, His : ie Pee was and what kind of a place it was, He had "I she sa Szkn; s o had janghed so Christmas has resulted in the Christmas tree of | black cape coat, of the pattern made for wear- uz Evesixa Szar; John Suter, J. | minstrel, was announced. I | mediwval and modern times—while in May, the | ing eae Vanes (Gidea a night, was thrown |P. Burton, Jacob Gideon, jr.. J. H. Wade, | often at his inimitable performance for he was ia aerae ncaa nr her heard of it before. but he could not think | fower month, the year's fair prophet who pre- 2 = ieh |,Christopher Byrne, Francis Coyle, my father; | ‘26 most amusing of the profession Tacoma, Wasx., May 10, 1899. | where. Finally he remembered that @ man| dicts the vat of the comig hatvest, theres. | backs revealing the expansive shirt front which |, P ns od *] could not refrain, to the disgust of the faithful. SAW A CEDAR | from his region in Maine bad gone to Seattle. | pressed ticle rejoicinge over their deitye vist | Covered an ample chest, In his right hand ho er, Peter Force, George Coch- | ‘The yoice that came to us, from what they said stump the other day on | He found where the place was wind wrote to bie presence ie ace offerings, by dances | C@ttied a silk umbrella, neatly wrapped. His | ran, fatherof George Cochran,the tobacco mer- | was axpirit, waa the voice—and a very peculiar : him, and a week or se later came here to make | aroun: led and % Jo | hut was of silk likewise, with a bell crown. | chant; Patrick Crowley, Samuol McElwee, La-| one he had—of Nelse Seymour; its every tone oO ic a ere toa | Ms fortune. ‘The town was amuall at that time | and mass hindved merey wnkinges ) Pol® | The soos he wore wero of patent leather. Ot | thor Soveruncesaftersaed memeber of Congress | and expression was what I hed hoard from him An sfternese feck ts next doen anly-eee pores and be soon made acquaintances. He got | But unlike the Christmas festivities, of which | the whole, his attire was beyond criticiem—a | 0. aaine and minister to one of the South | i life. I was ee made on the Gretchen stvle, with and sat while a photo- | place on the police force and proved himself | there yet remams a good sized remnant, | ‘act of which he was agreeably concious. 5 » | sculptor, was with us, and I exp i crossing the tight vest in front. Wide hh was taken of | socdicient that he was elected sheriff. He | scarcely anvehin ie tee of the old. time | _ The street lamps were not lighted, thongh it} American courts; Lambert ‘Tree, for many | my gurprive. After some time, during which cover the shoulders and follow the line of the {hem Tr was so large | held the office of sheriff for years, than went | Mar fey pe a ny of the pechaee (ae past Do'clock. It was what tho Philadel-| years chief clerk of the city post office and|he cautioned my friend against some bad vest. The sleeves and skirt are very full, the aay into the hotel business. “He hind in the mean- | here and there wome fanev conneeted. with the | Pisns term “corporation moonlight.” ‘That is | father of Judgo Tree of Chicago; James Clo- | spirits who lind deceived him und obtained con- former ending in an embroidery cuff. that a cottage could | time brought his family from Maine and was ike the one regurding the magic etticacy | t® #8¥, tho pale orb of night was supposed to be father of Lewis Clephane: John Stock- | #iderable money from him, I expressed a desire have been built upon | doing well, when a firo burned him out and of May dew papper g the magi Y | shining, but 7 had one behind = ems aoe ie teat, whee oar olter | SO 0ek paaes _—— I did ee the height of | left him ‘gain without a dollar. He had . time previously. Mr, Buggs took notice of this lee Re the medium, who was the manager of - the treo before it was | staid laws however, while ‘ho was aber; |, SEAT DEW As 4 comentrc. circumstance ‘as he turned into N- street. | “itizens will remember; Andrew Rothwell, for | f 1 asked: “Where were you born and| White is nearly always chosen, and the first Tam told, was 300 | 8% he hung out his shingle. Ho soon gained a| | This beticf in May dew as a complexion | Nevertheless.it did not occu: tohim tonnticipate | Kine Quicear Carctners Mtichaek tare, Without a mo- | jittle figure is dressed in this. The little short- fect. The greatest in. | Practice. He inverted in various properties Waianae seneded sn aaciontly hay wee | eRe Sa Red so Chonent af Sieeweriee® | sather of Mr. Noble and grendinther af Me. J. waisted body is gathered at the neck and tucked por bora Cagal (nr meee Se president (of one | kind of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | in that peaceful locality wutil suddenly be a8 | §. Parner, now so well known in insurance and in small tucks at the waist. Embroidery ruf- a in in id MS) National Intelligencer, addressed to his father, given one entirely to themselves toshow what “can be done toward making the little sisters dainty and stylish, for the girls must have an tor of one of the principal hotels there, aud of another in Springfield, IL, who was a firm \ dating back to the early | 1 1, ver in spiritualism and derived great com- } part of this century. | fore trom communications he received through Among other books and | the “mediums” froin bis mother, who had been struck out for € fornia and arrived in San Francisco with his total assets amounting to Bound region is its timber. The trees here turn out logs from 100 to 200 feet in length, and Washington has now at the Chicago exhibition a log four feet square which is 120 feet long. From a tree cut bere the other day, six big saw logs were taken each thirty feet long, and the tree was tive feet in diameter at the base, and its firet branch started out 170 feet above the ground. A farmer not far from Tacoma lived in « hollow cedar tree while clearing bis homestead. ‘Vhe cavity was 22 feet in diameter, or as big as a large parlor. His ceiling was 40 feet above the ground anda knot hole just below this formed his chimney. He put in a floor eight feet above the earth and on this he built a stone fireplace with a stick and clay chimney. Under the door he kept his horse and cow, and be lived on the second story of the tree hole. 4 120 Foor LoG FoR THE WORLD'S FAIR. The best ship timber of the world comes d masts and spars are vent from here to Australia, China and other parts from Washington, of Europe, Asia and Africa. The timber re- sources are practically unlimited, and Iam told that there are over three hundred billion feet of standing timber in this state. At the resent time a little more than one billion feet being cut every year, and at this rate there is enough left for three centuries to come. Some of the largest sawinilis in the world are located near Seattle and Tacoma, and more than two million feet of timber are now cut every day. ROOTS OF THE WORLD. During my stay in Minneapolis I was told that th’ red cedar shingles of Washington were fast driving the pine sbingles out of the market. And [ learn here that shingles are being ship; in vast quantities all over the United States” was shown in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer office a cedar shingie which had been on a roof forty years and whieh was still in good condi- tion, ‘and I saw resterday « photograph of @ fir tree, the marks upon which show it to ‘be more than 200 years old, and in the roots of this tree was fastened a cedar log. which must have been Iving on the the first sapling grew over it. ‘The 200-year-old cedar log was examined and found to be perfectly sound, although it has Feached this vast age. Ttalked last night with a man who knows. He said: “It will take sixteen thousand cars tocarry the shingles which Washington will send to the east this year, and when you re- member that the tirst ear load of these shingles that was ever shipped to Chicago went east in 1897 you will see ie great the growth has been. Loxpect to see this trade rapidly increase, and within two years three-quarters of the entire production of shingles m the United States Wili go ont from the state of Washington. We now ave about 10,000,000.909 of shingles in this ntrv every yexr, and the day will soou come when the whole of ine Union will be roofed with Washington cedar. “Can you give me the Inmber regions o: ‘We have. much as all the rest of the United States p gether. It is » low estimate to put it at 300, 000.000.009 feet. Or, to give a more practical idea of it, it would train of cars long enough to go nine times around the world to idea of the extent of pendent circumstances. He is one of the most popular men in the state, and when his name Was sprung, without any preliminary canvass- ing, at the last state conveution he was not nated for governor with a hurrah. elected by a large majority man of political ambition he wil or later in the United States Senate. He litical managers as is one of the sbrewdest well as one of the best business men of this state, and it was through his management that Squire | got his present seat in the UnitedStates Senate. THE EVERGREEN STATE. “We call Washington,” said Gov. McGraw, “the ‘evergreen state,’ and we have no doubt but that it is to be one of the greatest states in We are rapidly increasing in popu- lation and the emigrants follow close on the heels of the government surverors. ‘The state is not all surveyed as yet aud is as rapidly being taken up, and we have now more than pect to be the Penn- sylvania, Obio and New York of the west. population of Puget sound will be the greatest of any part of our Pacific coast. located that we will eventually bo the great mannfacturing section for this trade, and our mines and lumber are such that we ‘can make anything that the world wants. We have vast coal fields and great beds of iron, and the p: pect now is that we have the greatest gold and silver fields of the world.” Tell me something about this, governor, THE MONTE CRISTO GoLD MINES. “I refer,” said Gov. McGraw, ‘to the Monte Cristo gold mines. These aro owned by a small syndicate of rich capitalists, ineluding John Rockefeller, Colgate, Hoyt and Mr. Colby, and a railroad is now being built from here to them at a cost of $3,000,000. The mines lie about fifty miles northeast of ‘They are surroun rugged of moantains and they run in and out e ore is found in large led by the most of great gorges. gold and $75 of silver to the ton and upward. ‘There are a number of mines in this region, but the most of them belong to this syndicate. It will take a fortune to get the ore out, but it will probably pay a dozen fortunes as soon as the road is finished and the veins are opened up.” “How was the gold discovered?” “Its first discovery was made with a tele- scope,” replied Gov. pectors saw the gold gleaming out of the side IN THE Forests, of the mountain four miles away from where They worked their way up to it and found that a great slide of the earth had mn ef gold. The amount in sight, Lam told, is worth millions, and one of the ledges exposed may be tr: of 4.000 feet up the mountain side from the bottom of the gorge, and ti left bare this great v width of this as are today’s recipes for improving the skin by the steaming and massage processes by the gitl of the period. Samuel Pepys, Charles the Second’s secretary of the navy, in bis immortal diary thus quaintly records on’ May 28, 1667, the fact of his wife having departed that morziing in quest of May jew: “My wife away down with Jane and W. Hower to Woolwich. in order to a little ayre and ‘to lie them tonight, and #0 to gasher May dew to- morrow morning, which Mrs. Turner hath taught her is the only thing m the world t wash her face with; and I am contented with i ‘The reason of his contentment is obvious upon reading the sentences thut follow: “by water to Foshall and then walked in Spring Garden. A great deal of company, among othera two pretty women,” &c. For the susceptible Mr. Pep: ercise the gallantries for whic famous, unrestricted by the well-known jealousies of his wife. Two years later, on May 10, 1669, he chroni- cles in ‘a less resigned vein Mrs. Pepys’ May dew expedition: “Troubled about 3 in the morning with my wife's calling her maid up. and rising herself to go with her coach abroad to gather May dew, which she did, and I troubled for it for feat of sny hurt, going abroad so betimes, happen- ing to her; but I to sleep again and she came home about 6.” For having nothing more diverting than sleep with which to beguile her absence he had time to reflect on the possible dangers that might threaten her at suth a lonely hour. AN UNLUCKY MONTH FOR MARRYING. Another ancient May time belief, evidences of which still linger in this nineteenth century, was the idea that this particular division of the year was an unlucky time in which to marry. What peculiar disaster threatened the May Wed pair, or how, ina month so crowded with sunshine |and innocent beauty there was place for even so immaterial a thing as an ili foreboding, are points on which the oracles are silent, but that the notion is still to some extent heeded can be discovered by any one wito will take the trouble to look over the marriage records of a year. Brides will be found to abound in the inclem- ent winter holiday season, to vie at Easter time with its own flowers in ‘number, to exceed in Juno the very strawberries and roses, to flutter in October as thick as the ted and yel- low leaves and. to even spring profusely from Lenten ashes, but May bridals in comparison with those of the other months are_as scatter- ing as are Friday and Saturday weddings when counted against those of the other days of the week. May, too, was the month of loxp teste, one of the oddest of which 1s embalmed in the ‘follow- ing ancient stanza: “Last May day fair J searched to find a snail, That might my secret lover's name reveal; Upon a gooseberry bush a suail I found, For always snails “near sweetest fruits abound. Iseized the vermine, home I quiekly xped, And on the hearth the milk-white ashes spread, Slow crawled the snail and if I right can spell, In the soft ashes marked a curious L, Ob! may this wondrows omen lucky prove, For 1 is found in Iubberkin and lov A slimy snail is looked upon as being almost as distasteful to the gentle sex asa mot but when it turns soothsayer, as in the magie month ay, that of course alters its aspect, and in- stead of being shunned it is eagerly sought. ‘This sixteenth century lass, thoagh, whose ex- perience theso lines voice, couldn't’ quite con- ceal her inbred horror, since she availed herself of the feminine privilege of calling names, but at the same time, it will be noticed, she was al- most scientitically explicit in pointing out the habitat of the ereature, so tuat even those of this year of grace 183 may, if so minded, avail theniselves of her directions. ‘THE POWER OF THE FInsT Day. Thongh thronghout the month all sorts of took on the instant to be a #and-bag. Leaping around to face his assailant, he saw nothing. ‘Thero was no human being in sight. Something white lying on the ground attracted his attention, He stooped aad picked it up. It wasamusiin bag with a fragment of string attached to it. CHAPIER UL Col. Montgomery Fry was reading Taz STAR by the evening lamp in hia drawing room. In the middle of an item on the second column of the fifth page he was interrupted by a hoarse cry from the street outside. Presently this was followed by a number of violent impreeations from tho same quarter. A moment later the front door bell rang violently. The colonel raised his bushy evebrows in some surprise, took off his specta- cles, removed his fect from the chair in front of him, and—no servant being at home—went to.answer the ring in person. His astonishment wax great when the person admitted proved to be “a very much excited man in a cape coat, who looked as if a barrel of lime had been upset over bi The stranger was white from top to toe, and his stovepipe hat was smashed in on one side. He _gesticu- lated with an umbrella as he shouted in tones so agitated that they ran up into the falsetto: “Ivan outrage—a d—d on Col, Fry bad been visited on one previ occasion by a person who asked permis: have a fit in his vestibule. At the first he took this for a similar case, Presently, however, he realized that something quite dif: ferent was the matter, ‘The stranger held in ono hand, dangling by a string, a white object in the shape of a ball, “Do you see that?” he demanded, 1 do.” replied chanically for his spect: on the table. “Pray, w “It is tilled with 1 “Here is more flour”—shaking a quantity out of his hat—and here, sir, is more,” dusting him- self off somewhat ineffectually. “How curious! responded the colonel, won- deringly. “Curious a shriek, feeling mo- ich he had left * said the visitor. * echoed the stranger, with almost It is much more than curious. The , was thrown at me from out of your ible!” “From my house! Imp: “It is true, nevertheless, “I say it is impossible, because there is no- body in the house except myself and my three litte children, who Tre asleep upstairs.” “Then one of the children threw the bag.” “Tagain assert that it cannot be. However, to set the point at rest I will make sure.” CHAPTER IV. y's delight in her clever shot was tempered by alarm at the loss of her flour bag through the breaking of the string. ‘The purpose of the latter was to recover the missile at once after ithad sped. Her heart stood still when the door bell rang and it went pit-a-pat very rapidly as she heard the begin- ning of the dialogue below. ‘The same may be said of her two younger sisters, aged nine and even respectively, who had been admiring wit- nesses of the mischief done. All three of them stole silemtly out to the well of the staizcase, nightgowned and barefooted, and listened breathlessly to-the conversation between their father and the stranger. Presently they understood that their father was coming upstairs; whereupon they pattered quickly and noisclessly back’ to the second- story front room, and inside of thirty seconds each of them was, to ali appearance, peacefully leeping in her own little bed The colonel entered, and, turning the gas half-way up. surveyed the slumbering inno- cents, His moistening eye lingered for two or banking circles; Thomas Dowling, who was for Years the editor of a paper at Terre Haute and foreign minister; John Heartt, editor of the Charleston Mercury; Ferdinand Jefferson, for many years in the Department of State; James F. Halliday, collector of taxes; A F. Cunningham, the father of Pay rector Cunningham of the navy: F. A. Lums- den, afterward with George Kendall, editor of the New Orleans Picayune; George Kendall worked “at case” with his partner, Lumsden, es & Seaton’s; E, Eranch Robinson, who , of Mexican war renown; John T. Towers, mayor of Washington; L. A. Besancon, a proininent editor at New Orleans and the hero of a dozen duels; William Jones, Lemuel ‘Towers and W. E. Morcoe. ‘The names of L. A. Gobright,so well known here by every- who was afterward mayor of Ne n. Simon Cameron's name is not on the list, but he worked “at case” on the Register of Debates, which were being printed by Gales & Seaton. In after years as United States Senator he filled a very éonsider- able space in the Register of Debates, as con- tinued by the Congressional Globe. ‘Many of the names were apprentices to Gales & Seaton, and from that source was drawn a good deal of dramatic talent, which is remembered by the few “old boys’ whostill inhabit this mundane sphe THE MARYLAND BANK RIOT, T met a few duysagoan old Baitimorean who give me some additional memories of the cele- brated Maryland Banik riot, He says the rioters held the exty for three days and burned the furniture and all the honschold effects of the mayor, Jesse Hunt, under grose orders the city troop, acrack cavalry company, cbarged the mob, Lut with their favorite weapons, bricksand paving stone, the mob emptied many saddies and compelled a retreat, The leader of the mob was a butcher named Leon Dyer, the handsomest man in Baltimore, who or- ganized them into companies and defied the s until the military were organized der Gen, Smith. In the meantime, however, esired todo, ‘The been heard for somo days before it burst, and the houses of Reverdy Johnson, Joan Glenn and others bad been guarded, but as no demonstration was made the gu withdrawn and Mr. Jobn- son went to Aunapolis to attend to some law business, ‘The day he left the mob rose in its might, and a Baltimore mob was a terror. Since 1512 down tothe period of the native American rfots the city had obtrined the un- enviable name of “mob town,” and it contained an clement that was always ready for a fight. My old friend relates an incident which shows how thorougily they sacked the houses of those against whom they had, or thought they had, a grievance. Mr. Glenn, fearing the threatened assault, had a well dug in his yard and buried silver ware and other valuabtes and repaved it, and felt that at least would escape the assault. ‘The fellows who dug the well piloted the mob to the «pot and the valuables were speedily ex humed. The tellars were ransacked and the wine and other liquors flowed in the gutters, to the disgust of those who knew the value and excellence of the wasted liquors, ‘A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. In 1844, with Mr, Lenox, Mr. Wallach and Mr. Winter and others, I went to Baltimore with some whig voters we had gathered up, and were directed to take them “where they would do the most good,” but we were met by a crowd whose appearance was far from pacific, and we got rid of our voters as soon ae possible and returned to Barnum’s, where we remained until the train left for Washington. That day, the day of the presidential clection of 1844, there were several riots, but it was such a usual occurrence but little attention was paid to it, There was initiated the scheme of “cooping” stray voters, who had become or were over- come from the effects of liquor, and they were kept in that condition for days until the morn- Col. Henry 8. Sanderson. for years.” And he described the house, which I knew well, and had known when 1 doubt if there was an in New York, but myself, who knew him and his father and his right name. I was astonished and said tomy friends that is true. I am, however, still a skeptic, my knowledge of this world and my faith in the next remains and always will re- main unchanged, but I can say with Hamlet: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in thy philoso- phy.” While on this theme I must relate my experience with Foster, who was one of the most remarkable men I ever met. I went into Satora’s in New York one night to meet Jack Owens, who was playing an engagement at Booth's Theater, and, as bé tnd not vet come, I walked back intea reading room and was reading Punch when some one cailed me, an old friend, and with him a gentleman I bad never seen, but recognized intuitively as Foster. He had never seen me, but a« I walked past the table at hich they were weated he said to my friend: hat is Mr. Coyle, is it not? I want to know: him,” I was introduced, said I was waiting for my friend Owens, andat their request took aveat with thom, and in a few moments Owens joined us, and we spent some hours together. When we separated Foster gave me his address and asked to call and said he hnd acommunication to make tome. I deciined to hear it, and every- time we met, and this was somo years before his death, he repeated he had a communication jeclined to hear it, and though when in the same city, and a most interesting man he was, he did not force the communication on me. I have no desire toseek information from the other world. 1am content to wait until I get there. By the | bye, Tree the memoirs of Jobn E. Owens has been published. I will get it and recall some memories of the years we have known each other. Capital actor he was. His John Unit and Caleb Plummer were the best I ever saw, and his Ol'apod, Pangloss, Major De Bosts and a host of other characters “still lingering haunt the greenest spot on memory’s waste.” Joux F. Corie. a Written for The Evening Star. The Land of Scott and Burns, Thistie-land beyond the Tweed, Witching home of song and story, Where each brave chivalrous deed Miustrelsy enshrimes in glory; Grateful theme of poet's pen, Rippling burn and purple heather, Words and works of mighty men— These they crown and charm together! ‘Who shall tread thy honored soll Where soutd sense is fitly spoken, And the fruits of honest toll Fill the fields with many a token; ‘Who shall read thy glorious page Sad to tears and glad to langhter, Shrewd with wit and wisdom sage ‘Without wholesome thoughts thereafter? Scotland, thine the wizard wand Deft with fancy’s magic powers At whose beck a luminous band Sprang to life ‘mid new-biown flowers! Clan and chieftain, castle, cot, Mighland lassie, lowland lady, Fend and foray ne'er forgot Deck thy dells and woodlands shady! ‘Thine the harp, so sad and sweet, Swept by fingers fine and fairy, ‘That told tn strains that make us greet ‘The fate of winsome Highland Mary; ‘Thine the pipes so grand and grave, ‘Touched by hands both strong and stote, ‘That played “No Southron coward slave But dearer far a death heroic.” Manly Wallace’s steel mace Never itinched from patriot duty Scottish Stuart's royal race fles, wide at the shoulders and graduating down toa point at the waist, are put over the shoul- ders. This gives the effect of a vest. The skirt is full, as aro also the sleeves, the former having no trimming save a wide deep hem. A ruffie of edging encircles the and the sleeves are finished by embroidery cuffs. ‘The next baby’s dress is made with a round ‘oke of all-over-work. Ruffles border it in the | back and over the shoulders toward the front, | where they are brought down to the waist. The | round yoke and sleeves can be made separate in aguimpe. as they are much easier to wash when made in this was Fine French gingham, in very delicate colors, does very well for baby's dresses. The color of the third dress is bine, at least the Mother Hubbard part of the little robe is. and the yoke and sleeves are white. The former is square, and is cut from all-over embroidery and is bordered all aroand with an edging rufile. The and are made sleeves are of white in double puffs A band of insertion is botween tho two patfs and another at the wrist, The ninth dainty little mies wears a. flowered organdie lawn. The hem of skirt. the armholes, neck and rufiles of fine white Ince, ‘ f i 0 Hubbard dress for litte quite elaborately trimmed and tucked Broad embroidery flouncing bordors a sleeves. A fines this frock iw. the ‘back, whick bangs loose from yoke to hem. The fourth illustration is of a morning frock. carry this Inmber. Already there are 20,000 | ledge is from ten ¥ ‘he gold scems | spells held good and magic had full sway, yet | three moments upon tho sight. ing of the election, and then voted “ear! din the wood working industries | trun Fisht through peg main and it is) its very first twenty-four hours—May “Dear little lambs!” ho eaid softly, turning | often.” One of the greatest poets of Ameri and we spend m an $10,000.- Smee coat eat mo ugries to ba terest te aes (ill contained the essence of the whole sue- | down the light. ber workers every year. | Placer J papnghnr lear ceeding witching suns, — at from here to Duluth and comes | Streams. A town is now being built in the |“"Gn'that day, when the observances wero at etition there in the midst of the | et ee ee ren ti cctiose rammer we Will | their height, ‘high and low, city and rural Pine reztous of Minuecota and Wisconsin. We | te’ orid. ‘The way it will bo rae kenreen | dweller, rose before daybreak to search the| «qtig as I thonght, get out # class of logs here that you cannot find | Sin be more as a pres chamuatuatatoc ‘Saaesie? country side for May bloom, the flower of the tb dake. aes ena: snswhere else. and the long timbers, from | will be mo Remy The char ce Wustt® | white thorn, of wich when found the broughy ee eee ee them from the forts for: and upward, which we send out can-} T0125, such shat it will have to Le done ith | Bese branches home to the accompaniment oP i their beds. surrounded. mes O. Law, who com- Whose will was ne'er like bow unbended! ot be found in the east tates.” the most improved machinery and after ke | blasts on horns and other jubilant expressions, | “Iam not mistaken,” declared Mr. Benjamin | manded the * Was asked by the mayor In green Melrose and Holyrood, latest and most practical of business methods.” | te entice performance being characterized by | Baggs with emphavis, still dusting himself off | sib ties GocEaciee Tt iiaeen en dreams of feudal splendor, I find that there is little chance for a poor | the name of * Sona, Wenn tke Menace as | wetertenlly. clear them.” He. asked for the Independent | Fer Scotland’s great and Scotiand’s good man to make money in mining in Washington kak the Sipe of han Gis aie “What, sit!” exclaimed the colouel, ‘Do T| Pines, hiv own company, the “Gray,” and. the Are mingled there in memories tender. vp ventures, Catherine of Arragon, are waid, with | U™derstand you to say that you doubt my | Jiaryiand Cadete, Valtimore's or: Ttis made with short, tight-fitting bod: queen of matchless beauty! which is tucked in front’ and back. An e was Bold the claymore of the Bruce sertion belt encircles the waist and a wide found by his friends “cooped” and rescued more Who fate and foes alike could turn ruffle finishes the neck. This frock had best dead than alive, and it was said that he never And kilt and tartan letting loose be made from gingham, as indeed all every-day CHAPTER V. fully recovered ‘Won victory at Banuockburnt dresses should be. ing on the Phils raged in Baitimore furionsly ary was then organi. ‘Thine the creed of granite rocks drove From Covenanter sires descended, ents and churches they had ‘Thine the soul of sturdy Kaox company The simple Joy of lowly things, mJ Pe Lot the new gold re- | yentures aca ; at that time, of which two veterans are pia alan ¢ end gions. Of work would be at | Cus commen 1 have yearly observed this | vio nsense!” replied Mr. Boggs. here, Capt. Frank Shafer and Mr, Isaac E. Of home and friends and Kindly feeting, used ‘od oe P : “Get out of this house at ouce, sir, or I will | punter. - Tho streets were cleared by these coms on reaching their dwellings branches of Mik yen Gat? waa the oolsiial: aap coal tech enna. xy com- iggs gesticulated with his umbrella, ex- |" What changes have taken place since those dozen ejaculatory | days, Riots that were possible and very formid- ppeared through the | able then could not exist now an hour. Re- lar wages in the mines. The railroad which the Colby-Hoyt syndicate ik now build- | 40 3 Ing will tuke plenty of good workmen there, | t2¢ May bloom were fastened over the doors, ant wages will not be extravagantly ‘high; | is insuring the inmates of the houses so hee oe svar he barge of Inmber | peduncles a ln tracts and in investing in hop landw and in | “* Wh Donges remained where they were placed. | n opened for his exit. | yolyers and Winchesters were unknown, tele- up of the still vacant territory of pole was produced from its year-long lodgment | _ 48 for the colonel, it is still a mystery tohim | graphs and telephones were not im existence, under the eaves of some high building, raised | WAY the children giggled so at breakfast the | indeed, all the great inventions which make tnto position, decked with gay ribboas and | DCXt morning that one of them had to be sent | this age the “golden” one were confined in the Thave nowspeut two weeks traveling through | flowers, when the dancing and games and |®Wa¥ from the table, and another choked over | brains of their inventors. Even when the Bal. the state of Washington, It is one of che finest | crowning of the prettiest. maid as queen took | BC? bread and butter ima manner that was | timore and Ohio road reached Washington the es mises to place. really quite alarming. Rese Bacue. | regular time between here and Baltimore was states of the Union anl promises to be one | F a ae S aaeak Gatenerua ‘The ponsbition is WHAT THE PURITANS DID. es a 8 v of the most prosperous. The population i ‘Ail hie sucnda innocsiis: escagb) bul never” ‘Woman's False Pretense. We have longsinceleft Puck bebind. His girdle, With border ballads, touching tunes, made tern men and it is full of enter- ‘Ghalaas in 186A dias Lad a : From the KansasCity Journal. which it would take forty minutes to put round And tales of olden warlike glory. [ pet sepryor blag dg pcbaactai te Saris (aaa a rt wet blankets, the! ‘The golden nail was not driven into the | the earth, would be left very far behind by the be on the verge of a boom. It i, recovering seams: Geclared the May day frolicings to | womah's building after all, but merely inserted | eables of the present day, and even Shakes- | Spokane, the metropolis of ‘thi rn part of | ordered the entire program to be instantly can-|*am out of keeping with woman's general | telephone. | the staic und the biggest city between the | Colic. reputation for sincerity, but it probably saved| When I first visited Baltimore I wa | Pacific and St. Paul | Spokane has 35,000| "For seventeen years thereaft Mrs. Potter Palmer's pretty thumb. | é 3 ‘er the people had P He is just | peopie and it ix pract only four ars old. | to content themselves in this month meee une here | It was burned to the ground four vearsago, but | ther Congested Hoop-La! ; a ™ with the inconspicuous comfort to be His career | it has new as fine business blocks.as you will | gotten out of gathering May dew and. working | From Puck. find anywhere in the countr; | ;and ite bank | jove charms, for the prohibition of May pol clearances show that it docs as ‘mach business | dances and other public celebrations wag Pole r died while he was still smail. “His | in proportion to tts size as any town in the | cessfully carried cut, a and his stepfather did | Union. Ithas ono of the t in 1650 the May pole again triumphed, the world ax leetric car | and ina certain London parish one of the very lighta and a great pact of the elec | largest of all the poles of past and present Mary the city comes from these great talls, y | was erected. The church near which it was Thenrd here was that | now usex about thirty-five hundred itorse power | put up was called St. Andrew's, aed wince tes young McGraw wear his | from the Spokane river, and Iam toid that the | Bole—so aver the chronicles “was we hig With rapture every heartstring rings In music o'er tHe spirit stealin, No heartustone but the glowing beams Of fond affection warm so cheery, No roof-tree but the kindly gleams ‘Of genial welcome biess the weary! gir bei linen and would look very different colored slips. No fleld where tontsteps are not light, ‘0 door which goodwill docs enter, ‘0 board whose greeting {s not brignt, No cot where true love does not center; ‘These are the blessings and the boons two hours anda half, and now forty minutes! Of bonny Scotland, hale and hoary, A GLANCE AT SPOKANE. ‘The Afternoon Nap. Dotted muslin trimmed in fine work ruffles is the goods used in the next dress. The small pointed yokeis of embroidery and the high ruffles which hang over the sleeves are also of em- broidery. ‘These sleeves are full and wide and sre ended off by esimple ouf. The skirt is full and plain and is into the yoks in place of being gathered. Tucks and insertion can be added to the skirt if desirable. ‘Taistle-home of minstrel song, Land o’ cakes and sterling souls, Laurels to thy brow belong " While time's relentless ocean rolls! mal " Scotland’ boy und went there in “stockton & Stokes’ blue Stet aacueneaeer me line,” and took nearly all day. ain I went at then the Baltimore aud Ohio ninde the trip in| ‘Heavehls €enlusearthward town two hours and a half and stopped at the ee “Fountain Inn,” kept by Baltzhoover, on Light —DAvip Guamau ADez. street, where the “Carrollton” now ia, When PRIA Eee bedtime came I sawa pile of slippers in one A Stickler for Consistency, corner of the office and there left my boots— | From the Caicawo Tribune. everybody wore books then, shoes were almost | ‘Your school report for the month shows that unkuown—and the bootblack gave me mpair of | you have been idling again, Harry,” said bis slipters and ‘marked ‘the number of my room | father ina tone of grave reproof. “You don't on the soles of the boots aad a waiter preceded me to my room with a candle. Tn the morning | *°°™ to appreciate the advantages you enjoy. aud his schoohng was confined to about «ix qon:bs in all. One story the okt wan mad at three score or sooner, thet taxed his strength; afternoon nap" is clear gain—it as " \ Of sleep of a sort. Elderly people and bad boots to « These were number twelves, | falls give a horse power of more than thirty | the mast of « vessel of 100 tons, it my boots were at the door and there I left the | At Your age, my son,” he continued, “I would often wake very early, and remaim and when little McGraw wore them they caused | thousand. Spokane is almost eaticely popn- | quently overtopped the spire. of the church shippers, and at night they were piled in the | have been only too glad to have the splendid \ Sake in gpite of the Ry ee Bim no end of trouble. lated by New England People and families from | che sacred edifice and its parish, thereby gain- corner for use. Could anything be more | schools, the eapable teachers, the costly appa- k y tines the Tater nap ts acetal. — It was t stom there to make the scholnrs | Ohio and the north middie states. It is in the | ing the name of St. Andrew Uadershatt a’ title primitive? ratus and the other helps in acquiring an eda- hardworked men of naturally feeble toe the There was a chalk liue drawn center of an agricultural country and it wiil| which clings to thom to this da This same old antideluvian friend remembers | cation that boys have in this ago of the jon rich the bors had £0 tos when | continue to grow. TV agidein gee the flavor of the “ammbrelia” brandy to this day. | world. I had to. struggle along tho best 1 =, thelr elasees to reciic. Mo- pf sciyt (i A Rie Ba pees ncteene e tells me how it got its name. Long before | could without them.” Grua’s bs large that with his toeson | One of the richest cities of the United States | 7 SO paige aces sleeping cars were dreamed of, ond when we | “Then you had to cross the Susquehanna on the ferry boat, | other dav,” said Harry, rattling the initiated would go to Guy's or Barnum’s| “You told me that if you'd only known the | _ Cut six represents quite a simply made little for a bottle of that brandy and put it in an um- | value of an education when you were » boy you | dress. The body is tight fitting and plain and n i brella, and the bottle woutd last until the ferrs | would have applied yourself and tried to learn | the skirt full and with no more ornament than bas | presented him. Thus the highest May pole Was reached, and there another bottle was ob- | instend of fooling away all your time playing | the broad deep hem. A deep picee of em- 000 and is assessed at | became a prop for the longest telescope then tained from Bill Guy, who kept the restaurant | two-cornered cat and bull pen— beoldery formes vest in the frost endl point See enne oe eee ted | re eeeence sand this togowithout a demur from | | Wandering William (as he strips the line)—| and bar on tho boat, and put in tho umbrella, | “Harry,” interposed his father, sternly, “ran | from the armhole down to the waist in a point. ay Gut in wages $40,000 | the people, for the Puritans. after all, had dealt | “Never touched me! I tell yer what, dis ‘ere | and thus tho journey was accomplished between | out to the barn and throw down’ some hay for | A ruffle, not over wide, borders this and the maxx G. Caurestem. | the May poleits death blow, from which, though | crinoline is a life preserver.”” Baltimore and New York, and thus that old | the horse ——— chalk bis bods was thrown far back of the ; — = the rest of t 38. The teacher could 5 isat the head of navigation got at first unde He thought the boy | on Puget sound and which promises to be on g up und he would go behind and | of tue greatest cities of the cuuntr: as, hitting littie McGraw for get-| town is only about six years old, ba ting ont of the line, und them going in front | population of abe and -ecing his feet over the chalk line he would | 245,060,000. Its b be driven back, flring thus between Seyila and | 000 and 1t# car shops Charybdis the greater part of the time. levery month. the seuse just described, for in 1717 Sir Isao Newton obtained possession of it and bad it transformed into a support for the telescope which the French Royal. Society had recentiy