Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1893, Page 17

— ———— E EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1893=EIGHTEEN PAGES. changeable silk in this instance. The dress buttons on the left side. ‘The revers, collar and cuffs are heavily embroidered with silk, but could well be made of plain silk or suiting. OUTING OUTFITS. ‘What a Woman's Traveling Costume Will Be This Summer. 45 SENSIBLE AS MAN’S. Berge is the Pet Material and Made So as to Be Comfortable — The Shirt Waist and Jacket and Soft Felt Hat— Some Simple and Pretty Examples. ae pects! Correspondence of The Evening Star, New Yorx, June 2, 1893. EPORE A GREAT while a woman's outfit for traveling will be as simple, comfortable and sensible as man’s. Never did women doso much traveling as now, nor were the conveni- ences and necessities of traveling dress ever | made so much of a| —“—=<—~ a study as they are now. | FOR SHOMT JOURNEYS. == The average traveling | Rain cloaks and mackintoshes are not as = oman knows that in | Popular as they were. We bave found out Nios city ahe finds her. | that they are fearfully hot and bulky things, wt the can. at the and that one is tempted to wear them all the D chier ‘it herself | im@ rather than bother to carry them extra B) peng aes |The only practicable rain cloak is a very light out in a brandnew rig, | “gauze,” one that does not pretend to be if need be, and not wait | anything but a rain sak, om a therefore, any to ugly. These are like the ‘old-fashioned ones Pe perce <a hich crme ail rolled ap ia/w Hite oilile . These are sold again now. things. The traveling woman of today has her | "S:itor hats have thee See See wardrobe mueh simplitied. The bag she car-| sold with wide rims and are almost always be- Fies is full of little more than clean cuffs, col-| coming, but they ere stiff to wear on the train Jars and handkerchiefs aud absolutely necessary | OF for any great length of time anyhow. On 5 | foundations toilet conveniences. Possibly there is one very ‘and pretty shirt waist. traveling woman's dress is almost a uni- form. The discomforts of the tailor made are Fecognized, and modifications obtain. Serge isthe pet material. A wiry, tough serge like the goods made up for men. "The skigt is snug about the hips and free trom the knees down. It is on a very wide belt, which assures a trimly held waist. A shirt waist and jacket complete the costume. She can ring so many changes on it that she will be fit for all occasions and t ihict is wash silk. Its collarand cuffs turn out over that of the jacket. This is ber train | Tig. ‘Then there are heavy kid gloves which | she does not remove, unless to substitute a | close fitting old pair’ of suede, that she can | “‘teel her fingers in.” She wears one petticoat of stout black silk. It isso much cleaner than | any other material. It ir a little shorter than the dress skirt. and that clears the ground. Her sto@kings are black, and over them, to do away with garters, are worn a pair of thin black silk tights. They come a little below the knee and hold the stocking tirmly. She wears a soft feit hat, this being the most generally comfort- able. Ifthe cars are hot she takes off the Jacket. When she comes near ber station she Tetires to the dressing room, if she can get there, otherwise she gives her face a brisk rub off with a silk handkerchief. smooths her bair and adds to her toilet a spick span pair of linen cuffs and «collar. The transformation is com- = and there isn't a trace of travel wear on . She is fit to go into a first-class dining Foom. Examples ¢f stylish and sensible wear for traveling are shown in these pictures. In the | initial preture there is seen s model in sand- colored diagonal. The skirt is perfectly plain save the odd trimming of bias folds of diagonal sewed on in the manner indicated. It is ined with silk and has a flounce of silk inside. The | Dodice is tixht fitting and also garnished up the | seams and darts with the bias folds, which are also put on the sleeves. The derby collar is Pointed in front and back and is laid in box Pleats on the shoulders. It is also garnished ‘With bias folds of the fabric. The materials used for the costume of the Bext sketch are ocher red braid and sand- @olored cloth, ‘The *h'rt t+ stiffened with hair | 7 only that abwurd little bag. The usual — SIMPLE ASD PRETTY. ¢loth, lined with silk and trimmed with a bins fold ‘of cloth about twenty-four anda half inches in w: finished with two rows of braid. It has a few pleats m front, but is laid fn two bor pleats behind. With the skirt is ‘Worn « vest with sleeves. The front of the vest is made of suraf and the sleeves are also made of surah. It is cutaway like a man's vest and a chemisette and small black tie are Worn with it. ‘The jacket {+ open in front but fite well in back. It has pockess on both sides and the fronts are faced with cloth, but the re- ‘mainder is not lined. The full sleeves are trimmed with two rows of the braid. The belt is lined with silk to prevent it from streteh- ing and fastens with a bronze buckie in front. ‘The traveling cloak of the third illustration is @very useful garment. [tix made of brown and yellow changeable silk, shirred in yoke form at the neck. In back, at the waist line, the full- ness is also shirred, but the front is loose. It hooks in front and has a turn-down collar and full, puffed sleeves with tight cuffs. No more Useful gurment could be devised for loug jour- Revs. ‘This year the Eton jacket cffect is more worn than any other. One objection te the Eton is that it exposes so much of the shirt frout. Of course this ix pretty but not always practicable. All sorts of heavy materials in cotton are made Up in just this same war. A white duck suit is Rot as wild as it seems. It is the cleanest thing fn the world to look at, and washtub renovation = A SENSIBLE DUST cLoaK. makes it a practical thing, too. The light cloth dress is the one that 1s worse than foolish to select. For very hot days the substitution of a little hip cape for the jacket or Eton gives ‘one anothes chan ‘This little cape is made of | loth, trimmed around and around with satin Fibbon. which is put on plain, for satin keeps fresh looking so. There ix a process now by | which cloth material is made waterproof with- | ny ebange in its fle ty or appearance. | thought if you are going to gown made, instead of buying ¢ of this «tui may be made 4 inside with a belt that @ bust and so holds the cape on Crosses over firmly, even iz it ts loosened at the throat ‘Ths fourth mole! isa very dressy one and for | comparatively short trips will pr : serviceable. The fabric used isa pale green Jen saatin ress is cut princess, the in wide revers, which uecessitates a separate blouse of green and pink {ud the other hand they tie up in a veil prettily. and a veil isa great help to tidiness. A soft visor cap is an ideal headgear. Only it is likely to look too jaunty, so, of course, it cannot bo risked. Hats of light-weight cloth, dark and made stiff,yet not fn “man~ perhaps, the best ali around thing. hat is such an important part of traveling gear. It must be becoming, comfortable and inclaborate, so that a brushing off must be quite sufficient tofreshen itup. Black silk underwear is the safest thing for travel. ‘Another advantage the traveling woman of today can boast. She bas lots of pockets mado in her dress. They are put in low down at about the knee, where the gown begins to spread and where filling them will not interfere with the fit over the hips. She can actually have as many as she wants. The inside of her Eton, the outside of her jacket and the inside of her cloak ali have pockets. Many are made with flaps that button down over and make them quite safe. STRIPED CHEVIOT. The Inst example is an elegant and simple costume of green and biue striped cheviot. The material is taken on the bias in the skirt, which | is about three and a half yards wide and lined with silk. It is tight fitting over the hips and the fatness in the back may be either gathered or laid in pleats. The waist is douvle breasted and has two moderately long tabs bebind. ireat care must be taken to have the ehcviot | fit weil on account of the stripes which are apt to look awry if not put property together. T two points seen in front are sewed tu the bot- tom of the waist and are of plain green cloth or silk. ‘The latter aiso furnishes the material for the small pointed plastron and the high stand- ing collar. The waist has two large revers doa shawl faced with plain green silk. It closes in the ceater, the plastron fastens on the :icht shoulder and the right front laps over and but! three large buttons, If the material is enough the revers can be allowed in cutting, but if not they must be made separately and carefuliy sewed to the fronts. The sleeves are | very full and pleated into-the armhole to make them more broad than high. ‘The lining is silk. In making the skirt it will be best to put a tape | along both sides of each seam, as the bias mate. rial is very apt to sag and spoil the hang of the whole costume. see IN SILK ATTIRE. Even Gingham Gowns Contuin a Thread of the Cocoons. SEEN IN CKOSS SECTIONS. Silk muslin, silk cottons, silk ginghams and dotted linens are among the endless lines of novelties” served to us this summer. Many of the woolen fabrics are half silk woven in al- ternate threads; others are a solid wool weave, with a lightly overlying stripe or cord of pure, brightly tinted silk, while others are figured | wools in which are apparently stitched floss- | like silk after the manner of uneven bastings. All-silk fabries are legion in number and | variety. For honse gowns—gowns to be worn | as semi-neglige — the soft, clinging. eauily | draped silks are still permitted. But for atrect | wear, reception and carriage costumes, the | stiffer and heavier taifetas, gros grains, moire | and surahs are in great demand. Little women adopt rustling, dignified gowns of black gros grain with flopping ekirts which | nd out in very richness without the ill-bred horsehair. Large women sail across our be- wildered visions in frocks of Joseph's colors, cross barred and checked and cut in such devious patterns that we seemed to behold the wearer by sections only. And the modes reign and clash like European powers maintaining an armed peace only by bivouacking under the flag of 1530. A gown of the familiar type is this. The colors alone are not novel in tint or combination: the broken lines are highly characteristic. The material is ciel blue taffeta striped with black satin, the skirt slightly stiffened with crinoline, but the last moderation of fashions mandate rules as to breadth. The skirt, therefore, is but four yards wide. Three rows of black point d'esprit caught beneath headings of fatin ribbon are terminated in front by satin choux. The fullness of the round bodice is drawn into the satin piping at the waist line. And again is the figure divided into sections by fall of a huge point desprit bertha, which springs from a email plistron of passamenterie. The bertha is edged with two rows of narrow | black satin ribbon. Boutfant sleeves sutticiently | stitf without a criuoline lining buoy the bertha to the requisite broad-shouldered result of the great goddess’ fiat. Let us take heart of grace. Absurdity is rapidly slinking out of sight. Reason may rule our dress before very many moons have passed awa; THE SIMPLE ORGANDIE. ‘The Piain Print Gown is a Snare and = De- lusion. Follies and fripperies, laces and luxuries are our only canons when we go abroad to choose our summer gowns. Our foremothers wore these dainty muslin, prim, flower-sprigged or- gandies, soft tinted mulls under demurely fastened kerchiefs of fine white lawn, with neatly starched ginghams for second best, but they would raise their fine white bands aloft over these, their successors. For many weeks huge piles of cool sweet smelling stuffs have Jain upon the counters under the blandishments of clerks. “‘Organdie, madam,” they say. ‘25 cents a yard,” and shake folds of lilac, lilies, roses, clambering vines sprawling up the diaph- anous stuff across their arm. So very cheap and stylish is it and so suggestive of lavender and musk and ancient cedar closets that we buy many yards for ‘simple morn- ing gowns.” To the dressmaker the purchaser = and when that goddess sves fit some crea- ions come nome with a bill. which is a thunder clap from cloudless skies. The items are lace and lots of it, ribbon, many meters, and lining: eatin or silk, at $2.50 per yard. Some one’s fancy has run riot; even our ceremonious gowns, elaborate though they are. do not compass the extravagance of theso affairs valued at 25 cents per yard. They are like some people we know— wonderful preparations for a weak structure. But to particulars. Foundations are of silk or satin, ombre rather than plain, and of the finest gualit; co they “show through.” The he gown proper, for they are fitted and finished with much care, while the AME ORGANDY. organdie or lawn is added as anitem with the indefinite ribbovs and laces. Let me describe a frock which cost $100, A princeste slip of yellow satin, faintly shaded with green, like ‘the tiny yellow roses and leaves dotting the overdress of white or- gautie. The short skirt was floanced around the bottom, but there was no double thickness of organdie. ‘The skirt, a simulated double, was nowhere permited to conceal the satin. lin- ing, and swung free from it save at the knee, where the lowor half was sey The bodice, which scemed to be one with the upper skirt, was belted with a erempled sash of satin. El bow sleeves were puis of organdie, half veiling the arms. Much restraint was observed as to ribbo perhaps because the few were uniquely posed. From two rosettes of satin tacked to the bust of the corsage hung four strands of yellow ribo. At the hips ther were canght up and brought to the shoulders behind; there they ceased beneath two other rosettes, In this gown a Spartan economy has r Teite it not as the best exponent of its ¢ ny , but because Tam opposed to the extremos of my subject. coe FROM THE FRE AT A FRENCH FETE. fers, to vour lorgnettes, for there isn’t a moment to lose,” cries the fair French woman, whose opinions about the gowns of her grand dames help mold or shatter the mode of the moment. She writes for all the world, and tells it faithfully and cheerfully, what they wear in Paris. Her letters sparkle with wit, for dress alone is not her topic, and are sweet with caressing adjectives, when she can sing of the art of raiment. By today’s steamer she speaks with quivering French enthusiasm of the “blindness of her eyes,” eaused by the gorgeous pictures seen at the Champ de Mars, the Ver- nisaage, Chantilly and the other fetes which make a Paris holiday. And then she plunges into her descriptions, swearing that she cannot tel! us the half of the splendors in Paris on a fine summer day. “The gowns are fresh, guy. like the season,” she sa: Of all a gown of crepon I shail tell you of; nice erepon rules and merits its success. It is gray, trimmed with stem green pean de soie, The skirt is round and opens down the front upon an insertion of lace. Bands of pale green silk, caught with choux, seem to fasten together the two halves of the ‘skirt. The corsage is grat, trimmed with a collarette of ecru lace with high collar and revers in peau de soie. Slecves are very bouffant; the lower half fits closely “Hat 1s black mousseline de sole, made piquant by green choux and a group of plumes.” There are few adjectives here, we note, ab, Mesdames! ‘The mere description with Mme. d’Eze that justice i* baffled here when one tongue would seek to convey the in- definable qualities of costume which mingles pale, living green, sober Puritan gray and somber black. Eminently orthodox colors, every one of them, when left in the domains where we have been content to have them for many long years, but when, with coupcon of wickedness, a es for herself a costume of them, in unprecedented combina- tion, it is quite another matter. Would it not trail sensation behind it down Broadway Would not even the women with careers rise in a body in the woman's building at the fair to gaze upon a dress like this appearing in even that catholic assembly? Truly, when the pliant vocabulary of Paris fails stiff America feurs to lift its voice. enough. We feel ‘The Housewife—“Bridgec, 1 smell gas leuk- ing. Do you suppose it comes from the ball burner?” Bridget (after a sniff)—“Lakin’, is it? Bad luck toit! It'll be all over the new carpet.” (Hastens for the mop.) TF all headaches 1s Trial bottle 10c. Tae guaranteed cu Bromo-Seltzer. EAGER FOR OFFICE. Persistent Women Who Want Gov- ernment Positions. HOW THEY MAKE DEMANDS. Barred Out of President's Room Along With the Men—Odd Cases in the Census Office— After Dismissal Marriage —Worrying Their Congressmen—Cabinet Kecreations. Se MONG THE OFFICE seekers barred out of the White House by Mr. Cleveland’s recent ) order the most persist- ent and troublesome were women. If they had not been held off by Private Secretary ‘Thurber they would have bothered the Presi- dent horribly. To one vf them Elijah Hal- ford’s successor said that it was impossible for him to remember the details of an oral statement which she in- sisted on making. Her eyes smpped as she re- plied: “Then all I have to say is that you've got a —— poor memory.” Another female applicant came day after day and demanded a pri- vate interview with the chief executive. Even- tually it was discovered that she wanted to sell him a gold mine in South Carolina. She was evidently a crank. All such visitors of the gentler sox wore anxious to see the President rsonally. They would not join the crowd in Mr. Thurber’s room, but would wait outade and grab him whenover ho ventured to emerge. What they had to say must always be uttered aside, where it could not be overheard. Asa rule they based their appenls,on grounds of sympathy, remarking that they supposed Mr. Cleveland was a kind-hearted man and would provide for them. IN THE CENSUS BUREAU. ‘The census office has naturally boon most be- siogod by women place hunters ever since it was organized, because its employes are not appointed under the civil service law. It has been observed that all pervons in petticoats have a horror of competitive exuminations. Arithmetic iv a hopeless puzzle to nea plicunts of their sex. Said one of them to an examiner the other day: “It's awfully mean to give me such dreadful sums to do! But I forgive vou—boo-hoo!’ From time to time the Washington newspa- pers have printed reports to the effect that so many hundreds of census clerks would be dis- charged on or about such-an d-such gs day. It has been noticed that a rumor of this sort is invariably followed by a batch of marriages among the employes of the bureau. ‘Ihe reasou for this is explained to some extent by the speech of a young woman who a fortmght ago received the fatal yellow envelope coutaining notice of her dismiseal, When the messenger handed it to her she looked greatly distress: With accents of the most hopeless despair she said. “Well, I'm bounced at Inst. So now, I sup- pose, there is nothing for me to do but got married.” ‘Then she burst into tears, The throwing together of #0 miny thousands of young women and young mex in the ce could not do otherwise than bring abo largecropoffondattachments, But while indulg ing in flirtation with the male clerks the givla not urcommonly would keep on the lookout for the better opportunities in the matrimonial field. In numerous instances they would have everal such office beaux dangling while wait- ing for som ng more eligible to turn up. ‘This plan they could afford to pursue #0 long as they were rendered independent by their own employment; bat whea dischargo keomed imminent they would promptly make a selection from the available husband at hand, MoME ODD cases. On one occasion Superintendent Porter re- ceived the resignation of a girl who informed him that she was going away to be married. She was anxious that he shonld gi her a letter of commendation, which b very aminbly, notwithstanding the fact that she had not becn a capable clerk. sequent her Luxbund turned out a brute, and within three months she got a divorce in Chicas: Then she came back to Washington aud con pelied the reluctant Mr. Porter, on the sireugth of his own letter. to take her into service again, Another odd caso was that of « young woman who bul been an actress. She came into the superintendent's office one morninss, gay in ribbons and a spring bonnet, and handed to him her resignation, adding joyfully: “I've got my divorce, and now I'm going back to my profession. She had adopted a temporary residence in Washington merely for the parpose-of securing 4 judicial separation ex vinculo matrimonii, ‘Some time ago Mr. Porter expressed his dis- approval of the fuct that a division of 100 fe- male typewriters was superinteaded by a woman. The latter, with a little a:perity, said to him “If a man was in charge every woman in the division would hope that she might discover his weak point and learn how to’ manage him, Nothing of the sort can happen when the chief, of their own sex.” CLAIMS FOR OFFICE, In applying for office women invariably ar- gue poverty. ‘This plea is usually true, bat not always. Either they are lone and lorn or else they have large familes wholly dependent on S them for support. Their political honesty is not of the highest. Whichever party is in power they are on that side. At least halt dozen female applicants for places in the tre ury, after trying to fascinate Secretary Carlisle with smiles and tinery,bave dressed themselves im mourning and come back a few days later in tears. ‘Meanwhile, according to their plea, they have lost their husbands or fathers and are thus deprived of means, Such cases might have passed without suspicion, were it not for what Shakespeare calls their “damnable iteration.” One young lady brought a Congressman with her to persuade Mr. Carlisle to retain her in her place. Being convinced that this influence would secure what she wanted she was bubbling over with good spirits. The ecretary replied that he would try to keep her, but it was possible that she might be one of the employes whom it was necessary to drop for lack of appropriation. On hearing this, according to a meskenger’s description se “set up a howl as if stuck with aknife and seemed as if About to have a fit.” OVER AT THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Such feminine wiles sometimes work. Uncle Jerry Rusk, while Secretary of Agriculture, said to Tux Star writer: “You consider me a hard-headed and_practi- cal business man, but | am a d——n fool where petticoats are concerned. Men address to me the most piteous appeals for employment, and Tcoldly refuse. Buta little woman in a ‘black dress will come into my office. flop over on my desk, burst into tears, and the first thing I know I'm hustling around to find a position for her with a comfortable salary.” However, female office ‘seckers sometimes adopt stronger methods. Only the other day a woman offered to bet Secretary Morton #4— all she had in her purse—that, if she did not get the place she was applying for, her state would go democratic at the next election. Another insisted that she must have a private interview with Mr. Morton. ‘The latter's facto- tum, Baron Charleson, denied the request, stat- ing that bis chief was busy “What right have you tosay that?” demanded the applicant, who was an angular person in striking togs. “Tam his private secretary,” replied the baron mildly. “Well,” said the woman, “I'd like to know if you or the Secretary of Agriculture is running this department.” Women sometimes have cheek. A clerk in the Interior Deparment was discharged the other day for inefficiency. She “It is impossible. I cannot see that it mat- ters whether Iam efficient or not. My grani- father was so-and-so”—mentioning a great man fw past generation—‘and I am entitled to pport from this government, which ought to pension me for life, only that I’ have been too modest to ask for it.” ‘Another applied for a place in Hoke Smith's gift on the ground that she had nursed confed- erate soldiers during the war. MY CONGRESSMAN. Women have a funny way of speaking of “my Senator” or ‘my Representative” as men never do, Some of those who secure places have good homes of their own and only want the pay to spend on their personal adornment and on luxuries. On one occasion the widow of a Union soldier with two children came to the Secretary of the Treasury and asked to be reinstated in office. She said that she did not know why she should be dropped when a giri in the same bureau who expended her salary for fine dresses and banjo lessons was retained. | There is a considerable element of tragedy in the office-socking business. One o} the saddest sights to look upoh in Washington 1s to be seen in statuary hall at the Capitol during sessions of Congress. Here women in all stages of need sit day after day, sending in their cards to members of the ‘House whose influence they are anxious to ob- tain. The doorkeepers come back with state- ments, often false, to the effect that the Representative is “not present today” or “out of bis seat.” Some Congressmen send word to “come tomorrow,” merely for the pur- pose of putting off the visitors, who, lacking car fare, trndge wearily home to thelr boarding’ places, to — return again and again in pursuit of their hopeless quest, In the public reception room of the mate similar scenes are enacted, but the Sena- tors usually treat the women better. ‘They tell them frankly whether they can or cannot get places for them instead of keeping them in fruitless suspense. LAND OFFICE DISMISSAL. On July 1 sixty-cight employes of the land office will be thrown out into the cold world. Inasmuch as it is not known which ones will be selected, this is an anxious time for all the clerks in that bureau of the Interior Depart- ment. Some of the dismissed will be women, though how many nobody knows, Ex-Com- | missioner Carter 1s the author of the mischief, the reduction in force having been made at hia suggestion. It may be inferred that there are circles in which he has not rendered himself particularly popular by this action. In fact, the women in the land ollice predicted defeat for the republican party from the moment when Mr. Carter was appointed ite manager during the recent campaign, They tried their best to defeat his proposition in Congress by personal appeals addressed to every Senator and Kepresentative; but it was in vain. GENERALLY WELL BEHAVED. ‘The percentage of improperly behaved women in the departments is very small Gossip quickly makes known the habits of such per- | sons, even if their character is not rendered evident by extravagance in dress or demeanor. Whenover a female of this class is found out she is removed at once, no matter who indorses her. For reasons which may be surmised with- | | out further oxplanation individuals of this sort | are apt to have the most powerful influence be- | hind them. During and immediately after tho war many women of more than dubious character oceu- pied situations in the departments, Such things are almost unknown nowadays, When Congress is in session fashionably attired femules, whose faces are quite familiar to officils who have been long in Washington, continually haunt the — Capi tol. Such persons appiy for employment when- ever there is a change of administration, counting on the inexperience of new appointing » officers. — Commonly they bring letters from public mea, which they get because the latter aro either very well ac- quainted with them or so little acquainted as to be ignorant of their character, As a rule their game is “tumbled to,” their applications are filed and that ix the end of them. CABINET RECREATION. The members of Mr. Cleveland's enbinet are wondering if they will be kept all summer in Washington. Just now it looks as though the President would not got away at all. They | would all rejoice in a rest after the labors they have undergone with office seckers. Gen. Gresham would like a chance to wield the rod | and fly, Fishing is his favorite amusement, and many a fine trout, bass and grayling bas fallen prey to his hook. lis pet ambition is to | capture a tarpon. if he gets a vacation he will spend some time on his 160-acre farm, where he | raises wheat, corn and garden truck. | Keeretary of the Navy Herbert is likewise a | } fisherman. There is noching he enjoys so much. | Col, Lamont Loves to goto Bar Harbor, Itmight thi almost be suid of bi nents. He likes to drive does not drink, or smo! cards, oF | | frequent clubs. Hoke oye riding | horseback. Secretary Caritsle figures out the | | financial problems of the nition over a game of | solitaire. The problem of the cards assists his | eliectual processes. For sheer recreazion he | a game of poker, with his friends, | ata small limit, Mr. Morton is above all other things fond of writing to and getting let- | |ters from his four grandchildren in Chicago | and Nebraska C ‘Thoir ages run from nine | to cleven, so that their literary efforts are sufli- | ciently mature to be enferiaining, he good | pert Testimony. From the St. L The case of Dr. Buchanan, on trial in New | York for the alleged marder of his wife, i bringing oat some curious nature and value of expert ber of distinguishod specialists have been called | fas witnosses to testify concerning the presence | | of poison in. the sed | | woman, and their i side e given for the belief that | ‘ed, and on the other side | as strong reasons are It is bard to un- derstand how several experts, presumably eda- cated by the same books and the me ex- perieaces, can of scientitic f I profess to base their opiutons upon exact information, and the logical result should be an tof judg. ment under all circumstances. But the no- | torious truth is that there is never such a eon- currence. The word of one expert is put against that of another, and so the matter stands at last practically’ as it stood at the be- | ginuing. A great deal of sc:entitic talk is pre- | sented to the court, but it does not provide « foundation for stri nd xatisfactory under- | standing of the case. There ix always room | left for doubt, nnd testimony of that kind is hinderance rather than a help to the cause o: justice. | Mit will not do to say that expert witnesses are | | influenced by financial considerations and fit | | their scientilic opinions to the necessities of | the side of the case on which they are called. is happens in some instances, possibly, bat it is not true asa general thing, for men of the | highest reputation, who would seorn the sug- | gestion of bribery, are as often summoned as | inen who might be suspected of corrupt mo- | tives. The explanation must be sought el-e- where, and it is difficult to resist the conviction that more is claimed for science thin it de- | serves, If its teachers are unable to agree with | regard to a given state of facts and conditions | n there must be some serious ect in the tem of study and decision. The knowledge of the experts is worth no more than that of the ordinary observer when it simply serves to show that two directly opposite opinions may be cutertained in a case where exactness is of ital importance and the aid of science is in- voked to solve a legal mystery. It is no won- der, therefore, that people are beginning to look upon all éxpert testimony with more or less distrust, and this 18 unfortunate, because there are many mardor trials in which such testimony is very desirable if it could be de- pended upon. A Jury ix no’ always competent to deal with cireumstances that involve chances of scientific mistake, and yet in tho nature of things there isno escape from the responsibility since the jury must finally act upon its own opinion, und not upon the conilicting statements of the specialists, coe He Was Not So Well Cared For. From the Chicago Tribune. Tommy (at the barn)—Papa, is this the finest team in town? Tommy's Father—No; but there isn’t arly Those horses, my boy, cost mo $800 They're a perfect mateh, bk: ited, good travelers, and come of a famous ancestry. y you've got such a nice barn for “Yes, partly. A pair of fine horses, my son, must be considered as an investment, and a| good business man always takes care of his in- vestments.” “And that’s why you watch em so much and | drive on the boulevards with ‘em and keep ‘em looking so slick, isn’t it?” Yes, that's on the same principle. A carefal | man is bound to look well after his investments and see that they are always in good shape.” (After some cogitation) “You don’t consider me much of an investment, do you, papa?” a Alas! Good Old Times. Every advantage seems to have for some- body a doleful side. There is always one dis- contented soul to lament over improvement) | like the Scotch woman who complained of the | fresh water that had been introduced into the city. ‘Ab, but it's no like the auld; it neither smells nor tastes!” A traveler in southern France stopped at the little town of Figeac, where the wine supply has every year grown less and less, A resident | told him that fact and added that since wines bad tailed the death rate had diminished was the question. "he repeated, smiling sadly. ‘“Be- | in their light. ood | | by their own [a tree is elbowed, smothered, strangled, or | a | path, the | PLANTS IN A FOREST. Curious Struggle for Existence in the Vegetable World. FIGHTING FORSURVIVAL. The Contest for Life and Growth in Tropi- cal Woods—How Great Trees Are Strangled in the Embraces of Parasites — Plants Armor Clad for Defense — Where Odd Orchids Flourish. es, PERPETUAL STRUG- gle for existence goes on ina tropical forest. It is a fight among plants for survival. Every one of them is an individual, and as such strives with all its might toget ahead of its neighbors. Its whole aim and end is to ob- tain a share of sunlight. This can only be ob- tained by getting to the top. Myrinds of seeds are distributed in every direction. Some are eaten by birds and monkeys, while the vast majority are washed away by floods or dio in tho first stage of baby hood. Hundreds may germinate under one tree, but for lack of life they soon perish. Here and there, however, where a few rays have succeeded’ in penetrating the canopy of foliage, one of them becomes strong enough to get over its first difficulties. Then it uses all its strength to push its way up and up until it arrives at the top. It does not waste ita energy by spreading in any way, but, straight and thin as a walking stick,at last forces its way into the sunlight. Now, like a giant forcing his way through a crowd, it pushes out a branch in this direction and another in thet until it succeeds in elbowing itself into a good place. The next annual report of the Smithsonian Institution will coutain a most interesting essay on this subject, from which it is learned that, except at night, there is no rest in the tropical forest. The struggle goes on all through the Year, no winter's sleep being possible. Plants in temperate climates jog along quietly; but here the case is quite otherwise. From dawa to sunset the trees are bard at work; one can almost see some of them growing. At night they are completely exhausted; their branches lose their stiffness, while the leaves droop and fold themselves together. WHAT TREES HAVE TO CONTEND WITH. The forest trees have not ouly to contend with each other, but the straggle must be car- ried on against interlopers of various kinds. Creeping, twining and scrambling vines are de- termined somehow or other to g2t a share of the sunlight, ‘There is plenty of room at the | top,” but they have to get there, Some of them succeed in doing #0 by means of veritable claws, and, when they reach the top, they ro-| venge themselves on the trees which have stood | They branch out in every di- | rection, spreading their leaves over the trees and smothering 1 As its branches extend the stem of the climber swells and hardens un- tilit looks hike a great hempen cable. If the plant is atwiner this eable constricts its sup- port in serpent-like folds uatil, perhaps, the | tree is strangled to death. Bat the most insidious foes against which the has to contendare stranglers, such | igeand clusias, Mirds eat the fruite of | these Loztible plants and deposit the seeds in | the topmost forks of some forest giant, where hey germinate. One of tuese succeeds in get- ting a start, and as its leaves open it extends a number of ‘eral roots down the trunk of the tree until they reach the earth, There they go | crawling down like very jong worms clingiuig to | the bark, but seeming otherwise entirely harm- | lesa. But now tho sirangler has gained a footing and begins to feel its power. The acrial roots expand laterally until they ran into each other and cover the trunk, compressing and choking it, Atlength tie unfortunate victim droops and dies. ‘The truak becomes diveased; wood ants begin work upon it, and finally nothing is left but the hollow eylindrical column formed by the interlaced roots of the strangler. Enemies not less dangerous to the forest « the so-called “bird vines.” They are of the vegetavie 1.like thestrangler, by birds, Though small, they make up in num- bers what they lack in size, Their seeds are covered with a glutinous pulp. which, when they are dropped by birds, causes them to ad- here to the branches of the trees. iiere they atand prodce aerial root covered with ckers, which run along and insinuate them- ves into the cracks of the bark. continually | nourishing the plants on the life blood of their victim. "As the parasite extends itself in green | Iusuriance the limbs of iis prey begin to wither | aud dry up, until finally the branches break off | ight fall to the ground, fetching the murdering planta with them, Sometimes the whole tree will be covered with them and will ultimately succumd to the con- tinual drain on its vitahty, but more often it survives in a miserable state of weakness, being hardly able to produce flowers, ARMIES OF WOOD ANTS. In the tropical forest dwell armies of wood | ants, or termites, which are scavengers. When | sucked to death. they are ever in readiness to | dispose of its remains, However hard the tim- | it is not too tough for these insig- | ares. To look at they appear the asects. Unable to endure even cove as to be aiway Neverthe areable very quickly to make a fallen trank as fragile as an egg shell. In wandering through the forest yoa come 48 an enormous tree lying across your | It is too large to step over, so you’ put | Your foot upoz it, when, witha cruneh, crunch, | the apparently hard timber crumbles hke a mummy, while the wood ants are scattering in every direction to get under cover. Among the most interesting plants in a tropi- cal forest are the orchids. Far above the ground the limbs of the giaut trees are decor- | ated with these curious epiphytes. The latter simply grow upon their hosts, not hving at their expense. ‘They are the most independent of things vegetabié, obtaining their support | from the air. "In payment for the nceommoda- | tion they receive they decorate the brawny limbs of the trees with their beautiful tiowers, Different species have various methods of | stormg up water against a drought The! “bromelias,” which likewise cling to the trees | far aloft, have « method of storing water that is | peculiar to themselves. Their leaves, tightly | overlapping oue another, form cups, which will | retain stores of water for several weeks. In these little vases a certain kind of aquatic plant finds a lodgment and flouriches. ‘The best point of view from which to observe | the struggle for life in the forest is a river or | k. Allalong the banks, without » single | shrubs and low trees are densely packed together, extending their branches as far as possible over the streama. The struggle here is s0 much more intense than in the high woods that the army of combatants has put on armor, Aimost as soon as the seedlings grow they as-| sume weapons. Cover a man from bead to | foot with needles all pointiyg outward, set him | to elbow himself through a crowd, ‘and you | have something like what is actually the fact | with a genus of low palms. Not only the stems, | but the ribs of the leaves also are covered with needle-like spines, Most of the low shrabs have stiff thorns, ready to tear the leaves aud stems of any young plant which tries to force its way through them. Having to contend against | such formidable opponents, the chimbers puton armor aswell. Tho ‘“desmonens” covers its stem with spines insinuates its young fronds through some little gap toward the light. Step by step it ascends, the fromds ‘opening one by one, each provided with an ai row head having a dozen pairs of barbs, which serve to hold up the weak trailing stem. These barbs are most dangerous to boatmen coming | swiftly down the stream, as they hang over as if fishing for anything that comes in their way. It might be supposed that grasses would be entirely absent from such a forest region, bay: ing no. ch: of survival. However, one | species has succeeded in getting over the difli- culties by adopting the mode of existence of « water plant. Being provided with large creep~ | ing holiow stems, it anchors itself to the branch | of some tree that mects the water, and from | | this point extends outward and along the shore. ORCHIDS IN GREAT NUMBERS, | Beyond the fringe of dense vegetation aiong | the bank nothing ei rom the stream: but behind the veil of grasses and crepe: orchids may be found growing luxuriantly in great numbers. Here live those apecies which | delight in plenty of moisture. On branchos which project over the water other kinds of orchids are plentiful—such as the “catasetums.” ‘These latter have developed a faculty that cause in the happy times every one drank wine at all hours of the day, but now, in these miser- able times, nearly every one drinks water! ‘They might, indeed. live longer, but only to erink water! "The outlook was forlorn. almost unique in plants—namely, that of pro: ducing male or female blossoms’ according to circumstances. One variety has three distinet | | shapes of lowers which differ so much from | | each other that, until naturalist found them | vent seasickueas’ | nest. ‘The orchid i jana | should have but one ending, and eventaally the jatonce, but will sink to the bottom and lie | fight the fisherman knows that the fight wiil bea | Sengers traveling to and all growing on th 1° plant, they scribed as belonging to oy many encod genera, The shapes are male. female and hermaphrodite. When the plant has plenty of food it produces a spike of female or hermaph- rodite flowers, which are thick and fleshy, re~ sembling in shape an old-fashioned woman's cap or sunbonnet. These blooms require a special effort on the part of the plant to pro- duce them, and they can only be satisfactorily roduced when the plant is in good condition, uring a drought, when it is half starved, it is unable to support euch a strain. Accordingly, under such circumstances, it brings forth a few lignter and more elegant male flowers. Tf one passes near one of these plants when in flower a ewarm of rellow and black bumble bees are seen hovering in its neighborhood, though, except in this locality, not one of thesa insects may perbaps be found in miles around. But when ® “‘catasetam” opens, wherover it may be, the bees are sure to find it. Having succeeded in attracting them froma feast for the bees in the shape of a little reser- voir of nectar. To procureasip of this the insect has to bring its head into contact with fa sensitive “feeler” belonging to the flower. When the latter is touched the cover of a little case filled with grains of pollen flies off and the pollen grains spring out. They are sticky and adbere to the ‘of the bee, so as to be car- ried to another blossom, where they are brought into contact with the stigma and fer- tilization results. Hanging from a creeper or branch may be seen here and there an oval bag-like mass of aerial roots, above which are the bulbs and leaves of that wonderful orchid, the “cory- anthes.”” After throwing out two or three roots to attach itself to its support it develops an interlacing network all around. At first sight it would be hard to say what purpose could be served by such a contrivance, but strike or shake the plant and it will be seen that it is nothing less than a veritable ante’ ike other plants, subject to the attacks of many foes, such ascockroaches and larvw, which are particalarly fond of the aerial roots. To protect iteelf against these the “coryanthes” chooses to provide a comfort- able nest, wherein a garrison of carnivorous ants finds shelter. In return for the accommo- dation they are ready to come ont and fight at the first alarm of an enemy. There is another kind of orchid, the “epidendron bicornutum,” which adopts a like expedient for the suke of protection. Being provided with long eylin- Arical buibs it leaves these hollow and makes a split in each one for about a quarter ofan inch at the base. In these well-protected homes the ants live and thrive, and, in return for their lodging, are a terror to invaders, A MOST WONDERFUL FLOWER. Having provided » guard agamst crawling vermin, the coryanthes proceeds to develop a most wonderful flower, which is designed to attract one particular kind of insect—namely, a beautiful metallic green bee. From the base of one of its bulbs@ long flower stem is pro- duced, which extends straight downward. Upon this it hangs a number of beautiful cups, into each of which a liquid drips from two horn-like processes in the upper part of the flower. Take @ china teacup witha ng mouth, hang some little fings over the handle and stick a model of a figurehead of a Polyne- sian canoe opposite and you have something like one of them, as it opens itself in the early morning from a bud resembling the swatbing ot a Chinese lady's foot. The odor of these blossoms is not pleasant to human nostrils, but is very agreeable to the bees, which immediately on their opening swarm around in great numbers. Flying to- ward the flower. as @ moth toa candie, the bee falls into the liquid which covers the bottom, and, wetting ite wings, is unable to use them. Look into the cup and you will see a dozen bees swimming round and round, or vainly trying to climb the shppery sides, If it ix the second day after ovening, one or two may be seen drowned. It was never the intention of the flower, however, that their lives should be sacrificed, but,on the contrary, that they should eseape, and in doing so perform the offics for which the whole contrivance has bcen made. Under the flags is a narrow opening, through which the bee can push its way out. In doingso it ruptures the pollen case and carries off some of the pollen grains on its back. Crawling over the spike of biossoms the insect conveys the pollen to the stigmas of other flowers of the same plant, thus fertilizing them. es HOW SALMON TAKE THE FLY, And How They Fi The ight After They Take It ulker’s Tactics, From the New York Sun. “A salmon doesn't take the fly as a trout does and it never rises to one while it is passing up or down a stream,” said an experienced angler for this king of fish. “It is only while the talmon is lying at rest in pools, the reposing ter at the foot of some swift rapid, or the | silent starting place of such a rapid, that it will respond to the fisherman's cast. Salmon may be moving along by the thousand in the deep stretches of a stream that extend perhaps | for a mile between rapids, but the angler might drop his flies above them for a year, if it were possible, without ever being rewarded by a singie rise. The pool is the place to whip and the time early morning or late in the afternoon. If the epicarean denizen of the pool is 80 i clined there is sport abead for the angler. drops his fly lightly on the water and the sal- mon in the humor will rise to it and seize it at once. “Then the excitement begins. It is divided between the fish and the fisherman. The more the salmon tries to get out of trouble the deeper he gets the angler in. The fish no sooner fecls the hook in his jaw than he seems to realize tha: he has got to get it out as soon as possible or it will be bad for him. Then things begin to boil. ‘The first thing the fisherman kuow: a red fect of line have spun irom his reel, he thinks he is in for @ long chase down am, when euddenly the ralmon doubles | dashes straight back toward the boat. | Then there is work for the angler if he expects | to reel in the slack of the tine and get it taut again in good time. No sooner is the line taut once more than the salmon feels its ten-| sion through the hook in his Jaw, and the chances are that he will shoot upward and out of the water his entire length and more. Tak- ing his beader, he dashes madly down into the depths again, tearing this way and that way, darting around and around, and making lively work for the fisherman and the bandier of his boat. After an exciting series of maneuvers such as this, the mad fish may take it into bis head to start down stream like a steam engine, putting the guide at his best to keep the boat slong with him, The salmon may lead a chase of a mile in this way, then stop suddenly and resume its leaping and doubling tactics. The fight may last an hour or more, and if the igier is skillful and cool, and his guide or gnffman dexterous and watchful, the contest glittering prize will be stretched at the bottom ofthe cance. If the angler is not skillful and | cool, the fight will also have but one ending. The glittering prize will not be stretched on the bottom of the canoe, but in a very short time will be at the boitem of his pool, congrat- ulating himself that his foeman was not worthy of his steel. “The one thing in a fight with a salmon that the fisherman most fears and dreads is the lin- bility of the fish to sulk. A sulker is al- ways a big fich. He will not show fight there. Whenever he docs make up his mind to good one. But the eulking fish may lie for half ad or more, despite ali the angler’s ef- forts to start him.’ No salmon fisherman can with honor retreat from a fish he has once hooked, and he must possess his soul in pa- d wait wmtil the sulker concludes to open the performance, if he has to sit all night It is on record (hat in 1883,in the Marguerite ri- ver,Canada,a fisherman hooked a salmon at alou! 7 o'clock in the morning. It wasa sulker and | it lay im the dumps until 4 o'clock in the after- noon. ‘Then the big fish sudden! tarted down | |etream and ran at railroad speed for a mile without stopping. Then he quit running and fought the angler, by all the salmon’s known tactics, up and down and across the river, for two mortal hours without a moment's rest, be- fore he gave up and submitted to the gaff. "The fisherman was almost as nearly played out as the saimon was when the end came, and would have been compelied to hand the old war horse over to some one else to finish if the fight bad lasted many minutes longer. That saimon weighed forty pouuds—the largost killed in that water. From Life. “By the by, deah boy, you cut Norton just now, donteherknow?” ‘a-as. We cawn’t wecognize a fellow like him, “But he was photogwaphed in a gwoup with Wales, deah boy.” ‘a-as, and then so far forgets himself as to @ daughtaw of the wevolution, by FOR SEASICKNESS | Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate, Dr. J. Fournest-Brice of 8.8. Teutonic, says: “T have preser.bed 1 1M my practice ainong the pace from Europe. in tis Steamer and the ‘result has satisfied te that If taken in time it will, ia great mauy cases, pro- | ing the nuinber of time AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE, Swaying in an Ore Wucket Fo Feet Above the Bart From New York Ratirond Men. In Denver it was recently reported that the Smuggler mine of Telluride, Col., would close down, owing to the low price of silver, Ths being one of the largest producing mines of the state the natural inference was that many of the men emplored therein would leave the country. In behalf of my company (the Rock Island) I etarted for Telluride, on the Rio Grande Southern railway, and arrived at my destination Wednesday evening. Mr. N. T. Mansfield, manager of the Smuggler, i cozy little office that night told me the come Pany hed decided upon a reduc’ instead of closing down, and that been sent to the mine that day, but the m answer had not yet beon received. Ho farther told me that at this season of the year there was but one way to get into the mine, and that was by taking the bucket tramway, as the trail was covered with snow and ico and practically impas-able. The bucket tram, he addod, was itself far from a desirabie method of traaspor- tation and liable to ty a man’s nerve pretty well, but if 1 would undertake the trip he would accompany mo. What could « m saiieie that kind but neh eg of and early the next morning, which wax or the fairest and most beautital I have « | the mountains, horres were accompanied by Mr. W Mundrea gue of Telluride, we started ow: miles to Pandora was most e1j of the fording of inn which crossed the road. Our hor pol oaae derful sagacity in picking their way throagh many @ treacherous Arriving at the foot of the tram and getting a faint idea of what was abeud of me, seeing the buckets coming down hundreds of feet above us and discharging their cargocs of ore into the immense shate, my courage al- most failed me, but it required more nerve than I could muster to back out. I tried to appear as little disconcerted as po: while Mr. Mansficld, who first, curied up in his little bucket, which was’ only large enough to hold an or dinary-sized man in & most uncomfort- ‘able and cramped position. The endless cable was then put in motion and out swung the manager on his perilous journey. I cannot help thinking bow much more nerve he displayed than either Mr. Green or I, but be bad been over it before and knew what war abead of Lim. Three hundred feet behind Mr. Mansfieid’'s bucket came another, and into this climbed Mr, Green. As his bucket started up that incline I felt that I bad lost my last friend, as there was absolutely nothing left then between me and comfort but disgrace. i ‘The men in attendance I saw wore watching me, as I was the first “tenderfoot” who had ever undertaken the trip. Once more assum- ing a courage I felt not, I awaited my bucket smilingly. When it came slong I was obliged to remove my overcoat in order te get in. Crow down in a sitting posture, tailor rere Bg was just room to stay in and that was all, and with a parting injunction to “keep ” the man in charge switched me oa ine and I swang out of the door- way fifty feet above the ground. The rate of speed was about two and one half miles per hour, and the total length of the tram £,400 feet—a litte over a mile. In that mile, however, we had to rise 1,820 feet—a little more than one foot in three. The endless cable to which the buckets are attached passor over numerous tall wooden trestles, varying in heigut from 50 to 160 feet and placed vals wherever the for will permit. The height of the cable above the ground increased with every tarn of the whecl, and as I sat there with eyes glued upon the two preceding buckets, and not particulariy wnx- jous in the first few minutes to look dow: or around or anywhere else except above me, I began to realize that the twenty minutes mec- essary for the journey were going to be mighty long ones. On and on we went and up and up until there came in sight yawning under me a terrific gorge, cromed by a singic span of the cable over 1,400 feet in length nnd 400 feet above the ground. Even this would not be #0 bad were it not that the next tower in frout of me was 350 feet higher than the spot from which I was get- ting my first view. ‘There ahead of me were the two buckets con- taining Mansfield and Groen, and, as I pulled myself together, determined to take every ‘vantage of the glorious view which now opened up, the thought came to me that never had I been ina position of such utter helplessness and dependence.’ Lest the figures given a should fail to convey the exact idea, let me sug- gest a comparison, which occurred to me while crossing this span. ‘The Pulitzer building in New York ts Just about one mile from the Batzerr. and the height from the ground to the foot of the flagstaff is, if my memory serves me, 330 feet. Now pile six Pulitzer buildings on atop the other and start from tbe Battery in a littie bucket, smalier than an ordinary clothes hamper, and go to the top of that mass suspended on a single rope, and if youas a man will not recognize your in+ significance vothing will ever bring you to that Teulizing sen-. By this time I had entered into the fall gran- deur of the scene and all nervousness disap- peared, strange to say, right at the most dene gerous point of the journey. Four hundred feet below me I could ‘see @ train of those most abused and yet invaluable lite burros dowly and painfuil: climbing the narrow trail laden with supplie and timbers for x mine. Two piles down the valley lay looking like © ‘child’ plaything, and still furt away miles ‘nd miles of dazzling moun peaks again“ the blue sky of Colo than Italy e*ur dreamed of—and all about me the most vidque and picturesque colo: peeping out ,"om the uncovered patches mountains. The day %ns absolutely perfect, the «un warm. and ite the constant danger of loaded back«ts breaking away and dashing all of us to the “byss below, and heediess of the posmbility ef many things which might hap- pon, I thordughly enjoyed this wonderful w. Tam cree to confess, however, to « feel- ing as thong: an intense strain bod been re moved when, I finally crossed that gigantic tower and fodnd myself only a hundred tect of so from terre firma, and only then did i dis- cover that m? hands had been clutched on taat bucket with gdeathiike grip and were wet with perspiration.“while with my feet I had been exe erting a tren’ sndous pressure against the fromt end. Wesoonewne in sight of the upper ter- minal and pon arrival there I found the aca had decided to remain, accepting the slight reduction, and there would be no party to reward me for my trip—af, indeed, any reward other than the trip itself were necessary. Let me add, however, that the mouth of the mine was still a mile and a balf farther up the mountain, and that the ore is brought from the mine ‘to the top of the tram by burroa, cach carrying two sacks weighing 125 pounds each. Well, my mission being fraitioss, we re- entered our buckets on the down trip.’ I teel perfectly sure that bad the order boen reversed and the down trip come first I -would have backed out at any cost, but my up journey gave me confidence, and i ith considerable equanimity that I gazed down to the tiny tem minal 2,000 fect below. As Mr. Green entered his bucket I remoried to the man who fastened it in piace: “Get that good and tight, my boy. He answered: “I ama thousand times more anxious about this thing than you, and will not breathe freely till you're down.” I then learned from him shat since the open- ing of the tram 25,000 buckets had passed « given point, with only three runaways, 1 did not then go into the detail of the damage done, but climbed into my bucket once more. figur- three goos into 25 Arriving at the high tower ngain ac upon the 1,490-foot sana hor of the Dacket commenced ard 3 | adead stop right at the worst place on the line. The stoppage was but momentery aud was done purposciy to give me the full benetit. There, on the same span, were the tiny buekets, with the two other boys, and the thought came to me of the terrible results of a ining Cot Tho ride of t yyable, by reason eto runaway at that particular time, for while the | first bucketcontaining G00 feet abead,it was at the sme tect Leiw | me, and Feould just see him waving bis hai to me by pecring over th end 01 cab. 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