Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1893, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1893—EIGHTEEN PAGES. THE KAISERIN’S GEMS -_ Jewels and Laces Owned by the German Empress, HOW THEY WERE ACQUIRED. — History of Some Famous Jewels—The “Re- ent,” “Sancy,” and the Talismanic Eme: alds—The Treasures of Former Empresses. Written for The Evening Star, HE KAISERIN AU- gusta Victoria is the first Queen of Prussia who is allowed to boast of anything like regal splendor in respect to great jewels and valz- able laces since the times of Sophia Char- lotte, consort of Fred- erick I, who thought nothing of squandering the resources of his empire in buying trowns and scepters and other stately baubles. Frederick's son and successor sold most of the jewels amassed by him or forced his father’s innumerable creditors to take them back at the origiral price. The few gems and precious stones remaining in the crown treasury were terward pawned by Frederick the Great di ing the seven years’ war, along with the massi silver tables, chairs, chandeliers and musicians’ gallery, which formerly adorned the state apartments in the Berlin Schloss, and for which ed wooden affairs were substituted. ‘The far-famed Queen Louise, wife of the Great Frederick's grandnephew, bad but « single diamond star to bless herself with, and roud was her majesty of that ornament that she took good care to have it faithfully repro- duced in ali her portraits. Louise, in addition he sparklers, ‘dn toilet set of mas- sive gold. ‘The latter 1s still used at the wed- ding of Prassian princesses and. indeed, forms By the law of warfare the hussars were now tho rightful owners of the Regent, but their king, Frederick William ITI, thought different the matter and compelled the regiment to sell it to him for a mere song. The Regent was afterward pledged at diffor- ent times for the benefit of Prussian finances, and it is said that the Rothschilds more than once had it in their little safe. At any rate the Jewel never figured in public until the present emperor came to the throne, who overhauled his ancestor's treasure vaults and put all he found there to the best possible use. While the court official was giving this inter- esting information, incidentally enlarging upon the immense value of the Regent, the thought crossed my mind that for once in my life millions had been placed within my reach. In- to grasp untoid wealth, for Mr. Russell and myself had been quite alcne with her situated in the rear of the palace, immediately facing and adjoining the park and the private roud to Sanssouci, for over three- quarters of an hour. There were no lackeys or servants stationed in that wing of the castle at the time of the sitting; the park itelf was de- serted, as the workmen had gone to dinner, and ‘The situation was as inviting as it was danger- ous forthe owner of the Regent. Think of the most remarkable fact of it was that we were foreigners and strangers, bearing only verbal recommendation by the Prince-of Wales and Mr. Rnssell, in addition toa letter of in- troduction of the German ambassador in Lon- don. The Regent may be worn asa brooch or as the center piece of adiadem, the branches of which are formed by strings of diamonds, each as large as the top of your thumb, aliernating with stars set with rubies and emeralds. THE GREAT SANCY DIAMOND. At‘one of the “subscription balls” in the Borlin Royal Optra House Inoticed a large pear- shaped diamond of surpassing brilliancy which served asa buckle to the orange scarf of the decoration of the Black Eagie worn by the em- press. A well-known Jewelor told me that it was the great Sancy diamond, which the em- peror bought from a Russian prince only little while ago. This stone, weighing in its present shape about fifty-three carats, once be- longed to the treasures of Charles the Bold of Burgundy, who wore it in his helmet as_a sort of talisman. After the battle of rt and parcel of the ceremonies. PQueen Elizabeth, the consort of Frederick William IV, and the late Empress Augusta were poor princesses, and their ornaments failed to add any additional laster to the crown jewels; the Empress Frederick, it is true, brought som: fine diamonds from England, but as her majesty clung to them with all her accustomed tenacity the crown did not profit by the innovation to any great extent THE KAISERIN COVERED WITH JEWELS. When the present kaiserin married her liege lord the pieces de resistance of her jewelry case consisted of a small silvery broach and a string of corals. That was in 1881—twelve years of happy imtercourse at the side of a generous husband and five years on the throne have since roiled’ by—and, presto, what a change! When the LS AND HER BApy DavonTER. Kaiserin appears on state occasions now- adaya she is y covered from head to foot with jewels of inestimable value, and even at the every-day dinner, which, of course, is always a dress affair, the empress usually wears ornaments of rare magnificence. When I photographed the kaiscrin in the summer of 1891, or rather assisted John Ras- £ London in doing so, I had an excellent portunity of Wittessing the traly regal splendor of some of the Prussian crown jewels. A WEALTH OF PEARLS. At our first sitting the empress appeared in a Nile green silk gown, semi-decollete,with pearls in her hair and around her stately neck. Her headdress consisted of an unusually largo Diack pearl of symmetrical pear shape, sur- rounded by white diamonds set inastar. I have seen the celebrated “La Peilegrine” in Moscow, which is reputed to be the most ver. fect peari India ever vielded, yet the kaiserin's jewel, thangh not quite as large as La Pelie- frine, which weighs twenty-cight carats, sur- pases is by the unprecedented delicacy of ite texture. I think. Around her neck the empress wore two rows of white pearls, translucent and of perfect spheri- cal form, with gold-erowned pearls as pendants, each measuring at least three inches in cireum- ference. These big pearls possessed the supreme beauty of irdescence in a rare degree and ap- peared like the retlex of a miniature rainbow on a bed of snow. Her majesty gare us several sittings in this Tight costume, and then annoanced her inten- tion of having her picture taken in another dress and with a different background. A LIGHTNING CHANGE. We had hardly succeeded in rearranging the curtains, furniture and plants when the kaiserin reappeared, having during the five minutes’ interval donned an elaborate black silk and lace gown with diamond ornaments. It was lightning change such as we occasionally Witness in the variety halls, with the difference that the artists performing there usually retain the same kind of stockings, as I often observed to my dismay, when a happy harmony ‘of colors’ would have demanded a different variety of hosiery. The empress came fuliy up to my expectations in that respect, and my delicats sensibilities were highly gratified when I noticed her black hose, heavily ornamented with silver threads on the instep, and incensed by 334 sized slippers with diamond buckles. which had been. substituted for the light green affairs of her first appear- ance. ALMOST A KORINOOR. “Look at the diamond at her breast,” whis- Pered Mr. Russell, as the kaiserin stepped on the little platform erected for the occasion. “I almost think it beats the Kobinoor.”” At the same time the kaiserin called for her fan, lying one little side table, and while I handed it to her I took a good look at the gem. Tais ornament appeared the very incarnation | of imperial splendor, such as nature alone af- fords. It was evidently a brilliant of the first | ¥ater. cut into mnumerable fuceta, from which | the light reflected im a manner dazzling and almost hurtful to the eyes. The mid- die of the top of the stone was formed into a “flat table” the size of alma bean, glittering with adamantine luster. In spite of its highly transparent texture and the | absolute absence of color in this priceless jewel, could not observe its setting. It nestled in | the soft lace at the kaiserin’s bosom like wonderfully shaped icicle kissed by the midday sun. | When I spoke of my observations to a dig- | tary of the imperial household afterward he ‘tied me by the information that it was the evlebrated Regent or Pitt diamond which T had seen, one of the quartet of inestimable stones iilaminating the regalia of the great powers, the companion piece to the “Orloff,” weighing 19455 carats.in the scopter of the ezar,the Grand Duke, 139 carats, belonging to the emperor of Austria, and the Kobinoor, 106 carats, the piece de resistance of Queen Victoria's court toilet HISTORY OF TRE “REGENT.” | The Regent weighs 136 carats and has a ro- | mantic history, like all the famous diamonds. | It was brought to London by Mr. Pitt, the gov- ernor of Madras in the beginning of the e ry, and some years later was the French crown, whicn was represented by the Duke of Orleans, who acted as regent for young Louis XV. The dia- ter the duke. The leaders revolution, when hard up for Parned the jewel with some money lenders, and thus it ‘came in possession of @ Hebrew tin in Berlin named Treskow. AGAIN IN POSSESSION OF THE FRENCH. When Nay 1 upon assuming the peror his agents looked around and ‘Treskow re- deci onation fe December, 1804, lost this, the + in the battle of joo, when the Prussian hussars captured | bis equipage. where that great warrior iost his lif man, searching the field for plunder, found the diamond and, not suspecting its value, sold it to acomrade for one thaler (75 cents). A few years lator it passed into the hands of Kin: Anthony of Portugal, who, baing hard pressed for cash, disposed of it to a Frenchman for a hundred thousand francs. AS A GUARANTEE OF GooD FAITH. We next hear of the jewel in connection with the history of the renowned Sancy, who sent the diamond to Henry III of France as a guar- antee of good faith. His messenger, however, was waylaid on the journey by robber knights, who knew the purport of his errand, and this brave fellew finding himself doomed swallowed it according to his orders. Sancy recovered the body and his jewel, which in later years was owned by Jacob II and also by Louis IV and Louis XV of France. In 1885 a Russian prince bought the Sancy for five hundred thousand roubles, and now it has reverted to its original destiny, as the fit accompaniment of royal splendor. THE GEMS OF THE EMPRESS. Aside from these historic gems tho kaiserine on state occasions frequently wears the twelve great pear-shaped pearls belonging to the royal crown of Prnssia that has been used only twice, namely, at th. coronations of Frederick I and William I, and numerous loose diamonds with screw attachments, which serve as buttons or pendants or may be set ina girdle or necklace. Great as these jewels are. the kaiserin prizes them only second toa Coilier of pure oriental emeralds which her husband presented to her at the birth of their first child, ard to which she ascribes the virtue of assisting her in child- birth, as the old legend has it. ‘The surface of the center stone is straight and smooth, set Without a foil and surrounded with diamonds, alternating with pure white pearls. This jewel is said to be worth its weight in gold. THE COLLECTION OF LACES. Only a few of the ornamonts above described are in the kaiserin’s immediate possession, the majority being under the care of the minister of the royal house in the imperial treasure chamber, which is strongly guarded by senti- nels dayand night. Her majesty, on the other hand, has full consol of another royal coliection ‘of inestimable “value, — that ef laces and —_ embroidery, | _ which occupies several spacious apartments in the Neues Palais. It is known to her friends as the Augusta Victoria Museum, and is the most complete jin the world, each piece being accompanied by a testi- monial of its origin, its history and intrinsic value as an object ‘of art. To describe this cbilection would be equal to a rehearsal of the lace industry of all countries, from the middie ages tothe present day, which I will not at- tempt. Connected with the muzeum is a li- brary, containing all the works on the subject of needlework ever written in any modern lan- guage. AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Visitors to the Chicago exhibition will be able to gain some faint knowledge of the value and contents of the kniserin’s collection from the specimens loaned by her majesty to that insti- tation. Of course there are none of the real old point de roses, the most ancient Venetian laces, nor any of the rarest point d’Alencons and de Malines among them; the kaiserin re- fused to trust these treasures to # long sea voyage, and who can blame her? A ROYAL LACE COLLAR. I was allowed to see one of the historic pieces of the Potsdam Museum, namely the lace col- lar which figured in the divorce suit of King Christian IV of Denmark (1593 to 1643) against Christine Monk, his morganatic wife. It appears that his majesty accused Christine of having wasted this royal piece of needlework on one of her plebeian favorites, and the heincus crime being proved against her the unhappy woman was promptly declared unworthy of being the consort, even the left-handed ono, of 80 great a monarch. The coliar, which is of the standing variety, seemed to me quite coarse and want- ing im finish, especially when com: pared with the remuants of @ collar of Henry III of France, which is likewise found in the Empress’ Museum. “King Henry” the catalogue saya, “was so careful of his lace col- lars that he washed and starched them with his own royal hands.” Truly, histors repeats itself. There is many an American queen in our days who washes and irons her silk stockings. Hesary W. Fisem — HAMLET LEFT OUT. The Summer Girl’s Cup of Happiness Was All but Full. From the Detroit Free Press. ‘The summer gitl had finished her schedule for the campaign and sat down to think. She was looking a little like Marius among the ruins when her dearest friend came in. “What's the matter?” was the quick inquiry. “Tve just completed my want list for the summer,” she replied, handing it to her. “Gracious me,” exclaimed the other girl, looking it over, ‘this onght not to make you sad. Here's gowns and gowns, and bonnetsand hats, and jacketa and waists,and shoes and slippers, and parasols and fans, and gloves and hundreds of things that are too lovely for any ror ‘The fair possessor of it all sighed profoundly. Yes," aie sand, “it 1 all fast like the play of lamlet”—with Hamlet left out.” “How do you mean?” and the big eyes opened wonderfully. - “Where's the man?” sighed the first girl again, and there was no answer. Adventures of a Watch. From the London Daily News. Ne trace of the burglars who recently looted the bed room at St. Dunstan's, Regent Park, has yet been come upon. Mr. Hicks Gibbs has, however, @ curious experience in connection With thieves which encourages him not to dis- miss all hope. Many years ago he had his watch “conveyed” bya pickpocket. After an interval of twenty years he received from Scot- land Yard the works of his watch, the only part left. The police. making raid upon the house of a notorious thief, found carefully packed away a collection of the works of watches, They were submitted whose names they b: whom Mr. Gibbs p the account in and the tradesman froma chased the watch traced in his books, The works, minus the case, were returned to their owner. Horticultural Item. ght bushels of them ste y night by tramps,” re- plied his friend Kutabaga, deed, I had only to stretch out my hand | majesty in the royal billiard room, which is | ‘inel was some five hundred | | paces off on the other aide of the edifict such an incident happening 100 years ago. And | ! yoga) ! voy JESS’ MONEY. ———— Prom the New York Fvening Post. We caias to Milltop when the trees wore just beginning to thicken at the tips of their twigs. | | The little runways that slid down the hills car- | | ried a faint line of growih along their edges, as | | if tidy natere had turned over a green hem of | earth to keep them within bounds, The pre- | caution seemed needless, though in touch with | | the general economic plan. Elsewhere the | geass lay discouragiugly dead and trodden, without a suggestion of what was to come. After a few days the sharp edge of the air was blunted, and, as the sap rose and rioted | along the patient tree trunks, it set the dry i | bark thinking, and swelled the millions of leaf buds till they showed misty reds and browns and pale yellows against the cold blue of the y. One evening @ warm rain fell; the angel on the meeting house steeple veered and blew his long trumpet toward the south, and, when the sun shone at next midday, the trees of the fields clapped their hands, Now the contagion of growth had seized them every ono; and this May moraing, as we | strolled along in the dew after our 6 o'clock breakfast, spoiling our shoos and trailing our flannel gowns, we saw that the pappoose buds had dropped great hanging sheaths and let out soft pale-green baby leaves that were ready to | shift for themselves with the rashness of youth. The maples were bright atop, the horse chest- nuts held up great bouquets of fringed white and green. Everywhere grew yellow butter- cups. Red sorrel in the fields, red columbine in crevices of the rocks; the ol4, barren earth had indeed broken forth into singing.and these were her first quivering chords Painted cup was gay in the meadows, Jack-in-the-pulpit was ready for bis serthon, and the swamp was one fog of leaves. Coming suddenly upon a story-and-a-balf house ata turn in the road, we stopped to ad- mire the vines that clambered up by the brown picket fence, and hung themselves over when they could no longer climb. There were bitter- eet from the woods and wild clematis; and tangied with this transplanted growth were sweet peas and nasturtiums, reaching fooluh tendrils nowhere, or clinging to spears of grass that bent to every breadin of wind. “Come right along in—right along in,” said Unele Arad, planting his stout staf in our direction. “she'll be proper glad to see you.” “Bat at th we objected. “Land! what time do ye s'pose it is? We get our breakfast ‘fong o’ the robin y don’t waste none o'the dew time, I reckon, Why. Aunt Tishy she got her bakin’ done an hour ago, an’ hes jest be’n up garret for a o tags. She'll be tickled ¢nough to hev you two come in an’ help her sort colors, Rag mata, y" ow. We needed no other invitation. The cool, clean kitchen, with its scoured floor and wide fireplace, where two sticks were making bright embers, was the main room of the house. Be- sides this its roof covered a tiny, shut-up par- lor, a bed room ou one side the chimney and a large pantry and milk room on the other. ‘The window that looked toward the meeting house was brilliant with scarlet geraniums, that love the sunniness and moisture of a kitchen. A tabby cat curled on the hearth gave a home; look to the somewhat bare room. “We had beg frequent visitors at the house since our coming to Hilltop early in the spring, and our presence was uo more disturbing to the oat than to Aunt Tishy. Uncle Arad sat down before the fire with his hat on, and ienned both hands on ais staff. she was a achool teacher ome yeara back,” he began, “an’ what she don’t know how to do—” Uncle Arad’s pride in his wife's attain- ments came to no conclusion. “My other Miss Ridge,” he added, *‘sent the little uns to school to her when she wa'n't more'n fifteen; now, was ye?” ‘Sixteen that spring Aun died,” said Aunt Tishy, cutting strips of red flannel, which we bogged to sew together and roll into balis, “Ann come nix’ to the boy,” said Uncle Arad meditatively. ‘Samwell,’ then Ann, then ‘Thurzy, then Almiry. All of ‘em went afore their ma. Seems 's though ‘twas some oiher world them days. An’ now they’re gone where the streets is paved with gold, an’ money can't do ‘ema mite o’ good. An’ here Jees hes uj an’ left mo all his prop'ty. Curi’s, It kind o° tires me to think on’t. Can't take it with as thoy say, when T've got to ie” go my bold here, Not'a soul to leave it to ‘cept the mis- siouaries,an’ ‘wouldn't be a drop in the buckit to them.” The old man got up. heavy with thought, and sat down on the doorsiil. a terrible responsibility,” said Aunt king up the burden where he dropped ‘Sometimes I think—and then again I let But it does seem—doosn't it?—as if it. it alone. when we've got through with it we ought to fix it so as some of our sort eould have the use of it. never believed in missionarying so much assome. If aman has acail to go amongst the heathen, I'm not going to put blocks in way. But when he expects a womaa and little children to live there with him, and bear the brunt of it, and keops the blessing to himeelf— why, it gets me right up in arms. Let him self- sacrifice if ho wants to. I like to see a man that can. But I don't know. I've thought and thought.” ‘There was along pause. The cat rose and stretched herself, and tried her claws on her mistress’ apron. ere. Tilly, I knew you'd do it,” she said mildly as the red and black strips slid to the floor. “See what a mees you've made! No, you know Tean't have you ia my lap, Don't you see I had my strips all sorted?” ‘The cat listened with a bored air, turned tesignedly away and jumped for her master's shoulder. “That's Tildy all over?” said Aunt Tishy, making a deeper lap for her balls. “If I won't have her she goes straight to him. Sho thinks she’s had her own war, now. But about that money. I wish could have a sort of leadin of Providence, such as some folks have. think and think till it seems as if I couldn't. You wonder if there isn’t some of my folks needing it, you any. Well, yes, I'm froo to, tell you, plenty of them. But there's one of his Sort that Ido feel a drawing toward, He's his sister’s—well there, you don’t know. But he had one sister, Samiry. and she didu't do well marrying. Thatis, in one way.” ‘Smirymus wns her name,” put in Uncle Arad. ‘wan't Scripiur’, but it b’longed to some o’ them countries,”” > “All his folks and hors set against it,” con- tinued Aunt ‘Tishy, “but she would have him, and she did. He was a wild, harem-scarum sort of boy, mighty fond of his book, though. But he was different. He was made different, “Well, he wanted to be somebody, an a ‘@ when he was old enough they put him to ith Unelo israel Bail. Uncle 1 pegged right down to wdrk, and wanted everybody to do the same. He’ was clever enough, but there wasn’t ever any fun in him, and he couldn't see the use of it. You couldn't eat it nor drink it, he eaid, and folks were put into this world to make a living. "Twas pretty hard on Abner when he wanted learning so ba Tt was meat and drink co him. I don't know what woull have become of him if they'd let him have his head, but he'd been some sort of a scholar, and likely as not made a living by it.” “He ‘run away,” interpolated Uncle Arad from the doorsill, “Yes.” sighed Annt Tishy, “he ran away: and whon they got him back his father was con- siderable strictor with him.” “He thrashed ‘'m,” said Uncle Arad, bending his neck to give Tabby a comfortable perch. “Well, so they said,” replied Aunt Tishy mildly, “and I shouldn't wonder. His father wasn't a saint, and I suppose Abner was trying. But in these days they don't draw the lines so tort. Well, that boy would stay up nights to read till’ they took his light away; and then he'd get up as soon as he could see. The minister lent him books all about birds and bensts. He was fond of them him- self. Thero was Whito's Natural History of something that he read twenty times over, till he could tell everything in it, Many a time has he sat on that doorsill and told me things I couldn't hardly believe. Seems as if he conldn’t get learning some wa} some of the things he wrote out, and Parson Tedd said they compared favorable with pieces he'd read in the newspapers. But as for shoo- meking, ‘twas of no use. The boy got #0 ho hated the sight of a last, and a waxed end was an abomination. and his folks just about went distracted over him.” é “Moro fools they!” piped Uncle Arad. “He wa'n't the sort that gops wrong a-purpose. ‘They nagged an’ Bagged, enough to spile the soundest boy-timber that over growed; till one day he up an’ run away in good ‘arnest, an’ nobody to answer for't but his pa, Out westhe went, like many another, an’ picked up work enough: no shirk about him, an’ bymeby home he come to marry our S’miry. Folks flung out everything they could about him, but Jess he stood up for Abner, an’ i helped ‘em get away. Parson Smith, ov mountain, he married ‘em one Monday mornin’ afore breakfast. She'll tell ye the rest.” 'Well,” said Aunt Tishy with a comfortable gh, to do and books to study, and Samiry wrote home that he was just as good a provider as any man could be, and that she'd yet to see the day she was sorry. But 'twasn’t more than two or three before Abner took the fever end died, and she came home with her baby. and kind of faded away to nothing. Tho folks did as well as they knew how for tho baby, and never would give it up to his folks. Mother Ridge was good hand with babies, easy going and always trying to excuse their ways, We used to say she recollected when she was little. She vould see good in other folks’ children, too, and was always laying up the reddest apples and the biggest but’nuts for them. But that yr motherless baby didn't seem to belong to ner. He hadn't any spunk. You could put him in one place and he'd stay there, Whenhe was big enongh they tried him at shoemaking and he stuck to it. So he would to anything, though he wouldn't have thought it ont for him- self. When folks put things into his hands he held on. It's = born fool, thoy say, that hasn't got any grip. jell, Abner's boy made a good stendy- going man, though for the life of me I couldn't feel drawn toward him, even for his poor father's sake, and when his time came ho got married and’ settled down. They jogged along pretty comfortable for some years, without any children to Keep them spry and looking into things, so that wi our Abner did come along late in the day, ‘twas like a miracle. “They do say family looks and other things will likely as not skip a generation and crop out again. It's somehow like a piece of fallow ground. And Abner’s peculiar ways hadn't been worked up much for one generation. First anybody knew this child blazed right out, another Abner, the very image and super- scription of his grand) ‘They couldn't have named him better, though they didn't know itthen. He's all books, books, books, and nobody to encourage him, only when he comes over here of a Sunday. I have to tell him all about his grandfather, every single word. I did hate to mention his pranks, but there's no keeping anything back from this one. T've told those same stories over and over till half the time I don’t believe them myself. He lives over there on Davy's hill all alone since the old gentieman died last winter. Oueof the neighbors cooks hi: ion parrics ‘Kis dinner fo school down there in the holiow. Texpect he studies too much nights, but he won’town up toit. We get him over here to dinner Sundays, and when Uncle Arad goes out todo the milking I make him talk over his plans. But, poor boy! he'll bo as old as Methusaleh before he gets money enough to go to college. You're sure you haven't run across him anywhere? Well, I must say I wonder at it, for [reckon you like to climb rocks and wade round in the swamp ‘most as well as he doe “She's comin’ to the p'int now,” said Uncle Arad, slowly getting up and straightening his cramped muscles. “I ain't in @ hurry, but mebby you two be, an’ I've seen better “com- modations than this ‘ere door sill. Tell ‘em now, Aunt Tishy, what you wus thinkin’ about doin’ for Abner.’ Yo" see, for a spell after we got Jess’ money wo use’ to lic awake nights about it. We couldn't take it with us, an’ wo hated dretfully to leave it, au’ we hedn't got long to stay, thongh she's nigh onto twenty year younger'n I be, An’ for one spell last winter we'd lie an’ hear the wind squealin’ round the chimbly, an’ we'd say, ‘Les fix up the ol’ house, an’ raise the ruff, an’ make it two stories between jints, an’ put a portico over th south stoop with pillers,’ But, land-a-masay what could we do with a mansion over our heads? ‘Twouldn’t fit. Some ereturs can crawl out o’ their ole shells into bigger ones an’ rattle round in ‘em till they grow to fill ‘em out, ef thoy hov good luck. But we was too old. “Twould make a kind 0’ division amongst the neighbors, too. ‘Thoy wouldn't drop in after supper, friendly, if wo hed front room all fixed up with a store carpet an’ a sofy. She thought we'd move the bed outan’ use the room common, But we'd miss it in case o° sickness, To chamber rooms don't fit old folks with sti Jints. You wants to go rizht from the kitchen fire to bed. An’ a front room ain’t reel com- fortable anyway vo’ can fix it. You set round kind o' starchy, like comp'ny, an’ nothin’ to say. Folk ain't plagued with idees when they live in the front room. Now she'll go on.” Thus encouraged, Aunt Tishy took up the dropped thread of her story again, while the cat crept oat behind the rose bushes to lay plans for's robin that stalked just beyond he said; | Isay, and the old folks didn’t know how to get | Teach, along with him any more than if he'd beena| “What I was coming to was about Abner. live scarecrow. He was full of his tricks, and | We'd be glad enough to help him if only we they didn’t have any too much patience. Folks | knew how. But that's the business that keeps didn’t have, very often, in those days. There | usawake nights. He's in favor of giving the to the various makers | was everything to do and not much to do with, and they couldn't put up with fooling. Young folks had to walk straight. If a boy had got to man's size ho must toe the mark or take a birehing. And Abner couldn't. Ialways would stand up for him. I said then, and Isay it now, it was a shame to whip a boy for laughing on a Sun- day. He was'a preity boy, too, ‘There wasn’t one m school I set more store by than him— always ready to get a pail of water recess time, and then he'd want to pass it round in school. I couldn't say no after he'd spent all his play time to get it; but when he it round there'd be such a jumping and squealing that T | knew some mischief was afoot. He was just as | sober as ajudge, and I couldn't find out for the | life of me till little Billy Riggs told on him. He said when the little boys bent down their heads to do sums Abner passed the dipper over, and a trickle wont right down their necks. But he never seemed to doit, and try my best I could find out if ‘twas more than an accident. “He was kind hearted, but the sort that can’t be happy unless they're in mischief. He knew | every weed that ever grew round the swamp and was always getting into difficulties with bi muddy clothes and what not, He was alway: tearing his jackets, too. And I can fairly see him now tetering way ont on an oak limb to getapeek intoa bird’s nest. The birds | didn’t care. They thought he was another | kind of one so long as he didn’t have four legs. | He know jast what every bird sung and just | how they called to each other, and he could | make sounds like every one of them. Why, I've heard a pewee answer back to him ‘time jand again. He never took their eggs nor | disturbed them any way, and the old robin that had a nest right oat here in the cherry | tree would let him come close up to her when she was brooding aml never stir. She'd kind | of cock her head on one side and look him over | if she was taking his measure and caleulat- | ing what sort of a nest he was likely to build. | Like as not he'd fall cut of the tree, forgetting where he was, with his mind somewhere else, | and ‘twas bad for his clothes. { do suppose | that boy's back smarted from onc week's end | to the other, let alone the scratches he got from the trees. But he wasn’t any coward. | | I've seen the tears come to his eyes when ['vo | read stories in school—well, I won't tell you | what about. I was young then, but I ought t have known better. There's enough to cr; about when real trouble comes, But Abner never cried on his own account. Ican say that | for bim. | wall, and lifted his hat. boy enough right out to tako him square throngh college; but I can't seem to see my way clear to it. “Of course he's our folks, but then--and I get to thinking it over and over till it don't ‘scem to have any sense. I shouldn't want folks to give me money that they could use for themselves, and he’ enough like his grandpa to say he wouldn't touch it, I'm free to tell you it’s harder for me not to hold on to money than ’tis for him, It’s partly in the blood, and it's partly bring- ing u He was forehanded for those days when I married him, and I'd been earning my money at the hardest in a district school aud boarding round. There wasn’t anybody to look out for me. But there, I shall think it all out some night when I’m lying awake, and then I'l know for sure. If young folks had to lie awake the wayold folks do they wouldn't make so many mistakes bringing up their families, It's so kind of peaceful along before cockcrow, and the earth seems so small flying ‘round ‘there amongst the stars, that your own affairs don't loom up to the daytime'size, and you can get a sight at them all round.” The tall clock in the corner ticked in an im- portant way, and flashed back at the sun that had just looked into its face. Tabby slipped m licking her chops with a foretuste of spring robin, and lay down discontented at the feet of her mistress, who added: “Providence didn’t see fit all these years to send us anybody to provide for specially — Why, Arad Ridge!” she cried, with such energy that Tabby bristled and sprang for the door; hy, for goodness sake, don't we two adopt im! Maybe that’s what Providence meant all this time!” Ashe went out under the cherry trees two Tobins stood at e in a straight line and watched us severely. In the tall Norway spruce by the back gate there was a cound like touch- ing a dry leaf followed by the quip of hurry- ing wings. Something suspected us, ‘Two wrens were building ina box on a pole, singing as they built. It sounded he “blowing a pipe under water." Orioles flashed by with their flying thir-r-r, thir-r-r;9a song sparrow was trying variations on hf quis-ka-dee theme. ‘The air was full of the divine scent of apple blossoms, some trees still in pink bud, fresh nd sweet as if this were their first experiment in a waiting world. Ayoung man passed us beside the garden It was the first atten- tion of the kind that Hilltop had granted us, and we promptly made up our minds that this could be no other than Abner the second. It was Saturday and a holiday. Tho stranger | carried a mighty bouquet of wild columbine. [Ga we went on the gate creaked behind us. and we fell to wondering if Aunt Tishy would | recognize in this unusual visit a leading of | Previdence. Pas pee Written for The Evening Star. AJune Memory. We sat beneath our trysting tree, ‘The brooklet bab/uled at our feet, ‘My bride you promised then to be— ‘My bride when we again should meet. *Twas in the flowery month of Jane, At twilight’s soft and stent hour, We heard the streamiets nippling tune, Felt in our souls a mystic power. Your little hand was held in mine, A tear drop trembled on your cheek, ‘We could each other's thought divine, ‘Yet dared not trust ourselves to speak. For wea strange foreboding knew, A saduess that oppressed each heart; ‘We closer to each other drew, ‘As if we never more could part. ‘The gloaming with a fragrance sweet Bedewed the vale and all was still, Save near our love-enchanted seat, We heard the pensive whippoorwill. . ‘That summer eve beneath our tree We parted but to meet no more, ‘Until my spirit goes to thee, ‘To clasp thee on the heavenly shore. Ab, I that hour shall ne'er forget, ‘Though yearaand yeurs have fied since then, ‘Tis fresh within my memory yet, Each June revives the scene again. Dr Witr C. SPRAGUE. Washington, D. C., June, 1993. ——— 2+ A Wasp’s Intelligence. Scientific American. Over one of my parlor windows the slatted blinds ere almost constantly closed. Behind these I hear the industrious hum of one of these creatures, and, on opening the left leaf, I ex- posed her to a strong light, which did not seem to disconcert her: In afew minutes she flew away for anew mud ball. But on her return, although her nest was stuck against the red sash, in strong contrast, in plain sight, she seemed unable to recognize it, She had been approaching it at a point where the movable slats were tilted downward (when closed), but, of course, now that the Blind was open, these all inclined upward. On the other leaf, however, though much lower down, were some slats tilted much as the others had ‘been, and through these she made entrances, only to crawl out into the open light some dis- tance from her nest, though she always started in the same relative direction that it lay frou the other slats when in She was evidently much confused and dis- tressed. She would fly ont a little further each time, seeming to think that she had not made the right approach, sometimes going out from under the porch and returning. At last she dropped her pellet and began a crawling in- Yettigation, passing, often within a few inches of the unfinished cell, but appearing never to have seen it. After much of this she went away and came no more that evening, for it was gotting dark. I failed to think of the incident for a few days. and some one closed the blind in the ime, so that when I again examined it the single cell was completed and sealed. On breaking it open I found within a small, green ish-white spider.on the side of which was glued asingle egg. Of course, most of your readers know that it was the ‘mother’s provision for, the young larva when it should hatch ont. I might ad that the spider showed the usual signs of life in @ cataleptic state, showing the wonderful in- stinct that enabled ‘the wasp to sting it at just the right point and tothe proper extent to allow life enough to remain to preserve it for food, while it was dead to all efforts at resist- ance or escape. Mr. Mivart stresses this contrast between the want of intelligence, in being unable to ap- Protch its nest by any route but o d ox- | hibiting such an amount of reasoning power), and tho instinct which makes itso skillful m its. providence and Yoresight. To his mind it argues a wide breach between intelligence and instinet, enn oe ae ‘Women's Ways. From the Richmond Times, While walking down Main street a few days ago I was attracted by the following dialogue Pbetweon two middle-aged women: “Good-bye. “Good-bye.” “Don't forget us, now.” “I won't. Good-bye.” “Good-bye.” “Be sure and come to see us soon.” “Yes. I will. You come to see ua” ‘I will. Good-bye.” “Good-bye. “Kiss the baby for me.” “Ah! you ought to see him; got a new tooth.” “He has? Bless his heart! Well, good-b; “Good-bye. Don’t forget to come, now. “won't, Good-bye.” “Good-bye. Give my love to Sallie.” “All right. Good-bye.” ‘And tell George whet I told you.” “I'll not forget it, Good-bye.” Good-bye.” "expect you soon.”” ‘About Tuesday. Good-bye.” “Good-bye.” At this point in the Proceedings I boarded a car, and the last thing I heard wax “Good-bye.” I haven't ascertained how much longer the dialogue continued, but couldn't help thinking that “there was nothing short about” that adieu. j EAS In the Gettysburg Cyclorama. From the World's Fair Puck. Enthusiastic ex-confederate—‘See, that's Pickett’s charge. The world will never seo again such stupenduous audacity.” X. X. Flower (of Minneapolis)—“How about tho charges they are making at the hotels?” ———_-o2.—____ An Adjustable Hat. In the theater, SAVING THE BATTLEFIELDS. What the Govern:nent is Going to Do for Their Preservation. TROLLEY VANDALS AT GETTYSPURG—BUT DAT TLE LINES ARE BEING MARKED OUT ON THAT AND OTHER FIELDS—STATES WILL CONTRIBUTE MONUMENTS TO THEIE KEGIMENTS, HOUGH TROLL to get possession of Get) ment for the preservation of battlefields in the United States is making great progress. The government is giving it encouragement and money. At Chickamauga, where land is cheap, the whole scene of conflict has been purchased outright and is being restored as nearly as pos- sible to ite condition in 1868. The positions occupied by the regiments, brigades and divis- ions, both Union and confederate, are being marked with iron tablets fastened to posts of iron set in concrete. Each tablet tells, in col- orless language, just what occurred at that spot. It is not desired that these we to ee rtisan standpoint, m1 Wooded. the iigos of the opposing armies wi be shown by tall masts attached to trees, with red and white and blue and white balls at the tops, the red and white indicating the confed- erate and the blue and white the Union fortes. Along the lines thus laid out the states will erect monuments to their regiments. There will be lookouts of fron, ascended by spiral stairs, from which spectators can: view the en- tire field. NON-PARTISAN SPIRIT ENLISTED. ‘The non-partisan spirit enlisted in this work is shown by the fact that Kentucky has ap- pointed » commission tolocate troops from that state which fought on both sides at Chicke- meuga. It will determine sites for monuments to Kentucky federalsas well as to Kentucky confederates. Southerners generally are anx- fous that the battlefields of the late war shall be marked with suitable memorialsof their own soldiers. As much attention will be given to indicating the lines occupied by confederate forces as to those of the Union army in every instance. at ite last session, a Priated $25,000 to and mark the of battle at Gettysburg, and Secretary Lamont last week ited a committee of experts to perform this work. Strips of land will be pur- chased for this along the lines w! =r. ixie fought. Thus will be PI material for the education in history of tions yet unborn, Tasos Meniized snd sixty Union righnente and batteries were engaged at Gettysburg. These are now represented by about 850 monu- Seg et lars up to $40, Present ry the fiald is extraordinary. A foreigner over- mistake the ground fora Slohummedan come: teey.eo frequaatiy dows the erescen: spear juen’ t a as a design pateal in stone, this having been the emblem of Gen. Howard's eleventh corps. The strips of land along which these memorials stand have been acquired by « corporation which represents several states, calling itself the Gettysburg Battlefield Association. Its tights will soon be turned over to the govern- ment, with the understanding that the latter shail take care of the iy. Students of military matters regerd Geitabarg a an ideal field of battle. It is all country, like a typical Euroj Battlefield. 8; tors can view the whole of it from the neighboring hills. NO LINES OF BATTLE MARKED, ‘With all these memorials, set up by states and regiments, no lines of battle have hitherto been marked on the field. There is only one confederate monument, so that the observer might ask: inst whom were the Union troops fighting? Lee’s line extended seven miles and the fighting of three davs covered twenty-five square miles. The proposed trolley line was to be eight miles long, in the form of sloop. It was intended to run out from the town of Gettysburg, around the field and back. It was designed particularly for the conven- ience of people who wonld come on picnics and eat gingerbread and pickles while doing the cireuit and gazing upon the historic ground. Its track-laying operations aro said to have done most dat in the neighborhood of the so-called Valley of Death—a gully filled with big boulders—which was the focus of the sec- ond day's fight. Here, where there was such slaughter as has seldom been seen in warfare, the rocks are still covered with bullet marks. ‘The greatest naval battle since Neison’s time wns that of me bay. Ithas been proposed that the positions of the ships engaged should be marked with buoys, and this will doubtless be done before long. The bay is a great cemetery. Sunk in sixty feot of water is the Union monitor in which brave Capt. Craven went down, a hole being knocked out of her bottom by @ torpedo. A vessel of that kind does not sink slowly,like a craft that is made of wood. Being a mass of iron the moment that the water flowed into her she went to the bot- tom asastone would. The only persons who had a chance to escape were her commander and the pilot, because they were in the turret. ‘There was time for but one of them to get out by means of tho ladder, The captain stood aside, saying, ‘After you. pilot,” and the latter saved his life, while the noble Craven sank with his crew’ in the huge metal cofin. Some years ago an attempt was made to raise the monitor with its freight of dead heroes, but such a howl arose against the “‘desecra- tion” that it was abandoned. WHERE THE MOST FIGHTING WAS DOxE. Itis reckoned that within ten miles of Chatta- nooga more Aghting was done than anywhere else during the late war, and the battlefields in that neighborhood are particularly interesting on that account, At that point the western military operations were concentrated. Into the valiey below Mission Ridge the bold emi- nence of Lookout Mountain projects, Thus from the top of Lookout Mountain spectators can view the whole scene of the conflict of Mission Ridge. The lines are to be marked along Mis- sion Ridge where Bragg’s army was stationed and where the regiments of the Army of the Cumberland attacked him. Likewise the Union and confederate lines will be indicated on Lockout Mountain, which battlefield can be, viewed from the top of Mission Ridge. From Lookout Mountain the observer can look down upon the defenses which the Army of the Cum- berland, under Gen. Thomas, threw up around Chattanooga. Although the town has been ex- tended over'a great part of the works. some of the fortifications still remain and will be pre- served intact. ‘The sites of other forts and earthworks will be marked with tablets placed on buildings or otherwise. At Chattanooga the Tennessee river makes a turn s0 a8 to leave a point of land known as Moceasin Point, because it is shaped like an Indian moceasin. Just at the big too of the moccasin was stationed a Union battery. It was directly under Lookout mountain and the confederates kept firing at it constantly, but they could hardly hit it. Because men are ac- customed only to aiming at objects at or nearly on a level, they find it very difficult to shoot down hill'or up hill with acouracy. That is one reason why the federals were able to storm suc- cessfully the precipitous ascent of Mission Ridge. Their advprearies could not hit them as they came up. ideal place to defend is not a steep, butagentic slope. One of the most ex incidents of the war oc- curred at this very battle. A STORY OF SHERIDAN. Gen. Sheridan rode up the mountain on horseback—a wonderfal feat in iteclf. At a turn in the pathway he suddenly found himself close in front of a hostile battery, almost at the muzzles of the guns. A touch of a match, and horse and rider would have been blown to atoms, But, not losing his nerve for an in- stant, he wared his hand with a gesture of command to the soldiers who manned the can- non, saying: “Steady, boys! Don't shoot—don't shoot!” _And they were so taken by surprise that they aid not shoot. Bofore they bul time-to con. sider the matter further the Union troops had come up and they fied. During the fighting which went on about Chattanooga Gen. Grant had his headquarters on a little hill called Orchard Knob. The place he vccupied for this purpose will be suitably marked with a tablet . Congress ready appropriated = small sum for marking the confederate and Union lines with tablets at Antietam. This method will suffice for the pur field of the battle is mostly open country. It is surrounded by hilis, from which it may be viewed to advantage. When this has been done the states will come and put up stone monuments to the regiments. Here the hardest day's fighting of tho war wasdone, about 10,000 men being killed on both sides. "The greatest Percentage of loss by troops engagod was tet with at Gettysburg. Out of the first Minnesota regiment, which was ‘thrown in by Hancock to most an emergency, 80 per cent were killed and wounded, However, the reeord was broken by company of North Carolina Tar Heels. Ont seventy-three men they lost seventy-one in J and wounded on one day, and the re- maining two lost their lives on the last day of the battle. Inthe history of European war- fare there ia nothing to parallel this. It is certainly a great pity that the battle- fields of the American revolution have remained unmarked. Bunker Hill has only a monument. On the fields of Brandvwineand Trenton the For making Rootbeer at home. . It is a significant that the degree of concentrati: attained tract is seagpecntued hap of its imitators, oe peebe Whereas, the twenty-five cent bottle of | Knapp’s Rootbeer Extract will pro- duce six to ten gallons of peerless Rootbeer, a larger bottle other extract produces less Rootbeer and of an inferior quali eras NONE SO GOOD. NONE GOES SO FAR. 2 All Grocers and Druggists, 25 cents. One bottle makes 6 gations, itions occupied by the British and American | A GARDEN PARTY GowN, are forever lost to knowledge. if they | Sew aed were known how greatly would be inter- Dainty Out-of-Door Frocks Are Reginning ested to visit thore localities and see f selves how close the lines were far they extended, and so forth. done for these battteiields of the late ‘not only as a mark to men who lost their lives in 4 both sides deemed a great and will also 2 i seers than any other in the mines butlding. ‘The exhibit is one of great interest, in that the methods of getting out the “blue earth” or diamon soil. Then begins the practi- cal part of the show. The machines for disin- tegrating the rock and dirt, washing it and get- ting the dirt away from the stones is shown, and the big machines are run by Zulus. These savages are dressed in short trousers only. They refuse to woar anything else, and under these they have their native trousers, if such they can be called. ‘The method of cleaving the diamonds to pre- Pare them for cutting is shown by shilled work- men, and then the ds are polished after being cut. Ail the processes are carried on in full view of the audience. Big Jim is the chief Zula Heise Petty chieftain, and was in the late Zulu war. and bas many a man to his credit on the death roll. He stands at the main gate armed with « war club witha big ivory head on it, and, it is SEEN OX LONG ISLAND. Half a dozen of our great mondaines are this could give Peter Jackson quite an t. pet pear anol eg Pyreg a o Yesterday there were nearly two dozen dia- | Island or along banike lordly Hud. monds found in the dirt that was worked. Most | Son. Important steam yachts decorated with of them were about one carat in weight, but | rags and champagne cases steam and puff dows Pye pty mde | wi mare, mite. | the bay laden with fair women bound for the It is worth in rol al ex- hibitors have 1.900 bags of dirt here to handie, | Gross Pageants into which garden ——— ‘The capacity of the machines on exhibition is | ™Pidly been evol © yachts are like float about ten bags a day. ing gardene—patches of brilliant colors. min= In the front part of the show there are rough | gling with the impunity of old-fashioned holly diamonds shown to the value of 875.000. Locks and bachclor buttons and sunflowers in @ They are under a strong guard. The Tiffany diamond cutters are at work. In this country | ¥°* Tow garden. Such a party Mrs. Van Reng the workmen do even better work than is done | ®lser Crager gives often during the summer in Amsterdam, ‘They cut for brilliancy, and | toher friends at Idletse in Oyster bas. And in the old country they cut to save weight. there on her Jowns are to ——— Sometimes American diamond cutters recut fasbion’s latest devices im the most cobwebby_ Amsterdam stones, and the result is almost | laces and frills and cool, always a gain in value of the stone. ‘There is but little The Kimberly and Delecers mines are the} between maids’ and matrons’ dress: principal ones in Cape Colony and the output | there are without regard of diamonds is limited by the companies to | or wedded bliss, and hure, prevent falling in value, The output from | Cape Colony in 1881 was £4,174,202. ‘The out- | put for 1891 was about the same, The natives | noes tho garden party hat do most of the work, about ten of them being | ing over the face under a burden employed to one white man. They have to | aigrettes and green be watched and guarded like convicts, for | among the notables at a recent garden they will steal lice kleptomanincs. They | given by a semi-litteratour was a! will swallow them, and do tricks that would as- | fol! J i tonish a magician. They get good pay. how- ever, but are watched every minute. Should one be found trying to steal into forbidden ground he would be shot instantly. The mines are guarded all the time. IMITATION’ OF AMERICAN GOODS. Bogus Machines, Stoves and Tools Sent by Germany to South America. From the Boston Transcript. Consuls have become weary of calling atten- tion to frauds dangerous to the trade of the United States which are conducted on @ gigan- tic seale in Europe. The Germans reproduce American sewing machines, stoves and all sorts of tools, substituting iron for steel. They mark them with the names and brands of Yankee manufacturers and send them to South America, Africa and all over the world. Though of wretched quality they are cheap and actually crowd out the real American goods, In this fashion iron machetes are substituted for our own steel ones m South America, and Colt’s and Remington's revolvers are burlesqued, as one might say, in the possible ma- terials. American machines are taken and the pieces are copied with iron castings, which are put together to form clumsy counter- feite. This is done with all of the finest tural implements. ‘The imitations observer to spectiate as to the probable of time during which the world would been without such useful inventions if it been left to Europeans to discover them. In- genious Britishers are making counterteits of Yankee textile fabrics, and the looms of Man- chester are turning ont millions of yards of cotton annually which bear the names and brands of American manufacturers, Theve cottons are marketed in China, because the Chinese hare a king for products of, thie from the United States, are very heat “sized” with white of egg to give them Ei 1 appearance. Of course the “sizing” stand awash. One consul gested that an umbrella should each bolt of such cottons, who happens to be caught by a nice cotton dress too often ing @ mosquito bar. In the can sheet/ags, muslins and driven ou, of Central sreotched 1.0088 sande fom Egyptian short: cottons, trade-mark of the best American —_~e2——__—— From Fiierende Blatter. | uF Ht RED AND WHITE. There is much to say after all about the shire waist, the blouse, the Eton jacket and the pers ennial blazer. They are euch good friends thet we know their quips and cranks and wanton i i : é The performance doesn't begin for an hour and I have time to sew up the holes to prevent , inasmuch as ike | the boys from peeping in. ; q Jackets are extremely pope a formal workaday wear, while ‘ones permitted for half-dressv occasions. An excel- | lent model in red and white for « morning at | the seashore is here given. The style te | English and 1s named “Jacket-blouse.” The jacket fits rathor closely and extends below the | waist line. Slashed rovers vory ‘moderately tonch the sleeves, which are not over | Tho edgersare all stitched around ‘with | silk, and three mother-o'-pearl buttone are Gown the front. The wast proper isa blouse of emphatic proportions in white silk, — | qi red. ‘The collar ts. turned * | sailor hat—the undying sailor —is of white straw T've sewed the audience to the|}rrded with red ribbon, which ends in twe flaring ears at the side. Sunday at Ray ides, Boating, bathing, fishing, waiti ital pee tee Band ry | am, 190 p.m. and $45 pm. $1.00 for Heavens holes. Seopa ad Rates to Chicago Via B. and 0. K. R. World's fair excursion tickets are now on sale for all B, and O. trains at rate of $26 for | the round trip from Washington, ‘Through j sleeping cars on all trains, ,