Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1893, Page 17

10 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. Cc. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. LE PAUVRE POTACHE. Little French Johnny at Home and at School. HOT HOUSE EDUCATION. The Pleasures of Vacation at Home With the Family. FRENCH BOARDING SCHOOLS. PARIS, July 30, 1893. 8 THE LAST DAYS of July meit into the first of August they are full of signifi- cance to a large pro- portion of the youth of France. These are the boys in boarding schools, and comprise the sons of nearly all French parents who can at all afford the school dormitory. The big bell I hy yg O'clock each m: disturbs him fitful dreams of field and sea, of that waits to welcome him, of his pretty little cousin, and the good food of mother's table. In a few days he will the son of his family, feted and able to bear Himself with a certain dignity among the females and his younger brethren, and treated with consideration by his father and Bis father’s friends. Today his position is ‘Detween that of a soldier in a bar- and an habitual drunkard in the ‘@ committee. He is pushed, led, pestered with watcnings. He is marched ywn to wash In @ com.non lavatory. Warched to his morning coffee, which is E 5 Dead to the World. measured out for him, to play, to study and class fn turn, always in formal ranks. He 1s marched to his dinner, to hts supper and bed. He is never, in his meais, his play, his studies or his sleep, for one’ mo- ment out of the watchful eyes of a master. In order to know what bis summer vaca- tion means to a French boarding school doy, it is necessary to know something of that which ts vacated. Vacat schola has a different meaning in France from what it has in America. In the first place, even the omlinary day scholar in the Parts primary public schools, Hurrah for the Holidays. ‘the child of poor and lower middle-class Parents, has @ system of surveillance ap- plied to him as complete as possible in the case of one who comes in the morning and Jeaves at night. From 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at least. he is allowed no free motions of his own. His recesses, his enforced gym- Rastic exercises, his marching, his = his noon playtime and his very lunch as he chews it valiantly, are each presided over by a teacher. 5 elementary public school has its cantine, organized by the municipality, which provides a hot meal for all those pupils who do not return, by the special re- The Cantine. Quest of their mts, for the home lunch at 11:3) am. The children pay for this mid- day meal at the cantine by means of coun- ters, which are bought for them by thelr parents at so much a dozen. When the barents are poor these tickets are obtained Without payment, though when the child gives them in he does so just as his com- Panions, and no one knows whether it is the city or his parents who pay. It is a comfort to poor mothers to know that their children are sure at least of one hot meat meel each day, but it is rather for the pur- fore of drawing attention to a tendency In mch school life that it is mentioned here. This tendency runs through all French school training, and its result is to Something Beyond. mark off school life from home life. to place the Youngest scholar in a rank of his own amd to cause him to feel from the start that the world is not bounded by his fam- fly, that there is something out and be- ond. and that this something is himself, is future and la belle France. Pasted in front of the youngest child's Special copy book, the cahier mensuel, in which once a month he does one day's sums, copy. dictation and aistory. for a record of his prosress, there is a warning notice: ‘hild, this book fs delivered to you to he the companion and the witness work. See to it fter you may by able to look back upon this abridgment {your school life without a blush 2 of this copy book #9 thst its aim is not to make a compari- gon between you and your fellow siudents, Dut to compare you With your successive te country ¥ your years wisely. if you put te s use all the means of instruction : takes care to offer te a may one day that which ’ for you. © © naturally no more than a incomplete manarement give r Of the young children of poor, careless and He is | {responsible parents, becomes a curioush inflexible rule of action in the case of well- to-do children. The careful Paris parent is ordinarily quite in accord with the prin- ciple not only that the state has a right in the child, but also that the school’ is not a mere supplement to the home, but a | thing apart and, in its way, above the home. Home for the Holidays. Up to the age of nine boys of well-to-do parents are either educated at home or Sent to private schools, being ordinarii carried to and from them in school omni- buses, morning and evening. At the age |of nine a complete separation takes place | between the boy and his home. Whether it be a government boarding school to which he {s sent, or religious school, or a rivate lay schoool, he wears a special uni- and is subject to an almost miiltary routine. Instead of being a branch on the tree of the “family,” he is now a traus- | planted slip in the gardeu of his country | and the world. But this dignity avails him nothing on his two months’ summer vacation. It is only in favor of the echool that French parents sive up their authority. They could not understand the liberty given to American boys at any time, in vacation or out; and French boys, by a happy corollary, know nothing of that freedom which an Ameri- can can see they lack. ‘The summer vacation life of a well-situ- ated French boarding school boy in his | father’s chateau, if not marked by free- dom, is distinguished at least by great in- dulgence. Within the lmits which cir- cumscribe him he ts master—master of the servants, of his sisters and younger broth- lers, and of his parents themselves, who think that nothing is too good for him. A chateau is not a castle nor necessarily @ great house. Any substaatial twelve- roomed cottage in America, surrounded ty @ certain amount of pieasure grounts and Kept up with a certain dignity and case of life, may be called a chateau in la bei France. To have a proper idea of one it is only necessary to consult a Paris adver- tisement: called “The Capu- Beautiful property, cines,” for sale at Saint Ouen L’Aumone, department of the Seine and Oise, five min- utes from the northern railway station and five minutes from a station on the line of Within the Garden Walls. the west. It is composed of a large house in the style of a chateau, park, piece of water, trees, a grove of high timber, kitchen prden, water and gas, all inclosed in walls, Driving along the road outside of this chateau you see only the inclosing walls, thaps some twelve feet high, and the res which rise above them. The gates and doors in the walls will alway locked. Inside you have all the privacy of @ desert island. The school boy amuses himself herein, sprawling on the grass over such novels of adventure and travel as ai allowed to him, and eating square meals between the regular repasts of his family. He has the company of his brothers and sisters, to say nothing of his parents, who sre tenderly indulgent and constantly oc- fed in procuring him little pleasures, Grives, excursions and little parties. Likely enough they will also have invited some of his cousins to visit them to keep him com- pany, and he may even mingle more or less with the children of neighboring country houses, if they are of exactly the proper Tank in Mfe. But this mingling must be al ways within the inciosure of bigh garden wails, or, if it be outside the sacred pre- | cinets, must be under the direct supervision | of a mature and capable relative or servant. For example, it is impossible to conceive that a § ened of five or six French boys under the age of seventeen and sons of well-to-do parents, should make up a 'Yy | to go swimming, start off alone. loiter | through the fields, steal a few apples and | enjoy themselves after the ordinary irre- | sponsible American fashion, each to return {o,nis supper with the simplo explanation: “Oh, Iwas out with the fellows. The French idea of the school vacation ts that the youth should spend it, not in gad- @ing with others of his own age, but that | he should devote himself to his family and | they to him. This, it is supposed, ought to | be the greatest picasare to him: It ts at i that he is to associate with other And, lest that association | The Pleasures of Home. should become too intimate and bear fruit of familiarity and bad habits, it is elways under the watching eyes of masters. What this watchfuiness ‘n school emounts to— and it is necessary to Know to understand the watchfulness of his parents when he is home on his vacation—may be gathered from a recent decision which had to be given by the minister of public instruction, who is a cabinet officer. In one of the primary schools during play hours one boy received from another a kick—considerably below the helt. Peri- tonitis set in and the boy died. Thereupon the parents prosecuted the school teacher. It was proved that he was exact ani con- scientious in the performance f his duties, and that the fatal kick was the outcome of a quarrel so sudden that no rupervision on. his part could have prevented it. ‘The court recognized his innocence, but was obliged to hold him legally responsible. The law constrains the teacher to the same super- ision of the child's play as of his work; and the unfortunate schoolmaster was con- Making the Tour. demred. It was his ruin, financially and | provessionally. He so took it to heart that | he lost his reason and had to be put in an | asylum. He was thus unable to appeal | from the sentence, which was, moregver, | strictly legal But its evidently’ unreasona- | ble character excited attention, and it was | brought to the notice of the minister. He, | When it was too late, reversed the sentence of the court The comments which have been made are as curious as the case Itself, Francisque ‘arcey. who has been at the or every night for forty years and as written com- mon-sense criticism f. sion to deck their childr thirty, took occa- © that French parents protect 1 far too muen from that strugele for life which every boy needs as a training for th: 1 life of manhcod. He set up as a shining light the English mother, who sends to school, knowing that he wiil with his fAsts Whenever occasion offers, ani will be in daily danger of life or limb lence of cricket and. foc cowarl like her French s the Spartan mother (it ts Sarcey’s exa: he says in farewell we “Come home with your sh: Tt {s strange that even na not have discerned the real differen>= be- rom the vie- tween the French and Faglish-speaking peoples In this matter. The French boy Rot on'y thought nothing of hitting below the belt—he kicked there. He had neither the habit nor the idea of fair play. an English or American boy 73ul1 not ‘have been guilty of such an cttacs, withont malicious Intent; and in that cas? the boy and not the school teacher, woull have been held responsible. It is' not by civil law or by rules of school that boys learn to play fair. It must be in their own cux- toms; and no boy dares to fove the ostra- cism ‘which follows their violation. Now, the whole French system with re- gard to the treatment of youth works to prevent the formation of any boyish cus- toms and traditions. Thanks to the system of constant training, and thanks to a great mount of actual seclusion and greater amount of constraint when he ts in the company of other boys, the young French- man grows up molded 'to a certain form— the form in which his parents would have | him be. He ts mild, polite, mature. Up to the age of fourteen or fifteen his school va- cations have been passed more in the com- Dany of girls than of boys, his cousins, his sisters’ friends and the daughters of neigh- bors when the families are intimate. But at about this time the young ladies begin to be looked after with more severity even than himself. Maturity and etiquette be- gin to cast their shadows. The boy be- comes polite, mild and quiet. The devil which lurks in the heels of every boy has been so exorcised that he refuses to mani fest himself. He is awaiting the ti when the youth of eighteen shall be eman- Social Reunions, cipated from school and home, with a free foot at the university, living in lodgings and responsible to no one. Then you have the crazy dance of the Paris student, at once so preposterously pompous and so childishly pretentious that American boys of thirteen regard thelr bearing with dis- gust. It is not for nothing that the French are called the Chinese of Eu- Tope, for, like the Chinesé@, the children walk gravely and the parents fly kites. ‘This is when the system is working at it: best. As the school At the sortie, a species of monthly half holiday given in boarding schoo! are allowed to go out with their relatives who come for them an liver them back. At such times there {s/ regularly a deal of plotting. A boy will) write to his mother that he is goinz to spend the half holiday with the family of one of his schoolmates, taking care to name the most aristocratic, at which his mother 4s well pleased. Then he will arrang2 to go out with a companion who has a complai- sant elder brother, who comes for them, re- leases them, and. once outside the walls, leaves them to their own devices to make the tour of Paris. rerts or must de-| So in attempting to show the French boarding school boy in his two free summer months it has always been necessary to re- turn for illustration and explanation to the ten months of the school, to say two words for the college to one for the vacation. And this ts unavoidable. Whether it he u boy of rich parents, who take him to their cottage the sea in August and in September to e chateau for the vintage, or whether it be the son of struggling middle-class Paris people who go boarding on the Norman coast and in the mountains of the Vosges andthe Jura, at uiet places whose “sea- son” depends upon iy patronage, the vacation Is overshadowed by the achool. And, though in comparison a paraitce, the vacation is marked by restrictions different rather in detail than in nature from the re- strictions of the school. It must not be thought that the boy's va- cation is therefore dull. It 's only circum scribed. He simply has no initiative of his own, and his pleasures are the partic- Ipated pleasures of his elders. In the eat chateaux (and, in proportion to popu- lation there are twenty rich people in France to one in America, and the bulk of them have country houses) the month of | September is the gayest in the year. after day there are dances, theatricais, din- ners, shooting parties and all kinds of so- ciable reunions. The lfe of the place ts brightened by the presence of the children, who know how to frolic demurely, to the delight of their elders. The boy may either take on the dignity which comes from his | greater age, his uniform and his college training, or he may romp with them as he | Bas Wont to do a few years back. He he- gins to be treated by his parents and by heir guests as one who is almost crown | up and he takes pleasure in their company. | All move together, parents, guests, young | children and older children, with a light- hearted confidence and mutual understand- ing not a little due to the artificial seclu- sion they have built up for themselves. The vintace Itself is a series of pictures. The blue-clad its move slowly along the rows of vines cutting off the purple | bunches into wooden pails, whence they are | transferred into carts that take them to| the pressoir. Here the juice is trodden out in the ancient fashion by men with bare legs and crimson-dyed wooden shoes. Among these the chatelaine walks, with her guests, her children or grandchildren walking with them. ‘There is the enclosed woods or park al- ays open to walks and easy saunterings. There ts his pony to ride, his dogs to train, the domestics to lord it over and his fu- ture domain to walk through and admire— for it is rather new to him and never so familiar as the cramped and formal bar- Tacks of the boarding school, where, no matter what his wealth may be, he must put up with bare, scant furniture. Thus the French boarding school boy finds it easy to conduct himself after a mature and decorous fashion among his elders on his school vacation, mingling his life entirely with that of his family. He knows no other way, and, considering the ten months to come, it is both reasonable and pleasant for him. These two mont! gach year are all he knows of family life, for he commences at the age of nine and really never takes up his family life again completely until he sets up @ family of his own. Therefore, when October comes, he ruefully enough resumes the burdens of his youthful existence. Even in France there are grave doubts as to whether this system of hot house education is better than the day school, although in theory It is set up to take him from the hot house pampering of the home. Prof. Lavisse, who is a rin French university education, has recently said something like this to the boys of a large Lycee of “externes” at Paris, boys who have a boarding school drill but go home each night to their families. “It is with the collegians as with the Test of men,” he said; “happiness is dis- tributed among them ‘unequally. You are among the happiest, you whom every even- ing sends back to your home. At your age, separated from my own peopie, I often co: fided my grief to my pillow, and I envy You your boyhood. You know how «ad it is for a poor little man to have no one to smooth his bed, for him to go to sleep w out having said that word which is one of the sweetest in the world, ‘good night, mamma.’ " STERLING HEILIG. ——_+. ———— How It Revolves. From Town Topics. Miss Floypp (coyly)—“Do you believe that it’s love that makes the world go round’ Mr. Hipple—“Indeed 1 do. Notice how soon midnight comes when I spead the evening with you. —— A Wise Precaution. From Puck. Husband.—“Why, Amelia! mean?” Wife.—“I've been suffering so much with sore throat lately, dear, that I thought I had better wear a bos for protection.” ALUMINIUM IN COINS. The Idea of Using It as an Alloy Advo- cated Years Ago, Suggestions That Were Made When France Had = Bad Case of Silver—Some Interesting Experiments, To the Ealtor of The Evening Sta: Referring to your article reporting # session held by the Int. Id. Alum. Mon. League Mon- day, 14th, at Metzerott Hall, and your criticism | of its intentions and motions (in which I en- tirely coincide), allow me to adda few points, however, on the subject which do not seem to be known either by the “league” or the re- porter, It is not the first time that aluminium h been considered in relation to coinage, not as a standard metal or # unit of intrinsic value, but asanalloy. Ithas peculiar virtues eminently fitted for this very purpose, and within the Period from about 1865 to 1860 its alloying petrlans were deeply studied by Dr..H. Rose of rlin, Dr. Pei of London and Dr. Henry Montueci of Paris. I was very intimate with the latter and his family, and though a mere child then, became much’ interested in the ex- Periments of his private laboratory, and was very proud to be allowed to hold the candle, hand the tools, watch the crucibles and follow the results of the tests. During the period in France, from 1855, the Year of the Paris universal exposition and of the Crimean war, ending in 1856. both of which events attracted a great deal of French money out of its country, the war especially dragging | iteastward during that period, France grad- ually had # bad case of “silver question” too. The French metal is of better quality and the coin of more value than that of any of its bors, ‘bus, several times the mint bad to announce that it would only cash at discount such and such a foreign silver coin having a large circu- lation in France at the time, bearing the same name and apparently representing the same value, Housekeepers especially lad a hard time of it in the small transactions of life. The “holvetia” of Switzeriand was soon refused by illiterate market people, who very quickly learned, by experience most probably, that it was not a “French republic™ coin, though both were female figures with Phrygian caps. The heads of Leopold of ium and of Victor Emmanuel of Italy were soon known, by sight, not to picture the features of Napoleon III, and many a time in the flurry the head of Victoria on a sixpence was refused as “no good,” though in point of fact the coin was worth two sous or a penny more than the national fifty centimes it resembled. No one living in France during those years can forget the scare of the “piece suisse,’ which went far beyond the dread hor- Tor there was here a few years ago of the “trade dollar.” Switzerland had the monopoly of the scare, Both nations speaking the samo lan. guage. small transactions on the frontier lines were constant and money duly exchanged. ‘The Swiss silver piece flooded France and stayed; Switzerland kept the French coin at home, melted it and recoined it with its own standard of value, making a fine profit by it. This was a system that had spread around and was fol- lowed. not directly by the national mints, but by private smelters, who wonld then sell to their government the pure silver ingot they had extracted. Of course France could melt the foreign coins in return, but she could only get inferior silver ‘and pro- portionately more alloy than in her adopted standard. The case soon became matter of moment; there was an exodus of sil- yer and all scientists began thinking of it. Dr, Montucci of Paris, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and scientific con- tributor to many reviews and magazines of the day (bis literary works being in four lan- ciages), having followed the studies of Dr. | ee Berlin and Dr. Percy of London, es- poused the cause of aluminium and saw in its peculiar properties a chance to preserve silver at home. Its lightness makes it a convenient alloy toa coin without increasing ite weight perceptibly; its brightness does not mar the beauty of silver and gold; it will increase the size of a very small quantity of gold, making it possible to com small denominations of it, giving them suffi- cient bulk to be handled, ihus throwing more currency on the market, but its superlative quality is that it cannot be separated by melt- ing after once it has been alloyed to another metal. This would at once have stopped the retention of French silver from circulation, for what would have been the use 0 so doing when the pure silver could not be extrocted. alloy, when melted, was only of use to the country who manufactured that proportion of metal for ite coin. As a metal it had lost its worth to any other country. The various re- sults of the tests were described by Dr. Montucei in ® little pamphlet entitled, “De T'Aluminium considere re comme matiere mone- taire,” and published under the nom de plume of H. M. Ward, in 1856 by E. Deutre. Probablr the copy I have of it is the only one now existing, at least in the United States. Events trailed their long course till toward 1865 or 66, the Comte de Chambrier, then di- rector of the archives, a very old and intimate friend of the emperor, submitted to him a paper on the subject from Dr. Montucci, with a little Jewel case, containing on a soft bed of blue satin several specimens of amateur unstamped coins, made to represent different current values. Among others was a plan to do away with the heavy and cumbersome brass and copper sous and substitute small, clean white coins, light to the finger, following the idea of the “nickel” tive cents of the United States, Also to prevent errors in manipulating silver and the baser coin, it was suggested that the inferior coin: might have their circumference “hexagoned” or “octagoned,” so that even a blind man could feel the value of what be handied. Louis Na- poleon was struck with the plan and aa inter- view was held to explain, liscass and enlarge the idea and suggestions of the pamphlet. ‘The conclusion was that the tests would be ordered on a large scale at the mint; the plans would there be matured, through the benefit of hints in the practical manipulation by experts and proper machinery, then the system of national coinage was to be altered; the intended course was for France to declare a monopoly on aluminum and make its manufacture a state industry, like tobacco and the Gobelins tapestry—there being no fear of privato enterprise interfering, as it could only be made at a loss on a small scale. Aluminum was to be alloyed to both gold ani silver to Protect them from being melted abroad; to fold to increase its bulk and allow it to be ¢oined in smaller denominations, an‘ to the Ddaser grades to diminish their size and weight. The matter got pigeon-holed in the usual halo of routine and red tape, and was side-tracked by the rush of events. ‘The glory of the exposition of 1957 with its host of crowned heads first monopolize? sll attention, while the attempt on the ezar's Mfe by Berezowski when driving with the emperor, and the death of Maximiiian cast their mournful shadow on the brilliant scenes of that year. The exciting antago- nistic elections of "68 and "69; the dipiomatic scene at Ems, which started the Franco- German war of 1810; Sedan und the fall of the empire put in rotation an effective stop to any step in that line. It 18 more than probable that In the con- flagration of the Tuileries under the com- mune those little unknown sample eoins rolled out of the ashes of their case, who knows? They may have been ptcxed ‘up in the ruins of the palace and have found their way to some museum as “antique mone! relics found among the ruins or foundat! of the Louvre or Tuileries.” ‘The nat consequence of which would be that in turies to come, when our descendants w'll be using aluminum forks, spoons and claf- ing dishes, some scientist of the period will exclaim: “There is nothing new under the in. Those ancient Gauls knew sll al aluminum. Here it is in their cain ainsi qu’on ecrit I histoire. As a postscript let me add that in one of Dr.Montucct’s articles on the subject in ‘Revue Contemporaine” appeared one of the most celebrated typographical er- Tors ever on record. He was made to say that he had tested the hardness of the metal with “sole et iaine,” and that it had resist- ed successfully. When he saw the fact stated that he used “silk and wool” to test the resistance of a coin, he became speech- less and doubted his own sanity; had he actually used sextile fabrics and ‘friction? We had to have recourse to the manuscript and there we found the words scie et Mme, “saw and file,” had been ued patead. EM. see ‘To Keep a Boutonniere Fresh, From the New York Herald. Carnations, daisies and occasionally half- blown rosebuds that have been worn as boutonnteres in the evening may by care- ful management be kept fresh enough to Wear again next day. A man in town who has a pardonable penchant for frequently Wearing a buttonhole bouquet, yet docs not wish to spend from $1.50 to $5 a day on this luxurious’ fancy, puts away his bouton. Mieres at night ‘as carefully as a wowan does her jewels. He makes a hole througn @ pasteboard card, clips ihe end of the flower and puts it through hole fn the pasteboard. He then puts the card over a glass full of fresh water. The delicate pet- als of the flower are thus prevented from touching the water and the stem is in its full length. As everybody knows, water on the petals of cut flowers destroys their freshness. A bunch of caraat ay be kept together and thelr stems put throush a sizable hole in the pastebourd card. Dat- sies should be separated and the steins rut through individual holes, } | THINKS HE WAS CHALLENGED. aw pions His Dog at ‘The following special from Asbury Park to the New York Herald will be read with considerable interest in Washington, as Mr. Bache is a resident and well-known newspaper man of this city “Great, big, tawny Toby, as gentle a St. Bernard as ever drew breath, has involved his master, Rene Bache, in a world of trou- ble. Mr. Bache {s as peaceful In his manner as Toby himself and far less formidable in Eo pe nee. He is usually able to curb his anger, but he is so fond of his dog that he is willing to go to any length to protect the animal from harm. ‘Toby's life was threatened today and Mr. Bache so far forgot himself that he said he could understand why Joseph L. Tull could not gain admission to the inner circle of Fhliadeiphia soclety, ‘This insult excited Mr. Tull to that point that he made vari- ous threats of violence and intimated his desire to fight a duel. The full power of Mr. Bache’s remark 1s not readily apparent to a New Yorker. A Philadelphian, however, must see that it was a grievous insult, for which there must have been grave provocation. Mr. Bache, who comes of good Philadel- Phia stock, is now a W: ington newspaper | correspondent, His great grandmother was the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin. His wife is also a native of Philadelphia, and her great grandfather, Charles Biddle, was vice president of the supreme execu- tive council of Pennsylvania in revolution- ary days when Franklin was President of that body. Toby and Frank. ‘The Baches have been spending a few weeks at the Lodore, in 7th avenue, Asbury Park, next door to Mr. Tull’s handsome cottage. This dog Toby has been the pet and ad- miration of the beach. Mr. Tull and his dog Frank have not entertained this gen- eral favorable view of Toby. Frank is small but aggressive in disposition. On making the acquaintance of Toby Frank attacked the St. Bernard. This was re- peated two or three times and Toby -be- came tired. Benevolent, ike most St. Bernards, he has never hurt the little dog, but has ‘con- tented himself with sitting upon Frank for @ minute or two in order to give Frank time for reflection on the folly of assail- ing an animal so greatly his superior in point of size. But Mr. ‘Tull has another grievance against Toby. Some plants in a large flower bed in front of his house were trampled a fortnight ago. His coachman declared Toby was the offender. Having no posi- tive evidence to disprove the charge, Mr. Bache made a profuse apology to’ Mrs. Tull, saying Ke would take care that such a thing should not happen again. This did not satisfy Mr. ‘Tull, apparently, as Mr. Bache heard he had threatened to ‘kill Toby and "Citas matters unpleasant for Toby's master. Toby's Narrow Escape. Toby went across the street in front of the Lodore this morning. He was not near Mr. Tull’s lawn, Mr. Tull’s colored coach- man crossed the street with Frank at the same time, Toby took no notice of the man or Frank. Mr. Tull, who was sitting on his front porch, jumped up and yelled to, the coach- man: “Bmash the beast’s head with a brick; smash him, I say. The colored man picked up a brick and was about to brain Toby, when the tragedy was prevented by some iadies who ran out of the Lodore. Mr. Bache, hearing Mr. Tull’s shouts, ran out into the street and told Mr. Tuil to mind his own business and leave Toby alone. Mr. Tull replied with epithets and threats. Mr. Bache, forgetting the fie maxims of his ancestor, “Poor Richard,” declared that he could readily understand why Mr. Tull and his family were not ad- mitted to certain exclusive circles of Phila- delphia society, Mr. Tull ts a rich and successful lawyer. He was so angry that he came near having an apoplectic fit. The dispute came tem: Porarily to a pause at this point. The Challenge. Mr. Bache started toward the beach, ac- companied by his wife, fifteen minutes later. They had got a block away when Mr. Tull confronted them. The lawyer proceeded to assail the newspaper man with vituperative language, incidentally hreatening various kinds of violence and stating that he would knock Mr. Bache's head off. As it is by means of his head that Mr. Bache earns a living he felt re- luctant to have it knocked off. Squaring Corbett, he responded to Mr. Tull’s re- mark by saying he was ready to fight him then and there, but Mr. Tull did not re- spond to the ‘Invitation. Mr. ‘Tull then made some remarks which Mr. Bache con- trued as a challenge to mortal combat. ‘The lawyer then walked away. Mr. Bache jumped on a trofley car and went to the office of Justice Borden. He issued a war- rant for the arrest of Mr. Tull, which was duly served this afternoon. "It will be sought to put Mr. Tull under bonds to keep the peace. coe HELPLESS MEN. They Can Not Account for the Disap- pearance of Much Linen. From the New York Recorder. I met a brisk little married woman at the Long Island ferry house the other day and I said: “Why, I thought you were in the country for the summer? “So I am, dear, but I have to run into town once a month to look after my hus- band's wardrobe. “What's the matter with It? “Why, it’s steadily decreasing. I am re- ferring to his—hem—lingerie.” “What he does with his things I don’t know, but they disappear in the most as- tonishing way. “He had complete sets of everything on June 1, but I've Just come from a very dis- couraging hunt, I assure you. “He runs dpwn and sees me every Sun- Gay, but he yan't lose the things on the train.” found nine undershirts out of the original dozen, four and a half pair of socks out of another dozen, seven pair of uf- mentionables out of a similar amount and 80 on, Us simply discouraging the way his tles, handkerchiefs, collars and cuffs are disap- pearing.” “It's probably the laundry. “That's just what I think. He pretends to keep a strict account, but I don’t believe he does it at all. “Men are so helpless unless there's a woman to look after them.” ‘They are, they certainly are! —_—_+e-_____ A WOMAN OF THE WORLD. Some Things Which Make Her Agree- able. From the Ladies’ Home Journal, She had been talking pleasantly to two or three women; she made her good-pys all cheerful and bright, and, after ste had dia- appeared, one woman turned to another and said in a tone that was scoifing: “She 1s a thorough woman of the world." Now in this case the women who had said none but pleasant words, who had stopped by a bright story the discussion of a petty scan- dal, was a woman who was as bravo-hesrt- ed as any that ever lived and who oore not only her own, but the burdens of a good many other people, yet she saw :10 reason why she should inflict her troubles on her friends, nor why, while she was in the world, she should ‘not be in its best sense a woman of the world A woman of the world is one who fecis that the story, told to hurt your feelings is essentially bad form. A woman of the World is the one who is courteous to old people, who laughs with the young and who makes herself agreea- ble to women in all conditions of life. A woman of the world is one wh> makes her good morning a pleasant greeting, her visit a bright spot in the day and her good- by a hope that she may come again. ‘A woman of the world is one who does not gauge people by thelr clothes, or their riches, but who condemns bad manners, ‘A Woman of the world is one who does not let her right hand know what her Jeft hand does. She does not discuss her chari- ties at an afternoon tea or the fautts of her family at prayer meeting. A veritable woman of the World ts the best type of a Christian, for her very con- sideration makes other women long to imi- tate her. Remember that Christ came into the world to save sinners and t> be im the world and among it and the people who make, and to do your work us a weman of the world means “more .han speaking frem platform or assumed elevation. A woman of the world is ore who Is courteous under all circumstances and in every condition in which she may he plac- ed. She is the woman who ean receive the unwelcome guest with a smile s9- bright and a hand-shake so cordial that ip trying to make the welcome seem real it vecomes so. A woman of the world is one whose love for humanity is second only in ber life's devotion and whose watchwort {s un- selfishness in thought and action. By mak- ing self last it finally becomes natural to have it so. oo —___ A Revised Version. From Truth. “Mother, may T go. out to swim?" “Yes, my darling daughter. Wear a red stocking on each limb And don’t go near the water.” TO SAVE THE DROWNING. Hints That May Be of Great Value in Case of Emergency, Importance of Saving One’ Strength as Much as Possible—Approach a Drowning Man from Behind. It is a deplorable fact that many of the people whom we hear every year of being drowned might have been saved if some one of the spectators had had the courage and the presence of mind to use his knowledge of swimming in rescuing the poor unfortu- nate. Most every one considers a man is running a great risk when he undertakes to save a drowping person, and many hesitate before taking a plunge, which in nine cases out of ten means certain death, says a writer in the Chicago Herald. We have had sufficient proof of the danger incurred in the really excellent swimmers who have | have them sent?’ lost their lives by being drawn under the water by the one they were trying to rescue. ‘Therefore people may be interested in learn- ing how a drowning person may be rescued without danger to the rescuer. It some- times happens that a drowning person is rescued by one who is far from being an expert, but in such instances it is merely @ matter of chance, circumstances having combined to make the rescue possible. The quiet behavior of the drowning one makes | {t comparatively easy for the inexperienced swimmer to reach the shore. It has hap- pened so many times that the man in the ‘water has been so near the shore that very little effort was necessary to save him, but Ready to Jump With Safety Girdle. the rescuer not knowing how has been un- able to save even himself. It is a good plan to practice the correct and safe way of | saving the drowning, as such practice will give a person self-reliance and presence of mind, Life boats are not practicable, as it usually takes too much time in getting them ready and rowing to the person momentari- ly expected to sink, speedy assistance being absolutely necessary. Poles thrown into the water are equally impracticable, as they are frequently too short, the drowning archer ‘having been carried by the current yond their reach. Life lines and life balls used in some bathing resorts are also no good, on account of time and the skill te- juired in reaching the drowning person. Lite lines should be thrown into the water in such a manner that the colled up parts of the line spread over the one drowning, fo as to enable him to grasp it easier. At some of the bathing establishments ming teacher who is constantly in attend- ance wears about his waist a belt, to which is attached a long line, so that in case of necessity he is ready to jump into the water at a second’s notice and rescue the sinking one. This method is faulty in this particu- lar, that the line may be too short. Danger Be Avoided. The Leadbeck Swimming School advises the rescuer to take hold of the upper part of the arm of the drowning man and to swim with extended arm to shore. It {s possible, though, in this case for the drowning one to throw his free arm about the rescuer, thus endangering his life also. In swimming some distance it is apparent that the strength of the rescuer wil not be sufficient, as the head of the rescued person is above the water and pressing downward with all his might. It | 1s stated on good authority that the body of @ person is easier to transport the more it is in the water. It is very unsafe to al low a drowning person to place his arms around the neck of the rescuer and rest upon his back, as it ts quite probable that in his fright he may strangle him, or at any rate take such a severe hold as to ‘The Correct Way. make the task of rescuing very laborious. The principal disadvantage in this method is that the drowning man presses down upon the back of the rescuer in such a manner that the latter can breathe only by bending his head far back, in which | case he is almost certain to swallow water. Similar to this method is the ition which the drowning man occupies in rest- ing under his rescuer. The transport would be easy in this case if one were cer- tain that the person carried would remain quiet. But this is most improbable, and if he should grab out for the rescuer's neck both would be in great danger. Usefal Hints. How is {t possible to rescue a drowning ™an without danger to either party con- cerned? It is essential that the man in the water be reached as speedily as possi- ble, therefore a rapid plunge into the water nearest him would be the first thing to do. It is better to run along the shore | of the river to a point above where the man is in order to have the assistance of the current in reaching him, thus saving your grabbing him in such a manner that your left hand, which passes under his left arm, may grasp his right wrist firmly, and press him firmly toward you. Then swim toward Another Way of Rescuing. the shore upon your back, being careful to make use of the current all you can, The right hand is kept entirely free and can be used in swimming. Only the faces of the two will be visible above the water. and both bodies will be carried more by the water (according to the specific weight), the rescuer having the task of movmg for. ward. The rescuer cannot be grasped by the one rescued, as the latter cannot turn to the right, because his wrist is firmiy held, nor can he turn to the left, because then the rescuer would pull the left shoul- der closer to his own. If the first attempt to the drowning man ts not success- ful try it again. The objection that if a drowning man grasp you it {s impossible to shake him off is groundless. The man drowning will always try to keep his head above water. Therefore, all the rescuer has to do is to dive under the water and the man will immediately let go. The method is advocated by the leading swim- s everywhere, and it has been except in extraordinary cir- cumstances, one cannot drown so long as he retains his presence of mind and is oc- cupied with one person only. Let everybody remember that to save a fellow being from drowning depends in every case not so much on the rescuer’s skill as a swimmer as on his cool headed- ness and quickness of action. oo An Organ! Wonderful Feat. From the London Telezraph. We have already mentioned that the office of master of the music in ordinary to the queen, vacant by the resignation. of Sir W. Cusins, had been offered to Sir Wal- ter Parratt, and the appointment was offi- clally gazetted last night. The new mas- ter’s duties will include ‘the direction of the private band and the care of the royal library at Buckingham Palace, but various musicians will from time to time be spec- faily appointed to conduct state concerts. Sir Walter Parratt, who is fifty-two years of age and is a native of Huddersfield, ha: all his life been a church organist,” an indeed it is said that he first conducted a church service when he was only seven Years old. Jn 18% he was transferred from Magdalen College, Oxford, to succeed the veteran Sir George Elvey as organist at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and last year he was knighted. He is an admirable musician and a remarkable chess player, and he is indeed credited with the feat of Plaving three games of chess blindfolded while simultaneously playing Bach's fugues on the organ. = Snap Shots. From the Dallas News. The truth is mighty, but { vai! unless you help it’ along. The world has in it a great army of very mean people who rejoice at the misfortunes of others, Bluster is by no means harmless, it may not pre- wim-/| has been able to produce local anaesthesia trength, which will be needed later | Be sure to approach him from behind, | | | } | | nights. THE RE AL SUMMER Town, a it Fine Captures She Makes Easily? From the New York Sun. A young woman, who, for two months, | has been flitting from one summer resort to @nother, came up to town one cool day last Week. Her purpose was shopping. Her mien as she took leave of a bevy of “summer with whom she was chummy, was t it horrid to have to go to the city she said, and her tones were scornful. “Tm soing to Stay tonight with Stella Brown. Poor girl! She's stayed up in the city with her father all summer. Awfully devoted, I Suppose, but it’s mn her. I'll be back tomorrow. Oh, sure! Good-by!" But she did not return the next day, nor the next, nor the next. On the fourth day she appeared, bearing many bundies in hi arms and @ look of deep melancholy on hy face. Her friends spied her from we end of the long piazza and bore down on her like @ flock of ga ‘Uh, you poor thing! “Aren't you most dead?” “Give us your bundles. Why didn't you No, I'm not most dead, but I soon will | .”” was the response, in sombre. tone: ‘Take care! That's a ten-pound box of chocolates. Dickey Brown brought it to the train." And that is marshmallows from Johnny Green, And that is roses—I forget who sent ‘em. There’: card, I guess. And there are silk flags in that bundle. Jack Tar said 1 could decorate my room wil them, and oh, oh, oh! 1 want to go back! The summer girls gasped. “It’s the heat, whispered one. “it's affected her head. But the disconsolate young woman sank into a chair and smiled a rueful smile. | I made a discovery in town,” she said. ‘I discovered the real ‘summer girl’ it isn't you or 1. We are gay, but we are de- ceivers, Stella Brown”—the speaker paused and rolled her eyes heavenward—“to think that 1 pitied the girl! Why, she is having such a good time that she is fairly intoxi- cated with it, She has Jost her head. If | she hadn't she would have been careful that I should not find out the true state of things. You know I spoke of her devotion to her father. Pretty idea, wasn’t it? Well, if you could see her lounging in a hammock | on the roof every night, with about ten/ young men vowing they were ‘never so near heaven before,’ and that perfect maid of hers bringing trays of hopelessly delicious Bili use ter help him FEMALE JACK TAR. The Romantic Carcer of Bickers” of Medford. From the Boston Globe. “Sairy Ann Bickers "s me hull name, ef you want that.” Sairy Ann lives In Medford, and she has @ history. She doesn’t te made the Pp a it to everybody, out #he an exception yesterday in fa ot Globe woman “ws as Sarah ex- ‘ssed it, “you've took all the trouble ter e out ter see me.” Sarah lives in a v y house perched up om & shelving bank on one side of Founiin Streci, and she has been “in the washing business” now for years. But Sarah was not always a washer-wo- man. Ste been a good deal of a uev- tier Ia her Gay, having geen something lue West in Luis country and some of fhe Southern states, as well as South Ameri-a. She nas been in Cuba, and she has been Found Cape Horn, Sue has been in. {he east Indes “and a Jol more sinaller piages that J can't just remember,” she says, “For i was pretty young at the Ume, and i sert ‘Don't you ish to tell the Globe readers: all avout it?” she was asked, “aad bow you came to go So iar, aud how it ppens Ural you weer tens shirts 4 hats and keep Your hair clipped as if you were @ mar. and how you came by these tattoo symbel on your hands and where Jou learned to use t “in short, all abgut Aiter sume he told the twil- Jowing story: ‘My father was an Injun, out ter Concord here in Masnachusetis. His name was William Davis, in var tongue; 1 can’t remember what ti was in Injun language. “My mother? No, she wuzent an Injyn, she waz a white woman, who come over ter this country from England My, wut she was powerful ugly to us children. ‘Well, my father and mother moved down to New Brunswick, to St John's, "n live there for a spell in Injun Towa.’ Bill and i wuz born ihere, or goif’ dowa, 1 dow 't know which. ‘hen after a time we moved again over to Nova Scotia, between Sand Point avd Pilot Cove. Father by this ume owaed a litde fishing vessel, “n ame und brother ii the tire fishin’. persuasion in” be lived rinks, and the colored lanterns shedding BY "n by we got so we could set the new the t becoming glow over everything— oh, devotion! | “Oh, yes, her father was there, bless his | dear old soul! I wonder if daddy won't go | back to town next week? The old gentie- man smoked his cigar and dozed over in a distant corner, and jent an air of respecta- bility to the whole thing. Every day there was @ procession of | messenger boys bringing flowers, fruit, | ndy, books, music to play on the guitar at night on the roof! As for a rainy night, there are more men than ever, because they | can't £0 to the roof gardens. They all go | | down to the kitchen and make Welsh rare- bit and molasses candy. And Stella puts on a big gingham apron and looks as domestic as a pan of biscuits, You know how effect- ive that is. The girl has logt her head, or she never would have let stay three: But if daddy will only go back to town I'll be on the ground next week, and then there'll be one more truly summer wir.” coe A New Cure for Headache, From the St. Louis Republic. It is surprising to what an extent me- chanical vibrations are now employed to act upon the morbid conditions of the sensi- lve nervous system. DeBoudet of Paris by conducting fine and exceedingly rapid vibrations half way up the roots of the teeth, and to perform one of the most pain- ful dental operations, that of extracting the living nerves from the teeth, without the patient feeing any pain. Charcot has successfully used the vibratory treatment for sick headache and for certain nervous diseases accompanied by pain, as well for certain mental conditions accompanied by depression. A very simple forn. of this treatment is recommended by M. Dour- douki of Moscow. While he was one day xamining a patient who was suffering from an excruciating headache he used per- cussion of the cranium, just as is done for the chest, to ascertain whether any ma- terial lesion was perceptible. Two or three minutes after finishing his examination he was greatly astonished to hear his patient say that the headache had completely dis- appeared. M. Dourdouki has since prac- ticed this method with much success, es- pecially in cases where there was no appar- ent cause for headache, or when it assumed the nervous form. The percussion must be made lightly, with only one or two fingers, without producing any unpleasant or too pronounced sensation, and the intensity of the taps can be gradually increased. In this way a vibratory massage is administered, which is calculated to remove the distress- ing symptoms. it is evident that in many cases this relief can be only momentary, and the cause of the headache must then be discovered, in order that a cure may be effected, Improvements Search Lights. From *be St. Louis Globe-Democerat. Search lights have become indispensable to steamers of all Classes, and in military and naval operations. By’ their use objects miles away can be revealed and illuminated in the darkest nights, and their powerful beams of light can be thrown in any direc- tion. One of the earliest applications of the search light in marine work was to ves- sels passing through the Suez canal. For- merly the passage could be made only in daylight, and was very tedious and costly: now the electric light is at the service of every ship as it enters the canal, and the journey is, in nearly every case, pursued uninterruptedly. A most excellent innova- tion has been made by the Suez canal au- thorities, who have pronounced that it shall be obligatory after October 1 next, on all vessels passing through the canal by night, to employ an apparatus for dividing the light of the projector into two divergent Ta Approaching vessels may by this means travel right up to each other wit! out their respective helmsmen being blind- el. The diverging apparatus which is to be used has been devised by one of the agents of the compan: At the Wrong Office. From the Detroit Free Press. Charlie Ryan, who handles the business of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail- road from Cincinnati, has also to handl some passenger business that requires poleonic genius—to wit, the pass fiends. ‘One of these. a sleck. insinuating fellow, walked into Ryan's office one day in June. Ah,” he said, “is this Mr. Ryan?” Mr. ‘Ryan didn’t deny it was. “Ah. well, I called to, see if I couldn't fet transportation for myself over your Toad to White Sulphur?” Mr. Ryan smiled divinely. “Certainly, sir; certainly; all you want.” “Ah, many thanks; do I get it from you jh, no, sir,” bowed the polite Charles. “You get it at the ticket office down We don’t sell tickets up here,” and the man Was so overcome that he went down Stairs and actually bought a ticket Meteoric Shower in 1900. From the St. Louis Globe-Demo-rat. A display of celestial fireworks will cete- brate the close of the nineteenth century. ‘The cluster of particles giving the Leonidas, or November meteors, moves in an_ orbit extending beyond that of Uranus and hav- ing its perihelion near the orbit of the earth, which it now intersects at that point reached by our planet about November 18 of each year. The period of the cluster is about thirty-three and one-fourth years. Unlike the less brilliant August stream these meteroids have not become scattered throughout their entire orbit, but only over about one-tenth of it, and ‘they are con- Sequently encountered ‘by the earth only on about three successive years in each gen- eration. The densest portion of the group gave the world in 18% the most brilliant Meteoric shower on record—a veritable rain of fire. On the return of the group, tn 1867, as many as fifty meteors per minute were counted during the thickest of the shower. It was calculated that the meteors first be- came visible at an average height of sev- enty-five miles and that if the average weight of each of the minute bodies was a single grain the entire mass of the stream might be rudely estimated to equal that of a globe of iron 4% feet in diameter. The stream of particles followed in the wake of Tempel’s comet_of 18%, being evidently derived from it. The next return of the cluster 1s due in November, 1900, but me- teoric showers may be expected also in 1899 and 1901. — Military Ballooning ia France. From the London St. James Gazette, ‘Some experiments in military ballooning were made in Paris on Sunday evening. Five balloons were sent up from the Bs- planade des Invalides. The aeronauts in Charge of them Were instructed to descend within an hour as close as possible to Combs la Ville, after passing over a radius of twenty miles supposed to be occupied by an enemy. At 4:3) o'clock a number of cyclists were sent off with instructions to ursue and capture any of the five bal- Joons that failed to cross the zone of in- vestment. M. Jacques Courty, in the bal- loon Patriote, carried off use palm. He alighted within a mile of the Church of Combs la Ville. ‘The balloon directed by M. Picq touched the ground only a couple of hundred yards further from the town, while M. Compiegne alighted from a third balloon at Reaux. The other two balloons fell within th radius, and were captured by the cyclists, |e Interested in Pomology. From the Yorkville Chronicle. “Johnny, Mr. Barlow tells me he caught you in the apple tree today. What were you doing there? What! Don’t 1 to Johnny, What “What! Don’t lie mi p. Mv! were you studying?’ “Apples. *n ketch the ish alone, ‘n facher use ter 60, off coasting roun’ ‘n' sell ‘them. “Then he Went off ter the East Indies, there he caugnt the yellow fever "n come home ‘n died with it. ‘Well, Bill "n me, we ppt him in the wheelbarrow ‘n carried him down back uv the barn ‘n burried him. “We had a harder time than ever after that. First, mother cleared out, ‘n we ner- er seen er heard tell of her agiti. We nest lived for @ time with an aunt, "np she "bused us awful. ‘Finally one day Bill says to me: “Sairy,* he says. “What, Billy, dear? sez L { wus avful fond 0” Bill, “n he wus 0” me, too. “sez 'e, “I "a been down ter the wharf ‘a Got a chance fer you "n me ter go on @ voyage. Will you do’t? “Will 1” sez 1. ‘I wil” Well, he sea, ‘you've got to cut off yer hair 'n go as @ boy, “cause they wouldn't have no itis on board, “n I got the place fer me and me brother Jack “All right, Bill,’ T sez. “I'l do anything: you say.’ That night he dressed me up in some uv his things, and cut my hair off, an’ we shinned down outside an’ got away. He'd told the captain that we'd have i run away in order to get off, so the captain —his name was Pattersou—hid us until we were under way. “Bill went as a and I went in the galley to cook. 1 don't know, to tell you the Lord’s trath, how old 1 wuz, but I sup- pose we must “a been about afteen Yeats oid. Ve'd shipped on a vessel that took one cargo from one place and one from anoth sometimes molasses, and sometimes som thing else. We wuz a year and ning months on that voyage and went around Cape Horn, “Bill wuz a pious chap, but I learned te @rink and swear and smoke. “On our way home from that trip, we wuz only three miles off the coast oF Halifax, Bill fell from a yard arm and broke @ blood vessel, and that wus the end o him. “That wuz an awful blow fer me, T can tell you. Poor Bill, we'd always been to- gether, n't 1 couldn't get along without Some one « findin’ out that I wuz « gin if it hadn't @ been fer him. “I quit the sea then, But first I came on here to Roston. “I was cuttin’ up some o’ my monkey shines one night, doin’ fancy dances that 1d learned while I wuz at sea, an’ Mr Brown came in. Brown kept a dance half on North street, along by Black Seas; Low it's Blackstone street. ‘He offered me $1 a night ter go down ter his place and dance, an’ I went an’ danced there every night for four years. “Then everybody knew I wuz @ girl, fer 1 uset ter dance ta bloomers. “Next, for eight years, 1 worked out in South Natick, on a farm. “Next I went out to Chicago with Law yer Pike's family. “Then, for four years, I lived with Mrs, Peabody, in Wellington, and then I con: cluded there wuz more money in the wash- ja’ business and 1 go inter that, an’ here jiam. “For twenty-four years I've been living here in Medford, so you see I'm an old citizen of the place. Yes, I'm “narried, an’ “ve got a daughter as much as twenty-five years old, but she's pretty wild, I guess. She's over in Boston som'eres. 'm doin’ well enough meself. [ve got @ husband, James Bickers, but he don't Support me, “n so I don’t live with him; but I ain't goin’ ter complain, I hev all T can do, and sometimes, when he's siek, he fomes Pound, and I do the best I can’ fer Berryin’ an’ fishin’ is my delight. apropos of which gtatement of Sarah's it may be added that the townspeople and those who live around Spot pond say there is no man anywhere round who can han- ie cars as skillfully as she can. Sarah owys the little honse that she lives | in, takes a couple of boarders, has insured her life, and has “heaps of friends,” so she certainly seems pretty well off now despt the hard time she has had getting to her | present state of comparative comfort. er | “Didn't the tattooing hurt you, Sarah?" yes, your hand swells up's high's that,” ‘measuring a couple of inches, “but the pain don’t last more'n @ day or #0.” | Sarah doesn't know how old she ts. but she is probably sixty. Her face is weather- beaten and her msnner is more that of | man than a woman. Nevertheless ahe bas @ kindly heart. why From Puck.