Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1893, Page 19

THE EVENING ST AR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 2 1893—-TWENTY PAGES. | TWO MONEY KINGS. Wonderful Career of the Rocke- feller. THEY CONTROL UNTOLD MILLIONS. Yet Are Men of Simple Tastes Withal. LU BOTH HARD WORKERS. Mpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, Dee. 1, 18%. F ALL THE MIL: | a dozen out of all the men who come primed for an interview with him. There are no meetings of directors among Standard Oi! magnates. Half a dozen men control the greai machine, and the Rocke- fellers control “hese. During the day some of these men drop in for a chat upon some matter of more er less importance, but none} of them inierfere in the actua! manage- | ment of affairs. They know that while the | Rockefellers are in the saddle there 1s no | need for any one else to interfere in the | management of the Standard Oil interests. | ‘these men almost always work eight hours a day, and sometimes more. Noi a} detail of their vast business is overiooked. ‘They know its every twist or turn. ‘Their army of employes of course they cannot know, but they know their division com- manders, and are fully posted as to every move. ‘the Rockefellers are as quiet in their tastes as in their dress and business meth- Neither they nor any of their respec- families appear to take any special in terest in socie.y, although they would be cordially enough received should they to enter the swim. Wm. C. Whitney’ nection with them would be a sufficient passport. But they do not care for society. | ‘The early part of their lives was svent in | other than social pursuits, and now, when hey have money and leisure, they do not \A H px Site 2 elena » BY ALICE MacGOWAN. $e ae Written for The Evening St G RACE PENDLETON rode into the ranch, jumped lightly down from her pony, and shouted once or twice, thereby discovering that there was body on the even old Felipa hav- ing thought well to give herself a holiday while her young mis- tress was away. So Grace unfast- ened the parcels from the tle-strings of her cowgirl saddle, tossed them into the kitchen and, taking her pony’s bridle over her arm, lionaires in New York | care for the glare of crowded receptions. | went to the corral to put him up herself. city, and there is no) lack of them, there in great channels and yet so littie known to the! Ba) pee general public as i John D. and William . et Rockefeller, SS = These two between them are worth not SSS ter trom $00,00,00 of their own. In addition they are at the head of the great Standard Oil Company, @ corporation that extends its tentacles Rot alone all over the United States, but all over the world, from w York to Hong Kong and from Hong Kong to Liverpool. Its pipe lines and railroad connections stretch over thousands of miles of terri- tory. It owns thousands upon thousands of acres of coal and oil iands, it employs an army of men and its steamships may be seen in every civilized port. Once in the witness stand Mr. John D. Rockefeller told * committee that was investigating the Standard Oil Trust that he had no idea as to his own wealth, and still less as to that of the company of which he is the head. That it was enor- mous he admitted. ‘The two Rockefellers dominate this vast | nected, and when she does she can, ff sie The daughter of John D. Rockefeller was married some years ago, but she has not figured in New York's social world, and look, since her intimate friends are con- { wishes, outshine every other woman present | } ' William Rockefeller. | so far as jewels are concerned, for her col- Property. To be sure there are partners. 1. M. Fingier, ex-Secretary of the Navy | Smous Astor Jewels, thi ‘Wm. C. Whitney, representing the inter-| Of fact the Rockefellers cut no figure in so- ests of the Ohio Paynes, and others larzely | ciety. You may see them now and then at interested in the Standard Oil properties.| the theater, scarcely ever at an opera, and But the Rockefellers are the strong men Dobro a do appear fp — in be hp: | only a few pe ns now em. The oil Se at een. kings keep horses and carriages as a matter There may be men somewhere who are! of course, but it is for their women folks, more plain and more unassuming than these oil kings, but I have never met them. lection is But as a matter not themselves. As has been said, John D. Rockefeller is a tireless pedestrian, as many of New York's business men have latterly become. fice each morning he takes tramps in Cen- tral Park every evening. Twenty miles a day cn foot he does not think excessive ex- paratus in his office, but since he has taken cient. Like the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers are steady church goers. They sit under Dr. John R. Paxton, the famous soldier preacher, who was the pastor of Jay Gould and who also preaches to the daughter and sons of that great financier. At the same church attend a dozen or more of the richest men in New York, who do not seem in any way displeased by the habit Dr. Paxton has of saying hard things against the rich. The oil Kings are liberal men with their money, although they make but little ado over their charities. Most of the money they ‘spend in this way is spent under the direc- tion of Dr. Paxton and nothing is heard of it in the public press. FOSTER COATES. ee. THEY EAT TOO MUCH ARSENIC. Australian Women Sacrifice Health for Good Complexion. Ss John D. Rockefeller. ‘The brothers are alike in stature, both Just a trifle above the middle height. John| The majority of the female beauties of D. wears a rather closely cropped grayish | S¥dney, according to an English observer, mustache and his brother affects side | have peculiarly delicate complexions, tan- whiskers that run down a couple of inches | 8¥id expressions, fragile physique, and a below his ears. Both men were dressed | ‘!*-away look in the eyes, which are more fn Joose-fitting dark ciothes that were| Suited to the enervated temperament of an plainly not made by any fashionable tailor. | old civilization than the active vitality of a Indeed they looked more as though they | 8¢W World. It was easy even for a novice might have been bought at a bargain saie|t detect that these ladies owed a good {a wee vently-ainde clothing heted, deal to their perruquier. The mystery of aid to be second only to the! ‘amous Astor jewels, that are the wonder | in addition to walking to his of- | ercise. Formerly he had an exercising ap- | up with walking he has found that "sutti- | No one recognized the two men as they passed along and they paid no attenticn to any one they met, being absorbed in what- ever affairs they were discussing together. Not even the most acute observers on New York city’s most busy thoroughfare would for a moment suspect that these plain dressed, quiet-mannered, farmer-like men Were the much discussed, often abused Standard Oil king it was quite early in the day when I the Rockefellers on Broadw: the two men had walked from 3 1 tive miles, an in a little over daily custom f D. is a famous pedestrian. plished the ai ur. This is the alr Rockefell it who “Urs. John ©. efeller. men enter the building ard at the r to h Bt the that the he: great would be o id need to have about receiving instru making a fuss the kind to be seen in the « f the Rockfellers. A | host of letters are re pour ad- the two 2s this | ined is perfect ever 1 disetpli ment is remarkat rooms of the und now and then they fon - in th morning ptie of ra many Gays Jona D. Rockeiciler does not see half | ' | this curious combination of premature baldness and unusual delicacy of complex- icn was explained by the fact that these women ate arsenic in order to produce the aristocratic pallor and languor, and found to their horror that another effect of the drug was to make the hair drop out. Vaiu- jing their complexions above their hair, however, they sacrificed the one to the other. What a woman will endure for her complexion may be estimated by this and also by the fact that these arsenic eaters rarely live past forty-five. There is no pleasure, moreover, in the consumption of [the poisonous drug. The arsenic is made up into ¢ ashionable ious little caramels, waich dames w bonbonnieres and suck quite openly, just as the American girl chews | gum or the English girl chocolate. ‘The rsente q on, the Englishman says, was quite a burning one in the antip- When a man married a young-look- creature, adorned with luxurious e was disgusted to find after the hat she was really a semi-bald, i tvated woman, who was fe to please her own vanity pable of fulfilling the duties a mother to debilitated children. which she brought into the world. Moreover, the suffering which she would go through in |any attempt to overcome this pernicious abit was quite enough to make her break indeed, she could be persuaded to bear it at all. —___——_+re+ The Doctor's Presence of Mind. From Puck. Speaking of doctor's bills,” said Cooper, jas he elevated his feet and lit a cigar, |“ have recently had revealed to me a depth of nerve which I supposed was pos- sessed only by gas men and plumbers. You | know young Dr. dePlora?” shortening her nd was ii Well, you know when he was graduated and came here to practice he was pretty | Sweet on my daughter Grace for awhile?” ‘Wel t him one roasting day last summer she met down town while she was out shopping, and he asked her in to have a| of soda water at Fizz & Foam’s. ery nice.” “Wait. Litt and Grace th “Poor fellow “Yes. Poor fellow! But he had his wits about him, and yesterday I got this bill: James Alfred dePloma, M. D. Office Hours, Blas while after that he popped, him over.” 2M am. to 1159 p.m. G. Cooper, Dr. July 4th. To’ Treating Daughter........$3.00 or A Possibility. I have a phonograph, ection is a song by Pattt. thing that will be ions when the great d forever!" ar sir, from present in- outlive the phono- ig my ¢ * will soe As Hie Sees It. Rumsey—‘‘Say, Kiddy, goin’ ter take in t ball game?" MeNabb (the 189-pound ch: —“‘Wotcher take me fer? I'd ker Gems meself give up cood money to see a brutal exhibition like dat!” i“ 1 produce from pre- | see, It is not the pcet only who is born, not | made, The rule applies to almost all cail- ‘ ‘ings; it is by natural aptitude alone that are mone who are probably has not cared to. Mrs. John Dp. | !135; bs such moving forces | Rockefeller now and then appears at some | they are weil filled. Grace had been but business | Public function that she cannot weil over-| one year from the conventionalities, re- finements and restrictions of an eastern home, where, to all appearances, she was a thorough-going society belle. She had come to Randall, one of the Texas panhandle counties, to keep house on the J-T ranch for her brothers, Jack and Theodore; and she was a more fearless rider, rustler and a more complete all-round ranch woman than most Texas girls who had been born to the life; to say nothing of her lively enjoyment of the whole thing. As she strolled down to the corral the sun, which was low behind her, sent a shaft of light against the spent, panting side of an unfamiliar pony tled so that it blocked the opening to the corral; and before she called flercel “Who are you? Stop where you are, you cursed butchers! for yor Grace's first feminine impulse to the house and barrice a lunatic. But the speech pursued rather than an aggressor; then there was a bit of rising anger at being or- dered out of her own corral. “Who's in there?” she called sharply; “I want to put my pony up. At the sound of ihe girlish voice a hand with a long, bloody scratch across the knuckles reached out against the strange pony’s side and pushed him bach ia tail | Young fellow stepped or rather swgoered | out before her. He was covered with both dust and mud, jand the edge of a blood-stained handkei was to flee {he made a faint movement to raise. But } | cious manner of his introduction, there was the well-nigh ineffaceable maication of the well-bred man about him. ‘0, I'm sorry; did 1 frighten you? But I'm at the end of my suing. i'm John Farris from over in San Miguel couaty— jover in New Mexico. There's a crowd of | cowboys from away up in The Strip after me, for a horse thief. I'm not the man they want; but there's no reasoning with them. They had me this morning. That's where I got this,” lifting his hand to the bloody handkerchief on his forehead. “They'll hang me as sure as they put hands on me, if they don’t shoot me as soon as they get in pistol range. You've only my word for it, but, if you can, help me—help me quick. You'll be giad of it.” “I know who you are,” said Grace. “This is the J-T ranch. I'm the sister of Jack Pendleton, who was up buying cattle of you last month. I'm the only sou! on the place to help you. What shall I do—what can I? Tell me quick.” “It's the track: said Farris; “I see my pony’s got a broken shoe, and I haven't come across grass. I've been in roads for ten miles—ever since I got across Deaf Smith, and I've left them a clear trail to follow. If there was any one here to ride the pony on and get rid of him somehow, and you would be willing to hide me, they'd go past, eventually.” “How much time have we?" asked Grace; then, as she looked at him clinging white and faint to the corral gate, “O, come in the house and lie down! 1'li do something.” No, I'll be all right,” answered Ferris, “[’m not much hurt. They're about two hours behind me, I think—I threw them out that much this morning.” “Two hours,” said Grace, looking at the pony; then a thought flashed across her. “IT can do both,” said she, “go and get rid of the horse in a way to blind them, and get back in time to hide or disguise you some way, safely. And I can talk to ther and get them away. Now go and rest, and she jumped upon Rush once more, caught his pony’s bridle, which he tossed up to her, and hurried away as fast as his tired little beast could go. “All the guns are in the office room,” she called back, as Farris’ foot was on the doorstep. Then dust and distance swallowed her up. } | like a famished man; then the guns, which | lhe inspected, loaded and laid handy, from | time to time questioning, with haggard eye, | the trail up which he had come. | It was a cruel, hard task Grace had set jherself. She argued with her pitiful heart all the way; and averted her eves from the tired pony she was leading, lest the sight of jit should blunt her purpose. |_ She rode, with all speed possible, to the | Punta de Agua, four miles southe ‘yanch, and nov rious, on a red ri force Farris’ pony into the creek, and when he refused to take water alone, she guessed desperately at her chances, took her life hand, and drove her own frightened ctant horse in, with spur and quirt, dragging the other after her. When she had gotten them both into the stream edge she held Rush back, and sent the other ahead with a sharp !ash of her quirt. When she was well into the current she drew her small revolver from her sad- die pocket, aimed carefully at his head, and, setting her teeth in a sort of agony over the cruelty of the deed. shot him. ‘The swift, red, muttering waters caught him, whirled him round and hurried him away, down stream. Grace fought her way out nd it was all she could do. She rode home across pastures at a hard pace, with the courage and tirelessness of a man, but with her heart aching and her eyes’ half blinded with womanly tears over the fate of the poor, tired little pony. No reasoning nor philosophizing availed to soothe her shocked and smarting sensi- bilities, It was the act itself that hurt her so, the act, that seemed like a treacher- ous murder of the willing creature that had helped you through thus far. But she had short time to dwell on the matter or grieve herself over it. As she came thundering down house, at a full run, and bending low in the saddle, she saw, above a slight rise that hid from her the trail up which Farris had come, and hid her flying figure from any one traveling it, a line of dust that indi- cated several riders, approaching at a mod- erate pace. ‘They were about a mile distant from the house, on the west, she the same distance |away on the southeast. Could she make it in time? She would—she urst | “God heip me she gasped yi defend the rigt! Come, Rush!” and bending yet closer over him, bracing herself frmiy in the saddle, she dug the spur deep into at the same ume bringing whole strength of her arm. ‘The horse, which was a good one, and whose ability to make a spleadid dash had given him nis name, at such savage ar wuccustomed punishment sprang forwa pain and fright, and ran the that sep- arated them from the man wn e life hung upon their help Jong, convulsive leaps, nded de She dropped the rein on his neck and threw herself off him as he stopped at the and he wheeled and ran to every limb shaking. “They're comin he corral, rris, crai terrible ride “I know it,” further room hard on you. Phe food and rest had ste: vas washed, his and as he gu over his arse- nal, rose up to the height of his six feet, and turned white but manly and de- termined face toward her; he was decidedly a figure to please x woman's eye and touch a woman's sy: “O, horrible “No, 10, you wouldn’t have any chance at all—you'd be shot down ——oh! she drew io into the + this is cruelly “Come;”* him h her to the kitchen, and dragz-d out from a little room beyond some women's clothing. She hur- i ried a calico dress onto him, bound a red | Mexican handkerchief over his head and | brows, and threw a sunbonnet on over this. Then she caught up a pan, filled it with po- ‘tatoes and thrust it Into his hands along | With a sharp knife. ORSE THIEF. no- | place, | a better! could take another step a voice from within | Tve got twelve shots here | chief showed beneath his cowboy hat, which | even in such plight, and despite the suspi- | Farris went in to find food. which he ate | t of the | running bank-full and fu- | Once there she tried to | toward the ranch | down the quirt, again and again, with the | “OQ, sit down,” she cried, hysterically, seeing the dress, though broad enough for two of him, was a loot too short, and showed his dusty cowboy boots. Here,” and she pushed a chair into the back of the room between the stove and table and turned it so his back would be toward the doo! ‘peel the potutoes, when the men come in.” He did everything just as she told him. “You're a capt Miss Pentieton—you' a trump,” he said; “they'll never suspect | for a moment. * Then ooking up vend seeing | her blanched face and shaking hands, he | eried: “O, don't be so frightened: don’t feel so j badly! I'd rather have ehanced it with \them in the road, alone, than make you such distress. “Don't worry so; they'll never guess it’s }me, and at the worst they wouldn't kill jme here before your eyes. With you by I could probably get them to listen tom ex- | planation ana—* “Here they ai whispered Grace through white lips; and though the world | reeled around her, the foremost of the pur- suers found her, when he came to the kitchen door, with tucked up riding habit, and hands full of kindiing, building a fire in the stove, between them and the old Mexican woman peeling potatoes in the further corner. “Beg pardon, miss,” said he, while sev- eral others came and stood behind hii, “any of your men folks about?” 1 “No.” said Grace, “there's nobody here | but old Felipa and me—we just got in our- selves a few minutes ago.” “He's here, boys, hid somewheres,” to those behind him; then to Grace, “It's a hoss thief we've been chasin’ all day. He} gave us the slip this morning. Don't be | skeert, miss; you're s1 now; an’ | sit him an’ take him away safe an’ quiet. | “Bob, you stay here with the lady—she's | sorter skeert—while we hunt through the! place.” | The agony of those moments! The mad | |panic of fright and horrible, ungovernable | apprehension that possessed ‘her, while she | built that fire, Farris peeled potatoes and | “Bob” stood leaning in the door, watching | her idly and expectorat tobaceo juice! Her face was white death. Her timbs | shook so that Bob noticed it and, observing kindly that she was bad scart, offered some | consciatory essurances as to how they'd settle the hoss thief's hash, which made her {sick with horror. }_ Her mind ciamored with awful and terri- | | tying questions. Hadn’t they left some evi- | @ence of Farris’ presence in the front room? | What if the men should speak to the pre. tended Mexican woman, or ask some serv. lice of her? Would the potatoes hoid out? | | What should she seem to set the woman at And, oh, horrible, what if Feiipa should come in—Felipa, the loud and garru- lous and irrepressible? - And all this time the men were pounding about the place, talking loud and cursing the hoss thief, who seemed to have evap- orated. Suddenly the leader came to the door, and looking past her said, “Could the old woman get us a— Grace interrupted him, deprecatingly, voice almost failing her for terre | She's old and a little lame—and she don’t understand any English—w is it? Any. thing I—"and she clutched at the table the exiremity of her agitation, though Far- ris plainly tried to reassure her by turning | his head haif way round, so that only the sunbonnet edge partially bid his face, and handing her some sliced potatoes very nat- urally, “O, no, miss. You just tell as whe-" but at this moment there came a shout from the gate: “Come on, boys! Quic! “He's ben an’ gon ile nobody wuz hyer d—n him! Hy h’s hui tracks to the corral an’ out agin at Uother gate, an’ on up the tra! “Jump on yer hosses an’ git!’ said the man who was speaking to Grace. “We'll | leave you, miss. You neednt be oeasy, fer he’s on ahead. We'll git him safe enough; an’ he won't trouble nobody after we onct git our han’s onto him!” And in a minute's time they were gone, every boot, spur and six shooter of them. Grace scarcely dared breathe till the last hoof-beat died into silence on her ear. Then she sat down weakly in a chair, and they discussed what should be done. It was decided that Grace should c! se her habit for her usual home dress, and Farris remain as he was, as the men would probably come back when they found vhe proofs of their horse thief having been drowned in the Punta de Agua. Supper was all got ready and they waited, Grace hoping the boys would come. ‘They didnot, but just at dark the horse thief hunters were heard coming back,down the trail. They stopped and hailed, outside, and Grace went to the door. “We thought we'd jest stop an’ tell ye not to worry "bout thet hoss thief, m:ss,” said the spokesman; “he's pertckly safe. Tried to cross the erjck down thar, ‘t's on a red rise, an’ drownded his se’f—pony an’ all. We see the hoss, ketched agin a mess o drift a mile beiow. ife warn't nowhar about. Th’ ain't nothia’ nowhar f. him to hide in—Jjest open plains—so he's drownded ez safe ez if we'd a strung him up, though ‘t ain't near so satisfactory. Then they rode down the trail once more, and Grace went in. Since the day of these exciting happen- ings there has been a wedding at the J-T, by which it lost its mistress. ‘There's an enterprising girl, my friends,” says Jack Pendleton, when he Ps face- tious over his sister and his new brother-in- law, “an enterpzising girl! i “Despairing of getting a man at home in the effete east, she came to the wilds of | West Texas, where they were renortd to be plenty, and easy of capture. Failing to find one in any of the ways ordinarily employed, | she rescued a fleeing malefactor from the halite! sir; snatched from the hands} ‘suing vigilantes, and married a horse A common horse thief!” ———-—+0- American Life. | From the Ninetecth Century. This business life of American gentlemen is one of the hardest problems for an =~ lishman to understand correctly. Till com- paratively lately in England commercial business, except banking, has not been thought highly of for gentlemen. Politics, the church, the army and navy, the bar, | &c., have been the outlets for English | younger sons. In America it is quite dif- | ferent. Among the many reasons for this | 1 will mention but the one important one, that the pursuits above mentioned afford but few openings, comparatively speaking. The church is a poorly paid profession for the sons of the wealthy merchants, and the army and navy are so small in number that they do not afford a field for more than a few. The bar is, of course, open, and is crowded in America as in England. Poli- ties, for some inscrutable reason, do not seem to attract many of the higher grades of youth. Consequently, the young Ameri- can seeks the commercial field, and in every American city, especially in the west, one finds at the head of cultivation and progress men whose rise has been due to successful commercial enterprise. It is well for the individual that success should be so rewarded, and it ts well for the com- | munity, also, that the man of business, who has gained his success on legitimate lines, should be its leader. In a new and | partly unsettled country like America, so | fortunately situated as to need practically her thief! i | | | | | | | no foreign policy, and to fear no foreign enemies, the creator or the distributor of wealth is a far more valuable man than the politician or the soldier. The sanguineness of the American is an- other feature especially striking to an oui- sider. The whole temper of the people is one of hope. No young man enters life in any line without the fullest belie¢ that he is going to succeed, and going to make a great deal of money, and do it all very quickly. This may be true of young men everywhere, but it {s especially so in the states. And men are justified in their | youthful hopes. Practically any | brains and young man of reasonable industry is sure to succeed. Openings are numerous, and the sharp- witted American is quick to take advantage of them. It is a curious fact, but one that I have often heard employers of unskilled | labor comment on, that none of their work- | were American born, unle: me of the fore: mn. am glad to add that either found as uns can workshops. toe “_ = “Open all night.” —Puck. ‘MANY 19 | such a coat ts of use, |person a shock to jher dress avy » but it gives any timid see a woman taking off { not caring a bit, and that is | what it looks like when miladi divests her- i self of this combiaation, Coats and Gowns Must Be Heavily | e Trimmed, CAPES ARE GETTING THE CC-BY. WITH FUR AND BRAID. see Set in seen in the next sketch. for it is black velvet, ‘The fabric used nd it buttons in- Styles Suited to Cold Purses. and Short -— TIMELY SUGGESTIONS. Dec. 1, 1898, ICHLY MADE street dresses al- ready appear heavily finished with tus. Brown cloth is deep- ly vandyked with seal about the skirt and waist and across the breast. Astra- kan is also much! used, chiefly the black. A very stun- ning notion for a street gown is a biue! Defying Cold and Short Purses. visibly. Both edges of the front are gar- nished with a rich jet galioon, and a simi- lar, but wider, trimming comes around the bottom and trims the circular collarette, which is open in back and is lined with rose-colored faille. The back of the bodice part is trimmed P sgre —— jet passe- ‘ rough t|Mmenterie thai ends in fancy ornaments. ae PP Soeeh Sloth, subeiiet | ae aicen weve nabs tank at meee wid Aeocy binck, and finished shout the] > ong the bam Model collar be cies ae. akirt with a two-inch edge of astrakan and | proidered with jet. The coat is lined with Ground the bodice with a two-inch frill of | rose-pink faille, ana the jet embroidery may the fur. An astrakan butterfly collar com-| be done on ney — as — but the letes a charming rig. C te most experien nds can do it on the plet superseding whe wren gt sackets | Velvet’ direct. There is presented in the perseding the pretty capes, but on | same picture a jacket equally elaborate in the wermer days the young woman wholcut and adornment. It is in beige-colored Wishes to appear indifferent to cold may! cloth, hooks in front, and is lined with Wear such a costume as that in the second | White faille. It is very heavily embroidered Picture in this column, wherein the jacket A handsome and rich full-len>*h coat is with a spreading design in jet and steel Jo . ind tl is short and open. It is warmly lined, how- | Ura'as far as the centerer the holies non ever, the fronts ornamented with large and handsome buttons and its revers extend into a fairly broad turn-down collar. Be- | neath the jacket there is a blouse made of old rose and ite striped silk, with a full and very pretty jabot of ecru lace at the neck. The pointed corselet belt is heavily Wwhaleboned, hooks in front and has a small with machine stitching. The material is | too, on the spres lor t st ilustration. pleated skirt attached to it that is finished | (ete, dast guilustration and as far as the center of the bodice part behind. The embfoidery is especially or- mate around the neck and rather deep around the bottom. The sleeves are gar- nished with four serpentine ruffles, lined with silk and also embroidered. The wrists and » ding collar are trimmed with Diack marabouts. Rich and showy ornamentation ts used, ing revers of the jacket The complex pa tern there shown ts done in myrtle braid freely sprinkled with vold. The garment a warm and heavy beige-colored cloth. While capes are getting the go-bye as the | cold weather strengthens, yet if you have @ cape and will cover it all over with braid and line it handsomely with rich silk you may wear it on the street, but you must look at the coated womun with an air so scorniul that won't dare look the same way at yt In other words, if you must wear a cape, the only comfort you can find will be to make other women dis- contented with their better fortune. Coats are made in heavy smooth cloths, they fit trimly over the bust and about the waist and out on to the hips, and from there they ‘e inte big fluted skirts. If one skirt and all its flute does not satisfy the frantic tailor he goes into a regular whirli- sig frenzy of double skirts, sometimes as trany as four, each a little shorter than the last and each flutier. What is even worse, on each skirt he puts a little ruffle, and the result makes one curious to know whether the wearer has any feet or if she is really a penwiper. itself is wide at shoulders and hem. is myrtle green in color. and is worn over a dress of the same shade, having a very wide skirt. With it come a collar and piastron of skunk fur. Two Other Outdoor Models. A gown of red brown cloth, with a novel trimming of brown serpentine braid, is shown in the same picture. It is made with a plain bodice, having a pretty bolero jacket with revers. - Just now gowns very much like spring dresses are much seen. Indeed, it is a wise Woman who gets a dressy light gown made up in a dainty fashion, not too pronouncsd, and looks sweet and fresh on the street, for she can lay away the gown after a few weeks’ wear, to take it out next spring, when it will again seem brand new. Such a dress is made with a wide skirt, the width of the goods being used for the length of the skirt and the seams lapping deeply. The bodice is a queer little affair, a sort of Eton jacket with a triple collaretts added which fast- | fai Warmer Than It Looks. The first picture shows a pretty jacket, but one open to the penwiper parallel, ow- ing to its wee triple cape. It ts in Louis XVI_ style, though, so is all right. It is cut from a faded blue cloth, and opens over a vest of wool seal which the muff and ens at the shoulder. The jacket seems to open on a seamless vest of the cloth. The sleeves are very big at the top and taper slowly to the wrist, and the Maps of the collaretie hang well over the shoulders. As a matter of fact, the whole bodice comes off at once, the vest fastening at the side. The jacket is lined with striped taffeta and the whole is as dainty and crisp as can be, made up in oyster cloth, and will be as pretty as ever five months het cuffs match. The whole garment is ma-| Cioth gowns in overshot with chine-stitched at the edges, and the ample! points here and there of velvet to match sleeves are called Rachel sleeves. Another | the bright shade, are worn with butterfly stylish winter jacket is seen at the right in the third illusiration. It is made of dark brown camel's hair, and the back and sides are gored so that its skirts shall flare. ‘Two serpentine rufies, the upper of cloth, the lower of veivet. trim the standing col- lar, The sleeves ‘have half-moon-shaped epaulettes and the arm holes ere encircled by a band made of two cloth strips with one of velvet between. All edges and seams, as well as the pockets and sleeves, are trimmed with brown und gold soutache braid. The lining of the whole is brown satin, plain or quilted. Beside the garment just described, there is shown a coat in black plush shot with yellow. Its upper part is covered with a Square collar which is embroidered with jet and edged with blue fox, the latter com- ing around the standing collar. The fronts Befurred and B jlimatead cape. of the coat are wide, are sewed to a plain yoke, and then arranged in two pleats. | ancient paved walks which originally t ‘The back has n but is gored, for the fashionable fl: st not be omitted. It buttons invisibly in front, and is lined with yellow satin merveilieux. The muff. is made of plush and edged with bands of blue yok coats. The latter garment is a sort of sub- li is, indeed, hardly more than a collarette with sleeves attached, and is queer enough to look at in the hand, though it is stylish as can be when on, These are made with veivet and pointed with fur. They consist of many little cape- lets over an abbreviated bolero, seid jacket not being open like a self-respecting bolero, but bu big ones, If you took a long coat that was especially weli supplied with collar and frils and cut it off just under the arms low ugh to take in the armholes and sleeves you would have a butterfly coat. And the way of getting it would cost }less than to buy it outright, for it is down in fashion’s price list that three-fifths of @ garment cost more than the whole of it, when it is newly fashionable to wear only the former fraction. see ALMOST A WILDERNESS NOW. Hayti Gone to the Dogs, Being able of Self Government. Not the least interesting feature of the place is the barracks, where is quartered a portion of Hippolyte’s valiant army, says a writer in the Providence Journal. The onl? attempt at uniform is a suit of blue overalls, generally in the last stage of di- lapidation, and a cap ornamented with red, | yellow or blue braid, according to the fancy of the wearer. Some few have shoes or straw slippers, but the majority are bare- footed. They are armed, however, with fairly good muskets, and many of them carry ugly looking knives. I large numbers of the “soldiers” on the plaza or public square, some playing at dice or cards, some talking, others slecping, and all la dirty and ragged. This plaza, which was originally well laid out and which actually boasted an ancient fountain in the center, Was littered with refuse, rooted up by he and filthy with house offal and dung. ‘Ti versed it were badly broken and the loose stones were widely scattered by the hogs. Outside of the town and as far as the eye ch extends a hilly country covered fox. The pict jue hat worn is bordered t. In a long tramp through this with the . and has for other adorn- | country we saw no cultivated land. And ment a bunch of ostrich plumes, a fancy | Yet this land ts said to be extremely fertile buckle and a jet aigrette. As for coat and jacket colors, all delicate hades thuts and ats, except the 1 are fini umes a chocola’ ntic ones mention hed with rows of braiding. le is simulated, often tne bodic: Almost d, and to yield largely any tropical product that is planted upon it. From an examination much in demand, and they come | of an outcropping le: of rock I decided Vin te finish, All shades of brown | that the soil was underlaid with limes are om coffee color through the Ha- | and such a soil is nearly always rich. the richness of nd is wasted even the old plantations which w set with coffee, oranges and ¢ grown up to tropical forest part f t-line down over the hips to nothing. Right in the midst of is braided ¢ Other coats are braided of wild trees and bus! allo} s have shoulder capes, and it an old or indicated depends entirely upon the courage of the | by the re which Ker and the muscle of the woman w these trees were originally planted. And s how many capes there shall be, | with the deciine and ruin of the plantations Sleeves are leg-o'-mutton, very big at the | has declined everything tn connection with top, tapering slowly past full elbow and them. Even the old carriage roads which Ught at the wrist. The ombre effect so originally traversed the islind and much sought after indoors is carried out conveying the produce n cod nd capes raiding a solid dari E bridle paths, beir cloth: wi Red from { shades of braid. a row on deep to ligh d into green from dark to light is a favorite combina- tion, or, perhaps, it would be better to say complication. Whole costumes are got- ten up in this way, the skirt having a bor- der of variegated braiding and the coat being ided ali over. Among the long coats curious ulster af- ; which, once on, look like a tallo dress with a close-fitting bod- ice, that has a cute little friil to it. The skirt is fuil and has a big panel front, braiding, buttons and button-holes going up each side of it. Collar and sleeves, too, are hed with braiding. As a matter of fact. <irt unbuttons on one side, the cross-over bodice does the same thing, and out of the garment the wearer steps. In case of a trip, where want to wear a light afternoon or evening dress, | wilderness. pletely overgrown with forest And this is Hayt, the Hispaniola of Co- lumbus, the pride and glory of admiral! For it will be remembe after examining the other large islands o! the West Indies, Columbus decided that this one was the richest and best. And later, when under French rule, it was one the fairest and wealthiest spots in the civilized world. The whoie republic, in fact, antic farce. No nation has ever If more utterly incapable of self- government than the black republic. In some eighty years of Haytian independence there have been more than ninety revolu- tions. The children, with a few exceptions, grow up in absolute ignorance, and with a deep, inborn hatred of the white man. rulers are bloodthirsty tyrants and the country has degenerated into a tropical he oned. The sleeves are the usuai | ‘The | POISONOUS MUSHROOMS. Dewily Agarics Which Trudent People Will Avoid How They May Be Distinguishea~ Freaks in Toadstoois—some Species Lock Dangerously So many people have been e by dangerous mushrooms subject has been taken up |e one of which makes inquire: “If they eat up ail Wwadstools what will the toads do when they want sit down?” Dr. Thomas Taylor, microscovist of w knows more about such things than any other man living, has made a special stuay of poisonous mushrooms. He is acquainted with them all, from some merely question- able species up to the deadly “amanita.” ‘To a writer for The Star he showed a spec- imen of the latier, preserved in alcohol. it has a very fleshy root and the top is covered with unpleasant looking warts. This is the most poisonous of all mush- rooms. Its top is scariet, or sometimes yellow. In pine and birch woods it often | grows in such profusion as to redden the jSround. A piece of it only as big ss a pea is a fatal dose. The worst point about yit is that it does not produce any alarm- ing symptoms immediately. Four or five j hours after it is eaten, when it has been = and emetics are useless, at takes {of oddities. The “toadstools’-ail! useiest {and bad mushrooms are populacly known, by that name—are many of zhem treake | in vegetation, assuming curious terms and exhibiung extraordinary features. One of the most remarkable of them ts the extremely deadly “wood witeh,” kLCwn , to Science as the P. impudicus. Ja agai- ‘Un to its repulsive appearance, its smell j'8 so horrible that a sinzle whiff of ht is | enough to put any ordinary person to pre- | cipiiate fight. Nevertneloss, it has actually been . Another unpicasant species is réicris” mushroom. Jts ster. ip jong, hollow and scaly, while the top is covered with a disgusting green mucus. Its looks will suffice to warn mos: people against it. One odd feature of it is that it goes to rot almost at once, as “f st was too unhealthy to live Jong. Along roadsides and in pastures, gathered in groups on oid tree siumys, are found the poisonous “red juice” mushroons. ‘Treir tops are crimson or deep orange, and me stems are hollow. Another variety of am- anita that is supposed to ve Jeadiy is whol- ly white in all its parts. Neing tome m the woods in spring time, it is commonly known as the “spring” mushroom. Less likely to be fatal, because of {ts effect on the stomach, is the “emetic” mushroom, In other respects it is one of the worst Species. It has a bright scariet or rose- ee top, ae wenger shaded with e in is readily peeled off, exposing the White flesh. The stem is white. A Deadly Variety. One of the most deadly mushrooms is known as the “trellised clathrus.” It is very handsome to look at, but the smell of it is horrible. Young ones do not have this smell sometimes, however. Another bad kind is the “ruddy-milk” mushroom. Ite color is dark red, and when it is bruised a white milk exudes, which is extremely acrid and corrosive. A similar fluid is distilled by yet another dangerous agaric called the “fiery-milk” mushroom. This milk, when touched to the lips or tongue, produces @ sensation as of scalding or searing with a hot iron, The plant is white and the flesh is firm and solid. Some authorities assert that this mushroom is rendered harmiess by proper cooking. Thus it would appear that the mushrocm lover should make a study of the theory of this subject before goiag out to gather fungi in the woods and fields. The knowl- edge now possessed by science as to poison- ous agarics represents the sum of lessons taught by nobody knows how many thou- It has been possible to disturguish the esculent species from those which are poisonous only by trial. In gen- eral all those should be regarded with sus- picion whose flesh chenges to @ blue or greenish color on contact with the air, as should also those having a disagreeabie or nauseating odor, or of which the taste is acrid and biting or the flesh soft, spongy, hard or corky. On the contrary, ‘the flesh of ble mushrooms is usually firm, but tender, exhaling an odor of freshly ground meal. _ Mushrooms are so excelient @ food that life and health may be susiained by means of thera exclusively. A number of investl- | Sators have made experiments in this di- | Pection, nourishing themselves wholly for months upon such fungi. it is stated that @ mountaineer of Thuringia Hvec on mush- rooms and nothing else for thirty years, end dicd a centenarian, ii should be meauioned young and well-preserved speci- uid be eaten, because the best | MUSENvoI, When over-matured, may become | dangerous as food, commencing rendering it irritable and Tndigemibte. Obviously,an admirable precaution against mistakes im mushrooms is wo grow them artificially. It seems strange tnat no at- | tempt was made to cultivate them until the seventeenth century, by use of spawn, Before that ume, Gowever, people used to transter young living mushrooms irom pas- tures lo gardens and manure heaps, In de- cauyig they “seeded” the ground with their Spores, thus forming mushroom beds, when ihe soil provided was suitable. The spawn Was u sought by gardeners in meadow jand that had been uUliged for pastuting. ow It is Produced, The manufacture of artificial mushroom awa is rather a curious industry. It is j Produced in the shape of bricks, and the | brick spawn used in this country is made jim England. To begin wita, horse drop- , cow manure and loam are beaten up her into 4 mortar-tike consistency, the |muxture being formed into bricks not far {from the size of common building bricks, hese bricks are pui in a dry place, and | after a few days a bi of spawn as big as @ \hazei nut is placed in the center of each, | Then the bricks are placed in a hot bed, the conditions thus established causing the | Spawn to spread through the bricks like a fine white mold. Finally the bricks are | dried in ine dark. | They are then ready to be sold. Persons | ana ged in the cuiture of mushrooms buy by cs ihe effect. The victim sinks into « comatose condition, and death soon follows, One reason why this agaric is so danger- ous is that it resembles another and quite harmless species, which is perhaps the most delicious of all mushrooms. The twe are nearly related, and it scems strange that they should difer so widely in ther Properties. But the world of fuagi is full sanas of deaths. \ sy | them, break them into picces and plant the latter in bets of manure covered with joam, } #he mycelium spreads through the bed with jgreat rapidity, and a crop of mushrooms tollows within a few weeks, ‘The bricks | will keep as long as tw: years, it is said, preser their v ve powers, Keeping its growth. As soon as ik mitted to favorable conditions of moisture and heat its activity returns and it sprouts, When possible the virgin spawn, as it is | called, from pasture land, is used in the anufacture of the bricks. spawn is supposed to be produced from the spores which in mush- to the seeds in flowering uew growth of surviv- rts of old spawn that may have lived in the ground, It is far more vigorous made” spawn wn makers ideavor to use in Spawn= it is net easy to comes upon @ manure pile. It looks of netted strings trav- As soon as discovered g it indoors to ut to ary. It 1d to grow nd the south ums furnish the peasantry with a h takes in part the place of meat. « fungi rival the oyster in respect to the variety of dishes which may he produced from them by cooking. ‘They are botled. baked, fried. broiled, stewed an@ led. A sort of pie is made out of them, furnish a catsup, are most excellent at are highly recom- he potted to advantage. Ta eva, Switzerland, a lucrative trade is carrie] on in the exportation of certain mushrooms, which are preserved by cutting | the caps into slices and drving them, after | which they are put Inte «acks and hung up in an airy place. Sometimes. before the agarica are sliced, they are plunged into | balling weter for an Instant, which treat- ment Is sold to preserve them from the ras. aves of Insects. is the spawn dry merely suspends is again sub- | | ys © nest stu nrooms from Cg rs |