Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1893, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1893-TWENTY PAGES. STYLES FOR WINTER. | Gored Skirts That Fit Tightly All the Way Down. THE RETURN OF THE OVERSKIRT. It May Be Ugly, but It Seems to Have Caught On. GOWNS FOR YOUNG MATRONS Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. the woman who has passed from slender girlhood into a prettily plump and rounded | young matronhood. She is more than like- ly to go on designing gowns for herself as she was, rather than as she is. As she is now, if she puts herself into a simple round waist of soft silk and an unlined skirt with | a deep hem and a sash belt, she is going to look as if she were trying to dress like a girl; whereas, if she will adopt the pretty gored skirts and fluttery overdress, and the trimly-fitted bodice with crisp frills and fur- belows she will look like a girl, only that people will add that she is so much pret- ter than she used to be when she was “so very thin.” Women seldom wish to dress inappropriately, but they often do not real- ize the changes time slowly makes. They fail to seize upon the fashion that suits each stage of their beauty and that at each stage shows them more lovely than in the preceding one. For a woman to cling to the ‘CHRISTMAS AT SEA How the Day is Spent on a Big Man- of-War. |WITH MUSIC AND G00D CHEER Sometimes There Are Presents All the Way From Home. AN UNEXPECTED TURKEY Piscean Written for The Evening Star. mast and one abaft the mast. Then the| race begins in earnest down the other side, and so fast they go that at times it almost seems that they are falling. With the dis- appearance of the rigging on men-of-war and the increase of the military masts this common sport of the old navy must go. Then comes another novel feature, the “spud” race. Along as many seams of the deck as there are contestants rows of equal numbers of potatoes are placed, with a bas- ket at the beginning of each row, the con- testants standing by the baskets till the “go;” then each one must go to the first potato and carry it back to the basket, and so on until all are in the basket, the first one winning, of course. It would at first seem an easy task to pick up a hundred po- tatoes placed at one foot intervals and car- ry them to the basket, and to look at them one would at first think only a few minutes necessary, but an easy calculation will show that the actual distance to be gone over is but little short of two miles, and consider- ing the time taken in picking up the pota- toes and turning around each time, it is a fast “speed” race> who can finish the race in twenty minutes. The crowd of jackeys stand around and cheer the winner or jeer the loser in great glee. ECHO OF THE WAR. An Interesting Story Revealed by Some Old Letters. MR. LINCOLN'S KINDNESS OF HEART Few Ever Appealed to Him in Vain for Clemency. THE CASE OF YOUNG PRENTICE Written for The Evening Star. enter the rebel military service. Doubtless investigation would show that the treason eee armies is pallia' by the pressure an excited public sentiment, and by the mil- {tary despotism to which they have been subjected. Such, however, was not the case of Clarence J. Prentice. ‘He left his home in a state then and still loyal, and volun- tarily and wantonly banded with traitors for the overthrow of the gvernment of his country. It is for the Secretary to deter- mine whether the established policy which has prevailed in the treatment of prisoners of war shall be modified in his favor. J. HOLT, Judge Advocate General. But cn the 13th, in fact, three days be- fore Judge Holt wrote to Secretary Stan- ton, Prentice had already, through the in- terposition of Mr. Lincoln, been sent from Camp Chase to City Point for exchange. On the elder Prentice’s representations Mr. Lincoln's first plan was to let Maj. Prentice ————————————————— THE TRAWLER’S CATCH. Pem Photographs of Wayside Scenes and Incidents. After nearly thirty years of incomparable service as official reporter of debates in the House and fn spite of the fact that he is one of the frankest and most sincere of souls, David Wolfe Brown propounds as follows: “Why ought a majority of those people who are so unfortunate as to be blind be effective elocutionists?” when one has passed through the aimless mental blank enougn to accept as a genuine effort to guess the answer to @ conundrum), which finds its climax in the ejaculation,“‘I give it up,” Mr. Brown picks up his notebook as he says: “Because they read feelingly.” Then, (which people are goot take the oath and quietly go abroad, but | Amd before one has time to congratulate this offer he declined, choosing rather to rejoin the confederate army, despite the father’s earnest protestations of his de- sire to serve no longer in the war—that he would “never bear arms against us again,” | him he ts on “the floor” ready to take is “turn.” Of course Civil Service Commissioner thus justifying the cold but keen discern- ment of Judge Holt. Done in Good Fat This had somewhat the appearance of double dealing on the part of Geo. D. Pren- tice. The fact is he was very much fright- ened for the personal safety of his son, for whom he appears to have borne an al- ROM THE PLEAS- ant surroundings of a joyful Christmas at home, with happy faces of friends about, it may seem that the life of “them that go down to the Then come boxing contests, sack races, three-legged races, until every one is tired of being either one of the laughing audience or one of the hard-working actors. Then if the ship has a glee club among the jackeys the evening is taken up with a concert till time for taps, when the hammocks are swung and the lights turned out, and all i! sg except for the lookouts, at the side ight: Roosevelt is a Harvard man and, of course, he is loyal to his old university home. But, when his eyes snap and his firm jaws set those exquisite teeth more closely together as he says of the Princeton-Yale foot ball game, “It was the best foot ball I ever Saw,” one knows the estimate is an honest one. When he says: “They defeated the NEW YORK, December 22, 1893. ERY MANY SIX- gored skirts fit close- ly to almost the knees. ‘Three deep rutties of lace, each HILST DELVING through the govern- ment archives in search of historical papers for a forth- coming volume of the Rebellion Records re- apparently mounted upon festooned rib- bon, cover the skirt to the foot and em- phasize its sudden Mare into fullness. The bodice to be worn with such a skirt Is all insertion, > perfect frenzy of fuz- ~@. zy fabric. Nine-gored tor peal doubt the elder Prentice acted in the ut- “> Skirts are delicate, if ever, the sailor realtzes that a “home on|that “absence only makes the heart stow eke tbivss be seen yr 74 most good faith. Os butterfly things and Winningly.| the rolling deep” is no nome at all. of | fonder.’ p 1868, However all this may be, the father’s LS it wo-| fashion she has outgrown {s to betray her-| course, if th But his reveries must not be too deep, for LOUISVILLE, April 28, prayer was granted and for a time all ee , de taaltarge. ehase ba [aut an arittier cat onnateni catenin |e Micere tho ea ett nome bork, ait the big ship. under his caret steoning | President Lincoin, went well again. But It was not long ere men with hips just a bit too large. There is | self, as growing old. while te change her officers who can be spared go on leave | along through the blue sea. and the dark something about the swish of the fullness vf a nine-gored skirt that makes a woman seem made to dance in a butterfly gown and be adored and petted forever? and if a few more gores more or less are going to thor- oughly imbue men with that idea, women will go in for gores. Dado-like effects in- crease. Broad bands surround the skirt at the foot and these are enriched with braid- ing, festooning and designs till all a woman needs is a mantelpiece and a few windows mmand, he came by night to his home to! jeading men of both skies, we find him own parior | safely come from less expensive goods, if| days, or in some foreign clime whore mone DION WILLIAMB. | CO : 7c ? Peesthon —— @ good imitation of her m pa aun The deep yoke of almond velvet is | of the delicacies of the seasen can be (Roary oe see me and his mother and his baby. He/ again appealing for the aid of it — outlined with two rows of embroidery and ts it is hard for even a good caterer to make The first skirt pictured in this column is trimmed with two gathered ruffles, each forming a small head, and ornamented with Jet passementerie. The material used in the model is a sage green flowered woolen to prove herself developing year by year into more and’ more gracious beauty. A tasteful model for her who is bidding good bye to slenderness is the artist's fourth of- fering. As sketched it is made throughout of velvet in a violet shade, trimmed with the same goods of almond color and with rich embroidery. The use of velvet for trimming is now so general and this model is so well designed for its use in that way that it would be hardly the thing to make the costume without having velvet for yoke, belt and sleeves. But the dress itself might gathered at the neck. The remainder is made of Parma violet velvet with a round belt of the same hooking beneath a bow in front. The sleeves have a full puff with a small frill banded with gold embroidery. The gored skirt has a fan panel of pleated sea in ships” is all Tomance and pleas- ure, fitting from shore to shore, with @ love in every port; but to the sailor him- self who regards his lfe with its cares and dangers as an hon- ored profession, the romantic side rarely world is happy at home. Such a day to all is Christmas, and then, to homes or friends and the others make the best of a dull day aboard ship with an excellent dinner and a yood cigar. When the ship is at sea on Christmas day it is all different, for then it must be a little world within itself. The caterers of the messes have generally provided an excellent Christ- mas dinner before leaving port, and around {t the officers assemble, with their Jokes and stories, all happy,or at least trying to be so. But when the ship has been at sea for many @ good dinner, as, arctic expeditions, tack sauce,” turkey, After the dinner ts over the punch bow! is filled with eggnog and around it, when in some of the “roast bear with hard has been the substitute for as they call out each half hour on roke of the bell, “Starboard cathead, bright light!” and “Port cathead, bright light!” Here and there on the decks near the standings, lights that burn all night, a sailor or apprentice boy is writing a letter to mother or sister back in “the states,” ready to go on the first mail packet en- countered or from the first port. Up on the bridge the officer of the deck paces up end down, open eyed for any dan- ger or emergency, but ever and anon his mother, or sweeheart, or wife is on this Christmas night, and he knows that their thoughts are, like their love, with him, and hess at fifteen to twenty miles an hour, and another ship may loom up at any time, or the summer skies darken into a sudden squall. So hopes and friends and love and all must be second to duty, and the time for them will come when the cruise is over or the ship safe in port, and as the jingling song of the “blue jackets” has it, he can only think: “Strike the bells, call the watch, Relieve the wheel and chain, Oh, won't I have a jolly time, When I get home again.” Going to School in Japan. From Harper's Bazar. As marked as is the dissimilarity of the Japanese child to our own wee one, perhaps there are no lights in which the former is lating to prisoners of war, 1 recently found @ singularly interest- ing, not to say dra- matic letter, written over thirty years ago by that famous and eccentric editor, Geo. D. Prentice, to President Lincoln. On a which were greedily seized upon and thank- ribbon and frills, and shows itself. It is never harder to find this | thoughts turn to’ the home back in “the erat ae rte pacts) cade Gk fully hurried off to Mr. Lincoln as a peace as Gees Oe side than on a day when all the rest of tne | /@"d of the free,” and he wonders where | laboring uni nge = Cuarence Gaia, memeace sateen acting on the impulse of the moment, with his editorial pencil Mr. Prentice hastily Dear Sir: It is long since I wrote to you. In some things I have differed with you. I think you know I have differed with pain, with great pain. I have tried to serve my country. I know that I have served it I will not undertake to say how much. Mr. Lincoln, I have a great favor to ask of you. Hear me. My only child, Clarence J. Pren- tice, God help him, is a major in the con- federate service. A few weeks ago he came to Kentucky, and being cut off from his was seen coming, and in a few hours ar- rested. He is now at Camp Chase, and his mother at Columbus. He desires, I know, to serve no longer in the war. He would be a great loss to the confederates, for he has most frantic affection. Some vindictive Keatucky unionists, whom in the past he had most likely lashed with his bitter editorial pen, were desirous to “even up” with their old enemy by having his son tried and shot as a spy. It may well be imagined, under this pressure of fear and impending disgrace, that the pleadings of his father, and perhaps mother and wife, probably wrung from the son some half- hearted, quasi promises to desert his cause, that he could not conscien: tiously and hon- orably make these good. No the young hothead required the of his influential Union father again, this time on both sides of the line. In a ber, 1864, by consent of the Richmond au- thorities, Geo. D. Prentice was permitted to pass through the confederate lines to Pound Gap, in the Cumberland mountains, to visit his son, who was there stationed. This visit was probably occasioned by some serious difficulty into which Maj. Prentice had fallen, the nature of which is not made apparent in the correspondence. Returning home via Richmond and Washington, in which capitals he held consultations with the Lincoln in behalf of his son as follows: LOUISVILLE, January 21, 1865. Mr. President Lincoln: * * * Mr. Presi- dent, you were very kind in your assur- ances as to what you would, do when I could give you the necessary information as sent into a field and best team Yale or any other university ever did it by match- jess team unanimity of brain and muscle,” then one knows that it’s Roosevelt, with good | Shown that set off this dissimilitude like the | been one of their most effective officers. [| to the witnesses desired in my son's case— Saba corenea SAGE Glace ee eae ws [et earn oY the, Wey sien, ettees | cigare andl /becter’ tellowanin the reoriie oe | GUsIAE SAGE of tha Goonies ae re | Rot suppose, Mr. Lincoln, that you can | On trial for his life at Abingdon. Well, one Mlusion covered with black lace and 1s| with gold embroidery, and a band ‘of the| the sea and of life are likewine nonmnect lumines his path. Behold him, then, ap- y boy his taking the non-| Cape hee Bente important witness, is edged with a fancy passementerie of jet | Same comes up Rienthe mela rent side-| while many a merry story of other Christ- : Bere | commas tam $e tied age aot c Capt. R: H. Baptist, a prisoner of war at | tional Hotel and his visit has to do with the n s 1 mn a bodic beads. Under the arms are strings of the beads, attached in the center of the front and back to the passementerie. The sleeves have two puffs of the goods covered with black lace, and the long cuffs are made in the same manner. Gigot sleeves of jeweled brocade and in color contrasting with the rest of the gown are used with elegant dresses. Indeed, some very elaborate sleeves are sold ready made, and material is purchased for the rest of the gown after the sleeves are secured. A gown so designed was built around a pair of salmen brocade sleeves that were thickly sewn with emeralds. The material of the well suited to the young matron just warn- ed against the appearance of over youthful- ness. It shows a very pretty arrangement of draped mousseline de soie. It is cut in a slight V in front and hooks in the center, each side of the draped plastron being fin- ished with a small head. In order to hide the hooks and eyes a serpentine ruching made of the mousseline and ribbon comes down the middle. The straps over the shoulders are made of cream guipure lace over black velvet and are alike in back and front. Each end is finished with a pleated Young matrons are wearing picturesque gowns with very heavy petticoats of bro- cade. Over these are looped skirts of rich ‘| fore they are delivered, mas days fills the time. An Unexpected Gift. Often the officers get presents from home, even though hundreds of miles at sea, for before the ship left the home port the thoughful wife or sweetheart had provided the present and intrusted it to some other officer to be delivered on Christmas aay, and thus he knows that they still think cf him at home. Yet sometimes the givers do not understand the method so weil and send their little tokens through the mail, and the packages follow around from port to port, sometimes for months after Christmas, be- while Jack thinks Mollie has “forgotten him,” and Mollie cries when she is ail alone, because Jack “did not even think enough of the present she made him to thank her for it.” But at last the present will be received, and months afterward Jack will change his mind, and Mollie have no further cause to ery. I knew of one case where a rather bulky yet very inexpensive present was sent from the United States by mail to an officer on a man-of-war in the Mediterranean, but the ship left too soon, while the present fol- lowed leisurly from port to port until the officer got it in Japan, with enough extra postage due to have bought a gross of such presents, and then his comrades were kind enough to tell him that “he ought to be glad to have a girl who thought enough of him to send him.such a present.”” Speaking of Christmas dinners on a man- of-war at sea, I remember one Christmas down off the coast of South America, near the equator. The thermometer varied be- tween 100 and 115 in a way that made us be sure the tree was only a great bunch of proaching the frail, one-story, half paper and half wood schoolhouse he attends—re- pairing thereto as one of a picturesque group of three, four or five happy young- sters, armed with copy book, seroban, of which more anon, huge paper umbrella and rice jar, the last swinging from a round little arm in a gayly brocaded bag—the avenue he is on and the schoolhouse and Surroundings all enveloped in an atmo- sphere and hue of naive and antique quaint- ness. In due time he is inside the tidy lit- tle school room, with its snowy matting, its bright futons—a square of wadded silk or crepe upon which to rest the knees, chairs being unknown luxuries to the un-Euro- peanized Japanese—cast upon the floor at regular intervals, one for each abecedarian and one for the teacher, and with its many odd little chests of drawers, miniature chiff- onnieérs, in which are kept the books, sero- bans, India ink and brushes not in use. The prevatling politeness in this proverbially well mannered archipelago goes methodic- ally along hand in hand with all concerns; in fact, the very gates of the day swing asunder upon hinges of etiquet, the first schoolroom rule demanding that the scholars should all be assembied when their teacher arrives, in order to bid him good morming in a body. Familiar with the peculiar clash of his wooden clog, the scholars range themselves in a straight line at the first announcement of his approach, and, at the first glimpse caught of him, draw in their breath with the long, hissing sound that has been described in a previous chapter as ex- pressing awed regard. This formality over, cocoanuts from St. Lucia, but cigars and cigarettes in abundance made it acceptable. of respectful affection; and he never fails to say so, nor to express the sincere hope that all his little pupils are well, combatant’s oath to remain in the United States, though I should be most happy if you could. But I fervently appeal to you to let him go, upon his taking the simple oath, anywhere outside of the United States and of the rebel confederacy. I know his plans. His mother will go with him, and he will never bear arms against us again. I will be surety for this with fortune and life. I have written to Gen. Burnside to let my son re- main at Camp Chase till I hear from you. Please let it be soon, for I am most un- happy. Ever your friend, GEO. D. PRENTICE. This letter recalls one of the saddest phases of the great civil war, in partially illustrating {ts effects upon society in the border states, and especially in Kentucky, where it not only separated friends and neighbors, but created deadly feuds and breaches in families. It ig a queer fact that the President of the United States and the president of the confederate states were both Kentuckians. Geo. D. Prentice, long a resident of Kentucky, but born In Con- necticut, was a Union man within lMmita- tions. whereas his only son at the very out- break of the rebellion cast his fortunes with the confederacy. John J. Crittenden, the old Senator and distinguished publicist, himself a Union man, howbeit much given to com- promises in the interests of peace, was the head of a divided family. One of his sons, Thomas L. Crittenden, was a conspicuous Union major general, while another son, Geo. B. Crittenden, educated at West Point, held a major general’s commission in the confederate service, and was the personal friend of Jefferson Davis. Both brothers, by the way, were unfortunate in their military An Old Kentucky Family. The Breckinridges are another illustration Johnson's Island,,a poor fellow who has been an invalid fér the past year. My son is innocent, and Capt. Baptist, as honor- able an officer as the confederates ever had, can establish his entire innocence. So I ask, Mr. President, not simply in my own name, not only in behalf of ab- stract justice, but also in behalf of a very gallant young boy exposed improperly to mortal peril, that you parole Capt. R. H. Baptist from Johnson's Island to the southern confederacy. Most respect- fully yours, GEO. D. PRENTICE. What steps, if any, Mr. Lincoln took in behalf of this last request is now unknown, but from the well-known generosity and patience of his character it is morally cer- tain the boon was granted. And whatever the peril, the son eventually passed through it unscathed to surrender at the end of the war, for after all was over he speedily turn- ed up at Chattanooga, a suppliant for per- mission to return to his home and resume the pursuits of peace. There was some Stickling on the part of Secretary Stanton about this application, and considerable tel- egraphing to and fro before the matter was finally adjusted, for meanwhile his former friend, President Lincoln, had been murder- ed, and there was a vengeful disposition in certain quarters at Washington to make an mend ichierens of the late southern sym- Pathizers. But at length the privilege of renewing ~~ “ye to — United States was it fio young tice through Gen. ‘Thomas, then at Nash- ville, about May 11, 1865, after which he re- joined his family in Louisville. Of his sub- sequent career I have no account. D. Prentice, the father, died in 1870, sixty-eight years. LESLIE J. PERRY. ———+-e-+_____ been heard in this county comes from Black annual feast of the republicans of Michi- gan. He 1s co-operating with Senators Mc- Millan and Stockbridge and, as he said yes- terday, “we are after some our annual banquet. Sinister “7a before we ot Our Speakers and if be gets back in q rston—— ‘his return to Hawaii—promised to be if Q inf a! f i i if Hi 38 $8 the dwartish tutor is saluted with absurdly | ambition. In his first battle, fought, by a] ALMOST INCREDIBLE BRUTALITY. lang for a ttle snow and, ice, from Nankee | iow bows and a general cheery clatter of strange coincidence, on his native Kentucky rea » Mremponded. ‘the mon. “stnty = 1. peer it~ | words, in which will nearly always be dis-| soll, at Mill Springs, where he commanded ¢ man. « wet “Prettier Than she Used to Be.” | cers’ quarters were consoling | themselves | tinguishable the exclamations of “Ohyo! | the’ confederate army, Geo. i. won badly | ™™* an, cigar pegrmane sipitemin nt™S |from one thousand to twelve, fifteen and plece of mousseline headed by three rows of | that even this couldn't last’ forever. and | day! “Irrashai!”—Please deign to| worsted and routed by the Union general atioment t= Pennsylvania, eighteen hundred dollars a ——.”" black baby ribbon and finished at the | mourning the lack of a good dinner, when | emer ant soide | nasa.”—Be pleased to| Thomas, and thereafter fell into disrepute | A special dispatch to the Philadelphia | “A month!” interposed the one with | are enormous pui eck. e shortly to find the| Every act and word of - | Thomas L. practically disappeared after h Reaatey Meets or eee ar eae en 7) inner: ready-—Chriestmes: tree and all. To ling tue recipient Gonetiors oy eee | a ean Chickamauga. "| Re most atrocious brutality that has city. pleated bands . Hill, a small mining settlement close to Cort. and then the young lady's thoughts Nanti | seemed to turn longingly back toward the - silk of a color to match one of the shades | oyster soup (canned oysters, of course, but squatting upon his futon—all the students | the war time. The greatest Breckinridge of ing faithfully in the day Sleeves Which May Outlast Their | in the brocade. This overskirt opens wide none the less oysters), turkey and cranber- | immediately obeying his example by drop- | them all, Robert J., was an uncompromising lowest class, and, being governed by no jhe will receive a hundred dollars a month, Dress. in front and is looped most coquettishly at |ries—and this was the surprise, for before | ping nviselessly upon theirs—begins the long| Union man, whose vast personal influence | #¥- for constables are unknown among |knowing no politics and seeking politi- rest of the gown was a silk of an emerald | Si7¢S and back, the petticoat showing all sailing from Barbados the caterer had ran-| day's work by ¢: tone shot with pink, an overdress of emer- ald velvet lined with salmon silk being around at the foot. The bodice is pointed deeply in front and is short at sides and back, the overskirt being fulled to it. A sacked the island for a turkey, brought him aboard alive and kept him concealed in al ‘ailing aloud the number of its lesson in reading. The art of serving tea at that most cere- was largely potential in holding Kentucky firm. His nephew, Hon. John C. Breckin- them, they do about as they please. On Monday Dr. Daniel Evans was called to at- | cal advancement; serene in the faith that she will come back to him and that will be able to lay up something ann i ually, n mess locker for a week to surprise us on| monious of all soccl | Tidge, the ex-Vice President, was from the| tend a miner living at that place who was |even on twelve hundred a year. Nap Ane emi as aasei ae cate a deem, Tromuatner of the brocade makes the | Christmas. Then there were stacke of good | monvr is, enn Wee ae te, ‘hhrough. | beginning a leading spirit of the confeder. | Suffering from pneumonia. After prescri>. point In front. Great crescer i : shreds and patches and be very swell in-| cre set on each shoulder over the low pufts | Canued things laid in for Christmas before | out the country, considered to be an mee, | deed—that is, you may devise a gown of the bits left over from other dresses, and if the pieces be beautiful, and if they be combined with grace and art, the resulting gown 1s one to rave over and to excite the envy of | That accomplished, the gown’s every one. 2 ‘on sleeves seen !n the next Mustration are extirely of brown velvet, and on a dress which is new in every part, but the license granted this winter for us- Ing again parts of costumes sees many a Pair of handsoine «leeves figuring effective- of silk that make the sleeves, which puffs are the size of a prize pumpkin and end at the elbow, a fail of rich lace finishing them. Deep yokes of lace, square front and back, have at the shoulders a lace frill set in so full right at the very top of the shoulder that the folds fall well to each side like a cape and outline the sides of the yoke. soe From Vogue. we left “the states,” with wines and li- queurs we picked up at St. cigars just fresh from Havana. The dinner was a success and a most wel- come surprise to the tired, hot junior off-| cers, who had expected the customary corn-| ed beef, boiled rice, and other accessories of a sea dinner after several “days out” from port. The buoyant spirits of youth and health, assisted by other spirits equally buoyant, | Tose above the depression of the stifling heat and the lurching roll of the ship that threat- j Thomas, and pensable frill on the educational garment of a young girl. This stilted affair simply bristles with exacting codes. There are des- potic rules as to tea bowis, which, upon this occasion oniy, must be used instead of tea. pots; rules as to the tea itself, which must be powdered, and of one certain excellent quality; rules as to bamboo whisks, which are brought forward at a fixed moment, and with which the fragrant beverage is beaten until it foams; rules as to the peculiar varl- ety and amount of the charcoal over which acy, both in council and camp, commanding | troops as a major general in many battles, oftentimes successfully, and going down in the final wreck as its secretary of war. He, too, was a popular Breckinridge in Ken- tucky, but he tailed to carry any consider- able number over with him in 1861. Some of the younger Breckinridges were also fac- ing each other from opposite sides of the livres. President Lincoin’s brother-in-law, Ben Hardin Helm of Kentucky, was a con- federate brigadier, and killed in battle. An appeal like that of Prentice’s seldom | ing for his patient and giving orders for his care he was leaving the village, when @ little boy not more than ten years old ran up to him and sobbing bitterly asked the | doctor in broken English to give him some | medicine for his sister, who was dying be- | cause she could get nothing to eat. The doctor questioned the boy, and finally | One of the comfortable things about lv- ing in the present enlightened age is the fact that none of us who are thoughtful, broad in our views and more or less philo- sophical, have any faith in predictions. We See the new moon over our left or right shoulder, as the case may be, without @ shudder, cross-eyed people have no terrors accompanied him to the dirty hovel where | for us, whjle we are totally indifferent as he lived. Here in a room, bare of every- thing except a torn and filthy quilt, knives are to the manner in which forks, spoons or And yet when two was \ : a “ jsuch old time prognosticators as Zadkiel's | the water for the making of the tea is boil- | failed of a ready response in Mr. Lincoln's; found the girl. The quilt covered her, yet }SUc! ~ fy beneath di‘erest shoulder puffs and Gacd tg land the much-prized turkey on the | ed; rules as to all the utensils used, whieh #ympathetlc heart. The masses knew ane | her form was scarcely vise wemech it, |Slmanac and 8 come to the ruffs from the ones originally worn with deck. Many a good story mingled with the must not only be antique, but rigidly chaste , and to him direct the entreaties and peti- so thin and emaciated was she. Ti doctor | front in relation to Washington, ‘we at least any ns "1 st and think the matter over. Zadkiel’s 8 bric of this dress is seal | fmoke wreaths of the good cigars, and the | and plain in style; and rules as to the cence | tions of the imprisoned and the conneoeey | lifted the quilt ond wae hanetleRa aoe j resentation been beowal broadcloth th bodice Baving short alld green mint Gr page piiaueur, be It the monious, solemn performance of serving the always went. Immediate movements. in| Was about six years old, and Jooked Seip London, and’ for that tartan pans lacie and um weamd yelver. yous mild green mint or soft maraschino. tea after its elaborately formal making—| behalf of young Prentice are apparent in | @ hideous caricature of a skeleton. Her Eood portion ‘of the world, as unaccount- finished with three figured. satin ruffles. Christmas Up Forara. Tessad struct ary UERE by pro-| the Tecomis, although no personal order or| looked Mie a skull covered met Useue ubly and remarkably reliable im ite These ruffles are repeated at the foot of While all this peace and goodwill has made | fessed instructresses, most of whom are indorsement of the President concerning | Paper. The outline of every the bell skirt. , One of the most innocuous forms of over- dress yet offered is one simulated by a @raping of ribbon from a ribbon belt. Each fall of ribbon is twisted to a point in front and tied in a pretty butterfly bow at the side. Such an-atfair, will, of course, catch on every available corner, but what has a the officers’ quarters merry, the bluejackets up forward have not forgotten the day, nor their duty to celebrate it. If the ship ts in port, the extra Christmas allowance of pay is served out and nearly the whole crew Sranted “liberty to go ashore. The crew sentlewomen in destitute circumstances. | see The Japanese Feast of Doll From The Outlook. Japanese toys are the most fragile of) playthings, and yet they keep them intact this case is found. Mr. Stanton, the Sec- retary of War, was a man of entirely dif- ferent mold—unrelenting and inflexible in the prosecution of rigorous measures for the | suppression of the rebellion, even in their application to individual cases. He viewed every confederate as an actual criminal, ble, and was rendered more ghastly by the castings, wh deathly pallor of her skin. Her eyes were {! hee ge gid dD Tg 1894 says that sunk deep into her head with suffering, and responded to the doctor’s look by a mean- fore- ile Raphael's prophetic list—al- ized as a rival to Zadkiel's— Mars or some other planet ingless stare. Her body was wasted untii '8,t0 be at perihelion or periges, or some- it seemed that her ribs would burst throuzh her skin. Her legs could not have with- where else as to Washington this year and that great turbulence will spread over the nation and that the President's life will be i ait for years, An American child will pick out | 2nd had very little compassion for those in Stood even her light weight, and she looked eerlo * pretty girl to do but catch things? But cf the ship is divided up into messes of| ner doll's aiei te ecstion an peat se them, |l'mbo. And they seldom appealed to him | 8 if she had been unearthed from a monta |!" Ser! better by fores ling, after io | what all these innocent and pretty looking about twenty each, and each has a caterer) ang dig big holes in her ribs to let the exe, | £ot Clemency. But he understood the 000 | ol grave. |reference to orbits and planets, that a: decoys have been leading women up to whose duty it is to manage the expenses of | 2"4 ig big holes in her ribs to W? | President's’ womanish weakness in the| She wore nothing but the remains of an for the past few months is well shown in as the “as large as life, the third stration. Here it ts, sideshowman would say, as plain as day, twice as natural and even more alluring”—the overskirt. Ugly as we thought it last spring, it has crept upon us till dresses lik= this model are offered, made nd worn. The materials are rich and it is the mess, and a cook, both taken from among themselves. When the Christmas draws near some of the extra money is al- ways “chipped in” to buy a turkey and the things that always go with this holiday bird. Often beatloads of evergreen are ob- tained and used with flags to decorate the gun deck, where the repast is served, and all are happy for awhile, to go ashore,later and | | | dust out; in fact, make her “a thing of shreds and patches’ in less than twenty- four hours. The little Japanese lady carries her doll as if it were made of precious stuff, and keeps It very carefully. When she is grown to a woman she has all her dolls and toys in a good state of preservation. One little matron of eighteen or nineteen sum-| mers took me in the godown, the fire-proof Presence of human suffering, and yielded | his own judgment to Mr. Lincoln's personal requests or orders in behalf of prisoners or other unfortunates in the hands of the mil-| itary. e The Judge Advocate’s Report. | An inquiry as to the status and previous | history of young Prentice was directed by, old calico wrapper. The doccor saw that she could not live long. The boy explained that she had been kept in the room for two weeks, with nothing to eat save the crusts which he had managed to steal for her, and for the last two days, he exclaimed tearfully, she had not cared for them, and had eaten nothing. As they were talking, the father of the archy will run riot in great America, that fires will prevail from the At- dent or a member of ,his cabinet will be in the direst sort of Jeopardy, Santa Claus has sent his corps of pioneers celebrate according to their own peculiar idea. Then it is said that kind captains grow lenient at this time and pass lightly the offense of some unfortunate “jackey” who takes one glass too much. If in a home port the crew sometimes give a ball to their sweethearts of that port, it being presumed | the Secretary to the judge advocate gen-| child returned, kicked the boy out of the | |Array ot dois. that’ was quite ‘surprising. eral of the army. ‘This was Joseph Holt, oom and ordered the doctor’ alay ors be | They were beautifully dressed, and looked as| Mr. Buchanan’s last Secretary of War Valued his a When they were outside the if they had been bought yesterday. another Kentuckian, with a stiff, unfilnch. | oom. the yes = Beano oa dean taint day ot the-thinamienthe rt thie tune | ine Union Dackbone, and one, too, having | “she my child,” he said, “you no touch | all the dolls of the family, some of them | 2” Intimate knowledge of the various rami-/ her, you get hurt, she girl, and ain't no that there is “one in every port,” and the | hundreds of years old, are brought out, and [ape tatie) os Diue srass POulics, WHO, unuke good. She no work in breaker. She no band Is pressed into service if it Is a flag-/ for three days great festivities are carried | MY Lincoln, was aes, “ueheas tacecelved | drive mule, she no make money; me no ship, but if not, those of the crew who can| on, There are dolls dressed like the mikado | &Y emMoucnal appeals, such as that of Mr. fool; me no feed her; grow her up, "cause —his sappers and miners—on ahead, and they are already intrenched on B street be- tween 10th and 11th streets. The odd thing about it all, however, is the fact that they make their fight in front of instead of be- hind their fortifications. Their battlements | consist of a wall of evergreen trees, with outworks of holly. “We don't bring in the : | Spruce pines,” said one of guards whom play an instrument, from a jew's harp toa) and his wife in antique court costumes, |/Temtice in beuuit of an only son. in an-| she no good. She grow up, she get married, |I addressed yesterday, “because they break cornet, furnish the music, for necessity 1s daimios, samurais and so on down the social | ®\€% the stern old judge advocate general she go way. Where go grub she eat? Me |in the toting. Then, ‘too, this reg"lar pine Dark ecru cloth, cloak trimmed with | tne mother of invention. These mixed or. scale, each ancestry carried on with great | Vid the fouowing caustic statement, which no get pay for it. Boy, he all right, is prettier.” The trees are from eight to bands of otter and dark brown velvet, hat chestras may have harps, fiddles, banjos, | nicety and precision. Oftentimes all the | #8 @ bit of history in itself: work, he of brown velvet. From Vogue. make money for his ten feet high and with their abundant fol- good boy.’ jage interspersed now and then with pretty The doctor went home and told his story, |Sray brown cones they look as though they and half a dozen young miners went to migh' it have been grown to the order of that the place to sce if anything could be done | venerable white bundle of jollity who climbs bugles and accordions in careless profusion, | household furniture in miniature is packed but the last is always sure to be prominent, »|away with the dolls and brought out on for the “bluejackets,” with their charac. | 7V°¥ h = | feast day. At such times the trays, bowls, teristic application of sea terms to every-| cups and rice baskets are filled with tiny | thing. calJl it the “in and out jigger,’* and JUDGE ADVUCATE GENERAL'S OFFICE, May 16, 1863. The Secretary of War: Clarence J. Prentice, born and residing in| father; he boy. Kentucky, at the breaking out of the rebel- for the child. They were too late. As they | roofs ih 1 vs. Th “ADS food, and fare si S ‘s and shoots down chimneys e trees consider it indispensable. eee aise the Tiree tenet ee ee | Many 1ert his home and entered the military reached tHe shanty they saw the fahe Shane te Sine tues But when at sea in the tropics, and there! °"S delicate kind of sake which is harmless | Service of the rebels, where, by his zeai and digging a shallow grave in the culm di ze. “But they'll is no turkey, no evergreen, and last and] ts hrewed for this occasion, and everything | ficiency as an officer, he attained the rank said my inform- ‘cause the good ones ‘ll all be gone indignation among the people of Nanticoke, an” most everybody will be supplied by that but as yet nothing has been done toward time.” The man’s erudition s0 astonished punishing the brutal father. me that I could hardly understand a sec- ond avant courier, who had just brought an a wagon load of holly and Who allowed: |"‘It you-all pay the prices you did jast | Christmas, I ought to get about $20 out of this load.” TOM THE TRAWLER. greatest, no liberty, it would seem hard for! jg done for the household of dolis as care, | Of major, which position he now holds. He “jackey” to appropriately celebzate the day | fully as if they were real creatures of flesh , Joined in the recent military invasion of his of “peace and goodwill,” yet he goes at it| and blood. ‘The tiniest of combs and brush. | Bative state, and having by some means not with a will, as he does at everything, be it | es and other toilet accessories, such as paint | €XPlained become separated from his com- Work or play, and generally succeeds very | Snd powder, red and white, as well as the | Mand he availed himself of the opportuni Well, considering the limited means at his | jiquid for blackening the teeth when. the | © make a clandestine visit to his father's disposal, Of course the dinner consists of| doll is married—all are there, the smallest | house in Louisville, where he was captured canned beef, “salt horse” the jackeys call iece made with as much care and finish as | The authorities have not thought proper to. it, canned tomatoes,corn, and nothing fresh, | Pr sq? made | proceed against him as a spy, but have — A Regular Walk-Over. From Trutb. if it were to belong to the mikado himself. Here tt is. Yet to be seen whether the women who can- Rot trig themseives out in costly fabrics Bill adopt this nightmare mode of the sum- Mer and f. The underskirt is made of beige and is banded around the bot- gallocn. The overskirt is and front, and forming les, with the cloth aped pli evers that and around Ider seam to drs t sementerie ornamented with standing collar is d the belt consists The sleeves have a large puff an . Ul t cuff, & word of warning should be spoken to! ‘Triple cape evening ev § wrap, pale blue molre, rimmed with ermine, collar of ermine, if the ship has been at sea some time. But| a skillful cook can make a passable dinner | ¢ even with such odds against him. Potatoes, “spuds” they are universally called by the sailors, form an important part of the feast, in the stews, soups and everywhere,for they are always pleasant. A Race Over the Mast. After the dinner is over the sports of the day begin with a race over the masthead. The contestants line up on the sheerpole at the foot of the rigging; when the word is given to go, then up they go like so many monkeys, stepping from ratline to ratline as the ship rolls in the seaway faster than many a “land lubber” could run up an or- dinary stairway. Very soon one more agile than the rest gets ahead and, unincumbered by the others crowding him, gains rapidly and comes out an easy winner; but it is e exciting when two break away from For three days the girls run riot with heir dolls and toys, and then the latter are again locked up in the storehouse to remain another year without seeing the light. Rather hard lines for the little ones, isn’t {t? —_—~eoo—_____ Miss Helen Carroll, sister of Royal Phelps Carroll, the owner of the yacht Nav. ahoe, and granddaughter of the late Royal | girl in her own right in the city of Wash- ington. She inherited her income of $40,000 | a year from her grandfather, and possesses | what are often considered unnecessary qualifications for an hetress--beauty of face and kindness of heart.—Harper’s Bazaar. FOR NERVOUS DEBILITY a€D Dys- PE TA Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. 8. H. CHAPMAN, New Haven, Ct., 5 1 have used it to a considerable extent in practice, | Phelps of this city, 1s said to be the richest | treated him as a prisoner of war, and as such he is now confined at Camp Chase. His father, speaking of him in a letter to the President, says he desires, I know, to serve no longer in the war, and in consid- eration of this seeming weariness of the crime in which he has been engaged he asks that on his taking the simple oath of a non- combatant he may be allowed to go any- where outside of the United States and of the rebel confederacy. | Clarence J. Prentice himself has made no | communication to the government express- ive of his feelings in regard to the war or of his future plans and purposes. When prisoners of war are willing to take the oath of allegiance it is the practice to per- mit them to do so. When they are not willing they have been invariably ex- changed under the cartel. The intermediate course now proposed has not been pursued, because the government would thereby lose the advantage of the exchange. and because during the past three years and have found it a jam and “leg it" neck and neck for the ‘ crosstrees, one going over forward of the valnub’e remedy in nervous debtity and ateric dyspepsia.” no satisfactory or reliable guarantee would Sexist thet prisoners thus tenderly dealt “with would not at the first opportunity re- | | _ > Finis. ‘The end draws near. By Fates unseen directed Our paths diverging teud. To lives monotonous the Unexpected Comes as a friend, While for a moment joyous srailes of meeting The gathering shades dispel “Ave et * “Lo! the ancient greeting, Hail and Farewell! A moment more! And@ sadness follows after, In bursts of keen rerret That put to silence ail the happy laughter Wherewith we met. ‘The past is dead, the present swiftly fading, ‘And in ature dwell Hopes faint and few. our longing glance evading. ail, and Farewell! The time has come? "Mid alien scenes and faces ‘Our lessening lives must lie, And pass henceforth through solitary places Beneath a stormy sky, hands, old friend! Against our best endeaver The tides of Memory swell, thowe who part indeed forever,