Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1894, Page 15

HEADS AND HEELS Suap Shots at Parisian Types of Pedestrians. 77H BY THEIR FEET Local Coloring of the French Artists and Journalists. TRIPPING ALONG PAVEMENTS Spociat Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, February 6, 1894. N PARIS THEY have @ proverb: “Let me see your shoes, and I will tell you who you are.” The proverb is a true one, and a mere refinement on a prin- ciple which even tourists soon pick out and learn to base their judgments on. In Paris individuals do not exist. The people fall in classes. The special subdivisions of these classes, the most piquant, most interesting or the most in view, are called, in writers’ jargon, “types.” For instance, there are fifty styles of shop girls. But the one most loved, most sung in story and enbalmed tn romance is the “trottin,” she who, in a regulation pasteboard box, takes home to customers from small and select shops their purchases of gowns and bonnets. She fs a trottin, for she trots along the street. She stops to look in jewelers’ windows. She knows, be- cause she is employed upon such things, exactly what her style of dress should be to mock and emulate the latest modes and yet to keep her own. She ts for out-door Paris what the smart soubrette is for the service of rich houses; and all the archness and the tantalizing deviltry of stiff-starch- ed parlor maids is found in her. She ls a “type.” and you can tell her presence by her shoes. when she is skurrying by with her umbrella. When she ts working over bats and bonnets in the patron’s shop she wears old run-down slippers. Her shoes, her precious pride, the crown and clou of her filrtations, stand in wooden forms, oil- ed, wined up and burnished, with new Strings. So, when -you see these smart, Strong shoes, neat black stockings and a sober tinted woolen skirt held by a nervous hand, and see them darting, diving in and out the Paris crowd, like sea gulls on a billowy tide, you know the trottin passes. it is an axiom in Paris: “Serious women do not wear chaussettes.” Chaussettes are what we call half hose at home. The shoes upon these feet are patent leather trifles, made to look quite small be- cause they have big bows upon the instep; and their owners wear these little patent leathers all the year. Peasant or Laandress. When you see wooden shoes upon the street, you need not look up, for you know their owner is a laundress or a peasant girl. The common cabmen also wear these wooden shoes, because they have no walk- ing and they keep their feet much warmer ir. them than in leather. Laundresses con- tinue wearing them because the floors of the lavoirs, the public washing rooms main- tained by the municipality, are always wet, and so their feet do not get water- legged. Peasants wear the wooden shocs because their parents did; because they cost but thirty cents a pair, and last for- ever. ‘These notes on heads and heels deal but with types. types as distinct and weil rked out in Paris as all the various cters of Punch and Judy shows; types as new and unknown to America as pre- ose fossil bones are found ie clay. vpped round and i by such @ pair of pant ¢ (youthful) Paris artists, ts, fond of local color ar ns, find the high- ir inward graces. that she hi tually d neigh- They are jose patterns plaids, when sure-enough panta- to knee breeches. With s and the poets wear light » coquetting. As use of ingrowing 4 to look up to their joes, and limp, or lank lovelocks of ; his sickly tuft, his sal- his absinthe leer, his cigarette. - he puts on willfully, for the same rill not wash; he wishes to m the bourgeois, the m which he springs. muses he becomes rank in life, where he high his sympathies annot make himself the old e will be Bol n—whence Ml, to mark m the jeunes gens young men. He cuts allows his hair erles when he is Bal Builier and s models de- nd are delighted in their nsion and his tles In the air us and mistresses of 2t when Bu fame comes, the uts his hair—a: ind their acquaint- and st. kings of the young man in Paris are yet more delicate eady-made. The panta- y slish, and the hat and coat and everything, up to the monocle. The Uttle island ru loons are a a Al AlN MR Bh tl ls Cha MN RB EOS De i De a Oe cE ee een Rae EEE eaaniseeucieeeiiereneecesesienaeestaentcoeseeantsennriateninesnetase neato: eee Fae Re Ce on iat ee Se Neal SIE I Mls dO i lel eae res SA eee Ea | | pants extst in bars| of the feet. en fondly chris- {two physicians reg: er since the time when | the scenes, in the | rest. t is of the first haif| these strange pains come to the feet. 1 | ir poet-artist con- | THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1894A-TWENTY PAGES. 7 7 France as it does elsewhere, everywhere, in are the price of strength and sureness, are Spain and the South ich of one great Lon-_ house, the same which made so good a thing out of Alfonso, the late King of Spain, | whose miscellaneous bills were $50,000 every t Germany, in Italy, in — The Paris bran year, can show you on their books names of men so far apart as the Prince de Sagan, the cousin of the mikado, and Mr. Wiliam H. Vanderbilt. It is only in their shoes the true French dandies utterly ne- glect the English modes. They cannot wear the heavy shoes of Englishmen; they have not robust out-door habits, and their needs are delicate. They know their feet are small and rejoice. Common Soldier. The army puts its conscripts in the coarsest and most comfortable brogans. Since the great change, made last year, each ablebodied youth of France, however rich or studious, must put in his three years of ac- tual military service. The great majority, of course, are used to heavy shoes. But the rich youths, who heretofore, for various rea- sons, like the university, escaped with ten months’ service, now must wear the brogans for the same full time the peasant son is absent from the farm. It ts a sacrifice, of all the most detestable, and even ranks above such inconveniences as emptying pots and making horses’ toilets. Their lady- mothers blench and quiver with heroic pangs when letters come with tales of bleeding heels and throbbing corns; and they write letters back: “My son, it is for France!” The Army Officer. ‘The social difference of shoes is marked so strictly in the army that men blind from their birth can tell the crisp, free step of some smart officer from the uncertain clump-clump of the common marehing sol- dier. The pantaloons of an infantry officer of the line are a fine darkish red, wide at the waist and tapering sharply down be- neath the knees; to be stuffed into boots the finest and most elegant you could con- ceive, which have a special crinkle just above the instep, not unlike the lower con- tours of the Bohemian artist-poet’s English pants. Both are a relic from the times when it was thought the height of grace for men’s pantaloons to bag around the hips and tighten sharply at the instep—perhaps as well to ward off fleas, which swarm the streets In summertime.’ But what seems strange and almost hateful in the pants of the Bohemian, because it is affected, looks distinguished and decorous in the of an officer, because it is a uniform and must be worn by regulation. Net Dancer. As to the ballet girl—the serious dancer, trained who ¢ me on in serried ran’ , With spears and helmets in an amazonian march—it is | a curious thing that their two special fes are of the head and feet. The # health of ballet girls in France ts perfect, splendid, wonderful. Their exercise keeps them trained down to “ the fine freshness ef | ailow one person to enter. These s a fighter. The first and spe . ae provided with ollas, in which water baliet girls is shown ains and provisions were stored, and we At the Grand Op: 4 of long sacaton grass, mixed ly practicing t DY aint sually about tw for accidents from shifting nd eight or nine feet in width scenery, fainting fits, congestions and the| was in perfect preservation, If me is spent in doing for the corp: They seek by every means to make the girls lay off whenever The Paris Flower Girl, later consequences are very cruel. bones are injured by the strain, which hi been thus neglected, and the little than the Bohemian artist-poet’s, | It 1s a chronic nose-cold, | which in {ts time has raised up hurrica of bravos from the salle, sloughs off and dries up in a horrid st The trouble of the serious-w: is yet more curious and concer to them. It is the gi venience, because tt for entirely through t vents their smil ng properly. And_ the men’s fashions here in| fatiguing exerctses in the daytime, which The | to tackle, foot, second ‘made more fatiguing by this enforced and constant breathing through the mouth. ‘The malady becomes in many cases a chronic inflammation of the nasal cavities, for which the only cure is absolute repose for months, | One little picture of the shoes and stock- ings of a Paris flower girl must conclude these snap shots at che under world along the pave. Patched and sagging on her little flutes and gaping at the toes and run down at the heels, a type free from all coquetry, at least, is touched in these. There is no need to look into her pinched and mobile face—like a wood violet that has come out to bloom too svon and hangs all chilled and spattered by the rain and mud and winds. STERLING HEILIG. seca THE JUMBO OF TREES, A Petrified Monster 60 Feet Through and 600 Feet in Length. From the San Francisco Examiner. The largest tree in the world lies broken and petrisied at the end of a defile in north- Western Nevada. Its dimensions are so great that those who know of its existence hesitate to tell the story, because they | hardly expect to be believed; but there is sufficient evidence to give the tale credit, improbable though it may seem. This tree makes the monarchs of the Mariposa grove seem like imposters, and compared to it “the tallest pine grown cn Norwegian hills to be the mast of some | reat admiral” is but a wand. As for the story of its discovery, it is thus told by “Dad” Lynn of Fresno, and supported by Other equally well-known people: “Back in i8w0 a company of about forty- five left Red bluff to prospect the then un- Known country beyond Honey Lake andj} Surprise Valley. There were in the party lawyers, butchers and shoemakers, but we were one-sided on one point: each individual felt positive that this was the turning poiat of his existence, and that bright, shining gold in unlimited quantities would reward the rather unpleasant jaunt. “The Indians—we calied them Bannacks— Were at that time raising hair, and very many sudden moves were at times neces- sary in order to get rid of their unwelcome attentions. Finding but little gold in this section, we traveled toward Baker county | Oregon, through a country entirely de- nuded of timber, except a few dwarf cotton- Woods along the waterways. Close to tke Baker county line we came to an opening in | the rocks, about wide enough for our wagons to go through, and on either side — loomed up precipices 500 and 600 feet high. | The crevasse was about fifteen miles long, | and at its end, just to the right of the | trail, we found a number of petrified tree | stumps of different heights and sizes, “In their midst on the ground lay a monster tree, somewhat imbedded in the soll. It was completely petrified, and, from | the clean-cut fractures of the trunk, seemed to have fallen after its petrifaction. At its butt this tree was quite sixty feet in di- | ameter. We measured its length with al tape line. It was just 666 feet long. No limbs remained, but in the trunk were clefts where apparently limbs had broken | off. Amberlike beads of petrified pitch or gum adhered to the sides of the trunk for a distance of 100 feet or more. “Where the huge trunk was broken squarely off the center seemed transparent, | and the growth marks showed in beautiful concentric rings. Its natural appearance was handsomer than any dressed marble cr mosaic I ever have seen, and we all ex- pressed the opinion that it would make a wonderfully beautiful floor and incerior finish for some grand buildin; “I don't often tell this story, because people do not believe it, but I could go to the place now without the least trouble and point oyt this wonder. Judge Courtney Talbot of Tulare was one of our party, and here is an extract from a letter I recently aoe from him, which corroborates my tale: “Tulare, Jan. 8, 1804. “ ‘My dear old friend: I have scarcely ever told about that tree. I once met our old companion, Mr. Whitesides, and told him my recollection about the tree—that it was | sixty feet in diameter and 666 feet long and perfectly petrified. I told him I scarce- ly ever mentioned it, the story being too big for credence. He said: ““Tell it when and where you please. I stand ready to make affidavit to those fig- “ ‘I afterward met old Allen Hardin,and he said the same thing. I can call to the stand to verify the statement, Col. McKinsey, Holt Fine, Sam King, T. Q. Shirley, your- self and any member of our company that may be within reach. I have often won- dered why a great curiosity like that should remain unobserved so long.’ “Now I stand ready to prove all this to any Doubting Thomas who wishes to look upon one of nature’s grandest freaks, and who will pay the expenses of the trip. see MEXICAN CAVES AND MU dies. Underground Relics of a Former oO Mantion in Chihaahua, From the San Francisco Examiner. Moses Thatcher, the millionaire apostle and financler of the Mormon Church, whose home is in Logan, Utah, is residing for a time at 220 Van Ness avenue. Mr. Thatch- er has been an apostle of the Mormon Church since 1879, and nis lite has been devoted to the building up of the kingdom of the latter days. He has spent many years In exploring the vilds and beauty lands of Mexico. In the state of Chihuahua the Sierra Ma- dre mountains, Mr. Thatcher states, held for him the greatest attractions. West of the Casas Grandes valley, through which flows the Piedras Verdes, a lovely river, which connects with the San Miguel in the lower part of the valley and forms the Casas Grandes river, there is an exceeding- ly beautiful expanse of country. It is in- terspersed with mountains moderate size, a branch of the Sierra Madre range, and not far from where the celebrated Sa- binal mines are located on the Corralitos anch, one of the richest regions, pregnant h gold and silver ore, awaiting the ad- vent of the prospector and the iron horse. Many places [ passed through,” said the apostle, “strongly reminded me of the placer ground in the Sierra da moun- tains, head of the American river. of the the The great i milarity and all al. ‘oil most Indications are ounced, ron in identi The Mormon colony was the first to set- ue in the Sierra Madre range in this re- gion. They camped right on the trail of the dreaded Aj settlements Pa s 1, who was secret: Mexicans were astounded of these pioneers, and consid tion inevitabie. “In a radius of 100 miles t onry to build two cities the s . and this tells the tal zation that once flourish od a sitio, or a li some time adjoinin, part of this a dozen cav were Walled up Ww half feet thick, with only pc narrow aperature left suff e t the boline and, wa wide to ently The caves were divided into apartments, one of them con oms. Upon the walls ar acter writings of the anci ainel seventeen stil fresh chav- at inhabdttants doin th by Lord Kingsbury. | i v m- and a celebrat- $ long ago found more relics in them than he had jn a search of 150 miles elsewhere.” —~-e2+—_—___ An Orator Who Overdid It. Indianapolis Journal, 3, said the statesman, “I defeated myseif by my own eloquence once.” “How was that?” “I was a candidate for the nomination for Congress, and I got up and made a speech to the convention in which I just naturally flung Old Glory, with a capital O and a cap- ital to the breeze in so enthusiastic a 15 RELICS OF THE WAR A Curious Collection of the Personal Effects of Soldiers. MEMENTOS FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS Bounty Bonds and Other Articles Awaiting Claimants. AN OLD-TIME SCANDAL N THE OFFICE OF the second auditor of the treasury (here is a curious and val- uable collection of war relics, no public mention of which has hitherto been made, and as very few per-. sons, even in the of- fice itself, are aware of the existence of these relics, some ac- count of them, to- gether with a brief statement of the circumstances under which they happen to be in the auditor’s posses- sion, will, doubtless, interest the thousands of Grand Army men who read The Star, as well as the public at large. The law, as set forth in the 125th, 126th and 127th articles of war (section 1342 U. S. Revised Statutes), directs that the ef- fects of deceased officers and soldiers shall be inrmediately secured by the major of the regiment in cases of officers, and by com- pany commanders in cases of enlisted men, and an inventory thereof forwarded to the War Department; also that “officers charg- ed with the care of effects of deceased offi- cers or soldiers shall account for or deliver the same, or the proceeds thereof, to the legal representatives of such deceased ofli- cers or soldiers.” The old army regulations required that the effects of enlisted men, if Not claimed within a short period after their death, should be sold, and the proceeds de- posited with a paymaster. Although the law and regulations clearly contemplated the sale of all unclaimed effects, it often any way; making the total amount of his operations $4,740. Other War Relies. Another class of war relics consists of bank books, certificates and checks, amounting to about $14,009, a) payable to the order of soidiers, and therefore as safe as such securities can be. In a few in- stances the banks, Jay Cooke & Co., for example, failed years ago, and the pa: books and certilicates are “back numbers,’ but in the great majority of cases if the heirs of the soldiers could be found the banks would pay on proper indorsements. As some of the deposits were made thirty years ago the accumulated interest far exceeds the principal, and the certificates, &c., would be a lite fortune to the Irish or German heirs of the soldiers, whose names leave little doubt as to their nation- ality. The checks were mostly issued by United States disbursing officers, and the money is in the treasury awaiting appli- cations from those to whom it legally be- longs. A less desirable class of effects consists of promissory notes, due bills, &c., amnount- ing to more than $5,000. Among the notes are two for $700 each and cne for $1,250, daied February and March, 1805, also one for $500, dated April 3, 1855, all payable at short periods, sixty and ninety days after date. The three first mentioned notes no doubt represent part of the big bounties given during the last few months of the war. The one for $500 belonged to a sub- stitute who was accepted in M: 1865, and the correct date of the note is prob- ably April 3, 1865, instead of 1856. It looks as if the drawer of the note might have in- tended to play a “little game” on the sub- |stitute by giving him a promise to pay, which, being antedated nine years, was apparently outlawed three years before it was actually issued. One ‘soldier of the second United States aptillery evidently made a bad investment of his bounty money. Among his effects are some shares of the American Flag Company of San Francisco, Cal., and papers showing that he had embarked $1,400 in that concern. Whether the shares of the American Flag Company were ever worth the paper they are printed on, even making a liberal al- lowance for the gleaming stars and stripes with which the paper is profusely deco- rated, is not known to the writer, but they are certainly of no value now, the com- pany having given up the ghost years ago. Picked Up by the Way. Some of the effects seem to indicate that the boys occasionally were pickers up of unconsidered trifles, probably when they were on foraging expeditions. For ex- ample, one soldier who was on duty along the Potomac left $470 in bills of the Chesa- peake and Ohio Bank, dated in the fifties, which had no value when he obtained them and never will have any. They may rep- resent the savings as well as the bad luck of some thrifty Maryland or Virginia farm- er. Another soldier had by some means or other become possessed of a warrant for |160 acres of land, bat the warrant could i } happened that watches, pocketbooks, rings, | have been of no use to him, as It is not &c., were sent to the adjutant general of |in his favor and has not been assigned or the army, by whom they were kept unul | transferred. Another had picked up some 1864, when Gen. Townsend prevailed upon original patents for lands in one of the the second auditor (E. B. French) to assume | Southern states, possibly when he was charge of them, although the latter was | marching through Georgia. As ancient doc- satisfied that he had no legal authority to | uments they were interesting and might receive them. In the same year the War | be valuable to the owner of the land, but Department issued a general order tiat aS effects of the soldier who left them upon the death of an officer his effects, if | their value is nil. not ¢laimed within two months, should In addition to a lot of uncurrent bank at sold and the proceeds sent to the treasury. Swords, watches, trinkets, and similar ar- ticles were, however, not to be sold, but forwarded through the adjutant general to the second auditor to await the application of heirs. Though not strictly warranted by law, the War Department may be justified in exempting from sale such articles would be prized, far above their inirinsic value, by the heirs of soldiers, as memen- tos of their deceased relatives, and as the second auditor is charged with the settle- ment of claims for arrears of pay, &c., due tne heirs of deceased officers and soldiers, it is not improper that at the same time he shall determine to whom the effects shall go. During the last thirty years many par- cels of effects have been delivered to the heirs of soldiers by the auditor, but a large and heterogeneous collection remains .un- claimed, including articles left by officers aad soldiers of the regular army who have died since the war, Bonds for Bounties. Among the war relics there are some bounty bonds, amounting to upward of $5,- 000, which deserve special mention. When the President called for 1,500,000 three-year volunteers in 1863 and 1864 large bounties were oifered in many states, not only by the states themselves, but also by counties, might be filled without recourse to a draft. In several cases these bounties were pi in’bonds running for different periods, w interest. As a partial security against de- sertion, the United States took possession of a soldier's bounty, whether in cash, checks or bonds, and did not deliver it to him until he joined his regiment in the field. On the Jement of the Elmira and Harrisburg draft rendezvous acco' considerable amount of bounty remained in the hands of United States disbursing otfi- cers in consequence of the death or dese tion of recruits. All bounty money was de- posited in the treasury, and ultimatety patd to the National Home for Disabled Volun- teer Soldiers, Such bounty bonds and checks as were left unclaimed were turned over to the second auditor. Among the bonds some issued b roe, Oswog: also by the New York, and by Chester county, Penn: yania; Penn township, Easton and Middle- town, ennsylvania,and other places. Checks aggregating more than $6,000, drawn by a disbursing officer of the state of Pennsyl- vania, formed part of the Harrisburg as- sets. An Old Seandal Reenled. The mention of bounty bonds recalls an old scandal, which ed some sensation at the time and gave rise io many state- ments less more or incorrect. The real facts in the case were kno only to three or four persons, who observed a dis. creet now, facts th bonds and check: the second audite in a large enve veral imp posited in a privat ing clerk's reticence on the subj There however, no valid reason wh: should not be made pub! are When the nbove referred to reached "s office they were pla as foilo the disbur ing proper- vision who the safe raw the safe and a ath an was from the unt payin the ee { ! had trea Pon wecount of it, ¢ instead of depositia “miseellaneay of bounty issing was $4, as referred to t the money, ury as amount found m he v divi a thorough an in only result being a preity ing of the y's record upward. Tt were more it in So far as the ® concerned the ail. Wh had suspected. bonds than any o: Monroe dorsement to the to find out what renc came fr This he s he col through Adams ed their deliv the auditor being time—but no record , the money was not deposited in the or otherwise acconated was absolutely no reg M ene: manner that I took the house by storn I dilated on the greatness of our country, and on the responsibilities of the man’ who should be ez till ene 2 a back county got up and d convinced him that it was oung a man as I was so he ed that the conv | tion nominate a man of more experienc and, by gee, they did it. Since then I have sorter held myself in check.” toe Recognized (he Symptoms. From Puck. “Who has No. 23 “Mr. Hayseed,” replied the boy. accounts for it, asked the hotel clerk. were p With regard to | seven-thirty bonds, that the person whe > drawer in. whic | kept and who did not he: | money through an e would not hesitate to first of the greenbacks and equally converti- neld under his own lock and key. It was subsequently discovered, by accident, that ed from the treasurer of th but failed to make a of it, a Monroe county bond for including in t, tha ble coupon “That d the clerk. “He has just sent down word that he's got a bad attack of asthma and wants a doctor. Rur up and tum off the gas.” he collected the money through Adams FE press Company as soon as the bond be- came due and did not account for it jn cities and townships, in order that quotas | al _| pins and button: 4 |notes, which in their day were all right enough, there are many wild-cat and red | dog bills, which were no doubt passed upon ‘the boys when they were scarcely | condition to distinguish a genuine bill from a circus poster. That may seem a violent supposition, but inasmuch as many of the bills are Incomplete, lacking both numbers, dates and signatures of the bank officers, \the persons who accepted them as money could not have been very wide awake. Quite a number of state bank bills which were turned over to the second auditor as un- current, or bogus, and as such had been refused by army paymasters, were found to be genuine and on presentation were | redeemed by the banks and the amounts | placed in the treasury. In these cases the heirs of the soldiers will get the money should they ever apply for It, as the records lof the office show that the soldiers are (ereditad with the proceeds of the bills. The collection of bogus money would not be |complete without confederate promises to | pay, of which several specimens were left lhy ‘deceased prisoners of war. The con- federate treasury notes, confelerate state bank bills and fractional currency, printed [on almost all kinds of paner that would re- \ceive and retain the impresston of print- ers’ ink, are renuine war relies in every | sense of those words. A Photographie Gallery. A column might be written on the collec- tion of photographs, ambrotypes and tin- types which form part of deceased sol- | dlers’ effects. Even the oli-time daguerreo- type is not absent. There are pictures of elderly people taken in far distant lands, perhaps the soldiers’ parents; there are buxom matrons and chubby infants, whom the soldiers left in the fatherland when they crossed the Atlantic to seek fortune | and find death instead. The soldiers them- selves are present In faticue dress, in full | uniform and even in citizens’ clothes. Their ‘comrades are here also, singly and squads. Two or three of the pictures are of | a somewhat grewsome character, being pho- tographs of unknown soldiers taken after death, apparently with the idea that they | might be rec zed at some future time. -| They were killed while facing the enemy. s evidenced by bullet marks on face and forehead. Not long since a photograph of lan officer of New York volunteers was | found among some old paymaster’s vouch- | ers. How it came there no one knew. The officer died during the war. After some In- | graph sent to her, much to her surprise. \ was like a message from a loved one | had been dead for more than a quarter of a century. A few months ago one of the paymasters on duty in the War Department had ecca- sion to overhaul the contents of an old safe, which had been used by his predecessors for no one knows how long. Among cther things he found a parce! drawn on assistant York, in 1862 and 186 of soldiers of two s checks, 5 in nu » not indors of pr or payment. were transferred to the second augitor. ppears that the paymaster by whom y were drawn was a defaulter to the ex- of ¢ junction with a public funds y of timber on quiries his widow was found and the eee t 1 of allotment checks treasurer, New i to pureh land inV light, it v s dil ut his official bond So informal and defective that the sure could not be , and the matter v compromised by the government taking pos on of the timber, the master be ue there into the va a sw 1 with shuple dis » most singular were is no rec- any of th r the ar to $100 s Gue them, which ach. ches by the Peek, The remainder of the war reli. a miscell ‘ortm cons’ about half a of gold, silver, n brass watches, of them vain ers worthle ilver, bras: gu rings bone rings make up fag rkel and ple, oth- nd so: S except and all kinds, including prisoners of war; by sleeve and collar button earrings, scarf pins, Odd Fellows’ and Masonic em. blems, watch charms, gold pens, stylograph- life pens, pe marksman's med: , corps badges, medals of nd Egyptian medals an rand cross of the French r a a native of Germs from the ranks commission 5 w icles n’ i of vor tion. pi ra: pocke’ rumen knots, ep 3 and other war paint, randum books, diarle 20k: walle is corkscrews, old coins, boxes, ma deeds for “k Bibles locks ¢ han vali pocket even approximate- > of the watches, je: al or face va fts, checks borhood ——+e2—____ » Improvement, | ingham—"You pay Mary’s new | singing teacher twice as much as you did | the other one, don’t you?” Mrs. Porkingham—“Yes; | celebrated teach Mr. Porkingha he’ r in the city. m (in disgust)—“Well, he's a beat! Mary don’t sing a bit louder now than she di learning her. er made ap- | WORK OF ONE DAY The Hardest-Worked Man is dent Cleveland. VERY LIPTLE REST DCES HE GET Sundays He Tries to Become nted With His Family. Ac- qua A FEW COMPENSATIONS HO WOULD NOT enjoy being Presi- dent of the United States just for one day? Well, it is all a matter of taste. If you like work and worry for sixteen hours at a stretch you might find the experience agreeable. For the sake of illus- tration, take a typi- cal day as it is spent by Mr. Cieveland. At exactly 8 a. m. the President gets out of bed. He is a rapid dresser and shaves himself, though Uncle Sam provides him with a colored @alet, borne on the pay rolls as a messenger, who is a tonsorial expert. He is all ready when, half an hour later, Sinclair announces breakfast. Sinclair is Mr. Cleveland’s family butler. His most conspicuous characteristic is discretion. When a newspaper man asks him for any information, no matter how trifling, he replies: “Our folks do not like publicity. Just at present he is a government em- ploye, acting as steward of the White House. The President escorts his wife down to the cozy private dining room. It is a nand- some but not pretentious apartment, with two enormous sideboards, filled with com- plete services of solid silver and gold. Mrs. Cleveland sits opposite her husband at a circular table, and pours out his coffee with her own fair hands. In the middie of the board is a great bouquet of rare or- chids from the conservatories of the Exec- utive Mansion. Sinclair, mute and obser- vant, waits, assisted by a menigl of in- ferior rank, who fetches whatever may be wanted from the pantry adjoining. Mr. Cleveland’s cup, of generous size, is like an eggshell. Probably it could not be duplicated, if broken, for $100. It is one piece in a set of china made to order for the White House, which cost 35,00). His water tumbler is cut glass of the most cosy sort. The napkin with which ne wipes his lips is big as a towel and of the finest linen that can be spun. He fs helped to ham and eggs, of which he is very fond, from a dish of massive silver, wi the American eagle engraved upon if. Si clair is under bonds of $20,000 to properly care for these expensive appurtenances; but he is not responsible for reasonable breakage. The Work of the Day. Breakfast over, the President goes up- stairs and enjoys a few minutes’ conver- sation with little Ruth and Baby Esther in Mrs. Cleveland’s boudoir. His watch tells him at length that the hour for work has arrived, and he leaves the private apart- ments and the pleasures of domesticity to enter the official wing of the White House and take up the affairs of state. At 9:30 he is seated in a big leather-covered chair at the desk in his office, and Private Sec- retary Thurber comes in with his morn- ing’s budget. For an hour already Mr. Thurber has been busy with the morning's mail, which consists of 300 to Suv letters. Early in the administration, when office seekers were more active, 1,500 was not an unusual batch. A few epistles, evidently of a private na- ture, he ptts aside. Those which do not ppear to be of any special importance he serds to the executive clerk, who dictates replies to a stenographer. Others he reads, reserving for the President's eye such of them as require his attention. Of these last there may be a doven or twenty. The bulk of his correspondence is never seen by Mr. Cleveland. If he tried to at- tend to it all himself he would have no time for anything else. Civil answers are sent to courteous communications. Auto- graphs of the President and his wife are mailed to most people who ask for them. Missives from palpable cranks are thrown into the waste basket. The whole of this business is accomplished without even both- ering the chief magistrate for instructions, The same remark applies to a majority of the letters addressed by strangers to Mrs. Cleveland. It is one of the penalties of her popularity that she {s appealed to for ad- vice and help by people all over the United as whom she has never seen nor heard of. An hour and a half is the time available for going over the selected letters with Mr. Thurber and for giving instructions on af- fairs of immediate importance. At 11, if the day be Tuesday or Friday, the cabinet meets. Each Secretary has a budget of bus- iness to lay before the President, compris- ing matters which only he can pass on and decide. It is apt to be 2 or 3 p.m. before everything is disposed of and the confer- ence adjourns. Then Mr. Cleveland lunch—too late, of course, to meet hi at that meal, which he eats in solitary state. Mrs. Cleveland usually chooses those days for the ladies’ luncheons which she gives frequently during the season, Work After Dinner. After lunch the President goes back to his office and works until 7 o'clock, which is dinner time. Gen. Harrison alw put on evening dress for the formal meal of the day; but, as a rule, Mr. Cleveland performs that ceremony only when there is com- pany. Dinner over, he and his wife have a half hour's romp with the children. Ruth is getting big enough now to appreciate larks. Then the father of the family re. turns to his desk and resumes his toil, whick continues until long after midnight—often until 2 or 3.a.m. When it is considered that all of the departments are constantly en- gaged in preparing matters for him to de- termine, and that every question which comes up in Congress must reach him soon- er or later for consideration and decision, | it will be understood th: ure is out of the question for him. He is the man from whom all things emanate and in whom all | things center, so far as the government of | the people of the United States is con- | cerned. It is said that he is the hardest worker that has ever occupied the chair of | chief executive. j Wednesdays, from 10 to 1, 3 d receives Con- gressmen and others who come on business. Notwithstanding much mistaken talk in the newspapers, Representatives and Senators who call at those hours do not have a not demanded of them that th their business in advanc reta Monday {s alwa which the chief magis' devoting the time to accumulated departmental bu relating to appointments, apy pardons, &c. On three week he devotes an hour to receiving the genera! public in the east room. Nedged Im by Ganrads. On these occasions the President fs always } in more or less danger of an attempt on his life by some murderous crank. Accordingly, he is fairly hedged in by guards. The caj tain of the Whit? House watch stands his right hand, while opposite him are stz tioned two other stalwart men. are armed with six-shoot which they would not hesitate to use if calied upon. Through the passage t formed by Mr. Cleveland and his protectors the en ceeds in single file, each perse brief grasp and shake of the h: while two other policem keenly cant for admission. T # to detect a dou! at a or nearly always. for anybody to make the chief executiv seized and disarmed. people, the Preside backward and te door into the ma n H t make ha the eland sees nothing and hears littie Ss and cranks who come to de- Sse men is deemed sufficiently remarkable to be worth adding to the so-called The frequent money which are addressed to the 4 mail — reach him. Persons who want m to indorse notes or to help them buy homes waste their time in writing hi He is not, as some individuals seem to im- agine, in the business of furnishing cash to lift the mortgages from old family estates threatened with foreclosures. Applicants The Correspondence. Even the telegrams addressed to Mr. Cleveland rarely get beyond Private Secre- tary Thurber. The President, by the way, conducts most of his dally correspondence with officers of the executive departments by the wire which connects the latter with the White House. He communicates with the Capitol in the same manner. A very laborious part of his business consists in signing his name to documents. this administration an old friend Spent an hour with him in his office. end of that time the visitor the whole, Grover, I don’t knot x.gu your job.” Said Mr. Cleveland in You've no call to, Jim.” Another ance which the lent has to is inflicted by delegations which © from ali parts of the country. He to be polite to them, though they — ae time and bore him ly. Usually they of candidates for Fong oaye et ae On fine days Mr. Cleveland get out sometimes for a drive, in wh! is always accompanied by Mrs. i ll if phaeton—the last’ his wife's ‘own he prefers a surrey, which about it than any of the the White House aor of thi *° >. coma a oO! e turnout, ti available for that purpose, te emsteee the stabie. Once in a while the finds time to go to the theater. It the urgent recommen Blaine that the vehicie— drives. No was at dation of James District Commissioners shington insisted that such a fire was much more eny other city in the coun often haypens that a the chief magistrate, the cabinet and other conspicuous Same night. Thus a catastrophe Sort might actually wipe out at one the principal men in the nation’ leaving the = om ship of state without One Day to Himscit. One day in each week Mr. Cleveland serves to himself. Sunday he devotes to Setting acquainted with his family and to “ppropriate amusements. On that day he does no work unless it is absolutely reces- 4 not visit the White House on this holiday. He is very fond of Playing with the chil- dren, though he is not expert like Gen. ison in making up bear stories for the entertainment of the little ones. Even Baby Ruth, however, is not oj enough yet to appreciate bear stories. Mr. Cleveland is hardiy nimble enough to indulge in pil- low fights, at which his predecessor was @ proficient. ‘Though so hard a worker Mr. Cleveland hugely enjoys a vacation. He is a thor- oughgoing sportsman fair shot. In this respect he is superior to Gen. Harrison, who on one distinguished himself by knocking over a tame hog in mistake for a ‘coon. He thinks it great fun to pop at ducks from behind @ biind, for which amusement the Chesa- peake affords unusual facilities; but be- yond all things he joves to troll for blue- fish. it is not very often that he gets time to use the billiard table which Presi- dent Garfield put up in the basement of the White House, but he is fairly expert at that game. He plays a good hand at whist and is rather at poker, ac- cording to the testimony of intimate friends who have contended with aim at a small limit. One of the penalties of being Presifent ts to be abused. No matter what Mr. Cleve- land does, he is violently attacked from some quarter. No matter whom he ap- points for an office, the nomination is sure to be termed “unpopular.” No man has ever been represented in the pictorial prints in a greater variety of unpleasant guises. Fortunately, he is gifted with a profound indifference to popular clamor. In that respect he may be compared with Gen. Grant. The latter cared not at all for the attacks of the caricaturista, though wife aid. Ni professes to be equally indifferent on the subject. He once said to the writer: “Caricaturists are great makers and unmak- ers of public men.” Probably they have done him more good than harm. Gov. Flower likes to be caricatured, but John J. Ingalls frankly confesses that comic por traits of himself are very painful to him. it is certainly very interesting to compare the physical characteristics of Mr. Cleve- land as represented pictorially by friendly artists with the presentments of himself by unfriendly penc’ RENE BACHE. ———e Idaho's Curious ural Gas Spring. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There is a natural gas spring in Idaho that is one of the most remarkable sights ever witnessed. It is about 100 miles from Botse City, and it is at the bottom of a can- yon. The rock here seems to be of a porous nature, and there are innumerable small holes and fissures. Riding along the can- yon one day prospecting I dropped a lehted metch, and immediately a bright blue fame sprang up. This lighted another and that another, 4 so on, until a space of about an acre in extent was covered with these flames, each arising about a foot in height. It was a beautiful sight, and the lights were still burning when I left there. The find ts of no practical value, as the fact that the gas issues from the surface of the earth 1s proof positive that the principal portion of it has escaped and it no ionger exists in paying quantities, but as a eari- osity I have never seen anythiag that equaled it. ——- +04 — It Didn't Go Far Enough. From Puck. The Father.—“I'd lke to get a couple of bottles of your anti-fat for my boy.” Fether (a week later).—“The boy tools those two bottles, and just look at him!” Anti-fat Pi —“it appears to have done its w rk well. It is hardly within Father (angrily).—“Does it? Jimmy, stam@ oi and let the gentleman look at you.”