Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1894, Page 15

AN ANCIENT PLACE Ki One of the Old Manor Houses in ‘This Vicinity. TWO EUNDRED ing enemy after the battle of Trenton. The original of this picture is a painting by Trumbull. It hangs now in the Yaie School of Fine Arts. A daughter of tnis Col. Par- Ker, and, therefore, cousin of Mrs. Jones, married the naval captain Wiillam Cowper, the gallant commander of the LEaitimore nd the son of that Capt. John Cowper who ited so heroically on the brig Dolphin. Mrs. Jones 1s, further, a granddaughter of John Sinclair of the navy, the son of Henry Sin- ¢lair of the family of the Earla of Caith- ness, Scotiand. ‘Tue Old M: YEARS IN ONE FAMILY House. A Visit to the Venerable Lady oft The estate of Clean Drinking Manor cov- Clean Drinking Manor. REVOLUTIONARY MEMORIES ee Wit, @EN" ively for The Evening Star, N last month I cele- red originally 1,409 acres, but it has been poset among the various members of the family and sold till but 25 acres are left of the original estate. The interior of the manor house is of a type well known in Maryland and Virginia, containing large square rooms of hospitable dimensions. In the drawing room, which is entered directly from the porch, staud numerous family heirlooms. On a high, triangular-shaped THE GTH OF | gilc-legged table are a pair of handsome gilt | Candelabra, beside various oiner oraaments brated the seventieth | Of rare and quaint workmanship. Above the in Norfolk, Va., band was then twen- ty-two years of age. I was twent Thus mused venerable _ hostess, Mrs. John Ccates Jones, the lady of Clean Drinking Manor. Montgomery county, Maryland, after she had bidden us to be seated on the broad veranda that sur- rounds half the manor house. This old frame mansion, which has sheltered sev- eral generations of men and women who have rende-ed loyal service to their coun- try, and around which are entwined mem- ries of colonial times, dear to the heart of every true American, stands today as it ‘was built in 1750. No changes nor altera- tions have been made in the house, except those which time works. On one side of the house are clustered what remain of the old Kitchen and servants’ qua-ters, built of bricks brought from England, Peak-roofed dairy and other outbuildings. On the other side. surrounded by an old- fashioned stone wall, is the manor garden, Now overgrown with hedges of boxwood, which at one time bordered the trim, fancifully-shaped flower beds, but are now So thick that they completely hide the Iit- tle beds they used to outline. Round the entire garden, inside the stone wall, is a Magnificent hedge of tall boxwobdd. This 4s reputed to be finer even than the famous “box"* at Mount Vernon, planted at about the same time. Roses and vines, lilac and other old-fashioned plants and shrubs, run riot now over porch, wall and outbuildings, making the house quaintly picturesque amidst its setting of tall cedars, locusts and hemic A Bit of the Olden Time. The old manor house, which, from its ap- Pearance and close surzoundings, would seem in place perhaps a hundred mites re- moved from the bustle and din and meve- ment of modern life, lies hin a few mnii- utes’ walk from this ei limits, and but Seven miles from the cates of the White Hous>. It is located on what is known as the Jones’ Mill read, which is about half a mile from ecticut avenue extended. Y situated, overlooking mites ou. ding country, and at its feet : historle waters of Rock creck. On the slope of the hill, about a huadred yards beneath the house, is the spring from the Parity of whose waters the curioug jie of the manor ts taken. On expressing a desire to see the’ si 4 were taken dewn to it, passing through oid apple orchard on our way. As we 1 ow ves with the realty fine wa- told that we were then stand- which Washinton ped there on his rg, after the defeat of He was 2ccompanied ¥ nt up to the manor house to vest family. Another event that | t adds to the historic in- © ts that during the Brit- and visit this recull terest of Uh isn invasto ton in Slt M bs postmaster of Wash ine uge at Clear Drinking a Keying We post office | ove tie British had gone. re taken to a og hecse then standi ppusiie the manor house. An mt Estate. The estate ef Cleen Drinking Manor has tien in Cie family whose deseendants live ince 1080, wher it became the erty of Col John ¢ of Coates or Col. who came from Sproxton, % It descended to Eliza- hier of Col. John Coates, sles Jones, ge anor house in 1750. land show this x n of great energy ison either John aa seventeen deeds for land, ne ruins of which still stand and to have been a mem- court of Montgouery . also a member of the safety. A granddaughter of this Chat anor Selden, Maycic ‘ington, the gras of Gea. Washington, and last Tnemuer of Gre Washington family to own ead revive at Mount V orl Drinking imuster White - ure of Jobn Coates Maj. Jones became a r, as ei trom Virsin in Maryland, west of He possessed, be- Maryland property, including Manor, which he ‘purchased. Jones married in t on Harrison, daughter of Co: who succeeded > Gen. Washiag- A) aged iady alanor, live tnere on the n INST, and there died X children, most of whoim settled Im the vicinity. ath in an in the old navy and can Wa>, but contracted John Coate jong line of 9 and as enrolicd by right of her di uber of the sec anniversary of my wedding day, and of | of family portraits. One of the most in- the large ty as- tembled at my home| boy of fourteen, which Mrs. Joves told us our the little! and the party after- | es, who was the! who | ‘The! n- | a, | | Copeland Parker Jones, y heroes and e Revolution, | led some of her | ne most interesting | hut-the judge was not convinced that the 4 punch bowl of India ware, Mobert Hanson Mar- high mantelpiece is a long giit-iramed mir- | ror and on the table beneath are a group teresting of these represents a handsome Was the likeness of her husband, John © Coates Jones, taken while a cadet at West see me married not | Point. one is alive. My hus-)| Built into the corner of the room ts an old- | fashioned cupbourd, inclosed by an arched glass-paned window. Beside this stands a high-backed vak chair of our srand- mothers’ time, and near it another of great- er antiquity. The latter triangular in snape, of biack walnut, with dark red leath- er-covered seat. It belonget to Airs. Joves’ erandf. er, and is over two hundred years jold. Prom ‘the drawing room we pessed through another large, square room on our way to the family graveyard, wh few yards behind the manor house. Here are buried Charles Jones, gent., John Caates | Jones and other members of the distinguish- jed family who have been born, brought up and died beneath the venerable roof of Clean Drinking Manor. GOT INTO TH DIET HALL. A Young Man Who Hienrd Tisan Make Mis Last Address. | From the New York Tribune. The party was In conversaticn over its beer, of all shades and all degrees of excel- lence, and tales had been told in several languzges and of diverse degrees of trust- worthiness, when the Hungarian pounced upon en opportunity—he had ais gless empty first—to teil for the hundredth time of the beauties of his native Buda Pesth. The baths, the Andrassy avenue, the park, the thea- ters, the bridge, the palaces, tus music and the “incomparably beautiful women” had all been described. and Hungarian statces- men, from Kossuth to Kalnoky, lauded, when a story teller interrupted with: “Buda Pesth may be all that you claim for it, but I'l never forget an experience 1 had | there when I fooled some of its bigwigs. It was only a few years ago, when 1 stopped | there for a rest om my way frora Paris by the Oriental express to Constantinople. 4 noticed an unusual excitement at the Hotel Hungaria, could see there were many stran- gers in town, and across the Danube, over ihe Schloss, floated the royal standard of Hungary as a sign that the king was there. You Know, the Mungurlans bever speak of Franz vesef as emperor—alwiys 4s hing. “uring the day 1 heard thiic the ministry ould revign the next day aud that Premier ‘Yisza woula make his last address in par- lisment. Well, you can well imagine I wanted to be m ac the death, and sec about to secure a ticket of admission to the diet hal. ‘vhese whom I asked simply laughed at me; UcKets were at a high premium, and ne to whom } zpplied gave me a Mun- garian look of wituering contempt, which nade me only more anxious to get there. “Hut Ue morrow came and 1 saw the chances for a peep et the show growing exasperatingly iess, when 1 suddenly felt myself possessed or an idea. 1 went to the house of parliament and, after much in- quiry, leartfed that the librarian of the up- per house, and he alone, could admit me, wand I succeeted in seeing him. ‘I'm sur- prised,’ | said to him, ‘that you have made no provision for tne press at @ time so tm. portant as this.” “Press?” said he, ‘why, press licxets have been issued to all who are entitled to them, and if you have re- ceived none {t's a mistake—an oversight. | He catled a servant, said something in 4 jargon which | could not understand and made me a bow of dismissal. The man, who was dressed to go on in the chorus of the ‘Beggar Student,’ or the ‘Black Hus- var,’ beckoned me to follow him, led me to an inuer room, where he left ine with a desk, two chairs and my guilty conscience. ‘I began wo wish myself back at the hotel, with its yood wine, good music und fine View on the Danube. Vislons of police in- vestigation and an exposure, with possibly a term in a Hungarian jail, rose before me —for you know 1 had no more to do with newspaper vusiness taan I had with Af- rican exploration—when a clerk entered, and with ‘many a flirt and flutter’ proceed- ed to make out my credentials for admis- sion to the press luge. “He was a funny little man, this clerk, why labored under the hallucination that he could speak English, and me Was further afflicted with that mild fora of insanity ch manifests Itseif in the dyed mus- He took my name and pedigrec,ask- ed me whence I came and how long { pro- posed to remain in the city—and I answered all with that promptness and strict truth- ness Which one acquires by years of as- | | | ‘inally he put the poser: ii name of your paper? I thought with hi. that all great papers must be. represented and fearel that if 1 mentioned one of them i would be discovered and lost, so thinking i | j motto ef our club, “God loves a cheerful lia I said without a moment's hesitation: “fhe North Adams Transcript’ He didn’t just remember the name, and to ask us to the spelling several times while making out the documents by means of jwhich I was to secure an admission card, but if he bad pressed me after I saw that [the bluff went I would have told him a ‘circulation stery whick—well, which would |not be in keeping with ‘The Transcript’s’ of the 1, I got into the press loge in time to sary’s grand old man, Tisza, make Of course I rian, perfect was, but the enthusiasm » aroused seemed contagious, and « his talk, when a great shout of | »pprovai tilled the chamber, women waved | their handk efs and fans and members of the opposition even looked pleased. I caught myself applauding, but I quickly re- called the fact that I was there as “The ‘Transcript’s’ representative, and as such hed no opinion. The picture from the gallery where ‘we { the press’ sat was one 1 shall never for- Every ineh of room in the spectators’ | pens was occupied, every deputy’s chair was taken, and on the floor the monoteny of the black and white was broken by the | picturesque costumes of the bishops, whdse office entitles them to a seat in the house. “After it was all ever I went with my new companions of the press to a nearby staurant, where we ate all sorts of things, e or less with paprika, and ank Tokay wine. I told my story, and Transcript’ received its baptism of Hungarian tire—Kellner, ein glass Dunkles, bitte.” i a oo | The Chinese Laandry Ticket. | Prom the Ladtes" Home Journal. Probably not one person in a thousand understands the true interpretation of the Chinese laundry ticket. The ceiestials heve a system of their It bazed on the many gods and of the laundry. Although the m is a very complicated one sekiom does a Chinese laundryman deliver a pack- washing to the wrong person. if the ticket is lost the “3 are that you will not get your |lmen, unless you be a articular friend of the prcprieter. Instanees are on record !where an American has gone to court to force the Chinese to yield up the washing. case of the white man was a good one. The Chinese laundryman at the begin- ning of cach w makes out a batch of F.soa, and, as Col Hacrison was Gen. Wash- | p08, oF § = 5 K.gton’s close aetghbor and triend as well| crocs ‘f_iwpllcate, to be used as wash &s secre it ts oe ipo ogra this | or goddess or of some object, as the sun, Ll aa its contenet Pres ithe moon or the stars. To this name he is palate “ots Pleas | prefixes a number, as “Moon No. 1,” 5, which aieo belome eget or} Moan No. 2" and a0 on. In the space hated Notch also belonged to Col. | petween the two legends—for the signs are Harrison, will ome some day thejreveated twice—he has his own name, as, properiy of Daughters of the Revolu- | for imstances "Wah Lee. he sid Mrs. Jones’ maiden name was Eliga-}, When a custcmer takes @ bundle of wash- beth Sinelair Pa lund Parker, a: cu ©. oms at Norfolk, Va., Jackson's administration. Mrs. Jones’ uncle was Col. Josiah Parker, f Mac-lestield, Washington and a member of all the conventions: of the He was a distingutshét ‘sol- @ier in the revolutionary war, and @ photo-| takes Exris to G a descendant of the England. He was ali state in 17 Her father was Cape- inted by Gen. Washington |. Witch }one-half on the packe! held through two terms under Weshington end till his death under ing to the laundry the Chinese, fi ticket in two in e rags st tearing ed fashion, puts for reference, the other half he gives as a receint to the person who has brought the package of It must be presented when the is demanded, and no feers need be entertained that the package of clean clothes will not be forthcoming, for the Chinese are scrupulously exact in these matters, and seldom or never make mis- hes a) THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 80, 1894A—TWENTY PAGES, GIFTS TO THE NAVY Presents to the New Cruisers From Various Cities. SERVICES OF SILVER MOST APPROPRIATE FEL ome Bells, Libraries and Paintings Have Also Been Given. MR. CHILDS’ INTENTION HE POPULAR EN- thusiasm aroused by the building of Uucie Sam’s new navy has found expression in many costly gift and individuals to the ships of war, which are designed to be so important a bulwark of this nation. Most valuable of all testimonials thus far offered was the silver set presented to the cruiser Chicago by the people of the city after which she was named. It includes 228 pleces in all, a dczen and a half of everything in the ordi ry way being furnished, together with wh odds and ends of Juxury in this precious metal as the manufacturing Jew- eler was able to think of. The service will always be kept in the admiral’s cabin on board of the vessel, being only intended to be brought out for use on occasions of ceremony, when the officers are entertain- ing, &e. The chief of the bureau of equipment in the Navy Department at Washington is custodian of all gifts accepted for ships in the service. No regulations govern the acceptance or rejection of such presents. Some of an Unusunl Character. Some of the gifts recently accepted by the bavy are of a character rather unusual. A bieycle manufacturing company offered a number of cycles for the United States steamer Columbia, to be used for scouting and military purposes by marines and sailors while on skore duty. The depart- ment, while expresing gratitude for the present, frankly stated that there were comparatively few occasions when wheels could be profitably employed by blucjackets and sea soldiers. A clippings agency in New York city gave to the cruiser New York a handsome book filled with cuttings from newspapers relating to the vessel. The late George W. Cillds was anxious to present to the same ship a dove cote, stocked with homing pigeons of finest breed. He was very much interested in the efforts made at Annapolis to demon- strate the value of pigeons for carrying messages from the sea to the land. Doubts expressed by officers of the navy as to the usefuiness of this idea seem to have dis- couraged the Philadelphia philanthropist with his project. At all events, it was dropped. This was a pity, perhaps, for the bird house was to have been the finest and most elaborate thing of the kind ever seen. Among other gifts received for the New York was a silver service frora citizens of the metropolis, a superb music box from a manufacturing firm, and a tine library of 590 volumes from Edward C. Spofford, a public-spirited citizen of Tarrytown. Pe ple are upt to write to the Navy Depa~ for suggestions as to what would be in the way of a present for one Response is usually made jlver—pare the stuff, not plated ure, Of col captain's cabla, suitably engraved, would be mest appropriate. Inasmuch as this sutght sicnify anything, from a butter knife to a punch Lowl, the donor may spend as much or as little money as he cheoses. Speaking of punch bowls, the people of Macias, Me. gave a beautiful silver one for the use of the officers States steamer Machias. bowl of the same precious etal was pre- sented to the Charleston by the city of Charleston. As a memorial of George Ban- croft, relatives of the late historian have given a bell for the Bancroft, which is a practice ship for baval cad: The Kell for the C exten. A few days before the casting of the bell for the Charleston, a pattern-maker at the ship yard in San Francisco suggested that it was a pity to use ordinary metal for this purpose, and that each workman on the steamer might contribute ten cents in sil- ver to enrich the composition and so give the bell a finer ring. The entire force at work cn the vessel, over one thousand men, responded, the sum realized being about $150. Nearly the whole of this amount was in dimes, which were put into the crucible and mixed with the other metal for the casting. On learning of the facts in the case, the Secretary of the Navy wrote a letter, say- ing that “among the numerous and costly presents made by towns and individuals to the ships of the navy theze was none sore highly valued and appreciated than th tribute of the workmen of the Charleston.” He added that it was a particularly ap- propriate and graceful thought that led these American workingmen to cast a per- manent memoria! to their united labor. One of the most beautiful of these pa- triotic testimonials was given to the gun- boat Concord by the elty of Concord. It is a bronze reproduction on a small scale of the famous monument which stands in that town, representing the “Minute Man of 1775." Exclusive of the pedestal, the miniature work of art is two and a half feet ngh, and the weight is 300 pounds, It has been set up on the forward part of the poop deck of the Concord. The ‘Minute Man” stands with a gun in one hand and his other hand resting on the handle of a plow. A bell was presente] to the Newark by the board of trade of the city of Newark. It | bears on inscription which reads: “This bell is presented to U. S. S. Newark by the citizens of Newark, New Jer w : man- age the shop. you defend the shore.” The bell is very beautifui and highly polished. A large crayon portrait of Lord Balti- more, copied from an oil painting, was pre- sented by Joseph H. Rieman ef Baltimore. It has been hung in the captain's cabin. The owners of the Baltimore Sun gave a library of 300 volumes for the use of the officers of the Baltimore. The collection is very choice, being chiefly composed of books of travel and standard fiction. A painting of the city of Detroit has been offered for the cabin of U. S. 8. Detroit. Citizens of Baitimore gave a silver service of eleven pieces for the good ship Bultimore. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Beardsley of Elkhart, Ind., presented a superb flag worth $180 to the crufser Indiana. Citizens of Boston gave to U. 8. 8. Boston a set of colors con- sisting of an ensign, a union jack, a long pennant, a battalion flag and four guidons. Flags From American Stik. The Navy Department has accepted from the Women’s Silk Culture Association a set of flags for the Philadelphia, comprising an ensign, a union jack, a narrow pennant, a rear admiral’s distinctive flag, two boat flags, a boat pennant, and a rear admiral's distinctive boat flag. All these are to be made of American silk. As a matter of fact, apart from considera- tions of sentiment, such a set of flags is not a very appropriate gift. There is nothing so handsome or so useful as bunting for a ship's flags. Silk will not stand the in- cidental wear and tear, and it is readily dis- colored by salt water. Silk is a fit material only for flags that are used on land. It does very well fo: the battalion colors, car- ried by marines marching on shore, which are the regular stars and stripes of the United States. A silver service for the officers of a ship- of-war is the handsomest and most uscful gift that can well be chosen. A great deal of eniertaining has to be done on board of such a vessel while in port, and it is only very recently that the Navy Department has gone so far as to allow even an cquip- ment of plated ware to the wardroom, though the captain's cabin has always been furnished with every luxury of the kind. The officers must provide everything clse, save crockery and glass, on which a certain percentage of breakage is allowed. If this percentage is exceeded, the articles broken must be replaced. Gifts are often conveyed to the govern- ment by nations and individuals through other departments besides the navy. Some- times the treasury is the recipient of be- quests by will, Moneyed persons, disgusted presented by cities, with their own relatives, leave their shy erty to Uncle Sam, and eventually it is covered into the national funds by draft. Occasionally years are required for the settiement of the estates. A notabie in- stance was that of a Massachusetts citizen Damed John Gardner, why, in 1576, gave j his real and personal estate to the United States, the total amounting to $30,000. Not long afterward W. M. Merriam left all his Possessions to the treasury. He was a very peculiar man and for some time previous to his demise he had declared that if tho elections went a certain way he would make (ae government his heir. This event coming io pass, he did so, and sheruy «iter weat the way of all fiesh. There was a great hunt for his money, much of which Was hidden away in old teapots and valises about his house. G During the civil wer a number of people transferred bonds and blocks of stock to the treasury out of patriotism. For sume years past Uncle Sam has received no very large gift of money, but voluntary contri- butions to the conscience fund come in nearly every day in the year from people who are sorry for having cheated the gov- ernment out of small sums. Often the amount in question is only 2 cents for a twice-used postage stamp, but now and then an amateur smuggler will make an anouymous return of several hundred dol- lars. A gift to the United States displayed at the Department of State is a whale’ tooth presented by a king of the Fiji I lands yome years ago. Exhibited in the same place are other valuable presents trom nations. Two swords with gold hilts and seabbards are gifts from Siam. A great fold medal from Rrazil commemorates the visit of the United States squadron to sa- lute the Brazilian republic In 1891. Another medal is from ‘Turkey, set with many dia- monds. It was received quite ree: ing Intended as a memorial of thi fair. ¥very now and then the War Department recelves from some foreign power a gift of a new kind of saddle or a gun of a new pattern. Such presents are intended to convey friendly hints cf the latost progress in military affairs abroad. Cr it may be that the surgeon general of the army will Le the recipient of a newly invented surgi- cal instrument. Naturally such compli- monts are. returned in kind. European na- tions send many valuable things in the way of plants, seeds, etc, to the Depart- ment of Agriculture, which reciprocates. Gifts sent by nations to the treasury of the United States zre acknowledged by the Department of State. They find their way usually to the Nationa! Museum, because the chief magistrate is forbidden by law to accept them for his own private use. They become the property of the government Among the gifts of this kind preserved at the National Museum are a bottle of diamonds, a bottle of pearls. a gold sword- seabbard.a diamond set snuff-box and many other valuable trifies. RENE BACHE. —s— LURED BY BABIES. How British Sportsmen Hant Croco- diles in India, From the New York Son. “We used to have great sport in India gor ing out after crocodiles with Hindu babies for bait,” said sn ex-ollicer of the British army. “The baby was.’t baited on a hook like a minnow or « fish worm, but simply secured on the river benk so that it couldn't creep or toddle away or tumble into the river. Some babies don’t like their being made crocodiie bait of, but that fact in- creased their value to the sportsman, for then they yelled and made a great noise, which was just what the crocodiles were waiting to hear, and they'd come hurrying from all directions to have a chance at the bables. “Where did we get these babies for balt? From thei; mothers. All the fellow who wanted to gv crocodiling had to do was to noise abroad his intention, and it wasn't long before native women would flock in witn their babies to be rented out for bait. ‘The ruting price per head for the young heathen was about 6 cents for the day. Some mothers required a guurantee that thet? offspring should be returned safe and sound, but tne most of them exacted no such agreement. The babies were brought back all right as a rule, but once in a while some sportsman was a trifle slow with his rifle, or made a bad shot, and the croco- dile got away with the bait, but that didn’t happen often. “It your bait {s in good form for croco- diling, and starts in with protesting yells, you may expect to get your crocodile very soon, but if the buby proves to be what is known as a sulker and takes the situation nd paticnee, you may have to e before you get a shot. 1 used to have the option on an Indian baby that was the most killing bait for croco- diles in all that part of India. I killed more than one hundred crocodiles with that youngster as a lure befure she outgrew her usefulness She had the most persistent and far-reaching yell I ever neard come out of mortal being, and no crocodile could re- sist it. She was a real siren in luring the big reptiles to their fate, and I was sorry to see her grow and get too big for bait always commanded a premium in the mar- ket, and her mother was very proud of her ind eed “After he had secured his baby at a proper spot it was the custom of the sports- man to hide behind a convenient bush or blind and wait for his game. If his bait lively and of geod lung he would not have long to wait. I've seen half a dozen crocodiles come hurrying from as many different parts of the river toward a baby five minutes after it was set. With such a tush as that, though, the sport becomes a trifle trying to the eyes for the baby, but generally the first crack of the rifle will secure the big reptiles back into the water, all except the one you have sent your bulle Into, and he, if your aim has been good, will flop over and thrash about for a few seconds ond then give up the ghost. But in a short time back will come the others again, and if you have the time you can eventually stretch them all on the bank. A considerate sportsman, though, will not work his baby more than fifteen minutes at atime. Then he will have his native vant soothe it and refresh it from a nursing bottle, which fs part of a crocodile hunter's equipment. I have killed six crocodiles over that favorite baby lure of mine in less than a quarte> of an hour, “I was in Florida a year or so ago ind tried to hire a baby to experiment with for alligators after the method in India, but folks who owned babies down there didn’t m_to enter into the spirit of the sport, and I couldn't get one. I compromised on a@ rathe> Iively and complaining dog. He was a success and I had quite a lot of fun, although the sport was a good deal tamer than it would have been if I had only had a baby for bait. ——re+- YELLOW GARTERS. Every Bride Shea Wear at Least a Dozen. A wedding without the distribution of yeilow garters would not be any sort of wed- ding, says the Charleston News. You see, it is the same old story; the bride wears the garters during the ceremony, and when she gowns herself in her traveling frock she very considerately discards two or three dozen garters that are eagerly grab- For has it not been proven time and time again that a garter is a talisman against spinsterhood? I know a girl who has worn a yellow garter for seven years, and she’s never had @ proposal yet. But her cause is an excep- tional one, and as far as 1 can see she takes it all very happily. She says, though, that she still has hopes, and although her faith in yellow garters is a bit frayed out around the edges, there’s enough left for another seven years or so. Besides, this girl occasionally dares to give an opinion on politics and things, which Is very fool- ish of her, because a man is a conceited, lofty-minded sort of creature, and doesn’ like to have a sweet little thing in pettt- coats stand up and tell him that his ideus aren’t the only ideas in the universe. On St. Eutropius’ day in Hante-Vienne all the unmarried women walk in proces- sion to St. Julien-les-Gombes to the cross the church. Each woman hangs her left garter on the cross and prays that she may have a good husband. There is a su- perstition, not unknown in this country, that a yellow garter—this, too, is the ieft garter—knit by a friend and given unex- pectedly to the wearer, if worn on Easter day, will bring engagement before the year is out. It would be interesting to know the origin of this rite, which has a rong family resemblance to that narrated above and rrore than possibly had a com- mon origin with it. ragement. From Lite. “Does Miss Hudson smile on Dawson, Mr. Jay?" ‘Weil, he says he feels somewhat encour- aged. ‘Has No. {her w: band.” . she said anything?” But when he put his arm around st last night her lap dog licked his and have to give her up. That dusky infant ; bed for by the frenzied mob of bridesmuids. | [A JUNE ROUND-UP | How the Cattle on the Plains Are Brought Together. COW PUNCHERS AND THEIR PONIES A Night Scene in a Cow Camp Graphically Described. aoe THE BRANDING PROCESS Written for The Evening Star. T 18 ABOUT TIME for the June round- up, and I'd like! mighty well to take} a hand in it if 1/ could get away,” said ing nd man last week. | believe a month on the range would; make @ new man of | me.” This particular Congressman is not a “cowboy,” but he Is a “cowman,” and/ there is a vast amount of difference; one | herds the cattle, the other owns the herd. It is quite often the case that one grows | into the other, and so it was with this | Congressman. He made his “pile” by “cow punching” and lucky branding of “mavericks.” And each spring the old fever strikes him; he likes the rough rid-/ ing, the range living and the carefree Life; there 1s health in it, too, The cattle ranges of the west are not as big as they used to be, but they are yet extensive enough to astonish a tenderfvot with their vastness. People who have never seen above two hundred head of | cattle in a bunch cannot comprehend the size of a herd of 2.000 and when it leaps up two ciphers they are indeed at sea. 50 it is with areas. When one has been ac- | customed to a fitty-acre side hill farm that has to be walled up to keep it from sliding in to the river or the little gully called a “valley,” one of Uncle Sam's gen- erous 160-acre farms seems a kingdom, es- pecially if it lies as level as @ floor and as) smooth and free of stumps and stones as | the Axminster carpet in the blue room of the White Hovse. Yet there are wheat fields in the west on lands as level as that which would survey two or three thousand acres in extent, and alongside of them are rye, oats, corn and hay fields as large, and many that ere larger, all belonging to cne rran. The meadows and “pastures” of an eastern farmer would not make a ccrral for the average western farmer, and when it comes to stock the “Yankee” simply isn’t in it at all. ‘The Largest Range in the Wor! The “Northern Range,” as it is called by western stockmen, 1s now the most exten- sive in the United States, and though its area has been somewhat curtailed it is still the largest in the world. This area comprises the whole of Wyoming and Idaho, Southern Montana, Northern Utah and Colorado, and part of Nebraska and Dako- ta, This is a territory nearly twice as large us either France or Germany. Wyoming it- self is larger than New York and Pennsyl- v 4, and larger than all the New Engiand states combined, with Indiana thrown in for gcod measure. It is, im fact, almost im- possible to give any adequate idea of the extent af this vast grazing territory, over which roamed the “vuffalo herds and the elk and the rocbuck—the wolves and herds of rideriess horses,” when Evangeline, like a wraith, passed over them in her search for Gabriel. 1 ihink no finer picture of the region has ever been drawn than that made by Longtellow of this country, where— “* © © © the mountains Lift through perpetual snows their lofty and luminous summits. Down from their jagged deep ravines, where the gorge like a gateway, Opens a passage rude to the wheels’ of the emigrunt’s wagon, Westward the Oregon flows and the Walle- way and Owyhee. Eastward, with devious course, among the Wind-river mountains, Through the Swect-water valley precipitate jeaps the Nebraska; And to the south, from Fountaine-qui-bout and the Spanish Sierras, Fretted with sands and rocks, and swept by the wind of the desert, Numberless torrents, with ceaseless sound, desctud to the ocean. » . . . . . . . . Spreading between these streams are the wondrous, beautiful prairies, Billowy bays of grass ever rolling in shadow and sunshine.” This is the stockmzn’s paradise, the country of the cow puncher, the coyote and | the cattle, which have been picturesque features in the landscape of Mierature for the last thirty years. Life on the range is not a perpetual picnic by any means, but it has its fascinations, exactly as any other kind of a wild life has, end the Congressman who has ridden in ‘many a round up was still under the spell, hen he longed to leave the “buckers” in Congress for a bout with another kind of ay animal on the range, and one whom he felt that he could conquer. What a Round-Up Is. What 1s a “round-up,” and why in June? These are questions not to be answered in a few words. The processes of a general round-up involve a tremendous expenditure of labor, time and money. It is held in June and again in the fall, and the purpose in view is the branding of the young calves, und the geiting together of the “stray: which may have wandered off into un- known tercitory. The round-up ts carried out on the same plan as a rabbit or woif ly on a larger scale, and | all the stockmen whose | the round-up route, each | i catule range on paying pro rata his share of the expenses, | us shown by the auimals branded by them in the previous round-up. Imagine, if you can, a wolf drive which | takes in a scope of two or three hundred ! thousand square miles, in which there are} several million anim Is to hunt out, to say yor which are to be! sought individually and “sealed” with a! “brand,” and you can then get some idea } of the magnitude of the undertaking. You must remember that the country over which you ure to beat is covered by mountain ranges, with infrequent passes, with nog- back foot hills, deep gorges and canons, with jong stretches of alkali desert as bleak and as bare of vegetation as the back of your hand, with wide level plateaus, | ragged with sage brash and chapparal, along beds of dry rivers, often wanting water, yet a day's ride from a drop of the precious fluid, again almost swept away by the sudden rise of the treac tain streams, in fact, you can set your imagination to work in any direction’ you | like, so long as it carries you away from | civilization and comfort, and your fancy, given good play, cannot lead you astray in depicting the wild rough life led by the cow-puncher on the great northern range. Preparing for the Work. The Wyoming Cattle Growers’ Assocta- | tion has had absolute control of the} round-up, or “rodeoing,” us the Mexicans j call it, on this great range for years, and | they prepare for it by holding a convention in April, usually, which ts largely attended by the stockmen of the west. It has a president and fuil complement of officers, and committees whose duty it is to familiarize themselves with the whole vast territory over which the immense herds of cattle wander, and to be able to exuctly describe every divide, mountain, hill and valley, all the streams, forests and plateaus on the whole range. From this report the committee on the general management of the round-up makes up its report, and the thing is fully discussed by the convention. The report provides for the operations, dur- ing several months, of from forty to ifty round-up parties, which are each specifically told when and where to start, the exact territory they are to cover, and the number of men to comprise the party. All the minor details are met with perfect plans before the start is made. The various par- ties have a foreman and trail boss, and three or more assistants, as seems neces- sary. Each party ts divided into “messes” of ten or twelve men each, and each mess is provided with a “chuck wagon” and a cook. The cook’s wagon also carries the blankets and belongings of the men, but they are not numerous or hard to pack. { } i | | | made. Some are good to “rope” on, and a! The July Century is Published by THE CENTURY CO. Everything is managed with the precision of a military campaign, but, of cou ‘se, there is often trouble and bloodshed, for cow-punchers are not angele, by any mea though they are far from being the “m dra-tragic” abominations represented the writers of flash literature. The Size of the Party. The size of each party depends upon the | fround it has to cover. Sometimes there will be twenty or thirty, and often a hun- dred, and in the whole business there will be over a thousand men employe: cow puncher has at least seven po: “string,” and if the country over is to ride ts particularly rough, he has nine. He rides at least three of these in a day, saving the best ones for night work. Of course, this makes Guite a herd of ponies to care for and somebody on them all the time, nigh ‘ia creatures who do this are dubbed “hoss hustlers” or “wrangiers.” The work is as hard on the ponies as on the men. A round-up begins at the south end of the domain to be ridden over, because it is a singular fact that cattle always drift south. They wiil sometimes drift no: fore a storm, but they do not sts and always feed toward the souu and day. @ southerly direction, anyhow. The stray very wide of the range east either. The round-up partics are str out on the southern line of the ran ing over nearly 20 miles of territor times, and all | on @ certain day. Of course, they take in | everyting “‘on hoofs” on the drive, and | some very odd experiences have been re- lated of ‘the conglomeration of creatures | that @ round-up would discover at the end of a day's drive. Wiid animals of every description, buffalo, antelope. deer, wild horses—everything was grist that came to the mill in these -irives. A Night Scene in 2 Cow Camp. A night scene in a cow camp is roughly Picturesque, and not uncomfortable, if there are no blizzards or storms to stampede the | cattle gathered during the day, and which are held wherever night finds them. This is generally a spot selected in advance by one of the bosses, who rides ahead to find a place with grass and water—both essential ; —as it is not possible to carry enough of | food or water for the animals belonging to the outfit, even to sey nothing of the thous- ands of “critters” added to the bunch in a day's drive. The “chuck” wagon follows the drive closely, and as soon as a halt is made begins the preparation of the even: ing meal. A short horse is soon curried, and by the time the punchers are ready for | “chuck” it is ready for them. It consists of | bears, nearly always; black coffee, that Hi blisters with its bitter strength; bread of some kind—sometimes it is biscuit—often only “flap-jack: and some kind of sa! meat, generally becon. Canned “ire | is used by the wagon load, tomatoes, corn and baked beans being a stapic diet. There is no tablecloth, except it be wet or muddy everywhere, and then a horse blenket spread out for the mess to jay the tin dishes on. The dishes are tin plates and tin cups, with a few deep pans, and the cooking | utensils are simplicity itself—two or more big, black iron kettles, a skillet or two, and sometimes a sort of a bake oven of iron, and if the mess ts particularly affluent on tarting, it supplies the cook with a sheet- iron affair, called by courtesy a cook stove. it is all primitive enongh, bat hunger makes 2n excellent sauce, and excuses many delinquencies. In the flickering light | of the fire, sometimes made of dead tree Mmbs, but oftener of“cow chips,”the prairte | coal of the poor pioneer, the cowboy lies | flat on his back on the ground aud smokes his pipe, swapping round-up stories till he is sleepy; then he simply rolls over into his bianket, pulls it up around his shoul- ders, puts his head on hix boots or his saddle, and in two minutes has forgotten the pertis, pains or pleasures of the day. If the night shows any sign of storm, each man has his “night horse,” which ts usual- ly the best in his string, lariated to his saddle horn, and everything ready so that he can motnt fn a hurry if there ts a stam- pede. The other ponies are all in the hands of the “wrangler” who has to ride “night | | The Cattle Bedded Down. The cattle which were rounded up dur- ing the dzy are bedded down not far from the camp, and are carefully guarded by several herders, the watch being divided into three watches. During the day the cattie have been accumulated from every direction, brought in in bunches of five to fifty, and held by men detailed for that purpose. They are slowly tolled alonz, so as to keep up with the northward march toward some central point, where they are to be branded and turned loose again. ‘The bedding down p-ocess is an ofd feature of cowboy Ife. Every dainty mother in the land has probably put her we to sleep with “©, hush thee, my hab: or one of the kindred songs, but would jook aghast at the idea of putting Texas cattle to sleep the same way! To be sure, the puncher doesn't sit down in a rocking chair and wrestle with the bovines individually, but after the cowboys have, by gentle persna- sion, got the hoofed and horned creatun on the spot where it is desired they shall be held during the night, they move slowly around the outside of the herd, closing it in as much as possible, singing sometimes at the top of their voices, and sometimes wailing a dirge-like tune that fairly makes one's blood creep. It would frighten a child into spasms, but the cattle seem to like it and gradually Ne down, one after another, till silence reigns in the cow camp. | No unusual notse or brawling is permiuted, | as it might stampede the uneasy animal indeed, the punchers do not care to run the risk themselves, for a stampede makes work for all and is sometimes very disas- trous. Many Kinds of Brands. In the general round-up there will be gathered cattle which bear a half dozen | brands each, and in the distribution the | “critter” gocs to the owner of the freshest | brand. There will be found also forty dif ferent brands of cattle in the day’s drive. These brands are ali registered, if legiti- mate, and of the fifty passed in succession | before any one of the cow punchers he | will locate every hoof and horn by the | brand. It is a puuzie to a tenderfoot how the property of each ranchman can be so accurately picked out, but to a cowman it is like saying his letters—there are some of them who could say the brand with more fluency, doubtless. The ownership of the calves is settled by the mother of the ani- mal; it takes her brand. If a stray calf is found—one that Is not mothered by any cow in the herd—tt ts given to the stockman —~ has the largest female herd in that vi- cintty. When the owners of stock begin to neck out their own, the “cutting out” process is decidedly interesting, and the ponies are a great factor in it. A cow pony is born, not most worthless elsewhere on . Roping cattle is a fine art, and the man who can do it without getting pitched over his pony'’s ren seen te a my 1 pony that is good at “cutti is valuable. When his rider <4 dog does. Anyhow, he will pay no attention to anything else until that creature is outside the herd. If he is not intelligent and up to his business he can stampede the whole bunch in short order by foe and slamming against the cattle. i{ the animal makes a break on the edge of the bunch and gets out into the open he will lead the puncher a pretty chase before he can be got The July CENTURY, Ready everywhere June 30th, contains FIRST CHAPTERS OF TWO SHORT NOVELS, “A BACHELOR MAID,” The Story of a New York Girl, By MRS. BURTON HARRISON, “LOVE IN IDLENESS,” ie and a fourth clasps j the odor that it raises is a cross | tan yard, abattoir and glue factory fra- | if the branding is done tu jit will | up among the plateaus a | adoring aunts, } shock wh | have his feet as broad as they A Novel of Bar Harbor, By MARION CRAWFORD. TWO CAPITAL STORIES. DON’T MIsS THEM. Full of Attractions. nd } docile as an old cow when taken for famuy use. How the Branding is Done. The great and in fact the prime feature of the round-up is the branding. If done out in the open it is a tedious process. ‘The creature is lassved, or, more commonly Speaking, “roped,” being caught by foot or and thrown, and a second rope is at- hed to the end that is free the moment he touches the ground. A puncher jumps on the kicking creature's head, while two vthers on thelr pontes hold the ropes taut the hed-rot iron on haunch or ribs, sometimes branding on both; between srance. The ears are usually split, clipped or punched, according to the sty of the owner's brand. This is for the purpose of icentifyiry the stock as the ownere ride «pidly through the herd, the ears being iways in sieht, and « brands are not. @ pen tt is built expecially for the purpose, nearly circular in form, of thick timbers and flares at the top like an old-fashioned ash hopper; the Fnubbine post is in ihe middle, and to this tle are fastened til the branding done. The process is not particularly r the steer is the worse painful, but th pitch under the brandirg is turned loose to go wh range, no more tion it paid to them till the owner concludes to sell @ bunch of cattle of a cer! they are rourded up till ber are secured. oid they will on the sufficient num- After that they feed from ncrth to south till the wp comes again, and they and their progeny go through the suze old routine of being driven 4 grossiands of the cooler north 6,000 feet above the level of the sea. A brand is proof of property to the iman who has that brand registered. inbrended ssage through the at cks, and it came ut in this way: A Texas stockman of hat name once turned his cattle loose upon the plaias, uabranded, and neyer tried to claim any of them afterward. Of course the range was o unbranded stock and as all careful stock- and even the calves, when any of ¢ unbranded ones were encounterad, it them that they were “Maver Thus the name for ail that nan on the range who got rich nding mavericks, but they stole outright, going out on the range, seeking them out and branding them Wherever found. Then in the grand round- e in and claimed their prop- hing is not tolerated where however, for there is a peculiar sense of honor among stockmen; they wink at a good many sly practices, but they ually have an impromptu necktie party when they find a man who is branding mavericks which have not been secured to bim in a perfectly legitimate way. Big Herds Dwindling. The cettle business is not what It wae once, and the big herds dwindle year by year, Stockmen are learning that fewer cattle well cared for ate more remunerative than enormous herds yot cared for at all. On the big ranges the cattle are not fed at all and have no shelter other than they get from the river and creek banks on the range or in the gorges and canons. Con- sequently during a protracted drouth the cattle dic by the thousands for lack of water and of starvation; the hot dry winds ren with his ki the only sustenance. In winter the suffering among cattle on the range is something dreadful. And im the ne. r unusually severe winter, ranze will be covered thick with the whitening bones of cattle killed by the cold. Men ply @ brisk business gathering And selling thefe bones for fertilizing pur- Doses, for cattle are Valuable, dead or alive. and there is scarcely an atom of the whole carcass that can not be utilized. —-+— sprit th BAREFOOT CHILDREN. A Theory That Mother to From the New York Tribune. ‘The man who bas ideas and who believes in putting them to good use startled his wife the other day. “My dear,” he said, after a thoughtful pause, “I think thet our boy should go barefoot in summer.” “Wh-wha-a-t!” gasped his wife with an inexpressive look on her face. “Barefoot! Our boy barefoot!” The young gentleman, who is not yet four years old, was a baby rocked fn the cradle of luxury, surrounded with the richest laces and the most ex- hensive garments. With the assistance of two worshiping grandmothers and six he budded into infant Sybarite, and his pink toes had never touch- ed enything but dainty hose, spoticss sheets and rich rugs * said the father, unmindtal of the nich he had given his wife, “the theory is that if a boy goes barefoot ic ens the skin of his fers mnd feet, him stronger, prevents him from ee. ~ its a very good sked relevantly. accepted theory ested in the quea- she na} ho are inter jd easi low would you like to see Paul Augus- around with rod, biistore’, sur- His skin is as thin avd white “That's just the polnt. I don't want him to be Mke that, I want him to be hardy, robust and manly. The sun will make his skin berd end firm.” “If he goes barefoot,” said the mother, fluffing up like a ben with chickens, “his feet will fatten out ike « duck’s, and we'll are long. They wit! look like a squashed glove. T @on’t want him to have feet like that said. pressing her lips together. “Well, si ose his feet do flatten. We certainly dou't want to have our boy @ | dandy, proud of his small and slender feet, What difference does it make whether his feet are big and flat or not, se jong as he is strong and vigorous and healthy?” His wife said nothing, but there was @ jook in said the father, after further medi- tation, “our boy shail go barefoot in eum- mer when we are out of town.” The same family has not yet gone te ite country piace. The wife finds this an es pecially cool and delightful summer in city. The husband shows signs ef ing on the barefoot question. ——__ --+ e+ —- __ The German's Joke. I | From the Westminster Gazette. The following “Fraud Upon Company,” which we find in Tabak-Zeitung, is certainly good to be true: A cunning wanted to smoke the best cheapest possible cost, bough’ of the highest quality and price, and immediately insured stock. When he had smoked them he demanded 750 marks surance company on the ground whole of his insured stock, ten cigars, had been consumed by Solomonic court decided tn laintim. Othe company then brought an conspiracy aguinst the smoker, him of having intentionall; own cigars and one iy roperty. Hereupon Semnea the insured smoker months’ imprisonment | ; fF if i i | : t it titi a8Fs i as #2 | 3 3 it