Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1894, Page 14

14 _ THE EVENING STAR, SATURD formation, and interesting drawn. They have all been given Lat! names, for they can, of course, never ha common names, and these names are based on their real or fancied resemblance to More or less well-known living trees and shrubs. Some of them are very ubundant both in kinds and individuals, whil> others are represented by only two or three speci- mens, showing that these had not yet eb- ae @ very Secure foothold on ihe ancient world. STORY OF THE ROCKS The Fossil Plants Found in the Po- tomac Formation. One of the most abundant trees, or prob- PRESERVED FROM REMOTE AGES | aniy® sinins, ™iort,abandant trees. or prop | Known as sapindopsis and is represenied by ht different species and a very large number of specimens. Its nearest living A Comparison of the Early Forms | telatives are the soap berry trees, of which | Bo less than forty kinds are now known. With the Later. ‘They are small trees or shrubs widely an | abundantly distributed throughout the trop- | ics of both hemispheres, with a few in the subtropics. Two ——— oe kinds are still living in a the Southern and southwestern United A TRANGE - possibly, the direct descend: ants of the fossil one shown. Ancther very com- mon tree, called tico- phylum, is shown in figure &. It was a large, ti leaf with a very — prominent midrib" and lateral Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. I: HAS OFTEN been said that Wash- ington as a residence eity derives Its chief are the figs, of attractiveness from | than Goo Its broad streets and known, e: contined beautiful lines of oc, on shade trees. Its pub- thevgh three small Me buildings and varicties are living in monuments are well southern Florida. The enough in* their way, Bn Peale been but without the miles houschold — cultiva- upen miles of hand- tion, with thick, some trees which glossy green leaves, and the common cul- tivated fig are the most familiar exam- The fossil leat (gure 3) appears to be much like the in- Figure 3. dia rubber plant. Figure 4 represents @ part of ine lower perdon of @ long, narrow leaf, cailed sa- liciphyHum, which is regarded ‘as the en- of the common willow (salix). This is very rare in the collections thus far made, being quite in contrast with the decorate the streets end fill the public parks the appearance of the city would not be so inviting. But quite aside the munificence which has mad and care of the Washington occupies ex- imatic conditions, bging, as it * border line between the north | and the south. That Is.it Is far enough south | | th to permit the growth of distinctly south- ern species, such as the cypress, magnolia, catalpa, coffee tree, red bud, maidenhair t or ginkgo of Japan, ete., and yet is/ Mving willows so Rear enough to the northern homes of such | Common en as the rock maple, beech, birch, elm and ape with tae the like to permit them to grow in full! soft, hairy flower vigor. The wild plants growing in the| clusters in earliest vicinity of Washingt exhibit the same | from) which kinds, for within a radius of | me the wide- ' name of pussy s from the capital no less than | Yiflows. Aboue 100 1.40 varieties of flowering plants, besides! kinds of living wil- . find their homes. is the head and | @ host of humbl Bhe District of € lows are known, and most ull are found b can § northern — tem= mr €enter of the distribution of American | Moir smd” artne lands. iene gaks, for twenty-thr arieties are found | 4-2 living at the present day in the Dis Bild here, and many other cases of similar | trict of Columbia, several of which strongly Profesion co: inted out. resemble the fossil. | The conditions which are now favorable eee cee ain die tree to the growth of mbers of wild bas wilewe: thakt Plants and the suc tivation of the 1s. the poplars, had orna ntal shrubs and trees ap- the alpalg at the op ane same time (see figure Pear to have prev for a vast pertod of > 1 lime, for so far-as scientists now know the &. This le f, known | Vicinity of Washington saw the birth, far bea SS > back in geolog ¢ great group of one of the most ‘an- plants to which of our modern fa- cient looking leaves miliar tress and elong. This great of the whole array. | f plants nown as the Dicotyie It is founded leat pl two seed leaves or mueh th ne in Coty led the bean, squash, elm, sha: as those of the appie, . ete. It is the most Important balm-of-gilead tree, group ving plants. but with a broad, flat igure 5. petioh or leaf s spen, and, like it, the leaves prol The Potomac Formati Our knowledge of the vegetation which | slightest breeze. Only | clothed the earth during past geologic ages jar are native In the | i » study of their | £ Washington, but a considerable number of other kinds are planted in the = along the streets. The cotton- wood is, perhaps, the best known. One of the larg: and most striking leave: erved in the rocks. | find the any now living, but in these | is represent: figure 6. It is known as em the ancestors of {spermites, and its living representative r step backward i by others still more 1 trict of Columbia, contains ancient form, the >otonia: ns of most Pot formation un- i portion of city of Wash- cut through and exposed in S ai the new re rvow, Penn- ticut av ark, Good Hope ‘nis formation also reugh Baltimore, ke bay, and thwerd throu rolina and Ala Rees | elght or nine living species of walnut, con- lished and had not had time to make much of a pl take an important position among the later colored pods to a number of pret in the w shrub, than eight species have been found, some of individuals. might be shown, but enough have been de- scribed to bring out their great interest, for they world. P | Strange | confronted us. | tre fined to the temperate and sul re- gions of the northern hemisphere. Both the black walnu' and the butternut are wild in the District, although not by any means abu it. One of the most remarkable leaves is that shown in figure 10. Although ft 1s called aceriphyllum, which would imply its re- lationship to the maples (acer), it 1s In re- ality another of the comprehensive types, which seems to include a number of quite different trees, such as the sassafras, gen- seng and sterculia, the latter a peculiar tropical tree that has no English name. In i 1 Figure 10. any case, it is very rare and evidently did rot play a very Important role among the Potomac plants, But the fact of its being rare 1s quite in accord with its curtous make-up, that is, by its rarity it is pretty clearly shown that it had only been estab- for itself, yet 1t was destined to ants. The regular little leaf shown in figure 11 is caleld celastro- phylum and _repre- : t » of the an- rms of the ral elastrus, perhaps better known as the wax work, staff-tree cimbing sweet, which rub, climbing r trees and by or ter ard ts conspicuous In fall by its’ clusters of scarlet seeds burst- ing from little orange- The fi Figuze 11. fl leaf 1s also related 'y small shrubs common ods about Washington, known as the burning bush, strawberry bush or spin- This was a very well-established even in Potomac times, for no less of which are represented by large numbers A great many more of these curious leaves are the oldest of their kind in the In tmagination we may go back to tomac times and try to picture the landscape that would have then In the midst of the curious s and shrubs and climbing plants, so unlike the present plant life, we should still | see jour t vague resemblances, reminding us of ewn time. The sassafras and moon- d we should know at a glance, but we hey trees or shrubs? The curlous maple like leaf—was ft really a Were the oaks in grove Wwillo long streams and hg t bright-colored ber- ries, Wes the animal life t tottles that is worth kne paket numbers of these ancient plants sure to have at hand a ts have been dug up in and about the city, ; a poss lonnie im rth Moca Bp or a good-sized pocket knife. The case | things number of varieties now knife is to be preferred. | known is not from 8, but of this » the beer bottle fn the left hand and Bumber only. ¢ paratively few belong to knife in the right hand. Lay the bottle | s the dicotyledons. The parts preserved are an renee ea 7 e ik wigesounls lea frui tems and trunks, and while ony tage aves 4 ce boxes vigor usly it is © that they are undoubted | ts the common moon-seed, a woody climber | #¢TSS the neck of the bottle Just back of the dicotyle many of them bave a strange, | found running over bush ams. | Tim that i et kK just as if you tinfamiliar and crude appearan uch a8 | ‘The fossil is very auch like the only Ameri. [were gcing to © head off th De ee Sk bect to find at that early day | can species of moon-seed, so far as the leaf | You will not, be able to c In their hist yet crude as they are they ng the | head off tit } c any of the types or It fs re- | ty hard and te a become rkable that wn form | ly until every p: has been un- minant feat : should have exi: t der the kr a will scratch the @re still mor | of time with only Figure 1 sine? the living tree Is known te re ‘ ort wale on the same branch that are so unlike in Yet been, and perhaps never will be, dis- sek Sees 1 the oldest known, of fossil’ plants is a nd the f >» great. of the | sassafras tree seen by the wayside will ex- plain what is meant. ‘The grape slso appears to have been in- troduced at the same eariy time. the more diff » plants of the See figure aft and pre- | 5 . sed A ee. |S. called: vitipaylum, which represents a Bie to auake Gat With: Cectnbntn a mmoeal: | leat excavated at the Jonction of Ecit and ent what ed compre em to em- of trees re now entirely distinct. nm in figure um, because mmon ft which is y resembles tains features which the ginsens this > (acer tjav be that a! stock from w mber of quite dif- | ow them. it plants make but more rr it is very does rare yroach he liv- and is only 0 the wal- y means of a great number of oth- er fossil leaves that have been found in later geologic deposits Figure 9. and which seem orae SG sktited that they are able to | ta connect to them. It is thought i em with much cor- iso to have ationship with the s alone. This study | oaks, but, on the whole, it probably ap- mts of the Potomac \ Proaches closer to the walnuts. There are Al next fully Remember, From the New York Sun. During this season of out-of-door enjo3 ments and -air lunches one of the | things that will eften bor roa party will ari j bottles like thes } | come esque as the plant 1 A Thiag for Viente Parties to Care- » from the fit kables hay et to provide the lunch rkser with a ¢ ri in, a corkscrew will not be ne bat suppose the beer is in corked bottles or | that it is ale, how shall it be opened is a trick of taking off the heads of f th ell ar of th “diay t and wit bottle hw bla ack <n n on the b the blade sharp if you you hottle extends be the head cn. 1 draw off « been ak you for hot he to wor when you have w . All the bits » neck of the bottle, | will begin to send out | cork | top of this the off the head of the | of cork will be gone. n you can deca th @ ale and have it Clear and ready to drink. see == Russinns Are Long Lived. From the Loudon Daily News, It has long been well-established fact that abnormal longgvity ts more common among the Russiens than among any other ef the European rations. From an official re Hated from well authenticated loc: ers it now appears that the govern- ment of Kiel takes the first place of a Kussian provinces in this respect. During year, it is offically stated, there were ourteen 4 centon mn deaths registered in i city of Kiet one Lilo while with - - 400 A Novel Cinim for Damages. From the New York Herald. Lawyers are ever ready with new methois of procedure and novel grounds for but there Is an Englishman who has just made himseM prominent in his profession as a deviser of a unique basis for a suit for demases. He has entered sult against a newspaper, asking damages and an injunction, on the ground tnat his practice has been’ injured by the newspaper withholding his name in cases where he has been successful and publishing it only in cases which he has lost. Eminent counsel have been retained en both sides, and the action will be bit- @rly contested organizations would cer afainst an increase of th }army. Meanwhile, the business of tmport- tug into this country the worst elements 7 AN ARMY INCREASE will Congress Add to the Country’ OPPOSITION ELEMENTS 1 THE PLAN What an Increase of 25,000 Sol- diers Would Signify. FACTS ABOUT MILITIA ee Writtea for The Evening Star. ILL CONGRESS IN- crease the size of the army? It is more than doubtful. To be- gin with, the legisla- ture of a republic ts always afraid of the army and navy, lest a Cromwell arise and seize the government. In the House of Rep- resentatives Mr. Hol- man recently declared that the American . Navy was a menace to the American people. Senator Gorman in his great speech the other day referred to the danger of the moment when Presi- dent Grant declared his intention to cen- tralize the army at Washington and con- tinue to hold the reins of power himself after the expiration of his term, in case of disturbance in Tilden’s behalf. Had that step been taken Grant would have been a dictator, ruling under martial law, the Constitution being set aside. In any re- public there 1s always peril of a military despotism, Labor Organizations Oppose Increase. e United States army may be increased #00 men under existing lv which the number at 30,000. Congress ap- propriates money for only 25,000, The plan deemed wise by certain far-seeing legisla- sis to make the full strength of the forces 50,000. That a bill providing for such an augmentation of 20,000 would pass is extremely unlikely for reasons which have to do merely with ordinary politics. It would be,strongly opposed by the great bodies of voters composing the labor or- ganizations. They would urge against the measure every reason but the true one— namely, that they look forward to a time when they may come into collision with the federal troops. If tt were not for this anticipation might well reg: they d an increase of the army as most desirable, inasmuch as it would give emp! ment to many thousands of men who are now idle. The situation here is not what it 1s in Europe, where men needed in industrial pursuits are withdrawn from their occtpations to do military serv- ice. In this country there is not enough work to go around. Twenty-five thousand more soldiers would mean 50,00) pairs of blankets and large @#pquisitions for clothin, that is to say, mor# money for the pe who make the clothes and @ better market for the farmers why produce the wool. It ify a dgmand for more guns, 5. more quarters ps—in other words, more carpenters, better dem a batlders, more work for farriers, and so cn. nd fur lumber, more wagon- ing. population ef Europe goes on ste li ranks of the td on this side of ing augmented by a con- tinuous fi Man beings, who are dis- contenter « of thing to rty per sat present confined in and asylums o United States e of foreien birth. The time is approach- gs when ail t! citles will Nave to regula: AN ns point ction in the not future, which may amount t tion, Probab tin C mish has t th ational Gu ng the militia tor the purpos: when the militia r troops are | e wa aper than he Nath s composed of r nve_ the $s army, trem id have five full troops | fetched all | the way 1, Neb. and] four tr and three battalions | ef artiller: with thelr guns, from Fort Riley, Kan.’ The expens S$ enor- nous. Gen Years ago Joh: 1 that the imy be ”) men, He was in ng the troops at t rcipal railw near That is what will be d it Is no 3 Tisous of n killing y that an ne has to t 1, and ts herd to As »ps are i scalp the n to unsp. burn men, olaied ranch, mur- children and sub- Kable outrages. On one occasion, when the Secretary of Wear proposed to withdraw most of the for a time from certain frontier en. Crook sai very soldier sum ifice the life of a wi army officer ¥ telling the writer > vpon a time he burned x white women's scalps taken 7 rric nel away woman you young king work might well be regarded as irable. Whe lot of the cummon sol- Sam 3 to be envied. and well fed, ing mark given, and If in a anh which own sp is permitic The Sotdic The soldier hak a good dex at his own disposal. At . usually, and 1 sure tim y to leave aking fe ne to provi antecn” Is a cozy re om, though nothing stronger than beer is sold ther canteen is managed on a co-opera so that low, roms: the nt rooms in newspapers nter soldier gets his food, cloth for nothing. His pay, which se for pocket money, is $13 a month fo: e first year, $14 for ‘the second year, §15 for the third year, $16 fo> the fourth year and $17 for the fifth year, when the term of enlist- ment expires. If he dees his work well he is likely to rise to the position of a petty officer, with a private room to himself and increased emohiment. An increase of the army would make room for a good many young men as cot is- sioned officera. They would be apvointad AY, AUGUST 11, 1894—-TWENTY PAGES, ee and would become at once as at $114 ——— In all ir sass 0 enjoyed juates Es West Point. Even now thi more vacancies évery year in the officers, owing to deat! retirement ——— can be filled by the cadets. The extra ones required are recruited from ,civil life. To gst such an appointment {s stmply a matter of influence. The candidate obtains gn or- der permitting him to be examined. e ex- amination is not at all hard, and, if he can answer a few common-school questions, and is found to be sound physically, he slides into the army. Promotion is slow, but the pay increases from year to year, and is a sure thing for life. Militia Unreliable. Militia cannot always be relied upon in emergencies. They do not like to kill peo- ple. During the recent trouble in the far west certain companies refused to do duty and had to be placed under arrest. Some of the citizen soldiers were threatened with ostracism by their relatives and friends if they took up arms against the rioters. One man was shot in Chicago by his command- ing officer because he declined to fire on the mob, There ought to be no sentiment in the soldier business. In the War Depart- ment at Washington lately a proposition has been, discussed for detailing officers of the army for temporary duty with the na- tional guard in all the states, in order that the feeling entertained by the militia against the regular army might be over- come by mutual acquaintance. But the old war dogs frown upon such a notion. They say that it is proper that the army should be feared, representing as it does the strong hand of the government. The War Department has been gathering together some very interesting Information respecting the citizen soldlery of the states, New York has the largest force of militia, numbering 13,500; Idaho, with only 229, hi the smallest. The time required for the con- centration of the national guard varies from eight hours in Counecticut to three days in Oregon. In New Y rk concentration can be effected in forty-eigut hours; in Pennsylva- nia thirty-two hours 1s the time needed. The percentage of men that may be counted on to turn out in case of emergency runs from 25 per cent in Pennsylvania to 0 per cent in Kentucky. Massachusetts, Illinois and Alabama have the best-developed plans for concentrating and supplying troops in the event of trouble. Most of the states have no such plans; they are waiting to find out what is the best thing to do when an emer- sency arises. Some State Appropriations. New York makes the biggest regular ap- propriation for the purchase of equipments —$400,000 annually. Pennsylvania comes next with $320,000. Massachusetts puts up 210,00) per unnum for this purpose, Califor- nia $180,000, Lttle Rhode Island $173,000, Connecticut $120,000, lilinols $120,000 and Ohio $119, All the rest give less than $100,000. Idaho makeg the small- st| appropriation, with one exception Arkansas appropriates nothing, ng on what is given by the federal Sovernment, supplemented by subscriptions of members of the state guard. The annual appropriation made by Congress for equip- ping the militia is divided up among the States according to thelr representation in Congress. The amounts thus contributed TYR from $51,373 for New York to $2,614 for Mi ssachuseits, New York and Pennsyl- Vania have very complete equipments. ‘The artillery harness of the states generally is old and rotten and not in condition for hard service. Massachusetts and New York have the best arms. As a rule, the arms of the militia are not well cared for, too Iittle at. tention being paid to keeping them cleaned and repaired. The field guns of the Na- tioral Guard are of obsolete patterns. The kind of arms possessed by the militia va- ries from New Hampshire, which has only the saber, to South Dakota, which has on- ly the carbine. All of the states issue the forage cap, blouse and trousers to their militia, Most of them furnish overcoats. Some supply Icegins, blankets and full-dress uniforms. Pr vania issues shoes and blue flannel adress uniform in all the me as that of the re; states that is the d, selection of the fu s uniform being left to the various or- ganizations. Different companies of the giment sometimes wear different Vermont keeps the greatest emmunition on hand—3,(0 for each company. Most of the tes ke e or no artillery ammuni- tion on Only twelve of the states have enough tente West Virginia has r hiring them whea they are needed. of the states are deficient in § © Foreign Armies. The army of Russia on a peace footing numbers 00; on a war footing, 2,733,000, Italy's army numbers 736,000; in war, i 718,000, The army of Germany has a penc footing of 446,500 and a war footing of 1,- my of France, which num- . has a war foot- 3,755,000, The United States are sa istied to get along w'th a standing arm orly as large, numeric nin- taired when the population of the cour was one-half of what it ts today. E BACHE. oe INTRODUC ABOLT Guides. From the Paliadelphia Press. Suffictent sympathy for the man w! not save another from drowning bi: he rouse had not been introduced has never been Quite possible he was a victim of etiquette bucks, which have stuffed his a of directions for every possible erg ve that of addressing an en- tire strarger with a view to saving his life. » of the people who earnestly study and “Don't” this department of nities ms an uncharted pretend to a Ht nowledge, to be taken now and then and anx is the etiq ot at intro sntal peace and prosperity would digestion of this one fact—that s very little to do with it ators of our I-menaer step-re! across the s we F are accused of being In this respect have endeavored to make a t rule in ter, but in si quarters the simple old-fashioned ides suil prevails that en introduction is simpiy a “making known” of two people who ought to knaw each other, for one of only two reasons, either because they are mutually ecngenial, or because they are about to be thrown together into an extent which non- introduction would render embarrassing. ‘This is ina nutshell the etiquette or ethics, whichever you please to eall it, of the occa- There is only one Gther guide neces- and that to remember that since no int of custom or social rule can make an intrinsically fil-bred action anything but ill-bred, an introduction or non-introduction which Is likely to make any one uncom- fortable is to be avolded in the face of any- thing one may be told by men or angels, or —more terrible still—Mrs. Grund: pject to this exception, it Is wisest not to introduce people at casual meetings In public places, street cars, stores, o> in the, street. Many people do this and the resuit is invariably that one persoa remembers the roduction afterward and the other does not, with Innumerable contingent unpleas- anthess. It is bad enough for dancing ac- Guaintances to have the bother of an (al- ways) unmutual decision as to whether fu- ture recognitions tg or is not desirable; and shen if comes to meeting the erme problem h people whom one has seen for one minute on a street corner er in a railway sicn. station, it is too much. Aside from these instances, however, ‘whea in doubt, introduce,” is a very go. jon on” which opinion, is whether or not N introduce callers in her om, Common sense and the good Jing would seem to indicate that it ts best to do so, at le in this “city of stiff- ness,” as we are unkindly called; but she who prefers the other course has’ the con- solation of knowing herself upheld by a or of our local editions of Ward Mc- te ‘he fact that “It Is done,” need not, how- . carry any consolation to the woman who dees that rudest of rude things—brings a friend with her to a small gathering or outing and introduces her to no one. At a laree affair the thing {s permissible, though a trifle snobbish; at a small one, where peo- ple are supposed to entirely mix, both the friend and the rest of the party have a perfect right to feel insulted, and not the sanction of a princess could redeem the act. A princess wouldn't do it, though, for ob- servation shows that the “thoroughbreds’ have usually far less fear of introducing ac- quaintances than those who are on the social anxious seat; a fact which calls for Capt. er advice, “When found, make a oaks ae wing nur AU THE CAFE OF DEATH The Gruesome Show Now Patronized by Parisians, The Limit Reached in the Way of Fantastic Exhibitions. SIGNS OF A COMING REVOLT asi ipcininacntaes) Correspondence of The Evening Star, PARIS, July 24, 1894. HE FRONT 18 painted black. A} in mourr ing stands upon the sidewalk to iistribute invitation rards! “Ho, Clods of Dust! blinded by pride, ccrrupted and potted by passions tnd volces of all kinds! Wretches, tremble! And if there be still time, Come to Me, and perhaps my Spectacle, by its i ality, may make you better and open to you the only horizon, the sole end of all things nd that is Nothingness. 1 (Signed) DEATH.” The door is hidden by black hangings | sewn with silver tears. You push the hang- | ings by and step into a spacious darkened room, where a few candles give a fearful twilight. A great voice calls: “Soyez le bien venu ala mort, Maccabee!” A dozen coffins, on supports, replace the ordinary cafe tables. it i: in Paris of the fin de siecie, Thursday nights reserved for the grand monde, each blass of beer two francs, and you may kiss the undertaker free. On ordinary nights the bock is thirteen sous. it is on the tough-artistic Boulevard de | Clichy, a few blocks north of the great Boulevafd and half way up the Montmartrc hiil—the quarter of the Moulin Rouge and the Rat Mort, of journalists and artists and models and other mammals in great number There are well-to-do and worthy people liv- ing in the quartier, but, nevertheless, atmosphere is that of toughness. levard de Clichy is both wide and shaded. The promenade at night is thronged with girls and bullies. Tramps sleep the benches. Workingmen in blouses saunter in the evening, smoking pipes. And through the mingled throng of Paris scum and cx- perts in the aris and rich folks up to seo the sights the honest and religious lower middle-class wives, mothers and daughters of the quarter stroll to take the alr, one Innumerable cafes and drinking shops make the scene bright. The Moulin rouge’s biood- red windmill arms go round and round, Mike some set pieces Vagrant strain One of these cc pictorial poster who are eviderm of music from the conc 1eerts is the Trianon, w shows two pretty women ly great frien One i the Concert Lisbonne, formerly the so-called Cafe des Concierges. Its proprietor, a bad old communist, has just obtained Some 30,- ow francs from Max Lebaudy (the youthfal spendthrift millionaire) with which to fit his venture up an The Concert Cigale ts indicated by Its name. The Mirliton of Aris- tide Bruapt, the poet of the slums, ts just below. The Carillon, around the’ corner, tries to give old-fashioned songs and rec of a more decent character than has 1 the vogue for some years past. The t Noir has just fatied. The Dead Rat just acrass the avenu special restaurant. it this Cafe of Death is b; est establishment things are comparatiy v . For ali The croque-mort waiters’ language may a hasty, but it is lame indeed beside the ordinary ‘thoughts und conversation of the dear, det Pa artists and the ordinary writings of the Montmartre journalists. Modified by the Police. The name of this establishment is really not the Cafe de la Mcrt, although all Paris calis itso, When first opened it was under that name that they gave you beer to drink frcm tmitat rk the pe them a vi the drink should be served m plain glasses So now its title is, offi- ; (or drinking shop) du nt. Neant is French for Nothingness. in in the black 1 there that Jaws at intery es and midnight orgies decorate Above the door of the black aber of transficvration are the wor ma ratic srovide . there tive si lady clients sired to sere tout doucement”—th scfuy. You sit beside yoar coffin and demand a glass of beer, un verre de biere. coflin maggot, pour un desespere de la vie!” the croque- er cals m sly to the beer boy, “ou telle autre rn" e qu'il vous y It is a gh: on ver(re) de biere— : ver, worm, and biere, beer or bie Un ueil!” Asticot is , the beer, arn hat is the ds. The saucer nde you is marked The waiters are cos’ ren, undertakers’ neient cut, 1 around the h men in real have the que-morgs (bite i) from the ancient dvty 5 had, to bite each dead mar coitin lid was nailed de body was a trance. And si wo be imitation croque- morts of the Cabaret du Neant use through- out their haringues to the clients. and their horrid conversations with each other, the regulation Paris croque-mort slang, the jargon of the domestic servants of the grave. All customers are Maccabees, or dead ‘men mere ough a weil-dressed person is a “salmon,” in particular, just as @ poor man is a “mackerel” and a Iitle child a it.” In this slang of the grave the name of Maccabee was formerly applied exclusively to the bodies of men found hung or drowend: Ce gros machabee, horrible pendu, Sur la dalle froide, on vient de letendre. And the word lie” for morgue slab Ket, where dead fish cool stone ‘Slabs. The Clou hook” of ke sure the came from the fis on were Jaid or > of dead ~ put on deposit, just as we say “I have hung up my watel here in the Cafe ef Death, after fiv utes sitting In the twilight by you will hear a voice cali frot hall in the corne sumptives and tuber vnredeemed tickets, Seine rot, dese your hooks, heap arselves up in charnel house, the one great equalizér! Into a Black Vaan. With your beer you have received a ticket for the other world. The crowd moves on- ward, underneath an arch into a black, vaulted passage. Here the ladies often have attacks of nerves; for as the alley widens into what looks like a burial cellar under- neath a church there strike upon the vision scenes, strange scenes, in the far-off per- spective underneath the arches and betwee the pillars, vague glimpses of gray skel tons engaged in conversation or the a: The passage narrows and there is You knock. A bell strixes three. There is @ voice: “What do you feck, brotha You respond, “Je voudrais crev dl wish to burst, that is, to die). There is a rattling ef chains and you are in the chamber of sransfiguration, Whe attendants are clothed robes, with hoods. The master stands before the curtain,sayin: “Kings, pork-butchers, journalists, ‘artists, cures, ministers, deputies and day-laborers, all you who, having arrived at the age of reason, continue on your crazy courses, your more or less chimerical ambitiona: =o e. «x door. in anonks’ the Cafe of Death, the latest thing | the | The Bou- tful | t ce paid | 2 and suppressed | t is, very gently, very | tall | ands of crepe | You take your scuts. | ve on Tine tong: 00 Retr the inves, vista, Srtghtly mention is seen an open cof. v - fin standing on one end. They ask a Mac- cabee de bonne volonte to secrifice himself to benefit the others, digger, “is lost in most remote antiquity. In every age man has kicked the bucket (devisse son billard, tot ou tard), sooner or later, at the age «f 989 years Ike Methuselah, or immediaiely on arriving underneath the nightcap of the heavens, like the still-born. It follows, then, that we should continue this sweet habit, if only for the annoying of depu sheriffs, landlords and other parasites who constitute the despair of a good half of humanity One of the spectators steps out, half ashamed, half smiling, half repugnant, tw thirds curious and three-fourths anxious to shine in the eyes of the community. He ts led off, to reappoar beside the coffin in the distance. A parlor organ strikes up a als- tressing hymn-tune, as they make the man stahd in the coffin. Undoubtedly it is the same man, smiling in a sickly fashion to | his friends down in the audience. The transformation in him that will soon take place is brought about by magic-lantern effects, as in dissolving views. How Deat nulated. The man stands in the coffin, and they tuck a sheet around him, leaving only his face uncovered. The attendant disappears. The nan looks at you from his coffin; as he looks at you his face grows whiter. Often enough the “subject” is an adven- turous gif. If you happen to know her face, from having seen her in the public balls or in the festive summer gardens,you ieel very serious to see her there so white and still The horrid parlor organ goes on with its horrid hymn. Green lights begin to play. There is a smell of phenol and ol bones. Sometimes a girl or woman in the eu- dience has a crose de nerfs at this point and is led off sobbing; but the spectators Tor the most part sit still, staring blankly at the white face in the coffin. The face takes on a greenish-yeliow tint, it softens, seems to decompose, then hardens, as the stow big and black. The body, cov- red by the sheet, begins to shine through i ‘continues the grave dim shades of the | dimly, a yellow mass that loses flesh, that shows tts bon | The light grows more intense. The coffin ids a rigid, bony skeleton and nothing more. The man who had stepped up so mntily from out the audience to step in the coffin—he is gone. So timid, so pathetic, so pitiful, so pitiable, y+s, and so lovable—because the white light d purified her miserable little fac showed a s ed in b The girl, who looked mn look you had eyes and lps before—the irl ts gone. All that is left is the dread | thing of bones. The voice of the grave of death in a dogmatic tone: fear Him if we look Him : The spectator one, and step out, stum- street de la ort is not a missionary The iy charge you for th ey take up no collection, Yet th or organ, with fis hymn tutes, has | Strangely famtiiar sound to those of v | who had our early days in country villages away America. And the insulting language of the waiters and the showman, F morgue slabs, Seine-rot, ques and tuberculcux, call up a faint not altogether dissimilar expressions hurled at audiences or breathed in prayer on Sund rings or on Wed- resday evenings in the old stone church or little wooden chapel. We were in- med that all our righteousness regs, and that trefving It is but And there are Paris journalisis who have hesitated to improve the opportuntty rmon on the Cafe de la Nort, ux, in the Jour, tells how he place in company of a yo f age. @ ¢ laughing was iy rand ‘ under th ame ble it } conceale and | They came, the st moment, when the ' patr dvciaiming: “We shall not fear Hil took Him often tn i he We still laughed, but i med green!” Then ther walked ! a glar He j , yell were | ‘and the his ' He walk kept walking more than a half hour, and either of us said a word. Then he swoi is hi yuld nev » back youth attractions whic our day? ¥ | there are peo [He was right j things: that we true that the | nalists declare lost word, the | Ungutst | “artistic ¢ | which have be in | | Wh acainst appears the of one wh wer “h jutely un known no less than the heads of the er uh ou th Rus: = ing in turn her father, he her, her two | nephews, and her two great nephews! Karl Russell and Lord Ampchill are both her great-nephews, while she numbers among ber Lineal descendants the reigning dukes Abercorn and Mar 1 of srough, the future dukes of Leeds and Buccleuch, the future Marquis of Lansdowne, ihe earis of Dur- ham and Lichtield, ond the future earls of Winterton and Mount Edgecombe. Several very iarge photographs of the “march past” were taken, The dowager duchess Jobn, Duke of Bedford’, sacond marriage with duke and the famous is therefore la Russell. at beauty of a dauchter of 1S) | published hess wa | Duke (then i Iwas nifty bes The a fas als nee | for very ciety. Ruec > reasons) th in both IN41 ana t h tim n. Wt si sed ia ene fer nearly queen) n in c | | Goethe t to C; the 1 ’s Vis ne anne ii Sprim im the for . Which te wh. od by evaporation fiom the waters of Carished, was greatly j tay The Carkshad Sprudel Salt ponder form) ale. clone bile, Srrits m und re. tions vy aiding mater, It nets soothingly and withost palin, Rest results obtained when cut-door exercise can be had. ‘The geuuiee has the signatare of “EISNER & MENDELSON Or - sets, New York,” on bottle