Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1896, Page 20

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAROH 21, 1896—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. MRS. HENRY WAS 4 51 RANGE, DELIGHTFUL POSTER FIGURE, IN EFFECT. NOTHING, BY VICTORIA CLEMENT. sage s Be much like its owner, Hil- rd himse fit expression of his origin, his character, his culture. It is large, dig- nified, a little somber, but noble. Just as 1 he is genial, though imposing, so the great | house is a home, not a castle nor a halj— eithough it is immen in the size and number of its rooms, and in the length to which its low front and elis extend along the velvet lawn. This lav too, is a town site in ftself and lies in in a pretty landscape of wood, s ally planned as tos est that it must be miles away | which in fact surrounds it | a mere sereen of forest. At his ion on the fine days of spring he throng of lers easily dis- | elf in the spacfousn of the place, so as to give no more than a needed touch of v: nd color to the majestic, park-like domain. This lady, by the way, is also a fitting fig- ure for th «1 t establishment, ample in her | fine blooming physique—rather too much 80, indeed—hospitable and capalle in adminis- tering its detail of management, an excel- lent mother of two budding daughters and three ounger children, besides keeping up fai well with her husband's interests fm ietters and the world of society in the 'y city—a healthy, happy, practical, woman. from the city behind : is a prime neces- as the lordly patrime is al to him as nothing—tts 4 with old Sp the matchless Ww akelet laden with ervatory, the winding there old elms so glish etchings what- e nothing. Noth- flamboyant hostess all_her avoir nothing. The servedly idoli lor] of ail, aith and health of f 1 up in his sturdy six . is the only one save a avenues with placed as to form E ne, relapses red look is. indeed, ple, and explained by Men of the world to he the satiety of one n born to everything, nas been has seen everything and had | By men in his own line of literary and artistic pursuits, it is attrib- uted to disappointed ambition; by women, to the figure and fasiions of madam. To any intimate who has h Palfrey— ard s rep! asked if he had any ailment or anything on his mina, ing, nothing, I teil ee Well, it is next to nothing—nothing at measured by any ordinary human of estimating ft. Fifteen years ago, when his lid daughters were tots in short ne distinguished and willowy lady of yonder house that ‘* moated grange, $3 1k in the woods in as to compose admirably with the shaven knoll which rises from the nd, crossed the vision of Broadlawa’s Henry is an artist. and paints with the devotion of a professional, though she is an heiress of untold wealti. Every- thing about her is studied with an artist's {| keenness for effect, and she has at her} command the resources of a brilliant mind and broad culture. Her house fronting Broadlawns was designed by herself, and with an eye to preserving, instead of in- truding upon the effect of unity in the land- Scape of the great estate. The studio was made the dominant feature of her house, its broad windows taking up half the sec- ond story of its scuthern front. For tne Fest, it is as exquisite in its suggestions of@{ its owner's aesthetic individuality as the | folid grandeur of its reighborheod is of | Hilfiard’s. Her husband has never been an tmportant factor in Mrs. Henry's house or life. A prosperous wholesaler ycunger than herself, with a merchant's cenven- tional respectability in fdeas, manners and morals, there has been nothing ever to complain of in him, or to give him the savor of any kind. Sv, Mr. S. P. ary may be permitted to drop out of drama. At the time the drama opened, the strange, delightful colored-poster figures of J2ran via Paris had not been invented; but Mrs. Henry was one, in effect. Her train- ¢4 gowns, her head dress out of the Old Masters, her beautiful long wraps, were gither meant to make of her a picture, or to form a part of the composition in which she was to figure. Was it a field of un- broken snow, with perhaps a purpling fringe of shrubs or saplings, that she was to cross to make her morning call at Broadlawns—for that environment black Velvet would be her only wear. Was it a spring morning, gray with mist. with the leafaxe and turf of the tenderest wreen— to strike the right cord she donned her pink silk mantle, reaching to the ground &nd heavily trimmed with white fur. Her indoor costumes were fremed to prolong the effect of her fine, long, regular, Ital- fan-like features, and never bore the slight- est relation to anything of Parisian mo- Giste's make; save when Sarah Bernhardt Was setting the fashions of the hour, for Fis Bot Sarah a painter and sculptor Ike exsolf? Well. one morning, as the towering. man- bulk of Hilliard and the stained glass igure of Mrs. Henry were leaning on the Opposite sides of the turnstile between their laces—while Mr. Henry, good business ul, was shaving himsejf at quarter past even in order to take the quarter past Wght train, and Mrs. Hilliard was in her ursery—it occurred to the two artists ‘ho often found an early morning consul- tion necessary to settle some question f aesthetics) that if Re were to plant a i, straight Lombardy poplar on his side f the turnstile, and she a weeping birch ith its fine feminine drapery on her side, j@ two would “compose” to absolute per- tion. It also occurred to both as this ‘orjal of their joint work grew, the lle poplar would be touched by’ the mbling birch, and then {t occurred to m that, like their trees, they too were unterparts,” the one the perfect com- [espe of the other, made for each other high and only separated hy « hedge- @ stile and sundry conventions, per- haps necessary for the common run of humanty. But this was Nothing. ill it sufficed ever afterward, year after Year, to make everything Nothing for each, the other being absent. Only when they were bending their heads together in the solution of problems in art and letters, which they alone—and together—could compre- hend, did they really Hve. Mrs. Hilliard might bé in the dining room eating bread and honey with her children or receiving callers in her drawing room, and Mr. Henry might be in his counting room counting out his money—they did not consider all that any part of existence that made life worth living. The duties required of them in their households and in society they got through somehow, but the only relish in anything for either was when the other was sharing it And yet it is with the most discreet in- frequency that they are to be seen together by themselves, although they are in truth walking hand in hand every step through every day of thelr lives. So long as they | know the whereabouts of each other, when they can see one another acro: even across the fields from t windows, they are measurably content;- when they cannot, they are restless, waiting, looking, wondering, paralyzed for elther play or work; miserable—only the more miserable for their wealth, futile to free them. Yet there is nothing that the servants, most vigilant of detectives, have ever talked about. Absolutely Nothing! Still, every morning a_ glass of fresh flewers on the window sill of Hilliard’s studio is the greeting returned by the open- ing of a window in the studio over the stile. Every night the turning up of a light in Hil- Nard’s studio sends a “good night” across his lawn to a curtain in the other, which has been raised to receive it, and then is lowered in answer. It is Nothing, ard yet neither can sleep if it be missing now. I surprised Hilliard one day when he was distinctly not bored. It was at a 5 o'clock and private view at a studio in town. The little company had gathered half un- consciously about him, fascinated to silence in listening to his animated observations, so rare of late—the wise, broad, witty, pene- trating yet generous way in which he dis- posed uf pretenders to the art here truly exemplified. “Mrs. Henry was his com- panton, dressed in a dark velvet gown, com- ing high about her slender throat. Her pale, long, distinguished face was glowing Eke a lily in bloom. Her eyes could not con- ceal her delight in the rapt deference paid to Hilliard. But it was the coming half hour together in the carriage on the homeward drive that was exalting both till they were already floating in the only heaven they dreamed of or cared fer. Nothing? Is it nothing that in these days two with every resource at their free command, two for whom all the rest of the a room, or | World is nothing, hold themselves nobly in hand, unwilling that other hearts than their own shall be wrung, resolved that no mock shall be borne by others for their sake, con- vinced that no such shock as they might give it were they to fly from their orbits should be borne by a social order already staggering under accumulated scandals? Nothing? Is there anything loftier, saint- lier, more herole than such sacrifice, such abnegation, such crucifixion of self for others? In saints and heroes of the storied Fast do we call such renunciation Nothing? pane eats THEY DID NOT MELT away. The Unexpected Result of a Declara- tion of Unalterable Principle. From tke Chicago Dally Tribune. “I you want to say anything before we Jerk you up,” announced the leader of the Arizona regulators, when all was in readi- ness, “‘we'll listen to you.”” The stolid face of the conde ined horse thief lit up with a sudden gleam of hope. “Will you give me five minutes?” he asked. “Yes. Go ahead.” “Men,” he said, straightening himself up and looking with a piercing eye over the crowd of rough, desperate frontiersmen, “I knew well enpugh my time’s come. I’m not going to do any begging for mercy. It's too late for that now. I’ve been a tough lot in my time. I've been more kinds of a scoundrel than you know anything about. Maybe I'd do better if I could live my life over again, and maybe I wouldn't. There’s no-telling. But there’s one thing I want to- say. I'm not all bad. I've got some good streaks in me. I have some idea of what's right and what’s wrong, and no man can say I haven't any principle. I want you to remember that. Whatever you may say about me after it’s all over, there’s one thing I don’t want you to forget. I’ve lived up to my lights in one way. I never went back on my country. No matter how things were going with me, I’ve done all that one man could do to set a good ex- ample in one particular. I’ve Hed and cheated, and stole, and, for all you know, I have counterfeited, and run off with other men’s wives, and killed my man, dozens of times. I'm not saying whether I have or not. That's all past and gone. But all my life I have been true to one principle. Ever since I was old enough to know anything I have believed, as I do now, in the final and complete triumph of one great doc- trine. I am now, as I have always been, in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver—" The mob made a wild rush. In stories of this kind this is the point at which the avengers usually make a frantic aad desperate break to get away from the scene, leaving the orator to climb down from the barrel and go about his business; but the historian ts compelled to record the |* fact that in this instance nothing of the kind took place. “|The mob made a wild rush and strung that orator up. He had spoken less than two minutes. —+e-+—_____ An Unaffected Princess. From Tid Bits. Of all members of the royal family the Duchess of Fife is the one who dislikes publicity the most, and probably no other princess goes into public so often without being recognized. The duchess is extreme- ly fond of walking, and does most of her shopping on foot, and as she generally wears a thick veil her identity is seldom revealed. Her royal highness does not care about great festivities, and particularly dis- likes the official ceremonies of the court, such as drawing rooms and state concerts. The duchess fs never so happy as wh she fs in the nursery with her two little girls, and, indeed, it may truly be said that she inherits all the home instincts of her mother, the Princess of Wales. The duch- ess,” like her sisters, Princesses Vi and Maud, is a good needlewoman, and Ras a knowledge of cooking such as as- would tonish a good many middle-class house- keepers. WELCOME TOVISITORS. Plans of the Entertainment Commit- tee for the 0. E. Convention. AN ADMIRABLE SYSTEM ADOPTED How the Delegates Will Be Pro- vided With Quarters. A MASS OF DETAILS IVEN TO HOSPI- tality” and “be not forgetful to enter- tain strangers” are Scriptural injunc- tions which will be observed by the citi- zens of Washington at the time of the approaching Chris- tian Endeavor con- vention, if the de- sires and plans of the entertainment committee are car- ried cut—and there are no grounds for an- ticipating a failure. The city will be thronged by visiting thousands in July next, most ef whom will remain one week at least, and to furnish suitable and suf- ficient accommodations for this great num- ber, collectively, and to assign such quar- ters individually is the by no means easy task of the entertainment committee, one -of the subdivisions of the committee of ‘06, the latter being in charge of the arrangements for the coming convention. The chairman of the entertainment com- mittee is Miles M. Shand, who is a mem- ber of the Calvary Baptist Church, and well known to every lacal Endeavorer as the president of the District of Columbia Christian Endeavor Union. He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and is of Scotch parentage. His education was received in the schools of his rative town and in 1882 he came to Washington to accept a position in the State Department, where he has been em- ployed ever since. His life while in this city, as well as be- fore his coming here, has been character- ized by a lively interest in religious work, and his ability and zeal have found expres- sion in many directions. He was for fige years superintendent of the Sunday schdol at Memorial Chapel, corner 5th’ and P streets, which was at that time one of the largest Sunday schools in the District. For several years past he has betn secre- tary of the Sunday school of Calvary Bap- tist Church and has served the school with great efficiency. Since the organization of the Christian Endeavor Society in Calvary Church six years ago, Mr. Shand has been much in- terested in the movement. He served one year as vice president of the District of Columbia Union, one year as chairman of Mts lookout committee and is now presi- dent of the union. Every duty to which he has been called has been performed in a quiet and modest, but thoroughly efficient and helpful manner, and he has the united and devoted support of the Christian En- deavor of the District. The secretary of the committee is R. A. Pearson and the members are: Norman T. Elliott, F. M. Bradley, W. I. Simpson, W W. Warwick, Rev. Charles Alvin Smith, E. A. Clark, Charles E. Paul, Glen T. Jones, David P. Wolhaupter, jr, 8. D. Luckett Rev. J. H. Bradford, Rev. F. A. Stier, C. B. Jewell and J. L. H. Winfield. - Assisting this central committee is an auxiliary entertainment committee made up of several members from each society in the union, numbering more than 500 per- sons. Though pre-eminently a convention city, and well equiped in accommodations end by experience for taking care of large crowds, Washington has not sufficient hotel room for the seventy-five thousand or more expected sojourners, and it will be neces- sary to call into requisition the boarding houses and private homes to properly care for the visitors. It could hardly be ex- Pected that a city should have available hotel accommodations for a throng of transients equal to nearly one-fourth its Population; such an unusual number of visitors must be cared for by the citizens themselves. And it is known also that a great majority of the delegates to the con- vention will prefer stopping in the homes of the residents. In this way Washington's citizens will come into direct contact with the great bulk of those who have been Invited to enjoy the hospitality of the na- tion's capital, and will have an opportun- ity of sustaining the city’s excellent repu- tation in this regard. Information About Accommodations. Upon its organization in November last the entertainment committee immediately began a canvass of the local hotels, learn- ing how many delegates each would agree to accommodate and at what rate. This work has beer. completed, and from the information thus obtained Chairman Shand has kecn enabled to lend material aid to many of the excursion managers from the various delegations, who have desired hotel headquarters for the delegates from their unions. Practically all the hotels have re- sponded to the committee’s request for in- formation, and reasonable rates have been granted. Up to the present time twenty state excursion managers have closed con- tracts with the hotels for accommodations for all or a part of the delegations which they expect to bring with them. It is usual, in planning to attend a Chris- tian Endeavor convention, for the several state unions to appoint a committee of one or more persons to have entire charge of arranging for the trip. Excursion man- agers, as they are called, are selected, who estimate as accurately as possible the size of their delegations, select the route and arrange the itinerary, and, if a hotel is wanted in the convention city, close the contract for such accommodations. As a general rule, the excursion Managers make a trip to the city, and by personal observa- tion are the better prepared to secure the accommodations which their delegations desire. Such a course ts found to be much more satisfactory than making arrange- ments by correspondence. Visits from advance agents of state dele- gations are of frequent occurrence at the headquarters of the '96 committee. Such callers are referred to Chairman Shand, who questions them as to the expected size of their delegations, what character of quarters they prefer, and the rate they are willing to pay. Learning what they are after, he refers to his list of hotels, selects those which would answer the wants of the delegation, and gives his callers a card of introduction to the hotel Proprietors. The ment committee assisting only in th lection of quarters and acting as a mean of communication between the two parties in interest. The eommittee prefers that ho- tel arrangements be made after a personal visit by the state’s representatives, and as evidence that this is much the more satis- factory course it may be said that all the selections so far have been made in this It is significant, too, that twenty delegations have already secured hotel Quarters, while the convention is yet four months away, whereas at Boston last year not more than eighteen delegations were quertered in the hotels at the time when the convention was in session. This 4s an indication of increased attendance this wear, rather than of a more widespread de- sire to stop at the hotels. Im the Homes. But the assigning of states to hotels 1s only one phase of the work devolving upon the entertainment committee, and that is done entirely by the central committee. By far the most important and arduqus task, and that which will call for the as- sistance of each member of the large auxil- jary hody, is the canvassing of the city to rovide accommodations for the great ma- rity who will not be cared for in hotels. it of the seventy-five thousand delegates and visitors (more or less) for whose com- fort the entertainment committee is work- ing to provide, up to the present time about -five hundred have secured hotel quar- ‘ae In phe nares ee = it bulk of the lelegates wil pro’ rr. To secure a record of all boarding houses and private families, where one or several delegates may find accommodations dur- ing convention week, the entertainment committee pro) make a canvass of the clty, witich divided into eleven districts or sectiong for this purpose. The work in each distrift will be in charge of one of the memberg§of the central commit- tee, who will be isted by sections of the auxiliary body assigned for such duty. Before making the canvass, however, no- tices will be given general publicity in the churches requesting all persons and fami- Hes who have .any,rooms which can be Placed at the dispdgal of the committee to: make: the.fact. ki . Those who desire to accommodate dejegates during the period f their: stay.in ity will -be requested o state in their applications the number which can be provided for,what character of accommodations will be furnished—wheth- er lodging only, or room and breakfast, or room and board both—and the rate to be charged. These applications will be care- fully classified, and a record kept by means of the card index sysiem. Members of the auxiliary committee will also visit the houses offered for the purpose of personal mmspection of the accommodations offered, and to satisfy the committee that the pro- visions made.are guftable enq gqmforfaple. The Assignment of Delégaten. It is expected that April 1 will see this work wel] under way, and in May it,may. be thought advisable to begin a house-to- house canvass, if more accommodations are necessary. When the returns are all iu and classified, Msts will be sent to the various churches, which have heen assign- ed, for headquarters of delegations, from which assignments Will be’ made’'to the delegates as they arrive and are register- ed. For example, Pennsylvanta is assign- ed to the Calvary Baptist Church, and ex- pects to send a delegation of 6,000. A list ef accommodations for more than 6,000 persons will be sent to that church, the homes located as conveniently, as. possible to the church. As the delegates arrive in the city they will be met at the depot by members of the reception committee and escorted to their assigned church, “where they will register and be given badges and programs by members of’ the registration committee. Then they will be taken in hand by representatives of the entertain- ment commi:tee, who will select suitable quarters and direct them to their assigned homes, or have them escorted there by one of the ushers. As each assignment is made, the name and address cf the dele- gate will be entered on a card and filed for reference. There is a mass of detail about this work of the entertainment committee, which would be confusing were it not for the excellent system adopted: To plan out such an elaborate and complete scheme requires more than common executive abil- ity; to classify and arrange the indexes and attend to the'correspondence and the many other duties calls for laborious effort on the part of the secretary; to put the plans as adopted into practical operation needs the continued and diligent applica- tion of time and energy on the part of each committee member, whether of the central or auxiliary bodies. It is the opin- fon of those whose judgment is regarded with approval, that these several require- ments are ali satisfactorily met in the present constitution of the entertainment committee, ————-.—_ HE ROLLED OUT OF JAIL. Surprising Adventures of a Man Who Made a Break for Liberty. From the San Francisco Examiner. Ted Dillon,“the Ludlow section man who is charged with forgery, has escaped from Jail a second time. Dillon was apprehended last Saturday, whité-miaking his way to this city from Ludlow, a station in the desert. He was charged with stealing a time check and forging the indorsgment in order to cash it. He was takenback to Barstow for pre- liminary examinatfon Monday, and the same evening, while th@ officers had him’ out for an airing, he gave'thgm the slip. The next morning he was found fifty-five miles away, and he must have -walked the whole distance that night. He wastagain taken ‘back to Barstow, and the examination postponed until Friday morning, Dillon” announced that he had sent-fo'$an Bernardino for an attorney. a = This was only a play for time, and his opportunity came the same ‘evening, ‘The two officers who had him in charge left him in jail while they wefit to’ suppef) but they took the preeaution’ t6 lock'a palf ‘of hamd- cuffs around Dillon’s ankles. They were 80 tight thet Dillon complained of the pain. The officers were one put a few minutes, but when the’ retary d they found the door open’ and footprints 'in the dust, Jndicating that Dillon was taking log jumps toward Doggett. The officers folfowed the trail a mile ang a half, and: then lost: it. In-the morning they discovered that,.Dillon had doubled back toward Barstow. He had found a hut frequented by tramps, and by means of a pair of fishplates had cut the links holding the Landcuffs together. From the hut Dillon had gone directly to Barstow and from there the officers have no trace of him. Dillon’s trip from the jail down the track and back to the hut must have reen at no small personal discomfort. The trail showed that he had at times rolled for a dis-ance of fifty yards, this probably when the irons became too painful to per- mit him to jump. z ee SAMBUR HUNTING IN CEYLON. Giant Stags and Dwarf Deer Among the Land’s Attractions for Sportsmen. Some of the delights of Ceylon deer hunt- ing are described in Outing. There are four varities of deer there, of which the sambur, erroneously called elk, is most. sought, because it is the largest and flerc- est of all. The stag sambur stands from twelve to fourteen hands high, and is hunt- ed with a pair of flerce dogs in leash to do the throat grabbing and a pack of trailers to bring the beast to bay. The leash dogs are a cress between fox and wolf hounds, the others are fox hounds straight. The rifle is very seldom used in sambur huuting, though once in a while one is killed on a runway like Adirondack deer. This rifle killing 1s necessary “because a number of young dogs are in the pack, who to be properly trained should suck a sam- bur’s throat blood.” This is like the neces- sary winter deer crusting with young dogs in the Adirondacks. A part of the hunt will not be fully ap- preciated by sportsmen in the United States. ‘‘We soon found ourselves,” says the writer, “in a perfect forest of nilbe, which for a moment threatened to bar our way. Drawing my knife I slashed vicious- ly, chopping Nke a backwoodsman, Ccrawl- ing, jumping and advancing. I came to the stream, and in a moment'I was in tt, and, running along ft, soon came in view of the game at bay. In a little recess, backed by smooth, perpendicular rocks, stood a magnificent stag, his mane bris- tling, his head down ready to beat back any attack. The trailing pack stood about him, raising a row that made the forest echo. I had at once loosed the seizers, and at sight of the bay and at the sound of my voice, ‘Yoiks, to him!’ they made a frantic rush at the steg. In a moment there was _a confused mass of dog and deer, * * * and the two seizers had him by the throat. We tWo men piled onto the heap. * * * With “& mighty convulsive leap that threw“ all” but the seizer dog Grouach off, thaistag fell forward, dead, with Baya our knives in his heart.” ‘They find a perfect Geer in Ceylon that is about the size of/or smaller than the jack rabbit of the plains. i3t is called the mouse or musk ‘leer, aud hag sharp white tushes in its jaws to sie With instead of horns. Good sport may te had bowling these deer over with a shotgun,’Nos. 6 or 4 shot. Wild boar, white/whiskered monkeys, muntjack, or raddy, Held deer, and spotted deer are some other attractions to sports- men. Jittle of the meat can -be saved, as little meat is rtéaufred for men in that climate. The sambtr is too coarse for most tastes, so ‘the'meat mostly goes to the dogs, the hubter$ being: satisfied with the trophies. Tle horns are usually not well developed, ds 0 limestone is found in that country. ° ae. A Bowery Waiter’s Amendment. From the New York Sun. A slim young man with a high standing collar and straw-colored mackintesh hur- ried into a Bowery restaurant the other evening. As the waiter with furled shirt sleeves threw his towel down on the table and gave it a wipe the slim young man jumped. - “What'll yer have?” asked the waiter. “A piece of apple pie and a cup of coffee, and hurry up,” said the young man firmly. “Say, look a-here, young feller,” said the waiter, shaking his finger at the guest, “T’ll es yer de pie and I'll git yer de coffee, but ll be hanged-if I'll hurry up,” and the big fellow slouched off toward the kitchen, leaving the young man transfixed, - “One in de dark and Eve's gift to Adam en a limited freight fer a ‘Cholley,” was the order he velled into the kitchen: HANDSOME STONES| Chat by Expert George Fr Kunz : MANY GEMS FOUND IN THIS COUNTRY Interesting Spinel the Most Valuable, With a Great Range of- Color. POPULAR INTEREST UBLIC INTEREST : jin the fancy, or sexni- precious stones, has increased greatly in Arrerica since the centennial exposition of 1876. Formerly jewelers sold only diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, opals, pearls, garnets and agates; but now it is not unusual for the mineralogical gems, such as zircon, star sapphire, star ruby, tou-maline, spinel or titanite to be called for, not only by col- lectors, but by the public, whose taste has advanced ss much in the matter of precious stones as it has in art. Spinel is the most valuable of the semi- precious stones, and is ore of the few min- erals that are ornamental and beautiful enough for gemge in their natural state. No other stone has so wide a range of color, and each color in turn is represented by many distinct shades. The flame red and crimson stones have been mistaken and sold for rubies, but although the hue may be vivid, yet it lacks the richness of the ruby. The orange-red spinels are called rubicelle, the pink ones balas ruby, and a charming variety of blues, blue greens, inky blues, purples and violets, terminating in the black spinel, called pleonaste, give this stone a range of color almost un- equaled. One would littie expect to find the jewels of the Queen of the Ruby Mines any other than true rubies; but the English officer who, in 1886, took the hairpin from the pri- vate chamber of Soup-Y-La, the Queen of Burmah, in the palace at Mandalay, was surprised to find that the red jewel in it was not a true ruby, but a fine ruby spinel. A Large Aquamarine. Beryl is one of the most lustrous and bril- Mant of gems, and occurs in a variety of shades of yellow, golden yellow, yellow brown, brown, green, sage and grass green. Aquamarine, so called, comprises the white, light gree., light blue and yellow green beryls, so called from their resemblance to the color of sea water. The yellow ones have been called golden beryls. All these varieties are often exceedingly beautiful and brilliant. The finest aquamarines are found in Russia, Brazil, Ceylon, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Mount Antero, Colorado; at the latter locality, at an eleva- tion of 14,000 feet, almost on the line of per- petual snow. The large aquamarine now at the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. the finest ever found in the United States, is from Stoneham, Maine. It is brilliant cut and weighs 133 3-4 carats. The color is light bluish green, and, with the exception of a few hair-like internal striations, it is per- fectly clear One of the finest known beryls is a superb blue green crystal, found in the Urals in 1826, weighing six pounds, and val- ued at $23,000. It is now at the School of Mines in St. Petersburg. Others worthy special attention are the one In the sword hilt of Prince Murat, sold in the Hope col- Jecticn, aad the frog of sea biue aquama- rine cn a jade leaf, shown at the Paris ex: Ppesition of 1878, and now in the James Gar- Jand collection in New York city. The name topaz generally suggests only a yellow stone, yet there are light blue and green varicties, which have frequently been sold as aquamarine, though the topazes are heavier than aquamarines, and I have fre- quently detected the erence without opening the paper containing them. Topaz admits of a very high polish and is very slippery to the touch. Strange to say, the yellow topaz, when slightly heated, becomes pink; heated further, the pink gro: paler, and by long heating is entirely expelled, leaving the gem colorless. The sherry coi- ored or brown topaz is bleached in a very short time by the rays of the sun or strong daylight, and all the white topézes found in nature have been decolorized in this way. The topaz is found in granite rocks in Si- beria, Japan, Peru, Ceylon, Australia, Bra- zil and Meine, and tn volcanic rocks in Col- orada, Utah and New Mexico. About Garnets. One of the most beautiful of all gems, and one not known two decades ago, is the green garnet, called demantoid, or “Uralian emerald,” or “‘Bobrowska gernet,” found at Poldnewaja, near Sysserk, in the govern- ment of Orenberg, Russia. It varies from yellowish green to an intense emerald color, and has such a power of refracting light that it shows a distinct fire, like the diamond or zircon, and in the evening has almost the appearance of a green diamond. Pyrope, or Bohemian garnet, has been long and extensively sought and worked in the region near Meronitz, Bohemia, where it is gathered from surface deposits and conglomerated rocks, coming from a de- composed peridotite. The gathering and cutting form a great industry in that coun- try. Pyrope occurs under similar condi- tions in the diamond-bearing rocks of South Africa, and also in Arizona and New Mexico; and from both these regions gems of rich color are obtained, and sold under the name of Cape rubies and Arizona ru- bies. The African stones are larger than the American, and perhaps equal to them in color by daylight, but the latter are much riche~ by artificial light. Only the clear, blood-red color then remains visible, while the Cape rubies retain a dark tint, inclining to brown. About $5,000 worth of cut stones from Arizona are sold annually, and some peculiarly fine ones have brought from $50.to $100 each. The turquoises of commerce are from these localities, Nishapur, Persia, the Des- ert of Sinai (Egyptian turquoise), and sev- eral localities in New Mexico. Those from Persia are of a softer blue and opaque: those from Egypt a darker blue and trans- lucent, frequently changing to green; those from New Mexico are a fine blue, and fully half a million dollars’ worth has been sold in the past five years. The best specimens come from Nishapur, where they occur in a clay slate. There is in the color of the best turquoises a peculiar quality, partly arising from the fact that the delicate blue tint is mingled with a slight infusion of green, and partly from a faint translu- cency of the stone. Turquoise is not opaque, thin splinters transmitting light easily, and cutting and scraping like ivory with a polished cut. Turns Green With Age. The true turquoise, which shows various hues and tones of blue, greenish blue, bluish green, is not to be confounded with the blue fossil turquoise or odontolite, which is a fossil ivory, or, rather, fossil bone, colored by phosphate or iron. Turquoise often becomes green by age, as may be frequently seen in turquoise cameos of the Italian cinquecento. When green spots appear on turquoise, the color can often be restored by allowing them to remain in a solution of equal parts of al- cohol and ammonia, or imbedding them for a time in fuller’s earth wet with alcohol or water. These spots are often due to the absorption of grease or other fatty com- pounds, which separate from the soap when the ds are washed, or to the action of perfumes, which leave oily essences upon evaporation. Sometimes, however, they result from a natural change, and hence this beautiful gem cannot be guaranteed, although the owners of the American mines replace any stone that changes color within six months. In a coronation chair in the Kremlin are several old turquolses, some of’ which are beautifully blue, while others in the same chair have changed to green. Turquoise has been found all the way from Colorado to Peru. GHORGE F. KUNZ. + 00 TIRED TO SLEEP, Take Horsford’s Acid Phosphate, The weariness brain work nervous it there oe ee ee MR. LOWELL IN ENGLAND By GEORGE W. SMALLEY. A SPRING FLOOD IN BROAD- WAY. A Story. (illustrated by W. T. Smedley.) By BRANDER MATTHEWS. “THE GERMAN STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY (llustrated by Caton Woodville.) By POULTNEY BIGELOW. A PHASE OF MODERN COL- LEGE LIFE (The Christian Associations), By HENRY T. FOWLER. APRIL HARPER & BROTHERS > = jeonenenezere OUT TODAY MAD ANTHONY WAYNE’S VICTORY (Mlustrated by R. F. Zogbaum.) By THEODORE ROOSEVELT. BRISEIS (ustrated by W. T. Smediey.) By WILLIAM BLACK. CONCLUDING CHAPTERS OF JOAN OF ARC, Mustrated by F. V. Du Mond.) AND ON SNOW-SHOES TO THE BARREN GROUNDS. {lustrated by Frederic Remington.) By CASPAR WHITNEY. SHORT STORIES, POEMS, Etc. OT SO BADLY WINDED. An Ambitious Wheelman Aware His Error. From the Youth's Companion. A kerosene bicycle certainly has its faults, and at present the price is unsatis- factory; but I had sport enough with mine the first afternoon I took the road to bal- ance the account. It was the first one seen in that part of the country, and as the young fellows call it “the lazy man’s whee! I told none of them about my purchase. Next day, in the afternoon, I filled the little tank with oil, lighted the “ignition lamp,” and set off at about 4 o'clock for a trial trip. On that hot summer evening there was a certain indolent pleasure and comfort in sitting back and allowing the litue kero- | sene engine to furnish the motive po while I steered. The contrivance worked fairly well. Of course, there was a little odor, but not more than comes from a kerosene lantern; and did not puff loud enough to frighten horses. After about ten miles, southbound, I mad a call on af acquaintance, and then rode back. It had grown quite dark along the unlighted country highway when I drew near the village where I live, but as I was in no haste, J shut the oil off to about the least degree of speed possible, and was jog- ging slowly forward when toot, toot, toot went a mellow little bugle behind, and a fellow bicyclist trundied up abreast of me on the other side of the road. It was too dark for me to recognize him, even if he had been an acquaintance and not an entire stranger, He said “Good ning”? and passed me rapidly, for he was evidently a “scorcher,” who liked to show speed. “Geod evening,” I replied, and let on a litle more oil; for no one enjoys being left behind ina summary manner. My new ma- Becomes chine quickened, and I hung on his quarter. Observing this, he also quickened, and I let on a little more oll, keeping close in his rear. M achine now puffed audibly, and I that my fellow traveler turned n effort to scrutinize me more | closely. It apparently he cone the puffing and exerting myself inju ly to race him. Your wind seems a little sprung, friend,” he remarked pleasantly. “I do have the phthisic slightly, in hay- | fever time,” I replied, mov up abreast | of him, and even passing him a little. Thereupon he put up his racing hump! It was to be a race, I saw. So, not to be outdone in good form, I put up a hump, too, ard also opened up the feed pipe of my kerosene works. In consequence I ap but by this time i$ a good deal of puiting hims we had come to a long stretch of ground, where the read was heavy. I maintained my hump and went hill in great shape, and I will do m:; the justice to in good st touched, and the utmost. I led him by an easy t ever, and I ku Humay muscle cannot com a long, hard hill, with s He stuck to the race pl thinking that a wind-sprung man must needs collapse ere long, or else, perhaps, that he could yet come in on the down-hill stretch beyond. The village lay on the other side of the hill, and, emerging from the shadows of a pine grove, we passed the cemetery and slided swiftly into the main street, under the bright glare of an are light. I now slowed, suddenly, preparatory to turning | into the cross-street, where I live, and my friend of the up-hill race glided alongside. “For a hay fever man you are a good he began to say, but stopped shor} for the first time he got a good wheel, and saw that my feet my ared to puff terr decidedly up the al he ty yards, how- be suffering. | rests. Then ma impetuoy words, low, but emphatic, burst from his liy “Yes, hay fever is very glisag le, but is not dangerous to life,” I said. “Good | night.” The muttered response of my new road acquaintance I will not repeat. cee USING THE NEW LIGHT. How It Many Be Applied to the Detec- tion of Criminals, From the Paris Gaulois, M. Bertillon has been heard recently to state that he ro longer photographs only the exterior of prisoners, but their con- sciences as well. A reporter, who cailed on him in order to question him concern- ing this process, was presemt while the fol- lowing conversation took place: Prisone object to this proceeding. I am innocent. You might at least wait until judgment has been pronounced before you subject me to this odious proces M. Bertillon—“It is curious. They all say the same; they are all innocent. What are you accused of.” Prisoner—‘I don’t quite know.” M. B. (to the police who have brought in the prisoner)—“‘Why has this man been ar- rested?” Consteble—‘We are not quite sure, si we have only been ordered to arrest him. M. B.—“Very well. Prisoner, let me see what your crime is. Just sit down on*that chair. I shall find out at once.” (Takes a photographic apparatus, a Crookes tube and a Ruhmderft battery from their hiding place, photographs the | prisoner by medns of Roentgen rays, and then goes into the next room to develop the photograph.) 2 M. B. (returning with the plate)—“Eh, my good fellow, you are a thief. You have been stealing some plate. Now, don’t deny it; you will only aggravate your case. I know for certain. I have just been’ photo- graphing your con#ience.” se Prigoner—‘“Well, yes—may be—but—” M. B.—“‘Wtere are the silver spocns? Out with them, quickly.” Prisoner—“I have not got them here.” M. B.—Don't tell lies. I have seen them. (To the reporter.) You see, you would not believe just now tbat I can photograph a conscience. Now, look at this plate. I have discovered the stolen spoons in the prison- er’s stomach. He has swallowed them in order to escape. (The prisoner is led way, and M. Bertillon shouts triumphantly.) There, now, we shall not require any more lawyers. What with the Roentgen rays, and what with my discovery, all crimes he laid bare. What progress this is! eee ‘The Grentest Good. From the Chicago Record. In the car—‘Do you believe in the great- est good to the greatest number?” “Well, yes.” : “Then don't try to ait down on th's 5! eleven of us in this row have comfortab! room now, but if you sit down twelve of us will be crowded.” = i Jone little t AFRICA FROM AN OX WAGON, A Woman Traveler's Journey of From the Boston Ev Less than a year ago Miss A Balfour, an English lady, with a taste for art and adventure, sailed from Southamp- ton, one of a party of four bound for « Town, and from there wherever fancy or fate might point the way. The plan general was laid out befoi land, which was to travel by during the wanderings of the pi final objective point, however, being Pre- torla. After three pleasant weeks at sea the members of the party found themselves in Cape Town, where they were met by an invitatiog from Mr. Cecil Rhodes to occupy his residence, a few miles away, during his absence on a business journey. Before their wagon train was ready the party had opportunity to visit the Orange Free State, Basutoland, Johannesburg and Kimberley by rail, beginning their real journey by wagon at Mafeking, in British Bechuanaland. The wagon was constructed pecially for the journey, but it proved on trial to be a ramshackle affair. The springs soon broke, and every jolt threw the mates and baggage from side to side and rendered sleep or even rest impossible when the vehicle was in motion. The bullocks had never been taught to pull together, and one would lie down and chew the cud, while the others hauled. The day's program rarely varied. Says Miss Balfour: “We trek at about 3 in the morn- ing ti about 7. As the road is usually pretty jolty, and, therefore, not conducivi to slumber, Mrs. Grey and’ I sleep on for another hour after we stop; that is, from 7 to8. During this time the tent is put up, and some water got, if possible, for our baths. Meanwhile the men have gone out shooting. We have breakfast together on the veldt about 9:30 or 10. After that tl about 1:30 Is free. At 1 we have a cup of eccoa and a biscuit, and then pack up for another two hours’ ‘trek, from 2 to 4. One has to pack everything in most carefully, us otherwise it would be cither jolted-40 Remarkable pieces or tossed out. Washste ‘amp- | Stools, ladder, books, ete., are all located in our wagon, and have to be taken out and in at each trek.” r five weeks of this sort of life the party reached Buluwa of Matabeleland, and residence of K bengula. Dr. Jameson, who has lately played so important a part in South Afri- ©, the iormer capi: can affairs, lived here, and gave hearty and hospitable welcome to the tra 's. Miss Balfour thus describes his house: “It has mud walls, mud floor, thatched reof with no ceiling, doors made of two packingcase lids, and an unglazed window with shutters of rough boards. Furniture: A bedstead, cne box upside down, some wooden shelves, a small strip of matting, an empty whis! bottle doing duty as andlestick, and (oh, lexury) a table Jameson's room, occu pied by Mr: Ss much the same, only it has a six-inch square looking glass as well; and for the tirst time for five weeks she has been able to look at h ck In September the travele: bar and made a few man headquarters, I as founded only three ye phenomenal growth, Two th which impressed her were the inordi and universal habit of liquor drinking the number of convicts and criminal: Was a shock to our E: lish idea! Says, “to see numbers of native wom working on the r and being driven to their work by a white man carrying a lar rawhide whip. I became daily mi tonished at the number of convicts or pr «mers. Every whe uu came upon gangs of four to eight—often women—chained to- gether by the necks and hounded along by a black policeman or soldier. I should think there were fewer prisoners in a tered Company's territories Balfour Mi: se with this half hume | story of he ous wa mths in the country without n, crocodile, or hip= popotamu been the use of our coming to Afri From the Cincinnati Enquirer, . “Heat and cold,” began the philosophical boarder, “are only relative.” a Asbury Peppers assented the richer they are the colder.” > richer what are?” “Relatives.” Gladness Comes wit a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills, which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasantefforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt- ly removes. That is why it is the onl, remedy with millionsof families, and everywhere esteemed so highly by al who value health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that itis the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have the genuine arti- cele, which is manufact by the Call- fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should = the best, a ‘L-informed everywhere, Syrup stanrs highest and is most largely nd jcives most general satisfa F us