Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1896, Page 23

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAROH 28, 1896-TWENTY-FO UR PAGES. : 23 have it. M and ous Right in the face of all these old prejudices and false ideas in favor of soap, see what Pearline has done. Hundreds of millions of packages been used! That shows it. Probably there never was another household article that came into eneral use so rapidly, so wonder- fully, and’from the very start, too. You see, women were ready for ost of them were tired to death of wasting their time and strength money with needless and ruin- rubbing. It hasn’t taken them ". - eS : long to prove to themselves that Pearline is eastest, quickest, safest, most economical, in all washing and cleaning. woman can prove it. —— Every SSIISSELEAMIIE EASTER G LORE. Curious Customs the Origin of Which Are Lost in Autiqulty. Frem the New York World. The distribution of eggs at Easter has descended to us from the greatest of the Chinese spring festivals, inaugurated more than seven hundred years before the Chris- tian era. ‘The custom was particularly popular dur- ing the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in ngland. The pope sent Henry VII an Easter exg in a silver case. In Russia it is common to exchange visits and eggs on Easter day. In italy dishes of eggs are sent to the priests to be biessed, after which they are carried home and placed in the center of the table. ain and Germany ‘the eggs are not but they are highly colored and or taken away according to the taste of the individual. ‘The custom, in one form or another, ex- ists among the Jews, Greeks, Turks’ and Persians, s” was the ancient name for Easter, @ eggs were often called “pace,” “pach” or “paas” eggs. In Scotland eggs are taken to church to be blessed. They are afterwards distribut- ed among the members of the household and are either eaten or saved as keep- sakes. he decoration of ordinary eggs origi- ed in England. Gilding the shells was the first step. This was followed by the addition of ribbons, pletures and various other devices to please the little folk. . ‘These eggs were given and received with the familiar Easter greeting, “Christ is and the answer, “He is risen, in- Germans first introduced games into the Easter celebration. Eggs were hidden about tne lawn or grounds or in the house. ‘Then the children hunted for them, the tinder of the greatest number receiving a prize. Sometimes the egzs were all put in one nesi over which a rabbit was placed on guard. How this animal became identified with Easter is not known, but in time young children began to believe that the colored eggs were laid by the rabbit. Ex racing is a favorite amusement of Russian, German and French children. The eggs are rolled down hill, and the prize woes to the boy whose egg rolls the great- est number of races without damage to its shell. ‘This game is played by Washington chil- dren in front of the White House on Easter Monday. In Germany there are tracks made of twigs down which each egg may roll with- out interference from any other one. The boy whose egg arrives unbroken at the Zoot of the hill collects “toll” of his oppo- cracked. played by two boys who < an egg, and suddenly together. The owner of a 3 Ned egg can, if he possesses skili, break the e; of several players before his own is injured. Then he is a “cock of one, two, three or four eggs,” as the case are colored by means of the ani- dyes. By the addition of horns, ears, jegs or fins eggs may be transformed into many grotesque figures. — WOMEN'S DRESS IV ICELAND. The Kiss is the Universal Form of Salutation in That Country. From the New York Times. ‘The common working dress of the Ice- Jandic women, without distinction as to so- cial equality or wealth, cons:sts of an un- dergarment of wadmel. in one piece, ex- tending from the shoulders to the heels, fastened at the neck with a button or clasp. with petticoats of white or blue wadmel, and a blue cap, the top of which hhargs down on one side and terminates in @ tassel. On Sundays and festival occa- sions their dress is singular. Then they ‘wear, in addition, a bodice and two or three blue petticoats, called “fat,” and in front an apron, bordered with a material resembling black velvet, which is a domes- tie manufacture. The petticoats are fast- ened immediately beneath the bodice by a girdle of this black velvet, embroidered and Studded with such silver or gilt ornaments is they ma; sess. *{the bodice fa also ornamented and fast- ened in front with large clasps, generally gilt, and rendered more conspicuous by being fixed upon a broad border of black velvet, bound with red. Over the bodice is a@ jacket, called “treja,” fitting close to the shape, and made of black wadmel or vel- vet. The stockings are of dark blue or red worsted, aad the shoes, which are of seal, shark or sheepskin, are made tight to the foot, and fastened about the ankles and insteps with leather laces. On their fingers the women generally have many rings of gold, silver or brass, according to their means: and, be it known, no present is so acceptable to an Icelandic girl as a ring. The most singular, and at the same time the most beautiful, part of the female cos- tume {3 the headdress, called “faldur,” which is made of white linen, stiffly starched, kept in shape with an immense number of ‘pins, and from fifteen to twenty inches in height. This is the holi- day and Sunday head covering. When you visit a family in Iceland you must kiss each member, according to their age or rank, beginning with the highest and descending to the lowest, not even ex- cepting the servants; on tak!ng leave the order is reversed; you first kiss the ser- vants, then the children, and lastly the master and m'stress. Both at meeting and parting an affectionate kiss on the mouth, without distinction of rank, age or sex, is the only mode of salutation known in Ice- land. ——_-- +e0___ The Wheel Caught the Fox. From the New York Evening Post. One day toward night, while I was pass- ing threugh a wooded section of the coun- try close to the border line between Con- necticuz and Massachusetts a red fox sud- denly dropped into the middle of the road. The soft gliding motion of the rubber tires did not attract his attention until the Bicycle was within a rod of him. Then with a wild scamper he started on a dead run towerd a distant swamp. The creature as fleet of foot, and he swept down the justy read rapidly, turning his head oc- ‘eastonally to waich the strange apparition [following him, and he laid his body almost ‘flat upon the ground in his endeavor to outrun this new pursuer. But it was no use. The wheel slowly overhauled him, foot by foot, and the front wheel almost tErushed his bushy tail before he acknowl- edged defeat. Then, with a half sob and yelp, the creature jumped clean over the adjoining ditch and landed safely on :he imether grassy bank. The wheel flashed | past him, and he remained seated upon ' haunches watching it until out of sight, probably the most astonished fox | that ever roamed the woods. VARIETY IN DINNER PLATES. Gives the Guests Something to Talk About. From the New York Herald. . “I have used a white and gold dinner set until I am tired of seeing it,” observed a shopper us the salesman brought out a variety of “place plates” for her examina- tion. “I intend to get something different for every course, though evidently they must harmonize in a measure. I shall get my oyster and soup plates comparatively of simple design, and increase the elegance and beauty of the service as the dinner de- velops. I think something realiy artistic in evolution can be achieved, if one takes pains. If eleborate china is used at first and the display kept up all during the din- rer, the eye becomes satiated and unappre- clative. ‘No; I don't want anything in terra cot- ta; it never accords with anything, absorbs all the light, and is a perfect weight on the spirits of a hostess. I have a friend who owns an eapensive set of it (think of ita whole set!), and it gives her the horrors every. time she har to use it. Hers is one of those dumpy, inartistic-looking sets with the handles like humps of crude gold, after the Chinese patterns, but even pretty designs this brick-dust shade is nev- er a success. “That is very pretty,” she declared, rela- tive to an oyster plate submitted for her apvroval, “but oysters to appear to per- tection must look cool; almost any color will suggest a certain degree of heat, so 1 will get my oyster plates as unobtrusive and colorless as possible—something in ite, slightly gilded.” _“How about soup?’ she was asked, as a variety of deep-bowled, wide-rimmed plates Was gotten out. “Oh! not that indigo and gold, though it’s a beauty. No, nor that green, and take the amber one away. I'll have Ivory, a deep- toned ivory and gold, for my soup plates, and sometimes blue-green in tint for fish. That plain centered plate, with the fish pic. ee Ecos on the rim—$175 for the zen? Well, never mind, th ing i admirable and worth ieee ee Penney ‘or her geme plates this customer gives $300, but the raised rims in clear ivory and brown, lusterless, with unique carved pat- tern, make a matchless setting for the soft- tinted pictures of ducks, coots, woodcock and grouse, painted in the center. The breasts of the wcod pigeons have the iris- tinted bloom of life itself, the tawny brown of the partridge plumage is imitated exact- ly. Each of the twelve plates is a work of art. “Something dignified for the roast,” sti viated the shopper. “The roast is substan. tially the main part of the meal. I think that rich, dark blue will do—the one with e heavy ing in lar; i ee ra ge scroll work on There was deliberation between a pink and an amber entree plate, elther appear- ing to advantage in the midst of its prede- cessors. hen she allowed her fancy to run riot amid the wealth of dessert plates, first selecting a salad set, the pyevailins note of color of which was exactly the fame shade of rich mayonnaise dressing, inty gilding showing in ated borne 1s ing in reef on the “or pastry pink and gold plates were lected, the entira rim of each plaie consist. ing of a wide band of pink. Turquoise plates, plates that look almost as if jeweled, and as thouzh veritable opals giinted from the soft ivory groundwork of the border, are chosen to hold the crystal- clear, prism-like saucers of cut glass con- taining ices, and then a variety of royal Worcester frutt plates are added, and some ra beauties for holding crac! cheese on occasion. eeSeeee eae “I don’t have as much wine on the table as I used to,” says the fashionable dame, as she glances over the variety of rock. crystal glasses brought out for inspection, ‘and not so many kinds. I find it best and everybody enjoys the change. To drink all those different things, from sherry clear through to the cordials, was really an or- deal for even the stoutest nerves.”* a FATEFUL PLUNGES IN THE SURF. George Keller Dies After Yenrs’ Suffering. From the Philadelphia Record. After lying for fourteen years in one posi- tion, with his body slowly turning to stone from a most remarkable cause, death came to the relief of George Keller, a shoe finisher, on Tuesday last, at his residence, No. 1525 Stiles street. His malady was due to baths in the ocean surf when he was overheated. His disease was what is known to the medi- cal profession as “rheumatoid arthritis,” and at first the malady affected his lower extremities only. Then gradually it spread over his whole body, until at the time of his. death he was able to move only a few fingers of the left hand. In 1879 and 1880 Keller, after having been attended by some of the best physicians, was treated at the Jefferson Hospital, but all the skill of that institution availed him nothing. The late Prof. Gross pronounced his case incurable. He was sent in 1882 to the Presbyterian Hospital, and, after being treated for a time there, the physicians were compelled, like Prof. Gross, to pronounce his disease incurable. Five years later, in 1887, he was sent to the University Hospital, and the combined medical skil of the hospital and medical department of the university wrestled with his case, only to pronounce him incurable. Ever since his return from the University Hospital he has occupied his bed in the sec- ond story of the modest little cottage on Stiles street, with his mother as his attend- ant, until last winter, when she died. The duty of caring for him then devolved upon his brother-in-law, Edwin Tracey, and his sister, Mrs. Tracey. During these many years Keller suffered at times the most excruciating pains, and to add to his affliction he was frequently an- noyed with indigestion. But through all his suffering he preserved a cheerful demeanor. He was always pleased to have his friends call upon him, and he would talk to them for hours at a time. He was a great smoker, and his faithful pipe lay ever by his side.” Keller’s affliction is ascribed to an indis- cretion on his part when he was still a young man. He was about twenty-one years of age, and the almost perfect embodiment of strong healthy, physical manhood when he accompanied an excursion party to Atiantic y. After dancing for some time in the I- ion, he, with some companions, hastily don: ned a bathing suit and plunged into the surf. The alr was raw and the water cold, and he became chilled. After remaining in the water for some time he, with some of his companions, indulged in ‘a foot race on the beach, and again became heated. In this condition he again took a dash in the surf. When he attempted to arise the next morning his legs were heavy and stiff, and he could scarcely move them. He managed, however, to get up and go to his work. Gradually he grew worse, until about three pee afterward he was unable to leave ed. Fourteen Patient Pussy. “Who said ‘Rats’?”—St. Paul's. FREEDOM OF THE CITY Hospitable Plans of the Christian Endeavor Reception Committee. HOW THE GUESTS WiLL BE CARED FOR See Everybody is to Be Made to Feel Entirely at Home. Sage WELCOME TO VISITORS OSPITABLE WASH- ington will soon be again cailed on to act the role of host. During July there will be entertained here a vast throng, a large majority of whom will be young people, attracted to the nation’s capital by the fifteenth in- ternational Christian Endeavor convention. -The visitors will re- ma.n about a week. Primarily, the object of their coming is for the spiritual influence which always accompanies these annual gatherings of young Christians, and to re- ceive a share of the enthusiasm which is a marked feature of the conventions. Inci- dentally, they will make the acquaintance of the citizens of the capital and visit the points of interest in and around the city. During their stay here they will be treated as Washington always serves its invited guests; they will be assured a heartily sin- cere welcome upon their arrival—even be- fore they reach the limits of this ten miles square; their comfort and convenience will be the care of a large organized body of local Endeavorers; receptions at the various churches will be tendered them, and every- thing possible will be done to enable them to cee all the sights and carry away with them the pleasantest recollections of the place and people. While all citizens generally, and members of local Christian Endeavor societies par- ticularly, will be the hosts, the duty of planning for the generous treatment of the guests devolves especially upon the recep- tion committee, whose chairman, Rev. E. B. Rev. E. B. Bagby. Bagby, represents this branch of the work upon the committee of ’96, in whose charge are all the arrangements for the coming convention. The committee is composed of a staff of sixty members, divided into four sections, and an anxiliary bedy, numbering 1,011 persons, the largest of any of the committees organized for the purpose of making arrangements for the convention. It is probable that the members of the com- mittee will be distinguished by white yacht- ing caps, bearing the word “Reception” emblazoned in gilt upon the band, and those of the staff will have some further distin- guishing mark. Chairman Bagby. Rev. E. B. Bagby, the committee’s chair- man, is the only minister on the committee of '96; is paster of the Ninth Street Chris- lan Church, and during the last Congress was chaplain of the House of Representa- tives. He is a Virginian and studied at Aberdeen Academy and the Kentucky Uni- versity, finishing at the Yale Divinity School. After serving for a short time three churches in West Virginia and one in New- port News, he spent a year in evangeiistic werk, in which he was particularly suc- cessful. It was while he was thus engaged that he was invited to this city at the time of the dedication of the mission of the Christian Church on Capitol Hill, to take charge of that work. Under his ministrations it has grown steadily, and a movement is under way to build a church, the congregation having cutgrown the chapel, so that even standing rcom at the regular services is at a premium. Nearly half tke congregation is made up of young people, and there is a large Christian Endeavcr Society connect- ed with the church. Mr. Bagby is thor- cughly in sympathy with the Christian En- deavor movement and principles, and as president of the local Junior Union devotes a considerable portion of his time to its in- terests. He finds opportunity for consider- able literary work, and is the regular cor- respondent for the Christian Guide, a de- nominational paper, beside contributing fre- quently to the Golden Rule and other re- ligious publications. Mr. Bagby’s right-hand man is Fred L. Fishback, the secretary of the committee. He is thoroughly a Washingtonian, al- Ferd. L. Fishback. though he was born in Illinois. His educa- tion was received in the public schools here, and during his term in the High Schoo} he commanded the battalion of cadets. He is at present clerk to one of the congressional committees, and is an ex- pert stenographer. Fcr a time he: was sec- retary to Judge Springer in Indian terri- tery, and court reporter, but as Washing- ton had more charms, he resigned and re- turned to his friends. He is a deacon in the First Congregational Church, and has served as president of the Christian En- deavor Society of that church. He is of genial disposition, pleasant manners and geod address. Much of the work of plan- ping the committee’s work will fall upon him. ‘The Various Committee Sections. The four sections into which the staff of the reception committee is divided are known as the headquarters section, the railroad section, the depot section and the church section. Each is to consist of fif- teen members, though at the present time a few appointments remain to be made. These different divisions of the staff will each have charge of certain work, which the memters will plan out with the aid and advice of the chairman, and in the execu- tion of which they will call for the assist- ance of the auxillary body. The headquarters section is composed of A. G. Walker, E Street Baptist Church; James Adkins, Ninth Street Christian Church; Jesse Adkins, Ninth Street Chris- tian Church; H. E. Davis, Hyattsville Presbyterian Church; W. H. Dobson, East- ern Presbyterian Church; Orrin J. Field, Fifth Congregational Church; H. EB. John- scn, Fourth Presbyterian Church; Fred M. Hoskins, Calvary ‘Baptist Church; Geo. R. Hamlin, Gunto mple Memorial Church; Arthur 8. Gray, Berean Baptist Church; Chas. Brown, West Street Presbyterian Church; Willard Rugg, Union Methodist Episcopal Church. ‘The members ve named are stenogra- phers and typewriters, and aro detailed .at the headquarters:pf the committee of ‘06 to do clerical work. In a very short time two members of-this section will be on duty each afternoon and evening to: assist in answering thermasa of correspondence which is pouringiin from all over the coun- try. During the convention the members of this section wit act as secretaries to the committees. Though their work is prelim- inary in its nature and performed in com- parative obscurity, it is none the less im- portant, and is of material aid to the com- mittee of '96, ‘Those who form the railroad section are Rev. C. H. Butler, Keller Memorial Lu- theran Church; Page L. Zimmerman, Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal; George W. Stese, Vermont Avenue Christian; H. A. Farnham, Fifth Congregational; Lee Pitchlyn, St. Paul's English Lutheran; Frank B. Gilmore, Ryland Methodist Ep's- copal; N. E. Webster, jr., Church of the Covenant; A. D. Smith, Eckington Presby- terian; 0, Bohrer, Garden Memorial Presbyterian; C. W. Little, Gunton Temple Presbyterlan; W. M. ‘Terrell, Warner Memorial Presbyterian; C. J. Hepburn, West Street Presbyterian; KH. Hilton Jack- son, First Baptist, and Herman W. Smith, New York Avenue Presbyterian. As if fearful that a warm velcome at the stations would not be sufficient to con- vince the guests of a cordial reception from the local members of the organization, it will be the duty of the railroad section to send its members out of town to meet the large delegations en route and assure them in advance of their arrival that Washington is waiting with wide open arms to receive them. At least such a meaning might ba given by those not fa- miliar vith the methods of this section of welcomers, Sperking of this plan, Mr. Bagby mentioned the cordiality extended the District's delegation on its trip to Bos- ton last year, when a party from the Hub went to Providence ard was at the steam- er’s wharf at 6 o'clock in the morning when the landing was made, and what a delightful feeling of sociability resulted from the courtesy. But aside from its vocial feature, there is a useful purpose to be subserved in send- ing parties out to meet the delegations. The Iccal representatives will learn the ex- act size of the dclegations and telegraph ahead to headquarters and to the church to which the visiting party has been as- signed this information, together with the arriving time of the train and other de- tails. Preparations can then be made at this end with greater certainty for receiv- irg the delegations. Special committees that may wish to meet particular parties can be notified; hotels can be informed when to expect the guests; the churches where they are to register and be assign- ed to boarding places will be ready for their reception, and the many little things incidental to arrival and comfortable set- tlement in homes will be attended to. It will be the committee's aim, as far as possible, to be discriminating in the matter of selecting the members to meet particular parties. For instance, when New York's delegation is on its way, a member of the society of the Church’ of the Covenant will possibly be agsigned to be one of those to meet the visitors on the read, since New York has been placed un- der the especial care of that society. Nat- urally the delegates will want to know many things about the plans for their en- tertainment which only a member of the society to which they have been assigned can answer, and hy following the plan out- lined above considerable confusion will, it ig thought, be avoided and the proper han- cling of the crowds facilitated. embers of th> railroad section will be sent out to convenient points on all the rcads, probably abcut an hour's ride from the city. Depots and Churches. The third section of the staff is desig- nated the depot section, and is composed of the following members: T. Elvott, Central Presbyterian Church; Miss Ella Chase, Vermont Avenue Christian; Miss Anna P. Shields of Central Presbyterian; R. P. Waddy, West Street Presbyterian; Charles Coberth, Gay Street Baptist; M. Clark, Nineteenth Street Baptist; Louis H. Neill,Plymouth Congregational; Miss Chris- tine Poggensee, Church of the Reforma- tion; Miss Stella Drane, Central Methodist Protestant; Miss Jennie Furmage, North Presbyterian; R. B. Burnham, Bethany Presbyterian, and Miss Mae Jenks, New York Avenue Presbyterian. Members of this on will be on hand at the depots and wharves to meet all incom- ing delegations, give them a cordial wgl- ceme to the city, direct them to their hotéls cr church headquarters and assist in their comfort and contribute to their welfare in every possible way. By far the largest division of the auxil- iary committee will be that assigned for duty at the churches. The church section of the staff, however, is of equal size with the others, and its membership is as fol- lows: Miss,Anna J. Bell, Calvary Baptist Church; H. C..Johnson, E Street Baptist; Miss Grace B. Johnson, First Congrega- tional; Miss E. Hunter, Union Methodist Episcopal; Rev. S. J. Smith, Central Metho- dist Protestant; Miss Mstelle Foster, Faith Presbyterian; George F. Williams, Assem- bly Presbyterian; Miss Minnie Riggles, Western Presbyterian; Miss Alice T. Her- cus, Sixth Presbyteriah; Miss Eugenia Mul- lican, First Presbyterian, Mrs. H. C. Don- ahue, Maryland Avenue Baptist; J. O. C. Roberts, First Baptist, and Mrs. J. H. Wurdeman, New York Avenue Presby- terian. The large bulk of the auxiliary committee will be called upon to assist in this branch of the work, which is, in fact, the most important. While the others have received and welcomed the visitors, this section will be charged with the duties of host during their entire stay. For the vast majority of the delegates—those who do not quarter in hotels—the churches will be utilized ag gathering places and a sort,of home. Eat- ing and sleeping will be done in the board- ing houses, but the social features in a large measure will be at the churches. There the delegates will spend most of their spare time; provision will be made there for them to rest, to read the papers, tq write letters, and there they will receive their mail. Members of the church section will be constantly on hand to serve and Icok after the comfort of that portion of the great multitude for whose welfare they are particularly concerned. ‘Thus each delegation as it arrives in July will come into direct contact with the three largest sections of the reception committee; | first, visitors will be met by the railroad party, next they will be welcomed on their arrival and escorted to their headquarters by the depot section, and finally they will be entertained at the churches and possi- bly shown around town by those on the church division. Information Booths. During the time the convention is in ses- sion and the city crowded with strangers information booths will he placed at con- venient points, but principally in the de- pots and other centers of travel, which will be attended by members of' the reception committee. To a certain degree, also, every member of the reception committee will be a bureau of information, and will, no doubt, be plied with questions about persons and things which may be difficult to answer unless some attention bas been given to the mat- ter of freshening up on information about things that seem commonplace to a resi- dent, but are natural subjects of inquiry to a visitor. Chairman Bagby intends’ to urge the members of his committee to be pre- pared to give intelligent replies to such questions. Members of this committee are ineligible as members of the choir. Their duties will require their presence at depots or churches or elsewhere, even during the sessions of the convention. Such a necessary rule de- bars over a thousand Christian Endeavorers from place in the music ranks, but, if it is found that the choir needs additional voices, some of the reception members may bé transferred. It is probable that the committee of offi- cers and trustees'in Boston which is ar- renging the program for the convention will designate one evening to be de- voted to receptions to delegations. Such has been the usual custom, and, unless a departure is made in this practice, Satur- day night of convention week will be given up to this purely social feature of the con- vention. While the arrangements for these events will be left entirely to the churches, it is probable that the members in each so- ciety on the general reception committec will have largely to do with the prepara- tions. At present the plans for these re- -ceptions are of necessity rather nebulous, but, nevertheless, they are being discussed in the various societies. The congressional delegations from the different states will doubtless be invited to attend the receptions tendered to the delegates from their states, and in cases where guests from countries where the stars and stripes is not the national emblem— for the convention is international in its character—members of the diplomatic corps may co-operate with societies in making the foreign visitors feel the heartiness and sincerity of Washington’s welcome. And a thorough and hearty welcome it will be, so the reception committee proposes, to every delegate and visitor to the capital at the time of the Christian Endeavor con- vention. It is the reception committee's aim to turn over to the guests the keys of Washington, to offer them the freedom of the city, and to make their stay so pleasant and profitable that the recollections of the trip will live in thelr memories for a long time to come. ——__ HIS TERRIBLE DRIVE. © Who Could Not From the Lewiston Evening Journal. One trip of an eastern Maine stage driver will never be forgotten, either by himself or those who witnessed the derouement. He was possessed of ccnsiderable courage, but, unfortunately, boasted of much more that he didn’t possess. His rcute lay over a lenely part of the country, and several an- cient graveyards were close to the high- way. His daily trips were not completed until late in the evening. Now, it chanced that a certain ruddy- cheeked Camsel resided in a farm house standing corveniently close to the road along which he daily passed, and said dam- sel grew to be exceedingly agreeable to this bachelor stage driver. He would whip up smartly until the little house was reached, and then, after 2 half hour of her society, he would be in just the mood to easily make up the time in the next ten miles. One night he hitched as usual, and find- ing his iady love presiding at the spinning wheel (which useful pastime surpasses any other display of a maiden’s charms, as many 4 gray-haired grandfather of today can testity), Fe so ardently pressed his at- tentions that the important question was settled sumewhat precipitately, and, the time being up, he caught up his cap from the basket of rolls where he had dropped it and started up his hcrses at a spanking gait. He was in that ecstatic mood peculiar to youths who have won the prize by cutting out the “other fellow,” and was rattling along briskly, passing the first burying place just as the moon dropped behind a bank of clouds. Suddenly ke became aware of something close to his left side—a form, lorg, shadowy and white. He turned to look at it more closely, when it instantly evaded him by keeping just beyond range, apparently dodging back as he tried to get a view of it. He whipped up smartly, thinking to dis- tance the thing, whater it might be, but it took on a more ghost-like shape and ap- peared to be wildly in pursuit, making long plunges through the air. The blissful feeling of the last hour was fast. disappearing. It was night, and a lonesome, unfrequented wood, dotted with graveyards, and this awful presence hang- ing in the rear! What could it be and what could it want? As he sped along he tried every experiment, attempting to distance it by speed, but still it came dancing after. He tried turning his head cuickly as a flash, but all attempts to outdodge it were un- availing. The thing evaded his quickest moticn with what appeared I'ke an airy swing to the rear. They were nearing the last burying grourd. A hope seized the terrified stage driver. The ghost might be meandering forth to make a neighborly call upon some ancient acquaintance of bygone days, and, if so, it might drop irto this yard. .As they rattled past the broken gate he sought to tit in this decision by entreating in a y whisper: “Begone! Begone!” But the frisky gho: evidentiy not in a mood for graveyard calls. Then the stage driver struck out sharply blow after blow at his ghostly passenger, but his fist shot through empty filled again instant by the long, white, shadowy form. Whip- ping up his team, he sprang out, and, turn- ing sharply about, attempted to get, some- how, a view of his shadowy passenger. The wagon was empty, but right by his side, closer than before, was the shape, still per- g its fantastic motions as he ran by de of the stage. He stopped. Perhaps the thing would pass on before he could know his intenticn. No such thing; it only drew closer, appearing more sub- stantial, white and awful. Thoroughly ter- rified at last, the fellow sprang into the box, lashed his horses into a gailop, and, cowering down, he made his ten miles with that ghastly passenger ficating along close to his side, tantalizing, beyond his reach. As the stage came dashing up to the door of the post office, he sprang out, and, white faced and wild eyed, told his story in brok- en, gasping sentences to the waiting vil- lagers. Before he had finished some one stepped out from the crowd of excited listeners and plucked a long, white object from his cap just over his left ear, held it up to the gaze of the crowd, and instantly a shout went up when the discovery was made that the cause of his fright was a long, soft, white roll, which he had unconsciously purloined from the basket of his lady love. POKER HINTS. Practical Suggestions for Success Which Follows if the Player Survives From the New York World. The whole object of poker is to save your own money and secure some one’s else. Win cash and lose on credit is a good gen- eral rule. ‘Therefore, buy only one-half as many chips as you think you will need. When they are gone, owe! Ante only when you are rominded of It. You'll make a chip or two in an evening by following this advics If any one jas to o for chips, make sure that you've the first to do so. Then bet against the ready money players. Get a look at the bottom card if you can. It may alter your draw materially. Alw: “salt away” checks in your pock- ets. No one then can tell how you stand and you can be “shy” from time to time. Watch the discards carefully, but use them sparingly. Excess in these luxuries may beget trouble, Sell your chips while yeu have plenty of thera, but only for cash. If there is a kitty take a few extra cl- gars. If you don’t smoke yourself, “there are others.” At the close of the game halve your win- nings and multiply your losses in discuss- ing how you stand. All good players do this. Never pay any hold-over debts at the beginning of a new game. Mercenary men have been known to accept money 80 of- fered and refuse to play. When luck is against yeu, call for a new pack, grumble and claim more trouble than ever mortal had before. When you are winning, look at your watch all the time with ihe remark, “I’ve got to go pretty soon.” Go when you get good and ready. By following these instructions you will show an intimate knowledge of the game, even if you do not win. GRABBED BY A GORILLA. An Americ: Travelers Thrilling Ex- perience on the East Coast of Africa. From the Cincinnatl Enquirer. A Cincinnatian who has lately returned from a tour of south and east Africa told a reporter of a thrilling encounter he had with a gorilla white in that far-off country. Said he: “The evening train had arrived at Tor- enco Marques, Delagoa bay, on schedule time. But what a nicht it was; the rain came down as if the very heavens were falling, the wind blew a terrific gale, and the darkness which overspread the whole scene was such as I had never witnesse! before. It was, however, a fitting night to the experience which followed. Stepping from what the Netherlands Raflway Com- pany term a first-class carriage, I ac- costed 2 heavy-set individual on the plat- form. ‘Can you tell me, sir, which is the best hotel of this place?’ I asked. “‘Well, stranger,” ue remarked, ‘that is hardly a fair question to ask me, as [ own beth the hotels in this e.” : “I turned over my grip to him and foi- lowed a crowd of Atricaps through that tropical storm. Dinner was served at the International Ho! but my permanent quarters were to he at the Central, both of these being cwned ty Jim Carpenter, the person I met at the station. After dinner an employe of the hotel asked me if I was ready to go to the Central. I replied in the affirmative. He went to the door, and above the din of wind and rain could be heard his voice yelling ‘Sixpence!’ “My belief was that this individual was singing out to some of the natives that a sixpence job was waiting for any of them vho would take me to the Central Hotel, it it proved to he the peculiar name of an 3ast African negro. ‘Sixpence’ came with a “Yap, bozs.’ It seemed as he came that a section of that black night was moving bodily toward me. The instruction was to keep close to ‘Sixpence.’ “The route was through a large garden. We had hardly entered the garden in- closure when a terrific scream was heard, and at the same time I was struck on the head. In an instant I had my revolver out and fired at my unknown assailant. My enemy grappled with me, but before losing my hold of the revolver I managed to fire two more shots. But it was an uneven fight. I received another blow on the head, renderirg me unconscious. When I regain- ed consciousness, which was three days later, I learned that my firing of the revol- ver bad attracted the attention of an American who was known at Delagoa Bay as ‘Texas Wilson,” He told me that he ran out of his house with his gun and lantern, and had hardly gone 200 yards when he came across a huge gorilla carrying me on bis back. The gorilla scowled at him, but he was determired to try to rescue me from that brute. After taking a careful aim he managed to shoot the animal with- out hitting me, and killed him. Then he brought me to the hotel, where I afterward was informed that a big gorilla had been sent to Jim Carpenter about three days previous. He had been tied to a tree In the garden, but somehow must have broken his chain, and was waiting for the first comer. 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