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14 Pre a 1) i ‘If citizens generally would lend a aand now, and for the next month,” said an at- tache of the parking commission, “we could | almost defy the caterpillars and other ene- mmies of the trees. Around the neck of every tree should be placed a collar of riw The tree enemies cannot crawl over it. The elms of New Haven end throughout New England generally have been protected in this way for years. Two or three hours’ attention given to a tree now means a great deal later on in the summer. Some of our citizens have already begun to move in this matter, but they are very few in comparison with the thous- ands who howl over the ravages of the caterpillars during the warm days of the summer.” cotton. ke EK “Watchmakers cannot guarantee a main spring.” observed a leading watch dealer, ‘for the reason that they are the most ec- centric thing in our trade. They will break at the most trying time, it matters not how careful we are in their adjustment. Some watch springs will last for years and ozh- ers for not so many hours. All we can say about a main spring is that we think and hope it will last. But further than that we cennot honestly go, for we cannot tell anything about it. I have had main springs to break while watches have been lying in our show cases, when they were not wound | up even. The weather at times seems to | effect them; we can explain it in no other Way. Springs are better tempered and } made now than formerly, but there is no | such a thing as guaranteeing their life, | | though we replace them if they break in- side of a reasonable time.” * eK OK * “The United States Supreme Court in ad- Journing on Monday last without deciding the constitutionality of the California irri- gation law,” remarked a California lawyer, “put the feurtecn millicn dollars now in- vested in frrigation bonds there in the hands of the stock gamblers until October next, and very sericus consequences will follow in many ways, outside of stopping all further investments in frrigation works. This was the case that ex-President Harri- | son came here in January last to argue. | The lower court held that the bonds were unconstitutional, and the irrigation com- | panies, backed by the state which passed | the lsw, spent a great deal of money in en. deavering to show that the court was in| error. It is sald that the Supreme Cou founa itself 2!l mixed up on the matter, | and unable te decide anything.Under a ruls of that court, and as has frequently been | done befcre, the best the court could do ¥as to postpone its decision until the next term, which Legips in Octoter.” a 4% “H se er were cheaper,” remarked @ well-knewn horse dealer, “than they are now, that is, the kind that are thrown on the market ard must be sold at any price, put good family hor: and ready drivers, still command a geod figure. For} the past year or so thousands of horses have Leen thrown on the market from this city, Baltimere and Philadelphia by the street car ccmpanies which adopted cal Then the hundreds of used in various capact- | bicycles are now used, | was that there | were more horses offered than there were | purchasers, and the rice came down won- | Gerfully. It is the same in almost every of ountry. The horse, how: hat the price is the young | e that has some speed and is a good The demend for such an animal ts | Ss gcod in the spring and early sum- looks and general get-up that e horse business, as it is in ss."" ee eK * “How times change,” obsery th ed a member United States Supreme Court bar. “On Monday last a motion was made in the ordinary routine way to admit Ellen Spencer Mussey of this city to practice be- | fore the court. Hardly any notice was taken of it, and the chief justice granted it, the same as he did all the similar mo- vith his pleasant and welcoming years azo, or even later, had metion been made it would have at- ention all over the land, and, in- such tract deed, all over Europe. I, remember the} preparation of my first argument in favor of the admission of wemen to practice law. I was hampered at every point because of the lack of precedent. Now there are hun- are dents, but there is no use for them, because no one opposes such a mo- have nearly every oppor- have in the practice of do not get as large fees oe sres is dead, but he was a ter- ror in his way while he lived,” sald Police- man Harding, “and gave policemen more frights than many men twice his size could have given n. Jones was a snake charmer—not one of these people who han- die snakes at museums, county fairs and “Sna such like places, but one*of the fellows who caught stakes for the snake handlers. J always went by the name of Snaky, ‘and while a pleasant fellow when sober, was simply a terror to officers when he was drunk, for the reason that those of us who krew him were aware that he fre- quently had snakes in his pockets or in a bag ich ne carried under his coat. Of course we had to lock him up without searching him, for we did not care to run our hands into a lot of srakes in his pock- ets. and then the srakes would crawl out of his pockets and over the floor of the cells. In case there were other prison- ers in the same cell there would ba the most terriile howls, followed by urgent demands that Jones and his snakes should be taken out of the cell. We have fre- quently turned him out of the cells before he was half sober—he was never arrested for anything except drunkenness—so as to get rid of him and his snakes. Jones caught some very large snakes in his day. He generally got the biggest ones in the old arch that stood near the Four-mile Run staticn, between here and Alexandria. ‘His excuse for drinking so much was that he was required to be whisky soaked so as to nentialize snake poison. He hunted up many rare snakes for the Smithsonian and for natural history museums all over the tountry.” ee Ke RK “The echo stones prove to be the most {Interesting things we show visitors,” sald Guide McLaughlin of the Capitol force. “Public men are an attraction to many and so are many of the historic things about the Capitol, the paintings and statues; but the echo stones seem to interest every one. Visitors will spend all the time you can give them studying the echoes. They are apt to get tired and want to move on when ‘ou are in any other part of the building. Visitors rarely go to the whispering gal- lery up in the dome for the reason that it Tequires so much effort. There are new things discovered almost every week in ¢onnection with the echo stones. Five or six years we relied upon the single and Gouble echo and the natural telephone, as ‘we term it. Now we have dozens of echoes that are even more interesting in that there is no apparent reason for them. The yisitors have been few and far between ef Yate and the dull season. the recess season, Promises to be very duli indeed.” ee ee * “Your street car conductors,” remarked one of a party of tourist teachers doing Washington recently, “possess a degree of @hivalry peculfarly their own. To me they feem something more than the ordinary | mountain or other high place. ‘uniformed mechanism placed on the cars to THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. collect fares and pull the cord for the car to stop. They keep their eyes open for the best interests of the passengers. aE noticed their courtesy most on the rainy days. How unpatronizingly they care for the fair feminine passenger, take her umbrella, cpen it on the rear platform and then hand it to her when she alights. And all this is done in a manner devoid of that servile politeness of a waiter in the hope of secur- ing a Up. The conductors do this little service just as willingly and good-naturedly s If they were doing a favor for some particular friend. Washingtonians have something, surely, to be proud of. A MILLIONAIRE’S FAD. The Late Senator Stanford’s Interest in the Flying Machine Problem. “The accounts of the results of the ex- periments with Prof. Langley’s aeroplane or flying machine have already turned the minds of many inventors in that direction, said an official of the patent office, “and as a result we have had a number of applica- tions for copies of the drawings of the many flying machines that have been filed in the office. It is not generally known, but it is a fact, that the late Senator Le- land Stanford of California was a firm be- liever in the ultimate success of a flying machine, and he invested a great deal of money in experiments made by others. He took no stock, however, in a flying machine which had to be carried by balloons, or which could only travel high up in the air. What he wanted was a machine tnat would fly along not over five or ten feet from the ground, £0 that, as he explained it, a per- son need not run the risk of being pitched out of a balloon arrangement a half mile up in the air. “For several years he had three engineers of distinction in his employ at work on his ideas of a machine, among them being St. Gorringe, the naval officer who brought the Obelisk over from Egypt to the Cen- tral Park im New York. He also em- ployed Capt. Eads of Louisiana jetty and ship railway fame in that connection. He was never satisfied, though, with the ex- periments, for the reason that they did not prove sufficient to justify him in having a flying machine constructed. “During the latter years of his life he Was so much engaged with other matters that he did not give the subject much of his personal attention, but he always took pleasure in furnishing money to others who desired to make experiments in that direc- tion. One of his theories was that solar heat might be used in the propulsion of a flying machine, but he was never able to satisfy himself how it could be done. His main desire, however, was that the ma- chine should tly low, and he preferred that the experiments should be made over a river or lake, rather than that the ma- chine should be flown from the top of a 1 He had no contidence whatever in balloons or balloon arrangements of any kind.” ———. + MUSIC AT THE HOME. How the Old Soldiers Enjoy the Band on Summer Evenings. Upon almost any one of these summer ‘afternoons, when the shadows are long and the evening is coming on, you can see a knot of grizzled old veterans lounging under the trees at the Soldiers’ Home, iis- tening to the music of the home band. The bandmen are inmates of the home, and every one has served time as a musician in the United States army. It's a good band, as such bands go, and although the veteran hornblowers may sometimes fall a little short of breaih at a critical mo- tment and age and infirmity cause the high C’s ard the low G’s to mix up on the score, they grind out good tunes and to the eminent sati: ction of the audience. When the hcur for the evening concert arrives, that is, from 6 until 7 o'clock, the veterans who have been strolling over the reat park of the home or reading under some shady tree begin to gather around the place where the band assembles, near the main building, and pre-empt for them- selves comforteble seats. Pipes are filled or the tootlscme navy plug passed around, and then when the band begins to play the old fellows, under the soothing influence of music and the weed, enjoy an hour of com- fort and immunity from aches and pains and from loneliness and- melancholy——the two gaunt specters that haunt the aged men passing their declining days at the home. The old fellows are great musical critics. From hearing the same pieces played 30 often they have become familiar with the airs, end are quick to detect a false note. If a bad breck is made, they will remove their pipes, shake their heads solemnly and observe to each otter, after the fash- ion of men who have earned the right to grumble a bit, that the band is not what it was when they first came to the home, and that everything ts going to the di anyhow. But then the band may strike u a patrictic aig, and the whole scene changes. It’s fill up and light again or take a fresh chew, and as the inspiriting music warms the ‘cockles of their hearts and stirs the blood with a rush of vigor- ous memo! the old boys brighten. They forget to smoke, but beat time with thelr Pipes and wind up the concert with a cheer, The leader of the band ts Sergeant Mey- les, a swarthy Portuguese, who was for rine years bendmaster of the second Unit- ed States cavalry. All of his musicians ere service ren, and many bear honorable scars. The band Is composed of fourteen players, and they are thoroughly drilled and practiced. Efforts are being made to sectre the means to put the band upon a better footing, aud if the authorities can be induced to make an allowance fr6m the funds for this purpose, it 1s promised that the Soldiers’ Horce Band will become a first-class musical organization. In addi- tion to furnishing music for the inmates, the band plays at all funerals at the home, but never plays outside. ee Welcomed a Warning. From the Baltimore Herald. Old Quiverful—‘And so you want to take our daughter from us. You want to take her from us suddenly, without a word of warning?” Young Goslow—"Not at all, sir. If there is anything about her you want to warn me against, I'm willing to listen.” — Waited Too Long. From Life. “I was around to your place last night and took the liberty of borrowing some of thosc new novels of yours.”" “That all right. I only wish you had come around before I read them.” ———__+e-+__ Not Enough Men; From the North Lacrosse Argus, Little boy—“The preacher says there is no marryin’ in heaven.” Little girl—“Of course not. There wouldn’t be enough men to go around.’ “My brother tells me you’ve made on the Derby. Do send me a copy!’ Sketch, THE WILD MAN OF PATNA Written for The Star by M. Qua@. ‘The city of Patna 1s in the north of India, at the junction of three large streams, emptying into the Ganges, and about sev- enty-five miles from the foot hills of the Himalaya mountains. I had been there for a week or so, in the year 1872, when mes- sengers came in from the north with strange stories about a Wild man. If they had sald that a wild boy had been seen, or that a native woman had been observed skulking about, no one would have paid any attention to the stories, as almost every locality has its “‘wolf boy,” and the adult natives often go crazy and scek the solitude of the jungle. They stoutly affirmed, however, that this wild man was a white man, and there were reasons for believing that he was an English almy officer. In the year 1870 a party of English offi- cers stationed at Rungpoor, two hundred miles west of Patna, had gone into the foot- hills to hunt, and one day a cavalry captain named Lancaster had strangely disap- peared. He was out in company with two others, became separated, and that was the last seen of him. It was believed that he had been killed and devoured by some wild beast, but, search as they would, no trace of his fate could be had. He was a man who stood over six feet high, and was a Her- cules in strength. His hair was jet black, and his voice was unusually heavy, and what created such excitement in Patna was the fact that the messengers gave a perfect description of Captain Lancaster in their stories of the wild man. The military au- thorities at once started out a party in search, and I was fortunate enough to be attached to ft, though a civilian and an American. Before leaving Patna we heard a full history of the wild man for the pre- vious month. He had evidently come into the district from the west. His hair and whiskers were long and matted, and his clothing was simply rags. He ‘was first seen by a ryot, or farmer, who was at work in his field near a jungle. The wild man came out of the jungle and seized the farm- er before he was seen. He caught the poor nan by the ears and held him aloft at arm’s length for half a minute, and then threw him a distance of ten feet and walked away with a hoarse laugh. This farmer had a good look at the stranger, and after he had been closely questioned at Patna little doubt remained of the identity of the wanderer. On the same day, and about three miles away, the wild man had entered a village of sixty inhabitants and driven everybody out with a club and taken possession. After eating his fill he had set fire to the huts and destroyed everything. There was one native who was old and crippled and could not flee. The wild man had a mind to brain him at first, but finally flung him aside, and the old man gave a good description of the long-lost captain in describing the wild man, It was a distance of sixty miles from Patna to the locality where the wild man had been last encountered, and, marching across country, we reached the village of Bedar in three days. This village was lo- cated on a small stream and in a wild dis- trict, and numbered about two hundred in- habitants. We found the people in a state of intense excitement. At noon of that day, as most of the people were asleep in their huts, the wild man entered the vil- lage and produced great consternation. He wes in good nature, singing and laughing, but all could see that he was insane. He had evidently run wild for a long time. His. body was only partially covered with the rags, which had once represented a stout suit; his hair hung down on his shoulders and his beard on his breast; his face and hands had darkened under the blazing sun, big black eyes shone like those of He caught some of the people and threw them about, and he tore down two of the huts, as if to show his strength, and after an hour he went away, laughing. The presence of a man-eating Uger could not have produced half the excitement. Here was a giant of a man, armed with a stout club, and liable at any moment to be seized with a fit of frenzy. Should he turn locse on a village nothing could stay his hand. A tiger was to be feared only after sunset, the wild man might attack at any moment, day or night. The fact that we had come to hunt him down the village ablaze with joy. Before leaving Patna the subject of cap- ture had been thoroughly discussed. Army surgeons had given it as their opinion that Captain Lancaster had had a sunstroke while separated from his companions, or had, perhaps, fallen and produced concus- sion of the brain. If he had been wander- ing about for two years In a dazed wild state there was little hope that he would tamely submit to capture, or that his recol- lections of the past could be aroused. A bugler had been brought along, however, and also a cavairy captain's uniform, and in the party were a corporal and five pri- vates belonging to Captain Lancaster's old company. We made our camp alongside the village, and before turning in for the night the bugler sounded several call which it was hoped would reach the wil man’s ears in his jungle retreat. He may or may t have heard them, but the night passed quietly away, and at noon next day we heard of him at a point ten miles away. He had crept upon and strangled a farmer in his field, had killed two oxen with blows of his club, and after chasing the people out of the village had torn down the huts and retreated to a dense jungle on the side of a hill half a mile away. Petween this jungle and the villege was a clear field, ard as soon as we could ride to the place we made preparations which we hoped would result in success. The bugler first sounded “‘officers’ call,” and the notes had scarcely died way before the wild man left his lair and appeared on the edge of the field Those who knew Captain Lancaster rec- ognized him at once. When brought nearer under the field glasses no doubt existed. It had been two years since he heard the bugles, and the notes had at once aroused his curiosity. Several officers called him by name and begged him to advance, but he stood and stared and made move. Then one of the troopers rode forward with the uniform and left it within a hundred feet of the wild man, and returned, but it failed to attract his attention. As a last resort the corporal took his mounted men out on the field and put them through a sharp drill for half an hour. The wild man watched the movements with the keenest interest, and would now and then start as if some old recollection had been revived, but he obviously maintained hig first post- tion. It had about been decided to charge down upon him in hopes of capture when he suddenly leaped forward, seized the uniform, and was in the jungle and out of sight like a flash. What we had depended on above all else had miserably failed. Captain Lancaster was well known as a man of violent temper, and it had been de- termined from the start to adopt pacific measures. Let this wild man once become thoroughly enraged and he would fight to the death, or it might become necessary to kill him to save the lives of others. When he retreated into the jungle it was deemed wisest to pay no further attention to him. We went into camp, the vilagers were told to demean themselves as if nobody were atout, and when night came the most sus- piclous could not have imagined that we were anything more than a party of hun- ters. At midnight that night the wild man, row clothed in his uniform, came skulking up and attempted to steal one of the horses, but an alarm from the sentinels drove him away. Next morning a dozen natives were sent out on a scout, and they found and brought in his rags, and also gave notice that he Had moved his retreat about five miles to the east. The wild man was evidently afraid of us. He had taken refuge in another jungle, near another village, and we broke camp and rode down to the place and repeated the bugle calls and the drill of the day before. We caught sight of the man for a brief interval, but he was a long way off and acted as if he svspected a trap. Next day he was twelve miles away, and in the course of a week he had traveled sixty miles. When he moved we moved after. We attempted no tricks and made no demonstrations to alarm or anger him. Our persistent pur- suit had the effect of putting him in a pas- sion, however, for on the sixth day of the pursuit, as we were en route to a village, rear which he had gone Into hiding, he en- tered the place shouting in fury and brain- ed five people with his club. He had don- ned the trousers.of his uniform, but was raked from the waist up. After killing the people he fired several huts and ran away and hid in a ravine. It was now plainly evident that we must change our tactics. If the man was en- raged he might attack us at any moment, and if he did so we should have to fire on him in self-defense. The ravine in which he was hiding was about a mile long, and at the lower end it opened into a path much used by the natives. If the wild man was not hunted out or alarmed he would probably come down the ravine and enter this path. After looking the ground over it was decided to dig a pitfall and set some traps along the path, and soon after noon a force of natives was set at work. They dug @ pit of twenty feet long by fourteen deep, and when ready{ it.fas covered over the same as if to catch a tiger. A few yards to north and south of the pit we ar- ranged nooses, which led over the limbs of trees, and by sundown, we. felt sure of our man if he came that! wdy. ‘Two soldiers and three‘natives were hidden near the pit, to act as sentinels and; give the alarm, and all was quiet in the Camp and village at the usual hour. At 2 o'clock in the morn- ing we were turned out by an alarm from the sentinels, and ourgwhele force at once hastened to the pit. Th, wild man had come down the ravine and fallen into the pit. Notwithstanding its depth, he was oat again in a moment, and but for the trap on the north side we shoujd have lost him. He ran into that, was catight by the leg and suspended in the air, and when we ar- rived he was screaming and shouting and cursing in a way to make one’s hair stand up. He was defenseless, but fot a long time no one dared go near him, He made the most tremendous effarts to escape, and but for our throwing other noosed ropes over his head and drawing them tight he would soon have regained his liberty. When we finally had him fast and secure he had tired himself out, and was a pitiable object to behold. He had been heard to use a few English words, but no one had heard him make sentences before. His speech came back to him as we stood around him, and there was no longer any fear that he had forgotten the mother tongue. We remained in camp four days after capturing the wild man, hoping to subdue him and make him presentable at Patna, but he was worse than a wild beast. Not a stitch of clothing could be kept on him, and he had to be hound hand and foot ali the time. He preferred raw meat to cooked, and when fed would growl and roar as if the sight of meat put him in a frenzy. The surgeon with us could make nothing of his case, and we finally got a cart and started for Patna, to turn the poor fellow over to the proper authorities. On the second day of the journey the cart broke down, and as it did ‘so the wild man burst his bonds and escaped into the jun- gle. We put in ten days hunting for him, but got no trace, and finally abandoned all pursuit. Six months later he was seen once or twice in the foothills to the north, but no pursuit was organized, and if not dead he is today wandering about the for- and jungles like a wild beast. How he could have escaped death during the two years I write of is a singular thing, as the country was infested with poisonous ser- pents and savage beasts, but when he was our captive he had not a scar on his body and was evidently in the best of health. Ovens With Glass Doors. Irom the New York Sun. The latest Invention for the housewife's comfort is gless paneled oven doors. Cooks may then watch the progress of food bak ing In the oven without allowing the cold air to enter or fear the jarring of closing the oven doors, which is so often fatal to soufiles, cakes and other dishes. ses The poster's opinion of the thing it ad- vertised.—Life. ART AND An especial interest attaches to the ex- hibition of the Corcoran Art School, which closed today at noon, as it is the last ex- hibition to be held in the old building, where the students have worked for so many years. The next exhibition will be in the handsome new structure which is to be the home of the Corcoran Gallery, and with the greater facilities for study which will bg offered there the school will un- doubtedly take great strides forward. The three life and three antique drawings by Miss Maud Newman, who was awarded the gold medal on Wednesday, attracted per- haps more attention than anything else at the exhibition. Her drawings from the cast were generally considered better than those from life, and one of the Venus de Milo is particularly well handled. ‘The modeling and light and shadow is good in all her drawings, and the same is true of those exhibited by Miss Ford, who received the bronze medal. Miss Quinn's drawings, apon which she received the honorable mention, called forth their share of praise. A drawing from the cast of the Discobolus and a life drawing of a man posed in the act of throwing the discus, by Mr. Kirk- land, excited much favorable comment. Very good action was shown in a life draw- ing of a man with an oar, by Miss Malone. Of those competing for the medal the work of Misses Penny, Blackford a also attracted attention. A reel by Miss Bessie Phillips, who did not enter the contest, was one of the many excellent things exhibited. A good life drawing hy Mr. Evans was shown, and among the studies from cast a strongly modeled head by Mr. Davis, a good foreshortened hand by M Clements and conscientious draw- ings by Miss Kingsley, Miss Sawtelle and Miss Barrette were exhibited. It was ihe verdict of visitors that Prof. Andrews may take pride in the work of the students in the antique and life classes, where the main strength of any school must lie Serious study was also shown in the por- trait class, which Mr. Hinckley has had in charge. Miss Hunt, who recently ceived the prize of $200 for a likeness of herself, exhibited several good portraits. Three heads by Miss Amoinette Connoly were hung, the best one being a broadly treated study of an Irishman, which is very good in character. The portrait of a friend by William H. Coffin, which was awarded an honorable mention at the Cos- mos Club, was again exhibited, and a large rtrait of his mother was praised for its und treatment and coloring. A head of an old woman by Miss McMullen and the interesting studies bearing the mark of Miss McKee's individual style were much admired. Miss Elizabeth Bell and M.ss Shvenborn’ also had good portraits there. The water color class, which has been under Miss Lillian Cook's direction, is well represented. A girl ina blue dress by “Irs. Hodge is very well handled from a tech- nical point of view. Miss Ward and Miss Sherman both have several very pleasing outdoor studies, and Miss May Malone a large, striking head. Miss Elliott and M Harrington are both particularly good at still life, and a bunch of grapes by the lat- ter shows very careful study. In a sketch of a boy sweeping, by Miss Brockett, the figure is firmly placed and the easy pose rendered very well. Miss Barrette’s spe- clalty seems to be flowers, and a number ef sketches testified to her skill in that tion. All the water color sketches snown were selected from work done during the latter part of the year, and so represent the scholars at their b Miss Cook has also been intere the ag it was at her ted in still-life cla uggestion it was started in January. The students have learned much concerning the elementary part of oil painting in this class, and Miss Harold ha made great advance few com- positions and sketches hown this year, it being th hool while jcouraging that as outside work, to hav the regular study of the most serious char- acter, Loretta Lowenstein, hibits some v interesting compos’ in pen and ink. Two of the best lands in oil shown were by Edgar Ny certainly a very marked talent in that di rection the one of the Potomac flat the sky is handled very boldly, and the hole has such a fine effect of atmospher that the leaning toward impressionist! lor may be easily pardoned. Carl Rake mann had also a couple of good landscap a luminous set effect and a quiet wood interior, full of genuine artistic feeling. * * * Miss Mary Rerri Chapman has several trawings at the exhibition of work in black and white, which Harry C, Jones, former- ly editor of the Quarterly Ilustrator, is holding in New York. Among them is one of her interesting negro sketches capes e, who has in pen and ink, entitled “Aunt Retta,” made as an illustration for a little ry by Miss Chapman, published in the Home Maga ne. She has made quite a study of col- red people, and catches the character of thelr faces admirably, both In water color and in pen and ink, which she handles witi great freedom of touch. A recent piece of work in the latter medium, showing a good- patured colored mamimy ‘holding her mi: tress’ curly haired little baby in her arms, nay very properly be called a study in lack and white. * x * Miss Atwater, who for the past month been conducting a class from the Ce rcoran School in outdoor sketching, left yesterday for East Gloucester. That pic turesque region is much frequented by a tlsts, and Parker Mann is now staying at his delightful summer home there. * * * mcst recent piece of modeling by Clara Hill is a head of Miss Gloetaner, It is in bas relief, nd the delicate but firm contour of the face, when taken in profile, rds itself especially well to that style of work, where much depends on mere beaut of line. Miss Hill plaas to go north early in July, and, dropping her work in the plastic art for the time, do some sketching Trom nature, as a means of recreation and study. * x oF Miss Emily Scudder has just completed a portrait of herself, which 1s interesting over and above its value as a likeness on count of the excellent treatment. The ace lies mostly in the shadow, the light striking it from the side, thus giving one of the least common effects of light and shade. Careful study is shown throughout, and the details of coloring, such as the idy transparent effect in the ear, are accurately rendered. Miss Scudder will go shortly to Belgrade, Me. to spend the summer. Mr. George Gibbs is at his best in the de- piction of marine scenes, and in his illus- trations for tales of the sea he has done many very spirited naval battles, as well as the tamer sights of ordinary life on shipboard. He has recently finished a series of illustrations for a stirring Medal of Honor Man,” one of the many handsomely gotten up books that will flood the bookstalls about Christmas time. He is now busy with the illustrations for a book of Indian stories, and is also engaged upon a series of drawings in gouache of Washington scenes. One of these which he bas under way represents a reception at the White House on a rainy evening, the reflection of the carriage lamps and other ghts on the wet pavement making it a very interesting subject to handle. Mr. Gibbs has made several excursions into the country during the spring, and among the things he has brought back is a scene on Piney Branch, done in pastel. * * x A number of paintings of consiferable in- terest are now to be seen at Fiscaer’s gal- lery, Isabey’s “La Peche Royale,” with its studied composition and its splendid col- oring, has been loaned by Mrs. Hearst for exhibition. It is a very fine example of Isabey’s work, and is larger and more elab- orate than most of his pictures. In eddi- tion to this masteriy painting there is a very small marine with more simple color- ing by the same artist. Among the other pictures exhibited is an Egypcian study by J. G. Vibert. A realistic scene by Julien Dupre is entitled “Breakfast in the Fields." There are many other pictures there, a qniet colored evening scene by Daubigny, a forest interior on a wood panel by Diaz, a brilliantly colored oriental scene by BE. L. Weeks, and a number of pictures by artists of the modern «Dutch scMiaol are to be seen, x * * Miss Una Clarke and Miss Walker, two Washington students who have been work- ARTISTS| | on dangerous ground. the department of decoration and design- ing, the judges being unable to decide whose work was the better. Miss Clarke was also awarded the scholarsaip for next year. Her work has been very highly spoken of, and a large number of her draw- ings, many of them bearing the red star in the corner, signifying that it -vas the best made of that subject in the department, were selected for the exhibition held re- cently, E * * Ok Most of Mr. R. G. Skerrett’s recent illus- tration has been of a naval character, and he has done a number of the new b:ttle ships for Harper's Weekly. He has just made a series of drawings to ‘lustraie an article to be published in that periodical on the use of the experimental tank at the navy yard. Pe “wht * * William H. Machen has been engaged upon a Madonna and Chilq, a subject in which he has beén interested before, and, therefore, does not essay for che first time. One finds at his studio a number .f inter- esting sketches of the region around Rock creek, and a number of marine subjects in both oil and water color. a Mr. James Paxton Voorhees, to whom has been assigned the duty of modeling for the Senate gallery a bust of Vice Pres- ident Join C. Breckinridge, did not make the bust of Martin Van Buren in the Sen- ate gallery, as has been published, but he did niake the bust of Vice President Ricn- ard Mentor Johnson for the Senate gal- lery. Vice President Johnson was the sreat uncle of the wife of Cabell Breckin- ridge, a son of John ¢ Breckinridge. Both Jenson and Breckinridge were represen- tative Kentuckians. The bust of Col. Johnsor was awarded to Mr. Voorhees on a model submitted to Kentuckians first for inspection. Senator Blackburn thought so Well of Mr. Voorhees’ work that he ad- vised Cabell Breckinridge to secure Mr. Neorkees to make the bust of his father, Vice President John C. Breckinridge. Mr. Vecrhees is much pleased that he is to mcdel the bust of Gen. Breckinridge under such gratifying circumstances. —_— SUE WAS MARR A Critical 1 Jim Skaggs, to use his own words, was the “mest percrastinatin’-est” man in the mountains, but a good fellaw and indus- trious. He had been working under my charge for several months, and during that time he had learned to confide sufficiently in me to tell me that he was very fond of Miss Susan Nellums, the belle of Ford's Mill, some ten miles away. My business took me to Ford's Mill once a week, and I always took dinner with old man Nellums and always saw Miss Susan, or “Suse,” as she was better know? I was accustomed to chaff her a bit about Jim, which she never took unkindly, and once or twice, or three or four or five times, perhaps a dozen times, I had sug- gested go Jim that Miss Nellams was alto- gether too fine a catch for him to procras- tnate as he usually did. He would always laugh at these suggestions, and say he “knowed Susie,” and she would be willing when he was ready. On one trip I hunied Jim up as soon as I came back. im,” said I, “do you know Hiram Fer- yaller-faced, andy-whiskered down on Greasy?” he inquired, ner- the one. You know he’s in good financially, don’t you?" cr got more morey got in seven years.” “And did you know he was making a dead s-t for Miss Nellums?" Evidently Ji ew a great deal more on this subject than I did, but he only showed it in his fa All he said was: “Colonel, tomorrer’s Sunday, and mebbe T won't be back ull Monday ight, but if I don’t, Pl be on hand Tuesday mornin’ Haif an hour later I saw him dressed in his “Sun iay-go-to-meetin’ " clothes, streak- ing it up the mountain road afoot. Monday evening at 6 o'clock he walked office looking so serious and sol- emn that I feared the worst. “Well,” I said, “you didn’t get back this » I 3 This most dejectedly. ume Miss Nellums ts all right?” I ventured, though I felt that I was treading in a day couldn’t git here.” “Th’ ain't no Miss replied Nellums, colonel,” he |, with never a smile. roosalem, Jim!” I exclaimed, Suse married?” “That's what, colonel.” confound you,” I said, in ou deserve to get left. Haven't I been telling you all the time somebody would wet in ahead of you? Now, she’s Mrs. Fer- guson, and—" “is bad humor, “I reckon not, colonel,” and Jim haw- bawei and cut a pigeon wing, “she's Mrs. Jim Skagg: an’ she's up to my boardin' hese this very minute as chipper as a blue bird.” “Oh,” I said, and forthwith accomparied him to call on the bride: — Paper Matches, From Science. Paper matches are the latest. The time- honored scheme of rolling up a piece of paper and utilizing it for a lighter has been uulized by an inventor in the manufacture of matches and promises to revolutionize European match making. It is particularly timely, because the wood for this purpose is constantly growing more scarce and costly. The new matches are cheaper than those made of wood and weigh much less, quite an item in exportation. The paper used is strong and pgrous, and when im- mersed in a solution of wax, steerine and similar substances burns with a bright, smokeless and odorless flame. Strips of half an inch in width are first drawn through a combustible bath and are then turned by machinery into long, thin tubes. They are then cut to match length and the heads dipped into phosphorous wax and ae es Where the Surprise Came In. From the Detr Free Press, Grandma (who has just arrived for a t)—"Well, Freddie, I suppose your father was greatly surprised to get my telegram saying I was coming?” Freddie—“Yes; but ma was the most sur- ‘At the glad news, I suppose.” ddie—“No; at papa’s language.” eee An Achery. the Indianapolis Journal. “Well,” said the dentist, who had just moved in, ‘the next thing to do will be to have this ‘bakery’ sign that Doughboy left painted out.” “Just paint out the first letter,” suggest- ed his student. From +o+—____ A Compromise and a Compensation. ing at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for I the past year, shared the first mention in From Punch, “Look here, Maggie. to come with me to Paris merely to order some new frocks. Why, you can get every- thing you require in Bond street.” You say you want “Oh, thanks, dearest! eau" That's all I want- =. STORIES BY M. QUAD He Was a Fatlure. I have come,” he began to the boxing instructor, as he picked up a five-ounce glove and drew it on his right hand, “I have come to get a few lessons in boxing. I'll take about six lessons and then sail in and lick a*chap who got my girl away from me. What's the first thing to be dcre?” ‘To see if you have the necessary sand,” vas the reply. “Ever have a fight?” 0. “Ever get a smash on the nose?” Never. ‘Then you can’t tell how you would act. Fut on the other glove and square off at me. Hands up. Now, then, imagine I'm the chap who cut you out. Do you ‘eel mad?” “Furiously ma Waat to do me up?” Yes; I want to paralyze you.” “All right; go in.”” Ten minutes later the young man sat up and looked round in @ dazed way and asked what had happened. “Why, I tapped you on the nosi plied tie instructor. ‘And what did I do? Started to run, and I hit you behind the ear and you laid down.” “And I have no sand?” “About as much as a spring lamb. There's a pail of water and a sponge over there, ard here's your coat and vest. My terms fre $2 per lesson, sand or no sand. Thanks. ) Please shut the outside door when you go Faown.” . re- Taken fer a Kicke: The proprietor of the railroad restaurant spotted him at once as a kicker and ready for him as he approached the lunch counter. “Any sandwiches?” queried the traveler as he cast his eyes around. “Yes, sir. Here are some made in the year 1540, and I can guarantee them ‘as having been fully petrified for the last five years!” “And fried cakes?” “Yes, a few. I am saving them to sell to the government for grape shot in cas of war, but I'll let you have two or three if you are suffering. “Thanks,” replied the traveler with @ genial smile. “I presume I can get a cup of coffee here?” You can get a cup of Mquid made of chicory, beans and sawdust. Some folks call it coffee, I believe. You don’t expect to find anything decent to eat and drink in a railroad restaurant, of course!” “J have always enjoyed my meals in such ,"” quietly “replied the traveler. “You have?” “Certainly. That is one reason I travel so much. 1 get tred of the first-class hotels in New York. Have you any eggs which were boiled during the revolutionary war?” “N-no, sir!” “Any cold chicken left over from the Mexican war?” at Scot, no!” ‘o butter of the brand of 1860?” For the land’s sake, but what kind of a man are you?” gasped the proprietor. “What sort of a man did you take me ‘A kicker, of course. ‘orry—very sorry. No, I never kick. Please hand me some of the sandwiches, and if you have a piece of pie made avout $8 surrender pass it along our own price.” —-— see AT RUGBY SCHOOL, pl ng Reminiscences of an Old- Time Washington Sch¢ “Think of the changes tn Washington since we were boys,” said a gray-h man to his friend about the same from this city, who was chatting with him in a New York hotel. “Here's Satu "s Star with its twenty-four pages a: first two lines on page fourteen from the watchman, sa the quoting S, ‘Franklin Park leads the public parks of this city in at- tractiveness.’ You and I remember when it was only a deposit for rubbish and in spring and summer so overgrown with hat the boys of Rugby couldn't play ponded the friend addressed, in @ reminiscent mood at mention of Rug- by. “Few know that the butlding now known as Hamilton Hotel, 14th and K street was formerly Rugby school, a story and the annex having since been added. The builder, Zeph Jores, is still living, while Geo. F. Morrison, principal Proprietor and founder of Rugby, after- ward an Episcopal clergyman, is long since dead, yet lovingly remembered by many of us, once his ‘boys. “Now and then I meet some one as I have you, that recalls old times,” said the first speaker. “Henry Watterson was at Rugby. His father was a member of Con- éress. A dozen Smiths wete among the stud two or three sons of ‘Extra Bil- a member of Congress then from Vir- sinia. I met Tom Smith after the war; he Was a judge in Virginia. Then there were four W boys, Jim, Peyton, Frank and ‘Doug,’ latter, once @ page in the House, and representative from the Rich- mond istrict until this Congress. Franck and Harry Taylor were at Rugby later the: are now high In the navy and Fleet Surgeon Robinson, recently dec was our orator at Rugby; his brothers, Bushrod, still live in Wash- Ben Lovejoy and Randolph Coyle pupils, afterward assistant district now passed aw Of the three Leo Edmond Coyle surviv Whiting and Mcntgomery Meigs were there at the same time; Harry is liv- ing and honored still in Washington; Meigs Snowden and ington. were was killed before Richmond; he was the mathematician at Rveby. Will Gur- was there only a session, as was rary, both later in the gas office; tne for- is now a leading business man, the latter deceased. Charles Hill and Wm. Corcoran Hill, nephews of the great phil: anthropist , W. W. Corcoran, were students there. The former was one of the bravest of the southern solite “W,ll Roach, now Senator from North Da- kota, was among our playmates at Rug- by. ‘And B » now judge of the District Supreme Court, and his brother Charles, cashier of the Bank of the Re- public, were our classmates at Rugby. Madison Cuits, whose beautiful sister mar- d Senator Stephen Rugby; he is now A practicing law in Douglas, was at Wash- ington. W. Crauch McIntire, a patent at- torn was educated at Rugby. Then the Hail boys, from C street, and Davie and ‘Dubbie’ Bell, now joined to the majority on the other side. The Wise boys, John, now practicing law in this city, and his cousin, Henry Wise Garnett, lawyer in Washington, were among the younger ones of old Rugby. I can begin to recall but a few. . Mr. Wright's school, ‘Rittenhouse Acad- on Indiana avenue, was the only rival to Rugby. Franklin Square tt w called then, was a mere rubbish heap, yet the spring of pure water was cared for in those days. Then Rugby School moved down 14th street, and Mr. Young bought it and buiit up Emerson Institute, with Sam Maddox as assistant, now a leading lawyer in Washington.” ee What Polly Wanted. From the Chicago Post. “Does the bird talk?” asked the elderly woman of Mr. Smithby, the parrot’s own- er. Polly looked tired. “Does Polly want a cracker?” continued the visitor, address- ing the parrot. The bird turned a look of appeal to Smithby. “Do you want @ cracker?” repeated Smithby, persuasivel, “Yes, damn ft," roared the desperate parrot; “I want to crack her and crack her hard, too. ———— see The Old Story. From the Adams Freeman. Smithers—“Huljo, Bromle; where did you get the black eye; been splitting kind- lings, I suppose?’ Bromley—“No, I was fooling with Jaggs- ley.” ‘ot a misunderstanding, T hope?” ‘Yes, I didn’t know he was loaded.’ ce. From Truth. Office boy—“There is a man outside who wishes to see you. “Business man—“Didn’t I give that I was not to be disturbed?” Office boy—“Yes, sir; but this is a very mild-looking man. I don’t think he would ereaia @ disturbance,” orders