Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1896, Page 10

10 £ See etegonteentneterrntertecteatectet {000 HARD- | z % ; : = : z : : : v $ : : z % 01.25. They are great big roomy, comfortable Chairs, with woven cane backs and seats, and rounded arms. gain than that other Rocker we offered sometime ago—as that was bigger than anything you ever saw before for the money. If you were too late to secure one of the others don’t cheat yourseif out of this by delaying—but come on Monday—bright and early. THE. EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. a a ee A Oe te Oe ae es te ae a Se ee see % sefeeteee sete As much bigger bar- SeeSereeeget sYour Credit is Good.” No Such Varieties! Prices! This is the store where you will find everything that fur- nishes a home—Parlor Furniture —Bed Furniture—Library | Furniture— Boudoir Furniture—Kitchen Fur- niture—Carpets—and ware—Bedding and all bed be- longings— Mattings — Refrigerators— No Such Qualities at Such No Such Terms! anywhere in Washington as are your privilege here. Reom Furniture—Hall Crockery- Baby Carriages. MOUS N. BE. Cor. 7th é b z Peete tte titete eth AAMAS ele helel * © & HERRIMAN The Liberal Homefurnishers. Cs ss ss sO DS A as N oa onion and I Streets. Seleseergore WHAT PHILOSOPHER DOOLEY says.| fr that wan thing, The Cyclone Sets a Train of Thought Whirling in His Brain. From the Chicago Post. “Anny more cyclone news?” Mr. Dooley asked eagerly as Mr. McKenna came in with a copy of an extra paper in his hand. | “Nothing much,” Mr. MeKenna respond- ed. “This paper says the angel of death has given up riding on the whirlwind.” s better so,” said Mr. Dooley; “a e is more satisfacthry fr a steady But faith ‘tis no jokin’ matther; th’ Lerd frgive me f'r makin’ light Jawn, whin I r-read about thim poor | thing. ma’ fv it. people down in Saint Looey, sthruck be th’ | wrath iv hivin’ without more warnin’ than @ man gets in a Polack church fight an’ fwept to their graves be th’ hundhreds me in me. 3 se always some compinsations in th’ lik iv th To see th’ wurruld as it r-runs along in its ordinry coorse, with 'y man seemin’ to be lookin’ f'r th’ best y it an’ carryin’ a little hammer f'r his suff'rers ye'd think what Hinnissy | is th «s iv human sympathy was as dhry in th’ breast as a bricklayer’s boot in a box fv mortar. But let annything hap- pen like this an’ min ye'd suspect iv goin’ with a cold chisel li name plates off coffins comes to th’ t with their lips full ty comfort an’ Kindliness, an’, what's more to th’ point,their hands full tv dough. Years 0 be a man be th’ |} Tame iv O'Broyn—no ri fon iv th’ sinitor —liveé dcewn be th’ dumps. He was well off an’ had quit wurkin’ fr a livin’. Well, whether he'd been disappointed in love or j just naturally had a kick up to him again th’ wurruld I niver knew, but this here ol’ lad put in his time fr'm morn till night handin" out contimpt an’ hatred to all man- kind. o wan was harder to rint fr’m. He had some houses near Halsted et an’ I've see servin’ five days’ notiaes on his tenants whin th’ weather was so cold ye cudden’t see th’ inside iv th’ furnac rooms at th’ mill f'r th’ frost on th’ wi: dow. Of all th’ landlords on earth th’ Lord deliver me fr'm an Irish wan. Whe er ‘tis that fr'm niver holdin’ anny land In th ‘ol’ counthry they put too high a fondness on their place whin they get a lot « two over here I don’t know, but they're quicker with th’ constable thin an- ny othe I've seen min that ‘d divide their las’ cint with ye pay night as hard whin it come to gatherin’ in th’ rint fr’m two rooms in th’ rear as if they was Lord Leitrim’s own agents; an’ O’Broyn had no such start fv binivolence to go on. He niver ‘med to pass th’ poorbox in church without wantin’ to break into It. He charged cint per cint whin Casey th’ plumber burrid his wife an’ borrid money fr th’ fun'ral ixpenses. I see him wanat hastn’ th’ agent the St. Vincent de i's down th’ r-road f'r darin’ to ask him fr_a conthribution. To look red face as he gat at his window marl tp his accounts, ae e’d know he was hard in in’ heavy in th’ hand. An’ so he as hard an’ heavy as anny man I ee in all me bor-rn days. . Peter O'Broyn had lived on long enough to have th’ pious cur-rses iv the fre parish whin th’ fire broke out—th’ ond fire iv st four. whin th’ dam- was tin or t y millions iv dollars I lost a bull tarrfer be th’ name iv Robert Immitt r-runnin’ after th’ Ingine O'Broyn disappeared fr'm th’ road durin age th e—he had some property on th’ South Side—an’ sit seen or heard tell tv fr a day. Th’ mor-nin’ th’ report come in that he was seen comin’ over th’ red bridge with a baby in his ar-rms. ‘Glory be.’ says I; ‘is th’ man goin’ to add cannibal- ling to his other crimes? Sure enough, as I sthud in th’ dureway along come O’Broyn with his hands scalded, his eyebrows gone an’ mos’ iv his clothes tore fr'm his back, | disthribute it thimsely but silent an’ grim as fver, with a mite tv a girl held tight to his breast, an’ her fast asieep. “He had a house back iv my place—he owned th’ fifty feet frontin" on Grove street, bought it frm a man named Gro- san—an’ ‘twas rinted be a widow woman be th’ name iv Sullivan, wife iv a bricklay- er iv th’ same name. He come sthridin’ into th" Widow Sullivan’s house. an’ he: ‘Misthress Sullivan,’ he says. 2 says she, in a thremble, knottin’ her apron in her hands an’ standin’ in front iv her cwn little wans; ‘what can I do f'r ye she says. “Th' rint’s not due till tomorrah. ‘I very well know that,’ he says, ‘an’ not about th’ rint I come,’ says he. ‘Bui he says, ‘I've heerd ye spoke iv as a kind weman an’ wan that'd had to do with th’ bringin’ up iv children,’ he says, ‘an’ I Want ye to take care iv this wan,’ he say: ‘An’ I'll pay ye f'r ye'er throuble,’ he say: We niver knew where he got th’ child. He niver told any wan. Dr. Casey said he was badly bur-rned about th’ head an’ hands. He testified to it in a suit he brought again O'Broyn fr curin’ him. F'r th’ man O’Broyn, instead tv rayformin’ like they do in th’ play, was a dam sight meaner afther he done this wan thing than iver befure. If he was tightfisted wanst he was as close now as calcimine on a rough-finished wall. He put his tinints out in th’ cold without mercy; he kicked blind peegars fr’m his dure an’’on his dyin’ bed @ comes as near bein’ left be raison ty his thryin’ to bargain with th’ good man fr th’ rayqueems as enny wan ye iver see. But he raised th’ little girl, an’ I sometimes think that whin they count up th’ cash they'll let O’Broyn off with a charackter though they’se some pretty hard tabs again him. “They ain't much point in what I've told ye, more thin this, that beneath ivery man’s outside coat there lies some sort iv good feelin’. We ain't as bad as we make oursilves out. We've been stringin’ ropes across th’ street f'r th’ people iv Saint Looey f'r thirty year an’ handin’ thim bricks fr'm th’ chimbley whiniver we got a chanst, but we've only got good wurruds an’ loose change fr thim whin th’ hard tim mes.” “Yes,” said Mr. McKenna, “I see even the counell has come to the front, offering re- et. “Well,” sald Mr. Dooley, thoughtfully, “I on'y hope they won't go to Saint Looey to That would be a jong sight wor-rse thin th’ cyclone.” He Will Do Better Work Than Most “Pretenders” Have Accomplished. Parts Dispatch in the London Chronicle. The second lecture of Prince Henri d’Or- leans before the Societe de Geographie was lergely attended. In his first conference at the Scrbonne the prince dwelt chiefly upon the scientific results of his journey to the mountains of Tibet. He now enters upon the domain of practical colonial policy, which, amid the confusion of debates and continual upsets at the French ministry of the colonies, has been, he says, culpably neglected. Notwithstanding the sloomy situation in Madagascar, Prince Henri is of opinion that the island has everything to make it one of the richest and most productive depend- encies of France. The climate is, on the whole, quite healthy, and the soil is rich. All around Antananarivo fruit trees,’ cere- als and vegetables thrive as they do in Provence, while, judging from native wine tasted by the lecturer, there are excellent Prospects for wine growers. ‘The mineral wealth of the country is another great at- traction. The rest of the lecture was in the same key, and was loudly and deservedly ap- plauded. To the English listener, of course, the opinions advanced by the young and dashing explorer only amount to the com- monplaces, more or tess enticing, to be found in the written or spoken utterances of emigration agents. It was hard to re- press a smile when, after the glowing de- scriptions of chances in the far east, Prince Henri said that the great requirement was “the serious colonist, with a small capital of 20,0Wf., and a great deal of initiative, energy and perseverance.” Evidently, too, his highness has not quite caught the secret of the greater commercial profits made by English manufacturers in what he calls the Indo-Chinese markets, The prince may expect a cordial recep- tion In London, where he will have an ex- cellent opportunity of meeting colonial ex- perts, as well as listeners whose admira- tion is well timed. The example given and the zeal shown by a prince who travels for the benefit of his fellow countrymen may help to stir up some genuine move- ment of French emigration. The destiny of Prince Henri d’Orleans i evidently molding him to be something better than a pretender, He is the link between the conquering traditions of the house of France, still survivi in the Duc d’Au- male, and the republic which he has ac- cepted. His young efforts and generous aspirations are not likely to go unre- Those Bleak Shores. From Macmillan’s Magazine. Even in Newfoundland’s coast line, as viewed from the ocean, there has always seemed to us something appallingly for- bidding and desolate. The last time we saw it was from the deck of a trading steamer, and for the whole of a gray December day its savage headlands and lonely bays fol- lowed one another in dreary and monoto- nous succession till they faded into the Winiry night. There was no company on our ship, and the captain hugged the shore as close as he dared. We spent the day on deck, with a pair of strong glasses that would have revealed any lving object upon the melancholy russet hills, as yet un- touched by snow, that swept inland from the cruel crags up which the white surf was crawling. Here and there at long intervals was a tiny hamlet nestling In a cove, which only seemed to emphasize the desolation reign- ing over so vast an expanse of land and sea, for the latter was, of course, at this season of the year almost deserted. We had just left the bustling coast of New England; In a short time we should be amid the busy hum of the Mersey. It seemed to us, when in the presence of these barren solitudes, well-nigh incredible that such things could be upon a highway thronged, as this has been for 400 years, by those forces that above all others have tamed the waste places of the earth. There is, in truth, as this article has endeavored to show, no mystery about the matter. But there is something curiously fascinating in a coast so long a familiar unit in the world’s history, and yet even now contain- ing upon its face such scanty impress of human life, and at its back none what- ever. GETTING UNDER WAY Scenes and Incidents at a National Political Convention. THE CROWDS AND THE NOISE How the Preliminary Work is Done by Leaders and Managers. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS "The national convention is the epitome of American politics. It is the politics, the methods and the personal characteristics of every state, of every county in the country, assembled. It is the aggregation of all the county, town, ward and pre- cinet politics. It is the national election day gathered in one room. é The St. Louis convention is expected to be novel, in the circumstance that every- thing to be done there will be fixed up in advance, and that the convention will have nothing to do but to go through the formality of carrying out the program. As a matter of fact, the work of the con- vention is now heing done. Differences are being adjusted and the platforms made. Under the assumption that Major McKin- ley is to be nominated for President, ef- forts are being made to select the can- didate for Vice President in advance. Thus all Is expected to be mapped out before the delegates gather in St. Louis. ; Yet, the convention may not be entire- ly without incident. Certainly it will not be without picturesqueness. Whe Work of the Talkers. It is usual for the work of a national convention to begin about four days before that named for the meeting. As soon as the delegates begin to arrive the: work of the talkers begins. The talkers are the men whom the delegates always find in the corridors of the “headquarters” hotel, who have made a thorough investigation and measure of the situation and know just what is going to happen. For about two days these talkers have full swing. This is to create an atmosphere of public senti- ment. When this atmosphere ts m clently dense the so-called leade to deal and trade. If the talkers were all agreed the atmosphere would become overpowering, and the “leaders would have nothing to do but come along and gather the delegates up when the talkers got through with them. But it happens that each candidate and each rival inter- est has its talkers, and it becomes a con- test of shouting and plausibility. _ It is at this stage, like a Country fair or the entrance to a railroad depot, each employe shouting the praise of his mas- ter. This “talking” or shouting never ends until the convention has acted, but as the time for action approaches it becomes less important. The corner argument and the secret conference take its place. The taik- ers continue to talk, entertaining each other and the crowd outside, and keep the at- mosphere in condition, while the proper parties work on individual delegates and the managers make secret deals with the local bosses. Managers and Principals, Then the managers try to work upon each other, and the principals deal with the managers, and in the ed a few men only have to come to an agreement to set- tle the whole thing. Meanwhile the bands play on and the din is kept up. While A. and B. are each trying to convince the other in “private” conference that the thing is settled and the other had better get on to the band wagon, a throng of A.’s men will be shouting near by to im- press B., and a procession cf B.’s men will be marching around the corridors with din of music and shouts intended to impress A. Both A. and B. understand each other and are not impressed. So the game goes on. The Moving Crowds. From the day before the convention until the last nomination has been made, and all the tin horns have been turned over to the victors, sleep is, of all things, the least indulged in. Each candidate has his headquarters. Each state delegation have their headquarters. The headquarters rooms ére the first to be crowded. Then as the crowd grows ft overflows through the corridors, fills all the rooms, blocks the sidewalks ‘and surges through the streets from cne hotel which is a political center to another hotei which is another political center. It is.a constantly moving mass. Dive into it and It will carry you the rounds. You can’t go any faster than the current of the crowd, and you cant help but go. The only way to stop is to work out to the edge of the current, clim) ashore at some angle, and then you can watch the tide sweep by, with big swerve: whirlpools and eddies, as it sweeps into one headquarters, whirls out again and into another. All along the outski hangs the driftwood; obstructions occur in midstream caused by a fist fight or a pecu- rly heeted argument by people of suffi- cient prominence to attract attention, and occasionaily the stream wiil be turned out of its course or dammed entirely by a big band of music, finding lodgment in the middle of the way. Smaller streams everywhere are running into or breaking away from this mighty current. The lower level of a bar room door will draw off a stream from the main current until the tide is dammed up and congested about the bar and flows out again. The roaring of Nisgara Is not more deafening than 1s the aggregation of noises from the crowd. Half a dozen bands of music are in hear- ing at one time; every man, each shouting something different, is trying to raise his voice above the music and the senses are bewildered and the ear deadened by the din. F The marching delegations, with music and banners, cross and recross the stream or drift along with it, and an nfinite va- riety of badges and banners give color to the scene. Speeches and Debates. The delegations send their orators to talk to other delegations. There is nearly al- ways a@ speech being made at euch of the various state headquarters In favor of one candidate or another, and perhaps {n some rooms joint debates will be in progress, the adherents of each side being congested about the entrance and greeting each point in their favor with tumultuous cheering. Frequently the whole de! ion of a state having & candidate will go In a body to visit the headquarters of the other delegation. Meanwhile the big conspicuous leaders are working their way in and out, holding se- cret conferences, starting reports, looking mysterious, and trying to give to that mystery un air of secret confidence. Dis- cussions, conference and committee meect- ings are being held on every hand, and there fs a constant dodging through doors with an air of haste and immense import- ance. The Big Chiefs. The door to the private room of some particular big chief may be guarded by two or three attendants with an air of grave consequence, while a crowd waits for some word to leak out from the “im- portant” conference, and behind the door the particular big chief will be alone smok- ing a cigar with his feet on the table, or lying in his trousers and shirt sound asleep. Here and there a runner goes dodg- ing, pressing and hustling his way through the crowd, making haste slowly and breath- lessly, and very important rumors will run along with him. This din and tumult keeps up for at least twenty hours out of the twenty-four, and there never is entire quiet at any hour. The Work That Tells. While the tumult is raging a compara- tively few men are working out the con- clusion of the convention. The shouting and noise are merely incidents which occu- py the idle and untnitiated, and does not disturb the men who do the work. They depend on the shouting and enthusiasm merdy to supplement their work. As man- agers they find out who are the particular men to deal with, and they devote them. selves to making the necessary deals, Hay- ing done all possible in that way, they, as the managers, try to adjust differerices and arrange compromises among them- selves. Im the Convention Hall. Most of the work of the convention is done outside the cén¥ention hall. The con- vention meets each day to do what has been planned the night before. If the plans have been perfected during the night, the convention takes action the next day; if not, the session ts donsumed in talk and perhaps fruitless basioting. If the conyen- tion ts “‘stampeded;": the “stampede” was arranged the night before. - The. Spectal | Correspondents ‘The work of getting the news of the con- vention; like the ré#l work of the conven- tion, is done at ufgsual hours. The cor- respondent who gges into the convention hall when the delegates assemble at 10 o'clock In the moraing, has probably been up all or most of tHe night. He has been watching the private conferences, and, af- ter ail that could be-done has been settled for the night, he"has seen those men on whom he Knows he ‘gan rely for accurate infofmation and good judgment, and has learned all that has been done or attempt- ed. ‘This may have kept him up until 3 o'clock in the morning. It is on this in- formation that ‘his dispatches for the day ere based, The dispatches may be written before he goes to bed, or he may get an hour or two of sleep and then, write before breakfast. If he is writing fér an ‘after- ucon paper he is compelled to complete, the Ik of his writing before going to the con- vention hall. To do this he must “know, all the plans that have been made. He then has to watch the course of things during the day's session, filling in the incidents or neting deviations from the plan which he has already outlined. The work for an a{ternoon paper must be done chiefly in the night and early morn that for a ng paper chiefly in the day and carly ng. Many correspondents during the most exciting days of the convention do with not more than two or three hours’ sleep out of each twenty-four, The great political managers looking after the inter- ests of their respective candidates have to be almost as sleepless. As long as they are awake the active newspaper correspon- dent.has.got to stand by them, and when they do finally retire, he may have to write. JEWELS SET IN GLOVES Ths Latest Parisian Fad Which is on Its Way Hera Adopted by London Swellx—Any Gems Muay Be Used, but Diumonds Ave the Favorites. The latest fad in the way of eccentric dress is the wearing of jewels upon va- rious articles of clothing. This extrav: gance originated in gay Paris, where the jewelers are falling over one another in their attempts to find some new use to which to put gems. ‘There are now cn the market as a unique result of this attempt to find or devise in the backs of precious stones, diamonds, and emeralds, and in fac something new, gloves which are set The Jeweled any gem whose natural color harmonizes or makes a pleasing contrast to the color of the glove. Diamonds seem to be the favorite gems used for this purpose. ‘The jewels are set in the back of the glove along the seam and are held in place by means of a small nut attach- ment. Thus far only a few of the more advanced women of the ultra fashionable set have taken to wearing the diamond ornamented gloves, but the fad 1s slowly but surely spreading, and no man can tel to what extent it may be carriea, The wearing of gems according to jews élers has never been so widespread and ex- tensive as at the present time. While a year or two ago it was considered bad form to wear any but the plainest jewels, the other extreme will soon be reached, and Jewels will be worn iff ways never be- fore thought of. Like every other fashion which originates in Paris, the fad of wearing diamona- backed gloves has crossed the English channel, and a few of the more daring English leaders of fashion have promptly had jewels set in the backs of their gloves. Following the invartable order of auch things, the fad wili reach this country dur- ing the present season. a Englixh Toxes. From Cbanbcrs’ There are inhabited house duties, income tax, land tax, probate tax, legacy duty, succession duty, estate duty, birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, I- censes for certain businesses, and duties on certain manufactures. Locomotion is taxed—carriages, cabs and omnibuses all requiring licenses—and even the trains pay a ratlvay duty on first and second class passengers. In the matter of liquids, beer and spirits incur both duties and licenses, wine, tea and coffee pay a customs duty, and for water there is the rate. Dried fruits are subject to customs dues. Li- censes are required for the use of armorial bearings on carriages, plate, jewelry and notepaper, for the sale of patent medicines, Journal, and keeping male servants n, in her neat cap and apron, however, 1s duty free, “for which relief, much thanks,” as Ham: Dogs, little and big, we all know, doubly taxed, there being a duty and a retail lcense. manufacturin The venders of jewelry containing a cer- tain proportion of the precious metals must be armed with a gold or silver plate lizense, One must not shoot game or sell it without special licenses, and to blaze away at the humble sparrow entails a gun tax. An endeavor to “lighten our dark- ness” tnyolves the gas rate: Uncle who re- ceives a family plate or jewelry in pledge has to be provided with both pawnbroker's and plate certifieatss, The clergy are en- titled to certain fees for the burial of their parishioners. When the burial is in a cemetery, the chaplain attached to it per- forms the service. After paying his salary the established ministers collect the bal- ance of the fees for themselves, thus levy- ing a tax on every corpse in their parishes. Thus. the poor maniis ‘hemmed. in on all sides by taxation. Birth, marriage, death, food, habitaticn+all make separate reve- nue demands upon lim, A Mensuting Party, From the New York? Posts: A May day measuring party is a new en- terprise planned..by 2 mission band to se- cure the means,:to carry on its work. A room is made as prety as possible by means of hangings, -Mghts, flowers and plants, which should all be in one color. A3 either red or pink lights up better than most other colors, one of these may be chosen, and the color used for lamp shades and all the little silk bags which are sent out with the invitations. If red is chosen, the invitations are printed in red ink and the bags made of red silk, Each guest $s expected to put into the bag he receives five cents for every foot of his height and one cent for every additional inch, If any one chooses, he may place a much higher value on his feet and Inches. The bazaar part of the affair consists of booths for the sale of measures of all kinds. Tape measures, yard sticks, locks, thermome- ters, cyclometers, barometers’ and quart, pint and gill measuring -cooking cups, household scales, etc. Such a party has no logical relation to May that I know of, but can as suitably be given tm any other month, OLD GLORY’S DAY —_.-—___ Why June 14 Has Been Singled Out for Distinction. THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN FLAG The Star Spangled Banner the Oldest Flag Among Nations. TEACHING PATRIOTISM How many people can tell why it should be singled out from all other days for such honorable distinction? How many who read this could make the simple statement that it is the birthday of Old Glory? Not one in twenty, in all prob- ability, And far fewer than that number woukl be able to state that it is the one hundred and nineteenth birthday of the flag, and that on June 14, 1777, the Conti- nental Congress, then sitting in Philadel- phia, as Congress now sits in Washington, passed the memorable resolution “that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white In a blue field, representing a new constellation.” It was thus the flag was born. * When you reiate stories of the flag are you well enough acquainted with its his- tory, and with the history of the flags of other countries to tell the little ones that the star spangled banner is the oldest flag in the world of nations? Old England, the mother country, has a flag that was changed to ite present form in 1801. The French tri-color was adopted in 1794. The German and Italian flags are no older than the existing regimes of those count The Spanish flag was established in 17} Even the Chinese flag, the emblem of a na- tion which claims to have the oldest clvil- ization on earth, is quite half a century younger than the American flag. The Vive-Pointed Star. The English star is six-pointed, a re- minder of the rowel spurs of heraldry. The American flag has five-pointed stars. How many of you could tell why this hap- pened? Betsey Ross, Washington's shirt- maker, who was the first flag-maker also, loyal woman that she was, refused to sew a British star on an American flag, even at Washington's suggestion, and snipped a five-pointed star out of a piece of paper to show how much prettier it would be. Her suggestion was adopted. Not many know, either, that for ninety Years the American flag was made of En- glish bunting imported expressly for the purpose Not till the 23d of February, 1866, did a truly American flag ficat on the breeze of ‘he western world. That flag was 4 present from Benjamin F. Butler, to the United es Senate, and was made from ing manufactured at his own bunting ries. It was 21 fect fiy by 12 hoist, and was the first real American flag to be unfurled above the Capitol of the United tates, Another note of interest abcut the flag is the fact thet sixty-four different ban- ners represented the young nation on land and on sea, up to the tine that the Conti- nenial Congress adopted a national design. Counting the Presideat's flag, the whole number of American flags, colcnial and all, number sixty-six. When the children ask you what the President's flag is like, what will you tell them? Its ground 1s blue, and almost equare. On it is the coat of arms of the United States. The coat of arms !s the spread eagle, vith arrows in one talon ard olive branch in the other, thirteen slars above, and the “E pluribus unum” pennon caught in the beak. Its chief use is found at sea, when that flag flying at the masthead designates the presence of the President of the United States. It was designed by Chester A. Arthur when he was President. Educating the Foreign Born. There is so much for Americans to learn about the flag that {t 1s small wonder that the great multitude of our foreign popu- lation, whose native flag {s to them only a symbol of serfdom, should be needless of the beauty of ours or that they should ntonly desecrate {t. Men do not treat tenderly a thing that they do not venerate, and it is only those who know the full significance of the words “privilege” and sponsibility” as applied to citizenship who ace possessed of the intelligent patiot- ism which comprehends the content that comes of love of country and idealizes that country’s flag. How should one love lib- erty, who ducs not understand the mean- ing of the word? How shall he become en- thusiastic over the free schools, who knows nothing of tneir purpose and work. Why should he be willing to die for the fiag, who knovs nothing of its history or significanc These questions presented themselves to he mind of Col. George T. Balch, who as a resident of New York city, where the full effect of the unpatriotic foreign- born population was felt fn the public dem- onstrations on holidays, and on days of public rejoicing, among the foretgn. born when they celebrated their national anni- t versarie: and he set himself to solve the very difficult problem how to over- come the un-American customs. His first work was in the free industrial schools and the free kindergartens. In these schools are gathered, through the aid and influence of philanthropists, the chil- dren of every race and color, of School age, who from extreme poverty, irregular hours caused by working for a living, or because of speaking only ‘a foreign language, are not admitted to the public schools. There are twenty or more of these schools in New York city, the hot bed of, the propagating house for t patriotic movement, and the attendance is close in the neighborhood of 15,000. In June, 1891, Col. Balch visited every one of these schools, and by dint of much talk apd persuasion’ got enough Americanism hammered into them to get them to proper- ly salute the flag after a little formula ar- ranged by him. The School Children’s Satute. The salute is simple in its requirements, and the tiniest child can learn it. There is a color-bearer, ordinarily the “honor” pup! of the room, the one who has heen the best boy of the week in his studies and deport- ment. The color-bearer takes his place upon the platform at the teacher's side, at a given signal, and the children all rise. ‘To music, If possible, or without, if not to be had, the children, suiting the action to the word, say in unison: “We give our heads and our hearts to God and our country. One country! One language! and one flag!” As the first sentence is uttere: the color-bearer dips the flag in salute, and holds it thus till the last word is uttered, and tl.en restores it to position. The work has gone on and on, gaining in effect and influénce, till that ‘simple lag salute is used in every state In the ‘Union and in the territories. Colonel Balch exhausted his private for- tune in his work in New York city, but Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Chil- dren’s Aid Societies of New York, became much interested in the patriotic work and joined with him in pushing it in every di- rection. The result of their labors in the metropolis is more directly seen in the ab- sence from the rooms of the schools men- tioned of the foreign flags that used to displace Old Glory on days of public re- joicing or mourning, and the seneral desire to elevate the stars and stripes on all oc- casions, Spread of the Idea. Illinois was the first to take up the idea, after New York, and from a gather- ing of a few thousand in 1891, the 14th of June is now a state holiday, and in every city in the state the schools have their patriotic exercises. In Chicago the parks last year were inadequate to hold the vast crowds that swarmed there, the man, woman or child without a flag or a bit of red, white and blue being marked for jeers and uncomplimentary comment. The reports that were sent in to the national commit- tee on patriotic teaching, which is a com. mittee of the Woman's Relief Corps, show that at the very least calculation a million and a half of school children throughout the whole United States, to say nothing of the adults engaged, observed “Flag day” last year with ‘appropriate cere. monies. The Balch salute is not the only one e @ € that is used, though it is preferred above all others by the committee. This revival of interest in the Mag and im patriotic instruction has been so general tgat people have scarcely noticed it, and yét it has already become a tremendous force. The work has been fathcred by the Grand Army of the Republic, and mother- ed by its auxiliary, the Woman's Reltef Corps. Still, It recognizes no sectional lines, it has no creed save its motto, country, one language, one flag,"” and jot hands at all times with those who adv: cate loyal red, white and blue principle The result of its work in the various states has been the raising above the school heuses of the flag during school hours, both north and gouth. In the District of Columbia the work hs progressed without hindrance. The mov ment to place flags on the school hous has been taken up with renewed activity by the committee on patri teaching in the W. R. C., and now the flag floats from every one of the eighty-three senool hou! in the District. There is no provision, how ever, for replacing the flags when they are worn out, so a bill was introduced in Con- gress by the committee asking for an ap- propriation of $1.4 the schools. The item fs in the sundry c bill, and it is more than propavie th: will become a law. The flag salute Is us in nearly all the graded schools, and a re- newed interest is evidenced in the study of American history, and of our civil in- ns everywhere. aeons BABEL WORRELL BALL. >——_ THREE WIDOWED EMPRE! ) to purchise flags for i it ES. Their Strangely Different Fates Ex- cite Comment From M, de Blowitz. Paria Dispatch in the London Times. From Palermo comes a very interesting piece of news, a really curious ident of ecntempo! history. The Empress Eu- genie, arriving on her yacht, the Thisti d’Aumale, who nas been stay at his property of Lucco. The duke presented to her his grandnephew, the Duc d’Or- leans, and then invited her to a large luncheon party, at which, among the guests, the empress again met the Due @Orleans, whose liveliness and air of reso- lution charmed her. Such an incident real- ly sets cne dreaming. In the first place, the Duc d’Aumale was the most determined, and one may say the most aggressive, adversary both of the family and of the policy of Napoleon III, Bl especially of Prince Jerome. The polemic between the two latter and the duke's stinging pamphlet will be remem- bered, as ale: irony with which the duke replied to the prince’s refusal to fight. During the entire perfod of the 6 empire the banishment of the Duc male was rigorously maintained. Tho princes found themselves again on Fr soil after the conclusion of peace In 1 and they were banished nearly at the time by the third republic, the Duc @’Au- male to return after the fall of President Grevy and the gift of Chantilly to t French Academy, Prince Napoleon to die in exile in Rome close by that Vatican against which he had pronounced so power- ful an indictment in the imperial senate. To behold the widew of Napoleon III sit- ting at the table of the Duc d'Aumale in company with the Due d’Orleans, the most important and ardent competitor of the heir to the empire, Prince Victor, is in it- self an extremely singular spectacle, indi- cating the indifference of the empress for the fate of the last Napoleon and her scant confidence in his accession. But the becomes stranger and more dramatic still whei one thinks of the destiny of the widow of the third Napoleon, of that life which has touched the hightest summits of human power of the woman who, from en ordinary but restless ie passed fifteen years on one of the foremost from that throne amid a disastrous w; which she had called her own, who shared the exile of her husband and son, who 1 them both die, and who has remained alone, buried, as It were, under the weight of such tragic Hellenic tragedy. Our time counts three empres: widow peror, finds at the court of thet ‘of her mother, the ro which she has always known, es who are r son, as at hildren and grandchildren, sisters and brother$, niec and nephews, surround ker, welcome her rrival, or speed her on way with ten- der adieus, and she can still, wherever she goes, think‘herself at the summit of grand- eur save for the constant grief in her heart at the loss of her imperial spouse. The second, even while I write, is having her share of grandeur and glory in the ac- clamations of an immense people surroun¢ ing her son, the preliminaries of wi coronation the entire world is now ing with insatiable curiosity. She, too, has children seated on the steps o! throne, a brilliant imperial family surr with love, respect and veneration, parents who rr the royal crown, and brothe: and ststers—all these form!ng one of the most imposing and enviable of circles tha can mitigate the most cruel of bereave- ments. But the widow of Napoleon III, devoid of any such consolations, is plunged tn the solitude of irreparable grief, and this luncheon with the most ardent adv: ary of the dynasty whose splendor and resent- ments she espoused seems to show a desire to escape at any price from tts melancholy recollections. What 1s striking in all this is the vitality which permits the victim of such sorrows to take part in the banquet of life and to force a smile after such cruel blows. ———_—__+e+______ New Use fox Enr Maffs. From the New York Sun. “I sold a man a pair of ear muffs the other day,” said a furnishing goods sales- man to a customer who was asking him some questions about the business. “We sell more or less gocds out of season the year round to people who are going to atrange places, but that was the first pair of car muffs I ever sold in summer, and I asked this gentleman, incidentally, if he was going to Greenland, and he sald no, he was going to pad ‘em and wear ‘em at home when the children were playing.” Success. From the New York Sun. “We are apt many of us, to think,” said Mr. Gratebar, “that we could do better if we had a better chance or could get start- ed in some new field, but the fact is that the man who is likely to succeed at all is retty sure to succeed wherever he may be. uccess is @ crop that depends for its re- turns less upon the soil that is cultivated than upon the manner of cultivation.” st Palermo, received a visit from the Duc | One, the mother of a reigning em- | 1 splendor | uinding her | eeeecsoes esceeseercec “About the $25 Suitings We're Making Up for $16.75. Once in a while a customer will say, “Oh! I can geta suit made much cheaper than that.” what we now tell you. Yes, itis possible to get a suit of clothes said to be made to order for less than our price, but we are not competing with that class of tail: do the finest class of work turned out in Washirigton at any price—and we have our price for it—and get it! 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Eutaw st BULLUEADS AS MOUNTAIN TROUT, Canada’s Co: the Do From the Ottawa ¢ “Bullheads are c the somewhat missioner Talks About nion’s Fisheries, da) Free Press. ming to the fr unexpected announcen nt made by Prof. Prince in his lecture before the Royal Society on the resources of Ca- nadian fisheries. Prof. Prince is the do- mirfon commissioner of fisheries. This bullhead or mud-pout Industry, Prof. Prince said, he could not exactly vouch for, jbut he was told that in the estuaries of thrones of the world, and then descended | ‘Be Breat lakes the fish teken in large quantities remcved from the primitive angling outfit of the small boy, and, though the white- fish output is estimated at $2,000,000, the bullhead promises well. He understood that the bullheads were fixed up and ap- was now being y methods far peared on the tables of American hotels “mcuntaia trout. The professor to tell of the enormous we Cans r erties, which, at $20,001 ficially, he th Id reach $4 if we take into a sumed by si which no statisties available. The Pacific coast, with its 10,000 miles of const line; the Atlantic coast, the great lakes, the sm: 1 only by fon Ww he St. Ls Mackenzie, R the Hudson bay, with i ’ et undiscovered treasures, were dealt y the k nd then he proceeded to tell of th eries branch of the govern aims to develop protect this ever- growing industry In describing the many forms of nets vsed in capturing fish Prof. Pr said that fish have not a great amount of intel- Lgence, or they would often get out of t traps that were made for them. Of the deep sea area, the lecturer estimated it to yield about $16,0),000 per anrum. He gave an inte nt of the cod, halibut, mackerel, herring and lobster fish- ing, and rey ked that some of the were being depleted owing to the excur- sions of foreigners with methods of catch- ing that were extremely destructive. Shad fishing, he anticipat would soon be a thing of the past unless proper measures were taken to preserve it, and this could only be done after ve cc ticn, as the shad is now a source of income to many fisherme! Large striped bi aught in scoop nets thrcugh the ice, realize more per pound than do salmon. Lake Winnipeg yields 1,80) tons of white fish annually. sos A Friendly Whale. From the Portland (Me.) Press. Capt. Beal of the schooner Charlotte M. Beal, at this port, reports that he was be- calmed for thirty-eight hours, during about twenty-four of which time a whale mado things very lively for them. Suddenly the whale, at least sixty feet long, and a fine specimen generaliy, rose up out of ths ccean and manifested a decided disposition to cultivate their acquaintance. During geveral hours it remained elongside, fre- quently rubbing its sides against the schooner. Capt. Beal tried to take sound- ings, but his fourteem-pound lead was tak- en inside by the whale at once. At last, to the great relief of all on board, the whale went down, and when it came to the sur- face started off rapidly. Capt. Beal is an old sailor, but that was his first experience of the kind.