Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1896, Page 14

we THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. fies are very interesting, bat they are far from being known as yet,” observed a well- knewn bugoiogist of the Agricultural De- partment. “One of the peculiar things about them is that while some years they low during other years they fly very My observation this year is that her than for a number fly : [they fly much hi “The b be glad to learn that se ¥ na past) indsed.. Somhigh “thats: ie there ere novelties in a | rarely that they can be caught at all. = Jvly aoc » be sold this ye | son and his force of assistants are still estsinive “one of them a at work endeavoring to tind out the secret a which, though | (f their light. One thing has been ascer- OLE |. however, and that is by feeding baie lightning bug on certain chemicals the —— 1 to some extent the quality of also a numb fireworks, can be changed, but beyond that i eee “Phere is one peculiarity of the storms sie !in Washington,” said Mr. W. H. Gates of 5 Ridge scbeshaot | Tennessee, “ 's the rain always byes bene’ oh | seems to fa st just before 9 used on toy tas poison | ovclock in the morning, as the clerks are which made injuries from toy cap pistols | Rurrying to the departments, and about 4 ae CAMB E Sei teey Arh weliferey Cxtuise Ok Scan Y | O'clock in the afternoon, as the same Clerk Cass | are leaving cir homes. I have 20 sale for the first time which would fn time | number of cther departmental employes. take the place of tie Chinese cracker, €x- | Gf course, it is only an incident, but clerks cept that the American firecracker ’ will | Gone enjoy’ sucm incidenta eopenialy the eventually succeed all others, if it can e | Liye! i those who don’t happen to pene cheaply cues Phe west’ Chinese | rave umbrelias with them. If the weather euecracker “ill sell ac it at 4 cents. | poreau wants to start a reform I think it thoush there will aiso be a 3-cont per pack | Could beein with this one” grade on the market. It one-third | ee OK kk rmaller in size. The retail for fire-| «] am sorry, miss, but I am not allowed tee Nee RR tocar | t you from the car any more,” said aoht h, will sel ear | tor on the Metropolitan branch of two for 1 cent. ‘This may npor- | the Baltimore and Onio road on. Tuesday tant, t for they mon vill be good news will have double for the boys, afternoon last, as the rain was pouring fun for their down and passersers were alighting from oe the train at Silver Springs. Asked for an Senden oo Eee ee explanation the conductor said: “It has al- joush we have received the last carzo | Ways been our habst to assist ladies getting of tobacco which will come fom Cuba until} on or off the train, bi thar t it appears Weyier’s proclamation is rescinded,” ob- ne Jadies did not like it, end they, com- served a pronunent manufacturer of cigazs, | Plained to headquarters, and the result was petals he cinar trate mack, | a0 order that hereafter conductors should shila Dasa the cigar trade MUCH. | require ladies to help themselves on and for the reason that for the past two or| off the cars. It is rather galling to con- three years the sale of high-grade cigars | ductors, but it has to be obeyed, as are has fallen off. There are enough cigars on | other orders regarding the trains. ‘I do not } hand t the demand for the mext | Suv ie mata diel comp iain but taveas ; | on this line. year, unless it should be unuswaily large. | es Hy that time there will probably be THE DERBY CHASE. an end to the Cuban treuble In the meantime, the Sumatra tobacco, | How the Minister Lost His Hat and on which t duty was considera the Trouble hat Ensaed da couple of Sago, It was an evening wedding, and the gen- at grown in the Ohio, es Eee ; | temen’s dressing room was crowded with necticut ys, wiil supply all pe a on wrappers that may be needed for home con- | Suests, wher: the clergyman, Mr. Grey, who nption. | arrived rather late, was shown therein, in- if demand exists for | stead ef into the reom reserved for him. * pur manufacturers can e*) In a few moments the servant, finding ant of it, in any the mar cut his mistake, conducted Mr. Grey (who icked up his ccat, hat and bag) into the i, without shij The cigar smoker o: rom ( today is a five-cent cigar, that other room, The wedding ceremony over, mmzss of smokers, and mans the evening passed deligutfully in the ex- Se Ohi ne change of frencly greetings and good stand, the Weyler boxeutt a great wishes, and the clersyman, being an in- thea Oc cons se timate friend, was one of the last gentle- be mace mep to say good-night. He put on ais * overcoat, and hat in hand reached the front he atout door, where he stopped 2 moment to again “There is much my the kola : ¥ “good-bye” before putting on nis REaSS AM Biter nerarked Shy. ‘Voue aclentimmcne Wea 67es aid pie SG tL rs were covered in an instant by a hat dens, “and it gives vu 1 sizes too large, which had been do in the way of answering fetters regard- | exchanged for the one Mr. Grey had plac- img the same. After people re ese don his coat. Just then the servant came is ecraPrstnaevaade ve ee nate np to say “A gentleman, who left his name Kola nut stories they write to shy senilemso, who lett his name ut or slip from the ki unable to find his Rat and been forced to Y can grow the nuts thems, ves. They | go off with one so small it would not cover think th an do this honestly | Ms head at all, and he would be glad to anual i cy padetics or them Rave his own when it was founc nough, but it is not practicable for them | G20" hun Io eo te an Carly ser to hess nuts “Wei have the tree.| 925 angianceded: @ propersnedd covertiz and have cultivated the nut right here | his appearance being too comical in in Washington, but it has to be grown | the “head-over-ears” hat now forced upon under glass, and under conditions a to LEER Ae car to reach home, near as possible to fm Aftiea, te phe ded to find Mr. make an ex. it was efter 1 o'clock) ane home of the kola. nateurs cannot suc- | me of ¢ . charg’ so desirable to both. So, keeping the Kole isd tone Dee ce out but that | on the darkest side of the street.he reached able doubt that it has all the wonderful ; No. 754 and gently rang the bell. No an. properties ascribed to {t by the write! | Ce eG Cab EGS VERS Tee ee ee ee j caused a window to be raised quickly and B ae a female 3 there, which it plays such an interestir bean wae eis Mr. O'Brian Font pesigetsn } home yet?” said Mr. Grey. “No! And he pstlgerrgpr mid | won't be, for ao such man lives here, reminded of our ¢ in angry tores. “Pardon me, but this et on [| 1S 2b Oth Street, where I was directed, is thought ta te a cure for er. It had its | it not “No; it is 284 10th street, and } down s could say, 1 the window before Mr. Grey Much discomfited or thinks it “oxense me." i ow of © concer oat eames nae arted for the next street, and again at one time it sold for 30) pee pound, the | finding 284 rang, with the assurance of market disappeared, and the entire stock | being right time. Up went a second- | Story window, and a sleepy tone inquired: What's the matter?" Mr. Grey raised the hat to be abie to see clearly, and politely Was used in filling up an old weil.” 22 2s Gs lee RGD I should like to speak to Mr. ed an attac of cur legations r= svegras doeae ciaitenltvons eves aii zbroad, at th Department afew ould be ashamed to ring people out Gays ago, in London baggage beds at such a time of night; put can now be sent to the various depots, as | 0 that hat and go home;” and with a de- ang this window went down. Thor- disheartened and perplexed, Mr. siarted for a neighboring drug store, b t s beer In the som stom for years in this coun- too, the collection of baggage is an improvement on the sys apologizing fer his appearance and tem which ails here. ‘The baggage c ng his errand, he asked to see a elke : Hereseatinee eacahece director! there’ was a Mr. O'Brian = = . 3 on 9th 248. The servant had re- hoca: age UN t railroad ticket is the numbers. Was ever man so in pursuit of his own property? © did you get that hat?” sang a voice gain started in quest of Mr Walking rapidly he soo but by this time so nervous and ed he touched the bell with trepida- though a light in the hall proved mber of the family had not yet ‘ne door opened and he was told n had not yet returned home.” wes too ljate to await his coming, so ving his ad the unfortunate wearer the wrong hat, with weary sieps, made : way to his own house, where his wife, wondering and worried over his non-ap- pearance, met him at the threshold; one jook, and she burst into untrollable laugh- them. In Fareels and deliv receipt therefor. the ry mdor ceectours for company ue bag- o shillings and give a receipt is taken as kets by of | his nin the payment iroad comp: ng ihe bassaxe nm London, a fee ed from ary pari way entirely with the any o 2 tion, a semen) retired. in- | sgements will [ | | | * other large th . to learn this he toid of his chase next morning, huntin Mr. Grey proceeded > conducted and the results. The up a discarded hat, to the church, where the eariy service, while the xton was sent te return Mr. O'Brian's rby, and bring back that of Mr. Grey. ton was told “Mr. O'Brian had just Started to return Mr. Grey's hat.” So once hats played at cross-purpo: not until the sexton went years Wanted them a rest. sain vThis may seem strange coming from me, for it is O'Brian's that the minister's hat Hincnee thas uc sepa page covered. “I began to feel that hat cages ras aul fieicus eae 5 oodooed.” and T was doomed to roam Wlaid nos poalece Ee te cee day and night in its pursuit, while it kept ahead of me every time,” the concluded 3 to have decte it at last. ing In my hearing my fa to sharpen a ra t, and though I rector. > wer ttment for sewii ve to ad ea almost ning = who have than one aiford to giv I can assure m, thy e a great iax on no ho} and i can not $ far as the pasture 1 < 1, though at one time able tor asy dist it “s a thing of the past. of it last semimer, which it somewhat, but this sea- | ave been cenvincec that we must - My experi- we have Washin ha. red us for er sources of incom ence is only that of others in the same business, and ¢ sh the most of us ar Willy—“Wece you embaww when old to learn new tricks. you met ‘is ‘ighness?”" 12 do So oF set left with idle fields | ° Clarence—“T’ was: but th’ good fellah pwetended not to notice it—twied to appeah be if he didn’t notice meh at all, yeh now.” ee & * & “The habits ef the lightaing begs or fire- reached | ter, in which Mr. Grey was fain to join as | jar. wrapped mys FOUND IN THE ICE By C. B. Lewis (Sf. Quad). On the 7th day of October, 1852, the ship Princess left Australia for London, with a cargo of wool and other articles, valued at $250,000. She had in her treasure room gold in dust, bars and coin aggregating $1,300,000. As she was one of the largest and finest of the Australian liners, she was crowded with passengers, the list counting up over two hundred. Six days after sail- ing the Princess was spoken by a craft bound to the east, but that was the last heard of her for many long years. When she did not reach the Cape of Good Hope vessels were sent out to search for her, but though this search continued for a year, and ndreds of cther craft kept watch as trey voyzzed to and fro, not the slightest trace of the lost ship was dis- covered. It was firally concluded that she had struck a floating wreck in midocean and gone down so suddenly that no one could escape. Had she sprung a leak-or caught fire a part of her people must have got away in the bats, and it could be figured on that at least one would have reached some island or been picked up. Aside from the money loss, there were many promi- nent people ameng the passengers, a there was mourning in Englang and Aus- tralia for many-a month aftef the ship Was posted as lost. In June, 186%, sixteen years after the less of the Princess, I was one of the crew of the Boston whaler Talisman,which was tryirg the ecrvising ground to the south of Cape Horn. We bad had a fair run of luek, when we got a gale from the north which lasted for four days and nights witFout a break. This drove us away south among the ice, and on a dozen different occastors the ship was within a hair's breadth of being cust away or over- whelmed. After the fourth day of the gale there was a calm, lasting thirty hours. During this interval the Talisman lay be- tween two mcenster icebergs, with her boats dowr. and rez dy to tow her out of the way should they clese in on her. Then we got » strong breeze from the east, which lasted for a day and went clear around the f turned out that she escaped without much compass to the west. Sometimes we lay moored to a berg for several hours; again we were pounding emong the great cakes of ice, which threa ened every moment to crush in her sides. We had been driving to the southeast for three di when the breeze fell and left us on a heaving sea, with a monster ice- berg zbout two miles away to the south. ‘The ship had thus far sustained little Gamage, but the crew were exhausted with the hare work and ccrstant wigilance. The men were given an all day's rest, and no incident occurred until late in the after- noon. This mess of ice had a front a mile long on cur side, with an average height of three hundred feet. What its width was we could not say. Over it was floating a quantity of smcke. The smoke did not rise from its crest, but from the far side. No one doubted that it came from a fire lighted by shipwrecked sailors, who had caught sight of the Talisman, and were making her a signal. The third mate and three men were ordered off in one of the whaleboats to investigate. and I was one of the three selected. We took with us fresh water, a hottle of rem, bread, meat, blankets, a boat compuss and a lartern, and darkness fell as we pulled away from the ship. We pulled to pass the western face of the berg. and found it to be about half a mile long. As we reaches its southern lim- it and turred to the east we caught sight of a small fire on a ledge about a hundred feet above the witer. As scon as we got up to it the mate hailed, and was promptly | answered that there were two men on the ge, one of whom had a broken leg. ereupon I was ordered to remain by the boat and hold on, while the mate and the two men landed on the berg and began making their way up to the ledge The evening was perfectly quiet, and there was no surf on the south side of the berg, but the tragedy that followed was brought about from causes far down in the depths of the sea. The men had not yet reached the ledge, when the great berg suddenly canted to the north, and to pre vent the beat being lifted out of the wa had to let go of t ada turn around a lump of ice. did so I was shot away to a distance of two hun- red feet and flung down on th IT had just got an oar in my the berg came back at me, and there was such a cracking, crashing and groaning that I was frightened almost to death. Hundreds of pieces of ice fell into the around me, and I heard cries of te fror: the men who had lerded. In my fright I may have pulied the boat some distance away, or the send of the waves may faye carried her beyond dan- ger. Be that af it may, the berg split fair in half with a report like that of a dozen cannons fired at once, and each half turne bottom side up. Th's movement kicked up a tremendous sea for a few minutes, and | anything lut a whaiehoat would have been | swamped out of hand. I must have heen driven a mile or more to the south by the waves. ‘The mate had taken the hearings of the ship by the compass when he turned the corner of, the berg, and I knew that she would also run a lantern aloft as 1 sulle, but when the sea quieted down I looked for her in vain. As a matter of fact, I was so confused and frightened that I might not have seen the light had she been enly a quarter of a mile away. ‘Twenty minutes after the berg split a fog settle] down, and with it came a breaze. I did not know what to do, and so !aid in my If in a blanket, and sat down on the bottom of the boat. You will think it queer that I fell asleep under the circumstances, but that is exactly what happened, nor did I awake until daylight came again. Then I found myself in in ic floe extended to the east and soath as far as I could see, but only a mile io the north. ond that was clear water, but the Talisman was not in sixht. It was not to he expected that she woul leave the locali- ty without making a daylight seareh for the boat, and during that long day, which wes ful! of sunshine and with but oler- ate breeze, I constantly hoped and expected to sight her. It was three years before I learned what happened aboard of her that night after we pulled away. When the berg was rent in twain she was a'most swamped by the heavy seas,,and when the breeze came she ran to the north to get out of the ice. Next day she returned to search the floe, but hit it too far to the cast to ight me. If she passed me, which may have heen the case, the mist rising from the ice, which is’ called the “ice blink,’ shut her from my view. In the edge of the floe she found an oar from my boat and some boards, which were believed to be a part of the frail craft, and judging from these relics taat the boat had been crushed and the crew lost, she gave over further search. As to the two men on the ledge, 0 one has ever ascertained to what craft they belong- ed or how they came there. I am not at all sure how tong I drifted, but the general direction south, and the time was at least four days and nights. Had ‘we left the ship without food I should have starved to death. Had we left it without the blankets I should nave frozen to death within the first twelve 3 it was, I made myself fairly com and being helpless tu better my position, On the passed much of the time in sl2n. morning of what was probably the I awoke to find that the floe had cease drifting, and a quarter of a mile to the east of the boat was a mass of ice of sin- gular creation. It was a mile or more in length and not over thirty feet high, and looked more like a wall resting on the water. The ice w yellow and dirty, with rocks imbedded in it here and there, and I have no doubt that a £000 portion of it was the lower part of an iceberg which had turned turtle. Be- tween me and the wall was 2 jumbie of ice, over which it seemed impossible to make my way, but as soon as I had broken my fast I set out to try it. It took me a fuil hour to make that quarter of a mile, but at length I reached the wall, and found that 1 could e: y get up its rough side. When I reached the top it was to discover that the mass of ice was almost a cube, with a great holiow in its surface to re- mind one of the crater of a volcano. In the center of this hollow lay a mass of wreckage, and, after a long stare, half believing that my eyes deceived me, I slid down and began an investigation. No one will ever see a more curious sight. A space of several hundred feet square was covered’ with broken masts, yards, beams, planks, boards, ropes, blocks and sails. Amid this heap were a thousand belongings to the in- terior of a ship. There were tables, chairs, sofas, crockery, clothing, carpets, rugs and what not. A few articles had not been damaged, but the greater number had been broken and splintered, as if a madman had used an ax to destroy. * There was a sort of mildew covering everything, and such articles of clothing as I pulled at were quite rotten. A large ship had here suffered destruction. Just how I could not determine, but it seemed to me as if a great body of ice had fallen on her as she rested in the crater. No other force, unless gunpowder, could have so wrecked and scattered her about. Sallorlike, my first thought was to iden- tify the wreck. This I did by finding a life preserver with thename“Princess’’ painted on it. I had nct then heard of the loss of the Australian packet, but I knew that this must have been a passenger ship from her fittings. There were no bodies under or about the wreckage,land during my search of five hours I did not find any money or Jewelry. Of her catgo only a small portion was at hand, and I did not see a single bale of wool. The lifp preserver and three pieces of silver plate I carried to the boat, but found nothing else worth taking away. I could find nothing in the wreckage to ac- couht for the ship's boats, and all her crew and passengérs had certainly left her before she met her fate. The theory of Whalers who have cruised in the icy seas i ee the Princess was driven down on the ice by a gale from the north, which perhaps dismasied her. At some time—perhaps before she yot into the ice fields—she was abandoned, and one after another her boats were lost in that great ocean. If after she had gol wedged among the ice, then they floated away from her, to perish of cold and starvation. One can only guess how the big ship came to be lying where I found her. She may have been lifted bodily on to the solid ice during a “nip,” or have run upon a shelf or ledge as she drove before a gale. The shape and size of the icebergs are con- stantly changing. This one had probably been much larger and higher at some time. There might have heen, and probably was, a high portion, which fell upon and shat- tered the vessel to fragments. As she had no gunpowder aboard, there could have been no explosion. In’ whatever way her doom came about, there she was, or all that was left of her. Late in the afternoon the floe began to break up, and I got back to my boat. By night there were lanes of water in every direction, and a strdng breeze set in from the south. I drifted to the north all that night and all the next day, but as the second night came down I was picked up by the Scotch whaler Jeannette, which had captured and was cutting up a whale, and months later was landed «t her home port. For three years f believed ihe Talisman had been cast away in the ice, but it damage and finally reached Boston with a full cargo. eee sie 2 In the Wake.of a Bullet. Prof. E. Mache of Prague is credited with some remarkable achievements in the line of rapid photography... Thus the flight of a projectile has been fastened on a sensitive plate, the exposure being estimated at prob- ably about one-thousandth of a second. In taking this picture Prof. Mache succeeded not only in showing the projectile proper upon the negative, but he also shows alr currents, and the condensing of the pho- tograph, it is thought, might explain the luminous tail on comets and on meteors, which are presumably projectiles hurled through infinite space upon a larger scale, Another of photographic achicve- ments-is air occasioned by the flight of a leaden ball; its current of air is diverted to all sides ‘at an angle of about 45 degrees to the axis of the projectile, and the whirl- ART AND ARTISTS Mr. F. Hopkinson Smit®, equally well known through his terary work and his delightful sketches of the many paintable spots of the old world, which he has fan- sacked again and again in search of the Picturesque, has been in the city for sev- eral days making a series of drawings of the’ new Congressional Library for a week- ly paper. Tuesday morning found him at work on a view of the northwest corner of the building from a cool spot, where the shade from the trees in the Capitol grounds made unnecessary his white um- brella, which has done such good service under many different skies. The sketch, like much of the artist’s work, was ex- ecuted in water color on gray paper, the light values being brought out strongly with body color, a method of handling which gives great simplicity and direct- hess and a very fine artistic effect. Mr, Smith has had a wide experience in treating architectural subjects from an artist's point of view, and while keeping elese held of the main lines of the build- ing, he excludes such petty details as are rot required to give the character of the structure. In speaking of the sketch before him, Mr. Smith said that he did not work with such a sure hand as usual, as it was the first time he had opened his painting kit since he packed it up in Venice last autumn, but an onlooker watching the bold free way in which he put in a touch of sunlight here and there, or noted the posi- tion of a window with a few swift strokes of his brush, certainly would not have thought him out of practice. Mr. Smith has made several water colors of the in- terior of the library, and expressed admir. tion of the magnificent scale upon whi. the scheme of decoration is being car out. * * x Miss Pertha E. Perrie has been conduct- ing a small class in water color sketching, and workin; Ids has brought back a number of very good land- scapes. ‘There 1s an excellent cloud effect in a sketch which she made out near Chevy Chase. Miss Perrie’s outdoor work is al- Ways good In color, as she succeeds :n catching passing effects atid renders ad- mirably those blue and purplish tones which give aerial perspective to a scene. She is perhaps at her best in her aqua- relles,which she handles with great strengti and with a technique which comes on from lony practice, but sie does also very good work in oil. She may possibly spend bart ef the summer in East Glouc: where there are any number of inter subjects to paint. * * The bust of Justice “Harlan which Ru- dolph Evans has almost completed is an exceptionally good likeness and a very well hendled piece of work. The humorous | twinkle about the eyes and the expression of the mouth indicate the genial nature of ind in its wake shows particles of dust | ‘8@ ™n, capable of unbending with great end other atoms carried in the atmosphere, | ffeedom on occasion. In modeling the driven with an energetic motion in the road | face, the treatment of the flesh shows a which the projectile -has just left, and fol- lowing it with almost the same rapidity. see je Dish, Times, Strawberries are often served with orange Juice, Cover the berries with sugar and the Juice of several oranges. Let them ¢ in the refrigerator for ‘half an hour and serve with powdered ice: +46¢———____ tehings a Ste: From You have fifteensminutes. you catch thé steamer.” Ten dollars if Caugh: in a jam. car collision, Hind wheel -off. I'm in time.” “Twenty dollars now if I'm a little late, captain, but I'm going over with you all the same.” very decided advance. Anoiher bust near- ing completion is that of Dr. Patch of the Gunton Temple Memorial Church. One of the most interesting things that Mr. Evans has done for some time ead of an old book peddler, a figure about the city. The face, screwed up into an nile, is a fine study of expression. * xox J. Mindeleff has been working on a number of portraits in water color, and plans during the summer to execute a number of figure udies in the same medi- tia for the exhibition of water colors in * * * Mr. L. S. Brumidi has bi 4 prin- cipally with outdcor work, both study ‘is done in the open air and landscapes. The scenery over on the Virginia side of the river secms to have a special attraction for him, ard he has made 2 great many sketches there, some in oil and some in er coler, a medium which he up extensively of late in order th be well represented at the Water Color Club as taken the may exhimt of in the fall, In a pastel’ which he has just finished Mr. Brumili has been working out his conception of Tito Melema, the hero, if such he may be called, of George Elot’s Romola. The face is strikingly handsome, though with an ef- feminate sort of beauty, and every Tine of the features suggests an easy-going nature, a man who would make friends easily, but who would not hesitate to them fais In his face one indication of mental sifts of a rather high order, but an en lack of resolution and inoral stamina. the * portrait of Cardinal Satolli which S. W. Kelly is painting is by degrees approaching completion. Miss Kelly has just returned from « short tay in Loudoun county, where she has been sketching, and will g0 before Jorg to South Mountain to ccntinue her summer work. oe Miss M. G. Irwin h: pertrait. in crayon recently finished a the late Richa of hington, which has given great satis- fection. She spends most of her time in pe work, and in that direction has ne some very good things, her gray day effects being spi e to nature. In these she gets the g admirably, a number of sketch Pon the tewn cana! in cloudy weather te has been doing a number of flowe Guring the winter, and most successful h on porcelain, togeth work, have also ned a share of her at- tention. About the first of next month Miss Irwin will go to Plum Point, Md., and afier sketching there for a while, spend the re- mainder of the summer in Pittsburs * * Mrs. Adelaide Johnson has for the time given up her work in sculpture, and has gcne to New York, where she is busy w: ing a book on the Philosophy of Art. * = 1 the other of a well-known rector in the city. She has also been making quite a number ef quick figure sketches in clay done some very clever things in t mcdeling. She prefers working figures, ard has th she is about to begin. Her new studio, on account of its greater height, gives better opportunity for large werk, and makes a swinging scaffolding svspended from the ceiling possible, by the use of which one can work easily on a figure of even heroic size. * OF In the carly part of July Mr. W. Christmas will begin- sketching at Oc City, where he will have an excel chance to follow up bis bent in the dir of marine subjects. He expects with the aid of a small sail boat to reach many points of vantage from which to work. bring home a number of scencs not monly found in the beaten tracks of study. ction Quite a compliment has been recenily paid to the efficient methods of teaching drawing in the high scheols ef the ci A short time ago Mr. Loury, the superin- tendent of schools of a city in Tennessee, in looking over the work in the school was so impressed by the course of instruction that he asked for drawings made by the students to serve as models in t in of this is his own city. course quite gratifying to the teachers in the High School, that a man who has visited a great many places in search of new shouhl be struck with the supcriority of the work here. * see Miss Alice Archer Sewall has been visit- ing in Urbana, Ohio, and has been resting from her artistic work, but she will resume it again in Maine before long. * OK A picture of considerable interest is now at Miss Swann’s studio, an oil painting of Sulgrove Manor, in Northamptonshire, England, the ancestral home of the Wash- | ington family. The Manor House, built by Lawrence Wishington soon after the estate was granted to him by Henry VIII for loyal service, fell into rulus with the declining © schools | fortunes of his descendants, and one small wing alone remains of the noble structure. Artists have always ignored the real home! and depicted Little Bungton, which was: cnly a farm house purchased after reverses. compelled the family to sell the estate. Miss Swann, belonging to the Washington family herself, has, however, painted the true house as it stands today. Imbedded in the walls, from which the stucco is fast crumbling, is seen the coat of arms of the Washington family, and the small window panes set in lead frames, and the heavy oaken door with its massive iron hinges indicate the antiquity of the building. FROM THE ARIZONA KICKER Selections Made for The Star by M. Quad. For the third time we have heen elected mayor of this town by the largest majority ever given a candidate for «ny office. We are the only man ever elected to a third term as mayor. We think we can say without egotism and without denial that we are the only human critter in this ter- ritory picked up by an en- thusiastic multitude after the ballots were counted and carried half a mile on the shoulders of eminent statesmen, Magnifying a ‘Trifle rts telegraphed argud the coun- The rep try the other day to the effect that the muvor of this town (who is elf) had been thrown out of a window at a meeting of the common council eontain enly a small grain of truth. As pr of the council we refused to ente a motion which was clearly out of order. Simultaneously with our refusal we reach- ed for our gun, but at once discovered that it had been left at the oflice. ¥ix aldermen at once drew down on us and demanded that we enteriain the motion, and not be- ing anxious to be made a fishnet of we promptly and cheerfully compliid. No one was thrown out of a window. No one was not. No one struck a blow. Six alderinen simply biuffed the mayor to a siandailll for the first and only time In his iife, and the business of the corporation proceeded after the usual program. At the next meeting of the council we shall have at least two guns, but we do rot nucipate any trouble. There have been several occasions when we held the six al- dermen up and satisfied them of the sound- ness of our position, and we have faith that we can do it again. We admit that we lost prestige in the cffair, but with six looking at us we had to tose some- ig or other, and concluded to let the prestige go. si He Got Away. A stranger irom down the country en- tered the Lig Bear restaurant Wednesday noon and sat down to dinner, and after giv- ing his order calied for a napkin with a sky blue border. It has always been the custom for guests at the Big Bear to wipe their mouths on their coat tails or the cor- ner of the table, and the stranger's request could not be compiied with. He was offer- ed a piece of coffee sack, but he insisted on raising a row and was finally put out of doors. In the struggle to get him out he stabbed a waiter named Bolt in the s dr. In the excitement and confusion « this the fellow was aliowed About fifty indignant cit search for him, but he had probably token to the hills. Other towns shoutd be on the j lookout for him. He is just as spt to de- mand lump sugar or real cream us to ask for a*napkin, and it is evilent that he nas entered the territory to retard her pros- perity and demolish her sacr-d institutions, He is a square-shouldered, chunky man, with yaller eyes and a red , and in case he is lyuched we trust that sume one of the crowa wili send us a full account. Take No Chan. a long # He in receipt of a letter from a youn n the east who says he d s to come out here next summer and hunt z ting the grizzly he sa fali dress suit and carries a gold headed cane, and he wants to know if there would be o to it In a fathe would ng man to st the east hunt shoppe bear } misht or jvis to be- ing hur Our peopl might by the ght t loose and beg:n to shoot. i e is no tell- ing just how things would go, and for that reason the young man had bh p away and take no chane once put on a plug hat to purs y and he turned to and ran once waiked down pair of russet otf our feet. east! s four miles, and we Apache av with a Son and } em s east, youns man—stay mab, We were not at the “at home” given by Mrs, Colonel Powell at her abode on Co- chise place last Monday evenins. As a rule, nothing of the sort is given in this tewn without our advice and assistance, as We are the only person posted on etiquette. The lady left us off her list in order to give the cold saub and prove that our as- stance Was not necessary to pull off a successful funct.on, As a fesult the whisky was 4 from a demijoin, the na were not correctly folded, and the rabbit salad was brought on hot and had neither lettuce nor cabbage mingled with it. The affair broke up two hours earlier than usual, and some one stole the demijona and two boxes of cigars. We took the snub in silence, but yesterlay an officer arrived here and took the | away to fowa to stand triai-for « ment. We can be socially e wil always be an aft are fitted others must follow Ww We are one who lex know all about it, down to how ma of lemon should swim in the p bowl, and though we have force our presence upon any gu will be just as well to have ou: the list 4 P. and so forth. The Dramatists Wife. name uests and permit us to it. S. His Wife (reading a Sunday paper)— “Apropos of Hamlet, they sey bere that nd Shakespeare represent the very te poles of the dramatic art!” Ah, that’s a nasty one for Shake- "Ss one Lottle of which will make a new woman ot you.” 2 doctor calls today, Job. n that I feel that I am ail rou ight Look here, you ‘confounded pili roller, sit down there and write that yeu think the bicycle injurious to women; also write a pres-ription counteracting that medicine you gave her.”—Life. BRO. GARDNER’S CAMPAIGN CLUB. Written for The Evening Siar by M. Quad. “My frens,” said Brother Gardner, when the Campaign Club had been called to order and a couple of herring boxes chuck- €d into the stove to bring the temperature of the hail up to the boiling point, “we has congregated ourselves heah dis evenin’ to lsten to a polytical adress by de Hon. EB. Pivribus Clay of Virginy. Mistah Clay am 4 gem’lan, a scholar an’ a patriot, an’ has de distinguished honah of bein’ de only cull'd delegate to a Nashunal Convention who was offered $10,000 in cash fur his vote. He didn't take it, of co’se. De two hundred acres of land he bought on his re- turn home from dat Convenshun was paid fur wid money he found on de street in Chicago. De commitire will now escort him into de hall, an’ doorin’ his perform ance I want de silentest sori 0’ silence from all members.” E. Pluribus Appears, The stranger's appearance on the plat- form was greeted with applause. He waa a tall, dignitied ma: tect having a g00d hold of the © easy to see that he was perfectly before j the public. He shook aands with Brother jardi Sir Isaac Walpole, helped hims glass of r and then sre- moved his cuffs and » 1 up his sleeves, Shindig Watkin: has that he knew E. Pluribu were boys, said that ough like him to be a ty. Giveadam Jones gave it as h the distinguished guest had a which cou always claimed of legs jd outran any ravor back hog in the south, and other members sized him up to his general credit in the interval of waiting. He Begins. “Citizens of de United States,” quietly began the speaker, us he stepped to the froat, “why dis turmow? Why dis excite- {ment? Why dis gatherin’ of men street co'ners to talk wid bated on de f an’ call cach other bigots an’ liars? De an- swer am at hand—de wheel of Time has rolled around another Presidcushual cam- paign, an’ de sap of polyuchs am beginnin’ to rise in men’s breasis. ané not so werry long 2sv, when yo had nuitin’ to say an’ nufin’ to wo wid de i sues of a campaign, but it may be in yo'r hands dis fall to decide de fate of dis great nashun. (Cheers.) Am yo" ly for de comin’ struggle? CYes! yes") It am gwine to be sich a struggle as on shook de walls of Rome an’ made de Tiber run red wid de blood of ten thousand ment ¢ "Rah for de Tiber!) Dat struggle will call for patriotism and sacrifices will end up only when ew, tr innocence stand trium: on de Dar was a time, an) ments of integrity. (Cheers for innocence and the battlements.) An Alarming Picture, ‘Patriots of a glorious Republic,” con tinued E. Pluribus, after moistening his throat, “de gineral siiuation which w just confront is one to appal! the stoutest heart. As i stand heah | ober de barbed wi dut separates « present from de fucher my blood runs cold. (Shivers alt over the hail.) It | ture to make me groan in des) and sighs.) On dls si * hocence, clothed in peacefully plantin’ bi On de odder am Vi black an’ grindin’ h elge. (Cheers for Virvue Innocence drap dem cow it am too late an’ arm 1. or will she be tooken u away as chat! befo leaves only | (Cheers for chaff, we let dat Vie befo” yo" an’ gaze fence fence am In- robe an’ r patch, pre de t+ n’ swept yelone dat hind? jones.) dat In- nucence wid his keen sword, an’ what will be de De Iwarks of Ainerican liberty tussbiin’ down wid a crash, which will ocho to nashun till it has been hea: om nashun vround de huil world. (Ch fer eras nd bul- j Warks.) Anarchy Will r midnight } darkness will settle down wu ais fair land, an’ sich a cry of horror 0 up dat de stars will pale an’ taac away an’ de }Mvon no longer show her face. (Intense exci nent over the moon's conduct.) But the Country May Be Saved. “I speak to Brutus, Caesar an’ Cassiu: said the orator, atter he had got some more breath to work on. “I app.al to patriot- ism, honesty and love of ke tseveral cheers for Brutus and whoop for sar.) It depends on to ais ry from wreck, ru wil you do it? (Cries of ‘Yo: rejoices my heart to bar yo" say Now 1 feel dat Innocence will be saved and Vice laid low. De campaign has not opehed yit, but yo Kin ivar de tread of de imich y armies ‘Y gather fur battle. Gird up yo'r (More or less irding.) Git a; Fotch out dem swords dat was reddene at Lexington: fonded Bunker Hi Which carried one you save an’ despair, berry unt up dat musket dat de- —put on dat cocked hat at our eked - an’ in savin’ T down de lanes Ho git ured enemies Yorkiown, kin save Ameri her yo'r names = byroads of S j0b ay Time.) “Let me warn y0’,” said the orator, after arrest, “to be watchful aud vigilant, From de time de sun ris is campaign til it goes down on a wiih” Victor jon't go ta bed a single night. If yo" sleep de inemy may be upon yo’. “Believe nuffin’ bad 2) es on « ut yor own bout ali othe Son de issues at stake, so Han inguirin’ man whether (muggle io presarve life of a pu price ef » cr only an “laters date will be a man who has nuthin’ all his life but de truth, de pore, make happines > wid- an’ find stiddy work fur phan. All other cane kin be down as hi thiew Be wakeful - ready at all time camp: will open “wid bombsh loxe x apeshot. Bach an’ every patriot must be right dar on de front lin crifice! Fight! Dash fords an’ wrest victory from a foe seckin’ downfall an’ destrackshun of ail hold dear, incloodin’ “possums an’ watermill- yons, an’ yo'r cognomens shail blaze on de tablets of memory an’ Nero hev_ bin for pusand yars.” (Cheers for . Wat millyons, and the speaker, all in confusion, during which E. made his bow and retin Snakes Carried OW a Calf. Pluribus Clay umbin (Mo) Cor. of St. Louis Globe Democrat. A great den of snakes was discovered rday in Hatton Cave, narthcast of Rocheport, Boone county a farmer living near the c for a missing calf. Whil the bluffs in the vicinity o} tention rt Hatton, wes ted stake, which, upon his rapidly in ihe direction of the Hatton pressed bis way i trance of th ‘ ground, was miss: of death, while its be ered with writhing, his: 1 hastened ot he kille in drivin: into the darkress of th cving his dying calf he + | the number of snakes ki! With ¢ Read me the statemenis of those who Witnessed the mur * said the noted de- tective. “I may in that way strike upon a clue, Slowly and with excell shasie they read to him the differe Y “Hat” he said at the el “A tall, slen- der man, in a coat and vest of some dark material.” He bowed his head upon his hend. Vhey saw that his mind anust § cinning te work, and locked on admiringly. “A coat and vest of some dark material,” Suddenly he leaped to his f: I have it!” he cried. was cloth.” joubtedly is