Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1896, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, — 1896—TWENTY PAGES. SEARCH FOR GOLD Bright and Dark Sides of Life at Cripple Creek. FAMOUS MINING TOWN DESCRIBED Gambling Hells and Dance Halls Line the Principal Street. AFTER THE FIRE (Copyrighted, 1896, by Frank G. Carpenter.) CRIPPLE CREEK, August 3, 1896. The gold regions are the only live part of the United States today. Business is dull in the cities. The factory fires in many parts of the country are dead. The farmers are grumbling at hard times and the laborers are either out of work or al- most ready to strike for more wages. This is not so in the Rockies. New prospects are being opened and the output of gold frem the Cripple Creek district is averag- ing about a million dollars a month. There are 30,000 men now living and working within a radius of six miles of this town, and what five years ago was a cattle ranch has become one of the busiest parts of the United States. Miners now receive from $3 to $1.50 a and the mines are worked by day and by night. Im the Heart of the Rockies. You hear Ittle talk of politics and little growling about the busi depression. Every one is crazy for gold, and the chief subjects of conversation are the outputs of the mines or the new strikes which are promised on the hills all about you. I wish I could show you this Cripple Creek region. It li ‘ou know, just back of Pike's Peak, and, as the crow flies, with- in less tha miles stra 100 miles of Denver. At up in th It is two air above the peo- ple who live on the edge of the sea, and its great gold treas E on the ; roof of t You are lose to the sk ‘ou can see m: pure and full of breathing e » air is so clear It ts dry and You seem to be sre,and you go on and on hour after hour until when you find all at once ng atmosphere has work- have wide board walks, which are filled with men from daylight “until midnight, and along which you may see many people moving during the wee small hours of the morning. What a cosmopolitan crowd it is that walks these streets! There are French- men, Germans, English and Americans; cowboys from the west and tenderfeet from the east, moving along to and fro, trying to keep out of the dust. There are men in velveteens with laced boots coming up to their knees, and there are men in home- spun who tramp past you in cowhides. There is the plug hat of the Wall sireet broker, the bicycle cap of the clerk and the sombrero of the bad man from Texas mixed in and out with the mass. Eyery one moves fast. There is some pushing ard shoving, but you are surprised at the good order everywhere kept. Now and then you hear a man swear, but there is no shooting, no yelling and abundant good na- ture. This ts the mining camp of 1806 and not that of 1849. ‘The Homes of Cripple Creek. Back from the business streets you sec the homes of Cripple Creek. The hills about the stores for af radius of half a mila on each side are dotted with huts, cabins and frame houses of all descriptions. Some are respectable cottages, costing hun- dreds of dollars. Others are mere store boxes, covered with red roofing paper, tacked on to keep out the rain. The most of the houses are still unpainted, and the fresh yellow pine shines out amid the shacks which are covered with this roofing cloth of red or pink. ‘There are many log abins. These are flat-roofed, and the filled up around their walls to keep out the rain. ‘There is so little dampness here, you can sleep on the ground, and the only danger is from the cold winds of the winter. Some of the frame houses are of the shape and size of a street car without and others are mere sheds, knocked up for the time. There are hundreds of people living in tents, and there are board- ing tents and lodging tents, in which from flity to sixty men pay from 25 to 50 cents a night for a cot and a cover. Rents are high in Cripple Creek. There are no vacant stores or houses, though building is going on everywhere. Some stores, which are not more than eight feet square, rent for from 360 to $100 a month, and any kind of a sleeping room would cost you from $5 to $6 a week. Real estate is very active, and the town 1s now being built with the best of public improvements. About three thou- sand dollars a month are spent in improv- ing the streets by blasting away the rocks dynamite. A number of new school dings are going up, and there are five different religious organizations which pro- pose to erect new churches. The town has a Y. M. C. A., a Salvation Army, and its m organi: m is such that a lady might walk alone through its busines streets at any hour of the night and not be insulted. There are many nice families liv- ing here, and some neighborhoods are as good as you will find in any part of the country, So much for the bright side of Cripple ed em to more than its full and you » drop. Cripple Creek {t- Belf lies in a in these hills. The coun- | try surrounding it is im some places not wilder than parts of Pennsylvania, York and Ohio, and in others it is untains which rise grad- »3 of the the clear The Golden Streets of Cripple Creek. region surrouading the town From it, in Isvl, was ship- #) worth of ore. In 1Nv2 the ship- 3 to $2,500,- ear to more than $5,000,000, this year promises to be at larger than that of 1805, and on every are honey- combed with holes. You could not chase a fcx over any one of the old grazing fields rithout breakin legs. Here and there you anding out against the 3 of rock mines, s which frown n you from the hills are more pro- - of gold than was Aladdin's po!ace ained the wonderful lamp. The overed with roc surly all of ontain a small proportiva of gold, Very streets of the t are un- 1 with low-x pple Creek It upon: th the stony h 1am teld, rd. If the je old con- uc to improve, the town may some time ave to be moved for the gold apon wh it s. A friend of mine took me be- hi vuilding in the heart of the city the other day, and in the wall of the excava- tion showed me a strata of light color running through the darker rock. That,” said he, “contains gold, and it would pay to mine it. You can follow the vein and see how it crops out here in the alley beyond.” That Same afternoon I met Mr. Frances, the editor of the Cripple Creek Mining Journal. He took me through the little pine building in which his paper is gotten out and then showed me in nis back :ard a shaft, about which there was a pile of dirt. “That shaft,” s. e, “marks a prospect which our newspaper company owns. Some of the rock has assayed a ton, and it may be very ruch lower down.” Cripple Creek and the Fire. ‘The town of Cripple Creek is a wonder. It is less than five years old, but It con- tains ¥ people. It was burned down hs ago, but it Is now fast being Some parts of it are being sub- constructed, and the people are here to y. Today it is a It has all kinds of > mon st of a town, of all sorts of materials her in all sorts cROWD. Creek. The camp has also its darker side. | 1am told that it is not worse than that of other rich mining camps, but it is bad enough, and, to say tae least, it is a dis- Jo and the United States. Along the main business street nearly ev- ery other house is a saloon, and in these saloons gambling goes on from daylight until dark and from dark until daylight. There are all kinds of games to catch the morey of the miners. You can play any Kind of a stake, from five cents to a thou- nd dollars, and in addition to faro, rou- lette and poker, there are wheels of for- tune, policy games and games of crap. The miners work orly eight hours, and as the work goes on day and night in each mine, three corps of miners being employ- ed throughout twenty-four hours at eight- hour shifts, there are always crowds upon the streets, and the saloons are always ull. Each saloon. it Is safe to say, has at least three gambling games going on with- in it, and as the saloons number about eighty, there must be at least 240 ga at which you can lose your money in the town, All sorts of vi re licensed. The saloons, I am told, pay $600 a year for the privilese of seiling liquor, and every game pays its license of $10 a month, so you see the town has an income of about $44,000 a year from its saloors, and of nearly $30,000 a year from gambitng. In the Dance Halls. It is on “Easy street” that you find the most of the dance halls of Cripple Creek. There are dozens of these in the town, 1 they would be a disgrace to any Chris- tian community. You enter a saloon, at the back of which is a big room, in which a screeching band plays. The saloon is filled with men and women, some sober, stme half drunk, others totterimg with intoxication. The women ars young and not a few are pretty. Some wear long Mother Hubbards, some are even more cantily clad. The faces of all are flushed with drink, and some of the women al- mest stagger as they push their way in ard out among the men, begging them to dance and drink with them. In most cases the men refuse, for many are here only to see. There is no charge for the dancing, but the man who dances is expected to treat his partner, and the giris are held out as a bait to sell the liquor and to get the drunken miners to gamble. Stop a moment and watch the dance! There are quadrilles and waltzes, and cowboys, with their hats on, are hopping about in heavy boots over the board floors and swinging their drunken partners. Listen a moment and you can hear their conversation. It is not fit to print, and oaths and slang are mixed with the vilest of languae. I have seen some of the famous wicaed dances of the world I have been in the Moulin Rouge in Paris, and have seen the can-can, | but this is worse. The Parisian’s vice is \ eertoim extent refined and hidden. town lies on the s laid out along wide with di of the hills. reets which ar It is in the busine its s store boxes than heu: sect Dy . You on the sidewalk and almost the roofs. Others are substan- tial two-story brick buildings, and an exca- vation now being made for a hotel ch will cost $100,000 to build. ‘The cellar S$ to be dug out with blasting powder, and every foot of the r is drilled and blown out with dyramite. 's sold én the granite that ‘s thrown out, it is true, but it is of too wa gl smelting it. A little furth on ro been blasted out for a mining exchange, and good buildings gs = up in eve Part of the town. All of the main strects Kk DURING j it down the street the other day THE FIRE. Here it is open and disgusting tn the ex- treme. The Cripple Creek Chautauqua. Gambling goes on everywhere. There ts a faro game now being played In the back of the Cripple Creek Hotel. Bil's are scattered around the streets advertising free keno rolls, and there are club rooms to enter which you must know the pass- word, and in which high games are played. One such club is known as the Chautau- ua. I have lectured at Bishop Vincent's reat Chautauqua summer school at Chau- cqua Lake, N.Y. It is one of the chief ian institutions of the world, and s its branch circles in almost ‘every ty of the United States. In walking with a news- cou paper friend I saw the sign “Chautauqua” above a door across the street, and I said that I would like to go over and call and Pay my respects to the members of the circle. A queer smile came over the news- Paper man’s features as he said: “All right, Iam a member of that Chau- tauqua, and I will introduce you.” We en- tered a narrow hall, through one door of which I could see into a saloon where at least 500 men were gambling. We passed this and went upstairs and stopped before a door which was closed. “I have a key,” said my newspaper friend, as he opened the door with a night key and let me into a large parlor on the tables of which were Papers from all parts of the world. I saw a copy of the Cosmopolitan Maguzine, a Harper's Weekly and tRe Chautauqua Magazine, and next to them lay a copy of the Police Gazette. Before I could realize how the latter came to be taken by a Chautauqua circle, a tall, thin, gen- temanly young man, with a ‘brown mustache and cold blue eyes, came in. I was introduced to him as the manager of the Chautauqua. He gave me words of welcome in a voice like oll, and asked me to step Into the next room: I did so, and I there saw the biggest and most popular social circle in Cripple Creek. It was a literary circle to some extent, and its members were hard at work. ‘They sat about little tables, each with several leat- lets in his hand. ‘As I looked I saw that the leaflets were Mustrated. ‘They were covered with red and black spots and with Pictures of kings, queens and knayes. It was a poker chautauqua, and the chips en the table represented many dollars. In another part of the room was what I thought at my first entrance an object lesson class standing around what seemed to me-to be a model of Jerusalem or some ancient city. The professor sat down as he lectured. I drew nearer. The profes- sor was a croupier and the wheel he was turning was not a model of Jerusalem, but that which has lost so many greenhorns so much money in the game of roulette. The scholars were the pla: ‘3, and the money on the table showed me that the game was a high one. A young fellow from Philadelphia came into this Chau- tauqua one night. He had but a few dol- lars, but he began to bet on the red and black. Luck was in his favor and he doubled his stakes. He left the money on the table, changing it from one color to the other now and then. It was doubled again and again until he had at last won $16,000. ‘This was all the cash the bank had on hand. The croupier stopped the game and went out and got $20,000. He brought this in and dare the young gam- bler to put up his $16,000 on a single turn of the wheel and io douple it or lose. The Philadelphian, however, replied that he had got enough and that he did not care to play any longer. He took his money off with him to lose it, in all probability, in some future game. The majority of the gamblers lose in the end. ‘he percentage in every game played here is in favor of the bank, and the most of the games are swindles out and out. In the Cripple Creek Jail. And still Cripple Creek is in some re- sects an orderly town. You can keep out of all this vice if you will, or 1f you culti- vate it too much it may possibly land you in jail. There are better jails than that of Cripple Creek. The visit I paid to the prison was just before the fire. The mar- shal took me to the police station, a build- ing which looked for all the world like the tower of a windmill bo: led up. We D: ed through this and at its back, in a little shed, I found the jail. There were at least_a dozen. pri s, who were caged up like so many wild animals. The whole twelve were kept inside of an iron frame- work made of two-inch bars crossed like a lattice work and bound together so s to form two tlers cf cages, and so that you could look through all of the cages at once. Each cag Wa just about high enough for a man to stand upright within it, and_each contained from two to three men. There was no chance for seclusion or privacy for any on All w housed in together, an a burglar and murderer slept side by side with two foolish drunken boys who had raised a row at a dance hall the other night. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ROYAL HYPOCHONDRIACS, The Crown Princess of Sweden's Im- aginary Consumption, From the New York Tritune. Much has been heerd about the delicate state of health of the Crown Princess of Sweden, who for three years has been re- ported In the last stage of consumption. It has even been proclaimed at the beginning of each winter that she could not possibly live through it. It 1s somewhat startling, therefore, to learn that a consultation of the most eminent German, Swedish and French specialists, assembled for the pur- pese at Baden-Baden, has resulted in a definite decision that there is nothing on earth the matter with the princess save a nervous ailment of a hypochondriac charac- ter, almost identical with that from which her mother-in-law, the Queen of Sweden, is suffering. These great medical authorities havo at length decided that her throat and her lungs are in an absolutely healthy con- dition; that the ph who have by humoring her firm convictions that she was dying of tuberculosis and treating her for that ailment have been culpable of prefer- ring to court the favor of their royal pa- tient rather than to give an honest diag- nosis, and that there was no reason what- soever for her passing her winters in a hot climate such as that of Cairo, Biskra in Al- giers, and in Sicily, as she has hitherto been in the habit of doing. All this must be exceedingly mortifying to the relatives of the princess, all the more when they recall to mind the fuss made about her, especially when traveling. The young lady has insisted on being conveyed to and from her raliway carriage in a litter, apparently in an almost unconscious condi- tion. It remains to be seen what the worthy Swedes will say to this. They have hitherto been content to dispense with the princess’ presence at Stockholm on the understanding that the condition of her lungs did not admit of her living there. Married in 1881, she has scarcely spent more than eight months in Sweden in as many years, and inasmuch as the queen, like herself, imagines herself to be dying, the Swedish court has remained to ail in- tents and purposes without any lady at its head, the only other one of King Oscar's sons who Is married being his second, who contracted a morganatie alliance. | The worst feature of the whole affair is that the crown princess has been content to live al- most permanently apart from her three little bo; the eldest twelve and the young- est six years old, who stay permanently with their father, the crown prince, in Swe- den, among the people over whom the eld- est of them 1s eventually to reign. The funny point in all this 1s that the Swedes have undergone almost identically the same experience with their queen, who has been a confirmed hypochondriac for years, and has imagined herself into a ate of debility from which she will prob- ably never recover. For years she con- sulted the leading specialists of Europe, but enly two, Dr. Metzger of Amsterdam and Wiesbaden and Dr. Friederichs of Heidel- berg, had the courage to tell her that her malady was of a purely imagimary charac- ter, and that if she was suffering from any- thing it was merely from the medicines given to her by her complaisant phy- siclans, who had found it worth their while to humor her belief that she was consumptive. There are, of course, many hypochondri- acs of this kind—people who are convinced that they are suffering from every malady under the sun—and one of the most emi- nent and famous specialists in diseases of the chest in London openiy confessed on ene occasion that at least 80 per cent of the great ladies throrging his waiting room were afflicted with purely imaginary com- plaints. “It would not do, however, to tell them so. If I were to do this they would merely go to some other physician and complain everywhere of me as incapable of understanding thelr case.” It is all the more astonishing that the Crown Princess of Sweden should have turned out thus, as she has received a most thorough and sensible education, her moth- er, the Grand Duchess of Baden, only daughter of old Emperor William, being one of the most shrewd, unaffected and kind-hearted women In Burope, and most deservedly popular. oe How He Explained It. Brom the Chicago Post. He was very deferential, but he was a deacon in the church and he felt that he had a right to criticise. “I hope you'll pardon me,” he said, “if I suggest that your sermons are—an- “Too prosy, I suppose,” suggested the minister. “Oh, no; not that. But too long.” “But you mustn’t blame me for that,” returned the minister, pleasaatly. “If you knew a little more I wouldn’t have to ‘tell you so much.” WHAT WILL BE WORN. CLOTHES FOR MEN When They Wish to Be Dressed in the Fashion, STRAIGHT TIPS ON FALL MODES Full and Formal Dress and What to Wear for Business. BIOYOLE Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, September 5, 1896. “The season thus far,” sald Mr. C. M. Connolly, the editor of the Haberdasher, to the writer, “has been radically dif- ferent from those that have preceded {t in the free use of the chromat- fo modes, in ertistic combination of strong colors, not only in neckwear, but in fancy shirts and in fabrics for sults. Of course, all these tone effects have heen Mberally copied by the Cheap Johns, and the natural resvlt will be that conservative tones will be strong favor- ites among gertlemen this fall. They won't sacrifice colors, but these will be- come of secondary importance In the gen- eral motive, not predominating as they have done. It’s just the same as it is with women's clothes. KB distinctive 13 at once taken up and copied by a class of cheap imitators, and then the well-dressed man of wealth must try some new means of lifting himself out of the m “The colored shirt wil go right right through the winter. The great suc- cess of the soft neglige shirt with stiff white collar has given the colored shirt a permanent stand. No, L wouldn't give the credit of its introduction to Mr. Belmont. No one man can originate a mode. It’s dis- tinctively American. We use colored shirts much more than they do abroad. Madras and percale will be used a great deal in making them. Madras ts a woven fabric, while percale 1s print. It stands to reason that a woven fabric will hoid its color bet- ter than a printed one. This Madras shirt with attached cuffs and white collar the ready-made man copies in shirts with white bodies, Madras bosoms and detachable cuffs and white detachable collars, to sell for about $9 a dozen. The Proper Shirt. “The proper shirt has cuffs and collar built on ft, always. ’Some aré wearing for dress purposes a whit, shirt with pleated bosom, but the plain bosom will be quieter and more usual. A dress shirt, especially, n.ust have the cuffs attached. Even if a fellow is only earning $ a week, he ought to have a dress shirt made right. It’s poor economy if he’s going to wear an expensive suit at all to spoll the effect for the sake of saving three cents on his laundry bills.” I furtively punched my cuffs up my coat- sleeves out of sight, while Mr. Connolly “along; ccntinued: “The proper wear for full or fermal dress is a high, straight collar, com- pletel »ping in front, and with no break. ‘Three inches high or } For less formal racol we rwith a slight high bend is ad- mis With informal only, .the high band tarn-over collar will be worn. Square-cornered link cuffs are the best hey should be quite deep i the link button holes set inches, so as not easily to ck about 1 show the links. “With full dress no watch guard is worn. The tie for a dress suit is a plain lawn from seven-eighths of an inch to an inch and a quarter wide. The gentleman ties his cwn tie and the ‘gent’ don’t. For formal cay wear the Ascot or four-in-hand is cor- rect, in pearls or whites in the afternoon. and by that I mean that they will follow the lines of the figure. The proper overcoat for demi-dress is the long, straight, close- fitting Chesterfield, long enough to cover the Prince Albert, and- made in the same motive, in rough-faced goods. “The business man’s overcoat is a double or single-breasted box. The single-breasted is better, because the lapels and collar, which ts velvet, of the double-breasted coat have to be very large. The covert coat is useful for informal wear, strap seams, loose front, tight back, big patch pockets. Quite a horsey garment, in fact. Then there is another extreme covert, even shorter and squarer, almost like jacket, hardly Bicycle Breeches, “Is it true,” I asked, “that it’s fashion- able to have patches on the seats of bi- cycle breeches of the same material as the cuffs “No, that’s a fad.” “It looks very funny from behind,” I ven- tured. “Can't help it. Fools have to have odd things. By the way, the cuffs of really ex- pensive wheeling breeches now button ex- actly in front, not on the side. Bloomers are no longer worn. The correct cut is loose, but not long, and not at all baggy. Mixed cloth with plenty of color is used in the breeches, but the coat is of different to such an affectionate people as the Mus- covites have the name of being. However, there is no doubt a very large proportion of every regiment always begs pitifully for leave to stay on, feeling with the old Brit- ish soldier in the mutiny, who said: “Tho regiment is my father and my mother, my sister, my brother and all my blood rela- tions.” It is useless to pretend that the troops of the line or the artillery, or the cavalry, are equal to the guards, who are picked men coming from ail parts of the empire, and having nathing in common but their height and chest measurement and their attach- ment to their officers. In the line men often come from the same place, have been playfellows together in childhood, and may be seen walking about the streets hand in hand just as orientals do all the world over who have known each other well. There ts, indeed, a great difference even in the same battalions, as great a difference as we see in the troops at Aldershot, when they have not had time to feel the building up of the frame that ensues upon the new system of cooking. And the Russian soldiers are nothing like 80 Well fed as ours, which I do not hesitate to describe as now the best provided army in the world. The troops of the czar get about a farthing a day pay; otherwise they have everything provided for them. It is rot abundant, in our sense of the word. The bread is brown, or rather black, with @ large proportion of rye, without which the man of mujik origin would not care for it, as he likes it a trifle sour. His allow- znce of meat is about half ours, and that rot of the best quality, as we judge, and what there is comes to him practically al- ways in the form of soup, with vegetables in it, and with more or less of the meat in each portion, so far as it can be made to go. However, If he does not get much to mas- ticate, he at any rate gets all there is of good in it, bones and fat together, espe- cially fat. The days are long past when the mujik of the towns had an opportunity of swarming up the lampposts to drink the whale or seal oil with which the streets vsed to be Hghted, and that he did this I have been assured by many old residents, native and foreign: but now the streets are lighted, where not with electric lamps, then with Baku oil, and that is a trifle too strong even for the stomach of a mujik. But he still likes his fat, and the soup he consumes fairly swims in grease. It would not be palatable soup to him else. With this and his black bread he thrives on two meals a day, and he can go and do a long day's work without waiting for a meal at all. In a word, he is a gross feeder and a hard worker. He is also fairly quick at picking up drill, and even shows intelligence in the exten- sion movements when he has been put through the hard grind first of barrack pa- rade. He is smart, too, with the manual exercise, and he is now to be better trained SOME SAMPLES OF CORRECT HABERDASHERY, color, say, solid blue or black. Yes, as soon as the bargain counter men began selling complete bicycle suits for from $3 upward the suit to match was doomed. The gen- tleman now wears a blue or black coat, a Hamburg hat, not a cap, and breeches with plenty of color, that may cost him from $16 to $24 a pair. His stockings have very bright tops on bodies of heather mixture, and they turn over enough to show two buttons on the cuff. They cost from $3 up 7 cr $8 a pair. ee aor elses the price of being ed to men as to women, but per- observations ea oso many zood fellow, who has neither time eras to keep abreast of the van, to stumble along somewhere within hailing distance of the leade: beps th Se ENT EQU CASKET. MAGNIFIC It Was Covered With Black Cloth and Was Silver Trimmed. Bangor, Me., Special in Philadelphia Press. The famous old gelding, Ezra L., owned by Thomas McAloon of this city, and fit- teen yea 0 one of the most conspicuous campaigners of the New England turf, died at Maplewood Park today. Since his retirement the old racer has been living in the greatest case at Mr. McAloon’s stable in this city. His stall has been curtained with costly laces and hung with pictures. This week he was taken to Maplewood Park to satisfy the demand to seo him which is always manifested by an eastern Maine crowd. The change gave him a severe cold, and he died of congestion of the lungs. His owner at once commission- ed one of the city undertakers to consiruct The less formal club house tie will be aja casket fit to contain the remains of an favorite. A slight modification of this is a graduated club tie, narrow at the knot and widening at the ends. Wheelmen will wear the hunting stock. “A radical departure this season will be a new stock, much like the ones Beau Brum- mel used to wear, with Bishop points of linea falling over it, You know; the kind some of the women have been wearing this summer. Practically it consists of two bands, one higher than the other. It may be too radical to succeed, but it has been taken up by one of the best houses in the city.” Fabrics for Suits. “The selection of suit fabrics is doubtless of importance,” I suggested. “The good, old rough-faced cloths will be in the lead,” said Mr. Connolly. “Scotch and English goods in heather mixtures with plenty of life in them—you take the colors in any of the Scotch clan tartans and crumble them up fine all through a web in differing proportions and you have an infinite variety of good weaves. Greens will be in favor, and reds and browns in mixture. “There 1s no change in dress suits—never is. Oh, maybe, some trifling alteration in the lapel, seam, collar or other trifles that even a tailor wouldn't notice, but nothing radical. The silk-lined steeveless Inverness cape is the correct outer wear with full dress. Prince Alberts will be the coats for formal occasions—black or dark blue with fancy cassimere trousers. Trousers, by the way, will be pretty nearly pegtops; loose from the knee up, tight from the knee down. “The three-button cutaway will be worn; always is. But the Prince Albert is the more formal and the favorite with really well-clad men. Rough-faced vicuna is a good fabric, with trousers of fancy cass mere or worsted. Pateni leather shoes, al- ways, go with full or formal dress. Coats will fit better than they ever did before, aristocratic horse, which was done. The casket was a capacious structure, covered with black cloth, with silver trimmings and handles. When it was completed a heavy silver plate was affixed to the top, bearing the horse's name, age, and the date of his death. At a late har this af- ternoon the old horse was buried at the park, Ezra L. was a roan gelding, foaled in 1873, being somewhat more than twenty- three years old, and was by Gibson, by Rysdyks Hambletonian 10; dam Kitty Pierce, by Dirigo Grand, dam imported Lady Franklin Ezra L.'s record was 2.21 1-4, made at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, in 1882. In that race he trotted a last quarter in -30 1-2, which at that time was considered remarkable. He won many races against the crack campaigners of his day, end made his last public track appearance here in 1885. ——————— STUDY OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERY. As They Appear in the Big Camp Near St Petersburg. From the London Chronicle. With a permit from the minister of war I have just visited the big camp at Kho- dinskole Pole, to the west of the St. Peters- burg road and nearly facing Petrovsky pal- ace. Unfortunately, my time was short, and I cannot pretend to describe complete ly a camp which “lies stretching many a rocd,” and, indeed, many a mile. Here, among fair samples of the army generally, I found what is a tradition of the guards, that, at the expiration of their three, or, rather, two and a half years’ service, the men are almost invariably in- disposed to return to their villages, which, separated at so great distances, must seem on their return very dull and prosy even in shooting. I have no hesitation in saying thag in the next campaign the Russian sol- dier will be a better shot than he has ever been before, and this not only in the in- fantry, but in the cavalry. It is no secret to those Who know Russian that they will leave behind them $ next time and go in as a sort of mounted infantry, the eld idea of dra- goons. To this end the cavalry are trained to the rifle, and not the carbine, and they will far more often fight on foot than on horseback. But I cannot find that, in spite of the extent of the country, they have been provided with proper ranges. of which I have heard do not exceed 500 meters, or under 550 yards, and shooting at that distance will be of very little use in a future war, seeing the tremendously in- creased power of artillery. As regards the latter arm, I am unable to say much in praise either of the force I have scen as a whole or of its mobility. Of course, it is a high standard by which to try any artillery to regard them from the point of view of either Woolwich or Aldershot. But there must be a standard, and, without including the artillery of the Guard. which is better, it must be frankly said the Russian guns are very horsed, poorly ridden and decidedly cient in mobility, for their horses as good as even those of the Turks, or, to £0 a step lower, of the Belgians. The guns are not kept clean in the sense that an English critic expects, but there ts very good material in the Russian artillery, and one who ought to know tells me it makes very fair field practi Most of the cavalry, too, is unhorsed. The beasts are not so overweighted as ours, The but they are too much on the lines of the Cossack pony. They will endure and do Well where an English or an Irish horse would starve, but they can never have the pace or the weight that tells. However, since we are to look on all the cavalry as in the light of mounted infantry, save some regiments of the Guards, there is no doubt the herses are good enough to take the men from point to point, and to be very patient when they get there, which ts the more surprising when we consider they are nearly ail entire The housing, if I may use the expression, of the troops in the camp seems to me very good. A wall of turf 1s built up about two feet high and some twelve feet square. When this is nicely finished, a square tent is set over it of lighter material than our canvas, but still water-tight, and if a chan- ne! is cut for drainage away from the door no rain can get inside, and, at least, the floor of the tent is dry The men have changes of clothing, and now they have begun to live in the camp, and go through their drill in white sum mer uniforms, which at present have a very clean appearance. How long it. will last I cannot tell, but judging by the unl- forms that have done duty through the Winter, there is not much to be hoped for in this’ respect. The officers are almost uniformly kind to the men, whom they treat as a lot of chil- dren; but only a small number of them study their trade, and so they all have a passion for decorations, which they should hardly be able to obtain except by r in- guishing themselves in their business. The supply of decorations opens too wide a field for speculation. soo OFFERS TO BUY AN AMERICAN GIRL, Proposition of a Chinese Grandce at the Russian Coronation, From the Chicago Tribune. At the recent celebration of the corona- ticn of the czar a beautiful American girl, who had the honor of a special invitation to all the state functions, attracted much attention, and among her many ad:mirers was a magnificent and altogether illus- trious young grandee of the east, attached to the suite of the ambassador extraor- dinary, Li Hung Chang. This youth calmly announced to her peo- ple that he would like to buy her, what- ever the price might be. When it was ex- plained to him that American girls were not regarded as marketable commodities, and that in any event her family did not desire to part with her, he was greatly dis- appointed; but gracefully accepting his dis- missal, he asked leave to perform to her an “act of homage,” such as was offered in his country to princesses of the blood royal. This courtesy, of course, could not be re- fused, and a day was appointed for the ceremonial, the young lady and her friends feeling naturally very curious and a trifle nervous as to what this “act of homag. might consist of. At the time appointed the young oriental noble arrived, accom- panied by a numerous retinue of fricnds and servanis, quite like Aladdin in the story of the wonderful lamp. All were clad in the most magnificent garments. ‘They drew up before the house where the girl was staying, while the rejected suitor, or rather the would-be purchaser, with a smaller following, entered, his attendants bearing an enormous horseshoe or half cir- clet of flowers. This he laid at the young lady's feet, while he delivered an equally flowery oration in his native tongue, whic was translated for her benefit by his inter- preter. It was altogether an embarrassing but very pretty, ceremonial. Gladness Comes Withs better understanding of the transient nature of the many ph: ical ills, which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant eflorts— rightly directed. There is comfort the knowledge, that so many forms sickness are not dve to any actual dig- ease, but simply to a constipated condis tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Fiys, prompts ly removes. That is why it is the onl remedy with millionsof families, andi i so highly by a every where estee 3 who value good health. Its benefie’ effects are due to tne fact, that it reise one remedy which promotes inte: cleanliness without debiliteting the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when yeu pure chase, that you have the genuife artl- cle, which is manufactured by the Call- fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other reme s are then not afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and with thy well-informed everywhere, Syrap Figs stands highest and is most lary used and gives most general satisfaction MAY BE Four Englishmen Who Died on @ Warm Island in the Year 1846, From the Lewiston Journal Uncle Robert William Quimby of Lewts- ton says that he has traveled in all the warm countries of the globe, and that he has been in the coldest latitudes. He does not think that we have such very hot weather. If people would make provision for the hot 4. they thinks we should not not do in India he 6 it So much. “But,” says he, “the warr weather that I ever experienced was on a small ‘sland called John’s Biscuit, of Cape Gracias, on Honduras. The Elizabeth Jennings, on which I sailed in 1870, from Portland for w and @ boat's cre: re f It was a little nd and awful ary and hot. We know whether there would be water th we did find a spring with broom handle ne And do you belie dried up and s ap before it had rum r feet in the sand. The place was cov- ered with dried trees, and a little ance eWay was what looked like a hut—a hab- itation for man. We went in and found the shrunken remains of four men, sailors probably, who had died in one night, to judge from appez e yne was sitting in a chair, one lyi e floor and two leaning against the wall in a sitting posi- ton. There was food the table, dry meat in a box nd everything was burning dry. A letter in the pock ated Liverpool, 1846, an: @ bottle with a case said they were ish s a cap- tain, left to die. 1 1846, and I suppose they that hut for over thirty must have died of h dried right up. W found them.” 4 in d they lay and where we From the New York Weekl, Mrs. Du Hle—“John, my ¢re: rived today and I must have the tomorrow. Mr. Du Ile—“Eh? What? You said that you had written to her not to come until next month.” ar- materiale Mrs. Du Mlc—"Yes, I did, but she never got the letter. Mr. Du Ile sping his hi to his breast pocke Woman! This is a plot—a vile plot. If you h: : her to ay away you wo iter to the post not have given it to that you would