Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1897, Page 14

THE IEVENING STAR, SATU... JANUARY 9, 1897-24 PAGES. “The°or.ginal fire company in this city,” remarked an old-timer, “was the Columbia company of Capito! Hill, and thot tcok three firemen’s conventions to sett the question, it was settled, and the big No. 1 was awarded the Columbia. The first engine house occupied by the com- pany was located on the plaza in the eas front of the Capitol, the exact spo: being where Greenough’s statue of W: gton stands. The membership of the company at the date of its organization, and for Many years afterward, consisted of the mechanics whe were employed in the con- struction of the Capitol. The company had afterward several other homes, and when it went out of existence at was housed in front of Center Mar! wi the iron bridge now is whic’ into the market building from Penns Vania avenue.” 4 now such an attraction mee a burial ground,” vol- old citizen when asked for “Lafayette Park, as a park, wa unieered an some recollections of early Washington. “Christian Hines, who died some twenty- four years ago, once told me that he re- membered very distinctly attending funer- als where now Lafayette Park is located. It was not a large burial ground, how- ever—originally it was laid out as a family burying ground for members of the Pearce family, whose farm was there. As time ran along others were buried there, and at one time he said ke counted over fifty graves r-—of course, this was long be- fore the present White House was erected or even thought of. In 1792 all the gpdies were remeved from there ‘o the Hol cemeter: bh mead head of 19th street, a: though in more re thi ‘0, whi nt 3 urned into a park, though a Private one. At the time Lafayette Park ‘as a burial ground the grade was three or more higher than at present. It t down after the building of House to give that building a evated appearanc ¥ * * talking to an old-time penny said one of the city letter car- @ few days ago of the old way of ng letters, and especially in regard ow proposed, requiring letter carriers to carry around on sale—on tap, assortment of postage He told me that the stamp part ness was the meanest part of reason that they can hardly their accounts with the office the office ver keep squ 7 hibite positively pro- 2pS on credit, circumstances and had trip ame. © collect for the ave heard of it it se © whole scheme, instead of bi 2 step backward ‘S or more. w have about all they and time again we have of undelivered letters in ht for safe keeping. The ug carriers to keep a supply of stamps hand for sale means arriers than many peopie trouble and necessary one of the least that is very € penny postman regard- s ature as of more bother than anything else in their calling, and they it was who had it abolished.” “I can sive inventors a pointer which may be of some value, as well as interest, to them,” said an eastern manufacturer, who is in the city to appear before the Ways and means committee in connection with the tariff bill, “and that is, there is more money just now in a machine that will w n umbrella cover than any- thing else that I know of. I can say, own- ing, as I do, the largest umbrella factory in this country, that I would give more money for a machine that will do that work than would be needed to start a half dozen bicycle plants. “It would cheapen umbrellas greatly, and be a source of great profit in their manufacture. Like many other man- 3, 1 am more for the profit of nufacture than the cheapening of the cost of anything, though one would come as a natural sequence of the other. At la covers have to be cut out ial in sections, and, though it y machinery, and at little cost, a3 = various pieces of the r afterw: it at satisfactory, for the seam y often rip out. You c see what would be gained if we could weave frames. mpting to produce Fortunes hav this spent in at ingly simple m z afford to give $160,000 for s machine as I have ibed, and I kne facturers who could d idea some come along present umbr i of nothi something place of seen or thought magi 3, sional ma- lways be depended rties and appa- He was very, very * with metal, as many in d to our satisfaction. Whitehand made much of the apparatus with which Heller started on the road as @ magician. Heller, you may not remem- ber, was named Palmer when he orlginally resided in this city, when he was the or- Sanist at Epiphany Church. He did nearly all his practicing in the room over the drug store at the corner of h and F streets. As he thought out the apparatus he needed he gave his orders to Whitehand, whe put them into shape. The latter did many hundred dollars of work for Heller then and afterward. Whitehand also did con: siderable Jobbing during the past twenty- five years for late Prof. Herrmann, and Prof. Wyman, the father of magicians, and Prof. Ande: the wizard of the north, who was such an attraction years ago. Among the odds and ends recently cold t auction in Whitehand’s old curiosity hop—ard it sold for old metal, by the pound—was the plant for one of Heller's famous tricks. It never worked satisfac- ck to Whitehand to completed when that Heller had # by which Heller from a torily, and was sent be remade Word was It re 1 in the midst wer pot was filled tached to the e bailoon bag, ¥ a in color and 1ich when blown up resem- ize an orange. The gi ¥ pumping air into the rub- until they were sufficiently pump Was a bellows at the bot- lows. tehand had done over one worth of work on the appa- eee et bot, the magician using the bel- hun- whom are men. It is this way: Out in the courts of the War, State and Navy De- partment building there are ordinarily over one hundred bicycles, belonging to the clerks. If it looks to the owners and riders of these wheels in the morning that ir will rain in the afternoon, they rarely | ride down to their offices, and the result | day for the | cabinet, | as for flowers, is that there are but few bicycles in the courts. If they think the weather will be | fair at the closing hour they all ride, and the courts arc. as a consequence, filled with bikes. Now, when I want to ascer- tain with anything like certainty what the weather will be at 4 o'clock and the hour or so following, I simply look out into the ceurts, I am the proud rider of a wheel myself, and though not exactly wheel mad, I necessarily come in-contact with other riders, and I am in full sympathy with them. Should a storm promise in the mid- die of the day, I can discern it without studying meteorological conditions, other than to just look out into the court. A coming, unlooked for and sudden storm is indicated by the hurry and scurry of the Wheelmen and wheel women gathering up their machines and placing them in cor- ners and halls, here and there, which are covered, so as to escape the downfall. In the same way I can tell whether or not it will be windy or otherwise disagreeable in the afternoon by the number of wheels in the court. There is no use talking. The bicycle is an education of itself.” ee ie “Just sixty-one years ago today,” said an old resident yesterday, “I was one of a large crowd who attended the cornerstone laying of Jackson City, at the Virginia end of the Long bridge. Though I was but a boy at the time, I remember the day very well and the occurrences. It was the first time I had seen Gen. Andrew Jackson. A couple of weeks before that the pro- moters of Jackson City, the owners of the land thereabouts, wrote President Jackson inviting him to officiate on the occasion of the founding of the place and asking him for permission te name the coming city after him. They also indi- cated that January 8 would be a desirable dedication. January 4 Presi- dent Jackson formally responded to the invitation, promising that he would be on hand, as would also the members of his and was willing that the city should be named after him. The several lodges of Masons and Odd Fellows of the city and three or four military organizations had also been invited, and they were pres- ent in large numbers. ‘The procession formed at the corner of 14th street and Pennsylvania avenue and marched over to what was to be Jackson City—preceded by a br. band and a drum corps from the marine barracks. A large crowd for those day followed the ‘procession, President Jac n and the members of his cabinet riding in carriages. The Grand Lodge of Masons formally laid and dedicated the corner stone. It was estimated that there were 2,000 persons present, which, con- dering the population of this city those @ays as compared to what it is now, was a very large crowd. There were a number of speeches delivered and the future of Jackson City was glowingly depicted. It was seriously thought that Jackson City would in time become a great city. Some- how the place never prospered, and besides a road house or tavern, a blacksmith shop and probably three or four other buildings, nothing was ever added. The place never had twenty-five actual residents at any time in its existence until the gamblers and race horse people moved there four or five years ago. Even the sporting pco- ple have about deserted it now, and there is hardly anything left but a half dozen tumbling down shanty buildings and a memory.”" Se TOO STINGY FOR HER. A Strange Vindication Secured by a Young Mun From a Girl. They were chatting in shrill tones in a corncr of the room, not dreaming that their conversation w2s audible to any but themselves. “So, they are married at last, are they?” said the one they called Sally. “Well, I am sure I don’t envy Mabel in the least.” “Oh, she looked very nappy and perfectly charming,” said the one they called Julia, who was a friend of the newly married yourg woman. “I was surprised you were not at the wedding.” “I was invited, but didn't care to go,” said Sally. “It was reported that you and Robert were as good as engaged once,” said Julia, sweetly, her manner indicating that Sally was jealous. “Oh, we never got as far as that,” re- sponded Sally. “He was altogether too stingy for sne.”* “I didn’t know he was stingy ed Julia. “Oh, but he was. He never took me to the theater, or to drive, or bought me any candy, and, in fact, the most he ever did in the way of entertainment was @ street car ride, and then only twice in the three months we were half-way spoons. When he was paying court to Mabel he did the same with her, and continued it after they were engaged. Didn't you ever hear how near Alice came to breaking it w No,” sald Julia, “how was that?" yell, Alice don’t like Mabel,” continued ind when Robert and Mabel got pretty thick, some time after the engage- ment was announced, Alice went to her congratulated her. She told Mabel that Robert was such a nice fellow, and so good. She knew how Robert treated m™ d she just tortured that girl, for she w that Robert was treating her in the @ way. ‘He was so nice to Sally,’ she aid to Mabel. ‘I thik Sally must envy you. Do you know that Robert used to take Sally to the theater once or twice a k; went out driving with her ever so bought her gloves and candy; and why, Sally's room was al- S filled with them.’ The next time Rob- ae here Was a pretty row, you y heileve. { should think so,” observed one of the girls. “And what did Robert say for him- remark- e denied it, of course,” answered + “And, do you know, he had the nerve to come to me and ask me to sign a paper he had written out certifying that he never bought me flowers or candy; that he had never taken. me to drive or to the theater, or presented me with gloves or thing else “Well, I never! chorused the girls, who had been listening with lively interest to the tale. “Did you sign his paper?” asked one. No, indeed,” said Sally, “I wasn't going to sign any such paper as that. But I told him that { would go to Mabel and assure her that there was no truth in the story of his generosity to me. He thanked me, | Just as if I was not going to make him out the meanest man I ever knew. But I did as I said I would. I told Mabel that Rob- ert spoke the truth when he said that he had done nothing more for me than he had for her. I have not seen her since, and I didn’t go to the wedding; and I guess you won't think I'm jealous when I say I don’t envy her.” SS Apparent Heartlessness. Frogs Pack. Little Miss Clara—“Don’t your sister go with that young man any more?” Little Miss Laura—“No; and fsn't it a shame for her to treat him so after all the beautiful cardy he’s brought her?” — ‘Too Much for Him, “I struck upon a plan of forecasting the weather some time since,” volunteered a lady clerk in the Navy Department, “and as it has never fatied me, I should have no hesitancy In making !t public. I start off, of course, with my own judgment, and I add to that the combined judgment of over a hundred others, over nine-tenths of | do so.” ie “How (:. .vu manage to get old Soak to sign the pledge?” “Some one offered him a drink if he'd A BOOK THAT HELPED HIM | “Do I think that a classical education helps to give a man a start in journal- ism?" echced the man whose experience entitles him to be heard with respect on such a topic. “In endeavoring to answer such a question it would be hard to speak excepting from personal experience. Many contend, very ably, that a man shouid start in early, instead of spending the time at college. No man is able to analyze the career of another so closely as to indicate exactly what turn of fortune or circum- stances has caused him to achieve or fail.” “What would your own career lead you to say about the matter?” persisted the young man who was secking information. “I don’t hesitate to say that it was the possession of a slight acquaintance with the classics that gave me an opening. I was fresh from college and was compara- tively without resources. I wanted to do newspaper werk, and I hung around the office of a metropolitan journal, despite numerous rebuffs and assurances that there was no chance for me.” “Did you tell them that you had just completed your education?” “I think I let some remark to that effect drop. It was at a time when the ability to write a startling story was more of a rec- ommendation to a mun than the ability to make sure that it was true. This was es- pecially the case in the office which I was haunting. The city editor was a man of abrupt manners, and being quite low in my funds and on the verge of desperation, I resolved to give up trying to win him by gentle diffiderce. He was very busy when 1 went up to his desk and said: “Well, I've been here a good while no} {t's about time you were giving me an assignment.’ He did not look up from his work, and he spoke only three words. It was a most ungentlemanly speech—one which I should have resented under any other circumstarces. I smothered my pride and turned away from his desk very much discouraged. I don’t know when I have ever felt more blue than I did on that oc- casion. I was thinking of all the study I had wasted and of how little value the books I had read were in such a crisis, and then I had an inspiration. recalled as much as I could of Dante's Inferno, which I had studied in the original, and put it into colloquial phrase. I described the scenes of that great poem with the graphic enthusiasm of a modern eye witness. It took me about two hours to finish it. I held on to it until I knew the city editor would be over his worry with the paper, and it was far afte midnight when I went up to him with a spectacular burst of speed and dropped my story on his desk. ““What!’ he exclaimed; ‘are you back here again? “What did you think was going to hap- ren to me?’ I returned, putting on as bold @ front as possible. “He seemed dazed, and picked up my manuscript. When he had read two or three pages he looked up at me and said: “This is live stuff.’ “He finished it without another word, but I could see that I was leading him a lively chase with the shades. Then he wrote headlines for it, and, turning to me, said: “That's a great story. I'll have you put on the pay roll and you can report for duty tomorrow. A rival sheet has run in several fakes on us and we'll beat ‘em at their own game. But I'd like to know this. How did you come to do this?” “You sent me to get the story yourself,’ I answered. “To the infernal regions?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ said I; ‘in so many words. ee OUR OWN MAKE. One Piece of Architecture That Could Not Be Assailed. There was an air of tolerant superiority about him, which made his unfavorable comments on the things brought to his attention doubly hard to bear. His Wash- ingten host was doing his best to show him the city in such a manner as to leave a good impression, for he had announced his attention of writing a book as soon as he got back to London. But what- ever he saw served only to bring to: mind something in Europe that he liked better. “Very good," he remarked as one of the department buildings was brought to his attention. “Very good in its way. But it has the defects which always result frem the efforts of a mere copyist.” “We are inclined to regard that as a very handsome building,” seid his enter- tainer, mildly. “No doubt. And it does well enough. Yours !s a young nation, one that cannot be expected to hold any great eminence for its achievements, either artistic or po- litical.” “You mean that we haven't any style of ocr own?” hat expresses the idea.” You come with me. I'll show you a style of architecture that reflects the: na- tinal spirit of this country; something that’s our own design and that commands the respect of two continents. There it is —the Washington monument. One look at It tells the whole story, and it doesn’t need any fluted columns or filagree work around the corners to make people admire it, eltaer. Upright, massive and immutable, it’s the biggest thing of its kind on earth, and it means business from the ground clear up to the topmost molecule of the lightning rod. ————— Trolley Roads in Europe. From Industries and Iron. When the delegates appointed by the Glasgow town council to proceed to the continent to investigate the prevalent sys- tem of electrical traction returned they 1 sued a very expensively gotten up and lav- ishly illustrated report, which was evi- dently intended to be conclusive. We com- mented at the time on the singular cir- cumstarce thet while much money and time had been expended on minutely ex- amining a number of continental systems of electrical traction, some of them old, the tramways committee had not thought it worth thelr while to give the least atten- tion to electrical practice as it exists in the United States, admittedly ahead of the rest of the world in this particular. Subsequently it appears to have occurred to the committee that a research which was intended to embrace the examination of every successful system of electrical propulsion could hardly be considered com- plete without some reference to America, and they accordingly dispatched their gen- eral manager and engineer on a tour through the chief centers. These gentle- men have, in their turn, just issued their report, not a document so pretentious by any means as its predecessor, but not less valuable, perhaps, in the clearness and lucidity with which the conclusions to which the authors have arrived are ex- pressed. Those conclusions are practically identical with those of the preceding re- port, and there is now consequently practi- cally no doubt that the trolley principle will be adopted for the whole of Glasgow. It is true that provision is first being made only for a first experimental line, that from Mitchell street to Springburn, but the trol- ley once installed is sure to spread, and, despite the claims being made for conduit and electro-magnetic tramway systems, it will be generally conceded, we think, that the Glasgow authorities have arrived at a just and sound conclusion. We notice that a special commissioner, which “The Glasgow Herald” has had the enterprise to dispatch on the same errand, is of an opin- fon that is mainly identical with that ex- pressed in the two reports. We trust that once Glasgow makes a definite start with the equipment of a power station it will not be found necessary to send to America for the steam engines. Soueine Ce MeKinley Garten School. Up in the North Carolina moun‘ains an old man has a cabin which is a resort for hunters. He has a grandchild of which he is very proud. She is a pretty, golden- hatred girl, and a pet of the hunters, who warm the cockles of the old man’s heart by singing her praises. On a recent trip one of the hunters, after a little skirmish with the child, went out to the old man, who was doing some work about the cabin, and sai “T say, grandpop, Neilie is smarter than ever.’ “Yes,” responded the old man, proudly, “when she was in the city a visitin’ of her aunt, she went to one of those McKinley- garten schools and learned a heap.” ee A Serious Mutter. From Puck. The Sultan—“I'd ike to speak to you about the light of the harem.” The Grand Vizier—“Ah! the beautiful Fatima?’ 7 The Sultan—“No; the light of the harem. Don’t you think our gas bills are getting altogether too high?” NOT iN HIS CLASS. ~~ = Wi sre Representative Curtis Tells of Meet- -ing @ Pugilint. Although some of them hit pretty hard, there is nowl&nd fen a story on a member of Congress that js actually too good to keep, and hij.teui(lit himself. Representa- tive Curtis of Kansas tells cne. He was advertised to speak st a certain town in his ete ie on the same day a prize fight was arranged ‘for in thé same vicinity. The political meeting proved to be by far the biggest drawing card and in the even- ing the littlg hotj! was crowded with the admirers of”botir politician and pugilist. ‘The pugulist was_feeling sore over his re- ception. He waarl't used to such shabby crowas, aud compiained emphatically. “Soy, what yer git a feuler out here for an’ trun ‘im down Joik this, 1 don’t want ter know? I comes to you wid the giad heart and yer gives me der marble hand. I don’t loike it nove. See?” And the god of sinews and scientific hitting leaned back agaiust the wall in glcomy disgust, while the village small boys and men formed an admiring circle about him. ‘In the other corner of the room Mr. Curtis and his friends were discussing politics. “We did allow to make your coming quite a society affair,” remarked one of the vil- lage dudes, in a sack ceat and a “chimney pot” hat, as he lounged familiarly up alongside the pugilistic tough. “But you see the state central committee had ar- ranged for Charley Curtis to come today, and he drew the biggest crowd.” “Soy, who is this yer Charley Curtis? Scmebody chases me wid ‘is name since the minute F landed. What's ‘ig'record? Who's ‘e licked? Curtis, Curtis, I ain't never seen no such name in the Pertte@ Gazett, ‘so’ he ain’t much lugs. He ain’t in my class, nohow, see?”’ 2 Shouting with laughter, Mr. Curtis’ friends brought him forward and intro- duced the rivals to each other. The pugulist squared himself disdainfully as he heard the words “member of Congress.” “I knowed you wasn’t in my class,” he responded, loftily. ‘“Jaw-whackin’ ain’t in my line see?” ‘The whole crowd “saw” at the expense of Mr. Curtis. — AN INFANT TERRIBLE. She Made a Man Blush and the Girls Giggle. “Literal children, or more properly, children who take your ¢hiding literally, are holy terrors,” relates a young man, noted for his politeness to ladies. “I was in a herdic the other day, which was much crowded, though no one was standing at the time. Presently a lady and gentleman got in and I gave my seat to the lady, leaving the old gentleman standing. Im- mediately a young lady sitting in one end of the herdic, called to her little sister, a child of six, perhaps, who was sitting near the door at the other end, to come to her and give her seat to the elderly gentleman. The child came willingly enough, and while the sister was reading her a lesson in manners, a passenger got out, and I took a seat. “Never let me see you re- main seated again, when people older than you are standing,” closed the lecture, and the child was crowded, half sitting, half standing, between the older sister and the lady next to her. Two minutes later a pretty girl got in and, of course, as the only gentleman in the herdic, I gave her my seat. No sooner had I done so than that small terror was on her feet. she said in sweet, shrill ac- you take my seat, you's older than And everybody laughed, of course; me.”” trust a lot of giggling girls for that, for the only plate on earth that I could have “taken a seat’ was on the sister's lap, from which’ the child had slid. I didn’t take the seat, but d did take to the street, and walked five blocks in a drizzling rain to get away from the giggle of those girls. paeamer aS KEEN ENJOYMENT. It Was Only an Impression, but It Gave Him Pleasure. The policéman’s' beat led him past a fence which was formerly in demand for the display df theatrical posters, but which has been abandoned. It is eloquent with descriptions of glories that have dazzled and departe@. A shy-looking man stopped to look at the old posters and he lingered so long that the policeman grew suspicious and walked up and down the blgck several times.in order to make sure that he was not waiting to &ignal to’a confederate to plan some: nefarious excursion. “I—I hope I do not annoy you, the shy- looking man said deferentially. “I ought not to be doing this; it’s not generous or kind of me. But I can’t help it.” “I don’t see that you are doing any harm at present. “Of course you don’t. You're not a mind reader. It was my gullty conscience that spoke. i have a vindictive nature and I can’t master it. I'm one of these people who dislike Great Britain on general prin- ciples. I can’t get rid of the feeling that the stamp act was a personal insult, and every once in a while I forget myself and want to enlist in George Washington's army. Every time anybody suggests some means of twisting the lion’s tail, it is all I can do to keep from getting up and howl- ing with glee.”” “TI don’t see what that has to do with the case.” “Do you observe the names of English ac- tors that appear there?” “Yes. ‘Every one of them was a shining light at home. They had to be coaxed and pleaded with before they would consent to leave the public whose idols they were. The way their managers have talked about it in their interviews almost brought tears to my eyes. But once here, they very rarely go away except on short vacations. Season pfter season they are with us ‘to tell how they are missed at home. And whenever I tnink of the manner in which the English public is deprived of all this flower of its dramatic talent, yearning in vain for it year after year, it makes my bosom fairly thrill with fiendish joy!” Sees ge TESTING A WATCH. How English Timepieces Are Tried as to Their Correctness and Regularity. From the Jewelers’ Review. There has been watchmaking at Coven- try as long as there has been a watch trade in England, which is for the last two hundred years or thereabouts. There used to be three centers of the English trade, these being Liverpool, Coventry and Lon- don; now there are practically but two, Coventry and Birmingham. The test of a good watch is that it should obtain a Kew certificate, and of the watches that go to Kew 75 per cent are from Coventry. At Kew no watch has yet succeeded in getting the 100 merks which signify per- fection, but Coventry has come nearest with 92, and is always well to the front. The Kew test is no light one. The watch is tested in every position and its rate reg- istered, not only per day, but per hour; it is hung by its pendant, hung upside down, hung on each side, placed dial down and back down and bi any number of angles, and to finish up With is baked in an oven and f¥ozen th an tce pail. No wonder that a@ watch with a Kew certificate is a com- fort to its owner. When it is considered that it makes 18,000 vibrations 4n hour and must not vary a secpnd 9 ‘week, while a quarter turn of its two tithe screws, meaning the millionth offan-imch, will make a differ- ence of 20 seconds a day, the delicacy of its adjustmefit will be appreciated, as will als> the riskiof iritrusting its repair to any but skillful sbandac A hard day on the links, A CHAFING DISH VICTIM He looked like a man in comfortable ctr- cumstances, but his manner denoted trouble. As he sat in the open car he heaved an occasional sigh. Then he would pull his overcoat closer about him and straighten up, as one who would bid de- flance to his cares. “Young man,” he said to a Star reporter, who was sitting behind him, “you write things for the paper, don't you” “Well, look me over and write me up.” “What have you been doing?” “Wasting precious time aud dissipating the best hours of my life. I’m a horrible example. All I'm fit for is to stand up as a guide-post to warn my fellow man to steer clear of the road to destruction. I don't care what you say about my miseries. You | can put my picture in if you want to, and celebrate me as possessing the bizgest bump of imbecility known to phrenology.” “What's the trouble?” “Alcohol.” ‘The old stor: “I suppose it’s old to you. But to me it’s all a nightmare of novelty. Look me over ” He turned his face and disclosed the fact that his mustache was half burned off, while his eyebrows were entirely gone. The hand with which he pulled aside the collar of his coat had a cloth around it, und there was a long blister on the rim of bis car. “I understand,” said The Star reporter, nodding sagaciously. ‘You got intoxicated and fell into the fire.” “I did nothing of the kind. How dare you insinuate such a thing! I never tasted a drop of spirituous liquor in my life!” “But you said you were a horrible ex- ample.” ~ “That's true.” “Of the effects of alcohol.” ae “Yes; I'll put that in an affidavit “Well, then, what business have you to get angry and deny your own words when I allude to your drinking too much in- quired the reporter, indignantly. “I didn’t drink the stuff." Vhat under the heavens did you do with it, then?” “J put ft under a chafing dish and tried to cook with it.” ———— A GOOD EXAMPLE. Does Every Year What Some Men Don’t Do in a Lifetime. “I believe,” remarked the hotel clerk to a group of listeners in a well-known Wash- ington hotel, “that the most patriotic men we have in the United States are the trav- eling salesmen.” “And why they?” inquired a member of Congress. “Because they know the country better than any other class and see it in all its sections, and are among the classes who maintain it and make it possible for the rest of us to live with a great deal more ease than we might otherwise. Now, there’s one who went out of the office just as the gentleman from New York came in. That man travels for a Boston house, and his territory extends from Maine to south- ern California, and he makes the trip every year, stopping usually in the big cities, but taking many of the others in on his way. “He has been doing it for years, until he knows the people of the country in every state, and I have yet to hear him say a bitter thing or a foolish one about sectional peculiarities or differences. He is too broad for that—that is to say, he is too patriotic. ‘Then, again, he comes to Washington once a year simply to spend two or three days here, so that he may feel the sense of government by contact with it, to walk about the streets of the capital of the na- tion, to look at the magnificent buildings of government ownership, to stand in the glorious beauty of the grandest building on earth, to sit for a time in the halls of legis- lation, and to experience for a brief sea- son some of the material results of his cit- izenship uf the proudest republic the sun has ever shone upon.” There was a round of applause for the clerk’s presentation of the case. “Don’t do it, gentlemen,” he said, wav- ing it off. “Those are not my words, bit the words of that traveling man. He is the broadest-minded citizen, the firmest pa- triot, and the squarest man I know, and if it were possible to have a nation of his kind it would be possible to make one na- tion of the whole world. He has been in Washington for three days and when he leaves tomorrow he will take with him more than a hundred books containing pic- tures of the city and its great buildings, which he will distribute among the chil- dren of the men he meets in a business way, and who may never be able to get to Washington to wander amidst its beauties and learn here among its marble walls and pillars the all-important lessons which they teach, and which every American should learn. I presume he has distributed thou- sands of these pictures, and has been a well-spring of patriotic sentiment to hun- dreds of young men and women in every state of the Union. Who can say as much for himself?” And even the congressman could not answer in the affirmative. ee HE COULDN'T SWIM. But He Kept Hold of the Anvil When He Went Down. They were talking about swimming at the city hall the other day, and among those engaged in the discussion was “Jim” Springman, the well-known deputy mar- shal. Springman has charge of the cage at the city hall where the prisoners are detained before being taken into court, and also has charge of their transportation to and from the jail. He is a man of many stirring adventures and of remarkable phy- sical powers. Therefore his remark that he cannot swim his own length was heard with not a little astonishment. “But although I can’t swim, I’ve been overboard several times,” explained Spring- man ‘and have yet to be drowned. How- ever, I came pretty near it one time during the war, when I was employed as an iron worker down at the wharves. That day I was carrying a seventy-five-pound anvil on my shoulder along the wharf, when the first thing I knew I was overboard in about twenty feet of water. I went right down to the bottom, but I didn’t stay there but a second, and up I came. The moment I got my head out of water I had sense enough to grab hold of a pile, and there I hung until they fished me out with a rope. “Did they ever get the anvil, Jim?” ask- ed one of the crowd. “Did they?” remarked Springman. “Why, man, you may believe me or not, but I never let go of that anvil. You see,” went cn Springman ignoring the smiles of the crowd, was walking along with the an- vil on my left shoulder, and when I went down 1 shot down so quick that I hadn’t time te let go of it. So when I bobbed up the thing came up with me, right on my shoulder, too, just where it was when I Gropped overboard. You see, it was all done so quick tha: I hadn’t time to think, or else Td let go of it, and——” But the crowd had dispersed. ———e A Spider Keepa Time to Music. From the St. Paul Globe. At a recent rehearsal of the Apollo Male Quartet of Coldwater, Mich., a large spider came slowly down his silken thread to about the height of the singers’ shoulders, where he hung suspended for a few min- utes, then began to move up and down in front of the music rack. The second tenor, who was leading the air, soon noticed that the movements of the spider corresponded with the variations of his voice, up and down the scale, and in perfect time. They then began a series of experiments apd found that the spider would ascend or descend about a foot for every octave, and though the melody was carried ever so lightly, and the bassos thundered in their heaviest tones, the in- sect could not be deceived, but always fol- lowed the leading part accurately and with the precision of a director’s baton. rr Alll kirds of songs, from “Down in the Cornfield” to “The Bridge,” were sung to test tho ability of the wonderful little being and each time he came out of the conflict not a beat behind. At last the four voices struck an awful discord, and instantly the spider scurried up his improvised metro- nome and disappeared in the chimney. + 0+ Consideration. From Puck. = Smith—“Brown was going to publish that bcok anonymously, but I advised him not to do it.’ Jones—“Why not?” Smith—‘You wouldn’t want to have his friends express their opinions of it in Brown's presence?” ASSERTING HER DIGNITY. The Stalwart Conduct of a Young Woma It did not take place in the city of Wash- ington, because no man. in Washington leaves a lady alone while he goes oui be tween the acts at a theater—uniess it be his wife, and, of course, that doesn’t count. But it did occur, and the site cf its oc- currence is not west of the Allegha where, according to some eastern thinkers, all the peculiar occurrences occur. The man in the case was perhaps thirty, the girl twenty-two, and the theater wa: one in which the melodrama has its home. The girl was pretty and there was that kind of a jaw hedging the lower part of her rosy cheeks that ought to have been a hint to the young man. The young man was a very fair sample cf the average chap who makes twelve to fifteen hundred a year. Between them and the aisie rat a big man of fifty with his wife and ¢wo daughters, and the big man had a voice bigger than he was. When the curtain went down on the first act there was a slight scrap be- tween the couple, which «nded in the young man not going out between the first and second acts, because the wait was shert and he hadn't time to argue. The girl's cheeks were redder than before when the curtain went up, and the set of her jaw was firmer. At the next fall of the curtain there was a slight scrap again, which ended this time in the young man draggin; himself over four people and leaving the girl to sit alone until he was ready to come back to her. Two minutes later the girl dragged her- self after him, over the same four people, but she stopped in the aisle long enough to say something to the big man with the two daughters. Then she disappeared. It was a long wait, and just as the cur- tain started up the young man hurried down the aisle, and was about to drag bim- self over four people when the big man called his attention to the vacaney which had occurred during his asence. The young man’s jaw dropped, and he actually grew red the face. The big man handed him a ring with a brigh: little diamohd glistening in fi. “She give me that and toli me to give it to you,” he said, with a menzce in his tone, as he looked over at his own girls, “and she said if you ever came to her house azain or spoke to her her father would thrash you as you deserved.” The young man was paralyzed. “And I want to say,” edded the big pariy, “that {f the old man ain't able to do it, he can call on me.” Then he let the young man go, and the way he went was a caution to a tlying ma- chine. It was a clear case of ships that pass in the night, but with just a little more in- teresting cargoes than usual. MORE DISCRIMINATION. The Discovery Made by a Man Who Was on the Alert for am Affront. ‘There was that about his attire and his manner which showed that, although of African descent, he was fully alive to the respect due him as a citizen of the United | States and an equal voter at the polls. The salesman in the men’s furnishing store hastened to learn his wishes and ventured to wish him “good morning,” in spite ot his haughty glare. “What can we do for you today?” “You can't do nuffin’ much foh me,” was the reply. “I come yuh ter do somefin’ foh you. “We—er—we don’t need any help.” “I ain't lookin’ foh wuhk! I come yuh to give you all some money. I wants ter trade an’ ef anybody gits de bes’ er de bahgain, I don’t reckon it’s gwineter be me. Only I don’ want no bowin’ an’ scrapin’ like yoh "magined I wus de Prince 0’ Wales, an’ at de same time I don’ want no sassi- ness. Al I desiahs is ter put money on de counter an’ kyah off de goods, ef dey suits me.” “What do you wish to purchase?” “Er shirt. “Ah, yes. satisfactory article. Do you want a white shirt or a colored shirt.” “What's dat and his hand reached ominously for his hippocket. “— merely asked you whether you want- ed a white shirt or a colored shirt,” the salesman replied as he edged behind a pile of hat boxes. < “I s'pected it in de fus place; an’ now I knows it. I'm in de wrong sto’. Whut's de good er civil rights? I goes ter de thea: ter an’ dey has white seats an’ colored seats. I goes ter de restaurant and dey has white vittles an’ colored vittles. But when I comes yuh ter git some cotton fon my back an’ yoh stan’s me up an’ tells me dat yoh has white shirts for white folks an’ colored shirts foh colored folks, you's done got pas’ de limit, an’ dar ain’ nuffin’ lef’ foh me ter do, ‘ceppin’ ter hire a law- yer.” ————— CUTENESS OF THE COYOTE. A Dog Drawn Into an Ambush—Tricks to Make Away With a Badger. No cuter animal is found in the west than the coyote. The coyote is to the plainsman what a fox is to an eastern farmer, only the coyote is more in evi- dence. Forest and Stream tells about a dog that had its principal sport chasing and otherwise worrying coyotes, and was led into ambush by one coyote and then set upon by several other of the prairie wolves and almost done to death. “About 9 o'clock one night,” the paper says, “one of the coyotes came to the kitchen door and howled aggravatingly at the dog, which thereupon sct after the coyote full tilt. The coyote fled around the hceuse, down to the corral and around the blacksmith shanty, the dog yelping after. Behind the shanty were other coyotes, six or seven of them, and all of them made for the dog in a way that made it feel lonely. The ranchman heard the fight and the dog’s howls of pain, and grasping a rifle started that way on the run, yelling as he went. The coyotes each took a farewell nip and fied, leaving a sore dog behind. Since then the dog has not been so much interested as on former occasions in coy- otes. It follows single coyotes vigorously, but the appearance of another sends it back as fast as it can run.” The coyote likes badger flesh very much, but one coyote is not equal to a badger in a fight; consequently, the coyote, when it mects a badger, has to resort to stratagem till aid arrives. The manner in which it does this, according to the sportsman’s paper, is interestin, “A few weeks ago,” the writer says I was riding along I saw a coyote and a badger. The coyote seemed to be piaying with the badger. He would prance around it, first as if to bite it, then run off a little way, the badger following, evidently very angry. When the badger saw me it ran into its hole, while the coyote went off forty or fifty yards and lay down, evidently knowing I had no gun with me. The coy- ote’s device was evidently to tease, and so keep the badger interested till another coyote happened along, when the badger would have been killed. ———_+0+—_____ ‘The Best Data He Could Give. From the Springfield Union. I have a friend who is connected with one of the large shoe stores of the city. A day or two ago he was called to attend to the warts of a customer, and, his first question brought out the fact that the man wanted a pair of shoes. Of course my friend next inquired the size, and thereby hangs this tale. The customer looked dumfounded for a minute, but he was not to be fazed by such a simple question, and finally he blurted out: “Wa’al, I don’t know egzactly, but I wear a fifteen and a half collar.” He did his best, but my friend was not sufficiently posted in the relative propor- tions of one’s neck and feet, and so had to take a guess at the size required, and try a erent pairs until he had found the proper “He sticks at nothing.”—Life. 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Local Dealers Setite Place for Second-H: The local cycle board of trade, re organized, will introduce a number of re- forms in the business in the city for the coming year, tending to protect their {: terests, 28 well as the interests of the pur- chasers. The membership of the board takes in all but one or two dealers in the city, and the acquisition of these into the ranks is expected in short order, In sign- ing the constitution the members agree not to advertise in any programs that are pub- lisked, claiming that the returns do not warrant the expenditure. New wheels can oniy be bought on certain terms, and any dealer caught violating the agrceme fraudulently representing goods to the pu chasers, is liable to expulsion from the or- ganization, or subject to a heavy fine. The most interesting departure proje is the establishmert of a bicycle clearanc house, after the manner of the cycle ba- zaars in Europe, and more particularly in Paris. At these places a person can take an old wheel and have it sold, the bazaar charging a certain commission for mak.ng the sale. The custom has grown to such an extent in foreign cities that if a person is anxious to purchase a second-hand ma- chine he goes direct to the bazaar and makes his purchase there, getting a wh that he desires, with the knowledge that is in as good a state as its age and con | tion will permit The place in this city will be termed the learance house, and will handle nothing secoud-hand wheels of all makes. A on desiring to trade an old wheel for y one will take it to the dealer of whom le calculates purchasing the new vheel. This deaier will refer him to the nee house. The bicyclist takes his there, and the manager of the house appraise tts value. He will give the r a written statement of the value of the machine, keeping a duplicate for him- self. Going back to the agent, he presents the certificate of value, and will be allo’ that sum, and no more, In exchange. der the plan proposed there will evading thie value. If application st | to any dealer to exchange the old the prospective purchaser must it the clear: house and get a ceri e of val ‘ore negotiations can ed. If the plan works the would r must accepi the terms or cl rs “1 at all, thing is satisfactory th: is taken in trade, and shipped b house put When the 4 manager of ri comm. | par work, and turns the bala j the money over to the dealer who acce the machine in trade. ma its come in th commis » he rec aS A Sub-ag ard of trade. ei at all, | Whi be biished in a short wu the riding season fully opens, 2 charge uf the place will be given responsible man who it is expr aly too giad to (ake held of the matter. scheme will work yet remains to . but th it will work better 1 der this arrangemat none of th dealers will handle second-hand wi the trade in such being thrown to th. ance house. bs ‘mis anti - GOLD BY TRE Remarkable Thinness Attained by (he Beaters of the Precious Metal. From Pearson's Weekly. The beating of the innumerable litile square pieces of gold which are used to cover domes and siens, and so on, forms a distinct industry in the gold trade which employs a large number of hands and re- quires no small amount of skill. The long, low building in which the work is carried on is filled throughout the day with the sound of hammers. On every side little boxes containing tiny rolls of geld are to be scen, which, although only measuring an inch and a half in length, are each worth about £10. The gold is r ceived in bars one-eighth of an Inch in thickness, an inch in width and weighing 240 pennyweighis. This is rolled out into a ribbon thirty yards in iength. It is then given to the workmen in strips measuring seven yards, each of which is cut into 180 pieces. These are now ready to be beaten out by hand. They are placed (protected by fine skins) in a tool known as the clutch, and are thoroughly pounded out on a great granite block set in the ground in such a way that there is absolutely no vibratory movements. The process is re- peated several times, the gold as it spreads being continually subdivided until it 1s of the exact dimensions required. The skins in which the gold is beaten are s9 delicate that they will tear as easily as paper, nevertheless they are of so fine a quality that they will withstand the con- tnual hammering for several years. The gold, which is finally beaten down to 24 000th of an inch, is rubbed with “brine” be fore being placed in the skins, in order that it shall not adhere to them. Easy as this work of beating out the gold may seem, it is in reality an art of a very delicate description. The workman must know to a nicety precisely how hard or gentle the blows of his hammer must be, and also the exact spot on which they should fall. Accordingly, a very superior class of men are employed in the business. — HE SAID “POKE AND BEANS.” YARD. The Failure of a Georgia Man to Pass Himecif Of as a Yankee. From the New York Sun. Joe Cavan, who has had a whirlwind ex- perience in the south and west, said to the crowd in the same old place, the up-town hotel: “My advice to you all is, be natural. Do not try to deceive people with your affected talk or in your clothes. You will be cer- tain to show the cloven foot somewhere. I was at a dinner once in St. Louis. It was given by Governor Marmaduke. Before we had given our orders, for at a western dinner every man has the privlicge of say- ing what he wants, the governor asked each one of his guests where he hailed from. One was from Tennessee, one from Illinois, one from California. The east was not represented, so I handed in my card from Vermont. Just then the walter pass- ed the bill of fare, and my ruling passion asserting itself, “Poke and beans,’ said I in my natural voice. “ ‘Cavan,’ sald the governor of Missouri, vehemently, ‘you're from Georgy. No man from Vermont ever said ‘poke and beans,” and your scheme of passing for a Yankee, suh, is reprehensible, and will cost you the wins “I have sailed under my own colors ever since.” ————+o+__. Mental Arithmetic. From Spare Moments. Aunt Dorothy—“How many command- ments are there, Johnny?” 4 Johnny (glibly)—“Ten.” Aunt Dorethy—“And now, suppose you ‘were to break one of them?” Johnny (tentatively)—“Then there'd be