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16 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1897-24 PAGES. UIGH HATS IN PARIS The Important Question Which is Agitating French Gentlemen. EVOLUTION OF THE BEAVER How lt is Regarded by the Chief of the Symbolist Poets. HATS FOR WOM TALL P know ARIS nothing WE about own sub- their own sen- At the pres- fects, sations. ent ‘nement there is nothing but the high silk hat. It is not to be abol- ed, modified or aged in any de- ail of its use. One may ene must resnect it “Do you h silk hat,” asks S-phane the symbolist, “some- thing of the rand t supernatur: a@ sort of gloomy meteor, ten brows. prodig ntous, ominous here dd seem to be tacit un- =—by no means lacking in high silk hat ts to fulfill its | tion of le Chay- s Claret ae Claret Jule ‘Three Not cf a Kind. he only cofffure that would not look negligent.” To realize the truth of this observation, the illustrator has only to picture a stout university professor (build of Henry VIII of England) in the great plumed feutre of Louis XIV, or a dude in # smoking jacket with the coquettish vel- vet toquet of Henry II, or an ulstered com- mercial traveler in the flat ruffed galette (risd egg) of the time of Francis I. The recent attempt of young French royalists to wear the western broad-brim- med felt which the Marquis de Mores brought back from his American ranching experience demonstrates the futility of such sewing of new patches on old garments. ‘The high hat, on the other hand—and this is remarkable, when you come to think of it—narmonized perfectly well in its various clder little differences with the Dutch, En and glis! French puffed-sleeve, slashed- double d faney tights costumes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as may be noted in many an old portrait. It was then of soft felt, almest the only differ- U “Ex olution o@ the Stovepipe: Then for years the high hat (referring always to the “stovepipe” form in general) seems to hi dropped out of a man’s ideals. Experts in costume tind the origins of the present high hat In the brim-short- ag and crown-heightening of the felts which were so restlessly changing year by or between 1776 and 1800. Certainly the ning of the présent tury saw the hat In full march to its present per- tion, in the “eas * which, it is true, y came to made with silk in 1: fore that date, in 1825, the very high- reached in the enormous hich rejoiced the heart y Stone. and-upward silks heir day sup; 1 the va 3 of the neck whiskers of 1840, ubbiness of S35, the ur back-hair and skort, woolly , and the face-cireling, p-again whisker-strap with all the clumsy the high chokers and enor- * the frogged, double-bre: cavers of y. rolling deburns abomination: rolling cotta 1800 deep-seated, waist-tucked pantaloons, the fearsome Now-tails cut up almost to the arm pits, the cloaks, the capes, the the delusions of an age, but one step less erotesque than ours. There is that to be said for the high hat. Because of its sim- ity, aggresive to no other part of the to the squat and the attenu- ated alike, bringing volume and import- ance to th= noblest part of man; that is to say, his head. The Beaver. Apropos of the difficulty of replacing so useful a hat, the painter Carolus-Duran tells this story: “It was in 1848. TI was not there, but I have heard it from several persons, among others my great friend Franeats, the painter of landscapes, and another who was the cause of breaking up discussed ery part cf man’s c in review every possible form w > to come ing it. All at amon, the painter of idylls, arose with a loud voice, asked to be heard. nilem said he, “y< ve had a re- t acgear. cd has gained y Let me propose to you one whick, T hope, will please you. 1 propose a beaver—withont fur! There was no more jon of reforming men tume: that matter, i high hat, as does not seem that evived at the end of the was origirally inte women!! During the F yomen wore the: with or with 500,000) more to fall under the lotine. She or th on a high hat slightly | eal in fo may be seen in the ns have talked of of the high hat from London. On . Mr. John Harling- e Strand with a high h seemed So strange to the pe mobbed him. In reality, as 1760 and brought to y next year by one M. Pre centuries befere the ck, he who ir idrical_h ures. Rerabrandt and the did the same in their time, hat the Dutch had them y. From the Dutch the Eng- ok the ic and the French Gramont speaks of the tall jorned with a feather, as hav- n Worn by the generals in the thirty ar. Thus in its early period it did hot succecd in France, because it came of Marshal round ha i testantism, for which it steod a symbol. he centuries rolled on. The revolution me, and the great Napoleon, deeming the ‘rday stove-pipe too good’ for women, Started it on its true Frerch career, at the same Ume giving a new impetus to its ten- denctes throughout the rest of Europe. Na- poleon was the first Frenchman to wear a stove-pipe hat. Whether the present high hat ts as un- esthetic as artists, poets and critics say or not, it at least has the merit of being in harmony as a cylinder with the double cylinder in which brave men continue to encase their legs, to the envy and imita- tion of the bicycle girl and others. It is not so inconvenient as its enemies say. It docs not cost dear and can be used at any time of day and night. It is the hat of men in a hurry, who leave home in the morning to come back only at night and wish during the day to engage in business and pleasure alike, to make visits. to go to their office, to a funeral, 2 marriage, and all without loss of time in changing. In @ cab or street car it may be inconvenient to the unpracticed or the somnolent—but such need a lesson. Coming to the symbol of it, the high hat is less utiful than the felt hat with feathers. According to Jules Lemaitre, it 1s ignoble, and all our costume is the same. Among animals it is the malé who hes what Zola says belongs to youth “gallant plumage.” In olden days our fathers tried to keep ®% for themselves. In modern times pretty plumage is judged best for women, while the costume of man is “‘ignobl Is not this a sign of revolution? Nature, as Schopenhauer says, would never have allowed ff it were a hindrance to her designs. ‘The gifts of the spirit are nowadays pre- ferred to exterior advantages. The high hat 13 the symbol of the victory—even in love—of mind over matter. Men no longer have need of gallant plumage. And the shirt waist? Is that not a sign of hopeful plainness for the others? It is the curious prose cf Stephane Mal- larme which best points out, without ex- plaining, the height and depth of this symbol: “it frightens me to touch on such a sub- ject! As you have remarked—it has not escaped you—the contemporary wears on his head something somber and super- natural. This mystery you have the fine daring to exhaust, perhaps, in a newspa- per column. To me it furnishes, almost by itself, for much time back my meditation; and I calculate that not less than many tomes of a compact, abstruse work, the science to resolve the mystery and pass beyond it. You couid, believe me, omit here all disquieting philosophy of the en- gine or adornment or whatever It may be that is presented by this darksome mezeor and restrain yourself to a hatter’s talk, following some excelient interview ques- tions. For example, does this modern com- plement of a man calied “high” seem like- ly to haunt the aurora of the twentieth century? Why, it begins only in its fu- tious spread to mow down diadems, feath- ers and even hair; it will continue! “Messieurs (1 add in a whisper), from the fact that it exists at this human date on heads, it shall exist always. Whoso has once put on its like can never rid himself of it. The world will finish, not the hat. Probably even it existed from all times, in the invisible state. Today does not each one pass beside it without perceiving *it? “Nevertheless I ought to say that I con- sider it, upon another, with whom it se2ms to me to be of one plece—and, if they sa- lute me with it I do not separate it in mind from the individual; I see {t his, still, dur- ing the politeness. Immutably. “Once appeared, the object agrees with man, evident as well as unexplained, neith- er ugly nor beautiful, escaping judgments. A sign, who knows? solemn with super- icrity and, for this reason, a stable insti- tution.” Such fs the high hat in Paris in the late winter or early spring of the year of grace 1897, and such—to render your life gayer— is the faithful translation of a character- istic bit of prose of the chief of the sym- bolist poets. STERLING HEILIG. ——__-+e+- England's Waning Industries. S. M.D. North in the Forum. Machinery {s the single item of manufac- tures in which English exports show an in- crease during these twenty years. Even in machinery the Germans have iatterly dis- covered that they can make a better arti- cle than the English; while in the iron and steel industries generally the English no longer dispute German supremacy. In 184 the English Iron Trade Association sent a deputation to Germany and Belgium to dis. cover on the spot the reasons why those countries were extending their export trade in iron and steel so much more rapidly than England. The report of this deputation em- phasized the superior character of the ma- ehinery and labor-saving appliances found in tre German and Belgian foundries ing @ remarkable advance as compared with the best appointed works in the Mid- lands. It attributed this advance and oth- ers to the great attention paid to technical ation during the last half centu nd luded with the announcement that ( man superiority rests upon its merits rather than upon any adventitious circumstances. The London Times, commenting upon this report, remarked was fairly to be inferred that “the days of the South Staf- ferdshire jron tri with the exception he sheet iron branch, are mim- ur years prior to this report the States had succeeded in wresting ngland the place of honor in the iron istry by producing a larger quantity of pig iron. On the basis of the statisti he last ten years it will not take more than fe years longer for Germany to drive England from the second place—into which the United States has forced her— into third position. Iron is called thi rometer of industry; and it is not nec ry » follow the exports of England into other lines to establish the point that her foreign trade is declining—not rapidly, but none the less surely—while that of Germany {3 ad- vancing and advancing at a more rapid rate than the decline in England. It is an elementary mathematical proposition that, if these processes continue, the time Is not far distant when German trade will excced English trade. -eee—____ Salaries In the Church of England. From the Chicago Times-Herald. As matters now stand it costs a pretty penny to maintain the pomp of that church of which “the queen is the supreme gov- ernor on earth. he salary of the primate (Archbishop of Canterbury) is the goodly sum of $75,000 per annum, punctually paid. The Arch- bishop of York has $50,000; the Bishop of Lone $50,000; the Bishop of Durl $35,000; the Bishop of Winche: hop of Bangor, Wells, 325,000; of Glouce of Bath and Asaph, $21,000 each; of Carlisle, . Norwich, Petersborough, St. David's, $22,500 each; Oxford. Salisbur Worcester, $25,000 each; Neweastl Rochester, $19,000; St. Albans, $1 dor and x Southwell, Truro, $1 ‘akefleld, $15,000, and then think of the army of deans, bishops suffra- fan, canons, etc., and one may Infer that the Church of England is an expensive in- stitution representing a very high avcrage of cost for each soul brought to gra: +] A Negro Colony in Maine. From the Lewiston Journal. Unlike most of the African settlements in Maine, the negro colony at Warren did not originate from the underground railroad or the anti-slavery proclamation; it antedates Maine's admission to the Union, and sprung from a single colored man named Amos Pete who came from Plymouth, Mass., in 1787 or thereabout, and his wife Sarah, a slave from Guinea, brought to Damariscotta by a sea captain. The pro- geny of this pair had increased to eighty people in 1880, but their numbers have nee dwind! down to fifty. They be- ame successful farmers, their flocks and herds increased, and one of them accumu- lated a fortune of $5,000. They have been good citizens on the whole, the burglar, Joseph Henry, recently sent to prison, be- ing the illustrious decadent of a long line of honest and industrious Peterses—the mischief, perhaps, being due to the notor- iously liberal admixture of Knox county's white blood in years agone. Ancient Map is Found. From the Chicago Chronicle. Information has been received at Supe- rior, Wis., of a find which will undoubt- edly be of great interest to those inter- ested in ancient Egypt and the Holy Land. In a letter to a friend in this city, Rev, Putnam Cady, Edwin 8. Wallace, the United States consul at Jerusalem, tells of an important discovery of a map of that country made in the fifth century. Mr. Wallace, in referring to the find, says ina letter dated February 8: ‘I have been on a five days’ trip east of the Jordan. There has been a valuable archaeological find at Medeba, a town an hour beyond Mount Nebo. The find is an old_map, laid in beautiful mosatc—a map of Egypt and Palestine, made in the fifth century. All the names of the places are given. As soon as I heard of it and could get away I went to Medeba, hoping to photograph the map, but the men in charge Wouldn't let us do it. However, they let us look at it all we wanted. It is a great find, in my opinion, and would haye been greater had the ignoramuses not allowed a lot of it to be destroyed before they thought it worth while to preserve it. Most of Palestine is intact, and it may have great effect upon the settling of some of the reputed holy places.” Consul Wallace has been long in his po- sition and is conversant with the merits of such a discovery. —_———-e-______ A Quifetus. From the Chicago Record. “Billy got even with the bookkeeper who fs always talking about seeing the frst robin.” “What did he do?” “He brought his cuckoo clock Gown to the office.” COST THEM NOTHING Perquisites Which Members of Con- gress Receive, WELCOME ADDITIONS 10 THEIR PAY Senate a Moré Costly Body Than the House. APPOINTING SECRETARIES Written for The Evening Star. OVETOUS EYES IN all parts of the land i fare glaring toward the new men who took their seats in Congress this week. Men in all walks of life battle every two years for seats in Congress. Rich men, many of them mil- lionatres, leave or neglect lucrative po- sitions to become senators or represen- tatives. Poor men, ambitious for pecuniary advancement, struggle for the same offices. Yet < Is impossible to find a member of either house of Congress who will confess that his official salary enables him to more than cover expenses. What is it that they are all to enjoy after they have won the goal? Fist of all the annual salary of $5,000—a tenth of that received from the government by Mr, McKinley. For repre- sentatives add $1,200 allowed yearly for clerical services, but whose expenditure needn't be accounted for to any one. For members of both houses add $125 a year allowed for stationary, the balance to be drawn at the end of each session if not all used. It seldom happens that more than $50 of this allowance is expended. In addition to this each senator and rep- resentative annually receives thousands of packages of vegetables and flower seed, trea- sts On agricu iural science -,map;3 and cuarts from the government surveys, and a certain number of cuttings, bushes and plants, fur- nished gratis by the government and mail- ed under frank to his constituents. The flowers which deck hls house and adorn his wife and daughters are furnished free by the botanical gardens. He seldom has to buy a pcstage stamp. When he comes from home at the beginning of a session or returns at the end his railroad fare is paid for. While at his desk he need only press a button or clap his hands to have any number of pages standing at his side eager to wait upon him. The government pays mounted messengers to run his er- n the Capitol and the city. is protected against certain penalties {tutional right. He has the ure of secing all of his literary efforts, no matter how podr, appear in print, lald on his desk within twenty-four hours after delivery, ard mailed to his constituents un- der government "frank. If he aies while in office his fune¥af’ expenses will be paid for by the govetntient. If a senator he may take free Turkish baths and receive free massage in the Senate bath rooms, get free shaves, hatr cuts and shines In the Senate barber shop, and drink his fill of apollirarts lemonde paid for by the gov- ernment and kept Im the Senate cloak rooms during hot weather. The perquisites in the last paragraph, however, are not open to a member of the House, though a repre- sentative may také ordinary baths with free soap, toweld and perfumery. Cutting Down Expenses. here Is no reason why a thrifty man— n one accustomed to the niceties of life —should not savé'ofve or two thousand dol- lars during each term in the House. It is hardly possible for a senator te save, how- ever, since he has to spend a great deal of money to keep up with his greater social duties in the “Millionatres’ Club." ‘The truth of the matter is that many represen- tatives and a few senators do manage to save a little. The richer the man in the Washington official set the more is required of him. Over a third of the men who sat in the Senate during the last Congress economized by living at hotels or in apart- ment houses. A half of the representatives cut down expenses in the same manner. They thus avoided the unnecessary cost of maintaining a house, rented or leased, be- tween sessions. To the millionaire member of Congress the annual official salary is merely orna- mental. It is the heav. legislator of this brand fiv tary, who generally has his employe private interests to attend to in addition. A number have done this already, and it 1s said that Mr. Hanna not only ‘gives his secretary his whole salary, but a thousand dollars per annum in addition. From. the appearance of things in his office, this par- ticular secretary earns every cent of what he is given, but that ts neither here nor there. Mr. Brice ts said to have given his whole senatorial salary to his secretary, while his social pilot probably receives even more. But good things like Calvin seldom blow into the Senate, except from Ohio. During the past week new members of both houses have been pounced upon by swarms of young men clamoring for pri- vate secretaryships and clerks! Under the old order of things secreta- ries, who recived $6 a day during session, would now be toppling over with mirth and happiness because of the extra session. But now, those who have become ripe in the business are making wry faces and tearing their hair. The salary of the sen- atorlal secretary was changed to $1,200 a year, to be re din monthly payments, regardless of session or adjournments. It was figured that under the new rule each secretary would receive about as much per Congress as he did before, but extra ses- sions were not included in’ this reckoning. Many senators’ secretaries are underpaid at the fixed rate. No two senators, how- ever, have the same amount of work to do. Some who hold chairmanships of unimport- ant committees are supposed to use the committee clerks for their personal cor- respondence, and are, therefore, not allowed @ secretary. Make Good Secretaries. The new senator or representative who employs a green youth, from home, to be his secretary will probably regret it. Wash- ington is full of bright young fellows, who know the whole official routine like a book, and who are fairly aching for con- gressional secretaryships. Young men who have reported for local papers or who have ussisted correspondents of outside dailies make the best secrétaries when they can be procured. Nepotism has frequently been resorted to in the gelection of congressional clerks and secrétdries. The president of the last Senate ‘appointed his son as his private secretary, and so did the Speaker of the Fifty-third Congress. Senators who are chairmen of committees are at liberty to appoint whomi ‘they please as clerks to their committees: ‘The clerk to the Senate committee on appropriations receives $3,000 @ year, and ha§ an assistant clerk who gets $2,220. The clerk to the committee on finance gets $2,500 a year. The present in- cumbent is the sof of the chairman of the committee on ftmahce. There are three cther grades of' S:nate committee clerk- ships which pay $2\220, $2,100 and $1,440 an- nually. In the Iast Senate altogether eight chairmen appointed their sons as their com- mittee clerks. ‘There is no reason why senators’ sons shotid not make good clerks, but it frequently happens that clerks to these committees are mere figureheads, functionaries bluebooked as assistant clerks or “messenger doing all of the actual werk. There was one case a few years back where the son of @ Senator was nominally clerk to one of the most important com- mittees of the Senate, while in reality he was attending college in a distant city. Al- though given a menial title, the messenger to & committee In the Senate is usually a very important pérsonage. In some cases he does all of the committee’s stenography and typewriting. He gets $1,440 a year. The messenger is sometimes appointed by the sergeant-at-arms outright, but usually through senatorial influence. There are erence: fifty-seven messengers in the ie. i to turn over his thousand a year to his private secre- Senate’s Extravagance. Statistics show that there are about four employes in the Senate to every senator. ‘The Senate's extravagance, with that of the House, has aS pro- verbial. The House costs the government only about twice as much as the Senate, although its membership is four times as great as that of the latter. The men who watch the doors to the Senate galleries get $1,440 a yea~, and those who lift senators from floor to fioor in the elevators get $1,200. Men who fold Senate documents get $1,000 a year. The Senate firemen get $1,005, and the Senate locksmith and vpholsterer $1,440. On the House side salaries are much smaller, and there are fewer sinecures. House 'messergers do not receive over $1,200 a year. Clerks to committees get $3,000, $2,000 or $1,100. Conductors of ele- vators on the Huse s.de get $1,100. Members of the Hotse are not required to appoint ony regular private secretary io appear on the rolls. Some of the poorer Members arrange matters so that they may receive altogether $620) a year, by do- ing the'r own correspondence. Some pay for their ccrrespondence by the folio, some by the hour; scme allow various sums for various lengths of service a d: A num- ber have employed their sons. One member of the last Congress used his wife as his private secretary. Representatives of wealth, however, generally give the full $1,200 a year to young men regularly em- ployed as secretaries. Few have ever gone over the full allcwancé, however, as in the Senate. Something That May Happen Any- where to All of Us. From the Kansas City Star. ‘They had barely exchanged greetings when the man In the ulster exclaimed: “I say, George, I'm mighty glad I met you. We're just organizing a new soclety— the R. T. Y. and U.—and I want to give you an opportunity of getting in on the ground floor.” “What do the initials stand for?” asked the man with the fur cap. “Stand for! exclaimed the man in the wister. “Stand for! Why, they stand for the society, of course. We just put the alphabet in a hat and let a blindfolded man pick them out—the regular way, you know. If you speak up quick may be I can work you in as a charter member. ius the society any particular alms?” “A book full of them. I don’t recall any of them now, but we have them all written out and intend to have them printed when we get money enough. It’s to be onc of these fraternal organizations to nelp one another—help one another entertain each other. my wife says, and that isn't aalf bad fer a woran. You'd better join.” I don’t believe I can do it,” replied the man in the fur cap, doubtfully. “You know I'ma D. F. G. H. now.” “Oh. well, that doesn’t cut any figure. I'm aC. V. B. and a U. L. O. of P. myself. I squared it all with my wife by getting her interested and she has now joined the T. G. B., the X. 8. W. Q. and the U. J. M. I've also promised to join the I. K. L. the W. D. V. Z. next week. Stull the man in the fur cap shook his head. ly wife is already a Q. S.C. and a D. X. ’ he said, “but she said when I joined ¥. J. O. R. K. last week that that made ixth and six was enough for a man mestic habits. You sev, this doesn’t ude the card clubs, and it is really be coming quite difficult to keep track of them all. “Oh, well if you feel that w: all right,” said the man in the pr. “Most of us don’t think ten or iwelve any too many, but it 1s your right to draw the line at less if you are not enough to keep up wiih the times. When it the proper thing for a man to affix the tials of his societies to his name, howe as some sclentists do now, you'll mighty small.” y about it, SHE } Know we Gained Pictures is Not Always to Be Relicd On. From the Detroit Free Press. No flight of imagination would have s: gested this story, and the excuse for writ ing it is that it is absolutely true. There is one family in Detroit that has a very effi- cient servant, and that is saying a good deal in these degenerate days. If she has a fault, it is that of ambition. She has a yearning for knowledge, and is as ind triously seeking an education as though she had the most favorable opportunity for acquiring one. This servant learns by the object lesson system. She knows a tomato, peach or ear of corn at sight, and she knows a picture of it when she sees Iton a tin can. Through this means of study she has become quite proficient in spelling the words most com- monly used in the culinary department of the household. There is another bit of knowledge that she has acquired by tradition. It is the old medicinal truism that like cures like. The other day her bones ached as bones will ache when the air is full of moisture and the wind ts in the east. In the pantry was a bottle on which skull and cross bones made the most conspicuous figure. Now see how true her course of reasoning. The tomato, the peach and the golden ear of corn, as portrayed by the artist, told the contents of the ean on which it ‘appeared. This medicine at which she looked must be evi- distilled from the bones so dence on the label. Her bon fore the cure was before dose. Soon there was a sc of confusion. The doctor came on a hurry up call. A ach pump extracted the “bone medi- and now the good woman of the house has undertaken the education of the good servant plainly in oo FRONTIER JUSTICE. A Texan Judge Whose Influence is Widespread. From Leslie's Weekly. ‘Texas is a big state and has a large pop- ulation, including many men of great prom- inence. But there is no man in that whole sovereignty with a more retulgent glory than Juuge Rey Bean of Langtry, who de- clares that he is the “law west of ihe Peco: And he ts. The picture we print of the judge was taken when he was in his Sunday clothes, which ts a pity, for these “hand-me-downs” detract 50 per cent from the picturesequeness of th ining legal light. West of the Pecos river in Texas © are no limitations to Judge Bean's isdiction, and he does not, it has been hinted, let mere statutes, “as in such cases made and provided,” influence him to any great extent in his desire to make the pun- ishment fit the crime. There is an anecdote told of him when he sat as coroner and held an inquest on the body of a man who had met a violent death by falling from the great railway bridge that spans the Pecos river. An examination showed that the man had a revolver and $40 in cash in his pockets when he was killed. After swear- ing in a jury and looking over the effects of the dead man, Judge Bean said: “Gentle- men of the jury, there ain't no doubt how this man came to his death; that’s all plain; but what I would like to know is why in the name of thunder he carried that gun. Now, gentlemen, it’s agin the law to carry a concealed and loaded gun in the state of Texas, and jist because this gentleman took it into his head to get killed I don’t mean to let him offend the peace and dignity of Texas. I fine him forty dollars.” This is an example of Judge Bean's efficient ad- ministration. Some day his decisions will be published, and then we will have for the first time a clear understanding of the law of the frontier. 2o+——___ Animal Intelligence. From the Indianapolis Joornal. “That was a queer story about a man in Minnesota being treed by wolves while on his way to be married,” said the shoe clerk boarder. “Most remarkable exhibition of animal in- telligence I krow of,” said the Cheerful Idiot. ‘Animal intelligence?” “Yes. They must have realized how ten- der he would be at that time.” ———— see ‘What It Costs to Travel in a Private Car. From Scribner's. ‘Traveling in a private car is a luxury that may now be enjoyed upon most American railroads by any one who wil! pay eighteen railway fares, and for eighteen berths, and bear the cost of the cook, meat and drink; but it is most frequently enjoyed, free of cost, by thdse who can rerfectly well af- ford to pay for it. The charms of this method of getting about may be greatly overrated; and I have one friend who rides in 8 special car and tells me that to travel in that way is not always agreeabl: —_—_+ ee If you want anything, try an ed. in The Star, If anybody has what wish, you will get an answer, 3 - A QUEER SALOON. Still Queerer Run by a Rum- | aeller. Fom the New York Sun. | One of the first sights that greet the | stranger as he alights at Ottumwa, Ta., | is the sign over Stormy Jordan's estab- Mshment. “The Way to Heil” is what the | stranger reads. Perhavs he may } with a shudder. If he enters the place he | Will find mottoes on the walls conveying further warning. “Nose Paint Sold Here” teads one. “Hell Fire on Tap” says an- other. “Beware the Drunkard’s Death and Demraticn™ is the warning of a third Perhaps, toc, an advertisement of the Kee- | ley cure hangs « The cr r seats elf at a snd takes up a paper. It is quite as to be a temperance tract as not. John Gough's “Platform Echves” may be at one elbow and “Ten Nights in a Bar BR at] the cther, A litte bit dazed the customer marches up to the bar 2 mme the best you’ The man behind the bar is Stormy Jor- dan himself. He draws down his brows as | he leoks at the c omer, scanning him closely from head to foot. Then, without saying a word, he walks over to the water cooler and draws a glass of the sparkling | fluid. He shoves it across the counter and says severely “There, young man, that’s the best drink I krow of.” | If the customer doesn’t swear or laugh he probably says: “Here, what yer givin’ us? I want some good whisky. “There is no good whisky.” answers Stormy, with the alr of a Sunday school teacher. “Well, some bad, then,” retorts the cus- tomer. “Gimme some hot stuff or I'll find a joint where I can get it. “You'll be hot enough some day if you keep on this ‘,”” answers Stormy, and he shakes his head sadly. “If you're bound to have ft, though, I may as well sell it to you as let some one elise do it. But it’s poiscn, I tell you, that'll send your body to the grave and r Good Health at Sixt-zit covery From a General Breaking Down of Her Heat From the Loder, Clevela: auga brine tel late prs of HY fertile vant. Nhe und th Supertny appeara fart ted Blutr * Maw. on, had a vised me to use Dr. Williams? saying they were an exeeient reundy hin advice and began to just as good wa th: T felt myself growing.» n our soul te perdition. Still, it's as good poison as they make, and if ou're particular about the te of it you may as well get It here.” Son etimes Stormy actually converts a | man to his way of thinking, though each | conversion is a money loss to him. No one seems to know how he got his name. [ts appropriateness was recognized when he Wis figuring frequently in stormy court es during the ten vears or so that lows had a law prohibiting the sale of alcoholic drinks. Stormy Jordan fought that law on principle. It seemed to him unwise and unjust. He didn’t propose to submit to tt. He was willing to join hands with the temperance people, but not with the pro- hibiticnists, toe TON TYPE WASHING Impress: of the Capital That Are First Made Upon Visitors. From Leslie's Weekly. The first note that strikes a visitor to Washington—that ts, a visitor from the | north—is that the south has been reached. Evidence of this is present on every side, and it continues to accumulate so long as | the visit 1 At the railway station, In the street cars, in the hotels, even the! houses to which one goes, this note of the | sunny south, with its polite and amiable | people, and most of all with its children | cf a former slavery, is ever present. That | $ should sirike one on first coming is not so strange, but that the observant person who thinks about what is seen should have | this note always present in his mind, it matters not how frequent may be the visits, and tain kind of abiding melody. rs shows that it sounds tr must shington is of the south, . Chestnut. street, Piecadilly and the Rue de la I nt meny their best fashions | stood that all cat | } vealth | the: fully- | when elves tiresome avenue and Scott the men who punctuate t with many graceful “sirs,” they are where. And glad are those who like an old-time gallantry to see them, too. t there are others besides. For them » choose another paragraph, for fear of offeuse to those we admire most_heartily. These others are the darkies. They too are everywhere. Always smiling, nearly | always polite, they give the bit of color to | | the street scenes without which no town can be picturesque, none cosmopolitan. | ‘They are the household servants of the city, and in great measure the laborers as well. They are property owners, too, and the chances are nine in ten when a tumble down rookery is found staggering in a! goodly company of mansions, that the owner of it is a negro—a negro of abnor- mal independence and foresight, or an un- fortunate lame duck with a title that will not pass scrutiny. Yes, the first note and | the abiding note of Washington fs that it | is the very south, with all that the south impiles —— Are We to Follow the London Style? From the St. James Gazette. Follies repeat themselves. Tt was Ed- ward IV who decreed that a shoemaker making peaked toes more than two inches long should be fined twenty shillings. Now, untrammeled by such laws, one of our most fashionable bootmakers has intro- duced long-pointed toes, which have to be filled in with cork at the tips, and are mostly carried out in the finest patent leather with small buckles on the instep, illustrating the utmest perfection of work- | mansiip. Being so, It would be wiser to relegate them to our cabinets of curiosi- ties. In the Tudor and Stuart time wo- men desirous of rising in the world borrow- ed inordinately high heels from Italy, and went by the name of “choppines’”— n in his “Diary” calls them t- folds"—and the ladies who wore them to walk abroad had to have a servant on either side for support. ‘This unpractical fashion is not IMkely to have any great following; but some beautifully made shoes, with heels varying from three to seven inches in height, are to be seen ata modern shoemaker’s rendered in the most costly stuffs, such as floral brocaded velvet on cream satin, and gold and silver bro- | cades introduced on the high heel as weil | as on the upper part of the shoes. It seems almost impossible that the wearers could walk in them, but they do. The prepos- terous heel gives height and considerably reduces the apparent size of the foot; but the wearer must be treading on the very points of the toes. — Doesn't Know W From Ti-Bits. “I would like my bill paid,” said the tailor to an impecunious customer. “Do you not owe any one anything?” asked the debtor. “No, sir, 1 am thankful to say I do not.” “Then you can afford to wait,” was the answer, as the customer walked away. it Trouble Is. | to y j put In training for a love which kno the ead of two month ed to take a trip enst. On my joucmey ny visit away from bene 1 cottinued to be pill, and when I returned to ny farm her T had completely. rv T was well int as Thad been previous te my band's ness and death, end have remained so ever si “1 can truthfully say that Dr. Witla | Pills have prolonged my fe, and made it for me at the ace of 6S years te many mand de much of the work. 1 lave grown-up child Whe is connes od with the First N ke of Youngs OF, and two marcied daughters. AM have own T have reco: 4 Dr. Williams? Pins uy of my aclghbers, and they have used them to their advantag= Dr. Williams’ Pink Pill contein, in a condense form, all the elements sary fo give new it j and richness to the blood and restore sh terves, They are also a epecitle for te mental worry rouature, Pink Pa ulk) at or en 18 sold in rox. or al 50, “and may ist mail from Dr Company, Schenectady, N. SON'S IGNORANCE OF LOVE A Critic Says Only Knew the Co- auetry of Love, From the Atlantic. Everything in the world which m felt with a glow in the breast in order be understocd was to Emerson dead he to Art was a name to him; music wax a name to him; love was a name to him. His essay on 1 is a nice compilation of | ments and elegant phrases ending up with some {cy morality. It seems very well ed for a gift book or an old-fashion: dy’s annual. He says: “The lovers light in endearments, in avowals of of their regards. * © © The soul of each detects defects in the other and hence arise expostulation and which | to reunion and the wounded affection. Meantime, as 1 on, it proves a game of Jon of all possible the res with the Weakness of the other. * * that all which those once sa of char play a pros y which the fication of the r ts the real m 1 from fir onsctou und wholly * Thus Wess. nor person nor part ks virtue and wisdom of increasing virtue a’ All this is not love, but the meres ary coquetry. Love is different from ady Burton, when a very y 5S air six years before her eng . met ton at Boulogne. They met in the str but did not speak. A few days later were formally introduced at a di ot this she wri hat was a night of nights. He waltzed with me once and spoke to me several times. I kept the sash where he put his arm around me, and my gloves, and never wore them again. We are all so concerned that a man who writes about love shall tell the truth, thrt if he chance to start from premises whica are false or mistaken, his conclusions wiil ypear not merely se, but offensive. akes no matter how exalt ter of the writer may 8 ity nor inte et nor moral enthusiasm though they be intensified to Ineandescence, can make up nature. This perpetual splitt of love Into two 5; & up of the p: one of which ts conde a 0 be useful, ts it not degr. There is in Tson’s theory of relation between neither good sense, nor manly feeling sound psychology. It is founded on ne these th It is a pure pi matism, and remi sus that he was 4 to the priesthood. We are not to imagine that there was in this doc anything pe- culiar to Emerson. But we a prised to find the pessimism inherent in the dé trine overcome to. who ssi mism is fore ctrine and pessf- mism a the puritanism of the in which the to analyze the ad had become 3 iety “t hail long been us tons, in which the hi dislocated from the body. The relation be- tween the blood and the br was not quite normal in this civilization, nor in rson, who ts its most remarkable rep- resentative, ——__sos—— Change of Hea Sew York Weekly. Socialistic Mob—“Bring him out! him! Down with monopoly Inventor (putting his head out of the win- From the Hang dow) —“Goocness me! What does this mean Mob Spokesman—“You moost die! Ve hear you invent a machine vat « work off von hoondret men. You dake t out off you This machine of mine Is an for breweries, and will bring nt a glass.” dooray!” coe _ Am Astute Juris From L'Mustre de Poche. The judge, addressing himself to a wit- ness of the female persuasion who is vis- ibly afflicted with at least forty years “Mademoiselle, your age, If you please After a long and interesting hesitation) — 'wenty-four, honor.” (To the clerk)—"You may now administer the oath. She takes the ozth. “And now, mademoiselle, remember that you must tell the truth.” beer dow Mob (wildly)— e. Stork—“Say, if I were you I'd have me legs shaved. You look like a full-rigged we ated kyax-—"§ramt Td rather go full-rigged than scudding with bare poles.”—L.ife.