Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1897, Page 14

14 Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. “The subject of dreams,” remarked a well-known investigator to a Star reporter, “has never been given the scieatifie con- sideration and study it deserved until dur- ing the past five years, and even now some of the most interested inves‘igators pur- sue their study under a cov2r, as it were, for the reason that the medical profession has persistently evaded the subject and visits heavy penalty on such of its mem- bers as are known to devote much time to the matter. It has not been considered regular exactly to pursue “ental phe- nomena, though this to a great extent is passing away through the valuable work done by the socteties organized for psychi- eal research, which origivated in England. There some of th> best minds of the land are openly comm'tted to the study, ard they are making it easier for others to ergage in it. Like all pionce-s, however, in ary branch of science, or, ved, in anything else, those who first it had to suffer severe -ri matter of fact, the literature on the subject of psychical phenomena has been very bar- fer until late years, and the most of these which sre written are ‘totally unreliable, as it was the work of these who were not fitted by scientifle aceuirements to make thelr labors of value. Dreams are now in- Yestigated and studied by a systematic course, and i is wenderful hcw much in- formation and strarge and interesting re- sults are obtained. Dreams are different from the so-called presentiments, which are commen with many unusually sensitive persons, though there is a connection be- tween them. as beth involve shases. men- tally as well as psychicaily. In one case the mind of the dreamer is alone used, while in presentiments the best accepted theories are to the effect that the mind of the person who is fully awake is in- fluenced by others. I believe it is now fully proven that the troublesome dreams which hang on a person often through a whole night, can be breken off and per- tal recreaticn s@ured, for after all that is what sleep is. if they ali rouse themselves sufficiently to do some positive thing. For wnstance, ff a person gets up and touches a door knob or the gas fixture anything else, with the idea that they are determined to break off a disagreeable and persistent dream, they cen do so. If only this inuch was gained it would mean considerable, as persons who are annoyed by continuous dreams will aprreciate.” **e €¢ * € “Flowers are advanced very considerably in blocm ‘n comparison to what they were two or three years ago at this date,’ ob- served a florist to a Star reporter, “and those interested in the securing of flowers for Decoration day are assured that they will have a greater profusion than they Lad last Decoration day or the year be- fore. Last year I had orders for several cart loads and I nad the greatest difficulty in supplying the order. The year before it Was even = worse. At this time last year the dog wood and the laurel, both of which abound fi: the nearby woods of Maryland and Virginia, were hardly in full bloom, while this year they were ix full bloom two and even three weeks ago. It is the same way with many varieties of garden roses. They have been in full bloom for nearly ten days, and are very | plenty. There will be plenty of flowers for | Monday next, though in late years, owing | to the use of flags at the cemeteries, 1e demand for them has been growing le: me *¢ ¢ * * I have some reasons for believing,” ob- served an assistant secretary of one of the departments to a Star reporter, “that | there is a likelihood of a revival of the 3 o'clock Saturday order for the summer months. The matter has not progressed far enough to be the subject of considera- tion of the cabinet, though two of the Sec- retaries have mentioned it in an informal manner, and there was a concurrence of ¥s on the subject. Secretary Sherman when Secretary of the Treasury resusci- tated the 3 o'clock closing on Saturdays when he was in President Hayes’ cabinet. It had been the custom during the Grant administrations, except during Gen. Grant's last summer. He found that there was as much work done on Saturdays with the 3 o'clock order in operation as when the hour for closing was at 4 o'clock, which has prevailed during the Cleveland and Harri- son administrations. Secretary Sherman has indicated that he will renew his propo- sition. He has not fixed upon a time, but it Is also understood that unless some other member of the cabinet moves for a longer period he will ask that the 2 o'clock Satur- day order be tried for the Saturdays in July and August.” ae EK “The manufacturers of gloves,” ex- Plained one of the representatives of a leading glove firm to a Star reporter, “are determined, if they can, to make an effort through the pending tariff bill to supply this country with the finer gloves, the ladies’ kid glove. At present by a general consent arrangement, American glove manufacturers have given up the light and tine glove trade entirely to foreigners. Our manufacturers can make the finer goods of gloves as well as the heavy, but somehow they never competed for the trade. There was a time when nine-tenths of all grades of skin, leather and other gloves sold in thts country were made abroad. In the ast twenty years we have so far advanced im glove manufacture that we now conirel the trade in all the heavier or men’s gloves used in this country. We make better gloves and can and do turn them out equel in every respect to ihe foreign-made gloves. Our skin and leather gloves are far ahead of any foreign-made gloves. We think. with the protection afforded in the tariff bill as reported in the Senate, we can more than hold our own in all varieties of gioves, and especially want to get a chance to manufacture the ladies’ Hght grades and the various kinds of kid gioves. Persons fot in the trade have but a crude idea of the enormous quantities of kid gloves im- ported by this country. The duties paid run into millions of dollars each year, there being annually $1,000,000 duty paid on French kid gloves alone. The two cities of Gloversville and Johnstown in New York state are ‘levoted entirely to the manu- facture of gloves. They are connected and are almost one city, They turn out every possible Kind of glove. There are over 200 wiove manvfacturing concerns in this coun- try, and it is the ambition of every one of dies’ kid gloves. The Mc- the glove trade a boom, the Wilson bill and the stringency in the times. The glove trade has felt the hard times more severely than almost any ether, for not more than one person in every hundred who buy gloves need them except that they want to be in the style. As money got scarce those who formerly bought a dozen or more pairs a year re- duced their purchases to one-third the usual number.” ek ee & “This {s the paperhangers’ seasoi gerved a dealer to a Star revorter, ‘and in the history of the trade papers were never as good as they are now or never half as inexpensive. Papers which a few years ago sold from twenty cents to one dollar ® rot! are now selling from six to forty cents a roll. Borders are equally as low Gown in price. Everything is light in color the figures are as little pronounced as possible. For ceilings tinted papers are universally used. The heavy dark and brown papers are entirely discarded. Bor- ders are very narrow and center pieces are seldom used any more. Paperhangcrs are’ supposed to be very wasteful in hang- ing papers, and in many cases this is true. ‘The trouble is that they are paid by the but ratural that they a well as they would desire. Still there is not as much paper wasted as some think, taking ali things into consideration.” kk OK OK OK “The newspapers do not get all the at- tempts at crime, or even the crimes com- mitted,” volunteered a policeman to a Star reporter, “though they get a great many things in that line. I heard-of a job which occurred in the northwestern part of the city some time since which almost suc- ceeded, and which for boldness surpassed anything that I had ever heard of before. The fellow who managed it was an ex- grave robber, and one of the most intelli- gent of his class. He conceived the idea of blackmailing a gentleman who resides in an elegant house up town. Securing the remains of a young woman who had the day before, he carted the to the stable of the gentle- man in question, the stable adjoining the house. It is the habit of the gentleman in question to stay out rather late at night, and it appears the grave robber knew of this. As he was about entering tus house the grave robber spoke to him, telling him that he had information that there was a body of a woman in his stable and that unless he was well paid he would inform the police, and that unless there ‘was a good explanation made it would go hard with the gentleman in question. It happened that the gentleman is very deaf, and he cid not hear all tke things said by the grave robber, though he said he would accompany him to the stable and see if there was any truth in the matter. On opening the stable door the body of the wo- man was found. “The gentlemen said he would go imme- diately and report the matter to the puiice himself. The grave robber tried to explain that the case would sound very ugly, and if he was given a certain sum he would take the body away and thus hush the whole thing up without any exposure. The gentleman in question, who, by the way, is rather aged, could not hear the details cf the demand and hurried off to the nearest police station. The grave robber, finding that his scheme would not work, removed the body before the police officers could arrive at the stable. Of course when the officers did arrive there there was no body to be seen. The whole thing, to them, seemed improbable, and they left the sta- ble with the idea that the gentleman was slightly off in his mind. Matters remained in this way for some weeks, and recently I learned that the grave robber had told of the exploit to a fellow prisoner in the jail at Baltimore. He saw he had never calcu- lated on the gentleman being deaf and that he had to talk so loud in making his demand that he feared some one wo.:ld overhear the conversation. He said he took the body down near the old observa- tory and threw it into the Potomac.” —S A New Mushroom. “A new mushroom not generally known to mycologists and not on the list of our edible fungi, but one that deserves to be in the front rank of that class, has made its appearance in the parks of this city,” said Mr. F. J. Braendle to a Star reporter yesterday. “Professor Charles H. Peck, New Yerk state botanist, and the greatesi systematist of fungi in the United States, gives its name as Clitocybe multiceps, Peck. This white spored agaric seems to be most prolific, more so than any other species. It grows in colonies, singly or in clusters, and often in dense masses. When growing singly some specimens attain a diameter of four inches. Though exceedingly varied in form and of all shades of brown, this furgus is very readily distinguished from the common lawn nail (Dern:ocyhe praecox) and the fairy caps (Marasmius oreades). Usually convex in form agd umbonate or bossed, the mushroom in an advanced state of growth becomes plane and at last con- cave or saucerlike. The short, eccentric stem is robust, always bent, tapers up- ward and is solidly fixed to the cap. The gills or blades are whitish, somewhat crowded, flexible and slightly decurrent— that fs, they are reaching the stem and are also fastened to it. The numerous experiments that have been made to deter- mine the edible qualities of this agaric revealed an unusual degree of merit and excellency. Almost odorless in its nat- ural state, it develops a pleasant odor in cocking and its flavor is not very dissimilar to the imported French champignon. Al- though the fungus has the tendency to become rather crisp in frying. it can ve easily avoided by boiling it first. A care- ful and tasteful cook can make a deli- cious dish in whatever siyle he may choose to serve it, vut even an ordinary and plain stew ith only the addition of butter and flour wil! prove very saiisfactory to lovers of mushrooms.’ ——._—_ A Bullet in His Heart. “It is generally thought that a man can- not live very long after getting a bullet in his Feart,”’ said a South Carolinian to a Star reporter, “but there is an instance on record in my state of a man carrying a bullet in his heart five weeks before death. The matter is fuily authenticated, the post-mortem examination having been made by Dr. Curran B. Earle, a nephew of the late United States Senator Farle. The wounded man was named Tom Fergu- son, and he was shot by a negro named Dock Chaney at Greenville, S. C. Fer- guson lived five wecks, and at the post- mortem examination a 32-caliber bullet was found firmly imbedded in the exterior wall of the heart. The cause of Ferguson’s death was the inundation of the pericar- dial cavity, which impeded the action of the heart, which in plain English means that the cavity surrounding the heart was punctured and flooded to such an extent that the hart was prevented from beating. This carrying a bullet in the heart fs a remarkable case, but the physicians were not able to say, without tedious rescarch, whether it has a like in the medical records or not. A patient, it is said, may live several days with a wounded heart, and a metaphorical wound, however severe, may net shorten his life at all, but the cases, if any, where one carried a bullet in thi sensitive organ su long are few and far between.” - get Not So B: as All That. From Puck. Visitor (in insane asylum)—“What is the nature of that poor fellow’s hallucination?” Keeper--“He thinks ithat he invented the jous terms used by golf players.” Df course it isn’t true?” “Oh, no! He is merely a lunatic, not an idiot!” —EEE—— Business Troubles. From the Chicago Record. “Our new typewriter girl is no help to the firm at all.”* “Why not?” “She writes out the president’ actly the way he dictates them.’ “THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1897-24 PAGES. ART AND ARTISTS. ‘Mr. H. F. Waltman, who came to the city to act as one of the judges in the recent medal contest at the Corcoran Art School, plans to remain for a week or two longer. Since his arrival he has been engaged upon a small portrait of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, and he expects to paint a larger one of her when he goes to London in the fall. Mr. Waltman is well known here, having come to the city to study art in 1889. He worked for a time in the Corcoran School and later at the Art Students’ League, but it was from Mr. 3. Jerome Uhl that he received most of his instruction, and it was in his studio that he first took up portraiture, the branch of art in which he has achieved such a signal success. After about four yeers he left this city to try his fortunes in New York, but not before he had mace a host of friends, who have since watched his steady rise with pleasure. His latest triumph is a portrait of Lady Cunard, which was exhibited some weeks ago at Knoedler’s gallery in New York, and at- tracted widespread attention. The figure is graceful and well drawn and the inter- esting accessories, such as the subdued landseape background and the large plumed hat, help to give it something of the charm which is found in the works of the early English school. Another recent piece of work by Mr. Waltman is a likeness of Mrs. John Philip Sousa, and when ihe artist leaves Washington he will go to Manhattan Beach, where he is to paint a portrait of tne “March King” himself. * * * Mr. E. C. Messer starts for Paxson, Va., today, and will drive up there according to his usual custom. He will conduct an outdoor sketching class, as in former sea- sons, and the picturesqueness of the re- gion will doubtless make it a very popu- jar resort with students. Many of Mr. Messer’s best motives have been obtained in the near neighborhood of the Rose- more cottages, where his studio is located, and every year he finds an endless supply of paintable material. Every one who goes up there practically lives out of doors, but Mr. Messer’s studio is comfortably fit- ted up, so that he and his students can werk there when the weather pre, ents open air study. * x * : Elihu Vedder's mosaic panel, “Minerva,” which he has designed for the landing at the head of the stairs leading from the sec- ond story corridor of the west main en- trance hall up into the rotunda, has just been put in place in the new Congressional Library, and is the last of the great deco- rations to arrive. This mosaic is 15% feet high and 9 feet wide, and represents the heroic figure of the patroness of learning and the arts, not fully clad in her armor of war, but with symbols about her by which Mr. Vedder suggests the dependence of a prosperous, cultured civilization upon righteous warfare. Such symbois are the small statue of tory beside her, the helmet and shield which lie at her feet, the Egis which she still wears and the double-pointed spear carried in her right hand. in the other hand the goddess holds a scroll, whereon are written the names of the principal sciences and arts, and on this she turns her clear, steady gaze. All around are the emblems especially signifi- cant of the subject, the sun of prosperity shining bright above her head, the owl, standing for wisdom, olive trees for peace, and the iaurels of the victor arranged like a vine surrounding the panel. With all this wealth of detail, which is so richiy ex- pressed by the tiny blocks of marble, there fs nothing in the elaboration to take away from the dignity and nobleness of the strong central figure. Mr. Vedder's pen- chant for flat decorative effects renders his art almost perfectly adaptable to the me- dium of mosaic, and his “Minerva” stands before the observer beautiful to the eye and suggestive to the mind as well. The method of making and setting such a mo- saic design is extremely interesting. The artist's cartoon, made full size and in the desired colors, is transferred in sections to thicker paper, which is then covered with a thin coating of glue. A workman then lays (he different-colored-bits of stone face down upon this paper. ‘The wall is then ecvered with a layer of cement and the mosaic applied, after whigh.the paper is soaked. off and the design pounded down evenly and olled. $ * * * Mr... B. Bradford plans to go to New York in a few days, and wil take with him a number of specimens of his work in black and white. The most important piece of work of this kind that he has done is a view of the interior of the Corcoran Art Gallery as it appeared on the opening night, a brilliant scene, presenting many difficulties in execution. Not only was there a complex architectural problem to dcal with, but there were hundreds of fig- ures to be suggested, and many of the hearer ones had to be drawn with great fidelity, being portraits of some of the well- known people who were present on that memorable evening. The interior is viewed from the second story, and the foreshort- ening of the figures on the main floor is very well brought out. Mr. Bradford has been making quite a study of animals, and one of the best of his recent drawings pic- tures a sleepy old horse, turned out to graze. Portraits in black and white oc- cupy part of his attention, and he has re- cently executed several very good heads, both in charcoal and pen-and-ink. * * * Mr. E. H. Miller, whose fine water color portrait of himself was so greatly admired, has recently completed one of Major Powell, which is much approved by the family and the friends who have seen it. It is life size, and shows the thoughtful brow and concentrated expression, which are the distinguishing marks of the scholar and thinker Major Powell is everywhere recognized to be. Besides this well-han- dled water color portrait, Mr. Miller has finished a study of a girl reading, in which he has given a very delicate gaslight effect. The source of the light is not visible, but it falls from behind so that finely penciled shadows are thrown upon the cheek from the tendrils of hair about the face, which also shows the upward reflection from the printed page. * ~* ‘ Mr. Emi) H. Meyer has just completed a Portrait of Mrs. John B. Larner, which is pronounced by alk to be an excellent like- ness, and is about to commence work upon one of Mrs. Stanley Matthews. On Satur- days he has a class in outdoor sketching, with instruction in pencil, wash, water color and in several other médiums. xk A portrait of Mrs. McKinley, mother of the President, by George D. M. Peixotto, is now on exhibition at the Corcoran Gal- lery. It fs a three-quarter length view, showing the subject seated in a chair and dressed in black, the filmy material of her dress having been well indicated by the artist. The face is wonderfully expressive, and carries the conviction of being a strong keness with it. ** In the same room there is a small col- |. lection of old English pictures loaned for exhibition, which is well worth lingering over. The masterly portrait by Romney is especially fine, and the likeness of Viscount Hill, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, is equally. well worth study. In landscape there are two of the half-classic landscapes of Wilson, with their glowing skies, and a latter a more scene by Constable. In sturdy, masculine note is k, and the landscape Renard and Prof. Andrews’ strong picture, entitled “Wat Tyler,” have also been lately placed on view Scope ‘The environs of -* Washington have: sup- piled Mr. Edwin Lamasure with two of. eyes, untib in ane point trees and sky are almost blended in the horizon. i Oe . 1 oe ® * With the Satarday night sketch class, which meets ttifs evening, the work of the Art Studepits’ closes for the year. Many of the ts Jeft the school a week or 90 ago,-and the remainder will mow be scattered for the summer. Out- door sketching qwill take the of cast and life drawing,.and the students will re- turn in the fall: to, take up their work with renewed pleaaure. 1 yk ® Among: the pgintings recently placed on exhibition in the Corcoran Gallery is @ head of a young girl, by Mr. Henry Floyd, which is ‘attracting favorable attention. The artist; whoke home is in Guilford, near London, received his artistic training in Paris, under,Bougereau, Fleury, Gervex and Humbert, and was a fellow student with Hubert Vos, the well-known Dutch painter. Mr. Floyd devotes himself to por- traiture, but not to the exclusion of other branches of peinting. He has. taken a studio here, and hopes to find sufficient encouragement to remain for some time, if not permanently, A Queer Philanthropic Specialty. From the New York Evening Post. A Boston philanthropist has a specialty. He ts Benjamin C. Clark, end attention was directed to hia by his assumption of the enpenses of the defense of Mate Bram, the murderer, other than those paid by the government. Inquiry showed that tne cas? was not an exceptional one, as Mr. Clark has before this performed similar acts of philanthropy at great personal sacrifice. It is his desire that every defendaat, with whatever crime he may be charged, shall be assured a fair and impartial trial, and this he knows can only be obtained by the use of mcney, as there are many necessary expenses attendant on a trial of great mag- nitude which the government will not meet. It is, therefore, possible that a man, for the want of witnesses whose attendanc@ the government cannot compel, but whc will come forward for a money considera- tion, may be condemned for a crime of waich he is innocent. Realizing thi: Clark, without attempting to determi his own mind the guilt or innocence of the accused, feels it his duty, as a man of property, to see that, in so far as it lays in his power, no injustice is done to the hum blest individual. The columns of every day’s paper are scanned by him, and he takes Loies of the names of men, women and children arraigned in the courts. If he sees that they are in need of a friend, he is that friend in a practical and substantia: manner. Girls Expect Too Much of Young Men. Ruth Ashmore in the Ladics’ Home Journal. The average young man is the agreeable fellow who earns enough money to také care of himself and to put by a little for special occasions. But he is not a miilion- aire, and he is not the young man drawn by those illustrators who, in black and white, give us so-called society sketches. A combination of foolish influences makes the girl of today expect entirely too much from the young man of tcday. She reads, or is told, that when a young man is en- aged to be married he sends his flancee so many pounds of sweets, so many boxes of flowers, as well as all the new books and all the new music that may appear each week. If there were more honest girls in tris world—hdfest in their treatment of young men=tHtre would be a greater num- ber of mattiageS and fewer thieves. Yes, I mean exactly what I say. It is the expec- tation cn the part of a foolish girl that a man shoulff'dd more than he canfionestly, that has driven many men to the peritei i more to lives of so-called sirgle blessedriess. oe The Whife House Should Be Enlarged From the Chirago Times-Herald, For neatly tWenty years the fact has been recogiitzed{) by all parties and admin- istrations that fhe White House at Wash- ington is mot large enough to serve the burposes“tf a!presidential residence and an execytl¥e ‘ifiansion. The public offices have trenghed,ypon the living rooms, and @ Presidemé who desires the privacy that y American citizen 1s entitled to must G0 elsewhere to iite or bé subject to tne staring’ pf the public in_big living rooms. The’ buflding * was “ commodious enough when the nation was young. Mrs. John Adams could usé the east room to dry clothes’ In gnd_never,:miss it. When the mansion ~ was burned in,,4814 Presidents Maditon and, Monroe got along very well in much smaller quarters until it was re- built. As the country expanded it an- swered all requirements until after the civil war. But with the increased and growing needs of a people of 70,000,000 it is no longer commensurate, and it is high time that Congress should seriously take the question in hand for its enlargement. The Capitol was long since doubled in its capacity by the adding of two wings, ant none too greatly. The Executive Mansion needs similar additions. Because of its history and associations. the present build- ing ought not to be removed or changed. All the Presidents but one have resided there, from John Adams to William Mc- Kinley. It-Was’fitst called the ‘“President’s Palace,” but later;:when it had to be paint- ed to protect, the, sandstone of which it is built from the action of the atmosphere, it came to be knowh all over the country as “the White House,” from its color. As such it will.be known in history. The most approved plan for its enlarge- ment is the one proposed by the late Mrs. President Harrison. It consists of two wir.gs running south from the east and west sides of the present building, connect ed therewith by quarter circle corridors. These corridors would be sultaple for Statuary and works of art. The facade of the wings would resemble that of the present building. The greenhouses would be placed to the south, and the interior squares thus formed would form a beauti- ful court. ‘This plan is extremely simple and would provide suitable official quarters for gene- rations to come, at the same time preserv- ing intact the present mansion. It would 4 graceful tribate to the memory of the estimable lady who s0 graciously fulfilled the onerous duties of hostess at the White House, and who died there, so widely lamented, to adopt her plan. —___+ e+ ____ Her View. Frem Puck. Clara—“I don’t think Grace cares very much for her husband.” Jesste—“Why ?” Clara—‘Well, he was detained at his of- fice until 8 o'clock: one evening last week and it neyer occurred to her that he might be killed, or somethi A Tiniely Discovery. From the Clevélind“Leader. e ‘They have found another death mask of Napgleon: 4’ , will. keep. the magazines lively thrgueh tke summer. hort excinsively " JOHNSON” Written Exclusively ‘or The Evening Star. An Experiment. “No,” remarked the woman with the rather firmly set lips, ‘‘we won't sell the house; we'll merely rent it, for I think we'll be back before very long.” “Are you going away for a pleasure trip?” “No. We're going away to live. But I don’t think we'll stay more than a few months.” “Don't you like it here?” “Yes. I would be perfectly content to re- main here all my life.” “Why are you going away, then?” ‘It's for my country’s good. I've got to change my husband’s politics. The way he carries on about government ownership of everything and non-interest-bearing bonds and other things too numerous to mention has roused me to the fact that something must be cone. He's one of these people who always take the other side whenever anybody expresses an opinion. At first it was only his good nature. He did it simply to keep the conversation going. Ibut" the habit grew on him and now he talks that way and thinks he's in earnest. I never saw a man get so cross-grained in such a short time.” “But he'll find people to argue with wher- ever he goes. “I know that. But I've found a town out Kansas where everybody holds exactly the same views as he does. I’m going to set him down in that community and let him hear nothing but what has been his own kind of talk for the last six months. I know his disposition, or, at least, I think I do. It inside of six or eight weeks he doesn’t come back an out-and-out high pro- tectionist, gold, single-standard man, I'll give up and say that Jabez Tacker ain't quite the contrary man I gave him credit for being. * * * A Prior Claim. “You musn’t talk that way about Spain,” exclaimed the gentleman who is always anxious to avoid unpleasantness. “You really musn’t.” “What'll happen if I don’t stop it?” the belligerent inquiry. “Why—cr—there’s no telling what may not happen. If you keep on in that way the first thing you know somebody will call you a jingo!” was “Anybody would think that you had some reason to be fond of Spain.” “I have. And so have you. That is wkat I am sorry to see you failing to ap- preciate. Think of what Spain has «doze for this country. “If it's the Spanish onion you’re going to allude to I may as well tell you now that you can’t awaken any sentiment whatev I never eat the vegetable.” “I do not refer to horticulture. I refer to navigation. It surprises me to see that a person of your ordinarily fine feclings can deliberately ignore the career of Co- lumbus.”” “We've treated Columbus all right. There are towns named after him all over the country.” “But what would all his projects have amounted to had it not been for the Queen of Spain. How can you, who are enjoying the beauty and frecdom of this splendid continent, forget the eternal obligation to Queen Isabella under which we rest?” “Of course, I don’t deny that Isabella be- haved like a lady. But it was a iong time a TStill that is no reason why we should not be grateful.” - “Yon know there is no use of trying to claim that Isabella helped Columbus out through affection for the star-spangled banner or the Fourth of July or anything of that kind.” “I am perfectly aware of that. But I ap- preciate what she has done just the same.” “Well, I may ge% around to it in time. But I'm naturally rather slow. When it comes to a question of navigation, I have always been so busy thinking about my personal obligations to Noah for not letting the entire human race get drowned out of existence that I never had time to get as far down in history as Isabella.” * ** A Mclody of Now. “Some day or other;” that’s the burden of the song Which is chanted in the tree-tops when the Junetime comes along; It is echoed in the babble of the laughing rivulet, And its sweetness tints the odor of the subtle mignonette. The nodding flowers applaud him in a mild ecstatic way As the bumble bee comes buzzing varia- tions of the lay. “Some day or other”—it is sounding morn and night; “Some day or other everything’ll come out right.” For the trees were gaunt and leafless a few short months ago, And the silent brook wa: covering of snow, All desolate were spots which blossoms once loved to perfume, And the bee slept like a hermit in secluded haunts of gloom; And aow as they awaken, radiant in the summer glow, They sing it ioud and clear! singing what they know. “Some day or other,” from the valley to the height; pone day or other everything’ll come out gat.” put hidden by the for they're * ** Cruel to Be Kind. Ha is one of the physicians who deny that his profession ought to confine itself to administering drugs and handling surgical instruments. He believes in the power of mind over matter, and frankly confesses to having secured re- markable results in the course of his prac- tice by appealing solely to the imagination. With good practical : sense and an amiable disposition he easily wins the nce of his patients to such an extent that them plain, Ofefact advice, with- out exciting their suspicions. A lady of his acquaintance cail- ed at his office, and, into a chair, maser plaintive- ‘id Fl i i set mean the bicycle?” said the physi- cian. “Yes. It's a beauty. Finest make on the market. Everything right up to date and pretty as a race horse.” “That's what I came to see vou about. You must get her a "9% mode! “Oh, no. I don't care to difference in price.” “That has nothing to do with it. A "95 model is part ef the prescription. She won't notice that it's a last year's ‘wheel at first. In a few weeks she will begin to make comparisons. Then she wili be an- noyed, and when she hes worried herself thin enough over the fact that her bicycle isn’t up to date, you can get her the new ve the small wheel, and let her ride out into the sun- shine as light in spirits as is in avotr- jupol: * x * A Basy Man‘s Bi How the man of plausible manners had gotten access to so many people with money to invest was one of the every- day mysteries of Mfe. A good suit of clothes and an unhesitating flow of clo- quence were the only assets of which his victims could zecall any traces when ticy came to compare notes. And these he had taken with him. His way had the brecz- iness of the west, and, at the same time, the punctilious courtesy of the south. ‘It's the most remarkable discovery of the century.” he had told Mr. Roundoitar. “I have entire control of it. At first I pooh- pooh-ed the idea just as everybody ioes now when I talk about it. Then I sat down and thought of how incredibie the preject to establish the clectric telegraph seemed. Then I drift- ed into contemplation of the marvels of the telephone, the phono- graph and the X rays. I went and locked out of the ~f5 window, from which I could’ see miles of wire devoted to the commercial utilization of ideas which had been at first hailed as the dreams of in- sanity. I fairly staggered as I felt the force of each successive blow to my skep- ticism, and then I said to myself, ‘Perhaps there is something in it, after all.” ” “To what do you refer,” inquired Mr. Rourdollar mildly. “You won't laugh when I tell you, will you?” I give you my word I will not.” a fiying machine.” 'm much obliged to you for telling me about it. But I don't believe 1 care to have anything to do with i.” “It is the crowning triumph of ihe most remarkable inventive era the world has ever witnessed.” “I'm not saying a thing against it. I ‘have not the slightest doub: that it is a very good flying machine—as flying ma- chines go nowadays.” His visitor smiled patiently and proceed- I'm not asking you to invest your moncy on any uncertainty, you know. This is a sure thing. I am Ictting you in on the ground ficor.” “Yes. They look all right on paper, aud there isn’t any excuse in all the books on physics for their not doing exactly as you tell them. But they don't. It’s invariably the same story. You send out your invitations and get the audience and then the machine flounders and falls into a state of collapse before you can get it far enough under way to give it a fair test.” “I wish I could take you for a trip in this one.” “If you could I would buy stock in it.” “Would it satisty you to know that my flying machine traveled all the way here frem Chicaeo?” “Yes. If you can convince me of it.” “There's nothing easier. You know Mr. Ruffedge. If you will walk over to see him, he will corroborate what I sa: “All right. If Ruffedge says it’s a good thing, I'll trust it.” “Till wait here till you get back,” said the prcmoter. Mr. Roundollar walked into Ruff- edge’s office, the latter looked up from his desk and exclaimed, rather impatiently: “I suppose you want to know whether that flying machine came here from Chi- cago yesterday.” “Yes.” “Well, it did. You're the seventh man who has asked me that question today. I'm getting tired of answering it.” And he plurged his nose into his mass of corre- spondence once more. Twenty minutes later Mr. Roundollar had exchanged money for some neatly ex- ecuted engraving on bond paper. In a few days Mr. Koundullar called at Ruffedge's office and taking a chair glared at him with silent reproach for several minutes. “I suppose you're thinking about that flying machine,” said Mr. Ruffedge un- easily. “You're not the only one who has been here this morning. I admit that I ought to have taken more time to explain. But I was very busy that day.” “You said that it had traveled all the way here from Chicago.” “Yes. And it had. The fellow got me so interested in it that I went over to the freight yards and with my own eyes I saw them unicad it from a flat car that had just gotten in from the west.” * A Dream oe AS I often hear about the way the city people pines Fur the cottage an’ the porches where the mornin’ glory twines; ‘They yearn to feel the breezes an’ to see the settin’ sun, An’ to listen to the chorus of the frogs when day is done. An’ the way they talk on flowers makes me blush when I confess ‘That they ain't enough to soothe me in my state o’ loneliness; That, in spite of all folks tell me, both in poetry an’ prose, he I’m e-longjn’ fur the city, where the gold brick grows. T've: noticed strangers tryin’ to make out like it was fun A-trampin’ through the mountains, chasin’ nothin’ with a : ‘ From the Gazette, Medway, Mass. The thriving town of Medway, Mass, bas no more repatabie citizen than Capt. John P. 1. Grant, the carpenter and builder. For months be Was a sufferer from wrecked digestion, loss of mem ory and the keonest of rheumatic pains arising from a life of ambitious Inbor and arduous expos ure as an officer in the late war, and Inter as a U. S. mail carrier. A representative of this paper called on Capt Grant for his story. He met the mewspaper man cheerily, and in bis own honest, simple languace said: “{ was born in South Berwick, Me. Der. 20, 1834, and when two years old moved with my pa rents to Old York, Me. When 16 years old I was apprenticed to a prominent Wullder, Samuel Col cond of Exeter, N. H., to learn the carpenter's trade, with the added privilege of attending Phtl lips Academy, then as now a famous seat of lear ing. { gradaated from there and went to Por land, Me., where I served two years with Mon, Wm. G. Kiniball, a noted builder of the time. “I worked in Newburyport two years ad then catablished myself in business in West Amesbury During ‘his period I was married at Charlestown In 1862 I removed to York, where I enlisted In the U.S. service. I served nearly three yeans, pas ticipated in forty-three battles, some of them the hottest fights of the war; was twice wounded and for a time disabled, and at last was discharged Augusta, Me.. in 1865, “A secured and kept the contract of carrying the mails between York and Portsmouth, N tweive years. I removed to Medway in March, 1887, where I have siuce resided, in business as a carpenter and build)r. 1 have raised a family of ten children, apd have vow a family of six ress jug wits me. “About three years ag with dixey spells, protr frequent as the weeks 1 was suddenty atta ted in duration and nt by. With these tacks came incessant vomiting and spasms of « so that instantiy 4 would fall wherever 1 mi and remain so for some tin: “Soon T was forced to keep in bed, my digestion was wrecked, my basiness was going to pleces and everything lovked very dark. Of course 1 tied ali Kinds of remedies that were recommended, Wat to ho avail, end Taleo went to ® Medical Insiitate in Boston, bur all my expenditare was fruitlows. “Finally 1 secured a bax of Dr. Willaims’ Pink Pills for Pate P ecelved so great rel from the and myself could nd maily aan t the direct benetits, | “I Kept on with ter, beir use and steadily grew th he dizzy attacks leswened and at laxt toi the vomiting has entirely ceased and my gen i has not yet stopped its improve jon is now good, Dr Williams’ Pink cere be ascribed. ath ut *hix was reli It is one of the great ever used by anybody famtly has the same 1 vething bat what it fas dove for me (Signed ‘opt. Gramt will be glad to answer any letteox wit his case, His address is i Medway, Mass. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People contain, condensed form, all the elements necessary give new life and richness to ® pale and sallow checks. In men they effect ical cure in aD cases arising froin mental weerr. overwork or excesses of what nature. Pink Pills are sold fo boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may ts had of all druggists, or direct by mafl from Dr Williaws’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. ¥ he was connected with theatrical enter- prise. He could not be accused of a lack of modesty. It wovld be hard to find a gentleman mcre resigned to self-efface- ment and more industrious in promoting the reputations of other people. It was his sole ambition in Itfe that the public should lesrn the truth, the whole truth and a great deal more than the truth about the merits of the show which he represente:| It would be difficult to regard. a man of such unaseuming and yet noteworthy qua!- ities otherwise than with kindly and defer- ential feclirgs. The newspaper man who had meant to reproach him bitterly found his harshress melting beneath his genital manner like an icicle in che sun, The frown faded from his brow, and what had started as a cyclone of wrath breathed it- self out only as a zephyr of regretful pro- test. ‘ou shouldn't have done it,” paper man sighed. that you shouldn’ “What's the trouble, old chap?” was the query, in tones of sweet innocence. “Has somebody been misrepresenting my behi jor to you?” ‘No. I refer to something the respons the news- “You know yourself and trusted you, lulied me with = turned in and gave my gentile ccnfider nd jab over the solar plexu: ‘ou’re doing me an injustice that if you will give me a chance I o plain everythirg to your satisfaction. “Didn't you write this advance notic your show ?”" “Yes. And I regard it a: an achieve- ment. “It was more than an achievement. It was a triumph. What I object to Is being dragged by tl heels behind your chariot of mendacit; “Come, come, my dear fellow. You know that you're one of the last people in the world I would treat in any such fashion. “Didn't you write this paragraph?” and he produced a clipping which rea “The enieriainment is one of the most remarkable theatrical enterprises that the century has developed. The actors have impressed the public as mo actors have ever done before. Strong men have been visibly moved and women have been found in tears. The company has begun the sea- son under very favorable auspices. Peop’ are being turned away every night. “Well,” said the theatrical man. ‘You can’t find any fault with thet. There isn’t a word of deception in it. I held myself right dowr to a plain unvarnished state- ment of facts.’ “Don’t try to keep up the fraud. I've scen the performance. The idea of calling it one cf the most extraordinary enter- prises of the century “Den’t you think it requires any remark- able firesse, to say nothing of physical courage, on the part of the management to take a bunch of barnstormers like thet out through the country to play them In first-class Uncaters?” “Of course, if you look at it from ‘hat standpoint, I suppose it is extraordinary. And I presume that when you say that the actors impressed the public as no others ever had before, you meant that they were superlative and unapproachable in xactly ‘I'll admit that you have some ground for argiment. But it was no more than tiresome. You shouldn't have gone into detali to the extent of saying that strong men were visibly moved!” “That heppened in Cumberland. It took four policemen to move the men from the orchestra chairs out on the sidewalk.” “And the women in tears?” “They were features of our engagement in Hagerstown. The ladies were members