Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1897, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1897-24 PAGES. for The om Corwin was Secretary of the under Fillmore. he was besieged th Washington | ctnent. The Sec- |} ve him no ene agement, but so | ntly was he stopped even at the | decor of his carriage by the importunities of the applicant, that he d get no rest, and finally. to the applic: “Good morn- ition in his ¢ uu AND yn — northwest, and being an ardent whig and supporter of Mr. Clay he not only showed his colors by displaying the emblems of his party, including a live coon, but employed a drummer and fifer to’ play by the hour ‘Rally, Whigs,’ ‘Tippecanoe,’ ‘Clay and Frelinghuysen’ and similar tunes. Messrs. and Mackey were the musicians, very afternoon and evening they 11d, to the delight of the crowd, pound and blow these old tunes, sometimes the crowd singing the words. ‘Rally, Whigs. the taking tune, a stirring, martial air, and to this day we frequently hear the strains. Though I have never been aught but a democrat, I have always admired the old tune, and as it was abont the best thing left by the old whig party when it went out of business, there is no reason why new (and non-partisan) words should not be recast to the old tune, for a national | hymna” Oe KK OK “That some of the old-time stores of hington kept a little of everything could be caHed for,” says an old- * at the fod fe steps, he said, “Mr. py dedeea — I iive you a place, | timer, “we old folks have only to recall SS soa State nas Jong as 1| Ailer’s, on 7th street rorthwest, and Se ee Clark's, on 4% street southwest, and some am in the department?” e Es “If you so desire 1 will, Mr. Secretary, was the Well, hen. ‘The only way to put you out of . and reaching tment quickly man to report nent, with dire joved in that section. . Corwin said that that man’s patience perseverance deserved a reward, but | sight he could not bear long ee ee * Corwin was noted as one cf the best orators of the day. When asked he had ever been taken down, he y a man who had the patie of Job (referring to his South Washington man) and once by one who played him a shabby trick.” lie then related that while speaking in a large western city when a number of ladies were seated on the platform behind him he heard some one remark: “You Wouldn't talk so highfalutin’ if you knew how big a rent yeu have in your trousers.” Having on a short coat and knowing that many ladies were there, he threw his hands behind him, felt in vain for the rent, but found that the thread of his dis- course disappeared as it dawned on him come comfort is aid the Secrecar: room, he hi out and se to ke stump once if replied, “Yes, once: that he was the victim of a political trick. ee ee E An interesting inauguration experience was told t other evening by a Washing- ton lady who entertained during inaugura- tion week a Philadelphia school ma’am. She went to the Capitol with a friend who Imission tickets. There in some way became separated. She made her way ; man stood near, and, her being to see the oath administered, 1 him if he could not help her to 1 on a window sill. He effered to as- but just then several men climbed ‘indow. The colored man then ld fix it, and he lifted her gently } oulders, from which coign of van- had a full view of the ceremony. Paving him a quarter for his services, she was soon on her way back to her school in the friendly city. to tell the pupils what she saw of the inauguration. eee eH “The revival of that once popular piece ‘Ben Bolt, through Du Mau- has carried us back to the ocr boyhood.” says an old citizen. ‘Roll en, Silver Moon,’ and ‘Love <' ‘Meet Me by Moonlight’ were the fa- vorites with the numerous glee clubs of the city. These, with the negro melodies, ‘Oli Folks at Home,” ‘Massa's In the Cold. sist into the saif he tage Cold Ground,” ‘Old Kentucky Home’ and t . had their day years ago. But when | the onee familiar strains strike our ears | there come= up the remembrance of the days wh George Taylor, Greenup, John Bob Ball were Some of ¢ also bh n Star bold an- old-time patric ir day, such as comme: nein, them, the North Point ckson's V y." It is doubtful if they would be re cognized ow. Itist that with the na- ticral songs of old t Were som> that had little musteal or literary merit. The | popula: ar Spangled Banner’ and ‘Hi: s proof of the sur most and “ru sntiment, his m the Ameri- John Kennedy do now. in m. gers | of ‘olks’ are programs | mostly of church it seems to | me that if seme manager would get up a com t In which the e Z3ram would include the songs of our fath-rs and grand- fathers it would draw a- big audience of the gray and t ulds, to nothing of the young folks. ee *# eK & “One of the old tun now and then uck by a drum cor remarked an old | is “Rally, Wh made popular in k-Clay campaign of “44. Then Mr. | Donoho conducted a grocery at the St corner of 7th and D_ stree Hl PRESENCE Frem the Fliegemle Blatter, OF MIND. cthers of fifty years ago. They were known as grocery stores, but hardware, paints, oils ard glass, toys, crockery, drugs and medicines made them veritable variety stores. It was an ordinary occurrence for Wagers to be made that nothing could be nzmed that could rot be found at Ailer’s, or, at least, something which would ap- swer the purpose. It is related that one of the clerks was asked if they had second- hand pulpits in stock, and before he could swer the prietor, remarking that he thought he had, led the way to the cellar, and, brushing away the dust and cob- webs, disclosed an old-fashtoned pulpit, also some other church furniture from a neigh- boring church, which was being remodeled at the time.” ee ek KK “People outside of the service have but an Imperfect idea of what it costs an offi- cer to keep up his stock of regimentals or uniforms,” observed a naval officer to a Star reporter. “There is an idea in many sections that the government pays for the uniforms of officers, as it does for soldiers and sailors, but officers know to the con- trary, to their cost. Recently I made an inventory of my traps in the way of uni- forms, hats, sashes, &c., and I found that it stood me, including my sword, at be- tween seven hundred and eight hundred doilars, and I am by no means extrava- gant or as well provided for in this regard as many others above and below me in tank. For my dress trousers, including the gold stripe, I paid the last few weeks $2, and I know other officers who have paid even more for theirs. Army and naval offi- cers make no complaint against the officers of the various militia organizations so closely copying their uniforms: but they seriously object to officers of non-military bodies copying the same. “ Strangely enough, there is no law which prevents this copying. and if one of the yeer-drink- ing sovial clubs of Cincinnati, Chicago or any other city shou!d adopt the uniform of the admirals of our navy, or our generals, there Is no law to prohibit it. Ther are several organizations of this kind, and the tendency of them is to lower the dignity of the service, at least in the eyes of out- siders. Things are managed differently abroad. Only recently, at a yacht race in Cowes, England, the officers of the yacht club in some particulars closely copied the uniforms worn by officers of the royal navy. The attention of the British naval offictals was called to it, and there was a stop put to it instanter. Should such a thing be done in this country it would raise a howl from one end of the land to the other.” KR OR Ok “There will be no more heard of the Jap- anese bicycle,” remarked a bicycle agent to a Star reperter, “which was to be sold at a low price, for the reason that under the new tariff act it is simply shut out by the duty which is not only laid on the com- pleted wheel, but also on all of the parts. There was much more talk in this con- nection than there was foundation for it. The Japanese, or, as far as that is con- cerned, other any comaete with us in turning out bicycle: ‘Indeed, it has been demonstrated by this season's sales, as is evidenced by the r reports which are constantly be- We can meet any bic in their own territery. all the foreign made wheels is that they are far too heavy in con ion, and I doubt if they could find a market in this country even if there was no duty levied uvon them. The bicycle trade, however, is un- dergoing a setback, which is the reason why the cuts are being made in the prices. It will end up all right, though, for there will be a steady Increase in the demand for them. The wheel has come to stay, though the pneumatic tire h probably seen its best day. The wheel of the future will have a cushion tire. Riders are tired of pumping up their tires and long for the old-fashioned cushion tire, which is sure to come back. They are so glad to get rid of the rezor edge tire that they willing- ly used the pneumatic tires. The cushion tire will, of course, weigh somewhat more, but there will be no such thing as a punc- tured tire when it is ready -to be put epon the market again. The: are already a half dozen patterns and grades being ex- perimented with, though any of them itors even » drawback to is superior to the pneumatic. The cush- icn tire will cost less than the pneu- matic, and the price of all wheels will teadily decline,-as the sewing machine did, until a bottom price is reached, which will eventually be less than one-half of the original price.” “Thunder and lightning! there 1s our first helmets lieutenant coming, and we were to wear today!" “Now, heads up, quick!!" UNCLE TOM'S GRATITUDE Uncle Tom got to town early yeseterday morning. The locusts were already buzz- ing in the trees about his cabin when he started forth, though the sun was. scarcely above the horizon, giving warning of the hot day to follow. ‘De lurkus he know it gwin ter be hot,” he said as he hung his brush over his shoulder and shuffled along the road. There was a lot of work before him in the city. It was the day for “tatin’” ashes from the back shed of his best patron ard there was a job of whitewashing to be dore. Uncle Tom is getting very feeble. The time was when he would bask in the sun all day and its burning rays could not add a darker tinge to his bare back. Then he was nothing but a little pickaninny. His hair is as kinky now as it was then, but it is white, and his head shakes as he walks, with feeble step and bended back. He has to work for the hoe-cake and herring, and he has a little cabin over the river where there are a lot of little pickaninnies who remind him of what their grandfather was years ago. The old man totes ashes and does odd jobs of whitewashing in the city during the day, and lugs home his Ifttle store of provisions at night. The warning of the locust was not mis- leading. The day was a scorcher. Uncle Tom toted ashes all the forenoon and then Was out in the sun the rest of the day whitewashing the shed and the back fence. When the day’s work closed he said that somehow he did not seem to stand work as he used to. As he turned his steps tow: the Long bridge it seemed as if the dis- tance had grown greater during the da: The streets seemed to have grown nai rower ard the houses on either side looked very tall and seemed to sway and totter. I speck it’s one of them thar yearth quakers a-coming,” he muttered. Suddeniy it got derk, and the old man sank to the Pavement and rolled over into the gutter. His eyes were closed and he breathea heay- ily. Some little children playing under a tree ran away and told their parents that there was a drunken man lying in the street. Two or three women poked their heads out of the neighboring windows, and the children began to gather in a group timidly at a distance. The old man lay there, the sen shining in his face, and his breathing became“ mcre and more la- bered. Presently a gentleman, who was sitting in his library enjoying the comfort of his dressing gown and slippers, while he read The Star and ned away the recollection of a hard day’s work at his office, looked lazily out the window. He saw a group of children forming a circle around a pile of rags in the street. Then he saw that the rags covered an old negro. Hurrying out, he took the old man’s head on his knee and bathed the old black face and loosened the ragged old coat from his shoulders. Then the gentleman’s wife came out with cemphor ¢nd with ice, and the two knelt down in the dusty street, bathing the old man’s face and head and rubhing his rough black hands. It was a long time before the olé man showed signs of consciousness, but after a while he opened his eyes, and presently was able to rise and to wall by learning heavily on the gentleman's shoul- der. He wanted to get to the Alexandria cars, so as to go home to his cabin in Vir- ginia. The gentleman assisted him. Tie two walked laboriously down the street to- ward the Long bridge station, with all the children in the neighborhood flocking be- hind, the number increasing at every block. The old man’s arm hung around the gen- tleman’s neck, the ashes and whitewash on his ragged sleeve making a mark on the dressing gown, and the gentleman’s arm was around the negro's waist, it being nec- essary to support him as he walked. When the old man was helped up the high steps of the cars he turned to his ben- efactor. a “I speck dat was a sho nuf sunstroke, he said, and then he added: “Deed I's grateful to yo’. I's got a chick- er I's goin’ to fetch yo’ saon’s I comes in again.” Se ee DELICATE MAINSPRINGS. Very Quick to Feel the Effects of Heat and Cold. Mainsprings are very much like peo- ple,” remarked a New York watch maker recently to a writer for The Star. ‘They are as susceptible to extremes of heat and cold as human beings. When the thermom- eter is hovering around the freezing point or dancing away up in the nineties the sen- sitive little mainspring will succumb just as easily to freezing or sunstroke as man. “During the hot weather of the past month I have received ovef four hundred watches which required new mainsprings, and other jewelecs have had as many or more timepieces which needed similar re- pairs. You see, this uncertain plece of mechanism is supposed to be adjusted to meet the various degrees of temperature, but when the changes are great and come suddenly there is nothing that can prevent them from snapping. Many are made in Switzerland of the very fi t quality of solutely flawle y often the in detect a bad spring be- putting it in a watch either by its or the softness of its spring. These have been too tightly tempered in making, and instead of being subjected merely to a red heat the fire has been brought to white heat, thus weakening the strength of the metal. “The finest watches that are handled by reliable dealers in the United States sre put through a ‘cooking and freezing’ pro- cess before they are sold, for the pw of testing their reliability in all tempera tures. The watch is first placed in a little metal box, which is made air tight. Then strong gas flame is turned on the under surface of the box, and is kept there for one or two hours, so that the watch is so hot at the end of that time that it could not_be touched with the bare hands. “From this it fs immediately taken and put into another metallic box, which is buried in a vessel containing ic There the costly watch is allowed to freeze for an equal length of time, when its treatment ceases, and the examination is made. If during this excessive test the watch has ticked merrily on without deviating a fractional part of a second, it is put back in the case and marked guaranteed for two years.’ The mainspring is the first pic: of mechanism that succumbs to the test. 1f it survives nothing need be feared. ‘Mainsprings are, however, about the enly part of a watch that a jeweler can- not successfully diagnose. They can guar- antee any of the numberless little wheels or pivots or balances that go to make up the anatomy of the watch, but the main- spring has as yet baffled the most skillful akers of watches of all countries. It is not so much the severe extremes of the weather that prove fatal to the spring as it is the process of changing from heat to cold, er vice versa. Many people who have been the pos- Se: sors of new watches but a short time often come to me much annoyed, declaring that they have paid a large price for their timepieces, and the malaspring has broken after only a week's use. 5 ‘That is nothing,” I tell them. ‘We Jers have them snap in our cases be- the watch has even been shown for Others imagine that they might have wound their watches too tight, but this does not harm it. It fs rather the Jerky, hurried winding that will eventually tell on the temper of the metal. Besides, every good stem-winder has a stop placed in the stem which prevents the winding of @ watch teo tight. “The cost of a new mainspring is small. It is the putting them in the labor ex- pended that costs. It costs from $12 to $15 to put a mainspring in the finest Swiss watch, while in a cheap American make it costs only from 50 cents to $1. “A gentleman purchased a $250 waich from me about a year ago and shortly after he left New York on a tour around the world. He returned about three weeks ago, brought his watch back to me and Paid me thts compliment: ‘Here’s a watch,’ said he, ‘that I paid you $250 for a yea ago, and while T was traveling around it lost three minutes. You guaranteed it and 1 want you to make ft goed.’ The watch was placed in my window with this card beside it: “ “his watch lost only three minutes in year in a tour around the world. Price, Did you sell it?’ “Yes, within two days.” E = —_——. Suddenly Set Loose. From the Chicago Re ord. “My typewriter girl complains that in this hot weather her hand sticks to the paper and her back sticks to the chair—"~ “Yes?” “But you ought to see her get up and tly when the clock strikes 6.” we ‘The world's brighteest Stains, tables e ipped Libbey Thia “trate tuark Ia''eat "oa tho gen: A REALISTIC PICTURE. Photograp! ga Tiger in the Very Aq® of Springing. “Speaking <i ‘eealistic pictures of ani- mals,” {id af New York dealer in wild beasts @ writer for The Star, “I re- call seeigk In India about two years ago a tiger pN@tographed under very exciting cireumstancess A party of natives were going about in Ragpootana with a full- grown Bghgal tiger, which they had tamed, as they gPalled it. What they really did, however#s was Ao keep it tightly roped by all four } amd by the neck, and each man heldion by muin ferce to a stout rope. In this Way they led the tiger, or the tiger led them, as jyou please, from place, to Place ow exhibition. : “Well, §E th@course of their wanderings,” continued-the dealer, “they came to a vil- lage neaY Bombay, where a photographer rappened to Be passing through, and he hearit-g of the strange company sent for them. “Now, about the only performance that the tiger 4a particularly savage beast) | y, had in his repertoire was Killing animals, and it occurred to the artist that an in- Stantaneous photograph of the great brute in the very act of striking down its victim Would make an interesting picture. So ar- rangements were made. A full-grown buf- falo was procured and taken out to the edge of the jungle, where it was tethered with twenty-five feet of rope to a stake. “The photographer took up his station on foot outside the radius of tne animal's PHILANDER, © JOHNSON ritten Exclusively for The Evening Stag, The Cieada. When July is mos’ done melted, Runnin’ into Augus’ fast, An’ de biazin’ sky has pelted Him wif heat “um firs’ to last, +I quits tryin’ A-denyin’. Dat I's sorrorin’ an’ sighin’. tether and:the tiger was then brought up | When, in troubles so suhprizin’, on the opposite side and shown its vic- tim. At once it jixed its dreadful, glaring eyes on the doomed creature. Its lips curl- ed back in a hideous snarl, and it began to move stealtmly toward the buffalo. The ropes were then one by one slipped off, and there twenty yards apart stood the two beasts. But ihe buffalo gave no sign of fright or even consciousness of any danger. “Ii simply stood staring in a helpless sort of fascination at the advancing brute. At first the tiger had crouched, but now it stood erect, and, with restless tail, and teeth all flashing out of the red gums, sterred slowly forward across the inter- vening space. Foot by foot the interval between the buffalo and death—cruel, re- lentless, inevitable—was diminished. ' Yet the great»horned beast never stirred. Its eyes were fixed on the tiger's. Its breath came quick and hot from its nostrils. Once ard again, and once more, the beast of Irey paced on—and then stopped. It was Within striking distance. “The buffalo’s sides were now heaving | Wishingto: rapidly, and its terror was audible in its panting. And then, quick as a flash of lightning, the great striped body was launched through the air. There was a dull sound as it struck the buffalo, and, as if smitten by a thunderbolt, the nuge animal, its neck broken by the blow of th= tiger's forearm, fell. At this moment, ‘this indefinable point of time, the artist touched the trigger of the spring shutter, and in| Worth five hundred thousand, he the fraction of a second the picture was on his plate—the tiger in the act of striking. And none too soon, for, before the hand could slip in another slide, the buffaio’s knees bent beneath it, and the dead hulk fell. The tragedy was complete.” “And the photographer?” “He had some trying moments. Indeed, there were times when it looked as if the tiger preferred the srtist to the beef; and, had the victim retreated to the end of its tether, the beast of prey would have been as near the one as the other. But it was a_tame tiger, you know, and so tne pho- tcgrapher got his picture. “Neither alive ror dead was the huge victim scen at the exact moment of time when it was sinking under the weight of its dreadful murderer. Swifter even than Geath itself, the sensitive plate seized the reflection’of the collapsing buffalo before it had time to die, and though the end was, humanly speaking, instantaneous, the one beat of the heart that intervened between the awful blow of the tiger's paw and its victim's actual surrerider of existence suf- ficed for the artist to catch and fix with unerring fidelity the attitudes of the slayer and the slain,” —_—._ A GOOD STORY OF CLAY. Me Was Very Confident of Election in “8 78) «1844, “Thereinever was a more disappointed candidate: for the presidency than Mr. Clay was in 1844,” says one who knew him, “for he fully ‘expeeted to tenant the White Houre from 1845 to 1849. He was then on his third,run for the presidency, and had long been the idol of his party. In his first run, against Jackson and Joha Quincy Ad- ams, in 1824, he received less than 50,000 votes; in his second, against Jackson, in 1832, over half a million, and in his third run he received in a total popular vate of 2,640,000 votes, within 40,000 of a majority over Mr. Polk. Thus he had much ground for hope, ard hig friends, both here and throughout the country, were certain of his election. In fact, that being the day for news by. slow mail, it was a week before his defeat was acknowledged, and several times was the victory (?) celebrated by the burning of bonfires. I was then employed a3 a messenger boy in the old Intelligencer office, and by that means I came to know Mr. Clay, frequently being sent by Mr. Gales and Mr. Seaton with messages to him. Sometimes I found him at the ¢ tol, but generally at his rooms in the bu ing at the northwest corner of Sth and Market space, the site now occupied by Mr. Wm. H. Hoeke. At his rooms ke was friendly with me, and seemed pleased with the manner in which I performed my duties. “One day he said: ‘My lad, when I be- come President. I will do something for you. I want you to come to see me at the White House.’ “Why, Mr. Clay,’ I responded, ‘how will I get to see you when your doors are guarded?” “Sure enough,’ remarked Mr. Clay, pick- ing up a card, on which he wrote ‘Admit Mr. H. Clay. he said: ‘Take care of it, and it will pass you. Be sure to come.’ “I fully expected to have occasion to use it, but, like Mr. Clay and thousands of others, I was disappointed. I have had the card for over half a century, and have treasured it as an evidence of Mr. Clay’s good intentions.” —--—_ joncommittal. Written for The Evening Star by Cy Warman. ght. 1897, by Cy Warman.) “Who made the ruse on the rese bush? “God made the red rue tree, ‘The little girl answered me, “Who made the thorn on the rose bush?” The little girl bowed he: With a troubled frown, a: cast down: “Gol made the rose,"” she said. “Who made the sand at the senside?” “God mad* the sands of the sei And the waters bh nd the fishes, too,"” The little girl answered me. “Who made the dudes by the seaside?’ ‘The little girl raised ber bead; With the faintest smile on her face the while, “Well! God made the sand,’" she said. pe parr ed ou want anything, try an ad. in The atareiir unyDody haswuat youtwisi you will get #1 answer. oe = “And what is to be the subject of your | Wahtah.” ture tomorrow night, professor?” “Well, my dear young lady, I can hardly hope it will have much interest for you. I shall lectureom ‘Sun set I koks roun’ fch sympafizin’, Den I hyuhs 'im, gay an’ free, Mistuh Bug up in de tree, Singin’ an’ makin’ fun o’ me. I could stan’ de way I's wiltin’ An’ a-wishin’ foh de night, Ef, upon dat twig a-tiltin’, He wa'n’t laughin’ at de sight. Land o’ naticns! How’s my impatience Gwineter stan’ sech aggravations? Dishere cup o° grief I'd swaller Smilin’, ef he wouldn't holler; Ef he'd only lemme be— Mistuh Bug up in de tree, Singin’ an’ makin’ tun o’ met me A Cynicism, ry interesting,” remarked Willie “to watch the attentions of Mr. Goldseek to the ladies.” He is very discriminating,” commented Miss Cayenne. “He divides up his time in the mcst methodical manner. If the young woman is werth two hundred thou- sand dolls: he passes ten minutes with her whenever he meets her. If she is makes it twenty minutes or half an hour, provided she does not run aw: If it is above the million mark, he takes off the time limit and she has to yawn in his face to get rid of him.” “He was more hcpeful than usual when I last talked with him.” “Has Miss Oilriz at last consented to listen to him?” “Yes. He told me that he found her very interesting. Of course, that must be a figure of speech.” “Why “Because their “Ke is ve conversation couldn't amount to much. Everybody knows that courtship is made up of sweet nothings By the way, | wonder what ‘sweet noth- ings’ are. “The case you have just mentioned gives a very clear example,” said Miss Cayenne. “I don’t cuite see how.” “Have you a pencil and a pi “Yes.” “Set down the figures ‘31,000,000. ” ‘There you have it.” e of paper?” SEin uu have the dollar mark.” “Certainly. 3 “Next comes the figure one.” Yes.” Well, what follows are the sweet noth- ings.” Plodding Pete sat upright to watch the contortions of his companion in idleness. “What in de name of all dat’s fit ter drink are ye doin’? he inquired, with as- tonishment. “Tryin’ ter see me back,” was the reply. “What fur?” “I'm apprehensive.” “Are ye thinkin’ the P'lice 1s goin’ to ree- ognize yer by a strawberry mark?" “Ye don't keep up wit de ne Pete. Looky-here,” and he handed him a rough- ly torn section of newspaper with grease spots on it. “Well, I-don't see have a_hydrophoby ef ye do git hydro- t break out on yer back. ye know what a sound sleeper I Ye're mighty dffferent from me in dat respeck. I git so nervous sometimes dat I can’t re 0” doors, ‘cause de growin’ of de ig tickles me feet “Do ye tink it ‘ud be possible for any animal ter come sneakin’ in on me at night widout wakin’ yer up?” “Certainly not. “Mebbe, den, it's all right. But wid as sound a sleeper as I am it’s hard ter be certain. It ain't reasonable ter believe a mad dog could come rubber-shoein’ his way up an’ bite me in me sieep. But whenever I netice how I hates de sight of water, I Handing it to me, ! tells ye, Pete, I can't help bein’ uneasy.” * x * The Vagrant Musician. Oh, where is the Piper of Hamlin Town, And where are the little children all » Spite of each parent’s warning frown, Went following fondly at his cali? And we pause at the sound of a far refrain, And we whisper, “Perchance, he is here again! Then we turn away, and we sigh and say, “It is only the street piano’s lay. Unbidden his melody he brings, This troubadour with the face so tanned, And a mocking glance at the world he flings, As twilight magic enthralls the land. A sinister look steals across his face, As some old-time grudge seems to leave its trace, And his garments flutter with colors gay In time to the street piano’s lay. The children hasten and leave their games, And follow with joyous, dancing feet. The subtle spell of his music claims A host that increases from street to _ Street. And even theeelders forget to chide The trust that is placed in so strange a guide, And half are tempted themselves to stray At the call of the street piano's lay. Out of the daylight of careless glee, Into the darkness of doubt and years, They hurry, with frolicking footsteps free, From a world of laughter to one of tears: And, some day, we'll scarce believe this crew Is the-bevy of children that once we knew; And we corrow to see them dance away From youth, to the street piano’s lay. * a+ A Bit of Advice. “T s'pose,” said the old colored man, a3 Erastus Pinkley halted at the shanty door, “dat you wants ter borry 10 cents.” “Dat’s de way yoh allus does, uncle,” was the reply, in a tone of injured tnno- cence. “Yoh gocs ahaid an’ makes up yoh mind wifout waitin’ ter learn de facks. I doesn't wanter borry no M0 cents. What I wants ter borry is a half 2 dolluh.” “Whah is all yoh good clothes?" “I done tranracted ‘em.” “How_did yer?” : “A gemman down town tol’ me dat ef I'm bring 'em dowa he tzke ‘em in a business transaction; so I transacted ‘em off foh a razzer an’ a bull pup an’ a dolluh an’ a “An’ how much has yoh got lef?” “De bull pup.” “Whah's de dolilub an’ a quahtah an’ de rarzer?” Spots. : “Oh, but that's of the greatest interest “I had er frien’ dat tol’ me whah I could to me. I shall certainly come. You've no | bet on-a hoss dat he said wah sho’ ter win. idea how 1 suffer from freckles: So I. trancacted de raszer foh seventy-five cents, an’ I put de two dollars up—an’ it ain’ got down yit. A “Yoh misfortures ain’ no ‘scuse foh yoh not hadbin’ mo’ neatness. Yoh go git yoh- se’f a baf an’ a clean shirt an’ I'll ‘bout dat fifty ce Yon means 1, but yoh cocs mate, Yoh msapplies yoh am- bations. Git. yoh S straightened out scnny. De trouble wif you is dat you de got confuse. Be a plunger all yoh wan.s ter at de bathin’ beach; but Jon’ go "ma irin’ you's in de Swim at a hoss race.” * * * 5 A Protest Indorsea. As the excursion boat left the wharf a baby began to cry. Its mother endeavored | to comfort it.into silence, but the wail con-! tinued, to the great annoyance of a young man with large hands and a small mus- tache, “He doesn’t feel at all we the mother explaired to an elderly woman, who was sitting near her, “and I thought the cool breeze might do him good.” “Of course it will,” was the sympathetic hearty reply. “Let him ery if he wants to. It'll open his lungs wide and give him the full benefit of the fresh air.” But the young man with large hands and a small mustache was of a different mind. “It's a pity,” he remarked, apparently in cenfidence to a friend, but loud enough to be heard by all, “that people don’t know better than to bring babies on an excur- sion. It’s no place for them. ‘The baby’s mother looked grieved, and the new-found friend looked defiant. When the boat landed that night at the! wharf, the elderly woman handed the baby } to its mother and hurried awa: as to place herself in front of the youth with la ‘ge hands and a small mustache. “Young man,” she said, “I want to com- pliment you, “What for?” “For having so much mors sense thar. 1} Rave you credit for. Earlier in the day 1} heard you say that people had no business | to bring babies on board an excursion boat I Kind of thought you were wrong at first: | but I'm prepared to acknowledge you hit} the nail on the head.” “Babies are too young to know how to / behave,” he commented a little doubt- felly. “It takes a lot of training.” “That's just it. A baby can’t be expected to smoke bad cigars and holler who sells soft drinks, and sing “Just ‘Tell Them That You Saw Me” off the key, and snuggle their heads on somebody's shoulder | t the boy | and talk kening foolishness about | “Whose “ums is 097" loud enough for ev | body to hear. I kept my eye on you, and I own up that you knew what you wi talkin’ about when you laid down the law that babies are out of place on excursions. * xe Rafferty Wants Reform. “Rafferty,” said Mr. Dolan, after a long, contemplative stlence, “they're gone.” “Who's gone?” “The Sinnit an’ the Hocse iv Ripprisinta- tives. They've passed the tar’ff an’ got out iv the way, so’s ty give the good toime: a clane road wid no obs‘ickles intill it.’ ‘ell me, Dolan this be the traf they fi an tree or four months ago they’re only gettin’ it fin- it wor a particklar can’t take a " sling it tygether as if it wor a shanty fur some o' the riff-raff. It takes a greddeal iv practice ty make wan o' thim. p Worsht iv it is thot in the major'ty the people ingaged Is obliged ty git all their practice an the tar'if they happen hov in hand; which is cale'iated ty kape the job from bein’ hurri “Yis,” replied Rafferty. “An’ it goes ty show the smallness iv the governmint. Be puttin’ a lot iv green hands an the work, iz saves the proj d labor. . There's no But it mai they do tt all the sam ge. mean ty say they git paid fur the toime they put in sittin’ an the sofas doin’ nothin’ ?" “To be sure.” ““An’ fur atin’ in the resht’rant?” 5 no difference whether that or th’ other, the money's be fur playin’ sivvin up an’ tetl- " funny shtories.” “There's no way iv compinsation. “Dolan, yez hov a mistaken impressi Listen a bit an’ O'll set yez roight. fur it’s @ question Oi've paid close attintion to. Havin’ nothin’ bether ty do, wan day, Oi wint ty Congress—”" “Thot’s how many interjected Mr. Dolan. be way iv undershtamdin’ betther what wor goin® on inscide, Of asked a man at a door how much a day did them peo- ple thot worked there get. He wor very accommodatin’, an’, afther takin’ a pencil an’ a piece iv paper an’ figurin’ some, he answered me thot they'd average about thirteen dollars an’ sivinty-foive cint though some iv ’em, be kapin’ their eyes cpen an’ bein’ extra sharp, moight make ; an’ thin he ert though fur what : Oi happened ty shtep insoide just as wan o’ the ripprisintatives got up. The toime-kaper, sittin’ up at the desk, gev ’im the. nod ty begin. An’ he opened up wid great power. But he kep’ at it only a little whoile. Figurin’ ‘is pay at thirteen dollars an’ sivinty-foive cints fur a day’s work iv eight hours, he didn’t earn more thar a dollar an’ a quarter all the toime Oi wor there, although he wor up an’ down siveral times. Rut there wor wan felly that whin he got shtarted helt an ty his chance fur all "twas worth. It looked a bit loike silfishness fur ‘im ty mono’plize the field, an’ a good many if the min thot wor waitin’ their turns kep a-lookin’ at the clock wid growin’ indig- nation. Oi wor about ty lean over the railin’ an’ holler fur fair play whin the thought cem ty me moind thot mebbe it wor a case iv necessity. ‘No,’ says Oi ty meself; ‘lave ‘im alone. Sometoimes a man’ll seem mane in ‘is business fur the sake iv providin’.as he ought fur ‘is fam‘ly at horac. Mebhe he mades the money ty go marketin’ wid. 2 “The toime-keepex half closed ‘is eyes an’ seemed ty inj'y the rest. He must be a moighty smart man, chat toime-kaper, ty hold his pay roll straight, the way thim cuttin’ down their iv ‘em gits ty be His every-day life calls for great physi cal endurance, and upon some occasions ing business man if he could turn cow- bor for a couple of months cach year. It would give him a chance to get the free, pute 4 the prairi + his longs, a little steel into his muscles, a little edge to his ap- petite and a litle of the calm of the boundless plains into his nerves. Unfortunately, the rush of modern business will not permit the aver- age hard working business man to turn cow- boy even for a short time each 4 only resource left him, if he does not wish to break down prematnrely, is to keep a watchful eye upon his health, and when he finds that he is getting out of sorts, let up a little on work, and resort to the best of all known tonics. That tonic is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It promptly puts a worked out man into condition, be- Cause it starts at the right place. It begins by restoring the lost appetite. It corrects all disorders of the digestion and makes the assi tion of the food perfect. It invig- orates the liver. It purifies the blood and fills it with the life-giving elements of the 5 the great blood-maker and fle builder. By enriching the blood it nour- ishes and builds up every organ and tissue in the bedy. No man ever b'oke down with tervous exhaustion or proctration who re sorted to this great medicine when he felt himself threatened by il!-health., Au honest dealer wil! not urge a substi- tute. There is nothing in the world “just as good,” although avaricious drug- gists will sometimes say so for the sake of the greater profit to be made upon the inferior article. Keep your head up and your bowels open. The “Golden Medical Discovery” will put steel in ae backbone, and Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets wili cure constipation. said Mr. all ye've Dolan, “Oi wouldn’ been tellin’ me fur ty be able ty add ty yer hiore iv knowledge.” “An’ thot’s what ye've done. Thanks ty you, Ofm gitt idee iv how mu hturtlin’ knowledge a man kin hav subject he Knows nothin’ at the rayson the world goes Take the man thot hov shtudie the subject he discusses, an’ noi yell go ty slape whoile he let me chatterin’ iaddy id iv a lie nor iv exp ss in gin- eral gits as twi Let me tell this Ving now, before ye talk some mo: an’ make me furgit it. A sinniter or a rip- prisintitive gets so mu oom ter what happ way he kin ki om gittin ane ty the tar'ff con- thrack out these?” ed Raffert min wid all thot timptetion ty an the jo Wull, onyhow, it proves what Oi've aiw: id. It goes ty show the govermint ain't run reight. Reg- lar w. give a man a feelin’ ive ce = dence curity; but they're lolkely ty make jow. If OF wor in’ out a job iv ter kin’, Oi'd hov more shilly- shally! way ty do wy ar in moin the conthr: gets along so weil wid "1 11 the siuni- tors an’ ripprisin ‘em: ‘By’s, Uh the customer is in counthry, hi piece work, a the job, the q HONE he Chief Justice Supreme Court posed and most any other court, and it ix probable invariably suffers more pa tencing a prisoner than eve Whenever p est mercy offenders. Some t of the the kin Dy that he eu ser- the eulp exercises the g) with the unfortunat me azo a young coloret nan, Not yct out of his ter was ar raigned before him in the Criminal Court charged with the larceny of a bieyck There ubt as to ch attorney, ex- attorne to consent to a plea of pe ity for which offense is” contincin © jail for from a day to six m y for grand larceny. ndant was indicted, than one nor more than three y tiar young man there of not guilty of aded guilty of petit larceny. D e astonish: every one, and utter his counsel. he asserte:t that he never stele the wheel when the venerable chief ju asked him what he had to say why he should not be sent to jail for a short time “Well, young man,” kindly remar court, “if you did ne c cannot allow you to pI even of petit larceny. We do not wish to pun an innocent person. Mr. Clerk, withdraw the plea of guilty cf petit larceny; and now, gentlemen,” said v addressing the astonishe and disgusted co the trial proceed on the indictment. The trial proceeded, and the jury, afte an absence of two or th minut: promptly returned a verdict of guilty grand larceny, just as the counsel for the government and the defendant knew they would. Thereupon the court imposed a sentence of imprisonment at hard labor the penttentiart, Instead of-wne of a mo or so in jail, which he would have impo had the youthful culprit followed his co! sel’s advice, remarking that truthfulne even in a thier, is at times good policy. —— a Where It Snows and Never Rains. Frm the New York Tinos. Roborowsky, the Russian explorer, has discovered a place in Central Asia wher no rain, but only snow, falls ai any time throughout the year. He found this de- lightful summer resort in the highlands, at an altitude of 1 thermometer on June 15 was low zero, centigrade. There of life, save the appearone Grongo antelopes, and these were in such an exhausted condition that they passed within a few yards of the explorer without showing any signs of fear. ——S “And your wife aimed at and struck you head with a cup?” “¥es, sir.” “Well, then, all I have to say is that you should be very proud of her.”—Tit-Bits. THE From Harper's Bazar. . 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