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THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Bt, by Evening Star Ne r Com: ae SH. KAUFMANN Pree't aes ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the city by carriers, per week, or 44 certs per month. counter 2 cents each. “By mail—anywhere in t United States or Canada—pestage prepaid—50 ce: per menth. Saturday Qrin' foreign postage 00. (Enter as second-cla. s 7 All mail «ui Rates of advert ‘il matter.) ing made known on application. => Sheet Star, $1 per year, with led , at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., on their own account, at 10 cents Copies dt the 1 3 criptions must be paid in advance. Part 2. Che XV ening | Sta ; Pages 13-24 : Advertising is not an expense. s+ It is a business investment. If you want to invest your money, profitably you will therefore put your advertisements in such a paper as The Evening Star, that is read regularly and thoroughly, by everybody worth reaching. The Star is the recognized household and family journal of the National Capital, and has = ‘ WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. no rival as an advertising med- ium. AUGUST 28, 1897-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ? —_—__+—_—_ The Midday Scramble for Sandwiches, Pie, Coffee and Milk. A RAPID RUSH FOR RATION AT A DAIRY LUNCH Queer Gastronomical Feats That May Be Seen Any Day. ABNORMAL T APPETITE ington life. There a singularly high-noon for tling, esque crush. s HE QUICK LUNCH is a feature of Wash- swift scramble food here on week days—a bus- concerted ef- fort at tissue-renew- ing on the part of adl hands when the sun is at the zenith that temporarily converts down-town Washing- ton into a Chicago- But—such is the compassion of Providence—it only retains this aspect for about half an hour each day. Then down-town Washington resumes its nor- mal appearance of an ample district of wide thoroughfares for the parading of sane, unhurried people. The quick lunch is an American institution—and, first and foremost, Washingtonians are Americans, else how could they have mastered the trick of eating all they want inside of four Voracity of a Klondiker. minutes in order that they might devote the remaining twenty-gix minutes of their midday half hour to a comfortable smoke? The smoke, in Washington, is a part of the midday meal—very much part. For proof of thi the main time the man who enters, at noon, a I5th street dairy lunch institution. of a man who fs attempting to catch He enters at the stride# a train on the time of an habitually slow- running watch, and there is a gleam of anxiety in his eye. The Man W?th the Han: If he does not emerge from the dairy lunch within six minutes at the very least, comfort and complais- ance enwrapping his whole exterior like @ benison, and swirling volumes of smoke issuing from the orifice in his counte- ee) argains in DIAMONDS. That’s what everybody says who visits here and examines our new Diamond importation and compares our prices with the others they see about town. There’s something particularly attractive about this last big purchase of ours. The stones are of an extra quality—an ex- tra brilliancy. It is the hand- somest showing you've had the good fortune to see. Only think of being able to pick out a Diamond from this lot the equal, and in many cases the superior, of the cash jeweler’s $100 line and paying $75 for it. That’s the way we do business. Not only in Diamonds, but in WATCHES as well. And everything we give you is ¢ backed up by an absolute guar- antee that if not satisfactory moncy will be refunded. The paying isn’t a hardship on our plan. It’s a simple mat- ter to buy on the following terms: $10 WorTH; $15 WORTH; 2 WORTH: $2: Asoatondoatoatoesereeasmece tonto resrerensoec soasneten oatreseaaeaseesenseateasoesonteasoeseatensoasoaeateasiasentoagieteateatees > No security required. Goods delivered on first payment. All transactions strictly confiden- tial. Castelberg’s Next ftar office. Baltimore Store, 108 N. Evtaw st. It ESTABLISHED 1846. Nat’l Jewelry Co., E Byrn ete ae ee ned 3 ‘e—then he does not know the negativ delights of nicotine nor the positive mis- eries of dyspepsia. “Substantial found: tion for a smoke—that’s the only purpose for eating stuff in the E y the man who knows tobacco has of putting it. And tobacco on top of a cup or two cf hot cof- A Wearened Old Gentleman. fee, when the weather is endurably ccol, is thé treat which causes a good many thousands of men pent up in the big stone buildings in this town to watch the clock hands with wistful eyes in the neighbor- heed of noon. , There are living today in Washington any number of men who do not look at ail feeble or out of the running, who have, nevertheless, been partaking—partaking or bolting—of six-minute lunches on every wcek day for as many as twenty years. Take a Frenchman or an Englishman to an American quick-lunch establishment when its tide of patronage is at its height and both of the foreigners will dectine to credit your statement that this is the regular American manner of preparing for the ex- ertions of an afternoon. “You jest, monsicur—it is a contest,” the Frenchman will declare. er chawfin’ me—they couldn't stawnd it every day,” the Englishman will affirm. The Modus Operandi Described. The governmental Washingtonian, for whom existence offers no joy without a high noon smcke atop of a dairy lunch feed, is deliberate only as concerns the smoke. The eating part of the program Is a carnal necessity which he apparently abhors, even ig he is quite hungry. On entering the lunch room his trained eye perceives a va- cant chair 'way down the line in one of the obscure cerners. He makes for that chair. Incidentally, and scarcely halting in his gait, he picks from the counter trays what- ever in the line of eatables his vision first descries, continuing all the time his ‘pro- gress in the direction of the vacant chair. He stakes out his claim to the chair by planting his hat and his eatables on the extended arms of it; then he navigates up to the counter for his coffee and whirls around on his heel for sugar for the coffe then he pilots his course with unerring eye, bumping into nobody whomsoever, for the chair he has staked out, and Is all ready for eet getting himself in condition for If he eats with the voraciousness of a Klohdiker, t ts probably not so much be- ungry as because he w: Set the thing off his hands at once ang forever, so that he can go outside and stroke. He has been seen to take alternate bites out of a sardine sandwich anda choc. olate eclair the more rapidly to dispose of the job ne has mapped out for himsetf. When a thing is undertaken with this de. gree of determination, and one is thoroush- ly practiced in the way of doing it, much may be zecomplished in the way of saving The Record of a Treasury Young Man. A young man in the Treasury Depar ment who has discovered that the con- sumption of tkree cigarettes during the noon recess is an absolutely essential safe- guard for his health is sald to hold the present 15th street dairy lunch record. He erveloped, it is claimed, two cups of cof- fee, a cheese sandwich, a salmon sand- wich and a portion of ‘mince pie in pre- cisely three minutes and thirty-seven sec- onds. This left him twenty-six minutes and twenty-three seconds for the using up of the three cigarettes and the discussion outside on the unambitious hopelessness of a career passed in the service of the gov- errment. The non-smoking habitue “of the quick- lunch -institutions is to be picked out not only because of his comparative lack of haste, but because he exhibits a prefer- ence for the sweet things on the counters and washes them down with milk. Him the smoking men regard with an eye of ecmmiseration—for the man who doesn't smoke is looked upon with pity, not un- mixed with suspicion, by the man who does. A Study of the Male Appetite. The noon-day swoop by the men in the departments upon the quick lunches offers Some opportunities for the study of the Washington male appetite. The Washing- ton male appetite seems to be an extraor- dinarily incongruous affair. For instance, a@ weazened old gentleman, sitting at one of the tables in the rear room of a quick lunch, was observed the other day to par- take of deviled crabs, sliced cucumbers, hot rolls, coffee and a heaping dish of ice cream. He topped it all off with a big ™mug of buttermilk. Moreover, when it was all over, he looked quite happy and content. Still, one was tempted to follow him around for the remainder of the after- noon for the humane purpose of ringing up the ambulance should it be required. Sitting opposite the weazened old gentle- man was a giant of a man, who keeps Lim- self in trim by working two hours every evening in the Athletic Club gymnasium. The giant of a man was slowly consuming a bowl of milk and graham crackers. A good many men, mostly members cf building associations, probably, carry their lunches over to the dairy eating establish- ments in napkins, and invest in a cup of coffee or mug of milk to relieve their home-brought food of its dryness. These men are regarded with coldly studious eyes by the dairy lunch proprictors. The president of a 15th street bank sat in a dairy lunch near his institution the | bit, ne dauntlessly announced at the coun. | From Harper's Bszar. season of frost and snow. The passing of the former is a gradual lessening of num- bers, and is a gentle admonition that sum- mer joys are fleeting; but when we come upon a flock of white-throated sparrows piping the closing notes of their season's songs in the bushes beside our road we realize with a sudden shock that the year is so far advanced that our winter friends have commenced to arrive. We have not seen these handsome finches since last May, when they left for the north to build their homes and rear their young from Maine to Labrador, and now their ap- pearance among us tells of the comple- tion of these duties, and fills our minds with thoughts of the cold, leafless days with which they are so definitely asso- ciated while here. ter when he’demanded his check. The irre- sponsibility of extreme youth is pathetle. Separate tables for ladies are set aside in the rear rocms of most of the quick lunches. Seats at these tables are occupied during the noon hour, mostly by young women, whose fingers still betray the inki- ness of typewriter ribbons. It must be presumed that their incomes are quite large, for their average orders are much more abundant than those of most of the men. An obtuse man inexperienced in matters appertaining to young ladies’ re- quirements in the way of nourishment was seen to grow somewhat round-eyed the other day. ‘The Girl Who Knows Impressions. “That girl there,” he said by way of ex- planation, nodding in the direction of a frail, spirituelle young woman with a . Burne-Jones frame and a Rossetti coun- tenance, “has eaten, before my very eyes, two corned beef sandwiches, three char- lottes russe, a big chunk of watermelon, a dish of lemon ice, and drank ‘a glass of iced coffee. Now, I saw her at the Glen’ Echo restaurant the other evening with her bright, particular youth. Her b. p. youth was frankly hungry, and ate a big ¢inner., She toyed with a wing of chicken, sipped a thimbleful of cafe noir, and seem- ed to have pretty thoroughly impressed the ycung man with her with the idea that she regarded persons pessessed of an appetite with unspeakable pity. Am I not justi- fied in presuming now that she hit up the refrigerator for cold victuals when she went home that night?” The young women who patronize the quick lunches in pairs or trios do not arpear yet to heve mastered the beauties of the Dutch treat system. When they heve finished eating there is generally a silence and a lull for a space, and then the pair or trio of them all call for the check—‘‘one check’’—simultaneously. The walter, knowing his gait, does not hand it te any especial one of them, but puts it on the table, face downward, and flees. Then there ensues a tremendously busy fumbling in purses; but the money of each of the girls seems somehow to be very firmly wedged within the purses. When the girl with the leest endurance and nerve finally extracts a coin or a bill and lays it on the check, the money of the other g:rls appears like magic, and they all in- sist upon paying for the whole business out of hand. But it has been noted that the girl who produces first is the victim in nine cases out of ten. And yet the time has been long gore that a half dozen men could not sit down together at a restaurant table and, at the conclusion of their meal, demand individual checks. Grieved a Waitress. In the vicinage of several of the depart- ments are quick lunches, wherein the table attendants are very neatly gotten-up young women. They are popular, these quick lunches. The waitresses seem to an- ticipate the wishes of their especial table patrons. This is af times embarassing. “One of the girls has had ready for me on my table, for more than a year, ‘a glass of milk and some crackers—had it waiting for me before I came in at noon,” said ore of these patrons the other day. “One noon last week I came in in a state of starya- tion, and wanted a regular out-and-out feed. I found the crackers and milk on my table, and when I told my waitress to “take ’em away and give me something sub- stantial to eat she looked so grieved over my revolutionary conduct that I felt ashamed of myself. I wouldn't dare do it again.” APPROACH OF AUTUMN New Eirs and Flowers Attend the Passing of Summer. ARRIVALS “AND: DEPARTURES + Feathered Friends Bagk From the North for a Visit. IN FIELDS AND WOODS —Let those so-called eye experts guess at their work— but don’t let them guess with you. Would you trust your health to an unskilled practitioner? Will you trust your sight to a person in the same category? Consult our Dr. F. Proctor Donahay—a graduated scientific optician. No guesswork there. The most ex- haustive examination is made by the most accurate sys- tem science has given to the world. Consultations are free—examinations are free. Smal! charges for glasses where they are needed, and they can be paid for a little at a time. If you have an oculist’s prescription take it to any optician and get his price for filling it—then come to us and we'll cut that price exactly in half. Castelberg’s Nat’l Jewelry Co., 1103 Pa. Ave, Bist House, 108 N. Establisived 1846. Written Exclusively for The Evenirg Star. z @W READILY THE : He mind wel- ee comes a change! In April we were look- ing forward eagerly to the final oblitera- tion of all trace of winter. Each day of warm sunshine was @ friend most cor- dially greeted; each cold, bleak rain that “impeded the onward marclr was received with impatience,often ill suppressed. Now, on the other hand, we are eager to be rid of the waning sum- mer. Not so much that we are sated with the charms of that-seagon of open windows and lawn gatherings, but because our thoughts dwell mgre frequently upon the delights that accompany the cool, bracing atmosphere of aujumn. As September progresses there come occasional chilly nights and almost’ frosty mornings that raise us upon the buoyancy of expectation, and when the summef forces regain the ground thus temporarily lost, and the mer- cury in the thermometer rises to 90 degrees or higher, qur spiffts, proportionally sink. Our coui inward, and we chafe aS Yellow-Throated Virigo. Not less full of wintry suggestion is the sudden discovery that this flock of birds perched upon a cedar and making a break- fast upon the berries it has so liberally provided for them, is a deputation of pur- ple finches, who have left their northern homes and come to our more genial cli- mate to roam the woods in vari-colored bands throughout the winter. The word “purple” is made to cover a multitude of shaded and the name bestowed upon these finches is an instance of the way in which it is often stretched. The “purple” in this ease is carmine. Each of the male mem- bers of the roving bands appears to have received upon his head the contents of a small bottle of carmine dye, which has trickled down among the brownish feathers,, leaving its traces more particularly upon the head and breast. But, to hold the fig- ure, different males have been baptized with different-sized bottles, while the fe- males have successfully dodged the pig- mentary bath, thus retaining their spar- row-like coloring. Brown Creepers and Nuthatches. The white-throated sparrows and purple finches are more liable to be met with than any other September arrivals of the winter birds, but they are not the only ones that may be encountered during the latter half of the month. And it is with the same feeling of welcome with which, a few months ago, we greeted those newcomers who brought us first news of the advent of spring that we now greet these heralds of the coming reign of the frost king. As then the first note of the phoebe, or the first twitter of the darting chimney swift, was an event, notable and full of pleasure, so now when the eye falls upon the familiar spotty coat of a brown creeper, who is wending his zigzag course up the trunk of a neighboring pine, or when the ear detects a mellower nuthatch note than the white- breasted usually sounds, and following it up perceives the dainty little figure of the Canadian, the heart is stirred with the thought that‘the time has nearly come to. put by. the languorous delights of summer and set the blood once more coursing vig- éroysly with the ruggeder joys of winter. ‘Warbiers:. It seems strange, that. there should be a warbler among these bids. The warblers are 80 suggestive of the tropics in their high coloring and their general habit of whitering below the gulf that any of their number who Unger in this latitude during the culd weather seem entirely out of place. Yet the myrtle warblers are with us only in the wintertime, thus reversing the rule that holds for all the rest of the family. As befitting. their hardier constitutions and more boreal habits, they are clad in rough- er, less striking costumes ‘than most of their relatives—shaggy suits of gray home- spun with a touch of dull yellow here and there to remind us of their warblership. oa These dingier garments and the heavier, coarser call note modify the incongruity of their appearance in the midst of wintry surroundings; but there is always a feeling that a wi rbler has no business to be flitting about among naked boughs and over a sLow-carpeted earth. Thrushes and Robins. The thrushes, however, seem just suited to our climate, and it is a matter of some surprise that they pass on. The hermit thrushes, who are late in coming, not reaching us until the middle of October, do, indeed, leave a tew representatives of their species to pass the winter in our woods. But the tawny thrush, or veery, and the gray-cheeked and olive-backed thrushes, who are with us in Sepiember, end the wood thrush, who hes been with ug all summer and leaves just as October opens, all spend the winter in Central America. The robin ¢s more of a cosmop- olite. Perhaps -he has imbibed from his stant association with mankind in adaptability to circumstance and place that his thrush nature had not given him. He breeds from near the gulf to the arctic Eutew st. Seeeectestest in former Septembers our worthy ances- tors noticed large birds coming forth just before dusk and darting in erratic course through the evening air they naturally called them bats. And since they were so rouch larger than other bats they distin- guished them from the ordinary kind by dubbing them bull bats. It is an estab- lished rule of popular nomenclature that “bull” is a term of honor applied to the mightiest-things of any kind; the Pull this- tle and the bullfrog are the largest of their kind known to their namers; and the bulldog, though not pre-eminent in size, is yet the most ferocious of the dogs. I have heard the-deepest, heaviest whistle oz the many that announce to Washing- toniars the arrival of neon called the bull whistle. Hence bull bat meant simply great, or greatest, bat. But others of their frends, taking them for hawks that pre- ferred the night for their predatory deeds, called them night hawks. Therefore it is that these birds, which are closely allied to the whippoorwill, and which are not re- lated to hawks, nor, of course, to bats, which are not birds at all, but fying mam- mals, are known as bull bats or night hewks. Some people call them whippoor- wills, but this is only because of a mis- taken notion as to their identity; a mis- sole by the Abs 2 at is nearer the sop nal of mist flower in swampy places, the blue of the lobelias and of that hooded hermit of the woods, the aconite, the reddish pur- ple of the phlox beside the stream, t bright pink of the Deptford pink in the n.eadow, the cream color of the quaint and clustered turtle heads, the vivid orange of the butterfly weed, the deep red of the cardinal flower, the rose-purple of the gay feather, and the blue and white of the nu- merous asters of wood and field, stand out in proud defiance of the petty rules of under delay! rogressions. Bird for the South. But, as in sprihg, whatever the shiftings of the temperatur& and however far back- ward into the domain of summer we may seem to be carried many changes that serve as milestones’ thé: observer. mark definite advances onour way. The birds that have been the companions of our sum- mer rambles know 'R®w elusive are these apparent setbacks. “Fhey know that Sep- tember is the first au€umn fmonth, and that if, lulled into a sense of ®ecurity by the seeming remoteness™of things wintry in one ofthese hot, gu™mmer@iike days, they postpone “thelr. regalar course, they will find themselves. overtaken’ unawares, and will be compelled to"make "ap the time lost. Therefore it ts ‘that, whet the mercury be. high or low, W! jummer or au- tumn be ‘upon those whose southward. .journey, for September pack. their grips, make: PD. Pp. ccalls and leave for thélr winter"haunts. ” Prephring tp Depart. Some of the bitde gi¥b a alight inkling of their approaching. ure. The sight. ef a number of \ipebirds ether during the latter part of,,Augusf, fof. itistance, made noticeable by thé hareh, iidley utterances that accompasy thelr brie? sorties after in- sects’ from thé top of aa tall tree, in- Like the End Sent Hog. The Washington dairy lunches have re- cently effected a very commendable com- bination against the inquisitive’ person whom the proprietors terms the Man With the Hands. The Man With the Hands is the chap who Hikes to feel of a piéce of pie lying on the tray to ascertain if it is good and. of legal weight. He has been known to thus heft and test about all of the pie and other eatables in an establishment be- fore finally deciding upon a safe invest- ment for his dime or fifteen cents. For many years the Man With the Hands has been as adamant to the scowls of the aproned attendants behind the counters, and has gone right on indenting his finger marks on the smooth surfaces of meringues and custards with never a call-down. But his day is over. He no sooner picks up for critical survey a piece of pie, under this recent combination against him of the dairy lunch men, than the proprietor gently beckons to him’ to retire for a mo- ment to the kitchen. The Man With the Hands follows the proprietor, wondering a heap. The proprietor carries with him to the kitchen the piece of pie that the Man With the Hands has critically surveyed, and dumps it into the slop barrel out of hana. “You won't be required to pay for that piece of pie, of course, old man,” says the proprietor to the Man With the Hand “but, you see, I’m following a new fad— bacteria, microbes, transmission of dis- eases by means of finger nails and all that sort of thing, and, of course, as an old customer, you'll be willing to indulge me in this little hobby.” It {s said that all of the confirmed food pawers upon whom this has been sprung have taken the hint. ———— John Ruskin. From Leslie’s Weekly. z Very little is heard nowadays of John Ruskin, but the venerable sage is still liv- imptfed by I would not be understood as find! fault with common names. However rough the classification may be, yet it implies that some one has observed attentively enough differentiate the bird from all others. Rea the existence of such close obserya- uon among the genetal people more Shan offsets the lack of minute tnspect shown by the rude grouping. Besides, in spite of Shakespeare's dictum that “that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet, I think all the friends of the robin will agree with me that he would lose much in our estimation if we were compelled to call him, say, the migratory thrush. To pass from the study out into the open air once more; those who are much among the flowers will miss the humming bird as “September wanes. His pretty poisings on invisible wings, his graceful dartings from fawning courtiership. And though ouir friend of the spring forests, Jack-in-the-pulpit, has long since passed his period of bioom, yet the bunches of bright red "berries which he bears above the ferns in his shady glen tell that at least one member of tie cccle- siastical body dares to differ from the powers that be. The fires that have been burning so steadily all summer upon the ground, and that are now blazing vigorously wit! many-hued flames just before they shall be quenched by the frost, have not yet caught the forests. But shrubs and sap- lings are fairly afire before the month is over, and litle tongues of flame here and there among the dogwoods, sassafrases, locusts and gums show that it needs but | the same frost that will put out the light | of the lowlier plants to set the whole forest. ablaze. HENRY OLDYS. = SE Now He Uses a Knife. From the New York Telegram. George C. Boniface has not been feeling in the best of health lately, and his wife has attributed it to excessive smoking. The actor, being particularly fond of good cigars, denied this vehemently, and vowed, with mental reservations, that he only smoked three cigars a day. Not being able to prove to the contrary, his wife, like a wise woman, said nothing. Subsequent events, however, proved that this did not cause her to cease thinking. Last week the comedian had a birthday, and his wife presented him with a watch charm in the shape of a ciger cutter. It was a cute iittle thing, and to prove his appreciation of the gift, he used it vigor- ously the first day. The next morning the wite asked: forms us that’the home Quties of the year are finished» and that the gregarious in- stinct hag) asserted itself preparatory to the con@erted southward flight. “We need, then, feel ro surprise when, as September | pesses, we hear no more the quarrelsome, Ungentle tones that have forced them- elves upon our attention since that day in April when the air was jarred with the first kingbird’s announcement of his ar- rival. Warbling Virigo. Others of the birds, however, of a less conspicuous type seem to fade from our sight as do the distant hills when twilight blends into night. Thelr arrangements are usually made so quietly and with so little American Robin. blossom to blossom, the prismatic gleam ing in retirement at Brantwood, while the | 0stentation that it Is hard to say just when | circle, and winters from southern Canada cf his throat and back, are gcne for the | “How many cigars did you smoke ycs- the last representative of any particular | to Mexico. . : tropical na. | terday?” years pass on and art increases without species makes his‘exit from the summer rest of the year. True to his tropt “Three,” was the reply. “Thirteen, you mean,” was the rejoinder, There was something in the tone of his better half which caused the actor to think he had better temporize, and so he said: “Well, as yesterday was my birthda: perhaps I did exceed my allowance by 1 or two, but I am certain I did not smoke thirteen.” “Oh, but you did; no more and no less. I ki.ow it and can prove it.” “How?” “That's my secret. And now promise that you will limityourself to three toda; Of course he promised, again with men- tal reservations, and then went into the weodshed to think it over. Recalling the events of the previous day, he found that thirteen was about the right number, and it didn’t take him long to connect his new charm with his wife's knowledge. A close examination of the in- nocent-looking little thing proved that it was a register as well as a cutter. And now dove-colored peace broods ‘over the comedian's household and a loving wife trusts her husband as implicitly as of yore. ‘The charm registers three every day. He cuts the others with his knife. his heed. He is dreaming away the last days of his life peacefully, planning always for more work to be done “tomorrow.” His twilight time is passed by a wide window looking out from bis brary across the En- glish landscape, so beautiful always in his sight. He receives no visitors excepting a few old friends, and these come but rarely. His hair and long beard are white, but his features scarcely show his great age, while his eyes are as keen and brilliant as when they gazed upon the beauties of Italy or the fresh canvases of Turner. The public has known but little of Ruskin’s private life, and there has always prevailed an idea that’ it was filled with sorrow, from the fact that he was divorced from ‘his wife because of her having fallen in love with Sir John Millais, his friend. The story is really a sad one, aad yet it was not taken to heatt. by Ruskin. It should be remembered that the young Mrs. Ruskin was not his first love, the object of the ardent passion of his youth having married another. That was when the heart-break came. Years after his divorce Ruskin met another woman whom he loved and to whom he was en- gaged for several years, but the engage- ment was broken because of Ruskin’s un- | Wing, wi orthodox religious beltefs. one was reso- |) set lute, but it is said the grief of it all killed = her. When she was dying Ruskin came to'| , In the parks ofthe her, but was not admitted, for she sent out | form of the summeg”w: this message: “‘Can you say you love God |'more among the trees. better than you love me?” and when his | young pinés will no answer came, “No,” the door was closed upon him forever. Ruskin’s early life was not one of great enjoyment, yet in no way particularly sad. He was born in Blooms-,| WH0m, owing to thei# predifection for tree- bury in 1819. He was reared on Puritanical tops, the squirrels on*‘more “intimate principles, his mother having been a stern |;te of - woman with little affection, while his father was tender, loving and sensitive, with high principies, but devoid of ambi- tion.’ He was a wine merchant of means. | ———+e+—_ __ Running Expenses, ture, he leaves before there is any immi- nent danger of contact with frosty weather. It is possible that he does not like the character of the flowers of September.They are too weedy for his dainty taste. Some there are, it is true, that are delicate enough in color ard texture, for even his aesthetic soul, such as the pretty litt blue curls in the meadow, the gerardias swinging their light purple or pink bells on field and hillside, the. clambering hog peanut, whose pale lilac blossoms are ten- der enough to deserve a less prosaic name, and perhaps an occasional violet, blooming for the second time. ~ Golden Rod ts King. But these are noticeable exceptions to the general rule. Golden rod is king now, and kings ‘usvally set the fashion for their subjects. Not only is the weedy habit in vogue, but gold is the prevailing color. The black-eyed Susan and golden aster in the fields, sneezeweed end crownbeard in marshy meadows, the stately fern-leaved false foxglove and the ornate hairy hawk- weed in the woods, the little pencil flower Welcomed by the Pilgrims. ‘The manner in which this thrush came to be called a robin is interesting. The “pil- grims,” landing at Plymouth Rock in the midst of a New England winter and ex- posed to dangers from wild beasts and Indians, keenly felt the sharp contrast be- tween the land they had left and that to which they had come; and it required at first, no doubt, a great deal of reflection upon the advantages of the “freedom to yorship God” (in their own peculiar way) to reconcile them to the hardships and iso- lation to which they had condemned them- selves. When, however, the long and try- ing winter was nearly over, and intimattons ‘of spring were at hand, what was their joy at seeing arriving from the south large flocks of birds that recalled to their minds the robin redbreasts that had gladdened stage. They meltaway, and their disap- pearance is, perhaps, not notieed until it suddenly occurs t¢ the rambler (nat for some time bifds @f:a certain kind have been absent from the scenes of his saun- ters. Then he realizes that they have all left for their’winter homes in the south and that their hannts of the seummer will know them no moré-until the sun itself shall have returned from its southern journey. Some That Will Be Missed. By the time the month is over many vacancies will have made themselves mani- fest. We shall miss the strident yet agree- ably vigorous call‘of the great crested fly catcher; and the banks of wooded streams, as we walk along them, will no longer yield the abrupt, explosive ejaculations of his little cousin, acadian fly catcher. “Phe brfilfant plumagé and-doud, full-toned carols of the orioles; boti him of Lerd Baltimore and his less atrifting relative of the orchard, will be gone from cur midst. The various swallow® it bank, of the cliff, of. the! trée, of the rough Peanut From the San Francisco Examiner. The first peanut oil factory in the United States will be established in Norfolk, Va., at an early date. The oil is highly valued in Europe, as it is stated that fully $5,000,- er bur this Midas-like but gold. One who is fond of the yellow metal that Plays so prominent a part civilizat court and yield nothing yellow-throated and: oe Hy as Ld “I wonder why they call the expenses of | @ church the running expenses?” said Mrs. Martin. “ suppose it’s because the vestrymen are never able to catch up with them, it her husband. answered Ny i ———+o+———__ Pedestrianw Rights. Irate -Citizen . (to scorcher)—“Hi, there? Have pedestrians no rights in this city?” _ Scorcher (w! Se eR ee 3 ih es : Li £ i abae f in