Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1898, Page 17

EL ee Ee Me NEE I Se Le AL TT EE Te gre te ee eR ee THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1898-24 PAGES. FIGHTING SENATORS es Gossip About Hanna and Foraker From Ohio Battle Grounds, THEIR PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS a Different Methods of Managing Political Campaigns. BOTH STRONG, GENEROUS MEN aes clal Correspordence of The Evening Star. 07, by Frank G. Carpenter.) D, Ohio, December 31, 1897. 7 HE SENATORIAL election will occur at Columbus in a few days, and it will then be finally set- tled whether Mark Hanna is to succeed himself as senator of the United States. From what I can learn there seems lit- tle doubt as to his electi but there are plenty of Judases in Ohio politics, and elf It I have heard noth- Foraker and Hanna since I came Into the state. In Cincinnati every one la 1 Foraker, with only here and there a shouter for Hanna. Here the majority are for Hanna, but a number of jealous rich men question his pility and incline toward Foraker. will unde ing btedly do so. janna and Foraker Compared. It is wonderful how strong both men are in t hearts of the people. I could find tw men in any Ohio city who w roll up their sleeves and fight for either Foraker or Hanna. Foraker fs the t ul fighter. He believes in winning by ae His whole life has been a Senator Hanna, fieht. When he was ready to go away to A the war broke out and h army. He was hardly old a soldier, but he fought his the war, taking active part s of Lookout mountain, Mis- Atlanta and a dozen others,and being the last man of his regiment to be out. He carried his animosity » after the war closed, and governor protested against the rebel flogs back to the Foraker has a baekbon’ stm a ‘orinthian columns at th mt of the shingten. He does not give son fighting after the battle dan education, but he the war, and when it tered college, going first fist University at Delaware,Onhi efterward to Cornell. Hanna is also but he fights in a different w: ans his campaigns, organizes h studies human nature and dip- wtically molés everything to his will. The r n for this lies somewhat in his elucation. He started life in his fath- ers store in Cleveland, but times w hard and bu poor. Later on he in- ed his sa rested gs in vari n iron mine, becam of different ent in md by diplomacy, push and hone: s eded in making a t fortune. Like Foraker he is a man of strong friendships. Th shown in the way he has stuck to McKinley. Like Foraker he is a good figh like him, he seldom forgets an i d will keep up campaign to the Great Political Organizers. a and Fe ha er are astute pol- oth y ye their forces well or- i, but Hanna knows more about rganization in a day than Foraker does in a month of Sunda Foraker has friends who manipulate the machine for him. One ef the Charles Kurtz of © bus, Gov. His another and Cox, the big quor dealer of Cin- « i, was until recently the third. All t Lowever, cannot compare with i this respect. I doubt’ whether he | in the world. I sy som headquarters here loosed over the books showing how Tan this last senatorial campaign whole sta was divided into section: E of importam known. te Was gounted. ery newspaper ! been lined up, and the wir < from the Perry Payne buildin every hamlet of Ohio. ere kept constantly é and fourteen daily papers and all weeklies published in Ohto came t iquarters. A corps of readers ehpped these, summarized their matter and Presented it to Hanna's iieutenants. A ck touch was kept with every county, and the corre vedence was such that it amounted to hundreds of letters a day. Hanna’s Campaign for McKinley. Hanna's presidential campaign for Me Kinley was m: das no campaign was ever managed before. The whole United ates was divided up just he divided fo. He knew as muc bout any of the counties of Lower California or Upper Maine he did about the «ifter- parts of northern Ohio. He not only ais, but he knew public sen- nt Vast sums to chang lence Was so enorme Ume it was said hi ) a week fer pos’ of seen 1 that 1,000. »cu- were s vut in one week by mail All told, the amount of money at his com- mand is said to have been more than $1,- 009,40, and I have no doubt that this oney, as Mr. Hanna was concern. ed, Was spent legitimately > skimped nothing. A Uer Was never sent where a telegram would bring the news more quick- ly, and much of the business was dune by special wires and long-distance tele- prones. In this work he was aided very largely by Presid nt McKinley. The Pres- ident is one shrewdest of politicians. e telephone he and Hanna . though one was in Cleve- 1 the rin Canton. Every day » Hanna would get on the train, tak- pers with him, and go down e ride is not more than ». During the journey he seats to himself and would rs, so that he had them just in the shape in which McKinley would understand them most quickly. He would Proceed at once to business, and together the two in a couple of hours would go over the whole field, and by evening Hanna would be back in Cleveland with a new set of directions for his subordinates. H¢ is, you know, a gcod judge of men, and he Picked out a force of organizers which Beeded only his general direction. He cuca an hour or would have sort over th not believe in doing things he can get other men to do. In this way he saved himself for the big things and was able to throw all his force where it would do the must good. Mark Hanna's Hilness. Still Hanna did too much. His illness to- da the result of over work. During the presidential campaign he put in more hours than a newspaper reporter. His head was kept going night and day and he gave up the quiet evenings which he was wont to have with his fam! During his sena- torial campaign he traveled In a common car. He spoke several times a day for weeks and went right down among the people. He wanted to show them, hé said, that he had not horns as ¢ of the New York papers had stated, and that he was a e fellow after all. All is time he was affected with rheumatism and trouble with his heart. He got up to speak night after night when he knew he should have been in bed, and he made @ campaign which would have worn out a much younger n. As it is you know, he is now over six y and his life race has been — Senator Forake: made at a two-forty pace. He is of that nature t he can't do things by If he goes into an enterprise it st be with all his might. He is bound with his hand wor succeed if he dies sraker on the othe success. s equally He however, a much younger nd his muscles are like iron, Cam- igning is an old thing to him. It is as im to speak as t frame is packed full of 1 netism which carries his audiet him. Foraker think t, and al mag- tural for down from time to tim speech the things he wants to say. This clarifies the matter in his mind, and when he takes the stump hi ene! , enthu sias nd oraterical power de re He never tw ches, once told me that every great h was to a large extent the inspi of the moment, and that the surroundings as a rule make the speech. Speaking with Har was very hard work. When he arose he was nervou You could see that he felt out of plac ops of sweat upon his ered and his trousers seemed to bag knees. His ord y Kesture was like the motion of a pump handl was perhaps ten minutes before into sympathy with his audienc: you took note of the honesty of You began to see that he was simple and plain in his statements, and as he went on you felt the effect of his arguments. r Was no straining for effect, but his spe were filled with common sense from s to finish, and I think they really more effect than Foraker’s pyrote efforts. oth Men Ambitious, aker and Henn with vition, but Foraker, I belie strikes very much above Hanna. Foraker wants to be President of the, United States. This is the desire of his life, and there is Both Fo consumed no doubt tiat he will attempt to over- ow McKinley in 1900 if there is a fair nce of his succeeding. Both McKinley know this to be a fact and er. They know that For rful clements of succes reciate how cl he stands to young men of American politi s to a certain extent th Jami . Blaine of the not So ‘oraker hi tion in the Senate. me ond there is from him which will s ing with enthusi m. He has ly stat- ed that he is st any moderate policy as to Cuba, and [I should not be surprise! te see nim jump to his feet some day in the Senate and, metaphorically speakinz, wrap the American flag out him aad announce that he is for America, first and lest an xatien of Cuba and aga sions from Germany, EF ef the world. I don't ve us yet been stung with the pr bee. I think h too old for this pe: ous insect to att: him. [ am told that when he started out to make McKinley President he had ne ambition further than this. His succe however, Was so great, the adulation showered upon him from 1 the time, in favor of the an- nst all ¢ perts of the United States was so that he concluded that he would li enter public life himself. McKinley would have gladly appointed him as one of his cabinet mini but the t hal already been settled and Hany aot care to be looked Gpon as having received the place as a reward for his politic: services. He wanted to be the chosen of the people and hence his campaign for the senatorship of Ohio. I believe he will do weil in the Senate business genius will be of great ration of the countr: occupied with his r admini h been that he has not had to he can do. As soon as this is sett wiil devote himself more to his duties. He will rp bly pick out great national measure and make this iis hebby, bringing his wonderful organiziag genius to its support. y been a minor quantity as the power behind the enes with the President. Ohio's Ricb Senators, Both Foraker and Hanna are rich, and both are spending a great deal of money just now. Foraker ts building a house in Washington on ground worth $5 a square foot. A school slate is about a square foot in size, and when this much land costs you $5 you can see that a good lot will run high into the thousands. Foraker's house will be very fine. It will a large number of rooms and will be just the pl: politician who wants to entertal an ante-presidential campaign. 1 far has not bought a house in W ton, but he will probably do so if he elected to the Se He is worth in probability a sco sas much as For- aker, and Hanni’ in business en- terprises which are said to bring him tn an income of someth! like a half million dollars a year. 1 most of Foraker’s W pra ti man told me the other ived not long ago $100,000 single ca and that he enormous asnounts out of his prac- investments cover the United us a line of steamers on the He owns iron mines in Wiscansin, Minnesota. He is a di- rector in the Globe iron works, one of the biggest shipbuilding institutions of the United States. He and street car lines, and he is time largely interested in coal mines, has thousands of men in his employ, his pay rolls during the last y. aggregated about $250,000 a month, or very nearly $10,000 a day. The most of his em- ployes are strong supporters of him. They say he is @ good man to work for and em- inently fair and honest. As to just what Hanna is worth no one knows. I doubt whether he knows himself. The other day a newspaper friend of mine, asked him point blank how much money he had. Hanna looked up with surprise, and, rais- ing his hands, exclaimed: “Heavens, man! That's a thing that I never tell even to my own wife.’ Charitable, but Modest. Both Hanna and Foraker are charitable men. Mrs. Foraker is a very active mem- ber of the Methodist Church, and she is in- terested in all things connected with It. Hanna gives a gocd deal to the churches, but I don’t think he is over-regular in his A Cincinn that he rec as his fee ip make: lakes. Michigan and has railroad interests at the same He attendance. He is a'-vays giving In some way or another, but he does not let his right hand know what his left hand does, and he never gives offensively. Ben But- terworth tells a number of stories of Han- na’s charity. Says he: “One day just after the panic had struck vs, and times were tard, I was in Mark Hanna’s office. I had a friend who was about to lose his home. He had borrowed money on it when he was flush, and the indebtedn was nothing like the value of the property. But shrinkage caused by the panic was such that if it was sold it would hardly bring the amount of the debt. I tried to get som? of my rich friends to help him, and could not until I mentioned the matter to Mark Hanna. I did not ask Mr. Hanna for money, but just told him the story. As I going away, however, he handed me a per, saying “Perhaps your friend Ben.’ “Just then some one else came in and I had to hurry to make my train. When I got in the car I looked at the paper. It was a check for $1,500, the amount of my friend’s indebtedness. It saved his home and made him an everlasting friend of Mark Hanna. Mark Hanna did that with- out a receipt and without a hope that he would get snything from it, and I can tell you that it takes a pretty ‘charitable soul to act so in these money-grubbing days. “I know of a number of other cases, Mejor Butterworth continued. “I once heard a man ask Mr. Hanna for money to aid him in defending a suit which an un- scrupulous man hed brought against him. Equitably the man had no right to the property, but legally the papers were so drawn that he could get it, and the right owner would lose all he had. It was the owner who asked Mark for a thousand dol- lars to defray the expenses of defending his property. I heard the man tell the story. Mark Hanna looked like a graven image as he listened, and you would have thought that he was unimpressed by it. At the close he told the man he would look into the matter, and a iittle later I know the man received a check for a thousand dol- rs, accompanied cnly by a note, whica suid: ‘I think your cause is just. If it is so, and you are honest, as 1 am sure you are, you will pay this back when you can.’ “At another time,” Major Butterworth went on, “I was walking vith Mark F long Pennsylvania avenue in Washingto: A poor old woman came up and begged us for some pennies. I put my hands in my pocket and found that I was strapped. Be- fore I could speak, ho handed the old woman am afraid you will find br dry ea You had better so he continued his on which we were talk- "RANK G. CARPENTER. AND ARTISTS. can use that, conversation ullery of the it avenue, S. W. A., 1020 comes to an end with the close of next week, and those who have not ‘viewed the collection should avail themselves of these last opportunities. The ttendance has been moderately good ce the opening of the exhibit it fell off a little just before Christ dily incre nnecti ing, and ¢ numb is expe clo: ber of pictures have 1 hoped that during the number may be materially incre ys the A novel exhibition will be placed in the Nery on January 16 if the present plan is carried out. It will be a collection of artists’ sketches, and the works will put at suitably low price At the end of the hibition the unsold sposed of at The disp! uction, mises to be very interesting, as work ry medium will be included. At sim- r sketch exhibitions held in New York » often been realized on the is and unfinished works from brushes, * Now that Christn is T. Britton has presented his wife with the splendid portrait that Mr. M. ald pi t- ed of him, the work may be spoken of with- outr rye. Under the inspiration born of an excellent subject, Mr. Macdonald put the best work of his hand upon the canvas, and past and ¢ all who have scen it unite in saying that it is the strongest portrait he has done since his notable liken of Judge Kelly. It po: sin an une degree the rich- ness of color which char: work, and is handled with £ Britton is shown leaning bi his hands clasped idly over that is 1 1 and unaffe rong effect “of light and ss the head out with 1 distin sand emphasizes the excellent’ mode e recent reunion of the Sketch Club at Juliet Thompson's house proved to be joyable affair, and enough work complished to make the meeting smack of old times. Much of the time, however, was spent in a sociat way and members who have been out of the city re- newed old friendship: x Mr. Frank Moss has recently completed several new canvases, and others are pro- gressing toward completion. One very tak- ing thin and dr d against a light background In th manner of a silhouette. Elsie Venner is the tile the artist has given to this picture; and he again evinces his fondness for choosing subjects in literature in a small study depicting the litle cripple in “Our Mutual Friend It i uggestive little study both in arrangement and in its color scheme, Another small composition that is occupying his attentic n excellent negro ch er study sho darkies in the midst of an cards. The figu: laid in, but they , as are also th exy ions on of the players. Occasionally Mr. Moss essays decorative subjects, and he has now upon his easel a charming color study called Summe If he works this out to his satis- faction he may complete the series by al- legorical figures representing the other sea- sons, * A masquerade dance was given by the Art Students’ League last Tuesday night, which proved a success in every way. A large number of the students were present, together with the instructors and a number of well-known local artists. Some of the costumes were very ingenious, and caused much fun and enjoyment. A “spook room,” where fortunes were told, was presided over by a skeleton, whose movements were di- rected by cords operated presumably from the unseen world, and proved one of the novel and taking attractions of the ever ng. Next Monday night a couple of play ll be presented at Carroll Institute Hall for the benefit of the league. ‘The Silent Voice,” by Alma Tadema, will be given, fol- lowed by the farce "My Lord in Livery.” * * Mr. George Gibbs has completed an {m- portant serles of drawings, which are to ac- company a forthcoming account in one of the magazines by Dr. Nansen, In which he tells more about his famous arctic voyage. ‘These drawings have occupied a large share of Mr. Gibbs’ time lately, but he has also done several other good sketches in black and white. Among these !s a good society drawing, which is to appear in a coming number of Vogue. * * Miss Bertha Perrie has heen doing some very dainty miniatures since she took up this line of work, the most recent of the tiny portraits that have come from her hand being a likeness of little Elizabeth Noyes. The flesh tints in this miniature are clear and transparent, and the golden curls straying about the child’s face are painted with a very delicate touch. Miss Perrie will be represented by work in water color at the exhibit of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. * * Miss Anna Sands has been devoting a good deal of work of late to a pastel which she calls Jessica, not yet quite finished. This subject, suggested by the line “I am never merry when I hear sweet music,” shows a very pretty head, quite pensive in attitude expression. Upon the light brown hair is set a small bright red cap, which not only gives life to the picture by its vivid touch of color,'but is of a sort which seems to be closely associated with the true Shakespearean atmosphere. An- other pastel of a small, head, with the yel- low hair partially covered by a light veil, although a mere study, is wonderfully ten- der in color, the flesh tints being most deli- cate. Among her recent work not the least important is the portrait she has been painting in oil of her brother, Captai Sands. She has succeeded in making’ this a very strong portrait... * * Mrs. Virginia del Castillo. Johnston bas recently completed a very pleasing head of a young girl. Coloy rather than light and shade is her strong point, and in the flesh tints as well as in the accessories and background her talent-in this direction is evident. * Om 1 There is now at Veerhoff’s an attractive little head in pastel by Miss Elizabeth Bell, who has done many good things in that medium. The study is handled in an un- conventional way, and tn a certain origi- nal grace and naivete rests the chief charm of the pastel. A girl's head sur- rounded with a wreath of violets is shown in profile, the face being lighted in a sim- ple manner. The pictures sent by the local artists to the Nashville exposition have re- turned and are now at Veerhoff’s. * * * Mr. Dunbar, the sculptor, has gone to New York to model a bust of Mr. B. F. |, Isherwood, formerly chief engineer of the navy, to be ultimately put in bronze or marble, under a commission lately received. A relief medallion of Mr. Charles J. bell, recently finished by Mr. Dunbar, has been highly praised by the friends of its sub- ject. * * The Puritan magasinelfor January con- tains a handsomely illustrated and appre- ciativé article on the work of Mr. William Fuller Curtis and his sister, Miss Jane Bridgham Curtis of this city. ™ The New York Sune recently gave cur- rency to a curious error in regard to the late Emanuel Lentze's work, in claiming that the artist should be regarded as a New Yorker, for the reason that it was in New York “that he conceived and paint- ed much of that picture of Western Emi- gration that may be n on the south- western stalrease of the new wing of the Capitol at Washington.” Where or when an artist first conceives a subject for his brush fs pretty difficult {f not impossible to determine, but that any part of the pi ture in question was painted im New York is very far from the truth. It was all painted by the artist himself directly on the wall of the stairway, whieh was fresh- ly laid on or kept damp for the process, in order that the colors would sink into the substance, and become durable. To 8 cure these conditions and obtain the ri sults desired it would not be possible to do the work anywhere els ACROSS EUROPE BY BO! The Latest Sche: An From the London 3 5 It has been freely stated that the monu- mental railway enterprise of the nineteenth y will be the trans-Siberian railroad. ing that when this tremendous length of line 1s compléted the Pacific lit- toral will be brought into direct railway communication with the North sea, one cannot but pause for a moment to admire the enterprise of a nation which In some quarters has been looked upon for many years as one more or less barbaric. There is no question that Russia is marching onward with firm’ and vigorous steps, and in engin ‘ing bids fair to com- pete with any of the older and, presumably, more intelligent countries. His latest en- gineering scheme is oné which is likely to put into Insignificance any, other under- takings of a like character, It is nothing iess than to build a gigantic waterway from the Biack sea to the Baltic; in other words, a canal deep enough and wide enough to carry cargo steamers from the north of Russia to the south, or vice vers At the nt time th untry of Ri n Po- shed of the Dni or is be- vely surveyed toward this end, and r it is expected that the ructing this gigantic canal carly ne work of will begin. ul the fact flat marsh- hould afford djacent to the Dnieper excellent. opportumites for rapid work in connection with the enterprise in- hand. The scheme at present is to take advant of the river Duna from the port of Riga on the Baltle coast to the town of Dunaburg, in Poland. Here a canal will be cut to the river Beresina, which flows into the Dnie- which If, after passing through and Ekaterinoslay, empties into the t Kherson, close to Ode: The will, when completed, be in every as great in its possibilities as the present Suez canal, for not only is it in- tended for the development of 5 but it will be built large, deep enough to allow of the p and ocean-going steame The enormous trade which has been done during the past thirty years on the river yolga from Astrachan in the Ce izan and Nijni Novgorod in interior Rus sia has undoubtedly been the incentive te d Russia’s t enterprise, One has only to think that at present the Black sea forms little more than a lake for Russi: 5 mers to realize to the fullest the pos which this new canal has in passag the Dardanelles sinks considerably, and the Constantinople will be obsolete. ‘The Volga, is the It is sage of ironc bilit future. the of the Bosphorus and into insignificance utegical position of dered practically Dnieper riv next to the irgest waterway in Murope able for a considet way practic: knots an hour for navigation, so that six an be maintained by the -velopment of the undertak- ending out of branch linc from the different sections of the st railways to connect with the various new ports which will be built on the banks. The towns of Disma, Mozyr, Cernixo Zitomer and Poltova ile on the rou proposed canal, and it requires very little exertion of thought to imagine will be the future of these centers, which hitherto have subsisted mainly on agricultural pur- suits and the felling of timber. Probably one of the biggest Industries which the canal will affect will be the oil trade of the ucasus. At present the great oil wells near Baku give over their product to ships on the Caspian sea, which trade on the Volga and the Ural. Western Russia 1s reached by means of the trans-Caucasian railway from Baku via Tiflis to Batoum, where the oil is shipped for the Crimean or southern Russian ports. The completion of the new canal will mean that the ofl fleet will be able to traverse the Black sea, the Baltic-Black sca canal and at Riga be in a position to go straight round, to Reval, St. Petersburg, or to supply the big ports on the Finnish coast, or go westward to Swe- den and Norway. The present estimate of the cost of con- struction of this canal, ig £20,000,000, and this will include the lighting by electricity of the canal along its whole length of some 1,000 miles. ing will be the ——+e2____ Wasting Good Money. From the Boston Traveler, Charles Bragg—Yes,,, Miss Brightly, costs me ten thousand a year to live.” Miss Brightly—“Oh, Mr. Bragg; do you think 1's wcrth it?” it ISEEN ON F STREET Some of the Many and Varied Styles of Pedestrianism. THE WALK OF THE ATHLETIC GIRL There Are Those That Trip and Others That Glide. age ee AN INTERESTING STUDY ne at W HEN A MAN IS dickering for a horse he says to the dealer? “Trot him up and down a bit, and let's see his action.” The assumption is com- mon and natural that a horse's char- acter and capability are infallibly indi- ed by his manner carrying himself on the move. not apply this as to the ca of while Way human as well gauge to the equine species? This has already been done, ful, scientific spirit. But there has been a difficulty. The deductions drawn by the students of the human gait neutralized, and therefore greatly decreased in scien- tific value, owing to the fact that Fashion and Faddism, with upper case F's for both words, are quite as dictatorial as nature itself in establishing nowadays the style of walk that shall prevail among humans who pire to live and have their being a la mode. Therefore, the man or woman who alters his or her gait and adapts it to the demands of an epLemeral fashion of walk- ing may be said to defeat the purposes of science or of scientific generalizers. These students of the human gait, who omit, probably for obvious reasons, to set cown their stardard of comparison, declar oniy about one human being in twenty how to walk properly. ion yourself at closed point of v ington’s broadw. on a fine afternoon, and o age in a respect- rve the chi The Terry Swing. acteristics of galt of the passers-by, men and women. Perhaps, then, you'll be able to form your own conclusion as to what the real thing is or ought to be in the mat- ter of the human gait, and as to whether with you exhibit {t in your own carriag 19 to 1 against you in the probabilit cording to the figures of the scientists after all, may not be so— The Vassar Stride. That extraordinary method of locomotion known as the Vassar stride has been ob- served a good deal on F street during the holidays, for the reason, perhaps, that a good many of the young women are home from the seminaries for the Christmas in- term. The Vassar stvide is the feminine adaptation of the weird way the Chollies of a dozen or so ye 0 had of project- ing themselves through the thoroughfares. It is only employed by tall girls, for the most essential feature of the Vassar stride is that each step must be of reguiation mil- itary length, 4. e., thirty-three inches. Thi young woman who walks in this wis rarely carries an umbrella, purse or any other sort of impedimenta, for it is neces- sary that she hold her arms very much akimbo. portion She strides with the up] of her body very mu bent forward, and to the speculative observer there appears to be no kuee action whatever in her There is generally a look of expectancy, even of anxiety, on her face, lest, perhaps, she is forgetting some of the business of her walking part; and, although there is nothing of swiftness in r movements, she gets over a good deal of ground within a short space of time, owing to the length of her steps. With her arms so much akimbo, the sar striding young woman contrives to use up about four feet of the 8) of a sidewalk, and people approach- ing her from the opposite direction always give her plenty of room, for the knobs of her extended elbows look strong and form- idable, ‘The Ellen Terry Swing. Other tall girls, modeled more or less af- ter the Burne-Jones type of young women, practice the Ellen Terry swing with some degree of success on F street. This Ellen ‘Terry swing ought, from the looks of it, to be pretty good exercise. It exacts the simultaneous movement, at each step, of practically the whole body, not in any Jolting sort of fashion, but’in a waving, sinuous kind of way. beginning from the ground up, and thus extending throughout the entire length of the young woman. The Cough Drop. The zephyr that sweeps over the nodding plumes of ripened corn is no more dis- turbing and no less pleasing to the eye than the initial wriggle with which this young woman sets herself in motion. She vsually wears skirts of the clinging va- riety, that swirl around her maelstrom- wise as she fluats over the prcsaic paves. A peculiarity of this Ellen Terry swing is that the individual steps taken by the yourg woman who affects it are barely ob- scrvable. She seems simply to sway her- self over the ground, like an Aurora pur- sued by the Hours, or, better, like Ken- yon Cox's pictured girls in the fllustrations to “The Blessed Damozel.” The girl who walks Terry-wise ordinarily dresses her hair to suit her celestial gait; that ts, she bunches it in a big wavy wad at the back 17 of her head, being careful to leave half a dozen or so of sirands to hang loose, a fording Boreas an opportunity to toy with them—for it is a tie of the Burne-Jones girl that she generally looks uncombed. Then there is the Lillian Russell teeter, known also as the Tottte Coughdrop twist This method of locomotion ts especially designed for young women who desire to make up in energy of movement what the lack in inches. it is not exactly the waik of the marionette, but it is the way a bisque doll wouid walk if a_ bisque doll could be Pygmalioned into life. is pe It culiarly adapted to the pedestrian requir ments of point. E oung Women inclined to embon- h step is as much as twelve hches in length, and the teeter or twist is essentially a movement of the lower half of the b which may at each ste describs are Without mea © roles and regi & this style vily involves skirts, and it en noted young women addicted to the r or the coughdrop twist wear in nine cases out of ten, It pleasant music, this rustling of sil- skirts, and the women who walk in this way are deigntful litle creatures, Oc- cosionally, however, some of them fail into th ror of teeterlig or twi ting on F Str in company with their very tall men friends. This necessitates the young woman's tak- ing thr s to the man’s one—for men of today are too thoughtiess or brutal to alter their gait in accordance with the ac phys.cal requirements of the young women with, th walk funny. and the effect is, well, The athletic girl parades on F street like a nineteenth century Atalanta. She goes if meant to get there, She is a whirlwind, and every one of her solid st as shi Ds seems to stamp the fact that, after all, skirts are a nuisance, and that they should not be imposed upon such as she. The ath- letic girl is. always entirely, ravishingly beautiful, featur her She is be ful beear brushed, gr always looks and “fit term it, ys of men in a s in every graceful move n't an apology of any sort what to make to anybody for living on this nd breathing the air of it. Sk r shoulders back and her chin up, nd if she wants to swing her arms, 4 dof nventionally front of he nd look a bit ‘sh ver it, eithe doesn’t walk fraid of kicking her skirts, Her attitude is, that skirts were made to kick, so long as she is compelled lol throws h influence of rest environment to r them, When she raises her arm to t her veil, you faney that she is about to hurl her spear. Men and n give way to her as sb springy, undeviating: path. the empress that she is of an wo- mankind. She walks like future mother of men,” as the late Daudet called one of his sumptuous provincial women, Then, there itly here Roman empress eter, but o: historians ina flit. of no ustina at The walked herself she ante: hundred y The 53 flit is a walk af- exceedingly ultra women, slves in bizarre colors and on effe It is a ser- sr f ion. sted who array strive after cha pentine saunter fer twenty feet or so, then oO by them; a half-halting gait of diminutive steps for a distance, then a whirlwind rush, like the leading woman making for the center of the stage. It is this variety of movement that is supposed to hold the fascination « the Faustina flit. Even when the woman who affects it has practically the whole pave to herself, she is all over the pavement at nce, and seems to be perpetually wriggling herself through the madding crowd. ‘rhe! is grace in it, for a fact, when it is done right, and the queer colors of the Faustina flitter's raiment produce a kaleidoscopic ef- fect, so that dazzled men have been ob- served to shade their eyes from it. A heavy perfume always follows in the wake of the Faustina flitter, and the woman who walks in this wise almost always has a veil reaching just a bit below her eyes that only accentuates the unconsciously splen- diferous meaning in them. The Downger Walk. The Du Maurier dowager’s walk is a me- chanical affair that yet expresses many things. It is composed of @ straight kick out with each step, and each kick is vis- ibly registered at the base of the skirt, near the binding. It is an absolutely un- compromising There is no movement whatever of the body. The hands are clinched menacingly in front. The chin ts on a level with a horizon of hills, yet the eyes stare str t ahead. “What—are— t you—going—to—de—about—it?” clomps ery footfall of the dowager'’s wa There are other characterist walks to be boulevard betical nam rved on this Washington ith the commonplace alp! The prim walk of the maid- Athletic. en lady who can’t help but remember the w of the Union army after the She walks on her toes, t with the precision © much contact with l wrong. The heel-and-toe move- f the old lady with the cloth she the Nile-green umbrella and the white seamed black bag is another. Then, the girl with dresses only to ber shoetops, with the waltz step, who turns half around on the ball of each fcot with each advance. Finally, the ponderous colored lady, who models her walk upon that of May Irwin. The Senatorial Strut. As you assort the women, so shall you class the men in accordance with their F street gait. First, then, shall be the trib- ute to the senatorial or Roman strut, which hereabouts is a certain signs of natural or acquired greatness. It is the gait of the jiegislator. No matter whether the legisia- tor, before dawning orange brilliantly up- on Washington, followed in the dank, wormy furrows of his native fields, or trod the priturosed carpets of clubs of which he was pr ly born a member, he quickly acquires the galt of the great when the franchises of his feilows jand him here. He walks as perhaps Catiline walked in leaving the senate, with the “I go, but 1 shall return” threat slumbering in his ey Each step Is the step of ponderosity, clinch- ing an argument which Is supposed to be revolving in the cavernous mind of the walker. The urms swing free, a bundle of documents generally clutched in one hand —the right hand, as a rule. Friends bow to the great man. He returns the bows with half salutes, performed wavingly, sweep- ingly, with the document hand. He must progress slowly, the better to produce the proper leonine ‘effect. Unless the day is very cold, he prefers to permit the flaps of his overcoat and his frock coat underneath to sewing open to the breeze, for he leans to looseness of drapery and artistic “combi- nation” of effects, as sketchers term it. He plants his foot firmly on the ground, and there is quite a perceptibie halt before he raises it for the next step~—a halt that is perhaps meant to imply that the walker is not walking carelessly or thoughtlessly, without giving due.consideration to what he is doing, but that he regards each step as a distinct, separate move in his career, destined to become part of the records of time. ‘The effete and pretentious east should blush to-reflect that since the passing of Webster, Calhoun and Clay It has offered no such superb exponent of this profound, McCullough-like tively fsol sen and ait as has the comy of the lone star, wh daily se the toga nor silk hat for import contribu it fs quite as impr sive anc magnificent, with only a wide scmbrero and Massiveness a lot of hair to crov n its Walking Abstractedly, 1 waik of the nervous t ental division is seen with ons on F street a while after The man who waiks abstra huddies himself together after the ™ of a newsboy hopping up and down on a keep himself war leading a very dee appears to neither he walks with uncertain, inqut logetic tep, and when bi mps ag him he does all o the apologizing himself. When hr Lamped for several squ nor ne somebody mort of has been an- ast ally turns off into a side str apparently awaking to a realization that this is a cold, unfeeling world, and that he has too many thinks coming to be able to cope with Then ther is the F street walk the beautiful young male bud of society, who declines to weac an overcoat in zero weath er qand shivers dismally in « quenced for sow inscrutable reason remotely h shooting boxes, who ekthorn club of the length and shillaleh, and who waits for ary and dusty to turn up his t rs at the bottoms. He walks stiffly d laboredly, as if lampered by the welght of a couple of big bags of “ime,” nd xloor en his ed writ mtenance Is sairlike. If he ever stops to reflect that like gloom and a green cravat re- sing on a pink-striped shirt are incom- patibles, ft 1s not manifest. He contrives to Fret in the way of a gocd many pedestrians coming in the opposite direction, not im- y because of the opportunities these ctionist tacties offer him to dish out his plentiful stock of “Pway pawdon me's Various Other St lot of the young men who “show” on street have mastered the so-termed er's spring, a pretty good walk that characterizes the sort of New York men who reach their down-town offices in the neighborhood of 11 in the morning. It is a get-there galt, thirty inches to the sten, a good deal of it done on the ball of the foot, the upper part of the body thrown well back and the eyes straight ahead. Men who walk this way look as if In time they might arrive, in the Gallic sense of that phrase. The Chicago swagger ts the walk of men who have nothing in particular to do. They take the turn from {th to 15th street on F two or three times afternoon for no other purpose than the examination of—of the store windo' It is an impu- dent, careless, hurry-in-the-world sort of swagge mish in effect, and not unatt . The men who walk this way naturally, or affect it, carry canes or um- brellas tightly wrapped for swinging pur- poses. Passing them by, men with no particular style to their gait remark of the Chicago swaggerers, “I wonder how many of the public buildings of this town + fellows think they own?” retired officer of the army gets out treet on fine afternoons. Observing to « halt you will be quite safe in making any sort asonable bet that when he gets under+ in he'll step off with the n while he is momentari he appears to be mentally marking tim When the street-plano man your point of observation ome popular march, th ference in gait of everybody, men and men, within the range of your vision. Such an incident will have a nullifying am shattering effect upon all of your prev mclusions as to the gaits of the people you have been studying. —— Pharmacy. Us. st of the present time docs not tly from his brother of the eigh- teenth century. The extensive use of pro- prietary medicines, especially in America, has, however, decreased his prescriptions; but at the same time these proprictary medicines are sold through him, and sell so ely that he does net complain. While useful ble member of the communt+ the p! acist of today is not an orige nd limits ns that A F bre Th on F him when he comes temporarily and « From Lippin The drug differ g nd ty inal investigator or a preseriber, his efforts to filling the preseript ent him by his friends, the physicians. r he becam hich with the a greater adept in rourse of time has considered a branch of trade profession, while the drug- gist is looked upon in the light of a skilled labo: The most successful druggist of the present time is not he who mixes his drugs most skilifully, but he business capacity to mak It is often the druggist | of pharmacy that pos- able to him. skilled in the art sesses this capi It is not unrea humanity progr hygienic living, ct in which great interest is being y, the drug shop will be in le: pmand, until, after » of ages, It may become entirely extinct. Until that time the druggist will continue to ply his calling, alleviating by his drugs the ills of a too rapid civilization, in which men have no time to rest and re- pair their wasted energies, but simply patch them up by the use of the apothecary’s ‘And because of this, the druggist nportant he the wares. will for a long time remain an fi member of any community in which chooses to establish himself. Pacific Coast Demand for Ships. San Francisco Dispatch to New York ‘Tribune. Men who cwn steamers or who have ves- sels chartered will coin money next spring. Never in the history of the coast has there been so great « demand for vess Tue big grain crop stripped the coast of deep- sea ships, and the Klordike rush bids fair to engage every steamer that can be pressed into service. All the coal-carrying vessels will be used for passenger traffic, and the result is that it will be difficult to maintain a supply of coal at Unalaska, Dutch Harbor and St. Michael's. The rates for passage and freight are sure to be high, as the demand will far exceed the supply. No estimate can be made of the pa ors who will go from this city to the Klondike, but the number will run far up in the thous. ands, as Australia alone will send several thousand prospectors. All the passenger accommodations on the steamers from Syd- ney for several months are engaged, and much of the freight space has been trans- formed into cabins. SEE SS ae Prof. Finklenburg of Bonn estimates that the average human life in the sixteenth century was only eighteen to twenty years, while today it is cver forty years, oo on, Nimety-Seven.” om Frem Life.