Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1898, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1898-24 PAGES. Le, DRESSY GOWN FOR THE SEAS he hat to be worn with this costume is 2ceful and pictures It is of soft tan lew on one sid2 Goprrtcnt, 1095, by SM Baltete PAQUIN OF PARIS| ther. The The GreatCostumerWrites of Fashions | formas < pe for Summer, Old Favorites and New. . The preference which has been shown to al’ tha silk has filled the market with a great many ne old favorites in the DESCRIPTIONS OF DAINTY GOWNS Ik Hne, and taff foalard, pongee und de chine will hold their own during will be accepted which en taffeta has y being soft and 1 rustling. crepe the summer, oft and snged it flow chara tead of Silks and Taffetas Are Still High in he lighter siiks show a tendency sompad . taffeta is Popular Favor. aimost invariat S$, though a Ity has com in the shape 7f taf- —— printed in tion of lac que and ribbon insertions MATERIALS AND TRIMMINGS Crepe ce shine is most elegant in plain the ades being sky green and a new le Special Cer spondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, June 9, 1898. The fashionables have done for the sea- mings of the more of silk are the ta- ruches of chiffon, ant summer £ ite “mignonne crepe, m ne de soie or gauze ribbon, son with the great metropolis, whose throb- | ang luce boleros, collars or reveres are ad bing pulses have quickened their own dur-| ditionally trimmed with these tiny raches, as we tion. One handsome model gown of ecru crepe ing a winter of gayety and dissipation, demonstrate today in our fllustra- and have taken themselves and their fine garments to country homes and fashion- de chine has the serpentine flounce at- a resort tached to the skirt under a trimming of The design which we submit today to| narrow mignonne ruches of ecru mousse: ms pa a model | line de soie. The plain bodice is covere te See Te see esOCeD Uveitis cui Blstinel oetrnesakee ats Giaee Hietitaeeies by us for Mme. Grimaud, among | reveres in front of these reveras, as well » wardrobe it takes a prom- of its elegance and sim- as the high flarirg collar, and che cuffs of Irish point are edged with the same ruch The full vest is of turquoise blue chiffon, and a wide folded belt of turquoise mircir velvet closes in front with a buckle of tur- quoises. vives vecilatie wero weather gown, as it Je of very fine colored mous seline, embroidered with assorted applica- tions of white lace. The skirt, while tight at the hips, finishes with a considerable flare at the hem, and is cut very long. The mousseline is made as an unlined drop skirt over an under- skirt of ecru taffeta glace, which 1s stiff- ened by an interlining at the hem, and shows a ruche of the same taffeta around the edge. An Exquisite Trimming. The only trimming of the skirt Is the ex- quisite application, which is so applied as to form a large floral design at the hem, bei is m: Funereal Black. With all the color display of the vresent season there seems to be a decided ten- dency to black. Not only is every woman of today in possession of a black costume; but the elegante insists upon wearing It in spite of the heat and dust. This tendency has created a number cf Gistingue toilets of grenadine, etamine, hed tulle, and, above all, of tulle 1 with spangles and steel bead- ing. It is said that most men are averse to the feminine members of their family wearing the color of mourning. To inine members who still nave a and finishes in small tendrils and flowers | Such feminine members who still nave a over the upper part. s from the “lerds of creation,” be The tight-fitting bodice lining of ecru taf- aid that these dainty bleck stuffs can feta glace is covered with a short zouave ‘ffectively worn over colored un- jacket of mousseline, which is defined by and bodi ee panes . vufaetures hes of ecru mousseline de soie, and | jengths to meet this demand, and most en- opens in front over a tucked chemisette a y ticing samples are shown at the !eading m-colored ane we ae, sree | sho This same fashion is also copied in fie fy Mousseline de sole, and trim. {embroidered and lace-inerustated Datistes, med with tiny gold b on: decorate th! zouave jacket in front. Cream-colored tat- feta also forms the fe but closely drawn high which closes a littie to or H graceful bows of geranium- e miroir velvet. The high standing f tucked taffeta, and the chemi- covered with a graceful cravat < full bows of ecru sole, graduating in size. The embroidered mousseline is un- nd almost tight, ends at the Love Among Lap ders. cloth enerally This, of cours me and pays a sum of money, 10 copper dollars, on the spot. is a remnant of marriage , which, in primitive times, su: 1 marriage by capture. Banns are once in land and the m eremony is very short. The bride wears her hair loose and has a gold band round her he Her presents and her dow- -nerally reindeer, and she and her om rémain with her parents for a year after marriage. — If chamois is washed with soap and wa- ter and rinsed and dried it will become stiff }and hard and almost useless. But if it is washed with soap and water, and the soap is not rinsed out, it will dry as soft and serviceable as when new. Chronicle. ung Li ander is in love with | by pure run a race. He is heavily | ¢ so that she may win if she | Publ and she in. Of cour: overtaken if nt of her parents must be ob- ed before she can be married. The law land is very strict on this point, and in olden t the man was subject to capl- tal punisiment if he married without the sirl’s parents. After a Lap- a bride he sends her a fa ring and a quantity of brandy; he ‘ar as the door of her hut, but remains outside until invited to enter, when a bumper of brandy Is offered present Beads of all kinds, worn closely about the thr , are very much in vogue again, coral to the girl's father; if he drink it it is a | particularly. Amethyst, amber and coral sixn he consents to’ the marriage, and the | are worn to an extent that Is rapldly grow- pung lover then promises to give the gir! | ing. NOSCE TEIPSUM. Lady Cyclist (touring tn North Holland)—“What a ridiculous costume!” HOUSEHOLD HINTS/FROM CAMP ALGER Asparagus has so short a season that it should be used in as many ways and as frequently as_ possible. Happy the wo- man who has an asparagus bed of her own, from which she nay cut, in the early morning always, the tender, brittle stalks which are in striking contrast to the long, woody, wilted stalks of the ordinary huck- ster. So wholesome is asparagus that not @ scrap should be thrown away. While the long woody pieces are absolutely impos- sible served as a vegetable, they may be used in the concoction of a cream of as- paragus soup, and any left over bits can always be utilized folded into an omelet. The French method of cooking asparagus as a vegetable is to immerse the stalks, ted up in a bundle, in boiling salted wa- ter, allowing the tips to stand above the water and steam tender instead of boil- ing. Boit until tender, but not broken, and serve with a white sauce. A French wo- man eating asparagus will always take a stalk at a time in her fingers, dip the head in the cream sauce, and daintily nibble as far down the stalk as seems tender. In America, it ‘s usually served on butter- ed toast, each slice being dipped in the as- paragus liquid. Season. Asparagus may also be fricasseed, scalloped or made into soup or saled. June, with her wealth of roses, is upon us, and ways for preserving the fragrant petals are in order. In the orient preserv- ed rose leaves are a confection that holds the highest place in the housekeeper’s store of sw ‘There is but one kind of rose that is used for this purpose, a delicate fra- grant pink. When the bush is at the height of its bloom and all things are in readiness, the women of the household go out m the eariy morning, while the dew 1s stilll upon the leaves, and carefully strip the bush of its fragrant burden. ‘Then a rich syrup is made of honey and water or sugar and water, and ‘inio it go the leaves, carrying with them ali the fragrance and sweetness of Junee When cooked to the jellying point the rose-scented, rose-colored confection is carefully packed in small glasses or cans ay, to be Lrought out on festal asions and served in uny spoonfuls to each guest. It would be far better for Americans at this time of the year if we indulged less in pastry, sweets und heavy salads, such as lobster, crab, chicken and the like, serv- ed with Maycinaise, and instead would eat with every dinner some sort of green salad with the light French dressing. Just as present the gurdens, fields and markets are rich in salads from which to choose. There is crisp, tender lettuce in well-round- ed heads; the delicate Bermuda cabbages, water cress fresh from meadow streams, delicate chicory, wholesome dandelion, ap- betizing escarole—the broad-leaved Batavi- an form of chicory—and the sweet green peppers which combine so well with any Salad. Beside these, tine tomatoes, young beets, Bermuda onions, artichokes and rad- ishes swell the list from which the house- keeper may take her choice. Wideawake confectioners, not to be out- done by silversmiths and dry goods mer- chants, milliners and stationers, have risen to the occasion, and now we have patriotic bonbons and bonbonnieres. The latter come in all sorts of quaint conceits. There are forts with banners flying from their miniature battlements and fierce chocolate cannons protruding. There are knapsacks galore, some bearing Dewey’s picture and others emblazoned with the national coat- of-arms. There are trumpets and shawms, drums and shields, shells and tents; even the ambulance finds here {ts counterfeit presentment. Boxes, square, round and shield shaped, vie in favor with soldiers’ and sailors’ hats, decorated with bands of the national colors, while ices and creams take up the story where bonbons and bon- bonniecres leave off. The piano lamp has lost its prestige in fashionabie drawing rooms, and the. tall brass candlestick, at least four feet high, and holding a single candle four inches in diameter, is having its innings. Originally intended for bed rooms only, they are now made to do duty in drawing and dining rooms us well. A framework that comes with them is capable of sustaining large silk or paper shades. A new device con- sists of a simulated bright red poppy of either crepe paper or silk, which from its form throws the light up in a most pecu- liar way. The “wrought iron” shade, which is the proper accompaniment to the wrought iron candlestick, 1s made of black paper and silk. The black paper is cut to form the framework, with the open spaces filled in with silk hand-painted in dainty figures or scenes. A new gastronomic titbit, commended as “delicious,” will prove an acceptable addi- tion to the menu of a course breakfast or luncheon. Cheese croquettes are the names of these delectable dainties. “Cut up into dice shapes,” says the one who knows, “‘one pound of American cheese. Have ready one cupful of hot cream sauce in a saucepan. Add the cheese, also the yolks of two eggs diluted with a little cream. Stir the whole, and let the mixture remain on the stove for a minute until the cheese gets steady. Sea- son with sait, red and white pepper, and a little nutmeg. Put this mixture on ‘the ice until cold, then form into croquettes and roll in bread crumbs. Dip in egg, then in crumbs again, and fry in deep, hot fat un- ul a delicate brown.’” An appetizing asparagus salad 1s made by boiling the asparagus stalks in salt wa- ter until tender, and steaming the tops. Drain, throw in cold water, and let them stand half an hour to chill. Drain, wipe dry, put in salad bowl and pour éver a French dressing made to suit the tastes of the family. A good proportion for most people is a half teaspoonful of salt, a dash of white pepper or paprika, four tablespoon. fuls of olive oil, and one tablespoonful vinegar or lemon juice. Mix well and pour over the salad. This dressing, if used for a dinner salad, should be made at the table, and can be most readily mixed by shaki in a bottle. Sere The growing popularity of the mush- room is evidenced by the immense number of dishes now being sold especially for its serving. The greatest demand is for the picturesque iittle French dishes of pale red earthern ware, similar in coloring to the Boston beanpots. Individual dishes are more fashionable than the larger ones, but are, of course, more expensive. Glass covers slightly engraved go with these es and serve to keep their contents » brandy that is better for flavor- ing than the distilled rose water is made in this way: Gather the fragrant leaves without bruising. Fill a pitcher and cover with French brandy. The next day pour off the brandy, ‘take out the leaves, fill the pitcher with ‘fresh ones and return the brandy. Do this until it is strongly impregnated. Then bottle. Keep the pitch- er closely covered during distillation. The humble crvst of bread has risen to the occasion, and 1s now held in high es- teem by the soldiers, who use it to cleanse the white stripes of their trousers. In making any o1ange desserts, they will be found much improved in flavor if some of the grated peel is used. Old white holland curtains with the stif- fening boiled out make excellent dish- cloths. Diluted oxalic acid will remove fruit stains from the hands, ———._—. White Veils, From the London Moll. To regular features white veils are very softening and becoming. But, alas! how soon they get solled. To wash them, take a strong lather of soap and water, and sim- mer the vell in it for a quarter of an hour, then squeeze out the soap, and rinse the Vell in clean water, and afterward in water which has been slightly tinted with a little tea or coffee. Then pass the veil through thin rice water, shake it out and flap it, but do not wring it; pin it on a clean cloth’ and press it between anything handy. ea A Terrible Shock. ‘rom Puck. + Mrs. O’Brien—Arrah! and it’s the terrible shock the Widow Kerrigan got. Do yiz temimber the blackthorn bush she bought on the Bowery and planted on her hus- band’s grave? Mrs. O’'Grady—Oi do thot! Has it been shtolen? Mrs. O'Brien—Worse than thot! Whin she visited the grave today she found three oranges growing on it. —+— Boys in Blue Arg. Much in Evidence About;the Dity. Bs ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FUR w i How They Spend Their Time When Off on Leave. eee Se ES v DO NOT CARE FOR STYLE So ee ‘Written for The Evening Star. HE EVERYWHERE- ness of the soldier on the streets of Wash- ington is the local feature of the sea- son. It is warlike enough to hear the newsies’ wail, “Wux- try Noo Yawk! All about de big battle and the knots of men standing before the bulletin boards, try- ing to masticate the difficult names of Cuban scenes of skirmishing, also add to the belief that we are passing through an unusual period. But the soldier on the streets clinches the impression. He does not look particularly savage nor gore- athirst, but none the less, in spite of his mild appearance and behavior, he succeeds in stamping the notion that he'll be all there when the pinch comes. The soldier on the streets of Washington does not eve look ultra-military. A soldier can’t carry luis blouse on his arm—revealing a pair of white susp2nders, apparently devised for service and not for artistic effect, crossea upon a blue shirt—and at the same time look military. The writer suggested tis to a veteran of the civil war the other day. “Let him carry his blouse on his arm if he wants to,” said the old soldier. ‘‘No- body wants him to be a thing of beauty. He'll perform his stunt, blouse or no blouse, when his moment arrives. Dignity ts a naught multiplied ‘by a zero when buck soldiers are in action. Our soldiers aren't Very Basy. on dress parade now, atiyhow. This is not the period for gilt epaulettes, pipe clay and heel-ball. What does a soldier want with clothes anyhow? ‘One April—it was thirty- five years ago—our regiment marched tor two days over a Carpet of soldiers’ over- coats and soldiers’ blotises. The weather had gotten hot, and the boys chucked their superfluous gear. In shori, we don’t care if they don't look miiftary just now, so long as they act mititary when the squeeze searches them out. And I guess they will act that way, all right.” Criticism, Not dn Order. This seems a pretty sensible view. There- fore, no criticism is In order on that habit of a good many of the soidiers of appear- ing with a more or less tightly-wrapped bundle on the other arm. The soldiers, most of them, surely look as if they nad their hands full, thus trapseing along with the blouse loosely slung. over one arm and the bundle closely clutched in the other. Washington has occasion to congratulate itself upon the orderliness of the soldiers, in view of the tales working their way up from the big camps down south about the rioting of the soldiers there stationed. There have been only a few minor scraps among the soldieps_around here—a punch or two, and they? etaPhal friendship on the part of the combatants—al the men have let their rifle racks alone. When encamped soldiers get themselves in a mix in the adjoining town, and then make for their camps to get at the rifle racks, trouble, and a whole lot of it, for all hands, is bound to follow. There hasn't been even a sugges- tion of that sort of thing in this neighbor- hood. This may ve due to the fact that there are few regulars stationed here- abouts. The regulars and the militiamen do not pull together when there fs no fight- ing directed against the enemy in progress. When the regulars and the volunteers came ‘together down at Fortress Monroe on Tues- day last, and whaled each other to a stand- still, it was but a repetition of many such wrangles that have occurred in the past. When the regulars and the militiamen were serving: together in California during the big railroad strike in the summer of ‘#4, for example, they slammed each other into the camp hospitals by battalions. Another point that has served to preserve orderliness among the soldiers rendez- voused across the river is that a very large majority of the men encamped at Camp Alger are workingmen who send three- quarters of their soldiering wages home on pay day. A quarter of a soldier’s wages does not go very far in riotous ving. A Fellow Feeling. The police of Washington have gone very lightly on the soldiers thus far. A consid- erable number of the policemen of Wash- ington are men who have done their bit in the regular army of the United States be- fore becoming law preservers, and these men know the mischievous spirit that is bound to animate soldiers on leave of ab- sence from camp or garrison. When a sol- dier a bit under the weather heaves in sight, the Washington policeman looks the other way, unless the soldier is disorderly or noisy. A big, brawny, red-faced soldier, with white leggins-clasped trousers and no blouse, either on his back or on his arm— the blouse had probably been lost in the shuffle somewhere—lurched up to a police- man in front of The Star office the other afternoon. “Say,” said the soldier to the policeman, want to be ‘pinched.’i” ‘For why?” inquired the officer. “Oh, I dunno—I gust want to be pinched, that's all,” said the volunteer. “G'wan,” said the officer. - “Who, me?” said the soldier, bridling. But he was a gond-nagured chap, and he grinned. ll smack you right on the wrist, so I will!” id he, to the cop. “G'wan, there, Bill,” gaid the policeman. “Better take nap. Here comes an officer, anyhow. Maybe he’s from your outfit.”” The soldier loo! the avenue, and, sure enough, a big captain, with his cam- paign hat turned yp at.the side, was strid- ing in his direction. “The and’ his eal jing!’ exclaimed the soldier, and his ggjt waS a good deal more steady than it had been when he drilled Sround the corner of 11th street. Fun for the Crowd. Another soldierSewhott an officer was ccmpelled to arréSt orT7th street a few mernings ago, not’ because the soldier was disorderly, but because he wasn’t quite up to the job of handling bimself, guyed the officer a heap as he was led along. “Oh, you mean thing!” said he to the of- ficer, with a funny imitation of the fem- irine manner. “I--think ycu.are so ruce, "deed I do!” Then the arrested soldier, after amusing the crowd with this sort of thing for a while, charged his manner. “Say, ossifer,” said he, solemnly, “what's this going to cost me, about?” “Five-spot, I guess,” sald the policeman. The soldier thought for a moment, and then he halted, : “Say,” said he, suavely, to the police- man, “how is it for the loan of a fiver, Mike?” : The cop only grinned, and the two went on toward the station. The soldier enter- teined himself for the rest of the way by howling at the top of his voice the song, “Mistah Johnsing, Turn Me A-loose.” He was turned loose after he had had a nap of two or three hours at the station. The soldiers haven't raised any pertic- ular amount of Cain in the-theaters thus far, but they have been in evidence. Three of them, in a box at a vaudeville show, “broke up” a female dancer last week. The dancer was performing some rather un- usual contortions, when this chorus came from the box: “Why, you awful thing, you! why! Stop that!” The dancer didn’t quite know what to make of it, but she went on with her turn. “Gracious sakes alive! Well, did you ever! That we should live to see this night! Go ‘way, right now!” The dancer declined to respond to her encore when she had finished her turn. Windfall for Fakirs. The soldiers around Washington haven't followed in the footsteps of that regiment down in Tampa, all of the members of which, not knowing precisely how to get rid in the quickest way of their pay-day money, visited a Tampa dentist in con- tinuous sets of fours and had their teeth filled, whether their teeth needed filling or not. “But they have done a deal of brum- magem buying all the same. They have been a windfall for the street fakirs. The man on the avenue who puts heel plates on Why, why, Not Beautiful. shoes had to go temporarily out of busi- ness one day early this week while he awaited the arrival of more heel plates Not a soldier passed his stand that didn’t have his footgear fitted with the plates. The card writer on 7th street. has als> thriven mightily from the presence of the soldiers in town. There is no pcssible way of figuring out what use a soldier in the field can make of a visiting card, but, nevertheless, the braves in blue lined up in two files at the card writer's stand to have their names penned with many flour- ishes, followed by their company, regi- ment and corps letters and numbers, on a dozen or so of ornate, fcrget-me-not- stamped cards A great many of the soldiers, especially those from the south, have exhibited great activity and earnestness in searching out the correspondents in Washington of their local newspapers. They have not done this in a “rain-making” spirit, because they wanted to have their names appear in type _at home as having “registered” at the Washington correspondent’s office, bit simply out of a pure spirit of gregario ness. The correspondents thus hono’ have not had quite so much fun out of it as the soldiers. Washington correspon- dents are a mighty busy lot of men just now, and they have had some trouble in performing the duties of hospitality and getting their work on the wire in proper seeson. The correspon. =t of one of the leading newspapers of Tennessee has had a time of {t with the military men from his section of the country. His office has been jammed, morning, noon and night with officers and men from his region. The soldiers haven't found him at all during the past three days. He is in hiding in the office of a fellow-correspondent on the top floor of an out-of-the-way building. Hunting Up Relatives. A good many of the lads in blue have relatives in Washington whom they never saw before, but whom they have been care- fully instructed by their mothers and sis- ters to hunt up at any cost. The city di- rectories in the drug stores have been be- thumbed and dog’s-eared by soldiers faith- fully undertaking this sort of work. A Washington man whose wife’s soldier sec- ond cousin found out his establishment the other evening was telling some friends about it in a lunch room the next day. “Neither my wife nor I had ever seen the boy before,” » “but he was the sec- ond cousin, al He was a pretty nice boy, too—but, say, you ought to have him eat. It was wash day, and we al have a boiled dinner on wash day. Sa: that boy didn’t eat a whole ham and th’ cabbages and about half a peck of potato and two quarts of strawberries and five x At the Monument. cups of coffee, my name’s Blanco. It was enjoyable just to watch him. I’ve heard about the way fellows in lumber camps eat, but I'll bet no five of them could come up to this second cousin of mine by marriage. We couldn't get much out of him in the way of talk while he was stowing the prov- ender away, but after it was all over he opened up and gave my wife a line on members of her family that she hadn't heard of since she was a school girl that shut me out altogether. I didn’t seem to be in the combine. He comes over to din- ner every other day now, and I'm not buy- ing provisions at retail any more.” Climbing the Monument. ‘The stairway leading up to the top of the Washington monument has been impass- able with soldiers for a couple of weeks past. Not one in ten of the soldiers will ride up in the elevator, and the soldier who does take the elevator is called a “slob” by his comrades. The men who Looking Up Friends. have had their hats thrown out of the win- dows of the monument by skylarking com- rades haven't appeared to enjoy this game very much, especially the searching for their chapeaux after the descent. It is not a characteristic of men who comprise an urban population to run to fires. The soldiers ee now jemand through the streets ‘ashington don’: pretend to metropolitan ways. This ex- plains why so many of them, when they HOSE qualities which make the Rayal Baking Powder so valuable for use in the preparation of food for the Army and Navy—high leavening strength, superlative purity, perfect keeping —are absolutely requisite also to the baking powder that will do perfect work in the home kitchen. Royal keeps fresh until used (others do no ), and this means even work, cake, biscuit and bread uniformly the best. Royal has qualities pe- culiar to itself which cause it to serve perfectly where other brands fail. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. see a fire engine racing along the street, | fortune, re comes th wi from the take to their heels and follow it. There | west. \ il, Mr. Hamilton. We'll hasn't been a miniature blaze in Washing-| run down what it is. That's a ton for several weeks past that has not | heavy gun. The Toridor has only 1s-pound- been witnessed by a knot of panting sol-| ers. Th would not make a flash like diers. | that. Beat to quarters and cast off the At the Capitol. | stark Ram in a round shot sane e@ soldiers have rested | Ver # 2 Thousands) of hie sellers aukve weston Sire alee pel gait aun eae their weary limbs in the s "| terprise fairly walked. The flash of gu leries of the two houses of Congress since | was now n from th k, and the camp was establis the way. | lookout hailed that he saw a masthead The men occupy the chiefly in ke Boece bite bs ha 6 = picking out the repres from their ic nil Sonbppea th any: fisena Bintan own and when they have focused | the offi A tropic dawn is sor them in their vision they do not take their | thing to remember, Long before the sun eyes off them while th n. It is not | rises there comes a beautiful rosy light, to be supposed that the representatives on | making the sea a sheet of gold, and thus the floor do not know that the soldiers was my in to the Enter- from their districts a yr recrew. The Spanish brig was dicusly, either. The r in smoke and the noise of the that soldiers write lett me, especiaily | s plainiy heard chooner when they haven't much else to do, and a| was s ing up to board, her deck alive good many of them have done a bit of at-| with men. Uiudinizing for the benefit of the lads in| The Ar ) yards away, right of the soldiers hibitea ows, and then came the order, great interest in T. R ker. two divisions; rake her fore and * drawied a soldier from the south, | aft!” fternoons ago, after carefully siz-| ‘The effect was tremendous. A chorus of Reed, up for half an hour | Yells and screams from the pirate ‘I reckon he's got the spunk, all | came her f¢ t and maintopm but I wouldn't care to have him try | it to ‘em and her decks we rt-martial Backing her mainsail, in a minute SAVED PIRATES. Hew a United States Warship Res- cued a Spanish Ganboat. From the Philadelphia Times. In the beginning of the present century the Guif of Mexico swarmed with pirate preying on the commerce of every nat n. One has only to refer to the newspapers | previous to 1826 to recognize how great were the perils of a seaman’s calling in those days. Ships disappeared at times, with their officers and crews, and it may be years after that some desperate sea rover, brought to the gibbet, told the story of capture and destruction. The worst lo- cality in the West Indies was the south side of the Island of Cuba. Here lies the Isle of Pines, and a succession of low ke: that afforded the pirates exceilent oppor- tunities for concealment. All merchant- men went armed in those days, but the pirate schooners, carrying one heavy 24- pounder, could cut a vessel's spars to pieces, and thus make her defenseless. In 1824 an English brig from Jamaica, bound home, was taken off Cape St. An- toine, her crew massacred and the vessel beached on the coast of Cuba. Her cargo the bowsprit of the over the bow of th. Was, “Boarders away men made short wor! Waist, and all and pulled for shore. Priming a carron- ade with a pistol cartridge, the Yankee sailors discharged ft, cutting one boat in two, and in a moment the water was alive dor and the Phe of the ping got in’ in the eir boats with sharks, taking care of the crew The schooner was at once boarded Dy three boat crews. The decks were dese but all at once there came a deadly vol of musketry from the cabin, killing thre men, and then a rush, headed by Pinto, a tall, grizzly negro, powerfully built. He shot Lieutenant Hamilton through the body attacked by the ward room steward of t rprise, a giant mulatto from Balti . too, got a bullet, but struck Pinto’s right arm off with a cut- lass stroke, and the villain was taken alive, the only survivor of his crew. In waist of the Toridor lay sixty-two dead men, over forty being of her crew, and Captain Hernani admitted that in an hour more the pirates would have owned his brig. From the Philadelphia Times. The Spanish royal standard is most com~ was valued at over $200,000. The British | Plicated. The red and yellow of the Span- government started an investigation, and it was found to be the work of a Spanish- Irishman named Cain, who had a fast top- sail schooner called the Esmeralda, with a crew of 200 men of all nationalities, among them two Philadelphians named Brent and Supplee. It also found that in dis- posing of the plunder a Spanish coastguard vessel had conveyed most of it to Havana for sale, and that many Spanish officials were interested in the affair, getting a share of the plunder. The British government went for the Spaniards in a vigorous manner, demand- ing indemnity for the past and security for the future. The Spaniards yielded and agreed to equip a force to cruise on the south coast and search the keys for ma- rauders. A fast-sailing brig of war, El Toridor, carrying ten guns, was put in commission, under Captain ‘Hernani. He was a fine sailor and an honest man, and soon made it very unpleasant for the pi- rates about the Isle of Pines and Cayo Largo. At this time the United States had a fleet of small vessels doing police duty in the gulf, one of which, the Enterprise, commanded by Lieutenant White, was very active and had captured several pirate craft and cut up their crews. It was on the same station as the Toridor, and Li tenant White arranged with Captain H. nani to perate with him, and if want of as: in tance at night to show a light at the mainmast head as a signal. Information had come to the Spanish captain that a consort of the Esmeralda, a fast-sailing schooner called the Bonita, commanded by a negro named Pinto, would try and get into the Largo key at night. She had been on a cruise away south and was reported full of plunder. The negro captain was a bloodthirsty ruffian about fifty, and was badly wanted by the Span- ish authorities, as he had murdered a brother of Captain General Galviz in one of his raids ashore. So the Toridor dg: out about three miles away from the pass between the Isle of Pines and Cayo Largo, tossing and heaving and keeping her cop- per bright under short sail. It was said by English captains in those days that you might make Spaniards fairly good seamen, but it took constant hazing to make them stand a decent watch. No sooner was the Watch set than one-half went to sleep and the other half to play cards and gamble, leaving the ship to itself. Such must have been the case on the Toridor on this night of August 10, 1822. Even the officers on the quarterdeck were dozing, while the captain was below, asleep. The man at the wheel was the only one on the alert. Suddenly from the northwest came a bright flash, and then the boom of a gun, and a shot whistled through the rigging, and then a cry from the helmsman, “Ahoy, there! Here's two boats alongside!” In those days muskets were kept in racks under the break of the poop over- head, and covered with tarpaulin, and the boarding pikes were lashed to the main- boom. To these the startled crew rushed, and the sides were alive with men coming aboard, yelling, “Kill, kill!” There is no want of courage among Spaniards, and the crew fought desperately. The captain was on deck and at once sent a man to the masthead to light the signal lantern, and with his officers and marines pitched in: but the shore party had got first blood, and they fought like tigers, while the heavy shots from the big schooner not over 800 yards away came fast. The Toridors re- treated to the quarterdeck, and, encouraged by their officers, made a desperate fight, but it was evidently a losing game. The schooner had her sweeps out and in a few minutes would board the brig with a crowd of fresh assailants. Fortunately the Enterprise was not more than twelve miles away, in the southwest. The watch had been changed and the new lookout had just gone aloft, when he called out, “Deck ahoy! There goes a gun right nor’east off the starboard bow!” — a be peneng all > ome. 4 of the officers sprang into rigging wit! a night glass and hailed: “There it goes again. I hear the boom.” ish flag is said to e derived from this oc. currence: In 1378 Charles the Bold dipped his fingers in the blood of Geoffrey, Count of Barcelona, and drew them down the count’s golden shield, in token of his ap- preciation of the latter’s bravery. . Th shield, so marked, tecame the arms of Barcelona, which became part of Arragon, and its arms we aken by; hat kingdom. Now to the rv standard: In the first qvarter, or upper left-hand part of ths rms of Leon and Castile, the stle; the second quarter is alf by the of Arra- gcn, one-half by the arms y. The upper third of the third quarter (directly under the first) shows the Austrian colors, the lower two-thirds is divided between the flag of Burgundy and the black lion of Flanders; the upper third of the fourth quarter shows the chequers, another Bur- gundian device, while the lower two-thirds is shared by the red eagle of Antwerp and the golden lioa of Drabant, and on the top of ull this are two shields, one showing the Portuguese arms, the other the French fleur-de-lys. Considerable of a flag that. —_—__+-—___- Aiso the Goose's Reason for Saving Rome. Frem Pu “If I may express my opinion,” remarked the Roman officer, “you will be taking a hazard step in crossing the Rubicon “That may be,” replied the great and am- bitious commander, “but-I have determined to make the move 1 owe t futur It is a solemn duty that the commencement orators of the oe Absolute Necessi pm Life. 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