Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1898, Page 17

FIVAVA Fat 8—24 PAGES. LOADING TRANSPORTS AT TAMPA. ? THE START FOR CUBA How the First Big Army of Invasion Left Tampa. ——— EADY IN A HURRY Jetained Just as Everything Was Prepared. GETTING —— A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE ag ees Written for The Evening Star on Board the Head- quarters Boat, the Seguranca. the Morning of the Sailing of the First Army of Invasion. ‘Await further orders.” The dispatch which delayed the great army of invasion was concisely and forcibly expressed in those three words. If General Wiliam A. Shafter, in com- n-end of the 5th Army Corps, had had two hours more on Wednesday, June 8, the great transport fleet would have been be- yond recall by any message from Wash- irgton. All day lorg, from early dawn un- til the sun went down in glorious colored clouds, he personally directed the embar- kation of the last of the troops, from an improvised headquarters on Port Tampa wharf made of two cracker boxes for a air and a packing cae for a table. When the message was Tinded him, de- laying an army which had worked night anc day for three days, through brotling sunshine and oppressive darkness, under y orders, he merely put his teeth to- r and went aboard the Seguranca out a word onderful days of terrific activity, those three days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- and just as Interesting were the suc- ding days of waiting, until Monday, June 18, when a great army of twenty thousand men, for the first bray! in the bistory of our nation, set forth from our Own shores, over the southern seas, to Igberate an oppressed and anguished peo- jie; carrying the olive branch of peace ightly clenched in the steel claws of the American eagle. Theee Days of Hurry and Bustle. Monday the hurry order for embar- 3 of the troops at Tampa came, and y hours afterward regiment after regi- 4 had struck their tents and “policed” 4camps by burning all the rubbish and porary shelters, and filling the sinke kal a (gith earth; buf, ready as they were to ove, nothing but vexatious delays met hem at every turn. In a few hours the iserable single-track road between Ferre and the Port, tine miles away, wac ked with cars. It seemed impossible gor the railroad to supply trains troops, and when secured, to move them. Entire regiments whic! ad packed and transported all their tentage, baggage and commissary supplies to the tracks, waited, Without food or shelter, for hours in the willing sun, or groped about in the derk, cursing the delay. For three days these scenes were enacted over and over again, and only on Wednesday evening, under the most strenuous orders from General Shaf- ter, did the last of the tired twenty thous- end, by a phenomenal spurt, find them- their transports. the 6th U. 8. Infantry— at 9 o’clock Tuesday night, 1 2 o'clock Wednesday at The experi- men was particularly ¢is- they traveled in a stock & for four hours in soft filth, cars were side-tracked and in the scalding midday sun. came from the men y Were put aboard this ill-smell- so great was the des for, the and waited un Tampa before ft was moved. ence of these ecuraging cince irg train man to go to that the flee! front, 1t being understood ould sail with the troops ed in getting down by sunset. Newspaper Men and Foreign Attaches Tuesday night, at the great Tampa Ray Hotel—which has been for weeks the hend- quart=rs of the Sth Army Corps, the for- | sixty or} eign military attaches and the more correspondents and artists—an order Was roceived to be ready to move aboard iquarters boat, the Seguranca, at 2 in the morning. The excitement wed was tremendous, and for the next few hours the corridors and lob- e of every | taches, news men and prominent officers took fitful naps, their slumbers grotesquely siartled by the subconscious impression that it was time to mov2. Those who kept this long night watch, waiting nervously for the long-delayed start for war,” will never forget the brilliantly lighted hotel, the dark night and afterward the slowly growing dawn. Confusion at Port Tampa. The scene at Port Tampa Wednesday was apparently one of wildest confusion; there was no martial music, nor the orderly and steady tramp, tramp of the flower of the army, as described by some of our more impressionable and poetic writers, but in their place was the grim d2termina- tion of every commanding officer, every overworked quartermaster, to get his re- spective regiment on board some particular transport. Th2 docks were piled high with tentage, luggage and commissary supplies, and the sweltering, already-tired: soldiery struggied in long, thin, loaded linés, to get their stuff aboard. It was @ wonderful spectacular performance, ons to be geen, not described. Amid it all many amusing and many sad things happened. Here a company of strap- pipg negio soldiers stcod in line, with thelr blanket-rolis open on the ground for inspection, giving up six shooters by com- mard, which they had surreptitiously hid- den about their persons, until nearly a dezen guns—an armful—of all sizes and escriptions, were held by the officer, while the “Not guilty” men, with heels together an@ heads erect, shook their brawny chests with suppressed laughter at their more un- fcrtunate and warlike comrades. Here a poor fellow had given-out under the ter- rific heat and strain of duty, and lay, white and panting with exhaustion, waiting for the hospital corps and litter to carry him away. Here lay another who had been thrown from his horse and had his leg broken, crying more from the knowledge that he would be left behind than from the excruciating agony which throbbed in his broken bones. One of the amusing incidents of this memorable Wednesday—that is, amusing for those who did not participate in the misery of going hungry—was that, in the excitement, the foreign military attaches Were entirely forgotten, and, after an entire night without sleep. they spent nearly a day without food, or information as to which would be their transport. At the little hotel at Port Tampa a crushing crowd of several hundred hungry men were yceiferating for breakfast, and In this typ- ical American aggregation, where every man was for himself, the polite spick and span attaches stood not the ghost of. a chance. So, poor fellows! they went hun- gry and forgotten through the hot day, until those in command, eased of thelr labors, had time to look around and re- member matters of less importance. A Magnificent Spectacle. It was e magnificent spectacle. Thirty blacksided transports lying in the stream, tretr decks closely crowded with a mass of humanity, which waved back and forth like the heat rays which fell unblinkingly upon them. They swarmed into the rig- ging like monkeys, the old sailors in the army each striving to outdo the other in some daring feat of climbing, while the auc'ence below cheered them to the echo. Tiis fearful activity, this stupendous energy evidenced by an army suddenly eie irified Into motion was all for naught, and for nearly five whole days the army lay idly at rest, waiting patiently and phil- osophically, or waiting grumblingly and with cursing, for further orders from Washington. It was a frightful ordeal for this army of a thousand score of men, one in which the men suffered mental de- pression and physical devitalization, largely shared by the ranking officers, who feared that, under the torrid suns and in the superheated and_ fily-ventilated holds, where the masses of the army lay gasping, } an outbreak of fever was imminent. Fevers did appear, but fortunately they were all malarial, and the dread typhus did not make its appearance before the glad news t2 move came on Monday to cheer the hearts of the men and ralse their sinking spirits again to the point of enthusiasm. On Friday night a storm sprang up, which cleared the sickening atmosphere, | and, for a few short hours, cooled it to a | refreshing temperature, but Saturday and | Sunday were almost unbearable, with the greater portion of each day airless and dazzlingly, sizzingly hot. On Sunday night a storm raged, such as can come only to tropical countries. The lightning flashed until the fleet in the harbor looked ablaze with nature’s beautiful fires, and the heavy aring, trembling thunder ‘shook the ves is from bow to stern. The winds were almost cyclonic and drove the deluges of rain in roaring streams over the decks of the vessels. At one time two of the thick- , ly dotted transports could be seen in the | brilliant flashes to be dragging their | anchors, and a great fear arose that they | mizht drift down upon others and cause a SS os THE TRANSPORT YUCATAN. jammed with men and luggag Striving to get and keep his per- s together for the move. men was the funniest d been made earlier for onseq regular tra ord ley as scurried the hotel, in canvas hunting suits, ducks, in the brown fatigue clothes and even in immaculate whi ts and patent leathers. Six-shoot- Sand belts full of ammunition nrough the hails, while broad ro strung with shoulder straps, Gangled cante2ns, rolls of binoculars, kodaks and pouches with notebooks. sternation increased when It was dis- ed that, owing to the movement of the regular train service would ntinued for the night; but it was decided that two extra coaches be added to the headquarters train, the press saved itself. o'clock came, and then 8, and 4 and ging the first glimmer of a beaut{ful G@awn, before ths train was loaded with headquarters’ and correspondents’ luggage and pulled slowly away from the great hos- telry, where, so far as the outsiders could see, had been enacted one long comedy of gaiety and pleasuse for seven weeks. Gen. Shafter kept watchful vigil on the great hotel ptazza during these last hours, giving orders to his hurrying alds in a quick, decisive voice. On chairs, benches and the soft, luxurious couches of the hotel, the tired and weary military at- The | frightful catastrophe, but the winds died away as suddenly as they came, and star | after star shone twinklingly out in the dark | blue heavens, le the last rain drops | splashed soothingly against the tightly bat- | tened hatches of the ships. The danger | was over, and the fleet sailed on the mor- row. | _Movday, June 13, was hazy and hot, but the heart of every man beat with a revital- ized vigor, for the army moved! | Moved where—to Santiago or to Porto Rico—no one cared, and few knew beyond the offi- cers high'in command. it wae enough to know that at last the army went to meet the enemy, against whom it had been mo- bulizing for weeks and weeks. As to the cutcome, not a soldier had a doubt, as he silently watched the long thin lines of | tvansports move out of the harbor to the fighting convoy on the broad ocean beyond, or as he cheered on his passing comrades, or danced In ecstatic glee to the full round sound of martial music today everywhere in the air. Every soldier knows and feels that he goes to a glorious victory! The prayers of this great nation them. WILLIAM DINWI Dine aie A Swiss View. From the Berne (Switzerland) Bund, Is all the army gathered in Tampa and Caps Thomas (sic) like that? The reports coming from there will answer the question, for our war correspondent gives a vivid de- scription of camp life in Key West, where the old piratical traditions of that former | nest of pirates are bsing resuscitated. Since the sailors, the cowboys, the Indian THE EVENING STAR,*SATURDAY, JULY 9, 189 scouts (sic), the black regiments and the prairie riders Fave awakened the old in- stincts the people are being reminded of their ‘heroic past,” and Key West is today @ den of robbers; the boldest tmagination could not find colors bright enough to rep- resent the romantic traits of such a scene. The motiey mob plunder there in daylight, steal everything on which they can lay hands, and break into the hotels—mostly improvised structures—and into all govern- nent buildings. It was high time to pro- claim’ martial law there, for the regular troops, who have but vary vague ideas of discipline, have begun to assist their plun- dering brethren. There, between Tampa, Cayenne, Haiti and Panama, there always existed in times of peace an innumerable crowd of broken-down fugitives from Eu- ropean law courts, of adventurers and des- peradoes, such as no other region of the globe ever saw. Now they have all met there. * * * The ships captured by the American navy do not escape from such “philanthropic” proceedings; on some of them everything movable has been stolen; whole cargoes of win and cigars are’ miss- ing. When some time ago the government Gecided to send’twe of those ships to New Orleans the saiiers rebelled and would not surrend2r them without a fight. ——___+ e+ -____ BIG BANKRUPTS, Modern Men and Enterprises That Have Been Forced to the Wall. From the London Mail. The sensational, and, to those not in the know, sudd2n and unexpected failure of a man who not long ago was supposed to have cleared a couple of millions sterling out of a single deal, recalls to mind several other similar colossal commercial catas- trophes. One of the most dramatic, if not actually, one of the largest, so far as the liabilities were concerned, was that of Baron Albert Grant of ‘Emma mine” notoriety. Grant was the uncrowned king of the financial world of his day and generation. He made millions almost as deftly as the lats Mr. Barney Barnato, and he spent them right royally. He bought Leicester square, and presented it, a free gift, to the people of London. He gave a dinner to nearly a thousand city magnates, at a cost which was popularly reputed at the’time to have exceeded a hundred guineas a head; and which, in any event, undoubtedly establish- ed a record in extravagant dinner-giving which has yet to be beaten. And he started out to build a palace in Kensington which skould “knock spots off’ all other privat2 residences, past, present or to come. Every- thing was gotten up regardiess of expense. The bull rcem walls were inset with panels of pink Italian marble, costing 800 guineas gpiece. In the entrance hall were four pil- lars of porphyry worth £4,000. The building Was scarcely finished when the cr: 2 and it remained for long a brick- tar white elephant on the hands of the trustees in bankruptcy. Eventually most of the Interior fittings and decorations were disposed of pizcemeal; the grand siaircas which had cost to build some £40,000, being acquired by the representatives of he late Madame Tussaud for a trifle over a fourth of that sum. It now forms the main ap- proach to the upper and principal sulte of rooms of the new exhibition bnitdings in the Marylebone road. Of colossal as distinguished from sensa- tional failures, none has occasioned more widespread ruin than that of the great bill- discounting house of Overend, G y & Co. This tcok place on May 11, 1868, a day known ever afterward througheut the mer- cantile world b: gniticant appeliadion of “Black Friday. ension was an- nounced at 10 in the morning, and at half- past the Bank of England raised its rate of Giscount to 9 per cent. An hour later the English Joint Stock Bank and its thirty branches closed their doors. Next was an- nounced the failur2 of Messrs. Peto & Betts, with liabilit estimated at over £4,000,000; and by 4 o'clock in the after- noon more than forty firms had gone under, including the In jal Mercantile Credit Association and the Consolidated Discount Company, with capitals of £5,000,000 and £1,000,000, respactively. The panic was ter- rible, amd for months afterwara@ there oc- curred, from time to time, other great fall- ures directly attributable to that unparal- leled financial cataclysm. One of the most distressing features of these commercial debacles 4s that it is largely the innocent who are inyclyed and ruined. In thousands of homes today wo- men and children are suffering for the criminal recklessness of Jabez Balfour. The failure of the City of Glasgow Bank, again, caused widaspread and acute distress among the unfortunate shareholders. Tt is satisfactory to note that, while there have been several English failures that have run into eight figures, we by no means hold a record in “big bankruptcies.” America has beaten us several times with- in the last dozen years or so; as has oO Fran on at least two occasions. The world’s record, however, rests with Egypt, whose late ruler, Ismail Pasha, failed in 1876, with personal debts excecding ff,- 000,008, No other single individual has ever approached anywhere near to this figure. Probably no one ever will. Financi> merchants are no longer, in these latter de- generate days, so confiding as they. once were. ——__+ 0+ —___ DANGERS OF OCEAN BATHING. Many Lives Lost at the Seaside Re- sorts Through Foolhardiness, From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Now comes the season for bathing and swimming, and many persons wii lose their lives at the seaside resorts simply lecause they do not follow the rules that ordizary common sense dictates,” said Dr. Henry Dimmert of New York, who was at the Planters’. “It may be well to mention a few famil- jar facts, that the dangers to which bath ers often expose themselves may be avoided. One of the simplest of these facts is tffat, as in all bodily exercises, modera- tion is beneficial ond excess in dangerous in swimming. Especially is this true if the bather suffers from organic or func- ticnal heart trouble. The man who uses tobacco te excess or who is weakened by Icng confinement at a sedentary occupa- tion needs to take fully as much care as he who is tho victim of chronte disease of the heart. No sensible man would attempt to run as far as his strength would permit, if at the limit of his endurance, he knew he must go through an equal amount of violent exercise to save his life. Yet fool- ish men and foolish boys daily try to see hew far they can swim, put their lives in peril and alarm and worry the spectators on the shore by their exhausted efforts to return, ‘The first dip is especially danger- ous, and the expert ‘who knows that he can make the second buoy because he did it last year’ would better rest content in his confidence and try some shorter and safer trip for his first dip of the season. “The folly of bathers always causes much agitation among sensitive-minded people on the beaches of our seaside resorts. To sea a human being struggling in full view in peril of his life while the spectator is help- less is sufficient shock to ruin thé pleasure of a hard-earned holiday. Visitors to the beard walks or the piers are daily enter- tained by these foolhardy exhibitions of bathers. “Almost all the deaths among the batherg by drowning result either from heart failure or cramp, and not from fail- ure of skill or muscular force. A skillful swimmer can rest quite easily, ‘rocked in the cradle of the deep,’ provided his heart and neryous strength are not already ex- hausted by violent muscular exertion. If, however, the circulation 1s impeded or the nervous strength exhausted, cerebral con- gestion, heart failure or nervous spasm is Mable to seize even the expert and ren- der him as powerless as a baby in the mighty arms of the ocean’s waves. The nervous strength is exhausted almost as much by exposure to cold as by muscular exercise. To remain in the water until one is chilled through—blue, trembling and chattering—{s to invite cramp. It is a sig- nal that the blood from the surface has retreated to the central citadels, and that the blood strain on these is at the danger mark. Such exeroise is not a benefit to the health, but a distinct harm. A sand bath for all who suffer thus is far more strengthening. One should never bathe just after eating—that is an old rule sup- pe to be known in every well-regulated cusehold, but hundreds seem to forget it the seashore. The advice to all ts mod- eration in swimming at the seaside re- sorts.” ———__+e+—___. Too Hasty. From the New York Weekly. Coal dealer (anxiously): “Hold on! That load hasn’t been weighed. It looks to me rather large for a ton.” i Driver: “"Tain’t intended for a ton. It's two tons. Dealer: "Beg pardon. Go ahead,* — ri OUTING COSTUMES Pretty Dresses Worn ona Recent Bi- oycle Run. REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN CROQUET for Stylish Women at Summer Resorts. Gowns + COMBINATIONS OF —_—_s—__—__ COLOR Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, July 8, 1898. A NOVEL FORM OF entertainment devis- by a woman jose summer home isyon the banks of the Hudson was a bieycle run, to which were invited the members of the house party she was entertaining and friends to the num- ber of forty or there- abouts staying in the neighborhood. The entire party numbered. f or more, and its passage along the quiet country roads, with flags and trt ons streaming and wheels burted in 4 s and wild roses, offered one of the. pret parades ever seen. The point of destination was a coun- try club house, distant about a dozen miles from the place of starting, where the cy- clists were received by the matrons, who had made an earlier start in carriages, and where lunch was served. Golf filled the afternoon until time for the run home before the dinner hour. The bicycie costum as dainty as was consistent with service, offered some points of departure from those seen earlier in the season. Most effective use was made of French gray linen in one notable instance; the coat rounding most ingentously in front, the basque longer than for a walk- ing dress, reaching almost to the saddle; the roll collar, resembling those worn on many fete dresses of George 1V suggestion. Between the open fronts appeared a rose- pink linen shirt, with a turn-over collar and a hemstitched stock tle. The broad linen hat of southern design was wound with a scarf of pink ribbon. Picturesque Costumes. A coarse-ribbed, white pique suit was ex- cellent, worn with a blue linen shirt and a short-backed sailor hat rcarfed with blue. Two or three fine-line, striped fiannels struck a note of variety. A combination not especially attractive in the description but eminently so in reality was a coat of light gray ribbed cloth over a skirt of iron gray mixture and a pale yellow silk blouse. Tho skirt was trimmed with folds of plain cloth about the hips, coming to a point in front. The jacket turned back in broad revers. As picturesque cs any was a cos- tume of navy blve duck, of tailor cut, piped with white cords and worn, as to shirt and hat, with rifle green. Severe black and navy blu> tailor models carried off the palm of excellence in their line. As to headwear, the sailor hat came off first best without question, whether in its Pristine simplicity of ribbon band or, as more recently order2d, swathed with bright scarf or fitted with gulls’ wings. The light gray slouch felt, of extra broad brim, is quito as cool wear as the sailor, capable of being smarter and is strongly preferred by Many peoplo. It is an int2resting point to note that plain black stockings are almost the only ones considered; those with gayly aided cuffs have signally failed to become he mode. Effective Decorations. The decoration of the lunch tablas at the clud house was very effective. One had a big basket in the middle of pink and dark red roses, cut with very long stalks; while pink and dark red ribiens tied the basket handle. Other roses of the same tints filled many quaintly shaped glasses. Another table was decked with the wild purple and yellow iris of the marshes, mixed with geen sword-shaped leaves; these in tall Breen glasses. Croquet clubs aré forming at the summer resorts in fulfillment of lest year's promise of a revival of ncpularity for the game. At a recent garden party white, beige, rose, pale blue, light green and ail those delicate tints possible to such a leisurely form of exercise made a most enjoyable pleture against the brilliant colors of the flower beds, the sun and blue sky helping. One of the prettiest costumes was of sheer white lawn mounied on turquoise-blue silk and embroidered wiih a graceful vine pat- tern, light in effect, bui costing an appall- ing amount of labor). this done in tur- quoise-blue silk and chenille. The ~bottom of the skirt was,trimmed with narrow flounces of lawn and Jace, a form of dec- oration repeated og the-bodice on each side of an embroidered vest. The broad blue ribbon sash matched the tint of the blue straw hat, which wasitrimmed with cher- ries and cherry blossoms. Blue and White, A. foulard: dress in pale sapphire and white was cut after a princess model, fas ening on the left side; the front of thi botlice was a muslin guimpe, the skirt trimmings insertions of lace, the sash and collar blue and white ribbons; hat in blue and white with a bold touch of orange. Another blue and white foulard had its skirt arranged in clustered tucks from walst to hem; again the contrast with orange was depended upon for that effect of vividness without which no summer dress is considered successful, one brilliant spot shining out at the throat and one at belt, while the hat was all white net and ot a aie type was a dress of pall Of a ferent a of pale ae canvas made over yellow and draped with a narrow, pointed apron overskirt of black lace. The bodice boasted a large pointed lace yoke, and the sleeyes were lace trimmed. The small black sailor hat, with yellow scarf, was carried out in the same vein. Red at the Seashore. : Every possible shade of red appears at the szashore. Red straw hats trimmed with cherries are worn with dresses of a great variety of hues. I saw them at Far Rockaway and Arverne yesterday crown- ing white, cream, dove gray, blue of many shades, pink, all the greens, violets and mauve. <A bright red cloth dress had its coat thrown back with enormous revers of black and white silk and appeared in com- pany with a small red toque ornamented with cherries and white roses. Large white rice straw hats, trimmed with white feathers sloping downward, end huge all black hats, covered with tulle and black feathers and without so much as a flower to interfere with their sable tones, were also much in evidence with light dresses. A Yachting Costume. A smart yachting costume was of bright blue serge, its skirt sparingly trimmed with flat bands of blue cloth piped with white. The short jacket of severe cut opened with revers of white cloth on a vest of white muslin; a broad sailor scarf of pink silk passed under the revers and tied across the bosom. The tiny yachting cap was strictly corre but a little odd upon an excep- tionally tall figure. Such casino dresses as have made their combine silk and lace most ly. A costume of great delicacy is of rose pink silk veiled in transparent lawn and lace insertion. The bodice is finished with a pink zouave embroidered with white silk roses. A large white picture hat and a much flounced pink and white parasol are accessories. A dress of mauve silk is veiled entirely in black net embroidered in jet and chenille. It is worn with a hat of pale mauve trim- med with ostrich feathera of the same hue, which cugj around the brim and are caught in front by a gauze rosette and a paste buckle. Color Combinations. Harebell blue and turqucise are com- bined; blue is worn with violet and violet with green. Flame color and gray are liked together with black added. A blue gren- adine {s made over lemon and white silk and trimmed with white silk applique; the bodice is softened with white mousseline. A pale Slue silk is spotted with blue barely one shade darker, and is worn with beit and collar of the ‘second tone; bodice with white lace vest and hat of white straw trimmed with pink and white roses. A pinky blue silk has orange knots at waist and throat, a long whjte lace sash and a large white hat with white feathers and more knots of orange. Hydrangea pink is seen a good deal, both in dresses and mil- linery. A toque in siraw of this shade is bordered at the edge with a wreath of roses shading from pale mauye to white; it is finished in front with a huge bow of hyd- rangea pink satin. Clouds of blue and pale green are seen at the early summer hops, but evening wear has not yet become very elaborate. ELLEN OSBORN. as A BAKER'S DOZEN, How the Custom Originated of Giy- ing Thirteen for Twelve. From the Philadelphia Times. Away back in the first half of the seven- teenth century, when Albany, N. ¥., was merely a Dutch settlement, there ved in that town a man with the modest little name of Baas Volckert Jan Pietersen Van Amsterdam. B. V. J. P. Van Amsterdam was a baker, and famous. He was the inventor of our gingerbread boys and of special New Year's cakes filled with caraway seeds. Van Am- sterdam was the most popular baker in Ai- bany, because his bakings were good. He is reported as having been good himself, a great churchman, and if a little stingy, ro one dared say 80. Now, on New Year's night in 1654 Herr ‘Van A. was watching the old year out, and thinking of the good sales he had made, when there was a sharp little tattoo at the door. The latch was raised, and in from the cold stormy winds of the Hudson blew a little old woman, very old indeed. She came right up to Baas, and said in a high, cracked voice: “Give me a dozen New Year's cookies!” But* when Baas had counted them out for her she set up a perfect howl, so that the people said next day that the wind had been very shrill that night. “A dozen! a dozen!” she cried. have given me only twelve!” Then the frugal Dutchman iost his tem- per and asked her out, and away she went, grumbling, and with her went all of Baas Volckert Jan Pietersen Van Am- sterdam’s good luck. The very next day his bread fell, the yeast soured, his cakes burned. Then things grew even worse. Whole bakings would suddenly be drawn up the chimney, or fall through the oven to the cellar. Bricks were torn from the fireplace and ibrown at the poor Dutchman. Then the old woman came again, but Baas was not to be moved—he would not give thirteen for twelve—and away flew the witch. After this his wife became deaf, his children fell ill, and at last, broken in spirit, on the third and last visit of the old woman, he gave her what she asked, and prosperity came back so fast that every one marveled. All the custom of Albany flowed into B. Vv. J. P. V. A.’s; every one wanted the ex- tra cake, and the other bakers had to adopt the custom established by their lead- er. So thirteen became the regular number of a “baker's dozen,” and 0 remained until after the revolution, which changed some things for the better, but others for the worse, as we have just shown. Settled an Old Grudge. From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. An old man-of-war’s man took a seat in @ passenger car one day, attracting consid- erable attention by his dress and manner. An indiscreet neighbor ventured the ques- tion, “In the navy, eh?” The sailor nodded affirmatively, “Well,” went on the other man, “I am “You no other. Cleveland’s. Not to be fooled. ‘Often agents and others try to convince me that other brands of baking powders are ‘as good as Cleveland’s’ but I am not to be deceived. I have the best and use When my friends ask me what baking powder I use I always tell them I can use that in the dark or with my eyes shut and be sure of the same happy result."—Mrs. M. H. B. There is only one @leveland’s Baking Powder. FOR UP-TO-DATE WOMEN White Gloves, Veils and Shoes, and How to Keep Them So. Gloves Only Dressed Up Now—Pipe Clay to Clean Shoes —Irish Dama’ Worn When Really ik Gown: Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, July 7, 1898. It does not take a great deal of observa- tion to discover that the hollow pret®se of wearing gloves in warm weather which used, in other dog days, lead women to fold them in a pocket book or carry them Icosely 1n their hands is quite a thing of the past. This summer we make no effort to make any one believe that we have any intention of donning gloves if we must be out during the heat of the day. We carry rcne with us. For this we must thank the atkletic girl, Many of her sports prohibit the use of gloves. She has, therefore, grown to dislike their confining feeling and has relegated them to afternoon and even- ing totlets. The wearing of plain and severe skirts, ceats and waistcoats, not to’ say the plain shirt waist, have also made women feel that gloves need not be worn with a cos- tume copied from that of their brother, with which he would not think of combin- ing gloves. But when we do wear gloves in Summ: they are generally white, white kid white chamois, and now we have the white Geerskin, or white mocha, as it is more often called, which is infinitely preferable to either of the other materials for dura- bility, beauty and shapeliness. The mocha ove cannot be washed as chamois can, but it can be cleaned quite as well as white kid, although it does clean a little bit smaller, and allowance must be made for this in purchasing. It is very easy nowadays ‘to keep half a dczen pairs of white gloves, cither kid or deerskin, in beautiful condition, and it will be found much more economical then buy- ing dark gloves. For either by reason of the action of the dye or some other mys- terlous agency, dark gloves never wear us well as light ones. Conventent to Have. A woman of infinite patience and neat- ness will have a bottle of benzine stand- ing in a convenient yet safe place, and with a little sponge rub away all the soiled spots on her white gloves when she comes tomé, before she takes them off her hands. But few of us, no matter how strong our desire to appear well groomed, would care to do this day after day. Some kind In- ventive genius lias, however, come to our aid with a wooden hand, th+ thumt of which {s adjustable. On this wooden hand the glove can be placed and the i pots take off when one has leisure £« ning up. Best of all, the cost of this wooden hand not quite one hundred round copper cent and it is within the reach of ali. quite un- like the shoe last, coveied of all wom who wish to keep boots In order, and tained only by the weatrhy few. Cleaning chamois gloves is probally well krown, but from the namber of failures of which one he: it is questionable whether every anxious reader knows that it is best to put them on the hands, make a suds of castile scap and tep!ld water and gently wash the hends in it just as cne would {f the gloves were not on. They cicanse very readily ~and require no ap- preciable amount of rubbing. They may be rinsed if one prefers, provided the water very soupy. Then they should be gently patted with a towel whiie still on the hands, carefully drawn off when the su- perfluous water is taken off, and hung, still shaped, In some airy place to dry. The process takes no longer to tell than to €c- ccmplish. A good chamois glove way be washed every day for monihs, But cne can scarcely get such gioves for less than a dollar at the very least. For peo; e who must wear gloves on sme occasions and cannot wear kid or even chamois in hot weather, there is a vast im- provement in the silk und lisie affairs. There is also a new white cotton glove, vhich comes from France, is loosely very soft and washes extremely weven, well, Stylish Vell Chiffon and even spool silk veils have re- tired this summer in favor of the white wash veil. One can buy these veils in a very good imitation of lace, but the differ- ence in price between them and the real article fs not as great as the difference in wearing qualities. Therefore, it pays to eschew the imitation. These veils must be kept spotless, and washing them is quite an easy matter. They should be soaked for about half an hour in a strong suds of white soap (castile or ivory) and tepid water. They should then be squeezed out and rinsed in clean water, taking care never to wring them. Squeeze and then shake them gently, and pin to the bed, or some other appropriate surface, pinning each lace point separately, and the sides and plain edge in such a manner that they will be straight. The vell will dry very quickly and quite stiff. If one wishes to have the veil the yellow or cream tint so becoming to most complexions it should be rinsed in tea or coffee. ‘There is a rumor that in the fall we will wear veils only covering the tips of our noses. This will be becoming to older wo- men, and is especiatly fitted for bonnets, but before rashly adopting it because it is new each woman should honestly find out from her mirror whether she has the short upper lip so prized by Shakespeare. In High Favor. White shoes have also returned to favor. They are a necessary complement to a white season. They, too, soil with celerity, and do not fail when buying your spotless canvas shoes to be fitted to a box of pipe clay at the same time. Pipe clay is not pleasant to use. It is dusty, but it makes a sotled pair of white shoes almost the most spotless affairs in creation. Indeed, the uses of pipe clay as a cleansing agent are many and mysterious, and all of them are all the patterns of the earlier part of the century. Made up with beautiful laces, this linen becomes a toilet fit for a princess. Besides its first beauty it has the great charm of durability, for the oftener it is done up the more sheen and satin-like qual- ity does it display. MABEL BOYD. > THINGS TO SEND To CAMP. Not Much Use for Cigars, but Pipes Are Always Welcome, From the New York Tribune. As soon as the volunteer army began to move south to the various camps of in- struction, friends and relatives made up packages for the men at the front, and in many instances these remembrances from home reached Chickamauga and Tampa be- fore the men arrived there. Many of these Parcels contained articles which might well have been dispensed with, and great quan- tities of “truck” are being forwarded daily because the well-meaning senders are un- informed as to what a soldier really needs, Among the useless things, according to the testimony of a veteran of the civil war, are cigars and cigarettes. Men can take no comfort with either in the field, and preter @ pipe, and thousands who never thought of using tobacco in that form before they enlisted will become addicted to the chew. ing habit. Tobacco dealers say that the chewing tobacco business received a great boom during and after the civil war. and that the bad water of the south was re- sponsible for a generation of tobacco chew- ers. Highly respectable elderly men excuse themselves for using chewing tobacco b saying that they acquired the habit “dow south, when everybody had to chew There secms to be good reason to believe that the waning demand will grow larger, and that chewing tobacco will again be- come a necessity. A soldier writing from a southern camp says: “We can get along without candy and Sweet cakes and all that sort of stuff, but no man can have too many pairs of good socks or sto there is al- Ways room in h exira pins, safety-pins and material. ing material d thing to amped enyve with the ad- ¥ written on them in ink are looked upon here as articles of the highest luxury. When your letter leaves in a stamped envelope, on which the address i plainly written with ink, or printed, you feel that some day !t will ‘get there’ a matter as to which there is always a doubt when the letter is unstamped and goes as soldiers’ mail. And, by the way, when you make up packages for the boys in the field, don’t forget to send us some way news.” ——_+ + ___ Alfonso’s Infancy. From the Westminster Gazette. The young King of Spain was, ushered into the world with pomp and ceremony, which even in his exalted sphere is some- what unusual. His first introduction to his court was on a golden tray, upon which he Was carried through a company of two of three hundred lords and ladies, comprising the very cream of Spanish society. A mag- nificent suite of apartments had been pro- vided for him, all his own; from the very first stalwart soldiers guarded his chamber door by night and by day. The pope of Rome sent him his christening roves, and water was brought from the Jordan for his baptismai font. At three months old a dental surgeon was appointed, with noth- ing to do but superintend the royal teethe ing operations, and from the very first court physicians made a formal overhaul- ing of the person of the young monarch twice a day by the clock. A whole bev of court ladies were em- ployed every morning to dr august majesty according to the strictest proced- ure of court etiquette at Madrid, and there is said to have been an imposing and elab- orate ceremonial on the occasion of his majesty’s first condescending to put his royal feet into shoes—gorgeous affairs in white leather, embroidered with gold. What Alfonso'XIII himself thought of it all at the time unfortunately we have no means of knowing. Patriotic Sunshades. From the New York Herald. The summer girl of 1898 wears red jack- ets, blue skirts and white stockings when she plays golf or tennis, or climbs or rows. Red, white and blue scarfs trim ‘ her sailor’ hats. Red. white and blue streamers decorate her bicycles. The na- tional colors appear tipping er walking sticks. Pins—hat pins, lace pins, every kind and description of pins—are patriotic, or there is no excuse for their being. The latest patriotic mode put upon the market has appeared on the counters and in the shop windows in the form of small white teffeta parasols stamped ail wver with diminutive American flags. Some of these sun shades have only a border of flags, while others are composed of red, white and blue stripes, and others have © striped border of the national colors. ——_——-e-______—_ Pigtails Popular. From the New York Herald. Twenty-five and thirty will masquerade as “sweet sixteen’ and “bread and butter fourteen” this summer. You will hardly credit this, but it is nevertheless the fact. In “pigtails, Gretchen braids,” whatever you please to call them, but sure enough braids—two of them, falling down the back—the modern girl is to appear from now on in the country, in the mornings. Of course, after lunch she will put up her hair in the most proper and precise coif- fure. What is aceomplished by wearing the hair in long braids is that it is given what is known as a “rest.” Hair experts have now developed the theory that a good rest about once a year is what a head of hair needs.