Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1887, Page 12

12 GOULD AS A WOMAN SURVEYOR The Present Wall Streat King and Ex-Civil Engineer on Female Frames, SWELL MAIDENS IN THE BALLET, New York Maidens Feast Their Eyes on Athletic Eatertainments rs. Langtry's Sultors—Girls Their Own Seamstresses, New York, May 19.—[Correspondence of the Bre.|- y Gould gave me a mighty curious notion of the boundaries of a fashionable woman. He sat in his private box at the Metropolitan opera house with his son George and his pretty daughter-in-law beside him, There was & brilliantly illuminated scene on the stage, and, in a trifling mismanagement of the lights a calcium was turned from the rear on a thin cloth that was painted to represent marble, Not only was the non-svlidity of the masonry disclosed, but tue shadow of a more substantial thrown, in sharp silhouctte, “Ha, ha, re. a Gould,”” said Mrs. George, 5 actress before her marringe you know, “you are cruel to laughat mistakes.’ “I wasn’t laughing at that exactly, but at what it reminded me of,”’ said Gould— asreported within ten minutes to me by his partner and friend Conner; "1 was thinking, as | saw the shape of that woman outlined so sharply, of how a man's m\r]ly employment fixes his im- pressions for lite. " Now, I wasa civil engineer. It was for several years my hard work to trudge around the country making n s for county maps, In that way the boundaries of towns b came impressed on my mind, and to th day the mention of any of those towns or countics brings beforc my mental visi the shape of it as teaced out so From that expe got into the habit of taking in the outlines of ever thing I look at instinctively. tis mapped out like ash to me ladics are constantly ehanging to suitr fashion That distinct shadow of the actress was a map of a German gretche She doesn’t alter much. But fashionable en shift their bounds as often as o 'y in central Europe. The peninsu- sula of your head, which your isthmus of neck conneets with your body is small when bonnets decrease and enlarge im- menesly with ng hats. our irts are now distended by bustles at one point, whereas they used to be expanded atanother by hoops. And so it goes. The map of a stylish woman would have to be newly ed every year to be ET. At a kirmess several years ago, the maidens of our warranted ‘best socicty appeared in peasantry dances before as many spectators as the academy of music would hold. Miss Carrie Astor, now Mrs. Wilson, was a principal 3 The explpit for charity caused muc! ment, and it has not since been re- peated in town. But a sedulously chosen company went over to Staten 1sland, the other night, and performed 1n a still more elaborate amateur ballet. A skilled master had drilled them for weeks, a costumer had fitted them with the requisite dresses to represent milk- maids, Swedes, gipsys, Hungarians, Italians and lawn tenmis queens. The veiy flower and pride of swelldlom were contained in this exclusive troupe of vol- unteers, and they reaily made a_graceful shew. Each separate group had a chap- “ erone, who came out on the floor with them. and stood dignifiedly by while they danced. A thousand spectators gazed and applauded while the merry girls tripped the characteristic measures. The theatrical manager who could command that batlet would make a fortune indeed. ACTRESSES BARRED. But high society, of course, will only indulge in that sort of thing for charity. There is a jolly row at Tuxedo park over the question of letting any actress so much as touch that exclusive resort with the hem of her garments. Patti was in- vited to visit the Hewitts at Tuxedo. The Hewitts are very musical,and Patti would _ have accepted “the pl:portunity to mix, ever so gingerly, with the swells; but when the mayor wrote to P. Lorillard, . the progenitor and controller of Tuxedo, - say! n‘f that he suhuosud no objection would be made, Mr. Lorillard replied that he advised the abandonment of the idea. Several actresses have been simi- - larly shutout. In the case of Mrs. Langtry . the exclusion was officially communica- “ted to a gentleman who meant to take ~ her thero. Now impends the momentous ~ lssue what (o do about Mrs. Jumes Brown L Potter. Eccentric though she be, her || morals are above reproach, her family . conmections are a grand as anybodv’s in town, and. moreaver, she owns a cottage at Tuxcdo. Butshe is an actress—not ‘much of a one, rhag- but enough to * count. Discussion is brisk us to whether ahe will be barred out. ATHLETICS THE RAGE. The eyes of New York benuty are just w filled by sights of athletic feats. 13 struggles to be cousidered too rude for ladies to look at, but this spring soarcely a weck passes without its mus- _oular entertainment, attended by fash- | Jonable women. ‘Ils is because the gallant militia soldiers have gone into the The various regiments of New York and Brooklyn have armories whose drill halls are large enough for contests, ind almost all have athletic associations. " In arranging for these gamwes a track, as large size as possible, is marked out by 3~aycln! lina on the floor. The outer edge guarded by lawn tennis nets, tempor- 1 E railings or benches, and outside of A it the main floor rows of chairs . are arranged for the spectators, who are ' also accommodated in the galleries. In respects these games are more ¢ nt than the ordinary out-door “meetings of the summer. Every one has . & comfortuble scat; there is no nnno*- - anoe from heat or cold, wind or rain; it ¢ to preserve order and keep the ring clear of intruders. The regi- ital band enlivens the evening with ¥ ular selections and usually after the » ¥ the floor is cleared for an hour of ping. The track at first was a geat Inoyance to the athletes, who tried all ‘'of shoes, but . they have now set- apon an ordinary running or walk- shoe with the es taken out and office filled by a thin rubber sole 1 holds E' on ‘the w n , and enables an athlete to run or - malk as fast as he could on a cinder path i o the same dimensions. Some of the s are sentimentally vanquished on occasions, and the winner of many gvent has run, or leaped, right into rimony. THE JERSEY LILY'S BEAUX. Jersey Lily shows herself of after- when 10 town, at_public gather- as imperturbedly calm as a Jorsey b Everybod‘r gazes at her, but she ds in seeming unconscious of the fant seruntiny. She is to-day worth 000 in cash and nearly as much m real estate. Her invesuments all in America. ul,{ she Las two fentive beaux at her side lnaqunntl{. is the faithful Fred Gabhard, who is 'y her soon as she gets a divorce, tho™ other 18 Sarah Bernhardt's son ce, who has n kul£1 her in y 80, that she may effectually P In the auel sceno of aforthcoming ay. Gossip has made of Maurice a for her bhand, and it was argued jom the fact ot Sarah and Lillie's inti- that ‘& matrimonial alliance was in the wind, but there 1s nothing {HE OMAHA DAILY to substantiate such a notion. Maurice is ten or fifteen years the junier of the beauty. . QUEEN TSABELLA'S JEWELS. A firm i John street showed me the most brilliant and beantiful diamonds I have seen in a long time. They were he property of the famous bella, que Spain. ~They are called the vio- let diamonds. In the store they looked the steely blue white that fine diamonds should be, but taken to the door they were reaily a distinet yiolet, They are unset at present, but used to be a rof ear drops. In the exhibition was a watch of ancient make which has a movable tableau upon it Cupid 1s sharpening his arrow ac¢ the forge of Vulean, i Venus and other mythological celebr] look on. When the watceh is wound the god at the bellows begins to pump. Vul- can at the anvil strikes it, a tiny chain that looks like running water runs over a wheel to imitate o caseade,while Venus mans her arm and Cupid brandishes a bow. The workmanship is extremely fine and the little watch 18 very valuable. Among the articles formerly “belonging to Isabella is 2 collection of different colored dinmonds. There are black and tan diamonds, amber colored, pink, san- guinary red ones almost like rubys, grev ones und the famous violet pair. The old lady had a great fancy for jewelry, Asmany as 8 dozen sots of different jeweled setungs are in the hands of this tirm for sale. CON 1 sometime CUT INNOCENCE, question if the sewing ma- chine has been as great a boon to women as is particularly supposed. Those wo- men who get their living by sewing, earned just as much in the old times, for they got a doilar for making a chemise thut took a couple of days to build, where now the woman rattles oif ten of them for ten o There is no question but the exertion of running a sewing machine long enough to make ten ghirts does groater harm than the old time confinement necessary 1o make one by hand. But the great evil wrought by L invention is to the ¢ of making ones own ave to women, No girl it down and by addin, » littie stiteh to another construct rment she can go forth and smaller out Iay than the would cost. There simple, primitive little places, very near our doors, where the fads and follies of the great city are un- known, and I struck one up in the wilds of Connecticut. They were an innocent lot, and their heartily enj d pleasures contrasted strongly with some elaborate and tedious carnivals that New York had d hard to think successful and enter- taining, during that very same season. The town is med after a family that seems to own it body wnd bhoots. call 1t, Samuelsvil Old Pa Samuels t a sort of hotel boarding house; Jim Samuels ran the village store; amuels was the doctor for v beast, and muels was justice of the peace, undertaker, peddied out such law as lho,}' stood in need of, and a burial service of composite racter that suited all rehigious convie- tions when any residents of Samuelsville died. Sweet, simple community. [ had a rousing good time among 'em. Some of the Samuels had factories for making sail cloth xna eanvas, Others had yarn and thread_mills, Nightly, when ‘they knocked off work, looms were rolled out of the way, and ple it little dances finished the evening. The old folks came to these gatherings with lanterns, and lugging their own chairs to sit upon. One of the prettiest of the man Samucls girls was going to be married, and she showed me her outfit. The truth forced itself on me that the sewing muchine was not so great a blessing. All her g ments were made by hand, The lace was hand-knitted, and the embroidery was home work. The things wererruny,mul the hoppings of the girl who had made them far surpassed the pride ofa Gotham belle in an imported trousseau. How many days of quier, satisfying happiness they represented; how many evenings tranquilly full of joyous expectations de- sired her fashionable sisters has been hers. I tell you we mss a great deal in not making our own gowns and hem- ming our own petticoats. Mrs. Siah Samuels was piety itself, and the only discontented paper in the bun- dle. There was no regular meeting house in Samuelsyille, and since some ?'ounz minister “‘cut up’’ there, no regu- ar preacher. Mrs. Siah was bitterly op- posed to show folks, who were warmly welcomed by all the other Samuels. But in Mrs. Samuel’s parlor was found some funny things that joking show people had bestowed upon A great many years ago when Booth was in the glory of his first Hamlet run, a bust of the ac- tor was put on the town, as those of Dixey and Raymond have been lately. A crown of laurels rests nupon the bowed head ot the then good looking tragedian, and an expression of intense woe per- vades his countenance. One of these busts decorates Mrs. Siah’s mantel, It 15 mounted on a block covered with perforated paper, on which are worked flowers, and directly in front of the letters “I. H. 8- were carefully down in marking stitch. The old lady had made a zreat mistake there. So when I saw one of John McCulloughs’ big photographs in the character of Lear, I asked with a sober face who that was. “Moses the law giver,”’ she promptly re- plied. 1went home and sent her a iarge picture of Bernhardt with word that it was “‘that famous woman, Sarah.” She has gathered all Samuelsville about her and told them that this woman had a child when she was a hundred and fifty; and she wrote to me that the poor crea- ture had her troubles. There was a good deal in Abraham, no doubt, that she didn’t feel satisfied with, and the pros- pect of sleeping in Abraham’s bosom had neyer seemed 1o her as pleasant as a turn up bedstead. CLARA BELLE. —— A French Soldier's Woolng. Paris Letter: The marriage of a mili- tary man in France is a serious matter. These fifteen years of peace are said to have deyeloped a craving among the young officers for conjugal bliss, but the ridiculous obstucles and “formalities sur- rounding the ceremony offer a terrible barrier to any man who wishes to marry. Having made his choice, which has not much to do with the matter, by the way, he informs the colonel of his intentions. The colonel passes on word to the war department, and it is at length laid be- fore the minister, The first thing to be dore s to find out whether, the young lady concerned fulfils the requirements of the law, which lays down the axiom that she must have an irreproachable moral character and a dowry worth an annual revenue of $2,000. The unfortun- ate young man's application begins to decsend the ladder of officialism until it reaches the ofticial at the head of the gendarmerio of the district in which the officer's tiancee resides. It is then in- trusted toa gendarme, who is charged with discovering the lady’s moral char- acter. He proceeds cautiously, in regu- lar dotective fushion. If he knows the father of the girl he interviews hiw; it not, he culls information from the neigh- bors, and even follows her when she goes out to the theater and entertainments. When this investigation is finished he makes his report, couched in regular police court style, wherein the youn, Iady is spoken of, not as ‘*‘Mademoiselle, but as “fille.”” ‘fhen this precious docu- ment makes its way slowly upward through the bureau and red tape until it reaches the minister of war. Should the conditions be fulfilled the officer is per- mitted to marry. If not, he must re- nounce his intentions. 1f the fiancee has morals but no mong the sum must be raised before the wedding can take place. :‘)I!eauul with lmamhnllwn i d':‘ the lowry themselves. 8 N e8s 8a) that no inquiry is made into the monfi of the officers, P We'll LABORING FOR THE PEOPLE. The Incessant Work of Congressmen Im- posed by Their Oonstituency. A ROUND WITH A SENATOR. The Many Letters an M. C. Has to Write—Securing Pensions—A Sen« ator Who Earns His Salary—A Position Not to be Envied. WAsm~aGToN, May 10.—[Correspondence of the BEg. ]—"Give me four hours of your time and 1 will prove that the few senators and representatives who remain in Washing- ton during the vacation of congress huve tne worst ‘roast’ of work known to publiz men. Get into my carriage and we will take a turn through the departments. Most people be- lieve that congressmen-—and I mean by the word men in both houses—have a picnic here when there Is no session. Such anidea Is fallacious—far from the truth. I would rather do the work of two months during the session than one month during recess. In the former instance it is the work of a states- man, in the latter that of aslave. That you may know just what it is and how it is done 1 want you to 2o with me this morning.” Such were the words an old and widely- known United States senator spoken as his carriagestood in frontof my oftice in News- paper row this morning. As the vehicle moved away on our journey the senator said: “We will go ha executive mansion fi My coachman knows the route I take every day, and L let him use his judgment as to where we stop first and last. He knows I must o to all heads of departments betore am done. You will follow me into all the rooms I visit, for 1 shall say nothing to be Kept from your ears, and do nothing hot in- tended to be seen by you. Only consider it all with simple secrec, u {n s hands the sénator carrled a great bundle of documents—letters withont en- velopes, petitions, memorials. aflidavits, and all the documents a well-equipped office: wetter and statesman could have, while on a public business ot 'all deserip- Five Il||||1u((';' later we stood before and. id the senator, “'to present ad- ments for my candidate for Here are a number of ch I want you toread your- ot have them simply referred to il I you concluded to ap- 0 oSt > Nu ditional endor the British e ong letter: self, and y 1 r at the place 1 alked of y esterday? ? 1 hops you ean see your way clear to do so at least some time this week. And I have to call your at- tention to what I said in_ref doning the man I spoke of a am pleased to see you have what I said, but am sorry you have not cluded to act. Pardon me for again remind ing you of my young man wants to go to West Point from ‘at large’.” “The carriage wheels hummed till they stood in front of the war department, only a way. Here the senator rushed up the great marble stairway and pushed me, into the private room of the secretary ot w: thouch time was very precious.” He merely said it was a pleasant morning, Iaid down his bundle of documents, and began assort- ng from those he intended to lay betore Mr. Endicott. As he handed themn over he aske a personal reading, * remarking that they were endorsements for a young wan who wanted to receive an appointment to a mili- tary cadetship; letters complaining that quor was beini sold on a ilitary res tion in violation of law, and ecalling tion to certain acts of minor officers then the senator went Into the corridor, and on his way to the scerctary of the navy, which is on the same floor. Without an- nouncing himself the senator walked RIGIT INTO MR. WHITNEY'S ROOM. e did not remove his hat, and instantly announced his mission. *Nothing, 1 see, has been done towards countermanding the order for court martial of the s n of my state and about which I have been here so amu 1 not forgot * ‘There were rapid strokes of zood-natured reparf sharp dialozue and away the sena tor went, bound for the department of state, at the south end of the same building, ou the same floor but cut off by a partition of iron Lt me see, Mr. Secretary,” sald the sena- tor, uddressing Mr. Bayard, ‘I have so much for you this morning that I scarcely know how to pegin it. flere are applications for seven consu'ates, including duplicate en- dorsements for a British position,the original ot which papers I have just left at the white housesaflidavits disproving the charges made against one or my consuls, three applicationg for passports; an appeal in the case of an American citizen in prison in a Souta Sea island; three claims azainst forcigners en foreign lands, and requests for- consular re- ports affeeting the wool industry in the Ar- gentine Republic and Australia. Again the carriage moved away, and then stopped at the department of justice, At- torney-General Garland smiled as the sena- tor entered, and exclaim “Your district attorn 1l be appointed this week. Now, there. You are ;Jeuerl?” “*So far 8o good,” replied the *senator. *Now say the pardon of that miserable mis- creant with half-a-dozen little children will issue, and I will be happy. The crime was of nucunw‘uenw, and it was his first. 1 will call again.” Secretary Fairchild was at his desk in his private room, treasury department. The senator’s bundle of documents was appreci- ably dimmished, but he got a good assortment _of miscellaneous matters from it. = He presented further endorse- ments. of applicants for positions in the customs and internal revenue services: a petition from importers for an amended ruling on certain lports, and a petition from exporters for an exactly opposite rul- ing on the same matter; & memorial for clemency from a man who had been arrested for counterfeiting in the manufacture of plate advertisements; a claim for moities b; aman who had pointed out a vessel enga.ze in nmuufillnz. and a remonstrance against the appointmient of a man to be superinten- dent of a government building under the course of construction. ‘Then the senator wentinto the third auditor’s offige and laid before him war claims of various deserip- tions—for horses, forage, bounty, etc., and hastened away to the second comptroller to see why the account of an army oflicer had not been adjusted. “Now, [ have but two rooms tovisit in this departiment,” said the senator, “‘and they are those of the superintendent of life saving service, and the register. In the tirst [ will see If & man cannot be pmd something for ASSISTING IN THE REACUE OF A SIIP & few years ago—his claim has been hang- ing fire—and in the other I will ascertain for a school teacher when thefirstbonds were registered, and in what amount and how long they were to run.” ‘These ‘missions were more or less techni- cal in character, and the ofticers after listen- ing to the wants, explaining said they wauld have replies ready within a few days, * As we went up nle'xn:pn to the interior de- Secretary Li t artment to see he senator 1d e that this place made him more trouble than any other executive branch of the gov- : that the questions growing out of d Indian affairs were most perplex- Ing: that patents were slowest in aevelop- ment, and that pensions were most nuu ous. Secretary Lamar sighed as the senator entered, and sald he was lad that he did not @ to deal with an oflice-seeker this time. 0,” replied the senator, “not an oftice- seeher, but an opinion hunter. Here are three of the most annoying questions in ref- erence to making proof of land eutries you have come in contact with since you sat in that chair. I want the higlest” judgment first so there will be nc appeal, And while [ am at it it I will present an appeal on a ques- tion relating to an Indian post tradership, Also xrowlne out of an elymonisary institu- tion under this departinent, the question of admitting a certain person,” ‘Then the oftices of the commissfbner of the general land oftice, commissioner of patents, and the drincipal examiner were visited an the bundle of neumagl- reduced again. “Now I have the most interesting part of my mission to perform,” said the senator, as we passed down the high su&m’. and he cast his glances across the street to the postoftice departwment. “My colleagus and 1 are rasping. each other a little about some appointents In our state. I have rocommended certain men for flices and he is recommendl suspect that h un:m unfair means to thwart me. I must all the papers he has fled ip the department, and mwt do it without nnruttn, ‘e entered the room of a clerk having charge of the papers relating to the postoflices and postmasters in our ststes which the sena- BEE: | to the business center of, the city. SUNDAY MAY 22, tor was directly interested . The senator asked to see all the papers filed in certain cases, and they were dumped out on the table. Quickly he ran over them making a4 memorandum of the pertiwent points. Then he asked for the papers upon which two of thein bad been removed. noticed his brow corrugate as he read these. More mowmo- randa was made, many questions asked and out we went, “1 have discovered,” sald the senator, “that my collegue has beem playing double. that my enemies have controlled the ap- pointment of two postmasters who hate me: that a friend has been removed on false ac- cusations, and that the location of a post- office is about to be en y from me and placed with my opvonents, "The superintendent of the railway mail seryice wot some of the senator's documents, in the form of letters and recommendations for postal clerkships: also s petition to r state a clerk and another to remove one. The superintendent of free delivery was asked to send an inspector to two or three little cities to see if they were not entitled under the new law to free mail delivery delivery, The first assistant postmaster-general wanted to know after the senator gave the name of more than a dozen fourth-class postmastees for removal and as many more or appointment, if there was anything he conld do for the senator, and when told “‘nothing, whatever,” he siiled and said he hoped the senator would call when he wanted something. s Py 5 “‘And now,” sighed tne senator, “for our Iast building—the pension office. ' Lere_ is & place I visit six days in the week when I am in the ¢.ty. This is the bane of the public wien, W tramp hereand pour over pension applications, write thousands of Ietters in a year, and et eurses for our pains. Especiall do approbiums pour on our heads for fail- ures. ‘I'nose who wet pensions through our efforts are generally thankful; but in their inner seuls they believe they would have got them without our assistance, We can never explain a failure satisfactorily to an appli- eant. 1 will leave this little bundle here. ‘There are more than forty cases here— iginal applications, requests for in- ery phase of pension matt When the: missioner Black 1 be, \cne,” swere lodged with Com- N to think of the end of my journey; but wien we were again in the carriage L saw we were being. driven to- wards the capitol. She senator explained that he kept hissurplus ddeuments and eds in his commiti room, and would have to go there to execute some orders for constinents, S pesuie” you mean requests,” L ob: No: orders,” was the roply. “It used to be requested; now it is ordered. My cohstitu- ents trequently write me, ordering garden seeds, documents, books of various kinds which ['have to buy, especially the revised statutes of the United States, just the same as a merchant orders a bill ol £oods he ex- peets to pay for.” w*a Soon I discovered that not seeds and docu- ments alone called my friend to He went toan_oflicer of the sel about the reteation of an emplo on the vergs of dismissal, Then he tempted to kot into numerous committeo rooms to obtain information about docu- ments filed there during the last congress in cases now dead. Finally he drew from his wocket & mewioranda of bills of various inds which constituents had requested, and he went to the document room for_them. The afternoon was. fast wearing, and 1 ob- served that the senator did not take his hat off at any p visited. He had bolted rizht into ti of tho cabinet officers wants without ceremony. the office of the clerk session and he has & he af ik when the court is in case at bar. As we were on the steps at the east side of the capitol, and 1 was coneratulating myself upon the ending of our wearisome tramp, my state: : triend exclaimed : *Two more little thines before I leave this part of the town. L have here in my pocket a ietter from a man who wants a position as stone eutter under the architect of the capi- 50 another letter froma man who wants to know if a certain title has ever been copy- righted with the librarian of congress. Conie with me to the oftices (;l these ofticers.” e Xt we drove to the coast survey office, and to the Botanical garden—to the former for some technical information for a scien- titic constituent, and to the latter for some buds for a floriculturalist. We were now re- wrning in the divection of Newspaper Row, As the carriage whirled along the senator drew forth a memorandum book, He stopped at the Pennsylvania depot to inquire the cost ets to certain points, making a note of it; at a commission house he asked the vrice of certain products, and jotted it down ;and at acolffear’s he priced a natural hairs witch of a certain grade of whiteness, indicating that there were aged women among the botherinz constituents, When I askea him if be did the shopping for his family, he re- plied that lie never bought anvthing or priced anything for his family; that a'l he did was for his constituents, ~ Asked 1f he made this nuch work every day for his con- stituents, he replied: “Much more than you have seen or heard I do every day. Why, I read sixty letters and dictate over forty answers befors I left my house this morninz. When a get back 1 will read and sign those my secretary has written out, and dictate a dozen betore din- ner. These will be to those I have been serving on this trip with you. For ten years ISAT ON THE BENCI IN MY STATE, nxml 1 do more law business now than at that time. “What part of your work do you eonsider most annoying?” L asked. *The relations to federal oftices—procur ing positions and keaping men and women in or out of shem, Half of my letters, taking the year arjund, relate to pensions, one- tourth to oftices and _politics, and one-fourth to congressional affairs, And a man makes three enemies to one friend in pensions, politics and conxressional work, when his correspondence is alone considered, That is to say, when hegets a letter asking him to do something he will make three enemies to one friend In the execution of the request. But we are back again. We left here shortly after 10, It Is now but a few minutes after 2. T hope the four hours we have been gether have not been without profit, and that vou are not envious of a senator’s evry-*| day pleasures.” PERRY 8. HEATH. e P LITTLE SHORTY. By Wallace P. Reed in Atlanta Conat'tution. It was weeks and weeks after the sur- render of Appotomax before Cottonviile understood the full meaning of it. At the beginning of the war it had been our boast that Cottonville was slow but sure. Once tangled up in the struggle we did not see our way out of it, and when the paroled veterans in gray began to straggle homeward over theold red hills, we could hardly believe that their return signified the end of the war. When a small detachment of federal troops occupied the village there was general indignation among our people. Some of the bolder spiritwwere in favor of wiping out the invaders:at one swoop, but the more moderate eounscls of the returned confederates prevailed and pre- vented the renewal of hostilities. One thing, however,we were all deter- mined upon, and that was to show. the milerable interlopers that Cottonville was still loyal to the cenfederacy and would submit to nothing disagreeable. We did not find it necessary to do any- thing rash. We held a few public meet- ings and passed resolutions proclaiming our devotion to the lost cause, but that was about all, Among the paroled confederates was a quiet, pale-faced man who was known {ar and wide as “Little Shorty.” One had only to look at him to see the l]-,;ro- grulonoss of his nick-name. Liitle horty, to the great disgust of his fellow- townsmen, refused to participate in the public demonstrations. He even went S0 far as to say that the true policy w as to make the best of the situation and obey whatever laws the victors saw it to ?mmnlgntu while we were going through he process of reconstruction, Now, although Little Shorty was in- significant in statue, he was perhaps the u!mnfan man i the country. He was mateh for any two ordinary men. ‘This was all that saved him at that time from being made the victim of an outburst of wt“ ar indignation. There was rough talk, of course, and the prominent citi- 2ens a8 & rule ostracized him, 3 Shorty did his duty in the war,"’ 1887, [ remarked a ran ong day when the mat- was under discassion. “Yos, after a fashion,’ replied Colon el Jones, “‘but you never heard of any of his deeds of daring. He simply walked through the whole business, and got back home without a seratch.” “‘Perhaps that was not his fault,” said the other, ‘‘He volunteered, you know, among the first,"” “That's all right,” answered the colo- nel contemptuously. *Af he hadn't vol- unteered he would have been conseripted later. He was sharp enough to have an ink "F of it, and o0 he went to the front like a little man. That was no test of his cournge. Look athim now. Is he stand- ing by his people? 1s he true to the lost cause? Yousee what he is doing. He favors submission, He claims that we are a subjugated people, { don't know what vou think, gentlemen, but 1 sy that his conduct is that of a dastard and & traitor!” ‘The words of Colonel Jones were re- peated all over the village, and natarally they tended to inflame public sentiment stiil more, It was true that the colonel had not been in the army, but his patri- otie conduct in organizing a toreh hight procession when the state seceded had r been forgotien, and his fearless op- ion to everything that came from federal source made fiim a popular idol. The situation did not improve as time rolled on. Additional blue conts were stationed at Cottonville. They swarmed in the street: Their officers begun to monopolize the sidewalks, and it soon became evident that the enemy was strong enough to hold lis own, and that the friendship or enmity of the villagars was held in light estecm. Presuming th zth the federals gre ¢ in their be- havior. They required the citizens to obtain the commanding oflicer’s permission to hold meetings. They ar- rested good men on the trumped-up charges of idle and vieious negroes, and in various other ways the conviction was brought home to us that the iron heel of despotism was a solid reality and not a mere figure of speech. Strange to suy, while matters were progressing from bad to worse in this direction, "the citi of Cottonville inions similar to those uttered by Lit- Jorty not very long hefor About this time the federals began to annoy our people in small and petty ways. Frequently ryman would aring his faded gray uniform. he made his appearance in some vpublic place & soldier would halt him, and with searcely a word of ex- ¥ ation pull out a knife and cut the confederate buttons from his coat. As s00n as the town people saw what wa reful not to wear the ob- buttons,but the furmers were caught every day. The whole proceed- ing was so so sudden and ridiculous thy the countrymen genera ton fiends missing by th turned the outrage o minds. Ry ance was ¢ ered out of the question, 1t was better to lose a fow tons that to be butchered. E took this view of it. One morning the loungers about the court house saw Little Shorty riding up the street. He wore his confederate jucket, buttons and all. Colonel Jones winked at the by-stand- ers. “‘Little Shorty will catch it,”” he said, nd serve him right, too. A man with his gentiments ought to have ripped off his buttons at the surrender.” ighed, and after Little ched his horse and made frout of the_court house, every eye was lixed upen his huttons, A federal lieutenant, who w. imless] walking about, had his attention cted by the peeuliar behavior of the ¢ looked keonly at each man, rinally hig eyes took in Little Shorty's button: Evesything that followed occurred in such a whirl that the spectators found it difticult to see what was going on. With one stroke the tieutenant cut off one ef Little Shorty’s buttons. But he did not get his hand” on another. Little Shorty threw himself back, and with flashing eyes and corded museles he seized his assailant by both wrists. One quick twist, und the’ licutenant, with a howl of pain, fell fainting to the ground. The enormous stength of the confederate enabled him to wrench the man's arms out of their sockets! Two soldiers came rushing across the street to tie relief of their superior « cer, They had their bayonets fixed and it was thewr evident intention to run Little Shorty through where he stood. The plucky little gant fronted them with aface as_screne a8 & summer morning. Just in time the bright barrel of his v volver flushed in the sunlight. Two re ports rang out almost simultaneously, and the two soldiers bit tho dust, one a dend man and the other mortally wounded. *“T'his is no place for me. Good-bye!" shouted Little Shorty, ana with a wave of his hand he ran for his horse as fast as his short legs would carry him. In less than & minute & hundred sol- diers were on the spot,cursing and shout- ing like madmen, They first stepped up to arrest Colonel Jones and the other spectators, Then partics of cavalrgmen were sent out to scour the country. It was weeks before -the excitement abated. ‘[he most extraordinary efforts were made to capture Little Shorty, but his disappearance was as complete as it wias mysterions, There was noclue even to the direction of In.s flllh!; - - jectionabl Twenty years later Littlo Shorty paid Cottonville a brief visit. He had become i i and had prospered, aid to his ol friends, “I know that I am in no danger here. That old matter under the new order of things would never bs brought against me, but my interests are allin Texas and I feel that I must return there.” ‘‘The whole business was such prise to us,” said Colonel Jones. ‘‘Yes,” replied little Shorty. *‘You did not understand me. 1 was willing to sub- mitto anything when it was the law of the land. You were not. But 1 could not submit to what was a mere wanton personal indignity, There again you dittered from me. I have never re- grotted my cours After his departuie that night Colonel Jones was unusually thoughtful. “I'll tell you what, gentlemen,” he eaid, as he started home, *'Little Short is what the town boys call a daisey. can see now that he was right. He knew when submission was a virtue and when resistance was a duty. He is a hero if there ever was one!” It may or may not be creditable to Cot- tonville morals, but the little crowd at the hotel ‘applauded the calonel. Whether right or wrong, his sentiments were those of the community. e The Second-Hand Book-Man, St. Louis Globe-Demacrat: The second- hand book dealeris a melancholy man. He is like the unfortunate miller of Dee, who didn't care for nobody, 'coz nobody cared for he. Annlhuercullnnty about the second-hand book dealer is that he is always old. A young man would be more of an anomaly thal mall footed girl in Chicago. He is ally thin ~ and iven to smoking a short, black pipe. here are dozens of him in St. Louis, sit- ting solemnly by sidewalk booths tilled with dusty, uuorm‘f books, or sicting more solemnly still in some musty, out- of-the-way shop. A reporter strolled into one of the latter yesterday afternoon. There were no customers present—there rarely are. This is another peculiarity of second- hand book shops. [n the farthest,dingiest corner an old man sat_smoking his pipe and reading. Like the latc lamented a sur- WELVE PAGES, e ————. A SPECK OF WAR. . 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The reporter was left to about at pleasure among the bo A second-hand book store and 4 yard are the two most oos things in the world thrust side by folio {'ne(lx‘* elbows pamphlet. Thorois & sor air about the books, too. feel the degradation of t Chey think of the days when powpous dignity on t shelves, when they lay o tables and were fluttered by pre nine fingers. Thon they glance the dingy shop. Thedust settles on R the spid spin wobs about thewm -uno wonder they look somber, and no wonder the old dealer has caught the infections melancholy It is o strange eowmpany that one "has fallen into, and as the old titles read one feels as thougn he bad been whisked back to the days of black aps, farthingales, — stowachers n Dyke tipnots, Puracelsus, Sealiger, Descartos, Machi- avell—a ghostly crew, Thoy lie there hike 1aummices, interesting but voiceless. No one will disturb th Tho otd bookdealer buys thom —heaven kuows why—and puts them on the shelves or piles them on the floor. There they liv, dusty and dismal, “‘How's business?" repeated the book- dealer, “don't ask mo—don’t ask me. The trade is goin’ to the everlastin' bow- wows." “‘What's the trouble?'* “Ignorance,” said the old man la- conically, pulling hard at s pive. *What do people read?” he went on. “Novels—novels s the answer. ‘They can buy them for a few cents in these little paper editions. and what's the use of their gon’ to second-hand shopst Ain't no use. 'Then there's school books, Worse still, The school Ipnuplu won't let the children use the old grammurs and geographies and readers.’ *‘How about law books and standard medical works?” ‘Not much in 'em,” said the book dealer, “tho’ they are the best to sell now. Sometimes people buy 'em. There was a young lawyer goin’ to buy that set of statutes last week, but it turned out that there was somethin’ wrong with his mind, an’ he went to Kansas City s0's people shouldn’t notice it. *‘1t used to be,’’ the old man went on, after avplying himself to the toddy-glass, “that every gentleman had to have the old standard works in his library. Now, they don’t seem to care. ‘The ‘old dra- matists, Addison, Goldsmith, Johngon and all like 'em, are drugs—sort o’ sleep- giving portions." 'Do you sell many Latin books?" No,” sighed the old man, ‘‘we don't sell anything—we buy. Latin books are no account. People ¢an't read 'em, an’ itisn’t even fashionable to prete! (‘lw read 'em. People don't even want 'em around—they collect chinaware and Japanese fans. People are au'luwlllmr old books. Why, I know a girl 'ere St. Louis that eat up a whole library— selling 'em one by one an’ buying car- amels, She didn't know much, either. *‘One night," said the melancholy rian, “it was raining an’ blowin,’ an,’ in fact, a very nasty night it was, I was just goin"to close nup when in came & man, wearin’ a high hat_an’ carryin’ an um- brella. He was fat and ‘looked very cheerful. So he sut down and unwrapped a parcel he had and produced a book. It was bound in morocco and lettered in gold, an' was a very fine lookin® book. * ‘How much for itold fellow?” says e. ** ‘What is it?" says L * *French,’ says he, ‘Quarter,’ says I. “ ‘Chuck it over,’ says he. “So I looked at the book again an' was readin’ that it was by Mme. de Stacl—a French woman, now dead—an’ was about suicide, when I looked ur. at the man, an,’ s'help me he was a killin' of hisself. An' before I could expostulate, he fired o pistol into his mouth an’ was dead. s : *“That happened in this very shop in | patience of RILEY & McMAHON, 0 South 15th Street. concluded 2id himself SLAVIC WIGRATIONS. w s Rawsman Soraes Kimossly e Peom Tinoe e Pleon, e mae o smigrution of fhe Ingaly on officin there is any of nis, the people lwpelled by im- thoir present lot and & blidd desire of change, and they o forth not knowing whither they go. fiauy of thowm rewurn to their original sottlomeonts, after a longer or shorter ab- sonce, mory destitute than when they went forth; but far tho larger number are never hoand of more. They are loss in the vastnoss of tho solitudes into which they plunge. ‘There is no govern- ment organization whatever in many of the places which they go to; no informa- tion 18 available before thoy start as to the best routes, the capabilities of the soil, or the conditions of climate and season, If they succeed it is only after endur- ing unheard-of hardships, which might have been spared them if there existed a department charged with the regulation of this great national migration, The mstances of failure are, it is to be feared, the rule, and when the disaster happens beyond the reach of railways and steam - 18, the world, even of Russia, never hears of them. The state itself is begin- g to suffer directly in its finances from this disorganized shifting of popu- lation, as many of the emigrants leave arrears of taxes behind them, ————— Miss Josephine M. 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