Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1895, Page 11

THE OMAHA DAILY oy » o BEE: SUNDAY, FE BRUARY 17, 1893 Wiotets Are In Vogue nd Bicyele Tollettes Aro More Striking Than Ever, PARIS, Feb, 16.—(Speclal)—At the Palais | de Glace, In the afternoon or evening, are to | bo seen some of the most extraordinary | tollettes worn in Parls. Often rich and al- | ways new-fangled, they illustrate the latest | eut in sleeves, the newest and biggest ruches, | the widest hats, correct shade in | eolor, the skirts of a thousand or less godets, and In fine are a part of what Is known as | the “true chlc.” If they out-distance the | dress of conservative women, they form part ot tho vanguard that will follow months in the #ome of the Ideas will nip in the bud, others | are germinating for epring and will rag with the dog etar. Hence thelr thrilling in terest, For background is a circular bu & roof of glass and a flocr of io painted Into a cyclorama of Monte Carlo and the blue Mediterrancan, gilded gallerfes that form a promenade, music, a heated and per- fumed atmosphere, and luxurious men and women dawdling at tables where they sip gin cocktails through straws, or elbowing th railing to reach undertone dist of s skater who has paused from wild cutting to flirt. Here follow somg #ketched at random SMARTLY DRESSED SKATwWRS. A dress composed of a sable cape with long stolo ends into which Is Inserted a yoke of eream guipure lace in long points, exceed- ingly rich in effect; a gown of black v embroldered with Iridescent sequins on the most conservative women a few rear. Though lding with side walls the | TOILETTE. A VISITING blouse front, and a tracery of the same on all the skirt seams, from the belt half way down, and a toque of black velvet with an enormous rosette on each side, and from each rosette a standing pompon bedewed with mock dlamonds and in front a bunch of vlolets, The character of the toque depends upon the great size of the rosettes, and noth- ing Is scen of it In front view except the rosette on each side, the hair in front being rolled high, A gown of gray watered velvet with un- trimmed skirt and bodice front in a blouse of three box plaits, wich jeweled studs down the middle one, and the black like an Eton Jacket, made to reach slightly over the belt, the belt studded through the center with steel rosettes; sleeves running out into a form of mitt to cover the palm of the hand, glashed open to the wrist on the little finger slde; black hat with cream guipure draped round front, a huge black bow on each side and a yellow paradise tail standing in the center. In this dress are especially to be noted the steel rosettes, really buttons of cut steel, which will be much used on cloth gowns next spring, and the blouse studs, which will be in great vogue for blouse fronts next summer. Mock jewels, in fact, are very fashionable for dress decoration, and are being used with more freedom than this generation has ever seen before. A BRILLIANT BLACK GOWN. A tollet all black, with the skirt of wool crepon, the front breadth lapped over down oneside anda three-inch wide hem of velvet added on and falling loose beyond the seam, the seam covered with a passementerie of jet; tho blouse of velvet, with heavily jetted net fnserted down tke middle of the back and front; a large, fluffy neck ruche of black, studded with jet, and a gigantic hat, turned up behind, with a mass of black popples forming a vertical plaque that, frem back view, entirely obscures the hat. White mous- quetalre gloves, drawn up over the sleeves, A study in seplu; sKirt of brown serge, with lines of cream cloth running down from the belt in irregular lengths and latticcd over with brown soutache; blouse of cream cloth, braided all over with brown soutache; sewed on at one edge and standing out from the ground its full width, with extraordi- narlly novel effect, with gigot sleeves of brown, striped from top to bottom with the cream, the stripes wide where the sleeve is wide and narrowing down toward the wrist, braided over with brown. A sable tippet, with a cascade of talls at each end, and brown felt hat, trimmed outside with black in satin rosetfes and tips, and under the slightly rolled up brim on each side a bunch of flowers In cerise shades, light on one side and dark on the other. A SKIRT SYMPHONY, A color symphony in a skirt of checked wool, black, white and green, and a blouse of green silk overlald with black lace; sleeves to the elbows met by belge tinted glov black hat with plumes falling rcund the face. Another in a brown silk skirt piqued with Black and & brown velvet Eton jacket over CLOTH AND VELVET GOWN. & bouffant front of white mousselaine de sol tho upper part in mariow puffs and inser- tions separated with narrow bands of sable, A sable tippet with brown satin ribbon tied Tound it in-a bow under each ear, and bluck hat turned up high in the back with a big passion flower surrounded with a velvet and White lace on the frent, Which b8 no more [ luxurious, and there i | tets uccessful than a black satin gown untrimmed and heightened In effect with a large white lace collar with the edge slashed into point in back and front, and running out into long squares over the sleeves, all edged round with sable, including the neckband. Both tollettes illustrate the mingling of fur and lace. A necturre in black serge, the bodice with single-stitched box plalt down the center, the front half covered by a wide satin ribben black underfaced with gray, sewed into cach under-arm seam and wrinkled across each other diagonally d ards to end at th belt line »n each side. For wrap a hal length chnehilla cape with an insertion of cream guipure near the edge, made by sew- ing the:guipure upon the lining and adding a strip of fur below. Hint to those who wish to make over their furs Regarding these fur lace, two of which scarcely anything can insets of have been described be imagined more no doubt as to thelr To rich furs cut into aws attention by giving a shock and this is the clinching test of el sic 1 could add to the fllustrations a beautiful seal cape of half length nearly overlaid with oriental lace in deep points, the furs visible only at the edge and in the high Medicis collar, but this lace is not inset, but is caught down upon the fur with much the same effect VIOLETS AGAIN 1IN Many toilets are brightened which are quite as much the rage they were last year. The latest idea is to pin n bunch of artificial ones under each ear or under one ear on to the fur tippet cr the ruche, and another one is fastened over the muft, Costumes made, the habitues needing too great make this practi capes with costlin ruthle sly a rprise FAVOR up with vio- speclally for skating are not of any skating circle a variety of toilettes to able. All is foreseen, In the dressing room 1s a maid expert at fasten- ing up the skirt to the exact shortr necessary. She takes up each godet with a separate ety pin and forms of the whole, Just below the belt, a little frill not ugly at all. VERY ADVANCED. A French woman of fashion told me in a confident'al mocd the other day that she had czased to wear petticoats and had found an admirable substitute. Tho substitute is a pair of black eatin knickerbockers lined with white flannel and a lining the dress skirt of wadding quilted on black tin. It is a great !nnovation for a woman used to lace ruffled petticoats, but she explains that she took the idea from wearing a bicycle drel THE LATEST FOR BICYCLES. Regarding this same bicycle dress just made, and which will soon be spinning over the Coriche road, between Nice and Monte Carlo, it is a marvel worth description. It is composed of an Bton jacket and knicker- bockers of black vicuna, with large flaring revers faced with white pique, and a white plque waistcoat and turn down collar with square black knot; black sallor hat with Mercury wings and a white embroldered ve l. This costume deserves a no less descriptive epithet than stunning ADA CONE. ABRAUAM LI MRS, COLN, ‘Wite of the War President Was n Belle Dur- Ing Girthood and Dled of a Vroken art. In recalling the wife of Abraham Lincoln it is difcult to determine whether she shaped to any great extent the life of the war pre dent or not. A biographer of the latter says “there is no doubt that much of Lincoln's success was, in a measure, attributable to Mrs. Lincoln's acuteness and the stimulus of ber influence;” and again he remarks that “it his wife had been otherwise he might never have been president.” But the latter assertion isn't as charitable as it sounds, for it argued that domestic infelicity threw Lincoln into the turmoil of political life. 1 asked Frank B. Carpenter, the artist, what he remembered of Mrs. Lincoln. Mr. Carpenter_lived at the white house for sev- eral months and was intimately acquainted with the president’s domestic life. “Mre. Lincoln,” he said, “was a much cleverer woman than the public gave her credit for. There is no denying a quality and quantity of high spiritedness in her temper- ament that made itself felt. “Mrs. Lincoln was a Miss Todd, you know, of Kentucky. Her great-grandfather, Gen- eral Andrew Porter, was major general of the Pennsylvania militia. General Levi Todd, another dncestor, was one of the first set- tlers in Kentucky and successor to Daniel Boone. Her father was a bank president and scrved with distinction in both branches of the Kentucky legislature, “She was a very brillant woman and an excellent liguist, using French as easily as her native tongue. In Springfield, Til, where she moved when a girl, Miss Todd was un- doubtedly the belle of the town. Her very pretty face lighted up so attractively, her tongue was o ready, and she carried herself with such buoyant independence that her presence at any soclal function assured the beaux a charming t'me. As a dancer she was distinguished among the girls of her set, and, in fact, possessed such a number of soclal graces and was so superior to Lin- coln in culture that her love for him created great surprise at the time. ‘Never mind,’ she used to say in the first days cf their mar- ried I'fe, when they boarded at $4 a week, ‘he may be awkward, but he will be president of the United States some day.” Mr. Herndon says she had rare insight into the motives which actuate men and fino power of analysis. It may have been these gifts that enabled her to lock behind the phys- fcal clumsiness of her flance and thus appre- clate his mental and moral greatnes: “A cruel injustice done Mrs. Lincoln,” con- tinued Mr. Carpenter, ‘‘was on account of her southern birth, it being frequently urged that she aided and abetted the confederate troops, and was at heart a strong seceszionist. This complaint was without a shadow of founda- tion. Mrs. Lincoln was too attached to her husband to espouse any cause not his, “You remember the story of their riage?” “Not very clearly,” T sald, “Why, you know, Lincoln, the groom, was missing on_the day first arranged for the ceremony. He was found somo days after- ward in a serious mental condition, and Mr. Speed took him to Kentucky for a year and a half. His nonappearance was a deep morti- flcation to the belle of Springiieid, and she fancied the world was pointing the finger of scorn at her.” Miss Todd's first meeting with her future band has been humorously described by her. ‘He met me at a party,’ she said, ‘and at last came awkwardly forward and’ said, ‘Miss Todd, I want to dance with you the worst way.! And with a twinkle in her eye she added: ‘And he surely did.’" Lincoln's daeing, it may well be imag- ined, was not the piece de resistance of his accomplishments, Mr. Stanton, who was sccretary of war, used to tell how she took the wind out of his sails once. When Early's division was ap- proaching and firing on Fort Stevens, the fort was not very well protected, as h'story knows, and the president and wife drove out there one afternoon, Mrs. Lincoln was very interested, and went out on the ramparts to view the situation. She was in full view of the confederates, her skirts blowing to the wind, and her whole attitude absolutely in- trepld. As scon as Mr. Lincoln realized her ion he at once made her come when_Fort Stevens been ccretary Stanton, whom Mrs. Lin- coln accused of not provid'ng sufficient forces at this fortification, said: “Mrs. Lincoln, I want a plctuure of you stanling on the ram- parts reviewing the rebel tro-ps.” “That is all right,” she quickly retorted; “It you hed placed a few more old women like mysclf there you wouldn't haye been conquered. " “Was Mrs. Lincoln fond of entertaining?" 1 asked Mr. Carpenter. “No. It was a remarkable fact that she was less hospitable than any previous mi tress of the white house. No one could as- certain the reason of this. “‘She was extravagantly fond of dress, and bad more gowns than opportunities to wear them, considering how little social life she allowed herself. Chests were kept filled to the brim with finery, if only in rolls of rich material that she might some day make up. You remember that after the assassination she came to New York (o disposs of her clothes at auction, clalming that eengress mar- down. captured had not ti allowed her a sufficlent appropria- he was a_devoted mother, fairly idoliz- ing her boy ‘Taddie’ (Robert Todd Lincoln) The loss of their son Willie was a grief too deep for the president or herself to refer to. Mrs. Lincoln's personnel was very pleasing She was short, measured by her tall, lanky husband, with brown hair, blue eyes, fair skin and plump, round figure. She was a convert to spiritualism before her death, and even during the administration held several seances with noted mediums. Her latter years were spent abroad,in an unhappy state of health and with limited means. Congress gave her a comfortable Income, which was not always wisely dispensed “She was wretched and despairing after Mr. Lincoln's assassination. It was a grief s uncontrollable as her temper had been to ward the man she loved so well. Time had no healing in his wings for her sorrow, and sho died broken-hearted. She had no daugh ter, and her mind, without any intimate woman_relative to confide in, brooded over her grief until death came to relieve her troubled spirit. CLASSIO DESIGNS, ng Patterns for Centerp Doyly tor Linen Necdie Wor Of the many beautiful designs used in em broidery and fancy work, the classic are at present popular for doylies, center pleces, scarf ends and other ornamental and useful pleces of linen. There is something about a truly clas ign that never grows tiresome The beauty and grace of the is copled from the acanthus leaf, and the most beautiful of the French styles, the Louis XV, s at its foundation the acanthus leaf in a’ conventionalized form, and so on throughout the styles the charmingly grace- ful feeling of plant life forms the basis on which ornamental lines are founded. Linen is the most desirable for both fine and coarse embroidery work, and there are many grades of it manufactured espeeially for this purpose. A few designs for embroidery on linen are shown In the accompanying illustrations. One of the dr. s & @ neat design for a centerpiece in the colonial style, and will be found very simple to work out. If the size, for Instance, should be twelve most Renaissance COLONIAL CENTER-PIECE. inches square, the line of fringe will look well if about three-quarters or one inch long. Consequently,an inch in_from the edge work a lite of button-hole stitching, all around these with a pencil compass describe a. circle about eight inches in diameter, and marking on the line opposite each corner a dot to indi- cate where the knot and ribbons will ap- pear. On a piece of smooth paper draw this circle and make the dots to correspond with the drawings on the linen, and with a lead pen- cil skefch in one-quarter of the entire de- sign, taking care to have the flowers and ribbons in proportion to the illustration. Over this drawing lay a plece of thin ar- chitect’s tracing cloth, and with a pen and ater proof ink_trace all the lines. To transfer this drawing to the body ma- terial, lay on the goods, face down, a piece of black or blue transfer paper, and over it the tracing linen, then, with a sharp point, such as the end of a crochet needle, that will not cut the tracing cloth, go over all the lines, Having transferred ome quarter success- fully, reproduce the others in a similar man- ner until the complete design is carried out. To work the design use filo floss silk, which is very desirable for this class of work, and may be had in all colors and shades. A pretty scheme for this centerpiece is work the flowers in apple green, the stem a light brown, and the ribbons in a shade two of pink. This design will look well worked light shade of any color on white linen. Another of the illustrations suggests an at- tractive design for a round centerpicce in the Renaissance style, and as the lines are quite open, It can be worked very satisfactorily in outline stitch. Light pink and green are pretty colors with which to carry out this design, the green to be used for the leaves and the pink for the thin line scrolis that jut out from the main circle. A pretty result may be obtained with this design by marking the stitches heavier near the main rib, and carrying the finer near the ends of the leaves, and In this way a more delicate feeling is produced than if the lines were all worked of uniform width, The suggestion for a pretty doyly in the to in or in a STYLE RE Louis XV style is shown in the large illu tration. Of all the charming French styl this one affords the greatest scope for beuu- tiful lines adapted to decoration of every description, and especially for embroidery de- signs The lines In this style do not signify any- thing in particultr, but are brought together, forming graceful curves and scrolls to work out a conventional leaf, and for that reason it Is admirably adapted to the decoration of everything where deslgn plays any part, as the lines can be readily made to conform to any shape and size, These, of course, are a very few of the vast number of classic designs that are ad- mirably adapted for embroidery work, but if they are carried out some very attracti linen pieces will be the result, and to those who are gifted with originality they may ideas that will lead to some pretty igns, that when put into practice, will pro- duce some charming bits of fancy work. A BOOK BUYER, The New Style of Book Agent and How She Makes Money. I dislike it," sald a young woman recently, “I fear I must call myself & book agent. I believe my profession to be an unique one, but as yet I have found no name to express it. “You will be regarded with horror until you do succeed in otherwise styling your- selt,” sald her friend. “The word book buyer is even better, for that is what you really do, fsn't it?" “Yes, and the name fits quite well. You sce, my business is this. I have an office and men, or women for that matter, commission me to buy special bouks for them. 1 keep a catalogue from every book shop in the eity. 80 I can put my finger at once on the volume they want. 1 have scen each boodseller and made arrangements with him for a commis- sion on every purchase. The client gives me also the same percentage, and that's where 1 get my revenue.” “Why can't these people get the books themselves?’ was the query. ‘“They are usually business and professional men. Every “As much minute means money to them, and they { made would probably lose hours going from one shop to another in search of some specia] volume. You might as wellf {uestion the money making chances of legal-theater spec- ulation, yet one recognized firm in this city has made half a milllon at the business.” “I have opened my offica ifi the very he: of the busy district of town. 'T'have persoi ally solicited the patronage of Business men, making lawyers a speclalty, f6f 1 find my best revenue comes from'' (WAt quarter. Books on dentistry, mediein®, politics, naval and army proceedings, congressfonal reports, files of old newspapers, French, German and English sclentific works aré all in my line. Volumes it would take a bufy man weeks to look up I know where to get and place in his Mce Inside of an houtr.” “Suppose he doesn’t care to buy the book, then 1 purchase it and chatg: so much for the reading. Probably a Jozen men would have resource to ite pages I§ two weeks, and 1 would be the financial gainef. True, they could go to a library, but these institutions are miles up town and my offite is within touch ‘Another phase of the business comes in looking up references. A man will send a note over by a messenger explaining the na- ture of the point to be investigated. ‘Will 1 send him the answer by noon? 1 know Just where to go and take down full notes on the subject, so 1 comply and levy a tariff for time LA GRIPPE'S AETERMATIL rt Despairing Melancholin Which Invaria Follows an Attack. There is a story going the rounds that a strong friendship has been cemented between two men explained one of them, “I told him I had the grip and he didn't sug- gest a remed. There are as many as cases in this disease— you listen to your friends. Phy- sicians, however, are throwing medicine out of the windows and prescribing mental rem- edies. For the first few days physical stimulants are necded, but grip, unlike the baneful yel- low fever, Is a lingering disorder. After all danger is over and the patient is getting about the worst phase appears—that terrible depression, melancholy, nervousness and the world-as-dark-as-night”” foeling, which c as a dreaded aftermath. To cure these symptoms doctors advise plenty of amusement, Go to the theaters, no matter how loth you are to do so. Wrap up war try not to think of the mole hills that have gnified into mountains of trou- ble, listen to the muscle, and keep the nerve from feeding on themselves. 1In this after, math of grip thoughts are like vampires they suack the blood from every artery of the body. The aim, therefore, in seeking a cure, is to make the mind as near a void as pos- sible, only letting pleasant thoughts filter in, Depression is the terrible foe to fight, If given leeway for twenty-four hours it is hard to conquer. Every possible bit of outside yety should be eagerly grasped; it seems a straw to the drowning, but it proves a life preserver. Never give in to the desire to be alone; surround yourself with bright peo- ple, read the shallowest, most amusing of books, steep yourself to the brim with friv- olities you mever cared for, probably, in health, In all these things there is more saving graces than in physics. Grip takes its way by different routes through its victims. Some women feel their Waterloo has come, others lose interest in things dearest to them, and a third feels a mental weariness that drags the physical functions down o a dangerously low ebb. In the first instance insomnia is the thing to do battla with. A well known physician advises a cold bath and brisk walk. To those who can’t sleep after b p. m, waking up with a nervous chill and dire, thoughts, the same dose is administered., A society woman confesses to having seenthe sun rise five times lately, She has suffered o in the morning that the physicianls advice has pre- vailed, &nd she routes her maid up every morning for a mile spin at this unearthly hour. She drinks a hot Scotch.toddy on her return and is tucked under blankets for a comfortable snooze before, her. chocolate is brought at 10 o'clock. Tho palate is apt to turn against one also. The dishes that have tickled it grow flat and unsavory. New concoctions,have to be thought out, and some of the following -receipts have proved highly beneficial. BROWNED EGGS: Take half an ounce of clarifiéd butter, mix with it a tablespoonful of bread crumbs, a little chopped parsley, pepper'and salt. Have ready two paper souffle cases, butter them and put a little of the mixture into each. Break carefully two fresh eggs, putting one into each case, and cover with bread crumbs. Let them et in the oven, pass a salamander over to brown the crumbs, and then serve. GRILLED OYSTERS. Put about six unopened oysters on a grid- iron. As soon as they arc partly open put into cach a Dit of fresh butter sprinkled. with pepper. When they are quite open, which will take about seven minutes, serve with them bread and butter and some slices of lemon. Iy “because cures CREME DE POULET. Take a quarter cf a pound of minced and pounded chicken, from the breast is bes';a’d a small pat of butter, one egg, well beaten, a pinch of mace, pepper and salt. Beat up a teacupful of cream quite stiff, and stir it well with the chicken; put it into a tin entree mould, in which it can be served, and steam half an hour, QUAIL A LA MINUTE. Put one ounce of butter in a stewpan, over which lay three quails, breast downwards; add a very I'ttle chopped onion, parsley, sa and pepper. Set it over a brisk fire for seven to ten minutes, stirring now and then; add halt the juice of a lemon, half a glass of sherry, and a large teaspoonful of grated bread.” Let the whole simmer a few minutes Put the birds on a hot dish, give the gravy a warm up, pour over and serve. Any birds are good done this way. FOR THE TABLE, “Ahree Bits of Domestic Knowlrdge Every Woman Shoula Possess, Pistachlo nuts salted are so expensive an item, but such a plcturezque addition to the table, that one should learn how to prepare them at home. Take a cup of the shelled nuts, blanch them, and, after removing the skins, stir in some salt and a little sweet ofl —perhaps a tablespoonful. Let the nuts stand for half an hour, then put them in the oven to become crisp, but not too brown. They should be served in a tinted china dish that harmonizes with the color of the nuts, or in a bon-bon basket of filigree silver. A few chepped pistachics scattered thickly over a charlotte russe add to the appearance and flavor of the dessert, Paper frills and rosettes for cutlets are in the following manner: Cut a sheet of note paper in strips two inches wide and double them lengthwise to make the width of a knife blade. Cut the double edge into a fringe a quarter of an inch deep. Move the edges of the paper one higher than the other, and the fringe will be bowed out instead of.lying flat. Fasten the edges that way with a touch of paste nade very stift—that magde of corn starch is best. Then roll the fringed pieces of paper around a pencil and fasten the end with paste, if it Is to bo slipped over the ends of frogs' legs, but It for cutlet bones of uncertain size wrap them just before sewing and a touch of stiff paste will hold them in place. A new dish for a supper-after tho theater goes by the rather odd 'name “Canape Lorrenz 1t is a fusion ‘of devilled crab meat and cheese spread upon’ slices of crispy, fried bread, and then put into the oven to be baked a rich shade of golden brown. The bon vivants become warmly enthusiastic over it, and it s often one of the dishes served at a’ “Welsh rarebit spree.” One devotee as- serts that it has the flayor of crushed rose leaves, but this is perhaps a poor recommen- dation to the gourmet who fancies something more highly flayored, L e Sterlized Water Wanted. Tho invention most needed cheap and practical process of sterilizing drinking water without rendering it less palatable. The growth of population, says the New York World, is steadily toward the cities, and In the cities good health de- pends more on good water than on any other cne thing. Indeed, it is believed by some that If the germs of discese can be kept out of food and water there will be little or no danger of the spread of the germ discases It 1s thought that pure water would reduce the death rate of any large city from 10 to 25 per ccnt at least, i — Cook's Imperlal. World's Fair now s some “highest award, excellent champagne; good eff ence, agrecable bouqu , deliclous favor, | has GENERAL . W, JONES OFLOWA A Oolleagus of Clay, Oalhoun and Webstor 8till Living, ORGAN'ZED THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY James R. Glimore Reco of & Vencrable State the ¢ ata the Lifo History an, to Whom ent West Owes n Debt of Gratitude. (Copyrighted, One of the most remarkable time, and indeed, of the entire time which dates from what the historian, Van Holst, aptly “The Reign of Andrew Jack son,"” Wallace Jones of lowa. Born tern frontier in the fourth year of present century, his active life extended over three score years and ten, during the greater part of which period he has been a conspicuous agent in the development of the northwest, seeing it grow up under his from a scattered of trading and military posts, numbering in 1810 not more than 5000 white inhab- itants, to no less than fourteen states of this union, with a civilized population of more than 10,000,000 To this amazing growth no man has contributed more largely than he. He organized the territories of Wisconsin and lowa; from 1836 to 1846 he controlled the appointment of every impor- tent official in those territories; and after tho admission of Iowa to the union in the latter year, he sat for twelve years as senfor “representative that state in senate of the United States, It is not much to say that for all of twenty y ho shaped the entire policy of the general government in reference to the great north- west, which then took on its initial charac- ter, and is now so important a part of this union. He formulated its laws and through his great influence with successive feleral administrations, controlled and guided ever; one of its local governments. And yet man so active at a period which antedates the memory of many who are now accounted old men, is still living, his eye undimmed and his natural force scarcely’ o much as abatod. The life of such a does, one of the most interesting period the development of this country, must of necessity be of absorbing interest, and I count myself peculiarly fortunate in having recently come into possession of some notes of his career, written by his own hand, and in a character so bold and free as to bear no trace of his ninety years. Some few of these nctes will here be given, so far as they illustrate the condition of the west dur- ing its formative period. Though born on the frontier, Mr. Jones does not answer to the ordinary idea of a backwoodsman. His father was a graduate of Oxford university, and a friend of Benjamin Franklin. He settltd first at Philadelphia, but removing to Kentucky prior to 1790, he held high military office under George Rogers Clark, and subsequently settled at St. Genevieve, M., was a member of the constitutional convention of that state, drafting its first constitution, and serving as one of the justices of its supreme court until his death, in 1824, DRUMMER IN THE WAR ON CANADA The son's first experlence of actual life was at the age of 10, when he served during the summer and autumn of 1814, as drummer hoy in Captain Willlam Linn's company in the war on the Canadian frontier. He then at- tended Bishop DuBourg's Catholic college at St. Louis, and in 1821 was sent under the guardianship of Henry Clay and William T. Barry (afterward President Jackson's post- master general), to Transylvania university at Lexington, Ky., where he was graduated in 1825, He then began legal study with his brother-in-law, the Hon. John Scott, at Ste. Genevieve, and there he soon had his first experience of office, which, most curiously Quring all of forty years, always sought him, and he never the office. A few. weeks after he had begun to read law, the position of clerk of the United States district court be- came vacant by the death of the incumbent, and his brother-in-law, Scott, drew up a strong petition to the United States judge at 8t. Louls for the appointment to the position of the then clerk of the state district court. The petition being freely circulated, *was signed by every man in the place who could write his name,” except by Mr. Jones, who, belng a new comer and very young, was not so much as asked for his slgnature, The appointment was recorded as a foregone conclusion, but a few days after the petition was sent off Mr. Jones, belng at the postoffiice was handed a letter addressed to him as “Clerk of the United States District Court.”” It was a bulky document, and was charged with about $2 postage, on account of which he refused to receive it, until the postmaster had sug- gested that he would return the postage in case the letter was not intended for him. The document proved to be from the judge of the United States district court, tendering Mr. Jones the clerkship of the gourt because of the handsome manner in which he had acquitted himself at his graduation from the university, and urging his acceptance for the reasons that it would “‘aid you in your law studies and put money in your pocket.” A PLUNGE INTO THE WILDERNESS. After about two years of close application to the study of the law, the health of Mr. Jones began to fail, and he was advised to abandon his studies and engage in some active outdoor employment, He accordingly plunged ness near the present site of Dubuque, Ia., erected a couple of log cabins, and with a dozen hands, hired at $5 a month, engaged in the smelting of lead. IHe built h's cabin from the standing trees, and— never before naving done any manual labor— carried up two of the corners, laid a floor, made a batten door and one window, with his own hands, and the first night slept on the ground under an ox wagon. He then made his bed in a corner of one of the cabins, lived upon *‘corn bread, pickled pork, tea and coffee,’” and rode on horseback fifteen miles a day. The result he gives very briefly. “Owing to that change of life,”” he says, I have never been sick in bed, or confined tu the house by one day of illness, since March, 1827.” This having been written In 1594, shows that his wilderness life has given him a clean bill of health for sixty-seven years. His solitude was scon pleasantly broken by a few days' visit from Jefferson Davis, who haa been his classmate and intimate friend at Transylvania university, and was then sery- ing as first leutenant in the United States infantry. IN THE BLACK HAWK WAR. lead bus'ness proved very profitable, but after about five years Mr, Jones aban- doned it, on recelving an invitation from General Henry Dodge to act as his aide-de- camp in the prosecution of the Black Hawk war., He served with credit during that, in which, it will be remembered, Abraham Lin- coln also served as captain—sharing offen the tent of Jefferson Davis, or, perhaps, of- tener, his blanket, with their two saddles as pillows, The war over, he was elected colonel of the Michigan militia, vice General Dodge, who had been promoted to the regular army, as the first colonel of the Kirst dragoons. While holding th's position Mr. Jones was one day walited upon by a committze of the Michigan bar, who surprised him by an- nouncing that he had been chosen the chief justice of the territory. He held the office until October, 1835, when by a very large majerity he was elected as the last delegate to congress from the territory of Mich gan. He took his seat in the house of represe tives on March 4, 1836, and then Legan the period of his most important service to the country. In 1833 the territory of Michigan covered all the country that is now comprised within the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Min- nesota and all the other states and terri- tories that lle north of Missouri ard Cali- fornia and extend westward to the Pacific. This vast region had in 1830 & civilized population of only 81,693, but such wus the tide of immigration which then set in that by the year 1835 €0 much cf it as is now contained within the limits of the state of Michigan numbered 174,647. The part of the territory lylng west of Lake Mic gan, and the two sides of Mississippl river, was, owing to superior reputation of its lands, recelv ing even a stronger tide of settlement; and Mr. Jones had no sooner taken his seat in congress than, to give (als westerly portion the benefit of orderly government, he drew McClure.) men of his we eyes serfes the ar: man, covering, as it into the wilder- The up and preseuted to the house of representa- the | too | this | in | tives a Bl to organize the territory of Wis- consin. The bill was made a law, and it then became necessary for President Jackson to appoint the necessary officials to admin stor the territorial government. The Ted ““gpofls system” was then In the “full tide of | successful experiment,” and under it the prin- cipal offices in the territorfes, b and Judicial, had been filled by older states, whose chief meri | service to the dominant party. WRITES A LETTER O Mr. Jones was still a ver scarcely 31—and without any perfonce; but ho gaw clearly the evils of a system which set over the growing west “fossils,” who had no knowledge of its necds and no sympathy with its fllimitable aspira tions, He had been a college mate with kely Donelson—President Jackson's adopted son—and, when a youth of 19, had served as sergeant of the body guard of “Old Hickory on the occasion of hig passing tivough Ken tucky on his way to Washington as senator elect from Tennessee, in November, 1823; but he had next to no personal acquaintance with the autocrat whose mere “by the eter made and unmade so many political fortunes, Mr. Jones felt perhaps a reasonable awe of the man who wiclded so much power, but the more keenly felt the fnjustice that was being done to the west by the setting over it of in competent officials,and he accordingly indicted a letter to President Jackson couched in re spectuful terms, but protesting firmly against | the system of nonresident appointments, and claingng as a right that the offices of W | consif should be given to citizens of the terri tory He had just taken his ecat in the housc of representatives on the following morn ing when Ife was approached by Colonel A Donelson, the private secretary of Jackson with the remark that the president desir to see him. Considerably surprised, Mr. Jones Inquired for what he was wanted, and en Donelson—noting his surprise and’ per. iving a chance for a practical joke—re- plied: " “Did you not write nim a threaten ing letter yesterday?" Mr, that he had written the president a but he hoped it was not considered impertinent or impolite. “It was both | said Donelson. “It has put General Jac son into a fury, and he has told me to come and ask’ you to call on him. He # to seo i you can talk to him as you have written, You have greatly angered him—written him such a letter as no other man in congress would dare to write. 1 would advise you to go to him at once and mako your peace with him.” CURIOUS INTERVIEW WITH JACKSON With, it may be, the thought in his mind that his whole political future was at stake, Mr. Jones hurried into a hack and was driven rapidly to the white house. Arriving there he sent his name up to the president and was told by the messenger who soon re turned that the great man was alone in his room. Entering this abode of republican royalty he found Jackson seated with his back to the door, both feet elevated upon a table, and quietly smoking a corncob pipe With a cane stem some three or four feet in length. Without changing his position or giving other sign of recognition, the smoker said: ““Take a seat; my son,” and this point Mr. Jones nalvely remarks, I did 5o because my knees trembled and I could scarcely stand upright; for Colonel Donelson had ‘made me believe that 1 had of- fonded him.” Then Jackson went on: *I have read your letter, my son, and it does honor to your head and your heart. But it ha always been the custom to fill the offices in the new territories from citizens of the states, The office of governor s a very Important and responsible one, for he is not only com mander-in-chief of the militia of the territory but also ex-officio superintendent of Indian af- fai ou any man qualified to fill that office? h exceutive men from the had been thelr PROTEST. young man-— legislative ex. lette eithe s, sir,” answered Mr. Jones. *T the best qualificd man in the country.” “What Is his name?” asked Jackson. “General Henry Dodge,” replied Mr. Jones, Looking up to”the ceiiing, and pufing out a huge volume of smoke, the old soldier re- marked: I don’t know any General Dodge." To this Mr. Jones rejoined: “He is the man who put an end to the Black Hawk war. I was his aide-de-camp. He is now colonel of the First regiment of United States cav- alry.” “Oh!" he exclaimed. want? “Yes, sir. want.” “Well, my son,” then sald the president have “Is that the man you salary attached to each, and bring it here fo me. T will give you some of them. My cabi- net will be opposed to it, but I will give you some of the other offices, as well as that of the governor.” Mr. Jones prepared the desired list and every man named upon it was appointed. This was strange, but stranger still was the fact that this domination of the young man from Michigan was submitted to with the greatest good nature by the veteran demo- cratic politicians. This was illustrated a few days afterward when Colonel Jones, en- tering the senate chamber, encountered James Buchanan, then a senator from Pennsylvania, and later president of the United Stat Alter meeting Mr. Jones with much cordial- ity, Mr. Buchanan called from their seats Senators Linn of Missourl, Clayton of Dela- ware and Walker of Mississippi, and sald to them: “I called this morning on my old friend, President Jackson, to ask him to ap- point my friend Frazier of Lancaster to a judgeship in this young gentleman's new ter- ritory, which he has irduced us to create for him," and General Jackson told me that if 1 wanted my friend appointed I must go to the delegate, Colonel Jones. If he would recom- mend him he would appoint him, and not without.” DEFEATED BY HIS DAUGHTER. Barly in the succeeding year Michigan was admitted as a state into the union, and this act legislated Colonel Jones out of his posi- tion as its delegate to congress. But he was promptly chosen delegate from Wisconsin, and in this city he was, in 1837, called upon to organize the territory of Towa from s0 much of Wisconsin as lay west of the Migsissippi river. This was no easy task, for John C. Calhoun, who was then all powerful in the United States senate, had set his face inflexibly against the formation of any more free territories which would soon be created into “abolition states” to thereby distrust the balance of political power. To every ap- proach of Colonel Jones he returned the uni- form answer: “I would be glad to serve you in any way, except when you ask me to sac- rifice a great political principle.” Therefore, to overcome Calhoun's opposi- tion, Mr. Jones was forced to resort to a new order of tactics, He was at the time a leader of Washington society. He had a most attractive and accomplished wife, and himself: was then one of the belles of Washington— “exceptionally fine looking, with a highly cultured intellect and manners fit to grace any court in Europe, and moreover he was the finest dancer on this continent.”” It hap pened that Mr. Calhoun had a daughter, beau- tiful and_accomplished, and the idol of her father. Colonel Jones got up a party at the home of Senator Linn of Missourl, and to it Miss Calboun was invited, He was, of course, close he escorted her to her father's h As he was about to bid her *good nigh the doorway, she thanked him for his gr politeness, and expressed the hope that she might be able to, in some way, return his kindness. “‘You can,” he answered, “you can render me a most important service by put. ting your lovely arm about your father’s neck when Tie comes down to breakfast in the morning and insisting that he shall vote for 156, places in life, Sold only in —_— 2 Jones answered | He is the man my constituents ‘“make me a list of all the offices, with the was as I am told by an aged lady who very attentive to her at the party, and at its the admission house and will of Towa. 1t ham my bl for » come up in the wwsed the senato tomorrow “UN Ao 1t," she replied his consent,” Barly on the following morni “I'I surely get Mr. Jones | called at the house to learn the result; buy {the young lady met him with a dejectod | conntenance. Ter father, he ald, had the | Mghest esteem for Colonel Jones, but he could not consent to the creation of any more “abolition states,” and should do all ho gould to defeat the organization of lowa torrle ory. | *The situation s, and_“‘the accordingly arranged with the young lady to send a’friend with a carriage to conduct tier to the senate before the Towa bill should! come up for consideration. Arrived thers sho was, on a given signal from him, to invite her father into the library and to keep him thero until the bill had passed the | senate. © She did as she was requested, and thus it was that lowa became a territory and in due time an Important state of thes | union A sequel to | riago of Miss Ner to the called young man change from for a of tace Michigan™ this incident was the Colhoun to Mr, Clemson by Colonel s to chamber, and th happy life she passed with him on tate near Baltimore, Md., where she has recently dicd, the mother of ten children THE DUEL WITH GRAVES | the date of th of the of Wisconsin retire ment from the United States senate in 1859 M:. Jones continued in practical control of the official appointments in the northwes territorics, except during the b vals of whig administration; but about the time of the organization of lowa his po- litical fortunes fell under a temporary cloud in_consequence of his unfortunate conne tion with the lamentable duel between Grave nd Cilley. He had consented to act as second of Mr. Cilley at the urgent solicitation of Franklin Picrce, who had been his league in the house of representatives, and | was then a member of the senate. Mr., Jone: conduct was in strict accordance with the ‘code” then universally accepted among gen- temen, but the tragic result of the duel aroused the consclence of the pople, and cre- ated such a publ'e clamor that the friends of Mr. Jones did not dare renominate him as a delegate to congress, nor President Van Bu- ren to appoint him as governor of the new territory, though he was recommended for the positicn by the unanimous voice of the people of Towa. However, Mr. Jones was permitted to select all the other officers of the territory, and, a little late ppointed its” surveyor general, whic tion he continued hold, except during the administration Harrison and Tyle down to the admission of lowa as a state, when he was cb its first United senater, with, as his colleague, Augustus C. Dodge, a son of General Henry' Dodge, whom Mr. Jones had served under as a drummer boy in 1814, as an aide-de-camp in 1832, and in 1836 had procurred to be appointed gove ernor of Wisconsin. A few months after his son was chosen senator from lowa, General Dodge was clected to the senate from Wise consin, and then for about seven years the father and son sat side by side as senators from adjoining states. LODGED IN FORT LAFAYETTE. Soon after the expiration of his sccond terny as senator from lowa Mr. Jones was ap- pointed by President Buchanan minister to Bogota, He filled the position with dis. tinguished credit, but on account of his po= litical opinions he was recalled by Mr. Sew= ard toward the close of the first year of Mr. Lincoln's administration. Returning to this country e arrived in Washington on the 5th of December, 1861, and was recefived with great cordialty by Mr. Seward, who had served under him on committees’ when they, were in the senate together. Mr. Seward es- corted him personally to the white house and there introduced him to Mr. Lincoln, with whom he had a most pleasant interview, the latter reminding Mim that they had met fif= teen years before at Springfield, 111, and re galing him with some of his many good stories, Ho received from Mr. diplomatic Seward, among dinner,” at which he was given the post of honor at the left of the h and was introduced to the entire diplomatic corps as a brother member with Mr. Seward in States senate, and one of the mars the bring long and his es- m rritory organizat} 1836 to | of other them courtesies a “grand tho Uni most distinguished public men in the coun= | try. A few days later, as he was about to leave Washington by the way of New York for his home—on December 19, 1861 ho again met Mr. Seward, who, with his usual cordiality, invited him to Indulge in a glass of wine, and inquired by what routa he was going to New York. Then Secretary Seward parted from him with many expres- sions of good will, and on the following day, caused his arrest at the New York hotel and his confinement for sixty-four days in the abode of traitors in New York harbor. On inquiring of Superintendent Kennedy: the reason of his arrest Mr. Jones was shown a telegram from Washington which read as follows: “Hon. George W. Jones, late senator from lowa, just returning mine ister from Bogota, leaves here for New York hotel. Arrest him and send him to Fort La Fayette, Willlam H. Seward.” This was the close of George Jones' public life, and this the recelved for the forty years of inestimable service to h's country. But at the end of more than thirty years congress attempted to repair in some ‘measure the wrong that had been done, by granting him a pension— for his services as a drummer boy In 1814, and as aid to General Dodge in 1832, $20 per month, which, with seventy-ej years of back pay, the sum of $18,720. This as in May, 1892; in December following, on the settlement of h's accounts as minister to Bogota, both houses of congress unanimously, awarded him $20 per diem for the sixty-foun days during which he was wrongfully im= prisoned at’ Fort Lafayette. But a furthen almost unparalelled honor was accorded him on April 12, 1894—the occaston of his 90th birthday—by the state of Iowa, which then gave him a public reception and banquet, pres sided over by the governor and att ed by, the members of both houses of the legislature, the executive council, the judges of the sus preme court and the most distinguished citls zens of the stat e MOUNT VERNON, Wallace reward he Rev. 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