The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1902, Page 11

THE SUNDAY OALL. 11 C.N. CLARK IGHT after night, walking up and éown ! of the courthouse ‘n Spokax , Wash., guarding the thousands of dollars locked in the vaults o County Treasurer as well as docum worth many times more in the vaults of the other offices, hand on the trusty six-shooter, only too eager to meet any intruder, walks old C. N. Clark, one of the first men that rallied to the support of old John Brown st the time of the border warfare in Kansas Clark, -or as he is better known to the employes of the courthouse, “Old John Brown” Clark, has perbaps few equals. With the record of & dozen bloody battles while in the English army and as many more in the Northern army of the civil war, during which he served with the rank of captain in the Fifteenth Kansas, be is & man who has done more than his e in making history. t these battles are not what make It is doubtful if there is » now living who was present rown discovered his son’s builets and who heard as he stood over the body s declare vengeance on the death of his son. Clark figured, and at one 2 reward of $800 offered for his Serving with John t to last it was by the e and good fortune that he the bloody engagement n John Brown was 1 his band slaughtered by a der Lieutenant Lee. now. Seventy-four come and gone. His step is when he started on his His hearing is mot so t so steady when his nerve is still a man who makes an y on the co ouse of nty The courthouse em- es are careful when ent g after nig make them- watchman before at- e er, bu the time when that g to throw off the , and the island was niel O'Connell, ed the desire for e been an Abol h ionist,” “ever since I heard O'Connell age of 17 he enlisted in the nd served three years—first d later as junior lieu- He fought under Enox in the Bikh war and was for eleven months through the campaign Afghanistan during which time he saw nany nerrow escapes and fought in places re men were mowed down as fast as they charged the enemy. Returning from the war, whither he went without the e ent of his parents, he found his m r had 8led. He sold his commission in the British army for £765 and started for Australia, but instead landed in New York just about the time the gulf between the North and South was sssuming dan- gerous proportions. In 1258, or three years after he landed in America, he found his way to Baltimore, where he engaged In missionary work. Two years later the excitement in Kan- sas and his desire for adventure and ex- citement drew him to the West and he lo- cated in Lawrence. Here he met & man by the name of Kreggy, who was the cor- respondent of & New York paper, and to- day Clark declares Kreggy was one of the best men who ever lived Mr. Clark never wearies of reciting his sdventures with John Brown, and many interesting anecdotes are always in his mind to please the ready listener. “Up to the year of 185§ we had never seen nor heard of John Brown,” said the wveteran. “In that year I and Kreggy, with two other friends, started from Law- rence to Osawatomie to look over the country and perhaps find work. On the mo: g we reached Osawatomie we heard that & Southerner named Kline with 150 was coming to raid Kansas. at morning John Brown had told his #on to go to the postoffice for the mail, ting to get-a letter from his wife. himself shouldered &n ax and ted to cut rails. About 9 o'clock we Kline was coming on a raid not more than a mile away. We near the Brown house and I t yet met John Brown. When we ws you bet we hid. ders passed. as they did so we shooting in front of Brown's i s soon as we thought it safe there to see what the trouble We four came around one corner of house just as Brown and Sheriff around the other corner, d there near the front door in the path own's son stretched on the ground, bullets, while in his hand he letter from his mother, had been reading. He had evi- ¥ been sitting in an old rocking chair when shot to death by the slave ers. General illiams ca he never forget the look on old man long as I live. Raising said: ‘The siave power has VAV murdered my boy. I live for revenge on the slave power.’ No one spoke for fully ten minutes. It was awful. Then Sheriff ‘Willlams spoke up and asked if we should follow the raiders. ‘By all means Brown. Well, in less time than you could imagine all of us got together and mount- ed horses for the chase. We all had Bharpe rifles, while eight of us had two six-shooters each in addition. “That was the starting of John Brown. No truer man ever lived. He never did anything till his boy was murdered, and never after that did he disturb peaceable citizens. It was only when he heard of some of the slave State men murdering or disturbing peaceful citizens that we took after them, and then we swooped down upon them before they knew what was coming. We were called Jayhawkers for this, because we lit like a jaybird. “Well, we followed the-trail left' by those raiders for eleven miles to the breaks of Middle Creek. There just be- low the brow of a hill the band had stopped to camp. Some were bathing in the stream, some were lying under the wagons, some were picketing the horses 8#nd the others were preparing camp. They did not see us because we kept be- hind the hill till we were ready and then we opened with our rifles, and followed this with our six-shooters. This para- {yzed them. They never returned the fire, but fied. We killed twenty-three of the bunch. We left the wagons and horses there for the farmers, as they had been stolen. “Sheriff Willlams asked if we should follow them any more, but Brown said that was enough for that day and we should go back and bury his boy. We did not lose a single man. The next day w burled Brown's The next week we heard of some slave State men on Potta- watomie Creek who were not behaving well. Nine of uk went up there and we cleared out every pro-slavery man on the Creek. That is what was called the Potta- watomie murders. “For this a reward of $800 was offered for each of us dead or alive. That only made us more determined. The slave State men might come and murder the free Staters at will and never was the re- ward offered for them. But just as soon as we started to get revenge we were branded as criminals. Stop with that re- ‘ward offered for us! Never! We started out with new life, “From that time on we carried on our warfare in different parts of the country, s a1l persons know who have read his- tories. We might have had fifty in our band, but we seldom had over a dozen. It was not safe to travel with more. We slways traveled together at night. In the day time we divided up, perhaps one going alone or two together, but we al- ways Had our meeting place fixed for the next evening, perhaps ten or twenty miles away. I had a wife then living in Lawrence, and once in a while I got to see her, but never slept in the house. When night came I would say good-by, thinking perhaps for the last time, and son. SS SIS — % THRILLING ADVENTURES OF “OLD JOHN BROWN” CLARK, WHO HAS A REC- ORD OF A DOZEN BLOODY BATTLES IN THE ENGLISH ARMY AND AS MANY MORE IN THE NORTHERN ARMY DURING THE CIVIL WAR, WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MEN TO RALLY TO THE SUPPORT OF JOHN BROWN, AND IS NOW NIGHT WATCHMAN OF A COURTHOUSE. k3 - take to the woods. Many times my house was surrounded. The generation of to- day knows. nothing of what that was. Many have heard of the Hamilton murder. I will tell you about that. A slave State man named Hamilton came over the border from Missouri. He round- ed up a lot of peaceful citizens, members of the free State party—lined them up in a gulch, and with his twenty followers riddled them, and all for nothing. We then took after Hamilton and chased him back into Missourl. We caught three or four of his band and hanged them on the spot. Hamilton got away. “Johnw Brown has been called a dcad beat, but no truer man ever lived. He worked for the freedom of the slaves and that alone, and you bet it was not good for a slaveholder to start abusing his slaves when we were around. One tune a negro escaped and found his way to Brown’s house, near Osawatomie. A short time afterward when I and Kleggy were staying at the hotel in the town two men drove up in a buggy and posted on the front of the hotel a large sign offer- ing a big reward for the capture of this slave, $500. “I and Kreggy were young and full of the devil. We asked the man about the reward. He did not know who we were, and' told us the reward was genuine—that it would be paid down cash on the deliv- ery of the man. Just after dinner that day I and Kreggy went dowh to old man Brown’s and told him our plan. He hesi- tated, but then consented. We took the negro and turned him over to his master and got the $500. / “We knew the road the men would take on leaving town that evening, and a few miles out we stationed ourselves—that 1s, Kreggy and I. When they came along, with a shotgun in one man’s lap, while the other drove, and -the negro sat be- tween them handcuffed, we stepped from behind a tree and leveled our Sharpe’s, and you bet they stopped. We were not masked. We did not need to be. We made FRILLS Continued From Page Ten. the ends firmly; the bow will never pull out. Draw the ribbon out to its full width with the fingers and then crush it between the hands to make & chou-like end. Do this with both ends. The ribbon wire now comes into ser- vice. There are firm, stiff ribons that re- quire no wire, but usually & chou is the better for a little wirlng. Turn it over and run the wire, which should be the mest invisible kind of lace wire, covered with eilk, just along the selvage of the ribbon, turning it over so as to cover the wire. In this way you can stiffen the ends by using the wire along one side of the ribon only. The loops can have a little very deli- cate wire run along the edge of the rib- bon, just to hold them out straight. Even where stiff ribbon is used the wire is beneficlal, for, If the chou be crushed under the coat, it can be bent out again if ribbon wire is used, whereas it might otherwise be too soft. The star chou is mow completed, and AND FUR various are its uses. It can be worn upon the bust. It can be worn at the back of the stock. ‘With the low coiffure it is worn at the #ide, & star chou under each ear, with hanging ends. The chou for this purpose is made out of a yard of ribbon, and is much more delicate in size and treat ment, narrower ribbon being employed. A set of six star choux was recently made for a handsome gown in black and butter color taffeta. The choux were in swallow blue. One, the medium sized one, was for the side of the yoke. Two tiny ones trimmed the stock. Two more were used upon the cuffs, and one large one secured the narrow swallow blue velvet belt. Eccentric Jewelry. It is the day of eccentricity in adorn- ments. Tiny gold pieces looking like gold dollars are strung together by the tinlest of links, and row after row of them are connected to malkeé a belt. 'The belt in question is a very deep one and is fashioned in such a manner that 1t comes down to a point In front. There is a complicated chain of small gold pieces an links. Turquoises are o the men take the handcuffs off the negro. Then we noticed the old fellow’s clothes were pretty bad, so we ordered his master to change clothes with him. Oh, but he hated to do it: but he had to. Just as they, started off the negro remembered he had not changed hats, and called out. We brought down our Sharpe’s again, and the man turned over his hat and then drove on. We gave the negro the $500 we got as a reward, every cent 6f it, and started him North. We never heard of him again. “That was the kind of business we did, although sometimes I feel a little bit ashamed of this case. I remember at nights as we camped on the prairie and cooked our supper never a time passed by but old man Brown would raise his hands and thank the Lord for his goodness. Kneeling in the dust there he would pour out thanks for having spared us thus far and pray ror help and strength. We boys ‘were not as goed sometimes as we might have been, but old man Brown always prayed. “I will tell you of our last deed, in 1859, A farmer named Krew, uv{n; in Bates County, Missouri, had eleven slaves, that he was abusing. We called on him one BELOWS FOR FINE used in it, and for this purpose there come very pretty imitation turquoise stones, set In a gold rim and finished with tiny wire loops by which they can be sewed or connected with the girdle. These metal belts are lined, and are worn over black velvet, white taffeta, turquoise, red or whatever may be the color of the trimmings, An exceedingly rich costume worn - by Mrs Depew was in black panne cloth. It was tallored upon the severest lines and suggested a London finish rather than a fussy Paris one. The seams were stitched in three rows up and down the skirt, and the foot had a very conventional graduated flouxce, all of lustrous black. The relief came in the stock and the belt and in the revers of the blouse, for it was cut on the blouse order. These were in brilliant orange., Wide lapels coming to a point at the belt trimmed the front, and over the lapels lace was laid, and in the lace were set small gold beads. The belt was pointed and was In orange panne with a link arrangement of gold coin, or the semblance of gold coin. So with the stock. It was in burnt orange velvet with a little chain armor ‘ F!H! tective, all alone. We thought at ence we were surrounded, but we were ready to fight, and made Pinkerton come inside. Pinkerton, however, instead of coming te capture us, came to help us. He gave us & lot of money that had been raised by popular subscription in Chicage and told us not to move till he came back for us in a day or two. Woell, cld man Brown trusted him and we stayed. ““When Pinkerton came back in & couple of days he had secured a train with box- / REVENGEB ON THE SLAVE POWER.” day and got the drop en him. He was going to fight first, but saw we meant business. We took all of his eleven slaves and started North. We got to Chicago, where we hid in an old mill. By this time detectives all over the United States were hunting for us, and we kept mighty close. “One night we heard a rap at the door. Old man Brown answered, and there stood Allen Pinkerton, that famous de- of gold looping it here and there. The cuffs were in orange velvet, turned back and setting out from the sleeve, and were overlaild with lace set with gold beads. Immense Belt Bags. Immense chatelaines are worn and big beaded bags, the bigger and more elaborate the better. They are lined with satin and one side may be of satin. For the benefit of the woman whg is go- ing to crgchet her own beaded bag it may be relatéd that some of the newest of these articles are beaded only upon, one side, the other being of brocade. 'This saves a great deal of work, for only half of the bag need be headed. They are making big, flat, square bags of brocade and beading a paftern upon them. Across the front of a big belt bag of yellowish gold satin there was beaded a monogram in gold beads, with here and there a pearl bead sét in. The clasp and chaih were of gold. For evenings and dinners there are new fads, some of them of a very sensatignal order. A bracdlet that clasps around the arm far above the elbow is one of these, and, like, the thumb ring, is sald fo be cars to take us to Detroit secretly. We loatled the negroes on and got on our- selves and left Chicago. At Detroit old man Brown says to me, ‘You take those slaves into Canada, get them located and then come back. We are going to Har- per’s Ferry, where we will wait for you.” I took the slaves, got on a ferry and snapped my fingers at all the detect!v in America and was soon in Canada. FROCKS. never worn by women of good taste. Be that as It may, the upper arm bracelet comes in beautiful designs, and certainly it is becoming to a well shaped member. For dinner the pagoda sleeve is good, as it is a dressy sleeve, without being a dis- tinctly short sleeve. It comes from the shoulder, but is an undersleeve. It is usu- ally of lace and is cut so that it grows bigger and bigger toward the wrist. At the hand it is immense. It is perfectly round and should be of delicate material. A pagoda sleeve has an outside sleeve of black velvet cut very tight and finished with a cuff at the elbow. Then came the big lace pagoda. Evening Colors. While the pastel tints cannot be said to rage there is certainly a tendency toward the pale tones. Cream and white are the most popular, and the vogue for them is steadily on the increase. That lovely wom- an, Lady Lennox, wears white consider- ably, and all the American beauties, Mrs. Richard Harding Davis, Mrs, Chatfield Taylor, Mrs, Reginald de Koven, Mrs. Henry Clews Jr., Mrs. Perry Belmont and a score of others are wearing it. Dinner =R “It toox me three weexs te got the slaves located, and then I came back te meet the band at Harper's Ferry, but did not succeed in my plan. When I got back into the States I learned that Lieu- tenant Lee had had a bloody .alll. ‘with the band‘at Harper’s Ferry and old man Brown was captured and was In jall. 1 wanted to see the old man, but did mot dare for fear of giving myself away. I went back to my home in Kansas and en- listed in the army and was made a cap- tain, At first they refused to enlist me because I would not take an oath to sup- port the laws of Congress, which I re- fused te do as long as the fugitive slave law was on the statutes, but through an influential friend I finally got mustered in and did not take that oath, but did take the oath te suppert the constitution ef the Uniad States, which I was glad to de, I served through the war, doing most of my fighting in Texas with the rangers, and we had some close calls. I was in the army three years and five months. I don’t know why the Lord has spared me %o well, but he has, and I am still able to guard this courthouse.” [ parties new look like debutante occastens and white is the dinner color of the hour. With two handsome white dinner gowns a woman can go through the social sea~ son, no matter how many may be her din- ner engagements, for there is this about white—that it is white, and one white gown differs from another only upon the minutest inspection. A white taffeta dinner gown trimmed ‘with white chiffon Is the most easily con- trived frock under the sun. One can scarcely go wrong with it, and when it 1 done and on one is always well dressed. The gown can be somewhat varied, If need be, by the choux, the flowers one wears, the jewelry and the stock, the belt and hair trimmings. For years one of the most widely knewn women In Washington has owned one din- ner gown. It is a white satin, and she re- news it from year to year. It is always trimmed alcording to the latest fancy, | and with it she wears pearls. Gail Ham- Iton, who was in her younger days one of the daintiest and dressiest of Washing- ton women, wore white universally, and once when asked by Senator Sherman to a dinner she “rushed iInto her white satin and pearls” and was considered the most tastefully arrayed woman present. The Low Neck. ’ For the woman who does not indulge in the frivolity of a white satin gown nor & white gown of any description there is | black to fall back upon, elegant and ever ladylike black: and thers is the new brown, a tobacco color, which is made up all of one tone without even a dash of red, but which really looks better with & little red to set it off, if no more than 2 sk rose. The low neck, which seems too giddy for the woman of family, who has got out of the way of it, can now be nicely substi- tuted by the neck of lace or by the lattice neck, which is so very effective. This is made of a lattice of ribbon, the ribbons crossing to make a network with openings as large as a dime. A very large lattice, as big as a silver dollar, was observed upon an evening gown, and, In the open- Ing of the lattice, lace was set In the shape of littlg medallions that were caught at éach side with invisible stitches. If one desires an evening gown, and does not wish to wear a low necked af- fair, there are so many others from which one can choose that the low, bare neck is far from obligatory. The lace ruffle of duchess is attached to a band of panne velvet ribbon and worn around the throat, as high as a choker. Then comes a strip of bare neck, then & lace ruffle which hangs from the bust line. A lace rufile is also attached to the belt and around the foot there is another ruffia of lace. This makes an Individual trim= ming that can be worn with any gown. Laces Are Cheap. Lace, which took once # second place to chiffon, naw classes with it in point of popularity and price, and can be bought without the expenditure of a fortune. The | tmitation laces are so very good and so cheap that lovers of lace need not go with- out, but may gratify their desires, in that they can have lace at reasonable rates, at about the same ratio of expense as any other handsome trimming; indeed, classed with jeweled passementerie, it 1s much dower. Gauze, that erstwhile, frivelous trime ‘| ming, has now taken a standard place. It comes with satin stripes of silk and it “THE SLAVE POWER HAS MURDERED MY BOY. I LIVE FOR]can be trimmed with lace. Much of the gauze i3 open-work, with a lacey stripe through it; and there come gauze ridbbens that combine lace and satin. These are called millinery ribbons. They are ysed not only for hats, but for bodices, Tweo yardg of handsome gauze to be employed as a trimming for an evening shirt walst is an excellent investment. Used as the basis for a bunch of silk roses, it is very decorative, and employed merely as a bodice trimming, It is more than good. It can be worn again and again and far exceeds chiffon in durable qualities. Twe yards, say, of black satin striped gauze can be worn many times upon a bodice. The New Waist. ‘Walsts for day and evening show & ten- dency to be double-breasted. They lap over and button ome side, or they button at one side without lapp being so cut that the opening comes to simulate & dou~ ble-breasted effect. £ Even the smallest of cloth boleres and the thinnest ones, designed entirely for spring wear, and meant to be worn inte the summer, have this pecullarity, that they are double-breasted and fasten with a button, or a clasp, or an ornamant of some sort. The Eton cut, that is, the pattern that is cut off at thé beit line, is seen in many a new form. Such liberties are taken with the Eton that it resembles its old self in name only, but, as it is a convenient and descriptive title, the name remains with it. In the Etons are counted the little jackets that are straight round and rather full in the back. They are cut off short enough to show the shirt waist under- neath and the front is slashed in a big, high point, so that the Eton meets only at_the bust line. The fashionable spring color will be navy blue in the dark tones and pink in the light- Pink and gray and the soft, light tints will be seen for street wear.