The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1895, Page 6

POs, iy ttt tseachtain, ee Pomerat mcm UNWILLING TO BE POLLED. “1 Mite Wt + Jary That Felt Apprehensive of the Re- | You may mention her name, but it ne tr eu:t of Its Verdict. “Some years ago I was prosecuting at-' | torney down in North Carolina,” said |® judge W. F. Lockett, of that State, at the Hot:! Pege. “A colored citizen of bad untecedents had been mndicted by the Grand Jury and was on trial fo: the larcery of some hogs. There wasn’! | a doubt of his guilt, for he had beer conveys An idea of the exquisite tones f her voice or her spi , bewilder- ing ways, For her name—# is simply. ‘‘Miss Jones!” It gives you no hint‘of her golden-brown hi air; Of her eyes that outshine precious stones; : :aken red-handed in possession of the |Of the flash of her wit, or her highly bred air, rtolen swine. oner had no money to pay ar so the Court appointed < yer who, up co that time, had a case, to defend the accused ngster wasn’t lacking in shrewd- , £9 he called for a jury of colored men, as he had the right to do unde: the law. I then went forward, intro fuced conclusive testimony to establish | the guilt of the prisoner, and sat down {Bi without making any speech, for it was too plain a case to call for an argument But my lecal op;onent got up and made a fiery hars He wasn’t an impres- sive looking nature having denied aim all ; 1 graces, and endowed tim, moreover, shaped Jegs that caused all the smal! boys in the community to jeer aloud when he appesrea on the streets. he had talented lungs, and these he e: ercised with good effect for his client that d bg “The jury of his peers wasn’t out over | “+, ten minutes when they came back w a verdict of ‘not guilty.” Everybody was astonished, and the Judge’s face *eddened with indignation. Then he let ait and told the jurymen in plain Eng- ish what he thought of a set of men «ho would render such a travesty on ustice. . will have this jury polled,’ and was «bout to give an order to that effect when the foreman, a great, strapping fellow, a plantation hand, black as the ace of spades, rose evidently in great mental perturbation, and said: ““No, Jedge. yen Honah, please don’t | 9: poll us—poll dat little bow-legged law- When they merely allude to “Miss Jones.” It leaves you to guess at the men in her train, And her suitors’ expiring groans; At the charm that proves fatal to many a swain Unexpected in every-day “Jones.” «. ut when you have seen the effect of her glance : On raw youth or decrepit’ old bones, ‘ou’ll admit that a knight never shattered a lance For a “Queen of the Lists” like “Miss Jones.” eer cae with a pair of circular- |f¢ her name could be changed, what a gain it woul be— A fact which she cheerfully owns; Bur |3ut, at present, you see, she’s confided to me, E She prefers to stay simply — “Miss Jones!" —Harry Romaine, in Life. THE CAMBLIAS, ‘The Hon. Mrs. Maltravers. alee Fraser, her Gardener, ancient, auto- In conclusion he said: ‘I guess |cratic, and well-meaning. Scene: A Conservatory. 1 Mrs. Maltravers—“It is very singular, Fraser, that we shouldn’t have a single camelia. Now Sir Francis’ houses—I sew them only the other day—are full f them.” Fraser—“There’s a wulgarity, mum, yer over dere: he was de one what told us to find Bill The New Man. she said, “Here,” Jones not guilty. Washington Post. impressively, “T fave a book personally descriptive of American female writers and their ad- mirable contri utions to literature.” “I shall take it” he began. She beamed, and opened her orde f,” he continued, suavely, certain of a writer: t @oes “She is r of her pork pies than of her > in one biography ther ention of something of the sort.” author pay tte: her housework ted to gather s there an a rtion th: ion to and pains that dust s he: “I—I think there “Does one paragraph declare thet < aug her table damask with No. 15 thread?” “I recall a reference to that effect.” “And is it averred of another cele that she gowns with such s fashions and remodels he: kill that her neizh- bors and associates believe them Paris- San-made “That is, indeed, said .of a brilliant poetess.” “And is it also asserted in any rar? that a popular woman of the pen takes more pleasure in the knowledge that the suppers prepared in the chafing-dish by her own hands are exceedingly succe ful than in the popularity of her nov- els?” “There” (faintly) “is something of the sor 0 Isupposed. When you bring mea book dealing with done in literature without any apology for their having presumed to do it I shall gladly buy the volume. Ruskin put his ability for chopping kindling-wood above his bril- I never heard that the chief argument in favor of Howells was read that liant criticism. what women have I have not his deftness in putting up stovepipes. It is yet to be announced that Riley takes jess pride in his poems than in white- There may be people who think that a compensatory domes- tic sop should be offered to the Cerberus of mediocrity by every woman who ven- zures to send her walls of the kitchen. would not buy the book anyway. They They shall not borrow washing a cellar. would borrow it. beyond the four But such peopic it from me. Good-morning!”—Puck. it is.” Nothing very dreadful for Charley in but, then, you don’t know that Charley was engaged to two eirls, and, for the life of him, couldn't decide which voice it was, which made embarrassing A wrong guess would to complications awful to think of. But a happy thought inspired Charley, and d: “It’s the dearest, sweet- St little girl in all the world.” “Oh, you lovely boy!” gurgled the sat- this, you think; it a vel Charley. he announce: A Born Diplomat. Charley was caught napping on the porch of the summer resort. soft, little hands covered his eyes, and a sweet voice commanded: “Guess who A pair of situation for isfied one, as she removed her hands. And now Charley thinks of applying for a foreign ministry, feeling that his talents would be wasted in any other diplomatic field.—Puck. One Limitation. Yeast—I expect to live to see the day when the bicycle will take the place of the horse entirely. Crimsonback—Well, I don’t. They'll never be able to make frankfurter sau- sages out of the bicycle. Statesman. Onto Him. Old Sagely—Young man, when I was your age I though, like you, that I knew it all; but now I have reached the conclusion that I know nothing. Young Swift—Huh! conclusion about you a long time ago.— Puck. Next Morning. “Paw,” asked Johnny, “what grows in a beer garden?” “The head, my son,” groaned Mr. Jag- — Yonkers I reached that way, applying some more pounded —Chicago Tribune. ‘ In the Twentieth Century. Ella—isn’t that book that you are reading a wicked one? Stella—No; it's not exactly bad, but I shouldn't care te have my father er week. Ue Brother read it; lead about camelias as it doesn’t surprise me Sir Francis—begging your pardon if he’s a partickler friend of yours—should have a heap of ’em. A nasty, showy shrub is a camelia, to my thinking, mum. As gaudy as you please for a little; but pick ’em, and in ten minutes they're as brown as brown—and no good |for nothing. It’s hallegorical, to my thinking, mum.” Mrs. Maltravers—‘Allegorical! What |in the world do you mean, Fraser?” Fraser—“Well, mum, it’s this: Sir Francis’ walet tells master’s walet, and master’s walet he tells me, as how Sir and, camelias or no camelias, ain’t half as rich as you’d think. ‘Took to the | turf,’ says master’s walet to me only this very morning. ‘No fortun’ll stand that, Chawls,’ says I, sententious lik ‘I believe you, Mr. Fraser,’ says he. ‘It a pore lookout for our Miss Lyddy,’ says |I, ‘as they’re going to marry to Sir Francis, and I’ll make it my dooty to let the missus know his goings on.’”” Mrs.Maltravers(with dignity)—‘“Real- ly, Fraser, you are excessively kind to busy yourself so much with my—private affairs. Let me recommend you to look after your own business—which very sorely needs your attention—a little more, and mine a little less. You do not know, perhaps, that your candor is something very like impertinence.” Fraser—‘No, mum, I don’t. I’m that fond of Miss Lyddy (as favors my own girl, who died when keeping company with Mr. Jones, the undertaker, as was in a nice way of business, mum, and buried the county families) as I’d do anything for her. Sir Francis ain’t | good enough for our Miss, and that’s the truth. And Miss Lyddy—do she care for Sir Francis? You take my word for it, mum, not a jot. Why, when he give his grand ball, I meet Miss very lawn, and says she to me, ‘I sup- pose I must have some flowers to wear this evening, Fraser.’ And says I, agreeing ready: ‘You shall, M Will er, Miss, and I'll doit.’ ‘Oh, I don’t care thank you, Fraser,’ says she with her smile, only tired li-e. ‘It don’t. much matter. Send me whatever you will miss least.’ Now, that’s unnateral, mum. My idea is, when a young wo- catest of plants and the feelings of hall the gardeners in creation ain’t nothing to her. Why, Miss Lyddy herself, when the Captain was a-staying up at the house, treated them pots 0’ lilies of the walley cruel. Lilies for her nosegay, and lilies to put in her frock, and lilies (whick was wicked) to pin, quite sense- less, on her fan. And all a-cause, I suppose, of the Captain saying to her one day-—I heard him,though busy prun- ing—‘Lilies are your flower, Miss Mal- travers. I never like to see you wear any other.’ Or som’at like that.” Mrs. Maltravers (frigidly)—“You seem to know a great deal more about my daughter’s feelings than I do, Fraser. I must really beg that you will keep yeur information to yourself.” Fraser—“No, mum, I can’t. Sorry as I am to disoblige a lady as has been al- casional for flowers and coocumbers out of season—I must say my mind about | Miss Lyddy and Sir Francis. If Sir Francis were sure of his money I shouldn’t have spoke. Money’s a nice thing, mum. I’m not going to say— tho’ she don’t think so—tha* if Sir Fran- cis had been all tight and snug it mightn’t have made up to her in time for losing the Captdin. But it ain't. It ain’t at all. His walet is an honest- spoken gentleman, and he says to our Chawls: ‘You take my word, Chawls,’ says he, ‘we shall have a bust-up at our place afore long.’ And so they will.” Mrs. Maltravers—‘‘May I ask if you are presuming to offer me advice as to whom Miss Lyddy is to marry?” Fraser—“No, mum, not yet; but I’m coming to it. If you and master ain’t above listening to an old fellow who is nigh upon as fond of her as you are, I say let her have her Captain. He ain’t got much, cook tells me. But what he has is sure. And as I said to my Pollie when the undertaker was a-walking with her: ‘It ain’t wealth Jones has, Mary, but it’s sure. Now pictures (there was a picture dealer as had been a-dangling after her), they may go out of fashion or they may stay in. Good- ness knows. But die people must, fash- ion or no fashion. And be undertook they must also—by the laws of the land. It's the same with I"iss Lyddy’s Captain. And she’s ond of him—which don’t count for much in the hupper classes I’m aware, but is useful, un- common useful.” Mrs. Maltravers (a little less sarcas- tically)—“May I ask, Fraser, what rea- | sens you have for thinking Miss Lydia Francis has lost a lot of money lately, | Lyddy a-sauntering slow-like on that { you have them there white ‘zaleas, or ; steffynotis, or vilets? Name your flow- | man’s in love, greenhouses and the deli- | ways considerate—except for asking oc- } THE WASHINGTON BEE. is—attached to Captain Wetherley?” Fraser—“Reasons, mum? There was the hincident of the lilies, That came fust. And after that I seed them, doz- ens o’ times—when you was a-driving in the afternoons, principal—e-sitting on that seat near the border which I was a-beddimg out. Miss Lyddy—she don’t say much. She hangs down her pretty head and a color like one of them carnations comes into her pretty cheeks. And she says, ‘Yes, George,’ and ‘No, George,’ once or twice, uncom- mon soft, And the Captain he talk and persuade her. ‘You'll be brave, Lydia, won’t you?’ and she says, ‘You don’t know how J dread seeing Sir Francis.’ ‘Hang Sir Francis,’ says the Captain, and she cries, ‘Hush, George!’ very gen- tle and shocked. That’s how I know, mum, And by the way she looked at him, with eyes all dim and soft like Pollie’s.” Mrs. Maltravers—"I think you mean well, Fraser. I believe you are fond of Miss Lydia: So that you will be glad to hear your master and I shall do noth- ing—have never intended to do any- thing—to force her inclinations. You— are—quite sure about Sir Francis’— monetary difficulties, I suppose, Fras- er?” Fraser—“As sure as sure, mum. It's been @ good deal discussed—in our class. Is it true, mum, as the upper housemaid tell Chawls, that the Captain is a-stay- ing in the vi—cinity and a-purpose to get a glimpse of our Miss?” Mrs. Maltravers—“Really, Fraser, I don’t know. We can’t all be as omnis- ctent as you are. But if he ts—” Fraser—‘Well, if he is, mum, you tell Miss Lyddy, with my duty and respects, as the lilies are coming on prime, and it isn’t Fraser as ’ll say she shan’t pich sume of ’em—aye, strip the beds shame- ful as she did afore—for the sake of her Captain.”—M. and T., in Black and White. ‘ s 1 a. Yankee Whist. Old whist players will probably be surprised to know that it is possible to play a very interesting and scientific game of whist with only two players. “Double dummy” and “single dummy” fvere never very popular with the vota- | ries of this game and were classed in | with old maid and casino and other | games which allow time for gossip dur- | ing the play. The new game, while not | so interesting or so scientific, fills in very well where there are not four play- ers to make up a regular game, and wives a very good opportunity for a dis- | play of skill. It is generally known as 1 *vankee whist, and, as in option whist, «11 disputes about your partner’s play and the possibility of drawing a poor partner, are done away with. In play- ing the game the whole pack of cards is used. First deal two cards, alternate- { ly, first to your opponent and then to : yourself. These cards are kept separ- ite from the other piles. Then deal the { cards face down in twenty-four piles, twelve in front of the non-dealer and twelve in front of the dealer. Next deal the rest of the pack face upward on each of the twenty-four piles already dealt. Each player will then have twelve packs of two each in front of aim. The two cards first dealt are taken ap and looked at. Then the non-dealer looks at the two cards in his or her hand and the twelve face up on the board and names the trump, whatever suit he or she thinks to be the most favorable from the cards which are | ‘aurned up. The game then begins with | “he non-dealer and is carried on the same as in an ordinary game of whist. You must follow suit if you can. As soon as the card which is exposed is played and the trick on which it is play- ed is taken up, the card underneath is turned up and the game is continued ‘until this process causes all the cards to be exposed, but not, however, until tong toward the close of the game. Con- sequently there is always enough un- certainty about the strength of your own hand and that of your opponent’s to give plenty of opportunity for careful and thoughtful playing. Every trick } taken over twelve coufts as one point, ‘ and the game is usually ten points, al- though. any number of points can be played. The game has not been intro- duced very extensively at present, and in many whist clubs it is practically unknown. Where the game originated is unknown, but if played properly it will be found to be very interesting.— | Boston Globe. A Cure for Headache. “An excellent and never-failing cure ‘ for nervous headache,” said an apostle | | of physical culture, “is the simple act of { walking ackward. Just try it some- time if you have any doubt about it. I ; have yet to meet the person who didn't j acknowledge its efficacy after a trial. ; Nobody has yet discovered or formu- {lated a reason why such a_ process ! should bring certain relief. Physicians | say that it is probably because the re- } flex action of the body bringsabout a re- : flex action on the brain, and thus drives } away the pain that when produced by nervousness is the result of too much * going forward. As soon as you begin to walk backward, however, there comes a feeling of everything being reversed, and this is followed by relief. The re- lief is always certain and generally speedy. Ten minutes is the longest I have ever found necessary. An entry, or a long narrow room makes the best place for such a promenade. You should walk very slowly, letting the ball of your foot touch the floor first and then the heel, just the way, in fact, that one should, in theory, walk forward, but which, in practice, is so rarely done. Besides curing nervous headache, there is no better way to learn to walk well and gracefully forward than the prac- i tice of walking backward. A half hour of it once a day will do wonders to- wards improving the gait of any wo- , man.”—New York Evening Sun. i \ Shorthand and Prolixity. “The general employment of stenog- ‘raphers and typewriters,” said a busi- ness man, “has effected a great saving of time, but it has a tendency to develop prolixity. A man can dictate a page easier than he can write four sentences. In the days before typewriters he would have expressed himself with much more credit and clearness in the four sentences. I am afraid the old-fashioned business letter, which was a model of compact ex- ‘pression, is passing away.”—Chicago ‘Times-Herald. Toads Like the Electric Light. Toads in the parks have discovered | | that the electric light is a great purveyor ; to their simple wants, and they frequent | , the territory in the vicinity of the lights ito gather up the moths, bugs and other: insects which perish there every night=— Chicago Times-Hera‘i. | Irish moss i @ fine seaweed. == * Indigo ts the sip of the indigofers. Prunes are prepared fruit ef small trees. Senna is the Eried leaves of the cassia bush. White pepper fs made from the ripe berry. Carraway ts the seed of e common wild plant. Dates are dried and prepared fru of the date palm. Musk {s obtaine® from a cell im the mete musk deer. Raisins are sun-dried grapes of & pecu- larly luscious variety. Rattan fs the shaft of a reed-like growth of the Hast Indies. Cardamon is the ripe seed ef several varieties of tropical plants. Camphor {s contained in the wood and the root of the Hast Indies. Sago is @ dry, granulated starch {m- ported from the Hast Indies. Turpentine is a balsam which flows from some varieties of pine. Hemp is yielded in the same manner as flax, but it is much coarser. Isinglass is a very pure form of gela- tine made from portions of fish. Black pepper is made from the unripe, dried berry of the pepper shrub. Iceland moss is @ lichen (plant) found especially in Nerway and Iceland. Figs are 4ried and skillfully prepared fruit that looks much like the pear. Amber is a fossil found in the ses and sometimes on the banks upon the shore. Allspice is made from the frutt of the pimento tree. The seed is much ke the joes Vanilla ig made from beans that grow upon a vine that clings to trees and rocks. Gamboge is a yellow gum which flows trebly from the gamboga tree of the Hest | Indies, Saffron is the dried stigma of the com- mon yellow crocus which grows in our gardens. Mace is the blossom of the nutmeg tree, and is prepared by being immersed in salt water. Sponges are a vegetable Mke animal | that grows in the rocks in the depths of the sea. Cork is the outer rind of the cork~oak. Ginger is the dried root-stalk of the ginger plant. Cocoa is made from the fruit of the zocoa tree, fermented five days in heaps, or in earthen vessels. Cinnamon is the inner rind of the cin- namon tree. The bark of the young shoots is the best. Neats-foot oil is the soft fat produced |m the preparation of the feet and intes- tines of oxen for the market. Linseed is the seed of flax. They are smooth, shining, brown, oblong, and | nave a whitish, sweetish kernel. Nutmegs are the stone of fruit found in a fleshy hull. They are prepared by being nulled, dried and immersed in a sohution of lime and salt water. Emery is the fine particles of a mineral —emery—and {s prepared by heating te a high degree and cooling suddenly with | water and then crushing. Cream of tartar is the refined crust or sediment formed in the interior of wine vats and wine bottles, existing primarily in the juice of the grape. Gutta-percha is the milky sap of the (sonandra gutta trees of the Hast Indies. Flax is the fibrous material yielded from the stalk of the flax plant. Madder is the root of an herb-like growth. It is about the size of a lead pencil, and much longer. It is cleansed, iried and ground. It is a dye stuff. The tamarind is the marrow in the pod- ike fruit of ‘the Indian tamarind tree. {t isa dark brown mass, and is generally mixed with the seeds and fibres of the fruit. Gelatine fs the carefully prepared jelly of the gelatinous tissues of certain ani- mals, mostly from the softer parts of the hides of oxen and calves and the skin of sheep. Logwood is the marrow of a peculiar tree in the West Indies. It is shipped in long, thick pieces of firm, heavy dark ced wood. Itis split up and moistened by water or acid for use. 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THE PROBLEM OF THR Poy PUBLIC ATTENTION Now Be May Succeed Where Peary Has Paiigy_ Perhaps He is Now Drifting Acton ty Fole—A Sweedish Explorer Wit Try , Beach the Pole in a Balloon. Now that Peary has returned from Arctic, defeated in his attempt 1% the Pole, public attention will cop, trate upon Dr. Nansen’s expeditae Peary accomplished much for sete and penetrated further into the = zone by the Greenland route than other explorer has done, but he lett ng problem of the Pole as profound q nme tery as ever. So far as the world has knowledge, the first voyage into the Polar seag | that of Eric the Red, in the year 1 In 1497 ‘Cabot discovered Labrador. Se Hugh Willoughby began in 1553 the coe ebrated struggle for the orthwwegg Passage which gave Polar explor its greatest impetus. In the attempt ty find the Northeast and Northwest Dag sages Willoughby (who lost hi the Arctic region, as became a in this most hazardous of all of exploration) was followed | Martin Frobisher, by Davis, t | Hudson and by many others of less nowe down to our own times. The disastrous outcome of Sir Jo Franklin’s attempt im 1845 to per from Lancaster Sound to Straits did not deter but rathe lated explorers, and as a re: attempt begun by Willought the Northeast Passage w: {completed by Nordenskiold in 1% was followed in 1889 by Capt. Wig who made a trading voyage tot jessei River in Siberia, “ope new route of great importan }merce.” The passage aroun¢ | America was made by Capt. McC |in 1850, though in a very in t | He was frozen in the ice with his ship, and after passing the winter was cued by Sir Edward Belcher, | entered from the Atlantic side | achievement Capt. Belcher was | ed and £10,000 was voted to him j crew by the English Parlia | In all attempts to reach th | Pole the West Greenland route the favorite. It was followed jip_ 1853, by Hayes in 1860, by | 1871, by Nares in 1876, and by ¢ 1881-1884 when by means of | sledging Lieut. Lockwood reac | nearest point to the Pole ever at | This point, however, was only 8% frees and 24 minutes of north la |enly about fifty miles further north than Capt. Parry penetrated in 1327. | There is absolutely no means of know- | xg what has become of Capt. Nan | ke may have been swallowed up | ice, or may be even now driftin, staunch vessel, the Fram, acro: Pole. It is two years ago, on Augi 1893, that Nansen bade good-by to friends who had accompanie far as they dared, at Cha arowa Strait of Jugor, Siberia, and turn prow of his boat toward the Pole. pack ice soon surrounded him, an drifted, with his hardy com from sight. Will it be forever Nansen’s boat. the Fram, wa ioned for five years. He expe drift across the Pole, and reach i _| Greenland, in about three years. will be another year before serious doubt will be entertained for his s . Whether or not Nansen perishes tic exploration will go on. A new expedition is now being ized with the design of reaching An ‘rtie Balloon Pole by balloon. The proje S. A. Anderson, a distinguist ish scientist and -eronaut. He is now in Paris supe construction of the balloor | tain sleeping rooms for and a dark room for photogr |poses. It will be equipped }of sails which will serve to der control and propel it gondola. of considerable | carried. A great number of hea be provided so that in case should suddenly sirk it w {of weight by the contact with the earth. It is in the trip, starting from Sp crossing the Pole to the s ring Strait, next year, in Jun atmospheric conditions are 1 able to aerial navigation A heavy snowstorm be disastrous to the bail early summer they is estimated that not mor will be consumed en v that the ice which surre and has been an unsurtr rier to ships will not ha into consideration constitute chief reasons for believing loon expedition may suc those by vessel have been Solved at Last. A woman takes the st7 © man must love some s¢ 2 begins looking a> man.—Atchiso" In Engh advance