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VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS.
HOW MOUNT jBTNA LOOK3 WHIN
ACTIVE.
L’isgorgln* Large Masses of Seething
Fire and Emoicin* Lava—lnterest
ing .Description of a Journey to the
Lava Beds at Night.
From the Few York Tribunk.
The great eruption that started in July
on the south slope of Mount .’Etna has not
oeased. but it no longer spreads the ruin of
its first four weeks. Ihe new craters are
active, and the natives of the village of
Niooioel look apprehensively for some sud
den caprice of the mountain that may either
shake the walls of their houses on their
beads or bury the place under lava.
There are bursts of flame and smoke, and
lava flows for a few days at a time. Bat
the broad rivers, although deepening, do
not extend. The new lava runs over the
old bed, end, cooling outside rapidly, stops
and forms a bed for another ejection.
The whole area of the eruptions covers a
broad space on the mountaiu, and the new,
red glowing lava can be seen from the sea
at night. Heavy smoke is blown in clouds
by Che winds that always sweep the upper
slopes of .-Etna, aud no one within sight of
the eruption, even those much farther away
thin Nicolosi, grows indifferent to the phe
nomena and its possible dangers.
The indication of unu-ual activity Is
shown by the burets of tire and smoke and
the brightness of the fresh lava.
The lower portions of the great streams
that encroached on the vineyards and chest
nut groves have cooled ou the surface and
an excellent graded road, with walls, has
been built across tbe branch that threat
ened Bel Basso. Tbe lava nnder-eath is, of
course, red hot; even traveling over the
road ou mule back the warmth is notice
able and in some of the small gullies one
sees rising the spiral heat waves.
if one trusts his baud an arm’s length
into a crevice it must soon be withdrawn
because of the heat. The lava buries tbe
rich vineyards underneath fifty feet and
more, but not long after tbe devastation tbe
people patiently block out their lots, for
they will be fruitful in 100 years.
in time the masses of lava
BEGIN TO DISINTEGRATE.
Genestra, a tough, grass-like herb, is
planted on them. This helps to loosen the
lava. Then the fruit-bearing caotus is
made to grow. When this yields some small
return oomes from the ruined properly.
And in course of years, long after the
men who saw tbe ground oovered and these
men’s children are dead, grapes are ripen
ing above the old burled viueyards.
The new craters are formed in a space
about a mile long between Mcntaguuola and
Monte Nero, two large spurs, and nndoubt
edly extinct oraters, on the southerly ex
posure of zTltna. More than a dozen oraters
were made in the hitherto apparently firm
ground.
And while some of them are no longer
active, no man can tell at what moment
they may eject showers of ashes, rock, sand
or lava. Through the whole region of the
eruption is beard the detonation of the most
active crater. As one scrambles down the
valleys of lava and scoria in this region,
the heat burns through bis shoes. Sulphur
is everywhere. The air is filled with sul
phurous fumes.
It is a strange, awful place. One oomee
for a hasty look, not for a lingering inspec
tion. Some of the oraters are level with the
surfaoe, others have builded mounds for
themselves, but all have deep, funnel-like
interiors obscured by the issuing smoke.
The hoarse, rumbling sounds hint at oavern
ous depths. Tbe inside slopes are shaken,
and masses of stone and fl uid rattle into the
pit to be hurled into the air.
Each yawning mouth seems to have its
special function. One belches black smoke,
another white; some grumble, aud others
give forth rook and lava. Under foot and
in twenty places about one are small steam
fi-sures. The actual area covered by the
lava of 1862 is l est seen from the elopes
above the new oraters.
One sees then the immensity of the area,
embracing some forty square miles of im
bedded lands. The whole thing lies out dis
tinctly. Broad, Irregular aud black, tbe
lava reminds one at once of a bottle of ink
spilled on some fair surface. It reminds
Due of this exactly, lt.lies there unorasable,
disfiguring and with no apparent
REASON FOR ITS UGLY SHAPE.
The violent out; ouring of lava has iso
lated Monte Nero, which is just below tbe
scene of aotivity, and after filling the de
pression beyond in like manner surrounded
Monte Grosso, which abuts from the mam
mountain further down. Unimpeded the
lava rolled down the side, burying good
stretches of productive laud.
Below Monte Grass ) the lava river is
widest, perhai s some four miles, and this
width continues to the slopes of the twin
Monti Rossi, where the streams divide, two
branches coming to Nicoiosiaud two toward
Bel Basso. Tbe streams toward Bel Passo
have stopped, and only one branch is creep
ing toward Nioolosl. It comes slowly and
It is probably ceasing.
A sight of the broad high front over
whelming everything before it is of unusual
interest. One sees it only at night. Then
the lava glows and each phase oan be ob
served more distinctly. The starting point
for the scene is from Nicolosi.
it is a rough, winding path that one takes
and with lanterns and mules and guides,
supplied by the Italian Alpine Club, which
has a station at Nicolosi, and some extra
clothing and provisions, one leaves the vil
lage after dark. The guides are dignified
and require riding animals unless the rest
of the party goes on foot.
\V hen the saddle bags are filled and the
travelers mounted, the mule train clatters
slowly over the narrow, lava-paved streets.
The villagers do not express any curiosity
at foreigners. They have always been ac
customed to seeing them file through on
their way to the iEtna summit.
A group of beggars importune one, but
all give a passing greeting. From the vil
lage streets there is a good view of the
burning lava. It is far away, but, just as
the sea, the streams and smoke are distinct
tgainst the mountain side. Gradually the
village is left behind.
The houses are farther apart, and the
pavement is exchanged for a road which is
rough even in the narrow strip along which
the mules carefully nick their way. Proba
bly over the surface of the earth mule char
acter is the same. No amount of beating,
no jostle, touch or soft w rd will hasten it
when leaving its stables, but returning,
paniers and riders are jolted askew by the
mu'e’B eagerness to reach home.
This seams especially true of the Nioolosi
breed, but the beasts
ABE FAIRLY SUREFOOTED,;
and essential in one of these mountain
scrambles.
The time required in going, the exertion
and the keen wind, calls the train to a halt
for eating. From some point where the
eruption is well in sight, the party sits upon
a lava block and by the lantern’s light dis
poses of the provisions. The path beyond is
rough.
Now the noises of the oraokling lava can
be heard and the great mass of the ap
proaching river distinctly seen. It is now
time to dismount. While the animals are
left with a muleteer the party follows the
guide on foot to the lava, but the heat and
the possibility of the walled-up lava burst
ing out hold spectators at some distance.
At this point the lava has come at least
eight miles, and cooling rapidly it does not
flow as when it comes out of the orators.
But even here it is intense in its heat and
brightness. The whole thing is massive,
destructive and unnatural. One wonders
at the power which cannot be stayed. Hero
the lava in front of the river has piled itself
loftily, as one might imagine the waters of
the Red sea to have stood for the Israelites.
The surface hardens rapidly, and pieces
of cool stone crack off and clatter down the
front. Occasionally a whole section of the
mass writhes, and 1,000 pieces of rock rat
tliug down warn one peremptorily away.
The front is not, of course, perpendicular.
but slopes down abruptly. The surfaoe of
the lava stream is deeply furrowed, and in
the angles the fre-h lava hurries down,
hardening and blackening as it oomes to
, the end but not enough to light a cigar or
] burn a house.
Where the surface of a block of lava has
stiffened, the interior wifi stay hot an in
credibly long time. Even a small piece
will retain its heat f r hours, and a hill of
it will not cool for yeais. It is deadly, ugly
material, bow made and where from no one
can say surely; when it will appear, how
strongly it will run and where it will cease
no one can say at all. Nothing will im
pede it.
A couple of hundred years ago, when a
mighty eruption came toward Catania they
tried to divert its coarse, but contrivances
of wood, stone aud iron w-ere of no avail.
The lava went ahead, crept over the town
walls and ruined everything.
No one becomes indifferent to the danger
of an ..Etna eruption, and leaving the new
lava bed-, after a near at hand inspection,
one is glad that the mules are going toward
their stables and not away from them,
A GRd AT CATAMOUNT HUNT.
N’gger Bend Freed of Its Wild Cat
in Bold and Clever Fashion.
From the -Vera York Sun.
Simpson’s Creek, N. C., Deo. 6. —Nigger
Bead, about twelve miles below—a hamlet
of something like 200 souls—has been over
run with an army of wild cats this fall.
Pigs, chickens, lambs and small stock gen
erally had been killed and carried off, until
there was scarcely a living specimen left,
and the colored population (they are all
negroes, regular tar-teel darkeys, at the
Bend) had become desperate, and, of course,
sent up here for Jack Fell, the Simpson
Creek prodigy of ingenuity, to help them
out.
The outrage which brought the climax
was perpetrated a few nights since, when
Deacon Daniel Webster of the colored
church, aroused from a placid sleep of in
nocenoe by a noise of fluttering w ings and
a great squalling of chiekeus from under
his bed, threw off tho “kivers” and sprang
out to investigate the cause. A wildcat
had entered tbe wiudow and was helping
himself to a basketful of chickens, which
tne deacon had placed under the bed for
safe keeping. The good deacon’s
No. 11s struck something soft
and furry instead of the floor,
and in less than two minutes he set up a
yell which aroused the village from town
hall to subdistriofc. Ten minutes later,
when the members of the parish forced an
entrance, they found the deacon lying
across the bed tattooed from brachial plexus
to saphenous nerve with long, livid marks,
laid on in profusion, without regard to
geometrical proprieties, and the deaoon’s
remarks were of an energetic and pointed
character, really shocking tothe ears of his
listeners.
The outrage had gone too far, and it was
determined then and there to send for Boss
Jack Fell aud eliminate the wildcat from
the natural nistory of tbe Blue Ridge moun
tains. The deacon himself was in no con
dition, physically, to join the procession of
avengers, but bis best wishes aud prayers
were Bent out after them with aspontaueity
and vim which left no room for question.
Jack Fell, Pole Dillum. and half a dozen
Bimpson Creekers concluded to go to the
relief of tbe Benders, and in the evening of
the day following the last occurrenoe they
rode into the Band accompanied by a dozen
as good "tightin’ dogs” as could be found in
that part of the state.
There oould be no doubt of the truth of
the stories told by the Benders of the
voracity of the wild cats, as there was
scarcely a ohlcken left in the village, and
not a single live lamb or pig coul l be found
in the township.
“Where do the cat’mounle have their
headquarters?” a.k- and Jaok Fell of a repre
sentative Bender.
“At Debil’s Hole; updarbeneaf the ’vidln’
n’ge, Boss Jack,” replied the Bender.
“IJey’s got a hole an er mountin, rite in er
cliff of rooks, an’ day’s ’bout ’lehea hun’ed
vtU’ cats in dat hole.”
“Why don’t you 6moke ’em out?” asked
Jack.
“Smoke’em out! Weuns hey tried an’
tried, but all uv de smoke kums outer holes
an’ cracks in dem rocks. Smokin’ don’t do
no good.”
“Well, then, why don’t you lay for them
aud shoot ’em at night!”
“Say, look aheah, Boss Jack; stems e’s if
you don’t un’erstand dese yer wi’cata. Ain’t
no uigger on dis yer branch what’ll lay
’roun’ nites to ketch wil’ cats. Hays got too
pow’rful much’speot for deer hides. Why,
oue ob dem wil’ cats jes’ leab t’nf a niggah’s
hide ez scoop up a chloken. Why, ies’ lo k
at Deacon Webst’r. Dah he was rite in bed,
an’ one ob dem ’tankerous cat’mounts
jumped in his winder an’ jes’ tor’d his hide
iutojiblets. We uns hez got ter git rid of
dem cat’mounts somehow or we’ll jes’ hah
to move off dis yer creek.”
"Well, show us the don, and we’ll try our
hand at it,” said Jack.
The den was found about half a mile away
from the village, under the mountain, in a
big cliff of rooks at a place called Devil’s
Hole. The entrance was a narrow slit about
five or six feet long and not quite a foot in
higbt, aud apparently led into the heart of
the mountain. The dogs sniffed at the hole
and growled; but while their hair stood on
end and they showed every indication of
rage, not one of them could be induced to
enter the cave. The hole was too small to
admit of the entrance of a man, even if
there had been one among them foolhardy
enough to try it in tho face of the knowl
edge that there were probably a dozen or
two of vicious catamounts in the cave.
Jack Fell ordered the men to cut down
three or four long poles, anil with these the
entrance was felt out. A few feet haok of
the entrance there seemed to lie con
siderable of a rise in the bight of
the opening, but how much could not be
ascertained by the long poles, owing to
the impossibility of turning them at an
angle in the confined space. But Jack Fell,
alter he had tested tho opeuiug in every di
rection, came to the conclusion that it was
much larger a few feet from the mouth of
the entrance. How to remove the over
hanging or jntting rock was the question;
but it was determined that it should be re
moved. Finally, a stick or two of dynamite
was procured from a stonemason at the vil
lage, and this was placed several feet bank
of the entrance aud a slow match sec to it,
and the crowd of Benders who had collected
together with Fell and his companion, rau
around the point of the hill and waited for
the explosion, which soon came. When they
ran back they found that the overhanging
rock had been torn from its position and
splintered, and just behind was an opeuiug
which would easily admit two men walking
abreast.
“ Thought so,” said Jack. “There’s a big
cave back there, an' I’ll bet every cat’mount
in ten mile is in that hole. Firs:, thing we
’uns hez got to do is to pile some brush iu
that op'uin’ an’ set it afire, to keep tho var
mints in till we git ready to clean ’om out.”
This was soon done, aud when tho fire was
started everybody could see that if there
were any caiamounts in the cavern they
would stay there as long as that fire burned
in the opening, for there’s nothing a wild
cat fears greater than a red-hot coal.
“Now, boys, this is my plan. I want you
Benders to git yer axes and knock out a
pile of pine knots, enough for a dozen men.
Bring them all hero and we’ll fix up the
torches. Pole Dillum an’ Bill Weaver on’
me will take double-barrel shotguns with
buckshot cartridges. We’ll do the shootln’
while you fellers carry tbe torches. The
cat’mounts won’t ’tack anybody with a
torch, so you needn’t be afeared.”
While the Benders were hunting up the
pine knots Jack and Pole and W T eaver
cleaned their guDS and got the cartridges
handy, and then sat down under a tree and
ate a lunch.
Half on hour later the Benders reap
peared with arms full of pine, which was
separated into good-sized torches. Eight
Benders received two torches each, one of
which was lighted at the tire and the other
kept as an extra in ca-o of need.
When they entered the cave several
Benders were left on the uu side to keep the
fire going to prevent the escape of any cata
mount which might try to get away.
“Now, I want you niggers to keep a stiff
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 11,1892—SIXTEEN PAGES.
upper lip. Don’t drop yer torches an' run
when you see a cat’mount, fer if ye do yer
a goue ooon sure. Now. go on. three in
front, and the rest behind.”
The entrance woe followed forty or fifty
feet into the mountains, when it opened up
into a brca l room about 5U feet wide and to
all appearances over jOO feet long. Its sides
were r >ugh and croken with jutting rocks
projecting at all sorts of angles, and the
party had oearoely gotten fairly into the
cavern before they were received with a
terrific sere nade of growls and snarls. Ou
the right and left and in front, from pro
jecting shelves of stone, many pairs of
fierce yellow eyes glared at them while their
o e ners squalled and scraped the stones with
their claws. 7he Beud-rs would have
dropped their torches and run but for Jsok
and his companions, who told them to keep
cool and bold their lights straight ahead.
"Now, Pole, you take the nearest pair of
eyes on your right, au’ you, Weaver, take
tne first pair on yer left. I’ll hold rnv
tiro.”
When the two shots rang out the sound
was deafeui; g. Two big catamounts sprang
out from their positions, along the wall aud
rolled over andover, squalliug and spitting,
while the other dozen or two sprang down
to the floor as if to charge the inen, but the
blazing torches were too much for them.
Crack! crack! went the guns a secoud aud
a third time. Two big catamounts bounded
past the hunters into the narrow hallway,
but Jack called to the men to let them
alone, as they wouldn’t try to get over
the big lire in front. A minute later they
sprang back into the room aud shot across
its length and crouched down with their
eyes fastened upon tbe hunters. A dozen
nad fallen under tbe heavy loads of buck
shot at close quarters, aud all were uot
dead yet. The extreme upper end of tne
loug room was so dark that nothing oould
be distinguished, unless the wild cats faced
the huuters with their glaring eyes. Twenty
minutes later uot a pair of eyes could tie
seen, and then Jack ordered two of tho
Benders to light two extra torches and theu
to throw the old ones as far as they could
toward that end of the room. This was
done, but not a living cat could be seen, al
though the room was lit up so clearly that
every object oould be plainly distinguished.
Then au acoount of stock .was! taken,
when it was found that seventeen cata
mounts, nearly all of which were full grown,
had succumbed to the genius of Jack Fell,
hacked by heavy charges of buckshot.
When the dead oatamounts .-ere dragged
into a pile the hunters examined the big
cave and found the floor covered with bones
of all sorts of small animals aud birds. At
#lO a scalp the expedition netted Jack and
his companions a neat sum. Tbe Beudem,
of oourse, were fully satisfied with getting
rid of tbe biggest den of wild cats In old
‘ 'Nawth Cahlin,” and at the last meeting of
the Colored lien’s Club of Progressive
Thought, Deacon Webster, ohalrman, re
solutions of thanks were passed unani
mously, and a copy was ordered sent to
Boss Jack Fell and bis companions.
MIS3 BEHAN IN COLD SILVER.
Ths Measurement Figures of a Woman
Who ia Almost a Perfect Venus.
Prom the Chicaao Daily Tribune.
What single thing on exhibition at the
world’s Columbian exposition of 1893 will
attract moat attention and oa use most com
ment!
In all probability It will be a statue in
the Montana state builking.
Why! There are several reasons. In the
first plaoe it will be the lar
gest status of its kind ever made,
in that it will be eight feet high,
including the pedestal, and of solid silver.
Though there are stories of anoient statue*
of fabulous size and value, sculptors agree
that in all probability no solid silver statue
larger thau four feet In higbt was ever
made.
The statue will also attract attention be
cause of its great value. The intrinsic
worth of the silver is (35,000, and the sculp
tor is to receive SIO,OOO for his work. Mak
ing a reasonable estimate of the cost of mak
ing tbe statue it represents at least $50,-
000, adde from its value as a work of art.
In brief, the statue is that of a woman
after the severely Greek style of sculpture.
Bbe wears a single garment, which leaves
arms, neck and upper bust bare and falls
just below the knee. A girdle about tbe
waist loosely confiues the drapery. On her
head is a diadem. In her left hand, which
is raised above tier head, she holds tbe
scales, iu which gold and Biher balance
each other, thus symbolizing Montana’s
stand on the silver question. In her right
hand, w.iich falls at her side, Is a drawn
sword. Sbe stands on a globe two fret in
diameter, which is supposed to be floating
in tbe clouds.
But it is not because of its size, or beaause
of its value in dollars and cents, or even be
cause of its artistic merit that this statue in
the Moutuna building will attraot such at
tention. It is beoause of two other reasons.
It is the figure of the perfect woman from
the physical standpoint. It is the figure of
a woman known all over the English-speak
ing world—Miss Ada Rohan.
When Montana decided to show suoh a
statue in its mining exhibit a oommittee
appointed by the state came to Chicago in
search of a sculptor and a model. It found
the sculptor in R. H. Park, 1843 Michigan
avenue. In the search for a model the com
mittee was at first unsuccessful. Half a
dozen prominent aotrosaes of the United
States were under consideration, but were
rejected one by one. Finally someone sug
gested Miss Ada Rehan as a woman of rare
physical protection. Miss Rebun was con
sulted and was won to consent. Tho First Na
tional Bank of Helena, Mont., agreed to
furnish the bullion, and the oommittee, after
appointing representatives in Chicago
an! Now York, returned to Montana.
Of course the selection of the model
leaked out. All Montana was indignant,
not that it loved Miss Rehan less, but its
own fair daughters more. The statement
was not reiterated, and it oame to be be
lieved in Montana that Miss Dora Hauser,
daughter of President Hauser of tho First
National Bank of Helena, was the model se
lected. Now Mr. Harvey of New York and
Mr. Higby of Chicago, the representatives
of the committee, announce that Miss Rehan
is the one selected, and Mr. Park confirms
it. In fact, in Mr. Park's studio stands,
nearly oompleted, the working model of the
silver statue for the Momenta building,
Miss Kenan’s own self in clay.
“Not long after 1 had received the com
mission,” said Mr. Bark last evening, “I
saw Miss Rehan in Philadelphia, and ar
ranged for sitting in New York. I saw her
there and made all the measurements and
drawings necessary for tbe modeling of a
portrait statue. I found that Miss Rehan’s
figure was as nearly perfect as an artist
could desire for a model for an ideal figure,
and I reported to Mr. Harvey that she filled
my ideal of a well-proportioned woman.
“There are probably many handsomer
women than Miss Rehan, but. her face is
strong aud full of dignity and intelligence.
Kvery community doubtless bas its physi
cally perfect woman, but Miss Rehan is not
only perfeot. but an artist also. Iler figure
is severely classic, with tho single exception
of tbe face, which might be said to be
slightly Milesian. She is of beroio mold.
She would not make a correct model for a
Hebe or a Psyche, but rather for a Juno or
a Venus."
“By what standard was Miss Rehan’s
physical perfection determined!"
“There are many systems of measure
ments laid down by different artists, and
they’ all vary in some details.”
"Can you give any of the measurements
of the perfect woman as exemplified in Miss
Rehan?"
“Au artist makes his measurements in
heads. For instance, Miss Rehan is a little
over heads high. The average is 7. Tbe
Venus tie Medicis is 8, but the head is very
small. About is considered the ideal
measurement. The width of the shoulders
in au ideal figure is twice the bead, aud tbe
extended arms measure the same as the
bight of the figure. In Mies Rehan these
prorpotions are exact. Miss Rehan is 5 feet
lij-i iiiohe., but I have made my statue 6
feet, and everything in proportion. Of
course no artist would give the measure
rnente of his model in feet and inches to the
public. I cannot give you either, themeas-
urements of the statue, because the figure is
not iu repose, and of course the drapery
wouhl interfere.”
According to what a prominent Chicago
artist gives as the usually accepted propor
tions of au ideal female figure the following
are <me of the measuretne :ts of Miss
Kehan’s figure as deduced from her bight
—5 feet 6>, inches:
Head. SM inches
Face 6'J-!8 laches
Nose J 3-16 inches
Hand 6 9-16 inches
Breadth of shoulders 1714 inches
Le. ilength) 2 fe t 9)4 inches
If she were seated, from the top of her
head to the point of support would tie 2 feet
11 inches; standing, from the ground to the
knee, about inches; from the top of the
bead to the bust line inches.
LAWYERS IN NEW YChK CITY.
Their Varying Fees and Methods of
Practice, Regular and Irregular.
From the Sew York Sun.
Some hundreds of lawyers in New York
earn less than tbe weges of a porter, other
hundreds, possibly thousands, earn eaough
to maintain them in deoency, some boo res
earn from #5,000 to $25,000 a year, aud a
few earn enough for luxurious living and
die rich. The law pays bettir aud worse
here than anything else in the United
States. Iu no other city are there so many
eduoated lawyers who get a pittance from
practice and maintain themselves by
other means. In no other city are
tbe fees of the most successful lawyers
so high. Lawyers ten years at the bar are
glad to be employed as clerks at SJUa week,
while others no longer in practice live at
ease with the prospect of riches. There Is a
ourreut story going to illustrate the differ
ence in fees here and in Massachusetts: An
electrical company, so goes the story
sought an expert legal opinion upon an im
portant point, and laid the matter before
Henator Hoar and W illiam M. Evarts. Each
wrote an opinion and eaoh sent a bill. Mr.
Hoar’s bill was #SO; Mr. Evarts’ #IO,OOO.
Most lawyers believe it would be nearer tbe
truth were the amount assigned to Mr.Hoar
multiplied bv ten.
A famous lawyer and leading republican
tried a case (or a client on appeal and won
in the higher court. His argument occu
pied two hours, though bis preparation
occupied probably a good deal longer. He
sent in a bill for #IO,OOO, specifying that it
was for tbe argument on appeal, aud that,
should the case have anew trial, there
would be no further charge for what bad
been done thus far; but that, should the
case be settled without a Dew trial, be would
expect some further slight remuneration.
Tbe case was thus settled, and tbe couusel
demanded an additional fee of $5,000. It
was paid, though the client complained of
the oharge. It amounted to #15,000 for a
single appeara oe in court. A thoroughly
good lawyer of some reputation will try
cases at from SIOO to S2OO a day, aud many
men oharge oe low as SSO for trying a case.
Part of the etiquette of the bar hi earlier
times discountenanced tbe use of signs by
lawyers. Tbe young lawyer who pigeon
holes himself iu a great downtown office
building, aud prooiajms bis presence to tbe
world solely by means of a gilt sign on the
door, scarcely violates the spirit of this
ancient oonveution, for he is almoet as
effectually bidden as if he had wal led him
self iu and given no outward indication of
his existence. Legal etiquette recognizes
no method of direotly seeking busi
ness as reputable, aud the most rigidly
dignified lawyers eschew many machods
that to most lawyers ami nearly all laymen
would seem entirely without blame. Much
men expect either to rise to partnerships,
from clerkships in great offices, or to olitain
clients legitimately through acquaintances
made in the oourse of business done for
their employing firms. Piually influence
and family practice count for a go-si deal,
though a youDg lawyer usually finds that
be has more consideration with his relatives
after his name has appeared in other peo
ple’s cases than before. His uncles and
cousins are then willing to pay him good
fees.
College acquaintances are helpful in the
law, anl a man dla'luguis! ed in college
athletios sometimes find tha his reputation
won at school aids him as a lawyer. Young
lawyers And it profitable to belong to clubs,
and especially to tbe Manhattan Club to
which nearly all the judges Lelong. The
value of politics to tbe lawyer is proverbial.
A lawyer who kept up two domestio estab
lishments, one publicly acknowledged, tbe
other not, gravely advised a young friend
to join some church with a view to further
ing bis professional prosperity. The
devices of lawyers that pick up a practio >
about the prisons and polloe courts are no
torious, Somewhat less conspicuous are
the lawyers who w atch for accident oases.
One injured man lying in the hospital not
long since was approached on the day afrer
his accident by the agents of more than fifty
lnw> ers. Laborers aro tbe victims of most
accidents, and tbey are easily cajoled by the
lawyers. It oauie out in one case against a
great corporation that ti e lawyer was to
get out of an award of $15,0(10 damages,
with costs and interest, half the amount, all
the costs and allowances, and all the Inter
est, while all expenses were to come out of
the client’* portion. It gave tho lawyer
nearly $12,000 and the client $7,000.
No other city In the world has such a
mine of wealth for lawyers, reputable and
otherwise, as the elevated railways afford.
Many lawyers live and get rich out of suits
against the roads. In such cases they often
work in conjunction with real estate agents.
The latter sell property abutting on the line
of the road, and at once suggest that there
is wealth in a damage suit. The purchaser
inquires for a good lawyer, and the agent
promptly recommends tbe firm with which
he deals. In one notorious instance it was
proved that the agent acted as an expert
witness for the plaintiff’s lawyers in such
oases at $250 per day.
It is common enough for great lawyers in
New York to figure in cases solely as bar
risters, but there are a few younger men iu
town who affect such a practice, and have
few if any clients of tbeir own. Clever at
torneys, very moderately learned in the
law, but good at bunting clients, tiring
cases to such lawyers. Tbe latter charge
moderate fees for trying cases, and the at
torneys get a great deal more out the client.
This business is of teu entirely reputable upon
both sides, and usually so upon the side of
him that acts as barrister.
It happens ofteo that a lawyer owes suc
cess in large part to acoident, or to a single
successful suit. One of the most successful of
the younger men at the New York barowes
a highly profitable part of his practice to a
single case. He was employed by a literary
man to prosecute a publisher for violation
of copyright, and not only made the pub
lisher desist, hut yield up the pirated plaies
and damages. The literary man was so
pleased that he recommended bis lawyer to
all his friends, and tbe publisher on his part
was go much impressed by the lawyer’s
cleverness that he engaged him as
counsel, recommended him to other
publishers, and laid the ground for
a large practice with men of that business.
Oi.e of the most onvied men iu the legal
profession Is the family lawyer, tho man
who is attorney to a great estate. It is es
teemed more highly than the possession of
government bonds, for they in time are
called In, while the business of a family
lawyer may last from generation to genera
tion and increase with ' gathering years.
The firm that acted as attorney for the first
Astor is still in existence and prosperous.
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THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
WONDERFUL, A W! INSPIRING COM
BINATIONS IN EVHNING DRESS.
A Drees That Will Appear at the Com
la* Patriarchs’ Ball—Pearl Ornamen
tation— Black and Purple the Favor
ites —Some New Gowna.
t Com/’•la'it.i
New York, Dec. 10.—Weil, we’ve about
grown tired of being sensible. We did give
up some of our eocentrieltles of last winter,
and tried real hard all summer to be con
tent. We lingeringly discarded the ridicu
lously long waist line aud alarmingly high
shoulder puff, tbe combination of which
made us look so queer in the baok. Wo
even renounced, at the beginning of this
season, the trains which swept so majesti
cally over our streets and added such dig
nity to our appearance—so loug as they
were clean. This last sacrifice was so great
that we immediately consoled ourselves
by doubling the length of our house
trains. This was soothing and Inspiring
likewise. It Incited us to further action!
We suddenly decided that the summer girl
had been too modest, too unassuming iu
her robing. No wonder the male sex had
fallod to pay sufficient attention. She had
been simply pretty and sweet, with her ruf
fles, her ribbons aud laces. But that had
not been enough. The winter girl must be
magnificent, startling, gorgeou-., unique—a
thing apart, a different being from the girl
of any other eeason. How to accomplish
this difficult task the winter girl had to de
cide.
And the result of her oogitatlons we see
before us—that wonderful oommlngling of
so many styles and periods and reigns. The
immense panniers, the long-sweeping flat
trains, the flaring skirt, tbe low bodice, the
high waist, tho queer hour-glass sleeves, and
the magnificence of these when appearing
In rich velvet pile aud prionless old lace, all
proclaim that the winter girl may wear the
laurel with a consciousness of victory won.
On the evening gown, of oourse, she has
bestowed her most careful thought, for it is
in the evening that she expects to score her
greatest triumph. She has planned one, for
instanoe, for that great event of the eeason,
the Patriarchs’ ball, and it will be a success.
For its material is a delicate
green satin, to be generously
ornamented with Amerlnan beauties.
The dress of princess out will fasten invisi
bly at the left, and will be closely covered
at the foot with the deep-hearted roses, put
on in points. Over the oloeely-tlttiug, plain
satin gown will fall a rich tunic of beauti
ful lace, plaited on the low-cut bodice,
back and front, with an ample beading
above. Then the tunio will fall perfectly
loose to the feet, standing apart altogether
at the left side, and with the laoe edges
forming pretty ensoades as they fall.
Across the bodloe there will be a’ single
row of roses, and another row around each
of the sleeves, whloh will be short-large
puffs of green velvet. He feet will be shod
in pink, her gloves will match the satin
gown, the plumes in her hair win be like
•tie pink beauties that lie in waiting, ready
to be fastened on tbe lovely dress.
No evening drosses must be made without
sleeves. Ii is emphatically not comme 1 1
fuut to api>#ar without some sort of a puff
or gauze on the arm; the puff may be very
short, or the gauze may he thin aud float
altogether away from the arm, but sleeves
there must be. Rear! ia visible everywhere
—in girdles, iu bodices, in shoulder pieoes,
in long fringes. Home dresses are almost
completely oovered with rich pearl trim
mings. Avery wide belt encircles the
waist or the hips, from which fall long
pendants, olose together, far down the skirt.
Then two more bands go around the bodioe
under tbe arms, uimost meeting in front,
with shorter pendants hanging therefrom.
Large epaulets, with fringes, all of peurl,
cover the shoulders, and a pear! collar sur
mounts the whole. The effect is peculiarly
rich over heavy corded white silk.
At a reception the other night I saw a
particularly attractive dress. It was made
of a flue volvet pile on a vari-oolored
ground, which showed through in a puzzling
way, so that you oould quite make up your
mind about it. About two-thirds down the
skirt were two bauds of lace, laid head to
head, aud separated by a number ol tiny
black velvet bands. A plastron of finely
gathered silk was joined to tbe bodioe by a
roll of tbesams, and a band of white passe
menterie ran over the left shoulder. On ttie
other was an epaulet of much wider passe
menterie, wbiob also formed the ceinture
and the collar. The sleeve* of black gauze
were absolutely flat at tbe shoulder, failing
in a loose puff to tbe elbow, and edged with
a dep lace flounce.
Eminence purple—how much we see of it
eveay where. It has even crept into the
fine mesh with which we shield our com
plexions. Let me see purple used to be
seoond mourning, didn’t it! But if all the
dames that we see these days clad iu the
color are mourning departed friends, there
is an innumerable host of them. Iu fact,
pretty nearly every one it robed in black
or purple. Both oolors are extremely popu
lar, and will he all winter.
A most striking dress of purple oloth has
a flaring skirt edged with black fox; has
fancy blaok braid biding each skirt seam;
has a short empire bodioe, with a plain belt
of plain yellow; bas a queer kind of over
piece in yellow on the bodice that is almost
indescribable.
It forms first a standing collar and a sort
of loose yoke, that falls on tho shoulders in
pretty curves. But instead of being oon
teuted as a yoke, it must needs run down
back and front in a long, straight pieoe,
even several inches below the belt. Where
it passos the belt in front, a big gold buckle
bolds the two together. All around the
edge of the yellow is a design in black em
broidery. The lady wears a lovely purple
veil with it.
So many dresses of last year are fresh
ened with three short capos, generally
trimmed with lur, aud the longest of them
just covering the shoulders On the new
gowns, too, these little pelerines figure con
spicuously. Home very pretty brocade
ones, of a single cape only, can be bad for
evening wear They are generally only a
few inches in length, and plaited in very
large folds, and edged with fur or feather
trimming. Perhaps they are still more
dressy in velvet. Eva A Schubert.
Office of 8. Cherry, 21 Drayton Street, \
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 18, 1 890. f
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A wEnniNo which was recently solemnized at
Feltham, England, attracted widespread at
tention from the fact that the bridegroom was
rs years of age: the bride, who for fifty years
bad been a kitchen maid at Windsor castle, was
72; the best man, a brother of the bridegroom,
was 75; the muid of minor was on the shady
side ot and the clergyman who lied the knot
was an octogenarian. Toe wedding was a gay
one, but owing to the scruples of the aged
clergyman dancing was dispensed with.
Gov. elect Lewkj.unq of Kansas was once a
mule driver on tbe Erie canal.
TEACHES HOW TO FAINT.
AN EXPERT’S OPINION AS TO THE
THUS METHOD.
Graceful and Easy Ways of Falling
May Bo Made to Act as Salve for
the Inevitable Hurts and Bruises.
A Highly Useful Art.
From the Sew York Recorder.
Improvements iu fainting are intended
especially for the w aker sex, and as long
as women will persist in droppiug them
selves in horse oars, in shops and every con
venient corner drug store, it is a duty they
owe tbe rest of the world to famt us pict
uresquely and as gracefully as possible.
The average faint shows a woman iu any
thing but beoomiug attitudes. Fainting is
uot a painful sensation at all, aud the most
unpleasant position of the occurrence is the
knowledge borne in ou the victim with
forty horse power pressure that she has
not made exactly a prize tableau of her
self. The woman who appreciates this
and has a real desire to look like a picture
the next time she has to succumb to the in
evitable can take a few lessons in the art
of fainting and assume such gsacelul poses
that instead of a bore it will become a real
pleasure to fall ou the floor and make au
unconscious picture. Bibyl Johnstone's falls
In "The Henrietta” are eo suierod to repre
sent the highest art in stage faints
A high priestess of the art of fainting re
cently said: “Of course, you kuow. when
a person is unconscious she can’t be sure she
is graceful, but any woman who trains her
body to certain directions will find it as
sumes these when she has no oontrul her
self over the muscles."
"Suppose a pretty girl, although, by the
way, it is not half as apt to be the pretty
girl as the fairly presentable one who faints:
Dut suppose a woman begins to feel as if she
was likely to faint, and wanted to do eo
with grace, what could she dol”
PRACTICING BEFORE AN EXPERT,
“It would depend, of course,” said the
priestess, “on what position she was in
then; whether sitting, merely standing still
or walktug. Naturally she would foil. If
she was sitting in an armchair it would take
a very demonstrative fault to make her fall
on tbe floor. Jf she was loaning forward
she might contrive to pitch forward. It
would be natural for her to throw herself
back into tho chair. Iu a fall the body falls
iu the same direction the feet take. We
teach women to break the line at the hips
and throw the torso in the opposite direc
tion, like this: (Stand up, relax the body
this side, relax tho arms and head. There,
that’s it. Now do it again and fall.”
Cl obeyedl and fell. “Now you’re fairly
graceful. That's pretty good. That’s the
exercise we give women first. O, yes, I
have taught a number of women to faint,
and some of them were pretty society girls.
Try this now. I didn’t finish the chair faint.
Relax the body diagonally. Let your arm
fall over the arm of tho chair and hang
limply. Now your head will fall forward.
A few people stick out their feet and throw
their head straight baok, but that is shock
ing. Never do that.”
“But. madam, 1 always drop when cross
ing a room or walking.”
"Well, just relax the body, knees first”
Of course knees go first, and when the
knees double up no person hot a free
oould help falling. Before I was aware o
it I was in a heap at msdam's feet "O! ,
be careful. You will break) your arm.’
That's the worst thing to guard against.
You must double It np under your side.
Now, do It again.”
I carefully pickod out a fine rug and re
laxed on that, in learning to faint it
hurts just as much to fall us it does in the
real not Applications of arnica and band
ages are in order after fainting lessons.
PLUNGING OUT OF A CHAIR.
Madam was better pleased. "Only don’t
hold your boots that way. You look like
u weather vaue pointing to the wind.
Don’t hold your aukles stiff. Now, ouce
more,’’ and the third thud brought out au
exclamation of pleusure. “That Is a fine
stage taint. I could teach you to fain
gracefully in half a dozen lessons. ” In si::
lessons any one would acquire a liberal dec
oration of black and blue spots.
“If you don’t waut to fall do this way,
and tho probability is you can manage to
escape the tbad till assistance is given.”
The high priestess planted her feet a foot
apart. “Don’t turn out your toes. Hold
your feet straight. Just this way. It is a
very clever way to prevent a tumble. But
it needs practice. But you must try tho
chair fall.”
Visions of tho acrobatic chair anil back
ward somersault faint, so famous several
years ago, rose up. But it wasn’t tbat at
all. It was one of tbe most common of
faints—an everyday tumble—but the de
tails wore difficult. Hitting iu a straight
backed chair I waited for the sigunl.
Madam occupied a similar chair. We
talked a few moments and 1 actually com
menced to feel the fli st symptom of a bona
fide faint. When madamn began to sway
I swayed too, Madam fell and I plunged
after, headforemost onto the rug. It wasn’t
a success. Madam was wondering how 1
oould be so clumsy. I was a tangle of skirts,
draperies, fur rug and arms. I orawled out
of it and took a view of her pose. She was
stretched out in a refined kind of way that
was much like an illustration from “Eti
quette in the Drawing Room.”
“Now, do better this time. Throw the
body in the opposite direction from your
feet, aud don’t double up like a knife.
Now!” But It was uo better. Five trials
didn’t make any improvement. It would
take a month to learn that. Fainting und
falling from a chair Isn’t my forte.”
STYLES CHANGE EVEN IN FAINTING.
One hour would be all most women could
stand of such instruction. To keep right
along fainting for sixty minutes is not even
fuuny. For tbe sake of women who really
need the information and may jiossib.y
profit by it madam urged perseverance.
“But what can a woman do in a horse
oar! Of course she don’t want to use the
shoulder of a strange individual for a pil
low.”
“Then she had better try to get out Into
the air before she is too far gone. Of
course she can try to fail forward if she
really feels that modesty forbids a stranger’s
shoulder, but that’s the hardest to manage
after all. Now, I’ll show you one of the
pretties: faints possible,and one that is very
easy It can begin with an Ella Wheeler
Wilcox attitude.”
“Never saw that.”
“This is it. Mrs. Wilcox’s favorite seat
is a plain divan. Sit on the edge of it side
ways, facing the end as If you were in the
saddle. That’s her pet position. It mu lorn
a very fine start for this sofa faint. N'.w
you commence to feel dizzy. Your sensei
are reeling. Relax the body. Let it fall
across the sofa, just catching the sofa pil
low corner. Now let your arms hang limp,
feet the same, Ah, that's a beautiful faint.
Any woman who can do that well need
never fear that she isn’t a picture."
“Do styles change In fainting!”
“Of course. Formerly an actress used to
fall on her nose or right oar with force cal
culated to drive the remaiflder of her lines
out of her bead. Now she fades away
gradually iuto unconsclousuesi like the
spirits in a seance. Did you know that the
Delsarte system has brought the scienoo of
fainting to such , perfection that the real
article can be counterfeited so closely as to
defy detection! When the principles of
Delsarte thoroughly control the individual
even tbe blood will leave the face, and
tbe cheek and Ups and ears even will blanch.
But fainting gracefully isn’t the only thing
women try to learn. There are some
society women who have actually taken
lessons on how to kneel grucefullyin church
and hold the head in a devout attitude.”
But surely tbe fainting lesson is sensible,
and no one could blame a woman for want
ing to understand it os an act.
She—l saw somebody this morning for
whom you have great admiration.
He—Ah! You were at tbe mirror.— Texas
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