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CASHING of stamps.
DIFFICULTY THE PCST
* cFFIOK C.FFI IALS MEET.
go Absclutely Indelible Ink—Dsm
#eed Stomps and Stamp Collectors.
Tte Preservation of H storied Docu
ments- bureau of Rolls.
From the Wiashinoton Star.
Tte postoffice department wants an in
ielible ink for moving postmarks. It has
(tea trying to find buc(i an article for ever
10 long. Awhile ago it called into consulta
tion two learned chemist?, one from Yale
Jsi j t he other from Harvard. Each of
dioin agreed to prepare a canceling ink
,hich could not be erased. Without the
knowledge of either, stamps marked with
tte ink which Prof. A. produced were
bsniied over to Prof. B. to see if he could
„isbthem, while Prof. B.’s product was
übmi tied to a like test at the hands of
Prd. A. Both experts sent baok the stamps
perfectly clean.
NO INDELIBLE INK.
The fact is that there is no absolutely in
delible ink except pure carbon, and that
cannot be applied with a stamp. Marshall
Jewell, when be was Postmaster General,
Overused for canceling devices and ma
terial,, which were offered to the depart
ment by the bushel. Some of them dis
pensed with the ink by pricking or punch
ing the stamps, but none was of any use.
g*. Jewell himself had a pretty taste for
obeniistry. When minister to Russia he
was taken through a Russia leather factory
at St. Petersburg. The composition used
In tbe manufacture of this product being a
eecret, be dipped his thum slyly into a pot
of it and had the stuff analyzed after he got
home.
AN ANNUAL LOSS.
Another Postmaster General once stated
in a report that tbe government lost $1,000,-
(XX) yearly ' y the washing and reusing of
postage stamps. This was a great mistake.
Asa matter of fact, this fraudulent indus
try is practiced only on aver, oonteuiDti
ble scale. No skilled chemists make a bus
iness of it. Employes in paper mills have
been known to cut too le st defaced stamps
from old envelopes and oieanse them. When
it is noticed that the stamps which a person
puts on his letters commonly look worn and
Uirty toe pos 1 master is apt to keep an eye
upon that individual. Any oue who uses a
second time even a sta np which has re
ceived no canceling mark in going through
tbe postoffice, is liable to SS'JO flue or one
year’s imprisonment, or both.
STAMPS AT A DISCOUNT.
That tne washing of stamps is a common
pr etire is said to be proved by the known
fact that stamps are sold in great quantities
at a discount. The fact is that stamps thus
disposed of are put on the market by firms
which receive more than they can use.
Seedsmen and dealers in certain other small
wares are flooded with postage stamps sent
to then in payment for goods. At Marble
bead. Mass., ooe seedsman sends out and
receives one-third of tbe mail of the town.
Yet he never buys any stamps, receiving
more than be wants from customers. Tb s
clrcums.ance lessens by one-third the sal
ary of the local postmaster, whose stipend
is a percentage on sales of stamps. New
Y'ork uses $3,000,000 worth of stames an
nually wtich are not bought in the metrop
olis. Merchants sell them through brokers
or otherwise at a discount of 3 per cent.
Millions of them are disposed of in that
way.
VVben treasury officials are asked why
fractional currency is no longer issued they
reuly that there is no demand for it. The
pcstoffice department contradicts this state
ment point blank. Paper notes of smaller
denominations would be a godsend io all
sparsely settled parts of the country. The
pe pie in such localities have no banks and
their postoffices do not sell money orders or
postal notes. They have no means of re
mitting fractional sums of money save in
tbe shape of postage stamps.
THE SONS HELPED THE FATHER.
An odd story is told of a poatoffica that
was established in Connecticut a few years
ago near the New York state line. It was
such a very little oue that the department
here was astonished at tbe large orders for
stamps received from its postmaster. In
vestigation developed the fact that the post
master hid t*o sons In New York city who
hula large correspondence as a business
Arm. Instead of sending their mail matte,
from the metropolitan pcstoffice they
snipped it regularly by express to their
father, whose stipend from stamp sales was
thus increased from a normal jloo to about
SI,OOO a y ear.
DAMAGED STAMPS.
The postoffice department is obliged to re
deem an enormous i umber of stamps which
pet spoiled while in the hands of post
masters. In warm weather nearly 100
packages a day of damaged stamps come
mto the stamp division. During ihe win
ter coin; Braiively few are turnod in. Most
Ii thr.ru arrive from the south and south
west. whore stamps find the climate more
trying. The parcels received ruu in value
from a few dollars to several hundred dol
iero. Their contents muet ull be counted.
1. sur.lly they are stuck together in solid
masses, which have to be put into hot
water and steamed, If they come out in
lull sheets the task of reckoning them is
easy, but the worst work is when a post
man er keeps his stamps bo knows not how,
the playful cockroach rooting among them
snu eating tbe mucilage off. Some stizk,
others tear, and they make no end of
trouble.
STAMP COLLECTORS.
The department does not particularly ad
mire the practice of collecting stamps. Peo
ple who save them are sometimes tempted
to wash them, It is almost appalling to
consider that the business of philately sup
ports 150 publications in this country, em
ploys $0,000,000 of capital and engages the
attention of 800,000 collectors. The stamp
gathering oianks bother Uncle Warn. A
lew years u,o a Postmaster General ordered
a repiint of a 5-cent stamped envelope in
an obsolete design. This action being
recognized as a mistake the entire issue of
10.000 was called in. A New York collector
got wind of the order before it was sent
out and bought 1,500 of the envelops, selling
most of them at $5 each to other stamp
maniacs. Another collector who tried a
similar dodge was not so successful. Learn
ing tuat the issue of a certain stamp was to
te limited he attempted to corner the mar
ket by purchasing SIO,OOO worth of them,
which he held at greatly advanced prices.
Complaints were made to the depa; taient
which promptly ordered an unlimited num
ber to be printed. This broke tho market
and the speculator was obliged to appeal to
tho government to taka his stook off his
bauds.
NEWSPAPER STAMPS,
wh ch run from 1 cant to SOO iu value, are
never sold nor permitted to go out of post
-1 trices. Hence they areiu great demand by
conectors. Tbev are merely affixed to the
stubs of receipts for money paid by tho
newspapers, and the books of stubs are
a.terwnrd destroyed. Not long ago a clerk
>o tbe Bangor postoffice quite lunooently
sosd ttie stamps from such a book of stubs,
supposing them to be of uo use. He found
plenty of eager oustomers. These stamps
frequently get into the hands of collectors
through robberies of noßtofflces. They are
hot legal tender for postage, so the thieves
oppose of them through "fences” and thus
“'ey mine eventually into tho hnuds of the
Sundaes.
A STAMP FOR A LETTER.
The queerest use of stamps was made by
® young lady, who wrote letters to her
•tnancod on the backs of 8-cent stamps, put
'ug the address on the white margin of the
Some cranks are fo;.d of trying to
'8 how much they can write on a postal
rfw' A lun in Belfast. Me., put tho whola
“f- * lovidai.d’s first presidential message,
•SUOO words, on a single card. Ho did it
11 with pen and ink, leaving a border
•bree-eighths of an inch wide, which was
corned with flfty-two heads, each con
luing a copy of the Lord’s prayer. The
author was 77 years old, and took forty
five days to complete the work. There are
60,000 blind people in the United Stares, a
large percentage of whom send matter by
mail that is written with emb resed or per
forated letters. Correspondence in this
shape is more bulky than ordinary writing,
and they think that they ought not to i e
obliged to pay first-class letter rates on it.
The department, however, entertains a dif
ferent opinion.
THE "MILLION STAMPS 1 ’ BELIEF.
The time-worn "million stamps” lie still
survives, and is likely to prove immortal.
People all over the country are trying to
accumulate 1,000, 000 canceled pos age
stamps, in the belief that a standing offer
is made by the government, or by some
body, of a big prize for such a collection.
S, me thick that SIO,OOO is the sum guaran
teed, while others imagine ibat the reward
is the endowment of a permanent bed iu a
hospital. Tbe popular notion ou this sub
ject being somewhat undefined, letters ask
ing about it are constantly received at the
postoiiice department. But no denials serve
to destroy the widespread faith in this
strange faith.
INDELIBLE INKS IN THE TREASURY.
The question of indelible inks has come
up i.i a different shape in the treasury de
partment. Obviously it is very important
that the records of the government should
not fade. \Y hen typewriters were intro
duced it was found tuat some of the work
done with them vanished from the paper
after awhile. So a rule stands to the effect
that only black and blue ribbons shall be
used. No aniline colo! s are allowed. Even
thus, no vary thorough confidence is enter
tained in the enduring quality of documents
writen in typescript. VY hot gives perman
ency to inks is nut galls, but iron oxides are
c ramonly substituted for the sake of cheap
ness. Some years ago a leal estate agent
named Goodall was arrested in New York
for washing internal revenue stamps and
selling them. One of his customers eventu
ally proved to he Mr. Drummond, now
chief of the secret service. Goodaii got
three years in the penitentiary. But the
worst trouble tbe treasury has had with
washable inks was caused by tbe celebrated
Pete McCartney, who invented tbe ingeni
ous plan of washing $1 hills clean and print
ing $lO note designs upon them, thus pro
viding himself with Uncle Barn's own fiber
paper for his counterfeits.
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
The most precious document iu the pos
session of the nation—namely: tbe declara
tion of independence—has faded to such an
extent as to be aim. st indecipherable. This
misfortune is not due to the age of the
writing, but to apr cess which it under
went in the making of a fao simile of it
w hen John Adams was Secretary of State.
In order to lithograph it, it was wetted,
and tbe historic manuscript was nearly
ruined in the performance. Nearly all of
the signatures have wholly vauished, while
ihe body of the text is In great part illegi
ble. VVben Frelinghuvsen was Secretary
of State that department submitted the
question of restoring the dec aratiou to
scholars and chemists. Many persons vol
unteered to do the work, bu: it was thought
best not to attempt it. On the other hand,
the rough draft of the same document,
made previously, is as good a-, new to-day,
the ink in which it is written being per
fectly black.
ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES
is in an excellent condition of preservation,
though the edges ot the paper ares imewbat
broken, owing to the fact that it used to lie
kept rolled up in a cylindrical tin box. To
avoid this kind of damage the document
was transferred to a portfolio made ex
pressly for it. Bat at length it was decided
that the manuscript should not he sub
mitted to handling, and so it is now framed
—the five sheets of it in as many cheap
wooden frames covered with glass. The
ink of the words, "We, the people,” iu
great letters, with which it begins, is some
what “crumbled” by the roll
ing, but otherwise the text is per
fect. A superb case has recently been
constructed for it of oak sheathed with
steel, so as to be fireproof. The frames con
taining it will be placed In five drawers,
while above will be displayed the declara
tion of independence, framed in an inner
door. Similarly framed in a smaller door
beneath will be the rough draft of tbe decla
ration. Other historical papers will rest on
■helves behind tho declaration. If these
priceless documents go to the Chicago fair
they will be shown in the case desonbed,
carefully guarded. Tbe articles of confed
eration of ihe colonies are exquisitely en
grossed and look almost os if they were
written yesterday. They are ou a long roll
of tbe finest sheepskin parchment, tbe
sheets being sewn together with the utmost
dslicaoy.
RESTORING HISTORICAL PAPERS.
The department of state ie making steady
progress with the important work of re
storing tbe historical papers in the archives
of the uotiou. Already the writings of
President Monroe have been repaired and
bound in twenty-two largo volumes, each of
which is inclosed in a pasteboard box. Each
letter or other bit of manuscript is mounted
on a separate sheet in such a manner that it
oan be examined without handling. The
Madison papersare being similarly prepared
and will eventually make about fortv-four
volumes. The papers of George Washing
ton, likewise in process of preparation, will
compose at least 300 volumes. They are of
groat bulk, including thousands of letters
addresstd to him ny his generals, by
various historical individuals, etc. Tire
skill exercised in tho work of restora
tion is wonderful. In the case
of certain papers of Benjamin Franklin a
famous expert of the British museum was
employed to replace certain missing words
which had been eaten out by mice. His
charge was something like a pound sterling
for each letter, which is not too much when
it is considered that he had to put in the
missing fragments of paper and counterfeit
the writing, performing his task so beauti
fully that it left no trace visible. One
branch of this art is called “inlaying.” For
example, the sheets on which are the lust
words which Washington wrote Before he
died are inlaid in the pages f an album by
sphttiug the edges of the thin paper of the
shoots themselves and glueing these edges
on both sides of the thinned margins of the
pages cut out to tit the sheets.
IN THE BUREAU OF ROLLS.
All of these historical papers are in the
keeping of tbe bureau of rolls in the depart
ment of state. All the laws that arc passed
by congress go to this buroau to be copied.
This must he done verbatim et literatim. If
there is a wrong spelling it must not be
changed in the copy sent by tho bureau to
the printer. Sometimes the misspelling of
a word has changed the meaning of a law
or has rendered it inoperative. Even the
omission or misplacing of a comma may do
enormous damage. There was such an in
stance in the case of the tariff act
which preceded the McKinley bill.
A comma put by accident be
tween the words fruit anil trees made
the legulation intended to apply merely
to fruit trees oorer both fruit an i trees im
ported into this country. Carele-saess on
the part of tho engrossing clerks who write
out the laws at the capicol has often made
trouble. On one occasion Mr. Randall and
the naval committee of the House came
in a great hurry to the department of state
and declared that the bureau of rolls had
left out a whole clause in its copy of a law.
Investigation proved that an engrossing
clerk had left It out of toe original. Con
gress itsolf is often careless. Many a time
has it created offices without providing any
salaries for them.
INDIVIDUAL RECORDS.
Records are kept by the bureau of rolls of
oil obtainable data resoeoting officers and
even privates who fought in the revolution
for the independence of the colonies. Most
of its information is derived from the papers
of Washington, who kept oopiesof all docu
ments relating to his generals anil other
subordinates which passed through his
hands. Application was made the other day
to the department of state by a Boston man
who desired to become a member of the
Society of the Sons of the American Revo
lution. Requiring proof of his descent
from an ancestor who was engaged la that
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY', MARCH 19, 1893---SIXTEEN PAGES.
war he wanted to know about his great
(treat-grandaughter, who, ho understood,
bail and ne loyal service, lending money
from his own funds to tbe patriotic cause
and even helping to plan the Yorkshire
campaign.
The bureau of rolls replied that the only
officer of tho name given whose record
could be found had been dismissed from the
service for conduct unbecoming an officer
and a gentleman. It aided politely that it
presumed this officer was not the one re
ferred to by the applicant for information.
But the latter wrote again, saving that tbe
officer in question was certainly the man
and asking what was the conduct for wbioh
he was dismissed. With reluctance tho
bureau of rolls was obliged to reply that it
was "lyiug ami stealing.”
W 0 MAN’S WOR LD .
A FBW BRIGHT THINGS FOB THE
FAIR SEX.
Pose of the Fair Girl in tbe Photo
graph Gallery—Moonlight at St.
Augustine—Coet of an Easter Bon
net—American Women and Titles.
Other Hatters Worth a Notice.
A little army woman and her husband
who had been badly wounded at an Indian
engagement, came east, says Clara Bellj in
the Times-Democrat. He went into a hos
pital, and all her friends wers kind to her
because they how very likely ho
was to die. Oue day, when they were con
soling her, she looked up between her sobs
and said in quite a calm tone:
“After all, if Harry does die, I suppose I
shall have all the bigger pension, because he
got his wounds In active service.”
Ah, me, how few can sound the depths of
a woman’s heart?
Talk of moonlight, says Clare Belle,
writing of St. Augustine in the Cincinnati
Enquirer. A mau simply can’t help pro
pi sing up in the watch tower, even if he is
married and has a whole family right down
in tho Ponoe. But the dungeoua are per
fectly awful. The place is the old Spanish
fort, and everything reminds one of the in
quisition. Actually prowling about with
an officer, and hearing all the awful stories,
makes you want to be stolen by brigands,
and the only way to become modernized Is
to go up St. George street ana get a box of
bonbons iu tbe sunshine.
A writer in the New York H'or/d is the
possessor of a gorgeous $25 Easter bonnotl
it was no such meaii motive as vanity
which led to the acquisition of this treas
ure. On the contrary, it was a deep yearn
ing to investigate the subject of Easter
millinery f r the benefit of womankind in
general, and as a result the writer is pre
pared to give directions for duplicating her
own $25 Frenoti toque for the modest Amer
ican sum of $8 24.
Even In our photographs, it seems we
are scheming, says Clara Belle In the
'limes-Democrat.
• ’ YVhen a girl comes in and insists on a
certain pose or expression,” said a photog
rapher, "you can be sure she is getting up
a picture for a certain man. r-he has quar
reled, perhaps, and she means to convey by
the picture that she is sorry. Very few
girls will say that they are sorry, but they
will go to elabora e trouble and some ex
pense to get a picture representing them
looking mournfully into space, or
glancing uo appealing, in a sort of
‘O, please don’t be cross with
ne’ way. Their idea is to put
the pioturo up in some conspicuous place
where be will see It. His heart will besoft
ened, he will say something, and then they
can have it over. Sometimes the pose Is to
be one of scorn and contempt, or amuse
ment, that implies that she has not been
taken in at all, and that she is all right.
That is w hen the girl has been jilted, or
feele she hae said too much, or has bad her
pride hurt in any way. A girl’s pride is
dearer to her than anything else, to judge
by the pictures she has taken. They are
great actresses, these girls, all of them.
Home of the very nicest have crazes for
dress that are half off. tbe kind made popu
lar with actresses of tine shoulders. The
average sccietr girl can make a better pose
for innocent unconsciousness than the aver
age actress can, and ona wonders at it. The
‘innocent unconscious’pose Is looking over
one 6houlder, thedrapery being slipped off
that shoulder and tbe whole picture fading
out to leave tbs figure sufficiently un
derload—a really prstty artistio effect,
so far as the picture goes, but it is odd
that really nice girls are willing to pose In
a photograph gal,ary with the upper part
of them clad as scantily as the picture re
quires. But they are they don’t seem to
cure In the least, and traat the operator ne
nobody at all. If a girl has a particular
dimple she is not a bit backward about
saying so and explaining that she wants it
shown in the picture, even though it re
quires a real contortionist's act on her part.
Girls have an idea that men like to see such
pioturis of them. Maybe they do, but it is
funny to any one in tbe business to see how
a girl always blußhe3, protends to hide tbe
pictures, says it was a pose of the photog
rapher’s, that she really didn’t know what
he was doing, and that she has only that
one, anyhow, when you may lie sure that
the photographer had an awful time get
ting tb it particular puse just to suit her.
Girls are queer, but it’s good for the
trade."
How spirited, beautiful, attractive Amer
ican women can submit to De made the ob
jects of barter and Bordid calculation is one
of the wonders of th.s fin-de-siecle civiliza
tion, says the New York Tribune. And
yet there have been several instances known
where girls have been subjected to tbe mor
tifying indignity of being actually jilted for
no other reason than that their prospective
incomes were not as large as their noble (?)
suiters supposed them to be when they com
mitted themselves so far as to offer their
hearts and their titles to an American heir
ess. So the recreant knights ride away to
fresh fields and pastures now, leaving the
deserted maidens to wear the willow and
face tbe comments of a pitying or jeering
world. Such a position is simply intolera
ble, and it is no wonder that health
and spirits fail and that lives are spoiled
iu consequence. The hardest part of It all,
moreover, is that girls are not to really
love these titled suitors, who are ofteu at
tractive men of the world, surrounded with
all t'ue glamor of fashion and position
w hicb sheds such a rosy tint ever ordinary
mortals; and so it is not only the misery of
thwarted ambition that they are compelled
to suffer, but the actual wretchedness of
misplaced affection. tSurelv parents should
not allow their young daughters to be ex
posed to such insults.
Home one suggested the other evening
that since it is virtually oonoeded that titles
are to be bought and sold, how much better
it would he if a fashionable bureau of in
formation were established where noble
earls and dukes might obtain trustworthy
information and thus prevent these un
fortunate mistakes which are constantly
recurring.
A woman, says the New Y'ork World,
has no business to catch cold. A cough is
disgusting and disgraceful. Who ever
beard of a man proposing to a girl with a
colli Who ever saw a man in a church or
a theater with a barking wife or sister who
wasn’t ashamed of her and aunoyed with
himself for not leaving her at home? Colds
are preventable. They are also curable.
A girl who is careless enough to get a cold
should he ceuernus enough to get rid of it
without delay. If she doesn't want to take
heroic doses, such as "cold packing" or
castor oil, she ought to retire to a vacant
room and stay there until she Is compan
ionable.
Mary had a little lam.
She got it from her mother.
For stealing cookies, cake and jam
She doesn’t want another.
The famous women warriors of Dahomey,
says the New York Times, wbo have
fought so desperately against the French
troops, aretra ned for service with a -ever
ity beside which tne discipline of our soldiers
is luxurious ease. They are recruited from
girls of 13 to 14 years, and also from the
ranks of criminals atul evil-doers, for any
crime is pardouedt.i the woman who en
lists among the Amazons. They are com
pelled to sleep outdoors in all kinds of
weather, to suffer blows and kicks without
oom lalnt, and are often kept serving for
days. For the purpose of acquiring profi
ciency in scaling walls, the scantily o.othed
warri <rs are compelled to clam er to the
top of walls th.ckly covered with thorny
cacti, the ground beneath being strewn
with broken glass Before going iuto battle
liberal quantities of rum are given to them
to give them the daring recklessness wnich
marks their attack". T hey fire rapidly for
a little time, then charge upon tho enemy
with their knives, and even when shot down
will fight to tbe last breath, siahhiug
blindly at their assabauta, and biting aud
tearing at their legs when they can no
longer stand.
There are. It seems, about 300 women un
dertakers in the United States. It is re
markable, says the Now York Times, that
there should be oue. Women are peeul
liarly susceptible to their environment, and
that any one of the sex should surrou it
herself with all the grim paraphernalia of
death for a life occupation seems almost iu
oredible. A Milwaukee woman and her
daughter are both proficient in the busi
ness. are embalmers as well as undertakers
and bota are said to en joy their pr. fess.on.
Three brothers and sisters, however, are
quoted os thoroughly disliking the catling
of their parent aud sister. One woman In
the profession, Ylrs. F. K. VV its n of Balti
more, is on expert einbalmer, aud has made
some important discoveries iu embalming
iu lung troubles.
Said a woman recently: "I spent several
days a short time agD iu a little town In New
Jersey, not thirty miles from Now Y'ork.
It is just off from the railroad, to a stati n
of which, however, a stage g res every day,
and it is very near a large summer hotel,
filled during the season with boarders. Yet
in that town I could not buy a single New
Y ork paper, Sunday or daily, nor could I
learn of any being taken. 1 found oue mau
who took a weekly editiou of one of the
papers, and be stood out as very different
from bis neighbor*. ‘But how,’ I asked, ‘do
you know what is going on iu the world f
und the answer I got was, ‘We don’t care.’”
A tombstone in a country churchyard
bears the inscription: “She was so pleas
ant.” After all, could it have been more
fully or better said? The stranger as well
as tbe intimate knows that tbe dead woman
was one who brought oueer with her wher
ever she came, aud brightened the joyiess
day with her sunny presence. One may
not eigh if fame, ricues, attainments are
missed if "so pleasant” is said of us by aud
by.
The unlimited variety of pretty siippers
and ties furnishes equally unlimited delight
to tbe girl with tbe pretty foot, bhe lin
gers over the ne i desig s with as much in
terest as though she was inspecting hats or
parasols, aud hardly will be drawn away,
even to enjoy the exquisite duchess lace
parasols at $95 or the white parasols with
steel spangles glittering like ice particles all
over the broad insertion of open-work lace
and on the white ribbon buws tyi .g the fer
rule and handle.
Fur sl6 and S2O come beautiful handle
tips of gold and pearl, Dresden china,
e amel, silver aud what not. A dainty
baud eon a silk rain umbrella has the
oherry stick ornamented with gold, a brauob
in gold etching, with a tiny gold owl look
ing as wise as will be the woman who buys
him at $2 75; a fair quality of silk and a
substantial cover. Many of tbe new um
brellas are of tbe silk-finished gloria that is
almost as pretty as silk, while equaling the
common gloria ill wear. The only objec
tion to tbe gloria umbrellas is that they re
fuse to be roiled into the sleoder, cane-like
compass that makes the expensive silk um
brella so desirable.
A time honored custom coming into more
general use in New Ybrk, soys the Times
ot that city, is the placing in the corner
opposite the address the letters P. P. C.
The letters stand for pour preude conge,
which, being literally translated, means
"for to take leave," signifying that the
sender is about to leave town.
“1 wish the Europeau custom of visiting
strangers sending their cards to all their
friends in the city would he adopted here,”
•ai l a society man the other day..- “The
custom prevails iu London and Paris and
has prettied for yeais. I wish it were
more generally used in Amerioa. As ttrnow
is, because the custom is not in use here, we
have to watch tbe uowspapers for tbe ar
rivals of distinguished society people from
Europe. Members of the forel :ii diplo
matic oori whenever tayy come to town
send around tfieir cards, but. they are the
only persous who vary the general usage.
This custom has become quite set at New-
Sort. Any strange American visiting at
owport is expected to send around his
cards, and it is a breach of etiquette it he
does not. Gradually the custom may come
into use in the cities.”
Tbe novel idea of Illuminated invitations
to dirtier, luncheon, ere, or a dance has
been introduced into the best society of
Paris and London,but it has not yet reached
New York. The growing custom of using
hand-painted and band-printed menus at
dinner, luncheon and supper may, however,
be a foreshadowing of this fad.
Hers is a true tale of suffering and pov
erty, says the New York / ress, which will
appeal to every tender-hearted persou ill
this city. Tho daughier of a retired mil
lionaire has an allowance of $3,000 a year
for pin money. Out of it she Is expected to
pay for her clothes and other personal ex
penses—such as gloves, candy, bo ks and
matiuee tickets. One would imagine that
she could manage to squeeze along on her
income, particularly as she had no board to
pay. But she didn’t. In fact, she found
herself very heavily in debt to her dress
maker oue fine morning, tihe struggled on
for a few months, keeping her trou leg to
herself and trying to economize. Finally
a crisis was reached, bhe bod "nothing to
wear,” and could not order any new dresses
without paying something on account. To
make mutters worse the dressmaker began
pressing her for her money.
She went to her mother. She refused to
help her. She appealed to her brother. He
sympathized but couli do nothing as ha
was deeper in debt than his sister. Then
she went to her father. This is substan
tially what this cruel parent said:
“No, my child, I will not holp you pay
any of your debts. Your allowauce is large
enough to supply you with everything you
require. If you go beyond it you must
suffer the consequences. Go to your dress
maker and arrange to pay your bill out of
your future allowance. In the meantime
you have all the clothes any reasonable be
ing could wear for a year. Lot this be a
lesson to you.”
Did the young woman take her father’
advice? Not a bit of it. When she found
that tears and entreaties would not move
him she took counsel with some of her rela
tives ad friends. Tbe result is that a
private entertainment has been arranged
for the benefit of ihe poor unfortunate
millionaire’s daughter. All her friends are
expected to buy tickets, aud tbe proceeds
will go to liquidating the hated milliner's
bill. Perhaps if the father should hear
about it be would veto the proceedings. For
that reason i will not mention the name,
except to say that she is a member of tbe
Four Hundred, and that this is a true tale.
That we should never trust to appear
ance we all know full well, says tbe New
York Tribune ; nevertheless it is a truth
that is very hari to inculcate, especially
with young people, and many a funny and
sometimes a mortllymg experience is the
result of an acquaintance made css .ally
while traveling. “On our last crossing,”
relates a girl in society, w hose people speud
muoh of their time abroad, “there was a
particularly nice-looking man, who, some
way or other, always seemed to be on band
to do little thoughtful things for mamma
and me; and as be was reserved aud rather
melancholy-looking, and quite irreproach
able in his general gel-up an 1 manners, we
f< and him most interest.ng, and bef. re the
voyage was owr we ail became quite inti
mate and ‘chummy.’ it was quite the ac
cepted thing that he should he our daily
esdort on deck, where he made himself
simply inval able by tbe thousand and one
pent" solos, wnich are so comforting eu
'board ship.
About himself, however, and bis own af
fair* he was most reticent, and I noticed
that when he s : n ke of meeting on terra
firms and of our future intercourse he
evaded the question with a sigh and a look
of such deep sad ess that I was almost wild
with curiosity. I told mamma that I was
sure that there was some nustery about
him. She quire agreed with me, aid we
made ms iy attempts to obtain bis con
fidence; but it was always in vain, until
finally for some perfectly preposterous
reason we da ffded that he was an anarchist
aud was vowed to commit some dreadful
deed. YVe would Dot have been at all sur
prised to have beard afterward that he had
done something desperate: hut wo were
hardly prepared for the real denouement,
when, a few weeks afterward, in ono of the
mammoth New Y'ork shops where one can
get everything that can be thought of, I
heard a familiar voice behind me call ‘Lash.’
Turning, I saw our melancholy hero, whose
sad fate was simply to be a floor walker at
V’
The jewels worn bv the German empress
at the last "subscription nail,’’ which took
place in the Berlin Royal opera house a few
davs ago, says the New Y'ork / ribune, ex
cited the envy aud admiration of all women
present. Among lor most conspicuous or
naments were the star of the Order of the
Black Eagle, set in diamonds; a magnifi
cent bro ch with exceedingly largo stones,
to which hung strings of smaller diamonds;
two beautiful diamond stars and a necklace
which cost a princely fortune. A great
diadem of brilliants was on her majesty’s
head, whil • on her shapely arms were
striugs of diamonds. T e empress also
wore .he famous hat buckle of Napoleon 1.,
which as discovered by a Prussian regi
ment iu the conqueror’s carriage after the
battle of Waterloo. Tradition says ihat
the emperor used the buckle on the day of his
coronation in Notre Dame, Dec. 4, 1804. The
treasure was added to the Prussian crown
jewels by Frederick William IK. The king
bad an estimate made of the value of the
stones in tbe bucule and paid the money to
the members of the regiment which owned
it. Since then it has been one of tho prin
cipal trea-ures of the Prussian crown. It*
various parts are used at different times by
the e press, sometimes in one way and
sometimes in another. The late Empress
Augusta wore the atones of tbe famous hat
buckle with es ecial delight. The present
empress, however, is a much handsomer
woman aud shows off the Prussian crowu
jewels to great advantage. The emperor
whs delighted with her appeal an re at the
ball to the great pleasure other majesty,
wbo several years ago was not spoiled by
the atte tions aud compliments of her im
perial c msort.
GIVEN UP BY THE SEA.
Ono of Clark Russell’s < ddest Con
celts Parallel-d in lxperiar.ee.
From the Phtla fetphia Times.
Galveston, March 4.—The Norwegian
bark Eka Anderson came into port a day
or two ago with a strange looking vessel in
tow. This was a small brig of English
build, dis’Jiastud and in need of repairs,
which had been sunk more than fifty years
ego, judging from tts ancient appearance
and awkward rigging, so sailors wbo have
looked at it say.
On the afternoon of Feb. 16 off the coast
of Faroe Islands, where the Elsa Andersen
had been blown by a recant gale, there was
a violent upheaval of tho sea about two
miles distant from the spot where she wno
riding that sent several waves sweeping
over her, which did much damage and
threatened to submerge ber entirely. When
the alarm caused by this sudden sea h and
subsided there was seen atio t a mile off a
wreok which had not been there before the
upheaval of the bottom of the sea. a phe
nomenon corresponding to an earthquake
on land.
The wreck excited much Interest among
the officers and passengers of the Norwegian
vessel, and an order was issued to approach
tbe strange craft, when it was eaen that the
remains of bar Egging, stumps of masts
aud tbe bull itself were covered by thou
sands of sea shells, causing the wreck to
preseut tbe appearance < f the mini ture
ships of shell work to be purchased at any
seaside town. The leak* which bad stink
tbe vessel were now stopped by an accumu
lation of barnacles, and the derehat rode
tbe w ares h ke a duck.
A boat load of sailors was despatched to
board tbe wreok. and they found tb < bold
and the under de ks water tight, save for a
few foet of water. Which, covering tbe
cargo, had sunk her. Hut this carg > and
the other contents of the ship were entirely
destroyed, most of tho former having been
devoured by the denizens of the deep. In what
had evidently been the captain’s berth were
found several iron-bound chests, which had
resisted, to some extent, the ravages of
time and the sea, but, on being opened, the
coutents were found to bo reduced to a sort
of pulp, with the exception of a leather bag.
This had become hardened until it was
necessary to break it open with an are,
when fr nn it poured a quantity of rusty
disks, which being cleaned, proved to be
golden guineas of the year 1809 aud amount
ing to the sum of £1,005. Thera were also
several watches of g dd and a stomacher of
pearls; these, however, are valueless, hav
ing been blackened by the action of tna
water.
This wreck wao attached to the Elsa
Andersen by a cable and towel to this
port, where it is attracting orowds of
visitors. On the fourth day after its de
tachment from tbe bottom of the sea by
the quake, the water was all pumped out
of the derelict, when it za# found to con
tain three skeletons, two of them of men
and the other a woman’s, this last being of
a person of gigantic build, and in life of
nearly seven feet in bight. About the neck
of ore of the male skeletons was a chain of
gold, to whioh was at ached a silver oruci*
fix and evidently a rosary.
A Defiant Bon of Arkansaw.
From the St. Louis Republic.
Col. F. L. Frea told a good story at tbe
Lmdell reoeutly. it smacked strongly of
the early days in Arkansas, when travelers
were supposed to have fled from justice in
the states to find a refuge inside the bound
aries of Arkansas.
“A lot of us were sitting Iu the barroom
of the old Pickwick hotel,” said the colonel,
"aud some of us wore about ready for bed.
As there was only oue sleeping room, and at
least a dozen guests were to be accommo
dated, there was considerable grumbling.
Part of the men went to bed and the rest of
us lighted our pipes and drew up to tbe fire.
The conversation began by the statement
of one man, wbo said be was a native of
New York. Another gave the plaoe of his
nativity as Virginia, another Illinois and
so on until all but one man bad given the
state and county where his birth occurred.
Upon the declaration of eai h that he was
born in a certain state, someone was ready
with a good story to illustrate the character
and habits of its people.
"Ex-Gov. Throckmorton of Texas acted
a chairman or class leader, and the last
man se' med reluctant to divulge tbe secret
of his birthplace. Throckmorton said to tho
siient guest; ‘My friend, we have all given
in our testimony, and tbe oompauy would
be glad to know where you were born.’
“ * Well, gentlemen, since you are bo
anxious to know, I was born in Arkansas.
Now, and you, laugh.'
"The roars of laughter following this ad
mission were deafening, and Throckmorton
ordered a quart of tbe bet bourbon in the
houie, which we finished in honor of our
Arkansas friend.”
Y’ocno Bbioe (on train)-1 do hope that the
passengers won’t find o-t that we have just
been married.
He—l can fix that. YVhen we near a tunnel
I’ll go Into tho smoker.— Brooklyn Lyfe.
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