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WALTER WELLMAN DESCRIBES "UN-
CLE JOE'S" ANIMATED GESTURES.
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Pointing Instantaneous Caaaent Cat.
9perUl Correspondence.
Washington. June 19. In the Ameri
can heuse of commons there are about a
llffaveti rtvntrffe i,1 ic-n Ar thrM million
gestures. Only one of these orators em
braces within himself b11 of the mechan
ical auxiliaries te eloquence, feed I lay
that this grent'American gesticulate? ta
the witty, the. ardent, the rhetorical
member from Danville, the Hen. Jeseph
O. Cannen? Mr. Cannen's repertoire of
gestures u com
prehensive and
complete. He ia
the model for all
aspiring youths,
the object lessen
which all new
comers in the fo
rensic, field care
fully study.
When Mr. Can Can
eon rises in his
seat and calmly
mA A MHOfl itin firA
A ' ' " aiding officer
"Mr. speakeri" there is little pre
monition of the storm that is te come.
But for his curling lip and flashing eye
the stranger in the gallery might be mis
led into supposing this another dull and
drowsy speaker net worth hearing en a
het summer day. Te miss hearing one
of Mr. Cannen's speeches is te visit
Washington in vain, and if the stranger
have experienced friends at hand they
pull him by the coat tail and bid himr
wait.
The stranger is amply repaid for fol
lowing their advice, for in another me-
ment this incar
nation of gesture
bes said geed-by
te his scat and
taken up position
in .the aisle. Here
he stands', with
either hand rest
ing upon a desk,
the nervous
rrltlilticr r9 lila
fingers alene in- ''Mfi
dicating the im
patience of his
soul. Heisenger
for the moment
in which his
words shall have ". tin Keren"
brought en the serious business of the
moment the mechanical eloquence in
which he se delights. A few mere sen
tences and this moment has arrived. Up
comes the strong right arm, and the or
ator, with that member raised aloft, be
gins shaking his index finger.
Reproduced by instantaneous camera
that finger describes the upper half of a
cart wheel in mo
tion. Yeu knew
the spokes are
there, bat you
cannot see them.
The stranger in
the gallery be bo be
cemes alarmed.
"The man will
lese his finger
he will shake it
off I" exclaims the
strauger. But
his friends only
laugh and tell
"I'm talking u te you him the story of
new i" anew page whom
a waggish meuiber once sent round te
Jee Cannen's desk te pick up that gen
tleman's lest finger.
Meanwhile the orator has reached an
other stage of his object lessen in the pos
sibilities of gesti
culation. New he
is emphasizing a
particularly em
phatic and bellig
erent sentence,
and as each word
flies forth, the
right hand, en
which all five fin
gers remain, falls
heavily upon the ,
it Aii-1 a 4 si
Farquhar, of
New Yerk, who
is se unfortunate
as te sit hard by,
Mr. Farquhar
"The people won't stand It !"
knows Mr. Can
non, and he knows what is coming. He
knows that Mr. Cannen's blows of em
phasis have a crescendo movement that
they gradually gather force and increases
in recklessness nnd he seen retreats
amid the smiles of his mere fertunate
neighbors.
Yet Mr. Cannen must strike some
thing with his hands, and he instinctively
leeks about him for another victim.
Judge Caldwell, of Cincinnati, is sitting
clese by, but he is a lame man, and the
orator is tee brave and manly te strike
him. Mr. McKinley is also conveniently
near, but no one was ever known te slap
the back of the leader of the house, nor
te call him "Bill." Mr. Hendersen, of
Illinois, was in
the next seat a
moment age, but
' he also is experi
enced, and when
he saw his friend
and colleague
rise he had con
cluded discretion
was the better
part of valor and
disappeared.
Thus left without
a human striking
"I appeal te the ether side." bag Mr. Cannen
begins te pound the air. New mere
fierce and warlike than ever he draws
bis right fist te his shoulder and then
hurls it forth like a prize fighter who is
about te put the finishing touches upon
the pee pe: s of an already waterlogged
antagonist. Blew fellows blew with in
credible rapidity, and Henry Cabet
Ledge, of Massachusetts, and William
H. Crniu, of Texas, the best boxers in
congress, shake their heads at each ether,
as much as te say: "Hew would you like
te meet Uncle Jee with hard gloves?"
The orator new changes his movement.
He points his finger at his imaginary
enemies en the ether side of the hall, and
keeps it thus
pointed with an
energy and per
sistency which
reuse the admira
tion of all the
sportsmen in the
house. "There,"
says the man in
the gallery te ma
friend the stran
ger, "is Uncle
Jee's first gest
ure. When he
That U what your party first came te Con Cen
UJ1" gress, about fif
teen years age, that was the only motion
he bad. He brought it out en all occa
sions. One day he leveled his finger to
ward the Democrats across the aisle, and
happened te point directly toward the
late 8ara Cox peace te hU ashes. Cox
jumped from his seat at if he had been
fbet and dropped under bis daik, crying
tra
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IffiHB
wijL, YUXn
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eat i he dtd se: "Uent e that I Ueat
de that-H might go cr This eaJly
wm met with rears eflaughter, , li i which
U.laJcheartUyJc4iied. Bntitctred
hlra. Ye str.it cared him of pemtiag.
He at once went te work evolving kis
meest system, In which years of prac
tk have made him perfect He never
dated resume pointing till after peer
gat Cox waa dead and buried."
By this time Mr. Cannen has tired of
prancing about in the aisle, menacing
Ma enemies. Much of hU energy has
expended in
mauling rails,
driving spikes,
cartwheeling his
finger, and In im
itating the old
fashioned wind
mill with hi long
arms. But plenty
of energy still re
mains, and he
quicklyfollews
menace with at-"Ah. mr friendt, that will
tacit. Kusuinir "' ."
along toward the Democratic side of the
house, overturning a chair and upsetting
two or three enspidercs as he gees, he
finally pauses near the aisle, which ia
neutral ground between the two armies,
and there stands as if daring the bravest
of the fee te cress the line and meet him
in deadly combat.
New his manner changes again, and
with one feet upon a chair and his arms
outstretched entreattngly he appeals te
the gentlemen of
the opposition te
think as he thinks
te have some
reason and under
standing. In this
stage Mr. Can Can
eon is winsome,
even fascinating,
A sweet smile
dances upon his
mouth, his eyes
sparkle with geed
humor. But
none of the feo
will respond. Net
a man would
ceme ever and
fight him, nor
"There's the record i read Will any rise in
it for yourselves." his place and con
fess himself in the wrong. Whereupon
the orator's mood changes once mere,
as the sky in the west changes at the ap
proach of a funnel shaped cloud. He
warns the opposition of the consequences
of their perversity, their felly, which he
declares will "never, never de," and in
his eagerness te impress this upon their
minds shakes his head till the stranger
in the gallery becomes alarmed at the
prospect of beholding a suicide by de
capitation. The wicked feo staring blankly at Mr.
Cnunen or smiling incredulously as if
doubting their own sins, the orator
rushes te his desk, picks up a book and
raises it where nil may see. This is one
of his greatest acts, one in which the
art of gesticulation reaches its climax
the tight arm as
rigid m the ped
estal of "Liberty
Enlightening the
World," the left
sinuous and suake
like, tempting the
enemy te beheld
and be destroyed.
A smile of tri
umph i8upen tlie
orator's face us he
assumes that the
enemy aw as
much discomfited
as he thinks they
ought te be. Then VA
he shakes the vol
ume violently in
wall simulated
indignation till
"These are the facts 1"
the leaves drop out and flutter te the
fleer like exaggerated snowflakes. But
no snow or storm can cool the ardor of
the orator. He is afire and must burn
out. A few mere gyrations, a few hard
blows at an imaginary antagonist with
the new sadly wrecked book as a weapon,
and the volume is flung upon a desk with
se much violence that the ink will fclep
ever and tlie penholders dauce n jig with
the eraser. Then Mr. Cannen sits down,
the ccele.3t iu.ui in the house, and there
is applnnsj e:i the fleer and in the gal
leries. Walteh Wellman.
A WESTERN MAN'3 RECORD.
The Aitlva Career of Bergunnt-at-Arma
Vnlentlnc.
Hen. Edward K. Valentine, of West
Point, Neb., who has ben elected by the
Republican senatorial caucus sergeaut-at-arms
of the United States senate, te
succeed Mr. William P. Canaday, whose
resignation will take effect at the clese
of the fiscal year, is a pleasant, genial
man. He was born at Keosauqua, Van
Duren county, la., forty-seven years age.
He is a printer by trade, and worked en
The Burlington
Hawkcye bofero
Frank Hat ten
took held of it.
W h i 1 e sticking
type he employed
his apare mo
ments in study
ing law, and
when he left the
case te go te the
war he took his
ta: wt, tv; ' 'v-
still carries this F ,K- valentine.
implement of his trade, and piopescs
never te part with it, saying jocularly
that he will always be nble te fall back
upeu it te earn a living in case of neces
sity. At the breaking out of the war he en
listed in the Sixty-beventh Illinois in
fantry and was promoted te be a second
lieutenant. Eeiug honorably discharged
he re-enlisted in 18C3 as a private in the
Seventh Iowa cavalry, and was pro
moted te be the adjutant of the regi
ment. Ha served until June, 18G8, hav
ing been twice breveted for "efficient
and meritorious servicM." He went te
Nebraska in leOO and was appointed
three years later register of the United
States land effice at Omaha. While in
this position he finished the btudy of law
and was admitted te the bar and en
gaged actively in practice until the fall
of 1875, when he was elected judge of the
sixth judicial district. Three years later
he came te cengrefs and served through
the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh con
gresses. DUcovery of a New Violet.
A new violet has just been discovered
by Mr. A. P. Gorden-Cumraings en his
place near Sykesville, Md. The foliage
leaves of this violet are longer than these
of the ordinary wild or cultivated violet.
The flower leaves of the new violet are a
soft white, striped or mottled, with light
and dark purple. Unlike the ether culti
vated violet, the new one is a single vio
let. All the cultivated violets have
hitherto, without exception, been dou
ble. Single violets, until this discovery
of Mr. Cammings, have been without
perfume, but the Sykesville cultivated
single violet, says The Court Journal,
has a wealth of rich perfume that can
not be surpassed. These sweet plants,
Daphne Odera and Olee Fragrans, de
net give off mere delightful odors than
this mw violet
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A VISI1 TO DR. HOLMES.
ANNIE ISABEL WILLIS INTERVIEWS
THE AUTOCRAT.
What Me Ua In 8ny of "The OikmiIhr of
the riaue" ir U Net In Lere with
the Autograph? Hunter "Itr. Mvriy
nam" In the FWh.
(Special Correnemlrnce,l
Bosten, June 19, Armed with a let
ter of introduction te the "Autocrat of
the Breakfast Table," I went one sunny
afternoon te his home en Beiiren street
The letter was given te him as he sat at
lunch, and seen a maid came into the
reception room, where two men were do
ing some decorating and arranging, te
request thein te leave the room for a few
minutes, "becauae the doctor's coming
In here," she said, and her tene implied
that he could net en any account be
looked at by them. The men withdrew,
and in a moment a little white haired,
pleasant faced man entered, nnd bow
ing said with a smile, "Will you come
np te my study?"
Pleased at the prospect of seeing this
famous workshop of brains I followed
Dr. Helmes up one flight of stairs nnd
through folding doers into a spacious
room, whose entire side opposite the
deer seemed filled by a large bay win
dow. It was a chrrmlng study.
Dr. Hemer, was m an after luncheon
mood, and he talked pleasantly te mu
net much, but humorously and cpi gram
matically. In reply te questions about
Ids poems he said but little. When
asked if the incident recorded in "The
Opening of the Piane" were true he
laughed and said: "We nil lie some
times, but that was se. The piano was
a 'Clementi' selected by Dr. G. K. Jack Jack
eon, a famous musician of the day. The
incident of the little girl, Catherine, was
true." And he added: "I remember the
smell 01 mu uiiuiie varuisu iu hub uay.
The memory or smells, you knew, never
dies." He had alluded te it in the poem
speaking ef:
When the wondrous box was opened that had
come from ever sea,
With Its itnell of mastic varnish and IU flash of
Ivery keys.
Tlie story is a pretty ene, The "Clem
enti" piano had just arrived and been un
boxed, and
The children all grew fretful In the restlessness of
Jey
when their mother asked her daughter
te play, and seen
Fleatlnj from Up and finger arese the "Vesper
hymn."
A neighbor's child heard the musie
and crept up te the open deer.
Just as the "Jubilate" In threaded whisper (lles
"Open It I open It, lady I" the little maiden cries
CFershe thought 'twas a staging creature, caged
In a box she heard);
"Open It I open It, lady I and let ma see the bird I"
Dr. Helmes thinks that "Grandmoth
er's Story of the Battle of Bunker Hill"
is ene of the best of his descriptive
pieces. "The Aviary," tee, he regards as
a pretty geed thing in the way of de
scription. Then, letst he should be
thought praising his own works, he
added, "Nobody understands a poem as
its author, and nobody cares for it half
as much. Se when a father says he likes
lib baby he doesn't mean that it Ls the
finest baby that ever was."
Dr. Helmes is an honorary member of
the class of '87, Wellesley college, nnd
visited the college several times. He
spoke warmly of the institution, saying
that it was "a delightful occasion te see
se many young women grew up te the
full stature of womanhood." no was
especially struck with the botanical and
chemical departments and their com
pleteness of apparatus, as well as with
the library prospects. But the Bight
which most interested him was what he
termed the "village of trunks" upstairs.
The hundreds of trunks belonging te fac
ulty and students in the main college
building are stored during term time in
long lefts en its fifth fleer. The beards
of the reef slope down en cither side and
the trunks are placed in rows according
te tlie numbers of the owners' roeni3,
leaving pathways between.
Of his present work Dr. Helmes said:
"I am particularly lazy just new, but I
hope te de a little mere. I like te write
after breakfast for about two or three
hours before neon." His days are spent
in reading, writing and taking exercise,
both walking and driving. He does net
drive except in summer, but patronizes
btreet cars in winter.
That Dr. Helmes has a great dislike of
autograph hunters is evident in his con
versation. He spoke wrathfully of a
man who had just tent a request, inclos
ing a stamped euvelepe and two cards
for autographs. "I wrote en one," said
he, "because the man had made every
thing ready nnd convenient, but I would
net write en the ether, and I hepe it will
be a lessen te him."
Dr. Helmes says that iu his poem called
"Contentment" there ia a curious resem resem
biance te a piece entitled "My Wants,"
by Jehn Quincy Adams, who also quoted
the lines at the beginniug of the piece.
"Te the best of my knewledge," said he,
"I did net think of that poem while I was
writing mine. Its mood is entirely dif
ferent." It begins:
Utile I ask; my wants are few;
I only wish a hut of stone,
A very plain brownstone wUl de,
That I may call my own;
And clese at hand Is such a one,
In yonder street that fronts the sun.
The Helmes residence is a brownsteno
front, en Beacon street, Bosten. The
rear windows leek out upon the Charles
river, and for this reason the poet's study
is at the back of the house, quite apart
from city sights and sounds. I imagine
it is quite ns much from a kindly desire
te satisfy the curiosity of strangers who
want te get a glimpse of his house, as te
save wear and tear en his doorbell that
he has had his name inscribed en the sil
ver rim which encircles it. Thoheuso is
artistically furnished. Tlie vestibnle and
hall are much the same as these lu ether
well ordered homes of the same sort, and
the reception room differs from the usu
al kind only in having a small carved
desk between the windows.
The study is the heart of the house,
and its great bay window is the most in
teresting part of the room. Frem it ene
can se the new bridge- which connects
Bosten and Cambridge and the latter
city itself, Dr. Helmes' birthplace. He
has seen from this window many changes
in the charming old place, "chiefly fires,"
he says, -of which there have been many
since he lived opposite. He has described
his window as follews:
Through my north lndew, In the n Intry weather,
My airy oriel en the rlrer shore,
I watch the sea fowl as tbey fleck tegethrr.
Where late the boatman flashed his dripping ear.
The gull, high floating, like a sleep unladen,
Lets the loose water w aft blm as It will;
The duck, round breasted as a rustic maiden.
Paddle and plunges, busy, busy still.
After a while Dr. Helmes drifted in
his conversation te ether than personal
topics, talking of various people and
things. He ceased te be the reserved
man of letters submitting te an inter
view, and became the delightful conver
sationalist and the attentive listener.
When I rose te go, after a pleasant peri
od of this sort of conversation, he re
minded me that I ought te leek out of
his window and see the river and the
new bridge. The window was a place
full of suggestions. Acress the river
lay Cambridge, the heme of Longfellow,
Lewell and the Autocrat himself, where
mads the famous " Washington Elm."
ttnrterwhicn Washington u
of the American army, and
situated the first college founded irT
country. Harvard university. Nearci
flowed the stream celebrated iu song and
prose, of which Longfellow wrete:
Riser I that 1b silence wlndeat
Through tha meadows bright and free,
Till at length thy rest thou andest
la tb besom of the seal
Four long yean of mingled feeling,
ltalf in rest and bait In strife,
I hate seen thy waters steal! ng
Onward lire the stream of Ufa.
Dr. Helmes has been said te have "an
entire want of reverence for everything
which is net naturally and rationally
worthy of reverence." And it has been
added, "This tendency sometimes makes
him strike tee heavy blows at the nar
row creeds of men." His exact position
is best defined by words from his own
lips: "I may speak slightingly of creeds,
but no one ever heard me speak lightly
of the Master."
Yeu have heard of the three doctors
who are the best physicians "Dr. Diet
and Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merryman." The
last must mean the cheery little man
who is the subject of this sketch. His
aim has been te make life less hard for
mankind by administering the best of
all stimulants and revlvants a geed
hearty laugh. He is a doctor te the
mind as well as the body, and may be
regarded as our national physician. His
pleasant doses may net avail iu the euro
of dyspepsia or cancer, but let any ene
4ake a geed spoonful of his famous med med
icine for melancholia, heartache, homo home
sickness or hypochondria, and he will
thereafter testify te the efficacy of this
treatment Annie Isabel VYii.US.
A California Sunday,
San Francisce, June 14. Te an east
ern man the most striking feature of
California life is the Sunday business.
Here are churches and church people,
as in ether cities, and these are net uu uu
like the same classes of peeple in Phila
delphia or Bosten, But net only are the
churches open here en Sundays, but the
theatres, baseball games, sheeting tour
naments, fishing and hunting parties,
picnics and all manner of pleasure Beck
ing go en in full blast Market street,
at the ferry decks, is indeed a sccne of
lively activity en Sunday morning. Fol
lowing en each ether's heels are bands of
musie and uniformed ranks of men
inarching te take beats or special trains
te spend the day in festivity at seme
island or greve resort.
The peeple have beceme accustomed te
this sort of thing until it docs net strike
them as being anything out of the ordi
nary everyday occurrence. But what
strikes me as the most amusing fonture
of the whole scene is the heathen Chinee,
who apparently governs himself by his
own Asiatic calender. In China there is
no such division of time as weeks. They
have no Saturday for a halt holiday and
no Sunday for a day of rest One day is
the same as another, and as ene passes
through the outlying market gardening
districts hereabout he sees the industri
ous heathen busily plowing in his corn
or hoeing iu his cabbage field. On the
streets their laundry wagons keep en
their rounds in search of soiled linen or
delivering big baskets filled with starched
nnd blueing daubed wash of previously
gathered garments. At their laundries
the lines nre filled with drying shirts
flaunting in the breeze, and in their fac
tories the sound of the hammer and the
click of the sewing macliine is heard the
same as en ether days.
Thus is seen en Sundays here the cos ces cos
mepolitaniiim of the most cosmopolitan
city en the North Americau continent.
W. G. Bfnten.
Was It Human Nature?
Amuny, June 10. Tlie season of va
cating the cities for country resorts hav
ing arrived, the question of "Where
shall we spend the summciV" is an all
important one. I was going up town in
a street car the ether evening when two
young ladies tripped into thescats direct
ly in front of me and began a conversa
tion for the evident benefit of the passen
gers. Said number ene te her companien:
"Pepper wanted us te go te the country
this bummer, but I says te inemmer, 'I
won't go te the horrid mountains; let's
gee Saratoga for a month or two, then
for a few weeks te Bar Harber.' That
settled it, for inemmer and pepper al
ways de as I say, even when at Sara
toga. I wonder which is the best hotel,
the Grand Union or the Staats? Gucs3
we'll step at the Union. They say it's
splendid early, and I um just tee awfully
fend of Saratoga life, you knew. Now New Now
pert is just n little bit tee quiet for me."
And thus the silly little body chattered
en for twenty minutes.
Yesterday I saw my young lady en
beard the 0 o'clock train en the Susque
hanna read. "Memmer" was there, tee,
and se was "pepper." They were going
te spend thive weeks near the lakes in
tlie Helderbcrgs, where the beard is four
dollars) u week and tripe and salt mack
erel the standard dishes. W.
Dentil's Htiiltleu Hum me in.
By the sudden death the ether day of
Francis W. Hill, Mnine is deprived of a
prominent citizen and the Democratic
party of that state of a leader, for it was
only a few weeks age that he received
and accepted the gubernatorial nomina
tion. Mr. Hill was 70 years old and a
resident of Exe
ter, Me. Over
half a century
age he began u
business career
that has been
noted for its un
interrupted sue
ecu;, nnd at the
time of his death
he was probably
oneof therichcEt fuancii w. mix.
men in the commonwealth. He owned
jnore real estate than any ether jwrsen
in the eastern part of the state, was ene
of the leading spirits in the directory
of the Maine Central railroad, and had
large interests in reveral banks and finan
cial institutions of kindred nature. Be
tween .16.00 and the time of his demise
he held nearly every office iu Maine ex
cept that of chief executive. He leaves
a widow, ene daughter and a con. Death
was caused by pneumonia, which cul
minated in heart failure.
The Testimonial te 1'ranie.
Mr. W. II. Brearly, of Detroit, an
nounces that the dollar subscriptions te
the fund for the proposed testimonial
from America te France are still pour
ing in. The Masonic fraternity have
specially interested themselves in the
affair, for both Washington and Lafay
ette were rreem.uens, the latter having
been initiated iu the St. Jehn's ledge at
Newark, N. J. Referring te this, Mr.
W. B. Melish, a prominent 33d degree
Masen of Cincinnati, says: "The Mar
quis Lafayette was an energetic, loyal
and enthusiastic Masen. Numerous Ma
sonic bodies in this country bear his
name. While in this cenntry during the
revolution he frequently attended Ma
sonic bodies in company with Bra
Gea. Geerge Washington."
W. H. Bfearley, of" The Dotrelt Jour
nal, is receiving many contributions te
the fund for the purchase of a testi
monial from America te France. The
subscriptions are limited te $1 each, and
among theso already identified with the
movement are President Harrison and
the governors of nearly half the states
pf the Union.
L m
Wk-ere "rlgli?
tlie Mera Peaeernr
"Wlsnrd" rillsnn'e IT
William Curtis' Charming
ICepyrlfjht lijr Anwrlenn l'rnwi AtneUatn
THE OLD KEARNY IIOMIS.
Onoef the eldest houses in the state of
New Jersey is that belonging te the
Kearny' estate in Newark. It Is n low
frame building, and was the boyhood
home of Gen. Philip Kearny. The
heuse was built by the general's grand
father, and ia new owned by a member
of the family who lives abroad. It is
generally speken of as the Ogdcn house,
as it has been occupied by the Ogden
family for ever n quarter of a century.
The upright part of the heuse, with the
wing at the left of the entrance, is a
rather recent addition. Tlie old Dutch
deer is just ns it was made years age,
when a Btreet deer was se constructed
that Meln Ilerr could open ene half and
take his case leaning upon the ether. Iu
the interior there have been few change;
there are the wide, old fashioned fire
places, with fender nnd andirons, in
every room, with the high white man
tels characteristic of colonial architect architect
nre. Gen. Kearny's father owned much
property in the neighborhood, nnd the
DRAWINQ KOOM, KKAltNY MANSION.
grounds surrounding the place were for
merly quite cxtensive, sloping en ene
side down te the Passaie river. A long
lane led from the heuse te the entrance
gate at the feet of the hill.
If you visitNewark, npcrfect stranger,
aud inquire the way te the Kcamy
heuse, the native directs youatenco te
the "mansion" or the "castle," as he
ealls it. This is n place vastly tnore im
portant te bis thinking than the little,
low brown heuse en the ether side of the
Passaie. The "mansion," as the naine
by which it is commonly known would
suggest, is an imposing structure of
brick and brown stone, with its ivy
grown tewer, its bay windows, bread
veranda aud walled torrace. It was
built by Gen, Kearny after his mar
riage. This heuse is ewned by the gener
al's son, Mr. Jehn Watts Kearny, who
lias lived here with his family for the
past six years. '
THOMAS A. nUIBON'fl KESIDENCK.
In this heuse are many interesting
souvenirs of the general. There is alne
a bronze bust inscribed:
Gen. l'IinJl KEARNY.
Natus 1814. Obit 1661.
Presented te Mr. Jehn Yntts Kearny by the
Veterans of the New Jersey Kearny Brigade.
The heuse where a real, live American
count lives cannot fail te be interesting.
When the heuse happens te belong te
the Chevalier Edisen, grand cress of the
legion of honor and wizard of Llewellyn
park, Orange, it it of interest because he
lives in it and also for the reason that it
is quite a castle in itself. "Glcnment,"
it is called and, as the photograph Rhews,
it is a handseme rcsidonce of imposing
appearance. The lower story of the
heuse is of brick, the remaining part of
weed. One thing btruck me as particu
larly novel about the place and that was
its six towering chimneys, only two of
which Bhew in the picture.
Over the reef of the conservatory in
summer is stretched an awning and here,
with a beautiful vlew spread out bofero
them, the family often sit of an after
noon and any chance caller is conducted
THE EDISON DRAWINQ KOOM.
te this spot and regaled with a cup of
tea. The grounds are net extensive
just large enough te admit of a pretty
lawn in front of the heuse, a fairly geed
sized garden, with a handsome carriage
house at the rear and a poultry yard.
The interior of Mr, Edisen's heuse is
naturally quite elegant in all its appoint
ments. There is n spacious aud lefty
drawing room at the left of, the hall as
you enter. There nre kuue handsome
paintings urien tUe wall, many ncli
curies, a little Florentine table, a cab
inet with an array of Sevres vases and
Dresden figures. Many charming uud
valuublebita of china were purcha&cd
last summer by Mrs. Edisen while
abroad. The furniture is of crimson
satin, with rich damask hangings at
doers and windewB. The beauty of the
drawing room is the corner where the
piano stands, with a dainty little figuru
in white marble near by; just ever it
hangs a painting of Capri, ene of the
really geed paintings lu the house. The
piano is a beauty in rosewood, with
much ornamentation.
The dining lull is a stately room en
the north side of the house; here nre the
conventional oak wainscetting and high
oak mantel; the furniture is ahe oak,
the chairs being upholstered in dark
green velvet; the oak fleer is nearly cov
ered with a Persian rug. Mrs. Edisen's
sitting room en the second fleer is such
a charmlug room with its low, luxurious
divan piled high with cushions, its easy
chairs, pretty work table nnd writing
desk that it is no wonder thes family
call it the plcasantcst room in the house.
Livingston, Stateu Island, is famous
in two ways: here are the cricket
sreunds and here lives the jreniui of
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avenues, about ten w
the station, is the dwell
Curtis has occupied for ever
years. The honse was built bcl
Queen Anne ciildomle in architccl
had gotten abroad, and is an unureten.
tieus frame building with n low, bread
veranda in front overlooking a l.uvn that
is absolutely as perfect aa a lawn very
well can be.
As you take in the houeo with its sur
roundings you think for the moment
that you nre looking at a bit of Engllnh
scenery, everything is be trim and com
plete. There in a high nrber vitm hedge
about two sides of the placi, many
evergreen trees carefully pruned and
trimmed, with n brook pursuing the
even tenor of its way through ene part
of the lawn, nnd every inch of ground
occupied iu being cither useful or orna
mental. Mr. Benner's estate adjoins Mr.
Curtis' place en one side, aud that of his
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father-in-law, Mr. Shaw, upon the ether.
A carringe heuse aud Mnble nre at ceme
distatice from the house, and in an in
closure grazes a Jersey cow.
Mr. Curtis is n great pedestrian, taking
long walks about Stateu Island, nearly
the whele of which he has traversed at
ene time and another. Mr. Curtis' Stat
en Island farm is whero he upends the
winter; in summer the' family go te their
ether home at Aehfield, Mass. There he
has a much larger heuse nnd n vast num
ber of books. His library at Staten Isl
and is a goodly sized ene, the walls of
his study being lined with bookcases
reaching half way up te the celling.
Drawn up te the desk where Mr. Curtis
does most of his writing is an easy
chair and near by a comfortable louuge.
Comfert and convenience rather than
clegancoare the characteristics of the
place. In the etudy tire ceme interesting
souvenirs a photograph of Thackeray
which he gave Mr. Curtis, the first pub
lication of the "Sketch Boek" and ene of
Bryant's first volumes. Mr. Curtis
ependn ene day in the week at the Harp
er building in New Yerk, but the place
is tee noisy and tee crowded for liim.
He prcfeis te de his work nt his own
home, FitANcr-'i M. Smith.
fllud te Wear a Queen's Old Clethes.
New Yerk, June 10. It is net gener
ally supposed that auy soclety woman in
New Yerk arrays herself in anylwdy'a
old clothes, but a few of them havodeno
se, and been proud enough of the fact te
tell about it, though it does net seem te
have reached the ears of theso gifted and
imaginative writers for seme of the pa
pers whose vivid descriptions of the pet
ticoats nud nightgowns of seciuty lead
ers whom they de net hesitate te stweify
would scorn te indicate a rtwirknble in
timacy iu the boudoirs of these ladies.
But there are women of abundant
wealth and refined taste who wear sec
ond bund clothes, though they de net go
down te Bleecker street te buy the gor
geous satins and cottony velvets which
hang at the doers of the old clothes shops
iu such tempting magnificence
Ne, the possession of these rasteffs im
plies a veyage across the sea, and stamps
the owner a once as u woman of means
and opportunities. Fer they are the
once or twice worn toilets of royalty,
and are only te be obtained by the fortu fertu fertu
naeo few who can gut in te the annual
Kile of costumes of Qunen Murgherlta,
of Italy. And it by no means fellows
that becaiwe they ure second handed
they nre cheap. The modern Icings nud
queens npcnr te have degenerated from
the lavibhucsH of splendor attributed te
old time sovereigns and te have n thrifty
satisfaction iu turning nn lienet iwiiny.
Queen Murgherlta is a beautiful worn wern
nu, and is said te lie ene of the best
dressed iu Europe. The exigencies of
court life, with its brilliant pageants and
ceremonials, rpqitire a great many splen
did toilets iu the course of the year, ns
the Mine one can only flgure at two or
three of these grand functions. Ner can
it Imj supjwsed that any pretty wemau
neglects te live up te her opportunities
and te fulfill these requirements. Se at
the cud of the year the accumulation of
scarcely worn fine gowns is sold te the
hiVhest bidders by n court chamberlain
or seme ether royal functionary with
much pomp and circumstance. Happy
is the American woman with money in
her purse who gets into one of these
most exclusive auctions, but eh) thrice
and four times happy, as Mr. Virgil re
marks, the woman who bring3 home
with her, as did the wlfe of u rich New
Yerker lately, a sumptuous gown of
green velvet, with a train of royal length
and strange, unique metallic embroider
ies, calculated te make every woman
who saw her in It mentally Inquire,
"Wheiu in the world did she get that
gewn'r" Hkkry It Uij.iet.
A I'lgiiuclniis Npurruvr's I'liiilnlimeut.
The female sparrow, it appears, rc
Bcnts neglect as spiritedly as the Nine
teenth century American wemun. The
story comes from Scranteu, Pa., of a
pair of English sparrows that began
housekeeping recently in a little box
fastened te thu top of a pole. The head
of the family went away ene morning
and didu't return till sunset, leaving his
wife te leek after all the work. When
he get back his tail feathers were gene,
and he bore general evidence of having
been whipped in a fight The female
sparrow promptly divorced him, get a
new husband and went en with her sum
mer's task of raising a nestful of little
ones.
Hurled Treasure Uueaitbcd.
Buried treasure is oftener written
about than found, but it is announced as
a fact that Victer Beulet, a peer work
man of Keenville, Pa has made u lucky
htrike. The path from his heuse te the
gate had worn down se that seme stones
lii it became troublesemo. One morning
lie took a crowbar aud began prying
them up. He found that thuy were cob
blestones that bad been driven into the
ground, forming a circle. Bcnerth them
was a large, flat stone. Ili3 curiosity
was excited, und he pried up the latter,
when he discovered beneath it a bra&s
kettle full of money,
9
CHARLES A. LEE.
COL. 3. n. STANLEY. K. B. rLXTCHU.
The occasion is the sixth annual own
vcutien of the National Editorial aaMeb
atteu, an organization made np of dele
gates from all the state and local edito
rial associations in the country, and rep
resenting about one-fifth of the member
ship of these bodies. The meetings are
by no m pans the j unkcts which the meet meet
ingsef editorial associations used te be.
The association has a solid purpose, and
the papers which are read and tha dis
cussions which fellow are generally el
great practical value Tlie cenntry edi
tor aud but few of the larger dty papers
are represented in the association is
generally the publisher as well, and it Is
the aim of the association te systematise
the newspaper business.
This meeting will be ene of unusual
importance, for nt it will be concluded
the arrangements which were began by
the executive committees of tha respec
tive associations te affiliate the National ',
Editorial association nnd the American ,4
Newspaper Publishers' association, tha
latter organization being the strongest
newspaper association in the country. 2
It is comjiesed of 1S3 of the leasing ;
dailies und a few large weeklies sad !
represents evor one-half of tha total' J
nowspaper circulation of the United .
States. Tills affiliation will placa tha
country odlter in touch with his metre- j
pelltan brother and be a very long step .
toward unifying and strengthening tha 4
guild, 1eth as a business and a prefesv
sien. ,
The deliberations of the convention .
will be held in the state house, and
it will remain in session from June 88 te i
87. The members will be entertained
during their stay in Bosten by tha Bea- A
ten Press club. Jfc
Tim iirecldent nf tlm Vntlnnal fVKinrtal C'
li ' i- r .- j r:r iiZZ' fW fi
uwecmiiuii is wr. volumes a. ube, exutec . rp '
nml m-nttrfetn nt Tlie PnwtnnVat rt t -l
Gazette and Chronicle Cel. J. B. sKaa-J ;
ley, of Tlie Greenville (Ala.) AdToeaU.l'Cj
is vice president. Mr. -A. R. Lewria, of J
The Dallv News, of Elirin. Bis., istnaa..
nrcr. Mr. William Kennedy, editor of W7 1
i nu evening niauunrn ei x-eiibtui, trs,,; r
is recording secretary and Mr. J. W V.
Deano, formerly of the staff of TneOftle '
State Journal, new state librarian efv'1
Ohie, is corresponding secretary. ThaJt'
second and third vice presidents are Mr.t ,
E. B. Fletcher, of The Merris (Bis.) Her-, '"j
nlil ai1 Hf. V, XtT fit-Aiai APtialfisS.k'
aid! Columbia, Me.' The bread ttnttew.
which the association covers is shown "
by the nlwve list of officers, representing ,;i j
as they de nearly every section in the g-
J II1UII. &
Outside of the social features of the
convention the following addresses will v
be delivered:
Address of welceme by uoremer Drsekttt aw , ''--' .5
rcspeiwt by the president of tha asaectaUgai -0i
of The Ulobe; poem by W. S. Paber of Tb War, ;!,',
K. W. STKI'IIENS. A. H. LOWRIK.
WW, KENNEDY. J. W. DOANE.
of (lrnnd Junction, Cole ; paper by E. W.
Stephens, of Columbia, Me.; paper, "Tha Ex-lt-rli'iice
of tlie Country Editor," by Hen. Oaergs
(1. Washburn, of Klyrla, O,; paper, "WeBtea't
Truss Association.," by Mrs. Marian A. McBrlda.
of liosten: pap-T, "The llallreads and the rresa,"
by II. tuples, of Tha Heur, Norwalk, Coen.;
CuL James W. Kcett, editor of The Chicago
Herald and president of the American News
nper Publishers' association; "The Seuth," by
Hen. L. Hcnsley Orubbs, of Tha News, Decatur,
Ala.; (J. II. Ilaskette, of The Bsnner, NashrUla,
Tenn.; "The Emancipation of the Tarty Press,"
by Hen. Carl Hnyder, of The Nonpareil, Council
Bluffs, la ; discussions en "AdTertlslng."
"Copyright" and "Libel Law;" paper by W. H.
CejwlanJ, of Ban Antonie, Tex.; papers by Mrs,
E. ii. II. Merrill, of Dostou, and W. U. IJrearley,
of Detroit.
A!XAN FOBJOW.
Every one knows the meaning of the
tenn "pin money," but the origin of the
phrase has been involved in tome ob
scurity. The Dry Goods Chronicle says
that long after the invention of pins, ia
the Fourteenth century, the maker waa
allowed te sell them In open shop onlvea
the 1st aud !M of January, It was (nan
that the court ladies and city damea
flecked te the depots te buy them, hav
ing been flibt provided with money by
their husbands. When the pins became
cheap and common the ladies spent
their allowances en ether fancies, bat
the term pin meney remained in vegna.
Nominated After Leng Struggle,
Werth W. Dickersen, the man who
wa3 nominated recently en the 207th
ballet by the Democrats of the Sixth
Kentucky district
te succeed Sena Sena
eor Carlisle in the
United States
heuse of repre
sentatives, is net
yet 40 years of
age, having been
born Nev. 20,
1831, at Sherman,
Grant county,,
Ky. IIe received.
a public school'
education aud in
187(1 luxr-in tlm
study eflaw, so-wenra w' ".
curing admission te the bar two yean
later. IIe has served several terms ia
the legislature of his native state and ia
prominent as a Masen and Odd Fellow.
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