ARLINGTON. A PEACEFUL SPOT WHERE RE POSE OVER 10,000 SOLDIERS. The Place Consecrated to the Past— The Mansion of Robert E. Lec— An Estate Beloved of Nature Faithful Old Slaves. A delightful ride of three miles, through historic Georgetown, past old buildings in which George Wiishington dined, under the shadow ot the famous college, over Aqueduct Bridge and the beautiful Potomac, past Fort Meyer, where the signal service prognosticators are trained with military precision and discipline, and we are at the gates of Arlington, says a correspondent. It is like entering a new world. Behind lie commerce, wealth, ambition, politics, the present, the future. Once in Arlington you live in the past, and the past alone. The road winds among the oaks, elms, maples, magnolias, many kinds of evergreens, arbor vit® and thousands of flowering shrubs. The air is laden with the perfume of flowers, the sward is green and restful, the shade I cooling. But the marvelous beauties of I nature, here spread with lavish hand, are as nothing compared to the real Arling ton. These natural attractions are but ' the fair and graceful body. Arlington possesses a soul. Under the sward repose the remains of 16,288 soldiers. Four thousand four hundred and forty-nine of these are un known. Vast as are these figures, one can easily believe them true, for on either side the long, regularly formed rows of small, white headstones extend, perspec tives of green between lines of white as far as vision can reach. The grounds are perfectly kept. There is no grave that has become sunken, and none is marked by an elevation of the ground. Smooth and even is the surface everywhere. Walk among these stones and in ten minutes one may see such typical American names as Sherman, Whittier, Spaulding, Jack son, Lee, Buchanan, Lawrence, Sheridan, Grant, Randolph, Allen. One of the Jacksons bears the initials "U. S. G." and nearby, oddly enough, is an "Andrew Grant." Not far away is "George Washington," nnd within a stone's throw two other AVashingtons— "A." and "J." Plenty of good Irish names may be seen, too, and German as well, significant of the valiant part borne in the struggle by the sons of these countries. Silent witnesses of war's havoc are all these stones, but more es pecially the ones occasionally come upon marked "a leg," or "an arm." A few of these unidentified members w#re honored with separate burial, but in one great pit were thrown the bones of 2111 unknown soldiers, gathered after war from the fields of Bull Run and the route to the liappahannock. Over them is a cannon surmounted monument bearing the inscription: "Their remains could not be identi fied, but their names and deaths are re corded in the archives of their country, and its grateful citizens honor them as of their noble army of martyrs. May they rest in peace." Frequently one notes the name of a woman, and on inquiry is surprised to learn that the remains of several hundred women repose here in honor. But in this there is nothing inappropriate, and on the records all go down as "soldiers," for they were the wives of officers who fell in battle, or nurses in the field hos pitals. Surely these women who kept the homes and comforted the wounded and dying may fittingly be included with those of whom the roadside tablet sings: On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of tho dead. Driulng through the cemetery these iron tablets with raised letters of white are seen by the way. Hundreds of thou sands of visitors have seen and admired thein—never did poet have a better set ting for his verses—but few know the origin of the lines. They were written by Theodore O'Hara, a gifted Irish- Kentuckian soldier and scholar, and read by him on the occasion of the unveiling of a monument to the dead of the Mexi can war at Frankfort, Ky., many years ago. As one enters Arlington by the west gate nearly the whole of this beau tiful poem is shown him, verse by verse, as he drives along. By the roadside stand many pretty monuments of officers and heroes. But of greater interests than any other object within the tract of 1130 acres is Arling ton House, a massive structure with a great portico of doric columns. Here Robert E. Lee was wed in 1831 to Mrs. Curtis, granddaughter of George Wash ington, and here he lived, when not away in his country's service, for thirty years. The old house stands just as it stood seventy-five years ago. Though stripped of its antique furniture and invaluable relics of Washington its precious mem ories still cling to it—memories which all the fortunes of war and tragedies of fate cannot take away from it. A year or two ago its outer walls had become much faded, but have recently been painted their old yellow cojor. Tlie servants' quarters, tho detached kitchen and other outbuildings are pre served intact. In a part of the houses now lives the family of the officer in charge of the cemetery, and the hall and southern parlors are given up to tho use of the public. A register is kept, in which 40,000 visitors record their names each year, and on the walls hang maps of the cemetery, the diagram showing every grave and the names of all the known dead. A magnificent estate was this of General Lee. Step out on the portico and behold the panorama. In the fore ground a sharp declivity; at its brow,but a few yards from the house, the grave aud new monument of Sheridan. Then a fast sloping lawn, next a forest of magnolias, oaks, maples, all vine clad or surrounded by flowering shrubs; a wind ing driveway; the stone wall with its beautiful gates made of columns from tho old War < )ffice and the old Patent Office; just outside the Alexandria Georgetown turnpike on which Washington rode many and many a time en route to or from Mt. Vernon, and beyond this the Poto mac with its moving ships and boats. Across the Potomac—all Washington, the distant hills green in the background; the great Capitoi, overshadowing every thing; the monument, nearer by, rising whiter and grander than from any other view; the red brick Pension Office, the Treasury, the White House barsly dis cernible, the War, State and Navy building. Spanning the Potomac is Long Bridge, over which the armies passed, thousands of them, to return to this eternal camping ground. Near the mansion is a pavilion mod eled after the temple of Fume, and bear ing on its frieze the names of Washing ton, Grant, Farragut and Lincoln, and on its columns Garfield, Thomas, Meade, McPlierson, Sedgwick, Reynolds, Hum phreys and Mansfield. Near by is the Monument to the Unknown, and just be yond it the beautiful amphitheatre, 100 feet in diameter, with chaste Corinthian rostrum and colonnade, wherein many thousands sat upon the green sward Decoration Day and joined the anniversary exercises. The greenhouses are fairly bursting with flowers to be used in the decoration of the graves, and the colored man, bent and old, whom we see ambling along, watering pot in hand, is Wesley Syfax, who once was Robert E. Lee's slave. Thirty years ago there were 200 slaves on the estate, and five of them still remain, so much attached to the place that they could not be driven away. They live in little cabins near by, and work, when they can, for the Govern ment. A little way from the house to the south are the graves of George Washing ton Curtis and his wife. In a gloomy spot under the hill is the resting place of Mrs. Mary Randolph. It is the faithful old slave, Wesley Syfax, who early each Decoration Day morning strews these graves with sweet jessamines uud forget me-nots. .. South American Railroading. The Corrientes, Orau aud Tartagal Railroad in Bolivia, South America, is being pushed on with much activity. Where the work is now in progress is through a thick forest, which extends from two kilometers from the starting point from Oran toward the Colorado River. The line stretches nineteen kilo meters through what appears to be an immense tunnel of vegetation, so thick is the forest in that district with the ex ception of a small space which is situated at the entrance to the plains, and where work is being pushed on in order to ar rive at the river Colorado, over which a bridge will be thrown. Engineers and workmen there suffer alike from the in tense heat, from thirty-eight degrees to forty degrees centigrade in the shade (above 100 Fahrenheit), and the im mense plague of venomous insects. La borers are lacking, as very few men will expose themselves to the labor and risk, and at this season of the year the Indians cannot be relied upon, as they prefer to live in the middle of the forests where they subsist by eating the algarrobas, and fully supplying themselves with liquor from the fruit which they call aloja.— San Francisco Chronicl«. A Blue-Beard's Tombstone. In an old burying ground in a large Southern New Hampshire town there is an Interesting group of seven tomb stones. Each of six of them marks n little 9trip of earth where rests the remains of one of the wives of one man, and the seventh is the gravestone of the Blue- Beard himself. The epitaphs of the wives are short and simple enough, but the fifth bears, underneath the nume and record of the woman's biith and death, these words: "The Peacemaker." On< can only speculate as to what the circum stances were under which she exercised her benevolent art: but no doubt she had to be a peacemaker to enable her husband to get along in any sort of comfort vl.'h j all his deceased wives' relations. But the i epitaph on the husband's tombstone ii ' a gem. It reads thus: "Rest, AVei r) I Pilgrim."— Boston Transcript. COSTLY WOODS. AVHERE THOSE SOL.l> IN NEW YORK COME FROM. 80111 c Cost More Per Pound Than the Most Expensive Meats—Rare Kinds That are Brought Many Thousand Miles. "Yes, we have wood here that costs more than the choicest slices of meat. Over there is some French burl walnut worth at a low estimate thirty cents per pound. Although called French wood it never saw France. It comes from Persia and Circassia by way of Constantinople." The speaker was a fancy-wood importer on the East River,this city,and he pointed as he spoke to a dark, roughly-hewn block that stood with many ot her blocks in a row against the wall of his office. Marseilles merchants, the dealer ex plained, wore the original importers of burl walnut, and at one time enjoyed a monopoly of the business, but of late years the city of Marseilles has not been a walnut market of much account. "Can the demands for fancy woods be satisfied by the productions of foreign countries," asked the reporter. "No," rejoined the importer. "We have never been able to supply our trade with enough of the rare qualities of wood. That block," pointing to another sample in the row, "is snakewood, out of which cane and umbrella handles are made, cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities. London and Liverpool concerns control the snakewood market. It is found in South America. Look at that piece next to the snakewood. That's camphor wood. Wealthy people have trunks made of it on account of its moth-destroying properties. We import camphor-wood from Japan. Here's another expensive wood—sandalwood, indigenous to the Sandwich Islands. It is worth about S3OO per ton. Sandalwood causes that peculiarly fragrant smell in the fumes of incense. East Indians employ it exten sively as a perfume. Here is a sample of boxwood. During the roller skating mania it sold for eight and ten cents a pound. To-day we can't sell it at almost any price. Boxwood comes from Africa aud the West Indies. Step into the next room and I'll show you something worth looking at." Tho reporter entered and viewed a plank of rosewood, the grain of which formed a ligure representing the body of a shark, with the snout of a hog. The plank was framed and polished. This plank is worthy of exhibition amonir the rarest curiosities known. "Rosewood," continued the importer, "is an expensive wood, its cost approach ing per ton. Brazil supplies us with most of our rosewood. Woods of the quality which I have .shown you are seldom used except as a veneer. What appears to be a rosewood colli 11 generally is pine, covered with a thin sheet of rose wood. Pianos and expensive furniture are almost invariably veneered. That three feet cubic of mahogany over there might serve to veneer a dozen pianos. After steaming it for twenty-four hours it can be cut, or rather shaved, into sheets oue-fiftietli of an inch thick and then pasted over fine piono cases." "Why do they weigh fancy wood in stead of measuring it?" inquired the re porter. "They don't always weigh it,"was the reply. "The very highest grades only are sold by weight—the common grades by the foot. In Europe the practice of weighing wood prevails more than in this country. Here is another curious feature. This is a small piece of mahogany. Its surface is smooth and free from blemishes —now look at the center," and the reporter's entertainer broke the piece in sections, disclosing an interior honey eombed with holes one-third of an inch in diameter made by a white seaworm. "This worm," continued the importer, "is a fell destroyer. When valuable rafts arc being floated from the shore of the countries in which these woods grow, this little rascal enters the logs filling the hole after him so that the exterior presents a sound appearance. lie de stroys whole rafts in the manner in which this piece has been destroyed. It is on account of this worm that the bottoms of ships are covered with copper." "Are these fancy woods becoming scarce?" was the last question to which the merchant replied. "Yes. Each year they become scarcer and relatively dearer. In some countries tho timber is cut away for miles from the coast. This necessitates the expenditure of more time and money to drag the umber to the sca-shore and consequently has a tendency to relatively increase the price, not to say anything about making the various woods scarcer. I almost for got an American wood that ranks with any of them in price and quality. This is American figured walnut, which is pre ferred by many to the French burl wal nut. Soft mahogany grows in Mexico and the hard mahogany we generally im port from Cuba."— New York Neies. It is probable that the Indian is of the Mongolian race. A Prison Keeper's Nerve. A shipmaster of my acquaintance, who has been very successful as warden in more than one penal institution, told me that he once heard that a criminal eon fined under his control had said that he would kill the warden on the first op portunity. Captain E. said nothing, but the next afternoon, when hehad an hour's leisure, sent for the man. "Bill," Ictus call him, found the captain strapping his razor. "Oh, 'Bill,' is that, you?" ex claimed the warden. "Well, never mind, can you shave?" The man replied that he had often shaved his companions. "All right, suppose I see what kind of a barber you are?" With that he took a seat in his chair, handed the criminal the razor, and was shaved. "Bill" went faith fully through his duty, and when he had finished the captain said: "They told me that you were watching for a chance to kill me, so 1 thought I would give you as good a one as you could ask for; that was all." "Bill" slunk sheepishly way, and from thence the captain had no firmer friend than the desperate criminal.—Bon ton Traveler. Electricity Does Not Hurt. The experience of an electric light em ploye in Virginia Oitv, Nev., cannot fail to be interesting. Ilenry Paull received a shock from which he remained uncon scious for fifteen minutes, during which time his heart showed no signs of pulsa tion. The palm was burned where he had held the wire. The current passed down through the right side of his body, leaving no mark save where it left the foot, the toes of which were scorched black. Faull gives the following account of his sensations: After grasping the wire he was im mediately drawn upward with irresistible force and endeavored to shout for aid, but, although another workman was but three feet distant, his voice was not audible. Although suspended by his hands, with his tors resting on the boiler plate floor for scarcely a second, Faull says it appeared to him that he was in that position several minutes. He felt no pain whatever. This is the last he remembers until restored to conscious ness.—Detroit Fret Press. An Old Showman's Sleeping Van. Old Adam Forepaugh has been in the show business for forty years, and has never missed a season's personal attend ance upon his circus. While on the road he has never been known to sleep in a hotel. The show carries with it a van that looks like one of the animal dens. 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