The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-29
FORGET-ME-NOTS.

F0RGET-ME-NOTS.
The Congressional trip from Washington to |
Gettysburg on Decoration Day has made con
siderable of an impression on some of the ex-
cursionists, and this is largely due to the ex-
planatory lectures delivered on the battlefield
by Col. John b. Bachelor The battlefield of
Gettysburg has been subject of absorbing
study to the Colonel ever since the battle was
fought, and it is safe to say that his knowledge
of it is not eQualed by that of any other living
man. He is an ardent advocate of the idea of
marking the Confederate position as the posi-
ton OF the Union Army has already been
marked. That DONE the field of Gettysburg
would be the most remarkable of all the battle
fields of the world. As an object lesson
in the art of warit would be unique. At present,
with only the Union Armys position marked,
it looks to the visitor of to-day as If there had
been only one army there. Congressman
Gambler, of Massachusetts, who was chairman
of the Worlds Fair Committee in the House, is
taking lively interest in the Gettysburg bat
tle-field and in Col Bachelder's knowledge OF
it, and very soon he will probably introduce
bill in the House to utilize the Colonel's won
derful knowledge of the subject in laying out
and marking the Confederate position. Mr..
Candle says that the Colonel is to the battle
fields of America what Old Mortality was to the
tombstones Of Scotland.
X X
Frank Lawler thinks he notices tendency
toward livery that he doesn't like in the Re-
public, and he is preparing bill which he in
tends to introduce in Congress for the purpose
of counteracting the tendency. His purpose
is absolutely to prohibit the wearing of livery
in the United States. Exceptions will be made
in the case of employees of the Government and
of public institutions, where the wearing of a
uniform serves the purpose Of a necessary iden-
tification. But coachmen and the servants of
private individuals will not be permitted any
longer ''to make English funkeys of them
their employers. Franks idea is that if the
granting of titles is prohibited by the Constitu-
ton, the wearing of private livery ought at
least to be prohibited by law, and he is going to
try and have it done.
Charlotte Smith is a dandy. In some re-
spects she is the most remarkable woman in
America. She certainly comes more closely
into contact with Congressman, and is better
known to them promoter of a particular
class of legislation, than any other woman lv-
ing. She is a holy terror. When she takes
hold of a notion she has grip like bulldog.
track you had better look out. She has done
more than any other person living probably to
make the life of John w. Mackay's family mis-
erable. When Mrs. Mackay got into passion
the other day, and threatened to sue some of
J the English newspapers for scandalizing her by
writing her up as having been a washwoman in
early life, Mrs. Smith was the evil spirit OF the
r whole thing In her little old "Working
l Woman's Journal here she had originated the
story and she not only took pains to have it
widely circulated among the newspaper offices
in England, where Mrs Mackay was mingling
in swell society," but also to have it translated
? into Italian and have it sent all over Italy and
reprinted there, where Mrs. Mackays daughter
was living with her husband, the Italian Prince
Colonna. Better be friends with Mrs. Smith.
:
: Here's something which is worth making =
e note of. Mrs. Smith, having written to Senator
Edmunds the other day in the interest of her
paper, received from the distinguished Senator
the following remarkable letter:
= SENATE CHAMBER,
e WASHINGToN, ID. c., June 49, $780,
i, MADAM: have received yours of the 18th
The extensive and great variety of demands upon
my slender purse are such that am not able to
subscribe for your paper, and return the re-
cept which you have sent me :, Respectfully
yours, GEORGE +. EDMUNDS.
o j. w. Albaugh, the theatrical manager comes
a
=, see how business is going in Washington. Al
= baugh is a theatrical man from way back. He
!, has not only financial buta theatrical, interest
e in the theatre. He has earned his title to man
It agement by having served as actor. He de
&c plores the passing away of the time when every
It theatrical manager was an actor. The business
IS then, he thinks, was conducted much more hon
estly than since it has fallen into the hands of
Sc lot of men spectators, who have no enthusiasm
N and whose only study has been, and is, not tht
Y, drama, but money-getting. The good old times
j. hethinks, the best. And think so, too pre-
o. fer Hamlet to the ''Little Tin Soldier' or tht
V, "Rag Baby" The actress who holds the stage b,
h virtue of talent and popular approval is bette
e. than the star who can 60 on starring at a los
ef of thousand dollars week so because sh
Of has fascinated ''backer."
just What Bismarck Drinks.
II From London Truth.
The idea of Prince Bismarck having impaired
u his faculties by morphia-drinking is really to-
eXtrayagantly preposterous a fiction for eve