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VALET '

D O Ai B E O ID I JdWKlnS. K
 VALET" Hawkins. He is gentleman. His finger nails and his ears and his linen are always clean. Hawkins is poor. My income is three times his, but he has everything have. He has dress suits, hunting coats, opera hats and a bicycle. sold my horse when I bought bicycle, but Hawkins has not sold his horse, and from what know of him he doesn't propose to. Now, it is difficult for me to maintain my style of living. How much more difficult it must be for Hawkins. Many fellows wonder how he does it. Ixnow. He goes in for shoddy.
 To illustrate. Jawl5ins' dress suit is of the cheapest. His shirts are of mean muslin. His neclSwear is of such poor quality that a messenger boy would hesitate to wear it. His bicycle is obso- lete. In word, everything about Jaw kins is cheap. There is no logical req son for this. Hawkins could afford to wear costly clothes if he would but re- and spreading it out over so many things. It is absurd in him to indulge in an opera hat and hunting brooches. The money he puts into these things would, if added to the price of his other clothing, procure for him dress suit fit for gentleman to dine in. Hawkins should make up his mind that to do few things we'll is better than to do many things i'll. He is ungraeefully poor. He won't say to himself that he can't afford some things. However, Hawkins is not useless. He is valuable as warning. Whenever I am tempted to indulge in cheap extrayaganee, I will think of Hawkins and refrain.
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Faehionahle correapondence.

Wednesday-I never read letters ex- cept at the breakfast table, but take my breakfast in my own room. What an unerring guide to a mans inborn good taste, or the reverse his epistolary characteristics are. Hawkins, who is a gentleman, notwithstanding his un- graceful poverty. begins his letters, My Dear MT. -" and concludes, Yours sincerely" and signs his name. In the lower left-hand corner he puts my name in full, with Esq sufixed. Hawkins. with ten times the income of Hawkins, begins, Dear Mir. -" Ugh. I don't know Hawkins very we'll, but he must have breeding. His letter this morning begins:
 "Mr.
 ssAIy Dear Sir:"
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Self Abnegation.

Friday.-Refnemen is self-abnega- tion, according to Renan, and he says he got the idea from his sister What a world of meaning there is in the aphorism. Alton, who dropped in to see me, has put me in mind of it. There is no self-abnegation about Alton. He is rich, and his dress and his manner show it. 1 do not mean that the man is strident and egotistical. Alton is gentleman, but I will try 10 explain the subtle nature of his lack of refinement. He dresses exquisitely. No one at the club can afford to be quite so elegant as he. Are we all seated about the open grate fire, discussing the manly things they discuss at clubs? In comes Alton. He is dressed to perfection. You can see at glance that his clothes are four times as costly as those of the rest of us. Then, too, his rig will appear be- fore the club house, HOW and then. His horses and his harness, his tigers livery and the rest, are so vastly superior to anything we can afford that the con- trast afIiicts us cruelty. In ever so many other ways the man robs us of our ease of mind. His politeness is so very polite that our plain cordiality appears plebeian and familiar by contrast. No matter how thoroughly our camarade- rie, Alton freezes it when he comes in. do not mean that he is a snob. Far from that, be is courteous even to poor, de- plorable Hawkins, who looks, ohl so cheap, wEen Alton is nigh. It seems to me that there is lack of refinement in the flamboyant deference of the man.
 Saturday. don't understand under wear this autumn and winter The
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egotism or lack of refinement. In nthese days, when Chesterfield's letters can be had for dime, such things are mex. cusable.
 Whenever a mans hosiery is fanci- fully dotted with all the colors of the rainbow, he will avail himself of every opportunity to pull up his trousers when he sits down, in order to display the gay patterns. 1t is significant and appropriate that only cheap socks and stockings are thus variegated. Some men can never be made to understand that women alone may be pretty and wear things because they are pretty.
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colors are pale slare. which contrasts very poorly with the color of a mans skin. The colored shirt, I see, is tolerated for morn ing wear, but faring reds and heavy black stripes are deemed vulgar. I note very little chan ore in dress
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t ink any O n eTHE EMoNocULEoUT. would understand how inconsistent that is. Three men with canes and without gloves have passed my window in the last half hour.
 4 man with a monocle! Why, even Joseph Chamberlain has discarded his monocule, the thing is so utterly out of vogue.
 Fellow with red necktie. Ughl
 I rather like the effect of the new style in sack suits. The men who pass this window with the short coats look more manly than do those wearing last years suits, which were long in the coat.
 How happy fools Paradise must be! Men who wear scarf pins in ordinary bow ties make me think so. Two are passing now.
 Idiot with woman is carrying her cape on his arm. She, too, must be an idiot to permit such a display of ig- norance. It is very bad form for man to offer to carry woman's huff or her cape, or her handkerchief, or any other part of her attire. Carry her portman- teau or her bundle, certainly, but never her attire.
 Now comes an anachronism with his hands in his pockets. Really, he should
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at restaurants, for you, and at table d'hotes, too. Now, Itlon't agree with ouida, who pro- tests against eat ing in public, be- cause it is gross and vulgar to eat. American women eat in public, and they are not gross and vulgar about
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fully, our m en especially, but we cann ot be poor gracefully. That is where they are superior to us in En gl and. Over here a man quar- el s perpetually w i t Il his income. He will never rec oncile himself to it. Hence vast nervous waste.
 I will illustrate my meaning by reference t o t h e case of my friend
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leave the window for the sake of my pear in public wearing russet shoes with afternoon attire, I begin to under stand Max Nordau.
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dow. Some ones valet, I suppose.
 That gives me an idea. I will sit at the window and study the types.
 How can a man be so vulgar as to carry a stick when he is wearing no gloves? I should
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be arrested. 1t is allowable to have ones left hand in one's pocket (the trouser pocket) but never the right. As for two hands in one's pockets 0 tempora, o mores! as we used to say when I was at school.
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while you will see man at table eating With dignity, never soiling his mus tache or "swiping"-there is really no other word for it-his napkin about as if it were horsewhip. I suppose we Americans think it beneath our dignity to take lessons in the art Of sitting down in a dining-room chair. We should take our dinners in front of huge mirrors. Then we would shock ourselves as much as we shock others.
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Then he asked me to be at the club ;sy nine tomorrow evening, and concludes

with Yours Very T ruly.'' N o t Truly Yours,' or Faithfully Yours, l" mark you. Yes, Hawkins is in all probability a man of breeding.
 But Dawkln si He always begins a letter with "I'' or My" That is now conceded to be very poor form. You may search through volumes of polite cores DO Il q e Il c e without finding one ,,,1I lsal
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 suits. Overcoats are decidedly longer, but the bell-shaped pattern seems ob- solete. I am sorry, for they look So well. I note, too, with regret, the de- cided revival of what is known vulgarly as the fancy vest. remember few years ago that they were deemed taw- dry. Now they are black. A man must be careful about color. Some of the pink and yellow horrors I observed at the club this morning made me nervous,
 Ten thousand dollars were given for Herr von Mendelssohn, one of the Der lin banking house, to Herr Ladenbs:rg. of Frankfurt, who had bought # for S3,o00.
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DIARY OF A MAN OF TASTE
Fools and Fashions Viewed from
 a Window Seat.
Notes os Men and NIanners-Ungracefu Poverty-Letters That Tell More Than Is Written-Oppressive Courtesy
 How Some Overdo 1t.
COPYRIGHT. 1895.

Monday.-How little we Americans understand the art of being poor gracefully! We grow old grace
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At the Window.

Tuesday-Man with froclS coat and a Derby hat on has just passed my win
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
MOUNT VERNON.

various piigrimages to attend sessions
of Congress in Philadelphia or take
the oath of Office as President. This
highway, too, used to resound the
hoof- beats of his thoroughbreds when
he made his tri-weekly visits to Alex
andria to attend church or look after
his business affairs. In later years
the old road resounded the tramp of
other hoofs, for it was over this thor
Oughfare that the stricken sol
diery fled from Bull Run in 1861, and
rushed pell-mell, horse, foot, dragons
and unmounted across Long Bridge
INTO Washington. The last great
spectacle the old turnpike ever saw
was the march of Sherman's army,
which followed it on the march from
the South to Washington for the re-
view in 1865. Since that day the old
turnpike has borne nothing more ex
citing or sensational than the farm
wagons and hayricks of old Virginia.
To the right, as the trolley"
crosses the bridge over Great Hunting
Greek, is Fort Lyons, the strongest of
all that great Gordon which protected
Washington in the war days. Near
Fort Lyons is the old home, still stand
ing, of the seventh Lord Fairfax
Rev Brian Fairfax, who in Washing
toms day was rector of Christ Church
al Alexandria, of which Washington
was vestryman. The old church is
still one of the cherished landmarks in
Alexandria, and the edifce with Wash
ington's big square pew is carefully
preserved intact. Lord Fairfax's home
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22

was member of Washington's family.
1t IS said the first President built
Wellington Hall for Colonel Lear's
use, but whether this be true or not,
he certainly occupied it for most of
his life. By his will General Wash
ington made Colonel Lear a tenant
for life, rent free, and he lived on the
place until his death in 1916. His re-
mains now repose in the Congressional
Cemetery in Washington.
After Tobias Iear's death Yelling
ton Hall passed into the hands of the
collateral branch of the Washington
family, the last occupant being
Charles A. Washington, grand
nephew. He was a harum-scarum sort
of chap, very dlssipated, and under
his management the estate soon ran
down. The old inhabitants tell funny
stories about "Charley" Washington
and his career as farmer. On one
occasion he took some plowshares to
Alexandria to be sharpened, which
were urgently needed in the spring
plowing, but falling in with some
cronies he was induced to go off for
months sojourn at the ''springs," and
never came back until the wheat crop
had gone by default. "Charley"
Washington was great theorist. He
once read in G. farm paper that the
most profitable crop one could grow
was barley. So he planted ten acres.
When the barley ripened he had it
''Hailed' out and loaded on four
horse wagon and started it for the
Alexandria market. "CharleY" went
on ahead on horseback to dispose of
the load. But barley he found Was az
unknown grain in the Alexandria mar
ket and there was no sale for it; but
after whole days tramping he sue
ceeded in ira a.ling the load of barley to
a brewer for barrel of beer, which he
sent home and stored in his cellar.
The news of the transaction leaked out,
and the same night dozen of Char
ley's cronies in Alexandria paid visit
to Wellington Hall, where they made
a night Of 1t with the genial proprie
tor. Before morning they had dis
posed of the entire crop of barley.
Charley Washington died in 1859
! and the neglected farm passed into
other hands. Wellington Hall is a
frame dwelling, painted white, and
with the outbuildings is in good re-
pair. A lane, lined with poplars,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
CHAIRMAN WILSON'S REPORT.
Details of the Administrators Contract
With Syndicate of Bankers.

Details of the Administrations Contract
with Syndicate of Bankers.
The report which Chairman Wilson sub
mitted for the majority Of the Ways and
Means Committee says:
From the reading of this contract it will
be seen that the arrangement of the Secre-
tary with the parties to this contract af-
fectS the purchase of $500. .00O ounces Of
standard gold coin Of the United States
(am"unttng to $6j, ll6.215) at least one-half
Of which shall be obtained in and shipped
from Europe For this gold coin he has
contracted to issue to the parties furnishing
it, under authority of the act for the resump-
ton OF specie payments approved January
IA, 1875, per cent. thirty-year bonds Of the
United States, at Il price which realizes to
them interest at the rate Of 3aI per cent, but
the Secretary of the Treasury has reserved
the right, if authority be given him 10y Con-
greSs, to substitute at par any bonds Of the
United States bearing per cent. interest, Of
which the principal aud interest shall be
specifically payable in United States gold coin
Of the present weight and 1incness, said sub
stitution to be made within ten days from the
date Of the contract
1T is the object Of the joint resolution
herewith submitted to give to the Secretary
of the Treasury authority to substitute such
bonds to the amount Of the contract The
saving to be effected by the Government, rs
set forth in the Presidents message, will bc
1888, 139 per year for every yea the three
per ctht 'OIllS run, anu pi lIl' amount bl
SIC, JIG, TO should they run thirty years.
'As it is not believed by the committee
that the issue of bonds specifically payable i'll
gold will impose any additional burden Of
liability upon the Government than if they
are made payable i'll coin under its pledge
and policy to preserve the parity Of the coins
in the two metals, the saving Of this large
amount becomes a matter Of substantial mo-
ment and advantage Of the Government, and
as the parties to take the bonds are under CON
tract to furnish gold coin for them, it seems
no hardship on the Government to contract
to pay them back in the same coin that they
furnished to il"
The report Of Mr.. Wilson included n copy
Of the President 5 recent message to Congress
bearing upon In" subject and also copy Of
the contract made by the Treasury Depart
ment with the European syndicate for the
purchase Of the new bonds The text Of the
bond contract shows that the bankers drove
a hard bargain with the Administration. in
addition to the rate Of interest agreed upon,
the bankers given an option on all
future issues up to October l next.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22

which the railroad crosses, connects
it with the Richmond turnpike. From
Wellington to Mount Vernon the dis
tance is five miles, the last station
being Riverside Park, at Little Hunt
ing Creek. which stream divided the
old River Farm of Washington's map
from the Mansion House Farm. A
mile beyond this creek the car stops
at the gates OF Mount Vernon. BY
this route there is no more climbing
the steep hill from the wharf, but the
visitor enters the grounds at the foot
of the western lawn and walks up a
long tagged path through the trees to
the near side of the old mansion.
MOUNT VERNON.
Il is not given to the average visitor
to the home of Washington to see all
the beauties of the place. Much less
can he know the details of the home
life of the great proprietor, or under
stand the splendor Of his former en-
vironment. The visitor goes through
the old mansion. He looks into the
little, stufy rooms with their odd and
incongruOus mixture of old and up-tO-
date furniture. He gazes at the
elegant and extremely modern tinted
and gold frescoes, at the rich and
brilliant Persian rugs with which the
ladies of the association have covered
the floors, and he finds it difficult to
imagine this the home of the i'm
mortal Washington. To most visitors
it seems great pity that there has
been such an effort made to impress
the public with the fact that Wash
ington led luxurious life by means Of
the rich and modern trappings they
have smuggled into the old mansion.
The splendor Of Washington's life at
Mount Vernon was reflected by his
broad acres. by his great farming
operations, by his hundreds Of slaves,
including artisans and mechanics of
all kinds, by the wealth of his
hospitality and the magnifcence Of
his military and official career. There
were 10 frescoes of gilt and tlnts in
Washington's day-no wall paper,
even. There was nothing but white
washed walls and ceilings. Nor were
there any Darghestan rugs or Ak
Minister carpets.
There is an outbuilding on the
grounds, which should have given the
well-meaning ladies hint as to what
the Father of His Country useo to Gov
er his floors. The building is called
the "spinning- room, and in it is a
great loom for weaving the good old
fashioned rag carpets Of our fore faith
ers.
Aside from these incongruities, how
ever, the old mansion is an interest
ing, almost hallowed spot. There
are not SO many relics of Washington
but what there are are full of interest.
The bed upon which he died, sent by
the Lee family, and the other furni-
ture contributed by various families,
have enabled the ladies in control to
tit up Washington's chamber very
nearly as it was when its great occu-
pant passed away. There are good
many other relics on view, but not
many that are, strictly speaking, rel
les of Washington. There is plenty
of Colonial furniture, but Washing
ton never saw it. There are portraits,
engrav1ngs, etc, and a valuable col
lection OF Washington's autograph
letters, which are mounted in the for
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
Legal Oddities.

Missouri mas n bin before the Legislature
TO prevent people from shipping green water
melons for ripe ones.
THERE is great Indignation IN Green Bay.
Wis, because detective got a confession
from wife murderer by Disgusting a. priest
NINE WAGNER, widow Of the composer
has recovered IS damages from a newspaper
for printing without permission some orig
inal verses she had tied 10 the collars Of her
five pet dogs.
JOHN MCCAFFERTY. of Chicago. when he
made his will. couldn't remember the names
of four Of his children, and willed their
share Of the estate to them with this explain
alton. They are now suing for the money
THERE are over 200 murderers awaiting ex-
ecution in Kansas prisons. An order from
the Governor is necessary to hang a person.
and since this new wrinkle was put into the
law no Governor has signed such bill.
G. E. PEARSON, of Fort Dodge, Iowa.
drained Owl Lake and began cultivating its
bed, q thousand acres. Now several squat
ters have settled on the land under the Home
stead act, some claiming that the land be-
lonsed to the Government, others to the ad-
Joining land-hQlders. ---.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
MOUNT VERNON,
WHERE GEORGE WASHINGTON
LIVED AND DIED,
Hundreds Visit the Historic Home
stead Daily-The First President
Was an Extensive Farmer
Relics of the Rev olution.

HE new and popular way of
making the great American
pilgrimage to the home and
6 tomb of Washington is by
way of the ancient and quaint old town
of Alexandria, Va. For more than q
century the only means of communi-
cation with Mount Vernon by public
conveyance has been by the river.
Steamb oats have carried their hun
dreds Of thousands of pilgrims to the
sacred spot, and though that route was
pleasant enough, it was slow, and up
to recent date expensive.
The new route is by way of Alexan-
drla and the new electric railway which
lands passengers in twenty minutes at
the very gates of Mount Vernon. And
1t is beautiful and novel ride from
the quaint old town. The line leads
out Of Alexandria on Fairfax street
and follows closely the river bank un-
til it crosses Hunting Greek, at one
time the northern boundary of the
vast Mount Vernon estate. Then it
cuts across the broad acres which
Washington cultivated before the Revo-
luton, and here and there crosses and
recrOsses the old Richmond turnpike,
which in Colonial and Revolutionary
days was the main artery of travel be-
tween the North and South. From
the electric car windows the eye can
ollow the old road for miles by the
rows of ancient poplars planted on
either side.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
BOND BILL IS DEFEATED.
House Of Representatives Refuses to
Meet President CIeveIand's Views.
WAS REJECTED BY AZ MAJORITY.

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publican and Seven Populist Votes Cast
Against tn. N.,sur.-r;.nort or ,bc
committee and Details of the fresi-
dent. Contract With "a Sxudirat,
The C,rarn.-ta.. ~, W.. orI >J.,ry H.,
,.-..,,,o
VIC o, . H'''S t. nays dV'laeo I" nep'T
- III" House Of Representatives the follow
iu. r,,- iuti.u practically a a.,r..I ,l,,n,, lay
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
4 QUEER CASE.
A Curfoos Instance oG Girl Who Has
Been Asleep FicVSr Nrars

"
Been Asleep FIevrr N-ars.
Thor is girl named Marxur-it" Bou,"n-
va! al Th"nrllos, IN the north of France .u"a-
saint Quentin. who Is reported to have been
asleep for the past eleven years. \ good deal
"f doubt has been thrown "n tht- phruom-
"nAt ~lumt'rrtnc ease. not only ia Paris. tui
also in ThcnNlIc- and its vicinity. wh"r,'
1h"rs' ar" two uRnI~. on" of the believers Hni
IN" other of those who maintain that the Sd
called sleeping lrautN rises at might and has
good supper. tn" matter hn~ been inNr>-
tEa;"l hy a HarlsiAu. who has seen the E,rl
aud found Ter a lean a. q skeleton ard ~
str A. CORPSE" hut still living. Il"- mothcr
ln!"'t~ milk. P~ptunr. and sometimes win"
through a broken tooth in the Eiri'r mouth.
Marguerite B'uvrnval made away with
baby eleven year~ agn anh the rVn,inrn'~
wcr" sent t. her house. The girl was
friG tened t,sat she had an attack 81 hySt-riH
which lasted several hour at the end u'
which ~h@ fril into trance. III" doubts
thrown on the contribution ~ the tran ." haN"
evidently been caused 10y III" fact that IA"
mother ut the sleeping G1rl has made good
deaf of money hy exhibiting her. \ l"ral
doctor, who has observed the case during thu
eleven vcH~~. informed IN" Investigator frpW
Rarj~ thaf Marguerite Bouv"nNRl had really
been H~lr"p during the Wanlr time. hr'U-
>3"HallN -h" had hvstsrirHi cries hut ;ilI not
awake after them. Other DOCTOR hnv" aisn
agreed n :" tn" gcnuinrnr~- Of IN" Ph"n"-
m"non. ami tn" sleeping girl ot lhcn"li'N Eu-
mulu, 4 human mystery
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
ACTION BY THE HOUSE.
After Debate Lasting Six Hours the
Measure Fails of Passage.

Proceedings in the House upon the Bond
bill reported from the Way- and Means Com
mittee opened with the report from the Com
Inittee on Rules Of an order providing that
vote be taken at ) O'"lOck in the afternoon.
On the question Of the adoption Of the order
the vot" as taken by teIlers, resulted, yeas,
1872; nays. %.
The bond resolution was read by the Clerk.
and the Speaker. dividing the five hours
allotted for debate. saIi he would recognize
MeSsrs. Wilson (Dem.. West Va. }. and Reed
(R"D.. Ne. J. for two hours in the Affirmative,
and Messrs. Bryan (Dern., Neb :, and Hop
kiI9 (Rep.. Ill. j. III tn" negative for the same
time; the other hour t. be divided among
other gentlemen.
After six hours Of debate the House, by
vote Of l67 to 100. refused 10 order the Ways
and Means resolution 10 p third reading. OF
the 120 votes cast for the motion 81 were
given by Ecpublican- Mr.. Reed being among
the number. In the negative there were %
Democratic, 81 Republican and POpaiist
votes.