Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1874, Page 3

E BETTER LANGUAGE. Many and many a year ago, When we old folks were youn; Ing we to our thong! used our mother tongue. But now the The old w And nothing ¥ ge bas grown so fast But slang that ts red bot. Im thore never said Of Je In speaking © He sing t a nasty qaili.” Ip speaking of aman of sense, ‘His Judgment’s good,” they anid But now they say—"* Phe vid sardine Has got a evel bead” Once angry words would lead to blows; But now, wh too'mn i “pete him in the soo: AES is, “Her ge, ju *ed LO Aud tlang was ever slung. THE DISAPPOINTED BOY. “1 congratuiate pleasant fellow; intelligent, bat nota | replied my friend. A great part of conversation in this country ts earried on by grunts; but if there is anything which cannot be expressed in this manner, it ls @ cordis| assent relapsed into silence, and | filled my glase. Septimus passed bis hand over which israther tong, ard still thick, | hed with many threadsof grey, and houghtiully through the window, which A taint light lingered in the west, and one star shown brilliantly above the black cedar, near which was dim!7 seen the At her side aved by genuine to a benevolent I had just pro- tune panegyric. over which a shaded nd the claret passed slowly too old to be hurried. After few minutes, my friend leaned and said — : re :9u. I shonld lik anecdotes of :w dear boy's life. I said. I was in the mood for d for silence and moderately to have grown bas long see the rales of condu' our children are he began, “that > try to impress on dly inconsistent with those by which we e em to regulate their later lite. W are to be unob- irusive, ar dy; when they have rea eto give way nobody, but to p r fortanes fn the 4. As well might we punish the cbild tor going near the water, and expect the man to ; OF train the runner for the race by making raik backwards. When Tommy was born, I wade up my mind (o avoid the common error. tu the battie of life be shou!d be taught to win, | and not to go ro € ighting wasover, hen he was of color, and w . ht, and making ‘s. it seemed clear hat 6 chili woakl baa (you know that I wes always fond 4 take a high But of con lays 1 th of the line i my son would excel. My duty was to pre- pare Lim to exce} inany which he might choose, | Ly developing im him the tast petition: I looked abou good luck to find my who is ten minutes rowed bim from his paren nephew ie thi re bi ad been short time, oung fo aid he ce days, when the i air we breat ce of their parente almost before they | the are breeched. “You surprise me,” I make me accep ber the lines and well nigh the ; . You remem~- r how the rebellious Ezz his Mother Goose, be sat upon.” jeprecatingg mann:r, | somewhat uncertain, I think, whether I were in jest or earnest. He continued his story. Tommy was * good walker, if you make allowance for the novelty of the accomplishment, but loet some time in !aterai motion like thoze of a lands- man on a roiling sea; theretore Theodore, who had @ perpetual inclination forward, and’ weut | with an Involuntary goose-step, took the lead at once, and would have won, had not his head, mdvancing too quickly for bis legs come sud- denly in contact with the tloor. Now was my | boy's chance: but instead of going by his cousin, | who was prostrate and howling, he sat down on | nd bellowed as loud for sym- | Jessie said that htto be ashamed | seif, and divided the lump of sugar be- | tween the competi «When the boys for healthy rival y of each was to beat the other, and that, as every manin the grown-up world was trying to get as much axaries and hon- 1, seach boy should try to gain @ shure a* possil)'e of the mar- other prizes, which I shoud offer. They heard me with . and Our opening day was a decid- ed success. 1 soon found, however, that my stem was @ failure, since, as the sta- cents always played together, they cared not a ot who won the toys, which they enjoyed in he toffee, they both suffered ze day, that Jessie put x patitute pen- | time thought that | bad eftected | Tommy grew wonderfally ind te of my strict impartiality ac- | ore of coppers. Week after me with papers of marks, feaw myself ag r of the first ot gentile He should direct the application of rtunes, speculate ina gigantic ‘aron Tommy ai a foreiga court, ; wn. My dream was y my small nephew came to me in gre! t eptimus,” | said he ‘de you know that it is my birthday” | | cumul: Week be drew o which were duly hi ays to be, fnanciers. bis peigubors war, become Tommy's birthday tea, al- gained an advantage over on his part can ever ta Saptimas,” | x at the present nd he held up a it was compensate. continued Theodore, which Tommy has given me highly decorated whip and scariet reins. but too clear (hat the fortune which my sou had nd accumulated by his industry, bad been expenc ed in a pri mttor the «dk SY j» Ard when woned oD ject. the young nce allowed that tuis hat been the of hie extraordinary devotion to study. fe | was trying toimpress upon him that if the triumph of the successful resulted the gain of the unsuccessful competitor, emul: Lion was impussible, his mother came in with rusb and hugged him. Jessie tte act from | impulse, as almost all women are. When I pointed oat to her, on one occasion, that unless everybody is always trying to get as much of | rything for himeelf as he can, the most | © laws or political economy ara false, she | raid that she dut not care if th: sod that she knew that it was better to lelp au diuer than to help one’s self.” | | } Here I could not help interrapting my friend | Septimus with theremark that there was no bet- | ter way of helping one’s self than appearing as ® helper of others, if you knew the right mo- | meut at which to serve them; and thatsomehad | grown wondertaily rich in thie manner. Septimus seemed to think my remark irrele- fer be tovk no notice of it, bat continued | my suppose,” ha anid“ that in | ce; for, if competition bs good, | the wider the field of competition the better. i | rent bim off to Evon 4 acopy of Mr. Smile’s stimulating work on ‘Seif Help,’ anda manaal f political economy, to which his mother added a large hamper and a Bible. His «:hool career was fairly successful, and woald have beeo brilliant bat for that moral obliquity, which, alas! there is no longer room to doubt. There Was no hiumit to his generosity, which was con- stantly developed by an ever-growing popalari- ty. There never was so popular a boy. The masters could hardly find fault with him, and ‘bis echoolfeliows made a heroof him, as was \3 | make any difference to me, beca’ | the behavior of women. | what has become of the borrowed Theodore’ gy 6 ee ee Both- ing. His galety, which never flagged, grow raavows wheo he was conferring a favor. ‘He was the suthor of more Latin verses than have been left to us by the poets of Some, and never Gashed off .s own copy until he had waved the Muses to the side of Tomkins, Brabazon, Jones, Montgomery, and @ bostot others. Again and again I told him, both verbally and by letter, that popularity is the reward of those who are the guils of society; that there is no current coin of so little value; d that the only real proof of @ man’s success e jealousy which hoexcites. He now not only negiected my advice, buteven ee contradicted me; and it must be confessed that his answers had great look of brilliancy, for he was an unusual clever lad, and =e not be anywhere ifhe chose. I ought to add that be never grew angry in argument. He has Lis mother’s sweet temper, which is a very | good thing in a woman. _ “Perhaps you think that I have given undue pportance to trifles, and indeed I made light ot tem myself until my son, in a great crisis of his career, behaved In a manner which I could not wisint rpret, though 1 am thankful to say, tuat 4 could pardon it. He was now eighteen cars old, when be and bis greatest friend, @ oy of the usme of Dart, enre together for ecbolarehips at ove of the Oxford Colleges. I will wot Hnger over the story; indeed, if you will excuse we fons le'ter, fro tastrophe ata pain of recital, txmus, wuo had risen stow peaking, crorsed the passage t back w.th the tollow eed in my hands ira moment, I will tetch my you will learn the ea. oce, While i shail be spared while he was 8 stady, aud te, which he malt w what else I could have dane up here called Mille, who te Just g> ythick witn the at my tutor’s when | tirst went to ry keen that I shoald gst one Shere. Somehow or other he nds (which, of to do), betore the fellow was pretty and that the other wa twcen Dartand me. Now you know that old Dart could not have come up to Oxford at all if he had not got a scholarship, and it did not you always let me do as I want. So the fact is, that [ did not do quite my best inthe last papers. Iam ae good as sure that it did not make the least dit- ferepee in the world; for the dear old man is a periect needler at a critical paper. (Greek par- ticles and scholarship, tips, &c., you know), and was bound to lick me any way. Only I did not like to keep it dark from you, though he must never know any thing about it; and you never saw any fellow so happy as he is; and s0 you must not be vexed, or at least must have got | over it before you see your affectionate son, ‘Tomar. “P.§.—Of course you will tell the moter, 11 make you forgive me, I know. I an: awfully well and happy; and the follows here iy. | are tremendously kind and j When I bad finished reading this scholarly composition, and had breathed a sigh for the lost slang of my carly jays, it occurred to me that I had a chance of praising my young friend for a virtue which even a parent co ild notdeny him. And catling to mind an old tale of our university life, at which Sep and I were wout to smile when we were careless undergraduates | laughed, and said—* You rhoald be thankful for so Lonest a son, who did not ‘keep it dark,’ as he might have done. He seems nxious to avoid all misunderstanding ae was Toby O'Uon- nor, when ke earefally engraved his name upor the stone which he afterwards flung through the Dean's plate-glass window.” This anecdote had never before failed to raise a smile; but my friend wasevidently in no mood for jaughter. After @ simper of acknowledg- ment, be carefully,folded up the letter, and, | smoothing it with bis hand, continued his ‘story. “Can you imagine my feelings, when I read this mistive:’”’ he said. “1 could not speak; so } threw it acrogs the breakfast table to Jessie, and went away to mysttudy. For a full half- hour there was no sound. Then I heard the door of the dining-room open, and my wife's step in the paessge. I called to her. ‘hen she came in, ] saw that her eyes were full of tears. I took her in my arms, and begged her not to tret abeut it, saying that it was « terrible digap- pointment, and that we must bear it together. [ was quite choky, and she did not appear to hear me. ‘0 Septimes,’ she said, after a few min- utes, ‘what have we done that God should have given us such a noble sony’ and she burst out subbing. I have jong ceased to feel surprise at Every man marries a Sphinx. The power which that boy, with his fr manner, cheery laughter, and honest heart (for | admit his charm, as who does not?) had got over bis mother. who is no fool, I can te!l you, was inexplicable. If he had robbed the bavk to buy sweet s for the urchins of little . | believe that bis mother would have joy and gone tosay her prayers. There culiat beauty about # woman's character; is ap but as to expeeting rational conduct or legical argument, you might as well make a salad of rores or walk in high-heeled boots.” Septimus had now finished the anecdotes of hisson. Leaning his head apon bi locking ectoss the table, he asked, boy to be bat docs he wish to be?” Lasked in tarn. “Tat is just what I asked him, the othor day,” my friend with @ balt smile: ‘sand yourg wretch suggested that he should tu!- wy professton.”” Your profession!” cried !,in amazement. I bad known Septimus all my lite, and was weil aware that he had never followed an occupation ruore than six days ata time. The routine of work which he planned on Monday morning, ever could survive the mterveution of the fol- lowing Sunda: My friend looked at me rather comically and said, “1 am afraid he was laughing at me. You know that I went in for all sorts of things when I was @young man. I was wild aboat art at one e; sud once I seriously thought of makin DA the Stock Exchange. You remember my devotion to literature, and how I studied architecture that year when we traveled to- gether. I might have made something of them, if 1 bsd not been so often anticipsted by Mr. Matthew Arnold, Mr. Ruskin, and others. It Was not until | was en; to Jessie that I took up political economy, aud found that | had been an unproductive consumer. It is a wonderful science, and makes humanity so simple, show- ing you that all men are very much alike, if you look at them in the right way, and don’t con- fuse yourself by the analysis of people’s char- acters. “Well, Septimus,” I said, ‘you can’t be sur- prised that your son should be as idie a young Gog 4s you were in your youth. Perhaps he may some “ay catch this science as you did, for it is in the air. said Septimus, ‘the curious thing is that be is not idle at Om the contrary, he works very steadily, buthates to get anything for it. L have shown him bishops in their aprons, and judges in their gowns, but without the slightest effect. When I took him into the Hovse of Commons he expressed an opinion that ali the members should wear wigs like the Speakers, maintaining thatro man could be revolutionary in awig. He added that, but for the head-gear of the lawyers, cotification would be inevitable. When I ‘introduced him to ths peer of my acquaintance, he cross-questioned the noble lord about his tenant’s cottages. [ uid suppose him to be entirely without rever- ence, if he did not sometimes burst into enthu- siasm over people of whom for the most part, I bare never heard, and who have cert: ¥ ed bo position. But, though hs is with- bition, he is 80 far trom tdieness, that his etry is almost avice. He not only pursues udy, which cannot possibly | to for- tupe or place, but be occupies his spare time with other people’s business. Somedays agomy laborer (I Lad but one) abruptly lett the place, and on inquiry I found that Tommy, anxious to diminish the surplus agricultural population, had helped bim to emigrate. He ison the point of delivering a series of lectures to our peacefal hand, and “What ismy | rustics, who have heretotore been portectly sat- istied with my penny readings, and by these means he will probably depopulate the village. He talks of a visit of inspection to the valley of the Mivsissippi. In short I begin to fear that 1 am the father of an agitator. A strange lad, of whom the only thing which you can safely pre- dict is that he will do what he likes, and that his mother will abet him. Will you bave any more win : One moment,” I said. “Lonly want to as! “He ts a very fair player at Polo,” replied my ost. ‘You won't have any more wine? Then jet us join Jeasie end my boy on the lawn.’” “Yhe Pocket on the Hip.” To the Editor of the San Francisco Morning Call. — Seeing an article in your paper this morning upon the reason why theré are so many mur- dere tn this community, and laying it apon the neglect of jurymen to do their duty, it occurred to me to suggest whether a certain fashion of wearing 4 pocket on the side of the pantaioons, which has prevatied for the last ten or fifteen years, hag not been the fraitful cause of many ahomicide. We all know that the motion of & man in yates, his hand in his pockst is the sam at made in drawing a pistol worn in the same the latter been De a ee. will always cause apprehension — those who a ee cislly when persons are angry. We rec: Kec +4 ago hearing of the late Edward M shall, in snquming up a murder case to ajar: when he took occasion to refer to this sams snggestion. He said thut it might not mean anything for & man in Maseachusetrs, when he had an altercation, to = his hands under his coat-tail, but thatin South Carolina it might mean a good desl. In this community, where : a baw ‘always been so rally carried, * motion by an angry man anger. If there ta no pocket st the Bip, this motion will bee by an unarmed man, and more if tone ved. We go for abolishing Ci ees Sz Aer the lection, the gobble or s Thankagiving a eee CITY IN SUMMER. [Richard W. Gilder, (‘‘The Old Cabinet,”) in Scribner's for November.) it was some time in An; that, weary of the exeitement and conven! ities of our life in the country, we t again the repose and freedom of the city. need not tell you that we revived at once. There is really nothing more refreshing than the city in midsummer. Of course, I do not mean life in the out- skirts has anything attractive; you must be close to the throbbing heart of the town, if you would be cherished by it, and love it well. “Do ju remember what the North wind said to iamond?—that you must be with it, and it cannot harm you. There is reston the heav- ing bosom of the ocean, but none in the flap- ping edges of its garment. So we found a nook in the very center of the elty. If you should stretch telegraph wires from each of the principal points of interest to the cneon the opposite side of the town, we could intercept all the messages. We are within two blocks of eight hotels, six theaters, three concert ha'l+, three clubs, two gas companies, two public monume: ‘and one savings bank. We are within ene door of the central square of the city; and within five minutes’ walk of the great diy goods stores; tive minutes from some otthe bist snd not afew of the worst restau- rants in the world. The most noted and noisy street in America is hardly a stone’s throw from our front gate. I suppose I need not mention such miner conveniences as butchers, bakers, and candlestick-wakers; though really there is littie need for the latter, as there is akind of match-box, in imitation-bronze, somewhat in the form of a vase, d which, with a little wadding, can be made to hold’ a canle quite stead ly, and is much prettier and cheaper than the crdinary market, article. (P.S. The base wakes, also, anexcelient ex- tingnisher—if you have another candle.) ‘Su you see there ts nothing to be desired the Way of nearness to anything, though I fi got to Say that the horse-cars pass very close by, id take you to any of th landings, without your h and there, of course, are the omnibuses by the by, there is a cab-stand over 5 the monument; and the barber is actually In fact, there is a gate leading from his flower-garden to ours, which, in some respects, isthe greatest convenience of all, as you m see from the following verses:— Two people once lived in a loft, Whose names were Confucius and Kitty, And their friends, with anxiety, oft boyy their heads and exclaimed, “What a ty? And they asked them such questions as Can You keep dry in your loft when it showers?” ‘The reply to which constantly ran. “The barber takes care of the flowers!” Then their friends became sad and perplexed, And declared it was really alarming; But — and they said, ‘Why, we're nex To the moon and the stars, and it’s charming, For althongh when the weather is hot We pase a few tropical hours, The toasting is quickly forgot While the barber takes care of the flowers “Though we breakfast on marmalade tea, And dine on whatever is handy, oprlngy f house is no trouble, for we Can live nively on lemons and candy. Though we boast neither camel’s-hair sha wl:, Nor coaches, nor turrets, nor towers. "Neath our loft are five beautiful stalls, And the barber takes care of the flowers.” Ispoke of the great street as noisy; but al- though it is no near, it iaa peculiarity of the situation that the sound Lecomes soft and pleas- ant by the time it reaches our ears. It basa resemblance to (he rote of the sea, and agree- ably euggests the usual similes of the ocean of humanity, étc.; but it has none of that name- jess terror which is in the eyerlastin: roar of the breakers. T ball have to go back to the idea of centrali- zation, (I was afraid I should torget something.) A new cempany had just opened its ottice around the corner; and it we want anything done, all that we have to do isto “send tor a commissionaire.”” We have never yet bad oc- casion to send for a commissionaire, but it i3 a Satisfaction to seehim pushing a hand-cart easily through the street with a fine new (empty’) trunk init freeh from the shop; or to see him walking briskly along the sidewalk, With spectacles on his nose, and @ general mosphere of translation about him, aud know that you can have him at any moment to polish your stove, or look up the proper quota tion from the classics. A summer evening in the city is worth rid- ipg @ long distance in the cars, every day, to evjoy. The people who come out of thei houses and sit on the front steps are 80 go natured and happy; there is an air of enjoy ment, & good-feilowsbip and lack of restraint, that yeu co not always find in the country. The front steps are throngea, and you see groups taking the air in queer, out-of-the-way terra- ces avd balconies. You hear voices above you, and looking up find that the flat roof of the one- story wing of the bakery hasa railing around it, and the children are up there haying a good time. Although even next-door neighbors do not know each other's names, still it is beantiful to observe the subtle and decorous companion. ship between the three young ladies in tue bal- = on the north side of the street and the half-dozen young gentlemen on the porch of the boarding-house on the south side. Iv the square it is different. Mr. Lathrop says that Trollope has but one method of indi- cating @ man’s afiection for a woman; that is, by wakirg Lim put bis arm around her waist. Mr. Letbrop seems to think this superficial in | Mr. Trollope; but, whether superficial or not, { can imagine an author's getting to very mucl of this opinion by frequenting unduly the &quares of large citles. It may be, however. the other way; it is barely possible that this is what comes of reading the works of a superficial au- thor like Trollope. Really, when you once be- come &8 unabashed in the contemplation, as these young people are in the enjoyment, there is something delightful in the simplicity and sincerity of this method. They sit there for an hour at a time, saying little or nothing, either with bis arm around her waist, or else hand-in- hand, and looking ,ou serenely in the eye, wit out the slightest celf-consciousness or fdistu: bance, as you pass backward and forward be- tween their bench and the fountain. There is @ sort of freemasonry among them; for you will observe that when a couple became tired of waiking, and sit down, the coupleat the other end ef the bench not too pointedly moze on and leave thecoastclear. Huppy children— life and death are not all atfectation and brim- stone after all. It is a mistake to suppose that every one goes out of town in August. Mr. McCarty is stili in town, [ am sure, for | was talking with him at the gste, this very evening. He jooked far- tively up and down the street; then tarned to me and asked, hurriedly, and as if with a haunting sense of guilt:— “Gan you tell me, sir, whether your neighbor over yonder is still alive.” He seemed relieved and glad when [ told him what the barber had told me; tuat the sick man = much better, and there were hopes of his ‘on have donc me a great kindness, sir,” he said, turning aside hia face. “If you only knew how | have to go days and days without ever asking after my dearest triende, when I know that they are at the very door of death.” I know Mr. McCarty very slight think he is a most worthy man. I some tarlatan flounces pinked st his undertaking shop. eThen there jg the little old Normande, with her white cap and gray hair,and her‘: Bonu jour, mon fils;” you ring the bell and she comes down stairs and leans over the counter and pushes back the catch with a stick; and you stepope side while Antoine leads the horse through the baker-shop into the little stable in | the back yard. ‘‘Maais, la France est un beau payee, ma belle,” she says. he squares are our summer theaters; we go | every night. At the nearest we h u asA Midsummer Night's Dr sone not far off where they play “Ham- d‘*Othello.” At the first, the basin is shallow, and rimmed with herbage and flowers; the fountain is cheery, fantastic, ghostly: spreads itself into exquisite white waving fa- brics; sends out ehining wings; is haunted by rainbows, falls with a musical, gentie, dreamy sound. At the other, the fountain lifts a singio solid column straight toward the zenth; the capital breaks beavily, and falls back with a dull, booming noise upon the tossing sarface; here are no planta or flowers; the waves beat against the curb, the waters look black and deep as the sea, A Boy awp A Mopzst Sonoot Ma’aM IN A PREDICAMENT.—An am incident occurred Dotlding the otter day. “Walle at plag, duriug A » dur Be the boys had. the misfortune t6 rent in that n of his panta- could not obey withou! schoo! the breach in his pantaloons, sat still in his seat, turning very red in the face and looking mortified beyond description. The teacher took bis hesitation for insubordi- D and sternly ordered him to the front. Still he did move. The teacher became he 35 and, hastily writing a note, dispatched it to Prof. Ro informing him ef the conduct pupil, snd atthe same time command- ng the blushing and mortitied boy to pack up books and prepare to leave school. The i his courier with the meseage tothe Frotessor had scarcely leit the room when he waa overtaken ether they sought out rd the manner in which the snd ex! , and ranch the number able to buffet with the waves was notably on | the increase, ton is prominent in produc. ing ladies who are admirable swimmers. Many of these ladies, in case of an accident, couli not only take the best care of themselves, bat they have gone as far as to instruct themselves how to save those ignorant of swimming. This spring a notable case occurred wherc @ young | woman from an interior town in Massachusetts | saved alad of seventeen from drowning, plang- | ing intoa :wift-running river, “accoutred as of ladies | ehe was,” snd diving twice under water before | accompilshing the rescue. It is worth record- Ing that, the fact having been reported to the | officials of the town where the incident hap- peted, it was propored to have a modal pre- fentedio her. Suhing the whole thicg in a matter-of-fact way, the young Indy refased, not wishing to attract any notoriety to hersei: dat the ladies 1 s ters, in @ , bysi & modest toilt, somewhat damaged by the :mmersion, gave the breve girl a handsome dress and an enti e new wardrobe. We are incimed to think that we could dis- Perse with trifle of botany, or physics, or chem‘st:y, providing our daughters could bet- | ter breast the waves. One pleasant day this | sumicer, standing among a group of ladies on the toai-slip at Lake George, the wind was biowing freshly, when suddenly alace shaw! was whisked off @ pretty girl's shoulders, and cartied by the breeze into the lake. Now, had itheen a Hiy much desired by our lady: we might bave, twenty-five years ago, w into the water (first having a-sared oursel its depth), or, by means of along pole, obtained | the coveted flower. There was not # boat ou the slip, and feeling provoked at the accident, and our want of gallantry, we watched that drowning ecarf, now drifting fully 50 yards from us “It's really dreadful,” said the fair owner of the lace, ‘there goes the horrid thing. It is sadly ont of taste to mention what it cost, but that stupid scarf cost—dear me! all my savings ofsix months to purchase at Stewart's. Pro- voking thing! I'm going to have a good cry over it. There now,” and the speaker did { duige in a few genuine tears. “It was # she added, between her sobs. ‘Was that all?” said another lady in a most unsympathetic way, “I declare I thought it was cotton lace. “Thatis a remark quite uncalled for,” re- plied the loser of the shawl, “and is adding in- suitto injury. There.” “Touly did it, dear, to teach you to use a pin or something to hold the scarf with, and not to wear expensive lace just after breakfast. Bat it’s all right.” «What is all right, Madam?” rather eharply ee the aggrieved one, considerably net- tled. “Tt is all right, for I am going to get your shawl for you, since nobody else will,”’ and here the speaker looked at ua. “Oh, you are ex- cused; men of a certain age are not expected to be heroic,” and saying this, before we could stop her, she had gone down the slippery boat steps, had waded up to ber waist, and now was out of her depth, and was swimming as lustily asa Sandwich Island girl toward the shawl. “Pres- ently she was up to it, when ehe caught it, and with a woman's coquetry, swimming with one hand, with the other converted the lace into a which she wound round her head. ‘Here practical nineteenth century nereid for you,” she cried ont, jaughing, ashe came in hand over hand. Ina moment she stood dripping on the “Now, sir, will you be good enough to to the hotel aud send me my mai 3 ‘our scart, my dear young lady; it is sot much mrt; you will epread it ont evenly, and put it between folds of blotting paper, with a weight on it; and of course you will kiss me—if you don’t mind being wet—tor having been your ‘ewloundland, you know. It was @ real frolic! Catch cola” not a bit of it. Learned the noble art of natation when 1 wass yearsold, It isa pretty shawl, and sach arich, tiowing pattern, and real lace;of course I knew that all the time, for ifit had been cotton or imitation I give you my word [ sbouldn’t bave tried to rescue it. You see”—this was addressed to me—“‘a woman ewime at first, with ail her clothes on, lighter than aman, but after awhile it’s rather heavy work. ButI coany think bad I married a Turk, and my jealous lord bad put me in a sack into the Bozphorous, he could not have drowned me. By the way. ladies—I should uot like you to wention it—! am very unhappy. I am married | to a man, fate has so ordained it, who can’t run orswim, or play cricket or shoot, exceptina most languid w Tam, then, hie natural pro- tector, and he kuows it. ‘But 1 am chattering here. ’ Pray now run to the house and send my tervant.” On that we burried up to the hotel ind that important functionary, the lady's maid, econ sped on her errand. “* My mission on this earth,” said the lady to us that evening, ‘is to induce women to im- were themselves by means of physical culture. ‘by did not Ganon Kingsley lecture on it when be was here, for no one as written so sensibly on the subject? Women’s rights movements fail signally in this particular. How are women who are always whining and alling to take any higher pesition in the human tamily. 1 tell you, much as we may despise materialistic tdaa, and hola aloft the immaterial,—brain over body,—fistsare too often trumps. Now to the case in point: tLoula by no means have gone overboard after that young lady's shawl it I bad not been in my morning drees. That, you say, is a non sequitur, but our actions are mostly relative. A precious scolding I received in lien of a reward from my Jord and master, and perhaps I deserved it. But don’t you think If more of the young women cou} #wim, or even walk decently, or shoot bows | avd arrows, or skate more, they would be better on? Den’t you read now a great many books | written by intelligent women which have sick- | beadsche and dyspepsia sticking out in every line ? Of course, now it is too late to care them. But, suppoee in early life, if only two energeti mele filends, her brothers, had tucked th: intellectual girl under their arms, and clap; on ber feet a pair of thick-soled shoes, and t ber #épin of three or four miles a day over fieide—don’t you fancy that your person would have been wonderfully improved physically and mentally?” “Of course we do,’’ we replied. ‘‘Are you not rather stronger in the theory thsn in the practice?” the lady rather mali- cicurly inquired. ‘You write about these mat- ters occssionally, I suppose; batdo you carry them ont in regard to your daughters?” “ We can criticise a three-le; stool,” we replied, “but, if our life de led On it, could | not make one.” ** 1 will tell you what I will do. To-morrow morning I will wager you just a pair of gloves | that { can take my husband in a boat, and you may take any lady you please, not under 110 ene and J will row you half a mile into the ake.” How could we decline the w: ning, however, we telegraphed to New York for a pair of 6y gloves. We came in a glorious sec- ond. We might have won hadour young lady coxswain trimmed boat, but she tnsisted on see- ing the reflection of the clouds in the lake, aa- suring us it Was & nuance she was anxious to fix in ber mind, in case a dress-pattern of similar hue was ever put before her. We were beaten a good many boat’s lengths. Our competitor had every advantage. The lady’s dead weight— her hutband—éat motionless in the stern, read- ing a book. He had certainly been well trained PREsIDENT WOOLERY UPON THE GREBES AND Vaz CoLLBG2.—At a supper party of the old Yale boys in New York, lately, ex-President _ Woolsey made a speech, saying, that there was | something in the results of Greek culture that | he bad enjoyed more than any otheretudy of nis life—thai the Greeks bad in all respects but one been more favored than avy other nation, that their sense of beauty, proportion, fitness haa alone ensbled them to make a t record without conscience. Rome, on the other han, without baving such high aspirations, bad ex- erted a more permanent intiuence. It had con- acience enough to make laws that would work, Greece couki not. It was strange to realize that only one-tenth of the Greek citizens could read. But they all could criticise Sophocles and Euripides, and it is a question whether a nation cultivated through the ear to that pitch was not, on the whole, as well cultivated as one under our a discipline of newspapers. The e: president then spoke of the college. and ex- pressed the conviction that its period o: greatest intellectual activity among the students had been sbout the time of the Revolutionary war. Many men bad been produced by it since, how- ever, who would be regarded as their peers by any scholars in the world. He might name the jate Prot. Hadley, who was easy master of three Pe departments of Knowiedge—pbilosophy, 6 civil law, and mathematics. Such scho! of course, were raro, aud no university cou! exist if its plans were such as to make all its juates men so far in advance of the imme- 1? That eve- a great revival ‘4 scholarship. The true tion of a university is to educate men to meet the exact requirements of the times they live in, and to give them rsand inspire them with ambitions which 1 do something to raise the requirements of their times. This, he thought Yale was successfully doing. A Treve VaRrecaTeD Rosg.—The Hadso! | the stage, op the aiste, wit | With whom he was operating con!d not | room together, sit upon the wi | avd at ali timesa little branch ef firor pine | their jai | time, and during hoars when the people are | rible occurrence arising therefrom. | —- who could do 50 to treat Chapin, president of the water commissioners. Mr. Brown, being blindfolded, asked Mr. Cha- | pin to select mentaily some acjuaintance in the 1eom and think intently upon the initials of bis | name. Then, taking Mr. Chapin by the haad, | sud placing one hand on bis torehead, he led 8. him quickly back and forth in frout ofa large & phabet fastened against the back of thestaze, some five feet from the floor: Very soon us | reste@ hishand and forehead against the W. “That te the #ret letter,” said he. In the sane | way he found the second letter, C., then Xt. | “Now,” said Brown, ‘think of the person whose | initials these are, and I wiil lead you to bi and very rapidly, blindfolded as he was, Se wert down the narrow, unprotected stairs from little hesitation, and placed his hand sna forehead apon William C. MeOistian, and Mr. Chapin said “Correct.” Cheers and applause greeted thtstriamph, and then, for the first time, Mr. Brown removed the Yandage from his eyes. Other t quite as dificult, and even more 60, we succestally performed, t with more hesit in one or two made, but to th on the stage, and to the more observing of t audience it was evidently because the partics re sometimes ANCES not concentrate their th in band. Mr. Brown is exceedingly fr saye distinctly that he cannot succeed if those with whom he operates do not fix their minis as he directs them, and results prove this, ac- cording to the statement of the party themselves. In the “wire test” Mr. B g blind th was connected with W. C. MoUlahan gulated copper some 20 feet long. lan fixed his eres and mind on au object on the stage. It was smail hole in the canvass car tain. Brown flew around the stage to tind the object. His impression led him to the locality most of the time, but the note-book of a reporter which was nearly ina line between the eye of Mr. McClallan and the hole in the curtain, was indicated by him, and this was the worst tatlure he made in the whole evening. Those of Brown's audience who have waited in darkened rooms to see tables tip or to hear the tumming of banjes and jingling of bells by ‘“aptrit”™ hands, cannot fall to note the contrast between such performances, which no skeptic is al- lowed to investigate, and this fair, satisfactory and therefore wonderful exhibition of nata clairvoyance—Spring field ( Mass.) Union, 24. Caged Birds—How to freat Them. If you want a bird to love you, choose @ bail- finch. His affection for his mistress is often so | great as to cause his death if he be separated | trom her; and always make him intensely jeal- ous of all who share her regard with him. Their natural mye 4 is not musical, but they may be taught to whistle almost any melody by pati- ently reiterating it to them while they digest their food, which is rape or canary seed, with @ little lettuce or apple. When moiting they re- quire bard egg aud bread crumbs, and a clove put into their water; and if they should mope or i ume their plumage, scalded rape seed must be given for a few days. If a ciever bird is your fancy, get by all means 8 gold finch. You can teach bim to climb @ little ladder, to pre- tend to be dead, to draw bis own water, to eweep out his cage with a little broom, to ring a email bell for his food, and many other enter- taining tricks, which, being of a restiess, basy nature, he thoroughiy enjoys. Goldtinches are bon vivants, and subject to iits from overeating themselves. When these occur, dip the bird, head downward, in cold water, and put him on low diet for a few days, and he will readily re- cover. Canaries are like tlowers, they do not thrive uniess their keepers love them. Nothing | is more cruel than to keep birds and not attend | | to them, and this is especially true ot canarice | They do n tlive by seed and water alone, they crave equal!y companionship and love. They ought, too, to be Kept in pairs, forthey have a | great deal to say to each other that they cannot say to you, anditic delightful to watch their gos- sippings and confidences. I possess two canaries which, though in no respects remarkable birds, | are asource of constant pleasure and amuse- ment. The maleis auold bird of fine breed, dignitied and aristocratic, on some days hardly tolerating the fidgety, talkative, demonstra- tive female, and resenting, either by con- temptuous silence or by a downward good scold - ing, her interference in his contemplations. Again, he isina good temper, and she is the happiest of bird wives. They fly from room to ndow sills, and exchange opinions aboat the sparrows, or bold consultations about next spring's housekeeping. Canaries love variety in their food, and, it | plenty of exercise be given them, they may ‘be safely trusted with anything they will eat. Du- | ring molting = few poppy seeds are excellent, seems to afford them the greatest pleasare. | ‘The little extra cleaning or trouble incurred by letting them have the use of one or more reom3 is abundantly compensated by their love, their happiness and their charming companionship Certainly those who pretend to entertain birds f any kind should be their friends and not ers, for birds, above all living crea- tures, were created to he glad. Senet ea Daivine Cattex Thoven Tas StReeTs—A Man Terribly Gored by an infuriated Steer.—The iil-eflect of allowing rattle to be driven through the streets of the city, especially in the day abroad, was exemplified on Satarday by a ter- Itappears that about 11 a. m. four steers which had been Janded trom one of the Eastern Shore steam- boats were being driven from Light street wharf to Pennsylvania avenue by way of Charles | street, and at the intersection of Baltimore street they became frightened and ran away from the colored man and boy who had the: charge. They ran di Baltimore street at a furious rate, causing great consternation among those who crowd the sidewaike, and com- ke @ hasty re- ito stores, alleys, Kc. At the corner of Light street two of them turned down that thoroughfare towards the basin. In their mat career they knocked down ani slightly injured a lady whose name was not learned. A third steer continued down Baltimore street to Cal vert, where it was secured by Sergeant Parke, Pohceman Mitchell, amd some citizens. ‘The other ran out Calvert street, and when near | Monument, knocked over @ small boy without, however, doing him much fe. | The steer turned into Monument street, toi- lowed by an excited crowd, whose yells only | seemed to make the anima! more turious. Wien near Ashland square, Alexauder Freeman, a colored man, who was crossing the street, was aseailed by and caught on the horns by the in- furiated animal and tossed in the air, falling heavily on the sidewalk. Tne unfortunate man was caught at the extreme upper part of the | thigh, one horn inflicting an ugly wound on his | back, and the other tearing a large gash in the lower region of the stomach. Freeman, al- though eo badly hurt, was able to rise, and was aesitted into a house near zz He then went by assistance to the house of his wife, in J but she not being home, be was placed niture wagon and conveyed to the home of bis mother, No. 6 Spring Garden avenue. There he was properly attended physicians, and although very painfully wounded, hopes are eu- tertained of recovery. A moment after gor- ing Freeman the avimal was secured at the corner of Aisquith and Gay streets by Frank Smith, colored, who got a rope around its horns and beld it fast until policeman Caloss came up tas an axe and knocked it in the hesd.—Ba!!. jun. Tue Errsot or Opor 1x Mitk.—For the use of the calf, the odor in the milk of a healthy cow is not objectionable. It helps on the pro- | cess of digestion, and increases the lexative tendency of new milk. In butter and cheese it is detrimental. It promotes a strong, disagree- | able flavor, and hastens the decomposition of | both. The more of it there is carried into but- | ter, the stronger will be its flavor, and the more easily will it become rancid. In the heat of | summer, when the cows are feverish, there is milk, and all there is formed in it while standing for the cream to rise, would elt ruin it as ure as food. If of ie | nized, the fi it will demon. strate it: Put & quantity of new milk into @ vessel, say a ora to 2 two-q' tin , £0 that it will readily assume the of room. Put | with Vests to ” » will faut plkating ever experienced. for all this kind until it 1s locked to near Christmas and yet did weil; sre generally where the roots have heen in very snperior cordition, or in some way Of another the tree bas been very favoral wuccess. The early-set (ree, or roots, either mskes new roots to 20 settle about its roots t PoLRARS. OF course trees eet and will be apt to draw ouc d perhaps in such causes og. oe given to pla ay be trac as ady had under- these parts lat may occur, and it ts just to come in to save the whole prink greens do very well planted in August. In tt parts evergreens ba month, but the past Au, different taie. So with Ts much must be left to jad or may not be done. We think it may be set down as a general rule in fali-planting, that larger trees do better than emailer ones. Why this is so ig not for us tos: ouly that it ie the experionce of those who ha bad much to do with this sort of thing. our friends set out a large quantity of the com- mon Silver maple tree in the fall of 1571, the subsequent winter being ever memorable for its Geadly effects om trees in general. All these trees were trimmed in to little more than the main stems, which isthe approved practice with those who wish beyond all contingencies to have trees Some of these trecs were put an inch thick, while others were as much as three, and all varying between these two figures ‘There were two hundred in all. In every othor respect but size the trees were the same, @nd int very respect circumstances were the same. the spring the small trees had their stem killed, though the roote all lived and sent out many sprouts; the middle sizes were more or less injured, sometimes sending out weak branches only, and often having the upper part complete- ly killed; while the large and hardy trees ali lived, aud in the spring sent out shootsas strong as willow: Such smal! thiogs as hedge-plants are not de- sirable to plant in fall, nor indeed are anything much that is under one foot high, unless they are buncby bushet and have an abundance of roots. This is notso much on account of the season as of their small size rendering them liable to be drawn out by the frost. It some- times happens, however, that some paople have 0 much to do in the spring that they have to do things in the fall or not todo them at all, aod Lence they are willing to take a little extra trouble to get work done now if only it can be made secure. We have known such persons succeed very weil with smali things—Osage orange hedge-plants, for instance—by covering the plants with earth after they are set out. “e been planted in that st would have wid a tog in geveral ent as to wRat may | The plants are cut off “ort, almost to the root, ae Osage orange plants ought always to be, and after being set the earth ix drawn over with a hoe ot plow and raked out early in the spring. — Germar town Telegraph. 1874 CLorunyve: IST75 FALL AND WINTER. THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT or Fall and Winter Clothing, MEN’, YOUTHS’ AND BOYS’, EVER OFFERED BLFORE BEAD THE FOLLOWING: A splendid line of Dit 1, Bask: Deuter breasted Kngiteh Ba FRO ine Obinchtila jue and Browa . ney Overcoat Overcoat for 8 Beaver Overcoat sey, in Blue, very handsom fine Astracen for @8, and sn 1 Cand $12; Bise st G12 abd $15; fe Engitsh K rown, Drab and Smoke color, trimined aad lined, st $16; vo jeaver Overcoats at @2) and 9; splendid Lins Snd many other styles. For Youth of Business tuits from $7 to $15; Youths’ Dress Buits from $18 to 20 ané_@25; Fe, Suite in rest ricts, from @5 to $12; Basiness Pants from $1 to $e,sr4, Sue Drews kin and Fancy Usesimere ante at prices ranging from @4 50 to #8. A ben: tiful fine of Children’s Buite and Overcoais. Lorge s careful inspection of my goots bet: chasing elsewhere, assuring the pub! bad euch a variety of Gar- tastes and desires, to DUrSes, OF to gi satinfaction. never before have to please all date all A. STRAUB, 1011 PENNSYLVABRIA AVENUB, octls-tr ‘Three Doors from 11th Street, Neo Farther Postponement OF TH! SECOND AND LAST GRAND GIFT CONCERT IN AID OF THE Masonic Relief Association oF RORFOLK, ¥ TAURSDAY, 19th Novem Under authority of the Virginie Legislature (sc passed March &b, 1873), 100 Cash Prizes, axgrey PBIOEK OF TIOFET! -Whole Tickets. Bait Tickets, $8; Quarts Tickets, Tickets, $100, NO INDIVADUAL ENE is strictly for MASON euty, and fairness which chafncterized the Ret cos rise, JOBN L. ROPER, Pres’. For Tickets and Olreulers fall information, ~ MOO! address, BERSY V. BE va, Responsible Arnis Wanted. weph-t.th deel0w | Washington, DRY GOODS. a er inane FALL AND WINTER DRY GOODS. BLACK aND sLack x ERY AND HaNDABRCHIEFS, LADIES’ WRAPTIN There goods have been ar nr cust: wv from former pr ke ation that now iethetimeto buy from an vabroken asvortment at nusretty tere Phere JOUN T MITCHELL Poveee Prrey FALL DRY GOoDs. LARGE STOCK AND LOWER PRICE! * tat moved in my new store, anit now open- ried stock, bonght for cash atnee the de- nT #ticee thea Dry Goods have been ORE, < and 10 cents Yard wide bieached COTTOR 8 conta, - b oe. Bear a Table Linen NAPKINS, TO! Cahton ¥ wo MBBES for mou aud bors, fr * é cont's ON DER® Bau. ob All the pew things io DR EBS GOODS, on«at a b-colored PLALDS, 18, worth a8, Fine SRBCES and DIAGONALO.3" 5. worth SO, Black ALPACAS, 25, worth 7, * 2 (3%, worth 80. S. MERINOS. ron ES, TAMISES, SATI- RTE o specvalty Cheap. 8 I shall offer the weet Bilk trade, i LTekis ree gL Dine English Brussels can! er nov?-Gt 709 Market BEAT ATTEA( TION TO PUCHASERS G DRY Goops = Water Proof Cloaking rednoad from §1.28to Per yarc. All Wool Flannels at 28 cents. Ganton js at reduced prices. Blankets, Towels and as low as the L Bay Mobsire and Alpecas, Goods in beautiful st Homery and Notions cl octal tm REDU BAXTER’, MOB 1920 Penney Ivan! TION. Tn conseanence of the extreme dallness of bost- peer Curing the Inst mouth, we fod our stock ep- urely TOO LABGB, And in order to reduce it have determined, from thi 30) her SPECIAL INDOCEMBNTS to CASH cents PURCHASERS. Best PRI B only MUSLIN Stock marked down. YATES & MITOCRELL, 7 Market Space ad CLOSE BUSIN TAKEMED DOL ve , SLAWGHTSR ip the price of DRY G@oopD The entire stock to be sold at prime cost within the Next Hinety @ fend Bc; bi v8 Jard-wide Cotton at wer! cea; Lecies’ Hommed Handker- * Hose, Table Ehawih $1.40. Call «: look st our stock Lefore purchasing el-ewhere, at No 130 Bridge st.. Georgetown, D.C. PS —Cotton at Lic, better than Ooty. im < — VERTISEMENT OF His OnZAP DBY GUODS, 707 MABKET SPACg. We bare the very fine kB Brisco. worth The. Alwos & ow pices of the tifal Drese Goods at i8ec., C. We bave just received « magnificent sssortment Of the latest style Dros: Goods, ranging from 30. to 7B Picces mes~ of the extremely wide Bheet- only a fe tack M ly ec | unmenificent enkete Deantifat 81 &2 10, splendid Waterproof, Sc ; vory fine al!-Wool fe.; very heavy Osuton Fisonel, only ree stock of Clothes for Mon's and Boys Every day we are receivi avctions the cheapest Dry G = 707 MABKET SPACE. QYE ee1cE TO ALL, DESIRABLE DRESS GOODS. Berges, Oashmercs, Merinocs, Empress Oloths, Rinck and al and Papin Black Pars Mobatre, eck Bilks, & Drap c'Bte NN THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH xe now opened, and for eale at VL Y LOW RATE! OOLORED VELVETEENS, (> ‘and 75 cents, only half their SURPRISING BPA ic f lot BOGAN & WYLIt«, oct tr 101% and 1020 Seventh street NW. CARPETS, CARPETS, ARPEBT . & RGEST STOCK IN THE CITY. ATTRACTIONS EXTRAORUINARY, PET of the most artistic de- ‘oa iugrein Carpets, Oil Olothe in sil widtbe Intest patterns, SPECIAL INDUCEMEBST. and With the great rednotion in prices male lately wo shall make and put down all Carpets free of charge. Au immense ¥ GOODS on the first floor at reduced rates. who would profit should cal! soon. WeOLFo: & SSILBERG, THE ARCADE, 427 SEVENTH STREET, octm-tr - Berwesn D avn B Sovrmwasy. pecosnsap sco. ABE NOW OFF! Worsted Bullion Fringe, something new. Yak Laces: Gaipure Laces. Velvet Ribbons and Besded E tock. BRODHEAD & CO., cetas-tr 1806 F street, between Isth and ith. i T= BUFFALO LITBIA WATER FO SALE. Fo SALE OB EXCHANGE, THIRTY-FOUR SMALL FARMS, BUILD iNG SITES AND COUNTRY SEATS, NEAR AND IN FULL Visw OF THE CITY