Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1880, Page 2

(For Tae Eventxe Stan.] THE ELF-MAIDEN. Ax Eptryin¢ Banta sy Lovrs BaumBaca. [‘‘Overset” from His German by W.L. Shoemaker.) ‘The twilight foucht with the yielding day; Birds, hushed, to the bowers were fleeting. On the shore of the forest-lake, lonely lay The ‘‘Bunch o' Grapes” tavern, greeting. With the mug in her band, to me stepped Lize, ‘Whose lightness of foot ne’er forsook her: Lize cast not down on the floor her eyes, As I round the waist there took her. In the foaming mug I now gazed intent, And now upon Lize, the tender, As she from toper to toper went, AS a weasel as agile and slender. With their forerunners, drink after drink I bravely managed to swalloyy, And a stolen hand-squeeze mafie me think ‘That a kiss would be sure to follow. From behind the mountains the moon rose high; ‘The lake like silver glistened ; ‘When lo! from the sedges and reeds thereby, In a wavering veil one listened. “The Erl-king's daughter so fair to behold Draws me out to the elfin dances; And golden spurs aud a heap of gold She will give to me, the chance ig.” Ha, mightily felt I my mettle advanc Soon paid for the liquor I'd taken. As [rushed from the house, with reproachfal glance Looked after me Lize, forsaken. ‘The fog in the wind it waved and awayed: ‘The dews on the meadow were blinking. I distinctly perceived the elfin maid, As at me she stood nv dding and winking. Through rushes, throuzh reeds did I swiftly pasa, And ditches leaped lightly over. Now o'er the Jake, and now o’er the morass, I beheld the fair one hover. Beckoning, around me she danced, fiying fast, ‘Like a flame that is flickering and flashing. **Ah, elf-maid, now I shall have thee at last!” Teried—and in mire lay splashing. Quite cooled, from the bog I got out with ado; My soiling and soaking were thorough. I returned to the door of the tavern with rue, Bat I was locked out, to my sorrow. As home in wet clothes I stumbled, I swore, I think, but of that there no proof is— No matter—a sparrow in hand is worth more ‘Than a dove on the top of the roof is. Georgetown, D. C. —_—_+>+_____. ‘The Question of Taxation. THE TAX-BILLS BEFORE CONGRESS. Mr. Editor:—The tax bill prepareé and pre sented to Congress by a committee of citizens a8 a substitute for the tax laws now in force in this District was very carefully drawn, and all of its sections were thoughtfully considered. By + it the greatest amount of revenue can be se- cured with the least oppressive taxation. It effects such a diffusion of taxation among our people as will be equitable to all and onerous to none. The present tax system is the most in- equitable that can be devised. Under it an honest man is compelled to pay a tax equal to from one-fourth to one-third his income, while the dishonest_man_ pays but a nominal propor- tion of his. This ts not only so here, but wher- ever similar tax laws prevail, and are enforced. Where such a tax law is moderately enforced it is popular, because “the extreme inequality and uncertainty of a tax assessed in this man- ner can be compensated, for only by its extreme moderation, in consequence of which every man finds himself rated so very much below his real revenue that he gives himself but little disturp- ance, though his neighbor should be rated somewhat lower.” By the reports of the treasurer and assessor of the District of Columbia for the year 1879, it al that the revenues under the present law diminish yearly. The whole assessment, yoluntary and arbitrary, for the year ending June 30, 179, yielded but $200,000; of this, but $125,000 was collected, and itis doubtful whether any considerable portion of the remainder can be collected. It is estimated by their reports that for the yedr ending June 30, 1880, the assessment will Field but $170,000, and it is doubtful whether more than half of it can be collected. The peo- Ple who are so dis) have learned how to evade the tax, and no human power can pre- vent such evasion. By the system of license and other taxation prescribed in the proposed law, the revenue from. sources other than realestate, will yield over $300,000 annually, while experiment and expe- rience show that but less than half this sun can be raised under the present personal tax law. This is not an idle assertion. These estimates are based on official and other data, and are certified by the assessor and collector. Now. if this billto which nearly the whole people lend their approval, will yield iwice tae revenue that can possibly be raised under an Odious system, Congress should not hesitate to pass it. It should matter little to Congress how our revenue be raised, provided it be raised tn 2 manner the people prefer; and we simply de- to raise it in our own way. it may be urged that this bill isnot the wisi of the whole people. Doubtless, men who, under the present system, pay no taxes, but, under that proposed, will have to bear their just proportion of the burden Zof taxation object. There are in this Dis thousand business pursuits, avoc:- tions, professions, &¢., and onl s of them contribute anything towards the burden of local government. The proposed biil will apply a tax to the * who escape under the present system, and to the non-resident dealers, so that every man making money out of thi community shall contribute bis share of the ex- of the government which makes his Business profitable and pleasant. This is a non-commercial city, and to continue oppressive laws here will check Its growth and retard its development. Relief from such laws will induce men of wealth to make this District their home, and by this employment and profit will be given to our mechanics, merchants and professional men. The tax on invisible property, book ‘accounts, notes of hand, mort; &c., now yields to the local verbinent but little over $20,000 annual- fy. Shall the growth and prosperity of this Dis- trict be stopped for so smalla sum? ‘This ts a very serious matter for our le to consider. ‘Among the many intangible things attempted to be taxed under the present system are the book accounts of physicians, lawyers, mer- chants, mechanics, and all men doing business here. Such a feature of the law renders it im sible for any man to makea return to the asses- sor-with any certainty that he will not have t pay a tax on worthless indebtedness. Men everywhere eliminate all such matters from their ‘returns. Conscientious men, hov:- ever, cannot do this, and an unequal burden 1s thrown upon them.’ The tax upon mortgages, which is a double tax upon real estate, will yield no revenue in the future; for when the Fate of interest prevailing here js, as it is now, Not greater than 6% and Often 5 per cent., the resident investor will put his money into U. 8. 4 per cents., which will yleld to him as much interest asa mortgage bearing 5% per cent, interest, and offer him a more readily exchanga- ble security. The result will be that residents Of states, such as Pennsylvania and Maryland, where mortgages are not taxed, will take sucht Mortgages as are offered here; dnd as our tax Jaws cannot affect non-residents, we can expect no revenue from such investments. pain, the law ts easily evaded by the resident Jender taking from the borrower a deed In fee to property upon which the latter wishes to borrow money, giving him a lease providing that the equivalent of interest shall be paid as Tent, with the privilege of redemption at the end Of the term for which the loan is needed. In such cases all the conditions of a mortgage exist; but it 1s difficult to see how the lender, who, to avoid the tax, becomes the owner of the rty, can be taxed. With like evasions all Fivbivis property will escape taxation. The experiment of taxing invisible property has been tried here and proved a fatlure as to revenue, and no penalties, than can be devised will Increase the returns from such property. ‘To indicate some of the features of the pro- posed bill, it may be mentioned that the banks and bankers of the District, who, collectively, the present laws, pay but $236.25, will pay atax of over $7,000 annually; stock com- il be taxed the same as under present ws; Danks and bankers will be taxed on their a, t 4 E g 5 ty i & g Bi i im) ria t to our prosperity that this. ‘ant to yposed bi which provides an equitable sys- Eemrof taxation, that meets the approval of ple —_ Bagge no one 4s subj to p, and wi wi Gounie the revenue, should be substituted for ious, yet unfruitful, law now in force, which is an inquisition into every man’s pri- vate circumstances, and an inquisition which, in order to accommodate the tax to him, watches Over all the fluctuations of his fortune and ex- | apap law which will drive away capi- and enterprise from the District, by re- ducing the annual revenues add a greater bur- i RELIGIOUS NOTES. — The erratic and persistent Mr. Mackonochie continues his services in St, Alban’s London, despite his Suspension by the! Coart of Arches and all the endeavors of the Bishop of London to silence him. — Cardinal Manning has just consecrated Rev. Mr. Lacy, bishop of Middlesbrough, the first new Romish that has been established In England since the hierarchy was introdaced In 1850, — In Salisbury, England, there is an Episco- he has no time to prepare would like to preach, and therefore ts reading to his cot tion a course of the sermons of Jeremy Taylor. It 1s admitted that these discourses are a little out of style, yet they are confessed to be both earnest and ortho- dox. The rector’s frankness in admitting that they are Jeremy Taylor's instead of his own has brought upon him the approbation not only of his own flock, but of the other good people of Salisbury. — Over ninety families have taken seats in the Church of the Messiah, New York, since the Rey. Robert Collyer began his ministry there in addition to those whom he found when he came. Hils success has exceeded his most sanguine ex- pectations. — The death of Bishop Haven following closely upon that of Bishop Ames, will possibly have a niarked affect upon the condition of the prov- lems which agitate the Methodist church. Both were leaders In the conservative ranks of the denomination, and wielded a large intuence. Of the surviving bishops only Foster 15 knowa to have tendencies in the same direction. Scott is aged and infirm, and cannot take an active part in the agitations within the body. Sunp- Son is understood to be ready to concede mosi of the points demanded, as the elective pre ing eldership and the widening of the powers of lay delegates to conferences, While Andrews 13 supposed to be in sym) a. The athy with blu others, Merrill, Harris, P Wiley and r= mab, are not known to be especially pron yinced in their views. It is also quite likely now that the general conference of this y will be ex- pected to elect one or more new bishops. which willopen all these questions.—{Springfield Re- publican, — The supreme court of Georgla recently gave the following decision upon church pic-nies and excursions:—“ A church cannot, as a corpora- tion, engage in the sale of tickets to the public for an excursion on board a steamer which the church has chartered for the occasion. Expenses incurred with a view to profit, and profits lost, cannot be recovered from the owners of the ves- Sel on their failure to make the stipulated voy- age. Excursions, as matter of trade or business with the public, are not within the means or ends for which the church was tncorporated. ‘The measure of damages in a sult by the church against the owners is the amount paid as hire for the vessel.” — The Churchman remarks of the late Bishop Whittingham,of Maryland, who loved simplicity in worship and yet saw many things grow up in his diocese contrary to his wishes, that while he was & man who alike by his tolerant spirit, his office, and his unparalled knowledge of Catho- licity was entitled to be the leader of dogmatic and ritual progress in the church, was yet re- duced to the painful position of a wheelhorse in the rear of a dancing team. — Readers of the Bible will be interested in the following expressions frequently met with in_ the holy scriptures:—A day's journey was 33 1-5 miles. A Sabbath-day’s journey was about. 3, Of an English mile. Ezeklel’s reed 1s said to have been nearly 11 feet long. A cubit is 22 in- ches nearly. A finger’s breadth is equal to one inch. Ashekel is about 50 cents. A shekel of gold was $9.0 A talent of silver was $1,650.86. A talent of gold was $26,448, A piece of ‘silver, or a penny, was 13 cents. A farthing was 3 cents. A gerah was 2 cents. A mite was }4 cent, A homer contained 75 gallons and 5 pints. An ephah, or bath,7 gallons and 4 pints. A hin was 1 ‘gallon and 2 pints. A firkia was 7 pints. AD —_ 6pints. Acabwas3 pints. A log was Pp —The Rey. Dr. 0. H. Tiffany, of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, in this city, has announced that, next spring ‘he will leave New York to assume the pastorate of the Broad and Arch Streets Methodist Church in Philadelphia. We thought that the bishops made the appoint- ments.—[{N. ¥. Post. EDISON'S LIFE. Sketch of the Routine Labor ef the Great Inventor—A Family Be- mnowned Longevit There are probably but few persons in the world outside the crowned heads whose fees ble length of life is canvassed bythe pubiic at with more interest than that of Thomas Alva Edison. And the interest is not without foundation when it is remembered that although only in his thirty-second year he has made more inventions than any In the Patent Office at Washington isa department marked “Edison,” where his numerous inventions are placed side by side, forming not the least of the curiosities of that institution. Nearly two hun- dred and tents are placed Wo his credit, making ex ly apropos the description given of him by a late commissioner of patents, who styled him “the young American whomade the Patent Office hot with his steps.” It is no wonder, then, that the frequent exclamation 1s made by those who reflect on the tremendous | amount of labor involved in such a record, “Oh, Edison can’t last much longer; he ts working himself to death!” The prophecy ts not a little strengthened, too, by the inventor's well known rd of many of nature’s requirements, Napoleon, it is related, did not average four hours’ sleep out of the twenty-four. His energy | Was untiring and his perseverance unconquer- able. His rest was in the saddle and his recrea- tion in the battle-tield. The same ts true of Edison tn his sphere of life. His only pleasure is In his laboratory, where he can be found day and night from one end of the year to the other, with scarecly an intermission. He seldom seeks rest In bed. A bench or cot among his chemicals and machinery form his couch six nights out of the seven. Not that there is any real necessity, pena , for such self-inflicted hardship, but ‘roughing it” is his delight. Life in the Menlo Park laboratory partakes more of the character Of a camp pitched near the battle-fleld than of anything cise. An average daily routine of the great scientist, beginning at atime when he | has actually ceased work and is at home, is as follows: THE DAILY ROUTINE. | At ten a. m. he starts for his office, where for | about two hours he is intensely occupied in at- tending with his private secretary to the mass of correspondence piling in upon him at the rate often times of over two hundred letters a day. After disposing of his correspondence he devotes his time to a perusal of the numerous papers, ses documents and books, sclen- Ulic and otherwise, that come to him from all parts of the world. He reads with great rapld- ity, and yet with astonishing thoroughness, as. days afterward he readily recalls what he been over. By 2p. m. he 1s in his laboratory re- viewing the results of the experiinents and work of his assistants performed in his absence. Consultations with Mr. Batchelor, his chief as- sistant, next occupies him for a considerable time. After this Is over he may be said to be fairly in the midst of his labor of iove. A recital of the experiments he daily tries, the plans he devises, and the suggestions he offers, would Seem exaggerated were it not that hundreds of record books in his laboratory bearing the marks of his labor atiests the same with unimpeach- able accuracy. 1'he majority of days his meals are served him at his work. The hard labor of the inventor, however, begins after dark. The work of the day 1s more of a preliminary charac- ter—a getting ready for the herculean efforts that one by one grow and develop, until they finally reach as a whole a perfect invention. A MIDNIGHT REPAST. The midnight lunch isa striking feature of the laboratory life. At twelve o'clock every night two men and a dog enter the laboratory laden down with baskets of edibles from a neighbor- ing catexer. The dog, a huge Newfoundland, pays as important a part in the performance as iis biped companions, for with a ghted lantern hanging from his mouth he leads the way from over the raflroad track and across the flelds to the abode or the Wizard. He also assists at times by having strapped to his back a basket or can containing some of the lunch. The re- aust Without the dog to participate would be arren. He seems to know his standing and he is always to be found at his post of duty. Around the lunch table gather the inventor and his assistants, and as the good things dis- appear they discuss the day’s work, tell stories and gossip generally. A freer or gayer set could scarcely be found. The jovial good nature of the chief spreads to all, and fun and fancy reign supreme. After lunch once more ‘ins the work of science, and continues until, one by — The Church of England has 872 parishes or churches in London, against 620 ten years ago. Of these churches 409 have weekly and 43 daily communion. Some 417 have Saints’ Day ser- vice; 245 dally service; 375 surpliced choirs, a galn of 261 since 1860; 210 free seats, a gain of 121 In ten years; 33 eucharistic vestments; 13 in- cense; 56 altar lights, and 43 candles on the altar. The “eastward position” is taken in 214 churches. — There Isa new denomination in Philadel- phia, which calisitself “The Methodist Church,” @ name which until recently belon; toa branch of the Methodist Protestant Church, now happily reunited. The leader of this new sect, the Rev. E. W. Kirby, says that it is neither a secession nor an offshoot from any Methodist body, though many of its members have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The doctrines of the new body are like those of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but its system is different. ‘There is but on¢ order in the ministry recognized, that of elder, to which women are eligible equally with me! ‘There are ko presiding elders and no bishops though the president of the annual conference exercises the powers of a superintendent. There are, however, class-meetings, attendance on which is made a test of membership, quarterly meetings, local preachers, exhorters, and so forth, as in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In plainness, opposition to display and to fatrs, ete., for raising money, the new sect resemb!es the Free Methcaists. —Ina late sermon by Rev. Dr. Robert Coll- yer, on “The Dry-Rot in Churches,” he said:— “A prominent minister in Chicago a short time since preached a sermon of Dr. Parker's and used it as hisown. The papers printed both side by side in parallel columns, and then in ex- planation the preacher said he had so absorbed the idea from his reading that he had used it without knowing the source from which it sprang. I do not believe the excuse, and I have only found one man who does believe it, and yet that congregation raised his salary in re- Sponse to that excuse. That church has the dry rot.” —Rey. W. T. Whitmarsh, of Cleveland, indi- cates ideas of “The Creed of the Future” follows: ‘What we want is a simple scriptura creed embracing the essentials of Christianity and these alone, and the church which is seen thus the most closely to resemble the church of the apostles will be the church of the future. Such a church will gather Into its fold the sim- ple ones now distracted by the babble of con- tending sects, the earnest sickened by the straw-splitting theories of theologians, and those hungering for the bread ot life who now have given them from many hands instead the stone of metaphysical discussion. In sucha church the clergy will be free to devote all their strength to the work of bringing souls from the service of Satan to that of Christ, released as they will be from the heavy task of building up their denominational defenses, while they will be more free to welcome fresh light on the meaning of God’s word as they will no longer be under the necessity of making it accord with the narrow and rigid lines of theirown sectarian outworks.” — Somebody who seems to be a wicked scoffer writes to London Zruth: “I read with interest the letter that you published from a ballet girl, whose morals were being improved by the cu- rates. 1 am a bachelor living in loagings, and I have never once been called upon by a Clergy- man, nor has any attempt been made to attend to my spiritual wants. Why is this? Ihave a soul like a ballet girl. Can it be that the body which encloses that soul is not so pleasing to the eyes of the curates as those which enclose the souls of ballet girls? Your obedient ser- vant.” — The Freeman's Jownal (Catholic) gives the following sound advice to the clergy: “The faring scandals of the times seem to show that clergymen who are not color-blind, but money- blind—who cannot distinguish between a dol- lar anda dime—who are dazed, as at sometht they have never seen, at a pile of dollars—wil consult best their final peace in letting money matters alone.” —In the opinion of the Springjiela Republi- can it was probably owing to the entire absence of religious journalism during the apostolic age that outsiders came to remark, “How these Christians love one another!” ‘The Newport Casino. A bd etd builder. Mr. Barker, has been awarded the contract to build the casino. It is understood that his price was consi ly lower than others who gave estimates. The buildings are to be erected on Bellevue avenu opposite the Brooks éstate, on the land own¢ by Mr. James Gordon Bennett. On the front there will be a block of the private prop- erty of Mr. Bennett. The casino inthe rear will be pak a by the Casino Association, of which Mr. tt 1g the moving spirit. Mr. Barker began operations this morning, anda number of men were empio; in clearing the The block will be expected that the casino buil ready for use for the season of 1880. of the largest contracts ever awarded to a New- port man the building line.—{Nevwport (R. 1.) yews, What Hairpinus Will Do. Compass deviation we know, says London Truth, 1s caused by “local ” and the following curious example of ronal S one, the assistants drop off to sleep. A few re- ure to their homes; the 1: T number, how- ever, follow the plan of their leader and utilize their benches for beds. Edison himselt gives in generally about four a. m., selecting some un- occupied spot, where, with his coat for a pillow, he sleeps soundly sometimes until ten o'clock, other times until six, for his time of rising varies, This mode of life continually repeated while calculated to wear out most men seems to cause Edison to thrive. At the present time he is the picture of good health. His height Is five feet ten inches and his weight is 185 pounds. A LONG LIVED FAMILY. ‘The ancestry of the great inventor for genera- tions back has been renowned for remarkable longevity. His father, Samuel Edison, is now Seventy-five years of age, and is as hale and hearty’ as the general average of men of -forty- five. His hair and beard to be sure are snow white, but they are the only indications of old age. Erect as a soldier of the “Queen’s Body Guard,” he stands six feet one inch in his stock- ing feet and can to-day run a foot race with all the vivacity of a youth. When the news of his Son's great Invention of the electric light spread to his home in Fort Gratiot, Mich., he concluded to takea little run to Menlo Pai ust to see what it looked like,” as he expressed himselt. Two years ago he came to see the phonograph, and at that time the inventor urgently requested him to make Menlo Park his home, but the old gentleman could not be persuaded to submit to a life of inactivity. His interests in the west, he contended, demanded his return, and away he started. Before he left, however, it is related, he became indignant at a suggestion made by some one that he wasgetting along in years,and to dis- rove the imputation he challenged his son to a foot race from the railroad track to the labor. tory. The challenge was accepted, and Mr. Edi son, senior,came in ahead. But although sevent; five years of age Mr. Edison 18 by no means the oldest of his family. He has two brothers living, David and Harry Edison, a seventy-nine and eighty-two years, respectively, both strong and active, bot manhging lange farms, one in Ill nofs and the other in Canada. Harry Edison, the oldest, is sald to be by one who knows him well, “as strong as an ox.” Mrs. Saxton, Mr. Samuel Edison’s aunt, is enjoying excellent health in Canada, aged ninety-five years. Her handwrit- ing to-day is said to be equal to that of a mid- dle-aged woman for firmness. The inventor’s grandfather, Samuel Edison, died at the age of 103 years. He had a brother, ‘Thomas, who died at the age of 101 years by an accident, having been accidentally ‘shot by his gun going off while he was out hunting. The oldest of the ancestry, however, was the inven- tor’ Re grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ogden, who departed this life at the age of 107 years. From this record, and the lst of the long lived of the Edison ancestry is by no means exhaust- ed, it is reasonable to predicate a long life for the great inventor, an event calculated, if the past is any criterion of what he will produce In the future, to prove invaluable, not only to America but to the world.—{W. ¥. Herald. ‘The Nation’s Capita! THE FASCINATIONS OF LIFE IN WASHINGTON. A writer in Good Company says:—There 1g a nameless fascination {n the Washington alr. ‘The average citizen, living far removed from the capital, often wonders why the office-holder who comes to Washington 1s 80 loth to leave It that he will often stoop to almost any device to secure a further lease of power—whether it be four years in the White House, another term in either end of the capital or only a fonger com- misston in a petty department. Bevo Bat when the citizen comes to Washington himseit, the mystery is solved. He may not be able to detine them very clearly, but he cannot stay long In the city without himself experienc in some measure those subtle influences whic! render the capital so attractive to the perma- nent rest*ent, Even to the casual visitor there !% EChuctuung very interesting about merely watching the great governmental machine or inspecting its component parts. The very at- mosphere of the capital, instinct with the offi- Clal and soctal life that cénters about the seat of government in a great nation, seems to possess a singular charm, which disposes one to linger and enjoy it. The stranger no longer wonders that the office-holder likes Washington, that he constantly schemes for an extension of the term; that, if finally bee sprees from power, he so often prefers the most humble position here to a residence elsewhere. Not the least among Washington’s charms are its physical and climatic advantages. No one can longer doubt that the city is it to be the capital of agreat country. The comprehen- sive plan on which it was laid out in the early years of the stru; fling republic. ves one & fresh respect for those sighted fathers who could even then devise a scheme which should ble of equal the nauon perenne ane, broad constant source squares are ample for the needs of a city, ; test of covers, THE HOUSEHOLD. In Ictna CaxEs it will be well to dip the knife often into cold water. . AN ATTRACTIVE FLORAL ORNAMENT for house decoration in winter consists of a round mass of dried moss held in shape by fine wire, one end of which forms a loop, In the moss are stuck any and all varieties of ferns, and when this is suspended by a bright-colored ribbon passed Ler the wire loop it presents a pleasing effect.—{V. ¥. Post. THE ic “NEWS” that writing which has become faded and illegible by time may in most cases be restored by first going over the surface with a sponge and warm water, then passing over the writing with a‘ pencil moistened with a weak solution of sulphide of ammonium. CRUSHED AND DEFACED VELVET can often be | restored to its original appearance by holding the wrong side over boiliay water until the ‘steam causes the flattened pile to rise; or the wrong side may be thoroughly dampened and then drawn several times quickly across the face of a hot flat iron. Now THAT SILK KERCHTEFS are growing rather common for neckwear, the thrifty woman be- gins planning ways to utilize them when they become cheap, and she says to herself that she will make a table cover of four of them. This does not mean, as the benighted salesman of whom she buys them will suppose, that she will stitch four of them into a big square like a bit of plain patchwork. She willuse one for a centre square, and cut two into halves to mike a border, and use the fourth to fillup the corners, and the result will be one of the pret- rovided she chooses her ker- chiefs judiciously. —{ Boston Transcript. CURE OF CHIMNEYS AND ASHES.—There haying been fault found with the kitchen stove, and not remedying it by cleaning the stove and pipe, I knew the trouble mu-t be In the echtin- ney, which had not been cleaned out for four years. To-day being rainy, I thought I would burn it out. There had been so much soot ac- cumulated that it made a very hot fire, but by ler, a | giving it only a little draft, the work was safely performed. Although the day was calm, it roared like an engine, and red hot embers fell hissing upon the wet roof, showing the terrib:e result that would have followed had the chimaey taken fireonadry and windy day. Chimneys that are in constant use, should be cleaned every year. If there are two funnels into it, the fire should be started at the ape one, and the lower one be kept elosed until the soot Is well done smoking, else fire and smoke will fill the rooms. | If the chimney chances to take fire on a day when it is not safe to let it burn out, closing the front drafts and throwing a handful of fine salt upon the fire in the stove will check it at once. Trecently learned a lesson about handlin; ashes. I took up a half bushel of ashes ma by burninga brush heap two days before. I thought all must be safe, and so put them into abarre}. In three hours the barrel was blazing, but I was fortunately near and extinguished it. Although it was at a safe distance from the buildings it gave me a start that I shall not soon forget.—[Conntry Gentleman, CURE FOR SMALL Pox.—The German Reformed China, In which it is stated a great discovery 1s reported to have recently been made by a sur- geon of the English army in China in the way of an effectual cure of small pox. ‘The mode of treatment is as follows:—When the preceding fever Is at its helght and just before the erup- tion appears, the chest is rubbed with croton oil and tartaric ointment. This causes the whole of the eruption to appear on that part of the body to the relief of the rest. It also secures a full and complete eruption, and thus prevents, the disease from attac! ng, the internal organs. This 1s said to be the established mode of treat- ment in the English army in China, by general orders, and is regarded as a permanent cure. ANOTHER RECIPE.—A correspondent of the Stockton (CaL) Herald, writes as follows: “I herewith append a recipe which has been used to my knowledge in hundreds of casesy It will prevent or cure the small pox though the plt- Ungs are filling. It is as unfailing as fate, and conquers in every instance. It is harmless when taken by a well person. It will also cure scarlet fever. Here ts the recipe as I have used it and cured my children of scarlet fever—here itis as T have used it to cure small pox; when learned physicians said the patient must die, it cured: Sulphate of zinc one grain; foxglove (digitalis) one grain; half a teaspoonful of aan mix with two tablespoonfuls of water. When thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of water. Take a spoonful every hour. Elther disease will ig ted in twelve hours. For a child, smaller doses according to age. If countries would compel their physicians to use this there would be no need of pest-houses, If you value aayice and experience, use this for that terrible CHARLEY PARKHURST. The Well-Remembered Man Who Proved to Have Been a Woman. Charley Parkhurst, says the Providence Journal, lived in Providence for a good many years, and was exceedingly popular with his associates, and with the people for whom he worked. He was considered one of the best drivers in the city, and his services were sought by the best people. Quite a number of wealthy families always depended upon hav! him for a driver if they ordereda stable team. His early history is a little obscure. He toldone of his as- sociates that he came from New Hampshire, but he did not tell the name of the town. He told others that he came from the poorhouse tn Wor- cester, from which he had run away. The truth is quite likely to be that he came from some. part of New Hampshire to Worcester, and fell into the hands of the officers of the poor while there. The story goes that while in the orhouse he discovered the great truth that Ss have a great advantage over girls in the battle of life, and he decided to becomea boy. He borrowed a suit of boys’ clothes and eloped with them from the poorhouse. In the char- acter of a boy he went to work in Ebenezer Balch’s stable, at Worcester, and remained there until Mr. Balch moved to Providence. Charley had proved himself faithful and efficient, and Mr. Balch brought him to the What Cheer stables, then in the rearof the Franklin House. Charley soon became an expert whip. His judgment as to what could and what could not be done with a wagon was always sound, and his pleasant manners won him friends everywhere. After working for Mr. Balch a muunber ef years, Parkhurst went to Geo) and drove a stage fora time. He did not Il Georgia, however, and one day he reappeared among his old friends in Providence. He was at once engaged by William Hayden, and worked for him for a number of years. He then hired himself to Charles H. Child, whose stable was where now Campbell's is. He drove the best m in the stable. ‘The horses were gray, ex- actly matched, and it was quite a sight to see Charley guide through a crowd. He always took care of this team himself. He was fond of a six-in-hand, and culled it nothing but fun to handle four spirited horses. He never was known to have more than he could do with his team but once, He went with six horses and twenty-five couples to a dance at Pawtucket one dreadful cold night. Coming home, the atr ‘Was so cold and the horse3 were so frantic that Charley's hands became numb, and he got Ltb- erty Childs to drive the leaders, while he toox charge of the other four horses. Now that it is known that Charley was a woman, there are plenty of people to say they always thought he was. No doubt they thought he was not rqulte Itke other men; indéed, it was generally said among his acquaintances that he was ahermaphrodite. His hands were small and smooth, and, so far from being proud of the fact, it disgusted him, and _he wore gloves sum- mer’and Winter. He was thougnt to be putting on style, but, as he always well, the gloves were looked upon only asa part of his -toned ideas. He was beardless, and his voice was a little thin. His shape was more womanly than manly, but all this was oc- counted for by the mysterious word generally pronounced “inophadite.” By way ot sane his feminine characteristics, Charlie weight 175 pounds, could handie almost any one that ever took hold of him, smoked with the placid- ity of an oriental, would take one or two g! of whisky punch without winking, never shrank from any topic of conversation, and, when occa- sions seemed to demand tt, slept with another driver with the utmost. sang Jroid. mates used to try to get him drunk once in a while in order to ‘see if he would not betray himself in some way, but Charley kept his wits about him, ant r one or two glasses, to “pass.” In vain did his comrades urge a few more drinks. Charley was not dry, and when he was, he would not drink, He had in the stable a room which he fur- nished quite nicely, and where he could gener- ally be found when not on duty. About 1819, James Burch and Stevens went to Call- fornia and started a stage line. After a year or two they sent for Charley to come and drive for them. He had saved $700 or $300, the gold fever was pretty strong at the (ae about 1951 he decided to go. He drove for h & Ste His old frien greatest interest in coast, and one of them summed the matver up Teagon why Charley should not get on well He Wi Unders his if he was pleasant and and the great system of improvements, carried Spa rn ey oe a = basis for Transformation ssington trom and sober, and with them any fellercan do well” ‘The only ve any orcasion to be disturbed by career of Charley Parkhurst are the gentlemen have so much to say about “ ’s and the “weaker ves- Messenger has received a letter from a friend in | Ty ee MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. —The amusements next week promise to be even more attractive than those of the present. Letta will be at the National, and at Ford's the Kiralfy brothers will appear im the “Black Crook,” a tine scenic play. — Miss Lotta, on being asked “What is your age?” by a St. Louls lawyer, the other day, re- piled, “People might not believe me if I told, for Some say Iam 45." She would make na other answer. — A new play, entitled “All the Rage,” writ- ten by Mr. William D. Eaton, one of the editor- lal writers of the Chicago ‘Times, will be pro- duced on January 19th, at Theall’s Novelty Theater, Brooklyn. —A telegram from St. Louis states that Miss Adelaide Neilson closed one of the greatest fort- night en; ‘ments ever filed in that city, the receipts being $15,211. ‘The lady ts naturally de- lighted over her success. She will soon come to | the east. . — The following is a fair specimen of the aver- age theatrical paragraphs of the da: fs Marion Elmore, of the ‘Surprise Party, denies that she combs her hair with a poker, and Mis3 Florence Baker says she scorns pickled her- rings.” — A new play by Mr. Edgar Fawcett, entitled “A False Friend,” is in preparation at the Union Square Theater, New York. Meanwhile “French. ee retains its interest for the theater going public. —The Boston Museum has been devoted ‘Since the 5th instant to Mr. Boucicault’s play of “The Shaughraun.” Mr. Roucicault acts Conn. — “Our German Senator” starts westward this week, after _a very successful week in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Gus Williams has evidently struck a bonanza. — The Florences are traveling in the west with a new comedy, “A Million,” by Woolf, author of their bonanza piece, “The Mighty Dollar.” It was first presented recently at Nashville, where a paper describes it as pre- senting, “in a most amusing manner, the per- plexities of a German professor at a sea-side Tesort with two troubles in the persons of a mnarriageable daughter and niece, for whom he finds great difficulty in procuring mates. The precipitancy of the match-making results in a confusion almost as disastrous as the mixing up of the babies by Little Buttercup, which ailords frequent ludicrous situations and a laughable contretemps for the close of each act.” — With a wild sarcasm not often noticed in European papers, the Parisian, in an article on Clara Louise el Whom It refers to as “the piquant, dark-eyed, dashing American prima- donna”), alludes to “her graceful figure, which shows to a great advantage In a nobby ulster. Just imagine Clara in an ulster! — The charity of minstrels and others is asked for Dan. D. Emmett, who {s now living in old age and want at or near Bridgeport, a sburb of Chicago. He was a member of what fs said to have been the first negro minstrel company organized, consisting of four men, Emmett, Whitlock, Pelham, and Brower, and the other three are'dead. He ts described as author and composer of “Dixie,” “Get out of the Wilder- ness” and other well-known airs. — Miss Genevieve Ward isto act at the Prince of Wales Theater, London, in “Forget Me Not. Miss Ward Intends to visit the United States again next autumn. The play of “Forget Me Not” was written expressly for her. In a recent letter to a friend in New York Miss Ward says: “The character of ‘Stephanie’ is thought to sult me exactly. I hope they will not steal ‘Forget Me Not’ from me, as Tam very anxious that it should not be spoilt for me in America.” —Mrs. Zelda Seguin has been seriously ill With congestion of the lungs at St. Paul, Minn. — Fanny Davenport has hada good time in , Playing to great houses. She had some ny experiences: “At Brenham I was amused at the scene for the first act in ‘As You Like It. The scene showed a picture of the Brenham opera-house as big as life. Fancy this as a back ground in the forest of Arden.” — The Christmas pantomimes are reported to be dbing very well in London. “Blue Beard” ts E. L. Blanchard’s contribution to Old Drury. ‘The mercurial Vokeses are prominent features of the performance. —At Wallack’s, New York, “London Assurance” has been revived, with Mr. Wallack and the principal members of his company in the cast. On Monday, the 19th instant, in obedience to many requests, Goldsmith’s comedy, “she Stoops to Conquer,” will be reproduc “Old Heads and Young Hearts” will also be revived at an early day. The audiences at this theater during the presentation of these familiar come- dies have been quite large. — The Boston Theater Company drew such a large portion of the town of Fall River last Thursday night that an opposition house was patronized by only thirteen people. By a unan- mous vote the thirteen, joined by the company they had been to see, closed up the house and went over to see the Boston play. — Maurel has sung Ambroise Thomas’ “‘Ham- let” in Paris. To do it he read Shakspeare, stu- died Booth and looked at Irving. Musically, he is said to have been excellent, 1f not quite up to his composer. Dramatically, he seems to have Struck somewhere between Fechter and Cogh- lan, if such a thing be possible. — George Honey, the famous “Eccles,” has been stricken with paralysis, and Mrs. Charles Kean is similarly antieted: — It is reported that ‘-A Fool's Errand,” by A. C. Gordon, will be the opening play at the Madi- son Square Theater, New York. — Mrs. Barney Williams will appear, on Eas- ter Monday, at the Park ‘Theater in Brooklyn. The return of this lady to the stage was, It will be remembered, effected last season at Philadel- hia, Mr. and Mrs. Williams were favorites in rooklyn, as in Phil: ee in other days, and the advent of Mrs. Williams, in what was her old home, will naturally be regarded as an in- teresting-and important event. — Lecoeq’s comic opera “La Ci ” is hav- ing a run at Haverly’s Brooklyn theater. The oes takes its name from a danseuse at the is opera house, with whom a fa:nous bandit named “Maudin,” the “Marquis Poutcole,” a roue nobleman, and *“Saturnine,” a young coun- try gentleman, are violently in love. — The German play of “Dr. Clyde,” which was some time ago turned into an English piece by Mr. Sydney Rosenfeld, has met with public favor at the Chestnut-street theater, Philadel- hia. A matinee performance of it will be given New York, on the 22d instant, by the Phila- delphia company, which wili return home after the play has ended, ta season to appear at the Chestnut in the evening. — The applications for seats at the Fifth Avenue theater are said to be more than equal to the capacity of the house for the next week. ‘The “Pirates” made their appearance at the Adademy of Music, Brooklyn, on Wednesi evening. During the {illness of Miss Jennie Bond the part of Edith” has been taken by Miss Len- nox, who fills the place very well, although she never appeared in an opera before. — The Brooklyn Union says Sara Bernhardt has been convinced that “her repertoire of four children and no husband would not _be ed et in America.” Four husbands and no children would suit better here. — A Boston paper is responsible for the fol- jowing alarming intelligence. Mr. P. S. Gil- more says: “I mean that ‘Columbia’ shall be- come a National hymn. If heaven spares my life, I shall go to Washington, place a large chorus in the gallery of the House of Represen- tatives, ask the President and Mrs. Hayes to- gether with the Cabinet, to be present, and, with a magnificent orchestra, I shall, then and there, produce ‘Columbia’ @ manner that I am sure will induce Congress itself to place the National seal upon the composition.” — Augustus Moddle, of Louisville, furnishes this fine description of Mary Anderson: “Can you imagine some Gen, cloud of evening crystalized in mystic impidness into that im: ot the Maker which we call humanity—pellucid, lit within with azure fire? It may su: ita dream of that vision of loveliness which I have seen, and which shattered one’s soul to pieces. Tall, slender—but slender like one of those threads of steel that carry trains across Niag- ara—a step as ful as the wild-cat’s: and that neck! ig as the Alexandrian shatt that lifted PI to light up the sea—com- manding as the tower of ivory that looketh to- ward Damascus.” —The Clipper publishes an old play-bill of the Globe Theater, Cincinnati, that on the eve! —The Cincinnati Enquirer says: “It would have broken the heart of a cigar- dian have been at the depot when the girls from the Vine street house left for New Orleans, so ‘sad were the wells.” Character in Voices. An old writer of Sporting adventures, “T have noticed as a that struck me a8 be- that the bravest and Beeeae { _ the nativity of each, when ft was fou t A California Remance. ©: HOW MAN AND WIFE MET AFTER TWENTY YEARS’ SEPARATION. One of those strange episodes in human life which makes us sometimes wonder at “the eter- nal fitness of things,” occurred last night at the Vallejo junction, ‘The tide being low on the ar- rival of the Contra Costa passengers for Vallejo were compelled to make quite a descent from the wharf to the boat, and the ladies required the assistance of the gentlemen present. A Mr. G., a grain speculator, was doing the agreeable in this respect, and ote of the last ladies to de- scend Was overburdened with a few bundles, which he took charge of, and accompanied the lady to the cabin, where they sat and engaged in ‘conversation. The subject finally touche! 1 were both from the same town in Ken- This fact made each more communi- cative. when he {quired her name, which vas given as Mrs. G. Immeilately the gon- Ueman per pale and excited, and asked: “You had a daughter, did you net “I did,” she responded. know that ‘Is that daughter living?” e is, and at present on a visit to friends at lejo, where Iam now going.” ‘ciful heavens!” he gasped. said the lady, rising; * “Pray, how did you mean?” “Mean?” he crazily replied. mean that that you are my wife!” Almost overpowered at this confession she plied him with questions, to every one of which he returned a correct answer, When she was convinced that the man was really her hus- bard, from whom she had been s:parated tweni ars, ems the twain were married at Paris, Ky., in 1558, and thirteen months after- ward he went to Liverpool on busin: ‘The vessel on which he took passage y wrecked nd all on board were stipposed to have perished. ‘The news coming to the young wife's ears, she was utterly prostrated and wa5 ordered to Call- fornia by her physicians. Arriving here she took up her residence Mf Los Angele The hus- band was picked up from the wreek by a fishing smack and taken to some remote foreign port, where he was thrown upon a bed of sickaess, which lasted some fifteen months, In the mean- time he had written repeatedly to his wife, but received no answer. In his despair he con- cluded to risk a journey across the Atlantic. Feeble as he was he shipped before the mast_ on «sailing vessel, and in due time arrived in New Yor m there he wrote three times to his wife, but recelved no answer. Almost frenzied «at the thought that she might be dead, and be- ing without funds and no friends, he “faced” his fare clear to Kentucky, and shortly after arrived at Paris. Inquiries throughout the town as- sured him that his wife had disappeared a year or so before, no one knew whither. Some said had gone in search of her husband, others that she might be Gead, and others that she had gone to California. He sought the old family physician, but he had left the town some time rlore. Mr. G. then went to work at Loulsville and made enough to bring him to California a year after his arrival in Kentucky. He seached ywhere for his absent wife, but without success and finally gave her up as dead, andshe 0 had mourned for his death. Neither, how- had married again, and last eve! on board the Contra Costa was the first inti tion either had that the other was in ex! ence. The now happy couple arrived here last night, and to the surprise of the friends of the lady she introduced her husband, from whom she had been separated twenty years. But imagine his unutterable surprise and joy when the mother led into the parlor a beautiful young lady, his own daughter, whom he had not seen since she was a babe. Father, mother and child will leave to-morrow for San Frau where Mr. G., who is now a comparativel wealthy man, has his business and where the ie peronttes remain.—{ Vallejo Chronicle, De- comber 80. “Mean? Why, I ughter is my own child and g ing ” HOW THE FARMER MISSED IT. (Burlington Hawkeye.| If I had told her in the spring ‘The old, old story briefly, When the sparrew and the robin eee n to sing, And the ploughing was over chie! But haste makes waste, and thestory sweet, 1 reasoned, will keep through the sowing, Till I drop the corn and plant the wheat, And give them a chance for growing. Had I even told the tale in June, hen the wind through the grass was blowing, Instead of thinking it rather too soon, And waiting till after the mowing ! Or had I hinted, out under the stars, ‘That I knew a story worth hearing, Lingering to put up the pasture bars, ‘Nor waited to do the shearing ! Now the barn is full, and so is the bin, But Eve grown wise without «lor Since love is the crop not gathered in Fer my neighbor How the Earth Will Perish. The planet Venus has an atmosphere, and it 1s sald to be at the very least as’ dense as that ofourown earth. Then we learn also that oceans areon her surface, because it has been shown by the spectrum. It appears also that it closely resembles our earth condition, and that it 1s the one planet fit to be the abode of living creatures like those which exist on the earth. In Mars we to recognize the effects of planetary old age. These greenish patches we must rd as seas, and we find that they ate much smaller in comparison to the rest of the area than in our earth. On our own planet 72.(0 is covered with water, and on this only about 50.00, The older planet has the smaller water surface, and the idea 1s suggested that in old age of a planet the waters gradually dimin- ish in extent. We pass to the moon to answer that question, and here we certainly find no traces of water. Also, We trace no atmosphere of apprecizbk density, and everything tends to show that she had water on her surtace, but that it has Se peared. Does this seemingly cold and dead world appear to have passed through the same stages asourown earth? Ithink we cannot doubt this when we look at her volcanic craters. I think, too, there must have been there such life as exists on our own planet. There were oceans on her surface, which formerly occupied these spots, which, the waters being withdrawn, pre- sent this finely granulated appearance from Its action. This seems to be a natural explanation. As the planet becomes old the oceans become aked into the planet’s interior, the crust of the Surface as the planet cools being formed into large cavities such as exist in porous substances, into these the water is withdrawn. Dr. Franklin, of England, has shown that four times as uch water as now finds place on the earth’s surface could be found room for in the interior of the earth, when the process of cooling has gone sufficiently far. Then, in regard to the at- mosphere, there is certainly no trace on the moon, but we have a picture here showing that the volcanic action of the moon was at one time no less than in our own earth. The moon prob- ably represents the future of our own earth ata distance of time of twenty-five million of years. When the old age of the earth will come it will cease as the abode of life. Let us pause to consider some of the stars in this regard. Many of them are tooold and many too young to sustain life on their surfaces, but that they were formed for some purpose beyond U:at of being useful to this particular planet there fs no doubt. A study of the heavens seems to tell us that all life should occupy all space and all time, and not be crowded into one por- tion of time or one portion of space. So I think we may look at the heavens, with the thousands of stars to be seen with the naked eye, and hold this thought. There you have 6,000 suns, each a brother of our own sun, though many belong to higher orders, and we may belleve they have thousands of orbs circling round them which are the abodes of life. And if each one has but a single world In its system as the abode of life e have then thousands of inhabited worlds similar, perhaps, to our own. in the one single polar map here shown there 1+ 324,000 stars, all to be seen with a small tel- escupe, and by one of Herschel’s telescopes 20,- 000,600 stars would have been brought into view in the same section of the firmament, But after all there still remains the thought that each planet is tending toward death, and though the periods of time are so vast that they seem lke eternity, the dying out of the larger of these to us like the death of the universe th all the sinaller orbs.will have died; the thought that there will still remain ers to take their places? It seems to me We cannot, if we remember how as, ching: then that system became but one in a galaxy of stars, and in turn the galaxy the nitude of stars.—{7ribune's Report af Prof. Proctor’s Lecture, Beavers in Georgia. 80 mI curse in some neighborhoods. Those acquainted the habit its of this ingenious rodent know throw across a what powerful a "and by causing 8, » Crops the land. aud Ye es ee. growing on fever, De Moria’s Great Work. CONTAINING AN EXQUISITE KNOTHOLE AND A FOUR+ QUART COW. A dame well along in years yesterday into @ Michigan avenue car with’ a sent eng tea under one arm and a chromo ander the oth and she was hardly seated before a man lean forward and asked: “I beg pardon, but have you any objections tomy inspecting that work of art?” She handed {t over and he looked at it closely for a long time and then said: “How beautiful and lifelike? If I ever rich T shall have at least Unree of these beautital ofl paintings. T don't want to seem impert nent, but may I ask if you purchased that beau- tful masterpiece for tess than $5,0002” Ss ” she admitted. “An! perhaps they made a diseount in onder to secure your patronage. Perhaps you got it for forty-five hundred. Cheap enough, fwish Thad a miliion do! How I do revel in these delictous landse: a ‘The womaz looked from her tea to the picture, then at the man, and her eyes began vo bulge iment. indeed a niasterpiece,” he sighed as he held It up. “No one Duta lady of reine and culture ted it. Pray, me ask If you recognized the hand k of Gonzia de Moria in it as soon as you ene replied, while her eyes grew never. 1 should try and pur- tis, Tean only wish you Had you notwed its possession in the background she answerea, S she jeansd for- vane, “How wonderfully true to nature! ‘That knot- hole there was never excelled by the had of Talways Identify the works of Go: rin by the Knotholes in the trees, Wi you bear that in mind in your future $siec- tions sir, Lam very much obliged.” nd in the foreground you observe a co standing under a tree. ‘This is a tree wihout any knothole, but what fo! Ah! tf 1 only n o indulge my quisite things! See what a it expression of contentment ta of those uch cow! her face!_ Observe the majestic curve horas! Here is the figure I was looking for. Ah! itisad, ‘This cow gives four quarts of See th milk per day. Gon the quantity of mil ers then Know why should send a friend to youto buy this picture for $5,000—, But no! "You are able to hold it. You cannot be tempted.” “I'd sell it for—. “For five thousand,” he interrupted; “but alas! T cannot raise that sum! Here in the fore- ground fs an opening in the rocks, Do you Know what fs in there?” Noe de Moria always marks every cow, and custom- they are buying. ‘A jug?” he hoarsely whispered—“a jug con- taining a remedy warranted to take off m@es a freckles, Try tt once and be convinced! He sank back and shut eyes. She sat up very straight and seemed to reflect. She had moles and freckles, but tt was none of his. busl- . Pr tly she stood up, rang the Dell, mashed the chromo over his head, and walked out without a word. Every man ‘laughed but the man with his eyes shut. He opened them after the car started, looked down at the ruined mo, and sadly sighed: a a : oe er Ppp de Moria, alast at such a fal ould come uy hee.”— (Detroit Free Pr ee a ee fe “Ma. are you going to give me another plece of ple?” Ma—*What do you want to kno} for?” Jeanctte—Because, it you ain't, I want to eat this piece slowly.”—[ Worcester Giizette, S@-The situation in Ireland is more grave than ever. —_—_—________...{ IST OF LETTERS REMANIING IN WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, Saturday, January 17th, 1880. §2-To obtain any of these Letters the applicant must call f ““ADVER’ "ERS," ppc | alate not called for one sent to the Dead Letter Office: mont” they will be LADIES LIST. A—Austin Jane (col); Allen Mary. ¥—Bowie Alice; Brinsmade Anna L. 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