Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1881, Page 6

| MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, — The dramatic and musical season of 1890-1 has thue far Deen a successful one In the lead tng Cities. In New York, Bostoo, Philadeipnia gad Chicago, It has deen @ most profitable oe. To Cinctguati, Buluimore and some of the wes'— ern cities 1) has Dexo one of spurts, Dac on the @verage Detter Luan last year. Botn taeaters Bere Mave Rat unusually good attractions tale Week with Kovsox aad Crane tn Siarys and Flats at te National wud tne 6 20°07 ac Ford & Next week Kave Claxton appears at the for.ocr and Hoey’s Cad af Scale will be performed at ‘She latter. They bave bal targe agdiences tn otties, — {a New York Nea’. Bumpty Div ant Pins at Daly's, xy at Nibdlo’s, Mary And aon ai ‘She Fiith Avenus, Barrett at ue Park, My ter- Gidine at tne Standard, Uncle Tom's Carin at Booth’s, Forget Me Noi—a decided sneces3 at Wallack’s,—Ocivette at the Bijou, Biles in th Woods at Haveriy’s and anoiner Cacle Tom @ubin at we Academy, have been the attrac- Mons this week and will contiane for the wno3t Part next week. — In Boston, the @urnor, at the Museum, En- ehantment at the Globe, Maggte Mitchell at the Park, the Kiralfy spectacie, and tne Peurisis ave been playing this week. On Monday Sai ‘Vinl opens at tne Giobe and Theodore Choma; Basa voncert The Bernhardt Art Exhtditioa te also there, aud the staid Dady adoertiver surprises people by speaking of “lis bigu polnta Of exceilence.” — Mr. abDoey and Mr. Samuel Colville have entered into a partnersnip to produce, at Booth’s Tueater, York, @ version of the Sp-cvacular play, now performing iu Paris, Michael SirojoL. — Busiceas in the atnusement Ine has takea @ tuindie ail over the couatry. There are eu- tirely too masy companies on the road, and they are giving up the ghost—at the rate Of, au least, two daily. — Jeffersoa wiil bot appear at the Fifth Av- enue, New York, this season, as was conten Plated. After St. Louls he goes at once to hls Louisiana plantation. Next year be will Dezio his tour at the Fifth Avenue Tneater, New York, in ail probability. —Mr. Coghlan’s new adaptation of Le Roman @un Jeune Homme Pauvie bas deen produced atthe St. James’ Theatre, London. He calls WH Good Forimne. —Clara Morris is to begin a series of matinee Performances at the Union Square Theatre, New York, on January 4. Her urst imitation will be Of “Miss Muitou.” —There is no doubt that Mrs. Seguin has ieft ‘the Abbott Opera troupe. There are two sides to the story, one of salary and the other about ‘the new busband. Mrs. Sezuin-Wallace, how- ever is Hable under # coatract, It 1s alieged, for this and anociler season. — George K. Goodwin, the manager of the Walnut Street Theater, Puiladelpula, thinks seriously of engaging a stocs company for his house next season. Before many years wate to predict Uiat tue ieading Weavers Inevery Brst-class city in the country will nave a yoo stock company, and the c to be coutent with the inferior houses ‘Shey are unusually strong. Ag it ts nox half the managers of the country are worsing for raliroaas ang hotels tastead of for then- selves. — The Vourgers of Boucrern Seas, now run ming at the Boston Theater. has already been Witnessed by 1°5, 4) peovic, and as the end of the career ot Tie Voyagers approaches, there are indications that tue capacity of tnis thea- ter will often be taxed to accommodate the throngs who desire to see the famous Verne apectacie. It will be produced at the Chestaut M@reet Upera House, Putladeipnia, on Monday. —It has beea stated that Mr. and Mrs, Ken- @al, the accompilsied Eayi'sa actor and ac- ‘tress intend to visit this country next season. At now appears that they are negotiatiag with Mr. Haveriy Lo begin their engageaient next sep- Sember at the Fiith Aveuue Tueater, N York, not a8 “stars,” but as leading members of a Moe comedy organizatioa, watch will tn- elude many of the abiest actors of London, among others Mr. Juan Hare aud Mr. John Clayton. — Salaries don’t tluctuate much. Taey have remained at about the same point snce the stock plan was forsaken in favor of the system of combinations. A leading man gets anywhere from 376 to $250, the average being nearer the desser amount. W. E. Sueridan, James O'Neill, Joseph Whiting and Charlies Thorne get the Biggest plums They are known a3 “stock stars.” ‘Those who get from 375 to $159 a week are such actors as Lew Morrison, Barton Hill, Ba. Buckley, Edward Collier, Fred Warde, Wil- Mam Harris and Lesite Gossin. In exceptional! Cases some of these have received larger sum3— Dut not often. Next in order to the leading man comes the leading juvenile. If very good im his particular line of business, he gets $75 but usually he is satisfied with #1 86 Walking gentlemen come tn for $25 to men, $4) to #65; Character men, $35 to $ , $49 Lo $100; “respousibies,” $.5 to Leading ladies receive from #59 to $200; jay. ladies, $40 to #0; walking ladies, $2) to $3 ebaracter women, $35 to $50; soubrettcs, $30 ww $25; old women, 330 to $65. — The Strako3ch-Hes3 troupe opened at C1a- elunat! Monday night at Pike’s in Aida, Taey have been doing a large busiaess. Lottais a: the Grand, and the local papers say tuat they hope she wil! put an end to the bad business of this season. — The splendid Wintergarien at Berlin was lately opened by a concert in which Stznor Padilla and his wife, Mme. Destreé-ariot (one Of the acknowledged favorites of Germany, where she spends 1m03t of her tims), took part. Both artists were also at us tha lst Gewandhaus concert at Leipzig. At this very concert Sirasate appeared ilkewise, and the enthusiasm produced by tiis wonderful player ‘Was almost Doundiess. — Nice will soon posses a large concert room on the boulevard dela Buffa. The capital for ius erection has already been subscribed. Tne French as well as the Italian Opera have begun their performances, Minnie Hauk will make her appearance on the former stage on the ist or a Slog in Mignon, waica opera will be followed by carmen. — Lord Lytton bas put the manuseript of an unacted play by his father into the hands of Hollingshead, tne Londoo manager, for its simultaneous production in that city and New York. It was left ready for preseatation by the author, almost his last Uterary laoor being that of finishing it » The plot, like Ben Jonson's The Case ix Alvered. {3 founded on At- Jantus'’s play of The Captives, the action aristag: from the efforts of a father to in biz sons taken prisoners in childhood by the Eliai ‘The production of a new play by the author of Richelieu and Tw Lady of Lyons will ba an event calculated to create yenuiue and wide- epread interest. — Salvint catls Mary Anderson a “charming Derson and Mine actress," aad says he bas been asked to play “ Ingomar” to her “ Partnenta.” ‘There is a good prospect that they will play to- gether in this play in New York. — Tito Mattet’s grand opera, Maria di Gant, recently brought out at Her Majesty's in Lon- don ts pronouaced “full of meiouy but aot Lis melodies.” —San Francisco someuow seems to have the abit of hearing new foreign works before east- ern peopie are fully aware of their existence. Lecocg’s latest opera, The Pretty Persian, has already been prod: od there, and 113 story {3 de- Clared witty with many gool situations, while the music fs light and full of melody. — Its likely that Albery’s Where's (1 C2112 a farce from the German, now causing a good deal of merriment in London, wil! be brought out at Wallack’s, in New York during this season. — ANew York paper charges that during Sal- «inf’s engagement B20th’s Theater has had a reg- hired and duly organized claque of 50 members half of whom tea the ?) age in the Orchestra and the rest upstairs. That ts a for- eign institution which Ame: can well spare. — W. W. Young's new play arthur Prentag- enet, Which Lawrence Barrett was expected to out early in the season, will probably be ced by him during Lis forthcoming Boston engagement. — The Mapleson opera troupe opened in Bos- ton Monday nigat in Aida, Miss Cary ap- eared as “Amneris,” a part in which she has no Fival in this country. Thepailet of the small which was prohibited tn New York, ‘was permitted In Boston. Miss Marie Swift a as the *Nugian Princess.” —Mr. and Mrs. McKee Rankin made their reappearance before an American audience at » the Grand Opera House, New York, on Monday —_——— Bight. They are both excellent performers, and it is agreeabie to know that they were ap- Preciated at their worth in Engiand. —The only dramatic attractionin Pittsburg is the Denman Thompson Trot Oa Mond. the Arabs appear. = =~ ai — Agnes Ethel, now Mra ‘Tracy, a) at Albany next week, supported by Mr. alS&ach, It ts mu alti many veers against my principles,” replied aa ‘then, apologies,” exciaimed the “Weil, give me time,” returned C.; “do you Suppose that I carry # book of blank ap2io- THE WHISPER IN THE WOOD Se Honali Morria ans hts young wife are sitttony In the snug parior of aa tan at the itue town. Oak hamptou on the contines of Durimoor, Th season ts autumn. and the time evening Lamp | aud firei'ght combine with the homely sar-! pis Founding. of the remote hosteiry tn givicg a | aia: £@ te of cheery comfort. He—y ung, broad- sbouldered. strong of hub aud firm of oounte. hence, blue-eyed aud bro*n halred—t3_poriny over @ map. She, rather younger, pale fax ‘bur pretty. dark-haired and with eyes to mat-h, and witha delicate yet well-rounded figure— she 1s idly glanetog —— he pages of a book. Presently he «peaks, half to ninusel “Yes, I must have a look at that place; tt promises well as a backgronad for a story. I have often heard of tt.” She. some hat apathetically, inquires: “Scme expedition you are coptemptating?” Yes, across the moor. [eanuo: «iita make out bow far it ts, Dut I trace the way. and it must be within an easy walk, six or seven miles; yes, I though! of golog to’mo-row, If you Will not be very mueh bored, dear i tie woman, by being left alone for a few hours.” “Ob, no, I shail manage to amuse myst: besides, it Is necessary you should see what you want. Ir was to get some local color, a4 you cailit, that we came down to thesa wilds, and there 13 no reason because we arc out on our Doneymoon that you should not do some work.” “You are the most sensib'e little wife, I be lieve, Sopby. that man was ever bless] with.” he saya, looking up at her with admiring affec ton, “and I was never so happy fa my tif?!” A knock at the room door preceds; the en- trenc~ of the landiord with two or three letters. “The Li zur, just in,” he says in dialect. uunnon post, his strong Devonshire “Ab, of course; you do not get your Inndoi Je! ters here until very late,” responds Koaald, taking the missives. “I suppose when the ratl. way is open to Plymouth it will make some dit- ference to this part of the world.” “I should zay Vud be likely tu. Not a3 I zee it'll be ’o much use tu we in this place: we han’t much doin’ with Lunnon, igh I make nv doubt ivil be a rare chance for gentlemen Ike you that go jumping the country;” and after a few mere words the man civilly retires. Suddenly Konald utters an exclamation of Surprise, stariling his wife from the placid! y with which she ia regarding him whilst he looking cver his letters, “My word!” he goes on; “the poor old gente - man died suddenly the day before yestertay! Bless my heart! I am very grieved. How strange that It should b ive napp=ned just now, So Soon after all his kindness to me—to u3.” “Wha’—not your uocle?” exclatims the wife. Yes indeed it 1s; here is the letter an- hourly the fact from Baston, his lawyer. I shall Lave to go to town. This is what he says, i@ with the deepest regret I have to inform you of the sudden deatn of your uncle, Mr. Matthew Morris. He was found dead tn his bed, aud It wi}lth-refore be necessary for you, as his sole executor and legatee, tocome to town ani produce his will, that we may take out letters of adminis'ration; prove the will at Di ctors’ Commons, you understand, and so e:tabiish your rigat, etc. Tois would have deru requisite In any ease. but it ts the move imperative since, through 3} lorris’ eccentric Ay ws, he insisted on intrust his will to your ceping.’* Bey I never told you. Sophy, I think, all about that,” cays the reader, ‘Dreaktug ‘oil. “Strange oid boy! You know how good ax Kiud he has been to me, and how, bat for him, we could not have married for years; and you remember I told you that the day before our Wedding he made hts will in my favor, leaving Ine nearly everything. But I did not teil you of his fupny fancy about the document “He drew if himseli on asheet of note paper, and brought it with him the day on which he m: me at Baston’s office (the day before we were Married). Well, then, when the lawyer pro- nounced the will to be thoroughiy legal, and sald that it only required signing and witaess- ing. he signed it then and there in the presence of Baston and one of his clerks; and when they had duly signed it, each being In the presence of the other, etc., as the legal formula goes, he took the paper, and, handing it to me, satd:— * There, Ronny, my boy; as this concerns you, and nobody but you, 1 desire that you should Keep pos: lon of it.’ Then, with some zood- umored joke at the lawyer's expense, he insist- ei that 1 should put the will in my pocket. *Baston may keep a copy of it,’ added my uncie, ‘if IU 1s of any interest to him, but you must keep the original, and mind youdo not Jose it, that's all.’ * * Well, Sophy, I did put it in my pocket, and having no bankers or strong box in which to deposit it I brought it away with me, and here itis stil at this moment, in a little flat tin case, with @ copy of our marriage certificate, and one or two more valuables, here in my breast-pocket,” and Ronald Morris strikes the breast of his rough shooting-coat as he speaks— “the safest place in the world, if one has not a banker. But, upon my word, it 1s really very sad,” he proceeds after a pause; “I never thought I should be called on to produce it so soon. Why, itisnota fortnight ago since he gave It to me, poor old fellow!” and, as the ex citement of the explanation he has given sub- sides, his blue eyes moisten. 4His quiet little wife 1ises. and, putting her arms around i's necx, kisses and pats his cheek with a sweet and tender, if silent, consolation. Soon he is talking voiubly again, discussing family affairs and laying plans for the future. “This puts us beyond the reach of sixpenny anxieties,” he says, “‘but I shall not give up my pen. Icould not bear to live an idie life. and What's more, I shall not give up my expedt to-morrow. I must have a look at that que: ace before I leave these parts. If we sta for town the firet thing the after to-morrow It will be quite soon enough, and we can Exeter in Ume t catch the night malithe sans even'pg. You will not mind traveling by night, Sophy, I am sure, since it will give me to-moy_ row Out on this wiid and strangely fascina® moorland.” ‘To-morrow came, and Nonald Morris started On the expedition he had io hig mind. His little Wife, not from lack of interest in his purpose or his doings, but trom a characteristic tnexactt- tude as to detalis, failed already to understand (even if she ever asked the question) the precise ‘Spot he was touud for. ‘So Ronald started, and, as he strolled away up and on tothe bicak and solitary moor, she stood for a moment or two at the gate on the Toad, off which he turned, watching him. Io a itttle while he looked b: held up his stick ag a salute, and she In reply waved her little hand after her easy, gentle fashion. Thrice this ac- Uoen was repeated on both sides; then she saw his cleat oye the aky line on the steep hill peared: g tr against ridge, and then he disap- trom her eyes forever. helpless desperate, and. at last hagelosseentss ; te, at last, hopeless seara! by the whole country-gide which followed threw no Mght upon the mystery. Lost on the moor! that was the verdict—that was all that could be Said, and {t was mo uncommon phrase tn that Wild and treacherous region. Scores of men had $0 vanished, and been never heard of stnoce. Natives even, accustomed to the dangers of bog, crag, and fell, of overwhelming blinding mist, of overtaking nightfall, of the sudden, deep. obscuring snow, aad of the lost track; natives alive to all these perils have been lost on the moor, nor any trace of them even found. What ‘wonder then that a Londoner entirely unused to, and unknowing of, the treachery lurktog In such a wild, should now and again share the same fate: The thing, indeed, was too common to create much more than the nine days’ aston- ishment. And, since no clew could ba obtained a3 to the direction the unfortunate man had taken, the searching parties that voluniesred soon lost heart; their explorings were too vague at best to ae them encoui aad, final- ly, the Kindly impulse whtch stirred the seek ers diced out, and the affair was given up a3 hopeless. 1S55- Sopliy Morris, stil! young and preity. and a3 piacid as ever, bears traces nevertheless of he Ife-sorrow, as how should it be otherwise? The marvel is that she survived the blow. In all Probability she would have sunk under t, bat that the flood of new-born wifely love, which in its outpouring had seemed to carry the very essence of her soul before it, had found its channel changed, although not checked. As a mother, the devotion bestowed upon the stal wart lad of nine now standing at her side gave almost vent and verge enough for the deep love that wasin her. In young Ronald she seemed to see, perhaps concentrated, a double claim upon her affection; first, for the father, waom he so much resembled, and then for his own sweet sake, ie heal- ing influence to her great heart-wound, and though the cicatrix was vividly evident at Umes, the healing had been healthy, and with the birth of her boy had come about, as sur- geons say, at the first intention. But for this there was enough outside her loss, and conse- «quent upon it, to crash all hope and joy from her future. Widowed ag she had been, she had been obliged to return te her Pai. roof, and found, as the eldest of a large famif¥, that wie poor pittance of the merchant’s clerk, her Toses. and the money, a reund £10,000 in passed to the next of kin, a = brother, John, a very different man. is John Morris refused to acknow! intentions his elder brother might have had He knew of none of them, he and he stooa upon his ita, Would he do nothin; for the W's w and her ele why her He knew little or the strength of made or not J Morrissaid, by “that id fool, my Matthew?” The might, of might. bot be ‘gonulas: atau Tater Se aeeeett age pes not claims to Hor get to | Tiis was the utmost which all the urgent S®preals that were made to him would prodnos, | | } \ i | i i | | | | | hy | Deen no reizase in the Way of hotlday antl tc and there the matter 81000. 1835. And now there is Indeed a seeond Ronald Mor- Tis to the front, the very pith and marrow ot father’s # if; and all Who remember tue “or- i. happy, and promising young author foresee that in» few more years, when Ume nas flied out the 89's muscles, Droadeved bis shoulders, and deepened his cnest, he will grow to )2 the very counterpart of the lost man. Young Rovaid was just nineteen, and since he left school had been placed oa » drudge’s stool in 4 clty warehouse, from whieh th=: 1 was vromled tn that year of grace,1535 A Greamy imaginative lad, the tradition 0! ats father’s ate had coue down to him with an iuopressiveness which tacreased wita his years. But of course it_had oniy been tradittva, atter ail; of the tangible, actual sorrow of tnat fatal time and its results he had known no-htag. reallzed nothing. Youth, stroog health, and commensurate good spirits made him, novwith- Stavding his reflective nature, a happy, cheery fellow, Who Was bent on making the 03t of bis holiday now that tt bad come. Two youuzaters in similar circumstauves to bis own werd Of with excursion tick-t8 to the Land's Bad, aid be arranged to jcta them. Very 800n the sight of the mighty clifts, of foaming, thonderous seas, of vast stretches of Dieak Cornish moor, aud the stortes of t.e wild places and all the legendary ore clinglug to that, western lind, Degan ww take possession of our young Ronald, and to stir what there was of the poetic and dreamliy tmagiaar bis natare. Be drank tn eagerly atl dese: and accounts which he couid get of the ionely districts and Inaccessibie so:1:udes by which he Was surrounded. Rod and Mae mainly occa- pled the attention of his companivas, ant though he was no fisherman himself he would aceompavy them for miles along the moorland 8 reams where they sought theirsport. Thay u.@6 With so little success, however, in their .t forte to caten the wily trout, that, iike most novices, the young men attributed their fafture to the fish, or rather to thelr absen». The Devonshire rivers, It was deciared, would afford them a fairer opening for their skill. 80 they harked back eastward, and found them- selves after awhile whipping the pools and Tocky channels of the Wes!, Dart. They took up Wielr quarters at the small ian in an out-or- the-way hamlet, known as Two Bridges. some eight niles from the town of Tavistock. and fouad the solitude of this untrequented and almost mountainous region compensated for by the better luck which attended thelr fshing. Indeed, to Konaia’s dreamy nature the romantic and desolate character of the scenery had an especia! charm,and whilst his friends were occu- Died with thetr favorite pastime, he wouid often wander far afield exploring the remotest fast- nesses of stream and fell. The account which he gent home to his mother of the last of these solitary expeditions, graphically brings his story to a climax. “The day,” he “rote, “ was stt!l and cloady; gray mist hung heavily on ail the higaest tors, and crept far Gown thetr sides in graceful, fan— tastle, ever-changing folds Such slight iove- Ment as there was occasionally tn the alr—t could not be called wind—carried the lightest sound to and fro with a walling sort of echo, The never-ceasing rush of the river over Its rocky bed was audible long after I had wan- dered away from it, and at intervals the voless of my two fishermen-friends fell taintly on the ear. Presently, however, a curve in the way 83 the btiiside over which walking shut off ail sound even of vol running water, and I experienced a keene! Sense of loneliness, perhaps, than I had ever Known. Very rarely, I take it, could nature have appeared so utterly motionléss; nota blaie of grass stirred. There was a hush on every- thing which was almost territyiong—tit, preiuda, it would seem, as I look back upon it, to the storm oi emotion which was so 390n to over- Whelm me. Another tarn in the track piungei me, if possible, into a yet deeper silence and solitude. I was on the verge of a dreary, rugged, boulter-strewn valley, in the depths of Which appeared what at first looked Ike throe large patches of scrubby underwood, bui which on approaching them, proved to be composed of stunted diminutive oak and mountaln-ash trees, their dead bare tops, all spread and flat- tened out as evenly as though they had been cut by some gigantic seythe—wilch | guessed to be the mighty, seldom-lulling blast of an ali-prevalling wind sweeping up the hollow. ‘The tees grew amidst massive blocks of resis covered, a3 were the stems, with a lepse and overwhelming growth of lichen and parasitical plants. A yet closer acquatnt- anee with ft showed the spot to be one of the Strangest I had ever seen or dreamed of. The a bleached, outspreading arms of tie trees ad something skeleton-like and guostly in their aspect; weird demons of the forest thay might be, stunted gnomes struggling with ont- stretched misshapen limbs to tree themselves from the superincumbent weight of tie split and tortuous rocks which held them fast, arth-bound as it were, between their clefts ind fissures. A ghastly, ghostly, uncanny, awful spot indeed, and seen under the gray gloom of the waning anturan day, and in the silence and the mystic solitude surrounding it, roost Impressive. I cannot describe the sensa § 1 was or ; Hons with which I approached the outskirts of this wood, for despite its forbidding character, Ifelt myself irresistibly drawao toward it. It Seemed to exercise on me & fasctration, a spell, Which cowed my will, ard whilst almost curd. lng my Wood, yet impelled me forwad, [ knew not how or why! Ut was a spot to fix from rather than penetrate; it might be likened to a witches’ trysting place, the hauat of evil | Spirits, Of demons, eives and godling. who all had found embodiment t the shrunken and misshapen trees. Thad strolled of on this wandering sultory excursion without any definite py pose, hence Tcame upon this pirce perely by accident; but once taere, and realizing tts sui u and de age appearance, I was, notwith-tandtng feciing of awe which 1: lospired, {led with @ sense of gladnesa, nsclously I had en Moving forward halt ur tered but rd or two within the contines of this uphailowed looking lon when I was ke writhlag away Startled by a large biac'x sna inder the rank grass and before my tread from dense parasitical growth. The next moment I caught sight of a huge fox 13_he rushed across & barrow opening amidst the trees stratght ‘n front of me. Although! plainly saw tne nol- Some creatures it was a3 one séesand shrinks from such objects in a nightmare, and I felt a3 incapable of drawing back asif I had been really dreaming. Tue uneven nature of the ground soon, however, made further progress 80 dificult that I hardly knew how I got along atall. YetI did manage to push on further and further into the wilderness, and was only arrested by suddenly sinking up to my waist between a gap in the rocks as I stepped on to what looker 6 & plece of smooth ae conuwand, ‘This, in fact, was nothing but soft mossy ua- feed feat which yielding the moment I troa on it let me in and iéft me with one foot jammed tghuy in a cleft oftue granite. Some Toinutes elapsed ere I could exiricate myself, and I bad great trouble and difficulty in scrambilng up on te my former level. Standing sull then for a while, 1 gazed dreamlly Into the depths of the impenetrable thicket, head only a little below ths level tops of the trees, whose bare and twisted branches spread out net-like above and around me, Now that I wa3,in a measure, in ‘their midst, more than ever did they resemble mis- Shapen and petrified skeletons. I'ke a very Sepulchre seemed the place, with its ominous calm, and damp, deadly chili. Tae density of the thorny underwood, and the rank luxu- riance of the ferns, ivy, and creeping plants growing thickly over the biocks of granite, and On the lower part of the tree-stems, anil ‘here and there entangling some of the lower Doughs With fantasuc festoons of pale and yellowish green, lent, by contrast, an additional look of bed to tne barer portions of the old ead goblins of the forest. A shudder more than once ran turough my Veins as I remained automatically Sores this mysterious spectacle. It ssemed that Was rooted to the ground as firmly as the trees! ‘The haif-territying, halt-fascinating sansa which at first lured me on now became tntea: fied, and kept me raootionless, for a fe eles thougut entered my head. What would have ‘been my fate, had’ I been unable to extricate myself from that cleft in the rocks, or suppos— ing 1 bad fallen into a deeper plaes and been jammed by shoulders or hips between a similar Tissure; should I ever have got out unaided? No help could have reached ime in auch a wilder- ness, and I must have been held there a pris- Oner until I starved to death—never perhaps to be discovered, or not until my rotting and Dieachea bones had begun to look like the other bare skeleton forms surrounding them. ‘Treach- ery now seemed added to the other perils of the place, and when at last I began slowly re- tracing my steps, T struck my suck on each Piece of ground ere I ventured my foot upon it. As | turned back by the way I had come, the first breath of air that had boen felt for an hour Ormore blew across my face; it was but a slight puff, but it was. sufficient to create a litle sur among the boughs, and to send a dis- mal walling soug through the wood. Faint ag it was, it nevertheless gave an additional melancholy to the place, and increased the fas- clpation with which it had beset me. I again stood still, now to listen. ‘Tue wind by degrees increased, rising and falltngy and creating with every breath more abd more sound. It seemed now as if the weird forms of the trees were = a ““W-ari-t f-0-r me-el W-a-1-t f-0-r_me-e!l” it seemed to say, now faintly now quite auat! . and at length #o actual, so real did the spot hence it peared to eed. Tis was wi ay was not far from where I had stand-still, but as I advanced the fainter, and when I had got a few the wind died away, and it ceased posi in tru T 1 C W-a-1-t fo-r me-e” a loug drawn out walling whisper. Ocee wore | tarued Dick, drawn 00 ‘sori of supernatural power whien, against My reagen, moved me to the belief that I was belg en’ reated to return. Sucp an implorine, heart-breaking appeal, #0 tnexpre sibiy ptritut nd touching. I bad never‘hearu before. But it s'opped again as | neared tne partierlar <p whence It seemed to arise. Atter listening over ard over again, apd going to and fro neariy a dozen times, always With Ube same resulta con- vViction stole over me that the effect was mere. due to an echo, and that the reverberatioa was Only audible tn one especial spot. It was but Ty Morbid fancy, 1 said, watch made me at- tribute It to any Other cause, and | was recover- ing something like a healthy tone of mind, when, a5 1 was taking a last long look into a deep recess of the wood, I bebelda sight which bal paralyzed me, and instantly brought ba:x With renewed foree that sense of the weird and supernatural which I was just siaking o:f. Yonder, there, within a narrow elept in the rocks, moss-grown, aud covered with tis eternal undergrowib, there was a spectacl> about which there could be no doubt; no tree could assume sueh a shape as that. itvileatty. Hively, it was a human skeleton, jammed Ughtly like one of the tves, inatreacheroi3 fissure, such as that into which! had just lately Si tors Very indistinct are my recollections of what E did or what my feelings were during the next few minutes. I have a hazy memory of rematn- ing irresolute for a time, and then of burryiag away, dazed, and thun of returning. and pling- tog into the thicket, regardiess of the tnorny brambles and the uoeven, slippery, crevice- beset boulders, for I remember [ was stand!og as ‘sently close to Wiese human remains, only a little above them, at the mouth. a3 it were of the eleft. I was examining them intently, Peering at them between the ferns and grass, which, hanging in thick clusters and pendaat wreaths, drew trom either side of the deep fissure in which the skeleton was immured, upright, and with an arm outstretched, and caught by tho elbows tight between a smatier tersiice of the rock. T shuddered a3 I looked into the eyeless sockets with their grim yet pitiful expression, at the two rowa of gls- tex log teeth, at the Dieached bones with here and there shreds of rot‘en tatng still adber- fothem. Tail dank weeds and brusiwood the form nearly up tothe waist, but, as the herbage was, down by its roots, somewhat thinner, I, with a tremor ruaning through my whole body, dragged unis a little aside with my Slick, which struck on a substance that re- sounded itke metal. 1 know not with what object, tt was not-cu Thosity, certainly not cuplay, but I kneltdown and thrusting my arm elbow deep iato the wet. And Morsy grass. followed the stick’s point with my hands, and after a little groping got hold of @ Watch and chain—hardly recognizable as such, Hy, Dut still obviously nothin else. en I pursued my search sull further, for I Yoresaw that 1t now miyat lead to tae tdentid- cation of this unhappy human belng who iad been buried alive, Heaven knows how long ago! by afate which [ myself had only au hour before 80 narrowly escaped. ‘Thenceforth, although tay feelings were greatly perturbed, and a host of emotions surged through my breast, my wits quickened; uhese were stern facts that J was dealing with. and I acted ac cordingly. The second time I thrust my arm in among the herbage just beneath the skeleton, which I was reverettly careful not to disturb, I drew forth one or two more hard, and, at tirs!, less distinguishable ariicies than the watch— less distingntshable deca: D, md reo- lt impossible for me to see anything very plainly. 1 felt that I must fnstantly hasten back to te inn and give information of iy discovery. In the obscurity of the fast fading ght, the Weird gloom of the wood was yreatly {acreased. A lorge ow! suddenly flapped away from a near bough with a doleful heot, whilst the wind, growing stronger every minute, turned what | ad formerly sounded like moans and sighs into shrieks abd groans. J dared not, however, give way to any inore fanciful imaginings, beset me as they might, and as liey were even already doing.’ 1 wanted all my senses to get clear of 4 this charnel house ot a place. Yet, havinz done so. and come back again on the road to the inn, which I knew, these same imagtuings, these indefinabie sensations which had over- ridden my commonsense during the whole afternoon, returned, and, “wili you believe it?” Tan on this letter of Ronald's to his mother, Which he wrote the next toorning, “So per: | sistently have they stayed by me, that I have | not vet had the courage to examine closely the articles [found. No! though more than twelve hours have passed since then, somehow I can- Rot touch them. They seem as if they might Influence my whole future, might change the very current of my life; It 15 ridiculous, bat in- explicable.” vas it inexplicable to Sophy Morris? Hardly, fordid not her mind instantly fy back over those twenty years to that ever memorable Ume, and could she not see In those indefinable imaginings in her son’s mind a possible solu- Uon of the mystery surrounding her husband's fate? Might it not be that the marvelous and unseen working of human desiny had guided Ane son at last to the father’s unknown grave? That the strange sensations, the awe, the gladness, the ‘irresistible ‘automatic’ tm. pulse to linger !n the wood, which he peered; the readiness with wuich he in- 1 reted the walling of the wind tato a dl- ct, articulate and whispered appeal to ‘wall’—to walt ull the discovery was made—were traceable to the lnk extstiog ue- tween that vigorous young life and tho: dering remains, and without which, when taey. too, were endowed with life and vigor, her ‘oung Ronald would never have had bis ver, ler hope was strong that all this might prove 80, and It was realized. Ia the end no doubt remained, for amony the relics her boy hid recovered was the small, flat, me box containing phe will of Matthe soiled, sodden, besmirched in places, Wegible, yet still preserved intact, and sus thie of being sworn to as the genutue doch mont by the two witnesses, the lawyer and his | clerk, Signed It, and who yet lived to s3e right and justice done. It was to Wistman’s Wood, then, that fate had directed the son’s steps, and, as he thought, by merest accident—to Wistman’s Wooa, that uncanny ‘whist old place,” the “wonder of the Wonders of the Dartmoor wilds.” and whither the father had gone across the moor, never to return, on that fatal day twenty years before.— All The Year Round, Toa Laay Doctor. AN AFFECTION OF THE HEART. (From Punch.1 Yea, Doctor, your physic I’ve taken, ‘That surely should conqner my ile ; ‘Yhe bottle was solemnly shaken, Idote on those dear little pills. I've followed your rules as to diet, I don't know the taste of a tart ; Lut, though ['ve kept carefully quiet, ‘The pain’s at wy heart. Of course you've done good convalescence Seems dawning. Aud yet, it is true, J fancy the light of your presence Does more than your physic can do. I'm well when you're here, but, believe ach day when fate dootns us to part Come strangest sensations to grieve me— ‘fhat must be the heart. 3 see, te statum sumend . What wouder you took the M. D T hang on each word that you utter Wi Esculapian art, Lut feel in a terrible flutter, — It comes from the heart. Haye you ever felt the emotion ‘That stethoscope ne'er could reve: If 80, you'll perchance have a notio! Of ull that I've felt, and still fee! Oh, #ay, could you ever endure me? Dear Doctor, you blush and you stare ‘There’s only che thing that can cure me— ‘Take me—and my heart Spoiling Famous Diamonds, (The Antiquary.} The “Star of the South” was found in Brazil, in the mines of Bogagen, by a poor negress, in July, 1853. It ori ily weighed 254 carats, Dut was reduced, by being cut as a “brilliant,” to 124 carate, or less thau half its size. Consta- ering the enermous price set upon diamonds of the largest size it 15 strange to find that several of them should have been deliberately cut down to much smaller dimensions simply to (Ae them an artificial shape, litule ini thcir original beauty, but immensely decreas ing their value. It fs estimated that the Rus- Stan “Orloff” lost four-fiftas of its value by being cut down to one-half its original size. ‘The most striking instance of such injudictous cutting fs to be found in our own famous “Koh- 1-noor.” As before mentioned, this stone, once going by the name of the “Great M "Was originally of the weight of 787 carats, but ‘pol- ished down” by an unbappy and unsk{itul Venetian lepidary to 250 carats, and came into the possession of the Crown of Eng- Jand. It was then a “rose,” but Prince Albert, uot liking the eppearance of the crystal flower, conceived the idea of having it Te-cut. After consulting. Sir David Brewster and other sclen- Uflc men, It was determined by the Prince Con- sort, with the consent, of course, of the a ” ernment, to polish the “Mountain of Li For this purpose one of the largest of Dut mond merchants, Mynheer Coster,o! Amsterdam, was engaged, and he sent over to London his most experienced artisan, one Herr Vi z with tants, to “improve” the “Kob-i-noor,”” ‘The improvement’ was carried on with ota four horsepower nish oe steam engine, which gan working on the 6th of July, 1868, the Duke “wount machine lacing with his own won the cul -advised q ch all tte proceeding, which reducing the once in Eui ” to “a bad Bet i i et tr ae n ayer: rz Hes hag. Buch “ever. | smaller for the native divans. About twenty A TALE OF TURKEY CARPETS. Jow and Where Uhey are Made ; aad the Cost of fbcir Manuiac- ture. i i St. Jaaes’ Gazette, December 4.) One or the most nmnporcant Tadustries of the \ Guomen Empire, and certainly the chtef tn- | davsiry of Asta Minor. always excepliag agri- | culture, Is the making of carpets Some of the Tactortes ate now furnished with foems quite 1a, the European manner, but it 1s not iu such | factories that these famous fabries are chiefly | produced; the pesssnts in their mud-houses, | and the homad Yuruks tn their tents, all con- | tribute to the many Kinds that are made. Toe | annual value of the ae S Anatolia ap- roaches £100,000; and of these but a small num- ber remain in Turkey when compared wita those distributed over Europe and America, where the demand 18 coxstautly increasing. About three-fourths of the carpets come to pe pee (Dut not al! for home consumpuon) and about one sixth goes to France. These large exports Keep prices ata fair level, and ta | the best shops of London and Paris all kiads of | Kastern carpets can be got for ready money more chesply than the casual traveller c2n buy them on the spot. This applies to the finest oid carpets a8 well as to the new ones; for even With a good and trusty dragoman one may have to, the Dest part ofa day haggling for hair Nn velvety mellowed Daghestans with a earpet-dealer of Smyrna, Cairo, or Alexan irla, and after all be victimized fo some exten: Oorbak, a large village of artisans aDout 8!x | days’ journey due east from Smyrna. headquarters of the manufacture of the carpets | known to us for generations as ** Turkey car- pets,” and in France as “‘tapis de Smyrne.” ‘The patterns are Turkish, or rather arabesque. At Coshak there are at full work hundreds of the looms Calied tesyak, employing about tarce thousand women, and turning out abouteighiy- five thousand square yards of carpets of all sizes and qualities annually. A carpet of be- tween seven and elght yards long wiil em- Ploy eight women at onve, working sii2 by side. ‘Their wages are about elghi plasters a week, which, 1Uis calculated, comes to about Is. 9d.'for each yard of carpet woven. The Wool used comes from the villages round wbout, and {s bought for a if iy & poun in dis urecleaned state. When washed and bleached it loses at ieast one-third of its welght. ‘The foundation of the carpet fs made of an in- ferior wool, aud the whole material of tie fab- rie may cost about #3. 6d.a yard. Thi; does not include the dyeing, which is managed by the men and forms the chief item of cost. The colors that have s9 long satisfled our western pg ala for the most part with mad- der, cochineal and tndigo. ladder root or zarl (Rubia tinctoruvr), gives the fine old urkey red.” and 13 largely grown in Asia Minor; the best rovts cost from 4d. to 5d. a pound. Cochipeal is tmporied from England and France, and, being an expensive dye, con siderably raises the price of the carpets. It was not used before the yeat 1856; anterior to that date madger alone was employed for reds, and this fact gives an epoch for the carp: fancier. The tudigo 1s brought from England or from India. Yellows are got from the seeds of Rhomnus alaternus, whlch 13 cultivated largely in the eastern parts of Karanania and is get- ting dearer every day; 1t now cosis about is. 4d. a pond. Other ays hich are imported from Europe, are used in smi] quantities to obrain the more tender tinis and tone down to the eneral effect. The “velvel” carpeis which ave attained such a vogue were not made at | Ocshak ti the year 1560, | AU Ghiurdhes, which ts aiso a village of arti. sans in Anatolla, two days’ Journey to the northeast of Smyrna, (11 numbers 9,000 inhabi- tants, chiefly ‘urke,) the ear; s Persian are imitated to p qualities are made. The tne or kitim, and are of large size, containing some. Umes as mnuch as 1 square yards: then there are the sicjiadeh and the Kerrt kaaini—ruga and small carpets which do not exceed tive or six square yards, and are often made much thousand yards of all these sorts are produced annually al Gbiurdhes, The Well-known oblong carpets of a rougher quality, often joined down tie middle and called In some places Karamantan, are made by the nomad \uruks in wooden frames, to which the web is fixed by a sort of comb made of iron. This tribe came into Anatol!a centuries ago. They now speak Turkish, and although they profess a bellef in Mahomet they in reality foi- Jow 0 relision and have neither church nor Priests. They possess large herds of cattle, camels and goats. Inthe summer they go to the mountains, and in the winter descend into the valleys and piatns. They are not agricul tural, though they breed their own caltie and make buiter and cheese. They are also wood- cutters and hunters and are very hospitable, which does not prevent them from thieviag and marauding when opportuatties offer. The figures that have been given above for Wages and materials show that these carpets can be produced at a moderate expense. They are not in reality the cosUy luxuries which, before the development of trade and the conse- quent competition, they were long co! sidered in Europe. One of the most trusted merchants in Smyrna now offers the finest Voshak, in which ail the reds are cochineal, for a litte over elghteen shillings a square yard; the sec- ond quality, in whigh the reds are half cocht- neal, half madder, for less than twelve shill Ungs, andthe Gujurdbes carpets he prices at fittten shillings, free on board. Ibe prices seven years ago were about the same, but thirty years back they were not more’ than three fourths of these rates. Within that pe lod the constantly growing demand and tue consequent increase in the cost of lacor, com- bined with the dearness of the best dyestuffs, induced some iwakers to endeavor to reduce cost price by using cheaper coloring matters, such as aniline; te resuits were brilliant avd startling Colors with a falltag of in quality | and solidity. These adventurers soon became convinced that the innovation would Inevita- bly destroy the reputation of Turkey carpets and spoil thelr market, and they hapoplly re- turned to the old methods. Gut there is a danger to be quite as much dreaded—a danger which threatens not alone the colors, but the designs of the old produc- tions. Some of the manufacturers, too desirous of complying with the demands ef a vulgar taste—and it is melancholy to think that these demands chiefly come from E! ‘ngland—are re- pecs the inimitable old iree Turkish designs ry. modern patterns. The merchant whose Prices have been given above offers to execute any order no matier what the dimensions or patterns may be, and the same fatal compla- cency has penetrated even to the weavers in the interior ofsAnatolia._ If the evil goes on it ‘will soon bring to an end the ancient carpet in- dustry of Asia Minor. Another Good Boy. it Free (Detroit Press.) A Detroit ir was the other day hungrily | waiting for clerk to return give im a chance at bis own noonday meal, when a boy came into the store with a basket in bis hand, and said: “YT seed a@ boy grab up this ‘ere basket from the door and run, and I run after him and made him give it up.” “* My Jad, you are an honest boy.” Yes, sir. oy = like a good boy. And good boys should always be encour- aged. In a box in the back room there are eight dozen eggs. You may take them home to your mother and keep the basket.” The grocer had been saving those days and weeks to reward some one, Te- warding a boy he aiso got eight dozen bad eggs carried out of the neighborhood free of cost.and he chuckled # Ute chuck as he | walked homewards. The afternoon waned. niche came and went, and once more the grocer Went to his dinner. When he returned he was picking his tecth and wearing a complacent le. His eye caught a basket of eight dozen eggs as he ente! the store, and he queried: Been buying some eggs “Yes: got hold of thoze trom a farmers boy. replied the clerk. et lame boy with a blue cap on?” “Yea.” “Two front teeth out?” “Yee.” ‘The grocer sat down and examined the eggs. The shells had been washed ciean, but they Were the same eggs that good boy had lugged home the day before. ‘Troubles About W (Hartford Times. } The law tn regard to wills 1s such that many Teons die believing they have made a certain isposition of their iy, whe in realit; ovine to the testator's Coiclagames, or ign from dinner and | | | i for done something at such work, says he drew this Second will last summer; that the woman duly een it; that it was legally witnessed (and the other two witnesses are living, in the same town) and, that he left it, together with the Bret will, ona table in the room where the tes. tatrix He further testifies that she asked him what she should do with the first will, that he told her to burn it up. It is that mistake Db’ and leit the “are aa ‘The house has been. garret, and every Cupbosnt tees ae to = the second will, bu i EB Be B alli: aie 4 EE 3 | Bauce, made by adding chopped pickles and pee EVENING STAR NEWSPAPER COMPANY AMERICAN FISH. K™* +R. Ways of Cook ag Them. RIDNBGEN. KIDNEGED. KIDNEGEN. GiDWSGEK KIDNEGEN. a1LseaRN i. Blackfish are abundant in winter, and when from tare five pounds in weight are excel- { lent for baking with Drown sauce. Hed-shappers. which have Decome deservedly j popular in the Jast threa years, are in season | te ing the fall and atover. They weigh from baked or Dotied With lobster sauce. KIDREGEN Flounders, usuaity piainly fried, have become ; = much esteeued in the last few years, acd are | greatly sought after by Frepeh cooks for filers d@ sole. The best weight ls a pound and a halt. | Arter the fich Is scaled, cleaned and skinned, 8 | cut Js nade With a sharp knife from bead t tall down the backbone. The knife is then care fully worked underneath the fiesh, following | the backboue, cutting the flesh loose tn a strip | two laches wide and about five inches jong, which is the fillet. The easiest way of cookiug | Ubis 1s to dip it into the beaten yoik of an exc | abd tnto powdered crackers, then fry to a liga | brown in ol! or butter aud serve With taruaire KIDNEGEN (Toade- Mart Recuree either KIDNEGEN SIDNEY REGULATOR KIDNEGED AND DIUERTIO EIDNEGEN t highly KIDNBGEN ome menced and nnsurpassed fo. WF) KIDNEGEN KIDKEGEN capers to a Mayonnaise drewing. Fuel aia | or FOUL KIDNETS, DROP ¥, Normandie ts prepared by stewing tn a Rauce pan with a covering of white wine, and served | with a sauce of lopster meat aid trafic; Be | KIDNEGEN. BRIGHTS DISRABR, Lash OW chanel sance 18 also used. ee cease bass from three pounds u} weolgh! a _ H te good Dolled with drawn butter sauce, wile | EIVNEGEN. ENENGY, RERVOUS DEWILT < the smaller fish — secekeaes — usually Cut in! eCes: a eo — Be rallee nities x KIDNEGEN. or any OBSTRUCTIONS act.v« kins op. They are eplit, cleaned and the ae Deuds removed, then the slime is soured Of | KIDNEGEN. trom KIDNEY or BLADDER Ds clean wesd ashes. The backbone is re- —— moved atter eis and the skin side very — therovghly cooked. KIDNEGEN. BASES. Also for BLOOD anc K)))- Lobsters should be killed before putting them Into the kettle. A three-pound lovsier should be dolled 45 minutes, Lobsters are sometimes stewed or brotied, though im the later way they are apt to be hard andtough. As lobsters | BEY POIBONING, tn effect wa- KIDREGEN. charge Ubelr shelis, sofi-shelied lobsters are KIDNEGEN. larial sections. soni Ures found in market, which when friod — are said to be equal to crabs. Unlike any other preparstim for Sivcpsicad, a favorite at dinners and for | gipNRGEN. Kidney dificultion, M bas 0 voy howls. is Dest bottled with Hollaudatse sauce. «i aeresstle taste an @ collops are best stewed in oyster liquor. | tal =f ve ‘They are usually dipped in the yolk of anegx, | KIDNEGEN. rm a contains rerye 4 and in cracker dust or lodian meal and tried to N gsr AU 5 vad LADIES A dark brown. They are excelient triedin | KIDNEGEN. Nc NEA’ batter as tn oyster fritters. Whitetish, which come from the lakes in the late fall, should be boiled and served with | melted butter and parsiey. They are excellent | cut in nlle| Gipped tn batter and fried, Pickerel shou'd be usually broiled. though the large fish are better bolied or baked, wiih Spanish sauce, | Salmon trout are only good to boil. " Lobster | sauce should form the accompantmen’ } Brock trout, weighing fiom three-quarters | KIDNEGEN. of a pound toa pound and a half, should be | bolied and eaten With melted butter and temon juice. They shouid boil for tweaty minutes. | ESPECIALLY will Uke i, snd GENTLEMEN will find K«DNr GEN the best Kidney Touc evr, red! NOTICE.—Esch bottle bears tr @evature of LAWRENOE & MAL @ TIN, also a PROPRIETARY GOV ERNMENT STAMP, which permis KIDNEGEN to be sold (wither Koense) by Druxwiata, Grocors ax other persons everywhere KIDBEGEN. KIDNEGEN. | KIDNEGEN. | KIDNEGEN. KIDNEGEN. Ticut under half a pound should be dredged | EIDNEGEN. IN QTART-SIZE BOTTLYS For With flour and fried with strips of bacon Ja hot GENERAL AND FAMILY USK. melted butter. Trout from one tothree pounds | RIDNEGEN. PRICE $i PER BOLTLE in welght are excellent split and broiled with el melted butter and lemon jutce. ; KIDNEGEN. LAWBENCE & MAITIR. PROPRIETORS, Car a0 9, KIDAKGEN. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS, OROCENY AND DEALERS EVERY 6 4ckt J.C. ERGOOD & CO., Biack bass, one of the best of fresh water fishes. may be cooked im any way, bat 1s be brotied. Muscalonge fs very palatable when boiled and served with shrimp sauce. The different methods of cooking oysters and Wholesale Agents tn Waalioxton clams are too famlilar to need notice. A. VOGELER & CO., Lisitimore. notteg Whitebalt, which was Introduced by Mr. —— Blackford a few years ago, became so popular the demand exceeded the suppiy. ‘Tas genuine HE MILD POWERS CURES. whitebait are young herrings, but different fish AUSPHESYS aresold under that name. Whitebalt isexcel-| gIOMBOPATHIC SPECIFICS lent dip} in tlour batter, or cracker dust “0d | proved trom ample experiance (8g, and fried in hot fat. This completes ‘he | pimple, efctout, and lst of fish ordinarily found in our marsets—. | only ines adapted to popular ¥. Trivune. ‘The Tale of the Ineffectual Hen. {Macon (Ga ) Telegraph. | We learn froma reliable, conscientious iisting Tra clerk at the Brunswick freight depot that Just | 6. revious 10 the alarm of fire Tuesday night a en jumped upon the window seat outside the H window, and, by on the glass, aitracted | 40° attention from ‘he Ww Was lh but, instead of entering, the hen drupped one a Wing and began se with her left foot. - Atriendly hand gathered in the fowl and placed | M4. ler upon a bookcase to roost; she retained the position, but was evidently uneasy for some 17. minutes. Finally a cry of fire was sounded, | 39° aud the house adjoining the depot blazed up | 39: and was consumed in a short time. It 13 now thought that the hen came over to alarm the men, aud tried to imitate the scratching of a match by rasping her toes on her wing. oF THE NATIONAL OAPITAL. THE EVENING STAR THE WEEKLY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. The EVENING STAR, (on Saturday's a doubie sheet or eight page paper of fifty-six columns, the size of the New York dailies), is everywhere recognized as the leading newspaper of Wash- | ington. With two exceptions only, it has the largest cirewation of any daily paper published south of New York, AND MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT OF ANY OTHER PAPER IN THE CITY. H Every issue of THE STAR 1s carefully read | Rot only by the citizens of Washington and ad- Jacent cities and towns, but by the throngs of | strangers constantly visiting the National Capital on business or for pleasure, (and who Constitute, in a very large degree, the purchas- ing population of every State and Territory in ! Loumane STATE LOTTERY. TAKE NOTICE! Al correspondence should be with M. A: Dauphin as below. Jn all casa the TICHETS | themselves are sent, and never circulars offering certificates or anything else instead. Any one pro- Posing to offer anything else by circular or other- ‘wise, on his own behalf or that of the Company, is a ewindier. > | 4 Splendid Opportunity TO WIN A FORTUNE. FIEST GRAND DISTRIBUTION, CLASS A, AT NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, JANUARY irs, 1881, 12$Ta MonTa.r Daawine. the Union), thus making it for most purposes | violable faith of thertate is pledged. which THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN THE | Yote, socurinm ite tranchine ip the nen ite UNITED STATES. ea? & The evidence of this 1s the number of new | ites obec advertisewents it printed in the year 1880, | 17s GRAND SINGLE NUMBER DISTRIBU- which exceeded 20,000, averaging from 1,700 ZION will take piace monthly on the eseved Tae to 2,000 per month in the busy season !! c It Never Scales or Postpones. ‘The advertising books are open to the inspec- | Look at the following distribution: Uon of advertisers to verify this statement, or OAPITAL PEIZE, €30,000. an affidavit of ite truthfulness will be submitted. 100,000 TICKETS AT TWO DOLLARS EACH. HALF DULLAR. 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