Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1881, Page 3

Colored ‘omen at the Freedmen’s Hospital. WHAT DR. PURVIS HAS TO SAY. FREEDMEN's HosPrraL, asmxoton, D. C., November 15, 1881. Messrs. John F. Cook, F. G. Barbadoes, Prof. R. T. Greener, David Warner, Wim. Mathews and others: GesTLTwex: Your communication, calling my attention to the report of Dr. G. S. Pal- mer in reference to the colored women who have been confined in the Freedmen’s Hospital, and which was printed in two of our daily papers, is at hand. I can well understand your feelings of indignation. Dr. Palmer did not submit his report to Dr. Glennan and myself, as had been his custom; if he had, he would not have made such an unfortunate blunder as he has. The doctor has no data from which he can sustain his extraordinary statement, the record of the hospital does nof furnish it, nor the re- Port of the board of health, which shows that 19 per cent of the births of colored people were ilegitimat » doctor gratutiously added 6 per cent when he wrote his report. I think he should be among the last to attempt to reflect Upon an unfortunate people, whose misfortunes en the source of a large income to him, ven him yutation such as he never en- ment has a demoraliz— e people doubt if they 1 The facts and were colored, 9 less than last year, the namber of patients was greater. This is a small number out of the great whole. The majority of ¢ women, who gave birth to illegitimate ch are not lewd, but poor ser- vant girls, have been ‘imposed upon. Nearly of them take care of their MTs x labor. In the pred {this city, there are only one nd some of these non-re dent. This is a small number out of a pepul tion of 60.000 of the poorest peoplei n the Dis- trict; whereas. there are several thousand in the white asylums. Some of these unfortunate women come from the states. You can j of the ratio when I tell you patients treated in the ives of the District. As Jucated vice among them During the years I have been connected with the hospital I have never known an educated colored girl to give birth to an illegitimate child. As to the suggestion that the doors of the hospital be closed to these | unfortunate women, I have only to say it is the most impudent piece of barbarism I have ¢ heard. — Me among the colored people is progressing. Their improve- in this direction is wonderful when we take into consideration the studied attempt for generations to reduce them to mere brates. Nearly half of the patients admitted to the hos- pital ‘are from Virginia and Maryland, two slave-breeding states. and many of the fathers and mothers of these unfortunate girls have been the victims of this practice. I ask who is te for the vices that exist among them They should not be exp and to reach in two thousand. colored children born in the District for the fiseal year ending June 30, IS81, is, according to the records of the ith, 1,681, (one hundred and seyen- teen less than the year before.) Out of this number 44 lited to the Freedmen's Hospital. certainly do not indicate that the “excellen’ mmodations for lying-in furnished at public expense promotes licentious- hess.” as has been disinzenuously stated. Tremain, very respectfully, C. B. Purvis, M. D. ‘The Matter of Enclosing Areas. ‘To the Editor of Tur Evesine Stan. An unauthorized version of a letter I ad- dressed to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the 27th of October having ap- Peared in your paper of the 3d inst., I request that you will publish the letterentire and oblige Respectfully yours, &c., J. F, M October 27, 1881. pissioners of the Districtof Columbia: EME On the Sth day of last June I received a notice, signed by ‘Thos. B. Entwisle, inspector of buildings,” and by order of the “Commissioners of the District of Columbia,” Tequiring me ‘to enclose the areas on 10th and F street fronts of the building southwest cor- ner of F and 10th streets within “airty days from date with an iron railing not less than forty-two inches hich the surface of the footway,” &e. In accords with this notiee, which.upon inquiry, I was informed was a areas, I promptly complied with its require- ments, although I believed when I did so it was unnecessary, and to me onerous as to said area, which has a descent of only tree low granite | steps both on the F and 10th street fronts. I wish also to state that the compliance with this notice has seriously d my property said corner. i adent of the expense I have unnecessarily ing has become the daily and hourly res of all the loafers and nezroes in the ne hood, who may be seen any day perched upon it, | notwit iz, and in full view of the police of that precinct. But at the same time that I ice, ma and 7th streets lar notices. andy have elapsed, I fin ry received. I after my |. | know, simi- nearly five months eturn here numbers of areas on both and no doubt they may be found elsewhere.) and some with at least force tines the depth of the area I have re- ferred to, still without railings, and even the very area on 7th street. where the accident oc- curred which called forth this order of the Com- issioners, is, Lai informed, yet without one. this letter is to respectfully in- ar opinion, as it may be in that of your “Inspector of Buildings,” (for it is to be presumed and hoped you are ignorant of the above facts.) this law as to areas is applica- ble caly to very ones? “Orto one portion of property owners and not to all? And also whether it is an act of justice to enforce a law in_ cases where railings ‘are not really necessary for the safety of the public and the protection of the city govern. ment. and not to enforce this law as to areas which are really dangerous to the public, and, it may be. to the fin: the city? have required a portion of the community to put up these railings at considerable expense, you will dir Nicer to require the police of the them clear of the vag- abonds and loafers who now infest them,to the owners of the property. ‘An an- ‘our obedient servant, Frep'« May. me Again.” ‘To the E:litor of Tae Evestne Star: In accepting the presidency of the Central Republican Committée of this city, last week, Mr. A. M. Clapp again declares himself in favor of suffrage here: and it seems they have selected ittee to press this matter before d Mr. Clapp: “We claim to be citizens, and of citizensh app forgotten, or does he think our citizens and members of Congress have so soon forgotten the diszust that was ex- cited when this subject was actively agitated in the winter of 1880?" Please refresh” his memo by reproducing the following editorial from your paper of February 9th, of that year, Wherein he will see what “he himself, as editor of the Republican, then thought of the matter: THE SUFFRAGE WAKE. By weneral consent the disgraceful sce cent mob primaries and * — igs ayy proj rae Serpe oui: to the ca columns c Whict: the cause thas been £0 smirched by some those who seek suffrase that all hope in that direction # now at an cud, unuil the present can be forwotten Congress or another walch has hot Yet been dis- gusted shali take the matter in hand.’ Says the edito ofie Hevbiscan, who speaks fram personal cbser¥a- tion: “From oar irst note of preparation sounded in this local ccntest the worst methods can € ch to aud corrupt American politics were into the controversy. The pi with f¢ Sees eee few were so many pi and, when thene elencnis wore cunecuta tically washes its the Kepublican wives an editorial tat the manner in the result of U nicene of Murder Wy, Hell ttm and the ike, oe pany as commercial voting ma- iterans. ‘us bope On the next day the following very suggesth item also appeared in The Star: pe IxcensoLt asp Srrrnacr.—, tie for the ster} th. eabed by a feiend i hiaroice wan ets ee ee etd: fer Fen" the coloncl replied, “da suit aTHee here —__-_“-e- ‘Tux Philadelphia News says a ers is as heavy as a pound of Ifa pound of feathers were to fall from third-story window and alight upon a man’s and five minutes afterward a pound of to fall the same distance rom above him on the same spot, he would be Swear that the lead weiched a te the feathers.—Norristmon iieral. |g of feath- lead. That de- - 2S ae eneral one as to | shallow areas and not to deep | nee f ? At the same | time I would respectfully request that as you | | | | | |) Mr. L MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. THE SEARON OF 81-2. The Cary concert, at Lincoln Hall, last night, was a brilliant success in every way. Every seat was sold before the doors were opened, and general admission refused, to the disap- pointment of a large number. The audience was composed of all that is eminent in the social, political and diplomatic society of the capital, and they showed their appreciation of: Miss Cary by repeated encores. The Temple Quartette, an organization made famous in Bos- ton by a long succession of artists, were warmly welcomed, and clearness of their vocal timbre and command of expression found approval in a well-selected and varied program. The latter as a whole was not aa full, nor were all the se- lections quite as pleasing as some concerts which have been heard here; but Miss Cary's superb voice made up for want ot the deficiency. The public will be glad to learn that this entertain— ment probably inaugurates a concert course in this city, to be followed by Miss Kellogg, Mrs. Osgood, George Herschel and others. —Mr. and Mrs. Florence appear on Monday next at the National. — My Mother-in-Law, which has hada big suc- cess in London, will be produced at Ford’s on Monday night. — Mrs. Lander has taken up her abode in Washington for the winter. —Joe Jefferson is underlined in New York for all of next week in Rip Van Winkle. — Esmeralda, by Mrs. Burnett, of this city, von the attention and interest of the public at the Madison Square Theater, New York, and will be repeated for an indefinite time—which probably means a very long time. — It is stated that the English actress, Miss Wallis, will come to this country next year. Among others who are probably to come at that time are Salvini, Coquelin, Ristori, and Med- jeska. All the others will follow eventually. — The Doctor of Lima, the new play brought out in New York by Janauschek, did not prove | to be a success, though Miss Anna Story, of this city, made a hit in it. —The ideai Opera Company and Makin’s were in Chicago this week,—one in Patience and the other in Olivette. —M. Sardeu’s new comedy, which Mr. Daly announces for production at his theater in New York later in the season, is called Odette. It is in a prologue and four acts, and is to be brought out at the Paris Vaudeville. There are 23 characters in it. win Booth begins an engagement in on Monday, in his usual role of perean characters. Many who haye seen eason do not think he acts as well as He still declares he will never play Sertrude Irving, who produced the play called Baffled in London, is on her way to ‘w York. This play is described by Mr. A. C. mutilated version of the latter wot Irving objects to Mr. Gunter's statement. — A combination just started on the road is called the New Idea. This must mean riding home instead of walking.—Cincinnati Enquirer. — Mr. Lester Wallack will make his first ap- pearance during this season at the Grand Opera House, New York, in Rosedale. It is also an- nounced that Mr. Wallack will appear at the Park Theater during next January in the suc- cessful English play, The Colonel. —A. R. Cazauran, a former resident of this city and the adaptor of most of the Union Square plays, is writing a new drama. — The Passing Regiment is winning popularity at Daly's New York Theater. The piece is en- tirely worthy of success. It does not aim high nor deep, bnt it has charm, sparkle and abund- ant interest. It turnishes an agreeable enter- tainment. It is a brigtit light comedy, admir- ably acted, and tastefully placed upon the stage, — One of the most interesting and important events of each season in New York, is the regu- lay autumn opening of the Union Square Thea- ter. The powerful company of that theater have now been absent seven months, and their Teappearance was warmly and gratefully wel- aes: Daniel Rochat was revived on this occa- jon. — Patti's second concert in New York was a failure. The American people are not all idiots and will not pay $10a ticket to hear her. It begins to look as ifshe would have to go into opera to save her trip from a financial failure. The critics all agree, however, that she has a fine voice, and “that the exquisite skill of her vocalization cannot be praised too highly.” — John McCullough began an engagement at Miss | the Fifth Avenue Theater, N. Y., this week. This engagement Is to last six weeks, and will undoubtedly prove to be a popular tribute to a strong and interesting actor. Mr. McCullough has gradually won the respect of criticism and the steady support of the people. He began his performance in Virginius—an impersonation of impressive beauty—and this will be followed by other plays in his repertory. The preduction of Lewis Wingfield’s new drama is one of the possibilities of the engagement. — Some radical changes have been made in the third act of Le Voyage en Suisse. The Han- lon-Lees will continue to amuse the public in this plece until the end of their engagement— which is now approaching in New York. ‘at Goodwin wears a lot of brass jewelry and paste diamonds in his burlesque of Ca- mille, and, during the day, has them displayed in the window of some prominent jeweller, alter the style of certain leading actresses. — Mme. Modjeska is fulfilling engagements in the English provinces with great success. She is supported by Wilson Barrett's company. Her season in Dublin was a genuine triumph, and crowds were turned away nightly for want of room in the theater. Last week she played in Manchester with equally happy results. — The Corsican, George Hoey’s adaptation of D’Ennery’s romantic drama Les Fiances @ Al- bano, produced for the first time at the New Or- leans Academy of Music on the 4th by Hoey and Hardie’s combination, is warmly praised by the local critics, who predict for it lasting suc- cae ‘The title is to be changed to A Broller’s Life. — The Elevating, ennobling and purifying in- fluences of music have often been urged by theorists, but a leading musical critic of Lon- don has put the theory to a practical test and records a satisfactory result. He left his umbrella at the Norwich festival, and subse- quently had it returned to him in London. Mr. Mackaye’s company, acting in Won at Last, has gained great popularity at Pope's Theater, St. Louis. They will produce A Fool's Errand there on December 5th. — The Union League Theater, New York, is | to be opened as a standard place of amusement with comic opera, and the opening is set down for November 21. A piece entitled Our Ameri- can Ministers, by Mr. J. A. Dewitt, is then to be produced, with a tully organized company and chorus. — John S. Clarke is, this week, in Pittsburg. ...-Mary Anderson is also in Pittsburg, for one week....John T. Raymond passed this week in Louisville....Lotta had much success, last week, in Boston, where she still remains. Ada Cavendish spent of the summer in Ire- land....Modjeska will come to America under the management of Mr. John Stetso1 Mr. J. K. mett will shortly appear at the 14th street Theater, New York, and fill an engage- ment of four weeks. — Mme. Janauschek is, next week, in the New England towns....Rose Eytinge is giving “Felicia” to the play-goers of Haverhill, Law- rence, Lowell, Lynn and other towns of Massa- bson and Crane are in Boston man Thompson is in Wisconsin. appears this week in Albany. is in Boston....Emma Abbott is in Phila- hia,...Frank Mayo is in Milwaukee....The ison Square Company is* inflicting The Pro- fessor on New England....W. E. Sheridan is in California....Lawrence Barrett acted last week lyn....T. W. Keene is at Charleston, “The Vokes Family are in Philadelphia, ter’s existence, many years ago, engaged to afew girls under or about six rears of age, and the engagement didn’t stant ikem or affect their prospect in life in any way. They are all married now, (not to the writer, cate trot the ently engagement, 00, may m the ly engagement ‘ou may risk getting engaged, Maud. this advice, because we know you \ow.— Texas Siftings, author of Two Night's in Rome, asa | REMINISCENCES OF RICH MEN. THE RIVALRY BETWEEN STEWART AND CLAPLIX AND VANDERBILT AND DREW—CURIOUS REMI- NISCENCES OF THE OPENING DAY OF STEW- ART’S DOWN-TOWN STORE—PERSONAL ENCOUN- TER BETWEEN THE MILLIONAIRE MERCHANT AND ONE OF HIS CLERKS—THE MAN WHO WANTED TO SEE CLAFLIN. ‘Harry Hill in New York Mercury. Passin’ Stewart's Chamber street store the other day, and lookin’ at it comparatively de- serted, I couldn't help thinkin’ of the great time there was in New York the day when this wondertul store was opened. Public opinion, so far as you could get at it, was opposed to Stewart’s venture; just as public opinion was opposed at first to old Eno’s ven- ture uptown—the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Stewart himself was not very well liked, and wasn't understood then as well as he was afterward, and every body who was any body in the dry goods and real estate line prophesied his down- fall. The two great objections to the store were, first, that it was too expensive, bein’ of white marble, and next, that it was on the wrong side of Broadway. The day before the openin’ day of his big store ‘Stewart got into a stage goin’ up to his residence, which was then on Bleecker street. The stage was full of men, and nobody in it knew Stewart. But they were all talkin’ of his big store, and laughed when one old fellow quoted the old‘adage “about a fool and his money.” Speakin’ of this circumstance to a friend afterward, Stewart said: “It was then for the first and last time in my life I asked my- self, ‘Am I a fool?’ and really I couldn't answer that question myself just then, so { put it off till to-morro’ Stewart had made every arrangement for a big openin’. Every clerk ‘was in his best bib and tucker. He had men stationed on the west side of Broadway to call the attention of the crowd to his store on the other side. Every- thing was conducted on a scale worthy of the store. But when, on the early mornin’ of the day of the openin’, Stewart got up and looked from the windows of his house, on Bleecker street, at the sky, hesaw it full of black clouds. Pretty soon it began to rain, and it looked as if it was goin’ torain all day. And then what do you think A. T. Stewart did—the owner of the finest store in New York! Why, he did what any girl would have done. and. sittin’ down in @ corner, hidin’ his face in his hands, he had a good cry. Yes, a good cry, as if he Wasa young school miss or an old woman. He told a friend of his this fact himself, and his | friend told me. Stewart was human, after all, | and sometimes he got nervous, just like other | people. He wasn’t halfas cast-iron as he was thought to have been, and when he saw the chances of his openin’ ‘about to be spoiled by the weather, and knewhow much depended on @ good openin’ why it is no wonder that he had a touch ofhis mother in him for a moment. But only fora moment. Then he wiped his eyes, and braced himself up for any thin-—for break- fast, the first thin After breakfast he thought he would take one more peep out of the window at the weather before he ventured out. To his surprise he found that it had stopped rainin’ already and promised to be clear. It kept its promise, too, and before Stewart got down to his store the sun was shinin’ beautifully. Stew- art’s luck didn’t desert him. It was the biggest openin’ ever had by any mercantile establishment in New York up to date, and when Stewart rode home in the *bus that night, he was better known than he was the night before, and the very people who were laughin’ and sneerin’ at him fhen were praisin’ and envyin’ him now. Twenty-four nours, and fine weather instead of foul, make a wonderful difference. Stewart was “death” on churches. His very stable was a church—Dr. Williams’ Presbyterian | church, on Amity street. He would buy all the real estate round a church, then gobble up the church. That was his way with the Old Dutch church on 9th street. He played a somewhat similar game before he bought Dr. Osgood’s church, on Broadway, afterwards the Globe Theater, now Harrigan and Hart’s new place. He bought Governor Morgan’s residence on La- fayette Place. People wondered what onearth he bought it for. “To oblige Morgan,” said somebody. “To oblige Stewart,” was the un- awer, and the answer was right. The Lafayette Place lot was right back of the church; and, havin’ got the lot first, Stewart afterward bought the church, and so had a property stretchin’ from street to street. Once, and once only, did Stewart get into a regular knock-down fight with anybody, and then with one of his clerks, about what ninety-nine out of one hundred would have calied a trifle, but which Stewart thought inyolveda big principle. It was a rule in his store. anda good rule it was, too, because in the long run an absolutely necessary one, that none of the employes should sit down durin’ business hours. One mornin’ early Stewart entered his store and found one of his clerks not only sittin’ down, but leisurely readin’ @ paper. vart walked right up to the clerk and shoved the paper he readin’ to one side, so he could get a good look at him. He recognized him at once as one of his very oldest and best salesmen. ut that made no difference. ‘Get up and go.” said Stewart. And the clerk got up and went. ‘‘Follow me to the cashier's desk,” said Stewart, and theclerk followed him. ‘Pay this man what is due to him till this mornin’,” said Stewart to the cashier, “‘and let him consider himself discharged from my employ.” The clerk, like aman in adream, took the money and went away. But thinkin’ the matter over, he made up his mind that Stewart had only been “huffed,” and didn’t mean really to discharge him for so simple a thing as sittin’ on a chair and readin’ a paper. So he came down to the store as usual also the next mornin’. Stewart came down as usual, also, and the two met. Stewart got a’most white when he saw his ischarged clerk back again. He raised his hand. “Quit this store at once and forever: you have no business here; I have discharged you, sir,” he cried, in his shrill voice. The poor clerk, who had had a good salary and had thought he had a sure thing for life, looked in Stewart's face, and saw there was no hope. He was a married man, with a large family de- pendent upon him.’ He realized his position, and, in a fit of rage and frenzy, he rushed at Stewart, shook him like a terrier shakin’ a rat, and then knocked him down. Stewart fought gamely, but was overpowered, and lost some of his teeth in the encounter. Now, perhaps most people who don’t think would’ blame Stewart; but people who know how important a thing discipline is in a hotel, theater, store, steamboat, railroad and an army—everythin’, in tact, that employs people— will say he did just right in dischargin’ the man and enforcin’ the discharge. Though I think, if Ihad been Mr. Stewart, 1 would have taken him back after a while. ‘And, perhaps, Stewart would have taken him back if he hadn’t knocked | his front teeth out. Makin’ a man swallow his teeth ain't always the best way of making a man swallow his words. The fight between Stewart and his clerk didn’t last over two minutes, but the fight (or trade rivalry that almost amounted to a fight) between Stewart and Claflin. lasted some fifteen years. Stewart never liked to hear Claflin’s name men- tioned, and yeu couldn't make him madder than to praise Claflin, though he never committed himself by sayin’ any thin’ against him. Five different times Stewart tried to break Claflin & Co. down, and once if it hadn’t been forClaflin's outside friends he would have succeeded. Stewart was a very hard man on credits. He had to find out every thin’ about a man before he would trust him a dollar. Then if the man was all right he would trust him a $100,000. One mornin’ a man from the west called on Stewart to open a credit account with him, and he was shown, accordin’ to custom, a list of questions that had to be answered. How old was he? Was he married pr single? How many children had he? What were the habits and characters of his children? Did he drink? Did he gamble? Did he belong to any church? and so on. The western man looked at the long list of questions a minute. Then he turned on his heel, put down the paper, and said: “Well, this beats the census man. I ain't gett my lite insured,” and walked off to aflin’s, where, without many questions, he got all the credit he wanted. Claflin was as popular with his men as Stewart was unpopular, yet Claflin believed as Claflin,” eaid the little undersized individual, and the other man wilted. There was one first-class thing about Clafiin. He never showed any difference him- self and clerks as far as rules were concerned. He obeys his own rules, just as if he was under "em. Tt was the rules, for instance, for any of the cletks to enter by the Worth-street side la, Claflin was seen to walk along the whole length of his own store, to Church and get soakin’ wet rather than go in on Worth street, and thus violate one of his own regu- lations. ) Stewart's fight with Claflin was as bitter as Vanderbilt's it with Drew, with this differ- ence, that Vanderbilt and Drew were friends once, and that the old Commodore kept faith with Uncle Dan’l till the latter old man went back on him. ‘Vanderbilt made one mistake, though, about Drew. He thought he wasn't fit for steam- boatin’, and told him so. “You don't under- stand boats,” said Vanderbilt, ‘and you'll sink ’em or they'll sink you.” He had to eat his words, though. years after, when the People’s Line started, and virtually contrglled the Hud- son river. Boorman, the first president of the Hudson river railroad, opposed the People’s Line tooth and toe-nail. Drew was carryin’ people then on his boats for $1 to Albany, while the cars charged $8. _‘‘How can we get you to raise the fare?” asked Drew of Boorman. out the People’s Line,” said Uncle Dan'l, you've got money enough.” = Uncle Dan’l was always afraid of lightnin’. He would shut his eyes whenever he saw a flash and shake all over. This was on account of an accident that happened when he was dealin’ in cattle. A storm came on when he was drivin some cattle, and he and a companion, another cattle herder, took refuge in a carriage that was standin’ under atree. The tree was struck by lightnin’ and Drew’s companion was killed out- right at his side. Drew never forgot the inci- dent to his dyin’ day. Drew showed a good deal of nerve in the Erie fight, and was as stubborn as a first-class Irish . He hid in an old loft on Nassau street for wo days and nights durin’ the injunction, where only a_step-ladder could get at him, and’ where he could get at the roof ina jifly. Two of his set guarded the ladder, and his food was passed him upon a plate, which he took on his lap in- stead of on a table. Drew resembled Vanderbilt in one thing very closely. Both men were very liberal about some | things and very close about others. Vanderbilt was always mean about his pleasures. He liked horses, but didn’t pay much for ‘em, at least not much for him. He liked Postboy better than any other horse he owned, but he used him oftener and drove him harder than any ot! horse. He never spentai joney worth speakin’ about ‘‘on the road.” Now and then he would take a drink at Dubois’ half-mile track, or Harry Burtholf’s, and that was about all. Bonner has paid, in proportion to his money, $10 where Vanderbilt put out #1 for horse flesh. He drove his horses hard, like he did his business. In fact, he looked upon drivin’ as “business,” and when he got ready for his horses he would always say, “* Now for business.” Vanderbilt never forgave anybody who snubbed him. Sloane, the president of the Hudson road, tried it on him, and next year he ousted Sloane. old commodore put his son William instead of Tobin. Well, the old commodore has gone, and his old friend and enemy, Drew, has gone, too. Stewart has disappeared (they don’t even know where his body rs) if in this chapter who still remains. sees eee Sorrows of the People of Ircland. Nasby in the Toledo Blade. It is impossible to make an American compre- hend the width, depth and bredth of Irish mise- ry until he has seen it with his own eyes. No other man’s eyes are good for anything in this matter, for the reason that nothing parallel ex- jsts this side of the water. And besides this. the writers for the stage and general literature have most wofully misrepresented the Irish man and woman, and very much to his and her disadvantage. THE STAGE IRISHMAN. The Irishman of the stage and novel is always arollicking, happy-go-lucky sort of a reckless fellow, with a short-tailed coat, red vest and corduroy trousers, woollen stockings and stout brogans. with a bottle of whisky peeping out of his pocket, a blackthorn shillelah in_his fist, always ready for a dance ora fight, or for love- making or any other pleasant employment. There is always on his head a rather bad hat, worn jauntily, however, and though he may be jonally rather short of food, he manages ys to get enough to be fat, sleek and ros ‘And then he always has a laugh on his face, a joke on his lips, and he goes through life with a perpetual “hurroo.” THE IRISH WOMAN. And Katy,she is always presented to us clad in ashort woolen gown, her shapely legs enclosed in warm red stockings, and she has a bright red handkerchief about her neck, with good. comfortable shoes and a coquettish straw hat, a buxom girl who can dance down any lad within ten miles, and can ‘‘hurroo” as well as Pat, and a trifle better. THE IRISH PRYEST. The Irish priest is alwaysrepresented to us as a fat, sleek, jolly fellow, who 1s constantly giv- ing his people good advice, but who, neverthe- less, is always ready to sing “The Cruiskeen Lawn” in a “rich, mellow voi before a splen- did fire in the house of his parishioners, with a glass of poteen in one hand and a pipe in the other, the company joining jollily in the chorus. He issupposed to live in luxury from the superstition of his people, and to have about as rosy a life as any man on earth. LIES. All these are lies. The Irishman is the saddest man on the sur- face of the globe. You may travel a week and never see a smile or hear a lauch. Utter and abject misery, starvation and helplessness are not conducive of merriment. The Irishman has not only no short-tailed coat, but he considers himself fortunate if he hasany coat at all. He has what by courtesy may be called trowsers, but the vest is a myth. He has no comfortable woolen stockings, nor is he possessed of the regulation stage shoes. He does not sing, dance or laugh, for he has no place to sing, laugh or dance in. He is a mov- ing pyramid of rags. A man who cuts bog all day, from daylight to dark, whose diet consists of a few potatoes twice a day, is not much in the humor for dancing all night, even were there a place for him to dance in. And as for jollity, a man with a land agent watching him likea hawk to see how much he is improving his land, with the charitable intent of raising the rent, if by any possibility he can screw it out of him, is not in the mood to laugh, sing, dance or “hurroo.” One might as well think of laughing atafuneral. Ireland is one perpetual funeral. The ghastly procession is constantly passing. There is unquestionably a vast fund of humor in the Irishman which would be delightful could it have proper vent. You hear faint tones of it as it is, but it is in the minor key, and yery sad. It always has a flavor of rack-rent in it, taste of starvation, a suggestion of eviction and death by cold and hunger on the road side. It isn’t cheerful. I had much rather have the Irish- men silent than to hear this remnant of jocu- larity which is always streaked with blood. The Irish girl is always comely, and, properly clothed and fed. would be beautiful. Stillshe is comely. Irish landlordism has not been suffi- cient to destroy her beauty, though it has done its best. But she has no gown of woolen stuff— a cotton slip without underclothing of any kind makes up her costume. The comfortable ‘stockings and stout shoes, and the red handker- chief, about her neck are so many libels upon Irish landlordism. Were My Lord’s agent to see such clothing upon agirl, he would imme-| diately raise the rent upon her father, and con- fiscate those clothes. And he would keep on are) the rent till he was gertain that shoes and stockings would be fotever impossible. Neither does she dance Pat ddwn at rustic for a most excellent reason, there are no balls, and besides when she has cut and dried a don- key load of peat and {walked beside that donkey barefooted in thp,qold mud twelve miles and back again, and gold that peat for sixpence, she is not very he in the humor for dancing down any one. 0a. the contrary she is ote) glad to get into ‘wretched bed of much in rules as Stewart did, only he didn't practice his belief so much. Claflin was always a vi ‘Unassumin’ man, and a good story is told of him on this point. A man wanted to see Claflin on some per- sonal matters one mornin’. So he called at the store and asked to see Mr. Claflin. He was re- ferred from one man to another, and was kept busy huntin’ Claflin here and there for some time. wale hankins Claflin, the aan came across, sev mes, upstairs and do a somewhat un individual, baldheaded, slightly gray, plainly dressed. to whom nobody any attention. Havin’ him about seven or eight times, and not yet havin’ been able to find Claflin, the Claflin hunter went up, at ee the somewhat undersized individ and ing him on the stairs sakd: “You seem to have nothin’ to to ves and pull over hef the potato sack which constitutes her solecogen and wretched cable, forget in, f01 landidtds go off into the land of hal is America, She finds in besides it Then Tobin put on airs and the | , and Claflin is the only one | of the four big bugs I have been writin’ about | Advice to those Using Glasecs. Men engaged in literary pursuits should read most by day and write most by night. It is worthy of note that reading causes more strain to the eye than writing, and that copying work in writing makes a greater demand upon the organ of vision than off-hand composition. Twilight and a mixtureof twilight and artif- cial illumination should be avoided for any kind of work. The pale cobalt-blue tint is the best that can be employed when protection for the eye from intense glare is sought, as in the case of traveling upon snow-fields in bright sunshine. The green grass that is often adopted for this fae oer by any means so worthy of confidence. Reading in railway traveling is objectionable inthe highest degree for a very obvious reason. The oscillation of the carriage continually alters the distance of the page from the eye, and so calls for unceasing strain in the effort to keep the organ in due accommodation forthe ever-varying distance of the dancing image. The exact fitting of the frame-work of spectacles to the face and eyes is of more im- portance than is generally conceived. If the centers of the lenses of the spectacles do not aceurately coincide with the centers of the pupils of the eyes the conse is that the images in the separate e little displaced from the positions which they ought to held, and that a somewhat _ pain- fal and injurious effort has to be made by tl eye to briny those images back into due c spondence for accurate vision. An incipient squint is apt to be in this way produced. M Carter recommends that people should look tc the centering of their spectacles for themseive: This may be easily done by standing before looking-glass with the spectacles in their pl If the fit isa good one. the center of the pi should then appear in the cent Fully formed spectacies are always to be pre- | ferred to folding frames, because they permit of more satisfactory adjustment in this particular, and because they are more easily kept in right position with regard to the eyes. TI itaxe which the pebble et 'S over 8 fur the construction of spect! the y whieh it po seainst seratchin nant of its greater hardu 0. — “Bill Arp’s”? View of Preachers. Tlike the preachers. They hold us back from | going to extremes. Theyare the conservative They are good citizens and set usa good e: ample. y are the balance wheels of society the scotch to the wagon, the air-brakes to t train, the pendulum to the clock. They are like the Sabbath that gives us rest and peace. | They ave tu society what the judge is to the law. of the rim. | | tion will be an uneny’ ‘The new moon hung in the sky, the sun was low in the wes Andmy and I in the church-yard paused to rest— Happy maiden and lover, dreaming the old dream ‘over; The light winds wandered by, and robins chirped from the nest. And lo! in the meadow-sweet was the grave,of a Little child, With a crumbii stone at the feet and the Ivy runnin; i— Tangled ivy and clover folding tt over and over: Close to ro deypeceri feet was the litue mound upp Stricken with nameless fears, she shrank and clung to ms And her eyes were filled with tears for a sorrow I «lid not see: Lightly the winds were blowing, softly her tears were lowing — Tears for the unknown years and a sorrow that was to be! (7. B. Aldrich, in Harper's Magazine for December, eS Te ZADKIEL’S ALMANAC for 1882 has just been published, and predicts all sorts of pleasant and unpleasant things for this ec Its editor, Zadkiel Tao Sze, observes inthe preface that the spread of intelligent faith in planetary in- fuence will soon make everybody acknowledge astrol and compel the press to cease their abase of its votaries. The predictions gre that in the latter part of February next great excitement will prevail in pw York, anda An epidemic ens W ut the middle of J cendant of the at Washington, producing great nt inthe states; the President's posi- ble one.” The general outlook for this country for some six months to come is by no means unfavorable. A financial panic and the burning of a theater are predicted for New York; great e nt, much violence and shocks of earthquakes are anticipated for the country at large. Some great American il suifer degredation. But about August xt everything willbe put in good shape again | by the beviticent influence of Jupiter emi lent crops and important measures of the direction of civil serv trade and commerce may be expected for next autumn. excitem IST OF LETTERS REMAIN IN THE WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 1881. EP-To obtain any of these Letiers the applicant must call for ““ Apventisey Lerreus,”” and give the date of his list. vel A not called for within one month they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office Tlove ‘em ail, and when they are blotted which God forbid, I want to go, too. In sic ness. in trouble, in affliction, yea, In the last agonies they are with us and comfort us, while the busy world wags on. God bless the preachers j of land—the preachers of every creed that | teaches love to ot tor and love and kind- stoone another. Nevertheless, I sometimes i sorry for the preacher's children, for the good is xo afraid he will do wrong bh ns y. Itdidme good the other day aw one of ‘em take his children to s the circus ion. It wax so kind and sid can't let the little the cireus, do let “em see the proc and by, may be, they will get old enous trusted within the canvas and see the ring and the men ride rout rack his jokes and lau: ssuch a fool, Idon't admir folks who are always a laughing whether a thmg is funny or net. and Lnever did lik see a pretty gil giggling at everythi | happened: but still it is better to laugh than be crying. The world is not draped in mourning. The birds sing and the butterflies float around in the happy sunlight. At night the cricket on the hearth and the katydid sings ;_sweet flowers blooming and Solomon in all his glory was ed like one of these. All nature is cept a snakes and hyenas, and | don't want to be like them.—Adanta Constitution. ee Pee Farming in Dakota. From the Brookiyn Eagle. “Yes, sir,” resumed the Dakota man, as the crowd of agricuiturists drew back from the bar and seated themselves around a little table, es. sir, we do things on rather asizable scale. I've seen aman on one of our big farms start out in the spring and plow astraight furrow aunt) all. Then he turned round and harvested pacl “Carry his grub with him?” asked a Brooklyn farmer, who raises eabbages on the outskir ‘ They follow him up with a steam lays of men to change plows some big farms up there, d of mine owned one on on for bin gentlemen. A. fri which he had to g you my | befor uld get it recorded at the other. | You see it was laid off in counties.” There was a murmur of astonishment, and the | Dakota man coatinued:— “T got a letter froma man who lives in my orchard just before I left home, and it had been three weeks getting to the dwelling house, though it traveled day and night “Distances are pretty wide up there, ain’t | they?” inquired a New Utrecht agriculturist. Re reasonably,” replied the Dakota e worst of it is, it breaks up fan ‘0. Two years ago I saw a whole fami ated with grief. Women yelling, children | and dogs barking. One of my men had his camp truck packed on seven four-mule teams, and he was around bidding everybody g00d-by nd th was he going?” asked a Gravesend “He was going half-way across the farm to feed the pigs,” replied the Dakota man. he ever get back to his family “It isn’t time for him yet.” returned the Da- kota gentleman. “ Up there we send younz married couples to milk the cows, and their | children bring home the milk.” “‘Lunderstand you have fine mines up that way,” ventureda Jamaica turnip-planter. “Yes, but we only use the quartz for fencing,” said the Dakota man, testing the blade of his knife with his thumb, preparatory to whettins it on his boot. “It won't pay to crush it, be- cause we caymake more money on wheat. I put in 8.900 townships of wheat last spring.” * How many acres would that be?” “We don’t count by acres. We count by townships and counties. My yield was $68,000,000 on wheat alone, and I'm thinking of breaking up from 80 to 100 more counties next season. * How do you get the help for such extensive operations?” asked the New Utrecht man. “Oh, labor is cheap,” replied the Dakota man. ‘You can get all you want for from $29 to $47 a day. In fact, I never paid over $38.” “Ts land cheap?” Ne d's high, Not that it costs anything, for it don’t; but under the laws of the territory you have got to take somuch or none. I wasin luck. Had a friend at Yankton who got a bill through the legislature allowing me to take 420,000 square miles, which is the smallest farm there, though it is——” “Look here,” said the barkeeper, as the east. ern husbandmen strolled out in a bunch to con: sider the last statement. “Is all this thing you've been telling true?” “Certainly,” responded the western man; “at least itis a modification of what I saw in a Dakota paper that was wrapped around a pair of shoes last night. I didn’t dare put it as srOne as the paper did, for no one would be- ; ieve it. drinks and [’ll pay in the morning. I live right here on Myrtle avenue.” You can slate that last round of | LADIES’ LIST. | Alber Annie Mrs Le Emil; Te uedlon Baker E Briel by; Matthews Alice Miler Anuie Mrs mabe B Mrs M Mellach E Mre Marr Elizabeth Miller Erma L. 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