Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1882, Page 3

WEST WASHINGTON, EX-GEORGE- TOWN. Its Enterprises and ts Needs. Tn many respects West Washington takes the fead in business of the city. This is, of course, in the main due } to the water facilities. The milling and grain business everybody knows are not as extensive | as they were in previous years, because the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal cannot compete with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. TUE GRAIN TRADE, ‘The Metropolitan branch takes the grain to | Baitimore which formerly came here; but as our | market is invariably better than that of Balti- more, some grain does come here, a smail part by rail, but mostly by the canal. It is estimated by the grain merchants here that 1,000,000 bush- | eis of wheat and 300,000 bushels of corn come annually to thi f which is ground | here, a small portion only being shipped else- | where. There are here eight mills—Herr & Cis- | sell two, and Wm. HoTenney & Sons, D. F. | Robinson, W. H. Gaskins, an Lyons, Beall & | ustin Herr one each; the two | ly corn iis. The flouring | e acapacity of about a thoa- sand barrels per day. They run to their fall ca pacity. or not, aeceraing to the amount of th stock on hand. Herr & Cisze!! from their two ® bia & Ray's)turn out onan average The two corn mills have a | 000 bushels per ¢ More i nd here is sold in quantity, however, goes to | New York. THE COAL. TRADE. Another important industry is the coal trade. 421,602 ton: | were shipped by the Chesa- peake and Qhio canal last year, all but a com- paratively smal! portion of which came to orge town. 2.132.608 tons of coal were shipped from | Cumberland last year, so th: by the railroads. 1, by the Baitimore and Oi year, so here azain the railroads interfere. Some people maintain that a good cotton mill in the town would be w than all the eoal trade done here. that but little tr: done with the pay in Cumb it caunot be « ree number of labor- ing people depend for their living on the coal trade. THE FERTILIZER BUSINESS has crown to be a large branch of the town’s . F. L. Moore, Geo. T. Dunlop | and M. J. Adier being enzaxed in the business, | which has grown in 10 years from about 1,000 tons per year to ever 7.000. It is sent to the ad- sof Maryland and V , and extending te more distant parts, | year brings additional orders from the | Ti emple nufact 50 south. men, and over + ers and employ The focilities tor the man ents at the great centers of its production in- duces our merehants to have it manufactured “there and brouzit here for m; thus avoid, too, th of suel a a business of this kind done mnvenience to those living in There are nine warehou ng. &e. At the mill Moore, just above Georgetown, only dry bones $8 another large business here, Messrs. Jarboe, Ridgway. Pasco and Kuhn being engaced in the manufacture. About 50 men are employed, and | about 75,000 new barrels are made per year, and | about the same nuiaber of old i } THE POTOMAC PAPER MILL | @orner Water and Potomac strects, is also a much larger enterprise than most persons are aware. Major Geo the proprietor, and his son, Mr. Wm. G. superintendent. ‘They employ 30 or 40 men, and turn out a larze quantity of paper daily. THE ICE FACTORY, the new enterprise, must not be forgotten, It is situated on the canal, in the rear of Metz’ mill, ¢ company solely | y have a machine in | successful operation of ten tons per day capacity. They expect to duplicate this machine this year, | The | ‘lew. setts_men; nt and Mr. Da tentee of the machine), having buiit their house with thi: company is composed of Massa Mr. Rufus Smith bein: Smith (part owner and general manager. Another new enterprise, and one which gives employment to a large number of persons, prin- mi , is Numsen & Soas CANNING FACTORY, | on the corner of Water and Conzress streets. | The business was successfully prosecuted last summer, and will be continued ona still larger | seale the con . From 100 to 159 per- sons are t ployment. ! THE CAR BUILDINGS, | also, give work to a large force of men, not in- cluding conductors and drivers. The sh of Fonnted: the feet department. wi und baling, &c.. takes 1 aul the o! whied to be re i DNDRY BUSINESS. Noyes.the well known foundry- archased the oid foundry property is Tefiiting the same, so that in all sit shall be 2 first-class shop. ‘ fouudry on Water street formerly owned by Robinson Bros., now b: m and Middleton, will make another prominent indus- | try, Mr. George man, hay FRITCH'S BROOM FACTORY, on the corner of and Market streets, must not be forgotten. | NEEDS. } Georgetown detights in and always weleames | manufactures. Still it cannot be denied that the business of the place is far from being what | it onee was. Water cannot compete with steam, and for three months in the year business is vir- tually suspended on Water street and the eanal. | The canal company expect to better their condition by lengthening the locks, 76 in ail, 28 or 30 of which will be finished this season. But | what is needed isa railroad and a free bridge; | the latter is looked for shortly, the former none | but the young people expect to see. Some of | the old folks blame the street car companies, | or taking the bulk of the trade, in every | line of business, from here to Washinzton. They would hardly like to go back to the omni- | bus for all that. In addition to ratiroads and a free bridge across the Potomac, West Washing- | ton wants to beco | ington by the arching of Roc A good | many, hold that Oak Hill Cemetery, beanti- | ful as it is, is te: a drawback te the pros- perity of the place.and they would liketo see it re- | moved. They hold that it hasdestroyedthebeau- | tiful heights as a place of residence, depreciated | all the surrounding property, and’ spoiled the | most delizitful and healthfal place in the Dis. | trict for suburban residences. Another thing that worries people who liye on the south side of Road street (the few who do) is that their neighbors across the street can let the snow remain on their pavements all | winter, whereas, if they do likewise, it ts Judge | Snell or #2. Speaking of the beauties of the place, we have a building here among the finest | and most huposing in the country— THE GEORGETOWN COLLEGE BUILDING. It 18315 fect in length, 95 feet wide and four stories high, of the Romanesque style of archi- tecture, and yet how few people have taken the trouble to go and see it. Another thing this pat of Washington boasts of is the Linthicum institute and Peabody Library, which no other section of tyg-city can duplicate. A weil known business in speaking upon the subject of the business of Georgetown, remarked: ‘A | much larger amount of business is transacted here than most people know, and it is because we make no fuss about it; we prosecute our Dusiness from our back doors, so to speak.” PERE EL Guiteau’s Defence. ‘To the Faitor of Tur Evenrxe Sram. It is not too late, is it? to enlighten and to warn the public against the wild and wicked delusion that a man is “inspired” to commit murder, and that the “inspiration” takes away net only his free agency, but the essential opens the door to political murder as a means “removing” —how easily one slides into the ant of assassination hei seers mem the prominent man obnoxious to any party, fac- or individual who cannot obtai : oftice, or wd admitting cae ae Saw a ne in law it the sanction of courts and Juries, | secure an acquittal. | called | Inte e or any feost the |as much. besides the injury to persons. Now * THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 ia 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. cannot be estimated. Only one thing could be worse than thatthe seeming support of euch doctrines, and the countenance given to them in the public press as an if such a thing could be, of that sort could get a be greatly enlarged. We should have the amazing spectacle not of one man, two, or twenty, nities afflicted with an “insane delusion,” and the “transitory mania” of Guiteauism would be rampant in those communities. Now that the agsassin from the dock has promulgated his ukase, threateningthe American people with all sorts of woes if his pet doctrine of “inspiration” is not “vindicated” by his acquittal, we shallsee if court, jary and people yield their assent and acceptance of that doctrine. This, I am aware, not the theory of the defence flaughed at and satirized by Guiteau himself), but that theory is in perfect accord with the doctrine of “inspira tion” in political murder, as witness this utter- ance of Mr. George Scoville in laying down the law of the case: ‘The rule was that if in this act the prisoner was overpowered by a conscious- Ness that he was commanded to do this act to save the country from war, then in his view the act wes right, and he was not responsible.” But Judge Cox in refusing to rule on the question of “4rresistible impulse”—merely another name for the erpowering consciousness” of Mr. Seo- vilie—-effeetnally disposed of the “inspiration” part of the business by taking it out of the case, saying there was no precedent for it in law, and, what was perfectly obvious, that outside of the ‘i i could keow and conse- it was not a question fer the jury. The assassin. and by implication his counsel, was mistaken in (he law—that was all. Never- heless, the opinion, real or preteniled, th iteau is insane. and therefore irresponsible, h opinion insdustriously circulated by th defence, and written up in certain papers, is designed insidiousiy and covertly to affect the Jury through popular sentimeat, not to say sympat! the assassin in the role of a is doing great harm, because it tends to all moral distinctions and to gloss over vime of murder by teaching the pernicious doctrine that a man, to all intents and purposes, sane aud responsible, may be forced to commit murder under duress: and the proof of this tounding faet is to be found in the bare asser- tion of the murderer when put upon his oath, and seen to brazen it out with a sufficient stoc ofimpudence! That anybody should be found weak enough to adopt such an opinion or belief, onsuch grounds, and [ deny that it has any foundation in the tacts of the case, only shows how some people are quite too too anx! confirm and to spread abroad the inspi view of the case, in the int it of the as and to the prejudice of public justice. We kn as Judge Vortei , iow confidently he counts on the “guilibility and rascality” of mankind to I believe he reckons with- t 1 have an uncomfortable at the po: probability ue or more me: is all that is Tepreset y the jury. One out of twelve . ‘I niever supposed there eto this murder; and that. as a se, the murder being proved and admitted, tue inurderer after that had only 01 right—the itto be hung. But we area gi and progressive people trine of ering conscivu: t and under the new doc- . OF “overpow- we may agree with the 20 declared that murder was “one of the safest of American ls Prevention of H. R. Accidents—Action by Congress Wanted. To the Editor of Tae Evex1xG Star: Every little while the country is startled by | the reports of terrible railroad accidents, the most destructive of which generally occur by collisions or open switches. It is but a few months since the train carrying ex-President Hayes and party from the National Capital col- lided with another coming around a curve. Then came the terrific slaughter Just out of Pittsburg, by one or more trains crashing into a train in advance, and now we have a similar occurrence on the Hudson River road. besides innumerable lesser oecurrences in various parts of the country in the meantime. In fact, itis safe to say that not a week passes that some so- the country I desire to say is that there is exeuse for such accidents, for there are plen' means by which they can be prevented, if the Rt. R. authorities will only take a little pains, and be at the expense of adopting them: and ch expense compared with the loss of prop- erty, nothing of the loss of life, would be but trifling. The sta tpt invention In this country to-day such, thaf. with but a very smail outlay, de- can be applied which will show with abso- inty toa train coming round a curve, Ise, whether or not the track is rahead; and that. too, for any desired dis- So, too, it will indicate to the eng’ sat the engine ing train at any required distance the switch, brid rain, soas to aford pleaty of time to stop, and thus prevent the ac- nt. lo not refer to any particular device. for re several that may be used, it. being ly # matter of choice. aw it stated in the papers that the snias! ap oa the Baltimore and Potomac road, near the tuanel in this city two or three years’ azo, mipany $30,00—and if 1 ree aright that of President Hayes’ train cost 1 would undertake to say that that would provide the Pennsylvania railr suitable means for preventing such ac throughout its entire length. It is a shame and an outrage on the public that these means for preventing accidents are not generally adopted: but judzin from the past there is no on to suppose they will be until the roads s0. om- panies are more interested in paying dividends on their watered stocks than in protecting the public: and hence they prefer to take the chances of acvidenis rather than to expend the Money necessary to prevent them—always, of course, flattering themselves with the hope or belief that such accidents will not happel and thus they continue the “penuy wise and pound foolish” policy, notwithstanding experi ence has demonstrated the fact that the acci- dents do, and will, continue to happen. And so with reference to cars being set on fire. There isno need for it. It occurs either from the stoves or the lamps, or both. fectly feasible to heat cars without haying any stove located in er about the car, and so, too, they can be lighted without using either oil or candies. To-day English cars and steamers are ighted with electric lamps of American origin, while we, who boast of our enterprise and #o- aheadativeness, have not adopted them oneither boats or cars. ‘It is not my object to point out the specific means to be used, but merely to call | to the fact that there are means which ‘nt all suci accidents if the companies adopt them. it would cost something in the first in- stance, but would save immensely in the end, besides saving human life and suffering. It would require directors to give some thought and attention to these matters, instead of as how, devoting their time and attention to form- ing syndicates and gobbling up rivul roads, so as to monopolize the business, and thus enable them to bleed the public still more. What ix needed now is legislation that will compel the railroad companies everywhere to adopt: means which will prevent such accidents. jut right there arises a difficulty. In the frst place, the old idea that the government, state and’ na- tional, should never meddle with what, private enterprise can do, stands in the way of - tion on this and all similar matters. The second obstacle is the “states right” doctrine which holds thet this and all similar matters beiong exclusively to the states; and Inasmuch as the states, as a general rule, belong to te railroad companies, or at least arc controjled by them, co ee oe ee affecting tie railroads is , seems to be little to hope from that source. The only hope left, there- fore, is in Congressional action; and any move- ment ia that direction will of course be og oe interests Se whole cou . Yet, I presume no one will question the sight of Congress to legislate on this ter, on aH routes extending from ome state into agother, because that power ts given in the clause of the Constitution which gives to Con- greas the power to regulate commerce among the states. ‘The tact that Congress has for years exercised this power unquestioned as to steamboata would. seem to settle the question, for if it has the it todoit with steamboats why not steam cars ? is as much the vehicle of commerce as the other, and therefore subject to the same powers and regulations. In fact, the great bulk of the com- merce between tle states to-day is carried on by rail. If, now, Congress has the power to Bay what kind of metal shall be used for the boilers: of steamboats, how much pressare they ay may carry, how many e., tl oe haa tho tame aight te attention will previ com] in of opinion. For EM ss iar delusion old of men’s | minds in any considerable portion of the com- enterprise over any other part | munity, the borders of Bedlam would have to or but of whole commu- leat does net oceur in some part of of Here, now. is an opportants for some disin- terested Member or Senator todo the public (and the railroads, too,) a great good, and at the same time immortalize himself, for surely the man who can and will bring about such a result will be as much entitled to a monument a8 was the discoverer of chloroform or ether, or the soldier who won battles. It is proper to add that Ihave no patent to dispose of and no interest of any kind to serve, except that which every citizen should have to benefit the public. W. C. Dopar. ee THE THREE CLASSES OF GOVERN- MENT CLERKS, The “Shorts,” the “Stationaries” and the “Rounders.” In the lingo of the departments, the people who hold places under the government in Wash- ington are divided into three classes. One class is known as the “shorts,” another as “‘sta- tionary,” and the other as “rounders.” The first only remain in office a very short time; the second keep their places for years, and the last are in place off and on. TO BECOME A STATIONARY, it is necessary for a clerk to have kept his posi- tion at least five years. There are a great many more “stationary” clerks than is generally sup- posed. While changes are always being made, the great number of places in the departments are occupied by “‘stationaries.” THE “SHORT” generally has a term of about a year, and often it Is cut down to a very few days. The “round- er” is, however, the unique character of the | department rolls. The male specimen of the rounder is by far the most numerous; in fact, there are only a few well-known female “rounders.” The male rounder is generally ; about forty or fifty years ot age. There are some of them who have. reached theig three- score and ten. Most of them have been in almost every department in the city, and many } have run the gamut ot nearly all the bureaus. THE ROUNDER | isnot a good clerk. He often is addicted to vinous and intoxicating fluids. He lost the first p'ace he had by either his unfitness, gin, | or because it was wanted for some one else. | He then took the first step in the career of a |rounder. He went to work to get another | place. He went at it systethatically and with a determination to win. Rebuffs soon became | what he expected, and finally suecess attended him. From that place he has been removed | only to take up the fight for a place elsewhere. | He is always hard up. At least half of the time | he is out of place. He then lives on credit. The | salary of the next place that he drops into is aken up by paying his debts—what he calls | “burying dead horses.” He dresses seedily and | | does not indulge in hot luncies, but eats hi cold roll and butter. But he seems to enj | fe pretty well. He is never down-hearted: | is always full of jokes, His reminiscences of | | rounder experiences are amusing. People who | | have business in the several departments will sometimes miss a face familiar to them by their frequent visits to a certain room. In a short. | tine they will see that face in another depart- The rounder has made another flight. been turned out once more, and once more has “caught on.” There is a clerk in one | department, who, in sixteen years’ service under | the government, has been removed from place ten times. About salary the rounderisneververy particular. He does not ask for a $1,200 or | $1.600 position. He ouly wants any kindof a | . He never gets more than $1,200 a year. | Hie is gencrally on a temporary roll at between $800 and 3900. Very often he will take a place ' laborer and is glad to get a watchman’s bil- | let. Inthe course of many years of picking a ig here and there on the government, sume ofthem haye managed to become acquainted with members of Congress who, when the time for the rounder’s removal comes with its usual regularity, are called upon to help him get | another place. It does not surprise the rounder to get bounced. He really expects it; he would | feel lonesome if ne was kept in one place longer than a twelyemonth. THE FEMALE ROUNDER, | as Just said, is not so numerous as her male protetype. She is just as mercurial, however, | | and Just as persistent. She often brings tears | to her aid in gunning for a new place, and gen- erally has more or less children to support. She | is of anew growth comparatively. “Six years | ago,” saidan old “stationary” of the Treasnfy de- | partment, “I did not know a single rounder of the opposite sex. I can now connt twelve to | my certain knowledge; of course there are many more of them.” LETTER ———— ROM FLORIDA. MORE BUIGHT COLORED PICTURES OF THE SITU- ATION—ONLY ENERGY AND A LITTLE MONEY WANTED For THEY SOMES TIMES HAVE A COLD eapondence of Tur Ey Since my letter of December | | over a large portion of the southeast part of the | 4 thence down the St. John’s river as | alntka, in Putnam county. While I have js keen many large and handsome ous villages, [have about come to the conelu- sion that this lake region is the garden spot of | the state. Most of the land along the St. John’s | | and a large portion of the country below here is | ly around tise hot excelled for ora: | frnit culture, is well adapted, and not be ex. celled for vezetable gardens, tis viving the settler amore varied crop anda surer income | for his labor, while it is less liable to frost t land lying further south, but differently locat: | Last Saturday and Tuesday we had QUITE A COLD SNAP, and the frost played havoc with most of the bananas south and east of here, but did little or nodamage on the lakes, even to the most | | tender plants, such as beans and tomatoes, &e. | Persons from the north must not expect to find a perpetual summer here, as there are often evo! spells and an occasional frost. Most of the time since Ihave been here the thermometer at or about noon has ranged from 65 dex. to 80 dez., but the nightsare always cool, often getting as | low as 40 deg., as it did Saturday and Tuesday; therefore, persons coming to Florida should bring warm clothing to guard against such changes. I spoke in my last of want of trans- portation, &c.. ‘This, THE GREAT NEED OF THE STATE, and some of the railroads, such as the Lake Eustis and St. John’s railroad, running from St. John’s river to Lake Eustis, and connecting, or | supposed to connect, with the steamers (if you may give the little craft sach names) of Lakes Eustis and Harris, and the road from Sanford, in Orange county, to Orlanda, the county town, | while. if properly managed, would not only be of great value to the sections through which they run aud pay a handsome dividend to the company, as at present managed really do the county more harm than good, and if liye men would take hold of thein and get rid of the Rip | Van Winkles whonow mismanazethem. it wouid | be a Godsend to this section, and hundreds who | now settle on the flat and poor lands accessible | by the St. John’s steamers would come up here, be charmed and remain. THE REAL ESTATE ROOM, which has been making glad the hearts of lund owners along the counties bordering the St- John’s, ts turning this way, and some very fine sales have been made within a short time and many more will follow. Some of the largest orange groves—that is, the largest trees—are on | Lakes Harris and Griffin, and porions of mate i of them can be purchased at fair figures; and | while the prices ar appear high in comparison | to unimproved or young groves, they are having ready really much che. to haat monty, est on the investment, and the worry and trou- ble of planting, &c,, is all avoi Sanford, is & growing town. built up by Gen. Sanford, of New Jersey. Tt has fine hotels, m and a Wille, every day, is a pleasant place to spend a short town is one of the largest in the state. PALATKA, John’s, about 60 milessouth of Jacksonville, and is one of the handsomest towns in the state. trees, which not only furnish. shade, but add to the beauty of the town. It is at the head of largest hoteia, and is a. t as the income ouce and pays a large inter—} on the St. John’ umerous stores, lake, with steamers to and time in winter. Gen. Sanford’s grove near the the county seat of Putnam county, is on the St. The sidewalks are lined with large sour-orange ocean navi mB 48 destine the r town In the state, It nee aaa ae: known as the “Hart line,” but the most noted orange grove in the state. There are many handsome towns and situations along the St. John’s, and the line of the various railroads, but for settlement and profit L have come to the conclusion that this lake region, especially Sumter county, is the El Dorado of the state, and the country bordering on Lake Harris the ne ultra for beauty of scenery, fertility of soil and salubrity of climate. “While no one should expect to come here and make a fortune in a day, yet I do not think that there is a place where a willing hand and honest toil can sooner and with less labor secure a home and independence than in a large portion of Florida. Hfndreds of mechanics and agriculturists could find employment to-day, and many a man and woman now sick and toil- ing hard, and with no fature but work and sick- ness ahead, could come here and get bothhealth and wealth with half the labor: required in the north. This state wants energy, and any one coming here with plenty of that commodity and alittle money is bound to sucteed, and money invested Jadictousty in Florida will pay better than elsewhere and be much safer than most of our banks. This is no rose-colored picture, but a plain, unvarnished tale of what I have seen and know of Florida. McK, ___—___+e- ARTS APOSTLE. England’s ¥sthete at the Photograph- ors Gallery. THE TOO-TOO RECEPTION SUIT ACCOMPANTES IIM— AND HE POSES IN A SCORE OF EXQUISITE N. ¥. Cor. Boston Herald. Oscar Wilde has been on exhibition since his azrival here at private receptidns, and once on the lecture platform, and, perhaps, the stalwart but fair wsthete would himself admit that his person has been of much more interest than his Philosophy. Of course, an object of so much feminine curiosity—for the mad infatuation of | the lone, lorn maidens for Bunthorne in Gilbert's charming opera is only a caricature of the real admiration lavished on this apostle of the beau- tiful—could not escape the photographers. Some ofthem were so anxious to get sittings from him, that they began to negotiate with his man- | agers before the young esthete’s departure from England. Sarony was the lucky one. The poet has proved very tractable since he has been in this . 80, When he was told that self in faultless raiment, packed up his reception suit—the “too-too” one. which consists of a velvet swallow-tail coat, knee-breeches, silk stockings and pumps—and set out for Sarony’s, The scenes at the studio were more amusing to those who had the fortune to be there than any that have taken place since the poet began hi career in this countr rony himself, when in a@ good humor, as they say,as good asa —with his very short stature abd frisky But first Pdsthelwaite’s dress on this sion. To begin at the top, he wore a seal- cap, with the side-flaps tied across the vn. A cravat of aky-blue (a favorite color with him) hid from view what of his shirt front leit bare by his waistcoat. A BLACK VELVET JACKET, a magnificent pair of brown trousers and patent leather shoes completed his dress, ex- cept the fur-lined and fur-trimimed ulster which envyelops his tall form when he goes out, almost from top to toe, Sarony was waiting for him in the reception room, momentarily expecting his arrival, his 5 skin g feet high) crowned with a red Turkish fez. When the tall asthete entered, the paix looked | like the giant and the dwarf greeting each | other. “Ah, here is a picturesque subject. indeed!” exclaimed the artist, clapping his hands and dancing around the room. The poet, who is much given to laughing and smiling, Iaugbed and smiled in return. After dancing around still more, Sarony asked the apostle of the beautiful and true if he had ever seen his (3 “Your nose? crately. Then Ht was told that years ago Sarony was caricatured ly a rival piiotographer, who se- lected his yery prominent nose as a particular feature to be developed. But the subject of the wicature was by no means crushed by this, in fact, he went on enlarging his maligned feature himself until it assumed enormous proportions, and portraits showing the result of his artistie endeavor in this direction are found on the walls of the gallery everywhere. Sarony went around,with his peculiar shuttling gai point- ed some of them out. But there is something that he takes more interest in than in his nose, and that is his wife. He has taken her picture in all possible attitudes and in all sorts of cos- tumes; and these portraits are met with as fre- quently in his studio as those of his own nose. f ecial interest in PICTURES, he will pull out still others from drawers and portfolios. ry are witliont end. But this was not enough, ne must show some particu- studies of the uude. He was de. sy were approved, and, fell to dancing ayound the room food again. When these preliminaries werq over the artist turned his attention to ine! ject. The young apo: f ¥ stock of hair ders in folds ai good point, giving ay observed th town on his was @ It was ed beautiful 3. The t be kept on—at least for the fh es of sittines. Turning out the edges of the ulsier, turning back this corner, smnvothing out a line hi turning the subje y, putting him at, quarters standing. ting, | and again so, the little man in the red fez, back ing off each time to see the effect, finally made disposed so, up his mind what was best to do. his hands in anticipation, and, ng orders that ull visitors should be kept at a distance, he went dancing ahead to the gallery. Posthelwaite and the others followed. The artist's manner of conducting the sitting: was much the same as usual, except that he took extraordinary pains in getting the postures tosuithim. To keep the poct a pleasant mood and from showing signs of weariness he kept up a constant rain of small talk. When the subject was at last posed Sarony turned his back, those present doing the same at his bid- ding, and, throwing his head back, looked up through the windows in the roof at the sky. He does this, whenever he takes a picture, like an automaton. The operator, at this sigfal, moved the screen from the camera, turned his back to the sitter and began to whistle. This was also a part of the program, and, through much repetition, has become as mechanical as Sarony’s He clapped LOOKING UP AT THE SKY. After a few moments the whistling dled away, and some commonplace remarks were exchanged between the artist and the matter-of-fact opera- tor. These performances, from first to last, were in his | | some pending scheme af les the sub- | ism has a) | wily ir he must go and sit for pictures, he attired him- | ler i | { | i | sense, tr ness of outline, they are very superior. faithfulness of reproduction, skill in posi shade, the hoto; hers of this countr; excel all others. = Tap a wine butt and there is no end of wine. Tap a theatrical man and there is no end to what he will tell you. So the manager went on to say that there were many ins and outs in the theat rical_picture line. ble subjects. large acquaintance, and the second a ple way. To lack these woald be to fail utterly When a beauty is discovered, or one who has already sat is wanted again, the dipl given the commission, and he is prett. succeed, as itisas hard fora yoman the blandishments of a han@&ome, nered man as for a wan to be ini charms of an attractive woman. As soon as it is known that some celebrated player or person of renown is coming to thi country the leading photosraphers are on the alert to secure an enzageiment. STAR ACTORS AND ACTRESSES are more sought after than any other class, one would imagine, an actress with a good figure and pretty face in time gets tired o, posing and tries to elude the insatiable picture | But the photographer is not to be | baffled; various deviees are resorted to to | ¥ One of these is taker. catch the rebellions beaut: to) tials.) repented’ y to. the sreen | thitty bushels tothe acre. Hany one will take | room at the theater until the ac- | the trouble to dig a hole the depth ade- tress, in a moment of desperation, cives | handle he will find it to Mil with nd by her consent. Sometimes the phot rs | using a hook and tine fish foar or five inches diplomatist secures with an aciress or a prima donn: himself as somebody that he is not. During t course of the conv ation he will say (incident. ally, of course—devilish sly, these fe his friend so and so, the photographer, desire: to make an appointment with her. This method is som ful; but sometimes the im. port actress will indutge in a little r sion that is not pleasant for the visitor. an appointment 1s made, the subject an restaurant te tions on Sunday physical beauty were admitted in Costumes decidedly cobwebby, ethereal. "Rich: often at these Su recepti that he manifested as much ent graceful curves of her remarkably figure as he does now over Sh valled_ poetry. seemed to know, The tion for sitting came on his fi and many 3 and it is said peare’s for Gurney, who was great in those days. This got out. and, WHEN FANNY KEMBLE CAME, s nd Hiking she refused to sit for less than €300—a small } While the man, he tak sum to pay now for a subject of her distinction, | but at that time nobody would pay it. The | | only picture of her extant is a small daguerro- | 23 a girl of | ter type, which was taken when she we 15. Bernhardt, through her native shrewdness, hrough the country, Ofall pictures, tho: aud Branscombe are in most demand, and tings, and has taken her in scor Tt was a paying venture, as her over the world. Patti was paid 4 been engaved before she left Europe. No pi tures of her have appeared, and the reason said to be that she claimed that each one also said that she money. While the photographs ot actresses, singers and-beautiful women are thus made the sub- ject of speculation, it is a well-attested fact | that those of very few men have met with a profitable sale. Of all men, perhaps—at least of actors—Montague and Rign on the stage astride a white horse as Henry V.), have sold bes Of cou men, who received pecks f gushing love letter But for the aS pa and for successful manipulation of lignt an Some of the leading artists | employ men to keep on the look-out for desira- One of the most successful men ever engaged at this peculiar occupation is Long- worth, who is now playing a part in the play of Chanfran. The first qualification necessary is a ing address—a smiling countenance and a pleasing As ¢ | of fish b: nd delicacies e was So the manager said, and he tour | Mara has paid her as mach as 8100 Se bee ere ie ures sell all | 32d. 000, having ie is ( thi SHonieor , men would come up toour camp, and, ai Hag MAIS, TREE are oy ste, POONONML TL 1B | othe do tuera minhtie, ces tu balldeay are ned mid, (who rode | @, pictures of these | of th proportions that his hearers are already con- vinced, while they think they are only anmused. That anecdote was not the setting of his propo- sition; it was the proposition itself. This pun is not an insignificant jeu desprit, “but a vital trath, or a soph m which the prince wishes to see accepted as a truth. And thus the last hour of the evening passes away. A score or more of admiring guests, in full evening costume, dimly visible through the smoke, listening to the words of a very unmili- tary-looking giant in military clothes, who dis- courses of the tariff or the currency ina delight- uily varied stream of huinor, wit, and story; of as from history and incidents from his ; of shrewd common sense, . de attractiv and almost pectable, until the morn: : bezin to strike, the lackeys dare to yawn, and | with a parting joke, washed dowa w libation, the cirete is broken up and t extinguished,—scenes like these can nev forgotten by one privil become rather the more firm ced in the memory by the approach of that inevitable cata: rophe which must put an end to them forever.— | February Atlantic. , but d is -s0e— A CORN-F LD. ig nm Few Inches Above face of a Subterrancaa Lake. From the Terriforial Enterprive. In Colorado is aten-acre field, which is no more nor a subterranean lake covered With soil avout eighteen inches deep. On the cultivated a field of corn, which produces d | t The® fish have aeithe is yes and are perch-like ins */ ground is a black marl in nate - | probability was at © 1) whi has a | until now it | rich to prod cultivated ty long n yy be caught. While harvestin, | person rising | denly can sce th | him. Anyone havi a rail thro that it will dis ‘The Song of the Cake. With feat heat! and red, fh head thatt ind aches, in stands tu the kitchen ing buckWit and com growing corn aig sufficient stren uy} Baker Tn aw And st baket in) nulous quake Ambition, e met in Lowa I met yes- y at Nevada, Story county, northwestern iss Belle Clinton. Miss Clinton is a An I The smartest | lowa. | got $1,500, which, through her shrewdness | bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked girl of about twenty, | again, she nearly doubled by taking her pay in / as full of fun and health and vigor as agood girl little figure (he is not much over four and a half | Photographs and selling them on her can be. Two years azo Miss Clinton was a school teacher. Saving up by her teaching about | $160, she last spring borrowed a span of horses aking her little bri ‘her, sta! Miss Clinton says laughing her trip: ** Why, I never life, and T never had such an appetite, | courtesy I received © ywhere! Roi | actually bring water to me. We went up th | the wheat country, which they call the ‘Jim | River Country.’ 1's about one hundred miles ast from the Missouri at Fort Sully. 1 home- jsteaded 160 ‘acres of land. ‘Then i took up a timber claim of 120 acres more. “What is a timber claim?” “Why, [hired a man and we set out ten acres This gave me 160 acres more: so have 320 acres now. But I must tell you about ough every day, would be sought after by their in- | those trees. They were young locust. apple, fatua who cares aught for another man’s With women it is different. Mary Anderson, Kate C aud the others at the theaters, RAVE OVER THEIR BEAUTY, They go tos ask them for their autographs and buy their pictures—all this, it may be said, because of their superior sesthetic nse. Bismarck’s Parliameatary Scirecs. BY UERBERT TUTTLE. the term implies, thes during the session, and aly nection with the general poli It is natural, there! n ea! re, that they should have character, inthe ( The guests are selvcied, sare issued, and n or picbeian, 1 free trade or protectioi of either personal or political frien s; are not the result of any partiality whieh could give them 2 inarked partisan color or shape. It is not enough that the aspirant. to an invitation be a deputy, nor necessary that h some particular measure. are course preferred to enemies; but, in addition to the converts whom the prince wishes to reward, one may also see among the gueststhe men who are still doubting, though open to conviction; others whom it is impossible to convince, buat olitic to affront; and some even who are not members, not officials, and not connected at all, except by the tie of general interest with political affairs. Journalists will be found hob- nobbing with grave professors from the univer- sit; Art may have a representative in a pain- who is about finishing the host’s portrait, or an architect who has just won the contract for building improvements at Varzin. The fam- ily doctor, a eral or two stiffin uniform, alaches of the foreign office, the cabinet. minis- ters, bank presidents, country gentlemen— these and other varieties are to be met; but the greater number are deputies, and the political interests of the session form, as already ob- served, the purpose and the key of all the pro- ceedings. With a glass of Klosterbrau one seems to swallow indigestible pamphlets on the railway project. The wine is flavored with the tariff controversy, and pers ent liberals choke over the fish salad as they choked over the soci bill, or other measures which were forced down their throat. The hos- gone through for the purpose of breaking the | pitality of the chancellor and his family is never- silence and to give the subject as much ease as possible in his strained position. Thisrigmarole was repeated cight or ten times, and then the wsthete exchanged his ulster and jacket and elegant brown trousers for a dress coat, knee breeches and buckles and silk stockings. About as many more sittings completed the second set, and the thing was done. But no celebrity gets out of Sarony’s studio without first writing his autograph in an album. Still other pictures of Mrs. Sarony were produced and looked at, after which the party took its departure, Mr. Wilde withsome of Mrs. Sarony’s pictures in his pocket. These photographs of Ozcar Wilde are exceed. ingly interesting to any one who lias a curiosity to know something of his personal appearance. One of them is a panel, and represents the poet with his ulster on in asitting posture. His hair ad akira! in the middle, and falisdown at the sides of his face on his shouiders.;.The elbow of his left arm rests on his knee, and, his chin leans on his left hand; the right hand rests on the other knee, and clutehes ee of gloves. As his Leet een, col sae forward, his eyes are turned up, giving rapt, ecsta- tic expression. Another cpg ae a him as standing, holding his 2 Pons igone hand, and Prompts, the border of his ulster in the othe: e r. cabinet size shows him at a three-yuarter view, with the ulster buttoged upand his seal- skin cap on. His head is tnelined somewhat to one side. The second set is more. poetical, the most wsthetical attitudes haying been taken. In one of there he holds 2 copy ‘ef tee English edi- A mark of art tn elaborate deca of the cover a mark o| e el of cover having been made ee Harry Hewitt, who is associated.with theman- | agement of Oscar Wilde, was.aaked how the poet | liked the pictures. ' “HE IS DELIGHTED,” . was the reply. ‘Although many pictures have been taken of him, he says he has ‘never had a) satisfactory one before—that is, a good likeitess. and artistic fittish.” ly regard | actresses generall; So ear etc superior to those taken im Bete Gena ari tn in reepedt to ‘ea theless perfectly frank, generous, and undis- criminating. In so large a number of guests it is of course impossible that each onagean be specially noticed, and, the entertainment being of a stern political character, the host is bound to make the most judicious use of his time. But the rooms are free and the etiquette uncon- strained. Excellencies are easy of approach, and converse affably on the political situation With obscure men who neither cast nor control avote. The great buffet, temporarily set up in one of the principal rooms, is supplied with cask after cask of salubrious beer from Bavaria, and is visited with growing frequency as the evening wears away. A long table will spread with a cold collation, and Germans have 00d appetites. Such of them, finally, as desire Inore gentle pleasures, and are not above the weakness of gallantry, hind stroll into the great i ed ‘admirers. This comparatively simail | demand for men arises trom the fact that only women buy them, for a man is seldom found ; portrait. ton, Maud Granger | soirées are held in direct aid of of te and black walnut sprou T sowed a peck of lecust beans, a pint of apple seed and two s of black walnuts in our garden in Towa zo, These sprouts were little fellows ld set them out fast—just go along kK them in the ground. Bat they are ust as good. I believe my 3.000 little black valuut sprouts will be worth $15 apiece in ten My locus tite whole couatry. lan ity and broke up five acres of end and thisfall we e: the winter, ne back to Lowa tos In the spri | Sprouts and take up neres more. The tree: jare just what T want to plant anyway, and i pay better than any wheat crop that coula “d—only I've got to wait for them ten or rh ens in her own right 320 K prairie | will own 480 acres in the sp which will bring $5 within three ye: within tive years and $20 within ten years. v black walnut and locust trees will be worth as ry she will be worth $25,000. Letler to Chicago Tribune. See Not a Modern Romance. ¥. Graphic. ima—My dear I must go out on business again to-night. Regina—My dear, you didn’t find it necessary to go away from me on business almost every night before we were married. P.—No, my dear, but my business then was to marry you. R.—And you enjoyed my company then? P.—1 did, my dear. I wasn't so sure of you as Iam now, my dear. R.—Well, you're candid enough, at any rate. P.—I am, my dear; let us be honest with each other. You see we've talked each other out. Yon know me all through, and I know you. R.—And home is a dull place, 1 suppose. And I'm not as interesting as befure you mar- ried me. P.—You put the case disagrecably plain, my | dear. There's no need of serving up the trath raw in that fashion. But that’s the size of it when you take the trimmings off. R.—Very well, my dear, I'm going out, too; I may be out till 2 a. m.; possibly ti P.—Where—where are you going, my dear? R.—To see a person on business. P.—A person, amanor a woman? But itsa woman, of course. And why so late? R.—It'sa person, my dear. And it’s busi- ness. Business is business, you know. P.—But a respectable woman has no business all, a wife. R.—And why a wife any less than @ husband, my dear? ’-—Becanse—because It ain't the thing. you know. A man’s business keeps him out late. At least some men’s business does, Mine does, Sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose my dear. I'm going to see something of life. Home isdull. You're right, my dear. You were in- teresting before I married you. But now we know each other all though, you know. too much of each other, you know. Come, let's be — ing — other, Sauce R. se gander o1 to be the goose's sauce, In"t it, my witha hth uante. Good-bye, I'm off — greener fields newer. salle, made famous Sittings of the con- reas, and pay court to the princess or the few | co soraggy dowagers about her. ever however, i inks in the event eer E 000 unt Ing, R.—1 don’t want to, I've 1, the Indies have been distulssed. Cigars arc then of my own, and if your oor fe locked wines I peo ae doe bes See Teese ter return I ahall birea door of my own and _— urkish pipe, which a discernt lact ont, Gear. Sauce ‘the dring him at the right moment, 1 and read Pkt ine “3 for use. The tobacco parliament is opened. De- bate there ts, in none; for, altho Sake and Waaniies now conta preva out timidiy by tie saiabOhped pacar ings coneist a losue which The Prince addretees to the mroup sitting near him in chairs, or sway in's eetuleheatar tunes bout the nor are any formal that the best | humor ‘hone about the chairs; | nL| —The latest development of ritual Til go back with more black walnut and iocust | to be out with a person at such an hiour. Above | R.—And_ henceforth mine does, my dear. | RELIGIOU. —A single steamer leaving San Pray cently took out 27 missionaries to China and Japan, —At the suggestion of the Rishon of Exeter a society has been fowmed in that city for the “Promotion of Good Manners.* —The Conservative Lutherans of the neral Council have b nin Philadelphia the publica tion of a quarterly, the Lutheran Church Ro- view. —The Reformed Episeopal church secy | chaplain in the army In the appointment of . | William Postlethwaite to the clapiainey of West | Point. NOTES. a is the pausing of the priest in the marriage ceremony | to bless the ring before it is pyced on the finger of the bride. —A Jewish congrecation of Newark, N. 7, jo innovation in adopting the ving their hats during service im | fast the synagogue. —Bishop Andrews will shortly visit Mexico to Inspect the missions of the Methodist Mpiscopal {church in that country, and preside at the mise , ston conference to Le held in the city of Mexico, | Feb —The old objection to Christmas in th land oF al were more numerous pulpits chan ever before, have re ? This te to the pves about the doc- y perseverance of the trin saints.— Golden ule. —A clergymah in Coane series of sermons on the beh the house of God. Iks first “How to walk to chureh.” i sermon was on On whieh a cotem- porary si He should have bezua with “How to get up on Sanday morning. | —Among the prominent fa charity s . number- ing over three hundred children, on ~Rarbary z ering to the Five Points in New \ Guthrie, of Edinburgh. He is a | partner in one of the pronfnent San Francisco | firms. Like his father, he is interested in the poor children. —One of Mr. Moody's meetings in’ Edinturgh was for university students. Before the meet- ing the students ed to bein an unruly | mood, but as soon . Moody | lence and at students with the B inquiry 5 —Professor Max Muller evolution: There is betw kingdom on the one sid lowest estate, on the animal has ever cr pen lanvruage, by no Bret nation ean T exp uid have grown ¢ lions of years for that yy Imira clergyman reports that the war | on mutilated coin has been agood thing for the contribotion be A man who las tried in vain r collar with ale formerly or at most reduction of flve per face value, much to the advant, [lnissionanes and poor people at home. | —Mr. J. Cavnaugh, of the Free Methodint chare! riting from Richmond, Va., where be is holding meetings, says: “This is a great place | for respectable sinners, Some do not think @ man needs religion unless he is a drunkard or |eriminal. This is a great tobacco market. | Preachers take it in the pulpit with them, and @ plug is passed from pew to pew, and each pew has two spittoons.” He further states that the mayor has given him a large lull for his meet- ings and a banker, who was once a street | preacher, has furnished him with tracts. | —Rev. Dr. Kent, pastor of the Washington | Universalist chareh, writes to THe Stan in re- lation to the following paragraph in this col- umn last Saturday: . Ryder, D. D... probably the er in the United rish in Chicago, and | will withdraw from the ministry to study law. ! He is said to be wealthy to live a rest- | ful life if he desires. It | trinal views have unde Dr. Ki a | doubt not you it was my guod f for a day or two |: seed with his cont fature then con e Wh i . ally glad to pub lish, tune to be the guest of Dr. i October, end to be ire pe ently from the pase 1 relation, he had no the of the ministry. He } church with voice and pen for se | to come, and to eit more than he could dened with As to the chau cient to say that Dr. Ryd } sional sermon at our gene | troit October jast. and that the s the most pronounced and positive statements of | the Universalist faith to be found iu our litera ture. | —There is considerable discussion in Metho- | Gist circles as to what changes will be made | among the pastors of the District clurches at the session of the Baltimore annual conference, which will be held in March, in Baltimore. Im {this body the appointments are made for one nd tormerly the rule limited the service of ister in any one chaich or charge to two years; but a few years azo this rule was modi- lied so as to make it po ble for a minister to remain three years continuously in one ap- intment. Rev. B. yton Brown, the pre~ siding elder, will fifish bis term’ as such, and will brobably be sent to a Baltimore church aithough there is some talk of George- town ashis next station. Rev, J we of . of 4th J. MeKen- orgzetown), ars, Will necessarily ere are no indications . H. Richw parish. jet it is sue | dree Reilly, of Dunbarton street (« having eact served three | Rev. J. W. Smith, of Grace, Sth and S streets, | and Rey. Mr. Ryland, of U . have each | served two years in their changes, but may ne- main another year. It is thought there will be a change “at the — Metropolitan, \that a minister from = another ference will be appointed to this clutch, It is stated that the memberspip are somewhat dissatistied because they have not received the | promisedaid in the reduction of thechurch debt. | They will urge the imperative need for this relief at the coming conference. It will | be remembered that to liquidate the debt of some $30,000 or £35,000, the congrezation se- | cured subscriptions of $14,000 or #15,000, condi- | tional on the whole amount being raised, but since then little has been done. Now, it is