Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1882, Page 4

bo Ba € THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, FEB # ~ ¢ ae RUA RY 25, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. or VERING ‘The Fragrance of the Pine. e fragrance of the pine! nit tal How sweet t the forml From life's tary dim past shine. ‘There Is a charm In o¢ veh as light Gtves not t sight from shows of outward things, we straight waves his We smet! « fower, und Ly around grows rosy and bright; <, and Ike a lover sings “s blood, to, bears such soothing W. L. SnoeMaxgr. — TREATMENT OF ANIMALS. Prize Compositions from the Public Schoets. sitions under the following Utless In the third, fourth, Mth, sixth, seventh and eighth gr in the high schools, ‘Treat Thein.” panted by an offer of The prize ons; In the high schools, $10 zou: nih grades, ¢ sixth and maary 16, with request that the pils take the subjects st ed for the regular position work and that the composl- from each school to compete tor the ly for delivery to the society by Feb- nan: Professor Shute, an Universit: af Mute Coll ee, Mrs. Alexanfer Murrar, »M. 1 Miss Mary E. MeMakin constituted the examining committee appol by the § Tis estimat=1 Chat aboub 12,000 school children en: ereises, We publish below #he swith the names of the writers re- prizes. , teacher), ISABEI. reet northwest. and pleasing to Who would not be that has feeling. Kind to the nobte and usernt horse? To the cow who gives us milk from which butter and cheese? To the sheep who 3 us tender meat teat, and tts wool for loves and binding be loth, its Tothe a is master’s hous? To the nice, pri sleeps by our tie’ le call antmals dumb brutes, b m they have a way of talk- Parrot can speak words plain as peop! Janimols are tamed hy kind tre. c atment. A woman ¥ 3 wanted to save her berries ars ate them all, and theydid not <reat help to the Arabs who live It ts sometines I know tobe true: Many tern Massacty tis, When the living there, and miles of b ¥ were kept that’ cat was al- 15. S to stone the pretty birds who put Sing for us. h TS t what they could * aid of antinals; and yet m: ay are $0 rough with them. When We look around and see so many animals Which God has crested for our comfort and pleas Ure We should be kin] to ail of them. They hersh treatment, but that we iden rule— » others as We wish them todo unto you.” Forrrt Grape, Stet Division (Miss Jane A. Brown, teacher), Lakin W. Rew, 1508 Caroline als are very useful. They are the xnts of men. We should be very ‘ows, sheep, and other animals. W: ld show our thankfulness by treating them well. A good man will keep his horses and cows in a nice warm shed or stable $ the cold days of winter. The man who his poor horse ts a very Rard-hearted man. s the noblest animal God ev: doxs, for they sometimes: at some dozs are userul, and are the faltarul Iriends of mznk’ If That my choice of antmals, [ would choose # 1 horse, a few cows and a drove of sheep; ant would be nd U9 them that they would follow Ine all over the felds. I think the poor animal Who have hard masters will thank us children for writing thes compositions. But Tmast not forzet the birds that make the mornin merry with their songs. Thope all boys who bean-shooters will Sling the beans or pebbles at thtnes which have no feeling; and the is men should shoot glass balls Instead of pigeons. tis cruel to shoota bird just for fun. Firma Grape, Frest Drvistox. (Miss Agnes 1 Rounds, teacher), Mapsiung Buaypy, age 11, M47 8 Street northwest. Dine, dong, bell! Pusey’ in the well. Who pnt ber in? Little Temmy Green. Who pulled ber ont? ttle Tommy Trout. Qh! What a uauchiy boy was that To drowa our poor dear pussy cat, Who never did bim aay fame, But caught the mice in his father’s barn. —Mother Goose. Why dia Tommy Green kill puss? I must say Tbelteve tt was becanse he was a pretty bad boy, and that he must have done ether cruel things Before he got to be so heartless that ke could her struggle in the water. Why did Tommy Trout Pull puss out of the well? It may be Decause he tried to save her life, and I belleve because he was ave boy amd thought ft was cowardly and Wicked to Kill a helpiess dumb animal when it was tn his power. Now, I have seen a great many Ne lke nd a great many ike Tommy "ss there are more ike Tommy ings, put these dumb crea- ‘fh with us for son 00d reason, cir Fights as Wellas we. Domestic US, Work for us, love us, and are “s has a child's life been saved by ndland dog swimming into niki from drowuing. How many been lost In snow storms a and saved by St Bernard di have se much sense that t Of Shep ¢ Arab loves his horse of his family, and the Arabian Ue and seem almost as. 1 Shumn Beings. Kven pigs are bright 3 @inart, and can be taught inany things, It woult take a good while to teil he good a Ss to show how they especially our best of horse. When the horses got sick and ith the evizoot Wery body missed work they did But ne animal should be em if itis neta fine intelligent than a human creature snould be iu Ay, who 8a poor idiot without any people would not be crue! to antmals wi.as Tony Groen did, but they neglect them, or wo them We hard or are dakind to Tommy Green, Trout, but I g Trout. I nope He, who in ny a@ big New ‘water tsa Umes per have been 1 nds, t ‘tay and the would not the herse speak and say,’ “Please pnt a blanket on my back; I feel ab tf Tshonld gee a chit? But his “master often forgets this, When & poor deg is left shut up tm somenedy’ er day, If he could talk if he could le hose so that féan drink 2” If chtek- ens could talk would they not ask not to be ¢grried home inem rket with Uelr heads hanging near protect themselves as peopl> audso we c ‘aS pe ht t treat therm kindly and save them oug! iA trom uimats ect bad semetimes. Cats Seratch, and ‘Team; dogs: = dite enetimes; and someties Stck and Dreak thinrs, but évery- aca tes ate es copie. wi vn re Wo be taught bette: he mest of thon’ are nod, —_ and do their duty when they ‘are well So, girls and boys, let's remember all the Feasous we have tobe Kind to the dim frees around us for their and our ood, fOr it will make tus better ourselves apd kinder to our com ets remember that good ol ing, “A Bercifui ran 45 merciful to is beast Kooi Sarrn G Di is ma Mim W. Cusniss, age 18, Coviege I do not understand now tt ts posstble for any one t treat Jumb animals cructly: thee very helplessness 's a doman) wpen Gureare. i aE Stxra Divistey (Mrs. Jutta EY: that r Chicker- | nd makes tt | one driving a poor, broxen-down horse, where his ribs show so plainly that tt 1s almost agony to look at him. I suppose the men and boys would say, “That ts just be ise you are agirL” That nay be trus, but if God in His greatness made ther. cannot man In his lttleness be tender Massachusetts who has a ith a great number of differ- r y of which she has the little sugly, wriggling eels. Tread in Y ‘ompanion” that Mr. Wells, of River- | head, Long Island, the greatest eel pond in | the cou av ; and two years A, two thousand Ub Thi Mr. Wells be gon with the butt of his whip they swita towards hin, whereas, any one else ia Aton Lue side of his wagon all day without aléracting any attention. animals have a wonderful memory. For Instance, you all remember the story of the ele- phant and tue tailor. How the elephant was in a circus procession, and,coming to a tatlor’s shop, he put bis trunk thsite the doorway. Th? tailor pricked the trank with his needle. Twenty years after the elephant passed the same shop and saw | the tailor, and, recognizing him, he filled his trunk wit muddy water, returned and completely de- fuged the may What greater instance of faithfulness to duty can we findthan tn the St. Bernard dogs that save | hundreds of liv Z | ‘The Instinet of antmais !s nearly equal to reason | 1m man. Travelers say that in countries where S grow there fs always found the en by po the instinct »nous Serpents God has given here 1s thne they always hunt for ft, just as our | cat hunts for catnip when she ts sick. ‘The Ligence of animals ts another rea- diy treating them. Indeed, if tke men | had as much Intelligence as the horses they abuse, | no doubt the horses would be better treated and the men would not be such cowards. Some peopie take the word coward in an entirely different sense, bnt any one who il! treats anything weaker than himself Is a coward. en fies, treated kindly for the good they do us Dy acting as fairy scavengers for us. I have seen iittle drea sticking pins through them, and the poor | Mette things Seemed so pitiful, If they cannot be trained to love us that is no excuse for being cruel tothem. Ag: was so kind to animals that they almo st knew hts volce, and never offered to harm him. Rosa Bon- | beur, one of the great palnters of animals, used | to go out every morning and study their pecull- | arities. She Was porfectly at home with them, and they knew her and loved her, and would go to | meet her. Hurt no living thing: Lady-bird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing, Nor ericket chirping cheerily, Nor grasshopper so light of leap, Nor dancing enat, nor bectie fiat, Nor hariniess things that creep. SEVENTH Grape, Taiep Drvistox, (Miss L. B. Davis, teacher), ANNIE LEONARD, age 18, 624 D street southeast, decidedly wavy. We have not only hot waves and cold ones, but waves of temperance, religion and reforms of varlous Kinds. The wave rippling around us at present is that of kindness to ant- mals. For the time being it 1s the object of every | Well-regulated mind,—that which 1s to be talked t- | and written about and made the subject of our | thoughts generaliy. While the feeling lasts socle- ties for its promotion and consequent prevention of cruelty to animals will be formed, and pocket- books will open, as by magte, to susttin them; but when the wave recedes, then—why then the soele- {les will diea natural death, and Uags be pretty Touch as they were befor Of course, while the wave lasts, we feel very proud of our interest in the matter, ».4 Matter our- selves that we are very far advanced in clviliza~ | tion, Indeed, to have arrived at this point. | _ But tet us look back a eoujle of thousand years, | and we will find that India was far ahead of out resent position en the subject even then. The D ) doctrine of Buddha, where it bears on the antmal | kin the essence of kindness jtself. The | Gol, who had become tnearnate, ts represented as | 3 | passing, during a famine, a starving tlzre tubs, Whose misery SO excites his compas- | ston that he— * “Silently lid aside sandels and staff, His sacred thread, turban. end cloth, and came Forth from: behind the milk-bnsh on the sand, Sayin, “i her, here is meat for thee!" © a perish be: ourse and shrill, her cuba, ling to the earth hed ber feast of hin, zers of her clawa ay test's burning breath such fearless love.” greater Kindness to animals than the *s self as (vod to sustain an interesting | “eo and do likewlse, tot what a comfort tt would be © tigers, and the people of the United States B 1b) f Ss ereatur. nd its my fnton that any one who 1s unkind to animals Bil be the same to human beings, unless deterred of conseque ne | wht ‘self. a great day, within walls from which ule | streams and where the celling Is tn a chr of rupture. Soine tine day it 1s going iy and then somebody will be hurt; after which there will be the usaal investigation, ending In the Just as usual resolution that “nobody was to blune,” Which Will end the ‘maiter—unless the injured child's parents should go gunning for the gulity artes, & PrAlother spectes of unkindness consists. 1n open- ing the windows and letting the cold draught | pour in upon us when we are just getting com- | fortabiy warm. This ts called ventilation, and kills more chlidren than anything else. I "hope some body will teach these unkfnd people how Wrong their actions are, and make scuool life a Pleasure instead of a torture to us. EIGHTH Grapz, SECOND Clara C. Baker, teach: Scnoon Drvisioy, (Miss C a Mary A. Hanuuy, age 14, 1514 Sth street northwest. To be Kind to animals it !s not necessary that we should keep in mind the idea that in doing so we are only obeying a Divine law, that God, who cre- ated us, created them also, and that Ho exacts from us a recognition of thelr authorship. There 4s a higher and better reasen for treating animals kindly—it is our commen humanity which should teach us te refrain from doing that which would ive pain to anything possessing life. bs ‘That an animal nas Bo soul to survive the death of its body fs ne reason why we, by indiscriminate and Inhuman abuse, shoul relder its short, life ‘Throw puss down the deep dark well and watch | OPC! paln and misery. The harm resulting frem this abuse Is, however, not merely confined 10 Its subject. It reacts on the abuser, and shows its baneful effects in a blunted moral ‘perception aad a detrioraied moral standard. ‘This 13 found to be tne case in countries Where the general stand- ard is a low one, and where brutality has uncon rolled sway. Tn the gieam which lights up an animal’s cye, Wwe read An appeal te eur better nature which Prompts us, if We be not insensible to fts dumb arguiment, to treat It with the kindness and con- sideration which we woul? naturally extend to a fellow cresture. Kind treatment brinzs out the West qualltics of which animals are capable, and makes them doctle, lovable, obedient and. faithful. i % that’ In Arabia, where the finest breeds of horses are produced, that anitnal ty invartabl 1. An Arab will not Animals have given proofs of the possesston of conscience, reason, obedience, fdelity and many other equally fino qualities. Phe dog ts one of the Most docile aud faithful of animals, and has dis- Xauupled bravery In saving human Life. st. B re famous the world over MT successitil efforts in rescutag travellers the Alpine snows. We have on record the story of the doz of Herculaneum, whieb 1s worthy Wo be placed or par With that Of the se Poimpetl. | Whea the ruins of the former elty wi | Unearthed, the skeleton of a dog was found ~ shed over that of bis young Masicr, whom he | had probably shletded froin the famies and | until his death by sum Notwithstanding afl w: { many eC abiti themselves from tue e 4 lost tn it el ome, in her palmy Was the favorite theater of gindiatorial last rernnaats of which wer the ftfth stil tn En: latter days, orts, the © hot abolished dati Bull-baiting, ‘as abotisned Cruelty, even new, Is perpetrated in so many Ways taut their compiete enumeration would be somewhat difficutt: but one method tn particniar may be mentioned, becauss Its fustifidbleness is Sil 8 mooted pomt. This ts vivisection without ‘the ase oO: anwstheties. It ts frequently done in meek tify the curiosity of stu- 3 of medical or scientific tn- nOTMOUs: he 1 amount of cruelty which ts thus needlessly tnflicted may be ssed at when we are told that Majendic, the . > ani and at his vivtsectios to be a failure. Dr. ward, of Parts, has been scarcely less brutal, and, ft ts sald, has fafltcted more crueity om animals man ailve. Since the beginning of this century there has been im progress a rapidly growing crusade egainst erucity to animals The Soctety for the Frevention of Cruelty to Animals had ts origin in Englond, nad now has a large metnbership in beth countricg. ‘The chief leader of the movement here Henry vergh, a resitent of New York elty. ‘Through hts Vigorous and unutring efforts the so- clety nas — on a nanent basts, and rane! 2 has estabtts} hes over the - toed the society has done muci ‘Good ts wot to be A hundred mals rat slative enactment ve 6 ts lave matte cruelty bbe by law, and a Barca sie et fries tines have Eee i Ik 13 not to be eupposed. that we hare, for them, and when antmals are poisoned | | animals we rob our own to Know the antitiote, and if | 2nuMaIs we rob our ow if they are Ilttie things, should be | one of the greatest naturalists, | and | conceived; and if only some people (Gulte; few more I could men- ton) would feel like Buddha on the subject and | } | { | | i i we hu wi | When he attempted to’escay Our country Is, "ke the ocean on a windy day, | : of the work has been accomplished, and ceaseless Yigllance, thatit be not undone, 1s what fs ehiefly re “fo ths friends of dumb humanity the future looks bright, and all of them cherish a conviction ‘hat the day’ will yet arrive when men shall have $9 far overcome the brutal in their nature that cruelty to animals may be reckoned among those things which are past. Grmts' Tham Scuoon, (Miss Georgia Lane, princl- Pal,) Cora Paxton, 1323 H street northwest. Aman born without a heart should have been born without the use of his right hand. “Alas,” you say, “the world would be left handed.” Dex- terity is not a virtue, and the mute appeal of our Suffering and wronged animals is “more heart, Jess whip.” Tn the countries of the far east, where the Indus lends its name to the soll it ‘washes, antmal- worship is a fort for dumb brutes. A man cannot strike so unmercirully ata beast when he thinks that It probably contains the soul of his grand- mother, or that ‘some day, tn one of its kind, his own soul will begin again its wanderings for a better life. From the appearance of some of our commission houses on market day, one would suppose that we indulged in a simtlar ‘belief, and that every pig, caif or chicken embodied the soul of a mother-in- . A stone heart must surely melt to see that stock of living ware. Here a pitiful calf, half choked by the rope, stands tied toa There a box of fowls nearly smothered, all o —and Some with bleeding heads that tell of fearful - ing affrays. pork with compunction?” I “Do you ever eat asked @ corpulent red-faced dealer one morning, “ Why no,” he sald laughing; “ pork is better with Pepper ahd salt. When we show mercy to the pockets.” * Yes, but_ you enrich your life with that which 1s better than Tubies or precious stones.” I think this last re- mark was lost, for when I turned the dealer was explaining to a customer that “ pork being scarce, fowls were dear.” ‘The ports sing beautiful songs of the gentle-cyed cow reveling in beds of clover and sweet-scented blossoms. T longed for one of those poets last spring. Several of us went beyond the boundaries of Washinzton to hunt for arbutus. On a bare and rocky hill we saw an exceedingly bony cow— a theme for a Homer or a Shakespeare. She could not walk, and lay with her head down the hill, Pitying looks and kind words availed nothing, so urried on to a spring near by, where a man s burning brush. We told him his cow was ying (we thought so), and he rushed frantically up the hill. Some of us were ungenerous enough 5 5 | to wonder if the suffering cow or his Washington milk customers had 10st moved his heart. The boy 1s father of the man. Now if you have ever wondered why a man mistreats animals in- ferior to him, go back through the corridors of tme, thirty of forty years, to that ragged, shaggy headed boy, who haSin the space of eight years thrown one'million of stones at a half a million of cats, ted tin pans innumerable to the tals of in- nocent dogs, and heaped coals of fire on the backs of defenceloss turtles, Go Dack as you would go toward the fountain head to know the cause of a muddy stream. One evening as I passed down H street a shout from a crowd of boys on a corner made me look for the cause of their merriment. In the midst of them stood a yellow cur, frightened and shivering. he was caught and thrown back. At last ono of the boys caught him and ran off down the street. “What do you ask for your dog?” I inquired, as I passed hin on the Hext corner, where he stood holding his charge by the head. ‘Npogs ts up,” he replled, with all the suavity ofa salesman. Heat last decided that ten cents were worth more than even ten dogs, and I carfied my prize away in triumph. What should I do with him? Put him out to board? No! I bought him some bologna sausage, and, arter eat- tng it, much to my relief he trotted of down tife street. ‘There 1s a Nttle boy In Washington that drives a goxt In a wagon. From the way he treats his in twenty years from now he will be, know, a terror to the brute creation. T hope that boy will deem it better for his health to travel. We have no place in America for him, yw a reform is needed. We see # and feel tt every day. Let us not, however, pounce down on our plebian, but loek t6 our patrician. I can see fro: my window a coachman rushing his horse franticaly down the street. The occu- Pant must have ordered it. He may be a repre- nt stive of the fashionable world or he may be a ‘bineb meinber who lingered so long over a chotce ravats that he must kill ether his horses or his 5 3 ‘He prefers the former, and his horses suffer. His sin 1s equal With that of the street-car driver, who lashes his horse because the poor thing slipped on the ice. Back to our patriclans! Watch that daintily- dressed lady standing on the corner. She sees the about ten steps behind her stop the cir. > can get in with the piysicial exertion of a few steps, but she does not, and t twice starts aloaded car. If you have ever carried a bucket of water up a hill, and set it down to rest your- self, you know how the horse feels. Our lady ts in the Ittle poodle dox on the seat by her, she ftnagines herself a protector of the animal Kingdom. Her Sin would balance the scale if weighed wita that of an old vero man whom I saw on 2d street one day. A miserable, bony horse was vainly endeay- oring todraw a joad sufficient: for two stron, “What are you abusing that horse for?” with all tae wrath Tcoutd summon. “L: Missy, L ain't "busin’ dis horse,—biess you, « he be de backbone ob our family.” “Wi F mM trying to kill him for, then?”” “Bless yo? life, 1 ain't trien to kM him, but T thot he gwine to die, ant Lwants to get all de work outen him What T kin fo’ he die.” Ttis down rales by which to treat our Ine and ladies were good, then Intzht we say, “Follow the dictates of yout con- dence;” but a censclence is such a Wiry little machiné we might better not say that. it last night crawled over the leaves of my book, right across, as If attracted to it—the Picture @f & magnetic needle, My first impnise Was to knock it off, and then I saw steze Co miigh cd If my Iittle friend on the beok were suddenly to become a myrmidon it Iwould attempt to crush It. rather thought I Should not, and the American solon kept its life. God no more made the higher animal te abuse the lower antimal than he made the white man to abuse the black man. If you want to know how to yourself in its place. infstreat; we hi treat an animal, put “But,” you say, earth again, carrying the wealth of mountatas te barren fields, and ufaking the earth better for its Yery activity. There 1s the lake, passive and calin, making the wortd something better witaout an exertion. You are the lake. Bo a terrent, and when Bory blows his shrill whistle take your cloak about you and sally forth. Be awecompanied by your heart, and, if you have one, your purse, en your heart and your purse will fly open with it. De not Imagine yourself a Jebn Quixote, Or even an Alfred the Great, but shnply’ an Ainerican citizen on an Of Justice, "Lookeut for speechless animals, paupers, for a “beggar that is dumb, you knew, mmay challenge double pity.” It you Be a Greek, remember a horse took Troy. It you be un Ameri” Gan, remember & horse saved Caedar Crook. S20 the troops collected near Winchester. Watch Early Griving them from their camp in the grey light of ‘the morning. Ltstem to the echo of a far-away hoof. Hear it growing louder and louder till herse and rider rush te the front. Sheridan wore the lanerets of that victory. Let you and me make a ‘Wreath from the leaves of kindness for tho herse. You may think the snifiting woolly cur of no value whatever, but it bears the Image of these noble St. Bernatd dogs that_at this very moment are battling with the cold blast for men of your Tace and nation. Give the cura bone for the Bake of your benefactor. You say, “That will do theo- Tetically; the horse is good’and gente; kindness Will rule it; hares your theory with a tule, and your reins will seon be fragments.” The theory is hot “Never sgrike; never be angry.” Tho Bible says “Be angry, but sin not.” Solon Said, “Be mnoderat’.” You' foliow the blacksmith’s motio, and strike when the tron ts hot. Walt till you have mastered your temper, then master your brute, remembering always ‘to! take the same | t Means to do so thot you woutd take If you knew the animal would wWaik up the aisle of your church on Sunday morning and read your record of the Past week. PUPILS ENTITLED TO HONORABLE MENTION. In addition to the above prize list the folowing pupils were declared te be entitied to honorable Mention for the excellence of their compositions: High School —Arthur M. Little, 216 I street uorth- ak Fight Gride.—Ada F. Gardiner, 115 C street hortheast (Mrs. E. A. Hilton, teacher); Nannie 8. Gilbert (school 2, diviston 1), Glenwood road, D. C.; H. KR. Kalb, 630 Q street northwest (Mr. $ Jno! ‘Thomson, teach Seventh felen B. Wetr, school 4, division 3, 1225 I street northeast; Lov cll C. WIL Hams, 1235 6th strect northwest. z Sixth Grade.—Annie E. Holcomb, Franklin bulld- B. Ferguson, No. 618 M street. ‘Maud Litscomd, Mount Pleasant; Minnie C, Durham, 1916 9th street; Edwin Brady, 916 91h street southeast. Fourth Grade.—George Alstead, school 2, division 5; George T. Nixon, school 8, division 5. ‘Third Grade.—-Thomas Stetson, 1824 12th street; rd, Mount Pleasant, se temyly ‘The Scheol-Boy. g Ky We hought him a pox for his books and things, And a cricket bag for bis bat; And he looked the brightest and Under his new straw hat, ‘We handed him into the ratlway train With a troop of his young compeers, And we made as though {t were dust and rain Were @lliog our eyes with tears. We looked tn hts innocent face to see ‘The sign of a sorrowful heart; But he only shouldered his bat with glee And wondered when they would start. "Twas not that he loved not as heretofore, For the boy was tender and kind; But his was a world that was all before, And ours was 2 worid behind. ‘Twas not his Quttering heart was cold, aan renin oo th “ ieee that Is ‘And the children te love that ls new.” we came to know that. flower Antara 0 aigawer oe 2 best of kings presentation of the talapat tree (carypha um- THE CITY MARKETS, Features of the Week. FRESH PRODUCE PROM THE GULF STATES—OLEO- MARGARINE SAID TO BE SOI.D IN ABUNDANCE— THE QUOTATIONS FOR CATTLE, ETC. The prices for country products in our city markets have, as a rule, remained steady during the past week, and with little signs of lower rates at present. The trade in potatoes has been steady at prices alittle wavering. Irish and Scotch sell in job- bing lots at $1.10 a $1.20 per bushel, and the demand for them is increasing, but without af- fecting the price, while the domestic product is firm at the rates last quoted. The ordinary good quality now sells readily at #1.20 a $1.30 per bushel, and fancy Rose, for seed, are selling at $1.50 per bushel. Sweet potatoes are holding out better, both as to quantity and quality, than was expected. They are bringing €4.50a @5 per barrel, and North Carolina yams $2 a $2.50. There isa small business in domestic dried fruit. The supply is light and the demand steady. Apples are 10 and 12 cents for common dried, and peaches, unpeeled, 15 and 20 cents; North Carolina sun-dried 20 and 25, and other grades 15 and 18 cents; blackberries 12 and 15 cents; cherries 15 and 20 cents; raspberries 18 and 20 cents; huckleberries 12 and 15 cents. All domestic dried fruits are scarce. + APPLES range from $2 a 6 per barrel, according to the quality. The Newtown pippins and winesaps appear to be about the best in our market, and some lots stored here last fall by our dealers have recently been opened, and are found to be better preserved from rot than any before seen in this market. Those who secured their winter stores from Virginia and Maryland growth have done better than those who went further from home for their supplies. Florida oranges sell from $3.50 a @5 in half- barrel boxes, and Messinas $3 a $4 ber box. Malaga grapes are worth $8 a $16 per barrel. Messina and Palernio lemons are $2.50 a $3.25. Sicily lemons %2.50 a $4.25 per box. Cranber- ries, per barrel—Jerseys #5 a €8, Cocoanuts are selling at $5 per hundred. Other fancy fruits are also high at present. The supplies of onions are abundant and with dull sales—$2.50 a €3 per barrel are the ruling prices this week. The supply of winter kale keeps up without much change in les The quality ts excellent this season, and it brings $2.25 per barrel, while good winter spinach sells readily for $3.50 a $4 per varrel. There has been a good deal of these vegetables sold this season, and poor families make them a nice substitute for cabbage, which is very scarce and high. Turnips of good qual- ity sell for $2.50 a $3 per barrel, and there are considerable quantities consumed here every week. There isa variety of ways for cooking and serving them, some of them making a very palatable and nutritious dish. Sauerkraut continues to arrive from the west. The 18-gallon tubs sell af $5.50, and the 45-gal- lon tubs at $12.50. PRODUCE FROM FLORIDA. Some excellent fresh tomatoes from Florida have arrived, and sell for $2.50 a $6 per bushel basket. The first arrivals of fresh asparagus have been. a feature the present week. They were caught up quickly at $1 per bunch of tavo pounds each, and were very fine. They came from Charles- ton. Some good lots of fresh Florida cabbage have arrived, and sold for 24a 36 per crate of one bushel. A few lots of Boston cabbage have been in the market the past week, but the heads are smail and not very solid. Dealers in market produce state that they an- ticipate brisk sales of fresh stocks in the spring. Much early stock is now received annually from Charleston and Florida, and it is increasing in quantity every year. Producers south find that it isa profitable business to raise garden veze- tables for northern consumption. Norfolk is losing its grip-upon the rorthern ntarkets for early supplies, and all that is wanted is the means of quick and sure transportation to make this a very profitable business. wm stock of dry beans is very light and prices igh. THE CATTLE MARKET. There were 213 good fat cattle put up at Queenstown Wednesday, and brought $4 a $6.50 per hundred on the hoof. Sales of inferior grade were sold for much less. There were also 350 sheep on the stand, which sold from $4.50 a 6.7 per hundred peands; also 15 good milch cews, the price ranging from $30 $50 each. There was also a lively inquiry for calves, but none were sold. The market was considered good and prices firm. Hay is dull and sales weak. The range for ga clover, timethy, and mixed has been $14 a Poultry is scarce and in great demand, the wholesale rates ranging at $14 a 18 for tur- keys, and $14 a $15 for chickens. The supplies come in slowly, and the sales are quick. Some good lots have been seld for higher rates than the above since the cool weather has set in. Live poultry also meets with *ready sales if in good condition. Eggs continue high and in demand—28 and 29 cents are the ruling rates, Limed eggs are not much in demand, They are selling in job+ bing lots for 15 and 17 cents. There has been no perceptible change in but- ter te note siace the report of last week. Good grades are gettiag scarce, with an upward look as to price, but the market has been steady. OLEOMARGARINE. It is said that there is a great deal of oleomar- garine soid in this market, and that much of it goes into the retail trade. It is thought that the proper officers whose duty it is to look after it are not vigilant. BUITERINE. Besides the eleomargerine its twin brother butterine has made its appearance here,and from 5Oto 100 packages- of both the articles are landed here every week. These packages are usually marked “ @leomargerine” or “ butter- ine,” and they are likely sold as such by whole- sale, but when they reach the retailer it is be- lieved they are sold largely as genuine butter. Oleomargerine is compesed altogether of the bovine products—butter and beef tallow, but the other article, butterine, is much the best im- Itation of butter, both in appearance and flavor, although the product of two animals— the cow and the hog—butter and lard. So closely does butterine resemble the dary’ pro- duct that but few housekeepers can detect it. A few days since a lady well known in Wash- ington society accidentally tound that she had been using on her table a first-class article of batterine instead of the pure dairy preduce. There is a steady demaad for goud dressed hogs since the weather has changed, with better prices in prospect. Good veal calves on the hoof are in active demand at 7 and 844 cents. The flour trade is very quiet and rather in fa- vor of the buyers. The jobbinsg rates of Minne- sota and other fancy patent-process brands are $9; good family grades $6.75 a $7.50; supertine $5.35 a 36. Dealers think the prices are as low as they ouzht te go, and are hopeful for more activity. The price of batchers’ meat remains about the same as heretofore. Smoked meats, no change, but prices steady and brisk. Fresh fish are scarce and high. In jobbing lots rock are selling from 80 and 60 cents per bunch; single rock of medium boiling size 20 and 25 cents per pound; large rock 15 cents; Veta 50 cents per bunch for white, and 25 cents for yellow; fresh herring are worth $40 per thousand. There are no Potomac shad in the market. Some few North Carolina roe have pen in market at $1 each, and 50 cents for buck shad. Game Is scarce and high. A Flower That Explodes, From Ceylon r in San Francisco Chronicle. In some seasons nature's greatest blossoming effort astonishes and delights the traveller in braculifena) in bloom, which marvellous flower, it is said, appears only at intervals of many years, and then bursts from its sheaf like a rocket, with areport like a small cannon, send- ing out immense feathery ys of a pale yellow or white color laden with an oppressive perfume. Curious Transmission of Physical ‘Traits, M. Lenglen, a physician of Arras, gives an in- teresting description of what may be weil termed a remarkable perpetuation of physical traits. It appears that a certain M. Gamelon, in THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. How and Where it is Printed. THE LARGEST DAILY PUBLICATION IN THE WORLD—SCENES IN THE PRINTING OFFICE AT NIGET—SOME FACTS ABOUT THE WORK DON A little over a hundred years ago, in England, it would have been considered an offence, only one remove from treason, for a printer to dare to publish reports of the proceedings of Par- lament. The celebrated contest between Par- lament and the press began in 1770. The staid old English legislators, utterly astounded at the impudence of certain printers of London Journals who dared to publish a summary of the parliamentary proceedings, ordered the rash men into the custody of the sergeant-at-arms. It so happened that the arrests were made within the precincts of the tity of London and the lord mayor and aldermen of that city, Jealous of their privileges, placed the officers of the House who arrested the prisoners, in custody for making an assault. The House thus defled waxed rurious and ordered the confinement of the Lord Mayor and one of the aldermen in the tower. When Parliament was prorogued these gentlemen were set at liberty, and the city was illuminated in theirhonor. Parliament finding itself power- less to oppose the growing public opinion in faypr of the printers conceded the point,.and from that day reports of legislative ings have been published; though the resolu- tion affirming it to be a high indignity to, and a notorious breach of the privileges of the House to publish its debates remains unrevoked. If these yisit the glimpses of the moon on this side of the Atlantic, and behold the national legislature actually keeping a printing office of its own, doubtless they would thank their stars that they were permitted to die before the world arrived at an age where it could regard such a shocking state of affairs with indifference. THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD varies in the amount of its contents, of course, according to the length of the daily sessions of Congress, and the amount of business trans- acted, but, as it averages, it 1s the largest daily publication in the world. For several years past, during the months when Congress is in session, the wayfarer at night, through the parts of the city bordering on the region known as Swampoodle—on account of a legend that there was once a swamp there, and the bullfrog and mud turtle held sway where now continuous rows of houses are built—was cheered by a long, bright row of lights in the upper floor of the Government Printing Office. This was the Record office, but within the last few months it has been removed to the new wing of the build- ing, and being located on the second floor, no longer hangs out aloft its cheery signals to guide the belated traveler. To this office, where the utterances of our legisiators are immortal- ized in type, and which is usually sacred from intrusion, a Star reporter gained admission. THE RECORD OFFICE is a spacious room or hall with arched fire proof ceiling, supported by two rows of strong brick columns, which divide the space in the hall in- to three different apartments. The visitor enter- ing by way of the stairway at the left steps into the middle apartment, which is the “runway” of the office, devoted to imposing stones, galley racks, copy cases and other furniture. At the eastern end of this “runway” is the desk of the assistant foremen, who ives out copy and keeps track ofthe matter as itis set up. The galley boy and “devil,” also disport themselves in this central part of the hall, and the “typos” make use of it as a_ pas way when on their way from their cases to “dump” their type and get a new ‘take.” Near the stairway where the visitor entered is a small pri- vate office used by the foreman. The space on the right side of the hall is given upto the typos. Here tnere are rows and rows of printers’ cases, line of lights half hidden by shades. ‘The space on the right side is taken up with an inclosure where the proef-readers sit; a colony of printers | for whom there is not room on the right side of | the office; fonts of type, dead-boards, and cases for storing away the type that is “tied up” wait- ing for the stereoty; Such was the neral arrangement of the vaded just at six o'clock. It was the hour when the work of the night was to begin. All was life and bustle. eyes were crowding about the desk of the as- sistant foreman. \ GIVING ovT cory. That gentleman had a large pile of manu- script already cut up in “takes” on the desk before him. The business of distributing the the copy was disposed of very rapidly. Each printer as his number was called stepped to the desk, took the piece of manuscript handed him, and repaired to his case. This copy was all paged in order. As it was given out the assistant foreman made a rapid record on a slip of paper properly ruled and headed, which showed the “slug” or number of the printer to whom the copy had been given, the ‘-folio” or number of the “take” of manuscript, and the number of the galley on which the “matter” should be emptied when set. As the work of giving out copy was goin; on, “Mr. Byron A. Ford, the foreman of the of- fice, stood by watching the proceedings. Seon every printer had captured a morsel of mann- acript and hurried off to his “alley” to dis of it, and there was a brief respite in the labors of the assistant foreman. A messenger from the Capitel with aleathern haversack or bag here hurried in, however, and dumped upon the desk seyeral huge rolls of manuscript, which were to pass under the shears aud pencil of the assistant foreman, to be numbered and divided up into takes and distributed among the typos Just as the first patch had beem served. THE SIZE OF THE RECORD. “The Record,” said Mr. Ford te the Star re- Porter, “is undoubtedly the heaviest daily pub- lication in the world. A fifty-six page Record, is equal to any two of the New York papers and a 100 page Record is equal to the Herald, Tribune, Times, World and Sun all put together. Look here,” continued Mr. Ford, taking down a book in which a daity record of the amount of type set is kept, “I think it would frighten anynews- aper isher to have any such bills as these.” record shewed that during the first twenty- seven days of the session there were set 5,679,- 700 ems. The daily amountsranged from 12,000 ems to te ems. The ee eth 112 pege Record, le unusually* heavy the publica- tion of the index of the Record. “That does not inclade,” said Mr. Ford, “what we call our ‘dead horse,” the standing matter, such as residences of members, &¢., which are put in so as to make up the proper number of pages.” THE PROCESS. The matter that comes from the stenographic reporters at the Capitol, after it reaches the printing office, makes its way gradually from the desk of the assistant foreman down the cen- ter of the room until finally, the forms are wheeled out of the west end of the room on trucks and lowered to the press room. If one and at night the eye gets bewildered by the long | printing office which Tum Stan reporter in- | Half hundred printers in | their shirt sleevesand wearing shades over their | is required to correct his own errors. This done, another proof is taken and returned to the proof-readers, where it is read by a gentleman known as the “revisor,” and al! errors remain- ing are marked by him. Meanwhile the type has been making gradual progress westwand from shelf to shelf and fron to table. Whgn the corrections indicated by the revisor have been made the type Is laid on another table or stone and arranged ena new galley. This galley is two columns in width, and he ust the amount of type required to fil! a page of the Feoord. Another proof impre- is taken from the type then,.and ii is reviewed again in the proof-readers’ room for the last time before making its descent to the region of the press- te room. The type finally reaches THE LAST STAGE on the imposing stone. Here it is made up in flat forms for the press, the forms being so ar- ranged as to hold eight pages of type. The head-tines and numbers of the pages having been inserted in their proper places the chases are firmly locked. A truck is wheeled up to the imposing stone, the form is laid upon it and rushed away to the elevator, where it is lowered to the press room. The first sheet from the press is brought immediately up-stairs, and it is thoroughly reviewed by the proof-reader, mak- ing the fifth and last time that the matter passes under the eye of the reader before publication. THE PRESSES. The number of presses employed on the work depends on the size of the Record to be printed. The first two presses get to work print, at each | Presses, and sometimes several of the large Presses in the office are used on the work, print | signatures of8 pages. After the datly Kecord, of which 6,000 copies are printed, fas been run off the presses, the forms are returned to the composing room. Here the type, after being released from the chases, is handled by no less than six different men before it finally goes to press again to print the permanent Kecord, which released from the chases. or Senator has ordered, as is frequently the case, copies of his speech in pamphiet form, his speech is taken out and for such special publication. Aiter this is ut- tended to the type is tied up and lad away on a large platform to take its turn in being correct- ed. All the errors and omissions in the daily | publication having been mended, the type is | Sgain made up in forms, and sent to the stereo- | typing foundry, where the plates from which | the bound editions are print: aremade. The type is then returned to the composing room and placed on the ‘dead board,” whence it makes its way back to the boxes in the printers’ cases. TONS OF TYPE. By the time the reporter who had been guided through the intricacies of the office by Mr. Ford reached the west end, a truck bearing two of the forms of the last edition of the Record was sent back from the pressroom, being hauled in from the elevator. Two mentaking hold of a form to | liftit upon the “dead-board,” staggered under its weight. “That weighs three hundred pounds,” said one of the men to the reporter. “Every page of type” said Mr. Ford, “weihs 22 pounds. What do you think the last new dress of type we got weighed?” The reporter not be- | ing aole to make an estimate, Mr. Ford co tinued, “22.000 pounds. The last dress of type we had lasted seven years, which is doing pretty well. Yes,” continued Mr. Ford, in reply to a suggestion from the reporter, “‘we will have to have a larger office. The Mecord grow session. It has been heavier this session than ever before. Of course as the session grows older, the Record will grow larger.” REVISING SPEECHES. One great source of annoyance to the printers in getting out the Record is the fact that nearly everyCongressinanwhowantstorevise hisspeech, deems it necessary to keep the manuscript or proofout of the office until after midnight. “I think we have them now,” said Mr. Ford, speaking of this, “by the 12 o'clock rule. If a member does not have his speech in now by 12 o'clock we put ina line ‘Withheld for revision,” or something to that effect, and let it go. That makes them get in earlier. Of course when such a thing happens, the speech appears in its regular place in the bound edition.” Very often members fur- nish the manuscript of their speeches, much to the disgust of the typos, among whom'Congres- sional chirozraphy does not bear a very good reputation for legibility. The copy furnished by the reporters and their amanuenses if written in bold, plain characters, on alternate lines, and is very eazy to decipher. * THE ‘ REFRIGERATOR.” “There,” said Mr. Ford, pointing to a large wooden cabinet or box ‘is our refrigerator.” “ Refrigerator,” said the reporter. “Yes, our refrigerator. When a member sends down his speech in advance to have it set in type, soas to sayetime, the galleys are locked up there. Sometimes a member wants to get Proof slips of hia speech to send to the newspa- pers, or something of that sort. ‘The type is iocked up in the refrigerater until the speech is delivered. Then, as the speech becomes public property, it is taken out, and any one can see it.” ODDS AND ENDS. Mr. Ford said that, if the copy was furnished at two o'clock im the morning. He has now fifty-four compositors at work. When copy runs out they are fed with “decument reom" cepy, of which there is always am abundance, so the government is not charged with “waiting time.” As the demand on the Record’ increases towards the end of the session, the torce will be proportionately increased. After the Record is printed, the copy, or manuscript, ef each edi- tion together with the revised f slips. are done up in buadies and deposited in pigeon holes, where they are kept for several weeks, to be referred to, im case the accuracy of the Record is brought into question. Such a perfect system is im operation in the office that not only cam any piece of copy be found at any moment, but by reference te the record kept by the assistaat foremaa when he gives out the copy, any paragraph that may be calied for can be wescued from the sea of type in a mo- ment of time. When the reporter left the office and emerged into the night air, the light in the lantern in the dome was shining in the southern sky, a sign to the werld indi- cating that the legislators were extending their labors into the night. In a few hours the roar | and clang of presses announce that the weary prifiters’ work is ended. The next morning a copy of the Record, fresh, crisp and clean.—con- taining a complete photograph of the session of the previous day up to the time of adjournment late at night,—is laid upon the desk of each member, who, probably, as he glances through its pages, gives no thought to the skill and toil of a hundred hands, and the mighty energies that have worked during the night to bring it into existence. — LETTER FROM FLORIDA. AN UTTER WINTER— EVERYTHING LOVELY— piece of copy, or “take,” is followed in its pro- gress through the office, the whole system can be seen. The takes average about 700 ems each 80 far as the matter cau be evenly distributed. When the printer has set his take he carries it in his composing stick toa table on which a large number of galleys are set, amd gives the number of his “take” and his “slug” to a man. in attendance there. This man, whois provided with the record made by the assistant fore- man, when he gave out the copy, has the (ree aus his type on the proper galley, and ing the copy, places it in a sort of pigeon holenumbered to correspond with the number of the galley. The advantage of giving out the copy in short takes is soon made manifest, for FRUITS, FLOWERS, AND VEGETABLES OUT IN FULL 7ORCE—JOHN KELLY LUXURIATING IN | impression, 16 ges of the Record. The other | queued and periwigged old lawmakers could re- | WePressiom, 16 pags ' appears in the bound volumes. The type is | If any Representative | the type rearranged | i uninterruptedly from six o'clock in the evening | he could send a fifty-six page Record to press | acres of land, with more bein, day. A grove near Crescent City sold lad for €20.000 cash. Persons coming to Flor i visit this place. There is a good country stores and churches. The Palatka and Indian River railway will ran through or near this town, in consideration of which there is at- ready quite a land boom in that section, While the nm ig on Crescent lake, there is also another lake on The other side “of it, the two lakes being only half a mile apart, yet the waters of one are forty feet higher than the other. The Palatka and Indian River railway line is now projected to Titusville, and the corps is running branches to Deland, Volusia and Sandtord, towns and landings on the St. John's river. Few persons have stopped to consider the size of this state, the amount of its present pro- ductions, and what it will be. Millions of oranges are shipped every year, yet along the Indian River county, noted for the duest oranges, hundreds of thousands rot year for the want of shipping facilities. ‘This road wil bring this fruit to market, and will also open a new line of communication between the Atlantic and Gulf coast. ny chief. John Kelly, Is at present visit to this town, having been Planted every de his physicians for bis health. The forest teees are leading out very fast, and the whole air is perfumed by the fragrance of the orange blossoms. Cabbages as “~ ae | with strawberries, beans, lett half bushel and other ables are in the market bein. hipp Q north. s town ts fall of strangers, more are ming and goingevery day, this being a very ace to stop at, as there are several hotels and the ‘starting point of the ri steamers, and no one has seen rida who has not been on a trip up the Ocklawaha to Silver Springs at least. fhe state fair at Jacksonville opens next 4d will a grand affair, while several of aunties will also hold fairs about the same This isa new thing for Florida, and if properly managed, will be of great advantage. It has been very warm the last few days, and the natives say as warm as they have in summer, which if so. uid make Florida avery pleasant. | Place the year round. Mock. Awarded CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER. Medals. THE BEST KNOWN REMEDY FOR | BACKACHE OR LAME BACK. RHEUMATISM OK LAME JOINTS. CRAMPS OR SPRAINS. NEURALGIA OR KIDNEY DISEASES. LUMBAGO, SEVERE ACHES OR PAINS, FEMALE WEAKNESS, Are Superior to All Other Plasters, Are Superior to Pads. Are Superior to Linimenta. Are Superior to Oiutments or Selves. Are Superior to Electricity or Galvaniam, They Act Immediately, They Strengthen, ‘They Soothe. ‘They Relieve Pain at Onoe, ‘They Positively Cure. CAUTION.—Benson's Capcine Porous Plasters have been imitated. Do not allow your drugmst to pala off eome other plasier having a sinilar sounding nae, Soe that the Word is spelled C-A-P-C-1-N-L. Prioe 2g SEABURY & JOHNSON, _ Manufacturng Chemists, New York. RE REMEDY AT LAST. Py 25 CENTS, MEAD'S Medicated Corn and Bunica Plaster. Lr FOR THE RED SIGNS FOR THE BARGAIN BALE OF CLOTHING, 728 Seventu Srazer Nonrawesr, Bargains tell. The great sale of BOSTON AND NEW YORK CLOTHING. Store crowded with cnstomers Drow Suite, $12 to $25; fine Dress Back Cloth Coste 4 Ps Farwtod Costes worth $4 ag ‘eatn, $10 to $15; eatin- $25." The lanver part of our and your tailor can- dae ean er micliuns class rowde. = Bown Suits. $4 tofs- H p Panta, 76, $i Boo aed ip in Choy for’ ale at home, examine’ foes ‘our money will be ober: yur We, tutu to give You main than Your money waren sunde vam} ues LOOK FOR THE RED SIGNS IN FRONT. Next WEDNESD. shall move now store No. 7g) ith Ea A iy fom Recall my oid ‘the great reduo- SALE OF CLOTHING. ‘Over 100 Gentiemen’ 04a Coats, worth from! to$i5, now selling for 60 conte on a dollars feo Tm 1117-1119 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE ax 401-403 TWELFTH STREET. ; IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR SPRING STOCK, WHICH WE EXPECT IN A THE PENINSULAR ARCADIA. Correspondence of Tar EvEsINe Stan. Pavatka, Frorrpa, February 20, 1882. It you could only be transported in a night and wake up in this state In the morning and look around you, see the forest trees with their new green leaves, the flowers and orange trees in full bloom and filling the air with their fra- grance, hear the birds singing, bask in the clear, warm sunshine, you would surely think it is not long after the copy is the first galiey is filled up, so be taken and read, aut floor man who attends to these galleys ani has to keep separate the reports tre houses. "There are two streams of one from the Honse report, and the other pred report pouring in upon him con- : THE PROOF READERS. ‘When the “take” has been dumped, with other takes, a proof is taken from it, and this, with the corresponding copy, is taken into the proof readers’ room or enclosure. This is a good-sized apartment, having tables and shaded you were in some foreign land, and hardly be- lieve you were still under the jurisdiction of our starry flag; and that itsurely must be the month of May and not mid-winter. Even those who have traveled to a great extent have little idea f ; : E F tt i i / ; iy if I i tT pre Z if i i i z ! F | a eg! to Be, FEW DAYS, OUR PRESENT GREAT REDUCTION WILL STILL HOLD GOOD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. GENUINE FOSTER KID GLOVES. 80 DOZEN . FRENCH HOOK KID GLOVES, Sand 7 Hooks........$1.00......Ustal Price... 8198 PALAIS