Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1882, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, Sprit 27, 1882-DOUBLE SHEET. ; CITY AND DISTRICT. ‘The Lith Strect Extension. REPLY OF THE DISTRICT COMMIESIONERS TO THE SENATE COMMITTER. Tt was mentioned in yesterday’s Star that the District Commissioners had sent a reply to the Senate resulution of April 14th, directing a re- port as to what steps have been taken in rela- tion to extension of 14th street Into the county, with plans estimated cost. The Commissioners state that on the 2ist of March, 1931, Hon. Joka Sherman, trustee of proper wn the [4th street road, requested th the ro ht be wide om Boundary street to Whitney avenue. Th ter was accompa- ned by a of re «Under existing Jaws the Commissioners proceeded to consider the metter, and “deeming it to be conducive to the put interest,” they determined to take the necessary steps for widening the road, sub- ject to the approval of Congress. They there- fore passed an order directing a survey and plats to be made. {pon receipt of the plats from the surveyor, the intention to widen the Toad was advertised as required bylaw. Mr. Sherman and Mr. Mattingly protested against the Property necessary to widening being taken without due compensation. Under authority of Jaw an agreement was made betweea the Com- missioners aud the above-named parties, that the price to be paid should be 10 cents per square foot, the number of feet so taken to be certified by the surveyor. September 30, 1881, the Commissioners sent to the Secretary of the ‘Treasury their estimates for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1833, and under the head of “Im- provements and’ Repairs” they submitted the tollowing: ~Condemnation of land tor the widen- ing of this road, $10,752.90; grading and im- proving said street, 96.000." The Secretary dis- approve:l the first item and approved the second ‘on condition that the property owners would donate the land. The orizinal estimates and the revision by the Treasury Department were tranamitied to Conzress Dee. 5, 1881, and since that time no further steps have been takeu In the matter. NECESSITY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT. This street and its extension constitute the principal outtet from the city on the north, and cht months of the year from 2,000 to pass over It daily. Suburban are rapidly being built in this section, siderable resident population » and other locations it is also proposed to road along 14th street jate the increasing at the road must be nd the land for that per now than when Improve Ne of Mth street is 110 feet, while that of the ext a is Wheet. It does not seem entirely just that the owners of the Jand should be required to donate the land with- carry the ended. it is evident 1 an early out compensation. The Columbia Coliege, tne residents of Mc nt and the general public. : road as a sum- wer ; aelited by the widen ing. the property in which the own- erm of the east are solely interested they ha auy compensation for the aiready dedicated tent of two miles in OF THE COST ruding, Including yards at 2 ets.. $4, of the work are as fi 400 cubi Kindergarten Mission. # litor of Tar E o @ Star: round in all well- churches with a3 much ceftainty as y itself. Good christians pay their dues who are to chris- wanize the heathen, while within half a dozen Squares of most of our arches there may be dozens of children who have never seen the in- ‘h, mach less have they ever heard acd stili no miss' ry is clothing, tattered fer covering ctnal barrier spel. Perhaps [ am few churehes and mis- the poor of this eity: but I is a fare of G the se sent to them. until it their ignorant sonary work now th d 13th street in the Sundas-school room tethany Tittle church looked desolate ont Tapped at the door, and a bri ced child pened it and I was soon seated in the midst of is mission where the unfortunate ure made to believe there is a How bright everything lookedon that sunny spring morning. Miss Emma Graves and her loing a nobie work Pirst of all, the ehil- dren are provided with comfortable clothes, and given a lunch every day for “sweet charity’s sake.” There are the names of 60 little ones on the roll, from 3 to 7 years of age. They are the ehildrea of laborers and mechanics in poor cir- cumstances. They are sought out and provided With comfortable clothes, educated and made happy in this pleasant home. Several enter- tafnments. excursions and other pleasures have been provided them, where their parents come and fiud kindly welcome and ample lunch. I ‘was delichted watching the children as they fang or recited, and gave practical demonstra- tions of their instruction. The youngest child there was aged three. If the citizens of thia District and our legislators could esti- mate the value of iree kindergartens to give ® preparatory course for our free schvols, before another six months there would be free kindergartens in every section of this city. ‘This system would give employment to many young women; it would gather in the walfs who are educated in the street until they are six years old, and give them three years of instruc- tion, practically adapted to the wolliflable intel- of the young. Our public schools are right as far as they go, but the great Froebel believed in beginning with the little ones, inclining their faculties to the right by his simple, yet perfect system. Who can calculate the result of taxing children from three to six years of age and instructing them in this beautital Froebei system from half to two- thirds of a day for three or four years? Poor, overworked mothers are thus relieved; and sin is cheated of many a victim. Vicious habits be- gin with early life under the baneful influence of street associates. If men and women who sizh for a mission would visit the free kindergarten I have named they would tind something to do. could be doubled and trevled in size if the Society bad the means to provide teachers. ‘Those employed there are doing their work alinost gratuitously. We could gather in the little waifs; but it needs money to pay teachers. Could we have the free Kindersarten for the little ones before they are admitted to our public schools, and in connec- tion with our scuools, industrial departments for the practical part of education; trades for those who cannot have more than the rndi- ments of education; trades for all those desiring such advyantazes, our school system would ap- Proximate towards retorm, and the “cast iron Mechanical drill of ruuning every child in the = mouid” would be modified, if not obvia- —__<++—____ Proposed Agricultural Experimenta, Station ashington. PROVISIONS OF MR. ANDERSON'S BILL. Mr. Anderson has introduced in the House ‘ bill to establish 9 national agricultural expe- rimental station in the District of Columbia. ‘The object of the “experiment station” is to conduct original researches or verify reported expesiments on the physiology of plants and ‘animals; the diseases to which they are sever- ally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative ad- vantages of rotative This sehool | THRE OLDEST CLUB IN THE WORLD. President Arthur as the Guest of the Schuythill Fishing Conipany. Tt was mentioned in yesterday’s Sram that the President and members of the Cabinet will go to Philadelphia next Monday to attend the annual dinner of the Schuylkill Fishing Company on the afternoon of that day. It is claimed that the company named 1s the oldest club in the world, since the demise of the Beef- steak Club. It was organized in 1782. The membership is limited to a very small number, and the members are ail very prominent and wealthy. Their “castle,” or “shanty” as it is commonly called, is situated on the Schuylkill a short distance from Philadelphia. It isa very unpretentious building, but it is always kept wonderfully neat and clean. The invitations are very handsome, bearing the motto of the club— an engraved fish. The peculiarity of the club is that they have no servants at the dinners. All ‘the work, par Ing the fish, cooking and waiting on tnd table being done by members, who wear large aprons with @ painted fish on them. A new member of the club is obliged to servea regular appren- ticeship. His first duties are fish cleaning, cooking, waiting on the table, and eating being the regular gradationa. Besides the annual dinners, private dinners are occasionally given by members at the castle. eee gS The Union Bethel Church. AN EDIFICE IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION WHICH 18 TO SEAT 2,500 PEOPLE. When the new chureh edifice in course of erec~ tion on M street, between 15th and 16th streets, by the congregation of Union Bethel African Meth- odist Episcopal church, of which Kev. R. J. W. Stevenson is the present pastor, is completed, the two finest churches in the city for colored people Will be on thie square—that known as St. Augus- tine’s Catholte church being located on 15th street between Land M. The work on the new church edt- fice has so far prozre=sed that the lower story 1s up ready for the main floor. As the policy of the building committee is to pay as they so, there Is how a temporary suspension ef the work ‘till more tunds are in hand. THE SIZE AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE BUILDING. ‘This building with the annex wili about cover the entire ground owned by the congregation, 80 feet front and 127 feet deep. The auditorium, which will be 80 by 105 fect with a cefling 33 feet in height, will soat, with the galleries, about 2,500 Persons, On the lower floor will be the Sunday school room, 76 by 50 feet, with Infant class room TeX Will be oth of pressed brick, with stone trimmings, and Will make a fine appesrance. It is intende.{ to make it a model ¢ with every conventence,the proper i ventilation being provided Jess than sevi exits from ssh which, In case of neces- be emptted Ina few min- ‘ost 1S about £47,000, and the e superintendence of Mr.'S. 'T. G. 4 THE CONGREGATION belongs to the African M. E. connection, the first offshoot from the M. E. church, which took form in 1816, Rev. Richard Allen being the first bishop. ‘The oricinal members, about 100, under the lead anes A. Shorter, now Bishop Shorter, lett Israel church to form the new church in 1838. ‘They first occupied a rented brick building on the back of the lots now occupied by St. Augustine church. Rev. E. Waters, aiterwards a bishop,was preacher, op Shorter, then a layman, st steward, and Robert Wilkinson the first leader. owing year a frame church t on the present site. and ft was dedi- cated by Bishop Quinn. In October of that year Mr. Shorter 0 1 the Sunday seh a S. Driver, T. W. Heary and the pulpit, and. the mem- incre in 1853, when ishop Wayman) h was erected ay Revs. J. H. Waters, Mr. W ain, Ri A. Handy and others filled the pulpit tithe membership under Rey. G. W. Brodie exceeded a thousand. About two years ago the present pastor, Rev. J. W. Stevenson, formerly of Baltimore, was trans- ferred from Trenton, N. J., to this c appointed to Union’ Bethel. Mr. Stevenson, who has the repntation of being achurch builder as Well as an efficient minist-r, at once took measures looking to the Improvemebt of the property by teoring down the old building and putting up 2 new one. : OFPOSITION TO THE BUILDING PROJECT. ‘This project caused some opposition and led (atter Mr. Stevenson had been reappointed for a Second year) to the withdrwal of a number of mempers who have since been organized as the Plymoutt. Congresational chureh. © Tue bulldine committee having been appointed, and the pla having been prepared and adopted, the congrez: tion and pastor concluded not te -ive up tl project. In August last the old church was torn down, the foundation laid and the erection of the building commenced. == eral ‘The Eaitroads and River Fints. Aside from the increase of our water supply, the two most important matters affecting our city are the railroads and the river improve- ment, and while I deprecate any quarreHing over plans still there are some facts that cannot be ignored, if we expect to ever have these mat- ters attended to. The first and most important of these facts is, that the plans proposed by Major Twining are too expensive. It is simply absurd to suppose that the railroad compantes will ever spend from two and a-half to three million of dollars to enter the city, as his plan proposes. We all know that they have sufficient influence in Congress to defeat any scheme that requires any such ex- penditure, and therefore unless some cheaper and better plan is adopted we shall get nothing ne. The same is true of his plan for the improve- ment of the river flats. The principal objection in the discussion in the House was the large sum required, from two and a-half to three mil- lion of dollars, and that supplemented by the letter of Mr. Waring, showing that to extend the river front with its tide sewers out half a mile further than at present, would necessarily make it worse instead of better is what pre- vented tavorable action in the House. In view of these facts which no one can ignore or dispate, I desire to make a suggestion which it seems to me will obviate all the difficulties, and unable us to get something done. In brief it is this—to deflect both railroads. and let them pass north of the city, making a union depot in the vicinity of 7th and Boundary streets, passing from thence to Georgetown, where of course there should be another station, and then cross the river at or above the present bridge, entirely out of the way of the shipping. Then, tear away the Long bridge and its em- bankments,and dredge out the river, making an open channei along the Washington front to Georgetown, and if necessary make an Island in the center, to reduce the width of the channel at low water, so as to carry the silt and deposit along down stream, as was done before the channel was obstructed by the Long bridge. Of course, the main sewer, instead of running out across the flats In the torm of an open ditch at right angles to the current should be carried south, and made to debouch at the James Creek canal. or some better point, if there be one. I may be wrong in my view of these matters, but it does seem to me, as I know it does to many others, that this plan if adopted, would solve the whole trouble. Common SeNsE. —————---—______ The Chinese Evil. To the Editor of Tax Evexrxa Stan. My attention bas been called to what purports to be # monstrous phase of wrong done by Chi- nese in California, as set forth in a communica- Though not in favor of the immigration of that people to our shores, and this from thor- ough personal knowledge of them on the Pacific coast since 1849, I have emplo: them as ser- vants and and know habits; and I — never heard @ word or known an THE JEANNECTE. Lieut. Dane: wer iterviewed at Irkutsk—First Year the Drift—Fi: Wiles im Five Months—Fighting 2 Perilous Leak—Ice Frenks amd ‘Weather Changes. The story of the long and weary Journey by Lieut. Danenhower and the survivors of the fil- fated Jeannette from the mouth of the Lena to the town of Irkutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia, which was terminated on the evening of 23d of February 0. S., (March 7th new style,) is told in a dispatch to the New York HeraM from Irkutsk. The survivors are Lieut. Danenhower, Dr. Raymond L. Newcomb, naturalist to the expedition; John Coles, Herbert W. Leach, Henry Wilson, Frank E. Mounsar, John Lauter- back, the American Indian, Anequin; a China- man, and Louis P. Noros, the companion of Ninderman, and survivors of Capt. De Long’s boat. These men at Irkutsk received letters from home, with which they were naturally delighted. Lieut. Danenhower’s sight still con- tinued (February 25th) such that the letters received were read to him. The men are gen- erally in good health, and are staying at the house of the vice governor’s private secretary. Three others of the party continue on the Lena on the lookout for the yet missing mi The Russian authorities and people treat the par’ 7 very handsomely, and especial care is taken of the seaman Jack Coles, who on his retreat from the crushed Jeannette lost his reason. Lieut. Danenhower suffered excruciatingly from an affection ot the left eye, commencing about a year after the Jeannette left San Fran- cisco. It extended to the right aye and necessi- tated thirteen operations, disabling him from any active share in the labors of the party. He was, however, always made acquainted with passing events, and his admirable memory ena- bles him to recount them with accuracy. Though his command was conferred on Engineer Mel- ville he was temporarily permitted to command the boat during tae severe gate that separated the three boats when near tu the mouth of the Lena. His services were invaluable and so es- teemed by the men with him. He is now (Feb. 25) in Irkutsk, awaiting the further privation of the removal of his ieft eye that the right may be saved to him. LIEUT. DANENHOWER’S RECITAL. The Jeannette left San Francisco on the 8th of July, 1879, with a full outfit for three years; with five commissioned officers of the nary, two civil scientists and twenty-four of the ship’s company. We arrived at Ounalaska on the 3d of August, after along passage. On the 25th of August we crossed Behring sea in a very heavy gale, and though the ship was loaded very deeply she behaved admirably. Up the St. Lawrence bay we found magnificent scenery. We sent off our last mail by the supply schoo- ner, and on the 27th of August, 7p. m., we started north. Next day w ssed through Behring strait. We rounded East Cape about 3 of the afternoon of the 23th. INTERVIEWING THE NATIVES. From observations made onthe 9th it was Judged that the ship was near Cape Serdze Ka- men, and she cruised thence to the westward. Saw tw6 parties of natives, but held no inter- course with them, and on Sunday, the 3ist, fell in with drift ice and saw a few hutson the beach. The lieutenant with Lientenant Chipp and Ice Pilot Dunbar went on shore to inter- view the natives, the sea between teeming with In the huts of the natives saw a sailor's ‘y-pot and a cask marked ‘‘Centennial brand of whisky.” This showed that the natives had communicated with American traders. After a tramp of several hours tothe westward were shown abay witha width of fifteen miles be- tween the headlands, and where they said the Vega had wintered. In the tentsat the spot met with proofs in the shape of tin cans marked “Stockholm” and pictures executed in that city. Some of these were purchased. The natives in- dicated that the Vesa had passed safely out to the east. The coast here was fresh aud pleas- ing, and a sketch of a large rock, as supposed near to Cape Serdze, was made by Mr. Collins. Several sugarloaf mountains were in sight. The people were of the Chuckche tribe, stout and good-looking, though extremely dirty. At this spot most of the party bid adieu to a laud foot- ing for more than two years. FAST IN THE ICE. About 4 p.m. August 81 we stood to the north- west, shaping our course to the southeast cape of Wrangell Land, and then we felt that our Arctie cruise had actually commenced. We met considerable drift ice, the weather was stormy y. About sunrise of the Ist of Septem- ei discerned an island which was taken to be Kolintehin, in Kolintenin bay. Next day we met pack ice in floes of moderate size, turned to the northward and northeastward and cruised along the Siberian pack, entering leads at times toexamine them. On’ September 4th we saw an immense tree with its roots drifting by. Ice Pilot Dunbar seeing it said that in 1865, when the Shenandoah destroyed the whalers, he was at St. Lawrence bay, and when a few months later he landed on Herald Island he was greatly surprised to see masts and portions of tie de- stroyed vessels drifting in that vicinity. This made me look out for a northwest drift. Then Herald island loomed up in the clouds. On the 6th of September the captain judged that we had reached the lead between the Siberian and North American packs, and that this was a good place to enter. He took charge from the crow's nest and we entered the pack. We met with the young ice and through this forced our way by ramming. This shook the ship yery badly, but did not do her any damage; indeed, the ship stood the concussions handsomely. But at 4 p.m. we could proceed no further. ebanked fires, secured the vessel with ice anchors and remained. That night was exceedingly cold. The ship was frozen in. At this time the ice was in pieces, ranging from ten square yards to several acres in area, with small watercourses like veins running between them, but now quite frozen over. It remained quiet for a number of days, and we found ourselves in the middle of a targe accumulation of floes about four miles across. We were then in about twenty fathoms of water, and had Herald island in sight to the southward and westward twenty-one miles dis- tant by triangulation on a base line of 1,100 yards THE JEANNETTE DRIFTED WITH THE ICE, and began to heel to starboard, inclining about 12 degrees, and affecting the polarity of the compass. Proper efforts were made to right the ship, and compass observations had to be taken ashore. The vessel was in a bad way, momenta- rily liable to be crushed—the general thickness of the ice being from 5 to 6 feet, though some of it was over 20 feet. FREAKS OF THE ICE. The month of October was quiet. We had had no equinoctial gales even in September. The cold was very bitter. Wrangell Land was in plain sight to south and west many times, and especially on the 28th and 29th of October, when we could see mountains and a glacier, which we identified on many occasions. Collins took sketches of them. The ship was driftingto and fro with the wind. Up to this time we saw aconsiderable number of seals and walrus and got two bears. Two white whales were also seen, which were the only ones noticed during the whole cruise. Life on board was quiet, but monotonous. We got many observations, espe- cially from the stars. The nights were very clear and suitable for artificial horizon work. Without a moment’s notice the ice would some- times open near the ship, aad vast columns of vapor would rise whenever the difference of temperature between the alr and water was great. The surface water was Ls Fahrenheit, the freezing point of salt water. The ice began to Teen: up about the 6th November and became very menacing, making even the a whine. Qn November 284, at been on the ice, got board," on waa got on house near it was abandoned. bat Hi if Hat ar 28° 8s i I : descise id i ate pounds of coal day was allowed for heating the cabin, twenty-five pounds for the forecastie and ninety pounds for ship's galley for cooking purposes. We lived oncanned goods, with bear and seal twice a week, pork and beangand salt beef once a week, ne rum or spirits except on festive occasions twe or three times s year. The discipline of the was excellent, and during the whole 21 mot in the pack there was ‘but one punishment given, and that was for pro- fanity. The crew were well quartered in berths and were comparatively happy: bad ni ition class and theatricals. @ health of all was ex- cellent, and there was a special medical examin- ation the first of every month. PUMPING FOR KIGHTERN MONTHS. The middle of January brought tremendous pressures) ‘and the floes caused the vessel both laterai and longitudinal strains, the men render- ing every assistance, though standing fn ice water, and the temperature at 42 degrees below zero. The vessel's bows leaked badly, though it was not till the 12th June, 1831, that it was found the forefoot had been twisted to starboard. Night and day Carpenter Sweetman and Ninder- man worked to build a bulkhead forward of the foremast, which partially confined the water. A pump was rigged up by means of the Baxter boiler, and the ship was pumped for nearly 18 months. A windmill pump for summer was constructed, but owing to the light winds was not serviceable. THE COLDEST WEATHER was in February, 1880, being 58 degrees below zero. At this time tne ship was about 50 miles from the place where it had entered, drifting to and from the 180th meridian. Wrangel Land began to be seen as insular, and disconnected with Greenland. On May 3, 1880, the ship was impelled by south- east winds to the northwest. As Mr. Collins had predicted, these winds prevailed till the middie of June, and then reversed their course. carrying the vessel back over the same track she had traversed. Though the weather in July and August was much milder, it was damp and isty. more disagreeablethan the winter. Birds Becane plentiful, and some were shot. Never- theless the ship was FIRMLY IMBEDDED IN THE ICE, and no force could have liberated her. Mr. Chipp put his electrical proficiency to good ac- count, and made over 2,000 observations of the disturbances of the galvanometer during displays of the aurora borealis, The more brilliant the aurora the greater the disturbance of the needle. The telephones were troublesome to manage, owing to the breaking of the wires connecting the ship with the lan The eciipses of Jupi- ter’s satellites were well observed, and alts for chronometer errors were very good, far bet- ter than those by lunar observations. About fifteen days of July were very pleasant, and the weather, when above 40 Fahrenhei called warm, but soon became raw and disa: able. Game was successfully pursued during the first year, both for the table and sealskin jackets for the men, but afterwards little was done in that line.’ The seals were mostly small, or about forty pounds each when dressed. Meat distasteful. Walrus scarce, the water being too deep. Six only were taken, which were made into walrus sau- sages by the Chinese cook, and the offal fed the dogs. Fifteen bears were captured. One huge and ferocions fellow that had invaded the ship one night was shot in the heart by Mr. Dunbar. A few foxes were seen, generally in the wake of the bears. A she bear and two cubs neared the ship at one time, but finally escaped. Had the ship held together it is believed she would have drifted out between 8; bergen and Bear Island into waters connected with the Atlantic. 1ieut. Danenhower thinks that if the Jeannette had entered the pack 200 miles fur- ther to the east she could have worked up near Prince Patrick’s Land, where the water is very deep. The depth of the sea traversed by the Jeannette was not over sixty fathoms at the greatest, nor less than seventeen at the least. No evidence of acurrent was obtained, and region east-northeast of Wrangel Land may be regarded as the ‘Arctic doldrums,” or sea of calms. So much for the first year’s story. ee ee ANGUS MACDONALD’S FARM. He Sells it Once and is Sorry, he Sells it Again and is Very Sorry. From the Guelph Herald. Angus Macdonald was a farmer from Char- lotteburg, County Glengarry, whe arrived in Winnipeg a few days ago. Angus, in his own estimation and in the estimation of his friends, yas a shrewd man. ‘He was hardly in the place before an old acquaintance of his ran up azainst him, slapped him on the back ina friendly way, and said: “I'm glad you've come up. [ was just going to send for you.” After their greetings, he contin- ued: the way, Angus, you own a farm out near Minnedosa?” “Yea.” “How much will you take for it?” “Idon't know,” said Angus. “I thought of settling on it myself.” G “Well, Pll tell you what; ' give you $6,000 for it.” Angus thouzht before leaving Glengarry that if he got 2,000 for it he would be doing well, but he was now in the land of booms and so he asked for it 36.500. “Well, here's 250 on the bargain and we'll sign the papers to-morrow.” And the purchaser rushed off. Before two hours “had passed Angus ran against another oid acquaintance. “Glad to see you, Angus; glad you came up. ‘There’s a splendid chance for you. By the way, 1 see you registered as owning a farm near Min- nedosa. How much do you want for that farm?” “T've just sold it,” said Angus. “How much did he give you?” “Six thousand five hundred dollars.” “The dickena_ he did. Why, I'll give you 915,000 for it. You go to the purchaser and get him to release you, and I'll give you the 15,000." Angus wished that he was back in St. Raph- aels or anywhere else, since he had made such a fool of himself. However. all he could do was to try and get the farm back. So who does he run across within fifteen minutes but purchaser No. 1. Says Angus: ‘I'm sorry I sold you my farm. Td like to get it back. “Here's your $50, and we'll be where we were.” “Oh, Ican’t dothat. I bought a farm, and will have the papers ready to-morrow.” After further higeling Angus offered him $500 to break the bargain. With great reluctance the first purchaser took the 500—100 new 5 bills of the Bank of Mont- real—and gave back to Angus the temporary agreement of sale. Angus was happy again and set out to find buyer No. 2. He found him not, No. 1 and No. 2 were pal confidence men. Angus was the sucker from Ontario, and $450 was the net amount that they atung him for. Sa ‘Pink Eye” Prevalent Among New York sorses. From the N. ¥. World. The disease among horses called “pink eye,” which has prevailed of late in the stables in Chi- cago, especially among the horses owned by the street-car companies, has become quite preva lent in this city. A reporter of the World called upon Dr. O. A. White, one of whose horses has just been going through an attack, to find out from him the character of the disease and the method of treatment. “ ‘Pink-eye,’” said Dr. White, “isa form of Influenza. It derives its name from the fact that when a horse is first at- tacked by it the eyes become blood-shot. Then the horse has a chill and gues through a regular course of fever. In severe cases the horse’s legs and peer begin to swell. I have seen oneof the animals ly whose legs looked as though he had elephantiasis. di An Oil City young: man was reading about recent doings in the.Arct’- regions, and his best irl was sitting nearby, watching the wagging of his mustache as the words rolled out. She ‘was evidently more deeply absorbed in the mus- tache than in the story: He continued: pone, ‘surprise. saying how grand it tobe crushed. Did you say it was Lene or Jeannetie ‘that penaeres EARLY SUMMER RESOR®BREEZEs, ‘The Mountains and Seaside. ‘The preparations for the opening of the sam- mer hotels have begun earlier than usual this season, a8 Tue Sran’s advertising columns at- test. During the winter there has been consider able building at Asbury Park, N. J. There are at present about 150 new houses going up. Some of them are unpretentions summer cot- tages, costing about $1,000, while others are handsome structures, costing from $10,000 to $12,000. That a large increase fa the number of the transient visitors is expected the coming Summer is shown by the many large boarding houses beng built. Ocean Grove, N. J.,!n summer has an average Population of between 22,000 and 24,000, of whom about 4,000 live in tents. At Asbury park on Sunday morning people can bathe until 8 o'clock, while at Ocean Grove the bath-houses are closed during the entire day, and even the of the inclosure about the Grove are shut. he streets have Biblical names, and the public buildings are named after celebrated preachers. They say that a party of well-known society young ladies have rented a large cottage at Cape May this summer, where, chaperoned by an elder married couple, they will keep house. This is a very pretty Idea, and no doubt the cot- sept let be the scene of many delightful occa- 01 Saratoga’s new hotel, the Kensington, is a large and handsome building, well located and well arranged. As before announced, it will be conducted by Mr. Rodgers, of the Coleman douse, New York city. The Clarendon, Saratoga, 1s being put In first- Class order by Messrs. Harris and Losekam, of Washington. The hotel clerk of the present seems to be more of a gentieman than formerly. both in ap- pearance and behavior, which isa good thing for the hotel business. There have been fifty new cottages erected at Cape May this summer. An excursion to this lace was run over the West Jersey road last week from Camden, 82 miles in 84 minutes. Cape May and Atlantic City will both have through trains from New York, Baltimore, and Washington this summer. This must have the effect of enormously increasing their patronage. The changing of cars is a bother which people avoid whenever they can. There are over four hundred guests at the Hygeia hotel, Fortress Monroe. What to Do With Old Things. From Harper's Bazar. Spring opens for the housekeepers with visions of closets and boxes whose accumula- tions must be sorted and stored for future use, Probably every woman willask herself the same question as she sorts her treasures: ‘What is the nse of keeping so many old things?” and, visited with sudden desperation, she will give half to the washerwoman, burn much, and hoard the rest more closely than ever to atone for her frenzy, of lavishness. And how surely, six weeks after she has burned the old new: papers and given away the old sacques, will she tind that the account of Daniel Webster's great speech was in the village paper she threw away, and the files of the old pictorials sne sold to the man for a cent a pound will be in request collectors. because the plates are to be de- ed; while the old jacket was just the right shade to go with Cousin Sarah’s applique, and both are usless divorced from cach other. Be- fore the first bluebird sings, or the garden path tempts one to a stroll on mild afternoons, bring out these old stores, and find the value and the use foreach. Else they will haunt you when maple boughs are flushing, and the blue sky and | pearly cloud call for clear conscience and care- free mind to share their pleasure. That dear, wise Sophronia, who rauks in our circle asa domestic Minerva, skilled in all arts and eco omies alike, declares the bad weather in Febru- ary and March arranged for the convenience of housekeepers, so that they shall have no tempt- ation to stir abroad till t! houses and sewing are in order for the season. I feel a great re- spect for Sophronia’s Judement. It is remarkable to view the hoards of rubbish even the best-ordered household brings forth at the spring cleaninz—the empty bottles, tin cans, broken chairs, scraps of iron, paper, and rags. And not a little intelligence goes to reduce these arhatian hordes "—to quote an unprincipled witli to order. What is fit to save, how to keep it in best shape and with least trouble, and what you may destroy with clear conscience, are worth learning. An hour's consideration will enlighten one how to relieve her after-life of petty annoyance. What to do with the old newspapers, rags, and leavings of a family is an oft-recurring vexation in the course of a year, and you may as well turn them ail to the best account. The papers which gather in a modern house- hold are a tribulation, always in the way when not wanted, and certain to be missing if a sheet is wanted to wrap a parcel. or you wish to refer to an article a week old. Itis a good rule never to allow a newspaper to be destroyed till It isa week old, but to draw for use on old stock. Let the pile gather till some convenient time next week,when you want to lie down on the lounge, and go over them, clipping the recipes, the in- teresting descriptions of foreign places, of trades, and adventures, which are so large a part of the best Journais. Having picked the brains of your papers, send them neatly piled to the biz box in the cellar, where they can be found for lighting the fire, polishing windows, rubbing stoves, or for the rag vender. Save all your rags andclippings, not more for your own thrift than for the good of the world for manufacturers find it difficult to get as much paper stock as is needed. Old newspapers can be ground again with a little fresh stock for cheaper grades ot printing-paper; Manila and straw car be worked into printing and wrapping paper again, but there is never enongh of raga for the nice book-paper which will wear well with handling, and take impres- sions from the engrayer’s block. I am amused to see the anxious air with which a publisher who sometimes visit our house regards every scrap of letter-paper and of rag which comes in his way. “Don't waste it,” he protests; “we never can get fine paper cheap enough. Save all your rags.” So I save them for love of litera- ture and nice books. One can not run to the great rag-bag with every day’s clippings, so there must be a gay round bag, with a rattan in the casing to hold its mouth open, at the corner of the work-table or sewing ma- chine. and the red and black waste-basket, with its felt and plush appliques and large tassels, has no sinecure. If you haven't a scrap basket, I will mention that a half-bushel peach basket, painted with Japan and lined with Turkey red, looks genteel enovgh to bring into company. The youngest child may be taught to throw every shred into the pretty basket, much im- proving the air of the sitting-room, and each chamber should have its open Japanese scrap bag and basket, as well as its toilette cover and hair saver. Once a week all receptacles are emptied into one, and the scraps led to the big bag in the closet. All the nice Manila ping-paper from parcels is saved ironed smoot! and laid in a wide drawer till wanted for lining i iu HT 5 2 ue s iL : d i i Hi Ty $$ WHAT BOYALTY COosTs. English Taxpayers Pouring Mitlious Yearly into the Laps of their Princes, ‘From the Gentlemen's Marazine. The allowance of £60,000 a year for the privy purse Is the carrying out of a commendable gen- erosity with which a great nation treats its sov- ereiga. Every want of the sovereiga Is already Provided for. She has houses to live in, horses to ride, food and wine provided in abundance, servants all paid, £13,000 year set aside for her dispensations in charity, and over £3,000 a year left for contingencies. It will not appear clear to the ordinary mind what channels of expenditure the Queen finds for this £60,000 allotted to the privy purse, nor would it in some circumstances be any business for the ordinary mind to trouble Itself with the Problem. But the question is thrust upon the public by the repeated demands for fresh eu) word on account of the royal family; and as Mr. ‘OX, neither whore statesmanship nor whose loyalty can be called in question, has put it: a ie Kseesapey at] the ved. lst = to e purposes maintaini support- ing the chilaren ofthe crown?” = We have seen that every possible want of the household Is liberally provided for, with a trifl- ing sum of £8,000 in supplement of £60,000 for the privy purse, But that by no means rep- resents the private income of the lady on behalf of whose children a fresh demand is now being made on the taxpayer. On the accession of her majesty the civil list was arranged on the basis described. There was added as a sort of bonus the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster. This, of course, is a national estate, the property of the people. But, with a generosity not here or elsewhere, as far'as I know, called In question, it was bestowed upon the Queen for her apo use and benefit. Since its appropriation the revenues of the estate have more than doubled. 1 have not at hand the figures of 1837, but ten years later,in 1847, the net revenues of the Duchy were £29,000.’ In 1878 they had reached £65,000, and the 31st of December, 1890, the last date on which accounts were published, the net receipts from this were £78,177, all of which goes to the Queen tor her private use. In addi- tion to these items there is a capitalsum of £250,000, which just thirty years ago a person named Neild bequeathed to the Queen for her personal use. If from these data we attempt to ascertain the means at the disposal of her majesty for family objects we reach this conclusion: - Ciyil list £60,000; Duchy of Lancaster, £78,000; in- terest 3 per cent on the Nelld bequest. £7,500. This ives a total of £145,000 a year, for the spending of which thought fails to discover any possibility on the part of a lady living in the manner adopted by the Queen. In endeavoring to answer the question put by Mr. Fox I am careful to eliminate anything inthe form of conjecture. The three items from which this total of the Queen's per- sonal and private income is derived are set forth either as parliamentary estimates or in official documents. The £60,000 from the privy purse is the most familiar sum. Min- isters of the crown and others, who from their point of duty very properly endeavor to minimize facts, are accustomed to keep this figure in the forefront, as if it were the only source of the private income of the queen. 1 quote the flzures of the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster from the balance sheet issued on the authority of the right honorable gentleman the chancellor of theduchy. As for the Neild bequest the will of that eccentric legatee was proved in doctors’ commons by the keener of her majesty’s privy purse and other executors on October 24, 1852, and the estate was sworn under £250,000. But it would be an insult to common rense to suppose that these items compose the full tale of the private income of the Queen. It is clear that the amount allotted by Parliament in 1837 for the maintenance of the royal household can- not be spent in the circumstances of the semi- retirement in which it pleases the sovereign to live. There must needs be, year after year, great savings in the various departments, for which, a3 we have seen, special provision is made, with the object of appropriating them to- other accounts. This has n going on for twenty years, and within that period the accu- mulated savings of the privy purse must have reached enormous proportions. It would be idle to indulge in wild guesses as to what the Queen's income may be when we add the interest of accumulated savings to the ordinary sources. Figures are supplied that indicate the true state of affairs, and any one accustomed to the miracles of compound interest may form his own estimate. I am content to take my stand on the £145,000 which her Majesty now receives over and above all pos- sible and conceivable charges for household expenses, and submit that, with this in view, we must answer Mr. Fox's question in the affirmati By a happy coincidence, the sum available for appropriation in this natural manner would very nearly meet the exigencies of the case. The Princess Royal draws £8,000 a year; the Prince and Princess of Wales have between them £50,- 000; the Duke of Edinburgh, £25,000; the Duke of Connanght, £25,000; Princess Helena, £6,000; Princess Lonise, a similar sum, and Prince pold, £15,000. These mak r year. It is now proposed eopold’s £15,000 an i would bring the total demand upon the of the family to £145,000—asum so near that avail- able that there could be no difficulty in amicabl: adjusting the small balance ina family council. Tt will be seen that such an arrangement could in no measure Incommode her Majesty. She would still have £225,000 a year to spend, putting en- tirely out of account any interest from accumu- lated savings. This, however, is an off-hand arrangement, which It does not come within reasonable prob- ability to suppose would be adopted, or even seriously discussed. It would be said that it is none of our business, and that we have no more right to interfere with the family arrangements of Queen Victoria than with those of our next door neighbor. 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