Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1882, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY. MA CITY AND DISTRICT. ‘The District Deadlock. POSITION OF THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS. jettcr of December 19th, 1879, from the Dis- tri t Commtsioners to the Ist controller of the ‘Treasury, reforred to in the correspondence relat- ing to the ock in District fnances, published nother column, set torth that the District stoners did not understand sections 3623 and kindred sections of United States 3 as having any appNeatian win.t- bie only to officers of ' | | win the Disti the House let thts a xburn d aS an Mi tent 0} Mr. Cobb seid fended the late Major Twining | r. i Intend to make an excep- a Major 1 As an offirer he was e <usoteton, 4S an adviser he Wus siways | <, conrteuas and competen ~ chair ruled thet tie section changing¢the thol of appointment was not in order, and tt ruled oul. This will leave te law as it fs, and fre both Commissioners to be residents of the ACTION IN TH Tn the House of Feport in our first edition ciosed, a Was offered to strike out of the bill authority given the District rs to extend and [mprove the Inter between Vermont aveaue and | ‘Btu str. -) & ma a 5 : Zz iS a + y, after the tion L northwest tendents. He asked Mr. Ht ulent of white Arke the salaries Mt aperintende fr. Lyneh, wi | » HX hh t is Ch sted. ‘A reeonstTorad ats pre- was not in order to tie school super- lesve the salary of the | Rite schools it $2700 per ane 0. he sw of el rman Haskell o7 looted thiton and after DrunLof school trustees 2 ist of Only Aine members. An amendment wis pled that _no more than the market price shoutd be patd for fuel, and all Deis above the morket price should be rele Tr Miment was adopted, the statement made that the Commissioners have paid | Over the market price. ‘The bill wes then proceeded with without inter- lil be passed, with the amendments ted, becore the House adjouras for sted. I ve ——— DENT has appointed the following Board of vistors to the military academy at West | Point: J. | of Clinton, Il; rter, of etty; Gen. # chaff, Boston; J. D. Tillman, Fayettevili B. Treat, Mourve, Wis, and | Hon. M. L. ark, Nu. s Sexton Wrspo said this afternoon that there had net vet been a conference of the members of his select. committee to investigate the so-called | nd he could not say when the com- ran at sapposed It would com operations within a few days. : Prestpent.—The case | t Mason bs now before the President for | to whether his sentence shall be com- It ts the general impression that WEI tike favorable { A DELEGATION from the Brewers’ convention led upon the Pre el, nl | of Philadetphia. | Ur 70.4 Late iiove tis afternoon the President had made no selection of a new District Corauals- stoner. Tus AgwieciTreaL DepartweNt Brut.—The An- derson Acricuitural d ment bit which passed the House to {5 a modification of the bill in- | troduced by Rey niative U rat! " @auring the last seesion of Congre Bentioman has earnestly press Coxvestep Etzction Cases—The southern re- pur members of the House held 2 conference te-dlay on the ling so uthern contested election cases After ¢ I diseassion a resolu tion was: adopted urging the speedy disposal of the cases Which bave been reported to the House by the conmnittee On elections. Axuy Oxpres.—First Lieutenants Albert L, Myer, 1th infantry; Merion P. Maus, Ist infantry George B. Walker, 6th infantry; Willlam Batrd, sth cavalry, and Second Lieutenant Harry LB ley, t e1 from special duty and ordered to join their proper stitions The Fesignation of Cadet Wiliam P. Maury, 4th class, U.S. mt demy, has been accepted, to take | effect June 2, of absence granted First Lieutenant John L. Bullis, 21th infantry, is extended four months. The leave of absence ‘on Surgeon's certificate of disibility gronted Captain Peter J. A. Cleary ts extended six months, ‘THe West WASHINGTON SHOOTING Case.—The ens galust Alonzo Donaldson, the young white Smith in the head with a pistol on a boat In We: Wash! on some time ag Potice Court Rot being able A Svsrictovs Yorna MAN ARRESTED.—This id arrested a young man on D street, detween 9h and 10th, on complaint of a young lady named Miss Lemon, wh foliowed and insulted heron Penn: He sata 5 at his name wa: to appear at court, — ast night, and u : eorge James. On his. person were found jimmy,” a “black-Jack,” and a h iets stolen from ‘Teel’s He | Was locked up a8 a susple! ous character. -_ Sestexcep.—The Criminal Court to-day tm- Posed sentences as fellows: Grorge Immick, Assault with intent to Kill his wife, elght years; Thomas J. Bicksler, having counter- Jett money in his possession, ‘five years; Dantel Magruder. Benjamin Turner and est’ Ouden, second offence petit larceny, three years each, | > Dex: IN Fee have been filed as follows: Letta Weaver to Betsy King, pt. 2. sq. 793: 21,100, and undivided half W-haif 2, sq. 793; $—_ 3.’M. Som- rustee erville, #7: tehardsy Tot 4 5 D. B. Groff to P. H. Chrigsian lot ah, to $3,750. C. M. Matthews, trustee, w G. W sh7 hite, lot 7, block 2, Howard University grounds: Do. to A. P. Marston, lot 13, block 7, do.: $45. & P. Cooper to ©. Cx sub. 37, sq. 400: $1,100. A. Hyde et al, trustees, to C. M. Matthews, pt. 7, 70; $1,109.40. CN. Thom to SB. Whitinz,sub: So. 97; $965; sub.40, sq.70; $—. Mary Coomes to | sub. 5, sq. 425; $1,400. S. Guthrie trustees, to Ephraim N E, Handy to SH. Walker, ¥ Mitchell to John Grind Fy 8. a x i ee | Sald that it was not mences on Tuesday, May the 16th, string of hor. hol resentative neve! iy would put astle | for this evening: lerdell Star Reute Case. ACTION IM THE POLICE COURT TO-DAY—THE HRAR- ING FURTHER POSTPONED. ‘The hearing in the cas? of Montford C. Rerdell, charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the so-called star-route frauds, was taken upin the Police to-day t1ovclock. Shortly after that hour Messrs. In- cersoll, Chandier, Williams and other counsel for {ye devense appeared In court, with the defendant erdell. Mr. Willams said the defence was ready to pro- ceed, but did not see anybody present to repre- sent the government. ‘The court sald he under- stood irom Mr. Merrick that the witnesses in the vase were before the grand jury, and it w efore, not be of any use to lear the case id + court until the grand jury had taken some action In the matter. Mr. Ingersoll suggested at some one be sent to confer with Mr. Merrick 1 at he wishes and intends to do in use tuey (the defence) don’t want night be called a Shap judgment in ¥. Merrick (who had been sent The court called Mr. Merrick’s the fet that at the last this court in this case Mr. tward under cros+examination. Mr. ick sald Mr. Woodward was before rand jury in this case and in others at the nt time. nrt said it would be a useless art to proceed with the case Was beiore the grand jury. Mr. Williams ig the defence with fatr- ecase WO places 1 “some dely Mi he: a” to m of w Woo: Met proce when it {for the government counsel to taxe the out of the hands of the court at their pleas- i he would ask the court to dismiss the de- at Mr. Merrick sald Mr. Woodward would be before t cnt jury probably for several days. The court remarked thet it was pretty apparent Ul that these star ronte cases were Important cases anrt would have fo be treated with common Sense. It was not possible for a witness to be In ani the explanation of Mr. bsenve Was as ctory one und he would 4 to dismiss the defendant because if the grand jury indicted him he would probably | not be found when waated, as he 1s not under 00 Mr. Merrick said the government have closed and wer willing to submit the case to rt if the d-ience were willing. nee de-lined to do this, and the hearing was suspended unt!! We tnesday next. CELEBRATED STABLES THAT HAVE ARRIVED. The executive committee of the National Jockey Club are holding nightly meetings and perfecting their, arrangements for the meeting. which com- Gov. Bowie’ among which are idnre and Tusea- Gricknore will start in on Tuesday, in which race starters, On the same day ‘teeple chase with mile ce and. th . The stubles of D. Cotazzl, € rived last night with Spark, Valparaiso, ‘Laura Glass and two 2-year is. Arringements have been made with the tread company for the transportation of nine lots of hors¢s from the Pimlteo track at Balt!- : ‘tabies belonging to Wyndtiam Ings, 8; Daly Bros., 15; act, 3; Clopham Smith, 4; Chas. erman € Co., 6; Dunn & Co.,'5; James & Co. Arrangements have © executive committee with Ts In reference to keeping tinproper tracters out of the grounds. They have also mad arrangements with all railroads coming to ro rofind trip tickets at reduced rates. pelied to inerease the number roining than they expected. = General Conference C. M. E. Church. CLOSING PROCEEDINGS TO-DAY. After the report in the first edition closed, pro- ceodings In the general conference of the colored M. E. chureh were continued as follows: Bishop Hilleary said he came her» as the rep- of six bishops, 5,000 ministers, 00M inembors ant 3 > bear thelr frater of Crickmore, Conipensation, Will arrive tr bl ace’ and that Afi in Methodism woul 1 until all branehos ful have a larger pl tional ambition of the Psalmist: “Behold how goo? and it is for brethren to dwell tosetuer in Mr. Stafford endorsed the remarks of the ev. J. W. Bell re=ponded for the conference, Ung that they had 700 traveling ministers, 800 local ministers and 112 600 members, having been ‘but twelve years in exisience. the fraternal messag s his would lead to the latter. Bishop Mile3 expressed performed their duties. loWed in a short address. | At one o’clock, Rev. . Peck made | the fraternal address ‘of the A. M. E. hurch, im which connection there — are 3,500 ministers, a membership of 450,000, ard 700,000 in the Sunday schools. Appropriite re- sponses were made and the session was DrouzAt to a close, the following announcements being made : Israel C.M.E. church, Rev. J. B. Wilkins, of Mississippi; Moore; Bast Washington C.M.E. church, Rev. D. A. Walker, of Kentucky. - oie THE ALONZO BEL. LIset. Hackman and Henry Kecd, of the Sunday Chiron cle, WhO Wel the action of the grand jury ul libel on Alonzo Beil, Interior, appeared in tie afternoon and gave the required for thelr appearance before the bond—$500 e: grand jury. THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. The following are the oveuing and closing 912-3 cf the New York Stock H. i. al. Delaware is Delaware, Lackawanni Denver and Kio Gi Erie seconds . Houston und T lilinots Central. Manhattan Beach.. Michigan Central Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Missourt’ Pacific Moblic and Ohio Metropolitan Elevated. New York Elevated. New Jersey Centra New York Central . Ohio and Miss. Ohio and Miss. preferred. RatLroap Accipents. — A disastro reported, caused by a washout on the Waco branch of the Texas Central railway. On Sunday rail night a freight train went through the y kil ‘the fireman and two brakem« and site aeonamecegeamenand ly artal for ani de and little bi peal oe the re Tee pemtree ee “Zoological Ne- it was also treating te court with | Ss his individual opinion that a union | ‘They reciprocated ‘There was fraternal if not ts that the fraternal delezates appointed to attend the conferences ot ne E. und the A. M. E. Zion church had not r Rev. Mr. Green, of the Arkansas conference, fol- Hitisdale, Rev. David held by Judge Snell in the Police i =, —_ 16, 1882—DOUBLE SHEET. Later Telegrams to The Star, THE HARRISBURG = CONVENTION. THE MALLEY MURDER TRIAL. ‘The Harrisburg Convention, THE ONLY CHANGE DURING RECESS. HARRISBURG, 2:30 p.m.- @ convention is now about reassembling wi & prospect of ing through in time to e1 pdckeyetes to takesopare ing e} trains. The only change in the vening situation since adjournment is that Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia, 1s to be pitted against Rawle for the supreme jidgeship, of ex-Judge Brewster, - ‘A CAUCUS of the Philadelphia delegation was called to meet immediately after Adjournnent, but it did not get together until 2 o'clock, when it was agreed to drop Brewster and to’ unite the anti-Rawle strength on Judge Thayer. On the question of the secretaryship of internal affairs the deleates were left to vote according to their own choice, and as the bulk of them will go tor Greer the latter’s nomination is almost as cer- | tain as Beaver’s. The delegates will also vote as they please on | Congressman at la Butler's nomination for the office is also a foregone conclusion. a y Trial. May 10.—In the Malley trial mination of Charles Rawlins was concluded, but nothing new was testified to, ile was cross-examined by Mr. Blydenburgh at greatlength. He testified to seeing Jennie Cra- | mer and Blanche Douglass at the restaurant Thurs- | day mornti Angust 4th, and he declared that the same ladies were there at 10:40 o'clock the | Same evening, and that they left about 10:15 take age ‘The Crops in the Northwest. Cntcago, May 10.—A special dispatch from St, Paul, Minn., says: The warm rains of the past two “days just as the seeding fs. fin- ished, have been very favorable to the crop pros- pects in the northwest and the reports are almost uniformly cheering. ‘The crop reports from forty- one townships in” Towa centering about Oska- loosa show the fall and spring Wheat, oats and rye in a first-class condition. The ground for the corn is nearly all plowed and early planting ts as- sured with a greatly fereased acreage of about 6,000 acres in small grain. ‘A special (rom Abilene, Kansas, says: The crop indications for tliis and the adjoining counties are excellent. Rain enough has fallen. The chinch bugs have done very little harm and have been generally exterminated by the late rains. Wheat is well up and in head. Harvest is but a few weeks Off with prospects of a good crop. eth Sabet The Army of the Tennessee. Sr. Lovrs, May 10.—The weather is fine. The Preparations for the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee are in progress. The Peo- ple’s Theater 1s_ elaborately decorated with battle fags, mottoes and garlands. A large number of members are present. Ss Mrs. Scoville in Chicago. Cutcago, May .10.—Mrs. Scoville, who arrived here from’ New York last night, ‘is the guest of friends on the south side. She Is “arranging a lec- ture tour through the west. ss A Lockout at Cleveland. CLEVELAND, O., May 10.—The differences between the Cleveland rolling mill company and its em- ployes have culminated in a lockout. All the com- pany’s works are shut down, ard between three and four thousand men are idle. Part of the men announced last evening that they would quit, and an order was issued to close all the other Works Ww YORK, May 10.—The Post’s financial article Duliness 15 the chief feature of the Stock ange markets to-day. U. 8. Bonds are igher for the 43 and extended 5s and 6s. South- fern state bonds are firm, except for Ten- nesssee’s, which are 1 per cent lower. Railroad’ bonds are frregniar, but generally 1 The stock market in the first hour was | and prices fell 3ga1% for the active stock, | led by Louisville and Nashville, to 745. Since 11 r | o'clock the market has been steady to strong, and \4¢01 per cent of the decline has been re- covered, and a few stocks have made the | bigest’ prices of the day. As yet there has been no renewal of the foreign buying of stocks, but the gold shipments are expected to stimulate such buying, particularly if the winter wheat crop here fuiflils expectations which should be known in the early future. As to domestic purchases, few are making, except _by speculators, and they are buying sparingly. Money which 18 being drawn out of U.S. bonds fs going into R. R. ponds rather than stocks, to the extent that it 1s being used at all in the purchase of securities. In the money market 324 p.c. is the quotation for call loans on stocks and 243 p.c. on U.S. bonds, ‘Time loans are nominal, and prime mercantile paper 15 4a5 p. c. ‘The steamer Adriatic which sails to-morrow has already engagements for $650,000 specie; and the total may Tun up to $1,000,000. It 1s doubted whether any gout will be shipped by Saturday’s steamer, which 1s a slow boat. market, for foreign exchange 1s quiet but. sull strong at the gold exporting point. be ‘Telegraphic Briefs. William Tait, convicted of assault on a little girl ten years ‘old, was arraigned in the Kings county (N.Y.) court of sessions to-day, and sen- tenced to state prison for twenty years. Lewis Hayden, charged with killing William | Shtelits, was this morning convicted of manslaugh- ter at Wiltington, Del, and sentenced to three iuonths imprisonment and $100 fine. ———>—__ | Juntvs Cuampens, Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Heratd, charged with Itbelling tar John B. McPherson, of New Jersey, in ai cle concerning the Peruvian claim, was Indicted by the grand jury in Philadelphia this morning. ——-e-_____ ‘The Model Sexton. Josiah H. Haywood, sexton of the Church of the Unity, Boston, has recently celebrated his silver wedding, Among the incidents of the festive oceasion was the reading of a letter from | the Rey. M. J. Savage, his pastor, in which he | said: “I propose, therefore—entirely for your own good—to suggest a few faults. If you can only | manaye to cure these you will have become the | ideal sexton, and you can command a sslary of £10,000 a year, or perhaps earn more than that by travelling wtih Barnum as the greatest cu- riosity of the age. The faults allude to are such as these: “First—Y ou have not yet learned how tomake the church hot and coq! at the same time. You nust learn how to have one pew mark 75 degrees ‘ahrenheit, while the next one to itis down to a point where it would be comfortable for an Eskimo. “‘Second—You do not seem to know how to have a free circulation, a plenty of fresh air, and yet not have any draught any lere. You must invent some way to make all the draughts skip the eye where rheumatic and bald-headed people sit. “‘ Third—You have not yet acquired the art of having the church flooded with light while all the blinds are shut at the same time. This should be attended to at once, and you should not offer any such poor excuse as that it is im- possible. To asexton nothing should be im- possible. ““Fourth—You must find out some way of giv- ing everybody the best seat, right in the center of the house, no matter whether the pews are already full or not. “Fifth—You must learn how to fill all the pews with strangers without making anybody ‘mad’ about it, and at the same time have plenty of room left for regular pew-holders. “‘Sizth—And fiuaily you will spend your lelsure time in inventing a patent church that shall be ies warm enough and not too warm: not too ight, but Just light enough; not too draughty, but with just draught enough; where all the people, whatever their mental, moral, or physi- cal condition, will be perfectly comfortable, and —crowning achievement of all—that shall have all the seats in the middle. “What is a sexton for anyhow if he can’t please everybody at the same time?” m§ Intense Love Within Limits. From the Chicago Tribune, “Pull up your pants, papa.” Aristides McGuire heard these words ag they came from the ruby-red lips of Gwendolen Ma- haffy and floated tohis ears on the softly sighing and sensuous breezes of a June evening. He looked, and saw the pretty feet and shapely ankles of Gwendolen as ehe picked her way carefully along the muddy crosswalk. He noted the tenderly solicitous e in which she ad- dressed her father, and that tone thrilled his blood. Weise beer would also have done it, but Aris- tides was not so fly as he might have been. Scarcely knowing why he did so, the yor ion Ge Shr set lee Dither, fin- ey turned up Ogden avenue, and, as Gwendolen headed southwest and stood for an instant with her polonaise fluttering in the wind, she turned to her companion and said : last house on the street, ,” replied the old man. * street?” asked Aristides of BEARDED FACES. and Whiskers a Few Years Back. From the New York Journal of Commerce. Thirty years ago a few persons of foreign birth appeared in the streets with hair on the Upper lip, and were subjects of curiosity and sometimes of publicridicule. In 1850 some ot the young swells of the metropolis began to wear mustaches, but for some time no clerk would venture to imitate them. In one casea merchant-on Vine street who had just engaged aclerk for twelve months, or during good be- havior, discharged him for wearing a full beard. claiming that the adoption of the fashion laid the cler! n to dismissal under the good be- havior clause to the contract. About the same time a number of leading merchants gave no- tice that they wonld employ nobody who wore hair on the upper lip. As late as 1851 the senior proprietor of this paper made his cashier shave off an incipient mustache, and soon after brought his own son under the razor. In the church of Dr. Bethune, on Broaklyn Heights, an elder who was suffering from a Jame wrist allowed his beard to grow rather than to sub- mit toa barber, The habit, beginning in ne- cesity, continued on account of the increase of comtort which it afforded, and the elder flaunted his beard before his congregation con- stantly. The result was laughable. Many of the brethren called upon the pastor to insist upon doing away with such a scandal asa full- bearded elder. He led them to his library and showed them how some of the early fathers had pleaded against cutting off the beard. “He turned to Lactantius, Theodore, pt. Augustine and St. Cyprian, who had stoutly contended for the growth of a fall beard. He quoted from Clement of Alexandria the assertion that “nature adorned men, like a lion, with a beard, asa mark of strength and power.” When one of the visitors asked him how he would like it if the clergy assumed the mustache, Dr. Bethune referred him to a decision of the fourth Coun- cil of Carthage (A. D. 252, can. 44.) in which it was positively enacted that a clergyman shall not shave his beard, and to a statement made by Luther in discussing the subject. “that all the Protestant martyrs were burned in their full beards.” This <did not settle the matter, for subsequently the ladies of the congregation put in their protest. But in a few months a venturesome lawyer let his beard grow after the manner of the elders, and in a little while smooth shaven faces were no longer the rule, but were the exception. iieee ee Se HOME HORTICULTURE. Decoration of the House With Plants and Cut Flowers. From Our Continent. In the general decoration of the drawing- room the window-curtains, if these are lace, should not be overlooked. Long strings of smilax can be tacked to the lace at intervals with a thread and needle, and the foliage picked apart so that the entire fabric is covered; the effect is that ofa drapery of light vines. The smdlaz curtains may be then caught back with a bunch of bright roses. The beauty and grace of this arrangement must be seen to be entirely appreciated. For trimming chandeliers and gas brackets gothing is so ornamental as butterfly orchids. The cork orbark upon which the orchid is fas- tened can be tied to the gas fixtureand hidden by festoons of Lygodiun scandens or smilar, chains of which may be gracefully twined abont the fixture. The butterfly blossoms should be so arranged as to quiver about the jets of light; the effect is very airy, and the blossoms so_per- fectly represent insects that the lights seem surrounded with speckled winged beauties. This is a costly but charming fashion for chan- delier or candelabra decoration. Specimen alms and tree ferns are highly decorutive if suitably placed in the drawing- room. Plants in the parlor should never be in the way, as is frequently the case where those of too great size are stood in corners, with their fronds reaching so widely that they have to be dodged. Cocos weddeliana and Bowonia specta- bilis serrulata are very handsome plants to em- ploy for room decoration. Finely grown ferns look particularly well, placed upon pedestals. There is opportunity for a display of fine taste in the dining-room decoration. Discrimination must be exercised in using blossoms of agreea- ble odor tor the table, besides in having these in color suitable to the ion. For instance, where as for a young ladies’ luncheon party, Hinsdale pinks or Bouseline rosebuds would be appropriate, for a dinner of older persons richer flowers would be more in keeping. Carnations make a brilliant table decoration and their deli- cate spicy fragrance is never objectionable. The “Firebrand” or “La Purete” look gor- geously by gas light, and should be allowed their own spike-like foliage. Roses are very much used for table ornamentation, and. callas, if laid flat among ferns or smilax, are effective. Tt is decided by general véte that the center floral piece of the table should not be high, as it interferes with the view opposite. It may be arranged in several ways. This season the lay- ing of a square of crimson plush on the table- cloth under the center light has been popular. The plush is edged with foliage, young cala- diums being handsome for this purpose. A flat basket of roses or lilies is placed upon this. Ferns are deservedly favorite for center pieces. Many persons would like to have a standard center piece of growing ferns on their dining table did they know how to arrange one so that nothing but the foliage would be seen. It may be accomplished in the following manner: Have aplain pine leaf made for the middle one of the extension table, withan aperture in the exact center, into which the box of growing ferns may be fastened. Two tablecloths instead of one are required to cover the table containing the growing fern piece. Fold these lengthwise through the center and pin firmly around the stems the seams of eacn cloth together, allow- ing one seam to lap over the other half an inch. Press this lap down flat the length of the table with a heavy heated flat-iron. So place the fern fronds that they will hide the pinned points. This arrangement is not as trouble- some as it may appear; it looks very nicely and the growing ferns, if watered judiciously, will remain handsome the entire season. There is no part of the decoration for enter- tainments which has exhausted so much of flor- ists’ ingenuity as the favors for luncheon parties, dinners and the cotillion. These have assumed all shapes from the horseshoe to the hunting- horn. Very costly and elegant designs are im- ported for flower-holders. «Satin bags, hand- penn and swinging from ribbons stamped in letters of gold with the name of the person to wear it, are filled with superb roses. There has been such a disregard of expense for favors, that at present the feast isre; led as hardly in good form unless an gxtravagant favor is laid at each cover. When selected roses worth from one to three dollars each are bunched for the favor it becomes avaluable gift. Favors of fabulous worth have been made for some of the private dinners given in New York city the past season. Jeweled pins have been attached to the floral design by which it could be fastened to the belt. To our taste a single long-stemmed rose laid by each plate is a charming favor, and for the german, where every lady probably is decorated, one choice flower is frequently more acceptable than a bouquet. Small palm-leaf or peacock-feather fans with a knot of flowers at the handle—perhaps a y fastened up one side—are very pretty and acceptable favors’ if choice flowers are selected for the pr 5 Spring blossoms and light foliage are the most suitable for the vases in the bed-chamber. Daises, lily-of-the-valley, Jarkspur and corn- flowers arranged with grasses look daintily on the dressing-table. As soon as any blossoms laced about the house become blighted they should be thrown out. Dead flowers are un- wholesome, and give an apartment a dreary and neglected appearance. F. A. Bexsoy. ——$$<—<___os—_____ A New West Point Arrival. A correspondent of the Providence Press, de- scribing life at West Point, saya: The pros- pective candidate, who, armed with his creden- tials, arrives at “the Point,” Is met at the wharf bya sentinel, who ¢onducts him to the adju- tant’s office, there. to record his entrance into small and great tribulations. The poor fellow, who has just left the endearments of home, be- comes for a time gue of an inferior caste, tay ward whom too often the of derision is pointed, drft master fourtabea with ject of ta, ng sally sxteaiges ate of low taunt i at wit on 1S pacar tanta He is call “tI “a conditional thing,” and a “plebe;’ crowded, five im @ room, with a floor and a blanket for a bed >is twi juad-drilled in * A LOVE EPISODE, The Thrilling Information Imparted by Aphrodite Mc@uire to G. Simp- son. From the Chicago Tribune. “Does your father keep a dog?” As George W. Simpson spoke these words in the earnest, tender manner that ever character- ized his@emeanor towards the gentler sex, Aphrodite McGuire gave an upward glance, half shyly, half wonderingly, and then the beau- tifut brown eyes were again turned away and the little dimpled hands that had been clasping apillar of the vine-clad porch on which they were standing this beautiful June morning tell lstlessly by her side. For a moment neither spoke, ie sun glints fluttered erratically down between the bright green leaves of the are trees, the hum of insects filled the air, and the pleasant lowing of the cows as they roamed contentedly among the succulent grasses of the meadows was borne up on the balmy breath of the early summer to these two in whose hearts the first promptings of a pure,Cook county love were being felt. The man was the first to speak. Bending over the little form that stood beside him, he looked with his clear blue eyes upon the coronal of golden locks that crowned Aphrodite's head, and then his eyes wandered to the invisible net which kept the coronal from slipping off when the breeze hit it. [y darling!” he whispered softly to himself. ‘God has made us for each other, and we must never be parted. Without you my life would be as desolate as the subscrip- tion book of a Milwaukee paper, my whole ex- istence a horrible dream from which there was no awakening.” And clutching nervously at his 'll-be-better-in-the-spring moustache with one hand, he gently placed the other upon Aphrodite's shoulder. The girl did not move. Again hetouched her, but there was no response. Still George suspected nothing. Who can blame his pure innocence? The dress was padded. “Aphrodite,” he said, in low, mellow tones— almost mellow enough to pick, ‘‘will you not speak tome and give me a hope, one little three-for-five-cents hope?” The girl raised her face to his. The happy, careless, are-you-going- to-the-ball-this-evening expression that had marked its every feature before George spoke the fateful words with which this story opens was gone and in its place there dwelt a stony, almost conerete look, that told more eloquently than could words of the terrible struggle that had taken place in the mind of this beautiful, striped-stockinged girl. No word came from the ashen lips from which the red blood of youth had flown, but the wistful fear-hannted expression of the dusky-brown eyes told all. “He has got a dog, then?” asked George, his voice quivering with excitement as he spoke. sobs shook her form; ‘“‘and,” she added, speak- ing the words with a tender grace beyond com- pare, “they are both on the bite.” Darwin’s Home. From the London Daily News. Perhaps a more striking illustration of the isolation of Downe could not be given than the fact that, althongh Mr. Darwin here breathed his last at 4 o’clock in the afternoon ot Wednes- day, the news which has since been received with profound sorrow in every part of the civilized world was not known in London until noon of the following day. In this secluded and beautiful district, at some two or three hundred yards only on the further side of the village, the illustrious au- thor of “The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection” passed his laborious life. Having finally given up his residence in town in 1840, soon after his mar- riage, he found the retirement essential to his habits of systematic study and of patient iny tigation of the laws of nature; here, in the ex- tensive grounds of the.old house which is soon to know him no more, he conducted those bo- tanical and other experiments and observations of which the results are recorded in that long list of works wherein the doctrine of evolution has found inexhaustible illustration. “Downe Court” is one of the old square-built red-brick mansions of the last century, to which has been added in more recent times a gable-fronted wing, with another square-built wing and pil- lared portico on the corresponding side. Shut inand almost hidden from the roadway by a high wall and a belt of trees, it seems the very ideal of a place for philosophical seclusion. On the southern side the walled garden opens into }® paddock or meadow equally retired, and bounded by atract of underwood through which there is a lovely view of the narrow valley de- scending toward Tatsfield and Westerham. In these extensive additions to the grounds of Downe Court, which Mr. Darwin had rented of his intimate friend and neighbor, Sir John Lub- bock, he had of late years been accustomed for the most part to take his daily exercise with the regularity which distinguished most of his habits. Up to ten or twelve years ago his tall figure, seated upon a favorite old black cob, was a familiar object in the lanes round about; but the unfortunate animal, seized with a fit one day, fell, and died by the roadside, after which it was observed that Mr. Darwin was never seen to ride again. His invariable hours for walking every day were 7 inthe morning, noon- day, and 4 o’clock in the afternoon, sometimes accompanied by his sons, one of whom Mr. Francis Darwin, has long been established as a surgeon In the village, but more often alone. Rising always at the early hour of 6 to take his cold bath—into which he was accustomed to plunge both morning and eyening—he break- fasted alone; and after his first morning walk was in his library as a-rule at 8. At 9, when the post-boy arrived from Farnborough, he would spend a little time in the dining-room opening letters and skimming the papers, and in the evening would linger an hour or so in the society of his family, or of some of those friends distinguished in the world of science, who oc- casionally found their way to Downe Court; but the greater part of his time was spent in his library, his gardens and the outlying parts of his little domain. When he extended his walks into the country round about, it was observed the roads, preferring, as he did, to take his way generally southward by the footpaths through the woods and meadows. Little ehildren, who have a quick instinct for a kind and gentle n: ture, would run to open agate when they saw Mr. Darwin coming, encouraged thereto by a smile and a kind word. Downe folk, by whom he was much beloved, like now to dwen upon these trifles, and to speak of his considerate kindness to all about him. They point witu a sort of pride to the fact that the domestics at Downe Court are mostly old servants; that his maid, mereeret Evans, who assisted in nursing him in his last illness, entered his service when agirl, at Shrewsbury, nearly forty years ago, her aunt and uncle being butler and house- keeper to Mr. Darwin’s father, Dr. Robert War- ing Darwin, inthat city. The intelligence of his death came upon the place with a painful sud- denness. It was known that he had been poorly for a few weeks; thatit had been deemed advisable about a month ago to send a servant to London to fetch a chair constructed for car- ing an invalid, the weakness ofthe action of the heart rendering even the slight exertion of ascending the single flight of stairs to his bed- room perilous in the opinion of his medical ad- visers. But, with care, sufferers from heart dis- ease often live long. and he was in the main still able to pursue his customary habits. On Tuesday morning his devoted friend and com- rade in the field of science, Sir John Lubbock called to see him on his way to his pas jamen- tary duties in London, and found him, as it seemed, pretty much as usual. That matters had taken a grave turn became known for the first time when, on Wednesday afternoon, his groom arrived ‘galloping through the village upon a horse sprinkled with foam, and carry: under his arm a wet and dripping of ice, He had been dispatched in haste to money, the nearest point at which such an article cor be obtained, and had accomplished the ride of about twelve miles jn something k to hisrest, #1 minded by hie family. ee sun surTo! Qi cluding Mrs. Darwin, several of his sons and a married daughter. 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