Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1882, Page 3

——_ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, HOME MATTERS. GELCONABLE SUGGESTIONS—USEFUL RECIPES— HOUSEHOLD HINTS—GARDENING NOTES. Ir You Crt pineapple in thin slices and scatter Sugar over it the day before vou serve it, you Reed not add any water to make the liquor. Keep it in a cool place. A Ricu Pupprxe Sauce is made of the yolks of five eggs. one cup of sugar. half a cup of but. ter; beat all together till light, then add slowiy ne pint of boiling water. Wuew You Have 4 Lirtix Pre Crust left do Rot throw it away; roll it thin, cut it in smal; Squares and bake. Just before tea, nut a spoon- full of raspberry jelly on each square. Tomato Sauce to pour over meat is made thus: Stew halfa dozen ripe tomatoes, with a little chopped parsley, salt and pepper to suit taste; Strain it, put it on the stove again, and when it begins to boil add a spoonful of flour, rubbed smooth, with a tablespoonful of butter, and let it boil up once. Comrtaixt is Mave that the convenient dic- tionary-holders, m of wire, injure the back of the book. This may be prevented by cover- ing the book with very heavy paper, or by ma- king a sort of pad for the back, having it wide enough to come over the sides and under the Ciasps that hold the book. Square Scre that do not fold are much Fought for just now. They do not give the op- portunity for so varied de. work shows off to much bet- d less work counts for more where the effect Is more con- win froutof a grate these are generally preferred. Frexcu Hasn.—Minee very fine a teaspoon- ful of onion, brown it in a teaxpoonfal of butter, Stir in & tablespoonful of flour, and let that brown: then add a pint of <ravy, broth or water, and cold beef cut in small thick slices; season With eait and pepper and heat it; draw the pan to the side of the tire, and stir in the yolks of two raw eggs and a wlass of sherry or Madeira Wine and serve th i at once; toast may be Placed under the hash ProveNcaLe Porators.—Chop one onion fine and fry it light brown in a teaspoonful of but- ter; mix the fried onten and butter with a quart of cold mashed potatves; season them palatably With salt and pepper; pat them into a smooth tin mold rubbed w down compactly and set the mold in a hot oven until the potatoes are brown; if they have been properly placed in the mold they can be turned | out without breaking. Prorsct tue Curranrs.—As the currant is among the first fruits to ripen, it is well to| think of the remedies to secure the crop. The insect—no matter by what name it is known— which destroys the foliage 80 as to prevent the fruit from ripening will now commence opera- | tions. Its first appearance should be met with a free dusting, early in the morning when the dew is upon the leaves, of hellibone; or, in lien of this, free sprinklings of the bushes, when the dew has disappeared, of whale-oll soap and water, made quite strong. say a pound and a-halt of the soap to three or four gallons of water: or. in place of this, carbolie soap and Water may answer equally well. This fruit is too valuable to be allowed to be destroyed for the sake of the little trouble and expense in- volved inf its preservation.— Germantown Tele- graph. As ExceLLent Mixtvre To Remove Greast Srots, from boys and men’s clothing particu. arty, is made of four parts of alcohol to one part of ammonia and about half as much ether as am- monia. Apply the liquid to the grease spot, and then rub diligently with a sponge and clear Water. The chemistry of the operation seems te be that the aleohol and ether dissolve the grease, and the ammonia forms a soap with it whieh is washed cut with tne water. The result is much more satisfactory than when something is used which only seems to spread the spot and hake it fainter, but does not actually remove it. If oil is spilled on a carpet and you immediately xeatter cornmeal over it, the oil will be absorbed dy it. Oil may also be removed from carpets Gpon which you do not dare put ether or ammo- Bia by laying thick ting paper over it and ressing a hot flat-iron on it. Repeat the opera- several tives, using a clean paper each fme.— 0. ¥. Post. A Goov PLANT For Sitapy PLaces.—We ean- Qot say how common this flower is. for we have Rever seen or heard of it except within the past two years. though we have since learned that it Was formerty to be found in many of the old gardens in this section. It is commonly called English Day Nettle,” and is the vest plant for shady places that we have yet tried or know of It grows qu'te thick, to the height of from eizht to twelve inches, and gradually spreads, bet no more than !s needed to keep up the supply for any additional planting. It Is a perennial, perfectly hardy, and bears a small Parple flower in form yery much like the sweet fea, six making t pearance at every joint, beet ints being from an inch to an inch and a apart. We refer to this plant sin being yp: leularly adapted to shady spots as to think that it will grow y other plant or flower will.— Germantown Telegraph. PISHES FOR RLY SUMMER. cmmended as the m Itinfnl of all the early Vezetabies, as it possesses properties which are excellent in cleansing the system from impari- ties enzendered by rich food. The usual way of cooking aspsrayus is to tie it in bunches and boil them for kalf an hour. in salted water, and serve them on tozst. well-buttered and hot. A better y je to boil in only enough water to cover the stalks, and let the water boll down as * will for halfan hour. Then skim out ice of toast into the om it, and cover n batter gravy: or better still, creain, salted to taxte. This ceptable breakfast as well as With de 8 Toast.—Anotaer way of cooking Ssparacus is to cut the stalks inte inch lengths, and boil them twenty or twenty-five minutes, throwing them inte boiling hot water, salted. y slices of bread as the family will m into the beiling water, spread ter, and lay the small bite of as- # Pile up the slices like serving. cut them through : can be substituted for butter and the sllcex dipped into it while boiling hot. This luakers it nice for tea or supper. Guex Pras.—Teas should not be shelled Until just before they are to be cooked, and they should not be washed, as it takes the | ew eetness from them. er, and be Put into boiling salted briskly for twenty-five or thirty very fresh they will need less time n when old. , turn into a heated dish, put large ptece tter into them, or halfa teacupful of boil tog hot cream, and serve at once. The practice of serving peax swinming in greasy water, spoils an excelient vegetable. STRING BEANs.—This delicious vegetable is rarely properly cooked. When well prepared, it » quite ax healthful am peas. Take the pods | as fresh and young as as finely as a small knii cutting them lengthwise, and, asit were, shay- ing them very thin. Put tuto salted, boiling water. and boil two hours. Then drain in a culamder and serve with plenty of sweet but- ter. and they will be as delicate as peas. If one bkes vinewar, a little of it will improve the dish.—Country Gentie pace, and shred them fe A Few Years Aco large farms and confident predictions were made that they would share the fate of the hand loom and the | spinring wheel. Now the tide has tarned, and it is running as strongly in the other direction. Large farms cannot be let; small holdings are snapped up at once. According to Land, there is. all throngh the west and the midiands, the keenest competition for small farms, and men who @ tew years azo were in possession of | farms of 200 or 250 acres, without possessing | the capital y for their proper cultiva- tien, are now taking farms of 40 or 50 acres, upon which. if they have less capital than they had five or six years ago. they will have a larger proportion to their holding, and bet- ter security than they had te encourage them in the free uxe of their capital and skill alike. An agricultural, if not an agrarian, revolution, is thus going on silently. which can hardly fail profoundly to modify both the political and so- eial condition of Envtish rural life. aakec= Mrs. Henry Maurer, of Read! of arsenic iz, Pa., took dose wich suicidal {ateur hutsday nigit, wi ester . was the cause of bersulade, dispatch from Bert Boe ond jon as the folding + cold butter; -press them | ply aa | licious vegetable is rec- | nd serve two balf slices to each per- | Drain the peas through a col- | will go through them, | were all the | rage in England. Small holdings were scouted, | WILLIAM E. CHANDLER. A Very Able and Efficient Executive Officer. NOW THE KEW OFFICER IS REGARDED BY HIS FRIENDS. Wash. Cor. Boston Herald. Wasutxctox, D. C., May 25, 1898.—The office of the Secretary of the Navy is a long and some- what grandiy proportioned apartment in the third story of the eastern pavilion of the new department building west of the White House. In its center is a desk fit for an emperor or a newspaper editor, with room enough on its great flat top for all the books of reference and public documents, reports, memoranda and other litter of agreat public department. From its sides project the handies of a great many useful drawers. Around it the inlaid floor is covered with luxurious rags, and here have sat the Sec- retaries of the Nuvy since Robeson’s time. At either end of the long room are desks for pri- vate secretaries and stenographers, and there is plenty of rich leather-covyered furniture at the | sides of the room, while the frescoed walls are hung with many pictures. It has been one of the “show” rooms of the building ever since it was first occupied. and it has long been the cus- tom to allow visitors to come in by the dozen and take a few minutes’ view of it whenever | they have presented themselves during the day, | the room being so big that it was quite possible to dq this without interfering with the business of the Secretary, even thouch he might have a | private conference with some of his chiefs of | bureau on hand. Outside the main entrance door in the corridor is Lindley Muse, the VENERABLE MESSENGER, who has been the card bearer to all of the Naval | Secretaries for more than 40 years, so that he is | one of the oldest of the employes of the govern- | ment, yet he is only beginning to be an old man, and will doubtless see several more Secretaries yet before he makes way for a successor. He is | usually during the day, or rather was up till re- cently, the central figure and chief point of in- terest of from 10 to 30 people, who, seated in chairs provided for them, awaited with greater or legs anxiety or impatience the opportunity to | wee the Secretary of the Navy. Big as the room is, no Seeretary till now has telt eqaal to admit- ting to an audience more than one person at a time. But all this is changed. Fewer people now sit In the corridor, while a long row of chairs at the left of the door as you enter, ranged prayer-meeting fashion, are provided for persons | who are asked in as soon as they present their cards, while the brisk new Secretary, in another part of the room, is rapidly getting through with all of his visitors in the order of their ar- | rival. He does not sit at the great desk at all. | At the end of it there now stands a high, square desk, with a very small top, at which Mr. Secre- tary Chandler stands while he reads and signs ail the papers which he has to dispose of during the day. Three or four times as many people call to see him as ever called on any other Sec- retary of the navy. Half of them are SENATORS AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESR, and half of them probably do not come on any business which relates to the affairs of the Navy department. They are ushered in till the row of chairs is full, and then other chairs, in the corners and about are availed of. while the Sec- retary, with the person in hand, sitson thesofa on the east side of the office and confersin his rapid and fluent way onthe topic which his visitor brings before him. Perhaps, while he is sitting thus, the chief clerk, or the head of a bureau, enters with some papers in his hand which re- quire immediate attention. The Secretary, with- out absolutely suspending his conversation, drops it for a moment, walks to his desk, looks the matter through if it does not require a long examination, and disposes of it with his signa- ture or otherwise. as may be required; then he springs back to his sofa and his friends, finishes up his conversation, and then walks over and invites the next person to present his matter. Thus the new Secretary is on his legs three- quarters of the time, aud he seems to prefer this way of doing business. He Se with Presi- dent Arthur that men in official life sit entirely too much, and, by receiving his callers standiag, he has the privilege of availing himself of the Presi- dent's expedient of keeping the visitor, whom he does not wish to make a long stay, on his legs also. It is only those whom he really wishes to see that he asks to sitdown. This is sensi- ble, and a great help in the dispatch of business. HOW THE N&W OFFICIAL GETS ALONG. How has the new Secretary got on with his de- | partment? it may be asked. The answer that is made by all the bureau officers justifies the pleasant things that were said of him before he | was appointed. Every one of them will tell you that business has never been doneas rapidly and satisfactorily in the ‘soffice. “At- tend to the matter in hand, keep no one wait- ing,” seems to be the motto of thisswift worker, whose decision and power of dispatching business indeed, quite out of the common run. To be sure, he has had plenty of experience. At the age of 21 he was speaker of the lower branch of the New Hampshire Jegislature. Before he was | 80 he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, | appointed by Abraham Lincoln, and serving under Chase until the change of polities of John- son's administration sent him out to make his future as a practicing lawyer in Washington. Since then he has grown to a prominence in the councils of his party which made him hardly secoud to any other man in his knowledge of | politicians and political methods. At one stage | in his career he was the judge advocate of the navy—a good place fora young lawyer—so that he did not go into the department as a stranger to its methods. To come back to his work in the Navy department. it is the simple trath to Say that the new secretary has shown himself to | be the master of the situation; but, at thesame | time, he has wholly avoided any disagreeable | manifestations of his official pre-eminence, and, by treating the bureau chiefs with FRANKNESS AND GOOD SENSE, | he has secured the confidence and good feeling | of all of them. His predecessor completely | failed in this respect. When Judge Hunt went into the department he gave several of the bu- reau chiefs reason to believe that he intended | to freeze them out, and they regarded him with | doubt and suspicion from the first. To be sure, | this was wholly unn , and the error would net have been committed by any man of goodsense. It was not committed by Mr. Thomp- | son, who got on well in the department during Hayes’ administration. When Mr. Chandler was | appointed Secretary of the Navy, one of the | first things that came along was a plan for » trip tu Fort Monroe on the Tallapoosa, the side- wheel steamer, balf pleasure boat and half | freight carrier, which plies between Washington | and the northern navy yards. Mr. Hunt man- | aged to get into a miserable personal contro- | versy with the commander of the Tallapoosa, | wrich and popular young officer, Commander A. G. Kellogg, all because this officer would not. | treat Hunt's son, who is an ensign in the navy, (and who was detailed to the Talla- | poosa, but did not do any duty.) better than the other young officers. The Tallapoosa has always been a sort of pleasure boat, and it has been the custom to pay for the wine consnmed | by Secretaries of the Navy and their zuests out of the contingent fund of the navy. When the trip te Fort Monroe, on which ident | Arthur was to accompany Mr. Chandler, was planned, the new Secretary sent for Commander Keliogg. and told him that, while he was Sec- retary of the Navy, he desired toat no part of | the contingent fond of the department should | be used for the purchase of wines or liquors for | Junketing purposes, nor ahould they be paid for | by the officers of the buat. He intended to make all such expenses his own private matter. | This was not said for publication or te curry | tavor in any quarter, but simply to prevent any possibility of a scandal or official Enpropeicty, | This is only one instance of the level-headed | course which this experienced and able manager | has pursued In the department while he has | beeu at the head of it. Mr. Chandler is a man of whom WIS FRIENDS SPEAK WITH ENTHUSIASM. He has always been a radical, and has not lost | any steep because of the bitter feelings which | his enemies have cherished toward him. He is abard fighter, but his friends claim for him that ne is loyal and true. He was one of the unfinching anti-slavery men, and one of the strongest influences in his behalf with President Arthur was a letter from Wendell Phillips, | Wluct:, in the warmest terms, conveyed to the President the great oratur’s appreciation of ttm. His appointment was opposed hy many of the so-cailed “atalwats,” and especially by Gen. Grant, but when Mr, Conkling sulted he wrote to Mr. Arthur that he knew Mr, Chandler to be @ fair aad honorable man, and he would be pleased to see Lim appointed. Senators Hale and F.y of Maine uo the ap- intinent, and so did Mr. Boutwell and ex- Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carolina. Oxprxary bathing suits show very little change in the manner of making and trimming, the same styles being in demand that were ta- Turkish drawers, fall shirred or leated with- ving rick vored in past seasons. Full or short kilted skirts, yokes, with pleated waists, or those shirred or out vokes, the collars and cats of material or embroidered im colors, finish and good effect. MRS. SEECHER’S SERMON. An Instructive Lesson to Young Married Folk. HOW THE PARSON AND HIS WIFE KEPT HOUSE— HAFPY DAYS OF POVERTY AND HARD WORK. Correspondence Boston Herald. New Yor, May 25, 1868.—Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher can preach as valuable and instructive sermon as her husband can. But to begin at the beginning. I went to Plymouth church on Sunday morn- ing and heard a sermon on “The Ministrations of Children.” Before beginning, Mr. Beecher asked that a collection might be taken up “for his heart’s sake,” to help build up a church at Lawrenceburg, Ind. ‘That is when I began to preach,” said he. “I went there when I was first married, when I was 23 or 24-237” He looked down at one of the front pews ir ingly and added, “23, my wife says,” at which there was laughter. “I ina school- room for two years, and they have been preach- ie in that same room rsa Laer parce a the room Saturday nights, filled the ips, ant fitted the place for its use on the Sabbath. It was in a poor and struggling community. I had $300 dollars a year salary, and how we ever lived on $800 my wife can tell you better than I can.” Then he told a story or twoabout the little band at Lawrenceburg, and the boxes were passed around, bringing ‘back $400. Yesterday sree in to see Mr. Beecher at the house of his eldest son, Col. Harry Beecher. where he and his wife now live. The colonel and his family were away, aud Mr. Beecher had gone up the Hudson to Peekskill forthe day, the first spring venture up to the farm which, after all the trinis of the last ten years, he still re- tains. The handsome three-story brown-stone house, 124 Columbia heights, presented to Mr. Beecher by Plymouth church twenty years ago, has gone down in the maelstrom of litiga- tion, and he and his wife are now driven to take refuge with “Harry” in a much less desirable location. Indeed, I believe the Peekskill farm is mortgaged, and Mr. Beecher has just gone on bonds amounting to $100,000 in behalfof a South American steamship company that is very likely to come to grief. He does foolish things. At “Harry's” I found Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, and it was not difficult to beguile her into talking about Indiana, and the early strug- gles in Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis. , “Here we are, in two rooms,” she said, smil- ing; and added, without displaying a1 itter- ness, ‘‘we lost our lovely home during the trial, and a good deal of money besides; not less than $120,000 it took to pay for being troubled so much. But I don’t care so much now, for Mr. Beecher has come out of it more honored than ever before, and his slanderers are unheard of. Ts it not so?” I assented that it was so, more or less, and she said, “I could have told them dozens of things that thev could found more plausible charges on. Not in his relation to women, though; in that he was always above reproach or suspicion. He has had enough adulation, almost adoration, from women to turn any man’s head; has had foolish and imprudent letters, but he has always come and flang them care into my lap. He is inherently and essen- iy A MODEST MAN. He has never had sufficient confidence in him- self. He always faces an audience with hesita- tion. Sometimes when I want.to go and hear him lecture he says, quite seriously, ‘Don’t go, Eunice; I'm going to make a muddle of it.’ I used to let that influence me to stay at home; but lately I find that he is just as likely to do well when he thinks he isn’t. It is something of a trial to him to go intosociety—toa little party, for instance, at the houses of our neighbors. His face will flush when we go into a room, as if he were a perfect ncvice.” “When did you go to Lawrenceburg, Ind.?” “Tt was two or three months after Mr. Beecher began to preach there. He had $300 a year— not quite #6 a week. Wethought we could risk it on that, and he came for me, up to Worcester county, Mass. We boarded for a few morvhe. The church consisted of relly “our womenand one man; and about the first thing Henry did— it eounds funny now—was to turn that one man out of the church for unwerthiness. Then there were twenty-four women—mostly working women, school teachers, sewing girls, e(c.. and Miss Sawyer officiated as a sort of deacon, though when we had communion Henry usually borrowed a real deacon from another town. I remember how bashful I was when I went into that little circle as ‘the minister's wife.’ The first Sunday Miss Sawyer met ns on the steps of the ‘church,’ as-we called it, and Mr. Beecher eaid to her, ‘Miss Sawyer, I am glad to intro- duce you to Mrs. Beecher.’ I was flustered, and I sald, ‘How do you do, Mrs. Beecher?’ Mr. Beecher laughed at me, and has teased me ever since about it. The other day they sent us a photograph of the church. It is almost exactly as it was then, excepting that they seem to have built a parsonage. I said to Mr. Beecher, ‘Those steps look natural. That step is where you introduced me to Mrs. Beecher, and that step is where I tore my new delaine dress.’” “You must lve had to economize on $300 a year, Mre. Beecher.” “Yes, most people nowadays would call it economizing somewhat,” she said with a smile. “One day I was told that we must leave our boarding house. They needed the room fora member of the family who was coming home. There was no other place in town where we could board within our income. Henry was down at Cincinnati attending the synod. What to do I didn’t know. I thought that it we could get four rooms we could go to housekeep ng—a parlor, bedroom, study and kitchen. I ran all over town, but could find no such rooms that we could afford. Then I concluded that three Tooms would have to answer—study in the bed- Toom. But my search for those rooms was equally a failure—too high. We COULDN'T AFFORD LUXURIES. 8o I again thought it over carefully, and con- cluded that two rooms would do—sleep in the parlor. I discovered two small rooms over a Stable. The horses had been moved out, and the building leaned up against « store next door. They were the dirtiest rooms I ever saw, looking as if they had been tenanted by pigs—except that pigs don’t chew tobacco, do they? The floors were carpeted with tobacco juice. The walls were frescoed with tobacco juice. But I concluded that enough work could be put into these rooms to clean them. Then I took the next boat and went to Cincinnati, twenty miles down the river, getting the captain’s permission to bring back furniture free of charge. I found Henry at his father’s—Dr. Beecher was there then, and Mrs. Stowe was there. I explained matters. ‘Two rooms,’ said Henry; ‘you can’t keep house in two rooms—it can’t one.’ i “Tt has got to be done,’ I said, or we must e. “«‘Kre the rooms furnished?’ asked Mrs. Stowe. .’ I said, ‘not even a chair.’ +N “*and I haven't a single dollar,’ said Henry, to even buy a chair with.” “It doesn’t make any difference,’ said I, for elton seo meee up. Mrs. septal laughed ly to think of my ‘goii housekeepin, on nothing,’ as she called it. = ae “Tsaid to my husband, ‘Henry, where is that bed you told me you owned when you went to school here in Lane Seminary?’ “I'm sure 1 don’t know.’ he answered. ‘Broken to pieces and burnt up long ago, I suppose.’ “Do you know it is?” I asked. No, he didn’t know for certain, but it was an old thing, and only a little single bed anyhow. Well, said, we would go and hunt for it. We went up to the seminary, and, sure enough, we found that bed, and Henry lugged it to the boat. Father gave us a little strip of rag carpet, one breadth, that we could lay down in the middle ot one of the rooms. G ave us a couk stove anda couple of lamps. My brother contributed some things. A Mr. Hastings, a former classmate of Henry’s, gave us a set of knives and forks. So we went home half equi “Then we tees rooms. Henry and I. Onour ety with all that soap and water and sand would do, it took acme daysto get the stains out. I torgot to say that when we got home ym Cincinnati, I asked the owner of the building if he would allow us to paint the floor. “0, no!” he said, “it would rot the wood!” So there was nothing but scratbing left for us. But that triumphed. Some of the people in the parish gave us a table, and, after we slept & few nights cn the single bed, some kind soul brought In a double bed. I made the mattress of cheap stuff and filled it with husks, So we WENT TO HOUSEKEEPING. I enjoyed it—every day and minute of it. I would like to go through it again ;” and ;Mrs. Beecher’s face seemed to grow young as she spoke, and flushed with pleagure at remember- ne Bo the = furnished,” I said, to rooms were ” Tecatl her to the interesting narrative. aftera while. Henry yet wanted a book- king out the vety hod d ais ross lying over corner e gone in dilapidation. I sent him for it. case. old kept behind ft my cooking atensils. qa cre lest E EF | j ff } i I i i i :the while, except sweep out the church, Rel 2 nee fire therg, while I was away the Sunday breakfast dishes. When’ he hed written some- thing in the other room, he would whistle, I would run in, with my hands covered with so0ap-suds or , ‘very likely, and kneel down by him while he read 1¢ to me for criticism or approval. It,was happiness! I'd like to go through it again,” “How did your husband's preacht strike you then as compared with that of years?’ “Well, I can see that he has grown and broad- ened, of course. I was rather partial, pemare, Lut his sermons were satisfying, even then. He was always personally popular, and he carried about with him the same hopétui,cheery, breezy manner that has since won, for himso many friends. He B i SEEMED LIKE A BOY then, and he is full of boyishness even now, he and the boys having no end of fun to- gether.” “Then you went to Indianapolis?” “At the end of two years we went to Indianap- olis. He declined calls to different places. but. on receiving the second or third call from the Indianapolis church, he laid it before the synod, and, on its advice, accepted. His salary, which had been $300 a year, now became $600; but we had no more than before—rather less. For on the one hand, our regular expenses were larger, and on the other he was the city min- ister, and was ex! to entertain the country parsons. Those were years of struggle. Many a time have I set up all night at the par- sonage in Indianapolis and made a shirt and washed and froned it, and sold it in the morn- ing to get money enough to buy food for the ministers who were coming to dinner. It sounds hard, but it was not hardship. I enjoyed it. Yet I wasn’t well. I was sick, Chills and fever got hold of me and shook me half to pieces. When I went home to Massachusetts, after a fouryears’ absence, my family did not know me. “My mother said when I went in: ‘You want to see the doctor? The doctor is out, but will bein soon. Won't you sit down?’ ‘When she found out who I was she sald: ‘Don’t tell your father; see if he will know you?” “And when father came in he said: ‘Good morning, madam; do you wish to see me? Yeu look as it you needed a doctor. What can I do for your’ ‘I said earnestly: ‘Well, [should think you might kiss me!’ He was shocked, and he spread out his hands and exclaimed: ‘Madam! what a proposition!” Then mother laughed and introduced us. “Bat those were good times in Indianapolis— country ministers, shirt making, economizing, chills and fever and all. For Henry’s exacting public life had not yet come to defraud me. Hap- piness does not depend on money, or leisure, or society, or even on health; it depends on our relation to those we love. When I got here to Brooklyn the public began to get my husband away from me. His study was no longer in the house, but inthe church. And when he went out I used to gasp for breath and my eyes would fill with tears, for it seemed as if WE HAD QUARRELLED. He couldn’t help it, of course. No woman ought to marry a man on whom the public has a strong claim—a popular minister, or a great lawyer, or a politician--uniess she has explicit ambitions of her own and is willing to immerse herself in society.” She hastened to the bay window and looked out. No! That was not he, ghe said, but she was looking for hia every minute now. What a lovely day he had In the cowntry! “You asked me about Lawrenceburg,” she said, ‘andI have been led into a long talk. You are a journalist, and I have little reason to have much confidence in gentlemen of your profes- sion. Be discreet, I beg.of you, in what you say. Leave out all that would not look well in print. But I should be glad to say anything Coes gould help the little flock at Lawrence theye obeyed the injunetion. I have omit- ted all that did not seem:to belong to the pic- ture, and have, I am sure, included nothing that the lady need regret. The story seems more of a monologue. of course, than it would if my own part in the conversation were not properly omitted as being no part of the narra- tive. Mrs. Beecher is a wonderfully vivacious and agreeable lady. She has seen trouble. She has borne 10 children, and lost six. With her square, prominent forehead, and deep-sunk eyes, she secms 70 when her face isin repose; but in animated conversation, she looks not more than 85 or 40. She has a distinguished face and manner, and eyen those who have doubted Mr. Beecher’s rectitude must admit that only a very remarkable man could win and retain for a lifetime the love of such a woman, oe Love Without Regard to Expenses, From the Chicago Tribune. “Myrtle, dear?” “Yes, George, what is it?” replied the girl, glancing shyly upward. The radiant glory of a summer moon shone down upon the earth this June night, bathing in all its mellow splendor the leafy branches of the sturdy old oaks that had for centuries shaded the entrance to Castle McMurty and laughed defiance to the fierce gales that every winter came howling down in all their cruel force and fury from the moorlands lying to the westward ofthe castle. Ontheedge of the broad demesne that stretched away to the south stood a large brindle cow, and as the moonlight flecked with silvery lustre her starboard ribs she seemed to Myrtle a perfect picture of sweet content and almost holy calm. “Is it not a beautiful -night, dearest?” mur- mured the girl. ‘‘See how the moonbeams flatter down through the trees, making strange lights and shadows that flit among the shrul and flowers in such a weird, glost-like fashion. The dell is indeed clothed in loveliness to-night, sweetheart.” “Yes,” said George W. Simpson. ‘this is the boss dell”—and then, looking down into the pure, innocent face tl was lifted to his, he took in his own broad, third-base im the little hand that erstwhile held up Myrtle’s polonaise. As they stood there silently in the bosky glade George passed his arm gilently but firmly arouna Myrtle’s waist. ‘he noble girl did not shy. “Do you love me, sweetheart?” he asked in accents that were tremulous with tremulous- ness. myraels head was dreoping now, and the rosy bluskes of Calumet avenue innocence were chas- ing. each other across her peachy cheeks. eorge drew her more closely to him. Ifa mosquito had tried to pass between them then it would have been bad—for the mosquito. “Can you doubt me, darling?” he whispered. “You surely must know that I love you with a wild, jonate, whoa-Emma love that can abe? ie. Do you not love mea little in re- mn?” For an instant the girl did not speak. George heard fhe whisking of the brindle cow's tail break fn rudely upon the solemn of the night, and ever and anon came the dull thud of the bull-frog as he jum; into a pond. Presently Myrtle placed her arms about his neck, and with a wistful, look in her sweet tace, aiden him. “love Jou, George. witha Seathiiee tivo tar cia eventually keep you broke” And with these fateful words she adjusted het rumpled bang and fearlessly led the way to an ice-cream lair. J® THE WHOLE HISTORY-OF MEDICINE Grundy Hlitained 0 ides topatsens as “8S CHERR) 1 $1.20 JUMBO ICE CREAM. ‘Wholesale and resale retail stores 2 Center ‘THERE Is BUT JAMAICA GINGER IN THE MARKET, ‘And that is FRED'K BROWNS PHILADELPHIA. All others are Imitations or made to sell on the reputa- tion of the Original, and may do harm, while FREDE- RICK BROWN’S PHILADELPHIA, will always be 8 blessing in SPRING, AUTUMN, and In all STOMACH DISORDERS, For SLEEPLESSNESS, For SUDDEN CHILLS, WHEN DRENCHED DURING THE EQUINOX, WHEN COLD IN WINTER, WHEN DISTRESSED IN SUMMER, Buy a bottle of your Druggist or your Grocer for 50 Cents, (insist on having the GENUINE given you— FREDERICK BROWN'S PHILADELPHIA,) and you ‘will secure an article which will serve you well-ALL THE YEAR ROUND. a Fre WOOLENS, FINE WOOLENS, FINE WOOLENS, IMPORTED THROUGH THE HOUSE OF E. H. VAN INGEN & CO., OF NEW YORK AND LONDON. The Best GOODS the Forelzn Markets can produce, which I am prepared to make up, giving THE BEST CUT, FINEST FINISH, And altogether the BEST MADE e220q 88 oa bd EEE Brn wens REEKS mee® REEES Pry sata peer) Or} IN WASHINGTON. Gentlemen, Call and Inspect the Finest MERCHANT TAILOKING THAT CAN BE PRODUCED. GEO. T. KEEN, MERCHANT TAILOR, m10-1m 414 NINTH STREET. T= MISFIT STORE. & for a Blue Flannel Suit, G.A.R. cut, worth $7.50 SASH? STORE, cor. 10t and F ste. O13 +e: asten th $13 Gubiagr a caces iar et MISFIT STORE, cor. 10th and Fests. $7.50 sensei ae Sate, orn es, at for Cassis FIT STORE. cor. 100s and Fate, 1G fF Pine SBE Te STORE: cor’ Oks aoa ate, for Ong ASFLT DEON: oor otiend Fate, 1.0 1° RESETS STORE’ core lous ear ote, 1 fF 998 SELL STOUT cre ibatanad ota Frio oe gs ae B20 fy wiyleet French Casaimere Suits, worth MISFIT STORE, cor. 10th and F ets. $6.50 Se RRR tes Pou vos ren ge, at for fine Goat and Vest, Chesterficla B15 ce ir’ STOUR, oor. niet 15 ie alii sone Soon Fe 00 BEET STORE coe 10deeng Fete, Ge ey SB PET STORY, oor 10th and Fata, oye Suite worth $1, atthe 1-made . at for Custos BEIT OTORE: on 10te and ‘Custom-made Pant at the tr Cane TBTT BEOBE. oor otra Pete, L4¢28 BEER, 908. SCHLITZ BREWING 60.5 MILWAUKEE LAGER BEER, FOR SALE BY DEALERS AND THE AGENT. SAM'L C. PALMER, ; DEPOT, 12% TWENTY-NINTH STREET N.W. Ew Telephonic connection. aps foe Ee eee ae mio SRRUE AATTARS, Prumaacos, B, 20880m ee DRY GOODS. LADIES’ GOODS. RY JPRENCH SATINES, LATEST DESIGNS, 500 BLACK POLKA DOT SURABS, $1.50, LUPDVS NUWS VEILING, 2c. tof. BATIX READAMES AND MERVEILLIEUX, FANCY STRIPES for trimming. BLACK ALL-SILK GRENADINE, $1.25. TYLER & CHEWNING, 918 Irn STREET NORTHWEST. IN, 100, ita COTTON, Latest Style PARASOLS at reduced prices. SUMM) SILKS, from Sie. to: is BLACK SILKS, 75, $1, $1.25, thio, $1.75, 92, $2.25, The Cheapest TABLE DAMASK in the city. line of CLOTHS and CAS in any eee ee weaiaee eae and money saved. SHIRTS ready made, 63, 75, SHIRTS made to onder, fneature taken and fit uaran- teed, at $7.50, $9, $10 and $12 per half-dozen, f2~ LOOK AT OUR GOODS BEFORE PURCHAS- ING ELSEWHERE. LUTTRELL & WINE, 1930 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, my29-2w Corner 20th street. (oLoReD SILKS, NAVY BLUE, DARK GREEN, BROWN AND OTHER COLORS, FIFTY CEN15. ense assortment of Bleck Silks, 60, 62, 75, 87, Te gL EO EL Toe ER teak and White Sines aks, ._ Colored Surah: ‘Tbe. wider double wid oe Nan‘s veiling, all colors, 900. eiuterigatod ‘Breas’ Goods, pure wool, wide, double Beautiful French Lay 250. Hai Lawn, large amortment, 260, Cashmeree, spring shades. half wool. 12 Horey Comb Wits Quilts, 16c. "Black Velvet, $1, 3 mi ta, ‘ae Bleached Table Damask, pure Yinen, S00. Buns reduced from $1.50 Hine Gore a seer Saeed ae sy Set ee mt CARTER'S, ‘711 MARKET SPACF. “REDUCED!” bine and brown and m6 6 REDUCED” ‘We have to-day placed on our center counter a large lot of FRENCH and ENGLISH DRESS GUODS for 25 cts. These goods have been selling at 50 and 6235 cts. “*They are a Genuine Bargain.” SURAH SILKS, suitable for Evening Dresses, in Cream, Light Blue and Pink, $1.25; eame quality sold elsewhere at $1.50, Our stock of LUPIN’S GRENADINES, in elegant styles and qualities, cannot be excelled. LINEN LAWNS, 12}, CANTON GINGHAMS of the best grades, 12340. LONSDALE CAMBRIC, 123. 100 dozen full reg. HOSE, 25c. a pair. 100 dozen All-linen Hemstitched HANDEERCHIEFS, at $1.50 per Our stock is large in all departments, and prices very low. We invite inspection, “ONE PRICE ONLY." TRUNNEL & CLARK. m3 803 MARKET SPACE. T=! FIRST STORY OF OFR IMMENSE BUILDING 18 UP. . M will now be pushed forward with dispatch. We maust prepare for removal. No old goods will be taken into the new store. We intend making it an ob- ect for every lady who is now in need, or who is soon jikely to be in need of Spring and Summer DRY GOODS, to call and examine the EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS weare now offering. On accountof the backwardness of the season, we are left with too many goods on hand, ‘We have determined to eell them, and sell them we will, a8 we are bound to raise lots of money to pay for butid- ing and to lay in stock for our grand opening, second to none in the country. ‘Wehave just reduced all our COLORED DOLLAB SILES to 75 cents. Our BLACK PURE SILK BHADAMES, from $1.50 ‘to 95 cents, 25 Pleces most besutiful Patterns of ALL SILK BEROCADES, from $1.50 to 95 cents, This is a rare Bargain and cannot be repeated. Allour Dress Goods way down to half price. 6,000 Pieces WHITE GOODS of every description. ‘These are of our own importation, having ordered them as far back as last November. We miscalcu- lated the quantity and ordered more than our retail trade demands. Therefore, beit known that price shall be no object, and they must go. We eel afine VICTORIA LAWN at 8 cen‘s, which is ‘retailed everywhere at 1235 cents. ‘Do not consider this idle talk, Every lady in Wash- ington knows the magnitude of our stock, which we can eafely state is three times as large as the stock of ‘ny other merchant in this city. Therefore, prepare for Bargains! As by the time we move into cur NEW HOUSE, we expect to rednce the stock to the emallest in ‘thecity. The Goods are all fresh, having sent all our ld traah to New York suction, to be sold tothe highest bidder, Call earty in the morning to avoid the immense ra, M™ SELMA RUPPERT, 608 Nunta Starr, Orrosirs Parext Orrice, Choice selection of Children’s LACE and 8! CAPS. SUN BONNETS, LONG AN! DRESSES CLOAKS and ‘all Kinds of CH FURNISHING GOO! HOSIERY, to GAvae UNDERWEAR. read Silkk GLOVES. few LACES and HAMBUNG EMDROTDERTES. ja Cambric, Ni ard Swiss. Ms. ©.¥. SMITH 18 RECEIVING DAIL Flowers, Plumes, "ete. Bonveta, 4 ad bONRE'S ‘CAPS a speciaity. “618 9th strect =i PATTERN HATS AND FINE MILLINERY Goops; SILK AND CLOTH WRAPS; SILK, FLANNEL and CAMBRIC SUITS, the largest ant elewant assortment in the city, made exdlue amy order, E M. WILLIAN, 907 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, — {Sats TREVIME, PARIS. J ue Ree REOXARLE AN! STORE, 'D TRIMMING 1211 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., Hloake, & Buita, : e. in Rareote ‘Dresses End bonds mad'e Serio A vanrasioeds Ms ANNIE K. HUMPHERY, CORSETS tg ender in Svery shea aed metertal, sud guaran ters perfect Gt and comfort French Hand mede Unde x Underwear Patent Shoulder retreat al Drees Reform French and “ __PIANOS AND ORGANS.__ _xa PG EKO, 407 10th atreet, Sole Agent, Address DANIEL F. BEATTY. Washington, N. 3.1 (peacucer J. REED'S, PIANO WAREROOMS 433 SEVENTH STREET, Bole Agent of the matchiess HEINEKAMP PIANOS anD THE CELEBRATED SHONINGER CYMBELLA ORGANR, Organ in the world taining a complete BR ig ge peed K.B.—Parties leaving the city always find us with cash ready to purchase anything in our line. Thisene ables us to Keep in stock most of the time PIANOS from. CHICKERING, STEINWAY and KNABE, and OR- GANS from MASON & HAMLIN, SMITH AMERE- (CAN and ESTEY, at leas than one-baif the usual prices. quoted. Most complete Repair Shop in thecity. Old Planes made new. = ALLET DAVIS & CO.'8 UPRIGHT SEANP samen. until ‘to close, for summer chansrs. faa BSUMSER, Agent, 811 9th street west. mil G L wD & Re ° Street Sete rao | Puke Ros and ESTEY “Ghoaxs. eh "Several Manos and’ Organs now far runt atlow rate, —_——Xx——_—SX—X——_—_—_—__ = HOUSEFURNISHINGS. oe PY REFRIGERATORS, WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZERS, PORCELAIN LINED COOLERS, ICE PITCHERS, &a M. W. BEVERIDGE, Iuronren or Cura ax GLARSWARR, m20 1009 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. EFRIGERATORS, WITH PORCELAIN WATER R case at aoe oe oa. White Mountain and Peerless FREEZERS. Sue Saha (ares, pte? Giiray"s Celebrated CURT. ‘RETCHERS, — GEO. WATTS, ‘314 7th street, 5 doors above Penna. avenue. GENTLEMEN'S GOODS. E AKE UNDERSELLING EVERYBODY IM WwW DEESs SHIRTS. Linen Collars, Linen Cuffs, Silk Neckwear, Cottom Socks, Undershirts and Drawers. New styles of Percale Shirts, the very best quality, Fine Percale Shirts, only 75 conta, Finest Dress Shirts to order, elegantly made, only @& Bix fine Dress Shirts to order for §9. ‘All woods are guaranteed to give satisfaction in vey “mis MEGINNISS., 1002 F street northwest. sS.® ELLERY, SUCCESSOR TO - GENTS' FUEN! 1012 F Sruxezr Noarawesr, Wasuixoron, D.O. PAS oy ore eet [HomPcows DRESS SHIRT MANUFACTORY DI f(ACTURERS OF FINE RES SHIRTS ax> MEN'S FURNISHING EMPORIUM, 816 F Btreet Northwest. NECKWEAR, FOOTWEAR, HANDWEAR SEWING MAOHINES, &c. AX =*TRAuDDMARY ovFEEI FOR TEN DAYS omty. 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