Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1882, Page 7

aes EVENING STAR: W. SE Fol ae ene ee = ee, Re ame SY eee naa —— PRIDAY, HOW A NEVADA WOMAN CURED HER HUSBAND OF TIFPLING. Brom the Virginia City Enterprise. A butter peddier from Honey lake relates with Great glee how a neighbor of his was cured of too qently tippling the gin bottle. This Delghbor married a younz, handsome and Spirited lady, and fora month or two all went Well In the house and about the farm; then the husband fell back into his old tricks. The wife Femonstrated, ant fora time the husband re- formed. Presentiy, however. she became satis- tippling” was again going ‘o her husband about the aroma” she detect e he was taking, he intra ie colic, for db it home and fied that the “bottle on. When she sp of acolic med veloped A most pre & x t kind of med She and at the same time or two she diseovered secret hoard. y to her bus- n after the Relghber's, som he was somewhat surprised Pinned upon his front @ Vaneed and read as fotiuws Tad business at a a On bis retarn weing a note He hastily ad- you and gon Bob wiil ¢ have puck co Kitty brother wi rm. Teare, and th to the mai D hn of gin, and led from its neck found the key of the hauted ont his c susp he the key shing wand he was de before she could attempt. : I see'd Ben's mile south of my tty, and begin to eas. After she'd | Hi she paced up an’ i Dy Teac Sa r abo the + ° down the road for a ; then she rid up and looked over the rid: fora while. Arter lookin’ a bit she tur ut and rid up and down the road a few ; then went up to the brow ©’ the hiilagain. So she kept doin’, and once or twice she got off and led Kitty up to the top of the Kill. “i puzzled as to whether she was thing 's place. some 1 was just about when I see’d her wheel brow o” the hill and begin beyond my house. ut that wa Kitty round from ti to piy her whip. “In half a minnte she was flyin’ past my | place like a wild woman. I stood at my tront | gate by tue roadside, ready to holler out at her | to know what was ‘up. but, bless you, she never looked to'ards m sot in her head, her face into Kitty wi I swar, lin’ skirt fairly cracked as she bounded nT heerd a tremendjus clatter be- furnia’ about, I seed Ben a-comin’ hill spurs into his horse out. “He passed by with hair and coat-tails salin’ |. and dixgin’ his big ‘a like he'd rip his insides back in the wind, and never turnin’ his head to Fight nor left. I'thougit | seed murder in his eye. J tell you, a million thoughts went through my brain Ina second. All the stories Tdever heerd abont jealous husbands and in- sane husbands went through my headin a lump, and I do believe it Td had my in in my band, | Fd have taken a wing shot at him on suspicion. “I seed Nell look back once and then lay the whip on Kitty hotte’n ever. Ben was goin’ like | the wind. I knowed Neli was headed for her father’s, and I seed plain as day that Ben would get her ‘fore she was safe landed “At last he was upon her It was then neck and neck for a time, with Ben reachin’ out for Kitty's bridle. At last he got id, and the two horses gradually slowed up till they finally stopped. [mounted my gate-post all of a {oeaes expectin’ to see somethin’ dreadful pen. “They stopped in the road talkin’ nigh onto half an hour. then I seed Ben lean over and Neill lean over till thar two h “What the mischie! s I, ‘kissin’ instead of killin’. Well, that sort o’ fracas gits me!” After the head-bumpin’ the pair turned about and came slowly joguin"™ back, * lied out to Ben to ‘o it all meant. Ben began to stammer something, "beut half ot which never got, out throuzh his big beard, when Nel! sings Out to me: “Only a race fora kiss!” and givin’ Kitty a cut that made her bound ten feet. she eailed out to Ben: ‘Come on! Arace tothe top of the hill for another!’ and away they both went. at was five year ago, and I never knowed nin’ of that wild, harum-searum ride till “bout three months ago, when the story "bout the ‘colic medicine’ leaked out among the wim- men folks. For a good while after the ri howstmever, [ remember ot the neighbor men wonderin’ what had cowe over Ben thatthe had shut down on his gin all of a sudden, and Wouldu't so muchas take a giass 0’ Oregon Cider. “To this day no doubt Ben thinks he had a te chase after Nell, and a narrer escape of her gittin’ into the home den x with her big brother, her father and his mot her-in-law; and I've never said a word to him bout how she fooled ‘iong under the brow o’ the hill.” —-o.___ ‘ouldn’t Work that String. From the Detroit Free Press. In the early days of what 1s now a very rich and widely circulated Michigan weekly newspa- Per, the editor had occasion to bestow some ad- vice on arich and influential citizen. The ad- Vice was not kindly taken. On the contrary, word was sent to the office that In case the Offense was repeated somebody would be made to suffer for It. It was promptly repeated, of course, and the influential citizen soon appeared and bezan: “Sir! you have seen fit to attaek me through the columns of your paper. You have declared war. [accept it. From this on it shall be war tothe knife. My brotber will withdraw his ad- Vertising.” a advertised a line with us,” replied the itor. “Twill ask my friends to refuse you all job work.” “This whole town doesn't have $10 worth a “You shall have no more lezal advertising.” “Never had a square of it yet, and don't ex- any.” ¥ “sir!” exclaimed Influential, as he paused In bis walk, “I will ride through the county and stop your subscriptions; yes, sir, I will lose you four hundred subscribers between this and win- * How many?” “* Foux hundred, sir.” “Col. Blank!” shouted the editor, as he rose up in his wrath, “you are the bigzest fool in America! How on earth are you going to take 400 subscribers off my books when the has only 355, counting in all the dead-heads and dead-beats?’ Go away, sit Go and take your Fevense by throwing stones making up faces at my dog!” SS eal A Monstrous Dectrin ‘From the Springfield Repubiiean. But In all the Dorsey publications about Gar- at my cow and ‘Theodore Hook as am Imprevisatore. The gift of improvisation ts rarein’ England, but when it is met with, it smacks of the soil and has a distinctly national form, as different as possible from what one finds in Italy, which has from time immemortal been the recognized home of the improvisatore. The Italian crea- ture is a rhapsodist of a serious cast, who pours forth romantic platitudes in ‘anp! itated song,” and strings together graceful, and some- times impassioned, verses in the irregular me- ters to which the most musical of languages so readily lends itself. The English improvisatore has seldom much of the divine frenzy of the Poet in his composition; he isa humorist, a wit, sometimes only a wag, who can reel off comic “patter” in verse with the sole object of creating a laugh. He needs conviviality to inspire bim, and eachinnation to encourage him. In neither case, probably, woul. it be ad- visable to have a shorthand writer present to take down the impromptu Iucubrations for sober perusal on the morrow. For improvisa- tion is oniy a species of intellectual legerde- main, meant to astonish and dagzle for the mo- ment by the suddenness of its spontaueity, not to bear the test of deliberate criticism. Though we fancy the improvisations of Mestastasio would bear the test better than those of Theo- dore Hook. Of all artists the improvisatore is the one whose triumphs are most evanescent. His virtues, in Engiand, at any rate, are writ in wine, and of his powers it is possible to form only the vaguest idea from the impressions of those who, when they heard him, were them- selves more or less elated by vinous enthusi But yond doubt the talent is a most fascinat- ssessor a social popu- other species of jowever brilliant his gifts, can hope to heodore Hook; and, indeed, ras our knowledge goes, England has never had any really successful performer in this way except the author ot “Gilbert Gurney.” z men like Charles Slowman and -other fessional improvisatorl, though undeniably er, lacked the abandon and prolific inge- of Hook. He first gaye evidence of the n of this marvelous faculty in his twen- ar. and one of his earliest displays in ation was at the complimentary banquet given to Sheridan in Drury Lane Theater. From that mome of society. No 1 party among those who prided them- 3 on such entertainments, was considered complete without Theodore Hook. And he must haye been extre tractive and fasci- nating as a young man. His slim graceful fig- ure, his head covered with clustering black curls, bis wonderful play ot feature, the com- pass and music ot his voice, his large brilliant eyes, capable of every expression, from the gravest to the most grotesquely comical, the perfect grace and aptness of every attitude and xesture combined to make him the idol of every circle which was fortunate enough to secure his presence. His fame spread like wildfire. The Prince Regent heard him with delight at the Marchioness of Hertford’s in Manchester square. and declared emphatically afterward that “something must be done for Hook,” whence that unfortunate Mauritius appointment. People used to give him subjects the most un- Campbell, who calls him “a won- ire, who sang extempore songs, not tion, but to my astonishment,” per and Salt” asa topic, and confesses that “he seasoned the impromptu with both—very Attic salt.” His skiil in intro- ducing the names of the company present was remarkable. On one occasicu there was a Dan- ish gentleman in the room named Rosenhagen, and a bet was made that Hook would have to omit such an intractable patronymic from his song; but he amazed and amused them ail by thus cleverly solving the problem: “Yet more of my muse fs required, Alas, I fe: he is done! But no, tik fhidier that’s tired; Til Rosen-agen and go on. Of course he failed occastonally; elther early in the evening or very late, he did it but indiffer- ently. When the cali was’ well-timed, and the company such as excited his ambition, it is_im- possible to conceive anything more marvellous than the felicity he displayed. He accompanied himseif on the pianoforte, and the music was frequently, thouzh not aiways, as new as the verse. He usually stuck to the common ballad measures; but one favorite sport was a mimic opera, and then he seemed to triumph without elfort over every variety of meter and complica- tion of stanza.—London Society. pana ciereht Sri eS A Turn of the Tide. Only a turn of the tidef 1 Was sitting here, by myself alone On this rock, now hardly three hours a-gone, With my book on my knees, and my eyes on the sea, And ny thoughts still farther adrift, when he So suddenly stood by my side. ‘The sun shone white on the sails, The Wives were dimpling and Sparkling in light; Anu I—my visions were almost as bright. But a mist is now creeping along the shore, And I shiver with cold—it is nothing more; If it were—what now avails? Only one turn of the tide! He told me his love was so deep and strong, That tn saying him nay I did him wrong, That I bad not the right his lite to break; And betore I halt knew the words I spake I had promised to be his bride. e track they ed; vel as if years had gone over my head, Asif I had died, and been raised from the dead, Since those sands were glistening wet. Only a turn of the tide! Is it always so when our dreams come true? Is the present so gray, and the future so blue? Is the rainbow we chased naught but drizzling mist? And the hope we hugged to our Delusion and naught beside? hearts and kissed, Thad liked him truly for years, I know he fs greater and nobler than I, With a larger brain and a clearer ey: ‘That my Me 13 of small account, tf it Aim comiort: but shall I, so long as I Feel these halt-unreasoning fears? Ah mel one turn of the tide! ‘This morning I was a careless child, 30 gay, so petted, so thoughtless and wild; Pm content with my fate, but one more year Of freedom would have been very dear. Wasit I or the wind that sighed? I thought so—here comes the rain, The mist xrows dense, and the clouds gather fast, And the tide has covered the sands at last; T must hasten, and think of regrets no more; But could all things be as-they were before, I would not promise again. ——_§_o-_____ Yells, and & Blush. From the New York Star. Going up town, the other evening, on the Elevated road, about 6 o'clock, Senator Grady found the cars so crowded that but one seat could be found. He sat down, and invited Sen- ator Browning, who accompanied him, to sit upon his knee. Done. Next station; enter a lady, very stylish and pretty. No seat. Senator Grady to Senator Browning: “Say, John, get up and give the lady your seat.” ‘A thousand yells and one blush! ——_—__~e.____ En; the Woerld’s Language. A RUSSIAN PRIEST'S CONCLUSIONS AFTER HIS TRIP AROUND THE WORLD. A Russian priest, Father Alexander Dili- gentsky, is now in New York on his way back to St. Petersburg. “I was sent to our church at San Francisco,” he said to a reporter, “and instead of going west through Europe and over the Atlantic I went east by the way of Odessa and Nagasaki to San Francisco. I came from that city by way of the isthmus. Now, after two years’ service at San Francisco, I am going home, and ‘ive, field there is no help for Dorsey. No one will forget the plain facts of his ease. There is not a shadow of doubt that gigantic frauds were ed by Dorsey, then a Senator, and irady, then Assistant Postmaster General, by which the government was robbed ot millions of dollars; the chief criminals are known, and they are on trial, potherg and James over- Dorsey; then followed the assassinatio: pee eeegt beg General and a new rascals down. As presumed too much on bisintimacy with bas worn out the patience of are saying, Garfleld 80 is Chester A. Ar- uch occu; the White House in order to bind Presi of the United States to condone g The octrine that a public officer can ever be so held to his election agen‘s is preposterous and mons- ecial Trene Agent Highhold, who hes wary been investigating the charges of enormous Niagara river, pronounces the thus completing my Journey around the world.” Mt Pah ke has struck you most during your rip?” “The lead that English seek have taken everywhere. ‘Engin peg Fst gre in- ternational language. With my limited knowl- edge of English during my trip Ihave been far occasional better off t! any of my German and friends. Gnglish has @ glori future. It. ts bound to he universal the universal language of science, trade and indi . There have been three great epochs In which ail the educated men taiked Greek, Latin and French Tespectively. Now we are ent the epoch of ban oe The Greek wo was too Mt in both area and The Latin world was larger than the ‘Greek, but its field, politics, ws too narrow. The bbe ran was dipiowascic. Now the Eng- lish, or Anglo-American epoch will em- brace the whole world. The Ei Soieoror geen a are unsur- nation in seientit a nd = oe ific, religious or object to English of the pi o original not quite a foreign. the nations of Latin origin, and taore easly can be adopted by oh Exposing a Medium. A SPIRITULLISTIO FRAUD SHOWN UP. From the Cnicago Herald, Dec. 19th. Several months ago the police officials of Lon- don, England, succeeded in squelching a-aptrit- ualistio humbug named Slade, by prosecuting him for obtaining’ money under false pretences. The ground which the prosecution took was that Slade offered to bring back the spirits of departed persons of note. This it was proved he failed to do and he was fined a good round sum, The plan is now to be tried in Chicago, and Mr. W.C. Champlain, a board of trade broker, is to defray the necessary expenses. Saturday afternoon Mr. Champlain read the following advertisement in an afternoon paper : Pi RITUALISM—EXTRAORDINARY MATEBIAL- izing seancea in the light, Sunday. Tues a areday evenings; buriness and f 5 Dositave cure for nervous eases, ue ” Bt West Madison étret. Mr. Champlain learned that Charlie Stiles ap- pea‘ed there every night. He was well ac- quainted with Stiles and he resolved to witness. the advertised performance. He visited the place Sunday night accompanied by his wife. The place where Stiles’ spirit was to be found was & small wooden building at 87 West Madison street. Mr. Chamberlain and his wife paid $1, and entered the room where the seance was to be held. There were about thirty people in the place. A amall bedroom adjoined this room, and the door had been taken out and a light wooden partition with a round hole in it had been put in its place. It was through this hole, which was about the size of a man’s head, that the spirits were seen. A curtain is drawn across the opening onthe inside. Before the show commenced an old lady®who answered to the name of Mrs. Vanderburg, sang “Come * You Fount of Every Blessing,” during which the 1..n Shea went into the room. The lights were then put out, and a lamp, burning very dimly, was placed on a small sheif a few. inches below the hole in the door. The spirits then began to appear atthe door. Champlain was not very much affected, while “Rosebud, the Indian maiden,” and such stock characters appeared, but when the name of Charlie Stiles was called he became greatly excited. A very tough- looking specimen of humanity cautioned him to remain cool. A rude picture was thrust infront of the hole, and the old lady inquired: “Dear Charlie, are you happy now? “‘Y-e-s,” came from behind the picture. age board of trade man at once concluded that Charlie had lost the pair of lungs which gave him his possessions on éarth, and he start- ed for the spirit. The spirit of the champion caller vanished from the hole, and Mr. Cham- plain was caught by the throat and choked. He was allowed to remain in the room, however. } aud he concluded to see the show through. The door leading to the abode of the spirits finally opened, and out walked what purported to bea “spirit.” Champlain says that the alleged was John M. Shea, with a big nightgown on, Cham- plain’s wife whispered to her husband to catch the ghost, and he started for it. The ghost had the start. and got into the cabinet before the friend of Charlie Stiles could get near it. Cham- plain and his wife were then assaulted by the | proprietors of the show, and both were severely beaten and bruised before hey were throw out. They reported the assault at the Des- plaines street station, and a policeman was sent over to investigate. Nothing was accom- plished, however, but to-day Champlain will Swear out warrants against Shea, charging him with obtaining money under f Ise pretences, and also with assault with intent to commit great bodily injury, He maintains that he will prose- cute them until the end, and he is willing to swear that what he saw was not the spirit of Charlie Stiles. ——_____+e-_____ Trying to Beat Two-Forty. From Peck’s Sun, How many people in all branches of business are trying to beat 2:40 with a three-minute busi- ness? The man who has a small business that is paying him, and goes into debt and tries to spread himself over too many eggs, is trying to beat with a three-minute horse. The young 0 gets a small salary, and spends more y for ice cream and perfumery and neck- ties than he earns, is trying to beat 2:40 with a three-minute horse. The girl who is calculated by nature to be the wife ot a mechanic, and gets above. her business, and looks with scorn upod! a man who earns his living by hard work, will look at an old ‘maid in the glass afew years from now and realize that she has been trying to beat 2:40 with a three minute horse, The ordinary, every-day sort of a man, who is elected to a smail office by a big majority on account of men voting for him for charity, and who thereupon aspires to a big office for which he is unfitted, will be nominated for the big office some day and be beaten higher than a kite, and he will then feel of his aching head, examine his empty pocket-book, look around at the debts he has contracted, and the enemies he has made, and it will suddenly come to him that he has been trying to beat two-forty with a three-minute horse. The man or woman who leaves a profes- sion or employment to which they are fixed,and in which they can be prosperous and happy and haye friends, and goes upon the stage to ‘com- pete with men and women who have been brought up to it, and who have made success by a lifetime ot hard work, will some day reali to their sorrow that they have failed to beat two-forty with a three-minute horse. The young man who has been lefta fortune bya dead father, who has worked a hfetime to accumulate riches, and who changes from beer, that was good enough for him before, to. champazne, and plenty of it, and who can’t find places enouzh to spend money without sitting up all night, and who finds old sledge and peenuckle too tame and adopts draw poker and faro, and who torgets that his sisters are splendid company and gets acquainted with quick girls and buys them dia- monds as big as pieces of alum, will in a few years be walking on his uppers and having fur collars pinned on to linen ulsters for winter, and he will wake up some morning with the almight- fest headache on record and come to the con- clusion that trying to. beat two-forty with a three minute horse ia what ails him. The sum- mer resort hotel proprietor, who fits up an old rookery and fills it with guests who are seeking comfort, and charges them ‘Fifth avenue prices for Bowery accommodations, will look at his empty house next year and say the season is backward, and when the guests do not come with the dog days, he will suddenly scratch his head and say he made a fool ot himself in try- ing to beat two-forty with a three minute horse. The whole souled, good fellow, everybody's friend, gets to drinking too bard, and as he is healthy, he gets an idea he can beat whisky, a game that so many have tried and failed. He keeps it up until his nose gets red, his eyes bleared and his voice shaky, and he has a whisky cough, and his friends try to reason with him, anda constitution like a horse, and that nothing can hurt him, and he asks them to take a drink. Some day he gets the jimjams, and all his friends say, “I told you so,” and they sit up nights with him and drive away snakes, and Just before he dies it suddenly occurs to him that he has been trying to beat two-forty with a three-minute horse. A man who is poor and wants to live on the fat of the land- marries a pretty, little, rich woman, and begins to squander her money, and when she tries to per- suade him to stop’ it, he gets to. treating her like a dog, gets worse and strikes her, and after awhile she gets enough of it and obtains a divorce, and marries a man who loves her and doesn’t want her money, and she is happy, and her former husband be- comes a dead- and a drunkard, and would fain beg tor the refuse that drops from the table of his former wife, and when he buttons his summer coat around him on a winter's night and walks around a block for =: wind-pudding, and looks into the windows and sees the ight of the fire from the grate ot his former wife's sitting room, it occurs to him that if he had not attempted to beat Sore & three-minute horse he could have been in there toasting hjs slippers and drinking cider, and looking into a pair of eyes that would have always looked their love for him if he had been contented with a three-minute galt, but which eyes will never look upon him again except in pity. Oh, there are thousands of people who make a hg Fore take in trying to two-forty with a minute horse. Ancient Perhaps the, ;- Important among these Tonian phers was Anaximander. He assumes that ontof infinity of matter through eternal revolujion gumerous world-bodies came into being as cgndeygations of the air, and that the earth, too, as ope of these world-bodies Is- sued out of a state originally fluid and afterward seriform. He,, congequently anticipated the fundamental qatiception, valid at this day, of the natural devel (of the world, which 2,400 years subsequently; in 1755, German philosdphét,’ Immanuel Kant, in his ‘Universal History of Nature and Theory of the Heavens,’ universally established. As here in the cosmological kingdom, Anaximander ap- Pears as forerunner of Kant and Laplace, so also at the same time in the biological kingdom he rophetically prefigures Lamarck and Darwin. or according to him the earliest ‘living crea- tures on this globe originated in water through the operation of the sun. From these creatures, later on, were developed the land inhabiting plants and animals, which left the water and adapted themselves to live on dry land. Man, likewise, has gradually worked himself up from animal organism, and, in reality, from fish-like aquatic animals. If here, to our surprise, we find clearly enun- ciated some of the most Important fundamental conceptions of our current theory of develop- ment, we recognize it still more distinctly In its integrity one hundred years later in Heraclites of Ephesus. He it was who first propounded the principle that a great uninterrupted process of development pervades the whole untversal world; that all forms are involved in an everlast- ing current, and that struggle is “the father of all things.” Seeing that nowhege in the world exists absolute rest, and that all standing still is but apparent, we ‘are compelled everywhere to assume a perpetual change of matter, a con- stant variation of form. That is only possible, however, through the fact thatone form thrusts out the other, and that the new violently usurps the place of the old; or, in other words, through the universal ‘‘struggle for existence. This principle of nature set forth by Heracll- tes, that everlasting movement or the struggle among all things is the fundamental agent of the world, received a much deeper interpreta- tion alittle later in Empedocies of Agrigent in Sicily. He, too, assumesan uninterrupted change of phenomena, but finds the universal funda- mental cause of the everlasting universal strug- gle in the two counteracting principles of hate and love, or, as our modern physics expresses it, of the attraction and repulsion of parts. As the mixture of bodies is effected by love, so 1s their separation by hate. Ifin the present day we regard the attraction and repuision of atoms as then, this fundamental proposition’ of our modern doctrine of atoms already antici- pated in Empedocles. It is, however, still more remarkable that Empedocles makes the purpo- sive forms of organisms come into existence through the accidental conjunction of counter- acting forces. Out of this great strugsle the living forms now existing have issued victori- ously because they were best prepared for the battle, and therefore most capable of life. Here we have not only the fundamental conception of Darwin’s theory of selection forestalled, but also the solution of the great riddle indicated, “How can organic forme constituted for a par- ticular purpose come into existence in a purely mechanical way without the co-operation of a final cause acting with a particular purpose?”— the same riddle the solution of which we account to be Darwin's highest philosophical merit. Among the great philosophers of classical an- tiquity the three we have already named, An- aximander, Heraclites and Empedocles. are un- doubtedly those who have most clearly enunci- ated the most linportant elements of the monistic theory of nature now prevalent. But besides these’ we find other contemporaries of theirs who heid similar eonceptions of development, such as Thales, Anaximenes, Democritus, Aristotle, Lucretius, ete:—Prof. Haeckel. Se What Constitutes Overwork ? Mr. Seymour Haden, another of Mr. ncer's countrymen, ina complimentary reception speech | expressed also his quite emphatic disagreement with Spencer, and his admiration of the spirit of American enterprise and the splendid activity of the American people. As to the injury done by overwork, he did not believe in it, and the eminent physician, Sir William Gull, told him he had never known a man who had died from it. It is worry, not work, which kills, said Mr, Haden. Undoubtedly, but it 1s not the deadly worry one of the inevitable accompaniments and con- sequences of the overwork under the conditions of competitive enterprise in this country? It is work carried to such extremes as to engender anxiety and harassment under the flerceness of business strugies and the eagerness of un- checked ambition that is condemned. __ It is not claimed that the man who kills himself at fifty by junremitting 1abor has done it by too much physical exerti He has done it by assiduous mental solicitude without break or reaction, and the neglect of the conditions of health which that, absorption of thought and strain of the feelings imply. Spencer's criticisms were leveled at the want of regulation and of a corrective in the shape of systematic relaxations that shall give more contrast in life, and greater freedom to the play of agreeable feeling, in place of the yexatious solicitudes which spring from devotion to work. To say that it Is not overwork that kills, but the worry that is entaiied, is merely to quibble with the subject. Gull might as well had never known a case of death cholera or consumption because the lack of power in the constitu these diseases that is really the cause of death. It is only by such caviling that the notorions fact can be evaded that thousands ot men in this country sacrifice health and life to the pas- sionate eagerness of business pursuits. Every observing person can give examples within the sphere of his own acquaintance of such prema- ture breakdowns by the score.—Prof. E. L. Youmans in Popular Science Monthly for Jan- wary. from it eg A Deep Mine. From the New York Sun. The deepest coal mine tn America is the Potts- ville, in Pennsytvanta. The shaft is 1,576 feet deep. From its bottom, almost a third of a mile down, 200 cars, holding four tons each, are lifted every day. They are run upon a platform, and the whole wei:ht of six tons is hoisted at a speed that makes the head swim, the time oc- cupied in lifting a full car being only a little more than a minute. The hoisting and lower- ing of men into coal mines is regulated by law in that state. (From the New York Sun.] A RELIABLE SKIN CURE. THERE Is ONLY ONE and that with simplensnis. Beware of imposters, pi- rates, or any old articles which now suddenly claim to be best. They have been tried and found wanting ‘While this hag bosti proved’a remarkable success, NO POMPOUS NAME, i f ‘This curative notds no pompous or incomprehensible title of Greek or Listin to bustain it, but its simple Eng- sh name appeals directly to the common sense of the People. And the people are signally manifesting their appreciation of this frankness by selecting and using Dr. Benson's Sxx#Cuggin preference to all other pro- fessed remediss, :: 52 Boware of, imitations, or the various articles which have been(advertised for years or struggled along, having no feal hold or merit on the public, that now endeavor to keep head above water by advertising themselves as ** Skin Cure." None is genu- ine and reliable except Dj. O. W. Benson's Skin Cure. Each package and bottle bears his likeness. Internal and external remedy, twobottlesin one package. Price $1. Get at your drugyist's, Dr. C. W. Benson has long been well known ass suo- ceseful physician and surgeon, and his life study has ‘been the diseases of the nervous system and of the skin; since he has been persuaded to put his New Remedy and Favorite Prescription asa ‘‘Skin Cure” an the ‘market, various things have sprung up into existence, or have woke up from the sleepy state in which they ‘were before, and now elsim to be The Great Skin Cures. RELIEF FOR ALL OVERWORKED BRAINS. ‘Dr. 0. W. Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills are valuable for school children who suffer frem nervous ‘hheadaches caused by gn overworked brain in their stua- fea, and for all classos of hard brain-workers whose not purgative, Price, 60. cents, or six boxes for $2.50, postage free, toany adiress. For sale by all druggists, Depot, Baltimore, Md., where the ‘Doctor can be ad- reseed. Letters of inquiry freely answered. G. N. Crittenton, New York,is wholesale agent for Dr. SOW, Benson's: the ultimate ground of all phenomena, we find, | Sir William | have declared that he | 0 to resist | AUCTION SALES. THis ALTER B. WILLIAMS & 0O., Auctioneers. TRUS’ Rito near DI a ‘a deed of Ee Soxte fos et eq. of Ai trict of Columbia, au cured - LE! x N : cee: CHAMBER TURE, TWO VER' SES HEUREEs Sah wee EIGHT Ch. ASS Heat et "Sais RIED Vi A res DIRLASSW ARE, ATES ASSO) bered i ty -threc ¢ x, ee, | ahha! is lot is improved by a comfortabie &o. ree-story Brick Dwelling; is on line of sireet cars, A120, and ie convenient to the Capitol and B. andO. R. R. SEPELTE O'CLOCK, tu front of my sulesroon ‘Torms of sale: One-third cash; balance insix, twelve |" Sccares PKS HARNESS, ONE HACK A: and eighteen months, with in from Gy, of mls | NEW HARNESS, ONE FUUK-SEAT PHELON, nec deed of trust: or all cash. at option of pur: | UNE SET DOUBLE HARNESS, &¢., &o- the terms of sale sre nnt Compiiod with is art daset Goo! ars WAtL right is reserved to resell at defaulting purchaser's cost, a eee BE SOLD To SUIT rated hated tee a eee | Se suction t mg, SATORDAY,, DECEMBER WM. R. Wi WARD, z 3 3 commencing a! M 12-d&as Tehoy MoOPeILOR | Trustees. QICLOCK, 1 shall well s varied assortment of Household THIS EVENING. JV ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers, MANUFA ERS NAL BY ORDER OF ie TAUNTON SIEVE S-PLATE COMPANY, STILL CONTINUES At our salesroom, corner 16th street and Penn. avenue, With a new supply of Fresh Good Desirable and ‘anef uh Holldey Presen' Gales dally, 10:30 a. m.. 2:20 ad 7:90 p. 1. 21-3t WALTER B.WILLIA) JOLEY, Auctionver. At the National T MONDAY, Dé OR P.M, alarze and veried asecrtm med pledges, most of which are as suitable for Holiday P nd Stiver Wate "¢ Office, 1007 7th street, com MBER FOUGTH, 1583, ue. Ladies’ ne Nec lets, Studs, Sleeve-buttone, 500 eets Jewelry, Solid Siiv sele will continue having art: on every article tions] Loan 01 JOLEY, Auctioneer. rons to metic disposed af. 1 I. This kale wil! consist of— ze line of Ladies’ and Gent’s S Id Gold Wat Key and Stem Winders, Can Laities' Jewelry, Solid ( in Ladies’ and Gent's Gold Kings of a1 geserttion Piated and § Silver, and in all one of the largest 3 Jewelry ever offered at pubse snc 5 “B Vel fi ie of custom-made Overccats, Ul+tera, Suite ani Ladies’ Dreeses and Silk Dres: tterns; Shawls, + ke, Bibles, Books. Tools, Boots and Shoes, Quite reads, Blanketa, Carpsts, Trunks, and will con: tinue Evenings at 7 p.m, until eves sold. Fersous hol ing tickets on which the time has expired ‘wil, please take notice. F. SELINGER, Rroker. FOLEY, Auctioneer. 128-49 J)UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, TWO HOISTING MACHINES, DERRICES, FOUR CARS, TWO TRUCKS, AN K FOR SaME, TWE: OCK, we ondary scelianeous collection of ma- chinery and tools used in the construction of the first and second sections of the sewer on Boundary strect. ‘Terms cash. DUNCANSO® Biios., 439-ta ‘Auctioneers. HOS, J. FISHER & CO., Real Estate Auctioneers. OF VALU. BI AND VER- “trunte Mary et al., 2, front of the p DAY OF JANU mises, on TARY, 188: UR OCLOCK P. auction, in DNESDAY, the TH at FO Sh | a , i thence south twenty-eieh: fect three and a-half | = thence west four feet; thence south eighty-five reet; thence along L street beginning, and nuts thercon. : above pale we will sell lot letterel E, ac- rding to Johu Daly's subdivision of Davidsen'asubii- vision of square . and improvements thereon. ‘Terms of ale: One third (2) ase nOLeEY C baia:.ce of purchase money to be paid in equal instal. ts in six, tweive, an uchteon mouths from day of to bear intere+t from any of sale, for which pur- chater to give promiesers notes, with a surety or sure— ties to be approved by the Trustees, or purchaser or purchasers can pay all. purebuse money in cash on day of sale or on ratification thereof by the court. On rati- ficstion of sale and pegment of purchase money (and. uot before) Trustees will convey property to purchaser or purchasers, “A deposit of $00 ou each picdggt prop. erty so!d w1'l be required when the property pocked dows to the purchaser. ‘The terms of rate must m= Plied with within ten days from day of sale or pr pert; Will be. dvortised and sold at cost aud risk of pur- chaser. Ail conveyancing at cost of purchaser. MARL eS MC beg 16 F str nw. WILLIAM J. MILLER,” ( Trustees. a19-a&As 486 Ln. ave. UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. S! SALE OF VALUABLE PATENTS FOR EMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF tne of a deed of trast, dated ‘I'mn libor No. 1003, folio 49 District of Col Jane 28, 1882, and et seq., oneof the mibia, and also re- By vi ree laz.d records of the corded in liber V. 28, page 40, of Transfers of Patents in nited States Patent Office, and st the request cf th 3 sell at public auc- tion, at auction rooms of Duncanson Broa. corner and’ D ity of Washington, D. i on | WEDNEs- JANUARY, A.D. is exculsively the right, title, int » invention and monopoly covered ‘by and in and described inthe Letters Patent numbered arch, 1868, bearing date the 17th y the United@states Tiam A. Grahem, axsiscnees of @: nu, for an improved Brick Machina, referen: said letters patent for amore fecurste descrip id invention, and ail the right, property, mo- rest in aud to the said letters | ion forthe full term thereof {err t rive of the United States exc the | | District of Cotumbia, the states of Virginia, Maryland | | snd Delaware, aud’excepting all of the state of West Virieinia but the counti hi Brooke and Ohio, York but the coun- k, hichmond, xcepting all of the sta 5) Ik, Kings, Queene, . Putnsm, Dute tumbix, the nties in West Virxinia and the said nine countes in New York being inelutedl in this sale. nd also alland exclasively th e i 2 one A. Greham, for sn improvement in Brick “y referees Teing hud to sad letters patent fors more perfect description of sai invention and improve und all the rivht, property, mon id tossid letiers patent and the said invention for the term thereof, for all the states and tea of the States, excepting and reserving therefrom the District of Coimmbia, the st Virginia tates and Delaware, and all of the state of We ing th of M Bred ty ietters Garrett b. Davids, numbered 9 iw end useful improvement in dist conveyed t> the said party ot ti ment of writinic dated Jay the Patent Office jn Liter M . 25, pas exceyting from the operation of. this couveyance the District of Columbia and the said states of Vinsini Detaware and Jand, and excevting the state Wert Nirinia, aoe the counties of Marshal, ‘Brooke and Ohio, And also all the right, title, interest, property ana oenve conveyed to the sald party of the Enepsast by writton agreement, dated November 28, 1877, and recorded in the Patent Office, in Liber K. 32, paz 25: relating to cortaii tunnels, drying ai Saving and we paratus and cars for moving brick, therefrom the District ot Colum- states farriand, Vireinia and Delvwa and ihe state of West Virginia, saving the counties arshall, eand Ohio. ‘Terms ‘ot sale: ‘Ten thoussnd dollars ($10,000) in goeh; the balance in two equal payments, ‘payable in six and twelve mouths respectively, with intereet at the Tate of six per cent per annum, for which tha notes of the purchaser will be taken, secured to the eatiefaction f the Trustees, or all cash, at the option of the pur- aser. of eb: WM. F. MATTINGLY, ok, dis-eokds JAMES M. JUBNSTON,| T (HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE PROPERTY. decree of the Supreme Court of, bia, passed v. Boyle et ul., Now 8235, fier for kale, oh MONDAY, THE EL! EMBEF, 1882, at FOUR’ O'CLOCK the all the interest P. valuabl- bui (The interest to an encumbranc Fate of seven ‘Terms of | thems | the said line of said avenue, 16 feet: thet Bis hada aes ‘Gunton Building, 427 Sw THE ABOVE BALE 18 NED Seg IG TREE at equal, fe FPPHOMAS DOWLING. Auctioneer. THE WELL-KNOW: TROTTER AND ROADSTER, IDLE AUCTION, SATURDAY AT , DECEMBER TW at | WRLYV! Ui the ebo NTY-THIED, ‘M., ia front of my salesroome, | well-known and vainable aninol. Tecord of 2:40: is perfectly safe for alady to Kind and gentle; don't shy or ecare at any thi! 1 stand without bite ching. Bold for no fault Ghsn the Preeut owner baviug bo further Use particulars apply to THOMA DOW. NCANSON BROS., Auctioncers. NT BAY MARE AT AUCTION, Y MORNIN: EVEN 0% on 1882, w r further St , Auctioneer. B IMPROVED SECOND SPREE DE- Lock red (100), own, hav- tothe city of George {OF arty (30) foo: ou wireet Uy that width ‘m depth of one iamdred and twenty (120) feet, eluents thereon. eribed by the decree: one hal t in cesh and the residue in equal iments imix and twelve moptha, wi h interest at Six percent. A deposit of fifty ({50) dollars will be re- goited when the property te st-uek off.” Termin of male a fre be complied with in set 8 from the day of All conveyancing at the opel of the purchserr. Jol W. PILLING, Lraustee. F. a OOAMAD |, Auctioneer, 6 ‘CERY SALE OF IMPROVED RUAL ESTATE L SIRELT NORTH, NeaR FIF.EENTH REET WEST. By virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the, District of Colun.qia, m equity cause No. Lanciey va. Ferry etal., dated December 11, 1882 Tsholl offer for ante at public augt.op, in front ramises, on SATURDAY, the TW ) F DECEMBER, 1882, ‘at FOUR ‘CLO: P.M., Part of Lote No. Ti and 12 of Davidson's subdivision of equate No, 216, in the city of Ws fon, in the Dis- tact of Columbia, bexiuning on L street 51 feet 4 inches from the northwest corner of waid square and rupuine thence east 14 feet 2 inches; thence south 51 feet toa. three-foot alley; thence west 14 feet 2 inches; north 91 feet to the becinning, improved bya three- ® Patreet northwest, brick dwelling, No. 1428 ns: One-baf of the purchase money to be paid in nm the day of sule; the residue in two equal instal- at six and twelve months, with interest thereon, fobs Secured by apnrored notes onds to the xatie- faction of the Trust All conveyancing at purchaser's cost. RICHARD T. MORSEL astee, 416 5th atroet northwest, THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, di3-eo&ds or | HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. D PROPPRTY ON SEVENTH GETOWN, AT AUCTION. a deed of trust, dated the 4th day of, er, A. D. 1880, and recorded in Liber N # ef the tand Lecords for ict of bia, and at the the’ undersur ‘et seq. Coluni daly’s subdivision of | red the . etiatnye ch nora L atret forks teat | $& public Bact om ees st coruer of eajd square, | DAY, TWEE! RCH PAY ¢ EMBER, ripping thence north ix feet three inches; | $+ D. 1882, st FOUR O'CLOCK ae te thence northerly, parallel wita Ver avenue, forty: | lowing-described real estate, wtuat George- pensoey ie _ ; ceiiastraignt | town, D.C., to wit: Parts of Lots numbered 31 and stoapointon | 9 in Beatty and Hawkins’ awend neni ent fecan onvetown, beginning for the eam sue fifteen fi south sid: of 7th treet, distant wey foarte fe West from the southwest coruer of 7th and tn Frederick streeta, and run t] west on <f 7th street twevty-five feet, more or less, to the fine ef the lot heretofore conveyed by Thomas Brown, decessed, n, decexend: thence south, with wnid eas: red and fifiy feet; nce east twenty-five feet, more or less, and thence ith the division line separating said part from part of said first mentioned lot one-hundred ‘ttothe place of beginning, improved by third cash, balance in six and twelve interest. and secured by a deed of trust Toperty wld. A depost of $100 will be required 8 of ali conveyancing ut purchaser's cost. If terms of sue are not complied with iu five days from day of sale the Trustees reserve the Ticht to resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purcha:er. : aS mon on the at ti THE GR TILDING MILL AND THE CaR- N OPS OF D. J, MA- DOWNING. a E BU LA CARTY AND WM. B. By virtne of a decree of the Supreme Court, of, the District of Columbia, in the cause of] Ward ct al. ve. Ward et 8.304 ecuity, 1 it public atts fret front thereof et, and runmng through that width to the north line of Ohio avenue and immediately adjoin- ing the cast line of said lot 4. and besinul for the second part of said lot 3 and the part of sad lo 2, at a point in the south line of said C street, 19 feet cast of the northwest corver of said lot 3, and thenee Tuuning east on said line of said C street 48 feet to a point | foot east of the northwest corner of said lot 2: erunning due south 50 fret, thence west 32 feet, in @ soutlwester-y direction and at right angies* with Ohio ave.toa point in the north line of saidavenue distant27 foet and 2 inches westerly from the southeast corner of said lot 3; thence in a northwesterly, along nee in & north- direction aiid at richt angles with said avenue Taect a line drawn due south and 50 feet from the of becinning, ana thence dive north to the place ee jashington then eas ‘Terms of sale: One-fourth cash on the day of sale or within seven thereafter, the residue in four equal lustalments in six, twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four months from the day-of vale, the purchaser eivtog hie for, bearin« interest from sale at six per centuin per annum, or all cash, at hiseection, The title to the respective paree's sold to ‘be retained until the fuil amount of the purchare money, interest is paid. If any purchaser shal fail to com- ly with the terms of sale {reserve the rigiit to ren lver- Ese ana resell the property at the risk and cont of such defg tiny purchaser. deposit on acceptance of JAMES 8. EDWARDS, Trustee, SEC: street northwest. di3-eod&ds_DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. (TIONS DOWLING, Auctioneer. VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY ON JEFFPR- SON STREET, GEORGETOWN. D. C., AT AUC- For Other Auctions See Sth Page. SPECIALTIES. YORLD-RENOWNED FORTUNE ey eg seccml sight, tells withont qi 4 ‘datos, frieuds, Watiefaction pusranteed. $30 i sect. disSe UPERFLUOUS BAIR Sipe, Creve pemoved by Da SVAN Bycu, Dermatologist. eahw.. No acids, needed. Gall at once. STIC, on MONDAY ESD AVS, for Matton FRIDAYS. for Upper Machoise bEN'D Pabaure F? aio Mexandria, Va. MT VERNON! ar. VERNON IT STEAMER W. Ww. conconax Yeaney, [ih limet what dati, ercnst sudan —— = i= & bi. , returning reaches bout 2. pty “ L. L. BLAK®, Captain, 3, a a. treet HE STEAMER “i street wharf every SUNDA THURSDAY, at seven o'cl am. media vpn af, Iam dings in Semins on aD tH re, Mattox ( op Sund: an Gay Chapel ‘Print aud Breat’s Whar Susdaye gpa W “op,” returning to Washington, «Op, Monday: Mednesday end Friday papers os =? wired whee NEW rons, ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM. he firet-cliss, ful powered, Clyde-built Dungy nishine of tate T, (ERDAM. ROTTERDA’ SoRIEDA: AM, ZAAN ALAN - Ste AM: AANDAM. PLC ‘A. SCHOLTEN, NA Ww ine the TS. Malls 00 the Netherland, toa of Sussex street. Jormey City, Y= } $28. Carrvi pany"s ery WEDNESDAY for Rotterdam Iternately. 2, $70: secon’ cabin, $50: og AZAUN, General Agent, 2 b Wal strerace, or jamacr spriy to WO. METEERORS Pentasivania avetao, Washinatow. OKTH GERMA ink Becwrem New Yore, Havam THAMPTON AND Bij % Sof tis company wil sat! EVE \ Bremen jer, foot of 3d street, eae: Feu Now York to Mayr on and Bremen, first cabin, $f wtewr: steerage corti & freicht orp aly. ty OE 2 Bowling Green, New York, W.G. Mf ., 925 Pennsylvania aveuue mordhwesk Agente sinetom. 9, SW: penal ypausunc LIN WEFKLY LINE OF STRAMERS AVING SLW YORK EVERY THURSDAR , AT NOON. FOR ENGLAND, FRASVE AND GERMANT. 2d usemage apply to ©. B. RICHARD & 00., General Passanger A Or to PERCY G. SMITH, 1801 and 619 Pem Bend for **Tourist Cenaep LINE. X. THE CUXARD BETWEEN NEW | ‘COMPANY: TER LvEMFOOL CALLIN FROM PLE 1a... Wed, NI ou AKBOR. "Qephalonia. Wedrs Zan. a. 5 Wed., Jan. ed. x > Ww a NEW YORK, oF Passaor: parseneer Kare Pg . qrpeci at Guccustown and all oder partaut wert rates, Through ‘bills of jeden given for Belfast, ay Havre, Antwerp and other ports on the Coutinent te Mediterra ort. freight aid paneameapriy at he Company's Mag, Bowltiue Gi stoeraice and cabin BIGELOW & UO., 00S Tih strok ‘Waskingtamy “ VERNON H. BROWN & CO., New York: Orto Mesare. OTIS. hiarvow & 00., janl2 5 7th strest, Washingtom, RAILROADS. ALTIMORE & OHIO R TLROAD. ‘sana THE MO! AST, AND E © BETWEEN THE FAS’ AND THe W VBLE TH. VIA WASH’ SANNEY COUPL SCHEDULE TOT. SUNDAY, NOVEMBI EAVE Was P 0 Rocks and Way Stations, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND BOSTON PRESS. “Parlor Cars to New York. 640—Staunton and Vall out an 20:00—BAL1 and Laui 10:15—Pi 3 ‘3:30—baltimore and Way wi Hagerstown ick, Wi vie Al 4 a0" Hattimore Hyattenilie & dea $4 :40—Paltimo Au hal ‘4:45—Point of Frederick, SRR ok apna = 6 bam MORE soy Ofartinatvars ape - ik tees . ‘ne daily, exceptSundag i inet at ‘Station. For further inforuuaten apriy at the Balter at ' Ohio Ticket Offices, Washington Station, 619 and 2 Penneyivania avenue, corner 1ith etna, where will Le taken for baggage to be checked and ete Re LORD, Gen, Faseenger Agent, WM. OLi:MicN ch. Master of Trae. Bato” mag® of hesoae GREAT PENNSYLVANIA ROUTR TO THE NORTH, Wis AND 801 “BLE TRACK, a | 1D 882. AFHINGTON FkOM STATION, CORNER For ECT AND ESTREETA, as FoLLows ‘or Pittsourg: Palace 8! ‘the . ANP POTOMAC daily except Saturday, iusto to Cau daleun. Benue Se with Palace: koe Raven, and Elmira, 019.300 , 10:308.m. 30 a. pt N.Y. ail trains Peg ip <5 1080 P. bu and 10: except og se ‘the East, 8-00 a. er] Ps 2 mm. On at “4 otis Lindt expen of Baa direct transfer to street, fe ‘ecross Ne Bi Lintived Expres, 9:30 acta, oe FoFoves Grek Ling 6:40am, and6:40 p.m dat | Fe jor m. daily, exces ro few York City. Kimore, ¢-40, 8-00, 9:90, 10:30 8.m. and 1 el 20 meee te 30 dha! re Te FerApmapeiiy 60am and 6:40 p.m. dally, exon an ‘ers can Osi for can Dect for hotels, SAFE DEPOSIT SECURITY FROM LOSS BY I sy, ESTE, EEE Beto ae, N * (Szauxr axp New Your As ‘Congress