Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1883, Page 2

PROV: New Buildings Progress or To Be Erected ‘a 4 HANDSOME BUSIVESS HOUSE. One of the finest business buildings in the city fs now In progress of erection on the south side of the Avenue, between 6th and 7th stre: 3 Mr. J. E. Kendall. It will be occupied by his Son, Mr. J. B. Kendall, with whose present place Of business, in the rear of the lot fronting on B anected. It will then form a building, occupying the entire depth of the square between the Avenue and B street: The new building will be’ five stories high, with a cellar. The front of 27 feet will be of brick, with brownstone trimmings and handsomely orna- mented. A Tow of three larze windows on each of the five stories will be ed with French plate glass, giving a rich effect. and adding to the solid elegance of the structure. The ing is being put up in a most substanti: ner, the party wall on the west side inches thick, and those on the east side 1 thick. An open well between the old and new buildings, covered with a skylight. will give light to the interior. A very handsome stair- ease of natural wood will rua from the top to the bottom. The interior will be finished in white and yellow pine of natural finish. The cost will be 314.000. Mr. John Fraser is the aremtect, and D. B. Groff, contractor. THE OLD CONVENT PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT. vent property at the corner o 20th and G streets will s' be improved by John Sherman & ( es and others, Dy the erection of six ick hoases. The old building, fr: street, will be re- ne corner house will be h. with a basement, et on lth street, “C45 feet. It will contain and extend on about 20 roo mental style o' and will be built in an orna- | ¢ modern itecture, with all t improvements. e will be four t Inthe house. Directly to the north, rected three stories and basement high, pining these again there will be three three stories high, with a da cellar. The entire block mious style of architectare. t each will ditfer in the desien. They will be erected in the orn style, with bay windows, brick cornices, and complete in all the appoint— The cost the plu the improvement is not not been all prepared. . J. Germnuitler areluiteet, and C.C. Mar- tin, the contractor. OTHER NEW Hor Mr. John Hockmyer will s ly bezin the @rection of four handsome dwelling houses on the southeast corner of 5th They are to be of three stories and a basement, with A bay window runs up ch house @ fron he rah age of 2) ti eet. height of the he room will be ofa neat and a character. The cost will be 215,000. Mr. S. R. Turner is the architect. Mrs. Donn intends to build for her own nse brick house on M street, betw the cost being 1,500. 3 architect. Riley has given out the f Mrs. high and have The interior finish will be house will be ocenpi a feontucs of in hard wood. the owner. The Farner is the Prof. €. V. Ri of six brick how: are three storie de a handsom eity. The cost wil the architect. John Sherman pleting a row treets. They nt hig i, and wiil t to that part of the 000. S. R. Tarner is & Co. are building for Messrs. rick residences on 14th n. they are to be ent and a large stable in the rear of each. cost Is about $9,000 each. Juin 5 y is the contracte John Sherman & Co. are also about to dein house on Massa- ath, near Dupont ze of 35 feet, and ‘will be finished in natural woods with an exterior Of pleasing desizn. The cost will be $13.000. J. Germuiller is the architect, aud ©. C. Martin the contractor. John Sherman has sold to Commodore Quack- enbush, U.S.N., a brick house onthe east side of Connecticut avenue, near M, for bis own use, The Nattonal Union Insurance Company building, 643 Louisiana avenue, is nearing eom- Pletion. The front of this building has a base of rock face ashlar of Obio stone, with columns, carved caps and bases, and bei's of the saine stone, making one of th fronts in town. In the window a marked feature is the Iarze wine which extends from the first to the top of the second story, This window has the ta! alanced sash in town. ‘The corner turret, corbelled from one side of the bay window, and from which the flag pole strings. fs another marked feature. A novelty Js the arrangement for hoisting the flag froni the Office on the first floor. flag is drawn up ed galvanized iron ssigued and super- m fective business intended the cc Mr. T. P. Simpson ts having plans and spectfi- cations drawn up for a dw on Vermont avenue. between N and O streets. The front will be 26 ve a semicircu- lar bay window two sto hb. The base- ment, step yd silla will be of . Portland ‘brown . e will be some terra cotta of orivinal ae The inside will be finished in bh: jen mantels, tile hearths and firey sin the latest design. Ash will be w second story; ch poplar and ¢ all to be fn natural grain Re tibule doe over windows. | The plumbing will r ‘ul attention, | baving the fixtares care! veted, and the I, the architect The house will be Yadiation. The arentect is Gl. Mr.Daalel Murray, of the library of Congress, has just completed three $story ‘and basement brick dwellings, on 12th street. near N. They have pressed brick fronts, with Ohio stone trimmings, fancy belt courses and panels of moulded brick; full bay windows with stained lass transoms; hot and cold water, bath,range, jatrobes, bells and speaking tubes throughout. The interiors are finished in natural woods, Queen Anne style, at cornices and slate ch plate glass through- ‘They contain ten roomseach. Mr. Mur- Tay is also erecting three others, of similar £m, on Mist street, near the corner of M, to cost $10,000, exclusive of the ground. A Glimpse of the Mormons, of this city, who has been ment at Salt Lake City, writes to a friend here as follows: “ Yesterday I went through the crovnds of the Ber-Hive, of the late Brigham Young I wanted very much to cet a pee} ut Of course that was out of the qhestion, as the « e there, and tt 1s considered sacred Talbo visited 3 mmer months. Taberns pin tn bis hat, ct Thad been beside 1 to we and J answered fa turn, nly Beard. I was allowed to $) 4 _THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. SATURDAY. MARCHE 31, 1883—DUUBLE SHEET. THE BLOCKADE AND TH" C’UISERS, By Jawrs KussKvy SouEy, Professor Navy. New York: U, 8. Navy. ‘buer's Sons, Washington: Wim. Ballan- on. The excellent work done by Mesars. Seribner’s Sons in behalf of the army and the truth of his- tory, by the publication of their series of popu- lar books entitled “Campaigns of the Civil War” they have also undertaken in behalf of the navy, in a set of three volumes, under the general title of “The Navy in_ the Civil War,” the first volume of which is before us. Prof. Soley has had excellent facilities for the exe- cution of his task and he seems to have used them to advantage. Aside from its historical alue, his resumé is full of stirring narratives and graphic descriptions, which entertain charmingly the same time they instruct. THE EPIC OF RINGS. Stories Retold from Firdus. By Heures Zimaerx. New. ork: Henry Holt & Co. Washingto.: 4. Brentano & Co. What Homer did for Greece, in the preserva- tion of ber myths and traditions, Firdusi did for Persia; and the object of the translator, in para- phrasing them from a French version, was to make the poetical legends of the far east tamiliar to English reading people. In doing so she has judiciously clothed them in the simple language of the aze of Shakspere and the bible, in order, as she Says, by thus removing them from every day speech, to remove them from the atmosphere The book is attractively gotten up, expectations aroused by the announce ment that it is illustrated “with two etchings by Alma-Tadeia, R. A,” are poorly met in the quality of the engravings presented. ND NOVFLISTS. INE. ‘New York: Wm. Bal- It is a long time since the pnblic has been treated to a volume of such thoroughly enter- taining critical essays as this. Mr. Hazeltine is a thoughtful and scholarly reviewer, who has the rare f und ¢1 under notice, pat of gi at the same time a tair idea of what it , together, oftentimes, with further original information’ on the sabject of which it tre; S ON THE PRINCIPAL PICTURES IN THE LOUVRE AT PARIS, AND IN THE Y MILAN. By CHantes L. . London. GALLE i "ete, Bos- ‘ashingtou: Robert Aithough this volume will have special yalue to those who have visited or expect to visit the two famous calleries named in the title, It will also be of service to students of art and to thgge | as well who desire to know something by de jon in the absence of observation of some world’s master pieces, The author's in- ion is, as arule, exact and reliable. aud judzment good, and his remarks are critical as Well as descriptive. The purpose he has In view is furthered by the introduction of numer- ous engravings running throuzh the text, which serve to give an idea of the composition and seneral character of the paintings they repre- sent. In point of execution, however, they are not worthy the place they occupy, and do no credit to either the author or publishers of the book. GIDFON FLEYCF. A New York: Henry H ert Beall. story, which constitutes No. 144 of the | sure Hour Seri author, who Is re.carded by many of the critics 3 own country as the c man among wel. By Hexny W. Lucy. Co. Washington: Kob- writers of fic If it does not establish that for him it certainly entitles him to con- Novelist, tor it isa romance of n han ordinary interest and power. test effort to combat and overthrow Col. The Ingersol’s peculiar views of humanity and its probable future comesto us in a fairly gotten up Volume entitled “Reason and Ingersollism,” by Morgan E. Dowling, author of “Southern Pris- ons, or Josie, the Heroine of Florence," which those who are afraid of Mr. Ingersol}'s doctrines and influence will doubtiess be glad to read- For ourselves, however, we doubt the need of It. The April number of the Art Amateur is an exceptionaliy good issue of that deservedly pop- ular periodical. In addition to a large number of working designs it hasa great many clever sketches and engravings of more than usual interest, and the text is varied and entertaining in the highest de: ee aator Edmunds is known as the implacable foe of lobbyists and legislative schemes for pri- vate or persoual benefit. The plea in behalf of private bills that the beneficiary is a poor man or woman with a large number of children to support, uever moves Mr. Edmunds to withdraw his opposition to @ measure which he thinks oust not to pass. He makes himself acquaint- ed with the details of every measure coming be- fore the Senate, and he is prepared at all times to di the merits or demerits of the most Unimportant as well as the most {mportant measure. His faculty of familiarizing himself with the matters of 1 tion is indeed as wondertulas it is thorou, “You can never eateh the old Vermont fox his cuard,” said an irreverent brother Senator, who had failed in an attempt to slip a little bill through, and who was surprised by Mr. Edmunds recitinse facts about the history of the measure which ie, himself, had not been aware of. Senator Edmunds is said to be a most genial man in the home ana jal circle, but in public life he wears an uninviting aspect. He clothes himseif in an armor of reserve, which few, save those on a friendly footing, ever attempt to penetrate. Even the n t reporter, with all his characteristic hardihood, steers clear of the Vermont Sena- tor. In fact, to state it bluntly, Mr. Edmunds is charved with a positiveaversion for reporters. thinks newspapers are civen too much to prying iato public matters before they are ripe for the press. His idea is that newspapersshould wait for public questions to be finally settled ud determined and should never seek to an- the Record. The reporter who should ask him for information as to what was being done with a subject under consideration, would most likely be severely rebuked for gross im- pertinence. Mr. Edmunds endeavors, so far as his authority extends, to enforce the order of secrecy, which he thinks should be maintained in to public business; but, of course, he frequently fails. It an item of news escaped from the judiciary committee, of which Mr. Ed- munds {s chairman, he would consider that somebody had done violence to the honor and dignity of that body,and of the Senate, and woe be unto the man who had “leaked” if he were discovered. The manner in which the chairman would proceed, after a publication as to what the judiciary committee had done with some question pending before it, would be entertain- ing, though very serions. " At the next meeting he would descant upon the heinousness of the sin of “prematurely” spreading before the pub- | lic matters not vel finally disposed of. He would not be guilty of charging any member of the committee directly with such a violation of the “rules,” or even of expressing such a suspicion; but he would indireetly score the an- known offender most keenly. He would call the messenger, and with a frowning brow and stern look demand if he had overheard any of the committee's proceedings at the last meet- ing. Being answered in the negative, he would ask if anybody had been seen lingering around the door of the committee room, or if it was Possible for somebody to have eavesdropped. Uhe largest tn the hk 2,000 pipes. The ‘al iu shape in the mte- for suprort through the cen- id the Seatit g capacity ts 12,004, bus It can hol’! 16.500 people. And now about the Mormons! President Foster, who now fills the piace of ihe late Brigham Young, has seven wives. The first niht of cur formance he brought three of 23. wives, with Four sons tine, manly looking young men, ho two having the same mother. The second night he broug! four wives; and at the matinee the following day Unree Loxcs were com- pictery Giled with ils cudren and their nurses, children ranging from three to fourteen years. Of age. and there were twenty-two of them!” The Moron women and girls from three years up- Ward wear their hair combed down over Uheir ears And in an Irish coll in ihe back, with a large, & net covering the whole of the front an back hair. They never cut their hair from infancy. J have seen a Mormon girl six years old iook ‘Sweaty, with her long (ress and gucerly arranged aair, and her big forehead stan. out in ‘bold ———-+. Why Not Include Orange Binds, ‘Too } Fo the Ea'tor of the Evexrxe Srau: Will the people \-ho indutve in the habit of eating bananas oa the street either refrain from we doing or be kind cnongh: to deposit the rinds dn the gutter or else pnt them in their pockets until they get home, so tlint people may not bo constant dread of f£ dowa and king their necks? 1 sincerely hope that Wiis wili be cbeerved more « iy Se Suture. ie would insist that the information must have been obtulned In some such manner, as if it was hot to be supposed that any member of the committee would so far forget his obligations to the country as to Inform the press of matters under deliberation and before these matters were even reported to the Senate. Now that he Is president of the Senate the policy of se- erecy will, no doubt, be rigidly insisted upon, s," is bya new English | ! | excel in theirown specialties men who only train and Mr. Edmunds is doomed to much vexation because of the activity and persistency of the press. -—————_+e-_____ Aningenious English tramp has been In the habit of securing satisfactory quarters for bim- self by skillfully feigning (temporarily) lunacy and getting accomm in asylums, of which he has resided in forty. However, he tried his little game once too often at Chester lately. The Barringer gold mine, in Rowan county, C.. was sold Monday to H. B. Meech, of N York, and Robert Lynn, of $4,000 cash, the money ‘belng paid in they are capable of ju «reat Chandler Cleared 39 thot bree a break at War- wick; Caly 33 Ne rt sre ee ie N.14 lew = for 80 many.—Harvard ‘a railroad to within bandred Trained horses have shown In England that Stonehenge. MMhe vibrations. Crs Valley, 85 feet | by fire. of th MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. GOOD ATTRACTIONS NEXT WEEK—A NEW AMERI- CAN OPERA—LANGTRY, RUSSELL, AND NILSSON —THE REVIVAL OF BALLET, ETO. — At the National Monday evening Mr. Ray- mond will fill the house. — Haverly’s Minstrels begin an engagement at Ford’s next Thursday evening. — There will be an amateur performance at Lincoln Hall Monday evening for the benefit of the Central Dispensary. —The Boston Ideals are playing along and successfal engagement in Boston. — St. Louis is about to build @ magnificent music hall, to cost half a million dollars. — Three Uncle Tom companies have recently gone to meet Little Eva. —The spring engagement of the Mapleson Opera Troupe in New York continues success- ful. Patti appears but twice a week. —Thg revival of the ballet ts to be a feature of New York next autumn. An imported com- pany of sixty is promised. = — “Olivette,” “Pinafore” and “Patience” have been revived in New York this week and have drawn good houses. —An American opera called the ‘Queen of Palmyra” was produced this week in Chicago and pronounced a yery fair success. 8. G. Pratt is the composer of It. —Minnie Maddern closed a very successful engagement at Denver last Sunday evening. During the performance she was presented with a pair of solitaire ear-rings by the members of the press, valued at $300. — At the Madison Square Theater there will be but a few more nights of “Young Mrs. Win- throp,” as Mrs. Burton Harrison's comedy, ‘1A Russian Honeymoon,” will be given there early ia April. — A western contemporary informs the lis- tening world that Miss Minnie Hauk was at one time waiter girl at her mother’s boarding house at Sumner, Kansas, and In early life gave no evidence of musical talent. It 1s curious how many things western contempories know that are not s0. — “Cymbia, or the Magic Thimble,” a comic opera by J. Williams and Harry Paulton, the comedian, at the Strand Theater, Isondon, is a decided stecess. It is entirely an English opera, both in words and music. —Henry E. Abbey has arranged with Mme. Christine Nilsson to appear in Itallan opera next season at the Metropolitan Opera House. —During Bertha Welby's engagement at at- Janta, Ga., recently. In the last act of ‘One Woman's Life” the landlady ejects the heroine for non-payment of rent. A countryman jumped to his feet and shouted: “Don't put her out, I'll pay it.” He was put out. ‘ —Lillian Russell was a chorus girl in ‘“Eyan- geline” when she appeared in Boston five years ago. Last Sunday she appeared at the Bijou concert in that city as the New York prima donna. —The Salt Lake Herald thus speaks of a Washington lady: “The charming cantatrice, Alice Hosmer, was recalled three times last night. She seemed to touch the hearts of the people with her wonderfully sympathetic voice, and by the number of recalls the audience were unwilling to let her go. There ‘seems to be but one opinion here, that Haverly’a Theater has never held such a voice.” —Herndon Morsell, of Washington, and Lizzie Burton, of Cambridge, both members of the Boston Ideal Opera company, are shortly to be married. — Christine Nilsson did avery graceful thing in the concert Thursday evening by giving “Home, Sweet Home” as a final response to the | he audience—thus delicately wt that to this city has just been brought home from a foreign shore the | honored dust of the author of this sweetest of American ballads. —RKey. George C. Miln, the actor, sailed for Europe on Wednesday. He took letters to Henry Irving and other eminent European actors. He Intends spending six months abroad. — Lucy L. Couch, who appeared In “Virginia” at the Bijou Theater, New York, has cabled to Carl Rossa in London, accepting an offer of a position in his opera company. She sails tor England in April. —Mrs. Langtry -has been interviewed by an enterprising reporter, and stated that she will pay this country a visit next year under herown management. Mr. Boucicault is writing or adapting a play tor her which she will produce on her return. —The announcement of the marriage of Ris- torio’s daughter in Rome recently will probably leave the great tragedienne free to come to. this country next season. Ristori has during the past few seasons received many tempting offers for a tour through the states. — Where the stars are: Mary Anderson was this week in Albany.—— Lawrence Barrett, act- ing Lanciotto, dovoted this week to St. Louis. —Wrs. Langtry was seen this week !n Cleye- land, Erie and Rochester.—Mr. and Mrs. Flor- ence appeared in New Haven, Hartford and Providence.——John T. Raymond was this week in Easton, Scranton, Wilkesbarre, Pottsville, Harrisburg and Wilmington.—Kate Claxton visited Hamilton, Dayton, Springfield and Co- tambus.—Mme. Janauschek was this week in Bostcn.—Mr. Boucicauit made his re-entrance in New York at the Star Theater—Charles Wyndham visited Montreal.—Salvinl was in Milwaukee and Cleveland. We appears on Monday in Philadelphia and Clara Morris will appear with him.—Mme. Geistinger gave the week to Chicato.—F. B. Warde appeared in Chicago.—Frank Mayo acted this week at the Windsor Theater, New York.—J. K. Emmet was seen in Brooklyn.Lotta appeared in Indianapolis.— Aldrich and Parsloe were this week in Philadetphia.— Mine. Modjeska acted in Syracuse.— Annie Pixley appears this week and next in New York at the Grand Opera ouse, —_—_—_---_____ How to Rest and Sleep. Dr. Sargent discussed yesterday the question of the importance of rest and sleep for men in tralning and for students. A distinction should be made, said the lecturer, between rest and what is usually called sleep. Recreation, in the sense of “building anew,’ is rest. So often a mere change in Iccal condition is better fora man than complete rest or sleep; a change of activity is In itself rest. The Indians, whentired of walking rest themselves by running. This principle ts too often disregarded by students and by men who are training for any particular object. Boating men many times tail to recog- nize the importance of general training, but think their whole duty lies in the-direct exer— cise of rowing or in absolute rest. The value of indirect training is not to be over-estimated. It is noticeable that men who do not devote them- selves exclusively to one branch of training, but aim at a qeneral physical development, often for one branch of athletics. The best. examples of such facts, said Dr. Sargent, were to be seen in the superior physical condition ot the men now in training for the general excellence prize. ‘The same rule holds good In matters of the in- tellect. Variety of studies is an excellent thing. A man who devotes himself to only one or two subjects can hardly be said to be worthy of a col- lege degree. Asto the matter of sleeplessness; muscular exertion, If not excessive, induces tleep. Thus it {s often a good plan for men troubled with sleeplessness to exercise in the evening before retiring. Men should be warned @gainst the use of drugs to cure sleeplessness. The sleep thereby Induced is not a genuine sleep. After pay vitae or unusual exercise a warm bath is to be highly recommended before retiring. The Practice of bathing the feet alene is a doubtful one, however. It is, in general, best not to be dependent upon any artificial condition to secure sleep. One should aim for a complete mastery over himself in such matters, so that he can command sleep at will and thus economize time and force. By such a course the usual average of his sleep can be reduced to seven or six and a half houre with safety. The habit of one'sself to sleep is to be since ft may become a interfe nether tho sleep gained Before ta ro wi the silee; in fore 12 o'clock is of that afterward. pn more value t! be then are Herad. “T° n0t itions favorable to rr ‘There ts a bill before parliament authorizin, would in time prob- ably ruin the monument, and Sir. Lubbock will oppose it. this number 17 were burned in the over the Brook, United ‘Tin Engl 5 in Russia, ye eee Peter Simple, 37 feet Germany, 2 in France, 2 in Spain and nent at Boston. Belgium, Bulgaria aad Houmants; Pope Leo looks like William 3M. Evarts. A dispatch from Vienna says that several lo- President Pierce's old home at Concord, YH. calities at the foot of Mount Ararat have been is to be transformed an snow avalanches. Itis stated for giria page 150 ‘have been Killed and 100 injured. BRIGHT FANOIES OF THE POETS. ue {Written for Tux EVENING Sram, *¢-- @ontented. ‘When I look out upon the lordly place My neigh! ‘bjs home, by helping grace, 140 not wish It mine. Ienvy not, Nor do I murmur a¢-my humble lot. It pleased thé God who made both him and me, That I the poorer ofthe twain should be; And God is Fthd and wise; hence I concluds ‘That, in witkholdi He withholds for good. of ‘Too much F find witiiin my quiet home, ‘Tno’ from its root uprears no lofty dome, ‘Too much I find to make me know and fecl That He who gave it doeth all things well. He better knows than I the best for me,— Abundance, or a bare sufficiency; He looks adown the aisle of future years And spares mo wealth that He may spare me tears, Thus I am blessed, tho’ scanty be my share Ot what the world doth estimate as dear; Thus I am blessed, contented with my store: ‘My rich and prospered neighbor is not more, CHARLES M. TENLEY. Washington, March, 1883. ae (Written for Tae Evexrsa Sram, To My Old Lamp. Come down, dear old friend, trom the attic so grey, And ald us again; at the close of the day, To enliven our home; while no boding of {11 In the shape of the gasman’s preposterous bill Hangs over our*heads,—lke the blade keen and bright Which hung bya hair o'er some poor luckless wight While he sat at the banquet, and fatn would par- take Of the bread and the meat and the wine and the cake. Thou'rt a treasure, dear frichd, like Aladdin's of old, A8 “to savo Is to gain” we havo often been told, (There never was maxim more useful and true, All should learn tt, should heed and be led by It, too,) So we'll save for our pocket, and gain, I am sure, For our eyes a fair light burning steady and pure. ‘Then thrice welcome, old friend, from your attic so bizh, And Washington Gas Co., good-bye, Oh! good-bye! EAB. ee Grandmother's Portrait, Oh, many, many years ago, ‘They tell me she was fuir— They Say the yellow Duttercups ‘ere Jealous of her hatr; ‘That all the peach-blooms blushed to see ‘The soft pink on her cheeks— That blue-bells looking at her eyes Would hang their heads for weeks, But she—she only laughs and says, “Ah, that was iong ago! My hair nothing need envy now Except the drifted snow. ‘The peach-bleoms and the blue-bells Have long since siniled away ‘The silly fear they may havo had In some past summer day.” And II think her loveller ‘Than any flower that grows; And when I 16k into her eyes I fancy unnt she knows Her sweet age is more beautiful ‘Than fatre-t youth could be, Though when I tell her what { think, She only laughs at me. Jessie #cDermott in the Continent, See ‘The Good O14 Way. From the New York Leiiger. John Mann had a wife who was kind and true~ ‘A wife who loved htm well; She cared for the house and thetr only child; But tr T the truth must tell, She fretted and pined because John was And his business was slow to pay; But he only sald, when she talked of change, “We'll stick to the good old Way!” She saw her neighbors were growing rich And dwelling in houses grand; ‘That she was living in poverty, ‘With wealth upon every hand; And she urged her busband to specula: ‘To risk his eai ay; 2 at ; But he on'y said, “My dearest’ wife, We'll stick to the good old way.” For he knew that the money that’s quick! 17 Is the money that’s quickly lost; ge And the money that sta; poor, 4s the money earned At honest endeavor’s cost. So he plodded along tn his honest styie, And he bettered himself each day, And he only sa{d to his fretful wite, “We'll stick to the good old way.” And at last there came a terrible crash, When beggury, want and shame Came down on the homes of their wealthy friends, While John’s remained the same; For he had no debts and he gave no trust, “My motto {3 this,” he'd say— “Iv’s'a chania fagalnst panics of every kind— "Tis stick to the good old way.” And his wife looked round on the little house ‘That was every nail their own, And she asked forgivness of honest John For the peevish inistrust she had shown, But he only sald, as her tearful taco Upon his shoulder lay : “The good old way 1s the best way, wife; ‘We'll stick to the good old way.” —_+—_-o.-_ World is Growing Better. The ‘The world 1s growing better! ‘Thought takes a wider sweep; ‘The hand of sturdy labor With a friendly hand we greot; We will not drink the bitter When so little makes it sweet, The world ts crowing richer, dn wealth brought from the carth— But, better far, with treasures round Iu mines of sterling worth, For noble deeds are honored more ‘Than simpie claims of birth, The world ts growing better! With fewer inusty creeds, ‘With more of human strivings To answer human needs, With precious harvests garnered As the growth of precious seeds, Our Days, 3 ‘To-morrow—what matters the storm of to-day; We shail find the Island of peace at last, To-day 1s stormy, but by and by ‘The tempest and rutn will all be past. ‘The yesterday was a mocking dream ‘That lert us sorrowful, full of pain; But the fair to-morrow waits for us; We shail butld up the broken hopes again. ‘Time touches our eyes with tears that burn, And plants the gray mid the locks of gold; And robs the cheeks Of the tint of youth, And we say, “To-morrow we shall be old.” And we think of the fair land farther on, Where life shalbnever know blight or frost, Where love dies not at the touch of chan; And we find again the youth we have losk, Nothing 4s done, from virth to death; Our hope, our love, and life's sad day. Is only a sample at the best . ‘Of all that will come in the far away. Then why do our tédrs so steadily-fail When the perfect life shall soon have sway, When the bright to-morrows and yesterdays Shall merge themselves in a glad to-day. ee What We Need. Waal docs our! country need? Not armies stand- iD ig _ With sabres gieaming ready for the fignt; Not Increusing navies, Skilirul and commanding, nee, aati eel with an fron might; jot haug! m with giutted pur: i "To purchae boule ahd keup tie power enlace: Not Jeweled dolis with one another vielng For palms of beauty, elegance and grace, But we want women, strong of soul, yet lowly, wee (oe ee meeckness born of gentleness; Yomen whose lives are pure and clean and hol ‘The women whom all ttle ehlldten biesss oo? Brave, earnest women, helpful to each other, With finest scorn for all things low and mean; Women who hold the name of wife and mother Far nobler than the title of a queen. Oh, these are they who mold the men of glory, mnaes mothers, ofttimes shorn of grace and ‘ask no greater ‘Young’ sou! the Home of of scorn for watch the bounteous harvest grow- ‘and wed out tates Which crafty hands cast in, Women who do not hold the gitt of pAtsonte rare treasure 1 bs bo ne and 6014, Wrath ye Let nattery a While their yer "ike are. youth, S truth; ; pure prayers incense are ascend- Theso are our country's pride, our country’s a. or The projected Scottish Temperance Life As- surance which is to have 3 OUNCES OF PREVENTION, Steam-Heatin; Titus Munson Coan, in Harper's Weekly. The subject of steam-heating is one that has attracted much popular interest, and will attract more and more, because by the use of steam and hot-water pipes it is possivle to distribute heat on the grandest scale, even to the warming of whole towns trom central boilers, and ata moderate expense for fuel. The system, prop- erly managed, is both sanitary and economical. The cause of the great eMclency of heating by steam or hot-water pipes is found in the great capacity of water to store up latent heat. Water has, in other words, a great specific heat —greater, indeed, than that or any other sub- stance. It boils at 212° F., the barometer standing at 80incnes. But after it has reached 212°, and before it begins to pass into steam, it has absorbed the further amount of 966° of h called latent because the thermometer does not show it. Butit is all there, the 212° indicated by the thermometer and the 966? not indi- cated, and of this entire quantity, 1178°, the greater part is available for the heating of our dwellings by means of steam or hot-water pipes. We may, indeed, use considerably higher tem- peratures than these by making the apparatus strong enough to resist the steam pressure. This is often done when it {s desired to warm the walls of a room or building more rapidly than the air, as I have said is the case when the source of heat is at a comparatively high tem- perature. Steam by Itself can be heated toa very high degree with comparative safety, be- cause its rate of expansion, like that of other gases, 1s moderate. Water cannot be greatly heated with safety, because each added degree ofheat makes new steam, and the pressure soon runs up to a dangerous point. Forvery prompt and effective warming of large spaces, and for the transport of heat to a great distance, steam heating is therefore the best. But the rinclple in each case is the same—the steam ‘and the hot water in cooling give up their generous treas- ure of latent heat. It is by this mysterious vir- tue that a bottle ot hot water will keep one’s feet warm so much longer than thesame amount of sand or other solid substance, heated to an equal degree according to the thermometer. For ordinary warming the hot-water pines are preferable to steam pipes, because they do not overheat the air, and are less likely than steam plpesto get out of order. They are rather cheerless things {nthe living-roome, but they are an efficient contrivance for heating large houses, and especially for the halls, A temper- ature of 300° F. can readily be had, if desirable, in the coils of the ordinary hot-water apparatus. This isa simple thing, as generally made—it is a circuit of closed inch tubing filled with water. A coll of this is exposed to the furnace héat; the warmed water rises and flowsthrough the upper part of the circuit, returning below, and partly cooled, to the furnace for a fresh supply of heat, and so the circuit goes on continually. A “low pressure gravity apparatus,” i.e., one without an outlet, with a thorough circulation, and re- quiring no mechanical means to return the water to the boiler, is a very complete and econ- omical heating apparatus. “Baldwin likens it to the circulation of the blood, “the boiler being the heart, the steam pipes. the arteries, and the return pipes the veins.” It is safe and noise- less, and requires little trouble to manage it. But it is for the heat supply not merely of the largeat buildings, as of asylums and hospitals, but of whole villages, towns, and cities even, that the system of steam-heating promises to be available, The features of the planare (1) great fires and boilers at a central station, where the heat can be produced in the most’ economical way and upon a grand ecale, and (2) a system of radiating pipes so protected by felt, bestos, and atmospheric air that li latent heat conveyed shall escape. ing caloric, it is claim can be distributed, without much loss by radiation, to all the houses within the radius ot a mile or more, at less expense than that of the same amouut of heat produced in the kitchen range and cellar furnace, This has actually been accomplished upon the large scate In m: than one place, as in the cities ot Detroit and Lockport. In the latter place two hundred houses were heated from a central boiler. Four tons of hard coal per day were used. The steam pressure in the boiler was kept at thirty-five pounds during the winter. There were three miles of main piping leading up to the various points of consump- tion; the supply pipes trom these mains were an inch and a half in diameter, and three-quarter- inch pipes were used in the houses, Loss of heat was prevented by a first wrapping with as- bestos paper, a second with Russian fel it, a third with Manila paper, and the whole was Incased in timber tubing bored out three-quarters of an inch larger than the pipes agd their coverings, 80 as to include a jacket of atmo: heric air asa further protection. Injury from the expansion and contraction of the pipes according to vary~ ing temperatures was guarded against by using. at Intervals of ever one or two hundred feet, extension or “telescopic” joints. The pipes were then laid in the streets like gas or water mains. The loss of heat was surprisingly small. “In a honse three-quarters of a mile from the boilers a bucket of cold water could be raised to boiling heat in three minutes by the passage of the steam through a perforated nozzle plunged into the bucket.” The laid-on steam was used for cooking purposes, for boiling, and even for baking. For warming the houses the ordinary system of inch pipes arranged yerti- cally as radiators was employed. ‘The working expenses consisted of the coal and two firewen’s wages. The company laid their pipes up to the houses, the consumer hay- ing to pay for all the internal fittings. In an eight-roomed house these cost $150; in larger houses, with more expensive finishings, about $500 were paid. A meter in each building indi- cated the total consumption of steam. There can be no doubt that great economy in principle may be secured by thus supplying heat froma central source, and the great experi- ment now in progress in New York city will be watched with much interest by those who are Weary of struggling witn stoves and kitchen ranges. ——__-e-____ A Good Word For The Girls, From the Philadelphia Tames, That the young woman has taken new fields of work Js very true, but she has done so in spite of the competition of the young man of the pe- riod, and thus earned her place by the survival of the fittest. While she has done this the native young man has left the plow and the workshop and has sought what he supposes is more gen- teel employment, until these useful branches of industry are now largely filled by persons born and trained in other countries. While the gen- eral spread of education has opened up many new employments for girls, and they have taken their places in them bravely, the young men have drifted into clerkships or speculation or into the small politics, most ruinous of all. The same is true in matters of the higher culture. The young man has become listless or idle or has gone undisciplined, while the girls have organized book and music clubs, attended lec- tures, and otherwise fitted themselves for the more exacting duties of our modern life. It Is often the case that while the rich young man goes rapidly to the Gogs by reason of his bad habite and worse vices, his sister is en; in the exacting duties of church or charity or in other work which cultivates the humanities and does the world some good. The real trath is that, the country over, there are not eno earnest, deserving, ambitious tba men to marry the honest, sensible, well-medning girls who are ready to do a true woman's part in building up good and happy homes. Our family training, defective aa it may be In many respects, has still kept the rein on girls, while it has given the spur to boys, and ff the gramblers are sensible they will to devise some way to overcome this inequality, and thus bring the oung man up to such a standard as shall fit him to do something else in life than to stand of and. rail at the follies or frivolities of young women. im on the Unknownable.. Some weeks ago, says the Wation, we made from the Neue Freie Pressea translation of a let- ter addressed by Mr. Darwin in 1873 to Mr. N. are now enabled to present the great natural- Ast's ipsissima verba. They are as follows: iz tise iy 885 iif ii A BRAVE DEED; Or, Cheated of its Prey. A NOVELETTE, BY MRS. M. E. BR—DD—N. “Somebody must go for the doctor.” It was Keine de Fac who spoke, and her words tell ominously on that little band of watchers. One of their number mnst brave the violence of the storm; a human life was at stake. There was silence foramoment; then Mark Maston said, in a low firm voice, “I will go.” Reine heard him, and turned deadly pale, but no sound of emotion passed her lips, and no one noticed her pallor in the growing dusk. A minute passed, the door slammed, and Mark was gone. There were two roads to Paxton, where the doctor lived, the highway and the beach. The distance was shorter by the beach, but the way more perilous; tor at flood tide the waves lashed high e cliffe which shut off retreat inland. it took Mark Maston but an instant to decide his course; every moment was precious, and he must the beach. He glanced along the shore; the water was about twenty feet from the cliffs, which presented their rugged front to the whistling eastern biast. Thinking only of the loved ones at home, he dashed along. Two miles before him @ headland projected into the sea. Ifthis was passed Mark Maston was safe. On he sped. The gale caught the spray of the breakera, and whirled it against the cliffs, drenching the bold messenger to the skin. At last the oe, in recep eae sto) |, and, shading eyes, gazed fixedly Ag A shudder shook his frame. While he looked, mighty billow camerushing in from the sea, and dashed high on that projecting cliff, Turn back, Mark Maston; turn back or you are doomed! But no; with clenched teeth he ran on—on to certain death. Butts it certain? Can he do It? Can he reach there in time? Yes, gentle reader, I think he can, if he plods right along. Itis only half a mile. and he has got nine hours and a quarter to do it in. The tide is going out. Mark Maston is saved! The sea is “cheated of Its prey!” ————--—____ Life in Austin. From Texas Siftings. HOMINY AND ARNICA. Anold darkey came into an Austin drug store with nis head bandazed up and groaning as if every bone in his body was broken. “What's the matter?” asked the drug clerk. “We have had the bery debble of a time, me and de ole woman, battering each udder wid de chairs and sich.” “Well, what do you want?” “We needs some anarchy. Dar ain't no an- archy in de house. De bottle got smashed in ns fuss, and de anarchy spilled all ober de joor.” “Ifyou had more harmony in your house, there would be less anarchy.” remarked the drug clerk, smiling as he filled a amail bottle of arnica. “You am right, boss. Dats Jes what de fuss was about. De reason we needs anarchy is be- kase dar was no hominy in de house, and dats why de ole woman hit me wid de chair.” AN INNOCENT LITTLE CHERUB. In a certain aristocratic family in Austin there isa young lady, and she has a beau, and the presumption is he is not particularly bashtul when he and the apple-barrel of his affections are alone, or think they are. What strengthens this view of the case is the fact that the young lady has a small brother named Jimmy, and the other night there was a tea party at the family mansion, and the supper table was very much crowded—so much so that Jimmy's younger sister was crowded up very close to him, where- upon he made the remark out loud: “Mamma, sis trowds me so close I can’t breeve. I aint her beau, am 1?” If Jimmy should become un- well, that beau would not be the proper person to send for a doctor in @ hurry. JUST ABOUT. All the passengers in the street car on Austin avenue were very much annoyed bya crying child, and one old gentleman appeared to be particularly exasperated. “Ido wonder what little wootsy tootsy is crying about,” said the mother, dancing the in- fant up and down. “I know what he ts crying about. He has been crying about six blocks; ever since you got into the car.” ARTLESSNESS OF CHILDHOOD. Allttle Austin boy visited his uncle on his birthday and congratulated him. He then asked his uncle if he had washed himeelf. “Why 80 ?” asked the uncle, patting the inno- cent prattler on the head. “Because papa said if you did the clean thing you would give me at least a dollar." ————<_-—______ Saturday Smiles. Most of the hotel clerks in England are women, but they know where thetop of the house is, as well as the American arbiter of fate. There are men who find it impossible to love their neighbor, but their neighvor’s wife is quite another thing. To remove dandruff—Marry. To keep gloves clean—Wash sedan . To preserve cherries— Keep the boys off. A man at a hotel fell the whole length ofa flight of stairs. Servants rushed to pick him up. They asked him if he was hurt. “No,” he replied, “not at all. I’m used to coming down way. I'ma life insurance agent.”—Boston ‘ost. The aristocrat 1s supported by his ancestors, the pauper by his contemporaries, and the debtor by posterity. Two friends meet Sunday morning as one comes out of a drag store. “Hello, Charlie, out for your morning dram?” “Well, no; not ex- actly. But I have no ecruples about telling you that I am ont for my morning ounce.” Two little girls met on the street the other day, and one said to the other, “ I've put all my dolls into deep mourning, and It’s 80 becoming to them! Come over and see them.” “What did you do that for?” “Oh, we had ac'lamity. Our dog got killed, and there didn't anybody care but me and them; we've just cried our eyes out.” Then the other little girl said in slow, deliberate tones, “‘ May Wilson, ain't you lucky, though? ere'a always something hapj you!"— The place to look for a picked nine now is ina strawberry box.—New Orleans Pix Puck's Patent. Frenchman's translation of “‘Hors d’Guvres” is “Out of a Job.” Why not? peared a few days The Reoordpy ago enlarged to seventy pages. This is an un- mistakable evidence of prosperity, and we con- gratulate our esteemed contem mn ite success, which has been secured without the aid of-patent medicine advertisements or a puzzle department; though why {t should publish speeches that were never delivered in Congress may be a puzzle department to many readers.— Norristown Herald. An unnatural grandfather: The parlor of the mansion of Judge Havens is adorned with the portraits of a number of bis ancestors. The picture of the father of Judge Havens repre- sents him as an old man, while that of his grand- ae was taken when he was quit a the ive values of men and women. Five women, he are equal to six men. : “I bave been riding a fret coal tay ‘8 Broadway omnibus, and I should be em Ployed for the physical lopment of infants and young chilaren ls a questtun that has bees frequently asked, and to which noe very definite answer has been piven. Some years ago considerable attention was bestowed on the subject, and several very Ingenious devices were suggested by which in- fants and very yoang children might exercise their muscles, The “baby jumper” ts perhaps the best remembered of these. It was largely advertised, and for the time hada considerable sale, but now one rarely hears of tts existence. In considering the form of exercise that mizht be employed for very young children, tt ehonld be borne in mind that at no period in’ life does the organism exhibit greater developmental ao- tivity than during the first years of existence, | Hence it is not advisable that faticue should be allowed to depress the vital powers, and so tne terfere with the processes of growth and nu trition. Atthe same time it must be remem- bered that a desire for exercise Reems to be {ne herent in the infant. Sir William Jenner has graphically pointed this out, and compared the | spontaneous activity of a healthy chi! quiescence and fear of movement exhibited by @ child suffering from the rickets This can be seen ata glance, for if a young child be stripped and laid on a bed it will appear how ceaseless are its movements, how each limb is brought into play, and with what almost continu action it seems asif endeavoring to turn tteelf inside out. This natural ise oncht to be encouraged, and Instead of being ke)t. as i# too frequently thecase, for the greater part of the day tightly held in'its nurse's arms, or ¢ in its cot weighed down with heavy b carefully tucked in, which prevent its slightest movement, it ought for some time each day to be allowed to wll freely ona mattress, lightly lad. so that ft can indulge freely ined in the natural and instincti exercise of itslimbs. As the infant gets older, ite desire for exercise seems if possible to tne crease, and it is never tired of creeping about }and making premature attempts to walk. Whilst these efforts should be encouraged, they should never be unduly prolonged the child grows older, and becomes firmer on ite feet, combined movements seem to become Ite object, and these are best encoura; ny the use ofthe “ball.” When the Isabs are firmly get, the rocking-horse may be Introduced Into the nursery, but we should not permit itsuse tll after the fifth year. The seventh year is the earliest at which systematic exercise should be introduced, and then these ought tobe of the simplest kind—as ordinary drilling, extension Movements, etc. We cannot approve ot thesng- s that have reached us of the use ofthe dumb bells, and the like at socarly an age. Whatseemsto be of the most Importance, and what!s generally overlooked. js the neces sity of securing for the young child complete freedom for all its movements, and thus permite ting it to engage in spontaneous exercise with- out let or hindrance. How He Was Ren: a “Can you point out one good thing that whie ky has ever accomplished?” asked a temperance | man of Arkansaw Mike, with whom he was en- | gazed in conversation. “Temperance isa moighty good thing, sor,” replied Mike, “but whisky is good in its place.” “Well, just point ont one good act that it has ever accomplished; how it has ever benefited nu.” aa was unhappy wid me wolf, sor, an’ I drank vals, But how did tt benefit you?” By givin’ me woif a divorce, sor."—Arkan- sao Traveler. rn = There Wasnt Any Chaw in the Meat. “We can't stand this sort of meat, sir,” sald the spokesman of a delegation of the crew of the steamship Louisiana to Capt. Gager on @ recent trip. “What's the matter with the meat!” inguired the captain of the steward. “Nothing at all, sir. It's a plece of the cabin roast that I was obHged to send down because the stock of meat for the crew ran short. It ie fresh, tender meat. Taste it yoursel I Gager tasted it, aud said to the spokesman the delegation: “I can see nothing the matter with that meat. It is as good as I get, and is very tender.” “Well, sir,” said the spokesman, “we don't like it. There's no chaw in if."—V. Y. Sun. Eating on Time. A correspondent writes: The busy brokers don’t waste minutes over their midday bites. That was why an exception excited my Interest. Isawan unusually hurried stock gambler im Delmontco's down-town restaurant. He sat af ‘8 stuall table on which were amutton chop, fried Potatoes, bread and butter anda glass of ale, altogether making a meal of moderate size. His watch lay beside his plate with the case open, and he glanced at Its face between mouthiula and yet, instead of hurrying he was eating with unusual deliberation, thou his anxious re gard for the flight of time was plain to be seen. “Lam not trying to eat tust,” be exclaimed, stopping and jeaning back. “J ai trying to do it slowly. My best record for a lunch of this size is six minutes. [was proud of it. I could Pop out of my office, fill up, and be back at mj desk inside of a quarter of an hour: but Ju as I got my system trained down to that point my doctor said 1 had got to throw away the profits of my skill or get measured for my coffin. You see this hurried way of eating brought om indigestion, and he ordered me to spend half an hour every day over my Junch. I sat down here at 12:20 and J mustn't eet up untill 12:50. A great waste of time, isn't it? But it ls a choloe for me between time and eternity, aud I'm not ready for the latter yet.” ee al PResipext Arter 18 a well bred gentleman, having not only the politeness, which Is an art, but the Kindness, which isan instinct, Yet it 16 too much to ask a gosstp-loving . public to believe the current story that he “dalutily speared a slice of Iemon from bis finger Dow!,” and pro ceded to squeeze the fulce upon his foo’, becauss he observed an unsophisticated Con; nan at his table doing it, and wanted to re him of embarrassivent. "The story 1s too old—only the Prince of Wala, the last hero of tt, placed his Sait upon the tablecloth to give countenance to an ignorant or careless guest.—Boston Heraid. One of the best of these stories comes from Anna Dickinson. She attended a Chinese perty in San Francisco and was belped to bon-bona. She took a liberal supply and noticed a wonder- ing look In the eyes of the other gueste, The host. however, exhibited no surprise, and as the vessel was passed around everyone helped him- self as liberally as she had done. “Now,” she says in yxplanation, “when I teli you that I bad committed a breach of etiquette as gross a8 If at an American table I had taken a chicken by ite legs and torn it apart with my hands, you will understand the politeness of my Chinese friends.” We did hear a tew days ago that President Arthur imd turned a handspring just previous to sitting down to dinner because @ guest had done so; but this story is not entirely Teliable.—N. Y. Graphic. — areal Tueatnicat. ScanpaL.—The New York Truth quotes the counsel for Mra. Praak Mordauat, wife of the actor, us declaiming that be has gathered sufficient evidence agay Mr. Mor- daunt and Miss Laura Wallace, thé actress, to warrant his client commencing a euit for limited divorce against the former, and oge for erimi- nal conversation against the latter, and that the papers are ready to be served. Miss Wallace rotests that her relations with Mr, Mordsust ave never been aught but protessional, and that she has but little acquaintance with him off the stage. o—_—_—_—_—— Strawberry shortcake ts the fastionable color, Make no jokes yt id hewem- iy.