Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1883, Page 7

FARM AND GARDEN. Seasonab! jotes, = Prof. Sanborn has conducted a series of ex- ments which prove conciasive hat it takes jore corn to make a pound of pork when the were allowed to rua at large than whea they were confined in the pen. —Skimmed miik @ of the very best arti- ticles of diet for Ss. and, so far as they ten use it, ft can to no more profta pe Mixed with wheat bran it makes an ex lent feed for growing chicks. be f — There does no’ of getting rid of ti y feasible way except by hani her depredat by dusting the e. Which should be kept u Plaats with powdered he —Many so-called cases of pear blight on ftince stock are not bight at all, bat are simply e killing of the qu ots from being planted too shallow. The quince root 1s very tender, ard in localities wh ‘tnters are severe should y hed. As the quince likes Cool, moist soil, the muich may be lett on du- Ying the following summer. — The Germantowa Te’egraph says that it 1s pretty generally believed That the rag weed, ‘which Is more or less present on every farm, is the cause of bitter milk, whenever it appears. is one of the worst weed pests upon a farm. It covers, when it gets a start, everything. It is eveu believed that the po! from the blos- Boms produces the hay fever, indirectly, If not directly. There is no other way to get rid of it except to plow It under. — Henry Stewart says that when a dairyman Intends to permanently pasture his cows he can Yecom:nend the common quack grass as a splen- did early pasture. orchard grass next, then red- ‘top aud blue grass, with white clover mixed in, gad red clover or lucerne to help out defl- Slencies. He considers these the most pro- ductive mlik materials for the datry. ying ng the very mate- lal absolutely necessary to its perinaneht fer- ity—both plant food and the capacity for hold- Ing moisture, without which the —o useless. To this destruction of vege- fable matter is due the impoverishment of the soil far more than to exhaustion by the crops, and not until the destr ve custom is stepped can anything like former fertility be restored. — The Germantown Telegraph that “In Selecting old apple and pear trees for t se of grafting care should be exe e only those that retain their f the ancumn. They will insure the ¢ the graft sufficiently long to firmly estab) and cause itto remain unaffected during the winter. every instance t we haye tried to ratse fruit from gra’ mn old trees hich shed their le: ly we have failed. ey grow for a few years, beara few specimens, ‘and then die.” — Insetting plants make the ground meliow end rich with manure fora considerable space around where the roots are placed, so they may have achance to reach out. The roots should have ample room; do not cramp them. When the earth is well drawn up around the plant, place your feet carefully upon each side of and **firm” the earth down solidly. This will greatly increase the chance of tts living, as it Preveats the soil from drying down to the Toots. —The American Cultivator says: “Did you ever try planting peas in hills? Make a large bill, rich with sted compost or fertilizer; then take a nail keg, or something about that size, and press it into the ground so as to make adeep circle upon the hill; sow your peas in that circle, and plant a large pea brush in the enter. You can grow as many peas to the acre in this way as in the drills. They are conve- Nient for the pickers, and they have a neat and tasty look in the garden, which is not a small item, especially when you are trying anew method.” — The wonderful benefits of drain titi becoming more apparent daily. M Gibson, ot Franklin township, h field of sixty acres by tiling. was little better than a swamp. there were there patches of cultivated in the dryest of weather. By Inying afew hundred rods of tiling, he is en- fabled to cultivate nearly the whole fleld. In addition thereto the land has been increased in value about $10 per acre. The value and bene- {its of tiling are only bezinnin to be fuily un- derstood. Thousands of acres in Story county will be speedily reclaimed by underdraining. which will make it one of the richest stock Counties in the state.—Arne’s Intelligencer. — The Agriculturist tells how to make a two- story milking stool that presents a number of conveniences. A board the width of an ordi- Bary stooi seat and twice the length forms the first floor and rests upon four stout les. The two rear legs pass up through the long board aad furnish two legs for a short board above that forms the seat, two front legs being placed 1n the stool. A cleat is placed on the front edge of the long board to keep the pail, which is set on the front haif of the first floor, from falling of during the process of milking. ‘This arrange- Toent prevents any necessity for placing the pall a the ground and brings it nearer to the udder. — It is often desirable to know which Is the "ost profitable way to sell fowls—alive, dressed or both dressed and drawn. To find out weich e fowls alive, then after it 1s dressed and wgain after being drawn. Record the weight in each case, and then a little figuring, with ‘weight and market prices as a basis, will soon tei the inquirer what he wants to know. Generally, we think it will be found that selling alive pays about as well as to dress, particularly if the owner’s §time is valuable and he fs net an expert at picking. Those who buy and dress for market on a large scale a experts themselves at this work er fave such “artists” fa their employ.— National Farmer. — Frequent cultivation is a good substitute for manure, but pays much better with manure than without. This we have tried on garden crops, especially . cabbage, beans, onions and other roc An old saw has come down to us fr 3 that he who would have early them every mo: tried this in sp: time for mornings enough to prove that it is not one of the old wives’ tubles. 2 the early morning the dew is on, and this Is ‘charged with an available amount of ammonta, Which, of course. feeds the roots below. If the farface Is negiected a crust forms and the alr ves not circulate tn the seil.—American Agri- exiurist. — Care should be taken to see that plants in pots are given good drainage. This Is best fecured by putting a lot of broken bricks or lees of broken pots in the bottom of the ) sa pot. These pleces should be as large as & tazelnut or even larger. Over these pieces some dried moss, sphagnum or peat should be placed, or even'a handful of dried grass, if nothing better can be had. This will prevent the earth from falling among the fragments and will iusure complete drainage. It is supposed. of course, that the regular flower-pots are used with a hole at the bottom for the escape of the water. If a box or other vessel be used a hole should be made in the bottom. Persons who have never tried the above method will be sur- prised with tne difference it will make in their plants. The earth in the pots should be kept Moist, but not wet, soggy, nor cold. — Every farmer is familiar with plowing, laying off rows and planting the seed in corn, but the eter cultivation is done In many different ways, according to custom. It has been ascertained that the use of a smoothing-harrow over the field at the time the corn is a few Inches high Is of zreat advantage. it doing no injnry to the corn plants, but kills ont many of the weeds in their infancy. When the crop has further ad- ‘vanced the cultivator may go through the rows 3 often as possible. not only to keep down weeds and grass, but to keep the soll mellow aod well pulverized. The fine condition of the ng are Only here and round that could used, as the tis a gross feeder.—Philadel- poy he jest tS eee A Springfield (1il.) maiden threw a bucket of ‘water on a member of the legislature who had winked at her. The Courier-Journal remarks: Sense that the punishment in this case was fully up tc the enormity of the crime.” A Pittsburg Jury gave a verdict against a yallroad company for the amount of money from a passenger in a sleeping car. the defendant,” sald the judge, “sold a for two dollars in addition to the regular of passace, and offered the facilities for @s an inducement to pay the extra mioney, it bound itself to protect its patrons while they were asleep and for the time being helpless." A Scotchman employed to build fa London ‘ured steam cranes to hoist the bricks upto the height; and, as the } orkmen, I vexed 2 | you can’t walk arod. You'll LOVE IN ASHES. BY SARAH J. CLARKS. From Harper's Bazar. “Scant of nine, and the washing all out,” mused thrifty Mrs. Chutter as she scrubbed the Porch. ‘Deacon, [ll get you toset the big tub down cellar, if you will.” “Certain. wife,” responded the deacon from his cart in the door-yard. “There comes Kendall's new basket wagon, with two women in it,” pursued the lady wringing her mop. “Isn't that the horse that balks?” Being in the critical act of emptying a four- vatlon bucket of soap. the good man youchsafed no reply, When the Jellied mass had quivered and splashed into the barrel in waiting he looked up Just in season to see the gay little pony shy at the cart and go tearing down the road. “They'll upset! they'll be killed! Run after ‘em! Do something!” shrieked Mrs. Chatter. “Don't get excited, wife: they're all right now. That girl drives like a man.” And picking up his bucket, the moderate deacon marched off for a second supply of soap. But though the little Incident had failed to shake his nerves, {t did make him oblivious of his wife's wash-tub poised on the landing ot the dim stairway, and as a natural consequence he put his foot init. The tub rolled; the deacon swayed like a pestie in a mortar; there was a lively succession of bumps, followed by a clatter and a thud, and deacon, tub, and bucket strewed. the cellar floor. “Adab and Abihu!” ejaculated the fallen sair h sinful energy. “What's up, uncle?” cried an anxious voice overhead. = “T can tell you what’s down,” was the grim response: “Come and brace me while [ try to step. The owner of the voice. a fine looking youth of one-and-twenty, was already groping his way among the debris, his aunt in the rear, with the camphor. ‘The deacon’s altempted locomotion resulted in a groan. “Imust have sprained my ankle, Harvey, IfT'd postponed this tub race till after I'd been my rouuds, ’twould have been better calcula- ion.” “Oh, I wouldn't worry about my rounds, uncle, What's the hurry?” “My customers expect me fo-day. that’s the polnt. I hate masterly to break my word. Now there's the widowCleayes waiting ‘or me to take her ashes, so she can scrub after me with the boiling suds, and up at Kendali’s they're clean out of soap.” “And not clean without It, eh?” laughed the young man. ‘See here, uncle: since you are going to feel so uneasy about disappointing the people, why not send me in your stead” - “You, in your fine clothes! I should smile!” mumbled Mrs. Chutter, with the stopper of the camphor bottle between her teeth. “Why can’t my uncle’s mantle fall upon me, auntie? I was intending to borrow the frock.” “Well, it I do say it, you've got tne Vance common-sense. Some young men of your Reneeg up would be ashamed to drive a soap cart” “Humph! Some young men would be fuols,” said the deacon, with warmth. “Nobody has any call to be ashamed to deliver such soap as I make. If you've a mind to run the team to-day, Harvey, I shall be obliged to you.” Fifteen minutes later the worthy deacon was extending his aching length upon the sitting- room lounge, and gazing through the open wii dow after his youthful proxy, who, duly initi- ated into the mysteries of the calling, was driv- ing away in the big blue cart. Behind founced and creaked an empty ash-bin, flanked’ by two covered barrels of soap; but the swinging seat was clean and comfortable, commanding a fine view of the surrounding country. A half mile and more the road wound through his uncle's fertile acres, for Deacon Chutter was withal a farmer. Farming, indeed, was his chief vocation, soap-boiling being an accessory ven- ture growing out of sundry extensive experi- ments in the use of leached ashes as a fertilizer. It was one of those tuneful mornings in early June when all nature Joins Ina glad doxology. The newly arrived bobolinks, tipsy with glee, carolled in the meadows. The orioles, hanging thelr hammocks in the elms, could scarcely work for singing. Gay breezes whispered love to the graceful young clover, then danced away to filrt with the coy hillside birches. Every- where were life and motion irradiated by the benignant sun. For Harvey Vance's study- weakened eyes there was 100 much glare, too much flutter. He lost no time in putting on his blue gougles. “Who cares if they do make me look like a frog?” mused he, as he settled them astride his aristocratic nose. ‘‘Thanks to them, and to change of air, my poor optics are undoubted!: Improving. shall be back to college by ‘all, Hal ha! if the fellows could only see me now!” And here, to the infinite surprise of staid Dob- bin, his new master broke into a Follioking 801 class abruptly ended as a turn in the a near farm-house. ‘If I peddle es he Later egualat due deco- rum,” soliloqu! he youth, knocking upon the back door with the handle of hie whip. To have seen the capaple air with which he measured ashes bushel by bushel, giving in ex- change moneg or gallons of soap, according to the customer's desire,one would have pronounced nim bred to the soap business. Since his month's rustication at his Aunt Chutter’s he had made the acquaintance of most of the farmers along the river, and these expressed thelr gratification at meeting “a Judge's son that wasn’t afraid to work,” but outside the parish limits his tri- umphal march terminate@. He was a stranger in a strange land. One man asked if he had | bought out the deacon; a second hoped he | Wasn't proposing to run an opposition team; and the loyal Widow Cleaves could hardly be persuaded tg surrender her ashes, because, for- sooth, she preferred to trade with Deacon Chut- er. | Obedient to his uncle's Instructions, at her cottage the young man took a cross-road to | Kendall's, a sdmmer hotel, familiarly styled “The | E a4 —& SON; ‘You'll flad it along three miles,” had been Mrs. Cleaves's parting remark. “Three miles, and not a neighbor between here and there: I couldn't blame the widow if she should want to change her situation,” mused the deacon’s deputy, scanning the western hori- | zon. “Shouldn't wonder if that cloud yonder | meant business. I thought the sun was too | bright this morning. Well, a little high-toned thunder will drown this everlasting racket.” Facing about to wedge in position an empty soap barrel, he observed two ladies driving up the hill in a basket phaeton. “That looks like Kendall’s team that gave auntie such a panic this morning,” thought he. “Those ladies are some of his boarders, I sup- pose—Tom Cavender’s mother and sister, for aught I know. I have heard they were stopping at the Eyrie. Goodness! wouldn't it be a joke if I should fall in with them to-day!” Meanwhile the younger lady in the carriage was merrily commenting on the quasi 60a] man’s active figure, conspicuously and amply ore in the deacon’s canvas nd over- is. Gee hope he isn’t a perambulating maniac, mamma. “* It's the very cart that frightened the pony!” was the terrified response. ‘* Do let me get out, Lila! Oh! oh!” But already the horse was backing down the hill. Harvey sprang from the cart and grasped the refractory animal by the bridle just in season poplin on the carriage from overturning in the “Thank you, sir—thank you very much,” sald the girlish driver, tne color rushing back to her face. ‘Now, if you will be kind enough to lead our pon: your cart, we shall be yet" more obli “A pretty girl—stylish, too, but abominabl: patronizing,” thought the young sophomore, stalking resentfully at the pony’s head. “There, now your cart is behind us, we shall have no further trouble. I’m sorry to have de- tained you, sir. Infinitely obliged. In leaving the ladies Harvey mechanically raised his hat, the deacon’s hat—alas! yellowed and frayed by farm service. The touch set fly- Ing the ashes upon its brim, giving our receding hero the effect of being caught away in a cloud. gles, he went buck to id Dobbin, tel e Wi o and waited for the ladies to go on in advance. But what ailed that pony? The ing lady chirruped to him; he would not adge. She snapped the whip; he stood as — as the wooden horse of vot se , daughter, cried the ly, who to be an invalid. ee 'm afraid of, it's a balking rae.” “allow me, madam,” said Harvey, again ad- v He twisted the antmal’s ear s moment to dl- vert his attention, then took him by the bit and led him several paces. “See, mamma, She. pong: hee: got: over his ir.’ 3 sulks. Thank you, The young lady resumed the reins; the frac- tious Tefased to stir. 5 1 won't go another sald the ‘You know “Let me step with hi 4 “He doesn’t seem to be going,” daughter, with a laugh. Again Harvey led the . Again the tan- talizing nag stifened in the instant Miss Lila took the reins. times was this farce repeated, and many were the minutes wasted. Meantime the sky had become over- cast, and thunder was muttering in the dis- tance, “My mother has been very ill. If sheiscaught in the shower she may get her death,” criea Miss Lila, fn distress. ‘‘Oh, what shall we do?” “If you'll pardon the suggestion, I might drive you to the Eyrie, if that is your destina- tion,” said Harvey, with a deprecatory glance at his pen ery costume. “Oh, you? But there is your horse and cart?” “I could come back for them.” “And with all mamma’s shawls and pillows, the phaeton is hardly wide enough for us two. “That is true; it isa Lilliputian affair.” The outh was gravely testing its light springs and races. “Is there danger of breaking down? Then you go with mamma, and I'll drive the cart.” : ae Cavender! The idea!” expostulated the Invalid. ‘ “Tom Cavender’s mother and sister, by the ashes of my uncle! Confound it, what a scrape!” was the young soap merchant's inward ejacula- tion as he awaited the Iadies’ pleasure. “‘ What better can Ido, mamma? I shall ride famously. Unless you're afraid to trust me with your horse.” the young lady added, with a glance toward Harvey. “Not in the least. He's farfrom being a flery Bucephalus.” Struck with the incongrulty of the remark from such a source, Miss Lila lost all control of her dimples. That seat is suspended between the heavens and the earth, like Mohammed's coffin, mam- ma,” she Jested; by way of cloaking her untimely mirth. ‘One ought to be shot into it out of a catapult.” To aid the young lady in mounting, Harvey silently extended a hand, whose exceeding smut- tiness was Intensified by a seal that glit- tered upon the little finger. Miss Lila glanced_| curiously at the fine cameo with its quaint set- ting. Who was this anomalous being who sported costly ornaments and quoted from the classics? And where, where had she seen that peculiar cameo before, or one just like it? Ah! now she recollected: Tom had worn it home last vacation, when he and his chum had ex- changed rings. But how had this soap-man be- come possessed of it? Could it be that he and Harvey Vance were identical? Tom had sald that Harvey was spending the summer in the neighborhood. This must be he. Yes, she was sure of it. Obedient to the young man’s will, that unac- countable pony darted away on the wings of the wind. Close behind, head down, tail up, fol- lowed old Dobbin in a heavy canter which seemed to shake the very leaves on the trees Charged upon by the empty soap barrel, Miss Lil slipped to the other side of the seat, and clung to the ash-bin. A mile was passed, two miles. The gable-roofed Eyrie loomed in the distance. On sped the pony, on lumbered old Dobbin; on swooped the storm-cloud. A dozen guests crowded out upon the hotel piazza to witness the exciting race. “How white Mrs. Cavender looks!” cried A Where did she pick up that fantastic er “Is that Miss Lila in the cart?” exclaimed the gentleman addressed. “Well, she’s a girl of mettle! Ha, here comes the rain!” As the phaeton dashed up he rushed out with an open umbrella to escort Mrs. Cayander Into the house. In mounting the steps she turned toward Harvey: “You have done us a great service, sir. I as- sure you we are grateful. My daughter will see that you are recompensed for your time and trouble.” “The dickens she will!” thought the deacon’s indignant substitute. Standing beneath the dripping eaves, rivulets of lye coursing down his cheek: assisted the moist young lady to alight. am —we are deeply indebted to you,” she stam- mered, blushingly. ‘My mother—” “Has taken no cold, I tiist,” said he, loftily. “Good-afternoon.” And horse, cart and driver disappeared kitch- enward. In putting the cart to rights that evening Harvey discovered a grimy object caught be- tween the seat and the ash-bin. It proved to be a lady’s pocket handkerchief, bearing in one corner the name of “Lifa Cayender.” He handed it to his aunt for bleaching purposes, and received in return a letter fcom Tom. i “My mother and sister have perched at the Eyrie, on Emden Hill,” it ran. ‘My mother 1s getting up from a fever, and is bound to get as high up as she can. If you’re anywhere near their secluded nest, do peep in upon them. They'll be charmed to make your acquaint- ance.” “I believe I'll take that handkerchief to Miss Cavender to-morrow, auntie, and have It off my mind,” remarked Harvey, carelessly, as he folded the letter. “Well—or you might send it by the stage.” But Harvey was deaf to the suggestion. The next evening, faultlessly attired, and minus spectacles, he presented himself at the Eyrie, and was cordially welcomed by both Mrs. Cavender and her daughter. Convinced that he with he was not recognized as squire of the soap cart. he saw no necessity for proclaiming himself such. In making his first call why shouid he introduce himeelf asa clown? “You've made quite a visit,” was his aunt's salutation when Harvey entered the sitting- room. ‘Was the girl glad to get her handker- chief?’ a “To tell the truth, auntie, I didn’t give it to er.” “Humph! Strange how a handsome youn woman will weaken a chap’s memory,” observ the deacon, slyly, as his wife bandaged the of- fending ankle. “I don’t see but Harvey 'll have to call agafh.” He did call again, and again, and again. In- deed, his rides to the Eyrie grew 60 frequent that his uncle one day teasjngly counselled him to buy a second saddle-horse. “Or get a carriage that will hold two,”amend- ed his aunt. At which the youth flushed guiltily, confirming Mrs. Chutter in her private opinion, that he was -‘very far gone.” He went further yet that evening—even tothe length of proposing to Miss Lila. The littieeoquette only laughed,and bade him not to be absurd. Absurd? He would really like to know what she meant. “Oh, they were both so young. Harvey looked hurt, and intimated that he, at least, was nearing the down-hill of life. And he didn’t know her well enough. The youth eagerly protested that he knew her well enough to love her. “Besides, I'm not sure but I like another young man better.” - “Oh, if you care tor somebody else, why, then—why, in that case—” Harvey found the English tongue terribly intricate, and rose with precipitation. “I met him first, you know,” said Miss Lila, dropping her eyes apologetically, “and I am un- a obligations to hi it’s all right. You're all right, I mean; but I think Tom might have told me.” ““rold you what ? “About this other fellow.” “There isn’t much to tell,” said Miss Lita, de- murely. ‘He hasn't come forward.” Harve’ Grew on his glove with a mystified air. “ But looking for him any day now, for the Eyrie is nearly out of soap.” “ You bewitching little tease!” Miss Lila’s cheeks were eddying with dimples deep enough to drown a man’s heart. Perhaps they made Harvey's head swim. lcan't say. I only know that he laid hold of the young lady’ hands at that moment in the most giddy fashion, and she seemed quite willing to let him steady himself in this manner. “Well, Harvey, I expect to be on my legs again to-morrow,” observed the facetious dea- con, at breakfast; ‘‘and when I call at the Eyrie I guess you'd better let me give that young wo- man her handkerchief.” T attended to that “Thank you very muct night.’ just right to keep her out of ig Aces aust) ut = r 4 it Bo , Harvey,” remarked aunt, dryly, seme yet “You ought to have passed his coffee. paid her interest.” “Humph! don’t you be a mite concerned, wife,” said the deacon,with a mischievous wink. “Depend upon it, Hi has with that young woman her note of hand. H that day I set him up in the cart.” $$$ ‘The Kind He Wanted. A Georgia paper tells of the nt of a trader for furnishing whisky in a local option settlement. He bought a lot of cocoanuts, and, off the milk, filled them up with the coveted liquor. Soon after a minister call Dat, managed to tll the e Be sate ca anxious to surely have a re- | lapse, mamma, if you don’t sit still.’ pool. _ THE. EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. SATURDAY. i i3_DOURLE THE MAN WHO INTERRUPTS. - Bill Nye Discourseth One Form Mpa is oe 1 do not, as arule, thirst for the blood of my fellow-man, observed “Bill Nye. I am willing that the law should, im all ordinary cases, take its course, but, when. we~ begin to discuss, the man who breaks into conversation and ruins it with his own irrelevant ideas, regardless of the feeling of humanity, Iam not a lawand order man. The spirit of tlé ‘‘Red iter"? {sroused in my breast, and: I hunger for the blood of that man. Interrupters are of two classes: First, the common plug who thinks aloud and whose con- versation wanders with his so-called mind. He breaks into the aaddest and sweetest of senti- ments, and the choicest and most tearful of pathos, with the remorseless orance that marks a stump-tall cow in a dahila bed. He is the bull in my china shop, the wormwood in m: wine, and the kerosene in my maple syrup. am shy in conversation, and my unfettered flights of poesy and sentiment are rare, but this man ts almost always near tomar it all with a remark or a marginal note, or a story or a bit of Politics, ready to burst my beautiful dream and make me wieht that his name might be carved on ®@ marble slab in some quiet cemetery far away. Dear reader, did you ever meet this man, or his wife? Did you ever strike some beautiful thought, and begin to reel it off to your friends on! to be shut off in the middle of sentence by this choiceand banner idiot of. conversation’ The second class of interrupters is even worse. It consists of the man—and, I am pained te state, his wife alao—who see the general drift of your remarks and finish out your story, your gem of thought or your argument. It is very seldom that they do this as you would do it coal but they are kind and thonghttul, and helr services are always at hand. No matter how busy they may be. they will leave thelr. own work and fly to your aid. With the light of sympathy in their eyes, they rush Into the con- versation, and, partaking of your own geal, they take the words from your mouth, and Creation suck the Juice out of your joke, handing baci the rind and hoping for reward. That is where they get left so tar asIlam concerned. I am almost alwaysready to repay rudeness with rude- ness, and cola preserved gall with such acrid sarcasm as I may be able to secure at the moment. No one will eyer know how I yearn for the blood of the interrupter. At night I camp on his trail, and all the day I thirst for his warm life’s current, In my dreams I am cutting his sealp loose with a caseknife, while my fingers are twined in his clustering halr. I walk over him and promenade across his abdomen as I slumber. I hear his ribs crack, and I see his tongue hang over his shoulder as he smiles death's mirthful smile. I do not interrupt a man no more than I would tell him he lied. I give him a chance to win applause or decom- posed eggs from the audience according to what i has to say, and according to the protundity of his profund. All 1 want is a similar chance and room according to my strength. Common decency ought to govern conversa- tion without its being necessary to hire an umpire armed with a four-foot club, to an- nounce who is at the bat and who is on deck. It is only once in a week ortwo that the angel troubles the waters and stirs up the depths of my conversational powers, and then the chances are that some leprous old nasty toad who has been hanging on the brink of decent society for two weeks, slides In with alow kerplunk, and my fair blossom of thought, that has been try- ing for weeks to bloom, withers and goes to seed, while the man with the chilled steel and copper-riveted brow and a wad of selt-esteem on his intellectual balcony as ‘big as an inkstand, walks slowly away to think of some other daz- ziing gem, and thus be ready to bust my beauti- ful phantom and tear out my high priced bulbs of fancy the next time I open my mouth. ——__—_-o- —_____ Strong Contrasts in New York. Correspondence of the Philadelphia Record. The prettiest parts'of New York are old- fashioned down-town: neighborhoods, and the prettiest of these 1s ‘the region around Wash- ington square. Naturally, the streets around the square run north, east, south and west; but the point of the compass does not always mean as much as ‘it does in the vicinity of this square. Some of the oldest, wealthiest and most aristo- cratic families of New York live on the north ‘side of Washington square, and there area few private houses on west Washington square, but even that is a little over the line, while south Washington square is utterly out of the question. The houses there are quite as handsome as those on the north side, but they are inhabited by a very different class of people. They are mostly boarding houses, inhabited by forelgners—principally French and Itallans; some of them are perfectly respectable, others are anything else. It is only the toss of biscuit across the square, yet the gulf is probably the widest this side of Mexico. The wealthy and aristocratic inhabi- tants ot North Washington Square are very proud of their nelghborhood and very proud of their houses. They sometimes enlarge their borders, but they never make any fashionable improvements. The only innovation known to this square in years fs the playing of the brass band out under the big trees every Friday after- noon. This luxury Udine for by the north side swells, who sit at their open windows and watch the foreigners of the south side dancing to the music of Strauss. One side of the square is conspicuous for two bachelor buildings; ‘one, the old Nerney: famous as being the scene of Winthrop’s novel, ‘Cecil's Dreeme,” and the home of William H. Hurlbert, late editor of the World; the other, the ‘Benedict,” @ building devoted particularly to studios, and built in the Most approved style of modern architecture. Ladies are not allowed to live in either of these buildings; but I believe there have been instan- ces where the rule was broken. pS Sunday Afternoons. From the Albany Express. It may be safely said that a person whose brain is wearled with Intellectual work during the week, or whose nervous system is exposed to the strain of business or professional life, ought to sleep within an hour or two after his Sunday’s dinner, if he can. It 1s surprising how much like a seven-day clock the brain will work if the habit of a “Sunday nap” be once formed. Nature will take advantage ot it as regularly and gratefully as she does of the nightly sleep, and do her best to make up lost time. People, on the other hand, whose week of toll 18 chiefly physical, may well give their mind activity while their body is resting. Two sermons and three or four hours of solid read- ing are a rest to some on Sunday, while to}. others such a course amounts to positive Sab- bath breaking. Sunday is a day of rest—not a day of work, religious or otherwise. It isa day for repose—not for exhaustion. But what the dogmatists on one side and the Illiberal liberals on the other are apt to overlook 1s the fact that all men do not rest alike any more than they labor alike, and what will help to save one may aid in killing another.’ “After the Sunday din- ner, then, one should geek rest, innocent recre- ations, healthful happiness, sleep or read, or go and help instruct and interest a mission school, or visit the sick and suffering, according to your needs and your gifts. : We Americans haven't yet fully learned thi art of domestic enjoyment, any more than the law of service to others, More men ought to relieve their wives of the sole care of young children on Sunday—taking them out to wall or ride, and inviting the mother to go as com- pany, or leaving her at home to enjoy unmo- ested a much-needed season of quiet. ‘In suit- able weather a portion. of the day may be profit- ably spent out of doors. ‘There is nothing in the example or teachings of. Christ—nothing in the nature of His religion, of God’s require- ments, or of man’s needs—which declares that the Sabbath can only be kept ae in-doors. It is to be honored and haltowed, but its highest observance 1s a ministration‘to 8 man’s highest needs. ‘We hope and believe that the day will never come when Sunday will be secularized or turned into Seay holiday in America, as it is in Basepes but the progress made toward a ra- tional Christian enjoyment ot the day within the last fifty years shows that the su! npg hes man to the Institution, as proctaimed by the Saviour, is coming to be apprehended. Py SEVEN BAD DAYS, ‘What used up Tom Farmer’s Time and Money—He adopts a Wiser Method. “"Why, Farmer, old boy, you look like your own ghost revisiting the glimpses of themoon. Where have you been for the past week, and what's thematter with you! ‘Tom Farmer was a book-keeper in a large New York publishing house, and is yet, for Tom isa boni Ade character, with a post-office address anda name in the City Directory. He is a hard working fellow, drinks a little and ts occasionally careless in his habits. “Tve been st home, that's where I've been,” re- sponded Tom, wearily, dropping into his old seat **ander the doctor's hands, and between the doctor and the dyspepsia, a mighty tough time I've had of it.” “*Seems to me," sald correspondent James Quinn, shuffling the morning's mail like » pack of whist cards, “that you might be ableto find something to straighten out that stomach of youre. It uses up more of your time and money than half s dozen sound stomachs ‘would if you had tofeed ‘em all, with moat at panio Drices.” “Heaven knows I wish Icould fix it up sll right” sighed Tom, despondently, ‘‘for dyspepsia is just hades on earth, and no mistake.” ‘There sat poor Tom, with pale, thin, haggard facc, no appetite, nauseated stomach—ambitionless, hope lese—and yet with the awful necessity upon him of ‘earning the daily bread which, afterhe had earned it, his disease forbade him to enjoy. “Tom,” said the gray-haired head of his department, “take & word of advice from s man that’s been there, leave off stimulants and quack stuff, and pay twenty- five cents for one of BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTERS, put it on your stomach, take care of your- self, and you'll be a well man yet. I’ve tried itand know.” UCTION SALES. : ae PUBLIC BALE OF TWO GUOD ut Sqpane NO. -DNESDA’ a AUCTION SALES. = goon THUcK FRM O8 TOSUBDI OTS. Pe, is Portponed une Aare RDAiSVCNE Six REN a Jel4-: Th Os. J. FISHER & 0O., Ancta, JUNCANSON BROS., Auctionesra. TRUSTEES' BALE OF ES, NOTES, AND acco: cy decree of the 8: pintcct of out in Equity. "eave te George aaiuet . Gray, we will, on TUESDAY, bi TEENTH DAY OF JUNE: A.D. 1883, at 'r E O'CLOCK NOON, selt within and D streets verthweat ix Waking, Dec ve books, oten, Dills and acoouits of the inte"firin of Gray & Fe Ter THOMA we a Dekest n.w. Jol4-dte nth street n.w. INE DWELLING HOUSE THRER 81 0RIFS AND F CELLAR EING No. 617 EAST CAPITOL STREET, MODERN | CONVENIENCE, AX FINE LOT. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE, TIETH, O'CLOCK, we will tof the premises, one of the beat dwell- fog Ponsce and lot on East Capitol atreet having boon Bullf for owners ee, belng “part of lot 19, square 841," fronting 21 feet on Fast Capitol strost, a by a well built three story derth of 140 f imy by nd colar brick dwelling, With back building ai feet atou : Modern conventendes, press. ron marble trimmings and steps. Ibe house ia in firet-claas order. Terms: One-fourth cash; balance in one, two and ree notes to bear 6 per cent interest, and to be secured by deed of trust. If purchaser desires to make cash paymeut grester, it will be accepted. Title teed and abstract Conveyancing, ‘Terme to be complied with ia Bev sale at risk and oost of de- faulting p chaser, after five du bye some bewspaper published in Wasangton, D. $200 required at ale. ds DUNCANS: By virtue of 9 decree of t! the District of Colon! first (21st) day of Deoem! No. 7,672, tquity docket By, pute auction, in front of the vrvani-es, ow JUN® THE FIGHTECNTH (ist), I } COLOCE FM. cts foat (8) ats (8). of Heitmulier's’ recorded sub-Ai umbered two bundned and forty two (24 sub-division or the ‘eatd toke (6) and eight (8), which a cause bar authorized us as m which sub-division is as follows: Lot four (4) into three lota, each fronting twenty-two (8) inches on Fourteenth (14th) «treet; lot a three lot, each fronting twenty-twocd2}fect and eli anches op Fourteenth (14) street —all of said sul icicnal lots to be bounded by the rear linect the pres. entlote, and the mub-civision of said lote four @)and mix (6) to be made by paralle! lines at Tight angles with Fourteenth street; lot 0 on Khe Inland avenne, to be sub h and fronting on bounding ou the alley to be twenty E twoesch twenty-one (2?) feet tn width, By thie sub division we m:ke in all nine (9) lots for le, each of which is an etigibie site for building jur- Dy the docree of the he texiaue tn one and with iuterest from day of the purchoser “Le deferred pu:chase tioney are to be secured b lord or by taking mortage or deed d { FIV - it quere’ he"Ch . terms of eale ns are: One-third © . Ade- Proseribed anh, wd th IMPROVED NEAR FIF. ‘This wasayearago. Tom tried it and hasn't lost a complied with within mix (6) di ay in’ the inst ah cao f renale will Be munde at coat aid rick” the deitngu a 2 rs ‘The genuins have ‘‘OAPCINE” cut in the middle, | Februs ; " - | plaiutift end C) pone the wa! Don'tsuffer yourself to be swindled. Seabury & Jobn- | plaiutif sud eine h tet net eld ee ewok $06 TWENTIES DAT OF d ." in Wiliam H. Birch's sub bered Tk = Fe = “ed 5 : 3. 79 feet un D street north HH g8885 TT ETE THT 2 s tinproved by a comforts H 8 3 Sgssg T fe fs dwelling house containing seven x E be PWO-STOR’ i ‘oo Sess8 PF Ene 3. ‘Terms of sale: One-third cath; $200 at t SEVENTH STREET and the ri respective with on the premis piled with in Feserver the ri cost of the de dnder in two equal instellments, px; teen months from day of ti bea RERTS SUUTHEAST, . AT AU 3 By virtue of acdeod of trast, duly resorted Liber No. 1,034, £ no of the int .e 6 EER the risk and a cxell the property at faulting purchaser, All ae £ : a ig eyancing to UESDAM, AINETEMN EM DAY R RR be at the cost of the pur CHALE PAST FIVE ok EOE 8 J Trustes, = ie & E S553 et northwest, CELEBRATED STOMACH ESTATE ON CONNCT No. 1015. Under and by virtue of a certain deed cf trust, ated August 26. 1875, and recorded among d records of thie District of Columbia, Liber ‘TTT rrir 797, follo 253, by direction of the parties secured th Be eT REE BRR, 585 7 Evil sell af pubic aut mouth fteen (16) fe Box T r & RI Sgsg, on’TUESDAY, the NIN ‘one hundred and ten (110) Be if § i i 5, 3 | 1883, at FIVE'O'CLOCK P. M., Li ir Bi] a sss® % | subdivision of square N: 8 suid Bul in the svgveyor's otfies of sult Dt B. D. C., folio 210, together with the improvemen' consisting of @ doubie two-story and bascuent, with « mansard roof, Brick Dwelling. Terms of sxle: One-third cash; beJance in one and two years, with interest at i for which the in and two 6 percent interest, payable send- be sncured by deed of Tram on "pres sh, at orton of purchaser. A do- x per proiunissory notes of the purcliaser, secitid by deed of trust of the premises sol, will be required. A deposit Of £200 nmst be mae at the time of and the terms of sale rauiet ve compiied with within ten days, or the property will berescld at the nek and cost of the pur- chaser. ANDREW C. BADLEY, Trastee, 472 Louisiana avenue. ‘OUNG, state Auctioneer. e9-d&de MPHOMAS DOWLING, Auctoncer. HOSTETTER'’S STOMACH BITTERS. meets the requirements of the rational medical philosophy which at present prevails. It is a perfectly pure vexetable remedy, embracing the three important properties of a preventive, a tonic and an alterative. It fortifies the body against discas®, inviorates and revitalizes the WM. P. PIANOS AND ORGANS. _ torpid stomach and liver, and effects a salutary change | EXECUTOR’S SALE OF VALT ABE RE YOU THINKING OF BUYING A PIANO. to pis antle aye, QN OTHE SOHLIE SIDE (a sr - Antsinecree BETWEEN LINGAN AND WA. pi uber of our SQUATE and UVRIGHT RENTAL, S, D. PTA NUS have bee burt after n Use o For snie by all Drugyists ana Dealers generally. SQUARE OF THE’ Mt soto nix ovis uni dae few caer WARD Pa A BAILA D NEA wii sell theme inatranoube ww " DOI " oe your Dy virtue of the powers and authority to me Uaikmes in that beMRIf given im apd by tho act will an convenienes R H fosternent of, Lamotns ‘Suitvan late Of salt ‘are a clone cosh buyer, pean tae ah j Georgetown, decoas ‘ved aul recorded in the h prices, on time, Call and see us. Pianos UBBER 410SE office of the Keister of Wiis for the sald District, the | of oiler makers At bis bopestoe: as tua 26 Executor, will offer f at ed, srealeatpi tion, im front of the tts TWENTY-FIRST. D, iE, O'CLOCK P. M., the following-described: the said deceased, to wit nd ving in ig | HEINEKAMP BRANCH FACTORY WAREROOMB, . rele Oth atrest northwest, HAu2t, pays £ Ss PIANOS. gains in these wonderfully perfeot inatra nents will be given in wll cask sales before July loch. Low is your time. | Klecant stock now street northwe ip OF ALL KINDS, AP OF Te 883, at SIX real estate of it: All that piece or parc: of and situate in Threlkeld’s Addition to the District of Columbia, and beivg MADE AND WARRANTED D> REVERE RUBBER CO., - open at S11 ion, beginning for the said pieces or parcele cf | _™¥26-co MNER, In charve. 115 DEVONSHIRE STREET, ground at theend of ninety -cight feet aud nine inches | 7 Cerne unos? Py :9) from the point of intersection formed by the Se Peat ‘west line of Lingan street with the north line of Second Je12-00 BOSTON. street wester! ‘on the exid north Hue of second street and ronning thence weeteriy by and with the suld worth street eighty-one feet end three inches (81:3) to the west line of sud lot one bundred and twelve (112): thence ruuniug on said west line norther] one hunGred and fifty feet (150) to the back line of sat lot; thence running easterly with said back line sixty feet (60) to the east line of said lot; thence runnii southerty by end with ssid east line and the baci line of los one hundred and twenty (No. 13 thirty 0) fest tothe north tine of said lot mumbey one hundred and twen'y-one (121); thence running easterly with eaid north line twenty-one feet and three inches (21.3); thence in a straight line southerly to the my29 Norice OF Trustee's Sars or Tx: Prsrsenrz PATENT FIRE ESCAPE PIANOS AND ORGANS. At the trusice's saloon the J0th of May of, the assets of the late firm of Biackmar, Eb ling & Co., agents for the Chickering Piano in Baltimore, I purchased some magnificent bargains IS THE MOST WONDERFUL LIFE SAVING IN- VENTION UF THE AGE. in NEW AND SECOND-HAND FIANOS AND OR- Madeto Mt any window, no matter whathe ght the build- | pluce of beianius, improved by two Frame Dweding | 2 they rei os ing may bo, Ready for immediate uses Cas parstwensy | frou numbered resyoctively $61 an and one | GANS. As I was crowded tor room before making to thirty persons in safety to the ground in ene nilnute, | Frame Building in the sear, of names 0 purchase, T find mysclf now complied to ell those no matter bow excited, or timid, or how great theif | Also, ali that part of the lot of uumbered one | goods at atrifl ng advance, as I have no room to store pumiers may'be. "Let them jurip, fall or ‘bo hrown | huindred and thirteen (118), in. ‘ifire Kelis adiieos ¢9 | ene ene cele days tase sow SQUARE jute the opening, and thelr lives car be saved without | sald Georgetown, fronting twenty (20) fect on 2d etroct, | (ult Twill well for. jury. a +d ; UPRIGHTS for 8175, ND PIANOS for $190, for $50, worth $90, &o. ; QUARE PIANOS, used, as lowas AVE for £30, ‘Those instruments are made by the best kuown firms in the business and are “one hundred and a and runn ne (150) feet, the same belug th feet front of said lot, improves Dwelling House, nuu:bered 3523. ‘Terns of sale: One-third of the purchsse money in Tesidue in two equal installment, payable re- six and twe ve months, and eecured worth $350, WILL SELL FIVE OR SIX STATE RIGHTS, No machinery required. Send for circular to ‘W. ©. GRAY, Piqua, Ohio, cash; spectively in the notes of the purchaser, bearing interest fre iy sind. Fe {good countenanod can 90 Manufacturer and Proprietor for tho United States. | day of sal, at the rate of six pT cent por annum, pay= | yyy Nettanied. Ve eee 3e9-m, w, f, 1m. eble semi-annually, aud a deed of trust on the properiy | BBS SAA ——-— | sols: or ai nn of the purehai ‘Ade-| For further partic the time of esle on ear with in ten days srves the Figt io notice, at the es > 2 All ye THFF, THE RRANICH & BACH. Beret eo the NEW FNGLAND Pinnos, anciny aay , Jel2-d&ds RICHAKD R. Ck BARKER, B 4 4 Executor. ALTIMORE and the PRINC. = = Organs, at lowest factory for cash, OF on easiest (PAE SUREEFFECTS OF AYER's SARSAPARILLA 1. COLDWELL, Real Estate Auctiouex, known monthi, instalneut plan, at are thorough and permanent. If there is a lurking EFS SALE OF A VALUABLE BUALDING | @- L. WILD & DRO.'S MU~ICAL WAREROOMS, taint of Scrofula about you Ayer’s Sarsaparilla will dis- LOT ON THE SOUTH SIDe oF Fost 709 7th street northwest. lodge it and expel it from your system, Br YH AND TENTH 81 = —— F ‘ed of trust dat 9, duly recorded in liber ‘one of, the land records for . 918, folio 4 Kn ihe District of, 7 et seq., Pianos. ‘tuning aud Repairing. 4d A WHISKER DYE MUST BE CONVENIENT TO | Colariiiny aud at the request of ihe helder of the nota, | Lit sizests above Ta. att ~ $an30 Hitt ae : Hie gu fro the i Sopa soyerincy ta shay fb es, pusacentebye | B WUTSUSDN, GLAte Mr Gig, out a | PIANOS, OMGANS, SiIBE for tho whiskers unites in iisalf all these merits. ‘Try | qescrited real estate, situatein the city of Wastington, STECK & CO. PIANO, it. delé | D.C., to wit:—All that of eround known, rtain Let numbered thirty-eight : as ta 8), tn the subsvinion —_ ged igagal Gapeeare Mambes aac ea aly rhe Rest Medium Piano Manuf, Terms: One-third cash, and the balance in six, twelve and eihteen months, with interest at six per SProvtion of picchaser, $100 deposit atthe tus ey option of purchaser. posit st me sale; und all coveyuucing aud recording at purchusess cost. Terms to be complied with in seven days. AINARD H. WARKER. Jet-coa _FOMNSOY EDSON § Trustees, GALE OF WALUABE PROPERTY IN ALEXAN- DRIA COU. INTY, VIRGINIA. eo der- priced ractira®. WILCOX & WHITE AND KIMBALL ORGANS Vienos and Organseold on instalments, runted or e&- charg ed; rent applied if purchased. CENT MUSIC. ho only Lempirte Stock Ia the atte HENRY EBERBACH, drm Bilis One ea SEWING MACHINES, &c. —— — iE MOST COMPLETE SEWING MACHINY Es- LISHMENT THIS SIDE OF SEW YORE. ‘We havealways on hand ATTACHMENTS, and NEEDLES for any machine ever made; a stock of ‘ass SEWING MACHIN TRACING WHEELS, in required for the oe a eee neice ‘at short nohos and lowest All work warranted. Good machines for rent. WAYNE’'S PILLS, A indi Pig heed pO Tae Sia poms disease, «con ‘ suffering, perenne eee ‘are, impure frenese, biood, it our belching, sorencerin back, breast and tide, heart ana, giddiness, bed color to stools and urins, ‘ot cure 1 ipt a a the system. 25 centa, box’ of 00 pills, B'boxee $1.00, at Druggists or by mall aging partner of the tate 1e of Circuit Court County, Vireinia, rendered at its No- rm, ieee, in the chancery suit of Zadok Annfe G. Hume and o! ‘the Magruder va. un Dee ie WE N TY THIRD DAY OF SUSE, asta, 5 DE. BWAYNE & SON, Hive ov x Ne Hi my10-th, 5,0 ES tie TWELVE ¢ ¢ JOON, im front of Hi 5 at publ auction, the following property in Alexan cocoa gerd it. A two-nore tract of land beginning at on the north ide of Arlington robd: theme: Ff E PPS’ x BREAKFAST. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING “By govern the operat ‘a careful bauk of (proved machines of Jowest prices. | No. age eo oe ee — rae ia Gent's Furnishings and sone