Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1883, Page 2

CITY AND DISTRICT. FISHING AND FISHERMEN. Wass in the Petomac—W here They Can Be Canght_Hints to These Wanting Cheap Fishing. ‘The Potomac is noted throughout the coun- try as one of the best streams for the angler in the eastern portion of our continent, and mever was there finer sport found upon its banks than is afforded this season. Compara- tively few bass were taken out last season, be- Cause of the almost continual turbid condition ofthe water. The same cause shielded the fish @aring a considerable portion of the past spring and summer. Hence the finny tribe had un- ‘usual opportunity to multiply and replenish the Stream. As one of the most skillful fishermen Yemarked the other day, “the river is Just full of bass.” THE ANGLERS OF WASHINGTON. ‘The knights of the rod and line are well re- presented in Washington. There is not a city iu the union that contains a larger number of anglers—men who love the sport and follow it becanse they love it. Many of them are expert In all the art of taking fish. There are not a few ladies here, too, who delight in eatching bas=, and some of them, also, are skilled in handiing the red. Fly-fishing is not generally popular with Washington anglers. As a rule they prefer live bait to the deceptive fly, one Teason often assigned being that large jish are usually captured far beneath the surface. Ex- perienced fy fishers, however, find no difficuity iu lnring the big fish to the surfaee, and some of the larzest catches (ineiuding the largest fish) of the season have been made with the fly. The bait bucket is, however, tne usual companion of the Washington angler, and there are several parties along the canal, just beyond George- town, who drive a thriving trade im catenhing and selling minnows during the dishing season. AN ERRONEOUS IDEA. With many the erroneous Idea prevails that they must go a considerable distance up stream in order to find good sport. Those who have fished the water nearer Washington know that Just as many and just as fish inhabit it as arefuun( farther up. Thetheory that the bassare mostly above the dam at Great Falls seems to bequite generally accepted, though theme is no sound reason for holding it. The angler who has an inexhaustible purse ean afford to enter- tain such a theory and act upon it; but he Whose circumstances compel him to count the eost when he goes fishing will find it ad- eons to know" that there is plenty of goed fishing within easy and cheap access of the city. McQuade’, about eight niles up the conduit road is A FAVORITE POINT with a number of Washington angiers. The old “club house,”abeut three milesfurther up, iseven tore popular, becase within close proximity are deep and shailow, rapid and still water. The house there is kept for public entertainment. ‘The fisherman who goes there can count the cost beforehand. His expense will be fifty cents per meal, (no charze for beds), and fifty cents Jor @ boat. If he empleys a man te row him that Will cost an additional dollar per day. By the agon, which leaves Georzetown daily, to Great Falls and points in‘hat vicini- y. is ity cents. Then there's the canal packet. Which takes passenvers to the Falls and back for fifty cents; thas aifurding a cheap route by land amiwater. in up to any of these points itis to carry bait. as thereis ne assurance that it can be had above Georzetown. GUOD WATER Fu FALL FISHING NOT FAR UP THE RIVER. ‘There is, between the canal feeder dam and MeQuaie’s, a long stretch of water that offers exeellent fall fishing; yet, comparatively speak- ing. it is rarely ever disturbed by the angler’s hook. A pertion of this water is within easy walking » trom the Chain bridge. a point that can be reached by stage from Georgetown for twenty-five cents. Of the few why fish the there are some who, being obli ) their expenses within limits, Fide w the Chain bridge and walk the remainder of the dist: FISHING CLUBS. There are but few fishing elubs in Washing- ton, considering the large number here who in- duige in the sport. The Woodmont club, with “fits extensive domain on the upper Potomac, is the best equipped. Then there is the Anglers’ association, which keeps its boats at McQuade’s and the “club-house,” where the members do the most of their fishing. Another club is pro- feted, the desizn being to establish its head- quarters and keep its beats also at the “club- house.” It is to be made up of men who have to work fora living, and economy ts to be stu- died in all Its arrangements. The purpose is to the cost of lishing to those who become members. —---—______ Street Car Dangers. ‘Tots Biitor of Tur Evasrec Sraz: In view of the faet that so many children In Washinton are left toran wild, without any Festriction, would it not be well to sound the alarm in the ears of the parents, especially those living in that beantiful portion of the city known as “Swampoodle,” and siong the Hine of the Co- Jumbia road, and request them to instruet their little ones to keep off the car track, and not make a publie play-ground of it? The car- drivers have something to do besides looking straizht ahead all the time; but I have often thought while passing along that road, if E was d to Gil the very desirable position of ear driver, [ would certainly take the responsibility of teachinz some of those eltiidren a few lessons gratis. as their parents do not seem to know It is their duty. 1 have seen them watch fora car, and when within a very few feet lay themselves flat upon the track, and the driver would be obliged to pnt on the brake and stop almost in- rler to prevent serious aceideats. : d jump up. shouting teh up a handiul of nd throw in the rear door of the ear as It passed by, when a portien of it would land in por eyes of some passenger. I think a chtforward lookout” and a good long nizht be beneficial and help to “open the €yes” of those ra urchins, as weil as those of their “auxious parents.” A Freqvest Passexcem SSS SS Electrical Phenomena, itor of Tux EveNtsa Stan: ¢ Weeks 2g0 you were kind encug’ to find Youiu for a brief article describing the peculiar effect of lightnmg upona tree, the upper part being apparently uninjured, whilethe trunk was gouged ont toa depth of from three to five Mrs. Edward Wolcott, of Washington, road, saw Tus Sran containing it,and Yery kindly from t ondon Times. A few years ago a tree struck near us presented the spiral or ‘kscrew” appearance alluded to In the Times? Hesay €. HaLLoweL. LigatNtNe ev TRez3—Our Ge w “The fequeney of mn Sw¥itgerland this summer (we UO & Week) has aiTorded Prot. 4 great wuthority oa elec ¥, ample opportunity of HeAS Ob the effect of light ‘tation generally. fe has i <3 of its passage oa thy uoper the 1c exception tO Uns rule, for they are $ quite blosted and the pas lower down marked by a com rand in certain sorts of wood * alsposed spirally. A curious effect on Vines is that tt invariably strikes a great tony vine stocks at the same time over a Spee2, for Lue most part cireulur, from 8 metres to % metres in diameter, and containing, there Several hundred vines’ The plants most affect are those in the center of the clrele, and the num Der of Qurnt and yellowed leaves diminish pro aly light ‘lied vines, dreaded wiloxera, had a the was called igbtened them as to the tru that ind, In proot ground in Deen at work, but im he speedily en- cause O° the mis- of Bis dlagnos!, poluted out Ine the annexed account, taken | © ABOUT THE ACKING OF WASHINGTON. Another Leaf from Mistory. HOW THE STATE DEPARTMENT ARCHIVES WERE ALL SAVED—AN IMPORTANT LETTER GF ME 8. PLEASONTON, WHO REMOVED THEM TO LERS- BURG, Va. The reminiscence of Mr. John.C. Harkness, published in Tue Star ot August 24th, and crit- icised by “J. T.” in the issue of September 7th, is correct in the statement that “the archives were carried away to a place of safety” at the invasion of Washington in the war of 1812-14. The proclamation of President Madison, issued at the time, does not state that the archives were destroyed, as “J. T.” infers, but that the depositories of the archives were wantonly burned. In 1848 Mr. Pleasonton, who was an official of the State department at the time the archives were removed, wrote a letter to Wm. H. Winder, of Philadelphia, giving a detailed and very interesting account of the removal of the valuable documents, which in- cluded the original copy of the Declaration of Independence an@ George Washington's original commission from Congress as commander-in- chief ofthe army. A cony of this letter has been kindly furnished THe Star by his estimable daughter. who resides here. The letter is as follows: Wasutnetos Crry, August 7, 1848. ‘Str: I havehad the honor to receive your let- ter of the 5th instant, requesting tu be informed of the reasons for, andthe eireumstanees attend- ing the remoyal of the books and papers of the Department of State to a place of security in August, 1814, whilst a British fleet and army, then in the Chesapeake bay, were menacing an attack on this city. After a lapse of 34 years I may not be perfectly accurate in my recollections of all the circum- stances attending the transaction referred to, but I will, with great pleasure, state them as they HOw oceur to my memory. I have no knowledge of information having been received by the government from Messrs Bayard and Gallatin, then ministers in Europe, for adjusting @ peace with Great Britain of a proposed at- tack on Washington city by the British forces; but I remember to have seen im some of the British newspapers received from Mr. Beasely, the commissary of prisoners of war in London, who was in the habit of forwarding to the de- partment London newspapers by the cartels, a statement that the fleet and rts were receiving on board at Bordeaux, in France, with the view of ing against Washington and Baltimore, that it was their intention to retaliate the outrages alleged to have been committed by our forees under Gen. Dearborn, at York, in Upper Canada, some time previous— ly. This allegation was denied and refuted by Gen. Dearborn, as will appear by reference to Nites’ Register. voi ix., p. 150. ‘Seo after learning that the British fleet were in the Chesapeake we learned also that they were ascending the Patoxenf, evidently with the view of attacking this city. Upon receiving this information, which was about aweek before the enemy entered Washington, Col. Monroe, then Secretary of State, mounted his horse and proceeded to Benedict, a sntall village on the Patuxent, where the British forces were being landed... From an eminence within a quarter of | a mile of the village Col. Mouroe could distinctly see the number and kind of troops of which their army was composed; and reeollecting the threats held out in the British papers, and be- lieving that we had no force which conid suc- | cessfully resist them, he sent a note, either to Mr. Jonu Graham, the chief clerk of the office, or myself (I do not remember which), by a vi- dette, advising us to take the best care of the books and papers of the office which might be in our power. Whereupon I proceeded to pur- ehase coarse linen, and caused it to be made into bags of convenient size, in which the gentlemen of the office, assisted by me, placed the books and other papers, after which I obtained carts and had them conveyed te a grist mill, then un- oceupied, belonging to Mr. Edgar Patterson, | situated a short distance on the Virginia side of the Potomac, beyond the Chain bridge, so-called, two milesabove Georgetown. Whilst engaged in the passage way of the building with the papers, the Department ot State being on one side and the War depart- ment on the other side of the passage. Gen. Armstrong, then Secretary of War, ou his way to his own room, stopped a short time and-ob- served to me that he thought we were under unnecessary alarm,as be did not think the British were serious in their intentions of com- ing to Washington. I replied that we were under adifferent belief, and, let their intentions | be what they might, it was the part of pru- dence to preserve the valuable papers ot the Revolutionary government.comprising the Dec- j laration of Independetice, the laws, the secret Journals of Congress, then not published, the correspondence of Gen. Washington, his com- mission resigned at the close of the war, the correspondence of Gen. Greene and other gen- erais, as well as all the laws. treaties and cor- respondence of the Department of State sinee THE SPARROWS AGAIN. Audi Alteram Partem To the Editor of Taz Evanine Sram: Your correspondent, Prof. Ridgway, in = very careful and tmpartial article, approaches the Sparrow controversy in a truly scientific or ju- dicial manner as distinguished from the man- ner of the advocate, Dr. Coues; but admitting his facts, I fail to see how he arrives at the con- clusion—“ that, let the sparrows Increase to ten times their present numbers, the visitation (I suppose he means injury or disaster) will come when, in due course of nature’s laws, the proper time arrives.” I think there is nothing in the resent or past history of the sparrows to jue- Fitr this assamption—at least nothing of the sort has been shown. On thg contrary, I point to the tact, and defy proof to the contrary, that the foliage on our trees for the past ten years— and I think that fs a long enough jod to warrant a conclaston—will more than favor- ably compare with any stmilar previous period. Considering their environment, it is wonderful that the trees survive at all, deprived as they are of moisture in consequence of the concrete pavements. No champion of the sparrows has asserted ‘‘that the shade trees have not. suf- fered from the depredations of insects since the introduction of the sparrows,” as Prof. Ridg- way makes us say. We claim improvement and challenge contradiction. It is mere folly to assume because of certain individual opin- ions, based upon no previous state of ascer- tained facts, that injury will follow. Ifthat be 80, show the injury. At the foot of the lower steps of the Capitol, west side, formerly stood two noble elmtrees, which were entirely de- nuded of their leaves every year by insects be- fore midsummer. Ingenuity was exhausted to exterminate the pests, without avail, and the trees were finally cut down in despair. This was before the sparrows came hither. There is but little difference im the facts upon which Prof. R. and myself come te opposite conclu- sions. He says there are fewer wrens. Agreed: but I think there are more robins, and, as for the song sparrow, he has not retained much ofa foot- Ing since we attained the proportions of a city. On the very spot where the professor dates his communication, clouds ot grasshoppers would arise as one walked forty years ago. His little episode of “claim Jumping” py the European sparrow I think has been already pre-empted by some of our native species, as probably some of the books on his shelves will bear record. In considering this question, there are two strong points which have been overlooked by the enemies of the sparrows, Prof. R. included. First, the extraordinary fecundity of the spar- rows. Raising several broods each seasonpit will readily be seen that theamount of insect food. required to feed their young bas been greatly underestimated by Prof. Ridgway. An English authority states that: “Dari summ<é it numbers of insecta larvae are. dentroyed Dy sparrows, ‘and in thie I give one Instance of American opinion, clipped from Forest and Stream: “*A Voice von THE SPanmows.—The great depreda- tions of the Hessian fly and the wheat worm amonw the grain in panyecchors of Chester and Delaware coun- ties, during the season fst is aecribed by many rhter of the tng.ish sparrows, islature of at arecent session of the Yeansyivanis it is now Iswfai to destroy the sparrow wherever found. ANOTHER CONSIDERATION. Second, the larvse destroyed by them in win- ter. That they do this is established by the tact or their existence under conditions where little other food isto be found. I have often seen them industriously exploring the trunks and branches of trees at this season. as if in search of such food. The good they do in this way is in- calculable; and it will be observed they are prosecuting this work when our own feathered tribes are prospecting elsewhere. Prof. R. savs the defenders of the sparrows are in the mi- nority. That may be true, and yet easily ac- counted for. One positive opinion, sturdily ad- vaneed and maintained. will lead scores of per- sons with negative minds; aud as these last al- ways comprise the majority. the reason is ob- vious. Dr. Coues started this warfare in a very positive way long before the friends of the spar- rows thought any defense necessary, and in that way created a public opiniun adverse to them. It will be seen, however. by a comparison of the views of Dr. Coues and Prof. K. that there is a Fadical difference between them on the facts upon which they come to the same conclusion. Who shall decide when doctors disagree ? 4 GOOD WORD FOR THE CROW. There is an equilibriam im nature that no wise man would destroy. Even the despised and Persecuted crow has an important function to ish will Gling to Spartan morals. I have never been a teétherbi youth, bat long observation and experience assures me that the co ae sessing mé@ans tq educate his son in the: dead |: who ee ae veh ‘stepping-stones wedge ‘earned or sciences, 8 standing his son To be accomplished in sargery and medicine, familiar with botany and some other ae) able to write the — ho wi elegance and accuracy, a knowledge of Latin Is essential, rect of the Nese i jen I merely contemplated writings inst the rep prentanion of the School Trustee when I and took pen in hand, and, ly expressing a very few of my thoughts On the general question, have to re- gret inability to discuss properly a subject of such deep concern to the public. J.C. G. K. —_ FACTS ABOUT NEWSPAPERS. ‘The First Newspaper in the Country. Growth of the Secular and Religious Press. Rev. Dr. John Chester, of the Metropolitan Presbyterian church, in this city, has an inter- esting article in the Presbyterian Observer on “The Importance of the Religious Newspaper.’ He notes that the first newspaper published in this country was at Boston, in 1690, and that according to the recent census the newspapers and periodicals in the United States number 11.314, published in fifteen different languages, having “an aggregate cirenlation per issue,” of dailles, 3,566,395; weeklies, 28,213,301. He states that the growth of the religious newspaper is remarkable. He says as to the first religious newspaper the weight of facts seem to be on the side of the Weekly Recorder, published at Chillicothe, Ohio, by John An- drewe, from 1814 to 1817. Probably the next was the Boston Recorder, the first issue of which was January 3d, 1816. Then came the Watchman and Reflector (an organ ot the Bap- tists), established in Boston, 1819. Then the New York Observer, established by Mr. Sidney E. Morse and his brother, Richard C., in New York, 1820. According to the recent census there were in 1880 in the United States £53 re- ligious newspapers and periodicals. The de- nominations having the largest number are as follows: Methodist, 7%; roa aol cs Bap 63; Presbyterian, 42; Episcopal, 33. The circulation of the combined religious press is enormoas, reaching to the millions, not in- deed in actual! subscril but in readers, for it is a peculiarity of the modern religious news- paper that it is a family paper, adapted not only for the jes but in its ‘children’s column” for the little ones; and after being thus read it is often lent to some neighbor, or given to a benevolent institution, or sent to some distant missionary. ee The Swedish King. ‘Stockholm Correspondence New York Tribtine. To be king of Sweden, with its 4,650,000 In- habitants, and of Norwey, with its 1,900,000, is, from the point of salary, a very nice business, a3 the civil lists from both countries give an income of about 380,000. The loyal folk ought to be satisfied; but: they aren't, as the Norwegian gov- ernment recently made repeated demands upon the “Stor-Thing” to donate about $1€.000 more yearly to the crown prince. The “Stor-Thing,” or Norwegian «Parliament, has just as many times rejected the proposition, whereby it seems that the sturdy people on the west side of the mountains think that they pay their rovalty well enough. Add to the above that the royal family has besides the royal castle at Stock- holm, with its600 rooms, the use of yet another spacious palace in’ the capital for the oldest. of the heirs-at-law to the throne not being the’ crown prince or his son, and in the vicinity of Stockholm the country palaces of Resendal,' Haga Utriksdal. Drottningholm, Rosersberg, Svartsjo and Stromsholm; in the southern provinees those of Herrevad’s Abbey and Beckaskog, together with Sophiero, the king’s private property, and in Norway, besides the royal castle at Christiania, another smaller palace Inthe same town and the country pal- aces of Uskarshall, and it must be admitted that a family of ten members is uncommonly well housed, be the family yet aroyal one. Of the Swedish naturalized branch of the Bernadotte family at present, the king, the queen and their three younger sons are living at the summer palace, Rosendal, about two miles from Stock- holm; the crown prince, with wife and baby boy, are trving the qualities ot some medical springs in Germany, and the Princess Eugenie, perform in theeconomy of life. I am satisfied that he destroys a great many enemies of vege- tation, for Ihave watcned him often ging the flelds where there was scarcely the possibil- ity ot grain food, and I have seen him in the spring following the farmer 1s he turns his far- rows, seeking worms and grubs. To preserve the adoption of the Constitution down to that papers unsafe at the mill, as, rifthe British forces got to Washington, they would probably detach a force for the purpose of destroying a foundry for cannon and shot in its neighborhood, and would be led nal revenue. Being fatigued with the ride and securing the papers I retired early to bed, and was informed next morning by the people of the hotel where I staid that they had seen the preceding night, being the 24th of August, a large fire in the direction of Washington. which proved to be a light from the public buildings the enemy had set on fire and burned them to the ground. On the 26th of Anvust I returned to Wash- ington and* found the President's House and public offices still buraing, and learned that the British army had evacuated the city the pre- ceding evening, in the belief that our forces were again assembling in their rear for the purpose of cutting off their retreat. However this may be, they made a forced march and left, it was reported, a considerable number of their men on the road, who were captured by a troop ot horse from Frederick, in Maryland. As a part of the British fleet soon afterwards j aScended the Potomac and plundered Alexan- dria of a large quaatity of flour and tobacco. threatening Washington at the -same time with @ second invasion, it was not considered safe to bring the papers of the State department back for some weeks; not. indeed, until the British fleet generally had left the waters of the Chesa- peake. In the meantime it was found neces- sary for me to proceed to Leesburg occasion- ally for particular papers to which the Secretary of State had oceasion to refer im the course of his correspondence. Ihave the honor to be. very respectfully, sir, Your obedient servant, (Signed,) 3. Preasoxtox, Wm. H. Winder, Esq. Philadelphia, Penn. A Senator Whe Had Been “Seen” by Both Sides. (rom ex-Serveant-at-Arms French's Lecture, ‘Ten ‘Years Amoug the Senators.”) But alas! all the men in the Senate, during those ten years, were not of this royal stamp. Through the cunning and persistent use of “ofi- cial patronage;” by the money and large influ- ence of unscrupulous corporations; and by the direct purehase ot majorities in legistatures, by individuals of colossal fortune, very small men ; in some instances crawled Into this large place; and a few who were absolutely vile. Men pro- fessing ditterent political seutiments, but stand- this equilibrium nature will see to it that the fit survive, unless ruthless man to his own hurt. Because I love the sparrows, I don't love the other birds less, and when the is covered with snow I teed all that come near my domicile. The fact. if it be a fact, that the foreizn sparrows crowd out the native birds is conclusive asto the finalevent. The 5] we have come to stay, and any plans for termination that may be adopted will prove fu- i Gro. C. Hunwing. A Good Word for the Greek. ‘To the Editor of Tax Evaxme Stan: 1am much surprised by a statement made at arecent meeting of the trustees of our public schools, on the authority of Mr. Birney, that— “The study of the Greek a language the col- leges all over the country are getting rid of asa useless one.” I observe with regret such a statement publiciy made by one officially asso- ciated with the interests of public instruction at the National Capital. While conscious of a pre- vailing tendency to underrate the importance. of classical studies, Ihave yet to learn of any one educator of conceded ability as a classical scholar, who has hazarded the declaration that a knowledge of the ancient languages Is an “useless” aconisition or accomplishment. Peo- ple quite competent to teach and appreciate the value of Greek and Latin may differ as to the time which should be expended in their acquisition to the exclusion of studies deemed of more practical value; but no sane man of thorough classical education would so far dis- regard the respect of others as to pronounee “useless” a knowledge of Greek or Latin, and it would be a lasting reproach to the intellizence and ity otAmericans were therepresentation of Mr. Birney correct. It is safe to assume that there do not exist any men properly instructed in, and qualified to appreciate, the value of classical knowledge, who place light value on even a moderate acquaintance with the dead lan- guages. It is undeniable that some great men have been unlearned in the Greek and Latin, but such persons would doubtless have shone more conspicuous possessed of such knowledge, the absence whereof was doubtless keenly felt, and in most cases aay regretted. No one of ordinary intelligence will deny that the greatest ornaments to literature, arts, sciences and reli- gion were famillar with the dead languages, without familiarity wherewith their power and influence through ages would have been lost. Faith in the Christian religion could not have survived a loss of knowledge of the Greek. It is mainly the absence of proper e ucation, the result of indifference In teachers and their in- fluence on learners, which results in the appear- ance of the uselessness of bigher culture. Al- loys, while ereating doubt, do not depreciate pure metals. How far classical studies are to be pursued in the common. schools is a TF ques- tion for discussion, but if premccutel ere = vantageously immediate requirement will exist for teachers of a higher order. While all edu- @ated at the public charge will not expect, and but few instinctively desire, the highest culture, ing together in all schemes of plunder; their political corruption, only equalled by the degra- dation of their personal and social life. {need not mention names. Their names are too well known to the country—te its shame and sorrow. Indeed. they are names that could not properly be brought into this respectable resence. P . Some of these men had found it quite expen- buyiag their way into the Senate, and to get thelr money back they sought appointment upon committees—where it was understood money might be made—such as the committee on accounts and contingent expenses. on public buildings, on Pacific railroads, &c. arose pe gears _ Central and Union Pa- ei wolving many thousands of dollars, and it awaited the decision af this eom- mittee. The arguments had been made—and ‘ed doors, was delibera- g. I met an officet of one of the roads, with anxious look, pacing the lobby, In the net: borhood of the committe room. “You seem troubie,”.I ventured to remark. “Yes; I wish oe how this. committee was going to patriotism demands that the ‘test res; be extended i learning, poet all bieto rivera greatness in a Uae depend upon its cul- ture, and nations have risen and falten ashigher education was cherished or The Kittle bger peboeta of Athens for 600 years revious, and nearly as many subsequent, to the Boristian era, by the culture of literature and the arts and sciences in all thelr branches at- tained an influence over the civilized world and an intellectual eminence never approximated by ther ple. Her political ilory existed of when her lators framed 1 adopted by the most civilized nations, when her generals were intellectual giants, with I not restricted to the art of war, whose compo- sitions at this day give delight to the man of culture. In one cam were Aristides, Mil- i Noereror and tus, and others the king’s sister, with the Duchess-Dowager of Dalekariein, are sojourning in the island of Gotland. in the Baltic. y nding with the remarkable running- about propensities of the king is his habit of early rising when at home. At about 6 o’clock in the morning he is on hi and, accom- panied by his adjutants, he takes a trot round the deer park or to the drill place ot his Lite Guards, returning to Rosendal at about 8. The Princes Charies and Eugene, the third and fourth of his sons, are then off to their garrison duties, and about 9, when the pretty but sickly queen is arisen, be in her company takes break- fast, after which he ip sera scratinizes the news ho Daily journal, or Dag- dladtt, being. it is said, his favorite among the Swedish. He reada his mail and confers either with the secretaries of the State Departments or with the officers of his court up to 1 o'clock, when aluncheon is partaken of by the whole fam- ily. In the atternoon everybody does ashe likes, the king generally spending his time upon lit: erary pursuits, as he does acouple of hours in the morning before he takes his trip on horse- back. At 6 o’clock dinner ts served, to which generally several higher civil and military officers are invited “‘by royal order.” At 10 they partake of a light supper, and for about an hour the members of the ruyal family proper are pri- vately together discussing the events of theday. family matters,etc. At about 10 a. m. the queen, the weather permitting, takes an airing in a carrlage with four horses and attended by one or two ot her ladies of honor in the deer park, the servants generally dressed in the half-dress of the court livery, the life groom, however, with an ostrich feather about three feet high in his cap. Whatever her simplicity of manners, so much spoken of, may be, the queen will not par- mit aniota of the royal honors due her to be omitted when out of the castle. +0. _____ Why a Cemetery is Guarded. From the Oswego Times. Avigilant secret watch is being kent over Mount Adnah Cemetery, at Fulton, and also over the grounds known as the old cemetery. It seems that when the bodies were disinterred for removal from the old cemetery to the new, a certain well-known citizen was engaged in the work. In raising a well-preserved coffin con- taining a body it proved to be heavier than or- dinary bodies. The coffin was opened. The lower portion of the bedy was petrified, and the upper portion hard, cold, and white, and the features regular and easily recognizable. The hair was long and wavy, and had grown several inches during the twenty-one years it had laid in the eagth. The fact of the petritaction was. DILAPIDATED SCHOOL BUILDINGS. Why the Builéing Inepector Asks for @ Bepair Fund of $35,000—Buildings Going to Ruin from Lack of Atten- ton. Asstated im Tam Star of Thursday, the in- spector of buildings, Mr. Entwisle, in his esti- mates for the next fiscal year, has asked for $85,000 for repairs to school buildings. In his report he sets forth his reasons for asking this amount as follows: ‘‘The increased amount for repairs to public school buildings is made neces- sary from the fact that the amounts asked for for this and the preceding years have been cut down, when making the appropriation, to such an extent that the amounts were, as stated by the trustees, insufficient to repair the buildings further than to keep them habitable, while the exteriors of them are going to decay for want of repairs to wood-work and iting. In the cownty there are seventeen in the city three wooden buildings owned by the District, each one of which needs painting, and several of them need new roofs ind other repairs to the exterior and fences. There are in the city thirty- five and in the county four (exclusive of the three in the city and two in county in course of construction), making forty-four brick schoot buildings in Ge bert county, and a total of sixty-four school buildings. A majority of the buildings in the city are of the large ciass, fitted with steam Lepsy ieee all necessary ap- [ere which need to be kept in good order. hose buildings, with the exception of the nineteen built within the last four years, and now in course of construction, SEED EXTENSIVE REPAIRS to the exterior, such as repairs to wood work, enclosures and generally repainting. Those Tecently built all need constantly minor repairs and adjusting. Ofthe nineteen new buildings the fund has been only suffictent to kalsomine four ofthem. The other fifteen should be kal- somined as speedily as possible to protect the sand finished walls. It is false economy to allow the buildings to ran down until they reach a decaying condition, and I am satisfied that an appropriation of $35,000 should be made for the two succeeding years, which will put the buildings in such a condition that they may be kept up at a reduced amount. I have for this and the preceding years recom- mended appropriations as follows, and each have been reduced, as shown below: For the year ended June 30, 1881, I recommend- ed '$20,000—-$15,000 was appropriated. For the year ended June 30, 1882 recommended $20,000. Only $10,000 was appropriated, which sum was entirely inadequate, and a deficiency of $3,000 was obtained, which was a necessity to keep the buildings in a habitable condition. For the year ended June 30, 1883, $20,000 was again recommended, but $15,000 was appropri- ated. Forthe p yee? fiscal year $20,000 was recommended for Fepalrs, and ‘for the enclosing and improvement of the grounds at the High Henry, Webster, Gales, Garnett, Anacostia the school on Bladensburg turnpike, the sum of $16,400 was asked for, making 236.400; but for ailofthe above work only $15,000 was appro- priated, and by the wording of the bill the re- pairs are to be made, and the grounds named abave enclosed and improved. The best dispo- sition that could be made of this fund is con- tained In the order of the Commissioners, dated July 14, approprMting $11,000 to repairs and 4,000 to the improvement of and enclosing the grounds. The above statement shows that THE AMOUNTS ASKED tor repairs in the four years have been reduced 326,000, and the amount asked for enclosing and improving grounds, $12,400. It is there- fore plain to be seen by the above showing why the buildings are becoming dilapidated, not- withstanding the care taken in an economical and judicious use of the funds. Appended is a list of the school buildings owned by the Dis- trict, their locality and capacity, which will convey some idea of thelr great extent and the amount of tunds necessary to keep them in proper repair and the appliances in a good working condition. The necessity for new buildings ts for the board of school trustees to determine; but, as to the character ofthe bulld- ings, I would suggest that the plan of the re- cently constructed buildings be adhered to—con- taining eight to tenrooms, and not over two, stories in height above the basement, as they are far preferable to the three story and base- nent (twelve rooms) buildings, in case of fire or panic, and on account of the difference in con- struction and the expensive heating apparatus. Two buildings, containing eight rooms each,can be erected at the cost of one of the twelve rooms buildings; the only difference being the cost of one more site, which gives the advantage ofa separate and more conveniently located school.’ LIST OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS OWNED BY THE DIS- TRICT OF COLUMBIA. First Division—Franklin building, seventeen roomsand exhibition hall, heated by steam; Force building, twelve rooms, heated by steam; Ana- lostan, twelve rooms, heated by steam; Thom- son building, six rooms and basement; heated by furnace and stoves; Berret building, two rooms, heated by stoves; old frame building cor- ner of 22d and I streets northwest, eight rooms, heated by stoves. Second Division—Seaton building, ten rooms and exhibition hall, exclusive of basement, heated by steam; Henry building, twelve rooms and basement, heated by steam; Abbott build- ing, nine rooms and basement, hi far- nace; Webster building, twelve rooms base- ment, heated by steam; Gales building, twelve rooms and basement, heated by steam; High school, twenty-eight rooms seis p exnibition hail, exclusive of basement, by steam. Third Division—Wallach building, ten rooms and basement, heated by steam; Peabody build- ing, twelve rooms and exhibition hall, exclusive of basement, heated by steam; Cranch building, six rooms and basement, heated by steam; Mc- Cormick building, four rooms and basement, heated by furnace; Old Odd Fellows’ hall, cor- ner 7th and G streets southeast, two rooms, heated by stoves. Fourth Division — Anacostia, two rooms, heated by stoves; Jefferson building, sixteen rooms and large exhibition hall, exclusive of basement, heated by steam; Greenleaf building, four rooms, heated by stoves; Potomac build. ing, four rooms, heated by stoves; Amidon building, elght rooms, heated by turnace. Fifth Division—Curtis building. ten rooms and exhibition hall, heated by steam; Pros treet building, tour rooms, heated by stoves; High- street building, frame, four rooms, by stoves; third street building, three rooms heated by stoves. Sixth Division—One-room_ frame, Bidge Toad; one-room frame, Conduit road; one two-room brick, Tenleytown; one two-room frame, Grant road; one two-room frame, Bright- four-room frame, Mt. it; one one-room brick, Columbia road; one one-room frame, Fort Slocum; one two-room brick, Bladensburg turnpike; one one-room brick, Brook station; one one-room » Queen’s chapel; one one- room frame, Queen’s chapel;one two-room frame, Benning’s; one two-room , do.; one one- room frame, Benning’s; one two-room frame, Good Hope. one two-room frame, Giesboro; one six-room frame, Hillsdale; one six-room brick, Anacostia; one six-room frame, H Ui versity; one two-room frame, Soldiers’ Home. only known to the husband and some of the im- miediate friends. Lately the matter has leaked out, and a effort Is being made agent of 3 museum in New York city to obtain possession of tte body, offering, it 1s said, fabulous amount to certain parties to locate tl body. No one. in this vicinity knows whose body it fs and as hundreds ot residents of this locality had friends buried in the old cemetery there is naturally considerable feeling mani- fested. To get possession of a genuine petri- fied human body has been a life-work of the leading gcientists, museums, and medical col- leges ; and while it might aid science in arriving at certain occult facts,and while it would not be considered sgcrilegious or ghoulish to take the body, no attempt should be made to spirit it away. |A vigorous attempt will be made to- day to didcover Lees body in question is. Several names have been given your n- dent, but out of consideration of friends they are for the time withheld. Buttered Eggs From the New York Journal, “What are buttered eggs ?” inquired the re- porter. “Somewhat of a fancy article, 1 imagine, be- cause but few are sold. There are old women m this city who get from the authorities the right to keep hens, these they keep in the cock- loft of the house, and Set uve Saree oe until they lay an egg. No sooner is it than it is dij in melte which ts yet warm and susceptil the flavor of the butter and they are sald to be very fine. They bring from 60 to 80 cents a dozen.’ se. Fair We A Werld’s Proposes fee. ‘ashing- ‘From the Philadelphia Progress. fora World’s Fair at Wash- Seventh Division—Sumner building, ten rooms, exhibition hall and basement, heated by steam; Stevens building, eight rooms, exclu- sive of basement, heated by steam; Garrett building, twelve rooms and it. heated by steam; Miner building, ten rooms, exclusive of basement, heated by turnace. wood; one one-room frame, Brightwood; one | Eighth Division—John F. Cook hepa twelve rooms, heated by ; Ran building, twelve rooms, heated by furnace; Baneker building, elght rooms, heated by tur- nace; Lincoln building, twelve rooms, exciu- sive of basement, heated by steam; Written for Taz Evarme Stan. ‘The Veice. At last, I will take you o'er And over my soul there falls Ab, what is it so appalis And unto the Voice say I, But to this tt gives no reply, And never a form I see, With whom it 1s I must fare, * But Task and ask in vain, Written for Tax Evexmxe Sta2, Vow et preterea nih, ‘There's a Voice sounds in my ear, Bt sounds both night and day: “You cannot for aye stay here: ‘You must rise an@ come away. “You must rise and with me must And go in the ghostly night Through a where all is dum® And no nor star sheds light “You must go with me alone; Behind all friends must leave; In vata you will sigh and moan, And in vain your (riends will griev@, “And reaching a silent stream, ‘To a land where wonders teem, And you shall return no more,” ‘The shade of a nameless fears Whenever that Voice I hear? “When shall this hap to me?” ‘Then I say to the Voice, “Declare Your name that I may know And to what strange land must ga.” And shiver and hold my breath, When I hear but what o/t I have heard, agatn, And I shudder and dream of—Death. —W. L. SHOEMAKER, ——————-e-_____ ‘Time’s Touch. One last, long, loving look, and so aside ‘The Artist waves his toll: but when that hand, Graceful, creative, all forgets its pride, Lost in the dust: Time’s touch is gfowing, grand! Not Titian, Tittan’s self could understand, Himself, no Master of the Far Away, Now stood he by his canvas. “Surely Through necromantic power!” he could but say. Something of this oft visited his thought, ‘Yet ghost-like fled, while eagerly he sought, What deed soe’er a man may nobly do, Dreaming of better, seeking still his dream, That shail receive Time's touch of grandeur, too, Exalt, inspire, with heavenly luster beam! —SraTox Donano, ———_———_-2-—______ Written for Taz Evewine Sram. Life. Meet your lot with cheerful faces Worth will ever win the race. If the draught be bitter, take it: See! the fairy flakes of snow Up as well as downward go. ‘Murmur if you will, but know Life is mostly what we make 1 In the cup that waits for all Honey mingles with the gall: Do as doctors bikyou—shake it, Every lane will have a stile; ] Bear your burdens with a snile. Knowing in your heart, the while, Life 1s ever What we make It Watch your steps with tenderest care, If you find the tempter’s snare Coiled around you, crush it, break itt Habit 1s a chain of fate Crushing with an ocean’s weight, Learn before it be too late, Life is only what we make it, Joy ana peace with perfect love All may have from One above It they will from him partake tt, Blessed way of life divine, Be it ever, ever mine Making in the grand design, All my ilfe what He would make itt —Faep E. Woopwarp, Washington, Sept. 7th, 1883, —<o-_—_ The Going of Arthur. From Life. Before they went a-fishing in the West ‘There came on Arthur, sleeping, several men Left on the civil service catec! And like perturbéd ghosts, Went sbrilling, ATLbUr! to- ‘hosuy tbat ghast, Hielio! Hellot™ all the might; Orrow thou shalt pass away Farewell! there is an isle of rest for nee, the fare will fare too high Because To follow thee.” Then Arthur woke and called, “Well, Tam blown,” or, “I am flown;” “Am blown along a wandering windly wind,” else what is biowed but For blown is blowed, blown? “Who spake? Adream? 0, jlight up all the 18 VO! before, Go ’way!” he said, and shrill ‘More surily than it shrilled I’m ga’wayin!” ‘This heard the bold Phil For never yet his lips he oped, but Or took he summat; st “Ob me; rise; I hear the steps of Mofioc in the ‘ADd with ist maby squswe and Ceeves weed tees Hes ‘Once thi With rashen rations of t! And right cheer from Spoilen sutle! ‘Arise, go terehy and case's tor ewe Then spake good Arthur to Phil Sheridan: “Far other is this country in the West Whereto we move, than Is the Restizouche, Wherein tor salmon J have fishen oft, And canghiton raiment damp and awful colds.” t he smiled—they all did, more or leas— And yet And Went. Due west his buckboard ceaseless went, And old man Modoc, and his tripe, And the Crows shrilled about bim As one who had been And their crops arinl Of the old block, And whispern in his ear, Of Oriental Washington, Of Western Washington, the In. all your land. “Sho, shonee!”” And in Nesqually mood he said, + ummat for his throat: dreadful dreams, Came from the sunset bounds of Lava-bed, And all the Creeks came creaking down to him, with the Kaws, And the Pawnees brought in their uncle’s ple Whereat he laughen, saying, “Yes, I know,” there himselr, long time ago; And Cheyenne their Arapahoes at him— The only hose they war, and them they wore ‘The full-orbed round of’ the full-orben year. Came the epere and the Bree came to Sioux ‘or guns and whisky, for their bealth was poor, famished for the white man’s ke. Came the Navajoes, calling him by name, And saying that a genuine Chippewas » and that he Ottawa Their wishes weil; and the Spokanes came re,” they said, behold’the Okan: only Irish In Makah break, and end this council Wichitas outlasted all my pat And I fear me much Kickapoo Indian till bis own Shall break his Flathead.” Be Comanche to laugh, turned to where the swift Gros Ventre winds Its rocky way. He took in his right hand it bamboo, Excalibur, And strongly wheeled and threw the fy, and lo, ‘His rod of ‘The silken line, outflung upon the T and lay uy ne A fery, Wild, untamed “¥ and dow” aH ‘Rosr. J. BURDETTR, Lovejoy butiding, six rooms, heated by stoves; Anthony | © Bowen building, eight rooms, heated by stoves. ——$—$+o__ ____ Mair and Sight ners! at Seventy- cig! - ‘Times. Sturgess, of the Philadelphia En- partment, was a visitor to the Cir- ing at Charter Oak enthusiastic admirer of fine horses, and was an owner, trainer and driver of trotters long before the Circuit was thought of. As a driver, he is on of the best; ear finda him our | With honor, Pheakiper, = to the same troupe, but upon the arrival of Signore Mels became desperatel, ag | enamomed of the latter, and it would seem that the ee and in his Meis probsbly told her so. not be known, but the saw no way patience, that lest Imay Suicides in Rome. The Roman correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin says: “The frequency of suicides among all classes ot society is very remarkable. No THE FALL AMUSEMENTS—OPERAS AND CONCERTS IN ABUNDANCE—OLARA MORRIS TO STAR IT— IRVING'S APPEARANCE, ETC. — Ford's wiil be closed next week. After that Charles E. Ford's comic opera company will ap- pear. — Mr. Jack will begin next week with “ Pall- staff,” at the National, on Monday eventag. His acting ts eald to be excellent. — The new Metropolitan opera house in New ‘ork will open October 22d, with Nelison in “Paust.” It seats more than the Paris opera house. — Mme. Minnie Hauk, supported by a talented company, will give a series of concerts in this h, its. An attractive from some one of the operas in which Mme. Hauk has acquired a world-wide reputation. She will visit Washington next month. — Mr. Maurice Grau’s French Opera company, with Mlle Marie Aimee and a chorus of sixty voices and a cer bo pe company, will be in Washington, at 's, on October 32d. — On October Ist there will ve twenty-four places of amusement open in New York city, including three new theaters. —Col. Mapleson, it is stated, has deposited the $50,000 necessary to secure Patt! ny, ee ‘ment, and the diva will at the New York Academy of Music Novem 9th. — The leading concert troupes of the season will be those of Miss ogy Miss Kellogg and Miss Hauk—ali Americans. Miss Kellogg begins her concert tour early next month. She will visit the southern cities and Texas, where she has never sung before. — Miss Maude Granger was so Ull recently that she had to dismiss a 8700 house in Denver. Her trip across the continent seems to have bene- fited her but little. — Miss Eva Sothern, althongh arriving in New York with her brother, will not be a mem- ber of his “Dundreary” company. She ts open for an engagement. — Henry Irving and his company will sail in the Britannia from Liverpool for the United States on Thursday, October 11th. The Ste- reoscopic poe aye d of London has just sent to New York thirty thousand sets of photographs of Mr. Irving as Mathiasin “The Bells.” There are twelve portraits in each set. Mr. Abbey brings ten thousand copies of a medallion of Mr. Irving in his ordinary dress. 5 — Miss Sara Jewett, who used to be a Wash- ingtonian, besides being a charming actress, is one of the most generous women in the pro- fession. When the Edgarcompany was stranded. in Chicago a benefit for the relief of the mem- bers was gotten up at Hooley’s. The result was that each received #40, Miss Jewett hand- ing over the total to be divided equally. She also paid the fares of several to New York. —Mr. Wyndham and his company have en- tered the country by way of Canada, and are playing at Rochester this week, rehearsing their pieces for the new fall season. ‘They were great javorites here a few months agé. — Charles Waverly, late a member of Joe Jef- ferson's company, and well remembered for hia capital impersonation of Sir Lucius 0 Tri; . “The Rivats,” and Derrick Von ‘Beckman it ‘Rip Van Winkle,” died in London last week— whither he had gone ona visit—of typhoid fever. He was a careful and conscientious actor, and his death creates the profoundest regret in the profession. — Up to this date, in New York, the bad pro- ductions, like “Vera,” have tailed flatly; the me- diocre productions, like “The Devil's Auction,” have hada mediocre reception; the really meri- torious productions, like “Excelsior” and “Fran- cesca da Rimini,” have drawn crowded housea, English papers say that hever betore have so many American organists and musical people visited England and Europe as in this summer, and that it is to be hoped their views will bave become enlarged and the prevailing leaning in America towards modern German music will be arrested thereby, — Music and Drama says that Mary Ander- son's phenomenal triumph at the London Ly- ceum is another help to Irving. since the papers attribute part of it to his kindly care. Of course he took care that an American actress should not fail at his theater on the eve of his d ture for America. that Goliath Young ladies should not forget effects of a on his fore- died from the head.—New York Commercial A A Texas owl mistook esieeping man's head fora chicken, and fastened its claws into his hair and —. “Well! what's the matter now, old woman?” said the assaiad, as he awoke.— Jersey City Journal. “Really, love, Thad a detentfal time at the ball last night.” “I should ynage so, darling; I heard you, three times, order the waiter to bring more Cherrapin and tampagne.”—Life. The fishing season is about over, and a man doesn’t feel it so much at this time of year it his wife trades off his fishing suit for a plaster cast of Robert Burns.—Boston Jost. The le of Dakota say they are proud of Bismarck, for whom their capital is named. Bismarck’ says he is proud of the people of Da- kota. Are the wrongs of the American hogs 80 quickly forgotten? A dignified silence should be the attitude of the Dakotans.—Boston Tran- script. Burdette wants us to obserre one thing about railway lunch counters: “The man who growls the most also eats the most, and the fellow who “ey about the indestructible sandwiches thinks isin hard luck if he doesn't get away with half a dozen before the gong strikes. By some means or other the New Orleans Pio- js geond has found out that when a man ts put out of office and wants to be let down easy, his sub- ordinates give him a €7 gold-headed cane, to receive which costs him @37 for wine. lt you want to experiment on the adhesive- ness er affection, endeavor to divorce a lazy boy from a warm bed on @ cold winter morning.— Breckenridge News. “No,” sald Mra. Shoddy, ‘I don't care so much because I never had any children; I never cap to take care of it when I go to the sea- shore. It's so stylish, you know.”—Boston One of the mysteries of human nature is that woman can wind her hair up like @ rope and stuff it in her mouth with a lot of hairpins, and still be able to utter distinctly more words in two minutes than a man can say ip a week. or short-hand reporter take down in three days.. Puck. i HF i 5 if ian ~ , ‘ , ,