Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1883, Page 2

cITY AND DISTRICT. BNEY ON GHEEK IN THE HIGH sCcHeOL. “When Greek Meets Greek,” &e. fo the Editor of Tae EVENING Stan: When a maa writes tor the public on any sud- Ject, his assumption is that he knows enough about it to instract others. I have read the reprimand given me by “J.C. G.K.,” in your number of Saturday last, apropos of my ima inary heresy about Greek. I have done eo with humility, oas ot never having had any use for that lanzuaze, which was carefully hammered into me for ten ¥; of my youth, and of having fi very much of it. But Treme history and liter- gus eharlatanry Fine words! from some sophomore r hat net a word of trath in isehylus fonsht at Maratiuon. im 490 LIVELY REVIEW OF THE SPAR- BROW QUESTION, Some Slightly “Sarkassuc” Bemarks. To the Editor of Tm EvEsine Sean: It might appear at first sight somewhat risky for an outsider to enter upon the sparrow ques- tion in your columns, for fear of his being ground between the upper and nether milk stones of “observing” advoeates of the bird and scientific objectors to him; but, perhaps, the presentation of a tew thoughts and the review of others may serve a useful purpose in keeping up the interest we are compelled to feel in the bird. But. before proceeding turther, it may be ap- propriate to acknowledye the unprejudiced and impartial information given by your correspond- ‘8, who generally hold the ‘scaies so evenly that we are likely soon to Know all about the sparrow. On two points at least our minds may rest easy: they are the relation that the English sparrow bears to the native American birds, and the relation he bears to the elm tree. A careful perusal of Tue EVENING STarhasconvinced us in nice to the former of these questions, that sparrow has not driven away our own because there are more of the latter in bout Washington now than there were 'Y years azo. 2. There aren» American isinand about Washington now, because they live in distant woods. 3. If we drive away the English sparrow from Washington we will also drive away the American birds. In the next place. about the elm tree. 1. Thanks to the sparrow our elms are as thriving and beau- tifulas any elms, even those of New Haven. BC. but he was uo zenerai. Let “K.” prove | 2. There is hardly a green leaf in whole rows of that commissi al Caiimacius is another | UF elm trees, because some wicked beetle per- myth of “K."s" ereation; the man of that name | sists in eating all the green off the leaves, in to whom “K.” alludes held for many years the | Spite of office of librarian at erable Alexandria, a pe man who would not-have shied his boot at @ sleep-disturbing cat: and, besides, he died in 240 B.C. two centuries and a precisely after Miitiades fount at Marathon. As to tho marvelous “creations in literaty v and Miltiades, nobody ever heard of them before “I.” published his article. I challenge him to name them, or to get a certiticate from Prof. Huntingdon, or any other good Greek scholar, that there ‘are, or ever b far as ‘is known, any such works. chus, although he wrote a great s adinired by some Roman poets, f his poetry has come down to u: + best works— his hymns—th: arned frigid.” “Poor stuff, probably. T have not read This by Arist they ai the whole of it. them, but accept what learned critics say. disposes of the two generals who wrote noth- ing: of the grand poet who was no general; and of the librarian who wasno general, a poor poet, and who died hundreds of years after the three men whom “ K.” makes his contemporaries! It would be discourteous in me to chars with “charlatanry he might think such a char:e the first step to sacrilege. And, indeed, I find no special fault with him for being super- * ficial, inaccurate and declamatory, as ne does not differ in those points from most gentlemen who wish to get up a reputation for learning by defending the study of languages of which few eople know enough to detect their mistakes. ut I think he might have been beiter bred; he puts into my mouth langzuaze used by a’ re- porter to compressa speech into a sentence, olds me responsible for it verbatim, coustrues it to mean an unreasonable thing when it would have borne a different “mean- ing, and, without turther ceremony, pro- eeeds to assail me by name in the columns of a daily paper, masking himself under initials. He disregards the commonest courtesies of con- trovers i trom him in epinio: properly in- structed, ie,” or “not of ordinary ini I hold no opinion a unwilling to defend, in proper time sainst any opponent who observes the rules of ordinary courtesy; but I deny the ight of any anonymous ind: into a controversy ities in a newspape sailing ime with person- I, therefore, decline to Rotice further the communication of * Allow words on the merits of the subject. ate of the Greek asa lan- isnot lower than that held a ersities. Its literature fur le. The study of it is useful tothe nd to some classes of literary men, and indispensable to the historian of ancient times or literature. But to 999 out of 1,000 of the American people it is not a uecessity: nor is Wt useful in comparison with the German, the Tancuace of millions of citizens; the French throuzhout the civilized world. or the Spanish, the iancuace of three-fourths of the inhabitants of New Mexico, aud of all Mexico. Central and uth America): -with one or two ex- ptions. “Nor fs ft useful in comparison h chemistry. physics, the natural sciences c! ‘ow out of the social, political and business necessities of the Ameri- can people. I know there are some Dryasdusts, whose experience of practical life has been limited within college walls, who believe Greek @ panacea for ail the ills of human ignorance. If a boy 1s to be an engineer, or machinist, or carpenter. or merchant, or department clerk, or lawyer. they think the best way to prepare him for his duties in after life is to give hima smattering of Greek. If a parent has the folly to take their opinions on faith and sends a bright lad to an vtd-fashioned college, and the Jad sticks faithfully to his Greek and Latin gtammars and dictionaries, he graduates a help- Hess mortal forall the real needs of American fe. The educational world no longer worships Greek as atetich. Our army and navy officers fet none of it at West Point or Annapolis. It is hot taucht at the Boston Institute of Tech- nology; or at the Stevens (Hoboken) Institute of Engineering; or at the Columbia College of Mines; the Sheffield Scientific School, or the Rensellaer Institute of Engineering. These in- stitutions ate men who are the peers in trained ability of any men in the nation. At Harvard, in the literary course. Greek is elective after the freshman year, and is not. re- quired for admission ‘into the agricultural, Jaw, medical, or scientific department. At Cornell, it is neither reqnirea for, nor Studied in, thirteen out of fourteen courses in the eolleze proper. and in the remaining : it is elective after the freshman year. At the ‘sity the rule differs little from ¢ Cornell, and at the Virginia uni ersity Greek is purely electige. At Johns Hopkins, iistands at the Me je American ‘erman and French may be offered & bya person who desires to If the student wishes to learn Kaiterwards he has an opportunity to do so under the s The ac School, by the intro practicable . . can be made to prepare ot matriculating at the* Johns Hopkins University. German and French could be taught well in the three years course, whiie of Greek, owing to the traditional bad methods of teach” ing, nothing but a smattering could be given. wtton, I believe, has ever ‘xamination at the Johns »pkins for matricniation. Our graduates from High Sehool ouxht to pass the German and examination, for they learn German ad- bly and might learn Freneh as well under a gout native teacher. Bnt this subject cannot be fully treated in one article. Yours, WILLIAM BIRNEY. The Police and the Policy Shops, ‘Fo the F litor of Tux Evextse Stan: As it seems utterly impossible for the police t damnable of all gambling -pe w me to seeuring the assistanc Til ourselves of this came, which is robbing the rey on no one. There is no which this form of gam- to wine out the m games Stak to Howor., Another Pole. VENING Stn: auty. for which great be comtaunity is very I at effort in that direc . €O One step fr e Electric Light company” a more object! le one of the mo: is shamefuliy di of one or two botel Keepers, simply y prefer elesiric ligt to any other. be wiped out between two daye, We need iim hereuow. Crvizex. dual to draw me | there was a reasonably good cur city would soon be rid of the tele- telephone pole nuisance that has so tthe huge poles planted on 15th hone poles, which t! been thoaght necessary for public prominent streets ured exciusicaiy in epkerd in control here sao’ aui- Vaera Liberty inarket-nouse.” THE POOR OVERWORKED SPARROW. But perhaps the most striking fact in the con- troversy has been that after sparrow stock had fallen considerably bel8w par, and had as down- ward a tendency as that of certain mines, some individuals have lately plucked up courage to defend the bird,—and such very faint praise as the condemn him with! One gentleman sup- poses that as the sparrow was introduced into Philadelphia to keep doWn the caterpillars, and as there are still trees and inhabitants in that city, therefore, the spatrow is of some service. | But perhaps the existence of treesin Philadel- | phia is due to the same canses as are at work | here in Washington, where men armed with the | proper implements of their office have made three rounds in come eight months,—first to clip off every pupa in sight, next to cut off the {twigs having perceptible nests on them. and last to lop off branches with their tens of thous- sands of half-grown caterpillars; and, Mr. Edi- tor, it ishigh time for another round of men, not sparrows, bezinning almost anywhere, say on N street, beyond 14th. “OBSERVING” THE SPARROW. Another of your correspondents has not per- ceived any scarcity of fruit or of American birds where he lives, and calls upon us to ‘observe the habits” of the sparrow before we condemn him. Now, what do “observations” show us? A medical gentleman writes from Philadelphia that caterpillars were n-ver morenumerous there than they are this year, and adds: “But they are a great deal better than the sparrows, as they don’t begin chattering at dawn.” From Pittsburg comes the news that the sparrows are | three times more dirty there than in Philadel- | phia, and are worse for house fronts than the | smoke. Professor Warren, of Pennsylvania, | Says he has “observed” the insides of sparrows,— amost excellent useto put them to, by the war, | and that out of five hundred which he dissected, | he round that hardly any had been insectiv- , orous, almost all having fed on grain. Mr. | Warren has done well, but we hope he will be Just and not stop at five hundred or at five hun- dred thousand, but persevere in his good work; perhaps in the course of a well spent life he will meet with a sparrow moved solely by “cater- piliary attraction,” and that fact should set | other observers to search the insides of other specimens for that rara avis, an insectiyorous sparrow. WHAT THE OLD ROMANS THOUGHT OF THE SPAR- Row. And this little bit of Latin reminds us of our school days. Didn't the old Romans call the bird ‘Passer domesticus?” Passer to denote him when a caterpillar comes along, for, whereas his admirers affect to believe him a little tramp, he invariably passes; and dom-esti-cus, a com- pound qualifying phrase, the cuss part of which is evident; esti, obsolete Latin for nasty, and dom, another cuss word, spelt nowadays, as I ain informed, with a. But we have a gleam of hope even from Philadelphia, that ‘criminal place (if it be true that sparrows were first in- | troduced there); a recent writer states that the caterpillars are driving the sparrows’ nests from their former nooks and corners, and we have noticed indications of that fact in Washington. A sparrow has recently forsaken the low and easily accessible back porch and ivy green, and has. betaken himself to the third story (so to speak) of a certain maple tree, which will ne- cessitate our going a fishing (as it were) from the roof of our house when the law sanctions his destruction. If any one had wished to stock his ivy-covered wall with caterpillars to drive out the sparrows, the writer could easily have spared the first kind of vermin last month, in almost any numbers and ot almost any kind— green, yellow, brown and black; smooth, rough, hairy and corrugated; ring-streaked, speckled and spotted—so little have the sparrows (almost the only birds he ever sees now) helped his gar- den—and thls caterpillar season has not been a very lively one, either. One of Phe correspondents states that he has “observed” sparrows chasing butterflies, and has actually seen them, caterpillar in beak. | Truth compels us unwillingly to confess that we {apparently saw both these phenomena, each upon one occasion, but the sparrow didn't tool us either time. We felt intuitively, on the first occasion, that the butterfly had, in passing, made some gesture which the pugnacious spar- Tow took as a challenge to fight; and in the second case we looked carefully tor the bird from which the sparrow could have taken the worm, and not seeing him, concluded of course, that it was not a worm. HOW HE BULL-DOZES THE DTHER BIRDS. But tie reckless apologists for sparrows deny that he drives away American birds. A Wash- ington writer declares that he has seen (he does not teil us how long ago) American birds in some of our parks, and a Sandy Spring gen- | tleman has “observed” wrens, crioles, robins, \ ete., and admonishes us (we would like to take his advice) to observe some also. Now, what are the facts? Even from “over in New Jersey” comes the wall that sparrows had entered a martin-box, killed the young birds, driven away old ones, (perhaps the most insectivorous birds we have). and taken possession of the box. In a garden on Capitol Hill (eee the same thing has happened elsewhere in Washington) a couple of wrens used to return every year to build in a box set up forthem, until a lazy spar- row, wanting the box, deliberately set himself to have a row with the wrens every time one went into or came out of the box;—being an Englishman the sparrow would perhaps say he was “only a chivvying of him.” Now the wrenis one of the most courazeous of birds (this pair was not inuch afraid of the ats), but they could not stand the constant annoyance. so they left us and are evidently the ones now seen at Sandy but, Mr. Editor, they won't stay there, the gentleman who observes the beau. ties of nature in that locality,lon enjoy his pres- eat abundance of fruit and grain; it has taken a perceptible time for the sparrows to reach that cut of t ‘ay place, but they harereached it,and it is a question of a very short time for them to overdo the Maryland ‘motto—to increase and multiply. They have already reached Utah, possibly by building nests or roosting about the freight cars, and, being born thieves, have actually swindled the poor railroad companies out of rides, and yet moralists warn us not to hurt them. A DROLL APOLOGY. One of the funny apologies lately made for the sparrow is that he is not dirty in his habits, but, on the contrary, clears the horse-car tracks that is, he isa scavenger, @ sort of short-legged secretary bird on the lookout for offal, a diamond edition of the tur- key buzzard, which it should be finable to mo- lest. Now, what does this benefactor do but p himself to a few insignificant grains (a fur- ‘er proof of bis graniverousness), and seatter the rest of the heap, so that the next shower will spread it over yards of pavement, and the following wind will’send the particles ‘into our houses and lungs? HOW HE ORNAMENTS A WINTRY LANDSCAPE. More than one recent writer has “observed” that the sparrow forms a feature in a wintry landscape. So he does, and we regret that in our house there was a standing order In former years to sprinkle unlimited crumbs on the snow for him tn bad weather (would they had been prasele-scid'zed!), but now we think the spar- row better become a wintry feature, say, at the north pele. It might be rough on the bears, but we bi treaty with thei. When we object te belng dawn, we are told by some of your correspond- emta, Mr. Editor, that we are indolent, and should thank the sparrow for awaking us. Cer- tainly he is a source of economy in the matter of alarm clocks, and we should be duly grateful to the birds if we were milkmen, newsboys, street-lamp extinguishers or policemen, but these are not the only avocations in the world. If the early bird would catch a worm we wouldn't complain. One writer avainst the sparrow has opened a wide field of thought in the suggestion that we should not have expected anything good from an English source; and it does seem that of all the blessings in impenetrable disgu!se which we have received from the step-mother country,— taxation without representation, the right of search, the denial of the right of search, Hes- sians, slavery, lectures against slave-holding, blockade runners, privateers, British neutrality, British free trade, the sparrow, Oscar Wilde, ete., etc.,—the most numerous of these is the sparrow, and if the American eagle would swoop from his pride of place and do to these last even as unto the rest, he would be attending to his duty. Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes,—| of the Britisher though he brings gifts. EVERY WAY A NUISA! We have only begun to find out what a nuisance the sparrow is; when he has worked out compound multiplication he will become much worse. Those who have passed through Oriental markets have often seen sparrows dart down uponthe baskets of grain on the counters, swallow two or three beak-falls, fly off with an- other and seek fertile shops and baskets new, before the shop-keeper could remove his pipe and call upon Allah or Buddha to curse them. When trees are not sufficiently numerous for roosting places at night they will enter public edifices; thus the chandeliers in the Alabaster Mosque, in Cairo, are alive with them at night, and their chirping at sunset is almost deafening, while to pass below them is to risk one’s gar— ments. Throughout the east it is quite usual for one or more sparrows to enter a church dur- ing service or a court in session, perch if the acoustic focus of the building, and treat the people to that well-known, hour-long chirp. It is true that a recent English writer asks, ‘What would we do in London without the sparrow?” But the question with us will soon be “What shall we do with him?” We are admonished to pause before destroying the English sparrow, as the other birds (!!) may become alarmed and_ leave us to the mercy of the caterpillars. Doleful fate! Will that solitary robin sometimes seen in Lafayette square,—will that pair of blackbirds occasionally heard inthe President's grounds,—will our two wrens, now temporarily at Sandy Spring, take unto them- selves extra evolved wings and seek some more secluded spot? Even so, we will never here- after be without birds, for we cannot destroy the sparrow; him we will always have with us ie the caterpillar), still, for every pair we lestroy there will be a thousand fewer in five years and a million fewer in ten, It is objected that setting a price on his head would be teaching our boys cruelty, and yet if the less harinful rat or snuke were to multiply we would probably urge the boys, to their ut- most, and flourish a stick or two ourselves, kind hearted as we all are. As to the amount to be paid, we might return to first principles, when two sparrows were sold for a farthing, and pos- sibly they will be found worth that rate, since the consoling news comes from more than one source that the birds are excellent eating; it is the firm belief of travelers that certain delicious small birds served up daily to foreigners in northern China are sparrows, for in midwinter, when that bird is the only one to be seen, the supply 1s contin- uous. So even those of us who are not prin- ters may be glad to see them reduced, four-and- twenty at a time, to pi; then, how pleasant. when the pie is opened, to tancy that they begin to sing the good old hymn, ‘We are passering away, we are pi ring away.” McK. ——es The Ortolan Question. To the Editor of Tur, Evesine Star: Tam glad to see that “W.F.R.” and Hugh M. Smith, esq., have In THe Star of Wednesday further agitated the ortolan question, because I should like the attention of the sporting fra- ternity drawn to the subject. If Dr. Coues con- tends that the railand ortolan are the same, then the District people have some authority for misapplying the word ortolan; but where does Dr. Coues get his authority? For it is not to be supposed that he ventures to make his own classification. As Mr. “S.” doubts the source of my information, and asks for it, Ishall presently eccommodate him. Wishing to make these remarks as brief as possible, I confine my- self closely to the point in question: Can the rail be called ortolan? Strictly speaking we have no ortolan. Our smalier American brother bears about the same resemblance to it that the English quail does to our partridge, or the Eaglish hare to our rab- bit. Butif the name must be used—and it seems so—then for heaven's sake let it be ap- plied to a land bird tat is nearly identical, and not to a waterfow! totally unlike It. “Audubon” does not consider the ortolan an American bird; neither does “Swainson.” “Wilson,” Gane 48.. vol. 2: Eurberza, Ory- azlvora, Le Ortolan de la Caroline. L Agripeum on L Ortolan. “This is the Bob O Link of eastern Pennsylvania and the northern states, and eee ace and feed Pane oe penaes vane Again, ‘Supposed by some equal to the famous Ortolan of Europe.” . Thus classing him with the rice bird, bat nowhere with the rail, which he describes. as “‘srtid, solitary snd shy.” **Wood,” page 481: Ortolan or (arden Bunting. “Jasper,” page 47: Th® Bob O Link or Rice bird is also known as the American Or- tolan. ‘“Gosse,” in his Birds of Jamaica, says: “Butter bird, Ortolan, Rice bird.” Applet@h’s American Enc.: ‘‘Ortolan, a Bunting.” Ameri- can Universal Enc.: *‘Ortolan, a species of Bunting.” Chambers’ Enc.: ‘Ortolan, a Bunt- ing, &c.” Zell's Enc.: “Ortolan, a Bunting.” Webster's Dic.: “Ortplan (Garden) a Singing bird; the Eurberza hortolana.” Worcenter's Dic., ander a wood cut of the Rice bird, it belongs to the family Fringillids (Finches. Here are a few of my authorities (I could give more), not one of whom mentions the Ortolan among the Rails (Rallus). He is in every case spoken of as a Bunting or Fringilla. I come now to the only exception to this rule. Mr. Smith and “W.F.R.” in selecting Dr. Coues for their sole authority are rather unfortunate, as that ornithologist not only contradicts all others, but contradicts himself. In several ot his works { find, Carolina Rail, Sora, “Ortolan,” ua tion marks not over Ortolan in his “Key to American Birds.”) In his general treatise, paze 55, “The name Ortolan applied by ware 55, he says: some to the Rice bird and by others to the Caro- lina Rail isa strange misnomer, the Ortolan being a fringitline bird of Europe.” ‘The Rice bunting is a genus of the family Frin- giilidae. Audubon shows the slight subdivision when he writes: “The buntings scarcely differ from the finches in any other character than the knob on the palate.” Dr. Coues should not think it ea ot that some peoplecali the rice bird Ortolan, it it is passing strange for an ornithologist, who furnishes texts books for schools and taxidermists, to call a rail a fiech. Mr. H. M. Smith also says: The name of Prof. Baird is cited as the authority for the technical name given as belonging to the ortolan, and this name, Dr. Coues adds, is adopted by all United States writers, Mr. S. should not quote from a scientific work unless he knows how to read it. In this instance he does injury to Prot. B. and all late United States writers. Dr. Coues, in writing upon the rail, gives below the names of writers or works he has consulted as refer- ences to the reader, among them Prof. B. and C., &c. None of them may have mentioned the ortolan ee [have read many of them that do not). and yet Mr. Smith makes it appear as if Dr. Coues cites Prof. B. and ail late United States writers, &c.. as authorities for this name. September 14, 1883. ‘To the Editor of Tue Eventna Star: In your article of 12th instant, under the heading of “Our Old Defenders,” the statement is made that Mr. John D. Clark, of this city, was the commanding officer of the military or- ganization known as the Mechanical Riflemen, of Georgetown, at the reception given to Gen. Lafayette by the District authorities in 1824,and that he was complimented on that occasion by Gen. Lafayette on the drill and soldierl bear- ing of his men. It is due to the truth of istory to say that the statement is incorrect. My father, the late William Jewell, was largely in. strumental in organizing that company; was its first captain, and was in command at the time of Lafayette’s visit to Washington. These are facts with which I am well sonia. having been ae on the occasion of the entrance of that distinguished individual into the city. Mr, George W. Haller, another citizen of George- town at that time, and amember of the coin- Peny, was the immediate succeasor of my father ie tl vie (horns ane Robert Mumby, who, with is wife, (both cor erably over ninety years of age) 1s'now residing in ‘Brooklyn, Now York, was also a member of the company, probably, besides Mr. Clark, the only liv! Tewentative of that volunteer military organiza- tlon of sixty years ago. Mr. Mumby can cer- reborate my statement. If tl compliment above referred to, which I have a distingt recel- jection of page 0 heard frequeat meation of at the time, but always doubted, a. to aay ae, my father was. he recipient ot “Honor honor is due, 14, 183. Taos Jawan, and is, ing rep- | shall “THE SWITZERI.AND OF AMER- aca” Why People Lihger There—The Moun- tain Region in Autumn Correspondence of Tag Evawme San. Goanam, N. H., Sept. 17, 1888. A delightfal drive of twenty-five miles, from Bethel to Bridgton, Maine, behind Postmaster Barker's Jet biack span of thoroughbreds, gave us two days’ tare enjoyment in that charming Tegion, visiting friepds, fishing for bass in High- land lake, etc., etc., At the latter place we also had a good view of the White mountain peaks, which on Monday were gilded with snow. Mount Keardarge and Pleasant mountain also rear their lofty heads in the immediate vicinity, on the pinnacle of each being a ind hotel for summer tourists and boarders. ‘idgton is the terminus of the “Bridgton and Saco river rail- road,” the only first-class two feet gauge railroad in the world, which is quite a novelty, unique, and modern in all of its equip- ments. From the junction of this baby railroad is a pleasant route to any of the White moun- tain hotels, by the “Portland and Ogdensburg railroad,” through the celebrated Crawford Notch, The Grand Trnnk railroad is the parent line of White mountain travel, bringing passen- gers via Gorham long before any other railroad approached it, and isstill quite available, akind of key or portal to the northern slopes of these gigantic monuments of the power of the Almigh- ty, but a hundred other different roads and lines, with equal racilities for comtort and economy, now invite and carry their loads of human freight up thither from every part of the com- pass. Gorhani-has many attractions as a stop- ping place on this great highway peculiarto it- self, and on account of its beauty of locality and picturesqueness of surroundings is eager! sought after by invalids in pursult of healt and recreation, whose faces are set White nriountainward, and not untrequently they tarry longer at this threshold than they do on the summits of their aspirations. It seems ex- traordinary and amazing as the years roll swiftly on, how the travel to this “Switzerland of America” increases. Thousands of thous- ands in every sphere of life, from every clime and gone, increasing In numbers with each succeeding year, come flocking to these everlasting hills, each vieing with his neighbor for the possession of the spot that commands the most picturesque and extensive views, or affords the most exhilarating sensations. Per- haps this may be practically due to the in- creased facilities of travel and to the superior hotel and boarding house accommodations now afforded the masses at rates suited to the capacities of the wallets of all, there be- ing now some three hundred first and second class hotels and boarding places which dot the mountain sides, speck the intervening vales and invite the weary pilgrims in; but the great and overpowering cause of such increased and con- stantly ivcreasing visitations and pilgrimages here 13 owing to the invigorating efficacy of the pure and bracing atmosphere which pervades these lofty-peaked summits, infusing new life to the wearied workers in the spheres of commerce and of letters, as well as to the habitues and pale denizens of the crowded cities. The fashionable season may be said to have closed, but the season of real enjoyment on the moun- tains and vicinity is by no means at an end. To those who are really and permanently benefited the latter half of September and the first of October is extremely pleasant and beneficial. ‘The nights are cool and the mornings chilly, but the sun warms everything into life at a very early hour in the day. Later on as the rounded slopes of the mountains are cevered with the glory of autumn leaves, it seems a pity the city cannot be moved within sight of them or that they cannot be brought to the cities. AK. og of Shakespeare, John Bunyan and Abraham Lincein. To the Rditor af Tur EvENINe Star: While agreeing in the main with “J.C. G K.,” touching his “Good Word for the Greek,” &c., and heartily commending it as a word fitly and timely spoken, I yet am often puzzied toac- count for—ahd I respectfally ask Mr. K. to ac- count for—the acknowledged and transcendent ability “to write the English languaze with elegance and accuracy” manifested by Mr. Lin- coin. John Bunyan, Shakespeare and others. Wasit, however true that, m reality, Shakes- peare knew but “little Latin, and less Greek?” Was the admirable diction that so captivated that master of style, Macaulay. as to compel his famous unstinted eulogy of Bunyan’s “Pilgrims Progress,” simply evolved from Bunyan’s own inner consciousness of what was pure, and strong and elegant?—had he really no “education?” And was Mr. Lincoln not, indeed, indebted at all to “Latin and.Gresk” for his chaste and beauti+ ful, perfect utterance at Gettysburg? Lastly, whence was the style of the Greeks themselves derived? Who taught Job his lofty, incompar- able eloquence, before whose exquisite purity, strength and mighty power Homer, Virgil, 4schylus, Plato and all others “pale their in- .effectual fires,” grand and noble as they are? Inspired, you may say. True, I reply,—certainly as to subject and object. But this whole ques- tion always puzzles me, and gives me much food for thought. Respectfaliy, TH, ‘The Mertgage. We worked through Ley 8 and Winter, Summer and through Fall, But the mortgage worked the hardest and th ‘of them all; steadiest 3 It worked oo nights and Sundays, it worked each iiday; It settled down among us and it never went away. years we kept f10m ft seemed almost as bad as theft; : The rust and blight were with us sometimes, and sometimes not; The dark-browed, scowling mortgage was forever on the spot. ‘Tne weevil andthe cutworm they went as well as came; The mortgage stayed forever, eating hearty all the same. It mull up every window, stood guard at every loor, And happiness and sunshine made thelr home with us no more; Till with failing crops'and sickness we got stalled ‘upon the grade. And there came a dark day on us when the inter - est wasn’t paid, And there came a sharp foreclosure, and I kind 0” lost my hold, : And grew weary'and discouraged, and the farm was cheaply sold. The children lett and scattered, when they hardly yet were grown; My wife she pined and perished, an’ I found myself alone. What she died of was “a mystery,” an’ the doctors never knew; Butt know she died of mortgage—Just as well as wante.l to. If to trace a hidden sorrow were within the doc- rs art tor’s art, ‘They’d hw’ found a mortgage lying on that woman’s broken heart Worm or beetie, drought or tempest, on a farmer’s land may fall, But for first-class rutnation, trust a mortgage *gainst them all. —WILL M. CaRreron, tn Philadelphia Press. —__--. ___ through © Corn Crop. ‘From the Chicago Inter-Ocean of September 13, A representative of The Inter-Ocean yesterday sought out the best-posted man on the corn question in Chicago, in the person of Mr. 8. W. Allerton, and asked him for an estimate of the damage done to the corncrop by the recent frosts. Mr. Allerton said: “I have just seen some samples of corn from ont on the line of the Illinois Central in Iowa. They came from the so-called -*frost-bitten” section. I never saw better corn in my life for this time of year. Now we raised last year 1,700,000,000 bushels of corn, and of that crop Minnesota raised 134 per cent; Michigan 1¢ per cent; Wisconsin, 2 per cent; Iowa, 11 per cent; INmois, 11 per cent; Missouri, 11 per cent; Kansas, 11 per cent; Nebraska. 434 percent: Ohio, 4'¢ per cent, an Indiana, 5 per cent. The southern and eastern states 1 won’t mention. Well, the frightened fellows will admit that the great damage they talk about has been in Minnesota, Northern Towa, Wisconsin,- Michigan, and possibly in Northern Illinois. Now, for the sake of argu- ment, we will admit this damage, and in this year's estimate:of the crop will throw out all of Minnesota’s crop. all of Michigan’s, all of Wis- consin’s, and one-half of Iowa. Now take your Pencil and see what percentage is lost.” ‘The reporter brushed up his arithmetic, added ‘up the cast-off states, and announced a tatal loss of 1044 per cent. “Now,” contiaued Mr. Allerton, ‘we shall show in the other corn-producing atates,to offset this loss, a gain of 8 per cent in Kansas over last year’s crop, 3 per cent in Nebraska, 5 per cent in Illinois, and 3 per cent in M! ‘That makes a 14 per cent increase, don’t it?” The sepa nodded assent, and mentally concluded to unload his long corn. “You don’t think,” said Mr. Allerton, ‘that frost can destroy more corn than is raised in the frost-bitten states, do you? Well, if it took every stalk this year, there is going to be much more than enough elsewhere to make it up. I see no mate of this raise a 080,000,000 Tho Bridgeport Standard is disturbed by what it fancies it sees in the south—nawely, “a tendenoy to Telnilate a collapsed stuek-np- ance.’ The Bufialo Baprees anys that a weil-kaows Tesident ef Sth avenue has his neigaber $5,000 not to lease GREELY AND GIS PARTY. ‘The Crew Now Lecked Fast in = Prison ef Ice. ccording to special order No. 97, dated Washington, June 17, 1881, by direction of the Secretary of War, the following named officers and enlisted men were assigned to duty as the expeditionary force to Lady Franklin bay, and constitute the members of the Arctic colony: First Lieutenant A. W. Greely, fifth cavalry, acting signal officer and assistant; Second Lieu- tenant Frederick F. Kislingbury, eleventh in- fantry, acting signal officer; Second Lieutenant James B. Lockwood, twenty-third infantry, act- ing signal officer; Sergeant Edward Israel, signal corps, United States Army: Sergeant Winfield 8. Jewell, algnal corps, United States Army; Ser- ni geal ~ Riee, signal corps, United States Army: Sergeant David C. Ralston, ae col nited States ; Sergeant Hampden 8. Gardiner, slgnal corpa’ United. States Army; Sergeant William H. Cross, it A eneral service, United States Army; wid L. Brain- ard, company L, second cassie Sergeant David Linn, company C, second cavairy; Corporal Paul Grimm, company H. eleventh infantry; Corporal Nicholas Salor, company H. second Lovage! ests ral Joseph Elison, company E, tenth ini 4 Private Charles B. Henry, company B, fifth cay- alry; Private Maurice Connell, company B, third cavalry; Private Jacob Bender, company F. ninth infantry; Private Francis Long, company F, ninth infantry; Private William Whistler, company F, ninth infantry; Private Henry Bierd- erbick, company G, seventeenth infantry; Pri- vate Julius Fredericks, company L, second cav- alry; Private William A. Ellis, company C, second cavalry. CONCERNING THE LEADER. A Newburyport dispatch inthe Boston yournal says: The intelligence relating to the Lieut. Greely Arctic expedition creates the most in- tense feeling here, this being the native place of Lieut. Greely. His mother is at present at Jackson, N.H. His brother, John A. Greely, ‘was called upon bythe Journal representative this evening and from him the following par- ticulars are obtained: Lieut. A. W. Greely was born inthis city March 27, 1844, and entered the nineteenth Massachusetts regiment in August, 1861. He served throughout the entire war in the infantry, cavalry and artillery service, being engaged in twenty battles and wounded at White Oak Swamp, Antietam and Fredericks- burg. He was in New Orleans under Gen. New- man and at the close of the war he was ap- pointed a cadet from Louisiana by Gen. Grant, and entered the sixth United States caval! serving on the southern frontier, and afterwat was attached to the Signal Service and built the telegraph lines fifteen hundred miles in extent through the state of Texas. In 1881 he was ap- pointed to take charge of the Signal service ex- pedition. His last visit was made here May 30, 1881, and the last intelligence from him was dated August 18, 1881, latitude 81.44 north, longitude 64.55 west. written in good health and spirits. He had killed enough musk-oxen to last his men for three months. His brother | thinks he will make his way during the season to some of the caches which have been pro- visioned for his relief. While he is in a condi- tion to reach supplies, the failure of the reliet expedition of 1882 to reach Lieutenant Greely Was a great disappointment, and it was made a special request that the Proteus, Captain Pike, who took the party up in 1881, should be sent this year, and the disaster to the Proteus is re- garded as very serious for the welfare of the brave men they were hoping to relieve. Lieutenant Greely married, in San Diego,Cal., Miss Henrietta Nesmith. She is now on her Wy to Washington, with her two daughters, to réceive intelligence from the expeditions sent ny this government for the relief of her hus- and. Mabone and the Clerks. From the New York Times. Has Senator Manone violated the civil service law by directly or indirectly soliciting an assess- ment, subscription, or contribution “for any political purpose whatever” from an employe of the United States? Let us look once more at the facts. Before that law was enacted it was notorious that he was continually showing his contempt for the principles of civil service re- form which are embodied and supported in it by endeavoring to fill every federal office in Vir- ginia with his political Neutenants and “workers.” He passed from one department to another, trying to thrust faithful men out of office in order that there might be more placea for him to fill. His political assessments were laid and collected in a tyrannical and shameless way. The men who paid these taxes are still in the government service, but some of them have recently failed to hand in their ‘voluntary contributions,” knowing that the new law was enacted not only to purify and elevate the civil service by changing the method of making ap- pointments, but also to protect them from the attacks of political highwaymen. These clerks have received the following circular: +_EAR Sma: I amp sorry to learn that you take no tn- rest 11 irgin: » compozed ington holding places in ni Tih objecta aft sseocistiou ae Benue cas Sestieetauis erhre goa eee recognition. I understand your attendance has been frequently and reepectfully requested. but that you eve failed of puMictent interest fo put in an appearance rhage Winrase Maxoxe. The published assertion that this was sent to them by Senator Mahone himself has not been contradicted, and the president of the Virginia Campaign Association, John L. Sebrell, and the secretary, T. Brame, both said to be clerks in the Pension office, have informed the delin- quent Virginians that, in accordance with resolution adopted by the association, they are “summoned to appear and show cause why they should not be summarily dealt with for non-payment of dues.” Senator Mahone and his association want rene ‘‘dnés,” and it is plain that they have un- ettaken'to intimidate the clerks in this inge- nious way. The powerful Senator tells them that they have incurred his displeasure, and the association’s officers show how they can regain his favor. What is this but an attempt to evade the law that torbids the collection of political assessmeuts? If Senator Mahone is the author of the circularto which his name is signed, he has clearly exposed himself to prosecution un- der the civil service act, which provides that no Senator shall ‘‘directly or indirectly solicit or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soli- citing or eri | any assessment, subscription or contribution for any political purpose what- ever, from any employe of the United States.” It is true that he does not mention the ‘“dnes” in his circular, but the full meaning of that communication is interpreted in the warning issued by the association, and as the Senator positively says that the association’s object is to promote the success of the readjuster party, the dues in question are admitted to be an assess- ment “for a political purpose.” It seems to us that this is a case thatdemands the prompt attention of the Attorney General or some of his representatives. Let us have no more of this contemptible plundering of gov- ernment clerks, either “directly or indirectly.” The law is specific and comprehensive. and the penalty is “a fine not exceeding €5,000, or im- prisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or such fine and imprisonment both, in the discretion of the court.” pombe eee OS , The Early Stages of Human Develop- ment. From ‘How the Earth was People oa iy G+ De M. de Mortillet has occupied himself with this progress, and, persuaded that existing mankind is only a resultant, and the last term of a series of successive transformations, distinguishes be- tween several men, as tertiary man, quaternary man, existing man. The man of the ancient quaternary, the Neanderthal, the Denise, and the Canstadt man; appear to him so different from the historical type, that not ‘only does he separate them from it. but he creates for the times anterior to the quaternary a human or apo goes category of a particular order. ‘here were, in his view, “ rs of man,” to which he applies the significant it or “man-monkey,” name of ithecus, they preceded man in the he believes scale of beings, and constituted an intermediate type between the living anthropomorphic apes and man. We should then have to deal with a creature high enough above the gorilla and the chun to know how to cut filnts and use fire, low enough not to be able to rise above that industrial grade and become areal man; or with a race standing to the Bushman and Tas- manian as they seem to stand to us. Theology does ngt absolutely repel this view, for it dis- cusses the le notes of Se orthodox priest, while he is known to be a keen o ON is against an impartial ex- am! of nm. Only the o! maay be offered to his views that no one hasever seen an ant Ithecus, the structure and have been worked ent GaTH IN NEWPORE A Chapter on Carts, Jaunty Nurse Girls and Pole Playing. Correspondence of Cincinnati Enquirer. The Newport high toned people seem tospend their days driving wagons which no respectable man brought up to the light American wagon would be seen conducting. You will observe someyoung fellow witha high two-wheeled cart , which seems to be lifting the horse off his front legs most of the time, desperately endeavoring to drive his lady up Bellevue avenue, and a little flunky, overdressed in buckskins and yellow cloths, will be solemnly sticking on behind, all of them looking as if there were invisible nooses around their necks and they were presently go- ing to be swung up ke Major Andre when the cart is pulled away from under them. Those who do not have high carts ride in what to be varnished i boxes, sa low to the ground, and likewise two wheeled. These things they call cottage carts, and you can see two women trying to Londonize it with alltheir might, timorously going behind some little mare or pony and aping the motions of bayinga carrot or half a at some of the small stores in the town. Now and then you see a woman endeavoring to drive a pair of horses and the agony on her countenance is wonderful to behold. She has been told that all highbred women graduate by driving a pair, and you can see the grooms and others come out to near the edge of the little lanes as madam turns into the great avenue, to watch her off, and she, with that corpselike countenance I have mentioned, made somewhat more pallid by human fear,pro- ceeds a scrt of zig zag down the avenue, the horses themselves somewhat awed by wondering what they have got behind them and why tt iq, 80. Undoubtedly theair at Newport is as fine ‘as one can get it at the seaside in this country, but even lambent and genial air, with no social- bility in it, soon becomes foreign air, and everybody that breathes it seems to be in exile in hts own country. That the vices do not de- from Newport because of the extent of the style there is evidenced in the evenings, when, by pairs, you will find what look to be the nurse maids of these exclusive families stealing through the town on a sly street walk resolved even at the expense of virtue to break through the yoke of affectation which weighs on them all day. I went to see the game of polo played atthe Newport grounds, and with a friend leaped into an omnibus and rode to within a quarter of a mile or 80 of the place, and, seeing most of the people turning into apiece of woods, we followed them, imagining that it was the way to the gate where we should pay our entrance tee. But we suddenly found our- selves emerging upon a high platform of rocks quite outside of the polo plain, and yet affording a much better view of the game than anybody could. possibly have in the burning sun around the track, roasting there under parasols and watching what is nothing more than the old game of shiuny or bandy, played from the back ofa horse. Where the publicans stood to look on there was some shtde and green grass, and perhaps four hun- dred persons were there assembled, mainly of a very respectable character. and the majority Jadies and little girls. It is so rocky around Newport that to get a flat plain fit for a game of this kind one mast submit to be overlooked, and hence the tee of $Lat the gate is seldom paid, and Newport which has any turther inter- est in polo walks up onthe rocks and looks quietly, like little boys who crawl under the cir- cus tent or see the horse race from the top of a tree. Some of your readers have never seen polo played. It is a tame affair, though no doubt it requires both horsemanship ‘and horses. The game had hardly begun when one young fellow went off his horse like a shot, and the first human sound that I seemed to have heard in Newport was that of pity from constrained spectators. He had attempted to ride up sidewise on the ball and his saddle turned with him. The horses must, it seems to me, be- come sprung and worthless after they are used a while for this game. There are six or eight players, one-half on each side, wearing tight- fitting suits of different colored stripes. They ride out to the middle of the field, which is perhaps an eigith of a mile long, and then a boy who keeps the count at a guillotine on one side throws the ball, and the red striped fellows t to drive it up one way and the blue striped fel- lows the other way, and to make a run the ball must pass between wickets not very fat apart. Hence the horses, after a good shot has been given, are put to the gallop to catch the ball, and then are stopped short, and they are con- stantly going up with speed, to be arrested in mid-course, and a large proportion of the biows intended for the ball fall on the poor animal's legs. The horses are therefore tied about the legs with flannels, and now and then, when the long-armed rake misses the ball. it gives the horse a tremendous whack, which can be heard to the outermost bounds. In this sort of exer- cise it is almost impossible to show any pictu- resque riding. The players at times are all to- gether, and, as they must look out not to break each other's heads, there are pauses in the game while they are trying to rake the ball out so as to give it the proper shot. After seeing the movement made a few times the performance gtows very monotonous. ———-+-_____ A BIVAL TO MAUD 8, Jay-Eye-See Trots a Mile in 2:10 3-4—A " Wonderfal Performance. A telegram to the New York Sun from Prov- idence, B. I., last Saturday, gives the following account of the wonderful trotting of Jay-Eye- See heretofore mentioned in Tus Star:—The gelding Jay-Eye-See made a record on the Nar- Tagansett park track to-day that throws a shadow on the best work of St. Julien, Trinket, Clingstone and Edwin Thorne, and belittles the extraordinary best time by Maud 8. Five thou- sand persons witnessed the great performance, the occasion that drew them to the park being the grand circuit trotting meeting. After the usual trotting and pacing matches, Jay-Eye-See was brought out to make an effort to beat his own best record of 2:14 for a purse of $2 000. He was in fine trim, and his appearance pro- yoked loud applause.’ His driver sent him once around the track to warm him up and put him in condition forthe ordeal before him. Hisspeed Increased perceptibly after he passed the half- mile post, but his time for the mile was only 2:20. He was in excellent form when he got the word “Go” the second time, and leaped forward on what was to prove the fastest mile ever trotted In New England. and the most re- markable feat by a five-year-old in the nistory of the turf. He shot along without appearing to exert himself, passing the first quarter in 34 seconds, and leaping on, without a flaw or break in his motion, to the half, which he left behind him in 1:06}g. Then again it seemed to the spectators, and the record afterward proved it to be the case, that the marvelous animal put forth new energy and added strength and swiftness to his pace as he shot along the track, passing te third quarter in 1:39, and making the finish in 2:103{. There had not been a skip or a break in his gait from first to last. and, moreover, when he came to a standstill after shooting under the wire, he exhil not the least indication that the feat had strained his muscles or overtaxed his lungs. The spectators yelled themselves hoarse. The cheering had bezun when the half mile was made, and it grew louder and louder as the oe skimmed a ies home-streteh until when he passed under the wire the specta- tors had risen to their feet and mounted the seats In the excess of their enthusiasm. Jay-Eye-See is a black gelding, and was named by spelling the initials of his owner, Mr. J. 1. , of Racine, Wis. His sire was Dictator. He opened. this, his second, season at the Gentlemen's Driving Park in New York as a five-year-old, and there beat the crack five- year-olds, Phil Thompson, Lucy Gernent and Bronze. His fastest time was 2:193{, but in Albany he scored 2:1534, then the greatest per- formance by a five-year-old ever known. He improved upon this “with a mile in 2:141Y, and finally with one in 2:14—the wondrous record that ne succeeded in beating to-day. His per- formance of this afternoon is considered the Most remarkable in the annals of the turf. be- and shortly after city editor. His dashing, poignant style of writing made a decided hit, which so encouraged him that in 1843, with ® capital of 7.50 cash and courage and confidence, he started the Daily Knickerdooker as @ penny paper. It was on the 3 of September, the day on which he received his fatal accident, that the first number was issued, and it proved a decided success fromthe start. Friends loaned him @ press and type, and he did mach of the work in all departments himself. He was enter- prising and venturesome in ring the latest news, and was the first editer to make extensive use of the telegraph service for that purpose. The occasion was the secur- ing of the President’: message, which was looked forward to with anxiety. asthe country was then at war with Mexico. The Jowrnal and Argus refused to admit him into their arrange- ment of chartering a steamer to bring the mes- sage up from New York, and he sent a dispatch to Theodore Faxton at Utica, president of the company, asking if he could have the message sent by telegraph. The latter thought it could not be done, but agreed to make the trial for $100. The trial was successful, and the carriers were crying out, “Knickerbocker—Presideat’s Message.” before the chartered steamer had ar- Tived. The Knickerbocker thrived, and its cir- culation was soon far above that of ‘any other paper jn the city. Mr. Hastings was a born politician, and the Political hot-bed at Albany gave full scope to his redilections. Even before he was a voter he became ideutified with the whig party as one of its strongest advocates. He was an early frend of General. Taylor, and when the latter became President he accepted the position of collector of the port of Albany, which he held until the General's death, when his opposition to Fillmore induced him to throw it up. He allied himself with Weed and Seward, and was for over twenty-five years one of the former's trastiest lieutenants. He thus became a violent led whig,” and as a delegate to al whig convention in 1853, he yoted on every ballot tor General Scott. In 184 was made clerk of the state senate, the last whig incumbent of the office. He took an active part in organizing the republican party and was | prominent in all of its conven- tions, state and national, from the first, as he had been in the whig conventions before His hand could be seen, too, in the organization of almost every legislature and the election of almost every United States Senator from New York since 1848. He was'a warm friend of Henry J, Raymond, whom he hetped to elect speaker of the house and greatly aided im nominating for lieutenant governor. He came to New York in 1867 and purchased a controlling interest in the Commercial Adver= tiser, which he built up from a colorless sheet to @ recognized aud representative party organ. He was a member of the Catholic church, but ‘unostentatious in his religiou as he was in his charities, which were many. About a week be- fore he died he sent for key. T. L. Ducey of St. Leo's church and said to him: “I wish to be reconciled to my God through my church. I regret I have been so poor @ Catholic, but I have nevertor an instant doubted the teaching of the church.” ——_——re2__ Changing Colors of Flowers by Calhtivation. Angust Vogel, in Popular Science Monthly for October, Our knowledge of the chemistry of vegetable Pigments is not yet sufficiently advanced, for which reason the effect of artificial influence upon the color tone of flowers tras not yet re- ceived its merited attention. According to my view, tannin is an important factor in the generation of vegetable colors; it is found in almost every plant. the petals not excepted, and by the action of the most varying reagents— alkalies, earths, metallic salts, etc..—it assumes: the most manifold hues, from pale rose to deep black A darker color, therefore, is produced in flowers rich in tannin, when manured with iron-salts, since, as everybody knows, tanninand iron-saits dye black, and produce ink. A prac- tical use has been made of this fact in the raixing of hortensias and dahlias. The tormer, which in ordinary soil blossomed me sky- blue when trarisplanted: into “soit heavily ma- nured with iron ochre, or when occasionally: watered with a dilute alum solution. English gardeners succeeded in growing black dahlias by similar manipulations. It is well known to every florist that a change of location, thatis, a change of light, temperature, and soil, (replanting), oc- casionally produces new colors, whence itmay be deduced that an interrapted putrition of the flower nga, bagel circuinstances,effect a cha: ofcolor. We see no valid reason why the well- authenticated fact of the change of ‘color produced by manuring with: iron oxide.thereby changing the nutrition of the plant, should not be practical employed by the hot-house gardener. : and successful , in pro- very experiment, ducing a of color in @'bird, has recentl: been Sinks: a tosea at eoaery birds conoeiven the idea of teeding a yo bird with a mixture of steeped bread and finely pulverized red cay- , uring the bird, the Pigment of the spice into the blood, and dyed its plumage red. The celebrated or- nithologist Russ believes that the color of the plumage of birds might be altered to desire, by using appropriate reagents. ee Lost Little Girls from Germany. From the New York World, 17th. Among the steerage passengers on the steamet Britannic, which arrived yesterday from Liver- pool, were two little girls named Katrina and Sophia Schmidt,aged six and nine years, respec- tively. They attracted much attention from the passengers for the bravery they exhibited during heavy weather, No one thought to ask them whither they were going until upon their arrival at Castle Garden. Sophia, the oldest, said her father lived somewhere in America, as he had emigrated from Germany about three months ago. leaving his family to follow him. Mrs ScHmidt was unable to accompany the children, being ill, but as many little ones had made the long voyage safely, she concluded to send them to their father, as she found much difficuity in supporting them. Through some unknown mistake Mrs. Schmidt gave her children a blank piece of paper instead of that having the address their father. She had caretully stowed it away in a little purse which was sewed inside of Sophia's dress. Both cause while Maud 8. covered a mile in 2:103. it 1s to be remembered that she is older, stronger, and not only had had the experience of three seasons, but enjoyed the advantage of a better working necessary to produce the ‘best results working ni ace resi and place “tin the Mame rank. with that in Rochester, though It is a very fast track as it is, and would, if kept up, have no superior along the circuit. —______-»-____ Instantaneous Photographs of Game. From the Londen Grayhie. Instantgneons photography is reproducing the animal world of the Bavarian Highlands to the photographer puts up his camera at some place ‘the ited and eonnects it with an clectio ba rade: some distance away. He then posts himself by the a pe, and directiy he communicates with the eamera, ee drops the Tas « = children are tntellizent looking, and are neatly dressed. They cannot tell their tather's christian naine, and as the name of “Schmidt” is not un- common, the authorities have no means of as- certaining who this particular Schmidt is, The — ones will probably be returned to their mes, ——_—_—_-e-_____ Wednesday Whatnow. “I want to know why the duce you persist in playing poker?” an oid gentleman asked his son. “Because,” replied the young man. “the fellers keep on a-thinking that they can beat me.” “Why should that make you want to play?” “Because they keep on beating me.” “Allright, go ahead then. As long as aman loses there is some hope for him, but when he begins to win he's gone."—Arkansaw Travelier, Two current rows: “Yes,” sald Mr. Gone- worth, “it's a strong resemblance. Why. £ thought I was readinz about France and Chiag oe it was the Slade-Mitchell attair.”—Boston Post. A forgetful set of people: “Yes,” says Mra. Parvenu, “we bad areal nice time at Rich- field and Sharon. When we left I gave my card to lots of people on the piazza, but most of them forgot to give me theirs.”"—New York Maii and Express. The moral side ot It: “And fo, Miss Puller, you think Miss Johnson did wrong to goon the stage in tights?” “Indeed I do. Why her limbs are as thin as p!pe-stems.”—Boston Post. “Ef all de members ob de congregashun will fess Keep quiet for one minit, Pi, mighty soon able to pint out de black sheep what am makin’ sich a racket,” remarked Rev. Whi doodle Baxter, last Sunday, at the Austin Blue Light Tabernacle, and a silence like unto that mentioned in Revelations came over worshipers for the space of half a minute.— Texas Siftings. “T think it ls a heathenish custom to ring the church belison Sunday morning,” said Crim- Sonbeak to a friend the otter pig had Sunday morning, while on enrwion boat, it was all T ooald do to hear the whistle on account of the unearthly din made by those church bells!” Crimsonbeak's friend has not got through thinking yet.—Yonker's Statesman. Bis, of Jonn Brown the cilnco Funes tinaiy ulore Ponnyeon tesa tinase ‘At a lictie Shave green “over Brows For nts "ga dres@ful loss To une oss ‘Ot the Gro wa.