Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1883, Page 2

ot EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, SEPT EMBER 22, *8883—DOUBLE SHEET. CITY AND DISTRICT. HERDICS AND BANSONS. Additions to be Made to the City Trans- Portation Lines—A New Line of Here dic Phtons—A Washington Man’s Enterprise with Hansom Cabs, &c. The city will be better provided with means of cheap transportation this winter than ever b The means of traasportation Increase, both in anmber and variety, with the growth of the population, and in the sharp competition governed by the remorseless law of “the sur- Vival of the fittest,” the weaker competitors will be annihilated. hackman, who a tew years a good living, and had so little com- tition that t to indulge his propen- exorbitant rates, now fi his eupation The berdie and with cheap and i thecity. The hackman is still in tie fel he has a very smaii part of the field. While the old established street railway lines give con- stant evidences of increasing traffic. the new line of herdic phx of prosperity. The centiy at 10th and substantial token of te intention of the herdics to siay. The suceem of the line on lennsyl- | Vania avenue, which has come into competition | with the Washington and Georzetown road, has | induced the managers to establish A NEW LINE, wil! compete in part with the Metropoll- tan read_and In part with the 1th street branch of the Washington aud Georgetown road. The | route will be from ‘ itol street to the te Pennsy . and out This will give ti thence to 15th | street to the boundary. | rapidly growing sections in | the north of the city tween Lincoln park | a itol, new sof communication | with the central or business parts of the city. Some of the new coaches ded | tor this line have already arrived from Philadel- hia, and are receiving ther finishing touches + East Capitol Street, Pennsylvania avenue, 15th street and The new coaches are wider than the elder ones on the Pennsylvania avenue line. finer in finish and more expensive. They differ also from the old ones in having no vestibule in the rear. The pastenger will step from the street into the body of thecoach. these coaches will be put on the new route about October Ist. An official of the company remarked to Tire | acebunted foron the | in popuiation. It was ns of the city more dis- that made business for city In other cities, he said, failed on account of the its. Here the sinooth con- red special facilitiestor such HANSOM CABS. Another new venture of which the public will get the benefit this winter is a line of cabs for general service. to be started by Mr. Allison | Nailor. ir., the well-known livery man. hansem cab was brought here ‘Transfer company. and has be ful institution. ve net only en- f the street hack- fore been s Now the “d pany is building ak a oon move its stor its own, into which it will A This wili leave a mount of stable room upon the hands of Mr. Nailor, and he has cou- abs of his own. toa Srar reporter, ed from y cart was orivin- | d only for use in the country, where | here narrow lanes, as it can be turned without cramping. and issafe for ladies to drive. Some one brought one into the eity and it be- came fashionable. sinally was used in London for kne Fun to the depot, or ‘They were never intended tor p Now they are used for nearl 5 e even seen them in funeral proces- | jar as comfort is coneerned, I would ne coupe for forty cabs: but if the ople want eabs I propose to furnish them. Vhatever the people demand I wit furnish.” The vill purpose, under his own supervision, by Bex & Heuntsch. Some of the vehicles are already nearly th The vehicles will be about three hundred | pounds lighter, e: than the cabs now in use | on the streets. Another change which Mr. Nailor’s consideration for his horses has sug- gested is a moditication of the shafts, so that they do not come up so near the back of the | horse. Mr. Nailor says that he has noticed that the swinging motion of the vehicle. when the shafts are high. saws across the back of the horses, and inakes gore spots. The makers, Messrs. Bex & Heuntseh, have also, during the progress of their work, hit upon two improve- ments, for which they have filed caveats in the Patent Office. During the many years the cab has been in use, in London and in this country, the only means adopted to relieve the horse of the weight ef the cab has been @ little rod “or brace underneath the vehicle, which the driver can let down when the horse stands still, thas making a support fur the body of the vehicle. Unless the horse re- mains st ry this support is of no avail. The weight ¢ driver on the seat behind has always been a factor in the ac asa sort of balance. No device has ever been used to open and shut the doors or apron in | front. The passenger has bad to wait upon | himself. If he lett the cab open w out the driver had to zet down and cl Vehicle. — The first improvement made the | by | Messrs. Bex & Heuntsch consists of a screw known to be generally felt in thi underneath the veicie. by whieh the body can "munity, the discontinuance in Washington, be sbi vackward or forward, | during the last winter entirely, and alinost thus cha: yityand regulat- sige ae inact entirely for several winters, of the oratorio con- za} consists of a | or doors, can be he driver from his | Nailor black and dark m in dark green f leather. The drivers will be tt and distinetive uniforms. The | ar upon the streets during next | Kept im s rvice ull winter. Mr. | 3 out of service in the summer time, when there is little demand for such conveyances and the service is very severe on hors 2 ee Should be Attended to at Once. ‘To the Editor of THE } VENING SraR: Some two months since you kindly inserted in Tue Stak a coumunication of mine calling aitention to the unsightly, unsafe and un- healthy condition of the rotten spruce block Toadway on the P-street block bounded by 15th and ifth streets northwest. Since the publica- tiou of the communication above referred to the property holders on said block have addressed a reste ection to the Commissioners asking for relief. being d. if we did so, the evil would be ren nt [see by a recent issue of Tie Sta they decline to act in the premises durit sul year, notwithstanding the have y Tork up P street to this very block. My object in «vain addre=sinze you in regardto this u lor the purpose of ¢ tion te the fact that since the o: vadway mot a dollar his be! this uross viola- t and by the keep the and is reatly complaint. Purti Tievanees above ref r sweepin $ block. havi it being the bounden duty rs to keep this square in a 1 healthy condition, how have or how do so un‘er the treumstances, and can they are we not deprived of a right accorded by law to all citize «i taxpayers? I would also say that, In consequence of the unsafe condition of this roadway, bakers, m'Ikmen, butchers and others who deliver tneir goods by vehicle. com- jin that they find it necessary to resort to the thus depriving usof conventences enjoyed by other citizens ; and for all of which the District government is nndoubtedly responsible, render- ing itself liable to suit, and perhaps damages, in case of accident. Tn view of th Commissioners will r sion, and order the nec iis year. fh . It ts to be hoped the ler their recent deci- sary work to be done B. j believe that where fsh-ways are constructed at | for the lower Potomac, at least, will be solved. | But what are the facts in the case? | bite best. and_in two days’ fishing landed only } | too. | in their way. | tions | tainments during the coming winter induces | stance | social element, to the taste and inclinations of | which that class of music specially appeals. CONCERNING BASS FISHING, Impracticability of a Fish Way at the Great Falls—Need ef Hatching Honses aw Probibiting Bass Fishing in May Unmecessary. To the Faitor of Tre Evexive Stan: A correspondent of Tue Star, Mr. B. L, Turner, of Flintville, Md., having made some Teference in a communication published in Tuk Star August 11th to some articles previously published in sald paper signed “Chester” and “Angler,” I bez leave to notice a few of the es- sential points. Your correspondent appears to the Great Falls in accordance with legislation that he was instramentai in procuring, so as to enable fish to ascend said falls, the fish problem, He alleges that the bass descend over the falls in the fall of the year, and in the spring of the year, when fish generally make up stream, the: cannot ascend the falls for lack of sard fish: or words to that effect. Now, I hold that the | views of your correspondent are erroneous to bezin with, Were they correct, bass would be- come more and more plentiful below said fall in the lower Potomac, or say below the fi are not as plentiful as they were ten 5 vot of thik T will state that the wri hele May 34. 73, caught on the Vir- | of the Great Fails fifty-four bass, and | day's fishing at that, for the | ve out an hour or two be- | ztime. He was up last | the time that bass usually reason that his fore the nsual quitt! spring, early in May me twenty-four bass.and they averaged mueh smaller than those caught ten years ago. So, it is evident that the theory of the bass de- scending tie falls in any considerable nunsbers | at the approach of winter is incorrect. That they generally ascend in the spring of the year until they reach water sufficiently shallow tor spawning purposes I admit; but when they descend in the taliof the year (and this is not dove until winter is about setting in) they usually stop in the first deep lake reached, where they remain during the winter. They can doubtless secure water of proper depth without tumbling over the falls. If a fish-way be constructed it is believed that Ro person living will ever see any benefit re- sulting therefrom, for the reason that it is not believed possible to construct one that will en- able the bass or any other fish to ascend the fails in any considerable numbers, and even if they could be enabled to ascend I see no prac- tical good resulting trom it, as all the bass that e below the falls are needed there, and more MEANS FOR PROPAGATING FOOD FISH, RATHER THAN FISHWAYS, NEEDED. As shown in an article publishedin Tue Star, April 28th, the scarcity of bass in the lower Po- tomac is attributable to a scarcity of the fish upon which they feed, rather than to the ang- ler’s art. Therefore, it the money necessary to construct said fishway were expended in hatch- ing mullets, suckers, tobacco-boxes (perch) and other food fishes atthe Great Falls and other proper sites some good results might be expect- ed to flow therefrom. A large percentage of fish spawn deposited in the natural way is con- sumed by small fish before the time for hatching arrives. The common smelt or minnow is an rate feeder on fish spawn, there being | scarcely one of these little fish that you stick on your hook for a bait that has not previously fed, to a greater ar less extent, on fish spawn. Small eels also consume all the fish spawn that comes Owing to these and other causes is but avery sinall percentage of the spawn deposited in the natural way that is ever hatched even. But nature has kindly provided a way | by which nearly every egg can be made to pro- duce a fish. Hence, if proper measures were adopted for hatching large quautities of the spawn of food fishes, and then hav mds of proper construction where n could | be maintained until too larze tobe eaten by bass, and then turned into the waters to be- come breeders, the numbers of said fish could soon be vastly increased, and in proportion as the increase the bass would increase. and we would soon have plenty of bass, both above and below the fails, without the expenditure of a dollar on a fishway. A distinguished writer has said that if the spawn from a pair ofcarp and of their increase were each to produce a fish tor five years there would be more fish than twenty globes could contain. We then see what immense results could be procured if fish spawn be hatched under circumstances such that nearly every egg will produce a fish. As the bass guard their beds, their eggs are not depredated upon to the extent that most other fishes are. Hence, supply them with plenty of food, so that they will not depredate on each other, and my word for it there can be but little or no impres- sion made on them with a hook and line. In localities that are much fished, such as tae Great Falls, their numbers can and doubtless have been seriously thinned. But there are im- mense fields favorable for propagating where a hook is rarely, if ever. put; and when thinned out in one locality, adjacent fields wi!! soon far- nish the necessary recruits. The Maryland law, probibiting taking bass in the month of May, should be repealed. It is usually the best month inthe year for fishing, and unless people are permitted to enjoy the sport when the sport is best, angling for bass might as well be prohib- ited altogether. As has heretofore been stated, both by “Chester” and the writer, bass while engaced in spawning have little or no inclina- tion to take a hook, and therefore stand in need of no law for protection, except from trapping and other unfair methods. ANGLER. ther A Word to Washinzion Vocalists. To the Editor of Tue Evenixe Srar: The near approach of the time for the resumption, by our local musical organiza- of preparations for public enter- me to note. with an expression of regret com- certs, which, given by the Philharmonic Society under the skiiltul conduct of Dr. Caulfield, usea to afford such unmixed pleasure to a |i of our music-loving citizens. With the c erable array of musical talent here, of no mean order, it may be remarked en passant, it is, to the writer, a singularly stranze circum. that an entire winter should pass without the réhdition, by some musical organization, of several oratorios. There is certainly ufficiently large portion of this community interested ia 4tatorio to sus! a society which wili devote itself, under compe- tent cone mga ap “pemdition of elass of music. urposely use, the teritis’ Vote itself.” W6 hove be tack orlonemnradPigie operatic, glee,, eta.—the musie rendered by which meets a popular demand and improves wusical taste; but it is unquestionable that a distinct demand exists in Washington, as in every considerable city in Christendom, for that grandest of all music—the oratorio—and a Wash- ington organization competent to render effic- iently oratorio musie would not find It either advi- sable or necessary.in order to gain popular favor support, to give itsattention to other music. ‘ides, its exciusive attention to, and execu- tion of oratorio and similar musical works would secure an avoidance of competition with other societies, give it a distinctive character, and attract toit the support and favor of the AMATEUR. Benefit are the Schools Ran? ‘To the Rditor of Tae Evextno St: Tn the interests of publiceducation I suggest inquiry as to how far a desire on the part of in- dividual teachers to gain credit to themselves by showing, at the end of the term, a high grade per cent for the entire school, influences the remanding to alower grade of pupils ad- vanced on examination, but still needing eare- ful instruction. That such a condition exists is atact. That it is inimical to the advancement of many pupils is self-evident. If the school board makes the grade per cent ot a school the test of advancement or future employment of its teacher, the board is responsible for the evil. The teacher naturaily desires only the best sible material, so that her grade may be bigh at the beginning and her start fair; and as nat- urally will follow turning back to the grade be- low all pupils in the least deficient; an arrange- ment mutually advantageous to the teachers in both the higher and lower grades, from and to which the pupil is sent, but too often damag- ing to the pupil. As the object of the public 1 should be the education of the pupil, and not the standing of the teacher, | suggest the evil should be corrected, whoever may be respousible therefor. 3M. ¥. jibcmeiainsinds Fen Sl A Connecticut man will start from the - quarters of the ee in Montana, Yor New Orleans, in a skiff. Distance to be tray- eled, 3,000 mi Fer W ee aE SS Kentucky colonels are said to be amazed at the statement that it took Prince Alexander, of Hesse Cassel, thirty years to become a colonel. THE YELLOWSTONE WONDERLAND. the Geysers—Brilliant Colers of the Yellowstenc Canen— erna’s Gorgeons Tints Not Extrava- gant—President Arthar in the Valley— What the People Thin’ mi Correspondence of Tre EvEnrso STAR. Hevena, Sept. 8, 6% I left Helena Monday morning for the Park, and at 6 o'clock that same evening we took din- ner at the Mammoth Hot Springs hotel, Na- tional park. The hotel is 600 feet long, with wings 400 teet long, furnished in the most modern style, lighted by elec- tricity. The springs cover an area of about three miles. The action of the water, with the varions minerals composing it, have formed a white crust that lays in terraces one above the other (fourteen terraces in all) to the height of about one thousand feet, forming in these terraces, fountains, lakes of every color } and form all boiling and seething so that it is impossible to put the tips of your fingers in them without being scalded. But as regards the action of water—the most imcomprehensible, mighty and awful are the geysers, spouting up their boiling water, from 6 to 250 feet In the air. The eruptions are irregular, with the exception of “Old Faithful” which goes off every hour, and they can tell to a minute when the eruption is to take place, and it always spouts 175 teet. The ‘Giantess,” the most stu- pendous of all, is fitful, sometimes as long as sixteen days intervening between its erup- tions; and the pool during this interim is very quiet—only a bubble in the center to indicate its boiling heat. The water is sapphire blue; it spouts 250 feet In the air, and Is accompanied by subterranean tremors and rumblings which are terrible to hear, and the air is filled with sul- phurous fames. There is so much steam, mist, and spray accompanying these eruptions that it seems as if the whole surrounding earth would be swallowed up. I must mention a third, the ‘Bee Hive,” that also lies dormant for days and weeks; by its side, a yard distant, is a small, spouting geyser, that is also quiet till about half an hour before the eruption of the “Bee Hive;” then it begins as a sort of preliminary yent for the eruption of the geyser; it is called the indicator and is never known to fail. ‘These three are the largest gey- sers in the world, and we were fortunate enough to see them all in action. There are hundreds of others in this vicinity (any one of which Is a marvel), and the earth is fullot ram- bling, gurgling sounds, and In some places the earth is so hot we cannot walk over it. I feel that some day, remote or near, the whole earth In the vicinity for miles around will be swallowed up. Ingersoll and Beecher would almost change their theories to visit the gey- sers. Then there are the falls and grand canon of the Yellowstone. The falls are 312 feet. The canon reveals the most varied and astonishing groups of crags and rocks of the most brilliant tints. all blending beautifully with the ravines between, filled with pine trees, which serve as a back-ground to bring out these varied tints in bold relief. Sometimes these rocky sides are perpendicnlar—at the foot ofthis yawning chasm flowstheYellowstoneriver, which is a bright green water, tearing, foam- ing and fretting along between these bright cliffs till the water churns itself into creamy foam, carrying Its burdens to thegreat Gulf of Mexico. In those pictures in the corridors of the Capitol I used to think Thomas Moran had exaggerated | the colors, but I find he has not even intensified them. Really, this is a beggarly description, but language fails me, for I find things so much grander and greater than toords, that I cannot express that which I don’t like to suppress,—but. form, beauty, color, height and depth, and grandeur in every variety is shut up in this wonderful box of 60 miles square. I am so thankful it belongs tothe United States. It was the wisest thing that Congress ever did to set that spot apart. We met the Rufus Hatch party, elzhty in num- | ber, among them lords and ladies, dukes and duchesses, and a great many of the ‘‘nobility.” There were about 2,000 people in the Park, nearly half of them English, and all agreed that it was more wonderful than anything they had ever seen. We did not see the President or his party—missed them by six hours—but they took trails through the Park and avoided the fre- quented roads on account of the great amount of travel. He will have to go throuzh a process ot bleaching to make himaelf presentable to Washinzton society. His administration seems to be growing more popular all the time. A. Senlatlecaa eel Movin ee AL Why Au er aminalion? To the Editor of Tre EvENING Sar: Can you inform me.why the civil seryice will call for another examination of appligants for the general department service “soon?” What will be done with those applicants who, after six hours of mental and physical anxiety, passed the most dificult of the two grades, (that of the 31,2007) Will they be left out in the cold, while those who have, and may pass a far cult grade, be the favored ones for posi is the coming examination another chance for them? If not, it must appear to the disap- pointed applicants that the examination for the 31,200 grade was only a sham anda farce to keep out, or get rid, of the greater number that the ss may be the favored ones. Surely the efficient and eligible ones who, in the future, wish to apply for application for examination for positions have little to encourage them to make the attempt, unless they “Aanker” atter the honor and glory of having it sald they passed the civil service exami m. Anxious to be in- formed through the columns of your paper, to which Iam anold subscriber, 1 remain, yours, &e.. &C., - “Honor.” Believing in the old adage, “Honor to whom honor is due.” ” How Lightning Strikes Trees. To the Editor of Tur EveNrse Star: Strolling in the woods a short distance from my house a few days since, I came to a tall oak tree which had evidently been struck by light- ning sometime this summer. and I remarked to my wife, who was along with me, that I thought it stranze that the only part of the tree injured should be on one side, about fifteen teet from the ground upwards. This side, to the depth of two or three inches, was stripped into large splinters, one of which I took home as a cari- osit) IT am led to mention this circumstance froin reading in your paper a day or two ago an interesting article on thesame subject, furnished by our iriend Hailowel, of Sandy Spring. West Newton, Mass., Sept. 19, 1883. ere t Sora is Found. ‘To the Editor of Tux Evenine Star: In your issue of September 8, 1883, which has Just come to hand, G. T. A. says the sora or rail is “never found away from a river or stream.” I have killed them on the prairies, in Missouri, ten miles from any stream, and a mile or more from water of any kind. I know the bird, as I have shot them on the flats of the Potomac. Again, G. T. A. says, “it resembles a snipe.” about as Touch as a crow does an eagie. I am afraid G. T. A. is not a sportsman. B. L. O., Emporia, Missouri. ge eee nen A New Subject for the Patent Laws. French, in his lecture, “Ten Years Among the Senators,” tells the following story of Senator Eaton: “Eaton, a short, round, compact man, close cut grey hair, clear, sharp eve, but intimating mirth and good nature. A thorough party man intense in his convictions, and as brave as Julius Cwsar in their expression; every fibre of his being instinet with fight; yet the soul of honor. Whatever pertained to the courtesy and honor of the Senate found no prompter support than in Mr. Eaton. He was a man of hard common sense—and of very frank Speech. One day he was in earnest and apparently chid- ing conversation with a number of Senators ot his own political faith—and was heard to make a remark something like this: ‘Our folks abont fifteen years ago took out a patent for being d—4d fools, and now a lot of you, as it seems to ine, are fighting for an ex- tension of the time.’” ——see—____ Secrets in Washington. David D. Lloyd, in The Manhattan for October. Seerets are often valuable in Washington. When the ways and means committee decided to increase the tax on whisky to two dollars a gallon, a number of fortunes are said to have been made within a small circle of men. In the dark days of’6 a Treasury clerk kept for twenty-four hours a sec known only to President Lincoln and Secretary Chase besides himself. When it became officially known, it sent gold flying up, andthe ccuntry was in dismay. It was a secret, too, that could have been passed on without harming the Union cause. It was simply s question ot keeping faith till the time came. An hour after the news broke, the clerk fatrly under a terrific slap on his shoulder. He heard and saw a banker whom he knew well, “you miser- able fool!” cried the banker, “I'd have given fou one hundred thousand dollara to have nown this twenty-four hours " And the banker could have well afforded to doit. But the clerk had the satisfaction of knowing that 4s many another govern- under clroumstances of he had done his duty, ment officer has done. emptation, LETSER FROM CALIFORNIA. The State Falr—A Bit of Brag—The Wondettfal Mion, Women, Horses, Cat- Ue, Climate, Eraits, wers, Corn, Wheat, Wine, Eto, Etc., &c., &c., of California—Gov. Steneman — Henry Ward leecher in California—Not Pop- ular There, and Why. Correspondence of Ta EVENING Stax. Sacramenfo, Cat., September 12, 1883. Your correspondent has visited the capital to- day to witness the rich and varied products on exhibition ‘at thé state fair. Some 10,000 peo- ple were on the grounds. It Is safe to say that no state inthe Union can produce finer speci- mens of men, women, horses, cattle, domestic art and agricultural science. The resources of California are here exhibited on a magnificent scale. The pavilion, which was formally opened to-night, isa mammoth building, filled with all manner of riches from the vegetable and min- eral kingdoms, The department Of Pomena is rich and luscious beyond description. All va- Tieties of fruit are here of the most exquisite flavor in the greatest abundance. The fruits of California are a fortune to the state, and com- mand the highest prices !n the markets of the world. Flora presides with great beauty and loveliness over another apartment. I have never seen a finer collection of flowers in any state. This climate seems to give them not only a deeper blush and a purer tint, but a larger growth and a richer fragrance. But Ceres wears the brightest crown and wields the grandest scepter of all her sisters at the fair. Corn, however, is not so extensively cultivated in this state as wheat, which is its chief product. President Finigan, in his opening address to- night, said: ‘The total value of the products of agriculture and kindred pursuits in this state this year would amount to $36,000,000, and yet not more than 150,000 people were en; in agriculture. The great industry of the state, he believed, in the near future would be the grow- ing of fruit and the making of wine. In produc- ing trotting and ranning horses California has demonstrated that she can lead the world. Her horses have made the fastest time on American record and she has invested more money in thoroughbreds than any other state. The parade of stock to-day extended nearly a mile, and some varieties of cattle were much admired, especially the Ayreshire, but the De- vons and Holsteins came tifalso for a large share of praise. A visit to the state-house, with Its command- ing proportions and beautitul grounds, reminded me of the greater and grander Capitol at Wash-} ington. Governor Stoneman is popular with his party, and his administration is approved by many of the opposite political faith. Henry Ward Beecher'’s recent lectures here were not a success. The old man Is losing his gripon the public mind. His views of evolu- tion are generally condemned. W. Stet Kitchen-Garden Games. [We make the following extract froma little girl's letter to her aunt,in the October “St. Nich- Olas,” about “The Kitchen-Garden School,” at which, inthe same manner as the lessons are sugar-coated with fun, It will be seen that games are but a cloak for instruction.] My dear Aunt Katie, I've saved the best part to the very last. It’s about games. We just have an elegant time when we do games. We have one after every lesson in Kitchen-Garden. We have a skipping game, when we skip all round the room with a rope that has pretty rib- bons tied to it, and we keep time when we skip toanice tune thatthe teacher plays on the piano. And we have a broom game that is just splendid! We all have nice brooms, with pretty ribbons on them, and we do ever so many things with them, and sing songs allthe time we're doing it. And then some of us make an arch with our brooms and the rest of us skip under the brooms all the: way through the arch. And we hang up clothes-lines. You'd laugh if you saw all the funny little dolls’ clothes hanging on the lines. But it looks reai pretty, too, I think. And we play waiting on the door. We have a big round circle of girls, and we skip around and we sing: “Here comes a crowd of m>rry little girls Who ’ve lately come to sciiool.” Then we ring a little bell, and we ask, “Is Mrs. Brown at home?” and we say, “Yes; will you please to low meto show you to the parlor, and I will speak to her.” ‘Then we go across the ring (we play that ’s the hall), and the girls MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. “FEDORA” —THE NEW THEATERS—RAYMOND'S NEW PLAY—MODJESEA'S CHICAGO WELCOME—MART ANDERSON IX LONDON, ETC. — The attractions of both theaters next week will be unusually good. Ford's opens the regu- lar season with the Ford comic opera company, and Miss Kate Claxton appears at the National with a revival of “The Sea of Ice.” —‘‘Fedora,” Sardou’s last and best play, will be produced next week at the Fourteenth street theater, New York, by Miss Fanny Daven- rt, with an excellent cast. Asit has never n played in this country, the event is awaited with interest. — Full files of the English papers at hand show that Miss Mary Anderson’s triumph in London has been very complete. Even Labou- chere, editor ot Truth, who never praises any- body if he can help it, says ‘she is the master of her art.” —The Dramatic Mirror says: A handsome theater isnow In course of erection on Broad- way, at the corner of 35th street, N. Y., the site of the old Aquarium. The building will be completed and thrown open to the public some time next month, and Messrs. Knowles and Morris, of the Grand Opera House, Brooklyn, will be lessess and managers. — A well-known official of a western railway wrote to Charles Wyndham the other day for his autograph, and the comedian sent back this epitaph: ‘*Railways in their way are autocrats. They teach every man to know his own station and to stop there.” —Marie Prescott, under John P. Smith’s man- agement, will shortly open a staring tour ina comedy-drama, by J. K. Tillotson, entitled “Beimont’s Bride.” Wherever possible the “Vera” dates will be filled, and Manager Smith invites correspondence with managers having time booked for that play. —Carry Swain, who in the past two seasons has become @ great favorite in New England, has been playing for the last fortnight in that section to overflowing houses. —Mansger Joseph’ A. Gullick, of Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels, proposes introducing a novelty by the elimination of the olio feature of the program, and will henceforth introduce the specialty acts In the finale, “‘The Duchess of Madagascar. —Mme. Modjeska has packed ‘the Grand Opera House, Chicago, appearing in ‘“‘As You Like It,” “Mary Stuart,” “Camille” and ““Twelfth Night.” If this is indeed her last visit to Chicago, the lady must feel that she made her farewell bow to a house full of friends, for on the ending of ‘Twelfth Night” on Saturday evening last the entire audience waited to give her a hearty recall, and, upon her appearance before the curtain, applauded with hands and voice for full five minutes. — “The Hoop ot Gold,” produced at the Brooklyn Grand Opera House Monday night, scored an immediate success. It isa strong melo- drama, and the company acted it with capital effect. The production was started rather late for booking purposes. —Jotn T. Raymond presented his new com- edy, “The Rocket,” at Haverly’s Chicago thea- terthe past week. The piece is in three acts, and is more a farce thanacomedy. It depicts the adventures of an unscrupnious speculator known as Chevalier Walkinshaw. who, while en- deavoring to make a rich marriage tor his sup- posed daughter, 1s not unmindful to impress on the future son-in-law the fact that he is ex- pected to support the chevalier also. — The Dramatic Mirror says that “President Arthur and his Cabinet are to attend a perform- ance of ‘Francesca de Rimini” shortly.” Where? — Havlin’s new theater in Cincinnati opened with the Hess Acme Opera company in “Mari- tana,” and the capacity of the house was thor- oughly tested. The opera was admirably mounted and creditably rendered, Abbie Car- rington coming in for the bulk of applause. — So it seems that Irving’s intention is to re- ‘verse the ordinary method of procedure; in- stead of coming here to be criticised he pur- poses to criticise the American people, and Joe Hatton, the novelist and newspaper correspon- dent, has been employed to help him in the job. Presumably, Mr. Irving’s businessin this coun- try isto act. Uft up. their hands and we go under (we play.}..«s= Herndon Morsell, of Washington, and the that ’s the door), and then we are in the parlor, you know. Then we play we have a card with our name on it, and we put it on a tray, and the girl that opens the door, she brings it to the lady, or else we tell our name. Sometimes, ‘Mrs. Brown is not at home,” or else “She ’s engaged.” Then we say, “Will you please to leave a message ?” Then the other girl,—the lady, you know,— she could leave quite along message if she could think of one, but she does n't, very often. Jt 'sasplendid game, Aunt Katie, and so Is “Little waiting-girls.” We all stand in a ring with trays, and we march and sing: “We are little watting-zirls, Just Uttle walting-viri ‘We wait on the table AS well as we are able For litue waiting-girls’* “We pass the tray like this, we pass the tray like that, ‘Try to hold it, always hold it, very, very flat.” It's areal funny game. You just oucht to see it, Aunt Katie. And ‘Jack and Jill,” we play that, too, and it ’s “Jack and Jill went up the hill handsome Lizzie Burton, of the Ideal Opera troupe, were married on September 12th, at East Cambridge, Mass. How Cocon and Chocolate are Obtained. From the London Times. Many drinkers ofthese pleasant beverages are unaware as to the method by which the cocoa seeds are obtained. Cocoa, or cacao, isextracted trom the seed of small trees of the genus theodroma, which when cultivated, grow from 12 feet to 18 feet high, but to ahigher eleva- tion in their wild state. The flowers are small, and cluster on the branches and trunk, the matured fruit appearingas though artificially attached. Out ofeach cluster only one pod is allowed to mature, and this when full grown is from 7 to 10 inches long by 8 inches to 43¢ inches wide. The five cells contain each a row of from five to ten seeds imbedded ina pink, acid pulp, the cocoa bean. The tree is indige- nous to Mexico, but it can be cultivated within the 25th parallels of latitude, and thrives at To gta pall of water, Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.” And the chorus is: “Pwo should sten at the same time— One shoul not go faster, Else they'll sure! surely meet With Jack and Jili’s disaster.” Well, Aunt Katie, you ought to see just everything we do! I Know you'd think it was lovely, and you'd be just as glad as we are that Miss Huntington thought about it. It don’t seem like going to school at all. It seems like play. But we all learn ever so much there. Mamma says I've learned a good deal about housekeeping already. Dear Aunt Katie: Mamma says I need not write any more, because your eyes are so bad. I give my love to you, Aunt Katie; and I give my love to Cousin Baby Grace, and to Uncle How- ard. too. This letter is from your dear little niece, May Strona. Army Badges. Tf, from any cause whatsoever, any one hap- pened to have lost his command, or to have strayed away from or been left behind by his regiment, he could usually tell what part of the army he was with. An admirable and significant system of badge was adopted for the entire Union army. The different corps were distinguished by the shapes, the different divisions by the colors, of their sey- eral badges. Thus, the first corps wore a round badge, the second & clover leaf, the third a dia- mond, the fifth a Maltese cross, the sixth a Roman cross, the ninth a shield, the eleventh a crescent, the twentieth a star, and soon. As each corps included three divisions, and as it was necessary to distinguish each of these from Me other two, (oes sires seoa'cla colors of the lag were chosen for the Purpose —red, white and blue; red for the first divi- sion of each corps, white for the second and blue for the third. Thus, a round red badge meant first division, first corps; a round white. second division, first corps; a round blue, third division, first corps; and 80 on of the other corps. Division and corps head- quarters could always be known by thelr flags bearing the badges of their respective com- mands. As the men were all obliged to wear their proper badges, cut out of flannelor colored leather, on the top of their caps, one could al- ways tell at a glance what part of the Army of the Potomac he wasin. In addition to this, some regiments were distinguished dy some pe- culiarity of uniform. Our own brigade w: everywhere known as “The Buck-tails,” for we all wore buck-talls on the sides of our caps.— “Recollections of a Drummer-boy, Harry M. Kieffer, in 8t. Nicholas for October. Mr. Lincoin’s Ancestors, From the Annagh Guardian (Ireland). many} It appears that the grandfather of President English, while admirabl and the insoription over his tomb in that city } Our colleges most, rane as follows: “In memory of Mr. Abraham Lincolne, of this parish, Pay 79 years; and died September 23, 1769, age 6 years. “Fl motive Balde Seige and Gad Mr. John Leach, of Yarmouth,has had this in- scription ate Lome expense for Who died July 18, 1789, | that shall consist not Hannah his daughter, who best authors, but of that unremitted and critical we tend, | of any elevation, under 2,000 feet, but it requires a rich soll, a warm, humid atmosphere, and pro- tection from cola winds. The trees are propazated from seeds ina nursery until they attain aheizht of trom 14 inches to 18 inches, when they are transplanted and carefully sheltered by planting other trees about them. They begin to bear about the fifth year, but do not attain maturity until the eizhth, and continue yielding fruitfor nearly halfa century. There isno specialtime for harvesting the crop, as the trees continue bearing all the time. flowers and fruit in all stages being curiously borne on the same tree. But in Venezuela the principal gatherings are in June and December. Chocoiate is generally made from the finer varieties of cocoa seeds, and was a favorite beverage in Central America long before Columbus discovered the new world. As at present prepared chocolate is made in cakes, while cocva is usually sold in powder, flakes, or nibs. The constituents ofthe av- erage cocoa seed are as follows: Fat, cocoa but- ter, 82 nitrogenous compound, 20; ‘starch, 20; coliulose, 2 theobromine, 2; saline substances, 4; water, 10; cocoa red, essential oil, 10. 2 More English and Less Greek. President Robinson, of Brown university, does not exactly indorse the doctrine that Greek is “a college fetich,” but he holds that ignorance of good English is the crying sin of our present system of colleginte training. In his official re~ port just made, he says: “The number of men annually graduating from our colleges with very creditable attainments as to both extent and accuracy of knowledge, but showing a lament- able incapacity for systematic thinking and for clear, forcible, and correct, not to say elegant, expressions of their thoughts, is one of the standing reproaches to our American education. The only remedy appears tobe in more thorough and continuous training in those studies which are known as rhetorical and which consist in in incessant critical study and practice of the English tongue. Years and years of closest study are given to other tongues, both ancient and modern, which only a fraction of educated men are expected to use in after life, while only incidental and comparatively superficial atten- tion is given to that mother tongue which all are compelled to use in speech or in writing every day of their lives, and on a skillful use of which with many depends, to no small degree, their success or failure in life. And in saying this, it is not forgotten that for the enlargement of one’s knowledge af English words, and for the cultivation of that nice discrimination between synonyms which only the most careful study ot language can impart—a discrimination which shows itself as one or the striking jes of the classics of every peopl been discovered, or is ever likely ot, of the classical literature of the Greeks and ics ot the cleanin of our owa Practice witout whieh ta Htersture as og else, no high degree of excellence is will remove that to Grand of Labor, Pit teen cleri BRIGHT FANCIES OF THE POETS. ‘The Future of the Classics. From ‘‘Brio-a-Brag,” im the October Century. [Written after reading velagraphic reports of the Phi Beta Ka~na address of Charice Franols AG2ms, F.. Abd reiain~t, with epoiogies, after receving ler Peporis (4nd the orator’s stiteequent expla- ations), for the sake of the labor bestowed on tne ‘Versificatio: by Uke author, who ts pleased to be ascured that his poctical Prophecy is Fallacious } No longer, O scholars, shall Plautus Be tauzht us. No more shail proiesors be partial ‘To Martial. No ninny ‘Wil stop playing “shinney* For Pliny. Not even the verlest Mexican Greaser Will stop to read Cyesar. No true son of Erin will leave his potato ‘To list to the love-lore of Ovid or Plato. nat nod Homer, at hapless old roamer, ‘Will ne’er find a rest ‘neath collegiate dome or Abywhere else, As to Seneca, Any cur Safely may snud him, or urge fl Effects trom the reading of VirgiL Corneitus Nepos Won't keep us ‘Much longer from pleasure’s light errands— Nor Terenca ‘The trreverent now may all scoff in ease At the shade of poor old Aristophanes. And moderus tt how doth Beloove in all ‘Ways to despise poor old Juvenal; ‘And to enivvy vy. ‘The class-room hereafter will mtss a row Of eager young students of Cicero. The ‘longslor:man—yes, and the dock-rat, he's Down upon’ Seorates, Ani what'll Induce us to read Aristotle? We shall fail in Our duty to Galen. No tutor henceiorward shall rack us ‘To construe old Horatius Flaccus, We have but a wretched opinion Of Mr. Justinian. In our classical pabulum mix we no wee sop SOR, Our balance of intellect asks for no ballast From Sallust, With feminine scora no fair Vassar-bred lass at us Shall smile 1f we own that we cannot read Tachius. No admirer shall ever now wreath with begoulas The bust of Seutonius. Ana Wet! Besides, 1t would Just be considered facetious To look at Luerettus. And you can Not go in Society tt you read Lucan, ‘And We cannot have any fun Out of Xenophon, ——— Baby Louise. T'm In love with you, Baby Loutse! With your silken hair and your soft blue eyes, And the dreamy wisdom thatin them hes And the ae sweet smile you Drought from the sktes— God's sunshine, Baby Louise! When you fold your hands, Baby Loutse— Your hands, nike a fairy’s, so Uny add tair— With a pretty, innocent, Saint-like air, Are you trying to think of some angel-taught prayer You learned above, Baby Louise? I'm in love with you, Baby Louse! Why, you never raise your beautitul hr ai! Some day, little one, your cheek will zrow red. With a flush of delight to hear the words sald, “I love you,” Baby Louise. Do you hear me, Baby Louise? Thave sung your praise for nearly an hour, And your lashes keep drooping lower and lower, And you've gone to sivep like @ Weary Bower, Ungrateful Baby Louisel —Maroarer Eytinor ———_—_-2-_____ ‘The Hunter’s Merry Moon, Brown October and nut-brown woods, And nobody sad or sober, But the pariridge, proud of her whirring brood, And the sun-burat sportsman, with gleaming eye, And the farm-boys snare, secure and sly— ‘tol ° Gay October and gilded woods— What folly now to be sober! ‘When the foxgiove’s hanging her yellow hoods, And there’s laughter ant rustle of sliken gowns, And the country’s full of the folk’s 0 towns— Octover! Late October and frost-touched woods— Bas The Saver look wondrous soberl ‘or the squirrel 1s hiding his stolen goods, Scolding away In the ehestaut tall, © Where the brown burrs gape and the last nuts fall— October. ELAIN® GOODALE, ———_-2-____ ‘The Burgie Song. [4ster Tennyson.) ‘The darkness falls on Villa walls, ‘The fatnlly’s in the lower story, ‘This is the hour for jewel-hauls, ‘The burglar now Is in his giory. Slow, Burglar, slow! Up the laddér bieing, Answer, whistle, answer low, ‘Trying! trying! trying! List-slippered swift he creeps aloft, His hand ts in the casket dipping; ee a ee eae) Dae at hand in his side pocket’s slippingt Shoot, Burglar, shoot! " Down the ladder swift he's flying, Answer, victim. Nay, he’s mute, Dying! dying! dying! ————_-+-—__ 4 Land of the Dead, Correspondence London Telegraph. China, almost wherever you see it, isa land of the dead. For thousands of years Chinamen have been assiduously employed in busying each other. It is the habit of the Celestial mourner to “plant his relative in a grave that shall last In the north there are few grave- yards; that is to say, few places exclusively de- voted to defunct celebrities. The person who is dead is placed in the most conventent and comfortable spot which offers itselt, and that may chance to be in the center of a field of rice or on the roadside. If his relatives be rich they at once raise a huge mound of earth over him; if they do not happen to have a great amount of disposable funds they put the coffin down in the field or on the roadside, thatch it with a little straw, and leave it till the money for a mound can be got toether; or they erect over it a little structure of loose bricks and tiles. The wind and rain do their work, and so the trav- eler sees all over the landscape mounds of earth flanked by exposed coffins. These coffins are not flimsy structures as in England, but sub- stantial structures of wood, made to last, and consequently it is no unusual thing to count many scores of them at any one point of the landscape in the interior. This does not lower the spirits of the Chinese. It possibly gives them typhoid fever; but that is another ques- tion. On the stranger its effects are novel and various. All the second day of my foumney I looked out upon graves and coftins. They clus- tered under the hills; they lay on the water's edge; they had been carefully rey under the lee of houses; they occupied all the best parts of every field. Deceased Chinamen surrounded me everywhere. How far the distribution of graves all over a country in which the principal religion of the inhabitants is the worship of ancestors may delay railway construction even for strat- egical purposes I leave others to decide. But I learn that coffinscan be bought as they stand for a consideration. I did not buy a coffin by way of experiment, but I knew aman who had done so. and he estimated the cost at two dol- lars per deceased ancestor. So that it is possi- ble the difficulty which is said to surround the making of railroads in China may some day disappear. ———___+e-+-______ Luther as a Preacher. In the October Century Professor George P. Fisher, of Yale, says: “‘For moving eloquence in the pulpit no one excelled Luther. He not only knew how to preach, but he conld tell the secret to others. One defect, he observes, may eclipse numerous gifts in @ preacher. ‘Dr. Justus Jonas has all the good virtues and quali- ties a man may have; yet merely because he hums and spits, the people cannot bear that good and houest man.’ Let a preacher stick to his text, and not ramble: ‘A preacher that will speak everything that comes in his mind is like a maid that goesto market, and, meeting an- other maid, makes a stand, and they holda goose-market.’ He despised the hunger for ap- plause: ‘Ambition is the rankest poison to the church, when it possesses preacbers.’ ‘Cursed and loud things.ant of the poor, anlearned people, seek thier own honor and praise, and therewith to om one or two ambitious When I preach, 1 sink myself Geep down. Iregard neither tors nor of whom are here in RELIGIOUS NOTES. CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE. — St. Stephens Catholic Sunday school in this city has an attendance of 600 children with any teachers. — Bishop Brown, of the A. M. E. church, who resides near Howard university, has been seri- ously ill, but is improving. —Ayounger brother of Nev. Father Tewea, of St. Mary's church, in this city, will cele brate his first mass in Baltimore to-morrow, — Rev. C. B. Ram-dell, of the North Presby- terian chureh, has returned from bis vacation, which he spent in Gatimore county, Md., and Tesumed bis duties. Platt, of Manhattan, Kan., has state Sunday school superin- tendent. — At St. Michael's Catholic church, Baltl- more, Archbishop Gibbons last Sunday oon- firmed 214 persons, — Sunday morning Archbishop Gibbons con- §rmed 181 girls and 173 boys at St. Michael's church, Baltimore. —A Catholic priest is sald to be ving in Ger- many, in excellent 1, aged 109 years, who has been 84 years ay —Rev. Dr. James Brownlee has been for forty-aight years pastor of the Reformed church at Port kichmond, Statea Island. pea est years president of Hampden- eof the leading ministers of the southern Presbyterian church, died recently. ' —A Luther Memorial church is to be erected in Berlin, costing about $75,000, as a worthy commemoration of this jabilee year. Halle and. Leipzig have also resolved to erect Luther me- morial churches. —The Mortuary chapel at Metropolis View cemetery (near Glenwood) will be dedicated Sunday, 30th instaut, at 3 o'clock. All the so- cieties of St. Mary's church aud other societies will participate. — Dev. Dr. James A. Williams, rector of St. Mark's iscopal church, Orange, N. Y., died September 2d. He was a native of Orange, and had been rector of St. Mark's church for up- wards of fifty years. n association by the name of The Young’ Men's Talmud Thora association of Baltimore elty” was organized last Sunday. Its object Is to promote the st ofthe Talmud, the source of all Jewish precepts. — Rev. C. N. Robinson bas been holding ings in a large tent at Brooklyn, pre. assisted by ministers of all branches of the Methodist church. A number of conversions hi ken place. — Rev. Dr. Goodwin. of Chicago, baptized several children at the First Congregational church, Sunday, the 9th instant, among them @ Chinese baby, whose father and mother anited with the church the previous Sunday. —The opening services of the Emmanuel Baptist church, Brooklyn, in their new chapel, were held on the 6th instant. The chapel isa Sightly stone edifice, about 50 by 80 feet, and is said to have cost $50,000, It was announced that ail this is paid for. — Very Rey. J. A.Corcoran, a professor in the Catholic seminary of St. Charles Borromea, near Philadelphia, and editor of the American Catho- lic Quarterly Review, has been selected as theo- logian to the American archbishops at the coun- cil in Rome next month. —Rey. F. W. Bakeman six years ago took the pastoral charge of the Baptist chureh in Au- burn, Me., when its debt amounted to $23,000, and with the annual deficit of ranning expenses five months ago the debt stood at $14,000. This, however, has all been raised. —On the night of the 20th ult. thieves made an entrance into the Lutheran church at Joliet, Til., and robbed the saving box in which contributions for a church bell had been de- posited. They also destroyed the pulpit and altar Bibles, and greatly damaged the whole Sunday school library. — Rev. Dr. McClelland, of the Fort Greene Presbyterian chureh, in Brooklyn, has accepted a professorship in the German Theological Sem- inary of the Northwest at Dubuque, Towa. For twenty-five years, though totally blind, he has been the beloved ‘and successful pastor of the Fort Greene church. —Rey. Father Horstmann, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Philadelphia, has donated to Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmittsburg, $5,000 for the free education of young men who willdevote themselves to the poor missions in the northwest and south, especially among the colored people and Indians. — Rev. James McLeod, pastor of one of the most prominent Presbyterian churches in Buf- falo, returned from his four weeks’ vacation re cently and offered his resignation. He ex- lained the mnexpected act by saving he had eard criticisms of his course that led him to believe it would be acceptabie. — Rev. R. T. Hall, Congregationalist, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, preached his fourth anniversary sermon on Sept. 2. In the four years 171 per- sons have been received, 126 by profession of faith. Nearly 4,000 have been given for benev- olent objects, and $23,000 in all raised by the church, which is united and aggressive. — The Western Theolozical seminary, at Alie- gheny City, has ealled Dr. 8. J Niccolls, of St. Louis, to the Chair of Sacred Rhetoric and Church Government, and Dr. Charles 5. Pome- roy, of Cleveland, to that of Sacred ani cleat astical History, to fill the places made vacant by the death of Drs. Hornblower and Wilson. — The receipts of the American Board (Con- gregational) during the last year were $10,000 In excess of the estimates of the prudential com- mittee, made one year azo. The Portland meet- ing last year called for an advance ot $100,000, and the committee made their appropriations for the year on the basis of one-half this gain, — On last Sunday the newly erected and com- pleted Concordia College and Theological Semi- nary of the Missouri Lutheran synod at St. Louisa, Mo.,was dedicated with appropriate services, and the feast of dedication was continued daring Monday following. Prominent ministers from nine states were present, besides ten thousand laymen. —The Cumberland Presbyterians are about to establish a school for the education of their ministry among the Choctaws and the Chicka- saws of the Indian Territory. They call for $40,000 tostart it. Already ‘seven licentiates and six candidates, all full-blooded Choctaws, are under the care of the local will enter the school. —The New York Christian Adoocate (Metho- dist Episcopal) says: “Times change. There is a Bible-stand near the Piazza della Signoria, In Florence, where Savonarola was burned at the stake in 1498. A resident thus writes: ‘The ashes of the celebrated Prior of 8. Marco were thrown into the Arno, but the Word for which he and many others suffered is now being pub- licly sold midway between the stake and the iver.” — Fully 10,000 people, including 1,000 excur- stonists from Chicago, 500 from Pittsburg, and 300 from Milwaukee, attended the dedication services of the new National Lutheran Theo- logical College in St. Louis, Sept. 9. The cere- monies were in German. The speeches were fuil of encouragement for the future. Students from Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, New York, Buflalo, St. Louis, and Kansas City, have already enrolied their names on the catalogue list. —The effort to establish @ Sunday-school “Chautauqua” at Key East, on the New Jersey shore, has taken such shape that a $20,000 lot has been set apart for tabernacle meeting of some of the Sunday- from Philadelphia and Key East a few days ago. decided that if a handsome and commodious tabernacle can be erected by