Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1883, Page 6

KEEPING A PROMISE TO DIE. Gtrange Romance of a Woman's Love and Death. The fact of the suicide in Pittsburg of Miss Fannie Bryant Newton, the copyist for Dr. Orin E. Newton, who also committed suicide two weeks ago, has been announced. She swallowed fifteen crains of morphia, and after writhing in agony and resisting every effort to save her life died in the afternoon. Eight years ago, when she was only 17 years gld, she wes employed in the office of Dr. Newton, who was then a prom!- nent and prosperous physician of Cincinnati, as copyist. Though not particularly handsome, she was refined and accomplished. The doctor at that time was 52 years old, married, and had several grown-up children, who moved in the best circles of Cincinnati society. Two of his daughters are actresses. After some years the doctor lost his fortune in reckless speculation, and his wife began a divorce suitagainst him on account of his relations with his copyist. He separated from his wife and went to burg, aking his copyist with him as his housekeeper. He established an office at No. 151 2d ave- Bue. and soon built up a good practice. His wife’s lawyer from time to time sent him letters which greatly affected him. About two weeks agohe was found dead in his bed, and as he was a confirmed morphine eater the coroner's jury rendered a verdict that death had resulted from an overdose of morphine. From letters left by Mrs. Bryant. who claimed that sie was married to the doctor, and called herself Fannie Bryant Newton, it now appears that the doctor had deliberately committed sui- cide, and had left a dose of the fatal drug forher, which she had promised him to take. In these let- ters, which areaddressed to Dr. Thurman, a well— known physician, and Mrs. Miller, her landlady, she also states that the marriage ceremony was performed by the doctor declaring her to de his wife in the presence of three witnesses. She adds minute directions for the care of he - four- teen-months-old child. Having determine ! upon her death, she wrote the following ietter to the undertaker “Pittsburg, Pa.,Gept. 29.—Mr. Burns.—Dear Sir: Please to call. as soon as you receive this, at No. 151 2d avenue, and take charge of the body of Mrs. Fannie Bryant Newton, who sul- cided this morning. I have left a deposit of money, addressed to Dr. G. H. Thurman, and placed’ the letter, with inclosed money, in a valise under my bed. I want you to furnish everything at these prices, as follows: ‘Casket exactly like my husband's, Dr. Newton’s, \O:hearse and three carri: . -y 1s to be paid you at and by Dr. Thur- I want to be buried in the Allegheny , Pittsburg. ina grave lot. In amount lots cost $5, but Ihave left 10° with Dr. Thurman, that, should ft only cost $5, the other $5 will go to my boy. Get the death cer- tificate in this way: Fannie Bryant Newton, born upon the Sandusky plains, Ohio, suicided at her residence, No. 151 2d_avenue, September 29, 1883. I have been at 151 2d avenue five months. Former residence Cincinnati. Mr. Burns, you will find soap, sponge, toweis, and sheet in the top drawer of the dressing case in the room right by the window. I am all bathed and dressed just as I want to be buried. Please to put out lack and white erape, as I am still young. Use the biack pall and no eheets over or around me. I have taken fifteen or twenty grains of mor- phine, and I hardly think that my fate will be dissolved from it.. I have left $5 with Thur- man for digging my grave. If any inflamma- tion of the abdomen or elsewhere sets in and you think I will become unsightly, please to place me in the casket at once and close the lid down. If 1 am net put in the casket before night upon Saturday, see to it that some one sits up with my remains, as there are a great many mice in the room. I expect my sister here, and I should like to look natural. I may, in some of the letters that I left, have mentioned that I want to be sent to our family burial ground at Bloomington, Ill. But under no circumstances do I wish it now. I wish to be buried right here in Pittsburg. I have left a pail of tresh water in the room for embalming purposes. I trust that you will find everything allright. Thanking you tor your prompt atten- tion at the doctor's death, I am respectfully, Mrs. FANNIE Bryant NEWTON.” Then she took a bath, attired herself in clean and weill-fitting garments, placed the pail of water near the bed, and after writing the sev- eral letters and telegrams found in the room addressed to the coroner the following note: “I have taken fifteen grains of morphine with suicidal intent. You need not hold an in- quest.” ‘These preparations being completed she swal- lowed the poison. When discovered in her threes of agony mm the little back room she kept muttering: “Oh, let me die: I cannot live, and must not.” She placed her hand over her mouth apd held ft firmly to prevent the insertion of the stomach- ® = se around her shortly before her death “It would be charity for me to die. I promised the doctor I would do it, and I have done it.” Mrs. Fannie Bryant Newton is said to have been a granddaughter of John Campbell, the founder of the Campbellite church. Her mother, at Bloomington, Ill., is on the point of death. Several sisters and brothers who survive her are all in good circumstances. One of the sisters reached Pittsburg, Sunday evening, and took charge of the remains. ANOTHER HISTORY OP MRS. NEWTON. A dispatch from Bloomington, MIL, says: “The @uicide in Pittsburg a few days ago of Mrs. Jo- sephine Bryant Newton is of great local interest here. Josephine Bryant was the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bryant, now living at Parnell, Dewitt county, Ill. She was a pretty, quiet and modest girl, with oval face, dark brown eyes and brown hair. Her whole family were brilliant. but erratic. She was related, by her father's side, to William Cullen Bryant, and by her mother’s to Bishop Alexander Campbell. A brother committed suicide here several years ago. Josie for years was an honored and suc- cessful teacher, but became enveloped in scan- dal, resigned. and went to Atchison, Kansas. Her cousin, Dr. Grafton. formerly of Farmer City, Il, shot and killed himself about two years azo at Leavenworth, Kansas. Two of Dr. Grafton’s sisters are now noted society women ¢f Colorado. one is the wife of Hon. Thomas Patterson, -United States Senator, of Denver; the other, Mrs. Thos.Campbell, is the wife of a noted Leadville lawyer and banker.” THE PRESIDENTS LATE WIFE, Where Mr. Arthur Met His Wife and How He Cherishes Her Memory. Saratoga Correspondent Chicago News. Mr. Phillips. an old friend of President Arthur, yesterday that he introduced Miss Hern- den to Mr. Arthur at a ball at Saratoga. Mr. Phillips is a handsome, portly gentleman, whose face bears some resemblance to the President. s his moustache and luxuriant side- whiskers in the same way as does the Pres- ident. Mr. Phillips and Mr. Arthur were upon the reception committee at a great ball given at Saratoga at one of the fashionable hotels. Miss Herndon was one of the beauties of the evening. Mr. Arthur was very much taken with her appearance, He asked Mr. Phillips if he knew her. He replied in the affirmative, and then presented to Miss Herndon her future husband. The acquaintance made there ended in a marriage eighteen months afterward. “Mr. Arthur ought to havea very tender place im his heart for you.” “He hus, most decidedly,” said Mr. Phillips. “I suppose there is no favor I should ask of him T could not have, but I have never cared for any office; I am content with his friendship. I was his guest at the White House last winter for tendays. Mr. Arthur isa generous host.” Fro.a Mr. Phillips I learned that the President had not visited Saratoga since his wife’s death. He tried to have him come here this year, but he would not come. It was here he first met his wife, and it was here they often came together for several seasons after their marriage. Mrs. Arthur was a very ambitious woman. There was no happier woman in the country than she when her husband was made collector of the port of New York. She took his removal and subsequent fight very much to heart. She wor- Tied so much that she became an easy prey to the cold that developed into pneumonia and carried her off. Indirectly, the fight made upon her husband by Hayes and Sherman was the cause of her death. Mr. Arthur is one of the most generous men, socially, who ever entered the White House. His friends say that he spends fust half of his official salary. The other half he does not draw. His private fortune 1s small, bringing in only $3,000 a year as an income. It has never beenthoroughh ill the President was on his Florida trip. more sensational reports of that time sald the attack was a severe bilious colic. Now thatthe sffair has become an affair ot the there ie no harm in giving the real facts of the as given by Mr. Phillij He says the Presid an attack of mation of the bowels, and for a time his life was in reel danger. Since that time the President has been slightly worried about his health, and it was one of the main him to take the Yellowstone THE PRICE OF BLOOD. Persons Who Open Their Veins for the Benefit of Others—What Substitutes Are Available. From the New York Herald. 4 “Thave just been reading a letter from Rich- mond,” said Dr. Joseph W. Howe toa Herald reporter who called upon him at his residence, No. 38 West 24th street, “with regard to the re- sult of an operation for the transfusion of blood which I performed there ona gentleman. He had had pneumonia twice, a hole in his lung with adhesions to the chest, and had met with an accident which caused Internal hemorrhage. It was for this last complication that I treated him. I see by this letter that he died five or six days after the operation from congestion of the lungs. His life was prolonged for that time by the transfusion, and he was enabled to make his will and arrange all his business.” “Where did you get the blood from?” asked the reporter. “From a young negro man,” answered Dr. Howe, ‘I injected seven ounces of his blood into the gentleman’s veins.” “Is it difficult to get blood when It is necessa- ty to perform the operation immediately?” “Not at all. It is always easy to get it by buy- ing it or begging for it. There is an old fellow on the ferryboat running between 52d street and the Chairlty Hospital whom I have bled four times within two years in four different cases. He never seemed to mind it. On the contrary, he always seemed to be better for it. I always looked for some sign of weakness in him when the blood was drawn, but I never saw any. He is a vigorous old fellow, about fifty years otage, who takes his whisky without too much water init. Each time that he assisted me in the op- eration I gave him two or three dollars and he was perfectly satisfied.” “Are there any persons who hire themselves out for this purpose?” “Oh, no; ches is not r formed fre- quently enough for that. When it is necessary to transfuse blood in a hospital there is always some one hanging about who is only too willing for a small amount to become a ‘donor,’ as the technical term is. In private practice relatives of the patient usually give their blood. And here Tam reminded of two points. In the case I re- lated of the Richmond gentleman it was thought that as he had a-hole in his lung the newly in- fected blood might force its way into the cavit; and cause a recurrence of the hemorrhage. 4 did not do so, and I belleve that as a matter ot fact the new blood had a tendency to coagulate at the broken ends ot the vessels and so prevent turther bleeding. The other point is thatblood taken from a relative 01 a person to be operated upon coagulates much more rapidly than blood taken froma stranger. This rapid coagulation is attributed to anxiety on the part of the rela- tive, but what the physiological cause is I don’t know. There is a general belief, in fact, that the blood of a person is poisonous to a relative of that person. “I remember the case of a clergyman,” con- tinued Dr. Howe, “upon-whose wife a severe surgical operation was performed. It was ne- cessary to transfuse blood into her veins, and her husband was the ‘donor.’ His blood coagu- lated almost immediately after it was drawn. The anxiety of the ‘donors’ often produce an unpleasant effect upon them. The loss of the blood has nothing to do with it. I knew of the case of a man who had intimate relations with a woman twenty-two years old. She had been the victim of malpractice. The man gave some of his blood for the transfusion and immediately fainted. It was not the loss of the blood that caused the tainting, but anxiety for the success of the operation. The woman r€covered and was attending to her household duties within a Tew days.” “But in a case of emergency when there are pr or friends near by what are you to “Oh, go out on the street and accost the first man you meet. Go into agroup of laborers and tell them what you want, that the bleeding won't hurt and that you will pay them well, and you will soon find a man for your purpose. We all remember when people id doctors to bleed them and they didn’t object. And they don’t object in these cases. There have been some exceptions in my experience. One was in the case of a woman up town here who was sud- denly taken with a violent hemorrhage. I sent her husband out after a man and he caught one on a corner. The fellow was drunk, and he fainted or pretended to, and I didn’t get enough blood from him. I sent the husband out aftera another man, but he didn’t get back. in time, and the woman died the next day.” CAPTURING A FRENCH FORGER. A Clever Incident. Mr. George H. Bangs, the superintendent of Pinkerton’s detective agency, whose death has been announced, established his reputation nearly thirty years ago, when Just started in his career. He was put upon the track of Jules Imbert, a famous French forger, who, by his pleasing manner and gentlemanly address, succeeded in defrauding New York bankers out of large sums of money. From August Belmont Imbert obtained four drafts aggregating some $15,000, and by a series of adroit forgeries he manazed to clear almost double that sum. Al- lan Pinkerton worked up the preliminary part of the case, and to Mr. Bangs was entrusted the task of tracing up the fugitive, who had es- caped to Canada, arresting him and bringing him back toNew York city. The young de- tective located his man in @ Canadian town, and, paying no attention to the indignant pro- testations of the Frenchman that he was a gen- tleman and would repay the insult with sum- mary vengeance, arrested him, and succeeded in getting a partial admission of guilt. After eluding a ecore or more of amateur detectives, Bangs landedhls prisoner on American soll, and started homew: in the cars. Asa precaution against escape the detective handcuffed Imbert’s right wrist to that of his own. After riding a hundred miles or more the Frenchman showed signs of fatigue, and fell fast asleep beside his captor. Bangs had then been without rest for more than forty-eight hours and was completely worn out. .He began nodding, and, despite his utmost efforts to keep awake, fell into a doze when the train was near Fonda, in the state of New York. A sadden Jolting of the car aroused him and to his chagrin he found that his prisoner had cleverly picked the lock of the handcuff and escaped. The other end of the cuff was still securely fastened to the detec- tive’s wrist. His anxiety to recover the forger banished all thoughts of fatigue from his mind, and, Jumping quickly out of his seat, he rushed into the baggage car and inquired of the con- ductor where the last stop had been made. He was informed at Fonda, and that the train had slackened speed a few miles further on to runona siding. Bangs felt sure that he was wide awake when the train stopped at Fonda, and reasoned that the forger had made the dash for liberty after that point. The train was stop- ped and the detective, feeling that there was Just the shadow of a chance of redeeming him- sel, got off and walked back to Fonda. He ap- led at the principal hotel inthe town for a |. and was informed that the house was full all except one large room with a double bed, which was occupied by a gentleman who hi arrived ashort time before. Bangs was ready to Cony anywhere, and gladly accepted the offer. He went upto the room and sat down on achair, overcome with mortification, and af- ter arranging a mental program for ‘the fol- lowing day started to go to bed. Turning down the cover-lid, the detective glanced care- lessly at the snoring occupant of the bed. To his Surprige and joy he beheld the, features of imbert, forger. Creeping quietly into Bangs began nudging his companion in the ribs. Imbert ceased snoring, turned over, yawned once or twice, and then opened his eyes. To his intense disgust, he found Bangs lying beside him, smiling broadly. After that the detective had no further trouble. His prisoner was safely landed in New York, tried, convicted and. sentenced to ten years in the state prison. He died after serving eight years, and up tothe day of his death dec! that Bangs was in league with the evil one. ——_—__—o——————— ‘The Section Hand’s Secret. From the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Kimball, the present vice president of the Rock Island, took a seat behind two section men ina coach leaving Davenport for Chicago. ‘The conductor came in and collected fare from one of the men, the other having previously paid. Said the latter, to gag his friend: “I can travel on this road when I want to, and never Pay @ cent.” “How's that?” sald the other. ‘ Horse Talk from the Famous Blue Grass Region of Kentucky. ‘From Harper's for October. General Withers’ principal stable is a kind of horse cathedral. This is by no means common. Many a fine animal, almost as much the pride and pé of its owner’s family as if they were of Arab stock, is led out from but shabby quarters. The stables of the region are clean and whole- some, but do not incline to fantastic elegances of adornment such as are growing in favor among ourselves inthe northern cities. Here the light strikes down upon us through colored glass windows; the whole interior is faced up with hard woods, and the floor of the principal alsle, or naive, strewn with soft straw for ex- hibiting the paces of the animal upon could not be neater if it were that of a drawing- room. The main dimension is 155 teet, and this is crossed by a transept of 100. The stalls are toward sixteen feet square. They have outer as well as inner doors for in case of fire, and these are never kept locked. Little or no fancy iron work in the way of sta- ble fittings is used, wooden racks and mangers being preferred. Wide open spaces over the partitions and transom ventilators carry off all odors. The clean hay is piled in mows above, and the corn and oats slide down by traps into convenient bins. Then there is a place for sul- kies and road wagons, a harness room and a harness mending room, and a great collection of the mysterious looking boots and weights used in breaking in the trotter. Near by a little court-yard is reserved a Hope and in it stand a few animals awaiting dol ly the end of their woes. “I am no great believer in veterinary doc- tors,” says our host. “They kill more than they cure. I blanket my patients, protect them from sudden extremes of the weather, and give but little medicine, That is my system.” Visitors sit comfortably in chairs in the cathe- dral-like stable, and the horses are brought out before them. Each blue-grass breeder,of prominence has his regularly printed catalogue of stock, revised yearly, generally with a wood-cut of the best stallion on the cover. Some, as Gen. Withers, ingert the selling prices, from which “no devia- tion” is advertised. In looking over such a cat- alogue, from $400 up to €2.000 are found to be demanded tor the younger animals, with pro- Pportionately more for older ones than could be at once made useful. But when a horse has really entered the ranks of the great ‘*flyers,” there is hardly any limit to his value. One with a record of 2:30 may be estimated in a general way worth $10.000. From 2:30 down to 2:20 $1,000 may be added for each successive second. When we come into the teens and near the head of the record, juggling with gold and diamonds is acoarse occupation in comparison. Mr. Bonner is said to have paid $33,000 for Dexter and $36,000 for Rarus, and Mr. Vanderbilt $20,000 for Maud’S. But this last was before she had made hergreat time; now that she has made it, you are told confidentially that a person stands ready to draw his check willingly for $75,000 whenever he can get a horse that will lead her, and give him the dis- tinction of having the fastest trotter in the world. But how does it pay? Well, it pays first in stock raising; it pays next in the opportunity to take purses and stakes afforded by the great system of racinz circuits; and no doubt even those gentlemen who withdraw from racing, and do their driving in private life, find it pay fn a pleasure and improved health from this kind of recreation, extravagant as it is, which they might not ‘be able to procure so well from the expenditure of equal sums in any other direction. ————__+9-_______ AN AMERICAN ABROAD. What He Thinks of London @nd the Alleged American Bar. ‘M. P. Handy, in Philadelphia Press, No; if you seek the wickedest city in the world (always barring Chicago), go to the city of Westminster Abbey, Exeter Hall, St. Paul's church, the Salvation Army and Charles H. Spurgeon—go to London. With much outward show of goodness and much real goodness, with sweeter chimes of church-calling bells than can be heard anywhere else in all Christen- dom, with Sabbath laws recalling the days of the Puritans, with great charities carrying heal- ing tothe sick and freedom to the oppressed of all nations, with printing presses flooding the world with tracts and Bibles, with thousands of pulpits dispensing the gospel, with an honest police and a universal obedidnce to law, with stores of refining influences sufficient to stock a universe and with everything within reach that can tend to make a people virtuous and happy, London abandons herself to vice with a brazen recklessness which places her on a level with Sodom and Gomorrah. I do not speak of the vices of the slums, 80 carefully hidden from the eyes of decency, but of the tide which nightly flushes the thorough- fares with the filth of the sewers, and whose stench has become such a matter of course that nobody seems to mind it. Thescene on the Strand and Fleet street, on the Haymarket, on Regent Circus and on Waterloo Place in the two hours next to midnight would not be tolerated in such capitals as Paris and Berlin, and the ob- scene revels of some other quarters would have turned the stomach of old Babylon. Fashion has its Rotten Row in the daytime; the name were better bestowed upon the two or three hundred yards of well-paved street where pros- titution makes its nightly parade under police protection. Westminster Abbey accommodates @ few hundred worshipers a day. The Royal Aquarium, within a stone's throw of it, isthe rendezvous of thousands at night. people are attending a young men’s prayer meeting which Lord Somebody Is conducting in Exeter Hall. Outside, in fulfillment ofscriptute prophecy) seven women lay hold upon one man, and public-house doors are besieged by women and children clamoring for drink. For two or three hours the London that is visible to the stranger seems like a slice of the Inferno. On this side of the water we make game of the young fools, and some old ones, who ape English customs and English mannerisms, especially in dregs and speech. It was a consolation to find that on the-other side there are almost as many fools apeing us. The rule applies, moreover, in either case, that the bad, and not the good, is copied, and in copying 1s made worse. The greatest fraud of all things going under the name of American is the American bar, which is the rage in London and Paris, and flourishes with flickering promise in Berlin, Brussels and even Amsterdam. Probably the-worst specimens are to be seen at the Criterion and Covent Garden, places where the gilded youths of both hemispheres are wont to gather and spend their money in the dilution of their brains. The so-called an bar differs from the English bar lefly in that the drinks are more villainous and various, and that you pay four or five prices forthem. “All American drinks one shilling” (i. e., aquarter of a dollar), is the legend over these poison shops. Then they display a long list of mixtures, a majority of which no Ameri- can ever heard of before, with enough “smashes,” “cocktails,” and so on in the lot to give the whole an air of plausibility to people who draw their ideas of American life and no- menclature from the writings of Bret Harte and recollections of Sam _ Slick, refreshed by whiffs of Mark Twain’s Mississippi pilot vocabulary. 1am not a drinking man, but if I were I would face death rather than these vile compounds with their viler names. file eee California Millionaires. During the past ten years thirty millionaires, all of whom made their fortunes in California, have been separated by death from their hard or easily earned money. In 1874 died Jame de La- Veaga, leaving $3,000,000, and W. B. Bowen, $2,000,000, found with @ bullet in his bran; in 1875 W. C. Ralston, the banker millionaire, who drowned himself, and E. C. Croker, of Sacramen- to, #3,500,000; in 1876 T. C. Manson, @1.000,000, and James Lick, several millions, in the hands of the Lick trustees; in ‘Mark Hopkins, leaving money enough to fur adozen million- aires, and Michael Reese, worth several millions; in 1879 R. B. So ee of the gar- dens at the mission, 2,000,000; In 1880 Edward Martin, liquor dealer, $2,600,000, Robinson, $2,000,000, who bequeathed to the poor of San Francisco, which they got, and T. Mora Moss,- $1,500,000; in liam Meek, $1,000,000, Louis : A dozen’ THE LONDON FLUNKY, A Haman Crestére that Sees Nething, Kaows Nothing And Belleves Nothing. ‘W. J. Stillman, in the Century. In the intonation of the low-toned command is the highest expression of that incommunica- ble, indescribable, and, except by generations of cultivation, unattainable quality we call high breeding. In the reply to it is that perfect antithesis in breeding which we ought to call low—the profound, unquestioning and unhesi- tating prostration of selfi of the traditional hereditary “lanky,” disciplined like a soldier, who, as his master never permits himself to express a disturbing emotion, never allow’ himself an expression of surprise or a word of comment; whose self-command is as tas great his master’s, perhaps greater—a well-apparelled | #* statue, save when an order 1s given; whose bows and deference for his master’s guests are graduated by the distance at which they sit from the head of the table; a human creature that sees nothing, knows nothing and believes nothing which his master does not expect him to see and know and believe; who, if he thinks ofa heaven at all, never dreams that it can be the same thing for his master and himself; he hopes to meet his father and grandfather and great-grandfather in the servants’ hall of that celestial abode where his master and all the fam- ily for countless generations will dwell in their mundane state; his brains could no more take in the pereple of Dives and Lazarus than the Jaws of Kepler. and the most insensate Chartist or Radical could never inspire in him an ambi- tion to be anything beyond butler in his mas- ter’s mansioi ————— 19-5 —_______ ‘The Manufacture of Beads. From the Pall Mall Gazette. Beads are largely made in Venice, where glass-making has always been a principal in- dustry. It is said that the invention of beads dates from the thirteenth century, and is due to two Venetians, Miotti and Imbriani, who were urged to make experiments by the celebrated Venetian traveler, Marco Polo. Under the Ve- netian republic, and for some years after ita fall, says our consul at Venice, the exportation of beads had not reached the importance it has now attained. This was perhaps owing to the smallness of the furnaces and to the difficulty and length of the technical processes re- gale for the composition of the e. The lorelli, however, who in 1670 were the principal bead manufacturers, had four ships at sea car- tying beads to the east on their own account, and they became so rich that in 1866 they en- tered the rank of the Venetian nobility on pay- ment of a sum of $100,000 ducats to the re- public. Since 1815 this industry has become so important as to give at the present time em- ployment to about 15,000 persons. The traffic is carried on with all the world, but the prin- cipal exportation of beads is to the ports of Asia and Africa. An extraordinary stimulus was given to this industry a few years ago by the prevailing taste for beads for trimming ladies’ dresses. A great extension of the manu- facture took place, and the labor was pald so high that all who could do so gave up their usual trades for bead-making. But when the demand for beads declined most of the work- men who had been allured by fancy wages to the bead manufacture were thrown out of work and compelled to return to their former occupations. hatever be the cause, bead- making has always been the spécial privilege of Venice, in spite of all foreign attempts to manu- facture this article elsewhere. The wages in glass works are for a firet master about 8 francs a day, for a second master 24 france, and for the ordinary workmen from 2 francs to 5 francs aday. During the last five years the average annual exportation of is has been 25,000 juintals, of the approximate value of 5,500,000 108. ———— Boys Learning Trades. From the Philadelpia Inquirer. ; Dr. Francis A. Walker, the efficient and en- thusiastic head of the Boston Institute of Tech- nology, is reported to be doing excellent work in the way of inducing sacs Aol the boys of that city to become mechanics. The tendency of boys generally in this country, efpecially during the last twenty-five years, hasi been in favor of adopting one or the other of what Is called the learned professions, and the result already reached {s that, with the exception of the clergy, the learned professions are all overcrowded, and the law and medicine, which, in the country’s earlier days, were broad, straight roads to honor and wealth, are no longer so; indeed, it is only in exceptional cases that they are not the nar- rowest, crookedest, roughest and longest roads of all to fame or riches. ed are filled to over- flowing with young men of fair ability, st c= giing desperately for the bare necessaries of life. But the places which technically educated me- chanics should fill are generally empty, for mechanics 1s not considered a profession, and our boys have preferred failure in a profession to success in the workshop. If Dr. Walker or any other teacher can convince them that me- chanics is a certain road to prosperity, and can induce our boys to take to it, he is one of the greatest of public benefactors. Mechanics is eld such @ road in this country, which is teem- ing with all sorts of material to be manufac- tured. It is the highest technical educationthat is required for the proper development of this great mass of natural wealth, and the mechanics who have that sort of education will for many years find the way to success an easy one. Such mechanic need not work with his hands, but with his brains; plan schemes, invent and im- Prove machinery, manufactories, railroads, mines, furnaces and forges, and -all that results through labor from them. The learned master mechanic must iong be in America the imost needed, because the most useful of its citizens. That is inevitable when there is so much me- chanical work to be planned and done, eae rst pains ‘Who Wonld Stay? If we could go some day Before Age claims us for his prey, Drop out of all this strife ‘That we call e And without coward feara, Or fainting flesh, or wasting tears, Find suddenly the land ‘our dreama, an ‘There, face to face with treasure lost, ‘The friends whose dread departure coat Our souls such sore distress, Such agonies of wretchedness— If we could go like ‘With consciousness of bliss Set full before us, who would stay ‘To linger on the way ‘Through weary year by year ‘Till time was ripe and sere, ‘With length of days and lost? se set upon the crogs mystery and pain ‘We wait and walt again, Perhaps through threescore years Of doubting hopes and fears, And at the end we say, 2 “Ah, what a little day OF J6y is lite, and long, oh lone, ‘The day of pain.” ‘Then from the throng We drop away, while others sigh, Bending above our clay and cry ‘As we have cried, “Wé@y should we wait like this Bo much of ie in wasting pal?” much of life in w: @ —Norah Perry, in te Manhattan for October, petals Dac feta: uence dae Her Earg Had Been Bored. From Texas Siftings. _ “Don’t youthink earsings would become you?” inquired Kosciusko. Murpliy of Birdie McGee. Kosciusko had been} paying Birdie very assidu- ous attention of late, i “I don’t know,” replied Birdie demurely. “TI suppose the reagon yon don’t wear them ts because it will hurt so to have your ears bored?” “Oh, not in the Teast.” ‘eatd Birdie with ant- mation. “I've had that done already, quite often, almost, every evening—in fact, for the last, three weeks.” t i Then Kosciusko Found to the plano, his hat off the cover and commenced to fade gradually from the room. He melted away into ol , and‘now a wide chasm separates the gallant Kosciusko and the charm- ing Birdi j 5 Women In Corea hold a very low position and count for nothing inthe sight of the law. They have nc social influence and are not held per- sonally responsible for thelr actions. Polygamy 000 | prevails; the number of wives varies to the standing and affluence of the indt but as the middle and lower classes are not well off they have but one wife, ote. CHAS, HOUGHTON, Esq., lawyer, 28 State street, Boston, reports a case of Salt Rheum under his observa tion for ten years, which covered the patient's body and Umbs, and to which all known methods of treatment had been applied without benefit, which was completely cured solely by the Curicuna Remepres, leaving a clean and healthy skin, ‘Mn. any Mus, EVERETT STEBBINS, Belchertown, ‘Mass., write: Our little boy was terribly afflicted with Scrofula, Salt Rheum and Erysipelas ever since he was born, and nothing we could give him helped him until we tried Curicuna Rewepres, which gradually cured ‘him, until he is now as fair as any child. H. E. CARPENTER, Henderson, N. ¥., cured of Psorianis of Leprosy, of twenty years’ standing, by Cur- 1cuRa REMEDIES. The most wonderful cure on record. A dustpan full of scales fell from him daily. Phys- icians and his friends thought he must die. Cure sworn to before a justice of the peace and Henderson's most Prominent citizens. HON. WM. TAYLOR, Health Commissioner, Boston, ‘says: After three months’ use of the Curicura REM- pres, and twelve years of as constant suffering from Scrofulous Humor of the face, neck and scalp as was ever endured, I can say that I am cured, and pronounce my case the most remarkable on record. Sold by all druggists. Cuzicuma, 50 cents; Resor- VENT, $1; Soap, 25 cents, POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO., Boston, Mass. Send for “HOW TO CURE SKIN DISEASES.” CUTICURA SOAP. Absolutely pure, highly medicinal, indorsed by phy- sicians, preferred bythe elite. Sales, 1881 and 1982, 1,000,000 cakes, Sold everywhere, oct ‘Gow Mena, Pans, 1878, BAKER’S BREAKFAST COCOA. ‘Warranted absolutely pure Cocoa, from which the ex- ‘cess of Oil has been removed. It has three times the jourishing, strengthening, easily and edmirably adapted for invalids as well as for per- sons in health, SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE, W. BAKER & CO., eps DORCHESTER, MASS. L i BU 00 558g Ee La TLL i vw 00 RR = HEADQUARTERS FOR FINE OLD RYE WHISKIES. MARYLAND CLUB A, MONTICELLO "77, BAKER. PIPER HEIDSIC CHAMPAGNE, BASS ALE ON DRAUGHT AND BOTTLED, GUINNESS’ POR- TER ON DRAUGHT AND BOTTLED, YOUNGER'S SCOTCH ALE, BOT- ‘TLED, HOLLAND GIN (SWAN). EC. KNIGHT, sepa 1782 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Ex Rosszas FOR FRUIT JARS 3, W. SCHAEFER’S, aul8 NO, 1000 7TH STREET NORTHWEST. FOR THE FALL TRADE IN CARPETS, RUGS, MATS, LACE CURTAINS AND UPHOLSTERY GOODS, ‘or the Lowest Cash Prices, at SINGLETON & HOEKE’S, sepa 801 MARKET SPACE. year eee 60 CENTS PER POUND. Fresh invoite just received. Guaranteed equal to any old at that price, wept Wx. E. Woon « Co. HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS, MANUFACTURE AND ERECT THE MOST IMPROVED STEAM-HEATING APPARATUS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND DWELLINGS. C. WITMER. No. 296 W. Balt. St. and No. 1 North Liberty Street, = Baltimore, Md. sep6-6m_ Faz Ovene Day Goons. ‘We open TO-DAY full lines of all the new FABRICS in WOOLEN DRESS GOODS. in the most desirable shades, with VELVETS aud VELVETEEND to soateh, “BRUNSWICK” VELVETEENS are the best. of DO! 10 GOODS, FLA! HOUSEKEEPING FINENS CAGE CONTAINS aod all Seodfal things for the seasot JOHN T. MITCHELL, GT Feuaayivanis svenue, Ca. Rovezer, ‘NOS. 403 AND 405 7TH STREET NORTHWEST. THE HOR BEAUTY, Lawn | bee ig) coool, Archery, Sat aoe Prices to suit the times, New Discgvery Iv Mepicrve. ae BAND OPENING . Points, without change; 10:15, a, REGULAR PRICE, 600, OUR PRICE, 380. Of Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa there were 390.000 sis X copies sold in Smolin tnd ever 100,000 copies of the IF You WARE SD Se _— BE HAPPY, Py gh ea HISTORY. Torry Ficr ‘BIOGRAPHY, ‘In greatest variety of bindings, prints, eto. New Books arriving dale ag Department. eer29 ‘New Book Ar Morzmows s A FULL LINE OF SCHOOL BOOKS AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES, NEW BOOKS. Bird's Eye View of our Civil War, U.S.A Phil. phical of Theism, Harris: Christinn Charity in Scriptural Idea of Man, Hopkins: W. H. MORRISON, 475 Pennsylvania avenue. Scuoor Booxs axD SCHOOL STATIONERY, For Public and Private Schools, A full and Comy Stock, at PRICES AS LOW ANY ONE IN THE CITY. = and Retail. Wa. BALLANTYNE & SON, sepll 428 SEVENTH STREET. Scuooz Booxs, FOR EVERY GRADE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES, AND ALL SCHOOL REQUISITES, C. C. PURSELL, 418 9th street northwest. HOUSEFURNISHINGS. fg coming, and to be ready for it you should call at our Store, where we can chow foryourispection the largest Hip" Ant eta tte eter MADLANT HOMES city. Ain b N’ ES DUCHESS “and REGALIA, all strictly, fnet-cluse re> ¥ertable flue Stoves, - Also, a reat varie STOVES and RANGES, ‘both Portable and ct: LATROBES, FURNACES,SLATE MANTELS GRATES, &c. The onl: here the Genuine Danforth's FLUID is sold. Call and examine our stock. W. 8. JENKS & C0, ‘17 7th street northwest. sep? House F, URNISHING Geops OF ALL KINDS. BRASS FIRE SETS, FENDERS, ANDIRONS, &o. M. W. BEVERIDGE, IMPORTER OF CHINA AND GLASSWARE, eepl5 1009 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. iy SEWING MACHINES, &c. “HOUSEHOLD.” SILENT ” “Boston,” fine Ma- HAT GREAT EI “Than wo are tie only ithectacll Agents for the cele- HARTFORD AND NEW HOME SEWING MACHINES in the District. ‘They are positively the lightest running Sid most duceble puschings over prodecal” Old Machines ‘visit our office before purchasing. 8. OPPENHEIMER & BRO., 528 9th street northwest, St. Cloud Building. First-clans for rent by week th. All ‘Machines for rent by or mont SUDDEN AND SWEEPING REDUCTION.— ¢, AUERBACH, fo the Inst, Rfveen m issued ‘reductic grail binds: NEW LATEST MPROVED MACS ary bent andl inost, standard makes, which ays ), 850, 860 and S70, are . wit all exten attachments, and Five years! NEW QUEEN and NEW AMERICAN, No. 7, ud. "For SALE ONLY by G AUERBACH, oof |ALE ONLY by C. AUERBACH, cor, Auerbach's Gents’ and Hat Send postal and we will mail you our new RAILROADS. STREETS, We ‘Limit Cars at $:30 a m., daily; 2:50.8. m., daily, with Sleeping Cars from ‘Harris Care ose inch att” com except Saturday for Cl eS Sate tad ‘and the West, with Palace Sieeying Oar Washing ‘BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC BAILRO! AD. For Erie, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buffalo, —— Wasabi al pt Sati ‘with 4 5 ‘Lock Haven and Elmira, st 9:30, m. For Now Yous and the East, 8:00 a.m. 10:40, m., 1: 4:30 $-50 and 10: in Sundays 4:90, 9-30 and reas of Pullman Parlor Cars, 1:30 p. m. every week day. 10:20 p. ‘Limited Ex re, 6 E 8:35, 4:20. 4:40, 6:20, and 10:50 p. m. On Sunday, 9:30, 10:40 a. m_, 4:20, 6:20, 7:30, 9:60 and 10:20 or Pope's Creek Line, 6:40 a m. and 4:40 p. m. daily, For Atnapolis 6am, and 40 pm. daly, except Suns ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL. WAY AND ALEZANDEIA ‘AND WASHINGTON For Alexandria, 6:20, 7:20, 9:20, 11:00.and 11:30 am., Bod 40 9:0, 6, p diana ti top. ‘On Sunday ut For Richmond ‘and the South 6:30 and 11:00 a.m. daily, and 5-00 p.m. daily, except Sunday. ‘Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, 6:00, 8:00, 10: ‘and 2:30, 3:00, 3:27, 5:10, 7:00 and 9:10 p. 2d 12:00 gut. Oui Biutday at 8:00 aud 104 ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. of 00, 10:08 | 7 POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. t Beamer 3 ¢ af ce eats served yt ewoNDAT: WEDN' AX end FRIDA 5:30, ™ enfe and it steamer Te ne ees ies Bro ae, BOX lenree MONDAY, ESDAY and FRIDAY, of ‘sm. Nations? Serene oor Peete ‘Woop, “SEO. R PELE, agent, ALFRED a MPORTANT NOTICE! CHANGE OF SCHEDULE MONROE AND TEE NORFOLK, ror MONDAY, Sept. 24th, 1883, the populag Commencing Bert GEORGE LEARY, CARRYING THE UNITED STATES MAIT, Will leave 77H STREET WHARF, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 5:9) nee urning, leave Boston Wharf, Norfolk, on ReMRIS THUNSD AVS and SATURDAYS Cg nae, Steamer stops at Piney Point and Cornfield Harbor foine marning, sORNL EW to Novfolt and Fost Mouroe@10. Round pte nut and Co sor clase. connection wrth th Boston and Providenee steaincr. Washinton to Now York, $1.00) to Boston, $15.73, including’ stateroom, erin” and Freight received daily until LM. ‘WM. P. WELCH, Agent. Sten “ARROWSMITH Leaves Tth-street wharf at Tam, FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS, Conneoting with Baltimore and Ohio R.R. at Shepherdwy also, at Alexandria with 7:30am. Forry Boat from Wi fneton. “On Monday land intermediate nnd Spm. HUDGINS, Gen. Supt. ~ return Sot na ‘Currioman, ‘Tonanltown landings, returning Sundays, 3. B. PADGETT, Aat, CW. RIDLEY, Man, xn Tth-street wharf, Washington, DO. Mr VERNON! MT. VERNON?! STEAMER W. W. CORCORAN Leaves 7th street wharf daily (except Sunday) for Mt Vernon at 10 o'clock aau.: returning reaches Washing= ton about 3:30 pan. 30 _L. L. BLARE, Captain, LOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE, The steamer SUE, Capt. W. C. Geoghegan, leaves Stephenson’ wharf, ‘footol Ti atte ceey SUNDATS até K pm.’ for Baltimor and River Lenditas, Returning, leaves Baltimore every FRIDAY at $ o'clock pan. All accommodations strictly first -clang, River freicht must be prepaid, and will be received om BATURDAYS only mi6-6m \STEPHENSON & BRO., Agents, 7th street whart and 12th st. and Pa ave, STEAMERS. .NE--SUMMER BERVICE. ‘Quebee to Liverpool every Satuntay, making the shortest ocean voyaze. Only five days from land to fand.-Accominedatiogs unsuryexerd. Cabin $70. and $80 single, $135 and $150 Excursion. Baltimore to Liverpool every alternate Tuceday, via Halifax and St. Jons, N. F. Intermediate Passage, @40._| Prepaid Steerage, @21. LEVE & ALDEN, General Agenta, 207 Broadway, New York; or, At Washington, D.C.: D. A. BROSNAN, 612 9th street. JAMES BELLEW, 711 7th street, G. W. MOSS, 225 Pennsylvania avenue, dyll-w.4,m,6m ‘ORTH GERMAN LLOYD— Srramente Line Between New Yorx, Havam, MEN Lospon, SOUTHAMPTON AND Bi sa $0 Havry. Scuthamyton, and Bes in, second cabin, B60; st : Stecrage certificates, #22. ‘Fer freieht or paseure Pid to OELRICHS & CO., 2 Bowling Given, New York, W. MEIZEROTT & CO. 925 Pennsylvania avenue north- west, Agents for Washington, m2 THE CUNARD BETWEEN Ni ERY WEDNESDAY FROM NEW YORK Rates of Passage—$60, 880 and $100, according to ao» ‘commodation. Stecrage at very low rater. Sterrage tickets from Live feed son once a all cer pares aroreed ‘bills of inden fo inst. Glaagow, Havre, Antwerp aud Uther poris ou Use Continent’ and ior Leg vee pe pl ports, at the: = ‘or freight and passage ‘Com office, No.4, Bowling Green, or Goth sterrage: wan cate Wb BIGELOW & ©O., 605 7th street, Washington, De. VERNON H. BROWN & 0O., New ¥; Orto Masts: OFIS BIGELOW f . Jani? 605 7th street, Washington, Ne Ree oes ea GPRD AM, AMSTERDAM — Bteamshi of this Line. AMSTERDAM. ROTTER SCHIEDAM, LEERDAM, ZAANDAM. PC LAND, W. A. SCHOLTEN, MAAS, carrying the U. Mails fo the Netherlands, lave company's Pict, foot Sussex street, Jermey City, N. J. ‘every WED- NESDAY for Rotterdam’ and “Amsterdam, alternately, cabin, $70; second ; steerage, $26. PROFESSIONAL. — —— EET, &c—“THE WISE FOR HEALTH ON DAILY Valks Depend.” Hence physicians, wre cons and thousands of visit DR. WHITE'S venue, ite Will feet, “Twenty-two consecutive years Washington, D.C. Once fee ®1 par vin “ pi HL. BO MEDICAL ELECTRICIA) VEE, 2 i Ny, uscian, Sulphur and all Medicated given. 1417 G street, “opposite Rugs House. SPECIALTIES. Jz. ROBER’ SI 8% ‘CO! i= Diz TSON, SPECIALIST AND CONFIDEN, men. “Twenty sears exfariente Evers Welieniee aad Honorable and scentlic testament guerantncd Main Office, 30 North Liberty st., Baltimore, Md, au27-3m_ ME. BROOKE TELLS ALL THE EVENTS OF All business confidential. Ladies and Gen= and 6th Jel4-16w* MEDICAL, &e. R. LEON'S FEMALE PILLS MAILED TO ANE 48 (FoR M i—CHECKS _IN SIX HOURS, Guns in three day. Drug Store, 15 N. 11th street, 480 Penna, ave., Washington, D. ©. ‘ADAME DE FOREST HAS REMEDY FOR LA- dies. All female complaints quickly cured. Can be ‘consul y at 1245 7th street northwest. Otlice hours from to 9 o'clock ith ladies only, sepl0-2m* THE MODEL FAST LINE AND THE ONLY LINE ‘THE EAST AND THE WEST, iA. WASHINGTON. DOUBLE THACK? JANNEY COUPLER! Schedule to take effect SUNDAY, May 13th. 1883. Leave Washington ws Coaches, from ae For and 8t. Greece eh SSS et ‘to Chicago, pt es For ‘Toledo and Detroit via, Monroeville, 10:15 a m. ‘Toledo, pe ae For beltirore oe aes Bese BUTANE eth as. 80, 1.8 (yt a acatedemlaad Re 4:40 p.m. and 5, 6:40, 9a.m., 12: Mgrs 11:30 p.m. mechad oo aise eee ei am dob ame fend C45 pam daily except For Hage 10:15 am, daily except Sunday, 5:45 ‘Traine arrive rom the West daily, 6:20, 7:35 am., 2:25, rom New York, ana: 2:55, 8:30 a.m., daily, ign Fannagg My ‘Am, 150, 6:97 pm.; Sunday, Feces predecck ant stmt Seo an, 098 Dee at an, Sibu my thy 2 reas 7 E ‘am. 12:10and 4:40; on Sunday, 9 | 3 ‘One of the most complete establishments in the coum? try. Large rooms for transient funeral services. aul8