Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1883, Page 3

, THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY. BEMORSE AND EPARATI Giving Up a Fortune to the Children of a Wronged Employer. rom the Philadelphia Times. “For Mrs. Joseph Ashbrooke,” a letter carrier threw down a heavy envelope, with three or four foreign stamps on the upper right hand corner, on the marble counter in the office of the Girard House and hurried away. A clerk tapped a bell, “For Mrs. Ashbrooke,” he said, as he tossed the letter to a dapper colored ser- vant who popped up in response to the silver sound. “A letter for you, Mrs. Ashbrooke,” said the servant to an elegantly dressed woman. “A foreign letter,” exclaimed Mrs. Ashbrooke, looking at the stamps and post wark. “It seems to be from Australia.” She slowly tore the en- velope and drew out the contents. She | y unfolded a long and broad sheet of ch as she had never received before. left hand corner she read in neat. letters, Bolton & Bolton, solicitors, lia. The paper bezan with a | in a cramped hand, and as It grew worse and ended in a long scrawl that the lady took to be the law | firm’s name again. It was all hard to make out, but some of the words were clear enoush toawaken Mrs. Ashbrooke’s intense curiosity. She remained at it until she had inastered it | all. Then, pale and trembling, she called her husband and said: “I have been made an heiress 900, and so, too, has each of my went on the writ! exelaimed Mr. Ashbrooke. a m: rof wall paper and for se associated with Howell & Bourke. you s» pale” “Because Iseem to have received it out of the grave. THE STORY OF THE LETTER. The story that the letter told wasa weird Fomance. Thirty vears or more ago Mrs. Ash- brooke’sfather, Henry Deven, was the American consul at Rio Janeiro, Brazil. He had in his employ as confidential clerk or agent George W. Anderson, who had -been born in Pennsylvania and drifted to South America. Mr. Deven had been living in Brazil tor many years and had ac- quired Two ‘daughters were born to him Before the one who after- wards became Mrs. Ashbrooke was born his wife sailed for home and his latest child first saw the Hight on shipboard. rs. Deven had not been | at home a month she received advices that her husband was dead. He had been sick | fora few days only. When his affairs were settied up a large amount of money was found | to be missing. “It could not amount detinitely determine known thatafew d: Deven had a great be traced, nor the , though’ it was betore his death Mr. of money in cash on | hand. Legal inquiry was made, but without result. The estate was sold out and the matter forgotten. Mrs. Ashbrooke heard of it in childhood, but it left her mind years ago. She heard no more of it again until the letter from Australia came. The letter recalled it all and cleared up the mys- tery. | The lawyers wrote that they had been the | solicitors of George W. Anderson, who had died in March of this year in a hospital at Melbourne. He had confessed when dying that he had em- | dezzied $42,000 entrusted to him by Consul Deven. Atter Mr. Deven's death his faithless | agent wandered restlessly over the earth. He Wound up in Australia. He had gone into the gold dixwins there and made a large fortune and lost it. He had after that become the owner ot an extensive sheep raneh. He grew rich again | rapidly, but lost heavily in speculation. At last | he went into trade. He made money more slowly now, but kept what he earned and put by thousands THE SISTER OF CHARITY. Age and privation and the wear of wander- ing. however, broke down his health. He had Bever married, and was almost friendless in a far-off land. He grew so weak and iil that he Was forced azainst his own desire to enter a hospital. iis nurse here was a Sister of Charity. She was an English woman, who had traveled | n her mission in other lands. She was | dliment of cheerful meekness. She talked freely and hopefully with her white- haired patient of life on earth and the life be- | ave. She seemed to him, the solic- tobe the only friend that he had . He watched her wander in her | k <own and wide white bonnet among the | sick beds till his old eyes grew weary. He asked her what made her so cheerful amidst her wearisome tasks, and she an- swered faith and hope. Headded charity. She awakened in him thoughts of religion. At his own desire a clergyman was called to his bed- side after a time, and he was baptized into the communian of the Roman Catholic church. In telling of his faults the embézziement of thirty | 8 ago found a place. The priest told him | hat no forgiveness could be had for such a sin Until he had made restitution so far as lay in his | power. No matter how old the crime, the spir- Stual director said, reparation must be done. If | the man from whom the money had been taken | were dead his children, if living, were, as his Ratural heirs, entitled to the money. The peni- tent, full of zeal, said that he would do every- thing required. He had a deed of trust drawn | Up dividing seventy-five thousand dollars among | the children of the man whom he had wronged. | Two men. during his life, had learned of the embezzlement. but never spoken. He required, as a condition precedent to the payment of the money under the trust, that the fact of the res- titution be published. so that he might etand confessed before the world and his memory be | eleared before these men. A few days after | everything had been arranged he died, and his solicitors, in carrying out his wishes, wrote to Mrs. Ashbrooke. EVERYTHING FOR JUSTICE. “ Indeed,” sald Mrs. Ashbrooke at the Girard house last night, “I was surprised when I re- | ceived that strange letter. My mother, I know, had corresponded with Mr. Anderson after he | Teft Brazil, though she never suspected that he | had wronged us. He had kept track of us in | that way. no doubt, though the correspondence dropped lonz ago. It will be necessary before I | €an come into the trust to prove my identity, as Iwas born after my mother bad Brazil. 1! Rever saw him. and he never deed, hard- | ly heard of me. | “There were only three children, altozether, | my two sisters and myself. and Mr. Anderson | had known the othe onally. But he} wished to do justice among us ali. Of course shall tal steps at once to -show w citers naturally H ire th thing be done in rezular ord actly whe The chiet points of the instr ut, however, have been made clear to me, and Ido not apprehend any diffi- nderson’s will, I learn, has been | in Melbourne. I should not speak of the matter at all.except that it seems to have | been his wish. But be kind to his metory. Do Rot say more than is necessary. Poor man, hew thorouzh must nversion have been; how | d him the courage to do “What becomes of his fortune beyond that has left to you and your sisters?” y There was no more. He gave up everything for justice's sake.” ——<e-__- Leave It With Him. Yes, lea ve tt with Him, The lities all do, And they grow; grow In the ral Aid they grow in the dew— Yes, they grow; in the darkness, ali hid tn the night, im the sunshine, revealed by the ‘Sull, they grow. ‘They ask not your planting, ‘They need not your care Dropped down in the valley, wD Tue field, anywhere— ‘There they grow; They grow in their beauty, ‘They grow lignt,- arrayed in pure white, Fos clothed in glory, by heaven’s own Sweetly grow. ‘The gra: sses are clothed And the ravens are fed But you, who are ie 10 are lov: And guarded and eat How much more ‘Will He clothe you, and feed you and give you His | ‘Then leave it with Him; He has, everywhere, ‘Ample store. . * = leave bap ve Btra; ‘$ more “ear to Hi! heart, You wilt know, = the lilies that Or the flowers that start "Neath the snow, Whatever you it ask it you ‘You can leave It with Him, for You, you know. What Makes Women Beautiful. ‘From the Boston Herald. The greatest beautifier of a woman is noto- Hlety. The eloped, the abducted, and the victimized of the fair sex all continue to “remarkably handsome” or “extremely beau- in prayer, you are His care. (te the victims | his THE COMING PET. Cats Becoming Fashionable | Reasons for Angora Bes img From the New York Mail and Express. “Are Angora cats getting to be fashionable for pets?” asked a reporter of an east side dealer. “Oh, yes, indeed,” was the reply; ‘within the last month the demand has been quite large,and strange to eay I sell as many by mail as I do in the city. Only yesterday I sent one to New Or- leans and last week one to Chicago. They seem to be rapidly taking the place of pugs. Come in and see the cats. Se saying, the reporter was shown into a room where a dozen or more animals with long tails and hair sweeping the floor were playing zether or sleeping on hair cushions.. Some were white. some tortoise and others mouse- colored, or blue, in the parlance of the trade. “There are also black and chinchilla cats,” said the dealer. “These bine ones are the rarest, but the white cats seem tobe the great- est favorites. Some people maintain that only the white cats are the pure breed, but that is hot £0, as quite frequently white cats will have itferent colored kittens.” “What is the most valuable cat you have?” his large white Tom is the most expensive; he is worth #50. ‘The other cats are worth from 340 to £50. The kittens are worth $20 for the males and $15 for the females.” The dealer then explained the difference be- tween the Angora and the Persian cats, which is very slight, thé Persians having a longer face and larger ears. The animals are very delicate, and require great care In raising, colds being the chief enemies of the feline kind. Each cat must have a hair cushion ard be washed regu- larly and rubbed with cocoanut oil. Birds and scraped beef ate found to be the best food for them. A few cats are imported from England, but most of them are raised by a man in Maine. “Do you have any trouble in disposing of them?” “Oh, no; Tecan sell more thanI can get. A great many are bought for Christmas presents, and from now until New Year’s the demand will be very I: I shall probably sell several bun- protit is good, especially onthose ————— Going to Europe. Tn answer to the question, “Been abroad this ” Q. V. of the Philadelphia Press re- Plies: Yes; along with 50,000 other Americans, more or less, on business or on pleasure bent. Fighting for good berths and getting the worst; packed like sardines, three ina room that would make a summer hotel point with pride to its attic chambers; homesick or seasick; doing | sight-seeing to death, and calling it enjoy- ment; buying foreign trash and calling It business; committing whole cities to memory in @ day; climbing mountains by buying stereoscopic views for our drawing- room tables; wearing winter clothes all sum- mer; overdrawing letters of credit, and thanking the Lord that-we bought return tickets before we left New York; bored to death in English hotels, and making believe we were hilarious on Parisian boulevards; praising French cookery and sighing for our modest home tables; brag- ging about all things American, and feeling, at heart, with all our greatness that other nations can do many things better than we can; ridi- culing aristocracy and tickled to death’ to be dined by a lord; going shearing to come home shorn; all going with the air of taking posses- sion of our inheritance as lords of the universe, and returning either greater fools than ever or with more conceit knocked out of us than we ever knew we had. This going to Europe is a big thing. ———_+-e-____ The Black Flags of Tonquin. From the St. James Gazette, To find out who the Black Flags are and how they came to settle in Tonquin we have to go back to the days of the Taiping rebellion. When Nankin fell after its long siege, and Hung Seu Tseuen resigned his kingdom of Eternal Peace, which had fought so desperately during all the dozen or more years that it lasted, the imperial troops proceeded to make very short work of the Taipings that remained. The rebellion had taken its rise in Kwanz-si, of which province Hung was a native; and the Pekin mandarins were naturally most anxious to punish the shock-headed (it will bo remembered that cut- ting off the queue and growing the hair was the sign of a rebel) natives of that province. But the men of the West river were far more lucky thaa others of their brethren, who were slaughtered by the Hwang-ti’s troops and mas- sacred by the Lo-los in Ssu-chu’an and Kan-suh. When they found that resistance @as useless they simply crossed the frontier into the hills in the north of Tonquin, and the Imperialists did not follow them. At the head of these rebels, who did not namber more than. 5.000altogether, was Wa-tsong. one of the minor Wangs under the rule of the king of Eternal Peace. When they found that their pursuers were satisfied with driving them out of the middle kingdom, and did not venture to continue the attack into the hill country, the Black Flags proceeded to make very free with their new dwelling place. ‘They poured down into the valleys, sacked and burned towns on their way, and carried off wo- men and children into slavery. In no very great time the whole of northeast Tonquin was in their hands: and the provinces of Cao-Bang, Tayen- Kwang, Long-son, Thai-Neuyen, Bacninh and Sontay were in as pitiable a condition as the Lapa part of south China during the Taiping st le. Eventually the terror-stricken officials agreed to pay tribute tothe flags and matters quieted down. There was no love lost between the | rival Chinamen; but they, too, managed to rub along together; and ina short time there was comparative peace. The flags established regu- lar duties. created monopolies, got agencies at Hong Kong, and, in fact, had everything their own way. As Chinamen, and therefore good men of business, they took care not to kill trade by imposing too heavy exactions, and the Hong Kong and Carton guilds very ‘soon found out that trade was really much Brisker than under the feeble government of Anamese, Matters were thus going on very well when M. Dupuis appeared upon the scene and stirred up he hornets’ nest which will cost Fragce so dear. He sailed up and down the Song-coi and through all the crecks of the delta, lecturing Anamese mandarins as if he was minister of the interior and they were sub-prefects. His steam launches, the Laokai and Mang-hao, steamed up tothe black flag headquarters and the explorer threat- ened to shoot down the whole of Liuis band if they were not civil. On his descent of the river he came upon the yellow and black flags firing at one another across the river. M. Dupuis ordered a cessation of the engaxement till he had passed, and was very indignant because some of the black flazs took no notice of hiscommands. It was he who led the enthusiastic Garnier into the rash ex- ploits tor which the gallant explorers had to pay the penalty with his life. Finally, it was he who persuaded the French government that the flags were almost as contemptible a foe as the Anamese: When he was exploring the country in 1873 M. Dupuis found that the black flags were most feebly armed. At Laokai they had 60 double- barrellea fowling pieces, with a few ancient fiint-and-match-locks. At Kouen-ce he did not see a single gun among them; most of them had spears and pikes, but a good Many seemed to have nothing more formidable than flags. No doubt this information led the French govern- ment to determine on the annexation of the flags’ country, for it is there that the chief min- eral wealth of Tonquin is to be found—the gold and silver and copper andiron mines. But now that it has come to fighting the black flags it is found that they have multiplied, and that they are all armed with Remington rifles; and final, iy that fighting the black flags is very like fighti Chinese. Even if the Chinese government ae the French republic arrive at a ful solu- tion of their difficulties, the Hak- have still to beteckoned with before the Song-coi river is opened to commerce. ‘The Profession. From the Detroit Free Press, A Lawyerreturned to his home one evening to find that a Tramp had forced his way into the house and appropriated property of considerable value. He rushed for the Police and by some unaccountable accident the Thief was overhauled and conducted to the cooier. “Ah! you Rascal, you shall suffer for this!” growled the Lawyer. ¥ “I desire to engage your legal service to de- fend me,” was the sheet-iron rejoinder. “I will give = half the stolen property to clear me of the charze.” “‘Wretch! how dare you!” “Oh, ifyou don't with me wine Lawyer tend nee decided to call the LIFE ON THE PLANETS, Believing They Are Not Inhabited. Prof. McFarland, of the Ohio State Univer- sity, in the Sidereal Messenger for thismonth, says: Thirty years ago the question of the habit- ability of the planets was widely, and, in some instances, intemperately discussed. ' Several volumes were written, pro and con, the writers mostly seeming to think that they had a direct commission from on high to settle the -question or to settle their opponents; which things they. proceeded then and there to do. And both sides about equally forgot or disregarded the facts, ae with great heat, argued on general prin- ciples. An article in the June number of the Popular Science Monthly entitled, ‘The Cost of Life,” and which was in part criticised in g late num- ber of the Messenger, is a kind of renewal of the useless debate, and is clothed in logic equally conclusive as was that of the original controversy. The points given lately touching the weight of aman on Jupiter and on Mars were intended as a part of the proof that those planets are not habitable. To pass in review all the points of error would require an article of too great length for the pages of this journal; so I shall confine myselt pretty closely to afew of the more prominent ones. ‘The same author, speaking ot Mercury, says: “With a temperature of- boiling water in the frigid zones, and red-hot iron at the equator,” etc.—therefore there can be no life on the planet. But there is no proof of any such temperature, and in the nature of the case there can be none. Wherefore the conclusions are of no force. The error consists in virtually assuming that the cll- mate of a place depends solely on its distance from the san—whereas this is only one of #hun- dred causes. It is well known that even in the torrid zone, at an elevation of about three and one-hal miles, snow does not melt; that century after century “eternal” snows whiten lofty peaks in all latitudes. The temperature of a place on the earth's sur- face depends on many influences, any one or several of which may be greatly modified or an- nulled by the others; so that there is no general rule for climate. As a part of the multitude of things to be taken into consideration, astouching the matter in hand, we may name these, viz: The latitude, the elevation above the sea-level, the ocean cur- rents, the direction of the prevailing winds, the presence and trend of mountain ranges, the amount of vapor usual in the atmosphere, the degree of cloudiness, the quantity of rain and snow-fall, the size of the body of land, the amount of land in close proximity and its sur- roundings, the nature of the soll, the amount. and kind of vegetation, the denelty and height of the atmosphere, the length of the day, the obliquity of the’ sun’s rays, and the thou- sand and one other thinga which go to make up the whole temperature and climate. Of the greater part of these—indeed, of almost every one of them—as exhibited on other planets, it is absolutely impossible to know anything at all; and, as a matter of course, no one can speak intelligently ot the climate on any planet, except our own. But should all these items be known, the further question arises whether it is not possible that animated beings could live in an environment totally unlike that which surrounds us. ‘The conclusion of the whole matter, so far as astronomy and pies can now tell, ils this: That the four re outer planets have not sufficiently cooled down to allow life on their surface, such as we see on the earth; that Mars gives all telescopic and stereoscopic probabilities of conditions com- patible with life as wesee it; that the earth certainly for millions of yeara has been coy- ered with multifarious life; that ot Venus and Mercury we have no certain knowledge; and that the satellites are pretty certainly not fitted for such life as is on the earth; that, in particu- lar, our moon has no water and no atmosphere, consequently no climate or vegetable life. If the sun and the planets continually lose heat, then there will come atime in the far future when the snn itself shall go out in everlasting night, and the planets cool down so that the “eternal snow” would be hot compared with the degree of cold throughout all space where everything shall be dead. A Funeral on the Congo. Correspondence of the London News. On the evening of the first day's Journey we stopped at a village called Itimba, near the point where the Congo begins to narrow down from a breadth of nine or ten miles to a few hundred yards. Here, at Itimba, we found the people Just about to proceed to the obsequies of a dead fellow-townsman, an old man apparently of some social standing. The chief and his sub- jects were in some perplexity. Of late years it has become “derigueur,” since guns were in- troduced intothe upper Congo regions, to fire a salute over the body of a defunct person, espe- cially if he be of any distinction; and the inhabi- tants of this village, possessing only one pitiful old flintlock among them, and that terribly out of repair, were hesitating when we arrived as to what course they should pursue—whether they should charge and fire this one dilapidated gun and risk its bursting, or whether the de- ceased should be allowed to wend his way to the land of spirits unhonored and unsaluted. Seeing their perplexity, Lient. Orban yolun- teered to fire off a round of twenty cartridges from his “Winchester.” The chief and people were delighted. Could there be greater honor forthe de than to receive his farewell salute at the hands of a white man, with his wonderful gun, from Mputo—the mysterious region beyond the sea—the Unknown—perhaps heaven itself? (For are not these white men sous of heaven!) 6o thought the old chief,as he led us to see the corpse. With an earnest, pleading tone he took our hands in his and said: “Oh, you, who are going home!”—and he pointed to the pale and peaceful evening sky—‘You will send him back to us, will you not? You will tell him his hut is waiting for him; his wives will prepare his maninc white as cotton cloth, and there shall be Malafu in plenty, and a goat killed. You will send him back, will you not?” This ex- pression of feeling quite took us by surprise. Ordinarily the African chief is so stolid, so thoroughly material, that one never expects from him anything like sentiment or etic ideas. We tried as gently as possible—for he appealed to both of usin his distress—to ex- plain at once our utter inability to reanimate this hideous corpse with the breath of life, and to encourage him with vague hopes that all was not in vain, but he shook his aged grizzled head sadly at the confession of our powerlessness face to face with death. The body of the dead man had been previous- lysmoked and dried over a slow fire, so that the flesh, except upon the hands, was shrunken and reduced to a leathery covering round the gaunt bones. The face had been gaudily painted with scarlet. yellow, and white pig- ments, and the whole body was encrusted with the red dye of the Camwood tree. Round the nose and mouth was wrapped a band of cloth, and gay-patterned cottons swathed the body. For some reason the hands were quite plump and well covered with flesh, as if in life. The dead man had been placedin his grave in a sit- ting posture, many layers of native cloth lying under him, and ready to cover him up onthe top were piles of cotton etuffs, received in trade from the far-off coast, and representing to these natives a considerable amount of wealth. In the vague, half-determined notions which the people here have conceived as to a fu- ture existence, everything in the Spirit World is sup) to be a pale copy of things existing on the earth, so that for this reason they put cloth, vessels of pottery, and, in the case of a chief, dead slaves, into the graves, in order that the deceased, on arriving a Reger ee Shades, may not a) unpro' ropsfte of making a startina new life. The grave in which this man was buried.had been dug in a hut, and the head ot the corpse was not more than two feet below the surface.’ We could not ascertain whether the hut, or rather house— for it was a substantial building of poles and thatch—would be abandoned or not. I fancy not, as It is only in the case of @ chief that this ig done; and the man that was dead, although rich and influential, was, after all, only the favor- ite slave of the chief, Bhasin EE Dee ‘Ayear ago @3,000,000 was invested in oll works in Garfield, Pa. Now the town has only a fey empty houses. Trout striped with gold, the Virginia City Says.are found in some lakes near the summit of Mount Whitney, The most prosperous city in the south is sald to be Macon, Ga. In the last three years her gone and improvements have cos Globe- Democrat says: ‘Missouri may not be ‘the rob- ber state,’ but St. Louis is certainly the gam- blers’ city.” : Poker has almost superseded whist in what be called its special domain—the Cavendish eh —— green, Dublin; indeed. so popu- lar has the American, become that Stephen's green has been christened “Poker Flat.’ The Opiam Hani ‘Aménhg American Dr. EH. Kane, in Harpers are mentioned, at once hold up their hands in under high pressure, to steep both mind and body In dangerous naréotics, to still nervous excitement, lull pain, woo sleép, and stimulate flagging bodies and exhausted brains with nep- enthes more dangerous, more’ deceitful, and by far more treacherous than the aasassin's knife. Many, indeed most, personsand herein lies a great danger—while recognizing the great evils of such practices, invest the whole subject with a cloud of mystery, base their fancied know- ledge on De Quincev’s false but fascinating de- scriptions, glittering with Oriental magnificence, and come to look upon anopium-eater or a mor- phine-taker as a curiosity, distinguishable by certain peculiar marks, and rather a rara avis. They.do not know that they are dally sur- rounded by such people, that they are constantly jostling them in the street, being waited upon by them at table and in stores, meeting them in society, studying them in favorite authors or in the pages of their magazines, being married, doctored,ay, even buried by them. And it is so. Addiction to narcotics has become so common @ vice (or disease, if you prefer the term) that ex- amples of it are to be fonnd on every hand— from the keen yet kind-hearted physician who holds your life in his hands, to the miserable wreck who shambles hastily and expectantly forward to open your carriage door. No viceis so carefully concealed, so jealously | “Ve guarded, as this. I have known wives to use morphine habitually for years without the hus- | tients?’ band’s knowledge; so also husbands to ruin | Course, they could be of ni band Courier, “Is Dr. Calomel successful in his practice?” ; he has cleared over $20,000 the last two “Indeed! But has he lost an, “Only those who have di Advantage of a Cholera Scare. ‘From the St, James Gazette. Although many persons, when the snbyects of The cholera killed a large number of victims “opium-eating” “‘chioral-taking,” and the like in Egypt, but there cannot bea doubt that it has saved many lives in England. Some inter- horror, and descant with more or less volu- | Sting evidence on this point was given at the bility on the dangers of such practices, few re- | Meeting of the City Commissioners of Sewers on alize how great an evil itis, or how common a | Tuesday. Dr. Sedgwick Saunders, the medical Practice it has become if these days of hurry, | °icer of health, aiter Teporting that steps excifement, nervous strain and tension, and life | ad been taken to‘prevent the introduction of cholera into the city, stated that the record of sickness’ and death showed a very remarkable diminution in point of num- bers as compared - with the experience of col nding periods Guring the iast ten years. made, the sewers and gullies had been disinfect- ed, and the courts and alleys flushed, The re- sult had been fewer complaints, a moderate reg- ister of sickness, and a death-rate lower than had ever been known before. The fear of a vis- itation of cholera having now subsided, all the sanitary precautions that were taken to meet such an emergency will be discontinued, a8 g matter of course; but the effect of the very little that was done for the preservation of the public health on this occasion Is satisfactory, as showing that the waste of life ever going on around us is wholly unn be checked at any moment to the laws of nature. eee Wednesday Waggeries. The deepest mourning on record is that of an Indiana widow, who since the death of her hus- drinks nothing but black ~tea.—Zovell pa- themselves mentally and financially through in- | }onger.” “Of course not.”—Boston ordinate use of chloral without any one but the druggist being aware of it. One particular sad-| not prevail, t! example of it comes tomy-mind at this moment. | t} Afather had an only son upon whom he had | ¢ doted for years. In the three years prior to the event Iam about to relate the young man’s health was noted to “be Seesaely Sing al- though no positive ailment could by the physicians who were consulted upon his | ¢ behalf. With weakness and feebleness of body came also after a time mental aberration, and mnany strange actions on his part filled his fa- ther’s mind with both fear and surprise. One morning the youth, for he was but twenty-two years old, was found dead in his bed, and a search of his effects, as well as the scarring on | the latest, arri certain parts of his body, and the sad story. of | twenty trunks, “When does aman become a seamstress?” “When he hems and haws.” “No.” “When he threads his way.” “No.” “When he rips and tears.” “No.” “Give it up.” “Never, if he can —Oil City Lizard. some years’ steady addiction to the hypodermic use of morphine—a fact that had never for a mo- ment been suspected. Manysuch deaths annually occur from overdoses of morphine, chloral, and chloroform, for habitual users after a come both careless and reckless. Amongst women especially, owing to the prevalence of “nervousness,” ‘exhaustion,” “neuralgia,” and the like, has the habitual use of narcotics become very common. It is so ey, to glide into these fetters, at first so silken an pleasant, but afterward so galling and so thor- oughly tightened by the hand of habit, that ea- cape, self-liberation, is impossible. Were it more commonly known that the more cessity for and the more decided the relief ob- tained by the use of narcotica, the more danger there is of forming a lite-long habit,fewer persons would tamper with these deadly drugs. Phy- sicians themselves, who so thoughtlessly ad- minister these powerful nepenthes, should take | You. Why did you not bow to him? Was he mis- : taken?” “No, not exactly. We were engaged all warning by the numberless wrecks that are summer; but, you know, the season is over now, and it would never do to recognize him here in t stranded on these shoals, and be more carefal how they place such dangerous temptation in their patients’ way. So nearly alike are the sad histories of these poor habitues that one Illustration will serve as a fair type for all. A lady through family cares, overwork, late hours, or social dissipation, finds herself weak, nervous, and exhausted. She can hardly get up energy enough to attend to the ordinary duties of life; has no appetite; Ia lan- guid and exhausted, nervous and sleepless. One day, either in going out or by reason of sitting in a draught, she has an attack of facial neural- gia. The pain being agonizing, and rest and | © comfort impossible, a physician is sent for, and of course administers a doze of orn uns, either by the mouth or hypodermically. Like magic the pain vanishes, and the much-needed rest is found. The next day the pain returns again, and another morphine injection is given. So day by day this is repeated, until there being no further need for it, the physician discontinues Its use. What then? The patient first feels nervous, rest- less, and uncomfortable; misses the pleasant time be- | help it. “nervous” and | has made exhausted a person is, the more apparent the ne- husband i: Chi In a famil, the outside herein. he happy family. where the best of harmony does he couple try all the same to make world believe that allis lovely “My husband and I,” sim; lady, the other day, “intend to have ourselves ae together for the next salon.” attle painter?” discovered | friends, who was “By @ sneeringly asked one of her acquainted with the affairs of —Paris paper, An old bachelor asserts that the best and quickest way to revive a lady when she faints is to begin to take down her hair. If it ain’t her own she will grab it in a jiffy. There ought to be no doubt of the success of ived prima donna. She brought “Where is the girl of long ago,” sings Joaquin “Yes,” a very Miller. We saw her the other day, Joaquin. But she isn’t a girlany more. She had gray hair, and a wart on her nose, and no teeth, and wore specs. “The lady of the lake,” remarked luding to a lady with tinted cheeks. sald a fashionable lady, “I think Mary match. is one of the shrewdest and most un- principled lawyers in the profession, and of course he canafford to gratify her every wish.” Philadelphia Chronicle. ~ Thear that her “That handsome gentleman seemed to know he city. He don’t belong to our set.” Mrs. Langtry and her mother,it is announced, will live in a flat at New York. better than to have a flat escorting her about the country, with a maid and valet as chaperon and guard.—Boslon Herald. “Why do the oarsmen ‘claim fowl’ so often. fully. We would n't have believed it; had we not seen it in a reputable print, but they do say that the women in Corea adorn their heads with bands of talse hair! But, then, what better could you expect of benighted pagans? “There is one thing connected with your table,” said a drummer to a western landlord, “that is not surpassed even by the best hotels in 0.” “Yes?” replied the pleased landlord; and dreamy sensations that followed its use; | “‘and what is that?” longs forthe drug that mended the lagging step, steadied the palpitating heart, brightened the dull and weary eye and gave an energy and zest to life, the more strongly missed and longed for by having once been felt. One of three courses is usually pursued. It the woman recognizes the danger of further use, or fears to trust so subtle an agent, she masters the nervousness and overcomes the craving as best she can. If not, she either feigns a return of the neuralgia, and summons the physician with his deadly needle (the usual course), or else, pro- curing morphine surreptitiously, continues its use in gradually increasing doses. At first the results are very pleasant, and the fondness for the drug gradually increases. After a time the peyeican or patient, becoming alarmed by the old that it has obtained over the system, Makes an endeavor to stop its use. Both sad | « and numerous are the histories of such failures, and terrible the reatization that they bring with them of the bondage in which their actors are enchained. Some fume and fret and mourn their fate; some impotently rail against the phy- sician who not only led them into temptation, but did not warn them ot their danger; and yet] others, grown desperate and reckless, plunge deeper into the shadows of their doom. Month by month, year by year, they go on, the dreary monotony of their hopeless lives of slavery broken by futile efforts to burst their bonds, and subsequent sinkings deeper into the mire and misery that threaten their destruction. Some, their minds unsettled by the narcotic | “Why, how so?” whose tumes becioud thelr brains, wander through life neglecting both duties and pleas- ures, forgetting marriage yows and Bay ties, hopeless, befogged, and sometimes rec) less, until finally an overdose or the ghastly hand of suicide puts an end to the misery and despair. Scarcely a day passes but the account of some sudden death or strange suicide could be made great hurry. together, ‘Courier- “Yes,” said the Indigo merchant, “I’m ina I've got to goand wait an hour in @ barber's shop.”—Boston Post. There ig an old proverb which says: “You cannot get more out of a bottle than was put in it.” This is amistake. A man can get all that was put in the bottle, and in addition to this can get $10 or thirty days. A fortune awaits the man who will invent a Mr. Spicer?” said Miss Sugarlip: ing an account ofa boat-race. ‘ get chicken-hearted and feather their oars,” said Seth, as he scratched his own scull thought- “The salt.” Sad Jest by a policeman with a large family: “Yes, I'm a cop, and I’ve many little copies.”— bolder that you can't stick into the mucilage ttle, and a mucilage brush that won't go into the inkstand.—Boston Post. Experience: *‘Yes,” said Mrs. Brownsmith, her hands on her hips the air. I want a good girl, and possibly you ight do; but have you had any experience?” “Ixparience, is it?” replied the damsel, FE resting and tossing her head in “‘Ixparience, is It? Faith, and haven't Oi been in no less than twinty families during the last month?”—Boston i Transcript. A prominent Austin lawyer, in going to his place of business, overtook a neighbor who is a celebrated doctor. After walkin; the lawyer said: ‘ two ought to be seen together.” “Why no?” “Well, you see, we being together will remind the people of that robber who was arrested. “When the people see a law- yer anda doctor together it looks like a de- aad one money or your life!’ "— Texas Sift- ings. some distance 't think we “I trast your daughter is not one of those clear by the knowledge that narcotism was at 4 children. the bottom of it. We hear of postmen robbing the mails, ladies, wealthy and respected, pur- loining good$ from stores, cashiers ruined by speculation, men such as Dr. Lamson mur- dering their fellow-men, and in many, many cases can see the ghastly finger of this secret vice pointing the moral. It matters little whether it be morphine, gum opium, laudanum, McMunn’s Elixir, paregoric, chloral, chloroform, ether, or hasheesh, the re- sult Is eventually the same—mental.moral, phy- sical, and financial ruin, the sundering of family ties, the loss of self-respect, and to some, the most unfortunate, insanity, Idiocy, suicide, theft, and murder. Of course there are excep- tions to this as to every other comprehensive statement, but in the great majority ot cases it is but too true. And now, as though we had not dangers and pitfalls enough of our own to Gated the ig- norant, careless, or unwary, as though almost every block m this great el¢y did not have its slaves to narcotica,as though almost every little hamlet in the land, however humble, did not have at least one devotee; and every drug-store hi fo ner ot mutton cho) or gal “Sir,” he replied indignantly, as red hair.” tame, spiritless sort of girls that apply to us for situations and are too fillthem,” said a Boston shopkeeper to a father who was seeking employment for one of his metimes hfal to “my daughter “Why don’t you ask a blessing?” said the ious boardinghouse keeper to the boarder. He oked all over thetable, and gloomily answered: “Td like to know what for?” —__.e.____ Domestic MATHEMATICS.—An housewife says: “Two drinks of whisky mean a pound and a half of beefsteak; two beers, a din- ps; @ cocktail, an egg-plant head of cauliflower. Charley?’ stands for a nice oyster stew for the whole family Sunday morning. ‘Set 'em up in’ means sugar in the house for a month.” ‘this 18 a bit of practical domestic economy fur- nished by a workingman for the consideration of his fellows. economical ‘What’ll you take, Lord Roland Gower says that Mr. Gladstone, The Bible and lam; its steady customers for drachms and ounces of | Presbyterian church misery and degradation, there must needs come this new form of the vice from China, where its lack shadows cast a line of demarkation about eleven millions of similar slaves. America cans who are habitual opium-smokera, and a million and a half of opium, morphine, chloral, and like habitues. The! danger 8 ose on every hand, and nowhere js if more atening than among the thousands of nervous and ex- hausted American women. eae rene Se He is With Us Once Again. From the New York Tribune, While the Man Who Takes Your Uubrella has ail seasons for his own, and the Man Who Has a Little Story to Tell fails not in seed time nor in harvest, there is one particular flend who be- comes icularly numerous at about the time bi ere is @ coolness in the morning breeze and no steam in the radiator. We refer to the pervasive dust from which we sprang and to hn even when on apleasure visit at Chiswick, used to rise at 4 o’clock in the morning to work on his budget. were stolen from the Greenville, Texas, the other night, and pawned to the barkeeper of the railroad saloon for half a pint of liquor. A five-year old son of John Well, There are in | caster county, Pa., to-day at least ten thousand Ameri- | September 29, and of Lan- was bitten by a rabid dog died ofhydrophobia Monday. The handsome monument recentl: A correspondent of forms it that its Erie cor have been Man Who Leaves the Door He comes to |; the office on various ostensi in fact, settle a bil hes vals actaul poss le @ bill—but always his Pr 1s to go away leaving ‘wide open the portal oe mene t| through which the autumnal zephyrs co1 to the cavorting with coolness, and money to pay their chaste em| fall many a token of the | before over the grave of “Betty” Bo more cemetery life’s fitful fever she sleeps bears ly erected naparte in a Baiti- is inscription: “After y, and mav by simple obedience of 0 helpto him any Transcript. the e Fogg, al- That will be vho was read- suppose they DRY _ GOODs. and colors, ~price as abeve. both above for 80 JERSEYS: in Black only, 42 inches long, Lining, for the facturers—and_ r WOOD ols We offer an All-Wool Colby's” Diag- onal Cloth, perfect fitting, silk Stitched JACKET for the low price of $5. Srnsexs: Sensersi: Sensrxem ‘The JERSEY is to-day more popular than ever. We have added to our stock and offer @ more complete line than at any previous time. JERSEYS AT $2.50. Perfect fitting: an extra quality of Stockinette, stitched throughout with silk; handsome cuff;in black JERSEYS AT #4. Perfect fitting: French cut; fine silk finished Stock- inette; full pluited back; handsome satin bow; Revere Collar; Pockets and Cuffs in Black and colors. . We have eold hundreds of these at @5, but having bought a much better JERSEY to eell at $5 have reduced the JERSEYS AT $5, - Just opened. 100 JERSEYS, extra heavy quality Stock- Anette, close and fine; Revere Collar, Cuffs, Plaited Back and Bow, at $5 each, in black only; superb garment; Also, 50 JERSEYS, extra fine quality; Revere Collar; Plaited Back and Bow, Pockets and Cuffa, in Navy Blue, Garnet and Cardinal only, at $5 each. We have sold ‘87. JERSEYS AT $7. in Black only; splendid quality; Revere Collar, Cuffe, Pockets, Plaited Back and Bow, at $7;an elegant garment, JERSEYS AT $9. ‘The “JERSEY PAR EXCELLENCE” at $9; the per- fection of a JERSEY in fit, shape, finish and elegance, at $10 and $12.50. FALL AND WINTER WRAPS. Our assortment of Outside Garments for Fall and Winter Wear is much larger and in variety greater than and AN ELEGANT SICILLIENE CIRCULAR, Quilted Lining, Far Collar, and edged with Far all around, for $15. ASPLENDID SEAL PLUSH COAT, Seal Ornaments and best Quilted Satin extremely low price of $35, are all Tailor-made—the production of the best manu- for perfection in styles and reasonable Prices cannot be surpassed. EVERY GARMENT guaranteed to fit, and any alterations necessary made by Scompetent Dressmaker free of change, WARD & LOTHEOP. Just Annrven ‘The very latest styles in LADIES CLOAKS, DOLMANS, CIRCULARS and and Prices. o16 o13 HIS, HENBIETT, VERY LARGE AND CO) MOURNING AND | BLACK DRESS ‘MADE BY LUPIN AND THE MOST CELEBRAT! EUROPEAN | MANUF, ‘A CLOTHS, COURTAULD'S ENGLISH CREPE WALKING JACKETS, in Silk and Cloth, all kinds 6-4 Ladies Cloth, superiot quality, only $1 per yard. BROCADE VELVETS and PLUSHES, Black and Colors. BROCADED and SEAL SKIN PLUSHES, just the thing for Stylish:Wraps. FRENCH TRICOTS, from $1.25 per yard up. J. A. LUTTRELL & CO., 817 Market Space. 9389 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NEW COMBINATION SUITINGS IN PATTERNS: 88.75, 5 10.00, 12.50, 13.50, 14.50, VELVETS AND PLUSHES TO MATCH. GROS GRAIN AND SURAH SILKS. 3” GOOD GROS GRAIN SILKS, $1.00, ‘TYLER & CHEWNING. pe ee ee te Noverrs In Brack Goons. F EATON PERRY, (SUCCESSOR TO PERRY & BROTHER.) \TTENTION OF THE LADIES TO Ni MPLETE STOCK OF ‘ACTURERS, COMPRISING Sualities te male, and prices, We have experienced and po ‘who will serve you. °SONE PRICE ONLY" TRUNNEL & CLARK. 811 Market Space, jOTR.—Mre. BRECK. ‘2M floor, b aple ft ore — Mrs. on , hae amy Ne facRitiog for, Drees and Cloak-making at rakonable prices. T&G. 0} DIAGONAL CLOTHS, BROADCLOTHS FOR TAILOR-MADE SUITS. we sme ne {ust onened a lange stock of the above goods ‘Ful niock of new Dress Goods Just received, including tock of new . siaiikn Velvet and Satins f oe variety. ‘anid Satins tn BGA nierine decided bapeaine at Brocade Velvets, and Colors, Elegant stock Black Brocade Silke, Fruit designs. Rilk Velvets in all the choice colors. Great Bargain tn Colored Silk Velvcta at 6. Lyons Black Velvets in every grade, from 5 to $10 purchased a small lot of Real Indie Shawls, which we offer at one-half their al valve Housekeepers’ Linens and Cottons in every grade. Full stock of Table Linen and Napkins in bew design, W. M. SHUSTER & SONS, 919 Pennsylvania avenue, N. B.—THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. Douass: Dounss: Doxaass: CLOAKS! CLOAKS! CLOAKS? New stock of the above goods inst opened, trimmed. the latent styles, $10, 812, 818 81m 990 Be ‘Colored Cashmere, all woo We, Oey TS, Black Cashmerns, 50c,, 62c + 62e All-wool Fall Dress Good: Shawls, single and double, all st Heavy Canton F All-wool Red Twil Medicated Red Tw Eadie Flannel San lies" ne} -k Diagonal Be bat Comfc ortn aoe omnforta, Te. Double White Wool 84, 85, ‘Gray stylen ins, all erades, 1, $1.25, $1.50. ets, ber pair, $2.50, $3, $3.5 from $1.25 per pair. BIG BARGAINS. 100 dozens Cream Damask Napkins, 98°, dozen, 20-4 Best Bleached Shecting Cotton, 250. . M. TOWSON, 696 PENNSYLVANIA AvexvR, 6 5 South Side, — Capers: Canrers:: Carrersin THE LATEST STYLES IN BRUSSELS AND DK GRAIN CARPETS, ‘New styles will be added to our lange assortment om MONDAY, OCTOBER 8ra, BRIGHT STYLES, LARGEST ASSORTMENT, LOWEST PRICES, Bets., Hts, $7 cts, 0 cts, 62cts., TS cta,, Hcts., Beta, FLOOR DRUGGETS, all sizes, Latest Designs, Lowest Prices, VELVET, MOQUETTE AND TAPESTRY RUGS, FLOOR OIL-CLOTHS, all widths, NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN LAC designs, 28 eta, Sl cin, 37 ete, Acta, Bete TOT E ALL BOL WHITE BLANKETS, per pair $8, cM. TOWSON, 696 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, South Side. A Few Srecut Bancarss. 08 BROCADE SILK VELVETS, @1.50; actual value, @2 COLORED SILKS, 50c. EXCELLENT BLACK SILKS, 75e. COLORED CASHMERE: wee IMERES, all pure wool, double FRUIT OF THE LOOM COTTON (best), 830. BLACK FRENCH SILKS, 81, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, 82, Our excellent quality BLACK FRENCH SILK! auced from $1.50 40 8125 ajerial bargain, __ BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK (lightly soil @uced from 7c. te 50e~, pure line nduameaneits Se. COLORED and BLACK SILK VELVETS, speci Py special bar- BLACK CASHMERE SHAWLS, all pure wool, #2. BLANKETS from the late auction sale, ‘$2, $2.50, 3.50, 84, $4.50, 85, to $12. Blankets are ft be shag gear ta ate Sv Ba tad HEAVY BED COMFORTS, #1. CK CASHM! BLACK CASHMERES, all pure wool, are cheaper thas “CARTER'S,” 008 711 MARKET SPACE, Ratner F UNNY TO HAVE YOUR STYLE OF ADVERTISING DEw RIDED ONE DAY AND ADOPTED THE NEXT. THE MISFIT STORE, CORNER TENTH AND F STREETS, will adhere to its style of advertising, givi cs aud am neue description mice mite eco pa a Ue ena reat to tie uljateat of the ose Vieit 4 and caamine for themselves, oe " FOR YOUTHS AND MEN. 4-Button Cutaway Suits, in Oxford gray, corkscrew, at Ed Blo, said cls . wh 4-Button Cutaway, brown or blu cory canot be bouglit elsewhere Black D.B, Diagonal Suite (Heince Alby cont) Gib cheap at #23: Black D. B. Worsted Prince Albert Suit $18, sett 4 Nobby Business Suits for $8, worth 814. HitWoak cheer aad Coc een for its at =“ ¢ #14 an 6 are not « Hed any whe ithin @50, Good Serviceable Heavy Overeatsat = “Be #10; rant ° e seen to be apreciated: A splendid Chinchilla Overcout “at $12, would. tea ar Afullline of Black Diagonal and Worstal Urerats ‘up. Our $15 Beaver Overcoat takes the. Penta ge yee yy | ; the same ‘makes we have kept since matting. ede pended upon to give satisfaction. POR BOYS 4 TO IL ‘Overcosts and Suits at 82.50, $3, $3. 4 and @uar- ‘Ailteed 33 per cunt Lorca cae. FOR BOYS FROM 12 TO 11. Wu E. Woon « Co, HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS, ‘MANUFACTURE AND ERECT THE MOST No. 296 W. Balt. St. and No.1 North Liberty Street, s Baltimore, Md. eept-6m Saitfornia Axents for a8 Borba Ao a e Wines, Bren i argfeeven py 2h he Ger Tu Besr__ “THE CONCORD HARNESS" THE CONCORD COLLAR LUTZ & BRO. Soux Acewrs