Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1883, Page 3

. 1883—DOUBLE SHEET. RELIGIOUS J OT! CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE. = The officiary of Israel €. M. E. ehnreh have appointed a committee to get up a grand union fair. —In addition to the Est of memorial win- | dows published in Wednesday's Star, Is one on the south side of the chancel, which will be in | memory of Amos B. Eaton. The sabject 4s Christ in den of Gethsemane. — The people of St. Dominic's are looking | forward with a good deai of interest to the mis- to m: Th during w to-morrow at the 11 wh ch is to last two vill be t ser- ected by Rev. Fathers 1 is on on past. ton Dr. nd his = 12 high and 279 teach- heological depart- University bh for ehure volent contribution: Moody and i bh purpose — Messrs. Meetings in Jand. October 19, Conn, was c 2 St. Louis, has e new Presbyte “3, with headquarters | of the Rock River M. E. | rence, the ti her stationed in Chi- | was preseat at the recent session of the conterence. —The Bedford avenue reformed church of Brooklyn want Dr. Duryea, of Boston, to suc- ceed Dr. Elbridze S. F it is said Dr. Duryea would lik is — There are fifteen colored Baptist churches in Maryland—six of them in Baitimore Prosperous. The Union ehurc . Harvey Johnson pastor, leads with 1,700 members. — The First Baptist church, Chicago, before beginning its semi-centennial jubilee celebra- tion, October 18, paid off a $20,000 debt, and to raise 25.000 more to make the jubi- ring $25,000. con! ational church at Minue- apolis, Minn., only a few years ago a mission church, raised in one year $61.5 lent objects — There the ondon police. Meetings and Bible classes | anized, and a Christian police- aseciation has been formed, with the cor- dial sanction of Sir Edmund Henderson. | from my house, how much would I have to pay | answers.” | Who robbed Al | strive to | DlowM® job- are | of work. ! just the How Jobs are “Put Up” and How the ‘Swag is Shared, From the Detroit Free Press, “Suppose,” asked a reporter of a well known ex-detective, “that I had six thousand dollars worth of diamonds and other jewelry stolen the thieves or their middie-men to get the prop- erty ba “Well, there are many things connected with the business which might suggest many different What business?” “The business of thieving, for it is a business and has several grades. For instance: The men Lewis and David Whitney who did the Rolshoven work. rators of that job consMler the: s above ‘poren-climbe: jouses, and would n n the streets or elsewher HL thi: y Know the fact nize them ‘ow doyou “Ld non my and their : of ei hen he an ver, and in question of returning rd and no questions | v of the methoc ig nine out of ten of the safe- | ‘put up’ by persons living In | » work is done. They rprise and send for some one to 0 is part y ood at that at some one comes from abroad iy. Thus it follows that there four OF anes Of persons who know just who does a job as quickly as the news comes that it n done.” re the persons thus informed F persons who “put up’ the | who receives the prop- | who Kk, and the associates of the thieves who live in | hail trom, and who know that | home to do work. ow, then, | and use to each thi vT ird, the wet it. a thief leaves Chieaga, Toledo or Cleveland to doa job in Detroit: how do his | associates know where he has gone or wiat he | does? fis out oftown, andt work he does and ius methods of worki Isee. Now how much would a thief get on 5.000 worth of plunder?” rom forty to fifty per cent of the total | 3 You see it’s this The party uts up’ the job ‘steers’ the thief to a .” We'll say the ‘fence’ whacks up half- and-half with the t Then the person who puts uo the job calls on the ‘fence’ for a divy of 15 or 20 per cent of his 50 per cent, and on the thief for a like share of his half.” The statement being a trifle complicated the detective prepared the following table illustrat- ing the point: alue of property stolet -ived by : H are received by thi «2 i Commission prtd by thiet. 800} Reward received by party who “puts up* tie i job = 1.000 | Prowit realized : Proiit realized by thief, : “Then, to satisty the thief, provided I wanted to recover my property by paying a reward, I shouid be obliged to give him the $2,000 he'd realize on a £5,000 haul?” Yh dear, no. You would be obliged to pay fees to all the parties I have mentioned. They are all in the job and must have their * ne whether they restore the property to you for a reward or whether they dispose of | — Rey. Father Anderiedy, recently elected 1 of the Jesuits, is a native ot i843, and for some years serv the German Catholic ehureh at . . October 21, the Baptist | i ing with the id ehureh. Rev. H. B. Steelman pastor, to | to Miss M. A. Whitman, who is | at to sail for Japan under appointment of | the Missionary Union. — The Chieazo Advance says: “The trath that for every church able to pay from $800 to $2,000 salary, there is no lack of ministers, While for the new and less cultivated fields, where the salary is trom ere isa 10 to S70), thi famine in the niinistry, aud always has been. — Tae London Christian Life re eld preacher once said that we may have three we next world. (1.) Some people en we thouzht would be elsewhere. (2.) we thought were sure net ly there our- thi: pastor of the Trinity ched on the 2ist ultimo ry sermon. The growth of tnis young church has been steady; 227 have been added, 4 received the hand of fell the « of the Sunday morning serv others are waiting to enter. — The Rey. 5. Irenwus Prime, D. D., of the New York Observer, preached on arecent Sun- day in the Presbyterian ciureh of Bediord, Westchester, N.Y re fitty years azo he de. livered the first sermon of his ministry The discourse was chiefly a review of the moral and religious prog —Rev. M. iH. 1Sth street church in I years ago, and since th tinuous revival epiri ce passed without cony and baptis members have been r ve are at work as Sunday school tea ‘ators, or in other ways. cil at Connels astor of the nearly two a there has been a con- S ile, Pa., on claims of each claiming to be the rezular Bap- | 1 H. Cooper Octob two bodi tist church of that piace. found that the bre sented by W. were th r t place, and ad- ised larch to withdraw t ship from RC. Morgan for in before th — Re council, Dr. Horatio Potter has been Episcopal of New York since 1854, Bishop H held the offic from IS11 to 1830. ‘The other occu ishop Provoost. 1787-1801; Bishop Moore, 11; Bishop Oaderdonk, 1 62; Bishop rt Wainwright, 1852-1854. Bishop Henry C. Potter. who is understood to be in | the lin f succession, is 48 ze,in the prime of his powers th, and With promise of along period of great useful- Bess before him. —The New York Tribune describes a new sort of minister as follows: “A clergyman in Tennessee is known as the ‘satisfying preacher.’ Whenever a church beins to grow tired of its Tesular pastor, the ‘satisfying preacher is sent for. And so ‘atrociously bad is he that after or twice the congregation is entirely ‘satistied’ to keep the pastor It has. A Rew avenue of usefulness is thus opened to poor preachers. They will act as a sort of a counter- poise to those peripatetic preachers whose showy eloquence often causes a congregation to be dissatisfied with its humdrum pastor.” +:The Mount Hermon schools founded by Mr. Moad$ “already have -over $200,000 worth of property, and another building to cost 250,000 will be added soon. One of the trustees says that every boy of the forty now on the grounds has an eventful history. One was taken by a ilanthropist from a New York elevator, not aving any home in the great city; another was @ castaway at sea without kindred: three bright little lads were the sons of a Liverpool lawyer, who, with their mother, died suddenly, leaving them penniless; and so on through the list. Back of most of the boys some man stands as a friend and father, paying the tuition, placed Bominally at $100 a year. — The American Missionary association (Con- grecutional) has this season built Whitin hall, dormitory for boys. at the Straight university, in New Orleans, named for the late Dea J. C. ‘Whitin, of Whitinsville, Mass., whose estate id for this purpose $10,000, which, with $5,000 from Deacon Straight, covers the cost. aiso built at Talladeza colleze, Ala. Cassidy hall, for the primary department, named for Mr. J. H. Cassidy, who gave the #5,000 needed. The Atlanta university has finished and occu- | the thief it toa ‘fence.’ There would be this dillerenc Considering the safety that would follow all concerned by restoring the property to you and no questions asked, the ‘putter up’ of the Job, and the ‘fence’ would consent to smaller profits. Accordingly, on $5,000 worth of property stolen, you would be obliged to pay 1.000 to $2,000 to get it back.” “But. hold on! you've lett out the whack clamored for by the associates of the thieves at his own home.” “That the thief is obliged to settle for after he returns to his home, and if he fails or refus to do the square thing. then some-one ‘squeals’ to our police, an officer picks up the squeale and sometimes works out the ‘kick’ to convier ion. But there is sometimes trouble there, fo- aman who wili ‘blow’ on a partner will ‘settl r with t tirely at sea and without witnesses 8 'sasort of dog-eat-dog occupation which we in, isn’t it?” and in the long run every dog me other dog.” ——— For Love Of A Child. A Cincinnati paper says: In a pottery factory here there is a workinan who had one small in- valid child at home. He wrouzht at his trade with exemplary fidelity, being always in the shop with the opening of day. Hemanaged, however, tobear each evening to the bedside of his wee lad.” ashe called him, a flower, a bit of ribbon, or a tragment of crimson glass—indeed, anything that would lieout on the white coun- terpane and give a color to the room. He was @ quiet, unsentimental man, but never went home at nicht without something that would make the wan face light up with Joy at his re- turn. He never said toa living’ soul that he loved that boy so much. Still he went on _pa- tiently loving him, and by andby he moved that whole shop into positively real but unconscious ip with him. The workmen made cu J cups upon their wheels, and painted diminutive pictures down their sides before they stuck them in the corners of the at burning time. One broucht some trait in the bulze ot his aproa, and another en- i -book. Not one of them whisp word, for this solemn thing 28 not to be talked about. They pnt them in the old man’s hat, where he found them; he un- derstood all about it, and, believe it or not, cynics, as you will, butit isa fact that the en- tire pottery full of men ofrather coarse fiber by nature, grew quiet asthe months drifted, be- coming gentle and kind, and some dropped swearing as the weary look on the patient fel- low-worker’s face told them beyond mistake that the ine ble shadow was drawing nearer. Every day now some one did a piece of work for him and put It on the sanded plank to dry, so that he could come later and go earlier. when the bell tolled and the little coffin ca out of the lowly door, right around the cor > out of sight, there stood 100 stalwart working- men fromthe pottery with their clean clothes on, most of whom gave a half day’s time for the privilege of taking part in the simple pro- cession and following to the grave that small burden ofacluld which probably not one had ever seen “It certainly becomes food { eS Come Near, Come near to me. I need Thy glorious presence ‘Through the dense darkness of tis troubled hour. Shine on my soul, and fill 1t with the essence ‘Of Thy pervading and uplifting power. Come near, come near to me, ‘Come nearer yet. I have no strength to reach Thee. My soul fs like a bird with broken wings. Lean down trom Thy fair heights and teach me ‘The balm Thy touch to mortal beings brings. ‘Lean down, O God, lean down. Come near. And yet, if thoseeternal places Hoid greater tasks to occupy Thy hands, Send Thy blest angels whose celestial faces ‘Stuile Sometimes on us from the spirit lands. Send one, send one to me. I must have help. Tam so weak and broken ‘That moral force’ Gf Which oe neh Be ook mor ce, Of Ww! so much ts. ke A Will not sustain and fortify me now * must, I must have help, Some outside aid, some strength from ‘sources ‘We must have,'In hours like thisy of dhe ‘To One, to all, of those mysterious forces Which men call God, I litt myself and cry ‘Come near, come near to me, ELLA WuRELER, Sant For Dysrepsta.—Half a teaspoonful of common table salt dissolved in alittle cold water and drank will instantly relieve heart- burn or dyspepsia. If taken every morning be- fore breakfast, Increasing the quantity - ally to a teaspoonful to a glass of water, it will in a few days cure any ordinary case of dyspep- the diet. There isno better remedy than the above for constipation; no better gargle for sore throat. It is equal to chlorate of potash, and is entirely safe. It may be used as often as de- ied its splendid Stone hall, named for Mrs. Va- fora G. Stone. At Macon, Ga., a library build- ing. with a basement for a workshop, has been built for the Lewis high school. At Wiliiams- burg. Ky., the A. M. A. is building an academy; at Hillsboro, N. C., also, a school-house, with the 2300 ziven by Mrs. Gray, of California; and at Pexin and Oaks, N.C., a chureh school-house for each. eee The ceiling of the new Park theater, in Cleve- land, is of flated sheet iron, which is not only @rnamental, but proof against fire. sired, and ifa little is swallowed each time it will have a beneficial effect on the throat by cleansing it and allaying the frritation. In doses of one to four fesspourstel in half a pint te a pint of tepid water it acts promptly as an emetic, and in cases ot poisoning is always at hand. It isan excellent remedy for bites and hemorrhages particulary tor icone ies oe m0! for the extraction of atooth. it ae tonne and tat apt ft and is therefore a excellent superficial ulceration. Shaker Mc * | drawi | they must war with the public to make money. POSTAL TELEGRAPH. John Mackey Determined to Give the Public Cheap Bates—His Opinion of Gould. From the Carson (Nev.) Appeal, John Mackey was interviewed by arepresent- ative of the Appeal. His mind is centered on postal telegraphy, and he talked very treely oh the subject. Rep.—The scheme is now fairly launched, I suppose? a Mackey.—We have started several lines, and our factory In Ansonia, Conn., is turning out fifty miles of steel and copper wire aday. The wire is copper, with a steel corerunningthrough the center to give it strength. It will last tor years. Look at these old iron wires (waving his hand out of the car-window), They wear | out. and it keeps men repairing all the while. They are of very little account. Our wire is a lines in operation yet? ween New York and Chicago we ares a day with four operators system, The dispatchesare fixed and then it goes like a flash. We cents for 20 words, and my idea is that Tis too high. There is big money in I hope to sce the tariff re- The greatest expenge is the delivery, and we expect to adopt systtm by which the dispatches can be turned over to the post office and put into the delivery boxes the 's. By combining the h the post-offices in large ethe public the cheapest system for the area of country covered in the world. Rep.—You will pay high wages to operators? ckey.—We will the highest waxes for skilled labor. and I consider that a telegraph operator must be a man of the highest intelli- gence. Some of the Western Union men who have grown old in the service get 240 a month. Our new machines are labor-saving, and we can afford to pay the best wages. We can handle ten times the amount of business that the West- ern Union can, and will make that extra busi- by placing telegraphy where poor men can it. Gould's line is capitatized for over $100,000.00, and it can be duplicated to-day for 000,000 or less, “p.—Do you consider Gould a formidable an- ist froin a business standpoint? key.—No. 1 do not. He is_the worst hated and most overrated man in New York. He has frizhtened the life out of heavy business men, and they think he can crush thein out if he chooses. This is all humbug. Capital Is not. so powertul as people think. When a man has Kept his business as a constant menace to the public and acted as the bully instead of the friend to his patrons, it takes very little to knock him out. provided you give his patrons to understand that you are in the fight to stay. Opposition lines have not succeeded because the people feared that they would sell out to Gould, and so you see they do not dare patron- ize the new line for tear that after.the consoli- dation Gould would revenge himself and crack on the prices higher than ever. This new line has the confidence of the public because it is not looked upon asa. sell-out proposition. Some lines started out in good faith, but the tublic held aloof until they had to sell or fall. We are not in the field for anything except to give the public cheap telezraphy, and we expect to sustain friendly relations with our patrons, upon whom we depend for our returns. I think the time is * near when capitalists will not feel that such a tar half a cent a word. duced to 123; cents for 25 words. Thold that the better you please your patrons the more money you can make. Instead of watering the stock and saltins down profits, exiend your business and cheapen your rates. This is the true principle. We will fizht Gould on fair basiness principies, and we will look for public patronage when we show the public what can be done with wire and electricity. - When willyou come to this coast? 'y.—Not at present. We haye all we can attend to now, and probably will be two years getting our lines laid. We will work west, how , as fast as we can. Kep.—Of course you will give the press cheap rates? Mackey.—Most assuredly; we will give them rates that will astonish the publishers, who have: been in the of passing two-thirds of their earnings over to the Western Union. I cannot say what rates, as that part of the business ha hot as yet been given much consideration. W just now want to build our lines. We will underbid any rival company on press dis- patches if we nave to furnish them free. Va! ble for TKea-Drinkers. Corresponde: Pall Mall Gazette, Itis well known that thegreen tea affects the nerves much inore thanthe black tea, which is believed to arise from the different mode of preparation. For making green tea the leaves are put over the fire and partially dried di- rectly they are picked, but with black tea the leaves are put into a basket and then exposed to the influence of the atmosphere for twenty or thirty hours, during which timea slizht fer- mentation takes place, and the color of the leaf chauyzes from green to a brown or chocolate hue (this is easily seen by the infusion of the dried leaf of black and green tea: the leat atter infusion will show the different colors named); they are then put over the fire and finished. In this country about 215,000,000 pounds are de- livered yearly, of which about 40,000,000 are ex- ported, but the proportions are about 207,000.00 of black and. 7,000,000 of green, Oolong and Japan. While in America the black tea im- ported is about 5,250,000, the green , tea (in- cluding Oolong anduncolored Japan téa, which possess nearly the same properties as grecn) amount to. 58,000,000. Would not this exces- sive use of green account for the opinion of the American docto to the efect of tea on the nervous system? I doubt very much if a pound of black tea, boiled down in the same way as the Young’ Hyson mentioned, would poison either rabbits or cats with thesame dose. There is no doubt the fermentation of the leaves of black teareduces the amount of the active prin- cipal “theine” that you find in green. Another thing in preparing tea for the table, boiling water is put on the leaf and an infusion hich is at once partaken of. But wh would think of boiling tea to drink? By so doing you extract from the stalk and woody fiber of the leaf an acrid decoction that no one would find pleasure in taking, and from which woody part would be most likely extracted the poisonous qualities mentioned. In tea-drink- ing European countries, as Germany. Russia, ete,, scarcely any green is used, and doubtless the great incre in the consumption in this country arises from the almost nniversal use of black tea, green being oniy used in mixing with it to impart a flavor, and while of late years the consumption of black tea-has larely Increased, that of green has remained stationary, which clearly shows the taste in this country is en- tirely difierent from that of America. “May we long continue in this country to enjoy the “cup which cheers but not inebriat From the Chicago News. A weary Child upon being Told by his Mother to Implore the deity for his Daily bread before Retiring replied that as it was Safer to Go to Bed _on an Empty Stomach he would Postpone the Supplication till Morning. A certain Humorist, .aving Applied for a Situation, told the Managing editor he was the Author of the Joke about the Banana peel. Whereupon the Managing editor Hired him to Write personal Reminiscences of the Antedilu- vian Period. A Missouri tobacco Sign, upon being Derided by a Republican for not Knowing enough to Go in when it Rained, calmly Replied: “That may be True, but if I were nominated for Governor I would be Elected, an Honor which You, being, a Republican, can never Hope to Accom- plish.” While courting the Widow Custis, George Washington was Approached by the widow's Pretty son, who Clambered upon the Good man’s Knee and asked him who Sent him so many Beautiful Christmas Presents the day before. “My child,” said the Father of his Country, sol- ens, “I can not Tell a Lie—it was Santa A young Woman, having Presented herself Before a manager for Employment as an Actress, was Asked if she had ever been Divorced or In- volved in any Serious Scandal. Upon receiving & Negative answer, the Manager laughed Loud and Long. ‘‘Go, presumptuous Female,” he cried, ‘chow Preposterous of you to Pester me when you Have neither the Divine Affiatus nor It has | sia, if at the same time due attention Is paid to | the first instincts of the Profession.” Upon one Occasion Hamlet, thinking to Test the Servility of Human nature, called the Atten- tion of Polonius to a Politician who was Wea ing along the Boulevard. ‘Methinks it is a Tick,” sald the Melancholy Dane. “Very likea Tick, me Lord,” replied the Venerable Toady. “Or. by me Lecce Goat,” gaat ite prince. “Good, me Lord, pect ness, ve like a Goat,” answered the ‘Trackling Courter, +o one yeiptaatlese ee — nein! in- v 0 packing and over 30.000 persons engaged in the 1s taking measures to nt the destruction of the beds in the ebay. It is posed that the peeing of rest for: shall be lengthened and extend from April I until October 1. A Conducter’s Home. From the Philadelphia Times, - , Upon the fourth floor of the magnificent Broad. street station building, in thecorner facing 15th and Market streets, are the quarters occu- pied by conductorsof passenger trains and others employed about the depot when away from home or off of duty. Part of this space is taken up by bath and dressinzrooms, with num- bered closets, in whith* passenger employes keep their uniforms and other clothing, and part by sleeping-rooms. These differ from the resting places atthe retreat for brakemen at 25d street in that they are provided with bedding and other accommodations, 80 that the men who use .them can stay all night as comfortably as they Could at their own homes. ‘The remaining part of this space is filled by the conductors’ library and reading- room. This is larger and finer than the brake- men’s, though hardly so well-lighted, as it has indows only upon one side, _A few glances re- veal the tact that it is intended to cater to tastes ofa high order, as though the company consid- ered its employes intelligent, cultivated gen- tlemen, and intended to treat them as such. It is carpeted with a handsome body brussels and provided with a number of chairs, sofas, library and chess tables. The chairs and sota are neat and substantial, of different patterns, walnut with cane seats, Or upholstered tn hatr cloth rep. The library tables are covered with daily papers, magazines, atlases, encyclopedias and handsome pictorial Volumes, as Picturesque America. Chess, checkers and dominoes are the only games allowed. The walls are literally covered with large photographs of Pennsyivania railroad scenery, portraits of prominent rail road officials and a number of fine enxravings. The immense book-cases are filied with a re- markably good collection of several hundred volumes, embracing nearly all ofthe standard works of English literature. The books are neatly and uniformly covered with heavy, dark paper outside oftheir bindings. There is a librarian in charge, and all using the reading- room have the privileze of taking the books home, Most of the yolumes were provided by the railroad company, but several donations have been made by outside friends. The same is true of some of the pictures. The finest gift was that of ahandsome Steinway piano, pre- sented by Mr. Reed, of Philadelphia. For this the passenzer employes, in a body, thanked the donor in an elegant set of engrossed resolutions. A violin keeps the piano company. Some ofthe conductors are fine musicians and elocutionists. Upon the evening of the 25th of every month they hold in this room an informal concert or entertainment among themselves. The perfor- ™mances are ususily by amateurs, drawn from their own ranks, assisted by their lady friends. Occasionally professional talent is enlisted. Quite recently they were treated to a lecture by Mr. Robert J. Burdett, of Ardmore. Conductors and other railroad employes take the greater part of their meals in the building. They use thesame restaurant as the passengers, but as they wear citizens’ dress when off duty they attract no special attention among the throng. The company supplies them with res- taurant tickets, by which arrangement they can obtain table-board at the cost price of the food. This is the only charge made them for any ac- commodation on the premises. Take Heart. All day the stormy wind has blown From off the dark and briny sea; No bird has past the window flown, ‘The only song has been the moan ‘The wind made in the willow tree. . ‘This {s the summer’s Durlal time; She died when dropped the earliest leaves, And cold upon her rosy prime ¥eil down the autumn’s frosty rime— Yet [am aot as one that grieves. For well I know o’gr sunny seas. ‘The blue-bird wal€S for April skies; And at the ro trees y-H10% n fragrant ease, azure eyes. winds of grief o'erblown ome golden summer's bier by ee How It Happened. From the Wall Street News. He was a bank telier. He had been sent off ona vacation, his books overhauled, and he had been found $9,000 short. This fact stared him in the face as he sat amidst the board of di- rectors. Now, then.” said the president,‘I presume Jou acknowledge the embezziement.” “And how did you use the money?” “In speculating.” “In what “Well, I was a bull in X, Y, Z railroad stocks, but there was too much against me. I didn't have a fairshow to make anything.” “Why, how?” “Well, while I was using $9,000 of the bank’s money to bull the stocks, the cushier was put- ting up $20,000 to bear them, and 0 I lost all!” ——_—---_____ Saturday Smiles. A health journal advises: ‘Do not lie on the left side.” “It may be unhealthy, but what is a mar to do when he is lying on the extreme edge of the bed, with a twelve-inonths’ teething bab: wedged inthe small of his back? Turn oy and spoil the infant?— Drake's Magazine. John Ruskin says: ‘That which was beauti‘ul yesterday is beautiful to-day.” The woman who has had her new fall bonnet spolled by a shower does not hold this opinion.—Somerville Journal. A match safe Is a common article, but a safe match is an uncommon one.—Boston Bulletin. “What has become of Maurice?” “He is still employed at the post office on a thousand franes salary.” “Poor fellow! And Gerard?” “Oh, Gerard is an ex-administrator of the Union-Generale; he owes twenty millions!” ‘Ah, the rogue! I always predicted that he would succeed!” It 1s stated that “northern traveling men are becoming numerous in the south, and merchants are @eceiving many flattering attentions.” Flat- tering attentions is a real nice name for invita- tions to drink.—Boston Post. ‘You'll have to take the will for the deed,” Is what the heir said to the lawyer when the latter presented his bill.— Yonkers Statesman. Algernon Swinburne it is understood will soon follow Matthew Arnold to this country. As neither of the gentlemen knows anything about baseball their reception at the west will in all probability incline them to make a home run.— Brooklyn Eagle. There are no nice little stories about the re- turn of ‘The Prodigal Daughter.” Theson can return and have the finest veal served up for him, but tie daughter must stay away. “They say that Stibble’, of Ohio, having lost his place in the government, intends to make a doctor of himself.” “A doctor! I wonder what put that into Stibbles’ head?” “Why, you see, he wants to be a doctor go that he can always Irrefutable Logic. From the Arkansaw Traveler. “You are charged with carrying whisky away L®* OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1883. SPECIAL NOTICE. During the past week we have sold a great : many from an llicit distillery,” sald the United States | FPF Te gbtain any of these Letters the applicant mast | TOPS TRIMMINGS, becanre we havo the Lares judge to Uncle Silas. ‘What have you to say EF-If not called for within one month they will be | FSX We want to sell fully ten times what we sold last to that charge?” pent to the Dead Letter Office. ‘week, and to do this we have made the following ~T isn’t guilty, sah. didn't carry it away.” FRANK B. CONGER, Postmaster. ENORMOUS REDUCTIONS: “You had some, then.” LADIES’ LIST. CheniMe Fringe, 339 inches deep, only 40c, » yard, waa yen a0 a ne "Sant “What did you do with it?” : rs Ellen ones Mrs chile Fringe, 4 tnches deep, only S0e. a yard; cheap “Well, sah; all that Ihad wuz inside ob me, | Sltsou Mrs F, ek ay ae at G80, _ Arnold Mrs LB, 2 Johnson Mrs an’ I had so much dat I couldn't carry it away, | Artiur Mary Kelly Mary F Chenille Fringe, S inches deep, will be sold for 650. @ 80 I jess stayed dar.” puke. anaie pais ae yand: imiged Price, 900, m1 " oni Chenille Fringe, 6 inches » 7 i. He Knew the Habits of the Family. | M0 mG | Taub Mr Enuont worth #1 igs sag From the Texas Siftings, Berry Mrs FE Our Double Ball Chenille Fringe, very handsome, and The Lampton family have lost by death five ee sold at from $1.25 to $1.50 in this city, will le sold for or six children, but the births are pretty much in the ratio of the deaths, so that the family is far from being childless. A few weeks azo there was anotier death in the family, and the undertaker’s assistant called at the house. A small boy met him at the door. “Ts your pa in?” “What do you want to see him about?” “TI want to ask him when the funeral wl Il Barry Julia Mb Baxter 33 Mew Banks dane Mg Bigelow 1 7c. a yard. Thesame in all colors at @1a yant Handsome Chenille Friuge, new effects, at €1, 1.2%, $1.50 and $1.75 a yank. Every pattern cuarantond a bancain and worth from 25c. to Wc. a yard more than our price. BARGAINS IN PLAIN GIMPS. 100 patterns to select from. One lot Plain Scarab 480.9 vant: worth 7a, One lot Separable Gimp at 50e. ayant; worth 20e, Nandsorue and Wide Cuts, and handsome orne nny Mann Mrs Kate wm D Cross Mrs AP Caspar M Cn take pinsee™ Pugh $c Swill be wold at Toc. yard. This would be ® “Youneed not see him at all then, it that Is paw grosey a what yon wad’ 1 can tell’ you’ that, Pa nee Ras Our Wot ea yard: sold test of the season at #1758 always buries us at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Cec iariiiclite Fs gen ne aes A Woman's Wail. Gur Mix ML Tatesasd Me a BARGAINS IN ESCURIAL LACES. re US edad Tarcest assortment in the city. Prices 35 per cent lower than elsewhere. Oh, it’s hard to be a woman with a horrid house to | Rolvnson Awa Lise Keep, i Tandall Hanon Handsome Goods at 506.: worth The. And a bright poetic fancy that will not be lulled | ¢: oper Katie Very wide, all Silk Goods Thc. ayant; worth $1,an& asleep; Rizr Mrs ME Dancains at $1 to 81.48 yant. It is madd’ning to go struggling with ideas great | Rizer Mrs a We do not often advertise to wel Goods at half thet Daniels Mrs L Maxie we ae and grand, Dailey Lun son Mrs N value, but the above goods are mally barsaltu we 1vs confusing to be rhyming with a duster in one’s | Danihin Mey Biel ann © LAMM Maceo hand. Edwards Mrs M Sparks Elisa _— pA ids Patsie Stephenson FH Mrs Dr BAUM’S, It’s hard to have a flow of soul upon a washing day, | Fry Anner Sherman J on ae we With interludes of soup and roast and clearing | Shaw Lizzie J things away, When fairest dreams are mingling with wild knock- 1 ings at the door, ies Andmany come to call that day who never called | & Syfers Mary anders Mis M Stewart Mrs Win ‘Thompyon Mrs Annie Tus STORE WITH THE MOTTO: Amon Mw Times Ad before. don Amanda Turner 1 NO TROUBLE TO SHOW Goons. mney It's hard when one 1s writing of the “mountain's olson 8 gloomy girt” ve ‘Tobe requested just “to sew a button on thisshirt:” 1's funny how persistently the love of writing clings | ‘Toa woinan whose chief work in life seems laid in other things. a “Comparisons are odious in ott Mary G Thornyso Airs ME Tremell rything but trade, In trade it isto the advantage of the buyer to draw com- parison, Proof—Compare goods and prices of these expensive arten Nell Holmes aig i ‘establishments with those at the “THERE'S THE MAN, Papa.”—At Lafayette, | Hurley F Mrs Webster Euma Seni Ind., Little Eliza Neal.’ an eight-year-old child, | TNE, sennte Wout yard Mrs Eugenia MISFIT STORE, on Thursday identified her brutal assailant in a | Hickenbotham Laurad White Lu CORNER TENTH AND F STREETS, wed of thirt As the child exclaimed, | Jones Anni Williams Marg And you will find crow hirty persons. As the child e: a Soe : you will fin “There’s the man, papa,” the wretch fell off his | 33ccsu4 Mrs ee eins chair unconscious. Bail was fixed at $1,000. jackson Elvira (col) Ward M y * Sneiny omnes se = johns Eliza mipare favorably w French sportsmen must be a numerous class, | Jackson Jos enaiiaat ean to judge from the returns of the sale of shooting GENTLEME oar SUF BE Bagk Cloth Suit with amy acta at $2 licenses. ‘This year 372,825 of these have been | Adeacon.AL | issued, and have produced altogether 10,439,100 | Attu ag francs ‘at 28 francs each. For each license 18 | Alexander Jas W francs go to the central government and 10 | fimey Wn . franes to the local authorities in the different | Blair ®} Ours Buy's Suit or Overcoat with nes en ot #8 communes where they are taken out. Boutelle Hon ca A Our 86 Boy's Suit or Overcoat jocompere orably Lawyer Fowler, arguing the Culver case in | plmrs.° fh any wold ut 810, New Haven, said, snapping his fingers con- | Bramhall Frank J Mitord M Our 88 Boy's Suit or Overvont to compare favorably temptuously, “I wouldn't give that for the tes- | Brooks Howard ‘Murphy Michael Our $10 Bos*s Suit or Overcoat with any rold at #18, ously “ | Brady Gen Jas Martin WE Our $3 Child's Suit or Overcoat with any suld at timons il the Culvers that ever lived.” | Brown James Manning Wm ‘Our $4 Child's Snit or Overcoat with any sold at Catching Judge Culver's eye, he added, “I mean, | Brown 3 W Martin Walter A ‘Our #5 Child's Suit cr Overcoat with any sold. at $2, your honor, all the Culvers that ever lived in | Burns Joseph Munley Willie A ‘Our $ & Overcoat with any sold at $2 North Haven.” Afterward the lawyer was told | Bebe Beans A onal Edw, Qur§ ¢ Overcoat With Any wold at #10, w yercoat With ALY mold at $1 that Judge Culver once dwelt in North Haven.) Bins Leather Kinley tan ‘Our $10 Overcoat with any sold ot RIK, A merchant in Jacksonville, Fla., has sold | Benwn Ransom po a Qur $12 Overcoat with any sold party Planofortes and otra to colored ene Se Fasteonm wm Our $20 Qrerooat with any sold 5, : ; - ce Unie is LP, 2 Pants wi #0 0, Eile year) oe Buyers iEsy i5) ud Brown Win O'Connor Michael ‘Our $4 Paute with aby sold ates. ments. Buse WCQ Pride DPB Our $5 Pants with any sold at 89. At a private school in Pittsburg the teacher | Barton Walter, Pearson F Sous 6 Vibe with ay sold at $11 asked the class in geography, “What is Ohio | Garcuter i Peoples Henry Our Gossamers wit any sold tor double the price we noted for?” and a youngster answered, ‘Demo- | Clarence Edw'a Procter JL. = = ac Clayton Harry Puilligw Sieyhen Ht THE MISFIT STORE Curry John Preston Win E. CORN TENTH AND F STREETS. A Farewell to the S| Wie Clark Janne Randall & Pili ata an came naa omer - milton Hnmin hag A Be mure_and como to the of 10th and F ste. oS x Col Jno t vere Jno L, fdqeay: Camphor JE Reneau Gen NS 2 enter - | Carroll J Clement asset Te had no further intention than to show that | Cummings Mr i Dr. Coues was mistaken in his facts, and you agree with Chadwick Major B Courter & Co, sions. irst articles on that subject e - | Conway W burn vestizate the truth of his assertions, and in pursuance | Dial A Scully Fawa is " of that investigation I have spent many hours in the | Boden Chas, Sait roe ee Parks, your Smithsonian among the number, in the study of their tricks and their manners, ‘There is no radical difference in our views on the facts, and Iam convinced that the motto, fat justitia, will not further divide us; bnt there are some points in your last publication that I think worthy of contraven- Donaldson Harry A Daly John Eveans Win T Fabry Julius Fritz J | Fowler sp Garnet GW Fred N W216 F Street Northwest, FAMILY GROCERS. DIRECT IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN FINE TEAS, COFFEES, WINE, BEANDLES, &o. tion, I shall do so with the more reluctance because of | GTY James sae Went the fact that ornithology is your specialty, and that I Vertert ark Thon 2D US SOUR WERT. am not an expert. Hill Frank Thome GA GRA YAN SEO NI 7 ‘The weight of European authorities T havo examined | Hotchkiss G 8 eae BOS ESTA ae is decidedly in favor of the sparrow, bt Tam willing to | jamlten Harry Thomne Won, concede that that is not a couclusive ancument in other | Holland ‘ob Von Hi ke 3 climes and under other conditions. The burden of Peeeitt Sonn. = ld ¢ oe — proof, however, is upon his opposers, astines ‘ The care taken of our trees by the commission ap- | foward Capt | Wil eae 3 85 PPE, EEE og. gt AL uw Pointed for that purpose will scarcely account for the | Johnson Prof EH Williams Jake Sss, Pre rE aw Oe 4 diminution of insects, as the example I gave of the gonna Henry aoe bd 8 - Er OC il AAA LL q Special efforts in behalf of the two elm trees on the weat | 33mes John WiteneGen Ta, 8 Ses p coo Ha ~ LLL front of the Capitol, and the failure thereof sufficiently | Wricht Saul attests. If any one doubt the inability of human effort | ¥ (or ba x eg in that direction, let him try his skill on a ‘single tree. | tt = ‘Thewrticle in the American Naturalist to which you r- Warhington WE fer me, proves this, nothing more, that the chipping sparrow liked that sort of worm, and the other did not, If, on the other hand, I show, as I have shown, at least you have not questioned it, that the European sparrow. destroys this or other injurions worms in the chrysalis state and the other dees not, that would not bea matter of condemnation to the chipping one, They are both performing the work they arv selected to do by their own SHIP LETTERS. Harrold, Jno H, boat Anacostia; Jillson Geo E, steamer Curatuck . Stuart Juo R, schooner W D Hilton, LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN EAST CAPITOL STATION. SATURDAY, NoveMpER 3, 1883, LADIES’ LIST. COST FROM THIS DATE UNTIL THE FIEST OF NOVEMBER methods, : Allison Martha J Mrs Kose Mrs You have fallen into ono error that surprises me, in | Beard AE Miss Morse Winnie consideration of your powers of critical observation. You | Bumbery Mary Rebs ae mistake the amativeness of the sparrow for bellizerancy. | Davis John Mos Bmisan Annie G KK Teonfees I was, at first, of the same opinion until closer | Garner Susie Mise, 2 Taylor Ruth Mra, 2 KK exunination led me to discover that the apparent. | J4;kson Ets ae ‘Taylor Sarah Mrs KK ly hostile demonstrations nearly always took | 9°M80! aa CoS KK Place between the opposite sexes, and I have often witnessed these evidences of conjucal love Hinman Rev HH with great interess. I once ssw a male bind Boersihs Hich wait = select, what he doubtless thonght, a choice morsel and Svan Michael J = thrust it into the open jaws of his mate, To think that So beng oneal & a BARR, these exhibitions of affection should be tortured into a Wells George H H. quarrelsome disposition is enough to make the sparrow wish he had never been born. Only one week ao Isaw a chipping sparrow feeding and flocking with the imported at Lincoln Park. , One or two years since a colony of martins took forci- ble possession and ousted the sparrows from the eves of the General Post Office building, and, if I am not mis- taken, I have seen and read of similar displacements among native birds. Zf,as you assert, there be a marked diminution of native binds in the Smithsonian park, that may be ac- counted for otherwise than by the presence of the spar- IMPORTER AND TAILOR. FALL AND WINTER GOODS RECEIVED, Gentlemen who Lave had trouble in getting fitted and ‘suited are invited to call at the Fushion House, sepl 1111 Pa. Ave., Washington, D.©. LIST OF LETTFRS REMAINING IN THE GEORGE- TOWN, D.C., POST OFFICE, Sarurpay, Novewnen 3, 1883, LADIES’ LIST. May Mrs Thomas H GENTLEMENS' LIST. ‘Thomas William ‘Thrasker Capt CF SCHOONER LIST. Capt Lander V Beebe, schooner TL Elmer S Willet, Ball Gustine, 2 Briggs Geo Miller F (TSE LARGEST SIZE NICKEL-PLATED V_ Becbe; Capt schooner Centennial: Eben D Mills, row. It that the sparrow being themost active, | schooner Dale: Capt EL Wallace. schooner Georgietta GERMAN STUDENT LAMP, as well as the earliest bird, gathers the most worms, and | John F schooner, Harry Messer: Johi uughlin, schooner Earl P Mason: not enough for his more lethansic fellow: i » presence or absence of birds in ay particular | achouner f Mortis Perob; Capt Frau, E Harris aay Complete, $4.50, locality is marked by circumstances of comparative ob- | Hit Tilton. scurity, the most usual reason therefore beins the pres- . ence or absence of food, Then in this instance, if the enon native birds disappear on account of the presence of the | BBR, RRR. U U g85s HH REE 988, sparrow, it would show that the European badlessened | Tiny ERR U U ss HHI ER ssq the supply of food upon which the natives depended, |B BR RU Ug S HH E os 3. W. SCHAEFER, viz, worms, insects, &. It isafact, however, that our| BBB & RK UU Sss° H H ERE Sgs5 = native birds had deserted our populous streets before we imported the others to fill their places, and many of us can remember that this reason was given for their im- portation. How well that duty has been performed I have previously pointed out. Your suggestion that the introduction of the Euorpean Among the articles of absolute necessity, Brushes, no doubt, occupy apromfhent place, and it has been our éffort to place before our customers not alone an unri- DEALER IN FINE CHINA AND GLASS, ecl0 NO. 1020 7TH STREET NORTHWEST. vyalled variety, but also furnish an excellent article and sell them at prices within the reach of the most slender purse. We Ane Orrensa bird has a tendency to destroy that equilibrium which I said “No wise man would disturb,” I by no means as- have an office!” A widower who had married again arrived at Nice on his second wedding journey. **Tremember you very well,” said the hotel keeper, i ‘but your wife has grown very thin.” e “She was taller.” “Yes.” “And lighter complexion, was she not?” res. Besides, you know, it is not the same one!” * ‘The last time the minister called on them he remarked: “‘I didn’t see you at prayer-meeting last night, Sister Poots.” “No,” was the re- sponse, “the night was so stormy and the roads so muddy that I concluded not to go to the meeting.” “But the Lord was there,” inter- pod the minister, with some severity. “I now; but the Lord didn’t have to wade through. the mud to get there.” The laugh is the sun of clear consciences. Be mistrustful about houses and souls whose blinds are always closed. A darky on a Pecano plantation, not long since, was much tried by the obstinacy of 8 mule. After much urging gnd kindness to the brate he broke out with: ‘Look hyar, now! mebbe you think ’cause I jined the church last Sunday that I can’t use big words; but I'll hab you know I'm gwine to tmeke a ception in your special case.”—Texas Siflings. One of the first things a new railroadacquires - . en un Sone know what sab heeeon for, vat it’s of the equi it the jear.— Burlinglon Haukeye. em! u A magazine writer aske: “How shall we util- ize the Indians?” This is a difficult question to answer, but perhaps the best plan would be to cally sen sae sel ibe for cigar feels oot lea is worthy of consideration anyhow.— Norristown Herald. 4 A ae The pana lore ofa exeeonned resort was once set upon in a lonely place by a highway Tobber. As soon, howe as the landlord made known his business the highwayman ex- tended the usual courtesies to the trade and Free Press. The New York hangm: with dragging his prisoners so that the gallows has = [Paden for cies A ca should know when hanged or it won't do him much good.— Detroit Free Press. Beware of the woman who and of the man who never eee ieee sent to; as that remains to be shown by the examination of all the facts bearin upon this controversy. It isthe | We have excellent Brushes at 25c., 49¢., 79c. and 99¢. main fact to be determined, ‘We have them in dark or light, stiff or soft, large or I know it is a generally received opinion among natur- | small, as you may wish them. In Hair Brushes our assortment is very large. EW DESIGNS IN GAS FIXTURES, And are eclling single and double Swing alists Bist setae of the habitat of vegetables orlani- | We have the handsome Florence Brush. GAS BRACKETS, mals is the reverse of beneficial. But this isarulesub- | We have the lovely Celluloid Brush, and in Brush | rm press and Git isin eek eines Ject to so many and notable exceptions as to depriveit | seta in cases. x pe er ry ae of thedignity of being arule at all, and nothing can be | We are now receiving the most beautiful goods, a predicated with any degree of certainty upon its exis- | Black sets in casea we have from 99c. up. We have @ line of COOKING RANGES at various tence, aie Seer a. | Qpllulold nets in cance we have from $249 up. Brices, from $8.50 to €150. 6 potato, a native extensively culti- | Cloth Brushes we have in all styles. ‘vated and highly prized in Europe. Tho cotton plant,a | We have a Leather Back Brush at 25c,, and all the | 1ZON TILE nn ng ae ioe native of tropical countrios, finds its highest develop- | better grades. = ment in the temperate zone. Is the United States Fish | Fine Whisks, white bone handle, 35c., 390, and 49.; Commission making a mistake in introducing the Ger- | other styles from 15c. up. man carp into America? The Horse! Does he disturb ‘that equilibrium, and shall we extirpate him because his BRASS ANDIRONS, from $5.50 to $50 per pair. PORTABLE BUCKET GRATES, from 85 to $50, PARLOR GRATES, from $10 to $100. GAS BURNEES and GLOBES at LOW PRICES, of the existing equilibrium in the minds of the savages | We would also call your attention to our of America; but the final result, I fondly believe, will be FEATHER DUSTERS, the grandest animal the world has ever produced. which we offer at lower figures than ever before, We The methods of disturbing the balance of nature to | have them at 10c., 15c., 20c., 25¢., 49e. and upwards, which I referred, rather points to man's baleful pro-| We have also Just opened a beautiful assortment of pensities which find employment in destroying that | Plush Mirrors, with bevel plate glass, from 990. to which he does not understand. Such for example, as | $7.49, and ten large cases of Brackets and Ebonized EDWARD CAYERLY & CO, Plumbing, Heating and Ventilating, eagerly motte ‘food, afiniemineie = = ee sehen Trt are: BOT for resi in par Dhyllozeras just aa the extermination of the plonated SILVERBERG'S, Ger Tar Besr, grouse on our western prairies produced the domination 12 Tth st. and 313 8th strect n. w., THE CONCORD HARNESS" of the Colorado beetle. Prof. Agassiz was once asked by | oea9 near Pennsylvanis avenue, THE CONCORD COLLAR, Iangunys of mankind. ls reply was nesses t's “epg ipa language was characteristic of a thoroughly judicial mind, which hesitates at a conclu- For the male of the celebrated “CONCORD HARNESS.® Sion untilaii the factehecs Woe aeons econda: | Alveryrema New axp Haxpsoue oe ame eer coocy of oll Rinse tow pesos collating the evidences on that subject, and after we lar is with maker's naine and trade mark. have examined them all, may be able to reach a conclu- FOR THE FALL TRADE sion.” So it must be in regard to the testimony involving In grest variety at Bottom Prices. the usefulness or usclesaness of the sparrow in this TH OARPETS, RUGS, MATS, LUTZ & BRO. country, but before we can arrive at an adverse decision, y LACE CURTAINS sept @7 Pennsylvania A his zopponents must be able to harmonize their facts better than they have been able to do hitherto. If the Ornithological Convention, upon insufficient evidence, doom the sparrow to destruction, I shall part from him with regret; contenting myself with the assurance that in after years some Old Mortality in rescuing his tomb AND UPHOLSTERY GOODS, ‘For the Lowest Cash Prices, at SINGLETON & HOEKE'S, €0t MARKET SPACE. from the ravages of time, will disclose his epitaph: “HERE LIES THE SPARROW, Condemned to death by his foes On suspicion that he was CHIEFLY GRANIVEROUS; WRITING PROMPTLY AND ACCURATELY PEPE WRITER oper and ‘Operators sap- -HAND short notios, Wa wulfoonh, ta tesa