Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1883, Page 3

Si ae MODEST AND MERITORIOTS CARPER, DESPITE Tue by or @ring THE or a GREAT MAN, so VHACKS — ry er On Sanda the of See- | ¢ Tetary Robert Linecla. ern lawyer who introd Isham one of the He did not bh returned at the m “r that he meant that a solid mind, whieh grasped the ta ease. To look at Mr. Isham ts a ith aa inelination to be The prominent south- country He aid hu stout fore y sayings thy id to me th unjust to Mr. Lincoin ublie, de net espa wrth of an “0 | oft fin T met at the | tare that mal dthat Mr. | street. ment, but from a! bes drifted into German THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY.*NOVEMBER 28, 1883-DOUBLE SHEET. CONCERNING RAZORS, Used aad What Becomes of Them. he New York Sun, hand with a freedom orter shudder, “why, they’ the moral law. all at Arthur in his dressing nts at a penny-ante poker No, few razors are peaki are Swis?, The Freneh uetion as ¢clima: ome but I quently m re shipped here ey 38 st > far as this young man has ty th Me = * post fal Bield firma more ethan he. Our uel or that por them who adress OF ported Exo w how their pitated a al strike, They are the touch to na- | mankind kin, from Presi- z of The best come from England. n “dd to be ma ve the made yet in Mass lish grinders ¢ s that tl lass of work the expert toa representative winging one of the toc that made the re- | re a field broader i oom to his constit- ame ia Thompson made in this coun- <ay one in a mil- The next # the worst, so far | je in Bride- nterprige was a deeper concay n pAt upon h Hamburg and has ely $0 |. Years azo the of cutlet | | business here. | done. I the employers q upd in my ne to the st demands—the Panewicere: and it _of the Dente . In. My i e with grinder ; a 4 and | him has ichly He is still iy ith pt the i va x Ora: men t in business with me. ¥ in public life be- porate ea ope me | ‘sie Merce sound to perfection over here ha | ce arsphs | ty them but do you it vi const ia bot ch he | ec cta tol Pe ene nes nes ust be made of good steel, ud Arthur, and of War sinee Jeftor- has ana son Lavis st sent you a na yto the thon beite have a re ans I. 3 S pres him, as you ousine they ur i d reliable handled by our | after the tire, Mr. | f got to unders ‘a bine ‘ter of Robert Lincoln?” of the Stic lite, his business life and he is down to tie sround an nothing. he principles you might exp rtment he en- n sit down on itive. You must in the whol S| his politic. He be: e known him point, but has experience, and irs. » knowled Dadyou Pot the best ti y bask David Davis about rola. who has kne Mark Skinner: the eoun- pbert Lin- is now forty-on nily you wil tind at his work. ats three prahar.” may hay A, hever had | . “when h ith in € could ct is she sa most fstimtable woman, wife and fh her he: wd almost e her marri: band has t to comy conditions thy | onan = we have on this con! - see = i A New Girk Now York Tin sth ‘ t natin Iy looked upon it style or yirl has dl found to hy one Claims to in sivls ar un is quite r women have a plinarian, she children with- She tage over other val and ¢ h £ on her right | y than is So, quite able to button t trouble tha: on their re ¢ i and she th her own boots ‘y Women find in h. it must be admitted, h concede the new What is this 2 of her ving an a marriage she wishes to clasp her arms | und her lover's neck? Will he feel flattered the soft touch of a western feminine boot his left ear? When the marriaze ce is in progress, how will r to take the brick Aud then, how will th x ticle of fuod without liter- | xirl irl, however, r been said et, which is a suf- | hat they have noth- | Isthe girl expected to | . it is safe to say that e could, her appear- rotesque that she would eutsile of her own room. Un- doubtedly she ts expected to walk on one foot and one hand. Need anything morp be sald to prove th. ¢ is @ painful failure? This attempt to make the modern girl a com- between the bwnana and the quadru- certainly ingenious, but it is doomed to te of all previous attempts at improving Our girls need no improvements, and It will take a greater intellect than that of Cuvier to devi ‘sible change in them which would not be for the worse. 'y to walk. es on this sul she cannot do it, and ance would be su never venture rl wonld make | t | enough the ion of its nite, for i ide and we et knife must nt thickne: and a raze ave, 5 nt WL Observe, than close te of paper.” “nail, and you \ little silver bell. hat is to shave wit quality iproper stroppi A lit! or not quite ¢ se. Then the way is to dray motion against the hair—so. even it it is not quite a tirst-class razor condition, yeu can still rs. und obstinacie I know on actual patleman who all in the country. conditions ¢ the count nen aifirm that thei zor, and cousequentiy are good one. ar is supposed to b s been 1 rust gathers on it in disu honed and stropped off its sharper than betore. But y ara barber spe if Several and é you ered on tl * view? changing ath of what w quired of « in constant use, and consequentl: |day of regrinding is puts further away me men ave number or rs. and keep lect ave atrunk full o not lose U) “A wood razzer. jn wonder tome w to—what becomes of them,” pric cutlery ho “Now, [deal oaly in. stri sin all” other 1 but last year I inpe worth more. than about what t houses here nent in do conside rould be ny Sinich as sw all neve. Deserted Logging © Boston Traveler Correspond Few persons except tio. the Immberman’s toil know in the woods. Sportsme 1 a the sum: ho donbt, that they t ter while the camp chance: t the view the realty that life, it it terly mi The fact tions wren Isare s last winter in t now he would s 4 spen space, trodden hard and smooth fallea deep. If you will be he sleds ground off their where th rp rocks gna shod wi ple. be marks of wear higher up th: It is where the c tle up a pair of oxen while noon-tide foddering of hay them in the yoke. Little him Y and | Was abandoned when the crew w woods upon the breaking Mare! ip the end of its edze with to know positively whet! and y t w the razor with an ea ‘people yet the queerest notions about y attribute to them as if they we or. his pet when in town, w or nornises it as uariers of the people who do not know ho ed for a rood while. bout it is that Joe Jeiter: I should imasine that to stiffen up Weak py “Some like bo: ait of game or of em, just how life went on he at camp wei iders you will see where the in w: tool anding | m, and » Just that service. must be ground ped on the other; convex and have its se to ground thin asta It is, little back of the ly thieker than a hit. 1e eye pa ita razer tit for tle too 1 is really not no good. re not adept at their ra that tl . Use it ri rin et a pretty sat for lack of doinz him: to use a liable to condemn a ¢ better tor a rest | And it inipereeptible and when that is swe is ¢ nid ou. will a razor as ‘being ay men avoid | by the exp ny them in turn. nner Why do T ca adi om, the actor, | nin from a ble cut- | nd 1k ally employed ite number of styles bis, heavy use in» some oti ns of razors. every year. acht or ten pr erably more t muion for ie ty sell should be taught dle a part of his edu- imming, dancing or amps janine. 2 wao have shared anything of that lite “upon aban- s they penetrate as thes tena ‘And that is! Some i} A CHASE AT SEA. by Hiis| Where Phey Are Made, How They Are | The Escape of a Confederate Privateer. From the Philadelphia Weekly Times. We were now within less than two miles of the flying stranger when we opened fire on her | from our 11-inzh pivot, exploding a shell right under her bow and nearly deluging ader’s decks with water, but doing no farther | harm. While we were reloading the pivot she put her helm hard-a-starboard and ran across our bow, heading directly for the shore—dis- tant svont a mile and a halt—appparently in- tending to run herself ashore. Captain Clarey shouted, “Put your heim hard-a-starboard. “Hard-a-starboard, sir,” answered the officer at the wheel, the same tnoment putting the wheel harply about, ard the ship turned on er heel, as if sie knew what was ex- pectel of her, and started directly for e shore with the stranger, now right abeam, starbi side about a mile off, bringing our whole battery of five guns to bear on he! forward rifle: “Fire as soon x and without further orders, oniy don’t waste the nmunition. Pivot there, sir; fire carefully, nat the wheei-house, and at no othe: - Sink her, if possible; go ahead and s| at you can do. Quarter-deck batte ood aim, and fire as rapidly mat the wheel-house; don't ict her & "A shell from tle exploded over il from the eleven-inch bur three and eight-i their comp! you are reac We were about ha other, and atout she suddenly changed her course to the South- southwest, and started to run down along the st, heading directly for us. At the same i nt the leadsinan in the chains cried out: ree fathoms! , quartermaster!” cried and as'the ship's head swung to By 'd_ been ashor he Seminole was drawing Captain Ci port he The stranger was to run for it and had the bar between us. r only chanee was to sink her be ne scot The mo: ailed poard each vessel. Captain Clar swore and stamped in an in tone, but all to no effect. Shot over and exploded. bi were now i pn Walking the bridge betweea the wh with both hand pea-jac ar very unconcernedly: put tha ing that their lives round, vamy astern, 3 volumes of black smoke that poured out of the funnels told a story that did not need a trumpet to announce. The chan- nel now began to widen, and if she could only hold her own for twent must hay he walked to and fro minutes she would been the thoughts of on that siles, now a drench with th one tlyi He n above his head! flinched an inch or changed hismanner, but kept quietly on as though it was an every-d 8 as one of the most pictur saw—the fleet, about two miles be- with eager eyes to see us sink the the gradually widening, ¥, lookin flying str with the white sand hills in the ¢ city of Galveston to the south and its piers filed with sympathetic spectators; the fort. in y, with the confederate ing and its ts crowded with men watching and p r the success of the flying stranze 1ers flying through ‘the wate imes hidden by the smoke of their and fired. But fate ing steamer. In spite ud be made to prevent y of Galveston, which is and, as the els drawing more th we were cettimg i in, with intense cha ling, as a parting com- ch shell with ee ants Vent every effort that ¢ her she r 1 the nearly three miles wide ten fu th t of wate ve fathoms ve up the cha rived in this cit woman from Seattle ted a tour “across the plain The heroine of the ride Is M enty-four years old, Americ: udinayian descent. Her ha red, her eyes are gray, she is very bulit and presents an appearance ci rand strength. The following is the story of her travels, as detailed by her toa Chronicle reporter yesterday formerly resi jed_ in California, but some ith my folks to Green Lake ther presented me with mare naine She'll pring, and T told my re sthat Kitty and 1 were g bat they only 1 hat 1 would never but they T and a year 2th of last April. T only took Kitty and the smati buffalo robe, two sadiile 1 sum of money. , With two cincheson it, but it was too h tthe first 0 ago saddle, of the road: ho--I did not see a its Thad nothing eu r t part of the trip, e been ranches some di T left the trail ailrowd line to Rolii hence to Soda Sp » Citys from Boi eto Jona 1 into Tdahe I fol- nto 5 1 y to Baker ze, ACTOS then T crossed Sua! rode on to Pendleton, and trom there Tarri : TL would the ity of food « ed Until Lor i time it was coo d out and rode uatil L would for Kitty Tcouid no t tind T would ride until sunset Taveraged about miles a ney was m plains. No. nev sth: rorantelo} anda most enjoyable ¢ amount toa ut- is, if the pper who to come after the snows h look at the I iron shoes of highest points, or wed at the runners That crooked,"wisted horn- down there bythe road shows sears and an one could reach sput around to y munched their that was served left about here that nt out of the up of the roads in th The runner of a sled lying by the hovel | is one that had to be replaced witha new one inthe winter. The broken the hemlock shows by the by the rivets with which it taken to make it last, thro t ‘tle hauled out the s ever had been carried into fall, while the others were so that they to walk apart, yet where t fell in abreast , just as they had all wi turns to the landing. seen fe part from the rest yoke at the foot of xripes about it and ‘as bolted, the pains h the winter. Had old yoke been taken out of the woous in table offer | the spring it would not have been worn on the eeks of the oxen, for in moving, one yoke of leds and chains and what- the woods in the riven out unyoked ight walk in single Mle where nd in the roads were narrow and the snow was deep. eto But, though Buck and Golding were at liberty he road was broad and walked side by inter long made their In the summer, too, if | pasture with large numbers, they will yet’ be ling together, or lying down by ‘them. of the herd. The companionship of toil forms the bond of a life- leng friendshi <°. The Plumber's Return. From the Fall River Advance, Now ts the time when the plumber comes back From his summer resort ry the Sea; And with solder and furnace begins the attack, ‘And lays pipes to become morigagee, For there's creat danger Turks ‘That the house where he works From his clutches will never be free. No, dear, it is not spelled mellow drama; you were lead inte error because it was so soft.— Beston Transcript. the transforma. | y summer at its coming in the I never wings were never expensive. Sometimes I stopped the ranches along the way, but I preferred to sleep onthe prairie or the mountain side. Ith my robes drawn around me and no other i 1 but the biue vaulted sk us I was content. The n iting, and the silence nd impressive. Th as I lay there p y solemn. ¢ to disturb me y The birds chirping and sing- ing int and brush would wake me in the morning, and I @ould immediately arise and yon my journey. During the day all quiet. The only sound to break thes as the birds. Occasionally a startled hare or rabbit. would run across the path, and | perhaps that wontd be the last sign of moving life you would see for hours. The heat some- times was almost oppressive, but more es- | pecially on the plains, where no shade was to | be found.” “Did you not find the continual riding In the | saddle wearisom No. The Chicago saddle I got in the trade | was made tor a man, so I generally used it in | the manner it was intended for. When I was | traveling on the prairie or in. the forest, or in | fact any place outside of a town or city, I strad- died the saddle man fashion. Of course it was inconvenient to some extent to ride this way | with a dress on, for I wore nothing but a dress “during the whole trip. When I neared a set- tlement I changed my style and rode as if ona | side-saddle, Once again away from life and clvilization I changed my manner of ridjng and | thus Lovercame, to some extent, the’ wearl- someness of the ride.” Why She Planted Roses, From the Lock Haven Democrat. | A farmer had in his possession, but under mortgage, a farm which contained the necessary buildings. Like many others he was at one | time tond of the social glass, but was happily induced by a triend to join the temperance so- ciety. About three months after he observed his wife one morning planting rose bushes and fruit trees. “Mary,” said he, “I have owned this farm for five years, and yet I have never known. you to care to improve and ornament it in this manner.” “Indeed,” replied the smiling wife, “T had no heart to do it until yougave up drink. Thad often thought of it before, but I was per- suaded that, should I do it, some strangers would pluck the roses and eat the fruit; but now, with God's help and blessing, this farm will be ours, and we and our children may ex- pect to enjoy the produce; we shall pluck the Toseo aud eat the fruit,” the block- | ‘The captain called out to! away | | hannel is | THE Its Increasing tained in many of other cit fireplaces to our h them, and as dissen content it may be ethic purpose. in limpid flames of Gass} texts as kerosene impart more calorie and those ett ave recently in rmhonse would | for its cosy hearth, the focus of family heart warmth. of those fire places y possessed is V to the appropriate htness than an ‘as cher designs was odd wi company. eye of an tion to w natural a fitting ht stl spot abo but let not: admir: wh spirit Is the spiri hang the anes 1 placently to visitor: ing put an end tot borhood of Ningp during the last fou! Chiu Man, and hi cal ambition of his tions for the weal! neditions asted. vuly led into. dies. But now ted at the res slar sto world could recoy : and the sw the thief his liberty the house by fore at once began a pr ments in search room where Mr. sleeping he got and Then npartment Leonard, ap 17. Here he obta jewelry. As with his plunder, the face of the fair and ro delic to re y cheeks bu pecting but invi ‘rom the room. mud uttered a escaped through avoid a shot from which, of a strike on the “T remember a s ago, when Col. C head. The price twenty-flve cents, inere fined to the Po: I it being ers’ Union. departments on t himself composi Lit , aS Clls 01 j the time needed. They stoo good naturedly on took off his prepared to piteh were waiting to be ‘take,’ in nonparei the rile to take eo no choice good work until inaking exi type that w ich he much for hi moment wit! it.’ They gave him tions, nowadays, From an Interview in “We trnst great has a capital voice, After hearing how propriate words. provoked, is emi accused,” he form and ‘order.’ fond of order and ull him out. time Jesus Christ prayers of the con; ot the Almighty. an physical warmth. flames that give them cause, are not evolved by ing stoves and ful effect of y , and it ts doubtless for this reason that | appropriate | Fires were almost the sole dee. ‘homes in this country, and many Yet a certain severe beauty was seen In many g tile early imates more nearly to flame in color and | of pictured tile. the religious austerity ng fire that ought to melt austerity out of en when it flashes from rude cavern ot ric and mortar, a fire may be regarded as the rtment. #7 | attractiveness and beauty, ration is not am! into admiring antiquity fordts own sake. Select t is beautiful and usetul in it. for a Catholic ‘one house owner of my acquaintance has done, room fire, showing them com- Pirate Hwang € From the Loudon Times. The Chinese authori Chekian are congratulating themselves at ha ful pirate and bandit who had made the neigh- the mountain fastnesses bet: Yenchow, whence he sallied forth on his plundering expeditions. One peculi- arity of his” operations which seemed to show that he may haye cherished some politi- fered with the poor. officers of the government. His good fortune tthe object with which they were en- Tt was said, and probably with trath, owed his saf her the plans ot the imperial commanders to him or that their forces were nambuseade by closed—not as might be supposed, by his cap- ture andcondign punishment. but by hls being taken Into the emperor's service. See ces Burglary in Kisses. From the Chicago Tribune, ne night last wi lence of Mr. Leonard, corner of Emerald avenue and 85th street, and the bur- one thing which no police force in the some money he went ocenpi he was lace of the night robe was too tempting He stole softly up to the bed and | planted a strong, Bridgeport kiss on the unsus- | ing mouth and then rushed south-side scream that aroused the other people in the house, but the bnrgiar stolen Kis¥ left behind it a faint od: B. P. Shillaber narrates the following incident per 1,000 ems at that day was se of three cents, Those filling the several editorial though a little rusty from disuse, the colonel | the demand until a remedy could be found. The men had been modes coat, Sas proceeding to the copy wrawer, procured a | He plied ‘his skill diligent: to liftup aline in order to cgrrect an error, when it ‘squabbled’ irredeemably. This was tod equanimity. a half lugubrious air, and then taking down his coat, he sald laugh waiting printers, ‘Boys, go to work; ‘tis worth ended for that time. ee Dine ee Moody and Sankey in London, Sankey tome. And wellhe may. Mr. Sankey The Enzlish, it is said, are an unmusical nation. up a pretty alr after a single repetition by Mr. Sankey I shall neverbelieve the accusation. Mr. Sankey made mention to me ot numerous cases of conversation caused by a pretty alr and its ap- plan was to appeal first to the emotions, through music, and then, to_use his own phrase, after the music had done its ‘work, to “go in” with the oratory. Mr. Moody is the orator, and he “goes | in” for it in a breezy, boisterous, pugnacious and xood-humored manner, which, to judge from the smiles and subdued laughter he fr formalities; if Isee a man drowning I’m not go- ing to wait for t ee to authorize me to the good of order? was the man who baptized him.” applause.] The last of the service was solemnly impressive. After a few minutes of silent the choir broke into a scarcely audible, finely- balanced harmony, the voices—young the preachers request, rose here and there in the body of the large hall to implore, on behalf of brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers the OPEN FIREPLACE, Favor in this Cit;—A The open fireplace, which has always been re- our roomy old-time Walnut | If there were no other thing in the esthetic | A few floris! ssance to ve thankful for its restoration of | oh¢ nes would entitle it to a re- | | specttul consideration. Open fires have more | than an esthetic Influence. home circle or tamil semi-c | niniators of cheerfulness and | claimed that they serve an The snapping, fragrant back | log, or the gental glow ot cannel coal, mantled blue, dispose one to profit- able reflections, to generous and sympathetic | are feelings and to a placidity of mind that was for a time supposed by the rushing public of this nineteenth century to be one of the lost arts. 1 y furnaces, cast-iron stoves and such pre- | und gas radiators can never Mental | airy fancies, delicate as the sitting over registers. The le tice gives it decorative | for andirons and grates ed the attention of architects. be so rezarded, of early | an old mal enough to-day but be di ot yore, and such beauty as ery justly perpetuated. Their brass furnishing was a more tasteful concession than might have been looked | ly New Englanders, for brass | other metal. The giftter of | erfully repeated also in rows whose hen seen in contrast with a Ing cheer and auima- else be cold and lifeless. It ne human efe. and istherefore ut which to group ot Antiquity of deco- so the designs be cheerful, ‘ation for antiquity betray us tor the time, but do not, a3 pots and Kettles upon a crane ‘sas things to respect. iu Man. es in the province of he depredations of a success- 0 the scene of his exploits r years. His name is Hwang has his home in some of een Taichow and own was that he never inter- He reserved all his atten- thy, and particularly for the cuous than his activity, and dispatched agalnet him failed y_to his popularity with for it always happened one of his numerous er of adventure has his ea a burglary was commit- It was nothing less than et morsel came near costing ythen and there. He entered ‘ing open a rear window, and | omenade through the apart- of valuables. In the bed-| Leonard and his wife were a gold watch and chain without disturbing the | to the sleeping ied by the daughter of Mr. blue-eyed maiden of about ed some valuable articles of about to leave the room | ow 1, he turned to look at | sleeper in the dim light ot the low gas jet, und the sight of the red lips uried in the pillow aboye the The girl awoke with a start | the window just in time to Mr. Leonurd’s pistol. The of aleoh e@ appa S. Was q) it awoke. es ident ¢ a Strike. Boston Post: trike on the Post, many years arles G. Greene was at its | and the demand was for an The strike was not con- but was extended to all the ider the auspices of the Print- he Post were all printers, | nin former times a very rapid | was determined to withstand | but firm, in their action, | in such cases, striking | thelr services were most | d about the office and looked | the proceedings. The colonel | did all of his associates, and into the work. The types | manipulated,and the colonel, | Il, assolid asa brick. It was py just as it came, and he had y and did eda *stickful,’ in ‘ion he had ie ent time, but as he was rea had set up, he had oce: He looked at it a gly to the a hearty cheer and the strike Printers in editorial posi- re rarely foun the London Daily News. ly to our singing,” said Mr. , and he makes the most of it. the vast congregation picked He explained to me that the equently inently successful. “We are , “of neglecting traditional Bishops and such people are routine. I don’t care for Spplen Order! What ‘o the Pharisees of his was out of order, and so {More er which was only broken by and old—of those who, at. gtegation and the blessings SWEET PRIMEOSES IN BLOOM. Fragrance—Tiny Bouvardias, From the -w York Evening Post. Primroses, so easily cultivated and free bloom- | and Spruce-street mansions, dating trom a past | ing, are out in wealth of color—a purplish pink century, is being revived now in many of our and a soft white peculiarly fascinating. The modern-built dwellings. and it is the same in | straw-colored English primrose, awakening the Avwriter in the Decorator, speak- | fairest sentiment, does not do well in this cli- ing of its merits, says: mate, as warm and dry seasons undermine it. ice novelty. however, force it in. spring for a There are many varieties of Chinese primroses that thrive here; these are ‘As centers for the | Standard blossoms for the window, keeping up a ‘cle that forms | blaze of bloom, if given ordinary eare. When | their flowers begin to fade cut them off with scissors, otherwise seed will come, which ex- haust the plant and Interrupt blossoming, giving a “drawn” and stalky look to stems and foliage. Double primroses are the most desiravie. The: The short-l full-flowered plants cannot be torced so ear because these half hardy specimens must b ly. If perfection in follage The primroses | fered, it will be observed, have lon; not yet in market. lowed to mature slow and flower Is required but few bloscoms: even s The odor is peculiarly sp | bles that of the zonale gerantut ightful fragrance, however, instead of that fishy scent so offensive to many pers white prhnrose is among the best and hol | blossoms mat Bourardia is now in its glory of blossom. color it ranges from white through the pinks— blush, shell, shrunp and rose tint—on to coral d The single varieties have but ne failing—that of not holding their flowers ly. Thenew double specimens have over- | | come this tault and like all double flowers last | . Double white | and blush Bouvardias are greatly admired this season and are sought for bridal flowers. das nd deep red. firmly. just twice as long as the sin; it ‘ons. @ eavea and now of- leaves and they are beautiful. the toliage res m= has a de- The double s its In | These mass exquisitely for the center of the bouquet, | in the shops before next winter. | which should be fringed with lilies of the valley or Roman hyacinths. A yellow Bouvardia is the boast of a few florists, but it will not be shown, George Eliot on Servants. From the Pall Mull Gazette. Some eighteen years ago we published in this journal an article by the late George Eliot on servants’ logic, which, If it had appeared under her name, would have received much more no- | tice than that which was actually accorded it. Nor did many people know at the time that the foremost of fe contributors to this journal. though, perhaps, not in George Ellot’s best style, is nevertheless sufficiently characteristit to induce us to reproduce ft in our columns to- day. After describing the dismay with which a hostess discovers that the scalloped oysters with which she would fain load a friend's plate | have been served with their beards on, and the | jologis' troubles of a dyspeptic ph proceeds: Again, you desire soup, but desire it without You are perhaps a yentus; the world is in | need of yottr new poem: or you ate evolving a momentous theory, and the evolution of fatty you i8 a serious impediment. Your y is reduced to the consciousness that interesting facts in animal chemistry are going on within you; you begin to think you d only by leaving your body At length you ask your wite, fat. acids withi mental activi can serve man for dissection. with hard ual emph: making of the soup. vis) y suppressed pet on “my dear, in his soup yesterday. possible there ‘can be. fat in Ext and a spoon in the otliet of fat over the eu there ing her j oup froin bene the soil when he fs dls ace of t! t. “La, yoon in and turfiing up th thas a gardener turns | ging for roots, the cold fatty getting underneath in the proce: The hnes att; he 0 le novelists was among the | article, al- ; and unus- | to inquire into the Your wife, who israther frightened at the cook, tells her that Mr. Queasy, in gpite of his orders, discerned “It's & thing im- mum—for skim- ming and everything—there's nothingneglected y power.” “Show me your cold stock.” | lly, returning with a yess y particles 1 in one hand There isa white film | Justice, full stock “See, say num, , “that’s nothing; besides 1 take my soup from under and I take the fat off with a spoon.” spoon itself fe studded plenteously with fra “But unless you wash ments of cold fat.) The your | spoon each time you dip it there will be fat, and howev er little Mr. Queasy suifers from it, Be. sides"—(Mrs. Q. here exerts all her courage) — | “it belongs to a good cook to send up her soup tree from fat.” Sally siniles bitterly. “La, mum you think when there was p house, as T could have But the said to J tle folks’ when I wi ing. Here lly seta down the ve Mrs. Queasy is non-pluss Sally “will give warning; round her crinoline, and ru vi reason of their ground brings a letter for Mz eo W: you blow You make a great mistak tain conditions which might have give ach low No; there hould” expect a letter th < more than any other; but so_ it nd it was the same once before, whe nd got bruised; she had thing would happen that d Butas to your certainties, for witich the expectation. analysis of her reason why she mort She rs certai dish-cover fell breakfast som she kne! you alles them otter Vy her assertioi lookin al polish, she thinks she has ari Af, however, she hap) she will perhaps ob: bri: let the child fall on it and cut h she has readjusted her po: stoves. On the whole, servants are little disposed to think that the opinions of gentiefolks can have | any practical yalue for them. our methods, our explanations, are like the drapery and tailoring we pay so much for; they correspond to the supposed scale of our income; but servants, for their part, get their staffs and their views from other quarters. The care for & gentleman's toothache is not likely to suit Sally’s molar so well as the cure recou:rended by the grocer’s boy on the authority of his first cousin, who went about with a blue handker- chief round his head for weeks and weeks. And for the probabilities concerning the dry- ness of the coming summer, or’ the guilt of the man last taken up for murder, the person to be consulted with the most deference is the laund- Tess who serves very good families, and whose ive fh: Servants are rich in intuitions. st number of certainties which are deep by nese. le upstairs They Th lass is cloudy and spotty in diligent rubbing, or that the ‘our yariously procured stoves happel ra quality that it will not ens to be ina good humor, | rve apropos of the steel, that at one place where she lived there was 4 it fender with a sharp edge, and the nurse elf; and when she has given you all the circumstances attend- ant on titis event, the name of the doctor who was called in and what he gald, she will feel that | on a8 a polisher of husband is in the carrying line. The moral of all this is that wise masters and mistresses will not argue with their servants, will not give them reasons, will not consult them. A mild yet firm authority which rigor- ously demands that certain things be done without urging motives or entering into expla- nations is both preferred by the servants tnem- ure he would, she didn’t know from whom it would come, and if you were to knock herdown she couldn't tell hy, but this morning when she got out of bed, and drew up the blind and saw the wind ing the leaves about, she seemed to see the postman coming with the letter in Our remedies, do | asat Nuncham-zate, and | ople of all sorts coming to the/ satistaction— | and Scotch people wanting things you might think no Christian "ud touch—and Mr. Toole} the gentleman with the wooden leg, 4 my soup, and saylng he never tasted better? stomachs will not stand soup, and that’s where it is.” (Here Sally shakes her head and sighs, as Js her wont when s deeply into the causes of things.) ne many and many’s the time, if gen- stitutions are of that sort. it’s no wonder what comes. I said so only y draining the rice, and the cat eating the white sauce all the while, and me not know- It’s true what [ speak-—every word.” cl of stock em- phatically, and tapping the outside of it with jer finzer-ends, looxs hard out of the windo' praisin; terday 13 100) her dress ain. havea e postman as no pite of teel of all to be of selves and is the best means of educating them into any improvement of their methods and habits. Authority and tradition are the chief, almost the only, gate guides of the uninstruct- ed—are the chief means of developing the crude mind, whether childish or adult. Reason about everything with your child, you make him a monster, without reverence, without affections. Reason about things with your ¢rvanta, con- sult them, give them the suffrage, and you pro- duce no other effect in them than a sense of anarchy in the house, a suspicion of irresolute- ness in you, the most opposed to that spirit of order ae Teese which can aione enable them to lives respectable. ill their places well and make their ———-e-_—___ AT A RECENT TEMPERANCE MEETING In Boston a thrifty old lady observed that she knew some- thing of the evils of rum. “T have buried three husbands, and all were hard drinkers. But I am glad to say,” she continued, “that I didn't fight with them. As soon as I found they would drink I t them to insure their lives “heavily and let them go ahead. Ah, me! each one of them died from the effects of li be toa kind Providence, each ‘& clear $10,000,” ae but thanks netted me lurday Evenin | agreement about the distnt | struggling with their pot-hook | immortal works, LOUISE MM. ALCOTT. ‘Early Blossoms, with Most Delightfal | Her First Story and Her First Five ‘Tribute to its Charm. | Dollars. Mrs. Moulton, in a newly-published work on Rotable women, thus writes of Louise Alcott: | “Miss Alcott’s first full crown romantic story | Was printed In "Gleason's Pictorial,” and for this she received five dollars. Ab, who of us scribes does not remember the pride and pleasure with which we received our first five dollars earned by literature; and why is a beginner's five dollars, no more, no | This first published story appeared in , When Miss Alcott was nineteen years of The next year she set ‘on Sat Gazetie Prima Tecompense alway less ? 185 “The as aceepted, and munificentl as it then seemed, rewarded with ten de Dounas,’ whieh lars and a request for more. Nor was this ail; tor Miss Alcott herself dramatized the tale, and | it was accepted by Mr. Thomas Barry, the man- ager of the Boston theater. The play was never really put upon the stage, owing to adis- on of the parts olin Woo: between Mrs. Barrow and Mrs rival actresses at ‘The Boston. mischance, its author ¢« ent success; since, for its sake, a free pass was given her, and she went to the theater forty times that winter. Think of the unmitizated rapture of those forty evenings to a very stage- struck young lady! “So strong. indeed, was Miss Alcott’s passion | at that time for acting that she made an engage- | ment to appear upon the stage herself as Wide Pottle in’ ‘The and was anxiously awaiting for the night’ to be fixed when the friendly manager broke his leg, and in conse- quence his contract, and thus came to an un- timely end the young girl's dream of dramatic glory. “A farce, of her compesition, was actually put upon the stage, and she tells “me that she well remembers the wild beating of her heart as she saton this glorious occasion ina stage box, holding an enormous boquet, presented by a fiend as stage struck as herself, and saw Mr.W. ; Smith, Josie Orton and Mr. Le Moine ennet ‘Nat Bachelor's Pleasure Trip’ for the benelt of Mrs. Smith.” ~The Rival Prima Donnas’ afforded Miss _Al- | cott another glimpse of giory, which she her- | self described as follows: | Jne of the memorial moments of my life is | that in which, as I trudged to school ona wintry day, my eyes fell upon a large yellow poster h these delicious words: “Bertha, a new tale by the author of ‘The Rival Prima Donnas’ will appear in the Satur- day Evening Gaxtte. S late; it was bitter cold: people jostled | me; I was mortally afraid | should be recog- nized; but there Istood, feasting my © on the tascinating poster, and saying proudly to nyself, inthe words of the great Vincent Cruium- | les, ‘This, this is fame!’ That day my pupils had an indulgent teacher; for, while they were | , I was writing nd When they droned out the multiplication table [ was Counting out the noble fortune my pen was to earn for me in the withaweak- | @!™. delightful future. That afternoon my sis- Hatter se that if on ness for spinach who has vainly endeavored to impress on the cook the importance of thor- | oughly squeezing green vegetables, the writer ters made a pilgrimage to behold the famous | placard, and finding it see by the wind, boldly | stole it, and came home to wave it like a tri- umphai banner In the bosom of the excited tam- ily. The tattered paper still exists, folded away with other relics of those early days, so hard and yet so sweet, when the first small vi tories were won, and the enthusiasm of youth lent romance to life's drudgery.” = A Lakeside ‘using. From the Chicago Tribune, “Is this where they edit?” “Yes, ma’am,” replied the horse reporter asne looked up and discovered a trimiy-built young | lady standing in the doorway. “This is the ex- act spot where Right, enyironed on every side by Intellect, deals telling blows against Wrong and Injustice, clad though they be in the gar- ments of Might and Oppression. Armed with the lances of Thought that glisten brightly in | the sunlight of Reason, the editor stands ever ready, a helmeted knight in the holy cause of panoplied, and with weapon in couchant pols “That wasn't exactly out abont,” said the young lady. “Iam going to make a crazy quilt; and mamma said that an editor could probably tell me all about it”—and bewitching smile illuminated the features of visitor. insane bed-clothes editor,” said the porter, “is not here at present, and the rest of us naturally feel somewhat diffident about intruding upon the domain of quilts whien are suffering tromt ou understand me, sir,” con- tinued the young lady. “Ae really and truly crazy. you know —it is simp! called so becatise, being made of silk of diger- ent colors, it presents an oxtre appearance. “Presents a what?” “An outre appearance—looks rather strange, you know. “0 yes; sort of dizzy looking you mean.” “That probably ‘expresses the idea, sir, although not perhaps in the most choice lan- Ishould be very glad, though, if you | could give me some inforination about this mat- | ter, because it is necessary that T should begin the work at once. “Ma demented quilt for yourself?” hat is, not e ly.” and a vivid 1 thé young lady's features. “But it done before the Ist of Janu- ary, because we won't have any room for the frame in the other house.” “Which other hows , the one I—that is. we—oh, I think awful,” and more blushes ensued. “The Ist of January is not generally consid- ered the most auspicious season ot the year for | moving,” said the horse reporter. “The blithe | arol of the plumber and the low, sad wail of the man who is trying to thaw out the water pipes with a two-inch candle and a jug of hot water, with which he will eventually inundate himself, are about the only features of prominence con: ic life In Chicago at that s son of the year. Why don’t you Wait until May —Joyous, happy May—when the buds are burst- ing and the robins, tuneful harbingers of the lays so soon to come, are twittering on : bough?” “That's just what [have said all along,"replied the young lady, “but Charlie declares he will | never liye in the same house with mamma, and | —now I shan’t say another word,” and more blushing ensued. “Oh,” said the horse reporter, « married, are you?” r. That is Charlie said—” “I know what he said. He leaned you up confidentially azainst his suspender, and,speak- ing ina low, tremulous tone, asked you if you felt that you could leave parents, brothers, sis- ters, fisi-balls on Sanday, and all that makes home at once the altar of our aifections and th joy of our lives, and live forevermore with hi alm of Doubt t it made his head swim. Isn't that you're going s hen a girl, stand- m the threshold of Womanhood and watch- ing with wistful eyes for the mists of futurity to lift, sees advancing the one man to whom ‘she can give her heart, all her doubts and fears dis- appear as if by magic, and she knows only that | @ great happiness and holy content enshroud | her being. Charlie then kissed you warmly about an inch below your nose, and broke him- self the next day buying an engagement ring. He calls at the house every night now, and when he says to you: ‘Myrtle, do you love me as much this evening as you did last Thursday afternoon?’ you look at——” “He doesn’t call me Myrtle at all,” inter- rupted the young lady. “My name is Edith.” “It's the same thing. A Tose by any name would have as many thorns. When he asks you if you love him as much as you did last Thurs- you climb up a little higher on his neck and want to know how he can ever doubt you. It’s all right, though. Be a true and loving wife, and perhaps some day Charlie will give you a quater to spend without requiring an itemized account, sworn to before a notary, as to where such a vast sum has gone. Cherish his love as you would a tender it that the rude blasts of winter would destroy. Make Hing; two bells to stop, train running: ty | by the next | appointments. y ‘quilt isn’t | ONE SYSTEM FOR ALL RAILWAYS. Recommendations for a Standard of Signals for Every Honad im the Coun- try. From the New York Sun. The railroads are exhititing a wonderful de gree of unanimity upon all other subjects except | freight and passenger rates. Having disposed of the bugbear of time standards by reducing fifty-three inharmonious varieties of timeto four that are evenly divided, the railroads are now discussing the means by whieh all train-running or road signals shail be simplifled into one common standard. At present there are as many ways of signaling for any one tome. In the one tive-whistle signals there are nd these systems all give the agree only ino saiue sign t 1 three short toots close together—but in all other matters an engi- Neer trained on one big road would be almost ‘ant in an engine cab on another road as al spent his life ina British baggage car. ch the same in matter of conductors’ haad signals by Is by night, and also with re; uals, tore pedo siznals and stationary « de signals. A committee of thoroughly tative railroad men, with Mr. Jam manager nis and Pittsburg, as pan, Was intrusted with the work of bring- ver out of this chaos of have made their report. The biz railroads as the basis thus found out what w. natural an. ef ‘ous signals. nd and lan signaling they examined a number of int gent persons who knew nothing about vail ing in order to find out w vidual would do if he wanted to motion another man to stop a train, or to back it » ahead with it, or to tell him that the train had broken in two. AS aresult, the committee will recom- mend the followlug hand and lantern signals for twenty-the r study, and most, wing the vari- hi all the railn Go ahead—A motion up and down. Stop—A motion crosswise with the track. Back up—A motion in a vertical cir Train parted—A motion ina vertical circle at arm’s lenzth across the track, given ousiy until answered by the enzineer. The committee will recommend the following bell-cord signals: One bell, to start itinu- call in flagman, train standing, next station, train running: ti sta’ fr For whistle are These , Proaching stations, crossings and junctions; Short toot for apply brakes: two blasts for f brakes:” two toots nm answer to any » three blasts dor train parted, and three Loot» tor back up. Under the hi ing of stationary and fixed Signals, their rec pendations are very thor cough. ‘For torpedo signals, they recommend | one torpedo for danger and two for caution, the misses dre the other will bring the train to a stop. The report of the committee will be wention, and it is bel accepted, with very slight modifications, if It is not adopted outricht. Unlike the time stand- ard, this will afect none but the railroad mea, yet It will be of great convenience to them. so In St. Peter's at Rome, Correspondence of the New York Jourual of Commerce I suppose no two travelers ever saw the same objects in the same light and same moods, I had been prepared, by all the gu’ ke and private accounts I ever read and verbal state- ments L ever heard, to be disillusioned by the actual sight of St. Peter's, aud still more by @ | Visit to Its interior. On the contrary every- | thing outside and Inside the grand edifice far | surpassed my expectations. From first to last my visits to St. Peter's were agreeable dis- We had been cautioned, over aud over azain, to be sure to be weil Wrapped up on entering the church, as security azainst a sudden chill. We were told that om ycurtain er mat which serves change of temperature from the external air would strike to the verg citadels of lite unless we were defended b) triple thicknesses of co nd shawls. In the in- we of Our hearts we carried aheap ot these articles in our cab. Alighting in the piazza at the fuot of the steps which lead to the entrance of St. Peter's, we slowly ascended, holding um- brell: and taking great care not to get inthe slightest degree he for | the September sun is still warm in the open air. | With some trepidation we approached th doorway, feeling that cal vd. Shawls and fully pinne preparation was or buttone putting on a thick, warm skull- cap. Then we gently pushed the pone derous mut, and lo aud 1 found our- selves in anytiing but a damp, dark and gloomy charnel-house. I never’ expect to see another building “In. this world ht, beautiful and cheerful as St. Peter's sphere is simply pertection—theventil 1 flood of white sun’ object, and the temp. any well inanazed private house. coats were whipped off on the insta proceeded to enjoy the wondrous sigi out the least misziving. St. Peter's caunet be described soasto bring Its cteatness and its beauty and brillianey home to the understand- ing of any reader or listener. Therefore 1 par- don all the guide-books and all the personal Age formants for having tailed to impress upon me any adequate conception of the most majesti¢ and fauitiess of huiman temples erected to the worship of God. Like every other person who has ever yisited St. Peter's, 1 found it impossible first to ree alize the known vast dimeusions of this pile. as published, are authentic. and “s first impulse to deny their accura- ey. A good way to get at some approximate idea of the s interior is to walk around it and time the performance. Most ladies wish to sit down before they have dune t and it Isa d bit of customed to long harmony of the pri for a long time, howe reise even Tora tan ac- The strolls in New York. portions of St. Pet ast more by ac i ate observation. ( lookingupat the dome all dark object swinging in the air. AL uce showed it to be a man who had been low ppes from some platform abor the of sweeping the dast n the beautiful frescoes He swung perilonsly back and forth as he plied his brush, and I looked with a horritle fascination to see him fall. But, ina to the sight about 5 feet 10-inch with that of other objects the same height Then 1 perceived t toot of an angel (one of m: sit around ling of the chureh) was s whole body. Seen from th the entire anzel seen than an average human being. The actual bight at which tnese Images are placed is while appearing so small to the ordinary vi —as to dwarf their dimensions, as I Ha’ plained. The comparison of the man, whisking his long brush up there, with the angel's foot, gave me a better clew to the stupendous but harmonious proportions of St. Peter's than any other test whatever. ‘On one occasion it was my fortune to be present at vespers in St. Peter's. The service was entirely choral. the pope's choir renderin, the music. "A large company of priests assist though they were listening rather than par- takers in the ceremony. The lovely chants and arias seem to give as much pleasure to them a8 to persons who heard tiem for the first time. The choir is admirably drilled, and has some singers ofthe kind that theatrical advertise- ments call “phenomenal.” The leading *‘s0- prano” of the force could certainly be so styled. On entering St. Peter's that eyening, my ear Was struck by a voice almost as clear and loud and high as Patti's or Nilsson’s, rising fur above tl surrounding chorus. I knew that no woman ever sings in the pope’ choir, and therefore my curiosity was greatly excited to see the author of these lofty feminine strains. The crowd prevented me from getting as big as floor be- er — whole life a constant endeavor to promote is welfare, but do not finish that quilt. “Why not, sir?” “ Because,” was the reply, “it would recall to him the happy past.” Mary Anderson in Poetry. From Galignani's Messenger. Miss Mary Anderson 1s receiving an ovation in London, and 25,000 of her photographs, taken since her arrival in England, have been sold. She is called the “Grecian Maiden,” and ina late issue of London Society the following poem about her isprinted: 8 good view of the singer, but I covid make out in the distance that the “soprano” was meyetigs deep docd a Nyon ng . m every parting , With- out the least apparent ‘welled tori the smoothest weetest ‘and the voice ‘was so much like a woman's that only a of the singer could convince me that it was anything else. The pope's choir has long been famous for its quasi-soptano voices. I doubt if it ever had a better one than I heard that day, Children’s Sayings, From Chambers’ Journal. At a public meeting in Edinburgh, some time ago, Prof. Blackie told his audience the follow. ing story: “‘A little boy at a Presbytery exaral- nation was asked: ‘What isthe meaning of re, generation?’ ‘Oh, to be born again,” he replied, — right, Tommy. You're a very good boy. ‘ould you not liketo be born agaiu’ Tom- my hesitated, but on_beis answer said: ‘Why, Imight be born a |: ” he replied. Ali obey wae sition by Sean of his crand- mother, who was very ill. “Ah my poor chili,” she said, ‘Iam very bad; Iam to dic.” atew m'