Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1884, Page 7

——— 884 DOUBLE SHEET MID-WINTER F SHION ovr tire ww AY FO} red the favorite | < of jet mingled with silver ntaver. sists of beads of ile is exqu e blue is a fash- has been invented in Paris per, is. a most and short at nch ladies wear underskirts or white satin at home. von Garwenr is the long + trimmed with bear shin. uncut vel- acovered with diamonds xpote of lets of eresson colored y novel and beau- rrton D ‘e being made of cloth, nn yelvet flowers and | ng over a gilet is | young ladies in Wuire velvet and lace bonnets for theater rare adorned with marabouts tipped with talle hues is largely used to tone down the brilliant colors so fashionable AND Paxviers of evening dresses be of teo brilliant colors or of too rich stones are now set in tortoise-shell ly ornaments for the rs for stre dresses are in taste thau ichus or cravats, and are re is a fashionable um- of the rn: ‘| twills, others shed sateens have damasse Asn Stuvta € ed tutte THE TWO MRS. TUCKER. “You can make the fire while I put the hoss ont.” said Amasa Tucker, as he opened the back door of a gray house, set on top of a tree- less hill, tracked here and there with paths the | geese had made In their daily journeys to the pond below, and only approached at the back by a lane to the great red barn and a rickety board gate set between two posts of the rail fence. This was Wealthy Ann Tucker's home-coming. | She had married Amasa that morning at her | father’s house in Stanton, a little village 20 miles away trom Peet's Mills, the town within whose wide limits lay the Tucker farm; and had come home with him this early spring afternoon in the old wagon behind the bony horse that did duty for Amasa’s family carriage. Mrs. Tneker was a tall, thin young woman, . very silent and capa-| traits had been her chief rec-| lon to her husband. There was no sentiment about the matter. Old Mrs. Tucker hs before this marriage, but f ned,” and knowing his | | mother could not liv@ long had improved his | | opportunit dtad been ‘sparkin” Wealthy | | Ann Mt rin In judicious provision for | iL f his solitude. cluded that a w girl, and more pe this alert, firt unele 8 cheaper than a uired | anent: 80, when he found |. handy girl living at her | . Who was a widower ona great farm the side of the vill Amasa made her | i as soon as possible and proceeded ey. Wealthy liked better to je than for a stepfather with children, but she thought it | would ti T still to have a house of her own; so she agreed to marry Amasa Tucker, and tils | her home-com She d the door into a dingy room with an open fireplace at one end, a window gn the north and one on the south side, email, paned with olk to furth | work for her un six secondary green and imperiect glass, and letting | in but just enough ligt to work by. _ One cor. ner, to the north, was partitioned off to make | a pantry, and a door by the fireplace led out Into the woodshed. The front of the house con- | tained two rooms. One opened Into the kit- chen and was a bedroom, furnished sparsely enough; the other was a parlor, with high- | backed rush-bottomed chairs against the wall, a round table in the middle, a fireplace with brass andirons and fireirons, a family Bible on the table and a “mournidg piece” painted in ground hair onthe mantel. Green paper shades and white cotton curtains, a rag carpet fresh as it came from the loom—if its dinginess could ever be called fresh—and a straight-backed sofa cov- ered with green and yellow glazed chintz, made as dreary an apartment as could well be imag- ined. Wealthy shut the door behind her quickly, and went to the shed for material to make her fire. It was almost sundown and she was hungry; but che found only the scantiest supply of Wood and a few dry chips for kin- dling. However, she did her best, and she had brought some provisions from home, so that she manazed to lay out a decent supper on the rickety table by the time Amasa came stamping in fromthe barn. He looked dlsapprovingly at the ple, the bis- cuit, the shaved beef, and the jelly set before him. “I hope ye ain't a waster, Wealthy,” he growled. “There's vittles enough for a township, and the’ ain't but two of us.” “Well, our folks sent ‘em over, and you no need to eat "em,” she answered cheerily. “Tawn't goin’ to; don’t ye breakinto that fell; set It by; sometime or nuther somebody may be | acomin’, and you'll want of it.” | Wealthy said no more; the biscuit and beef, for the pie j “set by.” he was used to economy, but not to stingi- hess, and she excused this extreme thrift in her | | husband more easily for the reason that she had | been always poor, and she knew very weil that he was not rich, to say the least. “But it was | | only the bexinning. Hard as Wealthy b T uncle's, her made a supper of also was ordered | fu: heavy sweep, pletur me tu Use: Wood w on the hundred acres rudged its use. down no 1 ‘ aid, wien she ui he nd him to tetch | ‘win’ when ye | cut it, in’ for lumber; and tum- + better to sell, a sizht, than cordwood. Ye! must git along § 1 ter burn ni ud him that his mother al did not rem t doubl tism, and died of the Be ia. Wealthy never bre P e were elght cows to milk, the milk " 'y been produced rv tojlet of dark bine gray | and, walster freal swal- lows axp Woovcocs Prarie! neh, make pretty tr e felt walking hats of your Kaers or Dre of the satins or covereed with the fash- ot sprigged tulle of this It is of te sprays of de’ avention for boss and girls who will : W ground and wear out a stocking knee mt. O1 3 th pink vel- e, has bows of Paris, during the late ¢ of seaishin, with bi rt sealskin mantels made wle of white satin or ite tely velied with white tulle chenilte, which hasa pear! at io bars. } oF THE N T satin, eos apes has ground of ith an irregular, lace- er pink, with bouquets of | ad blue tints and, | sts short skirts are generally | “1, und none but ladies who do not dance the ball-room, and althouzh | a8 are wora to grand dinners and recep- | e there is no dancing, semi-trains are | Jhost ju iayor even for married ladies. The now | pepular * bullet” skirts are those with several | of equal length placed over each The uppermost skirt is often embroid- | Sof tiny leaves or sprays of amall | towers i is and finished witha plain hem. above which ny rows of gold twh elt, nt to Wash- | an linporter, is made of heavy Lyon's 3) a yard. The color 13 an ex- ale of pink oses full bi of pale A Maesiriwent r en, mingled with droopin; aid ‘leaves und buds. The a the desiga are exquisitely The Josephine corsage is | 1 with a Lertha of real point lace, the > where the mings upon ¥ all the white tollets for young girls made with the round waist. Some hered full at the throat, and also at the waist. ‘The bodice opens sarplice-fashion, show- i chemisette Russe of dainty lace or 1 lisse caught in front by a draw-string of or satin ribbon. The Marguerite sleeves are sometimes of lace and sometimes ot the dress fabrie trimmed with lace frilla. Often the White dress is made up over a slip of pink, blue or ribbons to correspond, but the perfectiy white toilet, with broad white satin sash and bows. Is considered in more perfect taste, only relieved by bright flowers placed here and there upon Bodice and skirt. 4 Youne Lany writes toknow if “she can get up ® peat and stylish costume for lars.” She certainly can. There are vlenty of fne winter fabrics to be bought for Jess than sixty cents a yard, double width, and ‘n ali the new dark shades.’ She must first pur- ‘chase # Jersey to match exactly the shade of her goods. which can be bought for €3.50 in good drm qualities of sine wool stockinette, and per- fect in tt. Yo ludies have long ago dis- covered that the jersey tsa very useful as well d that, in the con- of a “home-made” toilet. it 1s now comparatively an ¢ creditable and Kati ever-formidable quest be taken into ac actory costume when the n of a “good fit” has not sunt im its construction. The yeomes ready to be put on, and a klited skirt with scarf drapery br apein tunic fs all that ts w with this’ he othing is easier mink t kilted nd nothing is more eas r a thau @ scarf oF ay ¢ ii manve, brocaded with | & perish, with but one slant gray stone to tell $ are conspicuous by their absence, and | ‘¢ taffeta or foulard, and trimmed with | latter to produce a very | et, skim. churn or make Into cheese, tig but the simplest utensils to do cloth held over the edge of the pail strainer, the pails themselves were | 1, the pang old and some of them | jes stopped with bits of rag, olten 3. the milk room was in tne shed, | nst the chimney that it might not ze there in the winter, and only aired by one | | small slatted window; the churn was an old | | wooden one with a dasher, and even the “spad- | | dle” with which she worked her butter was whit- tled out of a maple knot by Amasa himself, and | with. served for Pavy W was heavy and rough. Then, to her belonged the feeding of the pigs, gaunt, lean animals, with sharp snouts, ridgy Uacks, long legs and thin flanks, deep-set eyes that gleamed with Intelligent malice and never- sated hunger. Wealthy grew almost afraid of | | them when they clambered upon the rails of the pen in their fury for food, and flapped their pinted ears at her, squealin: scant fare that she broug ed and overworke to him. ‘Then there were h fashioned barn-door* too, and yet cate ade fr and fighting for | For Amasa un- | everything that belonged to look after—-the old- pers” that wanted food 1 for themselves in great.| with barn and woodshed uarters, and were deci- y hawks, owls, skunks, id foxes, to say nothing of the little | n crows and cats worked their | to stray beyond the ruinous A for them by Amasa’s invent- | ks and Sones. Ul this the cooking, washing, baking , the insufficient supply of pork, po-| tatoes and tough pies. the “b'ld dinners,” whose | strength lay in the vegetables rather than in the small square of fat pork cooked with them, of | which Awasa invariably took the lion's share. These accumulating and never-ceasing labors | all wore day by day on the vitality‘of Mrs. Tack- | er, and when to these were added an annual | baby, life became a terror and a burden to the | poor woman. But what did Amasa care? He, too, worked “from sun to sun.” He farmed in the hard old fashion with rude implements and no knowledge but — “My father done it afore me, so Iam a goin’ to doit now, no use talkin’.” ‘One by one the wailing puny children were latd away in the lit- tle yard on top of a sandhill, where the old Tuckers and thelr half-dozen’ infants lay al- ready; rough inclosure, full of mulleins, bur-| docks and thistles, overran with low blackberry vines and surrounded bya rail fence. It had | been much handier for the Tuckers to have a gravevard close by than to travel five miles to the mills with every funeral: and they were not driven by public opinion in regard to monu- | ments; they all lay there like the hearts that enius out of ito where the first occupant left his tired bones. Two children of Wealthy's survived, Amasa and Lurana, the oldest and youngest of seven. Amasa, a considerate, intelligent boy, who thought much and said Ittle, and Lurana, or Lury.” as her name was generally given, a mischicvious, self-willed little imp, the delight | and torment of her little worn-out mother. | Young Amasa was a boy quite beyond his fath- er’s understanding; as 800n as he was old enough be began to help his mother 1n every wai Ke could devise. And when his term at the village | sciioel was over, to his father's great disgust, he | | trapped squirrels and gathered nuts enough to | earn him money and subscribe for an icultu- ral paper, which he studied every week till its | contents were thoroughly stored in his head. | Then began that “noble tent” which the | philosophers praise. The elder man had no In his old-world | | ways; the sloppy waste of the barnyard was an eyesore to this ‘ book-learned feller,” as hia father deristvely called him. And the ashes of the wood fire were saved and sheltered like pre- clous dust, instead of thrown into a big heap to edify the wandering hens. That desolate gar- den was plowed, fertilized and set in order at last. and the great ragged orchard manared, the apple trees thinned and trimmed, and ashes sown thick over the old massy sod. Now these | things were not done in a day ora year, but ag the bey grew older and more able to cope with his father’s self-conceit more was done annually, not without much opposition and many hard words, but still done. Then came a heavy blow. Lurana, a girl of 15, fresh and pretty ua a wild rose, and tired of the pinching economy, the monotonous work and grinding life of the farm, ran away with a tio idler, and broke her mother’s heart; not in the physical sense that hearts are sometimes broken, but the weary woman's soul was set on this bright, winsome child. and her life lost all its scant savor when the blooming face andclear young volce left her forever. “T don’t blame her none, Amasey,” she sobbed ont to her boy, now a stout fellow of 22, raging at his sister's folly. | “1 can't feel to blame her; I know 'tis more’n a girl can bear to live this way. I've hedto, but it's been dreadful hard—dreadful hard! I've | husband came in from the hayfield smitten with | charms of the other sex; he had not “1 | whom he met at singing schools or spelling | and son | grain carpeting | heavy | failures and troubles? | harassed and sad experience, and give a heart- wished more’n once I could ha’ laid down along with the little babies out there on the hill, so’s to rest a spell; but there was you and Lury wanted me, and so my time hadn't come. Amasey, you're a man grown now, and if you should get married, and I s’pose you will, men folks seem to think it’s needful whether or no, do kinder make it easy for her, poor cretur! Don’t grind her down to skin and bone, like me, dear; ta’nt just right, I'm sure on't, never to make no more of a woman than ef she was a | horned critter; don’t do i “Mother! I never will,” answered the son, as energetically and solemnly as if he were taking his oath. But Wealthy was nearer to her rest than she knew; the enemy that lurks in dirt, neglect, poor food, constant drudgery and the want of | every wholesome and pleasurable excitement to mind or body, and when least expected swoops down and Goes its fatal errand In the fsolated farmhouse no less than in the crowded city slums, the scourge of New England, typhoid fever, broke ont In the Tucker homestead. Wealthy turned away from her weekly baking one Saturday morning Just as the last ple was set on the broad pantry shelf and fainted on the itchen floor, where Aasa, the younger, found her an hour after, muttering, delirous and cold. What he could do then, or the village doctor, or an oid woman who called herself a nurse, was all useless; but the best skill of any kind would have been equally futile. She was never con- scious acain for aweek; then her ‘eyes seemed to see what was about her once more. She looked up at her boy, laid her wan cheek on her hand, smiled—and died. Hardly bad her wasted shape been put away under the mulleins and hard hack when her the same plague. He was larder to conquer. Three weeks of alternate burning, sinking, raving and chills ended at last in the gray and grim repose of death for him, and another Amasa Tucker reigned alone in the old house on the hill. It Is not to be supposed that In all these years Amasa the younger had been blind to the cen wit every girl who went to school with him, or | i | ches, or who stalled at him from her Sunday bonnet, as he manfally “held up his end” in the ilage choir. He had been faithful always to the shy, dell- eate dark-eyed little girl who was his school sweetheart, and now it was to Mary Peet he hastened to ask her to share his life and home, He had intended to take a farm on shares the next summer, and work his way slowly upward | to a place of his own; now he had this hundred | acre farm, and to his great surprise he found | £3,000 laid up in the bank at Peet’s Mills, the slow savings of his father's fifty years. He be- gaan at once to set his house in order; he lonzed to build a new one, but Mary’sadvice restrained him, so he did his best this; the cellar he cleared and whitewashed with his own hands, cleaned its one begrimed window and set two more, so that it was sweet and light; the house was scrubbed from one end to the other; a bon- fire made of the -old dirty comfortables and quilts; the kitchen repainted a soft yellow and new windows with clear large glass set in place of the dingy old sashes; the wood-house was filled with dry wood and good store of pine- cones and chopped brush and kindling, A new milk room was built but a little way from the back door, over a tiny brook that ran down the hill north of the house, and under the slatted floor kept up a cool draught of fresh air, a covered passage connected it with the kitchen,and a door into the old milk room made of that a con- venient pantry, while the removal of the old one from the kitchen corner gave to that apartment more reom, air and light. A new stove, with a set boiler, filled up the hearth of the old fire- place, but further improvements Amasa left for A different home-coming from his mother’s she had Indeed. co just such aspring day as Wealthy came there.” The kitchen shone clean laid ready for her to light, the shining tea- lied, and the pantry held such stores as masculine knowledge of household wants could suggest; flour, butter, egzs, sugar, all were In abundance, and no feast of royalty ever gave more pleasure to its most honored guest than the hot biscuit Mary made and baked tor theirsupper, the stewed dried apples, the rich old ehvese and the fr Amasa this happy evening. Next day they teok their wedding trip to Peet's inills in the new and sensible farm wagon Amasa had juSt bought, with a strong, spirited he iw it. “TI want you should look around, Mai had said the night before, “and see what is | needful here t tm ‘ything is anting, and we can't lay out for finery. But ofall get what'll make your work easy Your wedding present will long to-mol row; to-day we'll buy nec Mrs. Peet had not sent her only girl empty handed to the new house. A good mattress, two pairs of blankets, fresh, light, comfortables, cheap, neat, white spreads; a set of way crockery, a clock, and aroll of bright in- ad all come to the farm-house soon after the bride's arriyal; her ample supply of sheets and pillow-cases, strong towels and & few table-cloths had been sent the day before, so this sort of thing waa not needed; but thei was anew churn bought, and altogether new furnishings for the dairy, several modern inven- tions to make the work of a woman easier, a | set of chalrs, a table, and an easy lounge for the | parlor, some cretonne coyered with apple. blos- soms and white-thorn clusters, and pails, brooms and tinware that wouid have made Wealthy a happy woman, crowded the cver-full wagon be- fore they turned homeward. The old house began to smile and blossom un- der this new dispensation, and the new mistress smiled, too. Amasa milked the cows for her and lifted the pails of milk to. strain into the bright | ns; he filled the woodbox by the stove | ut apatent pump inte the old | it stood above the house, ran a | pipe down into a sink set fn the woodshed, and | so putanend to the drawing and carrying of | wat new at, round, placid pigs, that now enjoyed themselves in the new pen hé took care of hin- belt. + for women folks,” he sait. got enough to do, Mary: there's the yu'll have an eye on, and the chickens, rreamind to; I'm going to build a he and @ yard to it right off, that'll be goo sh for you as well as the chickens; and I want you shall promise if any time the work gets a mite hefty and worries you, you'll speak Fight out. I can afford to have everything else worn out rather than my wife. Really, it paid! It docs pay, my masculine friends, to give uny woman a Kindly word now and then; if you had done It oltener, or your | fathers had in the past. the rights of women never would have angered or bored you as they | do now; or unsexed and made sfrident and | clamorous that half of creation which is and | always was unreasonable enough to have hungry hearts. Try it and see! Amasa was wise above his generation; he had seen his mother suffer, and learned a lesson. Mary never pined for kindly appreciation of her work. or help init. When she had a door cut through into the parlor, the stiff chairs and sofa banished, the flowery curtains hung at either window, the gay carpet put down and the new * furniture set ‘In place, with her wedding present—an easy stuffed’ rocker—drawn up to the table, on which lay two weekiy papers and Harper's Magazine, she had still sense enough left to make this hitherto sacred apartment into @ real sitting room, where every evening she and Amasa rested, read or talked over the day's doings: and when the first fat rosy baby came, and Mary was about again, it added another pleasure to have the old cradle beside them all evening with its sleeping treasure. Can I tell in words what a sense of peace and cheer pervaded this household, in spite of some If the rye did blast one year, the two best cows dle, another; if a weasel once invaded the new ‘and wonderful hen house and slaughtered the best dozen of Plymouth Rocks, if sweeping storms wet the ‘eat crop of hay on the big meadow, or an ox roke its leg in a post hole—still there was home to come back to, and a sensible, cheerful woman to look on the bright side of things when Amasa was discouraged. But onthe whole things prospered, ard as Amasa heard the sweet laughter of his happy children, aud met the calm smile of his wile, he could not but look back on his mother’ felt sigh to the difference between the two Mrs. Tuckers, unaware how much it was due to his own sense of justice and affection. There are two morals to this simple sketch, my friends: One is, the great use and necessity of being good to your wives. Accept which you like or need most. In the language of the ancient Romans: ‘ your money and you takes your choice. Terry Cooke, in Waterbury American, —— rr Getting Up to the Sticking Point, ‘From the Rochester Advertiser. “One evenin’ as I was a-sittin’ by Hetty, and had worked myself up to the sticking-pint, sez I, ‘Hetty, if feller was to ask you to marry him, what wud you say?’ Then she laughed, and sez she, “That would depend on who asked me." Then sez I, ‘Sup it was Ned Willis?’ Sez she, ‘I'd tell Ned Willis, but not you.’ That kinder staggered me; but I was too cute to lose the opportunity, and so I sez agen, ‘Sup- pose it was me?’ And then you orter see her pout up her lip, and sez she, ‘I don’t take no supposes.” Well, now, you see there was nothin’ for me to do but to touch the gun off. So bang it went. Sez I, ‘Lor, Hetty it’s me. Won't you say yes?’ And then there was such a huilabalioo in my head I don't know ‘xactly what tuk place, but I thought [heerd a ‘yes’ whisperin’ somewhere out of the skirmish. : | under the houses, into the | in the world. ' cipliers. | first. | from men who are attempting AN ENORMOUS COLLECTION OF cats. How a Lover of Fun Succeeded in En- Joying Hlimsejf aj, the Expense of Neighbors, From the Atlanta Conititattin, In 1839 there came Yo Hawkinayille, from Charleston, 8. C., two wttl-dreased gentlemen. One of them was! very’ stingy and close, the other was the reverse, liberal and free with his | money, and the greatest tover of fun I had ever seen. Two weeks tiefore Christmas he caused to be printed a nurtber of handbiils as follow WASTED 5.000 TS TO IMPORT TO LONDON, as the rats are alidut to midermine the great city. I want them delivered pery og Christmas Day. From all points of the,compass came nezroes with sacks and wallets of cats. They hung them on the shade trees, on fences, in fact. look where you might, dad a ack of cats greeted you. Fifty cents (Gr grown cats, 25 cents tor half-crown and 10 fents Yor kittens had been offered. The bad Boys about town (myself one | of them) began, at a signal, to cut the strings and let loose the cats, Of course, a great many ozs were in town, and the furflew. About 11 o'clock an old man named Barney Williams, living near Hartford, came across the river with an ox cart, minus the body, but an eight by ten long square basket, filled with cats of all ages, colors, sexes and sizes. He stopped in front of Bohannon’s hotel. After short search, he found the man who wanted the cats, who appeared very anxlous to secure the lot, and, trying to peer Into the basket, he cut. the rope holding | the quilt covering to the basket and out flew the cats, about forty. They went peil mell bushes and every The old inan Wil- conceivable place to hide. liains was very mad, tor he gatbering up the surplus felines of his nei: Hood. There was no sleep for many night old. Hawkinsyille. that not less than two thousand cats had been turned loose on that occasion. See AN ANT’S BRAIN, A Wonderful Piece of Physical Mech- anism. Well may Darwin speak of the brain of an ant as one of the most wondrous particles of matter We are apt to think that it is im- possible for so minute a piece of matter to pos- fess the necessary complexity required for the discharge of such elaborate functions. The mi- croscope will no doubt show some details in the ant’s brain, but these fall hopelessly short of revealing the refinemert which the ant’s brain must really have. The microscope is not adequate to show us the texture of matter. It has been one of the great discoveries of mod- ern times to enables us to form some numerical estimate of the exquisite delicacy of the fabric which we know as inert matter. Water, or air, or iron may be divided and subdivided, but the process cannot be carried on indefinitely. There is a well-defined limit. We are even able to make some approximation to the number of molecules ina given mass of matter. Sir W. Thomson has estimated that the number of atoms in a cubic inch of alr is to be expressed by the figure 3, followed by no tewer than twenty ciphers. The brain of the ant doubtless con- tains more atoms than an equal yolume of air; but even if we suppose them to be the same, and if we take the size of an ant’s brain to be a little giobe one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, we are able to rorm some estimate of the number of atoms it must contain. The number is to be expressed by writing down six, and following it by eleven We can Imagine these atoms grouped in so many varions wags that even the com- plexity of the ant's briin miay be intelligible e haveso many units to deal with. An il ake the argument halfof little black . Put them in @ certain order, and we have a wondrous result—Darwin's Descent of Man. _ This book merély consists of about 500,000 letters, placed one after the other ina tain order, Whatever'be the complexity of in it Isstill hard to believe that at e the ant’s by could not be fatly described in 400,000 yolume: mach as large as Darwin's wor Yet the nun r of molecules tn the ant’s brain fs at le: 400,000 times as great as fhat number of lett in the memorable volume irfyuestion. 2 re - Whe Way of the Drunkard. From the Chicago News, * Idylwild toddy’ is the latest drink for men H who are trying to sober up after a long carousal,” sald a faultlessly-attired bartender in a fash- jonable Madison street saloon. “It is a new drink which T invented myself, and it tones up the stomach of a chronie drunkard wonderfully. It is composed of half a lemon, half an orange, sweetened with sugar, cooled with chopped ice, inspired with a jigger of whisky, with just adash of Santa Cruz rum. It is flavored with benedictine cordial, then shaken and served with Ice. “Another popular drink for nervous indiyld- who are trying to let themselyes down is the ‘fruit pyramle.’ To compound this favorite southern tunic, you take half a lemon, a tablespoontul of lime juice and another of pineapple Juice. Then you add ice, four ounces of loaf sugar, fill up with milk or cream, and let it stand about three minutes before drink- ing. It isa very sweet mixture, and gives new life to the exhausted stomach. Of course, you know champagne cocktails are quite popular to brace up on, but I make them different from most people. A lump of sugar, two or three drops of Angostura bitters, a lemon peel, and the fling is done. A very delicious and reviving drink itis. The regular old ‘boozer’ drops on to brandy and soda, a whisky sour, or a cock- tail, the morning after a_ sp: Sometimes it seems to require a good many of them before he te able to swallow his breakfast. “iy the way, the very latest rejuvenating drink introduced here has just come from New York. It is called the ‘Steinway.’ To make it, alump of cut-loaf sugar goes Into the glass Then a Jigger of whisky follows and the glass is filled up with Apollinaris water. ‘They say it was invented by Steinway, the piano- maker, and is fast becoming a favorite.” “Do you have many calls for nerve medicines recover trom "was asked of the effects of excessive drinking: a well-known druggist. “If you would happen to drop in here some Monday morning, you would think so,” he an- swered. “We sometimes sell 100 vials of elixir bromide of potassium on a single Monday morn- ing. These are bought chiefly by book-keepers, clerks and salesmen, who begin thelr potations on Saturday night, and dare not brace up on whisky as they are com elled to return to their desks and counters. Clérks and book-keepers who have to wield the pen can get their nerves into a steady condition by the use of bromide long before their heads are clear. We also sell a great deal of chloral, valerian and acia phos- phate for similar uses. They take the chloral to enable them to sleep; though its effect on the system is anything but beneficial. The use of it soon grows into a habit as dangerous and fatal as that ofopium. Another decoction which is frequently called for by the strong drinker is capsicum and Jamaica ginger diluted with brandy. Ihave seen old topers turn down a draught of it so hot that It would burn an ordi- nary mortal with a normal stomach like fire. Tincture of cinchona is often resorted to by those who have abjured whisky and desire a mild tonic.” “Beef tea is what they drench you with at the Washington home,” remarked an old inmate. You are confined to that hygenic diet for three days‘ before you are allowed to touch @ mouthful of soli@ food. It buiids up the drunkard’s broken-down stomach quicker than anything else,, they say. I remember the time when they used to keep ® supply of cay- enue pepper on the beef-tea table in tle hospi- tal, andthe boys used to swallow it by the handful, so they had to discontinue it aito- gether. You talk about drinking, and you don’t know what it means. Walt till you've drank horse liniment and hair restoratives to brace up on, and you may Possibty: learn some- thing about the business. Do I look as if I'd gone through the mill? Well, { tried everything from bay-room toldmp-oll. It’s awful hard for an old drinker to brace up when the liquor is all suddenly shut off, AMY he can’t get a drop for love or money. ine thinks for several days that he will surely ‘die. But I suppose that is the best plan if he desires true reform. The sooner the last vestige of stimulant is elimina- ted from his system, the better. He must through a series of sufferings, or die sooner or later. Let him make hts choice. They quiet a man’s nerves in the Ws lan home by the use of bromide of potassium, and induce sleep with hydrate of chioral. Never shall I torget the night I lay awake when I was passing throt the crisis in my drunken career! Why hypodermic injections of morphine failed to re- lleve me when I was at my worst. Sleep? I would have given a farm if I could have slept during those awful nights. Yes, I have gone through it all, not eee ee eesatie and the delirium tremens. ‘here there is one man able to drink, there are hundreds who cannot without becoming drunkards. Its all mistake, misfortune, pain. It ts all vanity. Can you tell me why wisdom comes so late in life, when the feast is over, the love lost, the wine drunk, and the guests tinder the table. d been two weeks | bor- | The best judges estimated | - Dersrrezy Dram. Whether a given musical performance is better than another 1s merely a question of taste. The same is true of all so-called fine art productions. By the very nature of things it is impossible to formulate absolute rules by which works of literature, sculpture or painting can be Judged. But when the ime relates to understood physical Jaws, we may generally reach # definite conclusion by methods about which there can be no mistake. For example, the proprietors of BENSON'S CAPCINE, | POKOUS PLASTER, desiring to ecttle a question which | has been raiccd as to the superiority of their poods over those of anot! manufacturer, took messures which following letter fromone of the most inent Chemists in the United States: Coutnor of Tue Cirz or New Your, merits as external | ative I tnd in Benson's Capcine Plasters valuable medicinal ingredients which do not exist it Pory | Flasters, Hence, in my opinion, they are those of Allcoca’s. Yours respectful | R. Oapen Doneas, M. D.. LL. 8. | But Benson's plasters are not chiefly dey the evidence of che y. strong and t They are also endorsed by more than 5,000 F and druggists, each over his own signature. b: domestic and foreicn exposition crowing multitudes of people; all of whom expressly reaffirm the opinion of Prof. Doremus. | ‘These plasters are widely and cunningly imitated. In case you doubt the intecrity of the seller, look for word Capeine which is cut in nter of t Se & Johnson, Pharmacentical Ch dent upon, H i H 00 sSSgTTITE ETTIT Ho o8 Sr a CELEBRATED STOMACH ‘BB MWTTTTTTIT FEE RRR. SSq + BHT rT RoR a) BB T T EEER RSss¥2 The necessity for prompt and effictent household rem- dies fs datly growing more imperative, and of these Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is the chief in merit and the most popular. Imgularity of the stomach and bowels, malarial fevers, liver complaint, debility, rhon- matism and minor ailments, are thoroughly conquered by this inconiparable family restorative and medicinal safeguard, and it is justly regarded as the purest and most comprehensive remedy of its class, For sule by all Drugyists aud Dealers generally, jal iJ. C. Baxer & Co. COD LIVER OIL, 815 Filbert street, Philadelphia, The only enecific for Coughs, Colds, Debility, Scrof- ula, Consumption and Wasting Diseases, PURITY AND FRESHNESS ALL IMPORTANT. Take only BAKER'S OIL from deulers, or send direct to depot, $15 Filbert street. Reduced price in quantity. BAKER'S COD LIVER OTL AND MALT, A Combination of Great Mutual Reser | intended to utterly ruin its b | have bad the oy et, for on oud recriyed for t No 10, just collected, brox ‘The reserve fund now exer z invested in US. Bonds by. the tru tral Trust Company of New York. T pleted its third year in October, and hi ertificates, covering 87,000,00)of on fee and one year’s dues ina 1 nual Ques forex- ich $1,000 of the certificate, Theas- th claims are: at age Liticate: at age ‘One fourth of ¢ E reserve Tuned rotect the con Japses and extra mortality, Come aud insur | 16uy HL street | iz 1.¥. KNIGHT. General Agent. oy Tue La Fance DECORATIVE ART CO, ‘S3East I7rH STREET, North side Union Square, New York. Contracts taken large or smal! for MEMORIAL STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, Stained Glass of Every Description, Mosaic, Reponsee, Wood Carvings, Embroideries and Hanwings, for vither Ecclesiastical or Womestic Purposes, And every kind of Interior Decoration for Public or Private Buildings, | examyites of Mr. La Farye's Work may be scen at | Trinity church, Boston. St. Thomas’ chui N. Memorial hall, Hard Gol. ‘The Brick ¢ A Memorial at | ‘Aud t W. HT. Vanderiuit, | Cyrus W. Feta, 8.4. 'Tylden, F.L. Ames, Boston. | i_ ers COCOA BREAKFAST. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. knowledge of the naturs] laws which ions of digestion and nutrition, and by cation of the fine propertics of well. se Epps bas provided our breakfast tables ‘ately flavored beverae, Which InBy save U3 'y ductors’ bills, Ttis by the judicious use of articles of dict thata constitution may be gradually Luilt up until strong cuongh to resist every tendency to disease, Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us, ready to attack wherever there is a weak pomnt.. W indy escape # fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well forti fi hk pure blood, and properly nourished frame,"— Cuil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Soldin tins, (only 31b. and 1b.), by Grocers, labeled. JAMES EPPS & CO., o16-m,tu&s Homeopathic Chemists, London. Eng. €2-CAPITAL PRIZE 875,000.03 ‘Tickets only $5. Shares in proportion, Lovistana STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. “We do hereby certify that we supervise the arrangs- ‘ments for all the Hath y and Semi-Annual Drawings ot Louisiana Stale Lottery Company, and in per~ Son manage and control the Drawings themselves, nd that the same are conducted with honeaty, fairness, and | Bgval auth toward all parties, and ee authorise the Company to use this certificate, with fac-similes uf our signatures a in tte advertisements.” y, EZ Commissioners. Incorporated in 1868 for twenty-five years by the t {slature for Educational and Charitabie: purposes: wil Ssah Wo haesince been sated Serre fund of over ‘overwhe ilar vote ita franchise a a ea at So Se a, Biggie AB et on and endores ptt Ye DOT OO eer males. or ‘postpones. Ire Gnaxb StvGLe Nousue ‘Daawinas take place we SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FoR- 165TH MonTHLy Drawixa. A. SECOND GRAND DRAWING, CLASS B. AT NEW CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000. 100,000 Tickets at @5each. Fractionsin fifths, in pro- ORLEANS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, SB Sersonstays EeEGEGE Eee formation write P.O. Money Orders further inf Hegintered Lettons to ‘NEW ORLEANS Postal notes and giv suina'oresend! M. A. DAUPHIN. 9016,23,26,30,f2,649 NEW OBLEANS, LA. - <o- The reports of the discovery of enormously res gold | apg in the eget d’Alane moun- tains, Idatio, are pronoun greatly exaggera- ted by Frofessor Tiernan, who has examined the country. FP HE CELLULOID TRUSS: THAT NEVER BREAES MRS. FISHER devotes ber sticutien aioe morate Lady Patrous, Proiv + Hospital Medical College. | Ivunce are $30 on | AUCTION SALES. ip PIANOS AND ORGANS FUTURE DAYS. JV EERS & 00, Auctioneers LARGE AND IMPORTANT SALE OF THE ENTIRI STOCK CONTAINED IN PREMISES NO. ENTH STREET NORTHWEST, IT THE TRADE AND PRIVATE BU NENTY-SIXT I the whole of the lance stock ah Peserve or limit, im part t j J. FISHER & CO, Real Ustate Auct | EXECUTORS AND TRUSTE F | VABLE IMPROVED BUSINESS PROPERTY 8 ORK AND DWELLING, No. 121 F STREET NORTHWEST. for District period pre wes, T veil] sell tw minis who lar. “Heated by furtuess w ly occupied by the goven 1 This property off by those desiipns of maiking ess property perfect T f sale: One-third of the purchase money tn > re ated equal H y on house, Was at an aunual rental At six (6) per and scoured cash at opth aui-arnuaily, rty sold, or all sof saleate not Lwith within tea (10) days from day of sale, the D rewll at risk and cost of 8500 will be re- eyancing and re- ne K eee wW. = = 24-dtds THOS. J. FISHER & CO., Auctioneers HUMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. TWO-STORY Ry virtue of a deed of trust May, AD. nin, dated the 26th, » Liver 1042 of the Dis premiaes, on MONDA‘ OF FLURUARY, 188, AT THE AHALE O'CLOCK B. ML, the estate, situated in the city of Washington, D.C., to wit f lot numubered 35, in square Lumbered 99, bewin- Line for the sume at a point on M strect northwest 43 fert west from the southeast corner of lot numbered 34, in suid square; thence west 23 feet 9 inches: thence. Borth 111 feet 1 inch to an aliry 1 ! thence east 23 feet 9 inches; thence south 111 fest 1inch to tl Place of besinning, subject to two deeds of trust, re corded in Liber 744. folic 300 et seq.. aud Liber 1,029, folio 472 ct seq., of the said land records, which secure the principal stm of #1,¢00, and interest at the rate of 8 Per cent per annum from August 26th, 1883, 5 in cash, the balance in six and twelve months with interest ateicht percent per an- nurs until paid, and be xecured by a decd of truet on the Hersexavr Prasos TAKES THE LEAD AMONG TRE BEST. Pronounod by competent Judges to be supe- rior in fine tone qualities, elegance of con- stenetion and durabity . t but Little umd "will be wold at Several now on hand ft tapeaine for canb oF «mall iucuthly payiventa Francs of other takers sold free than youcad buy cies Pierrot 14 saving the two and three profits of the dealer, Old plato takes in exchange at full vaine. Branch Factory Warerooma, $023 427 10th strvet, SALE OF PIANOS AND ORGANS. aur, N.Y. ¥ Of Peters & Greene, th Vurvhaser Waitara get a plane or mn the most ated tanker, at lew { price quoted by the myeulat arent, first in the coun= rand m Relieving Thaw don ty apy robation.and exten 2 ihe season, Dam Your most obedient servant, 4. WHARDCASTER 3 ed, w right. tn mamdeely in ar yrice BL een 3 & Co. organ, rege 1. Second-hand 1 great warkety eqnally positively bowt Linoving atte ate party k - Angiare at store, CHAUNCEY pre tone AND REPAIRING. ..PROMPTNESS AND RELIABILITY V_BECKDR, £01 9TH STREET NOK CHWEST, WM. SCHAFFFERS SPLENDID UPRIGHTS AL- WAYS ON HAND. EASY TEKMS, — Jatin’ L. WILD & BRO. 1 street north went THE WONDERFUL CLARIONA Anyone can play t : pit with sweetest expression aud wi Arya PIANOS TUNED AND RE PAIRED A SPECIALTE. 88~ Orders promptly attended to. Aieferences: Chickering & Sons, New York. F. A. URSO'S Piano Rooms, €13 Lith street north wat. HAGE, ANTS & 0038 Urnicitr PraNos zs Select Stock of these unequalled eat. Pianos tor Christmas cifte Lowest Fu vy Prices, aud two years time’ kiven Tor paymieaite, HL. SUMNER, Agent, #11 Ninth street, northwost NENUINF “DECKER™ PIANOS, ARE MADE BY DECKER BROS... siren G.H. KUHN, Sole Agent, 407 luth etn. ¥. ‘Also for Burdett oncans. repld JREIGHENBACHS PIANO WAREROOMS. PIANOS ‘of Various makes for sale and rent at re or all cash, at purchaser's opt MY be required upon acces tan le ni complied with in dive day sale the Trustee rewrves the right t ink and cost of the di wath day of Deoen 071, wherein Anna! id Tacob M ed, as Trus! upreme Court of ie] OF PAST THREE lowing described real estate, situ. ©, descritied ag all of od part of Lat numbered two five hundred aud fifty, begin vt elhity =. iuches (81 southwest ¢ of said aquare five nid ruumii weast two hundred t (222 ft or less, to the ex- street two hundn fb SALE OF UMIMPROVED © i RT MGHEAST AND SOUTHWEST SLC- THE CIty, Court of the Cane ONDAY, JANUARY UK O'CLOCK PAL, hated on M myrowell a 3a and 4g streets southwent , | On the SAME DAY, AT FOUR-THIRTY O'CLOCK | P.M, T shall ofter for sale an undivided nwirty in and to al Lot 8, square 470, said lot bette unimproved aud situated on K street, Letween 6th and 7th streets, oat UESDAY, JANUARY TWENTY-NINTH, 1894, O'CLOCK PM, Tshall offer for sale at yab= . in front of the’ pre the west 36 feet 9 rs, with equal depth of 105 fect 24g luches, of Lot i ed by two Two-story Fraue and 63 Hstrent ne Y, at FOUR-FIFTLE Hamada 2 treet, be th street northeast. | DAY. at FOUK-FORTY-FIVE suall offer Lot 2, in Hogan and Cun- sharu's subdivision cf Square 714, improved by two ory Frame Honses, one on the front, 12K t. the other on rar of said lo ON SAME Day, VE O'CLOCK P.M, 1 shall offer La uibdivision of certain Lote in Bate" sare 615, improved by a ryt northwest House, ON WEDNESDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK P.M, auction, fn front of the’prentars, te by depth thereof, ot Lets, 4 two-story Franie House, No.7 oe SAME b t L Tots are on 13th street, between V ts northwest, the hanaining three of suid lots arc improved by & two- | story Brick Houses, numbered from 1301 to 1313. V ortlwest, = E DAY, AT QUARTER OF FIVE O'CLOCK 43, both inclusive in P. ©. RY pL of partof squa: improved by 10. 22 9th ‘ik Houses, numbe: iy thereafter I sball sell 1 northwest. Tinmediat, ‘and 84, fn aid sub-diviscon of square (360), sit ated on Boundary street, between 9th and 10th Streets | Horchwest, aud unimproved. Tnnordiately. thereafter I | shall Rell “Lots 4 Doth duel id Jot 56, in | George 8, Balloch's subiivision of part of square 300, said lote ‘beng unimproved, and siiuxted as follows! | Lots 39 to 44, on U street, between Sth and Vermont Avenuo worthiwest; lots 45'to 51, on Vermont aven | between U and_V streets northwest, and lot 56, on V | street, between Boundary and Vermout avenue Dorth- | west. At such aales said property will be sold clear of all in- cumbrances, with taxes poid to date of sale, except lots 38, #9 and 49, in Wm. K. and PC. Riley's subdivision of sqiture 235, and lots 45 to 51, both inclusive, in Balloch's subdivision of part of square 360, which ‘lots will be sold snbject toa deed of trust dated September 21, 1881, and recorded in Liber No. sd, folio 261 et neq... Of the Jana Kecords of suid District, scouring $10,000, with eres cent je quarter! Prescribed ‘by decree: One-third cash, and the balance in equal installments in wx, twelve and eighteen months trom day of sale, for which notes of poteliacer, bearing interest fron dag: of sale and necured - @uced prices. Wn *e world-re nowne Tuning and repairing. 423) 11th street, above Pa. ave, Pp sos, ORGANS, SHEET MUSIC. STECK & 00. PIANO, ‘The Most Perfect Piano Mada, EMERSON PIANO, ‘The Pest Medium-priced Piano Manntactnraa, WILCOX & WHITE AND KIMBALL ORGANS Pianos and Organs sald on tnstaliuents, remted ores. {Tent applied if purchanc, SCLNi MUSIC, BLiculy completestok ia thentey. HENRY EBERBACH, N Manncine partnes of the Inte fri FINANCIAL, S Knabe & C jan30 Private Ssocx ELEGRAPH PErwERN WASHINGTON, TALTINONE, YORK, Buse PHILADCLVHIA, NE BLINCE & WHITELY, S 63 B Iku Fith Avenue, New York. General Partners James Whitely, Henry H. Doles, 1 Crager Oakley, Marry C. Logan, Wiliam BR. Washiueton, D.C, Maynard C. Eyre Travers, Special BUY AND SELL GN 0OMMISNION ALL CLASSES OF RAILWAY SECURITIES. Branch Office—539 15th street (Corcoran Building) H. H. DODGE, Resident Partner. Quotations of Stocks and Bonds and warding the Markets reocived th: STANTLY, direct from ti executed LL AL RATE OF INTER: ALLOWED ON TIME DEPOSITS. UNITED STATES BONDS bonziit and soll ct mar. ket rates. COLLECTIONS made everywhere by J. H. SQUIER & CO, Bas 1416 Pennsyly . T. J. W RIGHT & Co, BA a, avenue, ‘KERS AND BROKERS, No, 603 15th street, opposite T 8. Tre sary, Offer syeciel inducements to buy or sail CRUDE FELROLEUM, eather ior Cue or on Margin, IN LOTS OF 100 BARRELS OR MORR ‘Weinvite correspondence. Al!information cheerfatly given. dnl8 Srock AND Gras Excmasoe. J. BRIGHAM BISHUP & CO, BOSTON, NEW YORK, BALTIMORE And 1331 F STREET NORTHWEST, ‘Washixcrox. BUY, SELL AND CARRY STOCKS, GRAIN AND PROVISIONS ON MARGINS AND IN LOTS TO SUIT deed of trust upon property sl, will be taken, or entire purchase mon: be paid in cash, at option purchaser. A deposit of §100 will be required on each Jot ut time of pale, and the terms must be compli in eicht days from time of sale or the Tesold at the risk and cost of the defa All conveyancing and weording st pure ‘cost. galb-d&ds THOS. E. WAGGAMAN, Trustee, HANCERY SALE OF DESIRABLE IMPROVED CPR Bethy Ns, Who PAND SoM BTREE: NORTHWEST. tee By virt fa the Supreme Court of Pee Mine he Ne | _D, in Equ use No. 8,667. Doc. | whérein William Duvallis complainantand Ana Divall Mitchell et al defendants, the un 8 ‘Trustee, will sell at ‘public auction, infront of the Tespectively, the following-described sal e6- Hite sittafein the Cty of ‘Washington, Distrctot Co- rumibia, to wit: On WEDNESDAY, JANUARY THIRTIETH, 1884, at FOUR O'CLOCK PAL part ‘of lot numbered fourteen (14, hundred and forty-uine (449), : Beginning at the corner of, ee | forming the castern boundary of said Lot, and ten (1( feet west from east line of said original Lot n) fourteen (14), few a thence west fifteen (15) feet; south one in (100) feet; thence cast (15) feet: thenoe north one hundred (100) feet to the Rewinuing, inpeoved by e two-story Frame Dwelling, o. street northwest. ‘Also, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ABOVE SALE, Lot lettered E, In Harkness’ recorded subdivision in square numbered five hundred and fourteen (514), front- Fetbyedep eps (2036) feet of M street north- ‘one west ft ate ouerstony uniek ‘beck Dullding, 8 two-story frame wit ‘No 410 M street northwest. Prescribed by the decree: One-third as of tho purchass imbney in cam fro equal Installments, otes shall be New Discovery In ‘ANT Ni Sige in ether ex Ww Cd of any tind, GRIMAULT & Co., 6, Bue Vivienne, Paris, ja22-skw, ly [ck develop the FORM by a new process(never falls)and increase or reduce the flesh scientifically. I also Remove CUSTOMERS AT REGULAR NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AND CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE PRICES. THE PUBLIC GENERALLY IS INVITED TO EXAMINE THE FACILITIES OF THIS OF- FICE. CONSTANT QUOTATIONS AND SPOT CASH SETTLEMENTS, Branch Office, 43 Rost. J. . ST. MARC HOTEL, ‘Tth street and Penneylvania avenue. Troms, BROKER IN GRAIN, PROVISIONS, COTTON AND STOCES, No. 613 15th St. (National Metroplitan Bank Building.) Orders to buy or sell, on margin or for cash, executed ‘onthe Chicago Board of Trade and New York Cotton Exchange. Constant quotatious tustautly received by direct private wires, F.P. SCHMITT & CO., Chicago correspondent. SAWYER, WALLACE& CO., New Yorkcorrespondow: Beterences (Hon Femoes 6 Beck {Qrters by Telephone Prompty Attended ty BT. BuWare GR SPE SEP we Deposits received subject to check ‘We pay SPECIAL attention to obteinine CORRECT and RELIABLE information regarding our various. securities, and are prepared at ail times to answer unqui- 24s regarding same, HARRY ©. TOWERS & 00. my3t 1400 F STREET Gaimavir & Co:s