Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1884, Page 2

di 77 Shite TH LIS TOM 2eAr_ £8 TAJoUA oY ¢ SATURDAY. “AUGUST 23, 1884 DOUBLE SHEET TRICT. ” LIEN LAW. What Building Inspector Entwisle ‘Thinks of It. Qr CT UPON BUILDING—HE REGARDS THE LAW AS UNWISE AND INJURIOCS—HOW HE THINKS IT CAME TO BE PASSED—THE INTERESTS on the buliding busine: da Stak man of| to-day. } ld ne building e much attention to it, and I iapsed since auch results. k sufficient time bus e into ¢ to she | at be long before the !aw will be heard t ive to any class of citizens.” / do vou think of it asa law, and ho it probably affect the building business? .tTHE STAR. { nswered Mr. Eatwisle, “the the act was very unwise legislation, | the butiding of houses his District. There | the part of men | ning money on build- | on to make such ad-| ant of the insecurity under the This is what I predicted wien I first ust before the passage of the act. | = to the District Commis- | nd pointed out what I} nd would work to the dis- My mind was old lien asked | it the mos! by reading both | aw. The old | its were more | ‘A Tien made | WS prescribed has prece- | aim, and the parties who ror other material or labor, rded lens and swal- tty invelved. leavin rT, who farnished the sinew 4 law is of no pract Journeyman, who, as the practice S pay every week and runs wen the case in ble eltizen could | as for the purpose of reasonable rate of iving a deed of trust norisk a this Distri 1s favoring as it ap- an mechanic and that this of the law. see. that the effect eet the Inmber who farnish | judice | . association or ion which furnishes the | nts or repairs. i nh of the act: the pro- | p due i the property i hen for the hi nion will work ity.” ean in mselves? rious effect on the ventured the Te- | | d the inspector. “The of, building In this h tors will see an ealers aw, as | in| al- | tion ; at which jeney upor houses under | ) the terms of the present Another effect is that a ie will huve no chance Iways be given to 1 to have hat the modifie dou! ithe next ses- | every th a = MENDACIOUS MENDICANTS, Cenning Devices of Beggars to Incrense ax orn e PNS A HOARDT ro x ¢ EL BE exw <ET-BOOK—T MANY THE CaR- 1 , had been a resident of any pro- iting street be; to be practically a on Penusylvania and there are numerous tonal cap- ly occuples the Theve ts a ” Tt con- dren, but some ilies which out day after day vd cold scraps. ney Soon and the in pretty ect that f his stock in nd account. Age has At the doo “3 omethin” yiveth to de" i's kep’ me A contribution & profusion of the cripture us as any old ties two baskets, On one oc- me house several i was given something ion, “What do you do with wasasked. The old man AS a piece ofimpertinence. and the stsgestion that he zed only increasad his ‘d out his wrath with volubility d. but he never returned there yuisitiveness. tons u rf loans, isnot unknown There ts one who prides him- aud who is a Chesterfeld ‘ogether, and ts In the most reflued ianguaze. nt to be my banker for the space & trifling amount?” he will ce. “I want the Insignifi- a cents. With a carelessness ven to, I left my ‘er pair of trowsers, 1 to visit the Navy Yard on tear fare, wud I will return ably asks for fit of a drink, and fare, for a round His luxurious cost less than sake of | to get home with. | lose a moment's time. That | * y | larkin’ wi the | siend 0” carryin’ He did not want char- | = Tae ge@ting him well wound-up for yaeprspinwias. fle will relate the most thrilling exploits,— always, and in every case, making hitmself the hero—all of which are made out of whole cloth. ONE OF THE “REGULARS.” Another one of the regular professional beg- gars here is an old negro with but one lez. He never asks directly for alms. He thumps along up one street and down another, and as he meets an individual whom he regards as a good subject to be impressed, he stops, removes his 1 nd makes a most profound bow. If the same person again he bestows cious bow, showing that he bears no but the another er: malice to those who pass him by; t donation of even a penny elicits a smile and “Thank yer boss. Younis a gentleman.” He never, though, wastes his words upon those who give nothin, ‘Mister, please, sir, gimme a penny to buy a piece of bread.” uttered in them pst dolefal tone and na whining voice frequently greets the ears of the pedestrian. It comes trom white and colored, old and young. and in most vstances is but « device to wet money for other | uses than buying bread. The pennies collected in this way, probably, are seldom expended for something to eat. THE POSTAGE STAMP GAME. There are shrewd beggars here who inge- niously devise schemes that make bigger re- turns than the plain request for charity. There is one man, who, with a worn and badly soiled envelope in his hand, goes from house to house asking at each for a postage stamp. He ex- hibits his envelope, already addressed, and re- presents that the letter within 1s upon urgent business, but that he is too poor to buy a stamp. Many people will give him a stamp who would refuse money, and when he has collected a few stamps he readily exchanges them for liquor at | the nearest saloon. There is a woman who makes a practice ot | standing near one or the other of the street car anctions with a covered basket on her arm. She 28 passers-by for “Si A CAR TICKET” Very many who would | ignore a request for even a penny hand a car ticket to pid woman with a basket appar- ently too heavy for her to carry, and she finds no diMcuity in converting car tickets into cash. There is another old woinan who plays the | double role of beggar and conildence operator. She makes no bones of asking for money, but when that fails she plies her other and more disreputable vocation. She carries a small basket containing a pair of socks or stockings, | one of which is not quite finished. She plies her knitting needles as if too industrious to | Calling at a house she | applies for stockings to knit, and exhibits the of her basket as a sample of her work. he customer is required to furnish the yarn or nd the old woman proffers to do the very low price. She gives a ficti- and is never heard of again by She either seils the yarn betore or it up. ———— A SATURDAY NIGHT SCENE. The Flickering Lights and Moving Throng at the Market—The Country People and ‘Their Customers, On Saturday evenings the pavement along the south side of K street, for about a square, up to 2ist street, and nearly as far again up 2ist, isa donble row of little dim lights, pre- senting acurious and picturesque scene. By he flickering and fitfal light of the innumerable little tallow dips and smoky torches, exposed to the freaks of the wind that frisks down the little hill, around the corner, blowing them Imost out and then letting them brighten up again like alot of fire-flies in a dark swamp, the observer at a short distance sees a moving bobbing up and down and push-| ing and shoving here and there, as if | in at hurry without an aim; and «and meaningless buzz pours forth, and v unintelligible. vent black ricate themselves and men and women i baskets come down the street, en and women with empty bas- ug the other way. Drawing nearer the mblage of I s, and the ine rent sounds: This way, lady; nice fresh tomatoes onions, suzar corn, beats, cabbage and cs li oat rhes and watermelons”—shouted different voices. Eager, honest, in country faces are stretched out from behind the | dies and torches, soliciting buyers for their produce, which is heaped In little piles or tm- prevised stands of boards and boxes, or on the brick pavement. Men, women and children, but mostly women, with big baskets on their arms, are leaning over the heaps of vegetables examining them critically and asking all sorts of questions, while between the double row of » dim to cast a glimmer beyond theirown, immediate little pile, the black, squirming, Jost- ling mass is eternally in motion. On the tuner curb are the more pretentions hucksters, with their wazons backed upon the brickway pre- | pared for them; and on the outer curb squat the humbler country folk surrounded with their small stuck of potatoes, corn, exgs, or what- ever It y be—generally a littie variety of from peaches to cabbage. The bazz of voices “What's yer bean: “Sweet sngar-corn!” “This way for yer sweet cantaloupes!” “Fresh- e: j ‘om-the-country-twenty-five-cents- lin’ out cheap, this way!” “Ten cents, mom; have a d out yet, ” Al-aboard “Dem’s Spring chic ‘Any butter?” “Fi a quarter, mu “Right ‘omatoes five cents a half and a thousand other shouts, questions peck: | and exclamations rise up with the smoke from | the torches, A woman with a baby carriage and a man th a corn are trying to make thelr way ngh the crowd with comfort. Wome: sip where the crowd Is thickes fiaculations are rising, but are lost in the bu _| ‘Pwo Irish women with hnge market baskets are standin which m: nthe middle of the thoroughfare, “no thoroughfare.” The crowd ing on either side. ‘And ofm almost d irely, oi am, along o’-car- ryin’ this baste of a basket, And ol've utther In me heart, ol have! for that boy v’ ne, who's home only on every Saturday night and then aln’t home at all, at all, but off a sky- irls—the blatin’ huzzies!—in- this basket for his mother, hh s the only one he ever had.” s. ind ol Waa thinkin’ the same thing me- when me Mazgie- ” But the crowd thrusts them apart and they waddie and jostie off in opposite directions, while another pair of gossips talk about their ueighbor's wife at the corner. This ts Saturday night at the market. Tiz STAR man went through and joined with the throng of buyers In asking prices. The country vfe from Maryland and Virginia bring their track here to market every Saturday—and some on other days, too, but Saturday is the d y bring apples, peaches, grapes, tomato: potatoes, ca! rn, watermelons and canta- loupes, and every variety of vegetable that can be | all have a peculiarly fresh appearance. ——o eet Car 6 Tothe Editor of Tue Evexixo Star: | Please allow a subscriber space in yoar paper for the presentation of a complaint against a practice which has long been of serious {n- convenience and annoyance to the patrons of the “Belt” line railroad cars. The practice re- | terred to Is that of the company in allowing Its v | sel of “grub | !ate cars to walt at the steamboat wharves in | | summer andat the entrances of the several theaters in winter for the patrons of those places when numbers of belated trayelers are com- yelled to wait often until these places have been closed in order to be able to secure a ride. Your subscriber lives on llth street northwest, and was one of the many who rejoiced when thenew @ Was started, and has bestowed his patron- age since, notwithstanding the fact that the etropolitan and Washington and Georgetown roads were but a few blocks distant. The efforts of the company in obliging excursionists and | theater-goers is, of course, proper and appreci- | able, but this course willbe apt to lose them | custom if continued, unless something is done | to offset the annoyance spoken of. Forinstance, | late at night, when the cars are run few and far between, it ‘Is especially vexatious to board a car at 14th street and Pennsylvania avenue, ride | upto O street, there get atransfer and then wait probably twenty or thirty minutes for a Boundary car or walt a corresponding time Yth street and Peansylvania avenue for a direct | Boundary car. It is hoped the company will | take notice of these complaints and rem ly the | evil pointed out, and thus while obliging the multitude also oblige the tew. Crrizen. A Michtgan Justice of the Peace wants to turn | an honest penny by performing marriages, and | has issued the following card in a local paper: | “Marriave ceremonies performed at all hours of tue day or night. Especial attention given to ims of soliiers who were frightened or onraged during the war. Office hours from 1 o'clock in the morning to midaight, standard j time. i he moves on undisturbed, and if he | | by the man forms | butter, honey, | aywhere this time of yeaz, and | ib LATE Dil. Woopwagp. His Life and Services—Some of His Im- portant Werks—The Medical and Sur- gical History of the Rebellion, Woodward (Joseph Janvier), M. D., surgeon, U. S. A., was born In Philadelphia in 1833; died of disease of the brain near Philadelphia 18th of August, 1834. He received his academical ed- ucation at the Philadelphia central high school, trom which he received the degree of A. B. in 1850 and his A. M. in 1855, and was honored on the occasion with the position of valedictorian. After receiving his first academic degree he be- gan the study of medicine in the office of Prof. George B. Wood, and attended lectures at the same time in the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1853. His graduating thesis was on the anti- septic properties of chloride of zinc. Heat 6nec began the practice of his profession in his native city. Dr. Woodward formed a class for instruc- tion in the use of the microscope and the study of pathological anatomy and the examination of students preparatory to their final examination faculty for their medical degree. His practice was growing, and he was becom- ing favorably known asa teacher and practi- tioner, when the war between the states broke out. He at once tendered his services to the goverument, and was commissioned assistant surgeon 5th August, 1861, and served fora time in the peninsula of Virginia. He was assigned to duty in the su eral’s office 19th May, 1862, and continued in this position until his ilinessand death. He was curator of tne Army Medical museum, which grew up under his immediate supervision. Dr. Woodward was advanced to the rank of captain and assistant surgeon 28th July, 1866. and promoted to the rank of major and surgeon 26th June, 1876. He received commissions ot brevet captain and lieutenant colonel for “faithful and meritorious services dur- ing the war.” To Dr. J. J. and the late Dr. Geo. A. Otis, U. 8. A., was entrusted the editing of the Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion. The medical profession of the country know and appreciate how ably this work was accomplished. His classification, naming and describing the many pathological specimens in the Army Med- ical museum was of itself a vast work, and one which will be an enduring monument to his genius, industry and accurate knowledge of the subject. It is true that in the surgical part of this he was ably seconded by his accomplished associate, Dr. Otis. Dr. Woodward was a voluminous writer in various departments of medicine and of the col- lateral sciences. A simple enumeration by title of his pee would fill several columns of this Journal. adorn the pages of many of them. werk was always well done. He had a true love for scientific investi- | gation. His mind was analytical and demanded evidence, which he weighed in a most searching and logical manner. He had great power of work, which he taxed severely, and to which may be ascribed as clearly as in any case I ever knew his failure of health and premature death. In 1575 his heaitu underwent something of a strain, and far some six or eight months he suffered from a series of painful phlecmnous boils, but a little rest restored him to his usual good health. BREAKDOWN FROM OVERWORK. In 1879 the doctor from overwork impaired his digestion, and for a time he suffered ex- tremely from Insomnia, but a trip to the moun- talns of Switzerland and rest for some six or eight months apparently restored him again to | full health. The completion and character of the work done on his last volume shows no per- ceptible impairment of his vigor or powers. In the winter of 1880 his horse fell with him in Pennsylvania avenue and fractured his leg. This confined him to his room for some time, but he apparently fully recovered from this. | The range of studies in which Dr. Woodward was proficient and master were numerous, With the micros he was an authority of wide and general recognition by those most competent to judge. His writings and opinions have a high vaiue with the profession. In point of magni- tude the “Medical History of the Rebellion” is, perhaps, the most — colossal work eyer published in the United St this and his work upon Typho er, and his photographic.microscopleal work | will probably rest his tame asa medical man | aud scientist. His literary work not only called for a familiarity with Latin and Greek, but with the French, German, Spanish and Italian lan- | guages, al of which he was able to read and translate with ease. His proficiency in lan- | guages he acquired while engaged on his other work, and his last volume of the medical his- tory of the rebellion {s particularly rich in aasical allusion, comparison of texts, and quo- tations from original authors. Dr. Woodward early identifled himself with medical organiza- | tlons, and was an earnest supporter of a high | standard of medical education, professional worth, and medical ethics. He was a member | of the Philadelphia County Medical society, and | of the college of physicians and surgeons of | Philadelphia. He was a member of the central international medical congress, which met in Philadelphia in 1876, and read an | able paper opening the discussion in the section | of practical medicine on fever. He became a member of the American Medical Association in 1865, attended its meetings in 1866-'67~'68-'69-'70- “74-75, (when he was chosen one of the vice presidents) 1576-77-78 and "79. In 1881 at the meeting in Richmond, Va., although not present, he was chosen president of the associa- tion. Shortly after this his health broke down and he, with his devoted wife,started ona trip to Europe in hopes of benefiting him. On the 31st of January, 1882, just before leaving, Dr. Wood- ward wrote a touchingly kind letter to the as- | Sociation informing them of his Inpaired health and his purpose to travel, and the regret he felt | In not being able to be present at the meeting | inst. Paul. letter was read to the meet | ing, and may be seen In full on the third page of the volume of transactions for 1852. His trip abroad, although protracted, did not stay his disease, but, on the contrary, it pro- cressed unfay ly, and he returned home in the spring ot 1883 in a worse condition than when he left. After some months treatment in | his own house he was taken to an institution near Philadelphia, which was under the charge of a personal triend and an accomplished vhy- sician, where he received every attention which friendship and the best medical skill could com- mand, but without improvement. HIS CAREER IN WASIIINGTON. Dr. Woodward was elected an honorary mem- ber of the medical society of the District of Columbia in 1874, and occasionally read papers before He was a member of the Philosophi- cal society of Washington, and its president in 1881. He was one of the original members of the National Academy of Sciences, and an ac- tive and valuable worker in its ranks. It was characteristic of the doctor that he always en- gazed in his scientific studies with zeal and en- | thusiasin, never saying himself labor or taking facts at second hand which he could verify by | experiment or examination. He thus by | his temperament and his love of true | science kept himself in a strain all | the time. He was a fine conversationalist and popular in society, but late years became so engrossed in his work as to give but little of | his time to mere social intercourse. He was also a good debater, possessed a fine flow of | language and presented his points in logical se- quence and with convincing clearness and force. Although Dr. Woodward is chiefly known out- side of his near acquaintances by his writings, still he was a skillful practitioner, and one ot the most accurate diagnosticians to have been | met with anywhere. His abilities in this direc- | tlon alone would have assured him a large and | lucrative consulting practice in Washington or | any other city. Even with all his engagements ; and duties, both in army circles and with city | Practitioners, he was always ready to advise | With practitioners who called upon him witha history of an obscure or embarrassing case. Scarce a medical practitioner of any note in Washington but who has repeatedly profited by his suggestions and advice in this way. The writer takes pleasure in acknowledging his many obligations to him. ATTENDING UPON GARFIELD. July 2, 1881, he was selected, or rather de- tached, by the surgeon general, by the request of the Secretary of War as one of the staff surgeons to attend President Garfield. The His and conscientiously ates. | labors and anxiety Incident to that long and | confining duty seriously impaired his health, and from which he never recovered. Tt was understood that he had kept accurate notes of this case with a view to publication, but never, we believe, took it up for study or | arrangement. Dr. Woodward was frequently solicited by different medical colleges to accept chairs and devote himself to but he felt a8 though his Ilte-work was to complete the medical history of the war. So he worked on, and we know the result. Dr. Woodward was twice married; by his first wife he had two children, a daughter and son. His son, Janvier Woodward, graduated with high honors at Annapolls, and is now an ofticer in U. 8, navy. His second wife was Blanch, daughter of the late Cornelius Wendell, of this city, by whom he had three children, two sons and a daughter. The doctor's a , although e: , was sudden. His remains were brought to his late residence, 620 F street, Washington, where funeral services were held by the Rey. Alex- ander Kent. His body was laid to rest on the evening of the 20th, in the peaceful shades of Haha cemetery, in the presence of many ut Woodward | His contributions were welcomed by | medicai and scientifle periodical, and | professional | | | alarial | THE DEMAND FOR OWLS, Birds Used for Hats and Decorative Purposes. HOW THE MOOTERS AR CAPTURED—7HEIR FAVORITE RESORTS IN VIRGINIA—SUPERSTITIONS: CONCERNING THEM AMONG THE NATIVES—A TALK WITH A BIBE FANCIER. “That's a fine fellow, one of the finest I ever saw; only he’s got his nose scratched and his feathers mussed jist now,” said a 12th street bird-fancier, as he stood admiring a big hoot- owl, who was holding his solitary reign in a dry goods box, alternately shading himself discon- tentedly, as he eyed those about him sus- piciously, and picklng angrily at the fron bars fixed on top of the box to confine his perambu- lations within the its of two Yeet by three. “He's a fine one. (Oh, you ugly beast! Don't you bite me!) He's a genuine hooter. If he were out in the woods you could hear him half a mile.” “What are you going to do with him ?” asked Tue StaR man, leaning over to make friends with the wise-looking creature. “Don't know; sell him to some of these rich folks who fancy owls, I reckon. Don't put your fingers there if you don’t want him to bite you.” eee don’t make pets of those creatures, do they?” “Not generally when they are alive,” replied the bird-fancier. “They have ’em stuffed. t's quite the tiling to have a stuffed owl on the mantel or buffet in a dining room. don’t think I shall kill him though. I'll sell him to some one who wants him alive.” “Do you sell many owls?” “Yes, just as many as I can get. For the past two or three years they have been in great demand. They are used as decorations and are very fashionable. Sometimes they are used for hats; the small ones tor decorations and larger ones for the whole hat, the head in front and the wings lepping over behind to form the crown. Then sometimes they aro used in fancy dress. One ot the most effective costumes you could imagine at a fancy ball is ‘Night,’ with a little screech owl on her shoulder or perched on the nether horn of the moon on her staff. But the great big hoot owls are most sought after as or- naments for the dining room or study. It’s got- ten to be quite a craze, and it’s hard to get birds enough to meet the demand.” Where do you find them?” “Down in Virginia. One of the best places anywhere near here is down in the swamps at Mt. Vernon. There's a place they call ‘Hell Hole’ that’s tull of them. I guess that’s why they gave it the name, because the owls keep up such a hooting there at night, and some of the darkies tancy the devil lives there. Then there's another place—I guess it’s the best in the country—up in Chesterfield county, Vir- ginia, in_the Chesterfield woods, near the coal mines. That's where we hunt them mostly.” “Do you hunt them yourself?” asked Tue Star man. “Yes, I can't always get the folks up that way to hunt them. The colored people would not kill one for the world, and even many ofthe white folks are superstitious. The last time I was out I took a young fellow along with me, and when we got into the woods he got so frightened I had to take him home again. The negroes think if they kill an owl they will never see ‘de land ob Tubileo.” They think they will die a speedy and Wnnatural death, and be trans- lated into the depths of darkness. “Hunting owls,” he added, after beating on the box to make his “‘hooter” stop biting the bars. “Hunting owls is great sport, but it’s kind of welred and lonesome. We take moon- light nights for it; and go ont in the dense woods, miles from any habitation. Down in the oak woods at Chesterfield ts the wildest place at night you ever sav. Yoo can't see anything but the big black trees and the heavy shadows cast by the moon, and yod don’t hear anything but the dropping of leaves and acorns and the hooting of the owls. But the last 1s music enough when it getg started. When you first get into the woods it seems awful dark, and you are depressed by the stillness, and when an ow) flies by it'll frighten you, I don’t care how used to it you are. Did you ever hear an ow! fly through the woods at nizht? Well, they make a noise that’s the nearest no noise of anything you can imagine. There is no word to describe it. They don't beat the air like any other birds. It sounds as if their win were muflied—it’s a soft noiseless noise, if their wings were of the softest down. Weil, when you get deep Into the woods you hear tne hooting all around you. in every tone and in every direction—they keep upa regular chorus to the moon. Their tu- whoo, tu-whit, tu-whit, tu-whoo-o-os, come out of every dark ‘shadow, from every deep gulch, and shattered stub. We follow the sound, and that’s the way we hunt them. We generally find them on old stubs, whose branches are shat- tered off so that they stand out in bold relief between us and the moon—that’s the way we See them. A big hoot otvl looks yery solenin standing out against the moon that way. Some- times we creep upon them and kill them, or if they are too sharp for us to get them that way we mark the stub and come back in the daytime, when we are sure of finding them asleep In their hollows, We can catch them alive then. The screech owls are easier to get, but we don’t care so much for them. It’s the great, big hooters we want.” “What are they worth when stuffed and mounted ?” asked Tue Star man. “From five to eight doliars a plece,” replied the taxidermist. ‘hey are about the highest priced birds now. The eagle used to be the Tost expensive, but they were never more than five dollars. But I've got to feed my parrots,” he said, and walked back into hislittle shop and was lost among the cages and cases of birds and animals of ail sorts, dead and alive, that lumbered up the little dingy room in pictur- esque confusion, . “Sick” and ‘111, Ete. To the Editor of THe EVENING Star: The very positive contributor to Tuk Star of this evening (who wastes so much of your space in citations from the Bible of instances where “sick” is used to mean “ill,” when he might have referred your readers to Cruden’s Concord- ance) is wrong in supposing that old usage is identical with good modern usage. The Bible was translated before 1611; Shakespeare died in 1616; what the translators and the dramatist used may have been good English in their day: but their use is no safe rule for our guidance to-day. Good English ithe usage of cultivated society and trained writers, and it changes from time to time as that usage changes. This is why words once nsed in some senses become obso- Jete,and also why other words take their places tosome degree. ‘‘Sick” is one of these words; formerly it meant what we mean now, by “sick,” as well as what we mean when we say “‘ll;” but cultivated society and trained writers in mwdern times have used and do use “ill” in its stead. Therefore. at the present time, *ill” is the proper word, and people who use it are not “finical nincumpoops,” as your contributor ele- gantly calls them, but are correct In their use, while other persons are, if not wrong, at least archaic in their diction. The common version of the Bible, although abounding in passages of the greatest beauty, pathos, simplicity and sublimity, has many of these archaic and obsolete words and usages. I do not wish to bore you or your readers with instances; therefore I mention only one—the use of “prevent” in Pealms xxi, 3, where the translators use It as equivalent to our modern “anticipate.” We atill use “prevent.” but with the usual meaning of “hinder.” The Biblical use of this word has long: been obsolete; there- fore, when Sidney Smith, writing in the Edin- burgh Review of 1803. said that the Norwegian in Norway “1s hospitable In the extreme, and prevents the needy in their wants,” he used an archaism, and showed (a very good thing In a clergyman) more familiarity with his Bible than with the later condition of his native tongue. Tau, sir, your obedient servant, Cus. WARREN. 1208 N street, Aug. 16, 4. — +. Johnny’s Logic, From Texas Siftings. “Couldn't you find room enough for yourself on that bench without pushing that little boy off on the floor?” asked an-Austin school-teacher of the bad boy of ttte school. - “I didn’t want any room for myself,” was the ply; ‘1 wasn’t crowded at all.” ‘Then why did you push him off” “To give him more room. He was the boy who was crowded, so I pushed him off to give him plenty of room. There is agreat deal more room off a bench than there is on it.” ——_ Poison First and Then a Bullet. At Ithaca, N. Y., Miss Jennie Sesson commit- ted suicide Thursday morning, In consequence of disappointment in love. She had been re- ceiving the attentions of a young man named Reding for about two years. Her parents for- bade her giving encouragement to Reding, but she persisted, and it was believed by many that the couple were engaged to be married. Re- cently the young man has been less deyoted to the girl, and lastevening shesaw him in company with another lady. She immediately retired to her room and took laudanum, but the dose was insufficient to produce death. She awoke this morning before the rest of the family, went qui- etly down stairs, procured a revolver and, re- turning to her bed, shot herself dead. ‘This ‘was a few minutes before six o'clock. The ball passed entirely through the head near the tem- ples.» Miss Sesson had always borne a good rep- ‘Utation, WHAT FUNERALS Cost. A Very Bespectabic One Furnished Sometimes for Thirty Dollars. SOME FUNERALS WHICH COST OVER A THOVSAND— CONGRESSIONAL AND PRESIDENTIAL FUNERALS: —LONG LINES OF EMPTY HACKS—THE TENDENCY TOWARDS QUIET AND PRIVATE FUNERALS, &C. “Congressional funerals are things we don’t care to talk about,” sald a down-town under taker to Tue Star man the other day. “That is, we don’t care to talk about what they cost. You know the Seuators and Members, especially the Senators, like to have the best of every- thing when they are assigned to the melancholy | duty ofescorting the remains of a fellow-mem- ber on his last trip home. They like to have the best of everything and they like to havea) zood——. The cost? Well the sergeant-at-arms rovides for that. It's the trip rather than the ineral expenses proper that costs so much. No, I don't care to give any particulars, Nothing’sleft in the undertaker's hands. Things nay ordered to be Just so, and so they have ‘0 be.” “How about Presidents funerals?” asked THE STAR man. “Oh, they don’t cost so much. Garfleld’s I'm told cost a good deal; or it would had it ever been paid for, but it has never been paid for yet. At least I so understand.” “But to come down to ordinary funerals, you cau ‘puta man under’ for 830, or you can make it costa thousand. You can make it cost even more than that ifyou want to. A $30 funeral is about the cheapest we can put out, not to be a disgrace to us, and they are ‘specials’, and we generally lose on’em.” “How, special?” “Why, they are ‘specials’ in this way. Some- times persons who hold good positions or have held good placesin society dia without leaving money enough to bury them. In these cases we make a ‘special’ of them. We charge about 330, and give them a pretty good funeral, one that costs us agreat deal more than that. You see they are tolks that naturally belong to our class of customers, and we have to take care of them; it would not do for us to let them go toa cheap undertaker, and we could not ourselves ‘put one under'except In good style.” “Are there many of this clase?” “Yes, there are more such funerals than you could imagine. I've had three or four within the last two or three weeks.” “Getting up funerals in Washington,” he added, after a short pause, “4s yery curious sometimes. There are 80 many persons dle here who, though they are people of means, have no friends vutside their immediate family. Naturally they give orders for a nice funeral; a large number of hacks are ordered and all that; but when the time comes there's _no one to ride in them—no, there aren’t even friends enough to act as pall-bearers. This is because there are so many Roople come here just to stay a short time and don’t know any one. Some folks won't have anything like that, thouch. If they can’t get up a stylish funeral here they will go where they can.” “But, speaking of bearers, it’s getting more and more out of fashion to ask friends. It's become quite a general thing for us to be asked to furnish bearers. Friends don’t like to serve, and it Is getting to be looked upon as not just the proper thing to ask them. The cus- toms change in these respects asin others. But it don't stop there. People are actually getting so that they won't attend funerals at all. Funerals of late years are yery slimly at- tended to what they used tobe. _ People won't go, andthat endsit. They don’t feel that any excuse is necessary. I wouldn't be surprised if, a few yearsshence, funerals would be the quiet- est things possible, no one but near relatives being present. It’ will be only among plain folks that strangers will attend. Among fash- jonable people the proper thing will be sim- plicity and seclusion, Without baving any strangers or neighbors, and hacks and all that they will make the affair just as expensive by the character of the casket and the laying out. No, it’s getting out of fashion to attend funeral “What are the most expensive funerals?” asked Tie STar man. “The expense is made up by the style of the casket, the trimmings, and the number of hacks. A state casket—that Is one ot black cloth with full glass top, and heavily moulded, might cost from $200 to $300, or $350, according to the trimmings. This, together witha large number of carriages, you see, would make the affair very expensive. A very nice tuneral can be had, though, for £100 or 2150.” “What are the best caskets made ot? Oal “They make some of oak, but they are not popular in tuis country. The best caskets are made of red cedar,*covered with cloth, and if they are to be extra fine the outside case, which is usually of pine, is made of red cedar, too. “You don’t want a casket this evening? Well, whenever you do I shall be pleased to serve | you.” —_—__+e-—____ LEARNING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. How Two Farmer Boys Learned to be ‘Telegraphers—A Miniature Telegraph Line at Home—An Mlustration of What Persistent Effort Can Accom- Plish, In one of the towers on the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, from which the block system is worked, the traveler sees at night as he is whisked rapidly by the figure of a young man, whose perseverance amid difficulties and dis- couragements in learning the business of teleg- raphy entitle him to the most abundant success In the profession he has chosen. A younger brother, who, with him, shared his toils and trials in learning, only waits fora few days for his majority to enter the service of the railro: company a8 an operator. * ‘These two young men are of a family of three boys, who lived with their father, a plain, hard- work‘ng farmer, residing about a mile from asta- tion on the railrc When not otherwise en- gayed, the boys spent much of their time at the Station, and watched with curious eyes the ma- nipulation of the telegraph k ‘They dis- cussed between themselves the advisability of learning the business, and came to the conclu- sion that it would be far better for them to fol- low this business than that of working corn and tobacco. There were, however, many difficulties In the way, the gravest being lack of knowledge and want of time to devote to learning as well as the necessary instruments for practice. They were non-plussed, knowing that it would be tedious and almost Impossible to learn by picking up a sound now and then at the station. After a few days, however, they had reason to rejoice, for chance threw into thelr way the very thing they wanted. This was a fragment of a book con- taining a few pages on telegraphy, including the Morse alphabet, foundin a rubbish barrel bought by their father.’ Then they commenced a regu- lar course of study, and arranging some nails in two pieces of wood so as to strike the heads to- gether to imitate the ticking of the instrament they went into practice. As soonas they had learned how to manipulate this rude sounding key another similar instrament was made, and during the long winter evenings in separate rooms they would communicate with each other. Sometimes they used their school lessons and transmitted from one to the other in the course of their practice the whole of the Sixth Reader. The father did not, however, take much stock in their proceedings, hardly realizing that they would become expert operators without a prac- tical teacher; but the tapping of nail heads con- tinned. As they seemed determined, and withal did not neglect the work on the farm, he inter- posed no objection. One fall the father pro- posed to his three boys that if they would cut and load for him eight car loads ‘ef wood he would give each of them the proceeds of one car load. This offer they accepted, and in due time had the cars loaded and the wood sold, each netting #25 or #30. This was given them to do with as they pleased, and it was thougnt that most of it would be spent in clothing, in which they stood in some need. When, how- ever, they returned from Baltimore each with a cheap suit of clothes, they brought home with them batteries, instruments, and wires. It was apparent that not only had the two disciples of the art laid out most of their money to further rosecute their studies, but that the third Erother had helped them. With their plant a line was erected, with about a mile of wire run- ning round the place, one Instrument being piaced in the corn-house and the other in the kitchen, and the practice went on. During the Guiteau trial, in this city, on receiving a paper, one would go to the corn-house and, calling the brother up at the kitchen end of the line, he would telegraph the whole report. Thus the family would learn the news. This practice was kept up until a few months ago, when the elder boy received an —— on the Baitimore and Potomac railroad, and, as stated before, may be seen every nightin histower ashe signals that his block ie clear by raising the red (dan- ger) signal out of sight and showing the white (safety) signal. e1 Learned by Experience, From Texas Sittings, They were sitting on the sofa in their parlor, conversing in alow tremulous voice. They had only been married a short time. He seized her hand, and eald with a voice tull of emotion; “Birdie, do you know that it was your innate modesty, your apparent indifterence, that made me resolve to win you at ail hazards?” “Yes, George; the apparent iudifference game is what captured you. You are the first one 1 tried it on. I slipped up on three er four occa- sions by gushing too much, before it occurred | and % M. EL to me to change my tactics. I wish it had oo- | Guild, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mr. John H. Eager, j forred to mo sooner,” Bi he Righed hesyUy. THE WATER WORKS EXTENSION, Major Lydecker’s Report of the Work During the Past Year—Operations on the Dam, Tunnel and Reservoir Well to Capt. Major Lydecker in his annual report of the | work apon the Washington Aqueduct and the water works extension says of Capt. Hoxte's share tn the work of increasing the water sup- | ply of the city: “Inthe laborious investigations and study | which preceded the adoption of the project for | increasing the water supply, and in the prepara- | tion of specifications for the several parts of this | important work, Capt. Hoxie’s intimate acquain- tance with the present system of water supply and his previous study on the question of its in- crease were of great value; but he deserves the higher credit for the skill and untiring devotion | which he displayed in managing the preliminary surveys and examinations, especially the days and nights spent in the trial shaft during every critical period of its construction with a marked sacrifice of health and at the risk of life itself, only to keep the work going when his subordt nates had lost all courage and regarded thelr | task as a hopeless one. And during all thistime he was diligently occupied, in addition, with his onerous and perplexing duties in the office of the engineer Commissioner, D.C. It was only after the contracts had been mi and opera- tions under them commenced that his active participation in the work of increasing the water supply ceased, the services of an additional as- sistant who could give ali his time and atten- tion becoming necessary.” Lieut. (now captain) Symons was selected tor this duty, and Major Lydecker warmly compll- ments his ability and zeal. Major Lydecker devotes the greater portion of the report to a description of the progress made upon the Aqueduct extension. The preliminary surveys and examinations having been com- pleted at the close of the last fiscal year,in Aucust | last the necessary condemnations of iand were made, and in October bids for construction of dam, reservoir and tunnel were opened and work promptly commenced under the several contracts THE CONN’s ISLAND DAM. The site for the solid masonry dam at Conn’s island was cleared at once, and at the close of the year the foundation bed for the dam across the island was nearly completed and about one- third of the dam finished up tothe coping, about | $21,026.70 having been expended upon this branch of the work. The plan adopted requires the extension of the dam at Great Falls across Conn’s island and the Virginia channel to the Virginia shore, with its crest at an elevation of 148 feet above mean high tide in the Potomac river at the navy yard, and raising the dam over the Maryland channel to the same height. The | value of the 21 acres taken in this locality in ad- | dition to that already owned by the United | States has not yet been determined by the appraisers. THE TUNNEL. Ground was broken for the tunnel to run from the distributing reservoir to the new reservoir, near Howard University, between December i2and February 12. The Foundry branch shatt was sunk to a depth of 69 feet, and 586 feet of tunneling was completed; Rock Creek shaft was sunk 58 fect, and 836 feet of tunnel completed; the Champlain avenue shaft was sunk 137 feet, and 155 of tunnel completed; the east shaft was sunk 162 feet and the tunnel commenced, and the west or inlet shaft was sunk 97 feet and tun- neled 13 feet through rotten rock. At the close of the fiscal year 1,591 feet of the 20,715.8 feet required had been completed. ‘This tunnel is located at a depth which will carry It below the bed of Rock Creek, and will permit the construction of the aqueduct to a great extent in solid rock. Progress on the tunnel. the report says, has not yet come up to the requirements of the contract, but is on the whole in a satisfactory condition. ‘The expectations as tothe feasibility of the tun- nel and probability of carrying it in good rock have been more than reali: Up to June 30, 70,520.85 had been expended on this branch of | the work. The appropriation 1s suMcient to pay for the land necessary to be condemned tor this work. THE RESERVOIR. Since April work on the new reservoir has | been actively prosecuted. This reservoir will | have a capacity of 300,000,000 gallons. The ex- cavated material is used in forming an embank- ment or dam in the lower end of the valley in which the reservoir is situated. This dam will be 1,650 feet long, 45 fect high, 170 feet wide at the top, 425 feet wide at the bottom, and 250 feet wide at the water line. The depth of water in the reservoir isto be 30 feet. $48,883 had been expended on this work at the close of the fiscal year. The report calls atten! fact that while the owners of the 67.73 acres of land taken for the reservoir claim $417,641.15 for it, and the appraisers estimated its vaiue at $205,874.30, the original appropriation by Con- gress was only $35,250, leaving a deficiency of $170,624 required to pay the appraised value, which is only partly provided for by the addi- tional appropriation of #87,500. ‘The valuation of the appraisers, the report says, Is far In excess of the estimate of $75,949.50 originully sub- mitted, and the assessed value of the iand for taxation which was only $69,417.10. Main con- nections for the introduction of a direct low from the new reservoir into the city’s watersup- ply have been ai , and $139,403.97 has been expended on the work. It is proposed to lay cast iron water mains, 75 and 48 inches in diameter, from the new reservoir to the center of distribution at the intersection of New Jersey avenue and L street north. With the exception ofthe deficiency for the payment for land for the reservoir, It is believed the amounts already ap- propriated will suffice to complete the work of increasing the water supply. THE PRESENT WATER SUITLY. Respecting the aqueduct and the present water supply the report says the water level at the dam has varied during the year from 3.35 feet above its crest to .77 feet below it. The average pressure for the year in the mains at the crossing of Rock creek was $2.13 pounds per | square Inch, against 30.87 pounds for the pre- | vious year. On the 27th of June the actual con- | sumption of water tor 24 hours was found to be 21,827,013 gallons, against 24.314,715 gallons for June 27, 1888, and 29,727,864 for June 2, a showing which Major Lydecker t in cates that the efforts inaugurated in 1882 to pre- vent the waste of water have not been without a beneficial effect. ———_~+. FROM THE si NDOAH ALUM SPRINGS. A Famous Health Resort—What Cinss | of Invalids are Specially Benefited, Correspondence of Trx EvENINe STAR, SHENANDOAH ALUM Sprivgs, Smexannoan County, Va., August 20, 1894. Nestling in the heart of Shenandoah county, and on the side of the Great North mountain, nature has put forth her hand as the great phy- sician for the ‘‘iealing of the people” not only in the beautiful mountain scenery and pure air, which, at an elevation of 2,500 feet above sea level.is found in its primitive simplicity here,but especially in its numerous medical springs, which for a variety of the ills man is doomed to encounter, a pos- itive remedy; such at least is the experience of | many who have found thelr way here, both for | recreation and physical benefit in the past us well as the genial company now gathered here at present. ‘he Shenandoah Alam Springs are among the oldest of the medicinal eprings in the country, and perhaps have been visited by more ‘ons despairing of ultimate recovery of Reatth, and who have left it in buoyant spirits and with arenewed lease of life than any springs of a similar nature in the country. ‘The waters seem to benefit especially those of a relaxed constitution and suffering from diseases requir- ing an astringent and tonle action. The alum springs found here are decidedly a freak of na- ture, and If the wora leading to them can speak anything they surely attest to the Pape es who have visited them in ie past. ‘he season here, proper, lasts from June to October, althongh many remain throughout the year. The season, now at its height, has been exceptionally good. The hotel accommodations, under the management of the accommodating Lay }, Mrs. A. G. Myers, fs all that could wished for, els perhaps, not as gay as many more fashionable resorts, yet life here is replete with pleasures of a more lasting and enduring character. The pleasant morning walks to Peck’s cave, Fort Ashby, and the top of North mountain, from which point the view of moun- tain scenery 1s, perhaps. unexcelled in Virginia or elsewhere, tend to make the time pass pleas- antly, while the evening parties are replete with interests to the guests. The weather here for the past few weeks has deen all that could be desired; there is no night but in which blankets have not been needed, while the days have been clear and sunshiny. Those here include among others Col. R. ra Eliott, Mrs. R. R. Elliott, Mrs. Roberta Elliott, Miss Bertie Shachiett, Mra. A. W. Lewis, Mr. G. H. Ralston, eer From the New Orleans Dlursday morning, LETTER FROM SARATOGA. Lite at the Great Watering Place— What is Geimg On, and Who are ‘There—Personai Mention, etc. Special Correspondence of Tae EVEXINe Stan, SaRaToca, August Qist, 1894. And still the crowd at Saratoga increases, and each week adds interest to passing evente by the Presence here of noted personages. The meeting of the Bar Association has attracted hither this week as many whom It {sa pleasure to meet as the Bankers’ convention brought together last week, and pienty of amuse ments will fill up the time for the next two weeks. The second garden party of tue sea- son will occur atthe Grand Union hotel next Tuesday. Miss Clara Loutse Kellogg, who arrived this week, will this month give a concert here for the benefit of the Barthold! statue fund. Two benefit balls, each of which anoually ex- cites much Interest at Saratoga, have lately oo- curred at the United States hotel, both ot which were very succeasful. The first was that of the leader of the orchestra at that hotel—Mr. Stub, and the second that of Mr. Frothingham, who does so much to make those who attend hops at the United States hotel enjoy themselves. On. these occasions even the ladies, who ordinarily do not take the trouble to dress for the hopa, appear in their most elegant costumes. Two fall-dress hops were given at the Grand Union last week, and two will occur this week. At each one there are more tollets seen of a kind that would do credit to a city private ball than at the preceding hop. The man who comes to Saratoga provided with @ dress coat has a great advantage over any man, however much superior he way be, who bas not brought one. Isaw one of these fortunate beings at a hop one eveuing lately ag the escort of two ladies who were “the observed of all observers,” whose hushands had not brought their dress coats here, and who, there fore, could go no further than the bail-room door with their wives, Mra, “Lucky” Baldwin ts the latest sensation at the hotel where she stays. She is only four feet six inches in height, but well formed, and rather pretty. She is nineteen years old, but looks like a girl of twelve, and dresses like one. Her skirts are short, and her brown hair hangs down in two plaits tied at the ends with ribbon. Lucky, her husband, is sixty-one years old and agrandfather. The romantic story Is told that the present Mrs. Baldwin studied architecture in San Franctsoo with her father, whose profes: sion itis. He was summoned to appear before @ building boara in San Francisco to give his views on ventilation, but being too ill to do ‘80, his bright young daughter prepared the report and read it before the board, of which Mr. Bald- win was a member. So successfully did she Present her plans that the wealthy widower fell in love with the young architect, courted her, and in due course of thne she accepted the heart and hand of one of Call- fornia'’s most successful speculators. They were married about two months ago. Mrs, Baldwin appeared at the hotel hop Saturday night in a pretty white muslin, trimmed with embroidery and lace. The baby waist was confined bya sash of pink ottoman ribbon, and her long braids of hair tied up with pink ribbons. Bows of pink ribbon were on each shoulder. Around her bead was a wreath of maiden-hair fern, studded with tuberoses and pink buds. She looked the embodiment of the ideal “childish simplicity” so seldom geen nowadays. She wears scarcely any Lagi and what she wears 1s ot the least showy kind. There are children here of ten and twelve years old who look more matronly and dress more lke mature women than does this little bride. She does not seem to have had her head turned in the least by her thus far successful matrimontal venture, nor by the attention she attracts during this ber first trip totheeast. Mrs. Haynesworth, Pre-ident Arthur's sister, who presided for him at the White House for a few weeks in the spring of 1583, was at Sara- toga for a short visit last week on her w ther worth. She spent her time qui i where she stayed and few kney here. Mrs. Budd, of New York, who spends part of each winter at the Arlington in Washington, is now here. Among others well known in Washington who have lately visited Saratoga, and most of whom are stilf here, are Justice aud Mrs. Field, and Mr. Cyrus W. Field; ex-Senator and Mrs. Davis, of West Virginia; Senator and Mrs. Gor- man, of Maryland; Senator Saulsbury; Repre- sentative Turner, of Kentucky, and’ son; ex- Representative Rice, ot Massachusetts; Pav Di- rector Cunningham, Miss McKeeve ed ney General Gwinn, of Maryland; Countess Lewenhaupt, ex-Senator Ste and daughter, Hon. David Dudley ex-Representative Willis, of New York; Admiral and Mrs. Temple, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Murphy and daughter, Gen. T. T. Crittenden, wife and daughter; Capt. Hol- lingshead, Dr. and Mrs. Stanton, Mr. R, T. Mer- rick and his partner, Mr. Morris, and Miss Mor tis; Mr. J. H. Ashton, Mr. and Mrs. 8.G. Parker, Alex. P. Morse, G. A. Britton, Mr. and Mrs. W- 8. Thompson, W. B. Shaw, J. F. Chamberiain, Mrs. Dr-T. B. Hood, Miss DeKrafft, J. F. Beale, Mrs. F. H. itzir, Miss J. J. Haggerty, B. Sun- derland, Prot. Huntington, H, W. Garnett and C. W. Hoffman. Washington as will be seen, from the list of names given, well repre- sented by its lawyers in the Bar Association. Bir. Morse read a paper at the frst evening meeting of that organization. When Mrs. Davis, wife of the ex-Senator from West Virzinia was here, she mentioned how gay Deer Park, hersummer home, had been, and how many of those well-known In Washington were there. Senator Harrison's wife and daughter, and Miss Gouveneur and Miss War- field haye been visiting Mrs. and Miss Davis. Mrs. and Miss Harrison will make another visit to them on their return from Indianapolis, Justice and Mrs. Field, who spent a few days here, left on Monday for Buffalo, where Mrs. Field's sister, Mrs. Condit feat. In 5 start for Cal ‘yrus W. Field. The party will travel in the private car of the latter. Senator and Mrs. Gorman when they left here went first to Niagara. Mrs. Gorman is In poor health, aud was uot able while here to leave her room. When e: she was Senator and Mrs. Davis, of Iilinola, left they went to Stockbridge, Mass., to visit friends and ex to remain there two weeks. From there they will go to Boston fora week, and then return to their home in Bloomington. They hope to visit Washington ext winter. Even those who have long known Judge Mac- Arthur are astounded when told that he will be seventy years old next winter. I found it dim- cult to credit it when Mrs. MacArthur told me. He has been s0 well this summer that he has been able to devote some of his leisure during his vacation to the book, which he has nearly ready for publication. Pay Director Cunningham, U. 8. N., who ar- rived at Saratoga this week, came from Narra- gansett Pier, where his son has a cottage. Mrs. Cunningham is with their son at the Pier. Miss Kate Breckenridge, of Louisville, who visited her cousin, Mdme. Godoy, in Washing- ton, is at Saratoga with her mother and uncle, Mr. Albert Fink. Senator Camden, who has just returned from Enrope, accompanied by his wite and daughter, went there this summer to meet them, they having been traveling there fora year for the benefit of Miss Camden's health. She has not improved as much as her friends hoped, for they antictpated perfect recovery, One of ber old friends here has lately heard from Mme. Mantilla, who 1s so pleasautly re- membered at Washington. She wrote from Biarritz, where she then was with the late Mar- shal Serrano and his wife, the latter being for years an intimate friend of Mme. Mantilia. The friendship was doubtless first began in Cub when Marshal Serrano was cuptain general ani Mme. Mantilla’s second husband was governor of Havana, before he was sent here as minister from Spain. Her first husband was an officer in the Spanish Miss Grepr. A I saw the gardener bring and strew Gray ashes where blush roses grew, ‘The fair still roses bent them low, ‘Their pink cheeks dimpled all with dew, {And seemed to view with pitying air ‘The dim gray atoms lying Abd fe and hope and quik dest nd life qui: What can You need of guin from these Poor ghosts of long-f fires? ‘The rose tree leans, the Tose tree sighs, And wafts this answer sul wise: “All death, all life are mixed and bient, ‘ashes. And haply God, whose dear decrees Taketh from tho ¢ to give to These, ‘Who draws the snow-drop from the snows, May from those ashes find 4 rose, —Srsan CooLtpen, ‘The Child in Church. Times. Democrat, “You did not pay very close attention Uo the eer “Ob, yes 1 did, mainia. «Well, what did the minister sayz” “fie sald the g tart at ten o%