Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1884, Page 2

CITY AND DISTRICT. SCHOOL BOARDS PAST AND PRES- ENT. A Sketch of One of the Old Institutions of the City. HOW THE FREE SCHOOLS ORIGINATED AND THE FIRST BOARD WAS APPOINTED—EARLY STRUG- HLES OF THE TRUSTEES IN ENDEAVORING TO oL SYSTEM—THE DIFFERENT RE- BOARD—PROMINENT CITIZENS WHO HAVE SERVED AS TRUSTEES, 8c. ne school board,” al to a Srap re- when the school board with abolition, ‘will her day » threatened American idea , and come vne of the in- the land.” The 1d as the pablie school t, olter, for the board came et of the city coun- 1864, provision trustees to ions of ict school a board of thi the superintendence of public schools n the eity of Washington—six to be annually by Individuals contributing to of the schools, and seven to the joint ballof& of the ot this act the contrib the third Monday of Jul: the eonneil c: ¢ Kobert Bren . Cranch, Test alone exalted t that time the of trate of the nation, but he ve fully appreciated the new dignity conferred upoa him for he wrote a letter of some h from Monticello, Ausust Ist that he would “willingly 3 proposed to me so far as J treasurer, y not requiring that the treasurer be Chosen froi the members of the board. THE FIRST SCHOOL established under the direction of the school board does not appear to have been opened until the Ist of January, 1806. The names of the members of this drst school board, the fathers, or perhaps, more properly speakin: of the yp sehools of Was! * have been one or two fresh ts taken since their day—are preserved ina on ot old and time-stained ‘Minutes written out in a fail. round hand, who seemed sre time for practicing flourishes than the present generation. The of them have been given to pub- builgings, which stand as monuments he city and the cause of es of ail of this frst board | be met with frequentiy by the arly annals of Washington, as affairs. The eu i of filling rt, the ens, ie. that those who have held tie ncludes many names of hon- i st, and of ad offi- TRIBULATIONS OF THS The difficulties that contre caanot be easil of the FI i the first board The members spired with fthe act under nted. The pro- board interpreted t shment of an dictated, nothing ossess the mea ion the ce that the people of ady gequired much “It ought not at most of the it 8 Baty means were acq devoted east of Uh and the set of the city S were to be supported b for ordinaries dsp for theatrical hawkers and y ted, as the t ry. f ever as for vila usenue ¢ connell whieb be into tence, that body have appropriated for the schools and parsimoniously. The spriated by the for thirteen yea Thus this board of men, dreaming of a uotries in their vi ith to month tor the purpose the routine connected with the f meneys amennting to about support of the two little ere were any cynics or pessimists the abundance fathers of the able that they ruggling . and that the grand univer e secmed to them extremely gro- Washington was then a stiaggling, with immense waste spaces and schools.” I intsiae days whe did not of fiith vor ESHOP. varse, that the bout Rixty board of trustees. It. tous bri No piace of fous re: 'y met sone Capitol, at other times in tuber. Other places of meet- $ hotel. Lang’s hotel, Davis’ th ehurel of the board show that there was tand soul-harassing strugele to raise the uncertainty ux to salary drove into resignation. De: the many diss axements there were some meu:bers of the board who were steadfast in their zeal and per- severance in their work. Mr. Samuel, Yorke At Lee, in his history of the pablie schcols of this city. published by theschool board in 1876, xives deserved prominence to the names of Rev. James Laurie, Samuel H. Smith, Moses Young, Thomas H. Gillis. Joseph Mechila, Rev. Wm. Matthews, Robert Brent, James Davidson and William Cranch, who among the early membersot the board were conspicuous for their Punetuality in attending meetiogs ana their ness in the canse of education. If it had not been weir tslelity, the weak bantling w given Ing title of anent Inst weation of Yeutn” woul died of inanition. Thowsh Dave the sutisfaction of vot:nz upon the dis; sition of large sums of woney, It expended Buch energy upon the composition of memorials, Petitions, cireniar letters and resolutions. whieh splayed much skill in e, and were filled With rounded and sounding seatences. In those Gas the well-balanced seuterices ystem | amount oblization will permit my | b: to be coextensive with | x educa-| People, and seemed to have an influence in form- ing their style of discourse. Or perhaps bo f had more time than their descendants to pol their sentences. DEFECTS OF THE EARLY SYSTEM. It was not, however, altogether lack of money that made the public schools languish for so many years, These schools were, in fact, char- ity schools, the only children entitled to tuition free from charge being the children of indigent parents. Asa consequence the schools failed to receive the patronage of the well-to-do classes, and also of many poor roe who were reluctant to bring upon their children the re- proach of pauperism. Various distinctions made | in the schools between “‘poorscholars” and “pay scholars,” served to check progress, and caused a division in public opinion, which was not at | all favorable to the growth of the free school system. in 1820 the elty council forbade the reception of any “pay pupiis,” and opened the schools only to children whose parents were unable to The records of the school rs after the year 1818 have tory of the doings of the oard is wrapped inan impenetrable haze, ‘Vvidence that the school board continued to d that the two cifarity schools were kept alive, is found in seraps of reports from ppearing now and then in the ssages of the mayor, and from nal comment in the public journals ef The attendance at the schools slowly J, but not in proportion to the growth of the city. and the city council also slowly and bevruduingly increased its allowances. Mayor Seaton, upon his accession to office, be to copsider means for remedying the deplorable state of affairs connected with the public schools. Asa result of his appeals and admonitions the school system was again reor- ganized in 1844. Appropriations were obtained | for establishing new schools. The present | school system realiy dates its existence trom this period. Some slight distinctions between pay and charity pupils were still maintained, but this incompatibility was finally removed in | 1848, when all tuition fees were abolished. THE ERA OF PROSPERITY *ETS IN. From that time the popularity of the schools | continued to grow rapidly and appropriations were increased. The trials which beset the | ly board disappeared. In 1816 a room in the Hall was allotted for the use of the board, which was no longer required to “meet around.” | Through all the changes in the form of govern- | ment of the District the school board has pre- | served its identity though the number of mem- | bers prescribed by law has been varied. CUANGES IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE BOARD. | The first change in the constitution of the | board was made in July, 1816, when the council, | at the suggestion of the trustees, established | two boards, one composed of nine trustees, to | have supervision of schools in the first and | second wards, and the other composed of seven trustees in the thirdand tourth wards, When the | system was reorganized in 1944, these separate boards were consolidated into one composed of three trustees from each o* the four wards of Washington. When the territorial form of gov- ernment was abolished, in 1874, the three boards of trustees for Washington, Georgetown and the county, and the board of trustees of the col- ored schools were consolidated into one board of fifteen members, which number was shortly afterwards enlarged to nineteen, eleven being apportioned to Washington, three to George- town and five to the county. In 1882 Congress _ Teduced the number of members to nine. ! PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN TRUSTEES. | Among the gentlemen who have served on the board of trustees since the reorganization , in 1844 were Peter Force, J. C. McKelden, R. Farnham, G. J. Abbott, Thomas Donoho, N. | and T. Blagden, who were members at he time of the reorganization, when a new | | impetus was given to the schools. A. Cosle, J. _F. Callan, N. C.Towle, became members in 1846; v i & B. Randolph, Bacon and I day and J Pea Cit: T.¥ 2 M. Dove in| Dr. F. Howard, V and S. Y.At Lee in 1854; Dr. 8, A. H. an and J. C. Harkness in 185 Lawrenson, W. P. Young, Rand oh, E. Willett, J. Prodi John Lareombe, | 4861; RLF. Morseli, v. J. Rhees, F and J. O. Wilson in 156 Tustin and W. J. in 1865; W. C. Fox, and W. T. Jebnsen in 1866. While many of the gentlemen named above are dead, a larse portion lil active and in- iL act fluential citizens. Since 1866 the board has comprised at different times many well citizens of the District. The list emb: mund F. French, Joseph M. Wilson, Bra Warner, Simon’Wolf, Anthony Hyde, William Heury Browne, Kobert Reybura. George White, Joseph L. Pearson, Charies M. Matthews, Tall- madye A. Lambert, Edward ‘Temple, TI : le, Henry Jonson, Wm. Henry H. Cragin, John Rardotph, 0. K. Harris, H. Bros ¥. W. Curtis, Appleton P. James H. Sntith, William Birney, C. B. P. B. G. Lov es ‘old, George Dulin, Thomas B. . 6. Kieharda, Win. C.B. Smith, A. P. ward Baldwin, Dr. Davis, William H. Smith, is composed of Messrs. hn H. Brooks, William H. Baum, Curtis, H. C. B. Purvis. zeancy, asionvd by the recent re: of Mr. B. H. Warner. THE GRORGETOW ‘s The events sketched at ate solely to the 3 and pols of Washin: town, which until within recent x aud a separa cipal organization, ned its own school board until the con- tion in 1874. The history of free schools ins with the establishment etown free school in 1811. Thi was started by private subscription and man- aged by trustees chosen by the subscribers. , Among the carly members of this board were Cora Johu Abbot, Robert Bever- Munro, Witliam Marbury and others » were then prominent among the business men of Georgetown. The city council, in 1812, appropriated $1,000 to heip the trusteeserect au addition to their building, and in 1815 began to make a yearly appropriation of $1,000 in aid of the seboul. The trustees never appear to baye been embarrassed by such trials as met the board in Washington. Inthe year 1842 the | corporation assumed the entire expense of the | schools, and provided for the appointment of a guardians. The schools con- brived under this board of guar- ne until it was consolidated in 1874 with the | Washington board. The first board of guardians | of whien any record is extant was that organ- wed in Ja . 1848, which was composed of Thom n, John Myers, Charles E, Eckei, Ww Osborn, George Shoemaker, and Charles E. Mix. Upon the anization the name ot “trastee” pted Instead of “guardian,” and the | new beard appointed by Goy. Cooke was com- | posed of Anthony Hyde, G. W. Beall, ©. D. Welch, W. L. Dunlop, William W, Curtis, C. 8. | Ramsburg and F. W. Moffat. THE OLD COUNTY BOARD. The present board succeeded also, upon the consolidation in 1874, to the powers of a board of trustees of the county schools, consisting of seven members. This board was called into an existence by an act of Congress, passed 1862, providing for publie schools in the county. The connty was divided into seven districts. Under the edininistration of the trustees the schools were soon well organized. Among the gentle- men who served on this board appear the names of Dr. C. H. Nichols, late superintendent of Elizabeth's asylum, who was the frst president of the board; 5. P. Brown, E. J. Middleton, Henry Queen, George Mathiot, Jokn E. Chappell, 8. ‘W. Cart B. T. Swart, B.D. Carpeater, C. H. Wiltberger, B. U. Keyser, and Daniel Miiler. THE TRUSTEES OF COLORED SCHOOLS. The powers of the board of trustees of colored schools also descended to the present board. A free school for colored children was established on H street north, near 14th west, in 1825, bya colored man named John W. Prout, who pro- vided for its government by a board of trus- tees. There were several parochial schools also for colored children. Following the abolition of slavery came the establishment of a large oumber of free schools tor colored children, bs ve eho Fiesed or benevolent socie- les. “a May, ongress made provision for establishing public schools for eoicted ehildren. at first tothe board of schools, In July of schools was transferred to tration of the col “special board, denominated the “board of trustees of colored schools for Washington and Georgetown.” Under this board the school vatinaed until the consolidation in 1874. ry —— Seth Cook, of Rathbcnaville, N. ¥., aged oue saadred and three, walked seventeen miles in 1 ix hours. fC that 3: P SRE y =O) # F THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY.” NOVEMBER 1 Or 1884—DOUBLE SHEET. AFTER TWO O°CLOCK. Amusing Incidents that Have Occurred atthe Treasury Door. PROMINENT PERSONS ‘WHO HAVE BEEN DENIED ADMISSION—HOW THE PRESIDENT CAME TO PLAY DOORKEEPER—SECRETARY GRESHAM KEPT OUT OF HIS OWN DEPARTMENT—HOW THE WATCHMEN ARE PUZZLED SOMETIMES. The old Treasury department employe was in aconversational mood as he stopped in the cor- ridor the other afternoon for a few minutes’ chat with a Star reporter. The talk naturally drifted towards the approaching elec- tion, and the old man was telling how he was beginning to feel somewhat “scary” as to the result, when he was interrupted by loud voices at the west entrance of the department. 0, sir; it's after 2 o'clock, and it is impossible for you to be admitted,” said the watchman at the door. “But itis only two minutes after the hour, and besides I have a right to enter the depart- ment until the close of office hours,” replied a voice outside the door. The old employe stopped short, as he caught sight of the face of the last speaker through the glass door, and shufiling hurriediy to the side of the watchman, he whispered a few words to him. They had an immediate effect; the door was thrown open and the visitor entered with a word of apology from the watehman. “That often happens,” said the old employe. as he returned to the reporter, forgetting ‘all about his election fears. *’That man was a mes- senger from one of the Cabinet officers, but the man at the door, who is there only temporarily, did not know him, and telt in duty bound to bey the rules and refuse him admittance.” ‘The west dooris a terror toa new watch- man,” he continued, “for that isthe entrance used most frequently by men of prominence when they yisit the department. A man sta- tioned at that door is always in dread of admit- ting some one he ought not to, whose personal appearance would seem to indicate a high off- cial position, and he is equally fearful of refus- ing admittance to some official who ought to be allowed entrance without hesitation. Now at the main entrance over there on 15th street it is different. The captain of the watch is nearly always right there, and he knows everybody. Besides there are always two or three watch- men there, and among them all, a visitor's identity is very readily established.” PRESIDENT ARTHUR KEEPING A DOOR. “The best of them get tripped up at the west door, though,” he continued. “Why I saw President Arthur denied admittance there once. It was a pleasant afternoon, and he strolled over from the White House to speak with Secre- taryFolger, a very unusual thing. The watchman did not notice particularly who it was as he slowly mounted the steps, and did not recoz- nize him until he had said, ‘After two o'clock, sir.’ It was about the time when Chief Clerk Webster was running the department on the school plan, and the watchman concluded that it might be about as disastrous to disobeya rule (for the President’s name was not on his free list) as not to make an exception. The Presi- dent understood the situation and said good- naturedly, ‘I don’t care to come in; just take a message to the Secretary.’ But Tean’t leave iny door sir,’ said the watchman. “*Well, I'll keep door for you while you are gone,’ suggested the President, and, actually, President Arthur kept watch at the west door until the watchman returned. There have been lots of other instances somewhat similar. Dur- ing one of General Grant’s visits to Washington not a great while ago, he was denied admit- tance at the west door, and he didn’t get in until the man at the door was thoroughly satis- fied as to who he was. THE ¥ CONTROLLER STOPPED. “Shortly after Mr. Cannon's appointment as controller of the currency,” the speaker went on, “he was stopped at the west door as he was returning from a visit to the White House. You see, his face wasn’t known, and he is such | a young-looking man with no official airs, that | the watchman didn’t believe that he was the new controller. He asn't detained out: long, tho you _can bet. .The President's private secretary, Mr. Phillips, was halted the other afternoon. e watchman on duty didn’t know him, but allowed him to enter at once when told who he w; ‘How long have you been in government service?” said Mr. Phillips, | turning to the watchman. xteen years,’ was the reply. should think you ought to know me then?’” he said, as he passed along the corridor. EFUSED ADMITTANCE TO HIS, OWN DEPART- ME} “The best joke of all though,” cdntinued the old employe, “is that the Secretary of the | Treasury was actually refused admittance to his own department. It was only a day or two alter his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury that Gen, Gresham came sauntering up the steps to the west door. He was greeted with “After two o'clock, sir”. Explanations and | apologies followed. It is but just to say, how- ever, that these mistakes are not the fault of | the watchman. The rules governing the Treas- ury watch are necessarily strict, aud awatch- man’s best recommendation is that he obeys the rules. The men on the force are assigned posts of duty, and there they stay. They can't zo about and become familiar with the appearance of outsiders, know a man alter he has once passed through the door, but. it is not surprising if a stranger, although prominent, is not recoynized at one PEANUT VE POL THE ER AND THE MAN. A Secret of the Trade Revealed to tar Reporter—How the Friendship o the Policeman is Retained Without Sacrificing Assets. “You! You! You have to go right way.” shouted an cxcited Italian peanut vender, as he stood behind his barricade ot boxes and barrels, and shook his fist at a boy who stood just with- out his reach and helped himself to the Italian's wares, The boy simply grinned at the enraged dealer and went on helping himself, and the ex- citable Italian became so he! the cool audacity of the bey that he could only gasp out some Italian oaths. Finally, he made a spring and cleared his barricade, but before he reached the pavement the boy had fied up the street. * - With a parting volley of imprecations at the retreating figure of his tormentor, the vender began to repair the traces of the raid made upon his stock in trade. The tray of chestnuts that was the farthest removed from the proprie- tor had, of course, suffered the most, and the Italian began to replenish the stock. “It's a shame,” remarked a Stan man, sooth- ingly, as he invested a nickel in some Toasted chestnuts. “You ought to have some of these boys arrested.” he Italian replied with a series of expressive shrags and groans, as he thought of his escay tormentor. Then, as he regained his place and dropped the customer's nickel ina little box, a faint suggestion of a smile crept over his im- passive countenance. it is very bad to take from the poor man, but,” and his shoulders went up, “he take not food nuts. He take the p'ii'ssman’s nuts.” he policeman’s, what kind is that?” asked stener, with some surprise. You do not know. Very veil, T will tell you. De pliesman he come along. He say ‘Nice day, John.’ T say vera nice. Then maybe he say more. Then he take nuts one, two. He talk some more. Then he take whole handfull and #ayshe must go. Everyday like that. Every night like that. Two, three plissman. I say to me, ‘John, you loose much money More than by boy.’ Then I think w don’t know. 1 like to be frien’ to plissman. Is it not so. Poor Italian must be frien’ to pliss- man. Then I no more threw way de nut with de worm or de nut witn de decay. I put them all to gedder. De good nut itis near me. De bad nut is away. 1 sell de good nut for mon De bad boy and de plissman take de bad mi De pore Italian must live. You see?” The listener said that he thought his mental vision was Clipe en the subject of this new species of nifts, and went his way reflecting upon the policeman’s unhappy lo! Written for Triz Evaxine Stan, ‘This little thing On your ring Let dangle; For ail the while It is the style ‘To wear a bangle, angie; And when by tts size (Its eyes) Iv secures you a prize, Don’t But let your mind In love’s meshes king Entangie; ‘And those that come in ‘Between you and him ‘Why-—mangie, Mr. Ayer, a Boston itualists of that ple.” It coat +. has built sheds Fat Spiritual Tes HOW A BIG HOTEL IS RUN, The Mysteries of the Kitchen as Re- by an Adept, HOW THE TABLE Ig SUPPLIED IN A PROMINENT HOTEL—THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE BILL OF FARE—SOME PECULIARITIES OF FOREIGNERS— HOW THE CALCULATION IS MADE 48 TO THE NUMBER TO BE PED—WASHINGTON 48 4 GAME ‘MARKET. As a Star reporter was standing in the office of one of thé largest hotels in this city talking with the proprietor a day or two ago, the con- versation was intetrupted by a voice speaking in gruff tones, “Say, can I sell you any nice quail to-day 2” “T don’t know,” responded the hotel man. “That will Aepend’on the quality of the birds | and how much you ask for them. When did you shoot them, and where are they now?” “They are outside in my wagon, and I shot them up in Montgomery county this morning,” replied the countryman. “Well, take them down to my storekeeper, and if he wants them come back here, aud I will buy whatever he recommends. The bird hunter walked briskly away, and Tue Srar man, turning to the host, said :—*Do you buy your game to any extent of local sports- men?” “No, not asa rnie.” was the reply, “but once in a while, when they bring in game which is fresh I take it.” “Do they ever try to fool you?” was the query. “They used to, but Iam.too old a bird to be caught by their chaff. That man claims to have shot those quail this morning. I'll soon know whether his allegations are correct. My store keeper will give the birds an examination, and ithey are as represented he'll let me know about it.” Jo you use much game at the present sea- ‘Well yes, although the real season has hardly begun. Stiil [have now mallard, blue wing and red head duck, wild turkeys and the smailer game which abounds in this vicinity; that is, in acircle having a diameter, say of forty miles. Later inthe year other game, such a3 young venison, con in. We get very nice venison from Virginia. Vashington must be a good game market: “There is none better. We can get every del cacy. The diamond back terrapin, that delight of epicures, and the delicate canvas back duck are, perhaps, found more frequently here than in any city, unlessit may be New York. I doubt it even there the consumption of those two dishes is greater than in this city.” A VISIT TO THE KITCHEN. “If your time is not occupied at present have you any objection to revealing the mysteries of your kitchen?” “Oh, no! If you will go with me we will look at the interior arrangements,” repiied the genial Boniface, whothen led the way through a num- ber of corridors until passing through a door, he exclaimed “here is the store room.” The re- porter looked around over what seemed to him a disorderly array of boxes and barrels, chests and drawers, but it was quickly manifest that there was a perfect system throughout, and that everything was in its proper place. “You see here the grocery department,” con- tinued the keeper of the modern hostelry; ‘next is the china room, and further on is the meat room.” Passing Into the china room every article in that line used in the great house could be seen, the host explaining that duplicates were kept so that any loss by breakage or other accident could be instantly repaired. Stepping next into the meat room, the observer for an instant feit cues he had walked into a fully stocked butcher shop. “Here,” remarked the reporter's conductor, “all the meat is received and hung until it is ready for the kitchen. You will see,” ne con- tinued, “that our meat comesonly in the short loins, tenderloins and in stands of ribs for roasting. From the short loins the porter house and sirloin steaks only are taken—fortenderloin steaks we buy the tenderloins themselves.” “How about the old couplet concerning the goose hanging high?” inquired the scribe, who noticed some birds resting on g: plates which were Surrounded Ly fhe man who hung a goose to enhance its flavor, would not Lave a palatable dish,” w the terse response. “That idea is exploded. The offly meat which is not better freshly served is mytton, and thatisn’t keptlong. Nout only is the thought of Keeping meat repulsive but in reality the practice has been relegated to its proper place among the legends of cookery.” ‘ou have some nice fish,” said the reporte who noticed the shining scales of a number of lake trout glittering. in the shadow of a corner in the room. See “Yes,” was tlie reply, “for the various kinds of bass, sheepshead and Spanish mackerel Washington excels. The rest of the fish we get from New York.’ THE BIL-OF-FARE. “Who@irranges your bill-of-fare?” was asked while leaving the store-room. “The chef. He each morning sends to me his entrees, et cetera, and I arrange trom them the bill for the d: Of course, I know pretty well what he will have, as I know what has been bought tor the table.” «When you entertain distinguished forelgners is it customary to prepare their food with refer- ae their peculiar national characteristics or habits?” “Oh yes, that is one of the courtesies, indeed, I may fay, one of the necessities which no wise host would omit.” “May Task the peculiarities which you have found most noticeabie?” “Ww the French and German guests of the Yorktown centennial were here th gecupied separate dining rooms, and the diffefence be- tween the two countries was strongly marked. The Frenchmen were more formal and required much attention in the service of their food. They seldom called for more than one dish at a time, while the Germans dined en famille-and would call for several courses and entrees ut once. The Malagassy eny. frum Madagas- car, were the most peculi: cople whom I have met. They would eat no meat, except, perhaps, a little chicken or some similar food. They were fond of fish and rice. The latter they re- quired for Aah | meal; at breaktast, lunch, din- ner, and at midnight they asked for rice. The Siamese Embassy, who, you will recollect, were here last summer, were much more civilized and were fond ot American and European dishes. Still they were pever without curry and other oriental foods.” “How does your chef know hoy much to cook? How can he calculate the number of people for whom to prepare the dinner?” was the inquiry. “Each morning we make our estimate from the number of guests in the house, aud guess atthe probable number of arrivals. For in- stance, we send to the kitchen an estimate suf- ficient for two hundred people. On that amount we could easily teed two hundred and twenty- five persons, and it rarely happens that our calculation goes as far as that out uf the way.” “How many employes have you who are con- nected directly with the culinary department?” “Well, including the storekeeper, the stew- ard, the head cook, the night cook and their va- rious assistants, there are about thirty men.” “Do you havea separate cook for your ser- vants?” : “Oh, yes! To a certain extent the servants consume what is lett from the guests’ table, but that is not their principal source of supply.” “Doyou do your own buying, or leave it to the steward.” “Yes, I buy ev: hing myself. Come around some morning, at 6 o'clock, and I'll take you to market with me and show you how it is done.” By this time the office was reached again, and the hotel man’s attention having been calied to a business matter, he bade the reporter “‘good- bye.” and the latter returned to his desk to write down his recollections of how a hotel is managed. ‘With a Rose, Written for Tits Evesixa Stan, Gq to her, rose, and tell her All my passionaie pain; ‘Tell her the heart ts Where lately thou hast iain. Oh tell her since I left her ‘Moments have eeemed like years,— She in the light and splendor, Im the night and teara, Unclose thy blood red petals Betore her radiant eye, ‘Till, Warmed by thy breath, her spirit Breathes an answering sigh. Go to her, rose, and tell her All my passionate patn,— ‘Tell her my heart is broken Houston, October, 1884, ——_——-e-___ ‘The Cat and the Sparrow. This is the reason why cats wash thelr faces after meals: A cat caught a sparrow and was about to devour it, but the sparrow said: “No eats me till he first The cat, struck face.” et at Sree, came. | true Paris dude now carries a eane, top of which is 2 watch anda civarette It costs @ trifle OF 1,250 runes. = ad i THE TRIALS OF A BOY. His @pinion Abent Dancing Lessons and Girls. WRY A BOY WHO LIKEs TO CHASE CATS AND PLAY BARE BALL OBJECTS TO DANCING SCHOOL8— SOME WEIGHTY OBSERVATIONS UPON THE RELA- TIONS OF THE SEXES AT A TENDER AGE. The boy came slowly down the street. His hands were thrust deep into his pockets, and he shuffled his feet along over the pavement as he walked. He had walked for two blocks in this manner, as THE STAR man who was watching him could testify, and during that time he had only varied In his movements twice, Once when he gave a sudden dart to one side after a cat that was slowly picking its way across the street. The cat, however, ran back as far as the curbstone on the other side, and turned to see if there was any necessity of making a fur- ther retreat. The boy balanced himself on the edge of the curb and gazed at the cat, and the cat gazed at him, then he slowly turned again and pursued his'dejected way. His attention was again aroused by the sicht of a newly painted tence with caution signals flying from it, but he only paused long enough to smear two or three of the pickets and scrape the new paint off another and then went on as betore. The observer knew that something must be wrong. He had lived next door to that boy fora year and was perfectly weli aware that when he allowed a cat to go without chasing it to its death and passed by a newly painted fence without leaving more than slight evi- dences of his inspection some sesious calamity was impending. “You appear to be out of spirits, Robert, has anything happenea?” asked Tuk Star man, engaging the youth in conversation when the jatter arrived in front of his home. “Nuthin’s the matter ceptin—” and here Robert gave a great Jerk ona brick which he was attempting absent-mindedly to remove from the sidewalk. ptin’ that 1 have got to go todancing school,” and as he said it, the brick yielded to his efforts and he straightened up with it In his hand and threw it moodily into corner of the yard. THE DANCING SCHOOL QUESTION. “Did you have to go to dancing school when you were a boy?” continued Robert, supposing he had found asympathetic listener. “If you did, then you know what's the matter with me. Ihave to put on my best clothes Just as If it was Sunday, and kid gloves and go where there is a lot of girls. The disgust with which the last word was uttered fully expressed the feeling which the average boy at that age regards the opposite sex. “What is the use of dancing, anyway. Only girls want to;dance and boysthat don't know how to play base ball and who bring flowers to the teacher. When I grow up, you bet I will be the captain of a base ball nine, and then what difference will it make about dancing. says she wants me tohave good manners. I suppose that means to always have your hands clean and not to tear your clothes. That kind of a boy don’t have any fun, and besides they are only fit to play with girls. They always get licked in a fight, and then they tell the teacher things about the other boys.” “Yes, ma’am; I’m coming,” he called out in response to a summons from the house. A deeper gloom seemed to settle upon him as his unhappy fate approached, and he dug his toe yicionsly into the bricks. “I should think you could have a nice time at the dancing school,” suggested the listener in as sympathetic tone as possible. “Weill, I don’t.” was the unyielding reply. “I can’t feel natural some how. My feet won't go inthe right direction, and then they put me with the little boys and call it the awkward squad. Icould beat ’em all playing base ball, and I can throw farther and straighter than any boy there. But when it comes to dancing, I can't do it. I wouldo’t care so much, but you have to dance with the girls, and they made me dance last time with a girl with red hair and freckles, and one of the boys told me that girl bit a boy once because he stepped on her toes.” ONLY THE BRAVE DESERVE THE FATR. “Why don’t you engage some nice girl to ; dance with you,” asked the listener, beginning now to have some real sympathy for the boy. “Well,” said the bi squirming uneasily about as if he was in great pain, “all the nice girls that don’t bite are gobbled up before I get | a chance, or leastways before I remember what | to say. ne boys talk with girls and seem to like it. 1 don’t see how they can do it. What is there to say to a girl? They don’t know ai thing; that is, anything that is worth know! 1 talked with a girl onc't and she said she liked base ball cause the men wore such pretty suits, but she didn’t know a curved bali from a home run.” “Robert, are you coming?” again sounded the warning voice trom the house. “Yes, ma'am directly,” responded the boy, with evident regret. “Mother las got all of my good clothes cut, and I've got to be scrubbed | and my ears poked into, and then there’s the gloves,” and the boy fairly groaned as he thought of the prospect. “When a boy has 'gazements with other he went on, ‘and has things to attend to, he has no time to go to dancing jessons in the afternoon, when school is out. Last week I missed a buily trade with a boy up the street canse I had to go to dancing schoci, and the boys say if I can’t come and practice’ they will get some one else to pitch on our nine,” The turther narrative of his griefs was inter- rupted by the nurse girl, who made Robert an unwilling captive and escorted him into the house. In the course of a half hour the neigh- bors beheld an elegantly attired and sturdy little gentleman emerge briskly from the house. his chubby round face glistening above, the broad white collar and his gloved hands conyey- ing no plebian suggestions of either base ball or dead cats. A BIG 5 JAPAN, Ww An Tnteresting 0 etter, Giving an Ac= nt of a Kecent ‘Typhoon ana its ect in Tokio. Mr. D. W. Stevens, who is attached to the foreign office of the Japanese government, writes from Tokio, under date of September 26th to his father, Mr. E. L. Stevens, the chief clerk of the Indian bureau, giving some inter- esting details of the typoon which visited that city onthe 15th and 17th of that month. The letter states: “On the 15th we had a typhoon of the real old kind from Typhoonsyille, and if that was not enough, oh the 17th we had another. They are the first heavy storms of the kind, with one exception, which Ihave ever seen. The excep- tion was the typhoon of 1873, which we encoun- tered on the Japan just off the coast on our first voyage here. Thesame thing has occurred again thie year, only, as the western:gentleman remarked to the eastern tourist about the ‘‘mag- nificent scenery” further up the road, it was “wuss,” Such a storm is bad enough in a good ship, with plenty of sea room. I am inclined to think, however, that it is more dangerous on land. At least. on the 15th, when returning home, I couldn’t help thinking of Jack's com- missarating remark on the storm of “God pity those uniappy folks ashore now.” The tWes were falling in every direction, old Boreas was humping himselt at the rate (a8 the reports afterward showed) of 150 miles an hour. It was not raining, but something had broken loose above and water was coming down in buckets full. Turning @ corner, my juiricksha (1 had three men) was picked up bodily and thrown aguinst the side of a house. Stones weighing hundreds of pounds, imbedded in the ground, were torn out by the waves along the shore and tossed about like pebbles. I don’t think that there was an upright fence or an uninjured house in the whole city. Over 1,000 houses and some 20 lives were lost, not to mention several hundreds of persons who were severely in- jured. A REVOLVING STORM. ‘The typhoon, you know, is a revolving storm. In the center there is an ominous calmness, but on the edges the wind shifts in every direction. It comes in sudden gusts, with tremendous force, then dies away, and again suddenly springs up with renewed and unabated from an Lovmahe'd it “bloweth ae A _ i EE Mother COLORADO'S THRIVING CITY. How Denver Impressed a Washing- ton Hey. Planets in November. From the Providence. Journal. Neptune is morning star until the 13th, whem he changes his role to that of evening star. He ITS BUSINESS AND ITS BUILDINGS—ITS GLORTOTS | merits a distinguished place among the shining CLIMATE—THE WATER SUPPLY—MIXED SCHOOLS | brotherhood, during the passage of the month, —A POOR PLACE FOR MECHANICS. Correspondence of Tax Evexrxe Stan. Dexver, Cor., October 14, 1834. for he reaches the point in his career of the gteatest importance to observers on this planet. If telescopes improve in power, and practiced The ride from Chi across Illinois and eyes improve in ability to discera, this is the Towa is not very interesting, the country being under cultivation and looking something like the eastern states, only the farms are on aiarger ecale. We arrived at Omaha about 8:40 a. m. and had until 11:40 to look around. It is quite a large place, having a good many wholesale houses in ft, but I did not like it very much. After leaving Omaha we plunge into what ap- pear to be an endless sutcession of prairies, | with uo signs of vegetation, except dried up grass and sage bush. One can look tor miles north, south, east or west without seeing any sign of house or farm, except that occasionally can be seen a dug-out in the midst of the Fast plains, forlorn and abandoned. Immense droyes of cattle roam all over these plains, mostly near | the Platte river, and at night in’ some little | gully one can see the smoke arising from the | camps of the herders, For some distance we | ran through a village of prairie dogs, and they could be seen scampering in every direction. ln some placesa good deal of this prairie land is | enclosed with wire fence. When about sixty miles from Denver we came in sight of the snow- capped mountains. Along the road are numer- ous water-tanks supplied with water by means of wind-mills from artesian wells. After run- ning to within about twenty miles of the moun- tains we skirt along the edge and, running south for about an hour, we arrive at Denver. I had the opinion betore I came here that it was, coi pared with our eastern cities, a small place, with abundance of possibilities in the way of enter- | prise, but I find that business is already con- ducted here on a large scale, The business part of Denver cannot be distinguished from that of any of our large eastern cities, except that the streets are not paved. FINE BUILDINGS. The railroad depot is a very large stone build- ing, ot alight cream color. trimmed with a darker colored stone and finished off in hand- some style by a large dome. It is about feet long, by 60 feet wide, and has all the mod- ern conveniences of an eastern depot, and is a much more imposing building than the depot of the B. and P. railroad in Washington. It has, however, no covered shed, the dryness or the climate rendering such an affair useless. Street cars run to ali parts of the city. Iwas much impressed withthe magnitude of the wholesale business done here, and the immense establishments and business houses, but by far the most beautiful and ornamental is the Tabor block and Opera house. The building is about twice as large as the Portland flats in Washing- ton, and the front is used tor offices, and the rear for the Grand Opera house. It Is built of Colorado stone and presents a yery handsome front. South of the city, on Capitol Hill, is situated the aristocratic part of the city, with many fine residences, costing from $5,000 to $100,000 each. THE DRY CLIMATE, AND THE WATER SUPPLY. The climate is excellent, the atmosphere being dry, cool and pure. The winters, I am told, are never very cold, and the summers not very hot. It may bea little warm during the day time, but is always cool enough at night to sleep under blankets. It rains very seidom, but at times they haye dust storms. The city is supplied with water by the Holly system from the River Platte, put of late this water has be- come impure. The artesian well recently com- pleted furnishes an abundance of cool, pure, sweet water, and is used for drinking and culi- nary purposes altogether, being retailed at 75 cents per month fer one bucket fuil each day. New wells are being driven. The gas company suppliesa very good quality of gas. The city | has a complete system of sewerage and drain- age. -The Holly is used to water the grass and lawns. Water from Cherry creck, which flows from the mountains, is kept continually run- ning along the gutters and ditches, for the pur- nose of irrigating the trees lining the sidewalks. The soil here, when properly irrigated, is very productive. The public school system is excellent and thorouzh, but there are no separate white and colored schoois as in Washington, children of | both colors being together in school. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Denver by no means depends upon the min- ing interests of Colorado, as alarge cattle and agricultural business exists and is rapidly in- creasing all over the state. The five large Territories lying west of Colorado depend very largely on Denver for supplies, and the large wholesale houses are rapidly extending their facilities to meet the demand. ery imayin- able business is represented. Goods are pur- chased in large quantities in Chicago and New York, thus securing a very cheap rate ot treight. Asa general rule, fairly cheap prices prevail. Cigar stores and news-stands occupy every cor- ner. They bring most of thelr stock from New York, the high freights making their goods very expensive. In reply to the question, “How is business?” they all replied “Duil.” The boom has passed, and Denver is as settled a city in its methods and business prosperity as any eastern city. All the business is in the hands of monop- olists. who drive most of the ‘small fry” out and those of this class who remain injure each other as they do in the east, by cuiting prices. Denver is A POOR PLACE For MECTANICS, business being at times so dull that manufac- turers are obliged to discharge all hands for three or four months at atime. House rents and ground rents are very high. An ordinary six room honse very readily brings €65 per month. Eatables are about as cheap as in the eastern states; sv, from a combination of cireum- stances. a poor man with a family, having rent to pay, and out of employment at least one-third | of the time, has a hard time to get along here. Of course Denver as a place of residence ap- pears different to different people. Persons who here with money can make money. and y think i Denver; whi the poor n S everythin comes out, works for a few months, is dis- charged, becomes discouraged, with nothing to | do, high house rents to pay and a family to feed, oes back to the states and curses place, and there are many such. many people here, and they all say that a person who has a nice, comfouriable home east does wrong to sacrifice it on an_ uncertainty by com- ing out here; but it Is all very well fora man who has nothing to lose; he can lose it here just as well as in any other place. Lescied easel Saturday Smiles, Let none of the great family of Browns be alarmed it they ece ghosts of thelr relatives this Season. All shades of browns are said to be in the height of feshion.—Burlington Free Press. The new reading is “bride and coachman,” instead of “bride and groom.”—Cincinnati Com- mercial-Gazette. The Scotchman who tumbled off a bicycle says that in future he intends to “let whee! alone.” — Punch. We want all the original poetry about autumn leaves and things that can be sent us. Cold weather is coming and kindling wood is bigh.— Burlington Hawkeye. Newspaper reporters will always be found fault with until they can write up un account of a street fight that will please the man who gets licked.—New Orleans Picayune, “Are you at all esthetical in your tastes?” she asked in a sprightly manner, as she moved towards the piano. “Well, 4 littie,” he answered. “I'm esthetical to the extent of having an admiration for un- sung songs.” There.is now a deep gulf between them which nothing can bridge.—Boston Courier. Belva Lockwood refuses to‘set ‘em up” for the boys, “set a mup?” she asked in pretty, girlish ignorance. ‘+1 don’t know how. I don even know how to set ahen. What is a mup, anyhow?" —Burlington Hawkeye. The Burlington He suggests that Belva Lockwood collect all the ballots cast for Ler for President and make a crazy quilt of them. The man who has the floor is the man who learning to ride the bieycle.—Puck. St. John yesterday reproved a barber for ask- ing him if he would have bay rum.—2ufalo Ex- press. T have talked with | portion of Neptune's conrse, when there will be @ possibility of making discoveries on his dis tant disc. Tt may be only the suspicion ofa belt, it may be only an additional satellite, for this isthe most that can be anticipated from the observation of an object that whem nearest is 26,000,000,000 miles away. An Inhab- itant of this play stranded on jeptuniat shore, would behold different ¢ ns from those that prevail in the earth's more favored clime. The sun would look like a bright day star, the size ot Venus when largest and bis it illuminating effects would be lessened a thousand times, All the other plan. ets would be inferior or toner, and most of them Would appear to recede only w decrees from the sun. Probes bly Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter may be visible, but even the best teleso a scan pick up the remaining planets, so smal! and so near the sun, when viewed from this distant standpoint. There are many things to inte observers concerning this distang planet, rank- ing next in size to Jupiter and Saturn. If we could approach nearer to him, doubt we should behold a grand spectacie, solve the mys- teries detected in his peculiar spectrum, com- prehend the laws that regulate the apparently retrograde motion of his solitary satellite, and — most to be desired of all—find out if p erto unknown, lie hidden in remoter re; space. It is not improbable that increas power wilireveal some of these secrets trom present standpoint. Meanwhile Neptune plo: ‘on in his slow circuit of 165 years, oblivious of terrestrial interest, and unconscious of the exist- ence of a planet, so large and important in the estimation of the dwellerson the surface. E his existence as an acknowledged member of the solar tamtly dates from 1846, only 38 years ago. ‘ Jupiter is morning star and passes an import- ant epoch in his course. On the 26th, at three o'clock in the morning, he Is in quadrature with the sun on his western side. He is then at the half-way house between conjunction and oppo- sition, is 90 degrees west of the sun, rises at midnight and sets at noon day. With telescopes of small power and under ordinary condition this superb planet presents the appearance of large, round disc. Higher magnitylng powers will show a slight flattening at the poles. But only the best telescopes in the hands of the best observers will reveal the moznificent belts with their changing tints, and the spots that from time to time appear and disappear on his disc. Jupiter, for six months to come will be in most favorable condition for observation, more so th: will be the case for several succeeding years; for his path in the heavens now turns im a southerly direction, while the general law is, the farther north the planet is the more favorable is its position for observation. Saturn is morning star. No incident entiv- ens his monotonous course during the month. But he is beautiful to behold as he wends bis quiet way over the celestial course, approaching the goal that has been already reached by his more distant brother-planet_ Neptun ing with a serenely brilliant light brother stare, that gives a foretast phase he will ‘present, when, a year combines every condition from which the best views may be anticipated. In the tel is magnificent beyond description. on the Ist, @ few minutes before half-past 7 o'clock in the evening; on the 30th he rises about half-past 5 o'clock. Venus is morning star, but no longer in the ascendant; for it is now her turn to hide her diminished rays.” She is getting every day neater the sun and increasing her distance from the carth. These two facts may be easily veri- | fied by observers as they note the lessening dis tance between her and the eun, and the lessen- ing brilliance of her dise. She ts almost plung- ing southward in her swift career, reaching southern declination on the 3d, and recording nearly eleven degrees of south declinat end of the month, Those who rem ber her glorious appearance last spring as evening star, per ‘But when hi ceive th h up in the north, will readily ontrast in her present pha she is lovely even in her fading Mister, ax inz in the morning sky, she ts still the bright harbinger. Uranus is morning star. His near that of Venus at the bez month. The two planets are in conjunction on the 4th, at 6 o'clock in the moruing, when Venus is50 minutes north of Uranus. Mercury is morning star until the 4th, when he becomes evening star. He is in superior conjunction with the sun on the 4th at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Thismeans that he is then in line with the earth and sun beyond the sun, and that he passes from the sun's western side to his eastern. He istoo near the sun to be visible, and is therefore of little account ou the planetary annals of the month. Mars is ing star. He, like must of his brothers, is traveling south. Not long since every planet in the system was in north de- clinal At the end of the month Venu | Mercury, Uranus and Mars are in south dectin: tion. Not jong since al ing stars. Before Novembe cury aud Neptune are evening stars. lies very ing of the Move- ments seemingly without order are in reality exemplitications of the unfwerving law that Teguistes the course of every member of the material universe. THE MOON. The November moon fulls on the 3d at 36 minutes after 3 o'clock in the morning, standurd time. The moon is in conjunction with Neptune | on the 3d and with Saturn on the She is | at her nearest point to Jupiter on the 1th and ‘to Uranas on the 13th. She makes a charwis | appearance on the eastern sky in co! with Venus on the moraing of t | days before her change, the hanging 2 degrees south ot the morninz sta On the 18th the new moon Is m conjunction j with Mereury, and fulfills her round by paying Ler respects to Mars on the 19th, THE NOVEMHER METEORS. The earth, as she swings her ponderous bulk her orbit, encounters about the 13th the No- mber meteor zone. This gigantic hoop or consists of a swarm of particles follow- ‘empel's comet in its orbit. ‘This unfort nate visitor from the star depths on arri within the solar domain unwarily ventured t. near the planet Uranus, The planet caytur the comet, and forced it henceforth to revolve within the boundaries of the solar sy event occurring probably in the second ot the Christian era. The peritelion of comet's orbit rests on the earth’ it where ember, and its aphelion extends beyond the orbit of Uranus. A process of disintegration is zolng on, and the debris of the comet and the swarm of metcors are gradually scattering through the whole zone, only one-tenth of which is now filled densely with the meteor swarins. The period of revo- intion is about thirty-three years, and a grand display occurs only at these: intervals, when the earth crosses the densest portion of the zone, The last memorable dispiay was in 1 . the next is expected in 189). Observers on’ the nights of the Lith, 12th, 13th and 14th will be sure to see a few meteors radiating from the constellation Leo, and there is al @ possi- bility that an unexpected number of falling stars may make the heavens resplendent with their fery trains. in * Six Thousand Miles an From the Kansas City Times. “How much time do you think it would take to send a cable dispatch to Scotland and receive a reply?” was asked a Times reporter yesterday by a Western Union man. Having in mind aa experieace in the interior of Kansas, when it took a telegram ten hours tu reach, by a round- avout circuit, a place only 100 miles distant, a reply was ventured, “About two days.” “* Well, that’s where you are tooled. Day- before yesterday a dispatch was sent from Inde- pendence, Mo. toan inland town in Scotland, and a reply was received in Just an lvur and ten minutes.” “Muihattan?” ‘No’ it'sno Mulhattan story. Itisafact. itwas is | only aa ordinary business dispatch, and took ite turn in the ordinary course of business. ~ Do sach tics oftea happen to cable dis- patchee?” “Well, it there is not a rush of business, and Why ts the letter R like the face ot “Hamlet's” | ifthe wires are in good workingorder and the ae Burlington Hawkeye, Put on your And vote a8 Belva Why ts it that a is soseldom “This iv grate-fire a great is Kanas down-trodden to New-York, ‘monarchies: “Come in out of | thence to England. fre?—, the reiza.”— 2 In some provinces of Brazil iron ore is usedin eayomie eae A fourteen-months-old child in sat down on a loaf uf hot tice Lae days after from the result of its conZtdy, Medicale” © the phrase employed by “How mary ——— thence about five transfers on hot tiave been a long the tune made Is still At the ‘The action was brought against a Dievelst named Herbert Duncaa by eycle pare actares jer the yalue Bf a machine od aud the Cinvm Was amet by a defense of tos Jory, however, considered the de-