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THE PYENING Z . Bs ie STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY,/J - ANG CITY AND DISTRICT. A SENSATION OF LONG AGO. ‘The Alleged attempt to Poison Presi- dent-Elect Buchanan and Others. THE STRANGE SICKNESS AT THE NATIONAL HO" TEL IN THE WINTER OF 1856-7—HOW PoLITi- THE CLOAK-KOOM MABITUL, Gossip of the Capitol Corridors. When your Senator or Representative seeks the seclusion which the cloak room grants, he usually | lights a cigar, unbuttons his coat, throws himself | 0b @ sofa or In one chair with his feet on another, relaxes himself generally, and ts not half a bad fellow. Then he talks with freedom and vivact | é . "i : one sp ap | a0d,SSeure from the observation of the public, CAL CIRCLES WERE GREATLY A eit AND | > 7 not about, he shows his ta A HOTEL PROFKIZTOR Was DAMAGED BY | g:5, Lis worst side. ‘Thea be ex: SEWER Gas. | Dress Views of men and Uings with candor | and eai ness, f an alleged at- Buchaian and some of his prominent advisers just previous to his inauguration?” ask a Sran reporter of Dr. J. M. Toner the other day. “Yes; there was such a story the reply, ‘and it caused qu tion. The matter wes and all suspicion set a however, the public mind was cr and party suspicions und recriminatio! Ike wild-fre “What were the circumstances reporter. “The troubie occurred at the } which was then—the winter of attractive hotel in the city. the headquarters of the in = tion. Mr. Guy, the celebrated caterof Balti had taken possession of it th had put in steam heating apy and had Stted it up in an nuusualiy handsome manner throughont. Nevertheless the drainage from the closets was very Imperfect, and this was finally proved to be the ¢ sickness which prevailed vious to President Buchan: it will be remembered that th tem of sewerag: Into the now a! nd filled up canal at the point wher: imore ang Potomac | Gepot stands. The ear rt of the winter wes severe, and during that period the hotel, which was well patronized, w: windows were rarely opened to pe fon. Ic was then that sickness be: fest itself among the guests and ¢ break in the coid weather ocenrr which lasted over two w time the decors and " asked the onal hotel, ik were Open a grent deni. the s fess then ceased and confidence in t healthfuiness of the hotel, hich can TO be shaken, was rest. Farther in the | Winter, when the severity of the wi pelled a closing of doors and windows. the sick- | ess returned and became more eral and | Somewhat alarming. There were even one two deaths among gentlemen of prominence after returning to their homes. It was in F Foary, 1 think. that Mr. Buei guest of the House. and it was t by some political alarmists tha’ proceeded from an attempt to take th the President-¢ The sickness in the part of the winter was forgotte i th who entert: : mmatter was of such a sensations calm discussion wai of sp al cha is on the r ded and artiment bothin season and out, and was fully alive to the importance of Preventing the sensational rumors from the coming current. He called upon the leading medical men who were attendant upon tne guests in the house, as weil as en give the most careful attention to With the view of ascertaining the c “What was the nature of the sichnes: the reporter. “In nearly all cases it man Irritable stomach and bowels,” “There was generaily a diarrhaa, which, when | checked, would a with even greater | severity, and had a tendency to become chronic. Dr. James C. Hall was the principal physiciai attendance upon the jeading statesmen Washington at that time. flis attention was | early directed to an examination of the sewer- | je of the house, and he reported the result of observations to Mr. Guy. The closets were | overhanled, and it was supposed tliat all defects | were remedied, but the improvement did not establish drainage beyond the street, and it was found that the outlet into the canal was so blocked up and filled with sediment that but an insignificant delivery of seweraxe took r An examination made a year later showed ti presence of leakaze beneath the floors | and pavements so as to render ex- tremely foul nearly the whole of the cellar | Part of the house. The theory of the political Slarmists was that the sickness was caused by minerel poisoning in the food, but the sanita- fians and physicians after the most exhaustive investigations attributed it positively to the me- hitic generated from the wretcherly | Srained closets, In the meantime, veve! came almost deserted, and Mr. Gus's business was ruined. It is estimated that he lost over $150,000. As I said, the examinations were most exhaustive. The city board of heaith at the time investigated the matter, made personal | inspection, questioned the employes, clerks and | guests, and did all they could to unravel the mystery. Their conviction was that taulty sew- erage was the cause. Dr. Robert King Stone, then a member of the board of health, made a report, which was published in the city papers, setting forth the result of their examination. * asked { ested itself by | the reply. | A letter from Dr. James C. [all to } the board of health giving his views | was aldo published at the same time. _ Dr. Thomas Antiseil, a leading chemist and exam- iner in the Patent office, was invited to co-op- erate, and made a chemica! examination of the | prepared food. Kitchen supplies, the cook end drinking water, and near! vthing that was suggested. No poison, mineral or veceta- bie, was found, and he joined with the others in attributing the sickuess to detective drainage. The correctness of this theory was nearly com- | pletely substartiated by what oceurred after- | wards. The hotel was closed late in the spring | orearly in the summer, and persous holding deeds of trust forced a sale of the furniture in the establishment. For'six weeks ortwo montis the house was entirely closed, except the part occupied by a watchinan trom the marshai’s ofMice, and there was no eating. drinking or cooking. The sale took place in midsummer, when there was but little demand among locai dealers, and was attended mainly by dealers from Baltimore. Philadeiphiaand Richmond. — | The result was that a great many of those in | attendance were taken sick, presumably from | the gases which had gererated while the house | was locked up. Out of justice to the parties | concerned it was necessary to occasionally ad- journ the sale, so meager had the attendance | Tosustuonas siekness among purchasers. It | was finally acknowledzed by the most doubtful | that there were no real grounds for the suspi- | cion of poisoning, but it took some time to set | their doubts at ‘rest, and all was excitement | while the investigations were being conducted.” | t the sickness was occasioned altogether | by defective drainage is shown by the fact that since the reconstruction of the National Hotel | and the construction of the general sys! f city sewerage by which good drain secured for the hotel it has regained all ularity and prosperity, and has for some maintained the reputation of being one of the best kept and most successful hotels in the city. POLICEMAN Ss. S. COX. How the Sibilant Name of the New | York Congressman Will be Perpetu- | ated—A Singular Coincidence in No-| menciature, { The New York Morning Journal a few days | sgo contained the following item: | “Michael Raphael, a sixteen-year-old boy, fell into the East river from pler 4 yesterday morning. | Beraggling in the fey water, hls for ald | pleted the forgy air and reached the ears of Po- iceman uel M. Cox, of the steamboat. Equad, x seized the halt- | y landed him, | ©, wd street. Policeman Cox has before distinguished himselt as | @ life saver. He wears a medal ted to him by Congress for gallantry in having jumped into the | river and rescued a drow ni: is hamesake, | € it on his | breast 1 ‘ten persons from death by drowning.” When a Stak reporter called the attention of Mr. Cox to this parzgraph that gentleman read at with much interest. “‘Itis very strange to | we,” he said. laying down the paper, “that a tall, elegant looking policeman with biue eves. Ted cheeks and saffron hair, from the west of Treiand, should not only be named after me without ever hearing of me, and almost of my age, but that his grandfather on his mother’s side ebould be calied Samuel Sullivan, from whom he was named. You may calculate all tne probabilities and chances of this life, and though the chances are that there are children bamed S. S. Cox, or Samuel S. Cox, the chances areas infinity to one nimost against Samuel Sullivan Cox under such circumstances, But the beauty of the thing is that my namesake is Not efraid ot bis own life. I have had him de- corated and promoted because of it. Such are the chances and changes ot time. Once or twice | have had to suffer in New York because be has made Mittle boys quit swim- ming In the docks, and once or twice the police- man has been ronghly handled by the police Justice for giving my name in court in prose- cuting a pickpocket.” “Bat what is better yet,” continued Mr. Cox. “he had a baby bora @ year aco whom he called Samuel Sullivan Cox. (1 sent the youngster a Uttle watch, knowing he wou!d be ‘a policeman and would be be mye upon his wateh, directed ‘To 8.8. Cox, for 8. 5. Vox. from S. S. Cox.’ Tam myself as childless as a cherub, No. 51 Bi if ta. an Samuel & Cox, pi | can ‘ince then the officer has saved more than | Stuff! He may congratulate » brother statesinan on the | Boor, ln full view of the galleries, on the power and grandeur of his just fintshed speech, and mean ft, | 100; but when lic gets the orator, Mushed with his | triumphant effort, in the cloak room, Satan enters | into Lim and he chaffs him most uomercitui pointing out with keen sarcasm the weak plac telling ini yy, 2, that this ts bombast, that an appeal to the galleries, the other the catering of a dema- d, | Kote to the pecullar prejadices of the people of his state or district, &c.,&¢. He will ask him if he | Fealiy’ Delleves all that; whether he don't know, | down deep tn his soul, tha’ bis supposed argument is pure sopnistry,and whether he really has de- “t bimselt into belleving that he can deceive ne else into believing anything that he has And soon the insufferable tease Is Joined by evea worse than him! ‘then another and if Ui what composure he may, While they prod and guy him, Ie won't do tofight back! Happy the man who good-humor: th rasilery; for if Le that his skin is ender, farewell to hi as long as he remains in Congress! ‘The man WL is the most punctilious tu the formal of debate, and who would not for t ugh OF question the motive of a fello th the reverse of all ue into the cloak room. ‘There nothing Is s 4s paralyzed eariy in hts career by the revelation of own secret ambition—the waleh he has per- S preserved from even the wife of his bosom— has flattered himself that no onc can suspect. @ not be pairiot economical in voting opriations, er eaterl in any way in the of his duties, without having it charged athe is actuated by an ambition that is purely selfisn. ‘No one can entertain a higher appreciation of the lofty sense of honor which the honorable Sens- lor brings to the conscientious discharge of wo patriotic duties which devolve upon him here than Ido. Far be it from me to -mpuie to him anything but the purest motives in the course of action Which his best Judgment lias ied him to pursue.” ‘Thus, on the floor. Low is it ten minutes later in the cloak room? “Blank, have a cigar? Sit down. here and tell Tur Stax !f You really believe all that humbug you were just spouting. You know you dow't! “Youre airald of the editor of the Quotiosh c nd you'r trimming your sails to catch is ts wonderful how week-knecd some ach get When they’re in their chimes in another, the support of the rallroat ring Kk. And we want ilin back: r@ can't afford the loss of “No indeed: and then ate gvod a poker Wome: In the gallery” let em ny 30 player, the rant him here--dld you see that littie widow “Thavs allright, Blank. Don’t Ty you. 3 mapossibie, if we must take you all besmirched ‘with all manner of corruption and jobbery or noi | lave you at ali, why we'll have to overlook the Stains, and content ourseives with setting you a example while you are here.” By the way, Sit you're aking & great mistake if you sup- pose that speech will get youthe nomination for the presidency. ‘The people will see through your little game—it’s too transparent” “Well,” growls Blank, “it I couldn't maxe a better showing than You, did at Chicago last suamer, ’'d go hang my- You got three votes trom your own state, at Know you didn’t get any outside of Ss, end the three fellows who voted for him ere three Whisky guagers whose appointments he secured. You had him there, Blan knew a manso quick to make a point— when you're not making a speech on the floor. How 1m the world do you im: to leave all the polnts out when you speak?” “He's afraid to putem in. Why that man Bian fs afraid to call his soul his own. You know he has been howling tor the regulation of freight charges on inter-state co:- Iherce ever sinee he's been in the Senate, and now he’s scared to death for fear the Dill will come over from the house—if he votes for it the railroads will defeat him—if he don’t vote for it, the people won't have bia, and——" Ting-g-g-g oes the electric bell, “Ayes and “Great Cesar, has Dus- nberry cot through already? Why he has only talked an hour and a-half! It took him three hours to make that speech last session.” “Oh, he’s entting it down! I took him tive hours two years ago.” “Then there’s hope for our grand children,” and they all go out of the cioak-room to vote. But if they have fun ththe cloak-room they are also very serions there at times, Men will speak there of topics of public Interest with much more freedom than they dare toon the floor. And the “Habitue” thinks it Just as well to give some of these open-hearted titerances once in a while. ‘They are very seldom paritamentary; but they are aiways pungent, 2s the late Mr. Ingersoll once Tuied 2s to « member's remarks tn the House. And they are frequently much better calculated to con- Serve the respect of the public than the set speeches are, As a rule the man whose honesty and patriotism are really esteemed the highest by his colleagues is the one to whom they mischievously attribute the most selfish motives, Men who are actually under suspicion are seldom chaifed. It 1s not uncommon to hear Morrill gravely accused of being a rabid tree-trader, or Eumunds charged with an insane eagerness to concillate the newspapers by giving away the proceedings of executive sessions. The fun ts not allconfined to the cloak-rooma, monotony of routine procecdings has nearly always an under-current of jolly pranks. Especi- ally is this the case in the Senate, where Garland fs an incorrigible miscufet maker. 'He has a way, When any one of the Senators mounts his partici: r hobby, of despatching the pages all over the chamber to tnquire of other Senators whether they have ever heard any such fdeas put forth before— are they not struc with the novelty of the speech brother Buster !s making? Or, !f he observes that Senator A. is particularly absorbed he will take a calendar, aud marking some extremely unimport- ant Dill or resolution in A.’s charge will send it to im with a message urging him to, by all means, Ket it up, and pressit to passage at once. He hag & way, too, of preparing Iudicrous conundrums, which he seais up in zorm.dable envelopes, in such & way that noone ean tell who they come from. he will have a door-keeper bring them in a great appearance of hurry and importance, nators who at the moment are particularly engaged; and the door-keepers are instructed to see to it Uhat the envelopes are at once Opened and the matter attended to without delay, Butler, of South Carolina, 1s another mad wag in the Senate, and he and Garland are constantly playing jokes, more or leas outrageous, on each | other. Not long ago, as THe Stax learns, Garland hit Butler pretty hard—that 1s to say he got geod one on him; and Butler “ald for” the Senator irom Arkansas.’ Knowing Garlend’s fondness for candy le procured some caramels and also some bes of brown soap, which, when wrapped in thin tissue paper, preciscly resembled, to the eye, the runeis. Buller khew that if he tried to put the seap off on Garland he would fali, «3 the Was Of course on the alert s0 far as ‘he was rued. So Voorhees of Indiana, who sits next rand, was chosen for the confederate. Salt 4 to Voorhees, “Here are two genulue cara- hese others are cubes of soap. Go to your seat, lay the soap cubes on your desk, ent the gen ule caram| at your trust in Providence and say nothing. orhees did as he was told. Gan land observed the cubes on the desk, and saw that Vooriews was eating someching with an evident re Helio!” sald Garland: “what are you eat- ing?" “F've cot a cold, and I'm eating some can- dy,” replied Voorhees, very much absorbed in some papers ln Lis hands ’ Garland looked at the coun- Uerfelts wistfully for a moment—“Hum,” he said finally, as he picked one up, “I’ve got somnething of a cold inyself;” and he popped the piece of soap {nto his mouth. ‘There was a crunching of his Jawa, and—he saw that he was caught. Voorhees watched hita out of ‘the tefl of his eye, as did a dozen otuers of the old boys sitting around. Garland knew he was under ure; but he was determined not lo Minch. After chewing bis soap for a moment he looked up at Voorhees with the inimitable air of in- nocent earnestness that 1s characteristic of him, aud sofily asked: “Do you eat many of these things when you have acold?” As Garland kept on chew- ing ahd an almost imperceptible strip of lather formed on his pe are became alarmed and went to Butler, “Tue tellow’s actually eating that uff! Why. it will Kill him, won't 1t2” ""No-6-0-0," drawled Butler, “I don’t reckon anything will kill that manl” Garland Was game. He finished his soap; and no Sa eee say that he looked asif he yten- Joy . “. Beek, Vest, Vance, Don Cameron, Allison, Hale Ingalls and Harrison are the prince jokers Ed- munds can undend, too, in a kind of a dignified, way. Ingalls’ wit usually has a sting to it—a very aifferent thing from Gariand’s. The latter would bot hurt a fly tor the best joke in the world. In- galls rather prides bimseif‘on bis epigrams, but he seldom originates story bas Tece: the rounds of the papers telling how a brother Senator Who was walking u in the rearof the desks, With a lock o prodigious Wisdom on his not too expressive face, that “he thinks he Is thinking.” ‘This was not first said by Ingalls. Perhaps he don’t claim that it was. mels- ‘Tt was at one time supposed that the saying orig- inated with President Lincoln; but he said that he gotit from Gen, John Pope, in this way: During the war Pope was sent to see Gen. John C. Fremont Gomimand in Miggurt ‘coming buck to Wfasanes col ck % ton, Ling him as to what manner of mah ‘as, Who, at that time, it Will De remembered, wes describing rather an eccentric ort. Pope replied that he was established in a gicat mansion, st by orderlies thro days to ger iulo tho atgust renee foes WO UBS ry ' He said he hea to lay Bo the sibiiants will survive long after the mur- muring music of Burchard’s alliteration will have died out upon the air.” anotier, until at last the victim is tormented by a | g friends, and smokes his cigar | Of course We would much pre- | = = | Bis brows and clenching bis hands! He breathed heavily, and every once In a while flerce Impreca- Uons burst from fils lips! His batr jas dishevelied; his. nding and fiery, roileg fi and C8, the veins btoot tn great knots on his Brow rs what In the world wos the matter with the man‘ “Mr. President, 1¢ was evident that he thought he ‘Was thinking!” The saying became a favorite one with Mr. Lin- coin. But it was not original with=John Pope, who, however, is one of the wittlest men of the day. He doubtless got 1t trom Sidney Smith, who uerd ic defore him; but where Smith got ft tne “Habitue” sayeth udc—for who can tell? Ingalls also prides himsclf on his knowledge ot ‘books; but he Is not infallible there, any more than | the rest of 1s, and his brother Senators delignt to catch him tripping. Have you ever observed how luuddled tbe Worid usually ison the familigr quo- tations we all use fn every-day life? One day Ia- galls used the quotation— { ‘0 rogue e’er felt the halter draw, | ‘With 00d optnton of the taw;” and when asked where the couplet came from he promptly answered, “Hudibras.” Perhaps nina Of ten, well read mien, would have answered the same thing. But he was mistaken, The Une: ate not to be found in “Ifudtbras,” but In “steF ie ," a satirical pocm, written against the Tories, fi'the time of the Ievolusion, be Joan Trumoui | at one time an officer on Washington’s staf, and | the same man who painted the historical pictures of that era which ace hanginz in the rotunda of the Capito! And, by the is commonly quoved i rectly “Noman e’er felt the haiter draw,” é&c. Of the graver apd more important discussions And devates that take place in the cloak roorns, tho “Habitue,” having made his dow, vegs leave to ) Sper t another time, and from time to time, as | oceasion serves. z | SMBEZZLERS AND THIFVES. | Suspector Sharp ‘Talks Abdut the Phi- | losophy Crime. THE MOTIVES WHICH TE MEN WHO SACKI- FICE THEIR GOOD NAME FOR MONEY—THE EARy | STAGES BY WHICH A WGH-TONED CITIZEN BE- | COMES A THIEF—HOW THE GREEP FOR ¢ OVERCOMES THE JUDGMENT AND MAX! ! “You ask me to tell yon how a man reconciles his Judgment witha life of systematic steal- ing. Weli, that is answered exsily enough, | They don't doit.” ‘The speaker was Col. A. G. | Sharp, the chief of the Post Office inspectors, | Who has, in one capacity or another, spent many years of a life not yet passed the middie line in tracking down and bringing to justice that class of criminals who violate trusts reposed in them. In his present official ity he hus the duty in connection with lis corps of assistants of se- curing the honest adminstration of the revenue devived from the 50.000 pe offices scattered throughout the country. He is in consequence brought in contact with what might be termed the higher class of criminals, meu ot good social position and~ character, who have through some ifiaence one ‘wrong. The discovery of such cases of breach of trust is always a shock to tl public mind and generally | at to even thelr most tnti- mate circle of friends and acqualntances. It 1s commonly asked what could have been their motives and the mental process by which they Were enabled to carry on a systematic course of | stealing, and yet hold their heads high In the | ' The conversation which a Star reporter had | begun with Col. Sharp had reached the point | which is indicated by the answer given above. | Reference had been made to the ease of Brugze- man, formerly a clerk in the Post Office depart- ment, who has Just been sentenced to the peni- tentiary for stealing stamps, which, owing to some defect in the printing of the sheets, had | been sent to the department to be counted and | destroyed. THE LOVE OF MON “Take the case of Bruxzeman,” continued the colonel. “He was an honest man andan up-| right citi; temperate in habits; careful and | saving; reat ambition in life appar to get to} Tenough money to compl payment on his house, and thus secure a home for his family, in whose society he found his | chief happiness. When he saw this opportunity | | quisition fur the rapid accumulation of money | overcame his judgment. He had not the moral | courage to resist the temptation, and so he tell. It was not because his Judgment liad proved de- fective. that his reason had failed hita, but be- cause this desire for money overpowered them and became the dominant intlnence in nis life. 1 can well understand his state of mind when in court, as the sentence was about to be imposed, hhea nothing to say except blame for him- “1 think that Ihgd the same feeling once myself,” added the colonel, and then, seeing the look of surprise in the face of his listener, he smiled and said, “but it was only in a dream, and it happened some years ago. TI was at that time in comfortable circumstances and in no need of money. But { dreamed that I had stolen $200; that I had deliberately taken that amount from a friend and gone away with it. To the progress of the dream I was arrested and put in jail. Friends came to me and expressed their sympathy, and said that I must not stay in jail, and that they would get me out on baii. But I'said no, that I did not want to get out. I knew that {had stolen the money, and that I was @ thief, and I did not want to see any one that I used to know, but my only wish was to stay and suffer tle penalty of my crime.” A COMMON THIEF’S EXPERIEN “IT used to be an assistant warden in penitentiary,” went on the speaker, after @ brief pause, “and in that capacity came in contact with a great many crim- inals. Ihave been told by thieves that whea they first began to steal they were troubled in their minds to such an extent that they could not sleep and would pe atrald to meet people in the streets. The second theft did not disturb them so much, and finally they reached such a state of mind that they would steal with the saipe unconcern as they would eat their meals. Their conscience, their moral nature was dead- ened and they no longer were disturbed by thoughts which at first made them start at shadows. But this is the ordinary experience.” A DISTINCTION IN CRIME. “Tt was a long while,” said the colonel, as he struck a match and lit a cigar, “before I found out the difference between an embezzler and a thiet. Iused tothink that an embezzler was a thief, and that Was all there was about it. Now I know that an embezzler is not necessarily a thief at first, although he may become so, and asarule he generally does. inthe beginning an embezzler simpiy takes the money of some one else asa loan to himselt for a short time. For instance, suppose that I have four or five thousand dollars belonging to the government | in my safe. Afriendcomestomeand says: ‘Look here, Lal Thave gota good tning. andifyou pnt: tua % you can make a handsome ‘protit.’ I go to the safe and take out a $1,000 and leave & slip of paper in its place, indicating that I am responsible torit. After a whilie the money fs returned, perhaps with a profit. and I return it to the saic. Suppose, however, instead of making money I lose $500. I feel blue over the loss and resolve to replace the money as soonas jossible. It is as much wloan in my mind as if had given a regular note, Then another op- portunity is presented to me of making a little investment with favorable chances of a hand- some protit. I risk a $1,000 borrowed in the game way. Suppose I lose another 8500. ‘Then I think to myself: ‘Gracious, I must make up that money some way.’ Another investment follows, and perhaps another, and if there are losses, with each loss the anxiety to make it up grows, and my investments become more tre- quent and tny loans to myse!f of money more numerous. It may have taken years to reach this stage, or perhaps a few months, the time varying according tu the character of the man for cautiousness. At any rate, whether a shorter or a longer time, -I find myself in debt perhaps to the extent of thousands of dollars, a much Jarger sum than I can ever hope to make up. At this point I change from a Gere to ake Heretofore, me strict jonesty of purpose, I have regarded the mone; taken as loans, and fully intended to make it all good. Now I know that itis hota loan, and yet I contiuue to take the money of other peo- pleand appropriate it to my own use. I am a thiet. In outlines merely, this is the mental history of nearly every embezzler, and you can attach to this skeleton the well-known features and dress of some one you have known, who has been and is now fallen and you have the man complete.” THE BURNSIDE CASE A TYPE. “Col. Burnside,” continued the Colonel, “who used to be the disbursing officer of this depart- ment, is @ good illustration of this process of development. During the years that he was a thief he must have been in hell and suffered torments, although to all outward a) pearan he was a happy, contented man. ‘Talwareiineg im, but Iwas never able to become intimate with him. I belleve that tits insanity which has now developed itself was the result of the con- stant apprehension in which he dally lived. He had that look in his eye, and in conversation he benign nga was apt to be Sislointed and abrupt, from one sut ” The Colonel at this ayes juncture began somewhat abrupt himself, which the cree however, attributed to the interest which he manitested in a pile of rs on desk, ‘#0 the visitor yielded tomempes it ; the time of the issue of tie fist Directory. community and associate with honest people? | ¥ | not flad the name in the Washington directory WHAT THE DIRECT¢RY SHOY ‘The Increase in the Popelation of the City. = Send a man out. and it may be that be ref fein Wed the mau set down as ‘Teporter.” Names of persons living on corners are some- times returned twice, once as iiving on one OVER 210,000 PEOPLE NoW PERMANENTLY RE- Shortinn Madwiedge ce Pot Age Ie SIDING HERE—DIRECTORIES OF THE PasT— | tem of numbering, however, enables us to cor HOW GBORGETOWN WAS D#IPLY OFFENDED— — Tor tke 4 . ive ta at TH HOW Diri R’ This year for rst time since * MADE CA Stk Witt CHG BLAM Sein come | FOCkOTy Ml DOE only bave’ been, complied oat will have been printed in this city. The chief PILES Ir, ETC. obstacle in the way of priating it here in the past has been, Col. Boyd says, that no firm of prmters has had the “sorts.” ‘To print the di- rectory requires a large amount of type of a cer- tain size and style, for which the printer would have no use during the year after getting out the directory. This year Col. Boyd bas pur- j chased his own type, and all the work is being done here. The work onthe directory begins abont October Ist,when the corps of canrassers, num be about fifty, is organized. none tue fifty there are just enough experiencad ren to start the work right. The tiret fortuiht is ent in preparing for the outdoor work and in- structing the canvassers in their dui The active canvass begins about the middle of Octo- | ber and is finished during December. last man on the regular canvass completes his work considerable remains to bv done cutside in the way of jockIng up special cases and cor- “Last year there wete between 71,000 and y."said Col. Wm.H. Boyd, the compiler ot the Wasbington City Di- rectory toa Star reporter. *This year there Will be 5,S24 more names than Best year. That Tepresents a population of 260,000. According to the experience of directory men you should allow about 814 to every name idcaiculating the population, The 260,000 incluées, of course, the transient populatioa, persaxs who may be here for only one winter. At least 10,000 people come here during the sessions ofCongres: who are not here at other times of fhe year. Our canvass, which is just being completed, will show, after deducting everything, that the per- manent population of the Dbtrict is from | rectiie eivors. When it is (ound, for instance, pop 210,000 to 215,000." that a name thet figured ga theid ‘tory for the paid eg e preceding year has not been brought ina ean- Seat See ts growing rapltls?” said THe: | Yasser Is sent fo discover whether "the person Vashinctar i ¥ yor whether he has been ov: “Washington grows more rapdly.” said the | has moved away or whether \ Atrectory mn, “than any ety | 0 looked. A torer of nen isemployed in tho v wz. Others are comparing and rea. The last few days tic work is r . bat is all well systematized, many expedients being adopted to preveut mistakes, There are in the country many persons known as profes- y meu, Who go irom city to city aged in the canvassing city hae you noticed one know, the porth- western part of the ety has increged areatty in population. Capitol hill, from QD street north to D street south, has also growa rapidly and the northeastern section of the cif !s becoming weil popniated. A large population has sprung up around the bureau of engravity and print- Ing. in South and jonal Museum. These }ree in: tions, where many people are esaphyed, op just as big factories do in othr citics and attract people around them.” DIRECTORIES, PAST ANG PRYENT. ‘The Directory for 1885 will be igned in a tow days, the final work of correctlonpeiag now in progress and nearly completed. it will bea volume of about 728 pages, or fic size of the Directory of 1834, which will soon pe filed away among the things that are out of &te. In Col. Buyd’s oftive are long rows of on a whose and sorting of names. i oe fe COLD AND HOT CRANKS, Mow Department People Treat the Matier of Ventilation. There isa great deal of complaint among the fovernment employes just now about the exces- sive heat of the department buildings, and the consequent oppressive atmosphere which they have to breathe every day and all day. It is by no means & new cause of complaint, as the “Why don't you open a window or door?” asked a Srar reporter of one ot these advocates of a cooler temperature. “I would,” was the prompt reply, “tut there fe so many cranks in my room that it is impos- Sbie to agree upon opering a window. If it is opened some one at once protests that tt is too ctld, and so we have to let tnings go.” This about sums up the sit nm in ail the departments. People are so dliferently constl- tuled, either physically or mentally, that they caf't agree on mich a simple subject as whether it it too hot or too cold. “* try to regulate the heating and ventilation {of the building,” said an oficial in charge ot one pf the department buildings, ‘by determin- ing low much pressure siouid be maintained in the boilers, and having the keys on the steam pipe teed so that persons can’t chauge them. tellthe watchmen to have ail the doors and gradually increasing bulk, from far to year, corresponds with the growth of he clty from “Col, Boyd.” said one of the gutlemen ed- gaged in the office, “Is the only mm who ever shed a directory in this city a @coud time.” ” said Col. Boyd, “T first pub directory here In 1858, and I have publ the direstories that have been Issuet here since first directory pnBished here ared in 1822. Then one was fubiished In then others followed in 183 , 18465, J, 1853 and 1855. In 1858 I beat tie publi- ion of the city directory. I pubidlied one in 1860 and in 1863. In 1864, 1865 and 1886, while Iwas inthe army, directories wert published here for me by my brother. Since fien [ have published one every year,” 1958. isa eheall valine printed in dares ape | ¥iNdws open erore G o'clock in the mora witha single column of names on tach page, | €° thit we can start with a supply of fresii a In the introductory pages iaa sumingy, statin | OYE Sill I know that the ventilation fs not what that there are 13.856 names of residents of jt Ought to be. The fact of the matter is that Washieston in the voltiine ‘and 1,7% residents | thereis very little known about proper methods of Georgetown, The dircetory of 1855 con-| Of Vaitilation in a building, und consequently tained only 7.454 names of residents of Wash- | thereis a defect in all, the public buildings. I ington, and 1,206 names of residents ¢f George- | JAdestand that Dr. Billings ts making some toqnee " : Investigations, with the view of throwing some ; light on this dark subject.” “You ask me why [don't adopt some rate of temperature.and have that maintained through- oht the building by the watchmen without re- gard to the wishes of the employes. You might As well ask me why I don't by preference live in the midet of a hive of bees, for that would be exactly what would be my situation if I at- tempted to regulate such matters. A fat, full blooded wornan can't understand why athin spare woman is cold, when in her opinion the room is hot. Some willsit at the side of the steam pipes, and others will get away as far as possible. Some want the windows open all the time, and others shrink from contact with fresh air. Whatever they think, they ate convinced GEORGETOWN ON KiB DIGNITY. In those days Washington and Georgetown each had arate parts of the dimetory to itself. “It struck me,” odserved Col. Boyd, “that this was a very bad arrangemett, for if a stranger was looking for a persou here and did he would not think of turning over te the back of the book and {ooking Into the Georgetown directory. So [consolidated the twe and had nt on my hands right away. The late Mr MeWill, editor of the Georgetown Cowier, went around to ali my subscribersin Georgéown and got every one of them to withdraw hiseubscrij- of making money his Judgment undvubtedly | tion. They objected, you we, to hating their | privately that every one else isacrank on the condemned it. It told him that it was wrong, | city jgnored in that way. I was mad. and told | Subject of the temperature, and to enforce - | and that in the event of di ‘ | McGill that the day would come whe George- | Ulation of this sori would require a larze a Tuined for life. But the desire for sudden ac- It y=” tion to the reg MAKING ELeq' n would no longer appear on th map; it would be swallowed up. Sone of th most re- spectable business men ot Georgetwo. who now admit the convenience of the artnzement, would not fora long time have anyting to do with the directory.” THE “COLOR” QUESTION. “Yer,the names of colored people tere put in the directory before the war,” said ‘ol. Boyd. “There is one,” he continued, pointug cut in the directory of 1858. a name after which the letters “col.” were printed in brackeb, “Is took a great cea ype to indicate theitolorin this way, so L adopted the pian o: plachg stars or asterisks before the names of colired deople. Well, a great many people did not like t) have the names of colored people in the ditectory and said 1 ought to associate only with regroes. Then I caucht it from the othe ade. Ore man, a well-known colored barber flere, woild not let a canvasser go into his pla®. He sdd I nad no more right to indicate thal a man Was col- ored than to put the word ‘Irih’ after he name of a man who came from Irela@d. In jourse of time the asterisk was dropped and tlere was ‘TO ORDER, Mow Some Speeches That Haye Elec- trified Congress Have Beon Made. THE REVELATIONS OF AN OLD CAPITOL Ex- PLOYE—PERSONS WHO MAKE A BUSINESS oF WRITING SPEECHES—HOW SPEAKER WHITE WAS MORTIVIED—CASES WHERE EXPOSURE BAS FO.LOWED MEMBERS WHO HAVE STRUTTED IN PURCHASED PLUMAGE. “IVs a mistaken idea that Senators’ and mem- bers’ speeches are written by their private sec- retaries,” said an old attache of the Capitol the other day, turning slowly to a Star man after along study of the vacant chairs and bare gal- leries. “ Asa general thing, their private 5 retaries don’t know any more than they do. Then he stopped for a little, and drummed his stick against the niarble flags, while he eee offagain into a eae No, sir,” he added, stinction made at all tetween theraces, | eating his chin on his cane and aeies he old directories are Gute valuale,” con-| Teun tryime to make out the compeaton afc tinued the colonel. “You wotld be turprised | tivate evsretary, I oam't doit dont ce if rou stayed In the effice heréto see the num- ber of people who come in to wnsuit id Cirec- tories when they are trying totrace 9 person.” STREETS AND HOUSE IUMBERI. “The present plan of numbering souses in the city was my work,” said Col. Boyd. “In making canvasses, we had a grat dealdf trouble with the old system of numbring, I worked the bill through both branches of the city coun- cil, though there was considerale cppsition to itat the time. Merchants whohad wd consid- erable printing done. with thet} old nmbers on their bills and cards, thoughtthe jan was a good one, but that tat was no! a xad time to putitin operation. It wasa plan ¢ mine at that time to renumber the streets of tle city, so as to begin with first street at the exteme east, and continue them up to 45th or S0tlistreet, at Rock creek, with the view ultimatly of con- tinuing across into Georgetown, ang going up to 100th street, or as far as necesqry, Gen. Meigs, however, sent for me, and cofinced me that the plan should not be carried Nto effect, as all the old records contained the umbers of Streets as they then existed, and c@siderabdle contusion might becaused byrenumbtingthem. Taking a map he showed me that be Capitol stood, practically, In the mathematic center of the city, and it was very proper thatthe num- bers should begin trom the Capitol He sug- gested that in lieu of my plan the fot quarters of the city should be designated répectiveiy northwest, northeast, southwest andjoutheast. This, he showed me, would accomplih the pur- pose I had in view. So, in makingthe direo- tory, I foliowed his suggestion. You cannot yet any list of the freets and alleys from the District governmen?’ said the colonel. “Ii you ask for such a thin) you will be reterred to the Directory. Con@nt addi- tions ure veing made to the streete We are, however, cutting down the list of abys by de- signating each alley by only one nape, instead of two or three.” “Where did the alleys get theirnares?” asked Tur Star reporter. “Aparule the Directory men hee named them. When a canvasser came uponaa alley, aad there Mees name, in order topvoid the Necessity of putting down, for instave, such a long description as ‘alley between 60 and 7th aud FandG,'he christened the ally. After that the name given would be generalj adopted. What Congressmen want them for, unless it’s on account of a kind of feelin that they ought to have some one around that knows less than they do. But as iwas saying, it don’t make any dif- ference about the secretaries; they don’t write the speeches. And, to tell you the truth, I think the most of the Congressmen in both Houses now write their own speeches; but some of ’em don't. What! You ain't surprised at that? Why, how long have you been about? Why, as long asIcan remember there's been men hanging about the Capitcl to write speeches for 30 much a line. Soma of them read mighty nice in the Record, and I tell you they surprise @ rural coustituency. Years ago these men used to make lots of money.” “Is there much of that done now?” asked Tre Star. “Well, it's hard to say. There's probably not so much as formerly, but you can’t tell. It’s only when a mistake occurs, and two men get the same speech, or something like that, that you can discover it, though I can generally pick out my man. Now, there’s the case Mr. Veat spoke of. where Allen and Nuzen both printed the same speech. Such instances have occurred frequently. But generally when a man delivers an old speech, he goes far enough back in the Record after it not to double up in that way. Some yeurs azo, I remember, a very brilliant speech was printed by a very slow ordinary man. in the House, and created quite a sensation. the member's district being dvooded with the Globe of that date. But one of the members discoy- ered that the eame speech had been made by a very distinguished statesman in the Huuse two or three terms previous. Along about the Forty- second or Forty-third Congress—or maybe it was the Forfy-tourth, I don’t just reme:mber— there was a very ordinary man in the House from Tennessee, nated Coldwell. He had never done anything -in particular, and never eaid much, until one day he came out witha very brilllant speech that set all the House in com- motion, and made him quite famous. But in the Forty-fifth Congress he was succeeded by another Coldwell, who was really a bril!iant tel- low. One day he was thns accosted in one of the committee rooma: “*T met Bill Blank the other day.’ , ‘Ah, replied Coldwell vaguely, not knowing th name. You know Biil?’ 0; 1 don’t remember him.” Sometimes an alley was named on ant of “ ‘Why, don’t you know, he's the feliow who some local characteristic. ‘Tin Cuf alley ap-| wrote your great speech on a@year or 60 pears first in the Directory of 1 ‘Louse’ | ago. Leastwise, he told me so the other day.’” alley was named during the war on it of | “The congressman smiled grimly. ‘I guess it its miserable surroundings at that the. Nail-| was my predecessor he knew,’ and the mystery er’s alley, Glick’s alley and others wre gener- ally named from some man who Gaby & great deal of property in the neighborhoos MAKING A DIRECTORY. “Directory making,” said the Cdonel, ‘is becoming a business now, just as muh as any- thing else, There,” he edded, liftinghp a com- Pact puckage of narrow strips of payer, “there are a thousand slips in that bundle. Every one of ‘these is handled. six or seven times at least | You know, and as { have ee after the canvasser brings it in. First the slips | man, but he was go pressed wit business that are sorted out into the first letter. Then another | when he had to deliver his (ecg Metres person divides them again according to the | one of those men, who are always on second letter. Then they are sorted into the | make a little money, to write his We slebr third, fourthyand fitth letters. Thea they are | It was handed him just a little while efore the sorted finally, In the final they are | time he had to deliver it, and he put it in les! ‘When the time came handled carefally by an experienced man, who ket without reading. hoege tee fo rose ‘and, slowly unfolding “ot ja of the wonderful oratorical developmen’ explained.” : ; “There are lets of these cases, but they don’t allcome out. Ifthey did moe Well, I guess there'd be sume :uicides. You remember the case of White? No? Why, S| ‘er White, of Ky., it is thought, killed himself on account of an ex] of this sort. White was @ very able man, but he got caught ins bad fix. He was Speaker of the House in the 27th Congress, looks out for duplications ‘or prob- able errors of all kinds. ee god read the address. It was very Paci ames may be brought in from the same house | was Aaron Burr's famous seer © a not exactly-allke, but so similar as to make It | Senate. The Speaker never recovered ; ape probable that they refer to the sane mn. Ot| shock. He wenthome, was taken very course we cannot know which & it, ant 4 a | it is supposed he killed himself for shame.” man has to be sent out especially to settle the “Jn former days,” the old man added, after matter. Then a name m: turned from a | waiting a little while tor hie disclosures to sink inan's place of business, f Aedes where | deep into the reporter, ‘in former days 2° = ‘and from the place where ge takes his | speech-writers used to make lots of money. I meals, and in each case be a littie different. | don’t know whether Sy do as well aon Some one has to go out to see whether the | They used to $100, 150 and $200 fo 8 good names refer to different persons ot not, aad if| speech. and I knew one speed u they all refer to the same person, to $350. No; I never me aoe that |, to ascertain whieh name is right. There may be several | hiring h were thought to Prepared before ‘occu: ‘of thelr preety whie' returns from one person, one - | some pation as journalist’ anotnes Sr eater’ and | be imprompta, were carefully another as ‘correspondent.’ What are we to do? being delivered.’ After the | ned, | ARY 3, 1885-DOUBLE SHEET. PACING TIlE QUARTE DECK. How Carpets are Worn Ont in the Navy | Deparunon(--Navat Officers Who €. NOt Keep Their Sent.—A Mit of Between a Messenger A few days ago the corridors of the Navy partment were occupied by printers busily ea- | gaged in touching up the walls and doorways and putting things in shape for the new year, Some on scaffoldings plied their ! on hands and knees carefully ta! | delicate tints upon the lower pillats and doors. They were 4 | Set of feliews and seemed to know | were about. They generaliy kept | tended to business, but oceasionai | enter into a desuitory conversation wit senger or watchman, whose stand, at, was close by. On one of these Stan reporter was leaning against o1 he graceful columns, not yet reached by the | painters, wonderi e could iind some good history. While he was thinking he Watened and listened. A kneeling painter was ainting the lower slats of one of the venti- | | lating doors, which opened into the room ofa | promicent official: the colored mi-senger was sitting bolt upricht In his swinging clalr, but | | the uneven manner in which his chin rose and Gropped. showed that he was inteut upon bis | work, which was just then taxing a said the painter, without stopp 4 h lwas seot the thew doors | | | i go and come when they plea: “Yes, sir. just about wheney ly.‘ Why do you ash? “Weil, paintin’ doors is my Job jest now, and every thne I came to a chiefs duor 1 peeped in, aud never failed to see une or two men walkin’ | back and forth, back and forth, and i wo! if they hed to take ‘their exercise jHke a polar bear. If they didn't, tt] seemed to me that they would vo ‘oy and take a brisk waik if tiey wanied exerci<a and then come bac: one was alone he walke down, jest as if he was j ho atteition to nothin’. they wonld walk side t time. When they come the tall. without & facin’ each oti waiked to the other sid up their walk till I finished us was so regular that 1 and d aw the ki red at “Oh, T see'said the mossen: men are ali nayal officers, they think and confer. Tf one n: on another the: they waik.” “Weil, what do they do it ¢ inter. “Why can't they sit du e other people? | iad 0 word zer,*‘thone gentle~ d that's ine way oMicer calis | asked the was aeailor in my you! waiter on one of the 1 Geal of the life among naval 0 when men are shut up in months at a time they feel th that rest I saw a good | Of course of day or night see officers pacing back and fort on the qua deck, That is the way ti e and they take It just as regulariy as they do | their meals. You see they get so accustomed | ngtheir so many miles a day that when | they are on shore duty they wouldn't feel at | | home if they c lly when they have any: ‘8 all very | weil, but it’s mighty hard ont You could take the signs from the » doors | and tell every room occupied by looking at the carpet, down wuy length of tine. one side of the room cl to the window there are a in the carpet. track, Just as ft it was laid out , aud they never walk outside of con't | know It, but it’s a fact. Ihave watched them for a good many and it don’t take a gre etowear the tuzz off these Brussels carpets. The fact is a carpet lasts Just abor in a naval officer's room as it dues in an army officer's reom. They didn't use to notice it when the departm but now they are they'll s: f el t is if it has been h pets, tho’ ing them keep their s Just then an electric bell summoned the mes- senger within, the paiter continued his work* With the remerk, “a queer lot,—who would want to walk all the time when he can sit Tus Stak reporier wade for an item which he thought he saw beckoxing dowu ut the tar end | of the corridor, ‘oods. In the Piney. Written for Tar Evaxtse Stan. It Js a frosty-cold midwinter night | Gleamtug with stars. Through a pine barren | dark | I walk alone, 2nd from an opening mark | ‘The sudden glimmer of a cabin light. How many hearts have warmed at such a sight! My startling welcome 1s the watch-dog’s bark. An old man, bearded tke a patriarch, Stands stlhouetied in the doorway bright ! And heralds me unto the wedding party ® Ncisy with fun at biind-man’s-butT and riddie And all the romping games of lif bucolic. Thear the peals of laugater long and hearty, T catch the lusty tuning of the fddie, And giow with inspiration of the frolic. —Joux Henny BoxgR, LETTER FROM FLORIDA, Report of a Settier—Washingtoniany Who Have Invested There—Rush of Visitors. | Corresponience of Tae Evenrno Stan. | Ontoie, HeRNanpo County, Fra., December 12th, i834. After a pleasant ride over the Atlautie coast Ine route to Jacksonville and thence by the | Fiorida Southern railroad, I arrived in this beautiful land of flowers and cranges once more. ‘The cars were full from the time we left Wash- | ington until our arrival in Jacksonville with people from all over the north and the provinces of Canada; some seeking for health, others on | pleasure bent and quite a large number retura- ing to their winter homes. The arrivals in Jacksonville in one of the early days of this month by steamers and rail- roads nuinbered 10,000, so you can imagine from that what the whole number of winter visitors amount to in one season. A great many of them remain in thet oye but the larger portion patronize resorts all over the southern part of the state. This beautifat | town, riole. Is located on Lake Oriole and on | the Charlotte ilarbor branch of the Florida | Southern railroad, 150 miles southwest of Jack- sonviile, in Hernando county, some 20 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and 40 miles from Tampa bay; mean temperature from November to March, 65. There is an abundance of fish in the lake, and the surrounding country is fail ot me of every description, including deer. The ind fs fertile, high d roiling, dotted with orange groves, truck patches, corn and cotton fields and towering pine forests of the first class, | Orivle was started by the Clarkson Brothers, of | Baltimore, in 1882. A very large portion of our | town, consisting of unimproved land (and the ity} the best in the place as to location ani quality) is owned by gentlemen in Washington. some of whom I will name: Messrs. George G. Colby, Judge Harmon, deputy sec- ond auditor; Henry Wilson, Newton Whitten, of the second auditor's office, and William Gleason. of the surgeon general's office, and Dr. Crissey. The majority of theee ntlemen are how making arrangements to { build winter homes and improve more or iess by planting orange groves, &c., &c.. and our enterprising postmaster, Mr. Horner, late of Allentown, Pa., is building a hotel, and will have it soon ready for guests. Industry, indeed, is the order of the day, aud we have neither use Dor accommodation for the sq-cailed “Florida Cracker.” My men, horses, carriages and machinery ar- rived in due season, and in good condition. it took several days to get my mill in running or- Ger, and now, I am glad to say, we are sawing fitteen to twenty thousand feet of lumber per day. We are turning ont novelty siding, floor- ing, shingles, and, in tact, everything in the shape of wooden material that is embraced in the building ot houses of any description, and find ready sale for the same to the sumerous settlers that ce and around here. Thave invested $1 here in land and ma- chinery, and call it the best trade of my life. ——_—-2.- —____ His Customer anda Why Hic Was. From the Pittsburs Chronieie Tele-reph. “T made a good sale to-day,” said one dia- mond broker to another. “I disposed of the largest and finest se¢pf diamonds that has been ‘these | imported on ‘year. “No.” “Plumber ?” ‘Not their ee ball “No, tl in for 4 per cents now.” «ito ten “Doctor, with three coal hole covers in front of his office.” j volnus | tory and explau y can't taik satistactorily uniess | re wa and talk | 5 day LITERARY NOTES. = 4, THE CREOLES OF LOUTSIAXA }y Grones %, ABLR Hinstrated. New Sone. Weshinctoss Wan Baath Those who are accustomed to think of Mr. Cable only as a writer of fiction will be some- what surptised to see how well equipped and capable he appears in the new role of historian. Throuchout, his lates: effort gives evidence of careful research, accutacy and tirness, while ary style is wonderfally clear. phic s: Mr. Cabio ‘etines the crevice as eaking native portion of the an they have uearly always ag force tn Louisiana, in he virtually wettes a his- . PeThAps, tore properly f the city of New Orleans, where ce WAS Most strongly felt. The roe je story ot the pirates and smugglers who locality Is given with con- the ‘part whieh General n its history lx adh n. But it isin the description of people ehes, and In the portraya: of the growth ty aud its marked peculiarities, that Cable appears at his best. It ts possible that crities will be tound atuonz lits ¢ t this is no evide ir or tneapable; it will only since known t r. t 1 that the how ta e the shelvesof a library, stratious it te wll that rif but In letter can be di CATIVE BRITISH ORATIONS. Within. , my hats. bh Cuauun aye Voltiznes Washington o ely gotten up are these admirable . which contain carefal representative m the crextest speechor of ffteen 18 British orators from 1628 to ith Jonn Elliott and ending The main object of the editor o show the great currents hit that have shaped the his eat Britain duri together se sciections fF ning with Gladstone. he conrse of Bng- and sometiing act yet exhaustive introaue- ory Hotes accompanying each volume mak. collection instructive, as well as enterta’ning, and especially valuable to the young student of political history, as well as to these who en) 1 examples of oratory. Jone T. Mons, Ju & Co.” Wastuiygton: co: Boston Robert “American Statesmen’? uthor is the editor, in its tter much more he found in Jefferson, to that statesman thouht he The Adams portrait is accord- warmer colors, slad- The author ' 38 deep. blind to the weaknesses of th Hie tokes ¢ snot of th es on the c whole as cicar, in Just estimate t der of the Lue asany one could well A value as a i it throws oa the pol! Aad particularly on the existed between Adams and vicabie sit bit ‘ , 4 » 4 RALIT WALDO EMERSO By Olaven Wexvesa Hoses Ht Affi & Co ate . Wand A bouk about srson, by Holmes! What could possibly be snore Inviting? The theme 4 ¢ itself isa mugs int iz owe, and of all the writere we have none could invest it with greater charm than is thrown about it by the apprecia- t efal_ author of the “Auto- : + Breakfast Table.” It need not bo said, therefore, in extended w t this vol Fs ’ widition to the ad 1 acquaintance with the 1 * enjoved the aninber of int hished, and as also and *aluable infurma- fy. » a pnb apy : sont a 2 of out-door life,—of wouds and elds and what » styled their betier cinss of tenantry,— nd some of the sketches pthis pretty volume show s best. ‘The most of chem, if not all, i trom time to tune ia the perlodls but thet ‘at detracts nothing the cook. Those who have ve a real treat in store, while joved reading them as they dim i 1 the value i read them those who ha appear d them well worth reading again, glad, moreover. to possess the bie and attractive form in ¥ par. red ina longtime. They are simple, natural cud siacere, full of pathos, and show more than inary artistic faculty in construction. While they may be said to be a piomise of better things tn the future, they are a performance of which & writer of much more ex ce and reputation might well be proud. a] Wf thein are the title story and “Rube + Jones,” which are characterized by touches of stron poetic feeling, but the whole group ts above the standard of the average story of the Py Hvox Coxwar a “Dark met Sew’ Fork: Heury Holt & mn: Breutano Brotns, ther” is not the title of a nove as might at first be suppored. It is the ter: the fact that a dozen or so «1 ‘hort stories are here cv’ to the public in 8 single y he more ambitious efforis of the mest of them have a touch of the super- natural, and are graphically told. The vest of the set perhaps ts “The Bandsman’s Story,” which appeared in Blackwood some time ago, 25 indeed did several of the others. BERMUDA. An Idyl of the Summer Itanda By Jevta ©. R Dern. New York: Cu rics "1 Wasitortn: Wis Balzityuet bone This is a very enthusiastic and poetical de- scriptiou of ashort visit to Rermuda, well worth reading on its own account, but of greater interest to any one wishing to exchange the frosts and storms of the north for the charms of perpetual summer, without fervent heat, and ata cost not too great tor persons in rea- sonab!ly comfortable elreumstances pecuniarily. In addition to glowing descriptions. there is food map and consideraple practical informa- ion. ARCHITECTURAL PERSPR: BEGIN- NERS. Containine + y Practical Ex- t « Student in hs. A Petre. Architect A series of articles published in Building, some time ago, form the basis of this publica- tion, which can hardly fall to be of great value to the clientage for whom it is intended. 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