Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1885, Page 3

iB ad THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1885-DOUBLE SHEET. WHITE HOUSE TRADITIONS. coming Book of Historical and Moral- fstic Essays. MISS CLEVELAND AND THE EK VERB—HER CHARACTER AND LIFE—THE SUDDEN RESO- LUTION To Pt <1f A BOOK—ART OF POE- TRY—JVAN D'ARC—CHARLEMAGNE. The literary traditions of the White House, interrupted by the death of Gen. Garfleld, bid to be continued by Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, the accomplished sister of the Presi- dent. It is related of her that when the an- nouncement of Governor Cleveland’s nomina- tion was made at the Executive Mansion at Albany, Miss Cleveland, who was obliged to face the distinguished assembly, preserved her composure by ass ating a Greek verb. During a recent visit to New York, some Of her friends advised her to publish a volume of essays. She resisted some time, but finally consented. The manuscript was finished week , and the volume _is almost ready for tion by the firm of Funk & Wagnalls, of New York. The revised proofs are sent to the author, who Ras two names under considera- tion for the . but the ehoie et been defi de. The New York wis and 4 tions will she Cleveland is mistress of a brill je, and, Moreover, thinks for herself. She thus com Phe Spanish Gipsy” urora Le! THE ALT ¢ z ‘A genuine poem is almost absolutely certain Of recognition, as such, in the long run. If verse contains poetry, that poetry makes Itself felt, whatever biemishes the have; but if dint of argument alone brings us to acknowledge fanitless verse a poem, like Galileo, in the moment of recantation we shail mutter to ourselves our former and unrecanted blishes copious Miss golden Kk from jenouement, its perfec unities, and its eve nes her answer, “Je ne sais , doubtless, may” be under- he poetry in “Aurora” which quoiz” Stood thit it compelled the THE In her ess: the France n d’Are she thus pictures V: What power shall pre- vent the whole realm from becoming to Eng- land what Canada is to-day? what Cuba is to Spain? What power shall arise to preserve for the nineteenth century the French feather of French genius, the bite of French wit, the flavor Z the wing bouquet of Freneh esprit, the verve, the je ne sais and uni ne “and un- With which F has spiced the der the how lame, Had the ether of French intel- orporated—shall we say, lost?— world? how Impoten be the suid muscle of English intellect.” Hugo reduced to Carlyle. Two Carlyles in place ©f one Carlyle and one Hugo, Two bloody Marys ace of one bloody Mary and one bloody Medici. Two Henry VIII's instead of one gre: ry Tudor and one great Henry Bourh > Mariboroughs, instead of one andone tremendous X y Mary Wortley Monta- gues, instead of one Lady Mary one De Stael. All beef, no poul-t. Human nature with- out tis iressing of French nature. she says of the “ Hour big with + of all men turn to Orleans, of all But another eye looks down upon an- nd hither the inexplicable genius of history bids us go with her, A strange ir- Felevanc ene on which she bids us look Whatc loping hills of Domremy, the thrilling streams, these low-ruoted cottazes have ef conneetion with that doom-environed city? ‘That little shepherd girl who sits beneath the great tree, in the doorw onder, Whatcan that ntie, saint! face have of concern , oh, arbiter of men and nature? @ tells us that a voice of God comes to her; With the voices a brightlightshines. And often she hears the nd sees the ht,and St. Michael and $ garet and St. Catharine ap- pear to her. appear in a halo of glory; their heads are crowned with jewels, their volces mild and sweet. She hears them when the bells aresounding tor the hour of prayer. She hears the forest, also, and at many times y Speak so soothingly she mn back to Parad ile we curl our lips at this wild rant- haif mad shepherd girl and turn to go our way to Orleans, where the hour wanes and all hearts wait, with hope against hope, for the m: the hand of destiny unclasps trom ours, and with inexorable finger points toward the girlish figure, and, amid the protests of our impatient scorn, the Voice that none may ques- tion saying to her, “Thou art the man!” JOAN'S FAITH. te She thus explains the Maid of Orleans’ mys- Ue success, all the miracle and marvel and mystery of Joan’s history to the extraordinary development of one human capacity—Love! the extraordinary exercise of man capacity * since it is the gift of God—Faith! Joan's lové was extraordinary, because it was not passion fora person, but a quenchless ssion of love for a cau: .” All the energy, and and constancy,’ and passion, and ‘trium- phant worship that go Into-a woman's love for ‘one man, and that makes it the thing it is;went from Joan's soul into the cause of France. All that a woman will endure for any, from a lover to a child, that did Joan endure for any from France. "And this is very extraordinary. Strange and rare in man—strange and rarer woman! And Joan’s faith was superhuman, which Is al aith, since it is from God! a gift rather than a grace.’ To Joan man was as naught—the king oi France was the king of heaven. And of faith in general she writes el juently. Faith isa Trinity. It is one, faith in God) and it is three, faith in God, faith in self and faith in humanity. Faith in God ts the unit, the integral, desig- nation of this Trinity, for it includes by logical necessity both the other faiths. Whether men Sdmit it or not, faith in myself and faith in my brother and sister humanity follow from m faith in God, and will win their rightful rank if that faith iswllowed its full growth. But be- cause our faith in God is so rarely gilowed its fullgrowth, these other faiths, faith in our- ‘Selves and faith in each other, do not come into full view and win due recognition, We repeat our creed, “I believe in God, the Father,” but we do not always realize that this ereed includes, “I believe in myself” and “I be- lieve in other people.” Yet this threefold faith should be taught. A true belief in God is three- sided, and the glory of the God side was never bseure the brightness of the other des, but rather to render them conspicu- ous. * © * By faith In humanity in the ab- stract I mean to imply that general attitude of mind which is hopeful and expectant of bu- manity, a faith in human nature's intrinsic i th which b ds man, asin N dream, to b deed and mysteriously mixed of thi at things base, but which beholds 1 of fine breast of sil of tron @ faith thatthe ard a goal of that when the rately struck, the uly upward, not is persistently and immortalit to the same part A faith, this,which wavers before the question, how put by the pessimist, “Is lite but responds with an immediate es,a thousand times, yes. Ye is infinitely worth living!’ A ith, this, ich looks into poorhouses and idiot asylums nularies, ay, and Into the darkness of nd still believes in hu- however marred or fallen, worth saving. A faith, thi tes the catastrophe of mora piritual suicide: of the mole and. which obliquity and the bat life of thousands of us, of the leprous bi selene human beings that are constanuy th rown upon the shores of life only to eontaml- pate and curse—and yet which says, with Long- fellow. “T believe that Every human b n even savage bosoms there are longings, yearnings, stirrings, the God they comprehend pot. wat the feeble hands aud helpless, ropliyg blindly in the darkness, Keach God's right band in the darkness, ¥ Aud are lifted Gp and strengthened.” fhis is a most happy faith, and one most needful if we would maintain @ hopeful and ex- clant attitude toward humanity. Such, Ine eed, is our only proper attitude, yet if belief were bounded by finite Vision, it could never be maintained, level; looks back with longing eyes valry. She says: re men to look at with a sight Men devoid of aches and pains and dyspepsias; Men without nervous headaches; men to whom coddling and “soothing” was not indispensable think of it! Alas, there are no duplicates of this picture among the men ofour day, and the negative was not preserved. ‘Then there isa quality of mind to mateh this physical attribute which cannot be restored by any modern process—the quality of unconscious ness of self; lack of that essential iniquity, self, which all our refinements of analysis and’vivi- section have fastened like an “eating lichen” to the thought of all the thinkers, that eritical detective which unceasingly attends our foot- steps, never letting down his watch of Ego. The places that we moderns tread are very vastly inér than those barren places of the mediwevale, Our feet sink deep in soft Axminsters and our spacious parlors are crowded with every pos: ble and impossible “ppointment for use and luxury and enervation.. Wahave great reason to look down upon the owners of those rud cak-raftered hulis, wherein was only board am bench. Bat our ‘magnificent apartments are everywhere hung With mirrors. Every article is a Feflector, and nowhere can the opulent occu. look that he can fall to see his own image, in the custody of selfotticered Cleveland’s Forth- EXPLANATIONS. 7. Tenement Houses. P. Privies over the water. HEP. Hog Pens. HH. Hern Houses: W. Waste weir, SCALE of FEET. te 7 “60 >> > Two Mile Level. ~ Foul street 180feet tong. RG x wee T. “I "Tow Path. iy a Tow Path. ut DIAGRAM OF THE SOURCES OF WATER POLLUTION. POTOMAC WATER POLLUTION. use they do not take her | one superhu- | a The Foul Surroundings of the Mouth of the Washington Aqueduct. MAP OF THE INFECTED DISTRICr. Location of the Leaky Waste Weir. Foul Privies, Henneries, Hog Pens, Barn-Yards, and Other Disease Breed. ers Emptying Into the Aqueduct. pate Came A TYPHOID FEVER LAIR. —— ee In order that the readers of THE STAR may get an intelligent idea of the points at issue in the water pollution question, we present the above dirgram, showing the foul surroundings ofthe mouth of the Washington Aqueduct at the Great Falls dam. This map is from actual Measurement, except ina few dimensions not material to the discussion. A very hasty exam- ination will show that the purification in that vicinity can not be too strenuously insisted upon. While the map,in great measure, ex- plains itself, a few details will make matters clearer. At the lock near the Great Falls hotel a two mile level of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal begins. This lock is situated about 100 feet below the dam at the mouth of the conduit which supplies Washington with drinking water, The level of the water in the canal is 16 feet above the topof the dam. THE WASTE DAM shown near the lock is a cut stone structure 90 feet in length, and amply sufficient, with the waste way, or flume, on the opposite side of the lock, to discharge the surplus water when the lock is full. The water passing through these wastes enters the Potomac below the dam, and so does not reach the conduit. The tenement houses vary from twenty-five to forty-four and fifty feet in length, and from one story to two and a halfstories in height. Some of them appear to accommodate several families. The surroundings of all are exceed- ingly unclean, and the refuse and wash from all is thrown or drains into the canal. The street in front of them is filthy. The lower part of it next the semi-circular basin isa hog-wallow, and the basin itself is what might be expected from such surroundings. All the refuse from the government stable near this basin washes into the brook and thence reaches the basin, About two hundred and thirty feet up this latter stream, which runssteadily and with consider- able volume, there is a stable for two horses, and four cow sheds in use, and the brook actually runs through the accumutations of manure at this point. All the hog-pens are elther partly in the water or so arranged that their contents drain directly into the canal. AU the privies project over the canal. THE LEAKY W. Passing up the tow STE-WEIR, ath from the lower waste- dain, the first point where this disgusting canal water runs Into the river is a waste-weir shown inthe map. This 1s twelve feet wide at the top, and the water which runs over it, and which leaks at the sides and ander it, forms a brook which is twelve feet wide and a foot deep, and runs rapidly with this volume as a minimum. At times when the canal is high there is much more than this, At a point halfway to the river this stream, or more properly this sewer, is twenty-six feet wide and from four to nine inches deep, with evidences of its often running over a foot deep at this point. It is easily seen from the map that the suck through this weir will continually act to draw the fifth from the other bank into it, but, as a matter of fact, in spite of the overflow into the river below the dam, and of the current towards the flume in the lock when a boat passes out of the latter into the upper level, it sweeps the whole current after it towards the waste weir and the broader waste way above. Below the bank of the tow-path and on the border of the stream from the waste weir and DRAINING DIRECTLY INTO 17, isa stable fifty feet long, arranged with nine stalls, which, notwithstanding the statement of the Commissioners that it 1s not in use, is con- stantly in use for hogs, cows and mules. Half the building on Saturday last was over a foot deep in manure, and the large yard surround- ing the stable was thickly strewn with it. This farther pollutes the sewer water from the canal, The whole then enters the river by two chan- nels as shown, one 227 feet above the mouth of the Washington aqueduct, and the other about 80 feet further away. Allof this water is car- ried by the current of the river DIRECTLY TO THE MOUTH OF THE CONDUIT. The channel which feeds the conduit 1s from 50 to 70 feet wide, and at this point is separa- ted, as shown in the map, from the main Mary- land channel by a long and narrow island. With a brook flowing into the basin opposite this wasteway, setting the current toward the latter, and with the almost stagnant water in the canal when the lock 1s closed, the chances for the filth of the opposite bank to be drawn over to the waste-weir and sucked through it into the river are quite as favorable as any citi- zen Is likely to desire. THE WASTEWAY ABOVE. Following the towpath a short distance above the stable, we come toa wasteway 150 feet in length. This 1s simply a low place in the tow- path and the water is allowed to run over. It is thick with stable zetuse from one end to the other. Attimes the water runs over through- out the whole length, The channel marks on the gullies and stones below show that at times the volume fs great, This water empties into the river at various points from 80 to 150 feet above the head of the small island. The cur- rent turns it directly along shore and into the channel leading to the conduit. The area®elow this upper wasteway fs a foul swamp. This has been created a swamp by the foul refuse washed over from the canal, lodging among the bushes, and holding the water If the overflows from the canal were stopped the whole area would become dry and clean. Above this waste, within a distance of 320 feet, there are ten places apparently in con- stantuse as feeding flaces for mules, Each of these Is as thickly strewn with manure asa ard, and the wash from all of them is into the river. “THE FILTHIEST LEVEL ON THE CANAL.” This two-mile level is represented by boatmen to be the filthiest on the canal, for the reason that its proximity to the hotel, and its length between locks give a good resting place for the men, a feeding place for the mules, and time enough to clean out the stables on the boats. In this cleaning all refuse is thrown overboard. ‘The water of this long level has been entirely drawn off once, and partially twice since March, of this year. It was drawn off twice in Novem- ber last, when the water in the river was below the top of the dam. In December, 1884, it was drawn off twice, and finally for that season about January 4th. If the gates at the gate-house were closed on these occasions the citizens about the lock did not know it. Even if they were closed, that portion of the aqueduct from the river mouth to the gate-house, which is about 260 feet long, would always be filled with canal water on such occasions, and when the gates were raised this volume, which would be over 16,000 cubic feet, would immediately start for Washington. THE REMEDY is apparent at a giance. Let the tow-path be filled solid at the waste-weir and the upper waste- way. No water from the canal would then enter the river near the conduit. It is doubtful whether this would cost a hundred dollars, and it could easily be done inaday. All the ordin- ary waste would then run over below the dam could not then be convenient through the lock a gate could ea: structed in the waste-dam, This latter is 90 feet long, and so gives abun- dant room, The construction of this gate Is the only item of cost worth considering. The wooden gateway above has answered every purpose for years, and the cost of a wooden gate at the lower waste would be Insignificant, Let the stable between the canal and the river be removed and the filth scraped off. The canal company would doubtless consent to running a wire fence along the tow-path for @ thousand feet above the dam, and from the end of this limit across to the river. As am ter of fact, the canal company long ago permission to those in charge of the aqueduct to do whatever was necessary to protect the mouth of the conduit. NO EXCUSE FOR OFFICIAL NEGLIGENCE. It will be noticed that the residence which the government built for the employes of the aqueduct stands ona hill which commands a near and unobstructed view of all the varied usting elements of pollution. And in order that they may be able to make prompt reports of everything, che government has kindly built a telegraph and telephone line, which gives them instant communication with the engineers and the District Commissioners. A TYPHOID FEVER LAIR. Aresident at Great Falls, in conversation with a STAR reporter, stated that the level was the “dirtiest along the canal.” canal boatmen in going up usually walt until they got clear of the city to clean their boats, and it was customary with them to do the cleaning after the boats entered that level. So that in addition to all the filth which enters the canal from the surroundings, theaccumulations of several days in the canal boats are frequently thrown into that level, and is thence carried into the conditit, Another fact that is of no slight significance in connection with this sub- Ject of pure water, is that several severe cases of typhoid fever have occurred at Great Falls and its immediate vicinity during the spring. Among some ofthe residents there the belie! prevails that these cases were produced by the foul condition of the surroundings. When it isremembered that the terrible epidemi at Plymouth, Pa., 1s traced directly to the slight pollution of the water supply through the sweepings and excrement seepage from the yard ofa house occupied by some typhoid pa- tents last winter, some distance above the village, draining into the stream supplying the reservoir, it is made plain why the District authorities should, without a moment's delay, shut offall possibility of Uke infection of our aqueduet water from the typhoid cases at Great Falls. drawn o} ly be con- police, and cannot forget ourselves long enough to breathe treely. But they, the medivals, the unencumbered, they were free! Strong simple-minded children, unspoiled by “notice. A Dr. Samuel Johnson would have been an impossibility among these open-air men of deeds, but could he have been he must have lacked his Boswell. * * * 8 8 ‘MISS CLEVELAND'S LIFE, A few words chosen from the enconiums of a personal friend will give the public some idea of the personal qualities af the lady who will preside over the White House: “Miss Cleve- land,” says her friend, “is a woman of sweet disposition, and of breadth and strength of churacter. After her mother's death she deter- mined to stay at her old home in Holland Pat- ent and to live in her own way, There she stu- (ied and wrote. But after the election, and from the moment she knew her brother's wishes and saw her duty plain before her, she laid aside her pen work and lectures, She is in the White House just what she was at Holland Patent—a woman of sensibility and réfinement, Instin ively Kind and thoughtful of others, she is a favorite with strangers. A lady who happened inat the White House one morning recently found her at her desk with her books about her, studying and writing aboutan epoch in history which more than others interests her. She had many letters before her, and the maid carried off a handful of replies which she had just pre- ared: but the books were nearest to her, and she nad been having a quiet hourwith them, Dressed in.a white flannel gown, with fleecy tulle scart about her throat, and nd other ornament than a pink rose carelessly fastened at her throat, she looked as simple and unpretentious as & school girl, and, with her short brown hatr fall- ing In natural Waves about her brow, as girl: ish. Her nervous hands played with’ a paper weight as she talked of the work and. the pitas, ures of her place and the mistaken views enter- tained regarding it. The substance of her Te marks was that the difties performed by one in her place were such as could never be understood save by those who had. known them, and the publicity attaching to the place Was its greatest drawback. She talked of the White House, of its beauty, of the flowers which were about her in proiusion, and of the long line of and useful women who had been from time to time in the place sue now s. ‘Miss Cleveland comes of generations of Presbyterian ministers, All the traditions of the parsonage center about her past. Her eld- est brother is a minister, and her eldest sister isa missionary in Ceylon, Her brother-in-law is a minister, and her near kinsmen in several instances are preachers, She is dn orthodox Christian, knowing all religions and all_scien- tine sehodls antagedistie tener, yet believing, with childlike tenacity, in the instructions she received at her mother's knees.” ——+oe____ Overhead Wires Causing Many Deaths. From the Evening Telegraph. The thing that appears most plain in the terrible loss of life in the fire at Cincinnati yes- terday is the fact that the network of telegraph and télephone wires surrounding the burning building made it impossible to rescue the persons in deadly peril. Without that obstruc- tion every lifemight havé been saved. And that is the condition of peril investing a multi- tude | of properties “in all our ities, The thi happened yesterday in Cinctnnatl is Mable, is very likely, to occur at any hour in any city and it ts a misuse "of uage call such trad to that “extent “preventinie the ibility for them is well’ defin wires must ‘be put under “ground; ie is a shameful abuse of power to them where area, a standing menace to end Plymouth Plague. SOURCES FROM WHICH THE DREAD EPIDEMIC HAS ARISEN — SEWER VAULTS EMPTYING THEIR CONTENTS INTO WATER MAINS—A TER- RIBLE INSTANCE OF IGNORANCE AND NEGLI- GENCE—HOW THE CITY WAS SUPPLIED WITH POLLUTED WATER. The New York Medical Journal of May 234, prints a report from two distinguished phys!- cians and chemists in regard to the terrible epi- demic of typhoid fever at Plymouth, Pa, The following extracts are of general importance: ‘The principal facts in the history of epidemics are briefly as follows: The town of about 8,000 inhabitants {s supplied with water from a mountain stream ordinarily small, but under- going at times great variation in volume. This is stored in four reservoirs, or dams, situated one above the other on the stream. Atcertain seasons of the year the supply of water from this source is not sufficient for the town and re- course is had to the river water, which is then pumped directly into the mains. In the latter part of March the water in this stream was almost entirely frozen up, the reservoirs were very low, and on March’ 20th tie water com- pany commenced pumping river water into the math, A portion of the town, however, was still supplied by water from the’reservoir. On the evening of March 26th, the pumps were stopped, and the water from the reservoirs was again turned on. At this time the two lower reservolrs were empty, and the third was less than half full, containing perhups four hun- dred thousand gallons. On the stream above the first reservoir there are but two houses. The first is situated on the bank of the upper or fourth reservoir, and the second, known as the Davis house, on'the bank of the Stream connect ing the third and fourth, immediately below the dam. ‘The first house, belonging to the water com- pany, stands not more than six feet from the edge of the reservoir. A few feet back of it, on sloping ground, and not more than sixty ‘eet from the reservoir, stands a privy, whic not been emptied for six yeurs,and the con- tents of which are considerably above the level ofthe ground surrounding it. Just in the rear of this a surface drain leads directly to the reservoir. On the opposite side of the reservoir, a few yards from its edge, a barn stands over & small ravine, which drains considerable sur- face, and serves to carry all matter that may accumulate there to the reservoir, Recent investigations have shown that in the second house, during the months of January, Februar; March, one of the occupants was Slek with a severe fori of typhold fever. During this time the excreta at night were thrown ou! back of the house, on the snow, and very near the stream. The weather was cold during these months, and this material was probably frozen fast where {t was thrown and rendered. innox- fous for the time. Tho latter of March (from the 25th to the 0th) the weather was warm, and at this time these deposits, which had been accum' through so long a riod, were washed into the reservoir, con- ining then but a small quantity of water. At this time (the event: ‘of Maret "26) ‘the tows: began to draw its water supply from the reser- voir in. ‘The first cases of the fever developed on April and before Aj 19 nearly three hun Sises bad inade thelr ee, . and through the waste at the lock, If the level how terrible 1s the responsibility resting upon them for the appearance of the epidemie. “The owner of this house absolutely retused to re- move the contents of the privy pit until com- pelled to do so by the superintendent of the water company. ‘That the appearance of the epidemic was not due to the use of river water is clearly proved by the fuct that in forty or fitty families whieh use habitually river water,sapplied by the Hud- son Canal and Coal company, not a single case has occurred. This is turther proved by the tact that three persons who were visiting In the town alter the reservoir water was turned on, and before April 2d, contracted the disease, and in several families which did not move into the town until April 1st, one or more cases of ty- phoid fever have occurred. ‘That the epidemic 1s purely one of typhoid fever, is shown by the cause, nature and course of the epidemic. The clinical symptoms in the individual cases, and finally, by several autop- sies made by Dr: Shakespeare, of Philadelphia, in whieh the characteristic lesions of the disease were found. ‘The conclusion is scarcely avoidable that this epidemic was due to the contamination of the water in the reservoir by the stools of a single patient with typhoid fever, whose case occured on the stream supplying the reservoir several miles distant from the town. ‘The magnitude of the epidemic and the clearly defined rela- tions existing between the first and succeeding cases, continue to make this one of the most in: structive, as well as oneef the most terrible in- Stances which ignorance and negligence have contributed to the record of disease. ————_+ee+_____ The Uninviting Vatican. Rome Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer The most disappointing thing, perhaps, to visitors is tho Vatican Palace. Without design, ornamentation or finish, {t would, if detached from St. Peter's, be taken for a factory building, of three stories in height in parts and four in others, with neither a tall chimney nor a shutter to a window to relieve the flat, yellow lime-covered walls. The extensions made te it from time to time changed the running course of the structure. so that it 1s zig-zag in line and has every appearance of a collection of badly constructed, rambling buildings: that would be decidely improved by a éoat of paint. The gardeus adjoining are very beautiful, portion being laid out and the 're- a. maindef in natural forest. It is here, when in health, that the pope drives every diy. Prior to the hour ted for this recreation, sight- seers are mi tocome down from the over looking dome of St. Peter's. The buildin and gardens ere inclosed with a high wally within which only are allowed the an Ris attendants and the servants whose cot- Vifisge "the latter comprise te their mumine wi 1S com| io Dum! artisans, mechanics, labore: AMERICANS IMPRISONED IN MEXICO.—In the case of the American engineer, Eddings, on. trial at Monclova, over ry Me: United 8 fae, Bae cae pee ome How Do Arabs Live Without Mach Water? From Chamber's Journal, How is it that Arabs contrive to live in the waterless deserts of that much-talked-of region? They are, to begin with, abstemious in their habits, and know every crevice and hollow in the hills where water will collect. They regard this fluid more, perhaps, in the light of a luxury than as a necessity, and'use it with wonderful economy. They would never think of wasting it on the exterior of their bodies, and consider that once in 48 hours is often enough to reple: ish the inner man. Gen. Colston tells as that when Bedouins came to his camp water would be offered them, but would often be refused with the remark that the visitor had drank yesterday. By cultivating this habit of abste- Miousness, they are dble to cover immense dis- tances, which would be impossible for a Euro- pean, Unless he were accompanied by baggage animals, ——+-e+__ Parsimony of a Royal Duke. From the London Trath. The “Letters on Society in London, by Count Paul Vasili,” will greatly disappoint those readers who looked for something as sparkling and malicious as the diatribes on Berlin society. Very little of what is new Is true, and most ofthe criticisms are not specially brilliant or discriminating, There 1s a chareteristic story of the Duke of Edinburg, which, however, ix more than ten yearsold. The late Empress of Russia was ones waving with her daughter, the Dutchess of Edinburg, attended by a large suite. The Duke gave her to understand that he could not afford to entertain her, and that he should be obliged if, on her departure, she Would order the controller uf her suite to pay an adequate sum for the expenses of her visht. At the moment of departure, afterluncheon had been taken, the Duke of Edinburg drew a Raper from his pocket on which he had noted lown the estimated expenses of the Russian Empress, and he added the cost of the luncheon tothe amount, Count Paul Vasili might have added that when the Empress staid for a few days at Buckingham Palace she paid most, of the household expenses out of her own pocket ae aS enemas TUMULT AT AN ANARCHIST MEETING IN CHI- AGo.—Ata meeting of anarchists in Chicago Sunday a man known as “Dynamite” Dusey, during an incendiary _hi e, denounced Abraham Lincoln as & hy ite and Senator in asa liar and thief. Some workmen in the Growd ordered him to stop speaking, but he refused, and continued his abusive remarks. workingmen then pushed forward and drove Dusey from the platform. A general tu- mult followed, but no one was inji 5 ee How Tro Horp Your Sipps ear ht side. if he shows Hight, be can only fet you hinve lt with his lene can ve aud you nave your Fight hand free to tackle him. Ityou grip him on his left side, you leave him the use of | right hand to your left, and hke Snoukh he'll get the better Of you.""Chamber's I aed e cneanramae Sea esiray Sure The bi irs on! $7. It valuables, is feared that Mr. rho is 83 of ae Lewis, w! years of age, army Tevol UE EE OR OUT ree wWwwWwww Hin E WWwww HHH It i EE wWwWw oH OH F wow HH T kge ™M MM EI pe Eb 8 G Maw EEF FE, Uf REE P TLL «UU OM MM EEE Sgg5 = WE HAVE SEVERAL DOZEN FINE WHITE PLUMES, WHICH WE WISH TO DISPOSE OF AND WE HAVE MARKED THEM DOWN so THAT THEY CANNOT FAIL TO ATTRACT AT- TENTION. THERE ARE THREE QUALITIES, AND THE FOLLOWING IS THE REGULAR PRICE, AS WELL AS THE REDUCED PRICE: REGULAR $1.98 PLUMES REDUCED To $1.48. REGULAR $2.98 PLUMES REDUCED TO $2.25. REGULAR $8.98 PLUMES REDUCED To $3.25. | SPECIAL LOTS OF FLOWERS, ALL FINE AND NEW GOODS, BUT BOUGHT WaY BELOW THE MARKET VALU 50 PER CENT LESS THAN THE THERE ARE MANY Goops. ALL ARI HATS. FINE BU ND SOLD AT ARE THEM FI FOR § YORTH. oF DITABL NCH IMMER HES, REALLY WORTH 48 CENTS, FOR 25 CENTS. GRADE, REALLY WORTH 68 CENTS, FOR 48 CENTS. A LOT OF FRENCH Gt WORTH 93 CENTS, FOR 68 CENTS. FIN M BBR RRR 00. RBR RO Oo BBE RRR O O BRR ROO ERB RK R OO DDD FEE RRR DDE ER D KRR. D ROR DDD EEE R R BROUGHT AT AUCTION, ALL Fi ND BOUGHT CHEAP. = GOODS, MOSTLY SWISS, AND SOLD AT FULLY 50 PER CENT BELOW THEIR VALUE. LOT 1, FROM 2 TO 5 INCHES WIDE, WORTH 38 CENTS, FOR 19 ©! LOT 2, FROM 3 TO 8 INCH: s WIDE, WoRTH 48 CENTS, FOR 25 CENTS, LOT 8, FROM 3 TO 12 INCHES WIDE, WORTH 60 CENTS, FOR 29 CENTS, LOT 4, FROM 3 TO 13 INCHES WIDE, WORTH 5 CENTS, FOR 38 CENTS. 1117-1119 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. my22 Coxmsvatios oF THE GREAT SLAUGHTER aT 3’S PALACE, 814 Tth street, KIN Cutting prices in two. Save your money by buying your goods at KING'S PALACE, 514 7th st. Ifyou are in need of a nice trimmed Hat or Bonnet for yourself or daughters prime goods, stylish and fashionable, imported or domestic, you Will find it at King’s Palace, 514 7th st. If you are looking for the largest assortment of Straw Hats and Bonnets. untrimined, comprising every style aud shape and quality that the market produces, in cildren's, snisses and ladies’ sizes, the QuIp place and largest selection iy at King's Palace, 7th st. if youare in need of Fine French Flowers of the most exquisite styles and quality, you must go to King’s Palace, 814 7th street, If you desire to buy Handsome Tips, prime goods, in all colors and shades and quality, you will huve to go to King’s Palace, 814 7th st. Ifyou want some Elegant Plumes, in all colors, from 15 to 28 inches long, your duty is to go to King’s Palace, 814 7th st. If you are in need of Ribbons we have an immense stock to choose from at King’s Palace, 814 7th st. If you are in want of Millinery Trimmings you will find a choice assortment of m: ‘ornaments, gold and silver scarfs, silk. grenadine and Roman si and plaid silk sash Ribbons, from 6 to 8 inches wide, you can find them at King’s Palace, 814 7th st. If you desire to buy Gold and Silver and Feather Pompons, gold and silver net, and colored Crepe de Chene, silks, satins and velvets, you ‘must not neglect to go to King's Palace, 814 7th st. ee cee ea es Seyptian ani juipure m got Kings Palace, 814 7th st If vou desire te purchase Lisle Silk or Kid Gloves and Corsets, remember King’s Palace, 814 7th st. Ifyou wish to select from a large assortment of Lace | $7 cs ylish and handsome, you will find them at Ring's Palace, 514 7th st.” If you are in needof a Handsome and Stylish Jer- we have thousands of the latest and most stylish jesigns at King’s Palace, 814 7th st. If you think of buying a lovely Visite at half its value one would advise you to go to King’s Pulace, S14 7th st. as If you feel like buying a Sun Umbrella or Parasol you sat find them ine variety at King’s Palace, 814 7th st CONCLUSION! Ifyou want to buy goods and wish to save your money, and desire to be treated well, and wish to find @ choice and large stock to select from, you are in duty bound to go to the Great Headquarters, the Largest Millinery House, a KING'S PALACE, myl16é 814 SEVENTH STREET. Riews Accessrax TO ALL, YOU HAVE ONLY, KIND READER, TO WEND | gic AND 50c. YOUR WAY TO NO. 717 MARKET SPACE TO BE CONVINCED OF THE TRUTH OF THIS STATE-| suyMER UNDERW! MENT, THERE YOU WILL CERTAINLY RICH'S, AND WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND IT ENTER ND MAKE PURCHASE OF SUCH ARTICLES IN HIS LINE AS YOU MAY REQUIRE, AND YOU WILL COME AWAY SATISFIED THAT YOUR SEARCH FOR RICH'S WAS NOT WITHOUT ITS REWARD AND THAT, XN E. PULLER, MODIS ‘Has removed from 416 2438 for the muramer months. gd cca ‘Cloth costumes a. sty. specia: Evening, weviding and reception dresses In the late style at Prices, ae © DOUGLAS’ Di ING ESTABLISH: o MENT AND DYE WORKS, 1836 14th at. Deu Nand Rhode ave. Special attention given tc the cleaning of Ladies’ Evening Drewes Velveis, Plush, Laces, &c., are cleaned this pro: cess. ‘Silk, Stik abd Satin Dresses cleaned without being Kid Gloves cleaned apd Crape Veils dyed and finished equal to new. my23-6m J.C. Herenssox. IMPORTER FINE MILLINERY, REPEFSENTING THE PREVAILING PART AND NEW YORK STYLES IN CRAPE, MULT AND LACE HATS AND BONNETS, FRENCR FLOWERS, FEATHERS, NOVELTIES FOR TRIM MING TROUVILLE, SHADE HATS. BRIGHTON AND NEWPORT WHITE SUITS OF CHOICEST DESCRIPTION. LK AND CLOTH COSTUMES PARA- ALL THELEADINGSTYLES. ENGLISH AND FRENCH JERSEYS, PERFECT FITTING. COMPLETE SSORTMENT OF DRESSMAKERS" bINus, ‘7 Trevise, Paria 907 Pa ave FOSTER KID, SILK AND LISLE GLOVES, myl9 FICHSTADT, DEALER IN 4, Embr . ¥ ping, Plush and od rexsonab for Dr. uw. Dovecrass. LADIES BALBRIGGAN HOSE, sizes 8 to My, Our regular 47¢. Hose, which we Shall sell for STyc per pair; three palr for $1 or $2 per box. We have 100 Doren ‘DOUGLASS, Cloud Butlding. Autely inj utely tmaper vious, Yry Gods and Ladies’ Furnishing ap2e3m AND DRY jew York ave. n.w. ais’ Garments Dyed, Cleaned and finished in the most superior manner Plush Cloaks, Velvet and Party Dresses: & Specially Ladies’ dresses done up without belug Fipped: AS TOM &CAROLL LERCH, formerly with A. Pischer. Mas Sena Rorreer, 605 9th street, opposite Patent Office, Received @ new and ek line of Infant's and Children’s — WHITE DRESSES, SLIPS AND ROBES, LACE AND SHIRRED CAPS, LONG AND SHORT MERINO CLOAKS, broidered, for, Spring wear, in Mother Hubbard and other styles, and all kinds of _ CHILDRE A F, 4istox FB isners ‘Chemical Dry Cleaning Fstablishrffént, No. G Street Northwest, THIRTY YEAKS EXPERIENCE. Ladies’ and Gentlemen's Garments: also, Velvet ana Crape Vells, Laces, Gloves, etc, are leaded by this superior process. pS EV ESS iS A SPRCIALTY. ned by this process will not re abd reas spots guaranterd Price $1.50 and 1.75, ESTH STREET NoTHWEST ts to order In every style and material, and guarantees perfect fit and comfort. HIER SreciaLTins Ane French Hand-maiie Und , Merino Underwear ; id finest iuny Hosiery. Patent Shoulder Braces, and all Dress Gooda, French Corsets and Busties, | Children’s Corsets and a $1 Cors Qifiss T's owa ake) that for the price is unsurpassed, B—French,Germau and Spanis spoken. mrl@ ROCHON, CORCORAN BUILDING, First-class Hair Dresser from Parts, bree Patents and Five Medals from . Paris, Lyonsand Vienna Manufacturer and importer of HUMAN HAIR AND FINE HATR WO! DRY GOODS. veten Scorcn Zeruyrs SEATON PERRY, (Successor To PERRY & BROTHER, HAS JUST RECEIVED A COMPLETE ASSORT- M TUFTED SCOTCH ZEP WHICH ARE THE Linet ELTY’ IN Wasi BAATES? BUROPEAS THESE 30, INCHES WIDE ARD. LTIES” IN PRINTED AND MBROIPERED SWISS MUSLINS AT 45c. AND 50c. A YARD. "ES “CONFINED STYLES" IN ANDER- AMS. E GOODS, VIZ: 'S FROM 12igc. TO 50c. Law: WS, VICTORIA LAWS! WELT PIQUES FROM 12yc.T) 766, AT ARD: $4 WHith PURE Link® Lawes ROBES. EMBLOIDERED INDIA PONGEE AND PRINTS EGENUINE CALCUTTA SEERSUCKERS. “SPECIAL” “NEW BLACK BEADED SILK SADINES FOR DRESS FRONTS AND GAB> RE RANGING FROM $10 TO $18 PER Ao Rg-CHOICE GOODS, PLAIN FIGURES aN odtuer Paice > SEATON PERRY, Pennsylvania ave., cor. 9th st. Established 1840. se) Averiox Goons. WE HAVE JUST, OPENED 1 CASE OF GING "HAMS BOUGHT AT THEGREAT AUCTION SALE IN NEW YORK, WHICH WE ARE SELLING AT ‘[c., FOR- MERLY SOLD FOR 12%c, LACE ZEPHYR GINGHAMS, SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW, 134c., FORMERLY SOLD FOR 25e. 100 PIECES BATISTE, REDUCED TO 16c. OWING TO OUR LARGE STOCK OF PARA- SOLS AND SUN UMBRELLAS WE HAVE MARKED THEM DOWN FOR LESS THAN HALF THE ORIGINAL CosT. LARGESTOCK OF EMBROIDERED ROBES, $4, $6, $8 AND $10. INDIA LINENS, 8c..10c.,124c.,15e ,20¢. AND 250, FULL LINE OF WHITE LINEN LAWN, 25c., WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED OUR STOCK OF EAR, AN ELEGANT ARTI- FIND | CLE IN LADIES’ AND GENTS’ VESTS, WHIGB WE ABE SELLING AT 25c. my22 ‘713 Market | Swmc-Axsv. AL Reoverioxs CLOSING SALE OF SPRING AND SUMMER DRESS GOODS, AT MARKED-DOWN PRICES. 60 PIECES REAL INDIA SILKS,REDUCED FROM WE DID THINGS UP BROWN WHEN WE DIS- ‘$1.50 TO $1.25. COVERED TO YOU THE LOCATION OF RICHS HIGHLY POPULAR AND EASHIONABLE BOOT AND SHOE ESTABLISHMENT. THERE YOU WILL FIND THE LEADING STYLES AND BEST NEAT CHECK SURAH, 21-IN WIDE, REDUCED FROM $1.25 TO $1. PIECES REAL SCOTCH GINGHAMS, FINE SURLY REDUCED TO ives 100_ PIECES CHOICE STYLES IN FIGURED BATISTE. 100 PIECES CHOICE STYLES OF FRENCH SAT TEENS. MAKES FOR THE VERY LOWESTCASH PRICES. | tance STOCK OF NEW AND DESIRABLE ‘BLACK GOODS. WwW. EH RICH ‘Bead these Prices to Your Parent: Ladies’ Hand-sewed Cur. Kid, Cloth Top Stoe,cnly| po PEAT ELEGANT STOCK OF SILK GRENADINES. BLACK GROS GRAIN MEBVEIL- LEUX, IN GREAT V. re pases: Ol