Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1887, Page 2

THE atl a ARY 15, 188S7-DOUBLE SHEET yy — CITry AND_ DISTRICT. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. Peints from Jndge MacArthur's Ad- ress at All Souls’ Church. Hon, Arthur MacArthur delivered a lecture at all Souls’ church Wednesday evening, on “Indus- trial Education,” a brief synopsis of which was published in Thursday's Sra. ‘This ig the first time Judge MacArthur has ad Gresend the people of Washington on the subject, and the lecture had not previously been delivered @xcept at Round Lake, N. ¥., where he was in- ‘Vited to deliver an address last summer. He advocated workshop practice in connection ‘with the public schools, not for the purpose of Yeaching any particular trade, but asa partot gen- eral education. He salt: We do not propose to make the pupil in the publte schools a carpenter, ss Terpenp TS an en eer, but we desire to relop his faculties, to give him manual skill, to Make Lim acqueinted with the properties of such common substances as wood, iron, leather; to feach the hand and eye to work ‘In unison, to accustom him to exact measurements, to make Rim familiar with the strength and weakness of materials, to show him how to draw an article and Row, by the use of tools, to produce the real ic] draw! represents; in a word, vogive hun rake INTELLIGENT HANDS aswell as intelligent brains. This kind of manual training can be given in connection with the ordl- awy school studies, so that all the faculties of the children over a certain age can be usefully exer- Gised. ‘The exercise of the manual powers Is the jement to those of the mind. Of all the of teaching the young manual training is the most simple and the best-allapted to thelr In- instincts as well as the most pra Tt is of in- @ticulable advantage to children to learn practi. cally toapply their lessons in mathematics, sclence and drawing to the prin that guide the dif- ferent occupations of industrial art, and to be in- structed in some knowledge of working machinery, Such ay the lathe, and in the use of ordinary tooix Such 28 the square and thechiseL Hands as well a3 heads need education. Their action and func- on are reciprocal. Mantial training In school Workshops provides the connecting link betweea Dooks and tools, between abstract rules and the reality of things: it serves vo form industrious habits early in lire, teaches ‘THE DIGNITY OF LABOR by example rather than by inflated declamation, and counteracts the tendency to develop a race of young men with pale faces and thin legs, and Provides children with a power to work in wood G@r metals which will be a great aid to thousands ‘Who are thrown upon their own resources in our large towns and cities. Steadiness, decision, en. 7, Perseverance and all the maniy qualities o¢ Ind ‘and body are developed. The workshoy should be side by side with the school, espectally he high school. There should be no {dea of teach- a trade, nor of making articles for sale. Trade Schools must be lert at paeseut to. private entere 2. ‘The pupils should be arranged in classes ng topedugogic method. ‘The grand secret Of manual training is that it makes the exercise Of the senses and those of the mind serve to re- freah and fortify each other. Drawing ts an essen tal element in industrial education. The schol- ars instructed in these RUDIMENTS OF HANDICRAFT are not obliged to become mechanics If they have no taste or inclination for tools and work- ‘shops, but prefer a situation in some store, where they can wear a Diack coat and a monumental shirt collar, they can follow their desire, but most of the pupils will find that they are fitted for better, Ourown children are refused the privilege of learning our industries by fore ‘A boy was Fefused admission into a workshop where there | Were 59 artisans of foreign birth. Why should our own children be allens In their own country? We age sensitive about the Monroe doctrine, while the subjects of other nations land upon our shores in greater numbers than the Gots and Huns that ‘Overwhelmed Southern Europe in the early ages, and they generally jotn a society which excludes ‘the American frou learning a trade. Where ual training has been made a part of pubic in- | seruction, 1 has met with euccess, as th Boston, | Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicazo, where movi Rents in that direction have been made t9 a line ited extent. In Boston ‘THE SHOP ROO has been situated in the basement of the public Jatin and high school, with a girls’ cooking school ‘not far off. After giving some details of what 1s to engraft the system upon our pubite school routine, he closed with an eloquent eulo- | tum upon this new theory of education, which, if | will produce grander fruits’ than all syStems have revealed or recorded, and which | elevate the arts and supply the material | of man, minister to the aspirations of the and redeém labor from the primeval curse | "one of God's greatest blessings to mankind. ‘vous of thanks Was tendered the speaker at close of the lecture. ——— THEIR HEALTH RESTORED. tive Properties of | Am Order Issued by the Commissioner | of Patents. “Soldiertng upon the department” !s what the commissioner of patents, Mr. Montgomery, calls cif Hi ‘of the employes have very loose ideas as to the ex- act meaning of the term sickness. If they had seme private business to attend to or felt like stay- regulations. The commissioner found that there | ‘Was entirely too much latitude employed in the | @efinttion of sickness, and in order to bring it | ‘Within narrower bounds, he, a short time ago, is- ‘Sued the following order, which is now in force? “1 am advised that 1 1 customary in this bureau togrant one day's sick leave with pay to anem- without requiring. the certificate of w physi- OF any other evidence as to the fact of such ‘and inability to attend to official duties, Practice will be discontinued. No sick leave | pay fora single day or for any other length {ime will hereafter be franted oF recor tmended the commissioner until after the employe ask- | ing the same shall return to dury, and then oniy | the certificate of some repuiabie physician | OF some other satisfactory evidence that such em- Was sick and physically unable to be in ui ‘The satisfactory evidence required is the sworn | statement of the employe somewhat to the follow. | ing effect: “A. B., being duly sworn, deposes and says that | he (or sie) is an employe of the Patent office, and | Ghat her absence from duty on the ——— was ue entirely to sickness: that she employed no pizsiciag, but was wuolly incapacitated to per-| offtcial duties. “Subseribed and sworn to before me this —— day of —— —. > “notary public.” ‘The commissioner states that under these cir- | cumstances the idea of what bas me some marvelous changes with t result that the health of the employes has beet Vastly improved since the Issue of the order and Row down to about the normal Before this ‘Rad become alarmed at tue large percentage of ekness and had become apprehensive that the | as | 4& VERY UNHEALTHY PLACE. j He became somewhat uneasy as to his own _ Bealth and apprehensive that he, too might fall a ‘Victim to what seemed a prevailing epidemic of gekness throughout the department. But the Ith of the euployes B of the exmp ved fo such an exten last few weeks that he is beginning Wo feel reassured and to think thai iy tbe Ment Is probably no ashe at frst imagined. 1 Be no relapse from the presen: ‘ons he bas is Feads as follows: “Hereafter on the morning of every business day the chief of ex: Report to tue chi all employes i without leave ai Won thereor next pre the day when such Such absences will the 5 sit HH wing condi- da supplementary order which ss day or any por- re the close of | rior bis signa- Uhe chit clerk of te Depart nas told Cor ment of 1 his _prese sufficient to bring up the w Gate and Waltend did not, boweve: ‘an epidemie | ‘would sweep id had about | Feached th uid have Uo ask | for a iang of the em- ployes was the Order as above sta er, 1n- | | 3 which | jone be is DMPORTUNITIES FOR PROMOTION. | ‘The commissioner in order to protect bis own | ealth as Well a8 his time hus tasued the following | order, Which be finds necessary some times to call | to the attention of the empioy: | “I desire to call the especial attention of the | employes of this omtce to at there ts, | has been since Apri imperative | @epartimental order’ ps z oes from pxtigating uaportunit ix promotion. | order has been and Isso frequently violated | Dy employes of this oMfice that 1 am impelled to | the Uhat the existence of such order 1s not | feperaly Known. ‘The commissioner of patents Ro objection to receiving for promotion, or written testims Semperency aiid ness of any employe, “but the | Mion by employes of “nport nities £0F pro | moun TeOUS NOL Connected with the depart- et wr te Tegarded a8 a grave violation ofeuc | ‘assidy agalust Lhe coal pool in 5G Hartt sales Agent of coupany, testified that veg could only have been obtained by a. Of labor prices at the mines. Labor com. WWesiXths the cost of coal production. ‘of coal in 1886 deilvered at Philadel: redi seituted f Puere $4.50, Balumore or Washington or auond $4.55, Wiluiagion, a Charleston 4.50, New" Orieaus | ological study of the case to note how | lustrating the varying phases of his infirmity from | Correspondence and note books, but with my lim- | preuminary arrange | famous indorsement, which appeared in the daily | severe course of discipline; seud bim to jail; put a | came, to use his own expression, ‘to have us grow |i it DRAWN FROM REAL LIFE. Dr. Godding Describes an Interesting Specimen of Inebriate. ‘BE POINTS A MORAL EY TAKING A WELL-KNOWN CHARACTER AS AN ILLUSTRATION—ACTION TAKEN BY THE MEDICAL SOCIETY TOWARDS ESTABLISHING AN INEBRIATE HOME. Dr. W. W. Godding, superintendent of the gov- ernment hospital for the insane, read before the Medical society of the District at a recent meeting an interesting paper entitled “The Problem of the Inebriate,” which resulted in action taken by the society looking to the estabifshment of an institution for the care of inebriates, Dr. Godding’s paper, however, has @ popular as well as a professfonal interest, as tt presents and describes as a typical inebriste a man recently deceased, who will be recognized from the doctor's description as one of the best known characters of Washington. In opening his paper, the writer says the difficulty at the outset of the discussion was in the question, What 1s meant by the inebriate? We are accustomed to consider drunkenness and inebriety as synony- mous terms, yet not every man Who gets drunk what we call an inebriate. c ACASEIN POINT. = - “To better illustrate the meaning of the term Inebriate,” the doctor continues, “I present to you in this paper the brief memoir of a typical inebri- ate—no fancy sketch, but one of real flesh and blood. For obvious reasons I withhold his name, but, for convenience of designation, will call him ‘thé Col.’—a common title about ‘Washington— which will answer our purpose as well as’ any. ‘This 1s not a temperance lecture in disguise, intro ducing the Col. as an object lesson, afver the man- ner of the Athenian teacher who exhibited a drunken man to his pupils. He is presented sim- ply as a pathological specimen, and I do this with no feeling that in dotug so any confidence is vio~ lated or that Tam exposing anything which the Col. Would have preferred be Kept covered now that he ne, for the man, while living, bad no affectation of virtue; del!- cacy ‘of feeling was a weakness of’ which he | was never suspected; public — opinion he despised; the wages of sin were satisfactory to him so only'he had the sin; he was content to as an ‘awful example,” and I think he would ave consented that his viscera should be photo- graphed to illustrate Sewail’s lectures on the coats of the stomach, merely stipulating that their membranes should be occasionally med with whisky. What study the anatomist might make of his bones when he had done with them, What lesson the moralist would draw from his finished fe were matters of profound indifference to him, as Ido not think he expected to pass this way again. ‘THE COLONRL’S FIRST COMMITMENT. ‘My first acquaintance with the colonel wasin May, 1878, when he was brought to St. Elizabeth on the certificate of two physicians to his insan- ity. In May, 1886, almost exactly eight years , Iparted with him for the last time, to hear within three weeks of his deatn. Just turned of forty when I frst knew him, and, looking only on thai magnificent physique with which nature had endowed him, be would pass for a young man. ‘Scrutinizing more closely you saw that the arcus Senilis had come, the vital energies burned down, the wit was at its dregs, and, in sense, that the virtue was tt tru ne, but of him “There was eft only an insane Suirst for whisky and what his uncle in a conversation With me once styled ‘his fatal facility in writing.’ The latter, although deteriorated with all the rest, ‘stl! afforded him, as a newspaper hack-writer, a precarious income from his articles. These were Society articles of the lightest sort, but with now and then a scintillation of the old wit which still ‘set the tables in a roar.’ All else was gone; prop- erty if he ever had it, positions of trust which he had held and lost by bis vices, and ‘troops of friends’ that he had alienated; for ‘THIS BOREMIAN PRINCE of dead-beats was as supremely selfish a man as I have ever known. The affection of two wives had ‘been wasted on him; the devotion of the last, which was something iexplicable, availed no more to turn him to virtuous courses than signing the temperance pledge did to wean him from his eups; and the influence of both had less restrain ing power over him than the lightest whiff trom his cigar. As the typical reformed inebriate, he was the making and undoing of I know not how many temperance orgahizations, Of the various antidotes for drink he Was the universal solvent; the thirst within him was his one strong point,the only thing that waxed not old.” After a descrip- ton of various stages and conditions, physical and mental, following the Colonel's debauches, the doctor says that the time passed by him in the hos- pital for the insane, during the 8 years referred to two years and four’ months, or something less than one-third of the whole period. “There were,” the doctor writes, “also voluntary visits, of short duration, Where no record was kept. It ls safe to say that duriag the eight years he was for an equal length of time “sobering up” in one of the city hospitals, the work-house, the alms-house, or the ene arms of some other eleemosynary institution. It was during a stay in one of these havens of rest, already becoming restless for a drink, that he writes he had ‘now run the gaunt- Jet of ‘all the institutions (naming them) except a lying-in establishment, of which he yet hoped to find one sufficiently respectable for him to enter, unless, as he feared, he should be found physically disqualified for the'situation.’ PERIODICAL RETURNS. ‘Seeing how large a portion of these eight years ‘was passed in institutions of one kind and another, one Wonders when he was sober, just as his fre- quent appearance at the bar of the Police Court | led Judge Snell to exclaim, ‘Colonel, are you | always drunk? To which, with the gravity of a pundit, the colonel replied, ‘Does your honor take ine fora millionaire?” ‘There Was a noticeable periodicity about the colonels infirmity. “Remaining at the Rospital, as ‘& general rule, only se long. as he could be induced to remain voluntarily, ft ts tnstructivein our path juently, after a residence and abstinence of but little more than a month, ‘important business’ made it im- peratively necessary that he should return to the city and ‘his wallowing in the mire” * * * always went forth confident in bis strength: he came back like the prodigal in his weakness, but with this difference, that the hospital authorities $00 got over ordering veal on his arrival” ‘THE MONTANA EPISODE. The doctor says: “I might goon for an hour 1l- ited time a single episode—that of the Montana trip—must suffice: In January, 1883, an army officer, moved by I know not what good impulse, secured a fairly re- munerative position for the colonel In the quarter. master’s department of the U. 8. army, station to bein Montana. It ls needless to say that our hero Was overjoyed. Thencelorward there were tbe no more spicy ietters from ‘our occasional corres. pondent,’ dating nominally from Saratoga, trom jewport, or from the Thousand Isles, but really ritten Within the purlieus of a lunatic hospital. And there were ‘to be no more cakes and ale? Here was an opportunity to redeem himself or Perish in the attempt. T thought it would be the latter, for in the dead of winter and the des tination, ‘Montana, I felt morally certain that he would freeze tb death on the road. He lett the hospital on ‘Thursday to make the necessary ments to start on Saturday night for his destination. Ineed hardly say that one of these preliminaries was to get so drunk o Friday that he was brought tothe “station “hous in the evening perfectly unconscious, He got out later, Was found asleep on the floor of the tale. graph office and again gathered in. A devoted Iriend writes: ‘He hurriei offon Saturday night Dut illy equipped for is ove days’ journey, Promising to write from Chicago. 1 haven't heard a Word, and I believe he ts drunk, or dead, or both,’ and adds, ‘I never expect to see him again, but it 7do you will.’ ‘We felt that at least St. Elizabeth was done with him, Like Mark Twain watching the Arab on his foot race up and down the pyratuids, I said now he will slip, now he must break his neck, certainly in that all-day ride ina coach in Montaha, with a temperature of 40° below zero, he can’t. fail to freeze to death, But he didn’t; otler passengers were lifted out stiff and frosted, but alcool will not congeal. ‘In a letter from a hospital of the Sisters 12 Montana he says of ls journey: ‘At Deer Lodge I strenghtened the garrison with @ quart bottle in my overcoat pocket, The result was T arrived at Helena dead roke down frow fatigue, cold, want of food and sleep, and the awful and to me hitherto unknown isons in Rocky Mountain whisky.’ But though fetid not treeze, he was at once iu hot water with the military authorities. It was on Gen. Terry's request to be relieved of the colonel’s presence in in his department that Gen. Sherman wrote this press at that time: ‘This man was appointed for the purpose of developing the latent good which is ‘supposed to be in him. him be subjected to a ball and chain on him; shoot him if necessary, but don't disc! e him.’ Neverthel be was dis- charged, and like Mark “Twain's Arab, he brought up at the starting peint. As the officer helped him out of the ambulance at CT pei st Elizabeth, I said: ‘Well, colonel, I didn’t expect to see you here again.’ Pretty drunk, but with all the old Umne assurance, he replied: “All roads lead to Rome, doctor.’ GROWING A MORAL NATURE. His last residence at St. Elizabeth was one of his longest. After much buffeting he had procured for himself the nec order of the District Comuissioners admitting him to the hospital. He @ moral nature in him as aman would a mustache.’ ‘There was sore need of it, for ‘the Keepers of the house” had ‘to tremble, and the strong man to bow himself.’ So he rested for the winter, 1 committed the entire mi ent of his case to my able assistant, Dr. Stack, prom- tsing that he should have all the credit if hé cured hha. I give him eurte dlanche—be might put the Datteries on him; soak bis purge him with hyssop; cleanse his heart—do any- thing and everything, So only he resuscitated morai nature. “It is heediess to say that the doc- tor did his level best, and in the told me be thought the time had come to test ths colonels RE pendicular as he Self, Has ft tO 5 nature i | f 3 retain one of my audience. ‘Treating it Sana Paes tragedy in the home, but it is there none the less. 4 REPORT BY 4 COMMITTEE, a committee that compel the inebriate ta work ts es- it to the the success of his treatment commitment should ve by a Jt of the Court of the District of Colum) after due and sbould be for a term of better, for an indefinite fudge ot “tne court end” Should reside with the institution. The house of detention should be inebriate home for actual of Columbia, and under the Commissioners,and it should have the character of i ample grounds for out-door work should be sel ‘The bi ‘themselves should be lainly built, but carefully planned, conveniently wil and pleasant fuel Fala etme agua he blk for clasafleation or ue tumaten, - The superintendent should be a medical man, & physician who has made inebriety and its treat- Tnent a special st r. Itshould be suj ted by voluntary contributions, by the ‘of the labor of the inmates, by receipts from pay patients be gh cd from the Unit States and District treasuries. The committee that, while the siquor lice: system remains, all liquor licenses be doubled, and that one-half or feel arcane oyna ae ebriates home, apliolnaay ‘The committee presented a copy of the inebriate ‘Dill now before the Judiciary committee of the House of Representatives, with the remark that in their ju mt the inebriate should not be confined ‘with the Insane as therein proposed, ‘This bill provides for an Pe eh ay in the case of an inebriate or habitual drunkal as ts now provided in case of an insane person, and the appointment of a gusdan th the Power of confining such inebriate in the govern- Ment hospital for the insane for such length of Ume as the court may in writing approve, THE COUNTRY CLUB. An Organization of Gentlemen whe are Fond of Dri and Riding. 17S COMFORTABLE QUARTERS IN THE OLD COLLEGE VILLA ON THE TENLEYTOWN ROAD—PROMINENT GENTLEMEN WHO COMPOSE IT—4 NOTABLE SOCLAL GATHERING ON NEW YEAR EVE. Early last spring a number of prominent gentle- men, who are fond of driving, riding on horse- back or walking, decided to organize a country club for the purpose of having a convenient and pleasant resting place or a fixed destination in their drives and rides through the beautiful coun- try surrounding Washington. “The Country club” Was established last April, and is now in complete running order. For quarters they leased the old brick building known as College villa, which 1s situated about a hundred yards back from the Tenleytown road, Just a little way beyond the Junction of the Woodley Lane road,and within full view of the President’s summer cottage, Itis onthe west side of the Tenleytown road, between the President’s costage and Secretary Whitney's summer residence. In fact, a straight line drawn ost directly through ts sat ry club Bouse” mm ror 1o ry Clul fouse.” Itis an old-fashioned, two-story brick mansi inted white, surrounded by a beautiful grove oak treed Interspersed with evergrees&. THE CLUB HOUBE. A private driveway from the main road through ‘the oak trees leads directly toa good-sized porch on either front of the house, although the main entrance fronts north. The house is shallow, but 1s quite wide, and the hall into which one enters from the north h extends the whole width of the house, At right angles to this hallway is a corridor extendi to the entrance on the south front, with toldi doors which open into commodious old fashion reception rooms. They have large open brick fire- places with andirons, and are fi ed with com- fortable and appropriate rustic furniture. One of the rooms contains an old fashioned piano, in oe we wo oe ~— architecture. brig ond western parlor 13 the dining room, three-storied Rideboard stands on one side of t] Toom filed with rows of shining glass and silver, the latter handsomely e: vi with “Count Club.” A number of ‘smail tables are scatter about the room. Beyond the eastern parlor is a room of the same size as the dining room, Which is used as a smoking room. The kitchen ts in an addition at one end of the main building. A steward and his wife remain in the club house the year round and members can always secure some refreshment at a moment's Rotice. The old house has not been remodeled but it has been painted and papered throughout. ae effort has been bes er eget dl: ae. e papert ‘of that rich elegance wo be entirely it Of place, but 1s pretty nd in good taste. e mem! of the club anticipate ‘a good deal of pleasure in their comfortable quar. ters as soon as the weather is better adapted to the pleasures of driving, although they are not de. serted by any means during the winter. A visitor to the club house a short time ago found Baron de Reuterskiold and his wife comfortably seat ‘be- fore the big open fire, enjoying a cup of tea. ey had wate out in Cty tn and were ta some slight ref ut prior to starting on thetr tramp homewards, THE CLUB MEMBERSHIP, Secretary Endicott is the president of the club, and Mr. J. R. Soley is the secretary and treasurer. ‘The board of governors is composed of ‘Woodbury Blair, CoL J. N. Bonaparte, Ool J. Schuyler Crosby, Judge John Davis, T. B. Ferguson, Linden Kent, David King and Aulick Palmer. The mem- bership now numbers between fifty and sixty and Includes Cabinet oficers, Congressmen, diplomats, wernment oMicials aid. then wellktown iterary, scientific and social circles, Col. John Hay, Mr. Henry Adams, Mr. &. Francis Mr. Robert ne" Hanlsn minister, Mt Allen’ Mebane sat A Wm. B. Travers. A NEW YEAn matt. One of the leading social events of the season occurred at the “country club house” recently, which has recetved little or no public notice. On New Year's eve a subscrij Dall was Proved a ‘complete Buccs aid The of managers con- f, COL, Col. ing, Col, Bonaparte, Col. Crusby and eee ll A Fi i i i Among the club members and thetr guests who enjoyed the evening were Secretary and Mrs, En- cot, Mise Endicote and Mr. Win, Endicott, Bec- nd laine Flor ‘Weats the Swedish mitnister and, Mi the re) j MEN AND THINGS IN NEW YORK. ‘The Cumming»-Hall Gossip. THE MAN WHO TOASTED JEFF DAVIS—THR SCIXE THAT FOLLOWED—OSTRACISED aT ‘THE BALL SEASON. Correspondence of Tae Evaxrre Stan. TRE NoRTH— At a dinner party not long ago met a man with ‘ruddy face and grey eyes, His moustache and hair were silved with age. He was massive of frame, soldierly in bearing and extremely gentle- manly in demeanor. Although well spoken, he accented his words like an Englishman. His Dreast was covered with military decorations, and he wore the untform of the Old Guard. He was Capt. 8, M. Saunders, agent of a well-known French firm, and a familiar figure among men about town. Gentality 1s enthroned im his eye; and soctability ts his prevalent characteristic. He 4s widely known in New York city and is usually surrounded by a score of friends, Profuse in hos- pitality, he deserves very few enemies. Nor is he 8 fair-weather soldier. He won fame in the union army, and he is a member of acrack Grand Army post, A year ago the captain created as great a furore at a dinner in Savannah as did Henry W. Grady at the recent New England dinner in this city. He made no set speech, however. He gave aaimple toast in a graceful manner. The effect waselectric. Men mounted their chairs, waved ‘their napkins, and shouted themselves hoarse a8 they did when Grady perorat touched the hearts of the Nearer, ted. Both men and the surf of Spontancous applanse rolled aldng the banquet- ing tables. ‘The furore created by the Tras at a toast given on the anniversary 4 ination e oldest milit ‘cony Gears ‘there in any the in ‘untform as the Tepresentatlte ‘of the Old Guard of this city. ‘The Savannah corps daved back x to the Revolution, ‘the asic, name It recalled the days A ‘Ancient and He fis das ot Warren, and that of che Putnam Pha- Janx, those of the rigged Cincinnatus of Connecti- cut It was a gala banquet, but not the only invited guest. Ment of the Lost Cause was there. Jefferson Davis sat at the right of the as Gen. Wm. T. sherman sat at the Horace Rusée}i at the New nd. like Gen. shi ‘Mr. Davis weeks had he ridden through the Capt, Saunders was The it embodi- ry a Lot Ji . Une rag silent, For two ay the echoes of the tender memories of the heroic ‘Three days had he been in Savannah, the guest of the cit and the shrine of southern devotion. No un} tri: otic remarks had been uttered, and nodisunion sen- ments had been expressed. ‘The ex-confederate President sat beneath the, stars and stripes, Sur- rr - rounded by those who had renewed thel ance to the Union and who were again ready battle aj its enemies, With moved he cloth re- jasts were given. Every eye was on MT. Davis, Each heart throbbed for him. Speeches were made eloquent and gave on schedul Dut noone touched upon the topic nm hearts of those at the out of deference to the northern guests, topics, the bles, It may have been or it may have been through fear of being misunderstood and mist ‘Mason and Dixon line, nted by men living north of the old ‘An hour or more passed. The roceedings had become exceedingly tame and painfully Everybody was either listless or uneasy. Mr. Davis sat idly playing with a nut-cracker. old intellect The fre shone in his eyes, but great ‘age had whitened his head and wrinkled his thin face, Suddenly uniform of the Old Guard. Every eye was him. The murmur of conversation ceased. could have heard a pin dro} champagne, the captain bowed to the cl enchilz if Lmay be permitted, 1 desire to proy ‘arose the soldier clad in the white ‘pon ou Filling a glass with > SAY> health of one whd has been tenderly loved by thousands who are sleeping in lonely gra yet livi fends yel unborn. 1 lon. Jefferson Davis. ‘The acene that followed GRADY'S AFOTHEOSIS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 3, Who is dearly loved by thousands who are » and Who will besincerely loved by thou- give you the health of the bore no comparison to the scene that followed this toast. Every heart beat a revetlle. The roar of the ocean was heard. Napkins were waved and cheers were given until men fell into their chairs exhausted. The doors became filled with wonder- ladies, and the eyes of many a confederate Veteran were filled with tears of joy. A northern soldier had given the toast nearest every man’s pearty ‘and everybody was happy. A manly action taade each man a man indeed, eloquence Capt, Saunders was con his right shoulder ach ‘and puppet we place to eloquence of the heart, ulated so Warmly that Ladies afterwards vied ‘with gentlemen in testifying their appreciation of his manly courtesy, Introductions were sought at, the day in Mon of the day in New York. every point, and the captain became the lion of day in Savannah, as Grady was afterwards the Now mark the difference. Grady called Abra- ham Lincoln “a perfect embodiment of American manhood.” Every southern newspaper re-echoed the sentiments expressed in his speech, and a brass band and a magnificent banquet awaited himon his return to atlanta, Saunders merely {ery the health of Jefferson Davis. He was ned by two-thirds of the northern press and came very near expulsion from the Grand Army post honored by his membership. Nobody pro- to run him for Vice President of the United and he was not mentioned for even a Uni States Senatorship. On the contrary, he was repeatedly given the cold shoulder in public resorts, and 1s to-day often reproachtuily Out as “the fellow who toasted. Jefferson Du inted His ferocious villification after his return to New York fell under the eye of Mr. Davis himself, who Wrote "him an exceedingly, appropriate deter, which the captain cherishes as a treasure. paid bis respects to the Daughter of the Confed- rac; while she was here, and was received with marked cordiality. The Captain, however, has never regretted his action at the Savannah ban- quet. He says that time will not only vindicate, but lonty nim for it. | Time, however, very surely in the case. At 4s acting the annual excur- sion of the Hoboken Turtle club last summer an enthustastic veteran of the Unton army proposed the health of Capt. Saunders, who was a guest. Nearly half the club responded. ‘Then the veteran Fave, the health of the Hon, Jefferson Davis, the lend of Capt, Saunders, veteran and No one moved. “The he captain drank the toast alone in worse than silence. Grady’s speech was timely. ‘The conquered may have foi rgiven the conquerors, but it 1s clearly evident that the conquerors have not forgiven the conquered. “HAT CHEOK” AND FRENCH BALLS. ‘The ball season started in with a rush the other night, It tsthe preliminary or wild-cat season. New York now hastwodistinct and wildly differing les of balls. It is not dimMicult to describe im, for one 18 respectabie and the: other isn’t. Thers are four big'masquerade Dalle aud four solidly res} able entertainments, The first of the “French” balls, as they are commonly called, is “L’amttie,” or Friendship ball. It 1s run by the waiters of the New York Testaurants, cafes, who give the ball in the inte clubs and rest of charity fand support indigent members of thetr crait and ii their families on into what ts known as “hat check ball; le proceed Tt has degenerated » thal the tickets are given away when they can’t be sold, and everybody who enters the butlding 13 ‘obliged to bt four thou: of @ dollar apiece the result is proftable. Then, too, @ great deal of mone; champagne, which, at the was simply execrable. None ven last ‘the @ check for his hat and coat. It people buy hat checks at the rate ig made out of she alg! ty Pagne houses supply wine. for this bull, as they refuse to make the enormous discount required b; the waiters. The m: of the ball take what ever wine offers ‘them the largest p: ront, and the agent who donates the greatest number of bottles Fecelves a commission to supply the Dall, Beside houses: give the walters 25 this the cham cents for every cork they turnin the day after the bs attendants to force bud char Tt can be. Dall of this style is aristocratic, The fact is there was rather a tot ‘and this 4s an additional tnducement to the pagne down people's ed that a neither exclusive nor array of citizens in the Academy of Music at this affair, There were a thousand or two women of every’ concetvable Ganceaand made ‘the ig barn-like Academy, Nillson hall, hum with their gayety. Many shape, color and attire who ot them were magnificently dressed and not a few Ea ian hmreiene Angee ae run count le! theory, but ‘the fact is the “French” balls of New York are Bot half so Wicked as the delfeve. The myriads o} leless “public are led to ‘callow youths who were distinguished by a plentiful narrowness of chest find a Yast expanse of mouth stood around in ones dress suits and made futile efforts to look like dlase men of the wi praiseworthy but utierly There wero also Dald-neaded, men, grey-bearded men and the portly fathers of famiites wi Occasionally on ould it ‘her aire an eighth of an inch. above the top of her boot or slipper. 1 ‘would follow @ rush of ‘several 4 ‘hundred Hi td ‘women occasionally go well early hours of the moi uently develops into as uselt = 3 or 80 Hitt i salile A ERY REAL ESTATE GOssT Some of the Features of the Market During thePast Week. THE HIGH PRICES OF SCBCRBAN LAXD—MODERN FIRE ‘Thare—a KEW TITLR COMPANY—THE SQUARES SOUTH OF THE AVENUE. ‘The movement in property has been quite active @uring the past week, and the transfers made Compare favorably with the corresponding period ‘of any previous year. Some ot the largest trans- ‘were ag follows: Gen. Absolom Bird, Licut. and Wm. Bind, to Mrs. Eliza M. Cullen, for $18,000, a residence on the north side of K street, between 14th street and Vermont avenue. Rudolph Goldschmidt to Jas, W. Johnston, for $11,500, two lots at the north- east cornet of 19th and M streets, 25x106 and 20x- 106 feet each. Marriott W. Walker to B. L. Walker, for $15,000, property fronting 51 feet on the east side of 24 street, between A street and Maryland avenue ‘and a lot 52.6x75 feet at the southeast corner of 4th and B streets north- east, Buchanan Bealeto John H. Voorhees, for 468, rty 128 feet front on the west side of Fendall and Samuel Maddox to tbe {astitution for the Education of Colored Youth in the District of Columbia, for $15, 1 property at the northeast corner of Nr avebue and 434 street south- pee tide! yard erty feeton the west side of 13th Street borméen ¥ ana'W utsocty By a depth of 390 ‘The recet meee Outside of the city is ving as tion ag that inside, and when the building begins itis predicted. there Will be considerable activity in build- TUR NEW COLUMBIA BANK BUILDING. ‘Workmen will begin in a short time to tear down the building, 911 F street, which the new Columbia National bank has purchased, and upon this site will be erected a commodious and sub- season for that ing. ‘stantial structure, ‘adapted for the bank- ing business. The building as it now stands 1s two stories in ht, and the for the new b Prepared By Mir F Gonneider, arch, tect, does away with the division of stories and provides for an interior consisting in the main of one large room, with a lofty celling of glass and iron thirty-five’ feet above the floor. In addition to the light from this vaulted ceiling there will be Windowson each, side of the doorway and large Openings above. The objects sought, by this Foom, with its lot Seine andi gpactous ‘openings, room, spacious H it 1s Believed that these objects have been attained. Tecra augtaeetae wil lew lapu quirements of the banking ‘business ‘The: counting last “occupies of coursg™ the Latin’ pa of ‘cou cot mauin fie ewrenty-two Fe wi aly ts the width of the lear only a passageway On the aida WICK runs the ‘entire: depth ot the butlding—113 feet. The office of the cashier will be separated by a screen from the counting room, and back of this will be the large vault, 16x12 feet. ‘The outside of the vault will be built Of enameled brick, which will give it a very ornamental appear- ance. This vault, which will be one of the largest in the city, will bé built in @ substantial and fire. proof manher and Will ‘be entirely separate from fll the walls of the butlding. ‘The main part of the building, which extends back 74 fect, term!- nates at the back of the vault and the remaining Portion runs to @ height of but 16 feet. It con.- ing lange rooms for the use of the president and the directors and the employes of the bank, and ample light and ventilation 13 obtained trou the root. The counting room, as may be seen, 13 very large, the lengtA, exclusive of the vault, being feet and the width 18 feet. The plans show a mn sive but attractive front. The material used will be Maryland marble in large rock-faced blocks, and the treatment adopts some of the most effec- tive features of the Romanesque style of archi- tecture, The doorway is low, with heavy pillars on each side, and the rough face of the stone adds to the solid appearance of the bulldi! ‘There is no Drnamentation or fancy work and the building will be a very good illustration of plain, substan- tal, honest construction. We about the city 1s fork on a number of bull Folng on ,a8 the weather will allow. Tho new ing for the Equitable Bullding association has been delayed somewhat, owing to labor trou- bles at the quarries where the stone 1s obtained, Itis expected that iv will be completed April 2. HIGH-PRICED LAND. ‘The large sale of land situated Just west of the Kalorama heights property, last week the particu- Jars of Which were published in Tue Star, may be taken a8 an evidence of the rapid appreciation 1n ices, The property is the tract which be- longed to the commissioners of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust company, and contains forty acres, In August, 1883, Mr. W. C. Hill, the well-known real estate operator, pure ased this property for $30,000, and after hoiding 1t for two ars sold it to Mr. Gardiner G. Hubbard for | $90,000. ‘This latter gentleman now sells the broperty to Mr. Douglass Green, of New York cit, and thé gentlemen he represents for $300,000. ‘These transactions show an appreciation in the price of property in three years from 70 per acre Lo $7,500 per acre. Thislatter figure 1s the hi that has ever been paid for land of that distance be yond the Boundary. ‘The Kalorama property, which ites between tne “above tract and the Bound and because of its being directly adjoining the ciiy Umits, was regarded as very valuable, ony brought about $5,900 per acre in November last. Mr. Green a few Weeks ago bought three acres of the Lyon's mill property, which’ lies along the east side of Rock creek and adjoins on the west his latest pur- chase. He pald for it $5,000 per acre. The sume syndicate bought the ‘Varnell property on the ‘Tenleytown road, containing sixty acres, a month or so ago, and paid $1,500 per acre. ‘THB SQUARES SOUTH OF THE AVENUE. ‘The bill introduced in the House this week by ‘Mr. Milliken, providing for the purchase of the land south of Pennsylvania avenue, between 9th and 15th streets, contemplates an improvement which has repeatedly been suggested in THe Stan by communications from citizens and by Interviews. ‘The plan pro if carried out, would provide, it 18 clatined, sufficient space for the erection of public bulldings needed for a great many to come, and would have the effect of improving the appearance of the avenue, which ts recognized as capable of being made the grandest boulevard tn the world, Owing to the width of the Avenue it has been found to be impracticable to make It a profitable busines street on both sides, and in con- sequence the south side has telt but slightiy the impulse of the new life which has ornamented the streets and avenues throughout the city with dne business buildings and elegant private residences, It the government should purchase these squares and lay them out in.a pari, which will be a con- tinuation of the Smithsonlan and Agricultural grounds and the Monument lot, and erect here and there public buildings, a great umprovement in the appearance of the city, it 1s claimed, would bbe effected. Competent authorities hav. expressed the opinion that this is the only method which can be adopted to preserve the avenue from falling into @ neglected and shabby condition. FIRE TRAPS IN MODERN HOUSES. ‘The fire which broke out in the residence of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell on Scott Circle the early Part of the week, might easily have been more disastrous than It was if it had not been for the intelligent work of the firemen. The flames origi- nated in the mansard roof, which style of con- struction seems always ready to invite and lend itself to the devouring element. While this style of building is no longer as general in this city as it was afew rs yet its disuse ts owing to a change in the fashion of architecture and not to ay, regulations of the District authorities, ‘The building regulations still permit the construction of such a roof, providing it is not more than one in height nor more than twenty feet in height from the upper story of the building, upon whien it ts placed fo. the highest parc of te tor When this height 1s exceeded the regulations re. quire that the roof must be constructed of fire. root material. It would seem to be a sensible hing to require fire-proof construction long before such @ height is reached, and any one who is fami- lar with ‘the method’ of building and sup- porting roots, even of the ‘moderate eight now in style, can readily appreciate what a fire trap they make. The houses a3 now built have what is called an air space of three, four and five feet between the celling of the upper story and roof. ‘The joists of the floor are left ex. WASHINGTON ARCHITECTTRE. Iv. THE CONGRESSMAN STILL ON THE WAR PATE, ‘With all his ostentatious for advice, too much of {tat once was not ‘by the Con gressman elect who had come to Washington to study the theory and practice of goverament, with domestic architecture fora side issue. His com ‘victions were too positive and, in his own opinion, too important to be kept long in the background. Moreover, he appeared to feel that he could best express his approval of any suggestions that were offered him by the counter assurance that he had always thought so and a great deal more so; a manner of receiving advice which has the admi- rable effect of preventing undue complacency the part of the adviser. His next letter with graphic illustrations 18 given below. “My Dear Architect: “Ot course i always that back yards were @ nuisance for which 1s not a shadow of excuse. The high that are supposed to protect and shield of the houses and the rear entrances are a andasnare. ‘They hide n ex Dasement windows, Which all the light air there ts to be and they protect Dut, burg! Tascala, Who can lars and other scale them if they try, and who find their Shadows and corners cohventent hidit ‘They are simply a survival of the c Sint araw-bridges were uccessary forthe prowsctos and draw. were nt of every man's domicile against the hostile attacks of his nearest neighbor. “As a matter of fact they Hl AS necessary a8 @ loaded cannon beride ‘the front door or a kettle of bolling pitc Toot. Certainly these yards ought to and clean, trees should not De allowed tn. them light 18 too precious to be shut out even Yesure of trees, but ornamental shrabs and grass and fowers should much moreabound. As back side of the butldings themselves, tt is my Opinion that if the superfluous and altogether senseless ornament that is applfed to the most Pretentious of these modern 5 sold at cost, and one-half the proceeds given to the poor oF for founding an art school in con, the other half would abundantly pay the differ- ence in cost between the coarse, nely walls, isha South side of the street, and the front rooms in consequence receive no Sun, they still command & Tent from 15 to 30 per cent’ higher than those at the back. Making the latter a pleasant and de sirable in their outlook and surroundings ag the former, would be the simplest common sense trom the business point of view, whether the house is Dullt for sale or rent. The use of narrow alleys as streets for small Fighteous indignation. Aren’t we the Largest Eroweh and our immediate possoLieee sare ac ies into ac count? Shall we uot, be two hundred and arty oe leeae anne: milluions s:rong long before we are a hundred years Be erat locos ot all sores and 18 all stages | SO Sorters tanto than te whole of dilapidation and uncleanness 1s an outrageous | Sicer’, deat Leas alon ior the rementin at Ansult to the clvilized instincts of the city. Itis | France: bigger than Gren; mathe sedi most md that those who have the power to | the kingdom of Italy Vogether? Would not do tnis should ever have obtain permission. one-fourveenth part ot tus Thope you do not imagine that my reprobation of Washington architecture is based wholly upon the primitive developments of which I sent you a few typical examples in a former letter. rneee pecullar growths it 1s true, have been contin oa later pertod fa this city than 1p many others Ure cotton crop of the world? Have we not thirty- three states and territories each one of which is larger than Scotland or Ireland? Is not our na- Poual wealth, actual and potential, grvater than Solomon in all his glory ever dreamed of? Do we Rot prove by our prompt and munificent. gifts to SR RAPE, Amari, iasrance tom | Puy ee aos eactefult “Bo we ark at a ignorance which Tails to see why one house ought inted expense for holiday attire, for travel and for bunting inaugurate our Chief Magistrate with reat glory, and arterwards by means of oceans of nic and acres Of type, report through the, length and breadth of the land all his sayings and doi asif he were a deml-god? And then, when he 1s fairly in our service, we ask him wo eat and sleep ‘and bring up his faintly, tf by good fortune he has ‘one, and live all his private ufe, what little there 1s lett of it, in a blowk’ AX BOONOMIOAL SUGGESTION. Just fancy the members of the cabinet, the Judges of the Supreme court and the Senators, oc- cupying ‘domestic apartments’ in the Capitol! Undoubtedly there is plenty of unfinished room in W differ trom another; that tour walls do not a mansion make any more than they make a prison; and that the times in which we live require us to make good use of our privileges, architectural and domesitc, Doubtless, I say, that jeular form of ignorance fs passing away, and it takes a bold, bad man to build a bare,’ bald block that 1s devoid of life, sentiment and expression a8 a— as a—well ‘I'm bothered for a com — say & barn door or steam radiator. (If it were not for the danger of being boycotted I would say the Washington Monument. But I am told it Lakes two years of familiarity to understand the glory and loveliness of tat pale shaft of masonry, and as I have been here less than two months my. opinion ts necessarily crude.) Unfortunately the | the attic and lying around about the dome Dold bid men are ‘not ull dead-yer, and meehor | and in other convenient corners to” asconmenns their work still follows the fashion’ of their pre. | them with their wives and chil if ‘they were decessors, Meanwhile the darkness of the earlier | @isposed with an eye to economy. ‘There might be ignorance is gradually giving way before a sort of | @ Wing buiit on somewhere for nhouse, and aeml-twilight, or magic lantern flashes that | ®nother for a kindergarten, and there is pieuty of throw upoa the back-ground prepared tor them, Pictures most, astonishing, whether considered a3 examples of the useful or the beautiful. Space in the basement for stables, if not there Will be when the library has gone east. You may think Halas intended as a Joke, but I assure you it 1s a econot 8 quite as worthy ‘serious consideration as any other more famous: economical projects. Of course, if they lived in this way, the salaries of all ‘these government officers could be reduced by as much as they now pay for house rent. It I had been sent here by men of narrow views | Who think it 1s statesmanshtp to save a few thousand dollars that can be seen, paying no re- sobs ‘to the miilions that are wasted by timidity, luck of forethought and local prejudice, 1 should introduce a bill of that sort as soon as I could get & chance, But as I don't happen tobe ad ue and am very sure that the ‘econo! sts in planning not only for present eed Dut in the ‘most Substantial manner forthe future, even as Our Liustrious predecessors planned ‘for ‘us, I should Say that the immediate duty of the nation, is o convert the White House, if any conversion isrequired, into most convenient and suitable Offices for the chief magistrate. A place where all his public and sem-pubile affairs would be trans- acted, from interviews with foreign ambassadors tothe diurnal and pertodical hand-shaking, not | alone with the great unwashed, but with who Wish to see not the private ciuzen in hisown home, DUL the nation’s President. ‘Then let a home. be provided for hum where hé should be able to live Is private life with the treedom from molesta- tion or intrusion to which every hard-working citizen is entitled. Tam not sure but I shall advocate building a Presidential mansion every four years ji rather, ama ix-year’ man, anc us give every President an opportunity to suit his per- sonal tastes and needs. It could easily be built ‘between the date of his election and the assem- bilng of Congress the following year. On his re- tirement from office it would given him for a home as long. as he chose to live tn the District of Columbia. This would solve the white elephant conundrum as to the proper and dignified disposal | of exPresidents without y to the nadon, for the bullding would always belong to the gov- ernment. By the end of the next century the six- teen mansions would be @ visible record to tne rs Of domestic art and architecture of the ‘uunost value and unmistakable as to its chronol- ogy. However, I don’t suppose there are three wa peng in the country besides myself who wot dare such extravagance, not if they knew the lives of all future Presidénis de- pended on tt ‘WASHINGTON SHOULD EXTEKD ITS BORDERS. As for the topic on which you are afraid to ex- press your sentiments freely lest you be suspected of ‘in @ ring,’ the development of the sub- urs, I beg you to ‘say on, brother,’ J assure you am not afraid to speak dut for this or any other righteous cause. If my friends suppose my judg- ment is warped by private interest, so much the worse for my friends. I haven't time, and there is | no need to say much on the subject, but, in my A GHOSTLY CONTROVERSY. Ifa company of the old Greek architecta should happen, at some celestial banquet totake an extra lass of nectar, and wandering about in the moon- ight should inistake the classte colonnades of Washington for the familiar haunts of their child- hood, and while searching among the dwellings of the city for thelr own proper latch string should muke a eritfeal examination of our ‘modern’ archi- tecture and {f, in the course of their explorations they shouid ‘chance to encounter the shade of Darwin and a troop of his disciples, wouldn't there be a jolly row among the ancient and modern ghosts? ‘The apostle of gradual growth would be obliged to resort to the plea of emotional insanity in behalf of modern architects, or claim that there are periods when progress seems to be in the wrong direction stinply because the evolutionary forces are drawing back, so to speak, for a grand forward rush. But the old heathens would still have the best of the argument if we aocept the mosale chronology, for three thousand years out of six or seven 1s a most unreasonable length of time for the pendulum to be swinging backwards, But itis not alone for the ancient Greeks to etand amazed and doubting at the ‘progress’ of modern times, as manifested in the oldest of the arts in the youngest of the great nations. What possible excuse can be given for such — produc- tions as these excrescent growths to be found in airs, dozens and scores; yes ‘by the hundreds, u and down the new streets? What excuse for | opinion, this is the one hope of civilization in tls spotting and streaking | ¢24n if inrge Citta, Dodt for those Who cling to otherwise table | the center and for those who fly to the circumier- Andatraiesofsuiteorpate | SMoSete, Me SRTeLY VAI, the fre escape the = air and commer- Yellow stone disposedwith- | Si earciue ake sate cure tor ssh ane ne coteneneeret from excessive jousness. They who, direct!¥ or indirectly, place or leave obstacles in the way of giving the city of Washington every possibie facility for extending its borders in wise accord with the grand purpose of its founders, are laying up wrath {or themselves agalust a day of, wrath, cured nor endured; and when be posbiity ot cured nor endur Ly making this the peerless city of the world will be out any apparent attempt at artistic or even in- tenigible design, but producing a loud ‘Dolly-Var. densi’ contrast of color and jumble of form? Why, oh why should one small “house ‘want the eartil’ in its exterior design? I am not prepared to afirm under oath that my sketch ofa single house {s taken literally from life, but it 13 not from the truth, not far enough to be and | lost torever. ie arr what T tnean es ree eminly yours, Joux.” “that even the THR ARORITSCT nesronne. rest of these modern ie hievements seem to be | “My dear John, don’t get excited, and ob, do not Making frantic efforts to display, each one for itself, all the’ adjuncts and fea tures le to a human dwel . NO YOu to propound them; first let @ bit Of advice that may be useful by ‘and 90 are the roof timbers, with the board evering together ‘with such ening beams as may. considered ne ._ ‘The entire sj ig nearly filled with Wood, presenting as ‘fine a field tor combustion as could possibly be desired. Rane yor Eoonowy.—Lord See bats Snead Ue aoe st 1874, He SOP Tuearataeaee Sate pal pinched the need nd pac ws, dormer me give you and is better to understate your case than to overstate it. Washington is a beautiful city, and you Will sometime find it so, monument and Bovs WHo sive, Little Fellows Whe Trilled fer the Benefit of a Church Cheir. Fourteen boys and half a dozen men stood upon &@ Utte stage last Thursday evening before a numerous audience tn the Church school building, on 12th street, between M and N northwest, and sang with much spirit the “March of the Men of iariech.” The boys opened wide their mouths and sung with @ will, emphasizing the words “Cambria, God and right” with all the force of their iittie lung. ‘They seemed to enjoy it, and thelr appreciation was shared by the audience, ‘who applauded liberally. The occaston was a con cert for the benefit of the Incarnation church —_ prety ty tte py A club.’ Master George Cooper, coir, sui “the Lover and tie Bird foe. manner wick somewhat astonished the audience, performl every trill and graceful With an ease al purity of style surprising in one so Young and re ves a amount of work and careful train- ing. Master Harry Leighter, of St. John’s choir, also sung a solo ina clear pretty soprano voicé and with perfect Adence. Other numbers were Snag gr performed by Mrs. Morrison. Miss, Redd, Miss Agues Brown, Mrs. Phillips, Miss Steir, Mr. ‘Camp, and Che members of tbe Gamut club, It has been the custom to give the choir of In- carnation church @ Danquet once a year and to distribute prizes of two, three and four dollars Quarterly among those boys who excel in goo! conduct and lar attendance. This system the ator belleves to be more effective vod Tesul(s than a small salary, mop ty don tg also given at is excited among them. 4 Easter to the boy who ranks highest in’ gdod ‘con duct, small presents are distributed at Christiuas and "the cot tion Who take pride in their choir frequently entertain the members pleasantly ‘at their homes, “Of course,” Said the precentor, “grest results can only be Attained by establishing school in connection with the church aud giving the boys their education together with a thoroagh training im music, This ts the system in Englabd, in New ‘York and tn Baltimore, and I am not without hope What wo will oue day’ have such an institution ere. | Tt would render possible a thoroughly goo doy choir and be livaluable as & disseniuator of musical Leas among the rising generation. Tt Would cost, however, a considerable sum, and 46 Present no‘church seems willing tO make’ the exe perument,” FARMING IN VIRGINIA, January Meeting of the Weedlawn Claw INTERESTING DISCUSSIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS—D0 GRASS AND GRAIN GROW IN WINTER UNDEK THY SNOW?—THR BEST METHOD OF APPLYING BARN YaKD MANURE—OBJBCTIONS TO THE PROPOSED AGKICULTO- RAL BILL—THE PROJECT OF HOLDING PARMBAS’ COM> ‘VENTIONS FAVORED, The January meeting of the Woodlawn Farmerv club was held at Lewis Gillingham’s on the 8tB instant, President Pierson in the chair, and N. Gillingham secretary. The erttical committee tor the meeting at J.N. Gibbs’ failing to report at that Lime produced one at this meeting, stating that his farm of 26 acres was well adapted to milk dairying tn which he was engaged, and they found 74 cows, 60 of which were milking; 19 bead of yearlings and calves,$ horses and & colts nearly all in good condition. ‘They noticed that he was disposing of some of the older cows and those nearly dry—to be replaced by younger ones, Which was commended. ‘The silo, of some 300 tons capacity, together with the ration of wixed grain he was feeding and the hay on hand, would enable him to amply provide for bts stock’ Uurough “the winter. “They noticed the absence of @ lange Hock Of sheep aud a number of hogs since last tect ‘there, Mr. Gibbs having disposed of them, as ne Uhinks they did not pay In connection with milk dats ‘The farm appeared to be under a good state of Cultivation, a iarye part being down to = ith only about: at. They ought if the house and bern could be got bearer Sogether it would be @ great improvement, ‘The report of the examtaing committee upom the premises of Lewis Gillingham was also rad, ‘The land being covered with snow Utue could be ‘sald of Lhe appearance of the farm and crops. But- ter dairying Was bls main reliance, being Well sit— uated for that purpose, ‘They thdught some im- provement might be made about his barn yard to facilitate the Saving of manure, ‘The farm stock | Seemed to be ail in fine condition, sho Tecelved the personal supe: ‘They noticed @ new machine for making wire fence | DY Weaving iu pickets a few inches apart, which | might answer weil ta many places. The barn Was filled with an ample supply of hay and fodder for the stock on hand, unless the Winter Was unusu- ally prolonged. His farm implements were about in the condition and position of most of the other | embers, some well sheltered and others serving the double purpose of use in the farming season | and for chicken roosts the balance of the year. Iu discussing tie foregoing report the question arose as to whether GRASS AND GRAIN GREW IN WINTER UNDER THE SNOW. A comparison of views sustained the aftirma- tive—this led to a discussion of the best method of applying barn yard manure. ; id haul and spread, as fast as ater, upon his wheat, if the 16 go upon with the team, ing that ic istoh of Uke owner, the same, putting the manure on the land for Uhe coming corn crop. €. Lukins would follow the latter plan if. practle ¢abie, but hts usual custom Was to spread upon the land after it Was plowed for Wheat in the fail and harrow well to scatter it evenly before the second plowing, 1, Gilinguat would plow for eorn then haw, and spread. 1. Ballenger and W. Walton hauled out through ‘the winter and put in large piles in the feld and he spring after Ue ground was plowed This Was thought by some to be an extra, handling that would not pay, Dut L Ballenger said the hauling was done When there was leisure and he preierred to have {ton the surface where 1% acted asa mulch and enabled the corn to. with- Stand drought better. E. E. Mason also Wought this a good plan, as 1% induced the seeds of Weeds iu the manure W ger- minate and be destroyed, J. N. Gibbs would top dress wheat and haul out fast as possibie. 1_W. Koberis would haul as fast, as, made, top dress mowing grass, cut the crop, then plow seed WiLh rye Tor spring pasture, Co be followed {a {ihe suumuner with ensilage even; be has a ilk ‘T. W. Blunt applies bis manure in the spri and plows it infor a potato crop, to be ‘tolowed with wheat, THE PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL BILL, formulated by the late mecling at Charlottesville, Was read and commented upon, and it was de- cidediy apparent that while Ubis club does not er measures for the ad interests, yet. we must reilerate Our condeimmation of the proposition for ue lange appropriation at this time for Uke pur poses name e president read an article in relation to the : Bovine Tuberctiosts” 1a some parts of Which appears Lo be prevalllug to greater extent than pieuro pneumonia, end is a iuatter Of serious concern ‘The subject. of holding farmers’ conventions in this part of the Stale Was Introduced and met With Such favor that a committee, consisting of X. W. Pierson, Courtland Leekins sind James W. Roberts, was Appointed to correspond ‘withthe ouuer agricultural © farmers in Fairfax and Alexandria counties With & View of holding @ Iarmers’ convention at some Suitable polnt, and to report a program, Loget er With the Ume"and place for holding Uné sane, a& NeXt meeting, Which Wil be at John Ballengers on the 5th of ‘February. Critical committee are J. N. Gibbs, Lewis Gil- Mngham and William Hunter, eiecd Mrs. Emmons’ Ani SHE CAME FROM AROOSTOOK COUNTY IN THE PINE TRES STATE—UER ROMANTIC CAREER, A Bangor telegram to the New York Herald says: Mrs, Emmons, defendant in the case ab Washington in which she 1s alleged to be insane, and about whose early life there seems to be a mystery, undoubtedly came from Aroostook county. ’ Several Years ago she made her appear. ance in this section and by ber pecullar n and lavish Of mouey and Jowels attracted much attention. She tarried here and also spent Some Lime at Moosehead and at the Suell house, in Paulton, then kept by Mr. Floyd. Accompanied by her mald, she secured the best ents wt Uhls house, from Which she made secret visits To one of the distant v of a morte gage on Lis tars, besides giving aim considerable anizations and prominent fr i al i 5 BE F i : j i i i i f i i : b 4 i i i Lt fl i ‘money. 4 CHARMER. ‘Numerous presente were made to all her 20 quaintances, some of them being of considerable value. She gave the name of Emmons, but ail Sorts to obtain further information were To- upon those F ii KE a i ; E 5 a 6 3 5 i E ! | 3 i rH i : : ue i i is ff | | i | ' J z | i i i li if i i i ti ie EES i Hl i ie fH in