Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1887, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY,;JULY 9, 1887-DOUBLE SHEET CITY AND DISTRICT. THE PURLIC SCHOOLS, Fall List of the Teachers Appointed. Following is the list of teachers appointed at the meeting of the board of trustees ot pub- Me schools last Tuesday night: Washington High School, E. A. Paul, princtpal—A. M. Lathe, Frank Angell, B & Burgess, G. R. Israel, F. R. Lane, Wilhelm Bernhardt, P. M. Hughes, A. 8. Ramey, E R. Bogle, Mary Eastman, H. M. Hayes, EM. Pitts, A. M. Wilson, J. L. Doubleday, C. Smith, AE Bradbury, ii. E. Sharp, Harry English, Wm: A. Hedrick, J. A. Chamberlain, H. M. C' jp Oe 4 Davis, GA Lyons, jr, LK. Husted, GG. um. Washington Normal School—E. 8. Atkinson inetpal; H. J. Schimmelfening, Mrs. I. G. Meyers, Copenhaner, H. L Wise. teachers— ¥. H. Butterfield, J. H. Daniels, Mrs. 8. E. Fuller, Hilda North. Manual training-J. P. McKnal, F- L. Emory, Cooking schools—B Z. Jacobs, HE FIRST DIVISION. ‘M.D. Crain, supervising principal; E.G. Kim- Dall, W. B. Patterson, J. ¥. Moore, Wm. Quimby, 4, B. Holbrook, C. B. Smith, K. E. Rawlings, M. E. Me K. A. Wilson, M. S. Shields, A. E. Speake, SM Ryder, HJ. NeKean,, 8 F. 8 ME Xp Purp PM peitia, ‘Louise’ Connolly, J F. L. Reeves, M. J. Sim ow. G. Ravenburg, M.A ‘Paul! ¥. Hershey, H. D. Hobingon, Bishop, E. L. Duvall, K. R. Bettes, Annie Wilson, E. M. Fletta Catteil, A. J. Lewis, M: Josephine Burke, &. C. Weaver, L. ¥. Arrick, E. M. Wiaber, A. L. Guieski, A. M. Dullin, 8. J. Oliphant, Bertha Harstall, Emma Elsenbelsa, Jennie pre E, Simona, M. 8. F, Antisell, LL. Myers, AC. r, F.C. Noerr, 8. L. Bettis, M. A. Con- nelly, K. E.’Houston, M:N. Lovejoy, A. E. Scam- Bel, "Bertha armstroug, EV. Brown, N. E in, M. C. McGill, &. & McMahon. SECOND DIVISION. XN. P. Gage, supervising principal; 8. J. Thom- son, C.8. Clark, F. A. Pease, M. E. Rowe, M. Steele, M. King, 8. B. Kirst, A. M. Goding, K. T. Brown, M. H. Merrill, E. V. Billing, 8. C. Collins, M. E. Bond, H.W. Price, J. 1. Murray, F. L. Hend- ley, A. A. Chesney, A. Davis, EC. ‘Dyer, E. F. Good ‘M. A. ‘Tait, EB.” Robinson, J. M. Garrat, . Sirown, "EK geott, MG. Gowung, F. M. 8. & Saunders, BE “cowitng, s. G. Wheelock, R. stone road, §. ¥. Brown, F, M. Harmon, Hi. B. Deale, | THE WATER SUPPLY. The Increase of Rates and the Question of Rates Discussed, MR. BOND REPLIES TO ME. CRANE—ME. W. C. DODGE GIVES HIS OPINION AS TO THE WASTE—A CORRECTION BY MR. CRANE. To the Editor of Tat Evewtye Star: Two weeks ago, a8 chairman of the committee on water and sewers of Citizen’s Association, No. 5, in order to “break the fce,” as I sald, and with- out pretending to treat fully the various questions connected with the subject, I made a report, con- sisting mainly of an outline sketch of the legisla- tion, and work done in pursuance thereof, to ‘Which we owe the water-works of our city as they now exist, and the rational though aeferred hope of an increased supply from the work now in prog- Tess In closing that report one special question ‘was considered, namely, the proposed increase of the water rents, which had been referred to the committee by a resolution of the association. In that consideration it was necessary to refer to Mer defremtlt mata tity dng wate a Durden ‘imposed upon its reventics by Congress for the coming fiscal year. This caused the commiitee to allude to a communication from Mr. J. H, Crane in Tue Star of a few evenings previous, in which he asserted that forthe year ending June 30, 1880, the receipts from water would unhesitatingly have stated so, but an ex- amination of the very report of Mr. Ci which the communication cited, and on the very page cited, Mr. Cox states that $32,000 of those receipts had been refunded. He also, in the same report, ves the number of water-takers at that time as. 340, and adds: “Basing the amount of rent at the new rates will give water rents amounting to $110,005.15.” This showed to any one tn search of ‘Ube truth that the water rents for the year ending June 30, 1880, could not, and did not, amount to ‘the sum stated by Mr. Crane. 1 took the further trouble to examine the books stowed away down in the, water-tapper's room. and found) that Vu e year ent fune 30, 1880, the attempt had Been ‘Made to change tnt time of collecting and also to col- lect edule, Thus, in July, 1879, six months’ water rents werecollected, and in January, 1880, they were. collected, oF at: tempted to he collected, for twelve months, mak- eighteen months’ rents collected, or attempted to during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1 I stated in my report, the court, Ina test case, decided that such collection egal, and in consequence, as stated by Mr. Cox, $32,000 was refunded. Was I not correct in stating, as quoted @.S.silvers, EL. Prather, C. A. Johnson, H. A. Dury, L se Rowe, J. Drury, MJ. Malone, 8. C- Murray, A. M. Getenell, F. B. Fairchild, A. 1. ag, MR Mccausién, EF. Qisnlan, a elier, BL. J. Free, E Caton, M- Cnad- wick, D. L'fe’Nowitn, ©. b. Bastwood, L's. Humphrey 2 £ Thompson, L. B. Fisher, L. 0. Fishback, X pivcnell LB. “Brown, MH slebert, EW: D; ¥. F, Gordon, 1. L. Summerscales, ¥, Boss SE White, F. E. Towner, M. V. B. T. Jones, E. C. Bonde, E. J. Havenner, K. A. Malone, E. L. Wiison, S. Dalton, E. C. Drane, 8. 3. Childs, R. C. Babbington, J. H. Stickney, B. E. Parsons, L. Pol- lock, M, J. Scrivener, M. V. Potter, C. L. Barron, V. Richards, C. V. allen, A. E. Walker. ‘THIRD DIVISION. A. T. Stuart, supervising principal; J. J. Chick- ering, E. A. Hilton, J. T. Freeman, N.M. Mack, V, Z. Nourse, H. P. Johnson, J. A. Brown, I. A. Lord, ‘M.A. Aukward, M. G. Kelly, EG. Kelly, 8. B.Mc- Nautz, M.L. Packard, M.B Stockett, Mary Mor- gan, Mi. W. G: M. E. Little, Annie Beers, M. R. Cunningham, M. C. Gi A. L. Grant, B. L. Wood- Mand 3 Meredith, J-M- Rawlings Mi Tin- die, M. E. Armstes A. P. Strom! Dyer, Ida Walker, M. ©. Kelley, H. B. Walker, A. A.V. Hopkins, M. E Ai F M: veda V. MeCathran, M. E. Kealey, Jenkins, L. C. Enthoffer, M. M. A. Moore, A. L. Am! Sipe, E.” E. West, per, M; A; Nuriek, Carrio Cawood, L. 6. Hus irginia, Emory, ‘Tichenor, L¥dia Dalton, L. A. Bassett, M. V. Me- Cathran,'s. J. Kealey,’ Theodora Bradley, Clara Willendacher, M. C. Bock, Emma Hanford, L. 8. Weightman, L.A. Hughes, L- J. Given, B.D. wi rR. White, ©. C. Dessez, M. V. Lithgon, MF. A. Lynch, Carrie Stewart, AM. Ciayton, L. ¥. Snowden, & Enthoffer, 1. £ White, A.3L Foley, Fannie Batley. FOURTH DIVISION. Isaac Fairbrother, supervising principal; R. Z. Johns, M. E. Martin, Annie Van Horn, 8. E. Wise, EJ. Riley, C. L. Wilson, &. A Langley, M.A. Law, F.M. Moore, A.M. Whitemore, J. G. Falck, S. C. aa wi ea ad ‘W. Custis, i. ‘L. Davis, V. V. Trook, R.A. Garrett, G.E Halley, M.L Smith, M. M. Hines, rett, Laura Shackelford, L. H. Cohen, A. M. Hobbs, =. E Holiday, Caroline Ranney, M. W. Anderson, Imogene Bear, EC. Fawcett, ‘8. H. Alien, Annié Rowell, J. P! McCauley, H: M.‘Tunneli, Grace ‘Thompson, D. W. Boyd, N. G. Thomas, Ellen Law- ton, A. T. O'Donnell, M- M. De Vote, Alice McDade, . ¥. Law, Sarah Gibson, Jeannette Fd. Gampbell; Ea. Doyle.” oo FIFTH Drviston. B. T. Janney, supervising principal; B. W. ‘Murch, L. A. Bradley, H. B.OMey, EK. Gore, M. # McKenny, A. L. Mcarthur, E. L. Godey, MN. ‘Turkenton, H. G. Watt, E. A. Norton, J. W. my 2 ‘Perrte, M. lass, M.{Schooley, E. M. Chase, A. F. Good, M. 'F. Gore, Mary Noud,'M. P. Keene, E J. Young, A. M. Brewer, K. 8. Proctor, Maggie Noud, H. E. Nichols, H. A. Brecht, M. C. Hilton, Kate Robertson, L. C. Smith, F. B. Nimmo, 8. M. Farr, Bessie English, M. A. Berry, A. G. Davison, C. A. Osare, ¥_ Mt. Glibert, B. Beckham, E. £ Darnellie, ‘M. E McGowan, M.4. Douglass, SIXTH DIVISION—cocNTY. Joseph R. Keene, supervising principal; Henry D. Malone, Henry A. Lewis, John W. Chappell, ‘Mary B. Malone, Francis J. Cardozo, Ulysses G. Block, Washington E. Nalley, Mary E. Burgess, James Stomm, Annie E Loowia June A Brose, Alice A. Winans, Mina Gunion, Mary E. McKinney, Martha Fisher, Nellie E Plummer, Benja- min, Richard "T. Moss, Alice L. Alice D. Johnson, Susie J. Cox, Charity A. Heat ‘Jen- nie M. ‘Spears, Lillian Cross, Lizzie S Nichi Grace ‘a. Walker, arthur L. Keene, Tate "A Wine: poi D. Butler, Sarah S. Smith, John T. = Se ee ee ES Wiison B. Evans, Henry S Petty, Mary B. ‘Stevens, Clara G. Brewer, Florence W. Layton, Eleanor Lasier, Jennie E. Davis. Mary M. Maher, Richard L. Peters, Florence J. Smith, Emma Pat- Georglanna. Ke Slinpsom ‘Fannie ‘B.S sonnsn ny or Peter 8. Lesh, Edith M. Zane, Harry it Peters, ‘William W. L —Stewar. ants, C. L. Wilder, A. C. Hand. High School—Princtpal, F. L. Cardozo; assistant cipal, LF. Bamey; assistant 3 Pee Parke, Wie Browee Me Prterson, LE Riggs, Mra’A. J. Cooper, Harriet A. Rice. Special =W. Huuster, H. FP. Grant, J.T. Lay- ton, J. G. Goines, jr. SEVENTH DIVISION. H. P. Montgomery, supervising principal. Sum- ner Duilding—F. A. Martin, H. F. M. Bruce, F. 8. Bruce, B. E Pope, M. E. Tilghinan, 4. M. Mason, C. S&. Syphax, A. L. Costin, E. F. Wilson, Lee, Taylor, MB. Sanit, Noy. Brooes 12% A der, Me L- Washlugton, C8: Jom ws Sp ‘1 Washington, Coa Jone ee a P. spencer, L.A. Barbour, LG” Bowen ae 4. Fisher, EK. Lewis, E. G. Brooke, a. E. Cole, LV. ‘Coleman, ". Jones, i. B. A. L. Matthews, r, B. D. Dietz, M.S, E Davis, L Welsh, 3H Miner 3-L Cox © Malvan. Fi “ uliding—M. ¥. Viete! jaymal ‘Garnet bu: —J. i H i] ‘Brooks, C. A. T. Howard, M. V. Tibbs, H. A. Martin, 4. A. Bolden, P. Woodson, M.'F. Bar- Ker, 4, Hons, M- 1- Beason, F. & Bell, "M.A. i rt bao iY fe i fa F} F E mf Lica! rE > z : 3 ki rh “Bp i i and relterated by Mr. Crane, that this attempt to change the time of collection “threw the state- ment of receipts by fiscal years somewhat out of balance?” It ts an old adage that “igures will not ie,” Dut they can be made to do so by a very little p. ‘only a few extracts from my report, made by the reporters while it was lying on the tabie the evening it was made, were published, and yet Mr. Crane assumes that it only contained what ap- peared in the papers, and asks why It did not con- tain this ai that; says I was “ nat on the guestion of increasing the water tax,” &c., while did say, im my report, that “the laying of dis- tributing main3 ts amply provided for by the Water tax of 114 cents per square foot of abutting lots,” and argued that the act of Coe Bei of July 15, 1882, trebled the water debt, and that subse- quent Ce ore had unjustly, as 1t seemed to me, Durdened the water fund with the interest and thé liquidation of the principal of this trebled debt in twenty-five years, and making it mandatory upon ‘the Commissioners to pay out of the water fund, uri the next seal year, $90,657.27 for terest and sinking fun and to make the water rents equal to this Yee in addition to the other appropriations which they must provide for. Iam as averse to the increase of water rents as any one can be, but, If they must be increased, wish the responsibility to be fixed where it belongs, and the efforts of our Citizens’ Association to remedy the evil to be exerted where they will tend to accomplish the desired result, Viz: on Congress. I tri to collate facts that might be useful to the committee of one hundred in this direction, but did not assume to know everything, off-hand, and if I had done so could not compress it within the limits of a single and that a preliminary report. In Mr. Crane’s communication to THe EVENING Stan of June 25 he says, “Mr. Bond, who seems to — by authority, states that the total number of water-services up to the end of the fiscal year 1885-86, were 25,522,” and in his “reply to Capt. Symons,” in Taw Stan of July 2, he says, “sr. Bond gives the number of water-takers, June 30, 1886, a8 26,522,” and then bases a series of calcu- lations upon thts as the actual number of water- takers, ‘his may be sufficiently accurate for his pur ‘but Mr. Crane should know that there is 4 difference between the number of water-services and water-inkers. AS to the former, my “author- sty” was the printed report of the officers in charge of the water department, to which others, in search of information, have equal access with myself. Water-services are the pipes laid from the mains to the coun and are laid opps each lot whenever streets are paved and must from necessity be in excess of the number of water-takers, and in my report I estimated the number of watér-takers at about 22,000, not having the means of know- ing the exact number, having scarcely any ac- quaintance with the officers of the water depart- oe for whom and the committee of one hundred, Mr. C. asserts that I am acting in the “dual ca- pacity of attorney.” Forone soaptin figures Mr. C. should not have stumbled into the error of con- founding Water-services with water-takers, and I trust he will correct himself in thts and other re- spects before he discusses the matter with “the President.” Not being an official, but a private citizen, with my own business demanding my attention, I am indisposed to personal controversy in the ‘news- papers, but I have come to think this is Mr. Crane’s natural element. I have never had the slightest personal difference or altercation with the a and only his uncalied-for and reiterated allusions, with slurs and insinua- tons, to myself couid provoke me to reply. With his industry and zeal he might work out good results were his facts and figures not so laine and impotent,” as torecall the old catch, or round,— “My dame has a tame, lame Crane, My daine has a Crane that "pray. jane, le Dnnk and come home agail THE WATER SUPPLY AND WASTE. To the Editor of Tue Evenrxa Stan: I notice in Tas Stax of July 1st a reported in- terview with Capt. Symons, in which he repeats the statement made by some of bis predecessors ‘that the scarcity of the water is due toits “wanton waste" by the citizens If that be so, what eon- sistency Or reason Was there in their urging upon Congress the expenditure of $2,000,000 to increase the supply? A inuch more Sensible course would De to stop the waste and save the two millions, which the District sorely needs for other purposes. If there 1s any such waste, whose fault is it but heirs? The whole matter 13 under their control, and the law makes it their duty to see that 1t 1s hot wasted. Such @ statement, if true, 1s a con. fession that they have not done thetr duty, that’ But the statement that the supply “is 150 gal- Jons to each man, woman, and child per day” 1s not or anywhere near true, as I will show by the statements of a higher engineer officer than he. As shown by the reportof Col. Casey, on the 18th of June, there entered the reservoir 25,740,- 138 gallons of water, which would be an average of 443 gallons per capita for a population of 180,000—Y they got i, But his report further ‘shows that from 12 o'clock at night to6 a m. the water flowed from the reservoir at the rate of nine hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and nine galions per hour. ‘Now, where did that water goto? The citizens FESTe not wang 1c en to “dash the pavements or Jetting it run to get cool water to drink,” as. Capt. Symons states, because at that time they were in Ded and asleep. Neither were they letting It run then “‘to prevent their pipes from freezing,” 03 he states, because it was in the middle of June. As stated by the water registrar at the time, it went through the Departments, Babcock Lake, the thie drinking fountains horse urodgia levee eteect e drini Lroug! leaky street hydrants aid the like, as every person fulniliar with the facts knows full wel, > ‘This tact is confirmed by Major Lydecker, who only recently, in an interview in Tus Stax, said “tt is undoubtedly a fact that water flows’ through the Department buildings in the greatest protu- sion,” * * * and that “such flow Is a necessary element to the maintenance of thelr sanitary con- dition.” Again Lieut. Hoxie, in his for 1879, says the amount used by the vernment in the Departinents, fountains ac., was Tully 7,000,000 ons; ‘amount ‘has greatly increased since then, because more fountains have Deen erected, new public added, and in the Treasury and some other buildi the flow has been largely increased within the wae few years, because of their unsanitary condition. In answer to @ resolution of the Senate, in 1879, Pipe was designed, and was aula es swept ie was Was am) wo su; ‘the ‘northwest section and Capitol ‘ad ‘and Oat, its capacity was *72,000,000 gallons per day.” If, now, two millions was all that the northwest section and East W: ras to recelve when amply suppiled, ts 1t clear that they got much less ‘ten, when, as taey admitted, neither section was properly supplied? What then becomes of the statement, U eve man, Woman and child is aspgne With 150, per day? It is simply But that ts not all Let us look at Col. Casey's in his report ‘ot 1670 As shove stated, the water ran, oUt of the, reservoir a.m. rate of 970, per hour. if, now, it ran through pipes ober than those Which’ supply the citizens at that rave uring those six hours, ot course it would do so uring tne entire twenty-four hols and that would ‘goes elsewhere. ‘Now deduct that from the total amount which Casey says entered the Tents amounted to $165,683.37, while for the year ending June 30, 1886, they’ amounted to only | $124,968.18. If this had been true the committee Public reservations, &c.; nor any such ume er of public fountains, reservations and Capitol grounds to be watered a8 Wash- ington has, As well might one assert that Decause the Potomac River supplies 50,000,000 fatlons per nour, o whatever the amount inay ‘therefore there is that amount supplied to the citizens of the District, for the water that flows through the Aqueduct, which they do not and cannot get, because it ts used el ig ot no more use t6 them than that which flows past the city in the river channel. Not a whit, sol Cannot understand what Capt. Symons hopes in ug_misrepresent zens the District, Tinfer from his statement in THE Sra of June 28 that he does not consider the tax- payers of the District “the proper authorities” to ask for information as to the expenditure of their money and the unn¢ increase of their bur- dens, and that this communication 18 not in the “proper spirit” to suit his notions. That may be ‘so, but I think differently, and no doubt he will in'the course of time. Of that hereafter. W. ©. Dover. MR. CRANE MAKES A CORRECTION. To the Editor of Tar EVeNtxa Stan: It is important fora proper understanding of my article on the water question, in THE Stax of the 2d inst., that two errors, one of date and the Other of amount, be corrected. In the sentence Feading, “Tis shows that the average receipts, from July 1, 1881, to June 30, 1884, were $10, Jess than the ave receipts for the three years from July 1, 1879, to June 30, 1881, substitute the figures “1878” for 1870," which makes the period three years instead of two, In the words reading, “showing a profit to the corporation on the six- inch main, with nothing charged for the twelve ten, and three-inch mains, of which there was lal S388 fest, of CE ae a) the figures ba ’ : J. H. Crane. FOR EUROPEAN TRAVELERS. tructions Issued for the Benefit of ‘Washingtonians, As many Washingtonians go to Europe in the summer, and as all of them are likely toship home ‘something purchased on the other side, the collec tor of the port of Georgetown has issued the fol- lowing “Shipping instructions for use in Europe: 1, Every package must be distinctly branded with mame or shipping mark of consignee, and invoice and bill of lading made out bearing same mark as goods. 2. Every package must be distinctly marked, ‘In bond to Georgetown, D.C.” 3 Write in all’ invoices, ‘Yor transportation in bond to Georgetown, D. ¢. 4. Present four in- Voices to the United States consul for certi- fication. The consul will return two copies. 5. Immediately mail one certified invoice to Penn- sylvania Co., New York, if the goods are destined fo come through New ‘York; or to F. H, Shallus Baltimore, Md., it the goods are to come through Baltimore, and’ mail the other certified invoice to the consignee, 6, Instruct the forwarding agent to write in all itis of lading, ‘For transportation in bond to Georgetown, D.C.’ and to consign Cee on_bill of jading to Pennsylvania Co., New York, or F. H. Shallus, Baltimore, Md. 7. Instruct forwarding agent to Immediately mall copy of the bill of lading to Pennsylvania Co., New York, or F. H. Shallus, Baltimore, Md., accordingly aS the goods are destined to come through either of those ports. Baggage may ve forwarded to Georgetown, D. C., by having the same entered on ships’ manifests, ‘To be forwarded in bond with- out examination.’” a ae THE HACKMAN'S OBJECTIONS, Police Regulations Which the Livery- men Do.Not Like. ‘THE RULE ABOUT LAMPS AND THE NEW SCHEDULE OF RATES—A LIVERY STABLEKEEPER’S VIEWS—A TALK WITH A NIGHT-LINER—THE HACKMAN VERSUS THE CABMAN—HACKS AT FUNERALS, ETC. “How do you regard the new police regulations as they affect your business?” asked @ SraB re- Porter of a prominent liveryman, “Well, If they are to be enforced strictly and to the letter, it will affect us sertously; that 1, they will be disregarded, and there will be another con- test similar to that recently occasioned by the at- tempt to enforce the Sunday laws, In some re spects the rules are admirable, and will be wel- comed by us, but in others they are absurd. Now look at this for a sample: ‘Every hack shall have permanently affixed to the interior thereof, in a Place readily to be seen by the passenger, the fore- going schedule of rates and no other, which sched ule shall be printed on heavy white cards, 8 by 10 inches in size, printed in black ink, with full face, double primer Roman: ype to be furnished by the Major of Police.’ A ‘hack’ is construed by the reg- ulations to be any hired vehicle whatever, and consequently every bridal couple hiring a carriage Wiil be compelled to ride facing that destroyer of their pines ‘thelr first bill. By this construc- ton of the word ‘hack’ all carriages are placed on @ level with the ‘night-liners,’ “The Commissioners have fixed the rates ina manner that savors of tyranny. Someof the prices are all right, but here 1s one feature that ia very unjust. carrti is hired in town, and driven to a point beyond the limits of Georgetown and there dismissed; we are allowed the sum of twenty-five cents for returning, when it, in reality, costs us, in driver's hire, a8 much as the other part of the trip, and in many cases we have to come five or ten miles, and all for twenty-five cents. ‘These prices are really intended to govern the cabs and hacks which walt on the street for employ- ment, but their extent fa such as to cover the in- side trade in carriages as well.” ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE AVENUE, “How about the ruie compelling cabs to keep on the south sido of Pennsylvanta avenue when seek- ing employment?” “That ts a good rule,” replied the liveryman, “for inthe present state of things the north half 1 ugually comfortably filed with other vehicles, and. the cabmen often unnecessarily block the way. ‘This will result. ina more equal division of tie trafic. A person can call a cab just as well from the opposite side of the strect, for on the raising of a linger those fellows, who have eyes like hawks, will fly at once.” “What is your opinion in ard to the ton about the lamps?” queried the reporter. “I thought you would come to that,” answered the liveryman, stniling. “That ts the worst of all. In the first place, it will cost about $50 to get a new set of lamps for éach carriage, and we shall have to get new lainps if they are to be seen from three sides, as stipuluted, We cannot ch: those now 1n use without sending them to New York, and we should prefer to purchase new ones—which we won't do. Every wagon and truck Will have to go to this expense if the regulation is enforced. Aside from that the regulation ts objectionable for several reasons. One will be unable to. distinguish the direction a carriage is going when he sees the lights, for they are to be visible from both ends. ‘This might be avoided by adopting the steamboat plan, using different colors, but I hardly believe that such a plan would work. ‘Then, too, the lights ‘are Hable to dazzle a drivers’ eyes So that at times he is unable to see anything. No, sir, we are not going to pay any attention to ‘this lamp rule, for it is impracticable. “The regulations say that Pennsylvania avenue shall be considered as two streets, Which 1s all right, and will be good for all drivers and passen- gers,’ I believe that the regulations will sift them. ‘selves down to 2 practical basis and when they have been relieved of some of the objectionabie features of which I have spoken we will not grumble. But sifted or not, we are not going to Rotice those featuresand thien possstbly there win THRE NIGHT-LINER'S SIDE, At the hack-stand at Market Space, the reporter discovered a “hawk-eyed” night-liner, who was ready and willing to express an opinion of the new Teguiations. “Well.” he sald “I thinks they is un- just, particular in the way of the rates. Here we invested between $1,500 and $1,800 in a rig and them fellers,”with a’contemptuous jerk of his ‘thumb toward a couple of cabs, “only has $150 to $200. The town is bein’ Nooded with a cheap lot of broken-down cabs from Northern cities, and they costsonly about $150. Now, them rates will put us equal with the cabs, although we has nine or ten times as much money invested, and we only the same rates. Our cost is about like this: team, $500;you can‘t get two good horses for much loss here; carriage, $1,100, and harness, $200, about $1,800 In’all. We can't live on such rates. "Then, too, they makes us hackmen on the same footin? as the livery-stable men accordin’ to the license ‘we pays, atid yet they draws a line between us on the rates by ‘iowin’ them a special agreement,” “How do you like the ‘south side’ rule?” “on with a “that’s the worst I ever seen; it’s all wrong. It nakes us go clean away fromthe people to where we can’t be seen, and it 4s goin’ to ruin our business.” “What is this difficulty between the liverymen and the undertakers?” the reporter asked. “You see the undertakers always put their rates for funeral carriages Just 50 cents ahead of the regular prices, and so they makes a half dollar on every hack hired, ‘They was a meetin’ held the other night and they tried to Ax tt, but I don’t know what they Three dol mighty ttle for funeral Work, for it’3 80 ‘slow, and the colored funerals 1s worse than the us back.” Pee setae ait gas ON ir, Wwe; rt it we cant have ‘em cleangea.” gies His Wickea Twi From the Omaha Republican, July 3. Anamosa, Iowa, has a case of twins that is ex- citing a good deal of interest. Aman is confined in the penitentiary there for the crime of bigamy who claims that he 1s the victim of circumstances. He says that the offense was not committed by but by his twin brother, who looke so much IN WAB PAINT AND FEATHERS, American Indians Whe Still Live ina ‘Savage State. {HE EXPERIENCES OF THR KORTEWEST INDIAN COM- ‘MISSION—TRIBES THAT HAVE LITTLE OF CIVILIZA- ‘TION EXCEPT WHISKY—THE ROMANCE OF THE SONS OF THE FOREST. ‘The commissioners who went out to make treaties with the Northwest: Indians about a year go, and recently submitted their last report to ‘the Interior Department, had an interesting expe- rience among these savages, who are the most remote and come nearer preserving the traditional Indian character than any now extant. Some ot the tribes along the borders of Minnesota, Mon- tana, Dakote, Idaho, and Washington ‘Territory are as savage as their ancestors of a hundred years ago. They have hidden themselves away in the inaccessible wilderness, out of the reach of civilization, and maintain all the ancient savage customs of dressing with skins of animals, feathers, and paint, feeding on fish and game, and Et a e ens, entirely sav: Other indians in the samo region bate atwalued advanced civilization. ‘Those in Idaho and Wash- ington Territory are the most savage. LIKE 4 NEW COUNTRY. “I was like exploring a new country,” sald Judge Wright, the chairman of the commission, talking over his trip with a Sraz reporter, “Some of the tribes are almost inaccessible. ‘Their abodes can be reached only by the ald of Indian guides, ‘These Indians can travel anywhere Uhrough pathiess forests, which would be impene- trable to a white man. The Indians know the trees and the elevations just as you know the streets in Washington, and they can describe localities to each other so that they can under. stand just where it is, though buried in the very deptha of the wilderness as tracklessas the ocean, One Indian can teil another at Just what tree in the vast forest he has hidden something, so that the other can go and find it, though it may be a hundred miles away. ‘They’ traverse the forests, and geem to know by instinct just where they are—they seem to know every tree. Some of the tribes are as uncivilized as those of whom Cooper wrote, Some of the tribes about the groups of small lakes that form the headwaters of the great Mississipp!, in Minnesota, could be reached only 2bo miles in these tral eres, tesough & tosh les in these c beautiful and WILDLY BOMANTIO REGION. “The Indians were our guides and they alone could transport us, The lurgest of the lakes are probably twenty miles wide by thirty long, and they arestrung ther by the winding thread Of the Mississippi before it starts on its bold Southern course, The lakes are right in among the forests, and sometimes they are very rough. ‘When storms occurred it was Impossible to go upon them in the canoes. We traveled in true Indian style. Each canoe was paddled by a Savage and they were managed with great skill. Three were the most that could go in one cance, and we had tosit flat on the bottom. The In- dians could easily carry the boats on their heads when they took them from the water. We landed for our meals and camped in the forests at the of the water at night, The forests were filled with game and the waters with the finest ‘Osh. There were seventeen in the party,guides and all, and the Indians would catch ‘enough fish as we moved along so that we would have all we could eat for dinner. Some of the party would go on shore and shoot game. One Indian alone in his canoe would ahead of the party and shoot ducks on the lake, He would paddle up and shoot, and then take up his paddle again, He was a won- derful shot, We used to count the reports of his fun and then count the game, and he geperally iad something for every shot. One day we counted sixteen shots, and he brought back fifteen ducks. We had acontract with the Indians that they were to furnish us with food and transportation; and the game they killed furnished us with fresti ‘MEETINGS WITH THE INDIANE. “In some of the canoes was distributed our lug- gage, while others carried the passengers, and we had ‘runners,’ who went very rapidly in advance of usto assemble the tribes we wished to consult With, We would land at certain places, where the Indians would meet us by appointment. Some of the meetings would be held in old time savage fashion in the woods, on the shores of the lakes, and the pipes would ‘round, and the Indians would make long harangues. Generally, we moped at the missions, and the Indians assembled there to confer with us, These missions are the work of the Canes ees and Sisters, and wherever they are located the Indians have reached a of civilization. About the mis. ‘sions they generally wear short hair and civilized dress, and are more or less thrifty. INDIANS WITH 4 BRASS BAND. “There was one tribe in particular,” continued the Judge “that surprised us by their advance- ment. The chtet and a number of warrtor¢ rode down at great speed to meet us, discharging their Winchesters as they came. Here they dismounted nd shook hands, and the warriors acted as an escort of honor. While we were with them there burst upon us the sound of ‘Hail Columbia,’ and :then ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ played by abrass band. You may imagine our astonishment. It sounded strange in this wild region. ‘The music was by a band of Indian boys. At the schools the Indian boys and girls taught by ie priests and sisters are as far advanced as our children of the same at the public schools in the 1 cities, ‘Wo were given permission to examine them in our own way, and they acquitted themselves with great credit. some of the Indians we found Unrifty and with good homes and signs of indus- try and prosperity about them. Others were drunken, dirty an for-nothing. Some were Utterly without civilization, and it would have been dangerous to have gone among them had they not have been friendly at the ume. They met us dressed in their wild native costumes, breech-clouts and trinkets, feathers In thelr hair and thelr faces painted, some one color all over, some halt blue, half yellow, and some striped red, yellow, and bite. SENTIMENT AND FIRE-WATER. “They possessed,” sald the judge, “that wild, savage romance, and gave us long harangues about the graves of their forefathers, The more savage, filthy, and degraded they were the more pretense they’made of this sentiment, Our talks with them were long and tedious. The great trouble with them is whisky. You can get along with a sober Indian, but when he is drunk he 1s a wild beast; he will do anything. It 1s against the Jaw to sell liquor to them, but white men buy 16 for them and make lange profit by the transaction, ‘They buy a bottle and hide it in the brush andthe Indians find it. ‘They have a certain code of honor which they maintain with great stoicism. You could neither bribe or threaten oné Of those Indians to make him teli on anyone who sold him whisky. He will swear that he found it, or else maintain a stubborn silence. No court can force him to give testimony. The savage tribes have a way of wearing @ feather in thelr heads to mark each enemy they have killed, and no Indian will ever add a feather he has not won, ‘The Commission met first in St. Paul in August, 1886, and from that time until this spring wo ‘traveled among all the Indians in that region. We consulted with 31 bands in Minnesova and the THE WOODLAWN FARMERS, Prof, Mason Talks to the Club—The Crops and the Roads. ‘The July meeting of the Woodlawn Farmers’ Club was held at EE. Masons on the 20 inst, President Pierson in the chatr; Mr. W. Gillingham. secretary, The unusually fine weather resulted in keeping many of the farmers at home tn closing up the weeks’ work of threshing and harvesting, 80 that the attendance of members was small— though later in the day the turn-out, espectally of ladies and young people, was large. Prof. 0. T. Mason, of the National Museum, Washington brother of the host, was present, whose visits to the neighborhood are always occasions of interest and advantageto those who are so fortunate asto be brought in contact with him. He having Just re- turned from a trip to the great Northwest, the club was entertained for some time in an informal Way by a recital of bis observations of men and things about Chicago and Minneapolis, especially ‘the latter place. Among the things mentioned as especially worthy of note were the exceptionally fine inane the Ldemyd er on great length of the strawberry season—w e Perfected raliroad system of the Misstestppt Val- ley, and rapid transit of freight, beginning with berries from the extreme south and ending with ‘those from the far northwest—the season 13 lengthened to nearly 3 months. ‘The club was called to order in the afternoon for the transaction of some routine business, A. W. Harrison and Oscar Baker have put the road. in’ good shape at the entrance of Alexandria, a8 proposed at the last meeting, and it appears the rad commissioners have received the credit for this work, which properly belongs to the gen- Uemen mentioned. The matter of graveling the ‘upper end of the turnpike road {s in statu quo, the Work of harvesting taking precedence of every- thing else. ‘This subject will be further consid- ered at the next meeting. E. E. Mason read a let- ‘er from an oMecial of the Agricultural Depart- ment in relation to the protection of birds, 1n which it was stated that an investigation of the habits of hawks in conjunction with one of the farmers’ clubs of Montgomery County, Maryland, had resulted in the determination of that society. to extend them their protection, they being more ‘useful than otherwise. So far as threshing has progressed, the yield of wheat is not as satistac- Lory as usbal—the quantity of grain not in pro- Portion to the straw. The fruit crop is very ‘short, more so than for a number of years back. After ‘supper the assemblage, which had now grown into & goodly company, gathered upon thelawn tolisten Yo familiar talk’ by Prof. Mason. A large part ot the audience being ladies, after a few introductory. remarks he went.on to show how all the refining industries of modern times were started by thé females of the different ri man at the same tme being engaged in war, the chase and other occupations requiring hardship and endurance ot a different character. It was to be regretted that the pursuits first alluded to, including the fine arts had been appropriated in 80 large a measure by the men. He also gave an explanation of the true meaning and functions of science. We are too aptto couple our ideas of a scientific person with a “blue stocking,” “crank” or a monstrosity of some kind—a thing to be avolded—whereas sctence 18 a correct study and interpretation of the laws of nature—a carefully collection, classification and arrangement Of facts, Science is not theory, He gave a personal illustration of this. When he was & student at college he was asked by one of the professors: “Ifa pint of salt was put into a pint cup full of water why it would not run over?” He asked that he be given until next day to answer it, He then prepared an elaborate essay explain- ing the phenomena as he eek aa and read it to the professor, who after listen! ng to it patiently, ‘wid him that it could not be done, The young dent retired, sad and humbled, though ‘some- What wiser, He had learned a lesson never to be forgotten. He especially recommended that the young People should apply themselves to the ‘study of some of the natural laws that are in daily operation all around them. They would soon be- come interested and fascinated by the wonderful unfoldings of sclence as they progressed with the investigations. The next meeting will be at Charles F. Wilkins’ place on the 30th of July. The critical committee 1s composed of D, P. Smith, Oscar Baker, and Charles Gibbs, ——— ‘Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been fled as follows: A. R. French to Mary A. T. Cherry, sub lots 19 and’20, 8q. 889; $2,700. G. W. Brown to_J, M. Green, sub lot 10, sq. 378; $12,200. Jno. Uppers to la ‘Chappel, pt. 5, 8q. 850; $1,000. W. B. Jackson et al, to Margeret Jone Pt. 7, sq. 589; $280. Saine to Thos. Allen, pt. do. do,; $342.13. Hannah Schu to J. F. Ennis, sub lots 44 and 45, and e 3¢ 3, 8q. 1,026; $—. J. F. Ennis to Hanna Schu, same property; $— Cassie T. Armstrong to 'E. P. Chamberlin, sub lot 46, ‘sq. 192; $6,775. H. B. Davidson to G. 8. Cooper, sub lot 113, sq. 621; $1,000. J, A, Bates, trustees, to J. B. Wimer, lot 15, 8.’3 sub Pleasant Plains; $3,237.: Henrietta, Smith to B. O. Bowman, pt. 9, Chicheste1 Nancy T. Smith to Rose Wallach, subs ann Emma J. McKelden to Mary Mc! ck lots 10 and 12, sq. 264; and pt. 6, sq. 320;$—. G@. F, Dyer to Nelson Vales, lot 18, sq. B, Reno; $30. Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. to Sarah. F. Eaton, sub lot 61, sq. 204; $7,000. W._D. Berrin t0 J. G. Stoddard, part 30, square “76; $2,100, Joseph Lockey to de Connor, lot 8q. 634, $9,000. Columbian University to'Richai B. Rosé, part lot 6, 89. 313; $—. J. F. Hood to M. I, Weller and G. R! Repetti, lot 8, S87 H. Reeves to F. J. Shadd, fot 5,’stiton 3, Barry Farm; $600. ’. B. Jackson et al. to B, Broadus, part 7, Sa, 0895 $342.13. E. J. Hannan to Mary D. abody, lot 28, Sq. 876; $3,000. W. M. Clayton to Sarah M. Prevost, pts,’3 and 4, sq. 205; $3,208.25. Harriet E. P. MeQhesten to Mary M. Frank, sub lot 12, bik. 9, Le Droit Park; $1,481. oO, Duffy to'Henrletta Richard, pta, 2, 34. 520; $6,750. Dennis ‘O'Connell to W. O. Brien, pi. lots 19’ and 20, sq. 624; $—. Chesterfield Marshall to Henry Butler, Dt. 6, sq. 840; $350. G. F. Williams to M. I. Weller etal, sub. G, sq. 797; $—. _B. U. Keyser, receiver, to sane, sub. lots 46 and 47, sq. 1,047; $—. Sarath E, Boylé to 8. and G. Oppenheimer, pt: 41, sq. 873 $1,350. W. Maloney to Hanorah Maloney, pt. 5 ‘8q. 840;$200. J. L. Vogt to J. E. Beall, lots 31 33, 8q. 212; $—. Gonzaga College to L. Flem- 1g, BUD. 173, 84. 621; $3,000. D, A. Windsor to don Dexter, et. al., trustees, lot 47, sq. 157; $18,000, _H. C. Borden to J. H. Hunter, 1otS 25 6 27, sq. 1017; $—. C.M. Matthews, trustee, to Alberta Barnés, sub. 16ts 230 and 235, sq. 674;'$—. J.C, Poland, trustee, to C. M. Matthews, in trust, same property; $—. Jno. A. Luttrell to Matilda M. McKinstry, lot 6, sq. 1112; $1,047.80. W. A. Gordon et al,, trustecs, to J. W. Yates and Jesse H, Wilson, trustees, pt. 73, H.'3 addition to West Washington; $1,600. Fannie E. Haller to J. H. Blair, sub, lot 78, sq. 513; $3,700. _L. G. Billings to Ida Geter, pt. lot 188, sq. 1004; $720, Adam Gad- dis to Mary Ahern, pi. 2, sq. 904; $650. C, Brown to A. M. Smith, 89. 562; $7,200, Eugene ‘Willenbucher to M. H. Page, lot 13, ‘bik. 18, Mert- dian Hill; $—. M. H. Page ‘to Julius Lansburgh, same property; $—. Elizabeth Bladen to J. H. Bladen, lot 8 and pt. 9, 6q. 236; $—. Priscelia irv- tug to Virginia W. Holland, lots 9 to 12, bik, 5 Ivy City; $800. Emma Hultz ‘to B. and P. R. R., lots 23 (6 25, sq. 698; $—. Julla Fenwick to Clara H. Mohun, pts. 173 and 175, T.’s addition to West 5 $8,000. C. G. Lee to Agnes West, sub A. Strubner to C. Bucheler, K Hills;” $2,250. Miranda Bailey to Sarah Johnson, sub 44, sq. 545; $. J. E. Beail to W. H. Cromeline, sub 15, Sq. 971; $1,500. Mary Eawards to Abraham M. Salmon, sub 103, sq. 193: 978, L. M, Taylor et al. to Dehlia Mechan, sub lot 194, sq. 675; $1,325. J. F. Hood et al. to Lett. tia M. Stout, sub 28, sq. 723; $1,440, D, L. Perkins $60. 90; laen, ‘Territories along the Northern border, Much of the time we slept on the ground without even the covering of a tent. In the winter we had a pretty hard time. We traveled for 1,500 miles in open slelghs over vast plains of snow, with the ther- inoineter ranging trom 30 to 60 degrees below zero. At Miles City it was 57 below and at Fort Shaw 4 was over 60 below zero. ———o_—___. The Archers, THE PROGRAM OF THR NAWONAL MEETING TO BE HRLD IN THIS CITY. ‘The Potomac Archers are practicing diligently, hoping to be able to make good scores at the Na- tional Archery meetings on July 12, 13 and 14, ‘The place of meeting will beat the arsenal grounds. Several of the archers who have neglected the sport for the last yearor two have rejoined the club, A team from the officers of the garrison at the barracks will compete with pistols at one of the targets, Its thought that as many as six or eight on a side will enter the contest. ‘The pro- ram for the mest is 98 follows: ae * Contests—Tuesday morning, Columbia round, flight shooting; Tuesday afternoon, Colum- bia round; Wednesday morning, national rout or, at option, 48 arrows 40 yards, 24 arrows ‘ards; Wednesday afternoon, repetition of morn- g contest; Thursday morning, team contests, 96 arrows at '50 yards, individual archers, same round; Thursday afvernoon, varied program, in- eluding §} matches ‘between individuals, Some special prize contests in addition will be ar- for each day if time permits, About twenty Prizes are open to the ladies for competition. Gentlemen's contest—Tuesday morning, Ameri- can rot Hight shooting; Tuesday arternoot Siete wnte, “Weasean ent round, or, at if 96 arrows Wednesday after ot, York Potomac round; Thursday festa, Onto round; at 50” yards; or, at optic “morming? teas? oon individual ‘Same round: special and area to same, sub 24, do.; $1,331.04. W. Baker to ‘Mary L. Hoover, lots 7’and &, sq. 3 $3. E. M. Gunder et al, trustees, to Sarah E. Coates, Pts. Sand 4, sq. 214; $2,850. Eliza A. Brooks to Annie Dolly Brooks, lot 2, “Fife and Fite.” $— Geo. T. Byng to R, W. Darby et al,, lot 58, Peters ©. T. Colvert to Abbie A. Feleb, sub $1,000, Mary Brick to R. A. Dore, 66, 84. 677; $1,500. D. B. Groff to C. B. ts, 2 and 23, Sq. 358: $2,800, M. J. Sauter toc. elsgner, Pt. 18, $9. 514; $3,492.80, D. B. Groff to Annie E Duvall ‘pt 22, aa. 800. Mary ole Baker to H. B. James, lots 79'to 81, sq. 70: £21,004, Belle Vedder Fleining to Indiana Veader, lots 1, 2, and 11, $q. 315; $—. Lavinia LARobinson toW. A. pepareds Sub lot 51, 8q. 360; $500. G. P. Cook to. Burgdort, lots 1 16 3, 14 to 20, sq. 1074, and lots 1 to 3, 10, 15, and 16, sq. 1075; L N. Cook to same, samme property; $500. 8 Maddox et al, trustees, to J. H. Wilmot,’ lots 9 and 10, sq. 1073; $3,801! BOOKS OF THE WEEK. SEBASTOPOL. By Count Leo Torstor ‘Transl en tne Heenea by ftsek Be Mtilet: wits tne, bi luction by W. D. Howells. With trait. Ne York: Harper & Brothers. "Washington: Robert HORSEMANSHIP FOR WOMEN, ‘Treopore H. ‘Map. With illustrations by ony, ‘Parker. 4 York: Harper & Brothers. Washington: Robert BESSIE’S SIX LOVERS. _A New York Belle's Sum- amer in the Country. By HExny Petensox. Phil- adeiphis: ‘0, B. Peterson & Brothere THE MAVERICK NATIONAL BANK MANUAL. A ‘Statistical eterence Book. Boston: 8. H. Niles, iT. By 4 SONGS IN EARNEST By Mra M. P. A. Cnozrma, Abner Blake’s Mysterious Death. THE MAN WHO MADE SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST ‘COLLECTOR BEECHER. "The San Francisco Chronicle devotes two > pages ‘to lettera and affidavits found among the effects of the late Abner L. Blake, formerly deputy United States collector at Port ‘Townsend, Washi) ‘Territory, who died under what were consi tome Beecher, son of the late Henry Ward Beecher, who ‘was collector at Port Townsend, and who 1s now ‘Treasury ib had defrauded the Govern- the eam sr Idaho. ‘the Government for: 000, of wi G. M. Rouse, was to have received about $16, ot was gubetsrated as 3 “dummy” 4 was, Sraving Fooelved 000. ‘Thess an otherserions Shatges were made Pre. WAFERS OF STONE. How the Geologist Studies Mountains With the Microscope. THE BRAUTIFUL APPEARANCE OF A SECTION OF GRAN- ITE UNDER THE PRTROGRAPHER’S GLASS—A 001 PARATIVELY NEW SCIENCR—8LABS OF STONE ONE FIVE-HUNDREDTH OF AN INCH THICK. ‘The geologist placed under the object glass of ‘the microscope a little glass slide, having in its center what one might take at the frst glance to be a soled or gritty spot. “Look,” he said, to Tas: ‘STAR reporter, and the reportoriat eye was applied to the glass. It beheld a brilliant sight, like that seen in a kaleldoscope. The circular patch focussed by the object glass was filled with a sort of crazy quilt pattern. There was every variety of shape and color. The hues were of a most brilliant description. The gritty-looking spot Was a section of Richmond granite, such as the new State Department building 1s constructed of—a slab of Stone sothin that five hundred of them placed one upon another would not make an inch in ‘thickness, so thin as to be translucent. The Modern geologist no longer confines himself to tracing Out terraces, or paths of glacters, or to the blow pipe or chemical analyses. He takes the mountains with him into his laboratory and there ‘studies them with a microscope. The application of the microscope tothe solution of geological Problems is a comparatively new thing, and bas rought into existence the modern science of ‘petrography. SOLTING GEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS, Many questions that vexed geologists for years have been answered by the microscope. But many new problems have arisen out of the discoveries made by the use of this instrument; so that the geologist, instead of finding himself in possession of a key by which all the wonderful story of the Tocks can be read, has learned only that there are deep and wonderful mysteries beyond his ken, But the microscope has rendered great service to the geologist in aiding not only in the solution of questions of purely scientific character, but in de- termining the character of butiding stones and contributing in other ways to theeconomic branch Of the science, THR USR OF POLARIZED LIGHT. Any one with an eye to color looking through the petrographer’s microscope would conclude too, that science had an msthetic side. S0 THE Stax reporter thought as his red over the deauttful object losed. teens glass that had Deen arranged for nim by Mr. Geo. P. Merrill of the National Museum. Mr. Merrill quickly dis. abused the reporter's idea that any slab of stone placed under any microscope would reveal to the eye crazy-quilt patterns of the richest colors. In fact, the aj ence of the stone under the micro- scope would be changed very little from the ordi- nary appearance. The bright colors ate produced by the use of polarized light. The microscope used by the petrographer is manufactured espect for him, and contains two Nicol prisms. A slab or rock-section examined through tne inicroscope without the prisms, may appear as one field of grayish or almost ¢oloriess matter, without any mnarking whatever. When the prisms are inserted Unis colorless fleld becomes marked all over with Irregular but sharply-defined marks, each little ‘Square, or diamond, or rhomboid, having its own bright color. “1 hirty years or madre ago in England rock sections were examined in transmitted light, Dut then the microscope, as applied to racks, was regarded as an amusing toy, ‘The main effort was to discover something novel or beautiful The Possibilities of microscopical petrography were not dreamed of. In later years in Germany and France, and now in this country, the value of the discovery thus stumbied upon fas been realized, ‘The variety of color and the grouping of crystals revealed by the microscope, revealed to tue ‘sclentist a new chapter in'the great book he has to study. He applied himseif at once to translating the strange characters written on these mictoscopic tablets. As he by years of eee labor and wide induction slowly determined sue Meaning of each color and form he was enabled Ww read new and wonderful chapters in the story of the earth, STUDYING ROCK CRYSTALS. The mineral constituents of rocks examined in transmitted light under the microscope exhibited ‘an altogether different character from that ordi- narily presented when microscopically examined, and the task of gradually fixing their idenuty in their new guise was slow and tedious, Through the agency of mic ‘ical petro phy mnuch has been added to our knowledge of he formation of crystals. Mr. Geo. Huntington Williams, of Johns Hopkins University, says that, the microscope now appears to afford almost the only hopeful means of dealing with the records of the crystalline strata of the earth, which undoubt- edly contain the longest, as they do by far the @arkest, chapter of its history, Much has already been accomplished in this diréction. ‘The micro- ‘scope has revealed differences in molecular struc» ture of rocks that appeared identical when sub- fected to chemical tests. | Rocks supposed to have n eruptive have been shown to be sedimentary, the difference in character from other sedimentary rocks having been ‘other conditions ‘ture, roduced by great pressure or fecting thelr molecular struc- ‘MAKING THE ROCK SECTIONS. An interesting part of the work of the petrogra- pher 1s the preparation of the rock sections or thin slabs intended for microscopical inspection. At the National Museum, under the charge of Mr. Merrill, 18 a small laboratory where these sections are made, From @ rock to be thus examined a small plece is chipped off. One side of this piece is ground flat and smooth on the fiat side of a large iron Wheel covered with emery or corundum. ‘Then the plece of rock 1s fastened upon a glass slide, the smooth or ground surface being applied to the glass and glued to it with Canadian balsam, which is transparent and colorless. ‘The other side of the stone is then ground down until the section 1s translucent and thin enough to suit the urpose of the geologist. A section 1s ground Gown to a thickness, orrather a thiuness, of oe five-hundredth or one-six-hundredthoraninch. It 4s then removed from the plece of glass on which it 4s ground to a glass slide and secured upon it by a Uttie square bit of giass, itself a marvel of thin- ness, that 1s glued over the rock sectlon with Can- auilah balsam. ‘Thin as the rock section, 1s It isa Solid mass, and not what It appears to the nak eye, a mere gritty spot, Where the eye distin guishes no form or color the microscope reveals Sutlines and shades of color. BUBBLES OF LIQUID IN QUARTZ. In a section of granite sliced to the thinness of Deaten gold leaf can be detected, between the sur- face little globular cells. Here and there in the quartz crystals are Uttle cells filled with clear, transparent liquid, and trembling and dancing 18 this liquid in each cell one can make out a little Dubble of alr, like the bubble in a spirit-level—air that has béen imprisoned since the time that chaos reigned. These little celia, with ther spark- ling bubbles, are so, sunall that oven under 8 icroscope of high power they appear as Targe as a pin head.” Tis liquid ty said to be con densed carbonic acid gas, or liquid carbon-dioxide. “When you put a piece of granite on a stove or upon some heated surtace,” said Mr. Merrill, “you can hear little spapping reports, ‘These are ‘a suc- cession of little explosions caused by the expansion of the gas.” ————_+e+____ A Plea for the Clerus, THE DISCRDUNATION MADE AGAINST THEM IN THE MATTER OF LEAVES. To the Editor of Tue Evexrxe Stan: ‘Within the past few days my attention has been called toa matter which, 1t occurs to me, should enlist the public sympathy of the entire American community, Who enjoy a reputation for fair play. refer to recent decisions of the heads of someof the Executive Departments to charge up against the inferior Government clerks absences from office caused by sickness, #0 as to deny them the cus. tomary thirty days’ leave during the year. This isa cruelty to @ deserving class of American workers Which should not be tolerated if it 1s possible to avold it And it must occur to the most casual observer that there1s a strange incon- sistency and inequality in a usage or rule which rmits the well-paid oMicials—the President, his Secretaries, or chiefs of bt for instance—to come and go at will without any suggestion of thelr salaries belng a while tue harder worked, and — often illy-remunerated clerk, is to’ be fined for fines, which 13 not seldom induced by labor in ill-ven- Ulated and unwholesome Government closet yelept offices, or deprived of his or her anni VYueation, ‘This is a matter which to our ouly yesterday that & gentleman high In oMcial position remarked to the writer, “The tarther you Secistamce you receives” He meant to" Bayt ‘that, Lan id after all, much of the actual hard and ecient clerks. ‘The worth and value to the ests of many of these clerks, male known to ail of us. And most of us recognize fact that among them too often are feeble mei ‘and deiicate women who are the sole bread-winners of many dependent families. ‘The literature of the juent ap} ‘work of the Departments was done by the yublic int female, 555 ON A SUMMER JOURNEY. Miss Grundy Gossips About Persons and Things in Passing. FROM WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS TO LONG BRANCH— SOCIAL LIFE AT TRE MOUNTAIN RESORT—LOVE IN A (COTTAGR—MRS. BUCKNER AND GEN, GRANT—WASE- INGTON IN THE SUMMER, Correspondence of Tre EVENtNa STAR. EN Route BeTweEN WHITE SULPRUR SPRINGS, W. Va, axp Lone Branou, N. J., July 7 Between the two charming resorts above named, one in the heart of the mountains, the other on the broad Atlantic, isa long and weary railroad Journey, Dut it has its pleasures, too, especially if ‘one stops over, as I have done, in Washington, TO me always the greatest charm about going away from my home in the latter city ts the anticips- ton of how happy I shall be to get back to tt Again, when cool weather renders it safe for me from a hygientc standpoint to dwell tn any city. But I would prefer Washington to ary other city, wherever located, if a town must be my tesidencs during the warm months. I have suffered far more with heat in New York and Boston than in Washington, Not only do Washington's wide ‘streets and many parks conduce to render a high ‘Yemperature more endurable, but the life being Jess restrained than ina northern city by unneces- Sary conventionalities, is a great mit tion of one’s sufferings in hot weather, one result of dis- pensing with the ogee rules of the northern cities being the privii of wearing thin white and colored frocks in summer on the streets, Which not only feel cool _to the wearers thereof, but look cool also, and offer a pretty contrast to ‘the green of trees and lawns in which Wasbington abounds, MISERY OF LIFE WITHOUT A NEWSPAPER. Tam delighted to be again where I can see Tam Stam regularly, for I get 80 much of the news Which spectally interests me, both local and gen- eral in every copy of Tue Stax that I cannot bear to miss one. Wherefore, had @ trying time in that respect at White Sulphur Springs, Greenbricr County, W.Va., for there seemed a special deter- Matnation on the of gome one in the employ of the Post-Office artment tO send TRE STaR where it was not directed. After ‘Missing four copies in the same week, three of them came, in Separate wrappers, the same day, stamged in the Post-Ottice “mis "though each had my full address plainly printed on it. One of J was SiX days in reaching me, and the others from three. to five days. Meantime, as no Washingion news- paper of any Kind came’to that place, and only one or tw York papers, and they had no Wash. ington news of interest, ¥ felt a8 if completely cut of from my friends, and [ tortured myselt by Seinen d that some of those for whom 1 cared most might bedead and I not know it; but when finally Tae STaRs came and no mention appeared Of those friends I felt certain they must be well, for if anything of importance had occurred to them. ‘THES would surely have given the facts, In glancing at a letter I wrote in 1872 from the White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, West Va., Which is the only one of the thirteen Places of ‘Uhat name in the two Virginias which I have ever visited, I find precisely the same complaint in it about the mails, especially the newspapers, failing ‘to come, or to come in time. But Unis is a’ retorm Administration, from which one has a right to ex- pect @ change from bad precedents. THE “FOURTH” AT WHITE SULPHUR. I spent the “glorious Fourth” at White Sulphur, and can testify that it was most loyally observed, and that the band played “ The Star Spangled Ban. ner” and “John Brown's body lies a mouidering,” &c., and other airs of which the truly loyal G. A. R. would approve, and not one tune which was aj plauded by Confederates during the war, The bi!l Of fare for a most excellent dinner was, to the last a riotic, and had for its frontispiece a anny stake, “John Bull,” whose tail went straight ‘up, With a blaze of fireworks at the end, while two Brothers Jonathan rejoiced, one of whom, in Con- Unental uniform, held aloft a fan-shaped biaze of glory. Meantime the American le and demo- cratic rooster posed gleefully in the near fore. ground. The eagle had an ancient aspect, but the bird of the democracy looked as if it might have been hatched only about March 4, 1885. I met a great many southerners and democrats while at the resort, which has long been a favorite with them, but heard none but sentiments sustaining the Union expressed. PERSONAL NOTES. Before Mra. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, met ‘With the accident mentioned in Tue Stak of June 27, which sprained her ankle, she had written to a friend in Washington that her health was very , and that she should later in the season go to rainy Springs Va, hoping to recrult the ‘The wife of Col. Kellogg, U.S. A., 18 to ch her nieces, the Misses Pettit, of Loulsville, who have visited her in Washington, at Une Wuite Sul- phur Springs this summer. They expect to meet there this week. The young ladies are to come from Louisvilie with Mrs, Richard Kobinson, their father's sister, Mr. Wickliffe Preston, who with bis baby and Burse are at the “Old Sweet a Tides over on horseback frequently to the te Sulphur, He ld so July 3 and 4. Hs wife, { elieve, has dence for the present, Senor Gana, the Chiltan minister, and his wife and children, are to occupy at White Sulphur Springs, trom July 15, a cottage between those of irs, Dennison (widow of ex-Postmaster General Dennison, of Ohio), and Dr. Dandridge, of Cincin- ba Mrs. Richard Weight of Washington, and her mother, Mrs. Jurey, of arrived at ‘White Sulphur Springs sur. Mr. Walter Davies, of Washi en route from Louisville, spent Sunday and July’ 4 at the White Sulphur Springs, and then joined his wife, Who Was visiting her sister, Mrs. Foster, Lees. burg, Va. They start to-day, Thursday, for Block Island, where they will spend the summer. Miss, Gay, Whose Shakspeare classes have been ‘80 great a source of pleasure and instruction to Washington ladies of allages, arrived at White Sulphur Springs a few days ago, after making a ‘Visit first to iriends elsewhere in Virginia. A Washington forist sold $3,000 worth of flowers. at White Sulphur in four or five weeks last sum- mer at the height of the season, when “swell” breakfasts from 11a. m.to3p. m., and dinners trom 8 p. m. to 1 a. m. were the rage there. ‘THE “IRISH CLUB,” which last July and August entertained so much at that place, 1s to hold its own again I hear at the same resort this y¢ Among its members are theson of ex-Postmaster General Dennison, of Columbus, Ohio; Col. Wm. Hauilton, the stepson of ex-Senator Williams, of Kentucky; C. H. Nutt, of Mississippi, whose brother lives in Washington; C. W. Dudicy, Miss ; Judge Glenn, Atlanta, Ga, and W. S. Hutchins, Washington. Tis cluboccupies, when at White Sulphur, the old homestead of the late Mr. Cald- we who formeriy owned the entire as his father ana grandfather had donc, cottage 4s just outside of and above the terraced rows of cottages, Including the one-story bricks, idealized as “Paradise Row,” in the grounds opposite the ‘Sulphur Spring. ‘There are three terraces in the Caldwell garden, each planted with flower beds and adorned with summer houses; from each terrace as from the dwelling itself is seen a most magnificent landscape. ‘The cottage has eight good-sized rooms, which are tur- ished, ‘4 COTTAGE WITH 4 HISTORY. The widow of the late Gen. Deas, formerly of Alabama, who for some time before his death lived in New York, as Mrs, Deas has since done, has one of the large colonnade cottages at White Sulphur, and her mother, Mrs. Lyon, of Aiabaina Sad (wb sisters are with her, and another sister, Sirs. Polk, whose husband is well-known New York physi- cian, will soon join them. The cottage is a two- story brick house, with & broad verandah, Sie cer naman erate en. 7 He was the. father of Senator Hampton. and used to arive to White Sulphur from South Carolina in his coach and four ant ‘Unirveen horses with him, as well a3 a retinue of servants and his im~ ne we family. The nished and os altered—only kept size and style in Colonnade row, and in ‘them President Grant and President Arthur stayed when at that resort, Presidents Filimore, who also visited White Sulphur, are lieved to have occupied one of these three cot- at the place, the late Mrs. Jones, of to that church an altar, or handsomely and appi ‘On its base 1s a brass house of her prayers, 1s. aff dedicated use bya friend. Born Nov. 22, 185%, ‘March 30, ‘The tablet 1s oval and fully 3 feet in length, border of marble is highly ornamental. ™~ | i Be A i nr i i ; : 3 remembrance.” : i i eee ae pee i i i i 4 17 8 k ited ai H it 8 i Ht ing bull, duly labeled, that there might be | In It to add to in It to ad to tte natural beauties ¢” .rrangement Speaking of and the tke tor newly couples, 1t may be mention that General and Mrs Bucktey have been living since their marriage in agentine log cabin it Hart County; Ky., 75 miles from Louisville, and not on any rail road ‘either. The cabin ts beautifully hited ‘up. It was there the baby was born, and tt was aiso Gen. Bucknor’s birthplace. Many valuabie places of Old fashioned furniture now adorn it.” Mra Buckner had there a very tall mahogany chest of drawers which has been an betrioom in ber family for a century, and has always been given as a Tueiling Previn, to one of the daughters, and at ch she received It two Fears ago, In June. She 18 descended from Gen. Washington's family Through both her parenta, who Were cousins. WRITTEN BY OEN, GRANT ON HIS DEATR-BED, She was with her husband when he called on Gen. Grant early in July, 1885, and saw him on his death-bed at Mount’ McGregor, Gen. Grant having asked to eee her. She has Gen. Grant's part in the conversation, which Was 10 writing, Of course, While his visitors’ Was spoken, and from what ho wrote as to harmony belmg established between the North and South, and his Tejolcing Mat he had lived to see it Gen. Buckner quoted in his first hin opening his present campaign tn Kentucky, ‘The writer saw the spy ot T this week on Which the dying ex-Presi= dent ad written—none of them are over four inches long—and was surprisnd to wre the Writ ins hough in lead pencil, stilt perfeotiy legible, and the An spite of the torture he who sed 1% Was then enduring, 80 elegant. There were no erasures of interlineations Some of the slips were addressed to Mrs. Juckner, and on one bit these he told her that he and ier husband had been together at West Point and also in. Mexhory and ascended Mount Popocatapett in the latter country together, of which ascent Gen, Buckner had long before written his descrip “While 1,” said Gen. Grant, “have just written my account Of it.” Mra. Buckner ‘Is preserving thes® sips on which Gen, rant wrote for her son. A copy, handsomely engrossed. on it and framed, of the resolution child of nominated his father for to besent by the committee ap convention to the babs's mother Springs Mrs, Buckney says sh the boy until he 1s old enough to ra will keep it Tully apprectate Mins GreNDY, ————s00 _ _ LIFE AT FOREST A Colony of Washingtonians Enjoying ‘Themecives at the Picturesque New Mevort, Correspondence of TRE EVENTRO Stan, Forest GLEx, Mowtoomenr Co., MD. July ®, The colony of Washingtonians at Forest Giem ow numbers some 140, and we feel that our rep- resentation from the city 1s suMictent In quality Af nov In quantity, to entitie us to be heard occa- sionally during our temporary absence. Every morning we send a contingent of fathers, hus bands, brothers, &e., to the city, and in the evens ing the ladies and children ston the broad vere Andabs of the hotel and watch for their return, the trains come rolling in to the station which 43 seen through the Vista of the fine old trees, As they come tn from the hot air of the city they tell Us that we look very picturesque, With the pretty outlines of the Queen Anne hotel as a back | ground and the thick rotlage jorest Trees as the frame work. But friends from the city Ob. | serve that the’ hotel nestling in the wooded heights 1s picturesque, and ‘so. perhaps 1% 4s Our surroundings after that aro. ine ant tended and not ourselves, Sull we are glad their brief absences, ‘The arrival event in the quiet ny to see them afte of the evening trains Is an routine of the summe ‘our children on the ve | woods where we can Glen, or sit by the side of Rock entiy murmuring over the sto intervals expanding The overhanging branches of the great trees, see nature In one of her most attractive phases here, and We enjoy the rest and repose which she alone can gi The tired workers trom the city enjoy tle cool nights, and 80 We are all gradually becoming very much at~ {ach to Forest Inn. ‘Then every week there ts a hop Which is entered into with a spirit by all ‘The hotel seems to us to have always been + and yet a year ago, I am told, the which now occupies Was d dense fordst. The company Which bought the one hundred acres known as Forest Glen ts composed, however, and the enterprise, witch ha wonderful transforination Ins due to their push and pluck, ¢ ber, Mr. A. 'T. Hensey, is tie wm though ‘he has had no experience’ in. the hotel business, his management’ hay elictted the praise, not only of the guests, but of experionced otel ‘men who have visited’ the Inn. Judging from what seems to be an almost constant Inquiry About the hotel, “Where is Mr. Hensey?” he ought to have several bodies, but us it Is he manages to attend to all the litte details as Well as the great ones which are connected with the management ofa summer resort. Although the hotel has Just opened, the managers are already talking of adde Ang another wing Lo accommodate the people who Would like to come ff there was only room. They will begin the erection at once of a building for ® bowling alley and a bliiiard room building for a dining room for ants, as he present accommodn days, Which we spend wi ahs or wa and then at to quiet pools, shaded by effected such & ch a short the, 1s eof their mutne nuger, and ale quate. urel AS this 18 @ Washington ent and as the guests are ail Wa: ple, We all feel very proud of the hotel, and only wish that there Was more room for others of out friends. Among the permanent guests at the hotel are the following: Gen, Keiton and family, and family, Jas. E. Bell and son, Geo.A.Cratchneld, Jay Stone and tainly, C. F. Myers and family, Henry L. Wilson and fami y 1. Wilson nity, Baward A. Demaray, Miss ne Holmes, W.&. Whitely, Jr. Dr. SUschoolty and wits, austin P, Brow id tamily, A.B. Buslinell, J. Anderson Joss and wite, Walter 8. Ayres, Geo, W. Rouzer and tally, Edward Fore rest, Mrs. ED. F. Heald, W. H. Towers and famlly, F.S. “Presbrey ‘and family, Mra, W. H. Spalding, Capt. Grimn and — wite Miss Carrie E. Sinith, Seymour W, Tulloch am family, George E. Eininons and” family, Mra, Martha A. Scott, Wn. B. King and wite,'W. Le. Finley and family, C. A. McEuen and family, W. Browning and wife, Mri M. Kent Hail, Frank F. Witteniore, Dr. H, B. Noble and wite jora Fuller, Miss Irene M. PF iges and family, Wm. C.K Mrs. J. I Ming Mrs.'S. HJ. McLaughlin, Miss S. M. on Pory, RC. W. THE JAPANESE PRISON SYSTEM, Mr. T. Baba Asserts that Bis Devcripe tiem was a Strict Statement of Fact, To the Eaitorof Twe Evexrxe Stan: Thave read with great curiosity avery vague and arbitrary asseruion made by a person calling him self Ninomiya, and professing to be a Japanese, in regard to the Japanese prison system. By a letteg, which 1s supported neither by experience nor fact, he endeavors to contradict what J wrote im our paper of the 25th ultimo, He evidently knowa nothing of the subject about which be writes What I stated in my communication 18 simple fact, and the result of my own experience and observa. tion. That ts to say, I described the construction and sanitary arrangement of the prison, the it for bathing, the treatment and mode of punishment of prisoners, the procedure of the Secret court, and stated tbe number of cages of ners and officers, and the quantity and of food, drink, and clothing. But Mr. Dases hls Jangument, simply on hid im: ‘and thus what he says hus no Whatever agalust, 4 strict stateueut of fact fike mine, Which can be testified to by many of my friends who are traveling in this couutry and by others in Europe, J have seen many prisons in England and tn this country, but these prisons are paradises compared With thé MUby Japanese prison, It isan estab. lished fact, Well known to every educated 3 that the present Japanese government Goes not recognize auy difference between pollti- cal and common offenders. Tils Was proved in the recent case of Kono and seven others, whe ‘were punished by seven years’ Imprisonment, for tical offense, “They were arrested inthe ‘of Fukusina with about fifvy ouhers and conveyed ison in Kajibashi. They were scattered through the whole prison, as Itis the rule of the Japanese prison never to keep two scoomplices in one cage. They were all placed in ‘the same cages With murderers and Ubleves of the ‘Worst character, and were treated in the same Way as these. ‘Again, Mr. Ninomiya shows his utter ignorance of criminal procedure when he attempts to Justify the Japanese secret court by saying that such @ eystem exists in European countries, Such 4 6» cret court as that of Japan, where &, prisoner is threatened by # judge, deceived by false promises Of mercy, or sometiines Lortured by being nade to Stand bours and hours in a severe winter with trom, bale i ! d H Hl i “ll Hi ib nl a ll d ] f F : i ii I # | f ff