Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1888, Page 2

CITY AND DISTRICT. THE NATIONAL GUARD, Otheers to Study Lecal Problems— Netes from Headquarters. ‘The school of officers will be held on Wednes- day, October 10, 1888, at 8 o'clock p. m., and on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month thereafter, in the officers’ room at National Guard Deadquarters, corner of Peunsyivanla avenue and 17th street. It is proposed to make the school of Officers more Inveresting than 18 possible when devoted to rectiations In tactics, The most likely duty that the National Guard may be called on at any time to perform 1s that of alding the civil au- thorities to enforce the laws. Their next duty in order of likelihood and importance 1s that of re- sponding to a cali of the President for the tempo- rary deieuge of the country in case of insurrection or invasion. Their bi.hest duty would De, in the ease of such insurrection of invasioa culminatio In war, to be the nucleus of a voluateer army ani to Twnish tue non-commissioued and commis- Sioned officers for it. Tue duties of officers of the National Guard should be directed to thelr duties in each of the contingencies named. Wasuiogton ts, possibis, the least likely of any large city in the country fo need the assistance of military power to euforce the c.vil laws, Never. theiess, a8 street riot duty Is an essential part of Whe education of officers of the Nuthonat Guafd, nd as Ils principies can be best learned by the Study of local prubiems, one night each month ‘wil be devoted exciusiveiy to (hat purpose, The course of study will be by giving prictical prob. Jems to which every coumanding officer wil be Tequired, aud all other officers invited to present a Written ‘answer the following month. ‘These 8o- Jutions will then be read aud discussed without Igakiog knoWa the names oi (be authors Tuey Will thea be referred to the gen-ral staff for we elucidation of the best points tor each solution ‘nd for tormuiacing with tbeir aid the best solu- Won Of the problem, whicu payer Will be read at we following meeting Wita verbal comments and struction by the brigadier general commanding. ‘The result thus obtained will be carctuliy pre- served for future use iu case the emergency which ‘Was Ube subject of the proviem si ever arise. service, aad to awaken in them an interest in tue military profession beyond the mere practical knowledge of the drill, a series of lectures wii. be given by the aujutant-geueral on the art and scteuce of War. ‘Tne several companies of the National Guard Bave been successively inspected as to their pro- Hetency in the school of the soldier aud the school Of the squad. On the 15th of Uctober they are Lo be inspected in the school of the company. The Marking will be as heretofore, but tue proficiency ‘Will be expressed by wn tise ed the figure of effectiveness. This differs trom the Mgures of eficiency used at tue las. Laspection driils, in that the mark obtained wil. be muluplied by the total attendance that it will acgregats, insiead of by the percentage of attendance. ‘The companies of the National Guard are all Practicing for tuls event, each with the determin ‘ation of rivaitng the other. Owing to the great dimiculty which many of the companies labor under to their swall armortes Most Of tueir drilling will Lave 10 be done In tue street. ‘Tne following regulations relative to the forma- tons and parade of tue National Guard hive been laid down by Gen. Ordway : “fhe formation of the columa for street parade will be as 1ollows: Brigadier-general coumanding. General staff 6 yards in rear of (ue general, ia the oruer of rai {row right to lett, In ove or more ranks, as May be directed. General non-commissioned staff, 3 yards in rear Of the generai staff, in one or more ranKs, | ag may be direc.ed. Engineer compauy, 12 yards im rear of the general non-commissivned ‘staff. | Signal company, its company iront and 6 yarus | additional ia rear of the engineer company. Ambulance company, on the flanks and rear of ( Drigade, as muy be ‘directed. Brigade bund, 12 Yards in rear of the engtueer company. Colonel of Une leading regiment, S yards in rear of tue Dri band. Lieuteaaui-~covnel, 1 yard to the righ 3 yards in tue rear of the colonel; adjutant, 1 Vo tue leit and 3 yards in rear of ue colonel, Regumental staff, except the adjutant, 6 Futds in Tear of the coion |, 1n the order of rank (rom right to left on a line equal to tue front of the column. Major of lirst battaiion, 8 yards in rear of reglmen- tai staff. Buttauon staff, 3 yards.n rearot tue major, 1a the oFder Of rauk frou rygut tO left, om a | lage equat to the irunt of the coum, ‘Captain | Of ieading company, 6 yards in rear of battalion staf. Nou-cowmissioned staff of battalion, 3 YaFds ip rear Of ihe iie-closers of the rear com- any of the battaliou, in the ordet of Tank from Fight to left, oa a lie equal to tue frombot tue | columa. Major of second battalion a2 Yards ia Fear of non-commissioned stail of Nek Bat 3 Secona and Unrd battulica of resiment ‘asaipe | order of lormation as prescribed (Or a6 Hist, Odt- | tauion. Nou-comumissioued sail of regiment, 6 Yardsin rear of ie uoo-comiassioged Gull erthe | Fear battalion of the Tf gefent, in the order of Famke Foun right to lef a ine equal to tue front | of the comma. fel of the secoud regiment, 24 the mi issioued Stall Of ths ud succeeding regi. ‘lu same order of formation as prescrived he first regiment. lavependent ‘datialions Will ve formed in Wwe mauner prescribed for vat- Talions of regimenis, except thac Luey Wil take tae same interval us prescribed between regi- | ments. In Case regimens are allowed to parade With wusic in the column, the music will Lake post 24 yards ia rear o¢ tue receding reciment and tue culones 6 y rds in rear of tac music.” ‘The following enlisted men of we National Guard have been honorably discharged: Sergeants Sam’ L. Dickson ana J. W. Beader, corporal Auvert Tate, and Privates HM. M. Dougias, W. E Dumia, T. F. Young, Gus Hurtig, F. U. Riggles G. H. Barhestoa, D. A. UDounell, S.C. Tucker, We He Howitt, Jr. Wan Werner; ‘Sergeant AUraliaus Acwit.,, Sergeant Wit. H. Nash, Privates Ewul L. Schwakop. Disuouorabiy discu.rged: Joun E. Bieusoe, W. E. Clarke, C. A. Cooper, F. J. Land- voigat, and BG. Luiz. Liewl Horace Durant has been granted four months’ leave of absence. Batiery A, of the National Guard, is rapidiy Progressing ip its organization. At the election, held a few duys ago, the folowing omf-ery were Glected: Capi, Artuur Yates; lot Ueut, We. Mellacu; 2d ueut., Alfred P. Kubvina. ‘Commencing on the 15th proxiuo, the light bat tery, the slguai corps, and the compan.es of Lotans try, will be practicaily examined O¥ te widanc general, ase.sted by Capt. D. LM. Pelxouo, atde- die-camp, as Wo eur proficiency ln theseuoul of ue company. Gen. Ordway has prepared two of the problems that he proposes Lo submit to the school of oiicers Usls Winter for soluUiun, Oue is [or “Tue Devense Of the Treasury Department Bulluing;” the other for “rhe Deieuse of te Ballimore and Potowas Railroad.” All of the conditions of the probiems are given With elaborate detail, and It Is expected (ual the officers Wid derive muck pleasant suudy from them. \ Requisition has been made for two Gatling guns | and two howitzers for tue Ligut Battery. Tue second battal.on proyoce to establish a rifle Fapge at Anacuslia and to do a consideravie auvUnt Of praccice be1or. culd Wea: her. Fifteem bunured b.ouses have jus: been recetved, and as soon as caps arrive, issues of wntiorms will | Ue Made Lo compitely outne tue whuie brigade. Tue arum corps Look possession last nyght of the | Toom that bas been ied uy jor them ac uead- Quarters, aud are wucu piesAd at tae Liberal pro- | Vision that Bs be-a made for thei uy tue gener. | Osity Of Lue general and luis siail. | Before beginaing the scovi of way contempisies baving ah “opening” of tne now uarlers, to Wicd We Wii Invive prowl. eut citizeus to meet the ofivers of lie National | Guard and Wo see Wuat earnest eNtoris are Delag made to creale a mullary iorce o1 Wie Lue city may feel prudd agsoa Wack It mgat’ depend, Very few citizens sei to kuow tuat instead ot Delug paid fur services, Lis ulcers ang wen OF the Natioua: Gud give not ouiy very inueu cine DUt wigo Day aud Lue EXpeuses of Lhe Orghuization, ‘Strong effort will be made to secure trom Con §ress suMcieat appropria.ion to eaabie ihe whole Origade Wo gu intocainy v1 President Wh: versity To the Editor of Tux Evasaxe sr. The able and iugtructive arucie by President Andrew D. White, whicu appeared in tue June number of The Forum, deserves the special atten- © of the eitizeus of Washington, The urticie in juestion polnts out the necessity that exists for a true palional university for tuis country at Wash- lugtoa, tells the special work that it ought vo UuderCske, aD Bales $5,000,000 oF #10,000,00 as the sua ‘required for tue proper eudowuent of Such ap Insutulon, He expresses tue condent | hope that sume eauigateued tnillonaire may soon | furnish the money required to carry ius plaa Into eect, The great institution whicu President | ulte advocats $9 Inteuigeutly would obviod ly | have a Vast influence Upon tie prosperity of tins | capital, It would therefore be very. ‘up. | propriate for our citizens to take preliun. Bary Weasures looming Wo its establisuunent bere. | Aichougn Luis city cauBol be expected tw luruisi | ‘We lange tund needed for tke eadowment of tae Proposed ualversity, it would be pracucable to | Faise bY Subscripod a sum suMicient Wo purchase site for it, and to erect « building in whicu the ork Of Organizing tue imstitutou could be cou. e Less aan tuls we ougut ot todo. Har- Gone tls inuch {OF GUrseives We mmigut expect frow abroad. Sucu scliun 0 tae part OL OUF eluizeus Would be a strong appeul to sume liberal- mmlnded ws.donaire Wo lik bis baie aud Laine for- ever wiu lass great and beautifui capital by en- dowing ie wulveraity nere. At an early day anotuer article will in the Forum from the pep of Presideut Wa te ou the subject, Wuch will present “Ue arguments fot a euculdg univyrsity in tue city of Wasbing- Yon.” ‘The author's ‘distunguished rank as an abe Writer abd practical educator will secure the ‘Widest aliention and tue most careful cousidera- for what be may say upon tue Ln lope that be proposes w uvat, His essay will douBK.e8s Close the era of discussion and ope that Of practical Work. Wile Ube project lor a bational university bas Leen adv ers Gen. Or: f i ; j i : : | that Mr. Lincoln should not be inau BUCHANAN AND LINCOLN. Recollections of an Old Attendant at the White House. 4 CASE IN WHICH MR. BUCHANAN COMMUTED A DRATE: SENTENCE—A CRANK WHO WANTED PROTECTION— PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S INAUGURATION—BUSY TIMES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR. “The inauguration day of 1857 furnished a case for President Buchanan's clemency later on,” said the old attaché of the White House whose reminis@ences of other administrations have been published in Tue Stam “A young Marylander had been whipped, and threat- ened to kill one of his assailants on sight, Both Parties attended the inauguration, and the as- Sailed party going into @ restaurant for refresh- ments saw the other, Who, not wishing to get into }@ dimcuity, was making for the door, but before he reached {t he was shot and killed. In the course of @ few months the young man was sentenced to be hanged, Some time after,” said the old attaché to a Srax reporter, “a lady and her daughter, the motuer and sister of the young man, came to ‘be White House to secure a commutation of sent- eace—to save his life. The attendants ascertained Unat they had no petition, and toid them that it Was useless to see the President without having some papers on which to base action, and suge gested that they prepare a petition. "This sug. gestion they accepted, and I afverward Wold the President what I had done, ‘Tuat 19 right,’ said Old Buck. I dent Want to see people coming to me and kneeling and crying. Ido not like te tral it gives me Wuen they have their petition ready I “will give the case attention.’ Ina little time they had a peution prepared and returned. I'll never forget Cue impression the mother and sister made upon me and Tmade up my mind to do all I couid for them to my bumble way. When they came back the President was told by me that It was a heart- fending case and that they were waiting to see him. ‘Let them tn,’ said the President,and I could see that he nerved himself for meeting received them courteously, took the and in- formed them that the case w referred by the Attorney-General to the district a United ‘States attorney at Baltimore as Standing of the parties, &c., and when those 's were received they would be notified. hursday before Black den, tue marshal, Secured the influence of Hon. W. Pinkney Whyte, Of Baltimore, and they were at the President's house that morning. Tue President, wien I asked if be would see tue mother and sister, was appar- ently inciined to deny “heir request,’ and I said: ‘Ob, Mr. President, if you couid only see that mother ‘and her daughter it would your heart.’ That 1s Jus what I am afraid of, he re- PI co the gallows, for. wit rr the President the words “I'l do what I can’ meant something. I had seated the ladies in the Toom, where Ley would be out of the way of coming and ‘and although they endeavored Yo conceal their ‘feelings, any one could see that they labored under gre 't excitement. came down I said: ‘Madam, there 18 hope, and your boy Will not be hanged.’ ‘You ought to have szeu them; they brightened up once, and when Col. Whyte came down be expressed lis belief that the boy would not ule the Scaffold. ‘Though the power was 10 the Pi devt to respite, comuute or pardon, he was one of those Who, In thatters of Iie and death, preferred Uhe advice of his constitutional advisers. On that 08 E ° i i iE | day the Cabinet was caled aud considered the case, and w.tuout concluding tuey adjourned for "an evening session, ‘great dim. culty in tne case, so I have understood, Was the previous threats made to the deceased, However, a couciusion was reached at (he evening: session, and when Judge Black came down about 9 o'clock he said to some of the attendants, ‘I've Saved the boy.” I believe that he did as much as any one else, and tuat it was be who argued a majority Of bis fellows to @ support of the wishes Of tue President. Shortly after a messenger was cailed, and Mr. Buchanan s.ying, ‘the young ras- Cal's life 1s saved,’ direcied Uhat tne c: bein walling at 8 o'clock in Une moroing, and that the Privaie secretary be ready to secure the proper papers. This was necessary because the marshal, Mr. Seiden, Was a prompt man, and th« hours for the execution of the sentence bad been Gxed at from 9 to 11 o'clock. You .ee that whatever red taj necessary had Yowe- ‘Speedily applied. Avs of ‘fi tue moroing the earrlage Was ready Sad the papers were prepared ‘at oner 2 the state Department and signed by the President aud Secretary 01 Siate. Taen we ve fo the jall, at tue corner of G and 4th streets, that Js as ‘nedr as we could, for tuere was a crowd around it, but it wus an orderiy one, It was With the greatest difficulty that the police could make ap Oyeulng, apd bad the crowd known the errand We Were on We might not have reached the Office. Well, we reached tne jall, and the private secretary handed the docuinent to Mr. Seden. Tue gallows Was ready, and the mother and sister had taken their farewell, having given up all bope. ‘Ibe condemned man aod his spiritual advisers were op their kaees in the pi le Of- Res. be marshal Rud made Dis detaii for the procession to palows, a each map had been assign his part. As soon u3 Mr. Selden received the document from tue White House there was much rejoicing among the iriepds of the Culpeth bat the crowd oucside Was sadly disappointed, young man went to (he penitentary, then near the Arvenal, aud during the war weat 1n.0 tue service.” AN OLD TIME ORANK. suppose,” continued the veteran, “from the Prominence giveu nowadays to cranks found about the White House that people think we had no such characters in olden times. We had them too, but they Were not so uumerous as now. Did you ever hear of the Freemason crank? Well he Was were during Oid Buck's verm, snd he had the idea that the Freemasons were after him. He came to the White House and endeavored to get the President to order ou. the Army to protect him, We tried toexplain to him ‘that the Presi dent could not order out the Army to protect an individual, and sent bim to the mayor. He weat vo the city Hail, but fulled vo get sutisfaction and came back. Toe President gave him an audience, and explained lo him his powers uoder the Con- stitution. Tue man then left, ‘that he would deteud wee He — directly Ltr corner of 10th and E streets, and shooting a cro Upree men were wounded in the legs. He was then sent to St. blizabetu, and be was taere until a tew Fears ago.” ‘Mr. Buchanan was criticised for allowing the preparations for war to be made by the Southern people,” continued tue veteran. “How could he heipgi? Did be not do ail he could to preserve peacR ‘There was no man in the country who 60 dreaded What seemed tnevitable—war. He, how- ever, Went 30 Lar as to have troops ere to t the ‘capital—three batteries of artillery and a company of sappers and miners, all the wale he was hoping that something would result from the peace congress which would avert the war. I remember that that broke up in a ow on the might of the 3d of March. Mr. Lincola had called White House to pay his respects that day, and be was at once shown upstairs to the office, There had been threats but Mr. Buciiaaa promised Mr. Lincoin that he sould see that be was, and he did When, atter the retura from’ the Capitol, the reached the avenue front tue cause of any tear he had for House then than before. ‘The house might be said to be open atallhonrs, Mr. Lincoln tried to see all who called and would have had the doors and have allowed himself too little ti ness if left to himsif, but his friends a: tendants made some sort of rules. There tectives about the crowds were ci nds and ofiice for the night, return on an intimation that Some one had important business for hin, Hie acted more on his own than some of his had about as much responsibility as one man was ca.ableet shouldering. I remember the case of a Young soldier who had for th- third time deserted ‘and Was under the sentence of death by shoo On each ovcasion the Gevertion was immediately after pay day, and when drunk. His mother came here trou New York with & letter thom the Degying her to see the President and save not allow himn to be put to death as rank, athe beat coeageme when rank at ext ni would welcome death. came trem to the Waie House and told me ‘The President was about leaving for a asked lim: ‘Cannot you 5 SECS capa! "Ss Bee” oe that he may he answered the honest old man, ‘afver iboking st ‘the letter hastily, he Cy ‘Uhis man’s Case Is. and the man is wrote: 4 Ei i were Whitney and Mack, and Tener, Van Haltren and Darling, The home team flelded miserably, and after Tener had pitched for three innings he gave up and let Van Haltren twist the ball. The fourth inning was @scorcher for Chic:go, the Senators making 4 Tuns, They had already made four in the frst, and the fourth settled the game. In the first Hoy ‘scored on a base on balls, a steal and a number of errors, Myers, Daily ang O’Brien i ling the bases. Daily ventured too far off second and ‘was caught, it Mack proved his worth a moment later by clearing the bases by shard home-run liner vo Ube c:ub-house. In the fourth Donnelly went to first on being hit, Fuller then went out, but Shoch ven a lite by Pieffer's misplay. Donnelly scored by Whitney's and Hoy’s hits, nd these two men came in on Dally’s hard hit. The Ansonites could not bunch their hits. They made 11 hits and 5 errors, to 7 nite and 0 errors DY tne Senators, cl took the second game in six innings, 10 to oO. Datteries were Krock and. Daly and O’Day, Arundel and Mack. Arundel broke a fi inviue arta Jnning and was forced to retire Krock was very effectiv:, while O'Day = ished terribly. Washington made 2 hits and6 errors to 11 hits and 4 errors by Chicago. Philadelphia scored in the ninth and defeated the Hoosiers, 3to2. The batteries were Bufling- ton and Clements and Burdick and Buckley. in- Core made 6 hits and 1 error and Philadel- phia 7 fiits and 6 errors, ‘New York and Detroit Bing, when the game was called on acovunt of ny was cal r Garwness, The b tteries were Keefe, Murphy and O'Rourke and Getzein and Ganzel. ‘Detroit made 4 bits and 1 error and New York 6 hits and 1 error. Pittsburg defeated Boston, 2 to 1, by scoring a Tun in the tenth inning. The batteries were Morris and Carroll and Radvourne and Tate. Pittsburg made 8 hits und 6 errors and Boston 4 hits and 2 errors. At Cinctnnati—Brooklyn, 6; Cincinnati, 2 At Loulsville—Atuletics, 7; Louisville, 4. ‘THE CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD. eS Won. Lost,, Association. Won. Lost. 73 42| St. Louls c) ‘52 @ tie game, the end of the ninth in- SESE SSSAte % 76 1% “4 ‘During the past week the Senators have played six games, winning taree a maing tares, ls ‘& very good record, and gives ragement hat when the boys come home they will suow up good form and capture the coveted seventa before the fall of the curtain, In Indianapo- Tuesday they took twogames,one luckier and ie other by heavier batting. ~The first score was to3, Whitney and Burdick being tne pitcners, he second score Was 8 (o 5, the pitchers being Keefe and Healy. This brilliant feat was equalled by the Chicago team on Thursday, Anson taking two games from the Senators. The first was a Waterloo, 11 to 0, Chicago batting O'Day horribly, While the Statesmen could not touch Dwyer. ‘The score of the second game was 5 tol, Kecfe and jumbert being the pitchers. In these ‘six games the Senators made 24 runs, 33 hits and 16 errors, to 36 runs, 58 hilsand 16 efrors by their oppouents. Daily nis done the most batting of ine week, making 6 singie bits in@ games. Wilmot did the & 32 ea hardest batting, with 4 hits and 7 bases in four ames, O'Brien made Ssinglesinsix games, Hoy Pitts in six games und Fuller an Donnelly, 3 hits and 4 bases tu siz games, Mack astonished everybody yesterday by his Donnelly bas signed: play with Spaulding in f ‘wiuter, ee 3 Australia tals Arundcl's’ accluent yesterday will cripple the ‘teain somewhat; but with tue aid of Bannon, ‘Troy’s catcher, who is to be Drought nere wit Haddock and Sweeny, 1. 1s Ukely that the club Will be able to pull tarough the season. In the six games played his week Fuller put out 13 men and made 14 assists with 2 errors, ‘Myers made 10 pul-oats, 28 assists and 2 errors, ——— TE! MATIERS, ‘The Tournament at Highlands Next Week—Other Points of Interert, A tennis tournament will be held on the grounds of the Highland Country Club, beginning next Tuesday, and continue through three days. ‘The arrangements tor this tournament have been made by the Silver Spring Country Club 1n conjunction with the Highland Club, Dr. F. P. MacLean, the secretary and treasurer of the Country Club, states that the club is the only representative in the National Lawn ‘Tennis Association in the South, The grounds have been prepared by the Highiand Club, and the pluyers trom abroad who have been invited to come here will stay at the club house, Among those whom Dr. MacLean e: ects will take part in the tournament are: F. L. V. Hoppin and A. L. Rives, of Newport, R. F. Mawstield; of Boston; . A. Shaw, champion of Harvard College; H. A. Ditson, of the Loagwood Club, Boston; A. M. Post, of Baltimore, and otuers, The prizes are a3 follows: A handsome solid silver bowl, valued at $200, which will be given by the National Lawn Tennis Association, to be con- nal property, The second prize in singles isk handsome ailige: tor di Case, with sterling silver Mitung, valued at ‘The first prize in doubles cousisis of two gold-mounted French clocks, valud at $80, and the second prizes in doubles are antique bronze Mons, ari ‘second coi ments have been made for first and on prizes in singles and doubies players from this city who bave given vy Dr. MacLean as follows: Mr. Chas, MeCawiey, secretary of the Southern Lawn ‘Tennis Assocta.ion, who will play in doubles with @ Northern partner; Mr. Oscar Woodward, Dr. J. L. Worcman. Douglas Dyrentorth, F. P. MacLean, and Mr, Sheibley, of the Country Lawn Teams Ciub; Mr. Frank’White, Mr. Pierre W: an and Mr, Emmett Morris, of tue Highland Country Club; Messrs. R. B. Brown and Oris Brown, of the Ar.ington Club; Meysrs Joun Davidson and Met calf, of the Bachelors’ C.ub; Messrs, ‘Tnrock- morton and Cheiton, of the Columbia Athleuic Ciub; Messra, Wooten, Alex. Britton ‘and H. Dodge, ofthe Taviague Club; Mr. H. W. smith, of the ‘Twilight Cluv; Messrs, Borden and Borden and Meters Clarence and Eugene Bryne, of the ic biuo; Messrs. and Good- fellow, of the Par and Kear club, DNTEN-OLUB TOURNAMENT, ‘The tournament of the Kenesaw, Krinon and ‘Taviaqui Tennis Clubs was begun Thursday even- ing, and the games so far have resulted as fol- lows: Gentlemen’s singles—Sturtevant, of the Krinon, deat E. A. Byrges, of the Kenesaw, 62; Britton, of the ‘raviaqui, beat stephens, of the Krinun, 6-1, 2-6, 6-5. Fi evening sture- ‘Vant oeat Briton 4-6, 6-2, 6-5. Unfinished games Ditween Dodge, of the ‘aviaqui, and Ciarence Byrnes, of the’ Kenesaw, and doubles between Wootet and French, of thé Taviagu, and Pattison of the Krinon, will ‘ve continued rening.” Ladies’ ween Misses Wilianson asd Burnet of the Taviagul and nent doubies, between Siurtevant “and Sey of the Krinon, and Byrnes und Byrnes, Of the Kenesaw, will be played this evening. The Husted and Noah, of ladies’ doubles "are Misses ‘THE RACQUET CLUB TOURNAMENT. At the Racquet Club’s Lawn Tennis Tournament, 2121 Letreet, last evening, the Georgetown Heights defeated the Maples in doubles by a score of 8, 0, the defeated the woods io. slagles, 8 ‘fhe above double was by de- i. Mr, Sheibley being still too tll to single between R. B. Brown and the winner of this Tiicare oigae ues ear ead area a Goudles to be played on after i 2 & ee pee SaaS ae THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY, Pref, Prector on Great Plagues of History. ‘THE WORRORS OF ANCIENT EFIDEMICS—THE RAVAGES OF PESTILENCES IN ATHENS AND IN THE ROMAN EMPIKE—THE TERRIBLE LONDON PLAGUE 80 VIV- IDLY DESCKIBED BY DE FOR, [The article that follows, written for Tux EVEN- imo Stan by the iale Prot Richard A. Proctor, 1s beileved to be the last literary work by Prot. Proc- tor. Aside frou: the general interest of the suuject treated the article has a prcullar Interest trom the that the author biméelf tell a. vietim to the low fever soun after peaning the words here printed): ‘Yellow fever though not in reality a more de- structive disease, even in tne places where it 18 apt to prevail, tuan some others which are more familiar, 18 More suggestive of the idea of pesti- lence than any existent disease, and more strik- ingly recalls, when it appears in a rully-developed form, a8 ten years ago in New Orieans and Mem- phis, the horrors of the ancient plague, There 18 ‘something in the insidious nature of its approach, {ts fell action in the worst cass, and the despair which seizes even trom the beginning the larger number of its victims, which reminds us ot what we have read respecting the plagues of Athens, of Florence, of London, in the days of old. Iam told by those Who witnessed the fight from Jackson- ville, Fla., a short time since, wuen first the ap- pearance of yellow fever in’ tht town had been Announced, ‘that the behavior of many of the refugees Indicated absolutely panic terror, though, fas it turned out, not one among the Wuole num Der had ven infected by the diseuse, 80 that the isk Individually run by that panie-stricken crowa. wnile In the town from which they were fying must have been small. I, may be intere@ing to recall a few of the fea- tures of the great. piagues and pestilences of his- tory—af for no other Feason for this, that men may see how light even the worst infections of the kind during this century have been by compari son, THE PLAGUE OP ATHENS. ‘The account given by Thucydides of the plague of Athens, twenty-three centuries ago, suggests scene of fearful horror. ‘The origin of ‘the plague 1s noteworthy in the light of modern theories and Giscoveries respecting alsease girms, ‘The Spar- tang, having overcome the Athenians tn the Held, Tavaged Attica while nearly ail’ its Inbabllants Were closely snut up within the walls of Ath. os. Whether the germsot the disease had already been conveyed to Atuens, or whether spreading la Ube alr, they foundin tue overcrowded, sorrow stricken Clty w favorable feig for thelr development can- hot be learned. It was said that the plague nad {tsorigin in Etulop.a, ‘the region now including Abysainia, Nubia and the SouJan, and Wad traveled Ubeuce by Ezypt and Asia Minor to Athens. BUL lis rapid development in Atuens would certainly seem to suggest that is plague (and, probabl therefore others) depended on surrounding cont Uous for its development. This pesillential tever began with heats in the heud and luflammation tn ‘tue eyes, The tongue and throat became bloody and the. breath Tedd, Sneezing and heavy coughing, hiccoughs, and spasms marked the progress of the disease. "Couc and inteuse pain supervened. ‘The skin became Ted, ulcers formed here and there, and although Uhe internal fever was intense tue skin was cold. ‘Thirst Wu8 Unquenchable, and intense pain ren- dered sleep impussivie. ‘The tate of the patient Was usuaily decided by or betore the seventh day, ath yenerally closing his‘sufferlugs between the seventh .nd the natu day. Few survived, and for & large proportion of Lhuse who did life Was worse than death, since eliuer they were wholly crippled OF the digedse left them with tmlud iimpaired und memory gone. No remedy was tound (or the dis- ease, and Une helplessness of the physictans caused @uexpondency amoug those wuo Were altuck®d which rendered tue mortality largely .reater tan Otuerwise 1t Would probabiy have been, But most Of those attacked Were Jeft untended, for tt was found that few amoug the attendants on the sick escaped, $0 that ouly thuse of oravest anu most generous minds dared tue risk of nursing even Ghost dearest Lo thei, Ib wus imposs.vie, crowded as the Deeaguered city wast aeep Vie bealtay apart irom toe sick. “Hundreds fucxed around each Of Lue public JouliLains to allay thelr raging Cuirsi. | ‘The Woxaples were fled wila corpses, for At Wastin possibie to get Ube dead couveyed Lo suit bie places of taterment. SHALLOWNuSS OF PAGAN FAITH. At such Umesof uorror religidu, it has been sometimes thougut, should exercise a more potent Sway than usual Tne reverse, however, has al- ways happened. In countries wnich we call hea- th 0 or pazan, because heir religion has been un- like our oWa,'In countries whicn, thougu Chris- Han, We reguru us wot of the true faith because theif view of Chrisuanliy bas been unilke ours, and in countries Wuudse creed has Veen that WhicL. We ourselves proiess, whenever piague or pestl- ience has appeared, religion, excep. among a very few, has invarlaviy died out. ‘Tue shalwness of the'taith Walch most men” have professed with their lips bus been suown by tue Utter disregard Which hearly all have shown for its tenets, “The Dees in a hercatver uas been shown to be but a mockery Witb Ube great majority of those Who had most COnfigently expressed UaciF taity in it, Whereas the assurance of death sould produce in healthy minds ne Very reverse of the ides, “Let Us vat and drink, for Lo-inoi row we die”—wuecher Ube to-morrow Ve gurative or teral, in mes of plague aud pestiieuce, When all men Leel Lhe prob. ‘fabie bearness of death, aud eveu where most con- fuent are reminded Of 1s certainy ab no ve.y distant date, the majority invariabiy turn to FOL ous living. ‘Tuey seck vo ll wat remains to them Of ile witu all the sensual pleasures tbey can crowd into {t. Thus, as in Atuens, wuring the Ume of horror so grapuically described by Aucy- diues, riot and devauchery prevalied unceasingiy. Gruss dissipation aud LumuiuoUs revoiry Went On in such Sort tual but ior Lue signs of death and disease every wnere prevalent a stranger entering Que city might have luwayived that il Was a tue Of wild iejolcing over some great nadcnal Uri- Uumph. Men coumitted crimes from wach at Oluer Umes tue lear of the law would have de- wrred Uuem; ior tne law bad no cerrors where nature Ubredteued an earier punishment than any legal process could inflict. A» ley saw the vod aud the bad, tue openly protane and the pro- lessedly pious stricken down impartially, uey Jost ail beulet In Lue coutrol of the gous, and there Ture Saw nO reason Lo deny Ubeinse.ves Wuuwever Pleasures Luey could obuain, ‘Thucydides says Uuat during the plague, there died wituin ue units of tue elty of Auiens, then a3 now but a smail city, no Lewer than 5,000 of the soidiers, und of the Uluer inhabttants & uuu. Der Woo great Lo be reckoued, A HUNDR.D MILLION DEAD. Very striking 1s Une contrast between the plague of Atuens, affecting culefly a singie city and last- ing but a short ume, and the plague which ex- tended with varying degrees of intensity trom Persia to Gaul in the relgu of Justinian, lasting no sess Luan UuIFLy years, and vesiroying (accoruing Lo an estimate wiiich Cue uistorian Gibbon did Bot Consider exuraVagany) uo tewer Lan 100,000,000 Of human beings—a Lumber not much less Laan (he entire population of Great Britaln and the United states. 4u Chts long-lasting and most terribie piague the features Of Lue diseuse Were quite Undke what had been noticed during the plague of Athens, Proco- pits S.udled 11 vou a3 historian “und “phyaiciaa, lu vst cubes the mind Was fist attacked, anxious fears and saddening visions seeming to overpower the Teasoning Cuculues But usually a mid iver Was te Mrst sgn of nlsch. ef, wo.bung tn Its ear.er ogress suggesting any serious danger. Betore long, uowever, the glands beneath the ears, under tue drun-pits, dud 1p the groin sweuled alarmingly, eepeciauy as tuese swellings Were soon recuguized ag signs ut tue dreaded pia.ue Lever aad indeed. Seized Its Vicuun, ‘The sweilings Decaine Lunors, Within Wuich 4 hard dark sistance as large a & bean Was formed. If \uese tumors remained hard nu dry, blood polsoning followed, and on or about Une M18 day from Une setuin, in Of tue disease tue Pallent died. uLif the Lumors sorvened and sup- Purated, Lhe venom 0: the plague seemed vo ve dis ‘cuarged, and Ube patent Was saved. Sometimes the lever accompauying the developuent of these tumors brougut a proiound lethargy on tue pa Went, Wuo suffered little, vegutug only to be let alone Lia: he might die Untortured by medicine, Surgery, OF even nursing. More frequently tne fever brought on raging and delirium. Lo aii cases Uwe boules uf Lhose Who died of the plague were covered with Diack bolls or carbuncles. All hope Was given up when Lhese appeared, Among Love Who recovered @ cousiderabie portion lost sight and hearing, wulle others remained ever afver- ‘wards speeciiless, THE TRUE PLAGUE. Strictly speaking, the pecuilarities above de- scribed are to be regarded as characteristic of the true plague—so that the so-called plague of Athens, as well as the plague which afflicted the Wwnole Koman empire in the reign of Aureuusand hat again of the tnird century, were not really Plagues in the full sense of the term. It would almost seem, indeed, as though the pi of Athens was but an excepuonally maugnaat form. Of remiuvent fever. ‘The true playue is dedned as specific contagious fever, accumpanied vy the formation of tumors, and sometimes of carbun- cles. Dark spots on ‘he skin are regarded as in- fallible signs of death, They are due to the effu- si00 of Divod under the skin, and precede death ‘he akin'ts sometimes so cov- ered with thee spots as to assume a dark livid hue after death—wuence tue name black death given Wo the worst form of During Justiman’s plague that Lue disease was nov which, if it saved the afflicted ‘the troub.es accompanying less tab 1s destral fe i ty E i 4 q i i i iH i A | it tt ie Hi i pe as weillas grea of @ man who a pe doee adds, “they round As io former the restraints of scemed tolose their taauence: Every one, Says one writer, didas ne pieased. This doub.iess ts an eXagyeravion; since we Lave evidence that the monks aod irtars stood bravely to the work of re~ ang conveyed in thy introductory matter of Boccac- clo’s “D. " that the Occasion seemed one AU its highest, toward its clote, it beedme the custom for the dead to be_Dut Out of doors at night that the officers appointed for the purpose imighi remove chen in the morn- jug. Itts compuced tat between seventy thou- Sand and one hundred thousand died of the plague in Tuscany alone, between March «nd Al 1348 —“Such” says Boccaccio, “was the severity 0 Heaven.” THE GREAT LONDON PLAGUE. ‘The plague in England, described by Defoe as an eye witness, though he was not an infant in 1665 and 1666 when it raged, though terrible was not {ORF pipared for severity with the plague of 1346. “As inauy died, indeed perhaps. more, Cut. in & much larger population. It began 1n the autumn F665, but the coid winter of 1685-1608 greatiy checked its ravages, and many hoped that it Would altogether uisappear, But witu the early Spring of 1666 deaths trom the pestilence began to be announced, wall presently It began to be Tecognized that the reai attack had commenced. ‘The sympioms were akin to those observed during the playue of Floreuce, bt some times ueath came eve more rapidly. In July 2,000 died weekly, but by September the weekly ‘deaths from thé Plague had risen to 8,000. The dead were buried logetner in certain ‘delds, then suburban now Wutuin London proper. ‘There 1s one trian; Spac: (not built 0.) between Brompton and Kea- Singion Where large numbers were buried. Many Of the dead were vuried tn the elds at present ov- cupied by the houses tn Golden Square, and it was ho.iced that during the visltauon of cholera in 1849 the disease seemed mors madgnant ip tbat region; but Whetuer this was due, as some sUr- mused,’to tue opening of drains communicating With the trenches in which tue plague-siricken Were buried in 1665 and 1606 seems open to con- siderable question. Iu tue Bust. the plague still appears from time to Ume; but whatever may be tue reason 1t seems unavie to pass thence into Europe. During tue Plague of 1835 in Alexandria (in whicu 9,000 1n- Ditants O Laat city perusbed), twenty-five ships, eight Of wulch were certainiy infected wiuk lage, cariivd 31,000 bales of co.ton to Eagland. el no case Of piigue Occured among thuse em- woyed 10 Unioadiug and disinfecting the cargvew. Equally large cargoes were unloaded at Marseilles ‘aud Trieste, with che sawe result, Taus tue dis- ease, however, communicated is apparently never conveyed by mercbaud.se. It would seem tn fact to require special injection, since in 1878 tne Plague Was for two months’ confined to a single Village in Russia. In 1834 plague vxisted lor ely at mouths in Aiexandria becore being communicated to Damietta und Mansoora\, though no measures Were taken to interrupt raiic. On tue o.uer hand, Where seVeral pia,e-sirickeo persons are together 4 @ house or suip, a certain atmosphere of intev- ou se. ms to ve Iorumed by whicu the disease may be transiniited. ‘Ricdasp A. Puocron, [Copyrigated.) ———ee____ BUILDING OPEKATIONS OF THE SEASO: Completion of the Bi 4 STATELY, HANDSOME AND SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE. ‘The completion of the great office building, “The Atlanuc,” may properly be sald to mark an era in The material development of the city. Located on F street, between 9th and 10th streets, and in tne Vietuity of the large structures which the growing business of the city during the past few years has made necessary, 1t 18 the largest building of the kind in the city. Ivs size 18 not fairiy realized by Slancing at the F-street front. ‘The lot on which itis vullt widens out and extends to a depth of 159 feet, The bullding covers the entire lot, and rises to a heigut of eigbt stories, with an addi- Uonal story covering a portion of the bullding for the accommodation of the janitor and his tamily. There are 142 large oMice rooms, including two Spacious rooms ia the eighth story adapted for meetings of any character. Of this great number of rooms there are only four which are not thorouguly gntea from the out- side. Walle the interior of the Dullding has been plated with good judgment, its exterior nas not n neglected. ‘Tue front is a rich design, Rest- ing upon the wassive iron plilars and beams of the first story is Lue Orown stone coustituting the sec- nd and third stories, while above is the brick work, for Wuich Unis city 1s jusuiy famous, enriched with terra cotta. The important feature of such bul —#enerous Window Openings—bas not beeu Over. looked, and by meuns of arches resting upon massive piers and running througn several stort s Che architect has avoided the monoiony whicu ip Dulidings Of Uuis size ts apt Lo result wien a solid front is plerceu w.tu opeuiugs ranged one above auotuer, Like the port hoies in tue side a ship, The bending Of tue irou, stoce, Drick aud terra cotta in One Barmonious desiga is effective, while the massive character Of the construction is in DU Wise weakened. Good taste has julned hands with: good construction in a pieasing manner, and tue Dudding 18 mucn admired for its architectural beauty. A WASHINGTON ENTERPRISE. ‘The conception und consiruction of this bulld- ing 1s the work of Wasuington men, backed by Washington capital. It was built by a company composed of the following well-known ciuzens: 4. T. Britton, B, H. Warner, Samuel Ross, C. C. Duncansgoa, Crosby & Noyes, B. H. Warder, Jon Joy Edson, Charies B. Pearson, M. M. Parker, Geo, E kuuons, Heary Wise Garnett, and A A. ‘Thomas ‘The fnanciar uhent was in charge of Geo. E Ewmons, we secretary and treasurer of the company, ‘who in coujuacton with the following-nawed ‘gentiemen com, the execuulve und building commitiees, work: A. T. Britton, eutire charge of the Cuarles’ B. Pearson, Jobn Joy Edson, M. M. Parker, and Samuel Koss The architect was Jamés G, Hill, recenuy ue viing. architec of the Treasury Department, and te builder was Frank N. Carver. The owners em. ployed Jobo B. Fercuson as ‘super.ntenaent of Uhe work, and, 1a conbecuion With the arciatect, he was daily during working hours in the build: Ang, 80 that each and every part of tue work was u uy Inspected. AS IU 18 Que of the largest buildings ever erected in uhis city by private eo- terprise, the utmost care was taken that the Work saould be Weil and thoroughly done. Iv 1s Deileved that this resuit bas been attained. A ‘committee from the board of Lre uuderwritersof this cILy Mave recently Inspected che ‘abu tue} expressed themselves well pleased, and declared ‘that it was one of the best constructed and light- 6d Duildiugs in the District, ‘The eatrance vo tue Dulidl side by rooms which will be used as stores or Offices. ‘There isa wide spacious entrance hall with tiled flooriug. The Walls are wainscoated with cherry and wave slabs of white marble set 4m upon whicu Lhe names of the occupants of tue Tous On [We VaFiOUs Hoors Will be imscribed, thus furnisuing a complete directory to the bul ‘This hail Widens Out 1210 a large invertor where there ig a fine broad floor, suraction, being " maintalued uatdagnoot the staircase are two passenger elevators, which wul be kept constantiy in use. There are lewer boxes iu the bail foreach room, and also »peuking tubes, $0 Uhat the occupants of ‘every rooi can communicated with from the ground foor. tron lewer box has been pluc-d in ts connected with a shute, which openings On each floor, thus enabluy Lhe ts of each FOOM LO mall their levers ving their respective floors. Electric light wires i Hi military depot of Louis XV, in bunches and banks, shutting out here and there the land, tue sea and the starry nightlight itself, as 1 boarded our ‘staunch craft at nearly midnignt, and awakened Jolly old Captain Ballast with most unwelcome news, Crawling from the Uttle “cuddy” with many a roaring sea-wise objurgation, his face fell as I flung him a huge package of recent newspa- Pers, old magazines and second-hand book all- Sorta, with the remark that, “The tviks over at Sable Island will keep us a six-month for that “Gable Island! Sable Isiand! Why, man, we're got no charts, an’ : Sones Shares, A’ Ye might a8 well pint cur Davy “All right,” I answered cheerily. “We'll findthe Hocker: tue, Lively Row, captain, Well head ‘aight sou h and by supper ime to-morrow be the Sable Island wrecks and 3” The man awoke Tom with a kick, got the Anchor aboard and we stow! out wo sea quickly. Like a ghostly sail our crait cut into and ei from the almost paipable bunches of fog. Well out Of the Weird old harbor of Louisburg never was ‘there a more beauuiul night's sailing; Dut the grewsome grumb.ng, the hair-raising tales, the Yarns of wreck, and death and unlaid ghosts that harrowed my ‘ears that night were something: frghitul, Moaning, groaning, cursing, protesting. round-vellied Capit. last revenced Limself upou me for a uncapny ed to the “lostest, lone- somest, hurtingest place as ever sailor ‘cussed or it Water thumped,” a8 the good man putit. Tom winced oyen-mouthed and pale, as countless prophecies of our utter destruction came faster and more .uriows; more than once I wished back on solid ground, where the mighty KS Of Old Louisburs’ once stood; put “we ‘sailed and sailed,” With a good stuff breeze bein! US, @ good siout craft beneath us, all of ven ‘Spanking knots au hour over a land-iuober’s smil- ing sea; and before 3 o'clock tue uext afternoon my glass showed me Ulumph over my baif-mu- Unous crew, and the far outlines Of Sabie Islund where the eternal roar o( the surf has stilled the agonized cries of countiess aelpiess ones for more ‘(uan @ Quarter thousand years, APPROACHING SABLE ISLAXD. At @ distance, the outline of Savle Island is ‘merely a long -eries of dark hummocks, as if some great monster of the deep were pusuing toward American shores to devour the land. Monster it is. SUL, as these gloomy ridges melt into undulations (Of sward and sand, and tue great licht-houses, ke lofty bead and tall, show to the west and east ‘their cryscal domes 130 feet above the surf, as when the intrepid Sir sumphrey Gilbert, In 1583, Perishing on its cruel coast, gave those memoranie Words Of exalted faith, “Heaven is as near by se as by land;” monster thiouga ail che intervening years wherein its hated yellow face uas glowe: and Cureatened the silent, scared 10ok-oul of every Vessel bound from the eastern to the western hemisphere; mouster 10 all crait, wherever bound, aday’s distance from its sunken snoals outreach- ing beneath the sea for Wreck and death; monster ever, (0 the brave Msuer-folk Unat baitie for bread upon the Banks, and, homeward bound, leave car- Foes ahd lives ‘tue sport of its sujt wile pale faces lean far and tartuer seaward Over the rovting bulkheads of old Gloucester pwn, peering and P..ylog for fathers, brot!srs, lovers, wuo pever- Iofe will come. After.aj\ (here may be orc? “onbuman ai tempun’ on Provdeuce,” as sturdy Captain Bal- last remarke@ quite héate.ly, in braving the or- dinary terror, of Sab.e Isiand’s Lreacherous sea environs to merely visit off 0.d Acadia’s coast this most fumous of ali the ocewn's graveyards But Whea, a3 We rounded the western extremity of the Island, and nea ed the circling fringe of ile very surf, and I saw the picturesque lot of human- Ly Wuo exist bere makiug preparation to launch ‘the great life-Duat, and a3 gallantly bring us to dry land as thouzh driven upon thelr mercies by awtul storm, and thea noticed tue pride of my brave, if gruibiing, Old sullor friend rising to the requirement of our sloop W anchor in sand far out fretting brine, I was Proud of the good American timber beneath ine, wy really intrepid companions and Lae very foolhardiness of my adveuture, We swept inshore A splendid speed. We passed the first sectuing line Of surf ata bouud. Down came tue fore-aud- aft and jib sails with a zip and crackle. Tuen, With a sort or ricochet and bump, bump, bump, we skimmed successive sand ridges io spume and foam; aud io a trice a score of bure-l men— and even women—shoulder deep at Umesin the ‘spendid surf, with surill cries and crooned “shan- tyings,” ran our crait out of harm’s Way, and with creaking Windiass soon bad Ler at rest io as soft @ Ded of sand as sue Was ever rocked in by dreary ev and flow of tide at home in old Bastport har- 4 BIT OF BISTORY. While good Captain Bullast, now the real hero Of the island, ig receiving, with a drop of grog, proud tributes io his skill and seamanship at headquarters—s little collection of houses reached Unrough a cleft in the sand ills of te shore-edge, and the only real setilement upon the Islan With that gentle though roaring humility wuic rer became the true Yankee skipper it us chat a little about tne geography, history, bydrograp And necrology of tus vauipute of the seu Saul Isiand, On your maps, in latitude 44° and’ lougi- tude 60°, 100 unlles south of Cape Breton Isiaud and 90 iniles southeast of the peninsuia of Nova ‘Scot.a, you will see a tiny dot surrounded by tbe rapher’s wavy lives. This spot is Sable fisnd. The dave of its discovery Is not ciear, thuugh it 18 said that Norse tradidon as mbes 1 to’ Meriofsond in the ninth century; It was stocked with swine 335 years ago by Lie Porvu- guese; and 10 must have been weil kuown Yo te colonists of old Acadia, for t was made a Freuch penal colony 1a 1598. Priceiess black fox and the uuge Walrus 1n those days wave the isiand their home, During the last quarter of tue last century and tue early part of ths, Sable Island was the resort of wreckers ard ‘pirates wore heartiess and cruel than ever swept the Ca- rivbean or gathered under the bloody leadership of “Biack-Beard? of the Babatnas; but. in 1802, uter te wieck of the “Princass aueila” contain ing a goodly iot of the beloagings of Prince ward, the father of Queen Victorts ne Nova soe. Uan government diove the pirates irom tue and establisved In @ sinail way luokouis and a Mfe-saving force, Which, In 1826, was effectively ‘augmented by anual provision uy tue Briuish gov- ernment. ADOUL DILy years azo Lhe butidin.s LOW found here were copstructel; the 100K-oUt stu tons increased; and, in 187%, the goverumeut elected the Uwe unuiense Usicuouses, one ar tue ‘Western, and one at the eastern, end of tue sland. ‘A DEATH-1RAP IN THE GEA, ‘The entire region round for a great distance is a bideous hurt to navigation. Lying almost directiy in the path of the great trans-AUanuc highways of the sea; set squarcly in the way of the enure coasting Urade between all Awerican and Cana- dian ports; a consiant menace to whaie: and mack Asuers bo otuer Known island oF coust bas JADYETS OF possesses ¥0 81 a feoord for “death aod destructon. Por pertsps Aity miles in every direction the ge is Aived with suit oals, Over Wi ‘storms, waica almost’ constantly rage, the ‘Ocean tosses aud Rowis with tnconceivavis fury. ‘Suaten bare ‘exe vend to the northeast and the uorchwest tully thirty miles, and between their extreme poin for twenty-five miles off shore, the sea lasives and thunders ‘terribly, the outreaching bar hidden like monstrous t-utacles grasping for prey. Old Capt, Baliast’s theory regarding tue formation of this ocean vampire i8 thst “Jest so many sea- {-rin’ folks bas to suffer somehow; n’ Prov'- ence sol the cussed thing here, to get even with anybody mean ‘nuff Lo suick to sutioria’!” But for yearsI bave made sometbing of a study of this ortheast coast, With Lhe action of the sea beside it, and I modest, offer an additional theory t0 tia of my bluff Yankee skipper. 1 believe the entire formation of the Grand Banks and vbis Knob of deadly sand set ouLof the water uj other Vast bank, or series of shoals, to be due ‘Wuolly to the action of tue opposiag forces off the guif stream and Lhe tmmeasurable icy currents tua sweep around Labridior ani Newfound and irom pol@r seas. Together, i ceaselessly deposived aLuvial nd aand, until Yast submarin- mountains have beeu pil aloug these waters, which, within the memory of ts about 25 miles long, and is nowhere over 2 in width, Mounting the old lookout and crow’s airearetanese aveasases ing nee ieSecy Hag i Lt - Ponies of the Island, ali hoof aud Whose origin here’ 18 variously atir racticully unknown, Perhaps there Boo jo. one knows. 1 + 4 a ef ae the are ail but Lurwed [rom sig! Sand-dunes in winter, are iurious and M disturbed io tueur picturesque berds W Blog at Wii; but on the al “round-ups” tu se Which are captured, Wed aad Lossed Ino Lue gov~ eroment cuvier Like bags Of mercbandize, are 60 Comp.ctely tamed by (hcir beipiessness and Uae PoUuyu sea-trip Lal on (heir arrival a Halifax toe Verlest child can fondie and control them. Totully appreciate the luteuse dolor of Sable | Island to the eyes and mind of 1t8 visitor, and to the consclousuess of every sea-faring soul wu ¢¥er conned his mental record oi the ocean's peril, 1 Must be remembered tat, save the govern- Ment cuter which every few GOuths BTUgs sup piles; a0 occasional adventurous craft Une uly or a iew handy fisver-iolk that now and then daringly make its eastern extremity a brief Summer headquarters; no Vessels or human beings €¥er Louch is suores thar are not beaven Upon them in heipiess, Lopeless wrecks And yet such hapless arrivaisare at umes soir quent (bt toe Mle-saving record here exceeds (hat of any ouner place On the glove, and the wreckage 1S aise Ereatest, No pen can give adequate idea of Lh@ Sense of dea‘ and destruction at sca here evidenced by every object the eye can iovk upon. Every Dutiding at Leaaquarters 1s coust. ucted from the Umbers of wrecked ships. Te houses of refuge, either end of the island; the lookouts; the oul Post siatious; tue domiciles and cob.ns; every r's hut; are each and ail mut: monuments of terrine destruction, The chairs tables, bunks, jamps lockers, rude ornamentations, are all dark S:lvage Of a8 tHhany different craft fom as many different poris, You cannot waix the beach « rod Without s.umbling uyon relic of wreck or dead meu’s bones. Away oul for miles upon Ube awfui bars, tue bulks of Wrecks bristie Uirough spume Of Surf like mideous tusks turougu Lue foam of maddened Titan’s Jaws. On aay suore spot were you can stand You can pick trom tue sands With your cane mementoes telilug of counLiess ocean tragedies from Norsemeu’s tunes wo uor- Tors of a Year ago, 1m every” uamabic tuing oF trinket tuac can be put iuto or upon a suip and carried and lust at sea. “Towee it and know it ail, aid let fancy run riot Uhrough the awful outreach: ings Of loss, Woe, aud deat Savie sand reveals every instabt one’s eyes rest upon any portion of Hts Uiideous everadtscidse conceadags, 18 Lo ALVILe UUler madness. “One seuteace will teu It all, 118 (ue tumeasurable festering JuDK-suop, Une tnde- Scribab.e loathsowe graveyard of the deep. 1 Pot 80 quickiy; never 80 tor Solid ground veuind ruck-vulites.ed shor s, aud hever 30 irecly forgave wupitying Scorn as Laat Walch, as we made sail nortuward Uurough a bow un.riehd.y sea, suone through Lue stubuy beard of ‘Capt, Baliasv’s cuubby face. Epoan L. WakeMax, see KINDS OF COURTING. Clubbing Instead of Spooning—At Auc- tiou Once, Not at Private Sale as Now —Much Vepended on the Gingerbr nd here the Gi.2 © uct Frank H. Stauffer in thy Epoch, Among the ancient Assyrians all marriageable young girls were awembied at one place, and the Pubile crier put them up ror sale, one afver the other, The moucy which Was received for Wuose ALL who were band-ome, and consequently sold well, | Was bestowed as a wedding poriion on those who were plain, When the mos: beautiful had been | | i | When v | j | | Gisposed of, the more ordinary looking ones were | offered for @ certain sum, and ailoted vo those willing to take them. In ancient Greece the lover was seidom favored with an opportunity of telliug his passion to his mis tress, and he used to pubitst tt by inseribing ber Bame on the wails, ou the bark Of tue trees in une public walks and upon the leaves of books He Would decorate Une door of her house With gar- lands, and make livatious of wine Lecore Il, in the manuer Wal Was practiced in the temple of cupid. NO TENDERNESS WasrED. According to Dr. Hayes, courtship among the Esquimaux has not mucb teaderaess avout it. The match 1s made by the parents of the coupie. | Tue lover must go out and capture a Poiar be. lence Of his courge and sirengta. Twat ac- lished, he sheaks bebind tue door of his swe. t- house, and when she comes out he pounc-s upon her aud Unies to carry her to uls dog sledge. ‘Sue screams, bites, kicks, and breaks away frou him, He gives chase, whereupon ail the old wo- men of Lue SeULlewent rush ou. and beat ber WiLL Lozen strips of seulskia. Se falls dowa ex- hausted, tue lover lasues her to wis sledge, whips Up bis dogs, dashes swiftly over the frozen suow, and Une Wedding Is cousummaced. ‘THE BEGINNING OF MARITAL HOSTILITIES. ‘The Australian lover ts still more lacking in ten- derness, if Ube statement made by Myers Deley is true. ‘Tue lover makes up his mind as to wuich woman shall be lus uride, and thea hides in the Dusues in tue vicinity of her dweiiing. As soon she comes near Lue spol Wuere he is conc-aled Auocks ber Gown Wild & club, and carries ker off before she comes to, If he does uot get ber Lo his UL belore sue recovers there is likely Ww be a lively fgut in the bush, for the Austraiian damsel is geueraily @ Vigoruus one, .nd way lave Teasous of her owa for objecUing Lo is alteuuions. The lover may Unen be ovliged to ClUD ber again, and as Laat 43 Cousidefed 10 be somewhat of a reflecUoa on tue arvor With Which his earlier effort was made, the Is apt to pul as much soul and wuscie Into bis Hirst love Lap as he can sumumon, A BATTLE FOR 4 BRIDE. In some paris of Asia the question of a man's UUe toa bride must be setiled by afMerce ngnt between Ube friends of the contracting parties If is 1orees are ¥.c.ori0us Lis SWeeluearl becomes his trophy. If her tniends are Victorious be wast pay such price as Ube victors demand. Al over {ual COURUY some CerEMOUS Of Viownce ute: Lubition Of physical power must precede a wed- ding. Some naulve W.bes insist upou a foot race between Wue bride abd Uridegroom (Wo uecide the question of marriage, aud Otuer» require along Cuase On horsevaca. Ta sume seclious of Asia Lue lover musi carry off bis bride ob bis back. I be Teaches uls but with ber Uuere can De uo protest against Ue warriage. Falling iu tbat, be must pay wer parenis for her im cavule, ‘Tae willing Gride maxes DOOULCTY ; Lue UuWidilag bride arouses Une Wuole Viliage, Ue ‘residents Of Wuich Uy vo rescue her. ETERYAL LEAP YEAR In the Isthmus of Daren eituer sex can do the courting, Walle in tue Urkralue the giri generally attends 10 it. Wuen she falls to love with a man She goes 10 his house abd deciares her passion. 1c lhe declines Lo accept her sue Tewmalus Were, aud Dis case De Omes raluer distressing. To tura wer ‘out Would provoke her kindred Ww avenge tue 1D suit, The young fel.oW has 00 resort lest him but WO Pun away trou woue UNL Lhe damsel is OLber- Wise Ulaposed 0. ‘A MATTER OF GINGERBREAD, A curious cusvow preVal.s in Vud Beleriand, Bol- land. Ociober is the auspicious month, and on the | Fatuer Aluuguly, maker of first Sunday (kuown as review day) tue lads aud Tasses, avtirea in cheit best, promenade tbe Village peparateyy, state eacu other vu. Of vouutenance anu Lueu retire .0 make Up Lei minds Oa LHe sec- ‘ond Sunday, Whicu 18 called decision vay, Tue young men go Up aud pay Lhelr compiments to Like fair ones uf their cuvice, tO learn sf tuey are ren garded wi favor, On" Ube Wuird Suuday, or day 0: purchase, Lue SWAIL IS EXPECLed LO sbALCH Lue pocket-vandkerculei of bis adored Oue, ana if she SUDULIt> LO IL W1LA YOod grace be Understands Ubat Lured piedge 18 reswored Lo Ube lair owner ou tue fourth Sunday, ihe “Sunday of Tuking Poss-s- sion,” ans i rarely happeus that Che dameei re- Tuse’s Une lover for whoul she hus indicated a pref ereuce, Ou tue Sunday Touowing Ube suito., ac coruiug LO CUSLON, Calls aL Lie Bouse OF dls ina morals, Wuere be is asked Lo Wea, It a piece 01 crust Of a glugerbread sual 18 banded wo is nothing ielt for ulm but Lo reure, Ouber Waud, WWE parents offer tue Piece of (ae crummy, be 18 ailowed and is aduiitted Into Uke Lamuly. MUST NOT BE 4 SPONGE MUMSELP. AG on we young Ww come | i le i is Hh i | if if i 14 o [ ef E f i i i: ii i } i : i Sent wane Seen Ses | WHAT THEY BELIEVE, Literary Women and Their Views of Rel.gion. ‘Prom the New York Heraid Ava gathering of @ literary Kind in New Yor the conversaiton fell Upon the subject of And it Was remarked (hat women were 88 Jong as they were Gomestic, bur moment they had a career outside hey Decame agnostics, free Uninkers As radical It was the opinion of several of the talkers that women writers were almost Independent wf creeds and doctrines, and few, any of them, were church member” “What was ‘once true Of Lne Uneatrical proenion exciumvely is Dow Urue Of the literary one,” Was asserted by & Rote | newspaper editor, and bis conclusion was approved by ais inteners. “Thea a proessional lite is PIsIOrTUNe FALNO than a biasing for wou olukt” queried @ doubler, “Oa tue contrary 1 Ubink It Is desirable, because {tf ees them from Whe Uivotry and narrowness of the Chureb aud venders thew tue delightful cam pamous they are,” was che repay ee “But Wwe facts are bat ate almost Universally feligious, Ww Sald Of proiessionals in othe: urged another, This w nay there was an adiui aiMicult to tell trom private opinions were MES. HARKICT BEECHER STOWE'S BELIEF, AS @ resull Of Uhis discussion iel.ers were sent to Several well-known Women requesting (row them & Statement of Uheir religious Views. One of the Most laveresiing repilcs Was Chat of Mrs Hanwet Beecher Stowe, who sald “A's U0 my religte Apostles’ Creed given inv it ts embodied in the be Episcopal wer BOOK. As Lo the Tmake of it 1 peter you to my writing lary “Uncle Twun's pty and my is pocms Ihave ail my cerely endeavered 10 mould uy lie im sordance With Lhese Beliefs,” Nouilng so terse and coupact has come in re sponse Ww tue request made, and the characteris. Les of the Woman are expressed lu Its phraweul ogy. STRENGTHENED BY FaTH. Rose Terry Cooke, the poet aud novelist, saye of her religious Views: “Iuave been a member of the ‘Congregational Church since 1843 wotil Unts ast summer. 1 Joined the Episcopai Curch because my busband picterred Laat 1orm of worslip. ou will Bnd my tail embodied in Uke Aposties' Creed. T could never wave lived Ubrough my croubied Ife WILWOUL Lbat earnest Belief. Tcould bot look for, Ward to death Ubuer any Cer prospect With URE least Courage. Idvaire to record vere chat I bare found Uke Only peace and help aod strength of my lite tn the Gospei of Corist and that I bebeve there 4s no hope i Uhis Worid oF the WeXt Ukat does Bot spring from tuat Gospel.” RELIGION MUCH TO RMR. ‘Marion Hariand,” noveusst, wite of the Rev. Dr. EP. Terhune, of Brookiyn, and as widely kyown tuber church and Suoday-scnool Work as ly ner social circie, sa: “So lar as my religious views go I am a churchwoman, a be.iever in the Bivie a8 the word Of God, Lue only sure rute Of 1aith and practior aud Guide Lo heaven. J recle tne Aposies’ Creed sim cefcly and devoutly, even Lue cisuse vouci be Fesurreclion Of thal wulch s sown a batural Abd Wid be Talsed @ spiritual body, Bearing the Saine relation Lo Lue Worn-vul Casket laid aWay Ag, Cue earth Ubal Easter lilies bea: to the bulb. 1 upid tuisaige to be Dut Lue vesuibuie ur Uae lemple in Wlch We aye fo Work and Joy fopever ese 1eW preiiialnaties whicu we Know as moral Lolis and trials ute ended. But I velewe (aac every Lalent and good we Lave bere Wil howe Use and place iu Uwe tthict Ise, separated from Uns by so Lulu @ Veil Coat Ktis sometimes given v0 8 % nes Lue UZlt gieauing Lurough, For lay own ope Of adiisstou lo the “Periecuou, Which Is continu Ws advance,’ 1 Wusi bumbly, gratetully, and wt- terly lu Une ‘Saviour of tie world; Une Cina, WhO Was Lemp.ed ake We are, Lue Gou-Man Wuo ix able Wo save Unto Lue UULermdst aii Who put Luelr trust in Hua. be solemn shagoe of His cross Is basher tush the tune “This faith, tran-muited Lo me by generations of Bodly ancesvors, some Of WuoK iAld Gown Luclt lives for i, | Lave caferully and severcly Lesied by ali te powers and lignts 1 coud bring te bear pow It, und stand to-day more drmly in 1 that ever Devore, y event Of dally lide, the jeast e¥en as Lue greaiet, I seck to have bul une fule— Liat set fortu so simply and beauliuuy le hong- feliow's dedicatio. uy int: “And evermore bem Je him ou the way n't’ tbecet: Chtiet snail wove That he tuny loan trou His arn and aay, Suse dhow, dear Lord appre “This 18, Of course, ten times as much Wanted me WO wre, bul from it you exura germ of “wy creed.” ‘gil isso tuuch lo me, T woud have li 50 muca WO OtuErs Unat I say WO twuch when I Urust wy self Wo Speak upou IL” 4A BELIEVER IN THE ETERNAL GOODNESS. Julia C. K Lor tus answers the questions “You set me a rather bard task. If you had asked me for my ‘religious Views’ when I was svout eighteen, It Would have bern easier to respond, for al tual Gine I bad mucn more decided ‘views’ on wont aubjects aan I ave wow. "One. grows ‘buU.wvier a Obe gTUWSs O.dei, aod wuch jess a ‘my Spiritual as Aaa. ‘1 wo strains of blood meet 1 Well as my paysioai nature, Preach Catnoneism Js on Oue side, New Kugiaud Uuiariauisin on Une Olner. “Frou ine one Ligwetit « love of 10rms and &) mnvols and stately cereiouials Which Make ue haif of me sympathize Witu aud Compreberd by ApculUon MUCH Unat Lue Oluer halt nether Deleves ig nor understands Bul 1 was *broug: up’ yn tue SCraight scuvo! oF New Kagland ortuosoxy and be 10. ww WWE Cougicg sUduas Cured, the wiug of I Guus interprecs Cie oid creeds Oroadiy and is wot at all sure Lhat M cau iathom tue depth @ te Divine piane and iuPsteries, Present or wo come. But with ail my heart I vedeve in God, the Fatuer, our Fatuer, aud in Christ as tue Way, Une Vruvb God tue Life. Tcannot suive the protiem Of LUwan sin aud muery, BOF draw Une lhwe oF human accountability, HOT explain bow it ws true Chat ‘as a INMn SOWELL, 90 shad ue aino Teap.” But [do beueve Liat ali Wat perpiexes Us Will one day be made Clear; aud meanwhve 1 am convent 1 Wait and Wo rust, In suort, I find in Wainders “Elerual Guodness’ ai once’ my creed aud muy prayer.” EDNA DRAN PROCTOR'S BROAD CREED. ‘The New Eugiand poet, Edua Dean Proctor, thus describes her Christan tain: “No religious creed Is possible to me but a belief tn the boundiess love 01 God tof all Mis creatures, hd in His Lovet and power Lo bem ais wit ately Jule harmony Wild Limeedt; 12 accordance WILD fils perpetual luvitation, ‘Cour UNO te, all ye that labor and are heavy ingen, and 1 wis give you resi;”4 bellel that grief and pain are, in our present State, a Vital wecessity Of Spiritual de- Yelopment, and Unat ip tuls or other spurres pun isuument for Wrong, Ubough as inflexivie sb its Woraiugs as Ue priucipies uf Mnaibematics or Ue laws Of ligt “ud shade, Is yet vul discipanary and remedial. Such a View brings nope iu Unis ife abd Une life Lo come, gives Us syimpatay wich every Duman Delng, inakes God’ indeed our Fauier. More and wore us Lue worid becomes en- lughveued, 1t Vends on tuls Croad, watural basis Lo Wally Of tuougut and Worsiip.” MEK FatTU LEADS HER. Mary J. Holmes, the tamvus noveilst, thus writes: “Li, instead of asking for my religt us views you had asked what I beuleve, I \uink I should af once have commenced Ube Ajosties’ Creed, which I re peat iM church 0 Often. “1 believe in Gos, whe in Jesus Curis, tls only Son, our 4 rr New Englund” abd reared Uy ‘stictly oftwodur parents, 1 was Waugul Luat mhany Ulngs which ost YoUM, people like aud do were wicked, and you ue | athough (hose rigid ideas have veen sufleued down I au glad for the early Wraining Wiieh aa had @ resirawlug toflucuce On my whole dite, Jam @ COMMULICARL UI Lic Rylscupas Cuurci, aud kouw aba wand is eading me Wa.ch Will BOL vet we fall 1 cuug Wo It Witu tai as] au Urying Woda.” ‘TRUSTING IN TRE GOD OF LOVE. Loutse Chandler Moulton iets olwers speek her Words for ber, She says “1 Can, perhaps, best answer your question cop- cerning my Fellglous faith by wree quotauony, wile Wailea | am in sympalay, Ibe Bret te trom ‘Tennysou: “Ob yet we trust that somehow good To panes ot wature: site of wl, Diteke ot doube sud taints of blood, “That nothing walks with aimions feet; That uo one lite shall be uestroyed, 0 cust an Fuvbien to the vod, When God hath wade th: pise complete, “The secoud 1s from Darwin, WhO Was wont e cannot KOW the wukuown, but iii i ‘Woman of uncommon beauty. ‘Sarah Beronardt for ber qa Tale i toe way sbetaina vo a'Parie for bim Wuch—wore, ‘oan ineous airaid.” And tbe famous ms a Unings, have you that sult” Paris, Co.” “sit Slety we” dpey awaye Twas ax ha Sess “yall be crematea . = - —e _ ile