Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1888, Page 3

__ FOR_RENT—HOUSES xBt 1706 ee oT a XN. Ww. m-th of Dupont Circle, S-etory 11-room i rendence, "aU per mouth: THOS. 3: FISHERS CO. id Petnw. z aise” RB RENT—14 AND 16 I ST. N. Fe T4 rooms each, with ail modern unprove. i ine EFF poweh to good tenanta, Inquige of 8. 3 OR AENT—A_ CHARMING NEW HOUSE. 412 Fohtenw.:7 rome sniecniely finished handelier; lange ‘closeta: fine c 3 mL; $27.50 Apply 1216 8stu.w. Deidwe RENT — HOUSE—107 T 8T_N.W. : tronts south Poe og ip fect 3, frouts so ; rent p25 E.WsGGAMAN, 917 F st. nw. 10-3m oe! and cell 1006 Ehop sos 8 Stable rear = 4 onl: » of the proj “pul list call at office for bulletin ieeued on the Ist and 1 fai9) Ti E. WAGGA’ front nicely refitted. IsHED. at ne. . 1416 ist jon, Georgetown Hei many other choice shown on application. BEALL, i RENT—ELEGANT BANKING, STOR: pffice in the handsome Marble fi heated by’ steain place in every room, from $225 to #300 eac! Also that fine double house 1022 1% rooms, well heated, with beautiful st in the rear: just the home fora business man or a inember of Congress; 100. ROBT. I. FLEMING, “imo dees | T4109 G st. now, FOUR MONTHS OR LONGER, $80 completely furnished house, china Soa = i R st. 850 roo . r unfurnished. Apply 1508 it st. n.w., oF om premi: 11 to 4 o'clock. Yas-im + ARS STORES. 18.30 1120 18th st, cor....... ve'dav.. br17.50 For a full list apply to. WESCOTT & WILCOX. ¢ __1907 Pa. ave. now. oR RENT—BY WHITAKER & WHITAKER, ‘Flat, Or. farn'ce.240 | 26" O Leite new. h,1'gesto’er’m.40 | Fur'd b’ses, $100 i‘ Conn. ay, ITH STN. 3 large yards and all £330 N stn. St. .¢., Or. and b., m. D. Bad bath, mi, 830. d19-3t* Fe RE 2. “ Tm 0. 2010 H st, .w.. OF. |. KNIGHT, 607 7th st. nw. ‘R 10TH AND L STS. NEWMAN, Real Estate Brokers, Atlantic Building. \_THREE-STORY BRICK STORE 740 1 st. nw. For particulars 608 I st. pw. alg-2t* 11 room: iWYNN & algae Ron RES near Conn ‘ave, nr Dupon O, det. Sth und 10th. 120 Uthand nica inquire of owner, we Ay 10 fr newly t jocated in ‘n.w. rooms, fu papered’ and in perfect Onder throughout, 650. per Juonth, on year lease. STEIGER & LIEBERMANN, 1303 F st. a18-6t 08 fanter ro pete Soy aéelm os dice JOR RENT—No. 7 Dupont Circle, 870. No. 207 Est. n. w., $60. No. 1437 U at, corner house, 606 Corcoran st SPLENDID 10-ROOM HOUSE, TWO ‘and all mod. impe.. L st. near Coun. SAL 8. CAYWOOD, R RENT—BY RO. Fat So itamnce ack! 10th and F sts. 4 Part house New York ave, n17-6w Apply CHARLES EARLY, 603 14th st. n JF QE BENT. 9-hoom bkick HOUSE, ey next door. G-room, 1405 Col $25 each. G-room brick hotse, S16 Bs.c., #1t next door. All it. D.Way ey K have mod. imp. OWNER, 515 9th n.w. ferret Pt BBLS is ouny, PE Tetit : z é, ROR RENT_—FURN! ‘Thia comfortable 12-r0c ¢ ), pantry, iences, will be renfed comp if taken at SHERMAN IHED—1209 O ST. Ww. 12-room house, with large par- losets and all conven- letely furnished by the ©O:, 1407 4-3 sro eo as RaEEe Sate S, BBR on FOR BENT, PLEASANT, WELL room brick House (down town), with all modern conveniences; suitable for business man. month, E 'W. BYBN, office Munn & Co., cs FOE BENT ;, HANDSOME, House; 10 rooms and bath; all conveniences; 1328 st. n. W.; desirable neighborhood. Inquire of ROWNING. 416 Sth st.n.w. nz8-1m zt mod. imps...... Cor. 19th 10r., mi ny 19 Q st. West Washington, 1Or. 231 Sth st. n.e., 6 rooms and cellar. 2208 F st., 6r,, mod. im) 603 H st. ‘he. 4i 4. frame, bet. 1th and 20th, and Band's. Shop 1900 H ENT — SEVERAL HANDSOMELY FUR. esynd one unfurnished fet, st reasonable prices. ‘one un! B. BROBERTSON, 1515 H st. n.w. 7-t POL RENT— THE NEW A’ Fatatcoce Toran f ND HANDSOMELY- 15,000 FOR THREE OR FIVE G16 Riede tebend ars, & per cent on property centrally located, ste: rity af Apply imme ss WitTakee's Wirt tk ae LoA8s-aoxer TO LOAN IN SUMS TO SUIT. GWYNN & NEWMAN, Real Estate Brokers, __ Atlantic Building. ER CENT ON AP- sare amounts @ a 1307 F st. iw. 419-1m ‘ONEY TO LOAN E ed Real Estate security. TYLER & Mo TO LOAN. 810, $3,000. 2 -room, and cellar: GEO. A. JORDAN, provements: pl] located in northwest ; ren’ hits ord month. TIL «RUTHERFORD, 1307 F a18-1m ee OOO Rett Estate = CHARLES W, HANDY, OK RENTINFURNISHED. 85, GOOD REAL ESTATE changes nominal: ERT F. FOX, 920 F st. iw. MOSEY, 70, LOAN ON APPROVED REAL ES- tate security. a12-lin (OHN SHERMAN & CO., 1407 F st. MOXEX,70 LOAN AT LOW RATES ON LocaL securities, listed and unlisted, and good collateral, Bonde, Stocks, . FRANK H. PELOUZE, Moxx To box ON REAL ESTATE IN SUMS it, at lowest rates of interest; no delay when security ie guod. 0. C. GREEN, 303 7th st. nw, 7m MONEY TO Loan— An suis to sui treet. OK RENT—{| DEFREES ST., TWO STORIES snd basemen} jf oome newly papered: ‘ater rent F owner: T mont vance; ke 44 Dein - ai5-t On appro’ real estate security. Perv ET WALNEI © Ci 41m 916 F é ‘ONEY TO LOAN — $12,000, $6,000, $3.00, tod other suid to mutt, ALERED 1.5 i Estate, and i 5 Fons emabte eee oe ot ieee Moss, 4D¥4 ‘CED TO BUY HOMES, OR TO Pay off mor! : long time and no rink. Mort- farescanceled in-the event of death: easy monthly Galfer djoular sue sxelaration wy * Bome Bvtim* ——" SMITH & SIBBALD, 629 F st. n.w. Bbeore: p EAL ESTATE INVESTMENT, R SAFE AS U.S BONDS. PE SUM seo 70 goon GRE pe Ste, 13 $1,000, $1,500, $4,500, Lowest rates on . F. HOLTZMAN, Attorne: 1321 F st. 7 ONEY TO LOAN IN AMOU NTS jwent Fate on approv. nei GEO. LINKIN Fis H sts, MOREY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE AND other securities at lowest rates of interest. No de- JAS. F. BROWN, Real Estate Broker, 008 3m 1106 F st. 0. MONEY LOANED, IN SUMS TO SUIT, FOR 5, AVE 10,15 or 20 years. Easy paymental In the event death loan is canceled without further pay- ment, and property turned over free of incumbrance. ‘The plan of the Cnited Security Life and Trust Co., ef Philadelphia, te the best cyer devised to enable par? own their homes for the ordinary cost of rent. ma circular and full explanation. ‘Gm_¥. H. SMI'1H & 5ON, Agents, 1222 F st. ONEY TO LOAN z & IN SUMS FROM $500 UPWAR: AT THE LOWEST KATES OF INT! AND he: ‘ amarmand REAL ESTATE IN THIS DISTRICT. K. O. HOLTZMAN, Corner 10th and F sts. n.w. T,,TEX-ROOM ewe! “925 F NEY TO LOAN C M In suius to suit, at lowest rates on approved estate security. ITCH, FOX & BROWS © 1427 Pennsyivai MONEY To Loan ON REAL EST ATYS SECURE J. FISHER & CO., ae 1324 F st. nw. ‘THOs. i, THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C THE CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE. Mr. Larner Presides Over a Meeting Last Night. THE COMMITTEE TALKS ABOUT ASSESSMENTS AND ABOUT TENEMENTS IN ALLETS—THE PLAN PRO- POSED BY MR. HEMMINGWAY—A CHANGE IX THE PLACE OF MEETING, ETO. The committee of one hundred, or thirty- seven one-hundredths of it, met last night. The committee has abandoned the lofty quar- ters it occupied in the G. A. R. building and last night assembled in the less pretentious Odeon hall building, corner of 41¢ street and Pennsylvania avenue. The hall in which the meeting was held last night had a door, with a peep-hole in it, and a little cover or slide over the peep-hole. Inside, in addition to the ordi- nary furniture of a hall or lodge-room there was anorgan. Mr. 8. H, Walker stood near the door and looked through the peep-hole whenever steps were heard in the entry out- side. No double-rap or password was re- quired, however, to gain admittance. Major Walker threw the door open widely and gave warm welcome to every newcomer. Major Walker evinced some pride in the number that attended the meeting, as he was, in some sense, the host. It wae his invitation that the committee met in this hall. The president of the committee, Mr. Noble D. Larner, sat on a little platform. ' Just abo tie words “tioed Bpeckine™” Atood singing ® he words ‘ ing.” . — words a no reference oe Mr. sees ut toa gospel temperance meeting. Among ithe 57 prestak lnak Light were Messrs, Lerner, Morsell, Hemmingway, Stocking Taylor Dodge, Hoover, Walker, Herrell, Lehman, Babson, Weller, Gray, Hovey, Clark, Fenwick, DeLand, Smith, Arnold, and King. THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING. Mr. Larner announced, when he called the committee to order, that this special meeting had been arranged at the request of ten mem- bers for the purpose of considering “mat- ters pertaining to the approaching assessment Mr. 0. B. Hemmingway was introduced Mr. Stocking asa new delegate from District No. 8, who had some suggestions to make re- garding the assessment. Mr. Hoover questioned M. Hemmingway’s right to represent District No. 8, which he claimed to represent, After some discussion as to the contest in the eighth district the com- mittee decided to admit all three of the dele- gates claiming to represent that district, which under the rules is entitled to five delegates. MR. HEMMINGWAY'S PROPOSITION. Mr. Hemmingway read the ‘letter which he recently addressed to the District Commis- sioners proposing changes in the manner of making assessments. In this letter he as- serted that in the late assessment there were great inequalities, The cause of the inequality, 1 claimed, existed in the instructions to the assessors, and he understood that substantially the same instructions had been prepared to be issued to the new board of assessors. He pe, ay that it was an erroneous construction of law to assess property at its value at a forced sale instead of at its market value. The funda- mental error, he claimed, arose from the fact that actual value had been confounded with selling price. Rent, he urged. was the real basis of value, and he suggested that assess- ments be made on the basis of rents received. ME. WELLER’S IDEA OF IT. Mr. Weller raised a question as to how, under Mr. Hemmingway's plan, they would arrive at the true value of half improved or unim- proved property that was unproductive. He Tnbtancedl the casa of a square or ground that rented for $1,200 and which was worth #100,- 000. He did not think the assessment of prop- erty by present method all guess work. A man could arrive at a very correct conclusion. The trouble has been, he said, that the men appointed as assessors had in many. cases not been men of a character and intelligence that should be required. Hence there had been inequalities, He thought if there was a better class of assessors and there were more fre- quent assessments they would not have so many errors, It was generally supposed that the class of poverty. occupied by poorer peo- ple produced more in rents, but that was er- ronéous. The fact that such’ people were less prompt in their payments, and that the repairs to such Property were greater in proportion equalized things in the end. r, Hemmingway maintained that the sys- tem he proposed provided for getting at the true rental value even in such cases as the uare of ground mentioned by Mr. Weller, where the rent was nominal by comparison with neighboring property. He agreed that it would be an improvement to have a better board of assessors and a permanent board; but that would not go to the root of the evil, which, he maintained, was in the methods pre- scribed by the instructions prepared by the Commissioners, Mr. Stocking argued that in the practical work of assessing property men were coi fronted with conditions, and not theories. He thought the remedy for existing evils lay in more frequent assessments, and that there should be opportunity for reassessment when it was shown that an assessment was unjust. MAJ, WALKER'S EXPLANATION. Maj. Walker said that when the last assess- ment was made the District authorities had a notion in their heads that if the assessment in the aggregate was increased greatly, Congress might have a disposition to abandon the plan of appropriating one-half of the District's ex- nses. Hence they thought it was best to = that assessment within certain bounds, and that, he thought, was in part the cause of the inequalities complained of. He thought this idea had now gotten out of the heads of the District authorities, and any assessment made now would be equable Mr. Smith said he thought it was the practice of assessors not to interfere with each other's assessments, The assessor on one side of a street in one district might assess pecperty, at fifty cents a foot. and the assessor on the other side in another district might assess property ata dollar afoot. If complaint is made, the board of assessors would pay no attention, be- cause the casestwere in different districts, Mr. Weller said that when traveling in Eu- rope he had learned that in continental cities the system followed was to tax, not the value of Property; but the rents received. A vacant house paid no tax. RESOLUTIONS ON THE SUBJECT. Mr. Hemmingway offered a series of pream- bles and resolutions that the existing assess- ment is grossly unequal and in violation of la that the inequality is due to the erroneous i structions issued to assessors; that itis not pos- sible to secure an equal assessment under such instructions, and that such instructions shouid be issued to assessors as would put into effect the suggestions made in Mr. Hemmingway's letter. Mr. Fenwick said that in his judgment asa general thing there had been a fair treatment of the people in the assessment, Thtre may have been ‘special cases where inequality was est It was decided to refer Mr. Hemmingway’s resolutions to a special committee, The com- mittee appointed is composed of Mesars, Hem- mingway, Fenwick, King and Chappell. TENEMENTS IN ALLEYS, Mr. Weller called up the bill pending in Congress, relating to the building regulations of the District of Columbia, prohibiting the is- ing of permits for the erection of any dwel- ling house fronting any alley in the District of Columbia, Mr. Weller proposed to amend this 80 as to prohibit also the repairs of such houses. He added this amendment, he said, as he thought the interests of the city de- manded the obliteration of the existing state of things in the alleys, He thought the passage and execution of such a law would redound to the advantage, health and generalgood mor- als of the community. Mr, Smith suggested an amendment that any opening in a square less than 40 feet wide be considered an alley. ‘There was an interesting discussion of the Mo™x TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE AT LOW- e es. WASH'N DANENHOW ap24 Successor to DANENHOW ER & 80! 2 15 F st. ___ AUCTION SALES. ‘TEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED RE. FEEET. BETWEEN NINTH zac”: * bebaimi-d-a-s BEASES = , a Records for the Distric pgblic auction, im, trout ¥, DECEMBER 'THIR’ LP pAST FOUR O CLOCK, FM. C23) feet six (6) inches front four (4), in 28 gaReze3 Be Sisters BRE Te bill, several members warmly urging any meas- ure that would do away with the existing con- dition of things in the alleys, MR, DODGE'S COMPLAINT. Mr. Dodge said that two real estate specu- lators had erected two rows of negro and Ital- ian tenements in the square in which he lived without sewe: or other sanitary improve- ‘ments, masking the alley the beat gearters of vice, crime, and disease. ‘The erection of those tenements ‘damaged his property 20 per cent. There was no reason why these men should not take their money and build on open lots. The city was not, he said, cramped for room. Mr. Fenwick said he remembered as far back ist 5 and G sts. as 1968 Mayor Bowen in his address said the time had come when they should stop building in alleys. ee oa he eee who was lay in the make it better worth a on the street than on an r. Walker said the houses on the street. the owners colored le to live in them. Mr. lng th ht the question was whether there could not be such poli tions and poor eak tue beg rege * aller) a good sanitary condition; was it to re @man he was poor to i to ‘the sub- urbs of the city to live? ‘MR. HERRELL 18 EMPHATIC. Mr. John E. Herrell rose to ask “Who are the parties that build the houses in the alleys?” He answered the question himself by saying, with much woe iear “They are the meanest white men that God ever let live; mean, grind- white men.” ir. Weller’s motion to endorse the bill was ied almost unanimously. Mr. Smith said that they should educate the District Commissioners and publie sentiment to the conviction that there ought to be an alley in every square in this city. He thought it a matter of i— policy that the Commis- sioners should refuse to approve any subdivis- ion that did not provide for proper alley facili- ties. ‘The committee then adjourned. Mr. Larner, after the meeting, asked a STaR reporter whether the attendanci the meet- ing last night indicated that his action had had the effect of disbanding it. The result, he said, was just what he had hoped fc It had shown members that they must come up and attend to their duties if they hoped to accom- plish pagers The whole trouble, he said, was due to Dr. Reyburn’s hasty action. Reyburn was not present last night. —— The Killing of Prof..Paul. DAMAGES CLAIMED BY REASON OF HI8 DEATH. To-day Messrs, Chapin Brown and Wm. Twombly, for Amasa C. Paul, administrator of the estate of Edward A. Paul, deceased, fileda bill against Shelby M. Cullom to recover 10,- 000 damages by reason of the death of Prof. Peul on March 3ist last. The complainant states that on that day deceased was lawfully using a certain highway; that defendant was ossessed of a certain horse which was under The care, government and management of de- fendant's servant, and he charges that the ser- vant then so wrongfully, unskillfully, negli- gently and improperly drove, governed and guided said horse, that by and through the carelessness and improper conduct of the ser- vant the horse ran into, over, and trampled upon the intestate, and the said Edward A. Paul was greatly bruised, maimed and injured, and died therefrom April 2d following. The second count of the declaration sets out that in consequence of the injuries, he underwent great pain, and was prevented from attending to his lawful affairs, and in endeavoring to be healed, expended large sums of money. ——_—_ “Tue YEOMAN oF THE GuaRD,” Gilbert and Bullivan’s new opera, will be sung for the first time in Washington at Albaugh’s on Monday evening next by Aronson’s New York Casino company. A new work by the noted compos- ers isa great event, and that it will be well given the reputation of the New York Casino is a guarantee. The sale of seats begins at Al- baugh’s to-morro ir. A. ht-lodging Cuarcep wita VioLaTING THE PLUMBING Reavurations.—Messrs, Eugene C, Hannon and Frank Hannon, plumbers, doing business un- der the firm-name of Hannon Bros., were charged in the Police Court this morning with violating the plumbing regulations in having Placed the plumbing and drainage pipes in jouses No. 1306 to No. 1314 6th street south- west, and covering the same without bat a | the inspector of plumbing. The court hel the defendants guilty of the charge, and a fine of $25 was imposed. Mr. Williams, defendants’ counsel, said he would note an appeal. Mr. og said that he had other charges against the defendants which he would suspend until the case tried was decided in the upper courts. Soxs or Vererans.—Capt. Cailloux camp, 8. of V., division of Maryland, has elected the following officers: Captain, R. D, Goodman (re- elected); 1st lieut., J. B. Hutchison; 2d licut., Ewell Conway; chaplain, J. F. Cole; cam council, J. F. Cole, Malanthon Plumer, J. Hutchison; delegate to divison encampment, U. W. Hall; alternate, Albert Quenan, Petit Lancrxy.—In the Criminal Court to- day acolored man, named James H. Johnson, was placed on trial for petit larceny. second offense, in taking a basket of clothes belong- ing to Miss Ida V. Slater. Mr. Waller, for the defendant, offered no testimony, but raised the question asto whether Johnson had been prop- erly convicted in the Police Court. The court, in charging the jury, said that a prisoner may waive his trial by jury in the Police Court and his conviction would then stand. The jury found a verdict of guilty. A notice of motion for new trial was given. sends $10 to Tue Srar for the jouse, =e Marriace Licenses.—Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to Geo, M. Cook, of Helena, Mont., and Melvina M. Contee; Wilson Watson and Lizzie Crusen- berry; Harry F. Postor and Fannie E. Crosson, of Dauphin county, Pa.; George W. Nichols and Fannie 8. Gaither; L. J. Daniel, of Lou- don county, and Ada Synox, of Prince William county, Md.; Albert E. Fultz and Mattie V. Parker, both of Raphine, Va.; F. R. Burgess and Cora Posey, both of Charles county, Md.; Charles Ball and Hattie McPherson, both of Loudoun county, Va.;G. P. Mossburg and Sallie E. Hoyle, both of Montgomery county, Md. Seater nei Virat Statistics. — Health Officer Town- shend’s report for the week ending December 15 shows: Number of deaths, 82; white, 45; col- ored, 37. Death-rate per 1,060 per annum: white, 15.60; colored. 25.65. Total population, 18.95; 30 were under five years of age. 16 over sixty years, and 18 were under one year old. Ten of the deaths occurred in ae and public institutions. The deaths by classes were as follo Zymotic, 10; constitutional, 19; lo- cal, levelopmental, 5; violence, 2. The rincipal causes of death were: Croup, 3; cere- t inal meningitis, 3; consumption, 12; diar- rheeal, 1; typhoid fever, 1; malarial fever, 1; preumonia, 10; congestion of the lungs; 2; ronchitis, 2; whooping cough, 2. Births re- ported: 12 white maies, 16 white females; 9col- ored males, 13 colored females. Marriages re- ported: 12 white; 5 colored. ease sha Cartiz Manxet.—At the Union stock yards 180 cattle were on the market yesterday and all were sold to butchers as follows: Best sold from 434 to 4%c. per Ib.; good, $ to 4\c.; medium, 334 to $3Ze.; common, 2 to 28%. “319 sheep and lambs on the market and 235 sold as follo Old sheep sold from $ to 4c. per Ib.; lambs, 4 to 5(c.; 76 left over, Cows and calves sold from #25 to $45 each. Market for catile was .fair. Market for sheep and lambs was slow. The next market day will be on Monday, ges 24, and after that on Tuesdays as us ——_— A Janrtor To BE InvestiaaTED.—Officer Cross esterday arrested Alexander Lewis, colored, Janitor at No. 603 13th street, and locked him = on suspicion of stealing articles from the offices in the building. None of the Property has been recovered, nor has the officer foun any evidence against Lewis, He is held pend- ing an investigation. ! xsseun ee) OS ASSAULTED 4 Woman anp Her Huspanp.— Yesterday afternoon, when George H. Boston, colored, went to his home, near 10th and Q streets, he learned that Grant Bennett, a col- ored youth who lived in the same house, had beaten his wife. Boston advised her to get out @ warrant for Grant, whereupon the latter as- saulted Boston. Sergeant Perry arrested Ben- nett and he was tried in the Police Court this afternoon, The court took his personal bonds Seep the peace, and fined him $5 or 15 8. —_——-—_ Relics of the Stuarts. London Cable to the York Tribune, The Stuart exhibition in the new gallery bids fair to prove as extensive and interesting as its zealous promoters could desire. The series of Portraits of Mary Stuart will be almost com- tares Can Do with a Hairpin. From the Philadelphia Press. “What I want when I am cast away on @ des- ert island,” said Andramache, as she took» hairpin out of her head, and bending it into « hook fished her ring out of the drain-pipe with it, “is a whole package of hairpins! If ever a woman writes a Robinson Crusoe story she will have a heroine instead of a hero, and she will give her hairpins to build her little cot- tage with and to make wire mattresses and bustles and broilers and what not with, and she will execute feats of ingenuity that will leave the Schonberg-Cotta family out of sight. Of course, in the order of nature,” Andrama- che went on, straigh' out the small but adaptable implement her hand and returnii it to her French twist, “of course ‘the onght to have the back of a hair- brush to drive and bend her pins with, but if that would be making her too much at home on the desert island, I dare say she could learn to make a stone do. You think I’m exaggerat- ing the virtues of the little busy hairpin, don’t ou? That's your ignorance. If you'd wear em awhile you'd learn to button your boots and gloves with them, and pin back your cur- tains with them, and make hooks of them to hang your bric-a-brac on, and use them to clean your nails with, and to mend your um- brella, and to file your papers on, and to pick nuts with, all just asa matter of course. No, I didn’t say take them out ep boxed hair to pick nuts with, 7 hateful, mean thing. Of course, you go and get new ones, virgin hairpins, out of the packages for that, and they are the best nut-pickers going, too. But these are not half what you can do with them. It is at boarding- school we first find out their true value. That is one of the best results of the modern system, of education as far as is seen. “You see that curious little spoon made out of a shell up there in that little cabinet? You thought it was some sort of a South Sea island curiosity, or came from Madagascar or the Pueblo In , or something like that, didn’t you? Well, itisn’t. It was produced by just the unassisted genius and labor of an everyday American boarding school girl. She wanted to give a secret midnight spread in her rooms and she couldn't get hold of spoons to eat her jam with, so she Fast turned to and fitted a lot of little shells with bai wound them—the handles—with ribbon, and they were not only pretty, but nseful—a great improvement on eating jam with nail brush handles, as we did before that. “That girl was the belle of the school until another girl picked the pantry lock with a hairpin, and we gave the teachers the biggest kind of a burglar scare. What they were most afraid of was that the girl who picked the lock would leave the school because she was too frightened to stay where things hap- pened. The last feat I saw one of my sex per- form with a hairpin was a high. heroic deed. , ister-in-law last week found that her three. the third-story window and was pranc- ing aronnd on the edge of the back roof; her heart was in her mouth; she did not dare to call him or go to him, for fear that would startle him and make him tumble; he was squatting by the tin gutter, carefully examining its contents. What did she do? Why, she had hairpins, didn’t she? She wasn’t a hopeless, helpless resourceless man. with sev- enteen pockets and not a pin of any whole person. She just chose the biggest, sharpest-pointed hairpin she had, bent it into a hook, wired it into a broom-handle with the help of another, and in Jess time than you can think hooked that young man by the belt from behind and hauled’him in. You don't half be- i it? Why, what else would she have done, pray, Master Impertinence? You come with me, and T'll prove it to you by showing you both the bo: broom.” —— The Hero of “Robert From the Chicago Times. Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer preached a sermon on “Robert Elsmere” recently, making use of the words ‘From faith to faith” asa text. In the course of his discourse he said: “Icannot divest myself of the idea that I have seen Robert Elsmere—at any rate, the perfect image of the man. Ten years ago friend and I were wandering in Westmore- |land near a graveyard and we saw him; we didn’t speak to that tall, slender man with pin handles and. then ch Elsmere.” as if he desired to communicate with us. He was evidently a man born to wear the sacred robes—a man in noly earnest to be about his Master's business. So he stands before us, the noble and beautiful young priest. He married such a woman as We all like to read about, but as only Robert Elsmere married. | She was not learned except in wholesome household ways; not un angel, but dipped in angel instincts, ‘Well, there comes into the life of the young priest a man who never had any particular creed, and this man was to be- come Elsmere’s evil genius. The latter felt that asa minister he must keep his heart and mind open to reasoning, and he found that be- fore long he couldn't accept the Bible in the old, unquestioned way. The result was peril- ous, He no longer appeared at his work with the old light in his eves, His wife couldn't follow in the search. She could not weep and wait in sorrow. He was drifting away from his old quiet moorings to an unknown sea. Pleadings and prayers availed not, for there Was now a spirit within the man that led him years ago. There was only one thing for Rob- ert Elsmere to do—to throw up his hands and off his robes and give up the sacred ministry. He gave up with a dull head and a heavy heart.” The Women’s Club Question. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. “It has been suggested,” said a lady in dis- cussing the club question in its relation to women, ‘that the seductiveness and freedom of club life may be # reason why bachelors cling with such tenacity to their freedom. In- deed, many are heard to declare that they find it impossible to conceive why a man should want a home when he can live at his club in much more elegance and luxury for not more than half the expense, “Why should not this be a case of tweedle- dee and tweedle-dum? Would not the life of an unmarried woman, that poor specimen of “forlornity’ generally pitied as an old maid, be a thousand times more agreeable if she were a member of a club, whose club-house wes situ- ated in the most fashionable locality, where she could spend her hours in ite luxurious par- lors surrounded with every comfort, well- trained servants ready and anxious to ‘do her bidding, friends dropping in unceremoniously, the best of cooking ut her order, an elegant table d’hote dinner served daily what it would cost for a beefsteak at a restaurant, a bed-room or two, well furnished, well heated, well cared for in every respect? Would it not be as ideally independent way for single women and widows to live as for bachelors and widowers; without the coldness attributed to the unprotected fe- male in a hotel, or the —— attached to a boarder ina boarding-house,or the loneliness of uring alone in one’s home, or doubly alone amid half-hearted friends? oo —______ Indta-Rubber Horse Shoes. 4 NEW DEVICE THAT WILL@HORTLY REPLACE IRON IN THE SHOEING OF HORSES, From the New York Mail and Express. “The proposed substitution of India rubber for metal in the manufacture of horse shoes is based upon various supposed advantages,” says a well-known authority, “one of these being that the former enables a horse to go easier over all kinds of roads and rough and smooth und without slipping. The contrivance rought forward for this purpose is such as to obviate in one instance the necessity of using an iron shoe, which can be moved momentarily when the horee is shod with an iron shoe. According to this design the shoe consists of an India-rubber bottom piece molded to fit over and around the frog of the hoof, with a ledge or r protecting rim rising up the front and around the level where the nails are c the projection having an edge under wi steel band or other appliance can be drawn and nipped tight to retain the rubber shoe. The plete. Among the personal relics connected with her history the duke of Norfolk = her Mr. | will assuredly be a +] Mise success.” ~ I tind you can bet that we shall sonep te ear-old son and heir had climbed out of gray eyes and holy face, although he looked | on, The story is an old one. I knew it thirty | | Pes ef ai Bt hadi 19, 188 A STRANGE DREAM. The Marvelous Things the Dear Crea-| An Uncomfortable Experience with a | ‘t Still Exists, Somnambulist. tes —a A German student of the university of Hei- delberg sat in his room late one night, deeply absorbed in his studies, Just across the hall and opposite his own, was another bed-roow occupied by two fellow-students, The clock in the great building had just struck the hour of midnight, when his attention was attracted to the door by the sound of a stealthy footfal! in the hallway. Turning his head in that di- rection, he was surprised to see the door open slowly and noiselessly, and one of the occu- pants of the other room enter his own with « glittering knife in his hand. On his face was a strange expression; his eyes wore wide open and lusterless, and he stared straight in front of him like a man engaged in deep thought, unconscious of his surroundings. With a tread as soft as that of a panther he glided toward the bed. with the knife gripped in his right hand and his left extended in front of him, as if feeling his way. The room was well lighted by the large lamp on the table, but apparently it did not awaken the power of vision in the sightless and staring eyes of the somnambulist, He groped his way at last to the bedside. Runnii his left hand lightly along the surface. as if measuring the distance from the edge to where its occupant should be, he suddenly raised the knife aloft and plunged it to the hilt im the mattress. Withdrawing it, he wiped the blade on his sleeve, and began to feel his way back to the door. He passed out, across the hall and back into his own room, = door of which he closed and locked behind Horrified at this murderous freak of somnam- bulism, the student immediately arose and locked his own door. After satisfying himself that it was proof against any more nocturnal incursions from that quarter, he returned to his seat; but he could not fix his mind on his studies. He was unstrung. He lay down and tried to sleep, but it was uo use, his nervous system had received too great a shock; and he was overwhelmed by the narrowness of his escape from a swift and terrible death. At last morning came. Curious to see what effect the night's occurrence would have on the sleep-walker, he resolved tokeepsilent. As he entered the breakfast-room down stairs he was greeted by the latter witha hearty “good moru- ing.” Do you know,” said he, “I had a horrible dream last night?” “What was it?” the other asked. “I dreamed I went into your room and stabbed you with a knife while you were asleep.” “Ah?” “Yes; and I tried to resist it but could not. It seemed to me that I was driven to it by some supernatural po: “Well, you did go into my room and knife me while asleep—at least it was no fault of yours that .you didn’t—hadi been in bed, as usual, you would have made short work of me.” “What i mean; “Come and I'll show you.” He took him up to his room and showed him the hole in the mattress; he was horror-struck; he could scarcely believe the evidence of his own senses, “Tell me how it happened?” he asked. His companion related it to him as he had witnessed it. | “Exactly as I dreamed it,” he said. It is neediess to add that his fellow-students bolted and locked their doors after this as long | as the somnambulist was at the university. as ce seat Ventilating Our Homes. MEN WHO LIVE IN HOUSES OF REEDS HAVE CON- STITUTIONS OF OAK AND VICE VERSA, From the N. Y. Fashion Bazar, An old. writer says: ‘When men lived in houses of reeds they had constitutions of oak; when they live in houses of oak they have con- stitutions of reeds.” Evidently the truth incul- cated is that the better the air and more boun- | tiful ite supply the healthier is the inmate of a house, be it palace or cottage. Too often the very wealth of a house-builder militates ~ ap his splendid mansion becoming that ideal home of comfort that it should be, and | the inmate of some wretched, leaky little hovel, | perched oma rocky hillside, will have every | advantage over such a one as regards vigor of | body and elasticity of spirits. Science tells us that there is a needed respi- ration for the walls of our houses, and that for- ' tunately for us, whether conscious of it or not, | the materials of which our modern houses are | made admit of the passage of air in a greater | or less degree. Brick, stone, wood. and mor- | tar, solid as they look to _us, are easily pierced by that volatile fiuid which we call air. Such is the elasticity of air that fortunately for usa | slight force only is needed to put and keep it in motion. The difference of 20 degrees Fabren- heit in temperature between outdoor air and indoor air will cause the passage of about 8 cubic feet of air each hour through every | Square yard of wail surface made of brick, A plastered wall also admits of the free e of air, and actually serves as as efficient filter | by arresting the Progress of dust or any of those particles—often injurious—with which the atmosphere is laden. Heat is the great motor for ventilation, whether natural or artificial, and the great problem in winter is to introduce a sufficient quantity of pure warmed air to make one’s room comfortable without attendant draughts that shall imperil the health of their occupants. | Open fireplaces, whether the fuel consumed in | them be wood or coal, are among the very best ventilators that we have, and yet the question of expense is bringing them more and more | into disuse. But there is no need to be dis- couraged on that score, because the eyes of all practical people are being opened to the im- portance of combining the twin forces of heat and ventilation in such a manner as shall tend, in the future, to prolong life as well as render it more comfortable and enjoyable. Monogram Stockings. A FASHION THAT ONLY GIRLS WITH PRETTY FEET WILL ADOPT. From the Philadelphia Record. All the girls in upper tendom are wearing stockings with their monograms embroidered on them. Since the West Spruce street young man conceived the idea of sending a dozen pairs of this kind to his Bryn Mawr young lady, and she exhibited them to a host of admiring girl friends, all the embroidering establish- ments have been rushed with work. A re- porter called at one of those places yesterday dsaw a dozen girls, with deft fingers and shining needles, drawing fancy stitches in all kinds of materials. en questioned about the stockings, the auburn-ha! and hazel- eyed young girl who was in charge said the story was true, and that they were unable to Al fhe orders they have —_ ora meg “The monograms are worked in the stockings in all colors and all kinds of materials,” said she. “Where are they placed? Why, what a silly question! They are worked on the instep, of course, where they may be seen. They cer- tainly would not be put on at the upper end of the stocking, where they would be hid. It costs $2 to have a two-letter monogram worked on a ‘ir of stockings, and when the girls spend t much money they want something to show for it. The fad And to ll the rage at the fashionable gatherings this winter, because the ladies will be wearing their low-cut slip- pers. It will be just as good as « directory for the young men, for if they want to know a 0 Behm they need only to look at her feet. ies with big feet won't use the monograms, because they would attract attention to the size of their pedal extremities, and all our work is being done on small stockings.” The Surgeon and the Sentry. ‘From the Army and Navy Review. An army surgeon was one night annoyed by the coughing of the sentry outside his tent. Unable to sleep, he decided that something cine. Then, going out, he ordered the man to take it. The sentry first refused litely, and after i But the THE CONCORD LYCEUM. Though Changed from Emerson’s Time. Concord Cor. of the Springfield Republican. The old-fashioned village lyceum flourishes n this town, after an existence of nearly sixty years, during which Emerson lectured more than 100 times to its audiences, These are still numerous, although it takes something more lively than a lecture on “Education” or “The Steam Engine” to draw them out om ® winter evening. Agreat man or an elo quent speaker will do it, but I doubt if they would gather now to hear a lecture of Edward Everett's read by another person. I have be fore me a letter written by Mr. Everett in No- vember, 1830, to old Dr. Ripley, regretting that he co@id not keep his promise to lecture, but adding: “To obviate, as far as . the inconvenience which the failure might cause the lyceum, I send you the lecture which I should have delivered. It is one which I have delivered twice before, but my health bas vented me from preparing another. Alto in —_ as you see, it has not been held it back from publication enable me with propriety to deliver it at Concord. Should you think it worth while to have it read at the meeting it is at your service for that pur- pose, and should this done I would suggest, as itis one hour and thr: juarters long, some parts should be omitted.” Whether thie was done tradition does not say. But the vil- lagers now omit some the lecture course, which used to run from October to April, but now begins in ber aud ends before March. Even in this shortened concerts, dramatic entertainments, and the stereopticon come in to banish the formal lec= ture once a week, which used to be the fashion. Gov. Long has given here this winter bis ‘Abraham Lincoln,” and this week a certaia George BR. Wendling lectures on “Stonewall Jackson,” whose lovely daughter came here for a day from North Carolina a few years ago, In former days the interest in the course cen- tered in Emerson's annual address. Few Con- cordians will forget that gentle presence at the desk, or how the speaker's face lit up as he | threw forth some precious bit of thought of gave his hearers e flash of lively humor. No one now can fill hi So pecan. pleasant ceum Custom is still more or less kept to invite some Concord man who has trave widely or has got out a book, or otherwise dis- tinguished himself in some way, to lecture for the enlightenment of his fellow-citizens, The Way to Send Christmas Gifts. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It costs only ten cents additional postage to register packages and letters, and persons who are anxious to know whether their packages reach their destination should register their packages and letters, for which receipts are | given in the registry department. Persous sending postal cards and who write upon the address side of them “in hi or any other words unconnected with their delivery, sub; them to letter postage, and they are held as unmailable. It is simply waste of time and ink to put “in haste” upon any postal card or let- ter, for it will go 2s soon without such “hurry= <@ remarks a8 with it. There are some ple who never can write a letter without a P. 8, or two, and these are the parties who usually write “in haste” upon their correspondence. = ooo — Theater Visiting. From the Chicago Mail. Visiting around at the theater has become quite a fad here in Chicago with the young man who sports adress suit when he goes to the | play-house. Have you ever noticed him visit | around? No? Well, it would be worth your while to watch him. While the play is going on he does the “ennui act” and gazes about the house in search of some lady friend. Before the curtain falls he usually discovers her, and while the under stratum is sliding out after cloves and cigarettes he takes the longest aisle route to the seat of the fair one. She may be three seats from the end of a row, but that makes no difference, Teetcring down the aisle on the toes of patent leather pumps, and with arms properly akimboed, he at last pauses be- fore her, bends his body at the belt and awaits her recognition. When she gives it, accom- panied by a smile, he bends again and again with that matchless grace possessed only by the dude and the foot-rule and fires the usual airy nothings at her over the heads of the inter- mediate auditors. His i reeches pockets and the scene-shifter of facial expression shoves on a time-worn smile which has done duty on numberless occasions, If the j lady's brother is with her and has left bis seat —it is a safe bet that he has—the caller himself down by her side and has his chat, re- maining there until the brother returns to claim his seat by a murmured “Good evening,” with cocktail dressing. M. De Lesseps’ Difficulties. HE RECEIVES GENERAL SYMPATHY, WUILE TER CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES IS CONDEMNED. All the anger of the French sharcholders im the Panama caual company over the collapse of the enterprise seems to be directed against the chamber of deputies for failing to extend aid, On the other hand, general sympathy is ex- tended to M. De Lesseps. The cabinet has de- cided that when the committees’ report on the bankruptcy bill is presented to the senate on Friday the president of that body shall ask leave to interrupt the budget debate in order to detach from the bankruptcy bill an article applicable to the position of the Panama canal company, the object being to save it from bank- ruptey. Ths tanporary divecters of tho company share the opinion expressed by De Lesseps, thata stoppage of the operations on the canal ought to he specially avoided, and every legiti- mate means resorted to to keep the work going. M. De Lesseps says he will not accept forcign aid in his difficulties, The work is Frenc and must remain so. An Insufficient Reason. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. “Why mustn't I stand up on the scat?” sside small boy to bis mother in » suburban train the other day. “Because I know you'll fall over and knock Miss Blank’s hat off,” was the maternal reply. The small boy remained silent for a moment, while he took stock of the hat on the lady im front. Then he said in judicial tones ¥, mamma, that's the hat you said you'd knock off ‘Mise Blank’ if you were her mother!” ————— 9 ee Street Decorations. 4 SUGGESTION TO THE INAUGURATION COMMIT~ ABROAD. TEE FhoM From the Providence Journal. tard plaster on a burn to a sensitive person, The arches, although they looked ineffably cheap, were really very expensive, sometimes as much as $3,000. Washington the hardest town in the world to decorate; owing to its vast distances, its and the huge masses of public buil dwarf everything else in the shi them. What sort of itol, sitting grandly on its hill. to tie Tromeury dagartmant, backed by i Pa F i a e Bs