Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1888, Page 8

Be ar fA lll ae ges MT THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ¢., saTURDAY. A DRUG CLERK’S TALK. People Who are Addicted to the Use of | Opium and Otber Drugs. SUBTREPUGRS RESORTED TO IN ORDER TO SECURE A SUPPLY OF TSE DRUO—THE CHLORAL BABIT AND FES INEVITABLY FATAL BESULT—QUININE NOW BEING USED To EXCESS, i Interesting Christmas Customs and Tra- ditions in Old Erin. ¢ OUTDOOR LIFE IN WINTER—ALONG GR4ND OLD COUNTRY ROADO—MIDWINTER BIRDS—XMASTIDE REVELERS AMONG THE NOBILITI—THE BOG- DEAL BLOCK AND MAMMOTH CANDLE. A CHBIST{A3 CAROL. ‘Sam Davis tn the Carson Appeal. ‘In 1858—it might bave been five years earlier or later, this is not history for the public scbools—there was a little camp about 10 miles from Pioche, occupied by upward of three maak Noes hundred one of whom might {Copyrighted 1888.) SEanor house send fit folk and servania to at | hare peusd'Uty gecigeling bnplaniais una ‘Special Correspondence of Tat Eventna STAR. ‘ han from a n congregate at | left for more inviting fields any time before Ireland in the Christmas holiday-time is| “Bother. With the gentlemen, + | sunset. When the day was over these men did athletic games, whisk, perhaps in ite least pleasing aspect. ie ge 1 resaling’ | Bot rest from their labors, like the honest New Bugers over the keys. He touched bit «single pro’ scenically ‘The straits and privations of fully 4,000,000 of gossip i rule the | England agricuiturist, but sang, danced, gam- | note, yet the sound thrilled the room. It was her remaining 4,500,000 inhabitants are also in te and pom- | bled, and shot each other, as the mood seized | the key to his improvisation. and as he wove their direst tense and mood. But nature’ ling and going them, his chords together the music lad its spel : One the ear and heart, He felt his way hand is a loving one even in the Irish winter; evening the report spread along the | iPo the bese like a man trending uncertain and the blessed hold that Christmar-time has along ne ave, am ding main street (which was the only street) that gained confidence as he. pro- taken upon the universal Christian-world heart, ea i # Fa FE Hit HH i E CHOICE GOSSIP AXD GOOD STORIES. “I suppose every drag store in the city has} There never was a congressional reporter its opium customers,” said a drug clerk to @| until this session ot Caan ‘There have | Senate Stax reporter, “though it would be difficult to | been employes of the House who took verbatim | They abuse each stimate the ‘number who are victims of the | reports of the proceedings, o that the amxione | 80d courteous public might read in the Congressional Record | controversy 3 1?” asked Tue Stan man. the speeches which had never been delivered | Senators are “Well, you see those who use the drug be-! on the floor = come secretive after they have acquired the | hed been appetite, and they will go as faraway from greech had been made. Such reporters still | similar controversy in the House last their homes as possible to procure their supply. | nist and do duty, but they never hed for «| striking. It is conducted in the most i i E i Sometimes they patronize two or mere drug stores, so that neither will think they are buy- g the drug for anything but medicinal pur- poses.” “How is the habit nequired?” have be to aliay neuralgic or oth representative would be found whose congres- ‘The patient finde immediate relief, and feces | sional existence was marked by masterly’ in- pleasent effect. Then w the pain comes romp oh gol figheiee a mn ge gain he wili get escription renewed, | an oe erhaps getting double’ the quantity, and, of | during the sessions of the House se, he increases the dose. Them he will other matters than those for which Congress is t a copy of the ription and take itto supposed to be in session. drug-store and get it put up there. | THE CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER. m he has two sources of supply. Perhaps | ghortly before the hour of noonon every day ae tines wien enue nd | when the House is in seesion, a quiet, unassum- es enn Ok eae a ing men lounges from the cloak-room on the ‘an fon ol our o dso repeat | democratic side of the House and walks slowly in.” | down the center aisle toa prominent seat in THE FORM MOST USED. | the front row. ‘That man is “the “What is the form most generally used in| reporter-” | Opening hie deak, be takes from taking the dru; Sills in the few ‘ming es which Precede the rep of the gavel and chap! yer Fr ge lengths, | Close observers of the nation’s logis ators say that ‘is particular gressman and the men | was not, during last session. always in his seat ocket and take | for prayers. He is not a opium is perhaps the least a e many who are fond of it, duige in this form of the who Use it carry it in their v a little pellet every now competitor a member of Congress until two | and placid manner, and the sharpest retorts pr ago. Heretofore those persons who | «0d most bitter assaults are made in language honored by election to Congress | of the courtier, classic in its purity. “Will the . a8 @ rule, been busily engaged in the | Senator pardon me?” one of the distinguished “Goudie it bes te in a physician's | “2irs of the House and in looking sfter the | disputants will say ina sweetened tone, bowing A doctor will give some form of | interests of their constituents, Occasionally a | attention b fois ro blended with that marvelous componsati power of utilizing the most trifling possibili- ties for human joy which the Irish nature pos- sesses, permits and provides a quality. of Christ mas-time cheer which is often surprising to those whose lives are measurably filled with bounteousness and content. Of the out-door life of the Irish winter, where it can be separated from the unfortunate c: dition of those to whose eyes winter can be only an added danger and terror. a Burroughs or a Thorean might furnish a winsome volume. The Irish roads. though Rumid with wet from nt rains. dusty from a week's occasional and bracing weather. or whitened from center to wall with the frost of early morning, are ever a source of exhilaration and delight. Here one will sweep up and on and over in- id | creasing swells of upland. to the eve the brown {ta side climbing like, delicate rumet ires to where the way is lost in the hazy edge abrown-gray sky. A Millet, with hi cal power of rude still-life suggestiveness, should have put this scenic reach on canvass. AN misH scr Here an Irish winter road swails along and ‘through an avenue of beech, yew, and syca- more, where twilight always lies,,where now the brown leaves eddy and swirl, and spring | witchingly from dark corners upon passing greater, the feasts more tremendous, and more Tespect is paid to proprieties and form. It should, however, be added for what good there may be in it, that aside from profuse and ex- traordinary hospitality to kind and degree. an excellent showing of gift-making to servants, tenants and’ tradesmen, as" well’ aa, charity 19 poor, is made; a ‘charity which though e seldom refused, bears too many scourging re- | minders with it to strike one spark of gratitude in the consciously-wronged Irish life and heart. In the cities, throngs surge and crowd with elation or des in their faces, as with us. But nowhere else on this earth does Christmas- time bring such shuddering, pallid, piteous poverty to stand, stare and bunger for the | glories of home-windows open, or the wonders of shop-windows ablaze with what these des- perately forsaken humans have never owned jor known, Ragged, filthy, sodden, forlorn, ; bare-tooted in mid-winter, with the slush and snow freezing to their bloodless flesh, they are ten times ten thousand soul-holding monu- ments to the surpassing inhumanity of govern- ment by Christian man. AMONG THE PEASANTS, While there is undoubtedly almost universal reverence for the more sacred side of the | dued, and when the horses came to a stand- three men had been killed at Silver Reef, and that the bodies were coming in. Presently lumbering old ccnveyance labored up the hill, drawn by e couple of horses, well worn out with their pull. The cart contained a good- sized box, and no sooner did its outlines be- come visible through the glimmer of a stray light here and there, than it began to affect the idlers. Death always enforces respect, and even though no one bad caught sight of the remains, the crowd gradually became sub- still the cart was immediately surrounded. The | driver, however, was not in the least impressed With the solemnity of his commission, “All there?” asked one. «Haven't examined, Guess so.” Theva filled his pipe and lit it as he con- ned: “Wish the bones and load had gone over the grade. Aman who had been looking on stepped up at once. “I don't know who you have in that box, but if they happen to be any friends of mine, I'll lay you alongside.” “Ve can mighty soon ‘see,” said the team- | ster, cooly. “Just burst the lid off, and if they happen to be the men you want, I'm here.” two looked at each other for a moment Euessed, and presently bent to his work li master. The instrument was not in exact tune, | but the ears of his audience, through long dis- | use, did not detect anything radically wrong. | Tney heced s spcseation of grand chords, | suggestion of melodies bere and there, and it was enough. Se “See him counter with his left!” said an old rough. “He calls the turn every time on the w end of the board,” responded a man with « stack of chips in his hand. The player wandered off into the old ballads | | they had heard at home. All the sad and | melancholy, and touching songs that came up | like dreams of childhood, this unknown player | drew from the keys. His hands their hearts like dough, and squeezed out the tears as from a wet sponge. As the strains flowed ‘one upon the other, they saw their homes of the loug ago reared again; they were playing jonce more where the spple-blossoms sank through the soft air to joiu the violets on the green turf of the old New England states; they | saw the glories of the Wisconsin maples and | the haze of the Indian summer bienging their hues together; they recailed the heather | of Scottish hills, the white cliffs of Britain, and j heard the sullen roar of the een, as it bent | upon their memories vaguely. Then came all | the old Christraas carols. they had sung church thirty years before; the subtle music | that brings up the glimmer of wax the Greatly Improved and Better Than Ever. ‘THE WEEKLY Sran, in its new dress and under careful editorial supervision. commends itelf as one of the most attractive and desirable news and family journals published. It comprises eight Pages of solid reading matter—the very cream the contents of the eight-page daily issues of Tae EVENING Stan. together with aduitioual features Including a department devoted to Farm, Home and Garden interests, carefully compiled and et Mted expresely for the weekly edition, mab, nd then. Morphia is | this “con; mal reporter,” his appear- ‘hristmas-tide, t - 4 . In addition to ite unexcelied attractions as * 0 used too, that is it is carried loose in the vest | ance pore that of one whois on good ristmas-tide, and I truly know that at least | and the crowd gathered a little closer, antici- | solemn shrines, the evergreen, holly, mistle- ;, rs carte or humans, and the bare old limbs above | the Irish try hi innate ni toe, and liced choirs. Then the remorse- weekly newspaper, it bas issued aie pocket and taken out on the finger and Jaid on | terms with himself and with mankind gen | ery out in their wild kvens for the dead ye for all thes te sence ond pooh. the Adept af crawl paca ids up theta. He freed perionner ww | his oe g cub moony | it bas 1s 8 Lint of valua be poe cn et ler an nelly a or Sree tneneet Gass momen gives There, ‘they creep down together, crowing 28 | generally observed in its high and holy sense | got boerd off, and’chen paid Gat some raga, Heart with “Home, Sweet Home." | °°" 1 and weeful premlums, given ether to single au jaudanum and paregoric, they are use: 01 y sneteaa | they pass a huddled mass of wall and thatch. Treland, is cl nde g dark, like rosewood, pre-| When the pla eased, crowd siunl sexes, but more frequently by women. Many, | ever-upward movement of the corners of = ioe Over yonder you can see a chalky way winding and worth SDs ie tes Sree aaa ae omgged 3 rom kish, “There wes’n0 more" 7 | away from him. There was no more revelry “TIPS or CUD raisers, which will be went, togeus | oe open rh — Vogtle, In ons ion the ivy and holly are everywhere | ~-Eastern coffins, by thunder!” said several, | & sovieneas Jett in ue vadienct Each man er with @ sample copy of the paper. free and pow: peat yond, another threads - seen and procurable; and a tim: of the wanted to sneak off to his cabin write the 70 BUSINESS. | side, loosing itself in witching defiles, or sud- | mistletoe ‘conspicuously appears fe silt the | wot san sung hearty Atv oe acdline takes hg |Oul detia np beam mapas othe PALA to.ARy address, oF given to any one applyiig tue for some gum opium, telling me be had ®| aye chaptain's petition in - . | ae a ; — 4 ig the edge of precipices, and | homes of the more favored classes, Rich or | was ready to defend his friend’ memory shifted | last man left the plece, and the player, laying 1 the counter of the business otic See ee ee ae cane tee cones cat | ness at thes dag: Desien: | Cua of tha acety:| compete eaemeyore ott | then winding gracefully around lower steeps. | poor, Catholic or Protestant, every family will | nie weapon ® little. ‘The cool manner ef tee | his head down on the pinno, tell nelee # a + oll = cs 6 comes too or shows excitement is at | 9 if to reach the warmest valleys. Aud whaten- | possess a ~Christmas-block” of ash, which is | teamster had so irritated him that he had say, pard,” said Goskin, “you wantalittle A®s further inducement wo secure » large ie. without « prescripion from poysicion’” He | tablet and creme to be ongee so envoy dees on | once a» dimdvantage, | trancing scenes are reads for him who willwalk | the favorite, or of “bog-deal.” found in the | made up his mind to pall his weapon at the | Fest?” Y crease to its eubecripticn List, Tus WarKiy Sram ~ pr pre - iP o1 phy a et and seems eager to swoop on ee ae these grand old roads! For nature-lover or artist | Irish peat-banks and bogs. This is to Ireland | first signt of the dead, even if the deceased was _ “I do feel tired,” the old man said. “Per- aske to rec THE SEXATOR FROM VERMONT. A. hi fou know. resort to hypodermic injections. but mouth, although a heavy brown moustac! ihen that is en expensive luxury. {remember does its best to conceal that feature. one day a man came into this store and asked | end him to some doctor, | it, A member rises to speak, and the pencil ‘within one short half-day's tramp, you may | as th e-l i y | he ll let me rest (he matter of @ has arrenged nd 1 dco. sida tcome back. and afew swoops. Hapidly the ‘trained Singers move | | Mr. Edmunds outs a clasic igure inthiscon-|Yeust on gray, dreat erage around Wich the | Prigtiy Wee as oe Netana. Grey nec | ules clue bomethe een ee cone en Meet ee ee _— Gays afterward the physician whove name Thad across the surface of the tablet. If the orator | test. There is a dignity and self-contaiped | heather never fades; river of murmurou the home may own, ster, clearing away the packing, revealed to| He walked behind the bar where some old PREMIUM VERY SUBSCRIBER Soe eon ee Cas eens (torn lpeaesal etapa pe tt in his tnd a calm, courteous | uous sweetnese and beauty; cabins innumera- Sh inaiiie Saas abcess eas the ‘astonished group the top of something blankets were lying andstretched himself upon | ae -” : os sé " n; ina kindly manner; his ‘are smooth itterness in his del ite speech. There is | ble, with their ragged. hopeless, but ever-| ; i inati whicn puzzled all alike. | them, Fie tho wan, peculiarity about this | out, hi | i 4 is a sentiment and determination more im- ape : ‘ = “4 ° * os hy the way, tie wpe ry | out, his snaccuracieg are passed over and = is | an affability in hie moet cruel thrusts, and he | hospitable, inmates: hamlets with wonderful Bot bbe. “this ton plenaee: | _ “I feel pretty sick. I guess won'tlast long. | Who simply pays the price uf subscription, $1.00 ; = 8,” ani les amiably upon hia victim se he withdraws | old trees. shops. homes, and old. old, folk and | pressive and unvarying, save with the Irish no- | /,Hovee” utld be. “this it 8 pian i |T've got a brother down in the ravine—his wise ‘aai-sun uiacn aide tae ep Ge hea | Seed fellow, | If however, the Political faith fade, is led and distinguished | ware; manor-house with, monrafal tokvns of | bility, than in any other land T know, And on Pelee pote ee ead pall I er Se “What do you mean—that they try to beat : p - ; | appearance comports so well wit! speech, _ the rare and roaring mir! ds Christmas eve itself there cannot be found | spect for the dead muttered something about | You get him before mornin, you?” then, verily, his name is “Dennis,” for the | Hit humor is subtle and elegant, and he is ag | but still standing stardy and gaunt within ueg- | «mong the lowly classes » human soul not @ | Spine ocr, ‘and the keeper of the nearest bar |~ Goskin started. He knew Driecoll well. | if ket tt bill they | Scribe will write him down in terms that, if | merciless as he is He never shows any | lected grounds where cattle browse for winter | Jost one, that is not there or sometime there | waa several ounces better off by the time the | © “lle ¥ 3 BY bon ever let them run a bill they | logically carried to # concl would give | undue haste or ted earnestness, The | food; mansion of the rich and feared. or fear- witnin the glow and warmth, With the hum-| bors bad given the joke all the atention it ee ESS Sore thant Paring. | Idon't him that title which Dogberry so vociferously | tits between him and Mr. Vance furnish ade. | ing and rich, where noble forests hide ap- villagers everywhere, and always with the | called for. | ow that it's intentional « Ta tho neiz demanded for himself several years ago. A lightfal entertainment to an audience of deli- | proaches of ‘beanty and splendor: castles of | peasanteeet the work any ae | ve refe he dox - F corner of , Buccee( . mei je serfs, and 5, seription and gave tt the man. who said that temporarily capturing that fleeting optic knows Pn nd Cp thie ne igpet temar ine i mlgnty csrarleria carton ry canes taeseane (ont Rochon gageors he would come around on «certain day and | to professionals as “‘the Speaker's eye,” and the ‘Appeared not prepared to an- | slaves to perpetuate their own servitude; eve. It will simply irrevocably be had. ‘The | Known that the instrument was tograce a hurd. | Driscoll was pa Ph. ay Kies, a5 Bo was short of money then congressional reporter grabs bis tablet and | plied by asking another, “as | CASTLES OF A LATER DAY bog-lenl "blogg is fired: the doors are Aung | gurdy saioon, owned by Tom Gosia’ the leek | ly Godt hope he's alive! 1 wronged him | @* ube. Itiswlely and sotetantaly td shed ties to let acehna tha tame te vicinity of 0 dolieately- Then there gh raised as exquisite architectural monuments — eee for ey meena or snemny 00 | ing sembler fa the place. It took noariy 0 when we li 2 aw Sey he a cloth, comprises 208 pages, over 500 illustrations ; a taaneid the pcoeceme maiel Carolina series enter with read mile fail (a thousand times | week to get this wonder on its legs, an pe old man had drawn the . 0S nts pele waphall plo sige a got the terms of the Seat iae rat ond EEInY; Snel both Set | waloorne); Gis, Guacamsoth candle is lightod'ee | Sener we tharecohast iabteibent et tance face. The two stood a motnent, awed | Aud contains more than 10,000 words, the spelling, wad 400 Ge tom 4 WOT DEBATE “If the Senator ep or high in - ig barn out, but never be extinguished; and | It rose graduaily.from a recumbent to an up-| b3 thought that he might be di pronunciation, and definitions of which contormés he day he had lights the congressional reporter. He | ssid. ‘to ask his question, as it has escaped me, | natural and cultivated beauty aecan be found while there is constant going an coming it is | right position, amida confusion of tongues, | Goskin lifted the blanket and pulled it dywn 7 jo awit vatienl doesn’t have to wear out his brain nor his peu- | I will try to anawer him.” | by man; moors of dark, dreadful blackness | softly done. There is always a circle of eager | after the manner of the Tower of Babel. astonished. There was no one there! those of the largest and latest editions. It is well Lemna lag might have the | ¢iivjn an endeavor to keep even with the wordy | “I do not know but that the question has | sud sterility; bogs. vast, gurgling, secthing, the fSregplace, where strange weird, |" Of course everybody knew just bow wach an | “Gone eried Driscoll; wtidly~ é P "eens customers ever break off the | *trife. He simply moves around and fills him- | e#eaped the Senator,” was Mr. Edmunds’ | rotting. but hiding Ireland's sole fuel, and her | over old and ever new, tales, abounding in re- | instrament sho: be‘put up. One knew where hoed Goskin, pulling out his cash- | Printed, in plain and readable type, and contales : self up with material for a sketch of the arn prompt retort. “I thought the Senator wished | prehistoric forests which stand upright and jigious sentiment. are told.while the half-lights | the “off hind shouid go, and another was us thousand dollars in the seck, | pesjaes the vocabulary a list of Foreign Words wit aestion. le, while the official stenographer wrestles to escape the . | perfect beneath the mire; bridge of greatest | dince fair: sted on the “front piece.” the Babel of ‘words. ‘Ther. eben all is quiet as in the same debate, Mr. Edmunds | age and quaintest arch; lonesome. pallid cross, | old thateb-r: To Foe of men came to the place every day| The next day the boys followed a horse's | and Phrases, Explauation of AUbreviations, Rules | for Spelling, and Tables of Weights and Mess per annum. ‘This premium is @ WORCESTER'S POCKET DICTIONARY, As he dashed out into the storm the musician Shrist- | Hua a dozen dead men been in the box, their eet his hand to his side gor = | Something needful in every family and useful long candle, weighing from | presence in the campcoaid not have occasioned | kin heard the word ry!” and own if ite price needabe begged | balf the excitement that the arrival of that | the ravine to Driscoll cabin, Ttwas quite | Suk®in the office, workshop or mt home. It ts e for Christmas | piano caused. By the next morning it was | light in the room when the two men ret the most complete stnall dictionary,ever offered & ‘This handsome and valuable little book, which tran mine di once more. the “congressional reporter” will | Spologized for an interruption. “I thought,” | cut clear and sharp against the hazy brown of | nearly all repair; then the ° ” | to assist, | tracks through the snow. and lost them im the secure from the stenographer the ment | he said, “my honorable friend had finished.” | mountain-side; deserted shrine hiding in is had; those who have saved enough brew ll put the bones in good order.” | trail leading toward Pioche. printing office copy and he will take what he | Mr. Vance, who felt that he had been giving | wretched solitude and decay; ruin of ors bowls of punch; those who have not you want the wires tuned up, I'm the | | There was a man missing from the camp. It | ures, dc. . needs from the pyramids of adjectives, the well | his antagonist the worst of the discussion, re- | did proportions and antiquity sercamed get alon e as well upon the stirring po- | b | was the threc-card monte . who used to of clear truth or the bucket of political mud. aa wide pously: “I have no doubt the ee ee beh A teen; am comes it, Irish roystering | “I've got the music to feed it for a mont! a ry ng = oy he could play _ —) air afee joped s0.”” é e . al biiarity begins, Another brought a pair of blankets for a| One day they founda wig of w ir, and | ..,, ie breve teat | sts nanas ainuealt ata: a dpmaseatal wit ings think I do,” Mr. Edmunds replied, | or savageet mid-winter days, glimpses of HUNTING THE WRES cover, and all took the liveliest interest in it, | called to mind when the “stranger” hed pushed | T'llsat40 cent, exclusive of postage, will We {remember 22% | congresrionsl reporter if « man hasonly bad | on, "17" “Poosehe "weariness of expree-| Temes med Srdcavors to hold it'at's | But Christmas-tine in Ireland is one of une | 1 mr atlas i a condition for "Gt ‘the week, | cnling Sor inepicaiion, om the nigh of Dosee: | Ona ont Sus pesaae tea, oomry sutemine? oppor Arig the experi i Again, the North Carolina Senator recited a | single thought, the certain reflection comes | speakable loss to the bird families of tiny | weed like to have it “iE -gh proton Neng bere [= ~~ aay Pi J a | Pecelved by THE WEEKLY STAR at $1.00 each. | b= ‘ is i that in no land where one may wander at wrens, This tragedy of the wren should have Jas! the i 0 be fou ae oe paid . oe Bethe aad tr have socio shanks (ext ios has every ad- | series of ical disturbances, winding up | that ] a . gedy have} Alas! there wasn't a man to be found who meguak begin Gee and » nal to Rave hls chlor a Chl ool tage. Does he want more tablet, mare | with the declaration that nobody utemed with | Christmastime, ean there, be found such sar | luminous place in literature. Half a million | couid play upon the instrament. Goskin be wna wWeadttte, Wester % aahienemeees fags sete a and buy an | Pcacils pew pens fresh ink? He summons a | « gift of good, hard, commot ae ee ARS | Feast 1g, the gramiy desolate im scene uf cot" | Irish children with kippens and clubs are beat- | gan to realize that he had s losing spectiation | Since little Wesley went, the place seems all so | one sending fo (2) subscribers to Tus WEEK go to bed and | Page and the pote alee oe iat astieg rot on ai ; | der and martelous rweetness und in scenes of BS About the hedges for victims, Sacredly | on his hands. He hud a tiddler anda Mexican | wy, i 1.00 a.m, dads james until he was about half | Coming. Does his story eee een ee were | insure delight. But your heart would terten | protected during every other day of the year, | who thrummed guitar. A piauist would | W¥% 1 mise hls ooh hen crazed. He would keep that way for a week cng He or one wiliaa te aaiietaemen | Manaanae argament ia being conducted | to the lowiy things of ircland, instead of that | gp “Tet i# now sought with ferocions yelling | — ert eel i een, day # | And to think Lust to scold bim fer his everlastin’ | €°ttig @ copy of the dictionary free and post Seed cic eT STNG. Thon be | Zod will ranenck the congressiousl Ubeary for | with the seost: determined, avtatonton ber | wien is itspromive nod ereat, it oni faa fe dentially that he could “knock suy exount of | Wnect i oti'y ricketect bim es the beste’ temne | Pl tntil the St come om hin apgin ee ett | the needed volume. No information can be | always in that calm, deliberate tone, the most | charm in the little places the tiny burns and | music out of the piano, if he only had it alone "porat aie ee ne ae can bin ognin. Eventually | itabeld from him." He ison the inside. What- | care fat ourtesy being shown by cach to the | dingles: the litle straggling hamlets. where all | : 3 | a'few hours to get his hand in.” ‘This report [I wish’s hundred times @ day ‘at he'd come home, and in a room in aa obseure hotel which | €¥®? Occurs on the floor is nocessarily known | other. The graceful smile, te selection | who give them life must know of you as you | ; | spread about the camp, but om being ques- | 1) [RPE Io : he had rented and occupied for nearly a week | {© him, although he ie at entirely self-reliant roots the ae a head and warsof | pase ox tinge Sg cere om re peatiamirtl ‘The wren is hunted, for, secording to the | tioned he vowed thas he dida’t know a note of | Aud alt tus nolse he ever madewastwic't as toud! 4 geumdam @ te gonne Natta bis death, Sou mee, tn both chasse | ™ porting. an able corps of as- dal ene | | gece pai a ek en era | capecne must be found; its mangled lit-| music. It was noted, however, as a suspicions Uke seine eet aauste, playes on eee end chloral the danger is that you may inhale a his, ls “sigma g le body is be-ribboned and dangled in a rus! cumstance, tha z about a fine instrum subecribers— shu chloral the dane you m3 | etighted to bare within caryrench'e mcdioes |” oymam unareue Hela mldcwinter, | caged ee emcee angie in ree | iocumetanes, eth eten bee oe oe | ee utue |" = Sal aaeee mehe tac ’ . cage, ; y-l | ; ¥, ideo” this lout ones, since little <easigager ty Alnecan dy cll | through which they may make merry at some-| ‘The laugh is not always with the distin- THE STARLINGS. this strange hint to alms-giving swaying aloft, | hungry man gloating over a beefsteak in a res- Wesley weat. QUIsr - body's expense. “All congressional news is ished Ne ‘Mr. V: though | Starlings are seen in myriads, They are | hordes of youngeters shrieking— Is there any way of telling people who are | therefore im the grasp of “the congressional | Stished New Englander. Vance, thoug! PES > : Gddicted to the use of any of these drugs: |reporter.” | Members always te!l him their | not possessing that coolness peculiar to Mr. | everywhere, reminding one of Stearne’s starling | «we punted the wren through frost and snow; Not unless you've had a great deal of expe- | Choicest stories and he is filled to repletion | Edmunds, ia a gifted debater. not lacking in | with its ceaseless wail of, “I can't get out!” “I | pn eed wren seven, nulles or more: vag = poy | with scraps of gossip! These he touches with | feady retort himself, and Feplying often to itis only within a half dozen} Yudwevrought kite home in a holly ereee stect women vacier than aout. | the modern alchemist’srod—the pen—andthey | those witty sallies with equally telling logic. y have remained all the year. | aE ovicty who dhasiue the dae ist | ate specdily transmuted into currency. ‘The | He isa little more Ponderous than Mr. Ed. ey formerly only came when the sparrow de- | Crowd the streets in Irish Christmas Ti listless, who looks hacw eed paad gis Gull | resaits of his labors, like Pactotne’ cup of | munds and has not that delicate bantering way 4, and the nature-wise Irish peasant eye- | knock at hom coo wae leeks bnggece, rhs water, all turn to gold, and the meager $6,000 | about him that is so marked in the other. He is rushing ingathering about the fields, | the night com a id on no particular oc- | salary of an ordinary Congressman pales into | @ student anda man of culture, and is gener- and old ruin { savagely mutter, | Wrens as only a master-hand could paint or de- AND YET ANOTHER PREMIUM. | taurasit window. {here was no doubt but that THE WEEKLY STAR'S POCKET ATLAS. | this man bad music in his soul, perhaps in his | Of course the clock don't tick no louder than it ust ; fingers’ ends, but did not dare to make trial of | yic now thes’s times it’pears like it'u'd bust itseit | THE POCKET ATLAS is « handsomely-printed safon io theirse'v's—sence little Wes | Li be thoroughly in- | pare, | his strength after the rules of harmony had a two! | suifered so many ve Of neglect. So the fid- | And let a rooster, suddenttike, crow somewhere | Mf 101 pages; 80 are full-page colored ana dler kept on with his jigs and the greasy Mexi- | clos't 5 thoroughly reliable setting forth the can pawed his discordant guitar, but no man Mf mighty nigh it’u’d lift me off the | J maps ating, o- had the nerve to touch that — There a ail the oaths wenn. Guy tent eraphical features of the whole world ip minu)- were. doubtless, scares of men in the camp who around the bars, sa detail: 101 are filled with reading matter, cow | the most utter insignificance slongside the | ally ranked with Mr. Beck as the best informed | ©T! iltake th ox its winter that's | Scribe. The origin of this strange custom can- | Ud have given Neelier ogden ogee ronin Fd redo airly mornin’, er the dusk and 4ow | 4... ss a grape presentation of all thetacte es 0, that she ap- | iournalistic remuneration which flows in onthe vr Geneath the cottage thatch, in | not be found. It is lost even in that rare and men's nerve shrank from the jeers ‘which the | When tie neisuvors’ boys ‘at nover seap, | Ref spirited nine tines oat of tow thet'wor | Ouly “congreseional reporter.” lonely round-towers, and ev fecund birth spot for so much that. gives Ire- | crowd would shower upon him should hi at jest coon, wri “oP. | in the social, religious, political and industrial hie. a - e times ¢ ve = in bers seem greater and surpassing interest—that ‘tail Tecttsbe aaan is @ user of opium in «ome form or other. IN THE REPORTERS’ GALLERY. i Oye . | whi = attempt prove afailure. It got gene tory and condition of every State and Territory ie Heaven help them all: 1 pity them.” From the gallery over the Speaker's head | Such men 15 Edmunds, cope area | Ee oy mot eae bbe ert understood that the hand which firet cx RTA os kas oe this mages’ mY other drug that is abused in| those newspaper men who are not Congress-| the advantage of a better average support in | of life. the wintes lone, tes wad Wight, Cod Eo TE ork, musts from the keys must not slouch its / And then, o nights, when mother's nettin’ up on- aga gy ak it, | mem Jook down on the congressional reporter | the ranks behind th almost tiresome with their thrush-like calls The Bustle Must Go. aR de Ee See MU A-vitin’ pours “ef somepin, and Iset an’ amoxe | SOWINE therelativestrength of difterentinduntries ‘Ses, there is being formed the quinine habit. | nd bis operations. The odor of news in which and impish mimicry, they serve not only for | PARISIANS SO DECLARE—THE LATEST STYLE OF! 1¢ was Christma: 1d Goski din, and wait ssid different prod: various States, People will take quinine for almost every ail- | he revels floats faintly up to their nostrils and the cheeriest mid-winter enlivening. but many | DESCHIBED. ‘Seve Shacoreted ie puoniiner Tel the moon out through the winder don’t look | “™4 — /_ quent. That the use of this drug in excess is 5 which be en- brace of these brave birds are found with | From the Paria Tastee ‘ a Digeernediag if | other items too numerous 0 mention. The injurious is well known, for it is_a violent de- than he wasin the House, where the peculiar | % "o Chri ithin | From the — with sprigs of mountain cedar and a shrub | 4.14 qitce tin’ stiller—stiller—stiller all | qameest, bul jut ons a pos Wane the peasant's Christmas pot. gut sweetest of The latest fashions for the benefit of our | whose crimson berries did not seem a bad imi- | AB4 things keeps gettin ——— uebnathnngh cats. Tous effects upon the a yeice made pose oe mer, the song-thrush, | Jady renders: tation of Euglish holly. The piano was cov-| pye xetched myse't a-wishin’ like—as I clum on Tas bean determined. to be heard amid the Ss | is also bere a Mt Christmastime. Emerging from | “rhe characteristic stamp of the newest fash- | ored with evergreens, and al that was wanting the cheer zn | By enclosing 10 cents for ontageshe POCKET i asunny day, it comes to hedze, fir-twig. don is the total dasppenrance of the bastle-—the | JS 4) pier that page, nnn ne ee | Winans Set eel bev Gene tr meme BAY | syag wen te oot Gen, ta atin © Op eopl warned | Cvident. leas branch of sycamore, and ever near to hi improver” which has afforded somuch | ™a2,{ 218 sue der,” he | A-wishin’ ‘at the time had come fer us togo to ‘against this as against the opium habit.” man habitation: as if to belp and cheer, pour- | ¢ : : “Christmas night, and no piano-ponnder,” he bed, above premium. thus practically giving PEN 7 and daties as he docs, but when they secure a argument ing upon the crispy air its olden notes and | qucttuument to gossips and so much anxiety | said. ~-This isa nice country for a Christian to THE ART OF ENGRAVING. | 121 dutics up he docs, but when they secure « | chain i pon the | to cnstom-house officers as being @ favorite | live in, lige and interesting “scoop” on their down- egtied: fox the purpose awakening. ike some sudden sense of absent | Cache for lace and even eijeare, Getting a picce of paper, he scrawled the Its Processes Mustrated by an Exhibi- | ters contemporary then ail thought of wor! » the heaven of rarest summer da; words ; With our’ last prayers and our last tears, sence | little Wesley's de | ‘“Siaces Warrconm Rauer. TWO PREMIUMS TO EVERY SUBSCRIBE | le of gown now most approved is Ex-Surgeon-General Hammond. Washington Correspondence of Philude)phis Press. A WORD TO AGENTS. F is known ta o teri gown now tion at the National Museam. ent eee Seat Sen ae ee bie ef paper and scattering FIELD-FaRES, jdnbbed “Empire.” It is, in fact, a resurrec- : Seeel ccnmamanan thes theo: dobute he is generally occupied in thie way, | Onevery hand, and strangely enough only | tion of the tight-fitting frock which we knew ; At the U.S. national museum there is at | equality with their competitor on apparent inthought. When his ideas|on winter days in Ireland, the beautifalls one we Hag Beste and = Oe After a quarter of a century of self-exile in| wishing to further encourage the work of ex Prevent on exhibition, placed temporarily im | They are not at liberty to take part are well ther he brushes the scraps | plumaged field-fares gather in meadow ond *H¢ | over-buxom or over-meager des- New York, ex-Surgeon-General W, A. Hammond War ‘the lecture hall. the collection which was pre- | in the House; neither is he, for then of peper from his ep with a backward gesture | field, timid, hesitant, wary. with alert sentinels | a eee paggioel tig caps Sega a inn ae pret Big hrallpenipaesiond hhas come back to live, and the handsomest | ‘ding the circulation of Tax eo pared for the Ohio tennial at Cincin- | bave to neglect his rej of the hand, asa pie woman ape cfumbs | posted to give instant warning of danger. and | short-waisted bodice which strictly belongs to | ers of the room until midnight, it failed to | teamon theasphaltum of Washington is the | commission heretofore allowed agents has bees hati by Mr. 8. B. Koehler, the curator of the | Ot do. He, = — the debate | one longs to know the secret of their pensive, | it ja not accepted Dy every oe, aul with coca | draw any musician from hie shell | noble span of grays behind which he and Mrs, ava ry ‘thro Pp » & iy imcreased, and hereafter all agen claw tection of graphic arts, This collection, num- | Ongings and get the news or throw up low-toned tales. The lustrously-plumazed season, for it is ungraceful. ‘So the merry-making went on; the hilarity | Hammond take their daily airing. Hix re-en- J : P ; ion, num | yacion as a reporter and content his sou) with Pheasant, scorning the demesne preserves, | This ix a dress worn by Madame Hochon—-| grew apace. Men danced and’ sang to the | tree hasreally something of a triumph ralscrs will be permitted to heriag $90 specimens. illustrates in a summary, | being a Ug ween nth ssn parva Wanders in woods of ancient growth, skulks in | ¢ue Duchess d'Uzes' great friend—at dinner | music of the sqeaky fiddle and worn-out guitar, | Some four years ago Iwas in his sumptuous | but nevertheless tolerably complete manner, | “Who is this cor reporter?" do you and hedge, or haunts the borders of | given in honor of the grand-ducal party the | a8 the jolly crowd within tried to drown the | bome in New York, and I asked him what he the development of a. he leading and many | S#y- sone might have uy meadows and shrubbery. flashing his bewilder- | fay before the coursing match: A Jain’ siirt | howling of the storm without. Suddenly they | wae thinking sbout most Just at that time, of the minor processes wh ave been use F, any b you knew colors before hungry peasant’s eves, or * Fin J ; gf ee of “e ired | “Of getting back to Washington,” he said. in the past or ‘are now in use for the prodas- | thet ali the time; it's Amos J. Cummings, of | rising with sudden whirr and wtartlo or delight | Ciorirat Zellow satin, with @ broad’ embroid- | became aware of the presence ofa white-baired iy, To a compitant Pianer Player. RETAIN A COMMISSION OF 25 PER CENT, - | \ ery all around the bottom of ears of corn in| man, crouching near the fireplace. His gar- said, “you will not return there | remitting invariably the balance with the onde ene muatbis Mecksand pistes, from the) eeeme Fook, that endless gold, worked on the dress Melt, menis—suich as were left, were wet with melt | to liv f Ca | eatetunteee? somes, Wood-cutting and line-engraving of the Bf- Electricity and Plant Life. sharp flash | “clapper,” and all | sleeves of white crape, a broad sash of white | ing snow, and he hada half-starved, half-| “Yes, I will,” he said with earnestness, “I teenth and sixteenth ce: in which the » As he stands behind his | manner of raaegem, | More | crape round the waist and knotted at one | crazed expression. He held his thin, trem- | left the army and Washington because Iwas the Samplecuples for canvassing purposes will Ls desicn a5 well as the execution is due entirely | From the Scientific American. swelled out and his head | alert, noisy, watchful and voracious than in| gidd A little coronet of gold corn in the hair, | bling hands toward the fire. and the light of | victim of gross injustice. Both cape and to human a: own to the latest photo-| From time to time, of late years, experi- ave neck,betwoen | summer, helps swell the Irish mid-winter |g fan with a last-century mount. ” | the blazing wood made them almost transpar- | the President have since corrected the sent upon application to any duly constituted i baif-tone processes. which juce | ments have been made of the effect of the elec- ra, his attitude conve | throng. Jackdaws quite as at home in ancient |“ All our old laces willbe disinterred from| ent. He fooked about him once in a whil . ag | done me, and I mean to back there and | scent wany post-office address. Thus any agent ck without the least aid her | trieal light on flowers and with results towns as in mouldering rains, proud of their their boxes and drawers this winter to trim in- | if in search of something, and. his e | finish my days in the loveliest city in the world, a hy haem poe" seemingly the same, to wit, fee forts of rien and Jee) open? Sie Strong door dresses. Out-of-doors hats and bonnets | cast such a chill over the place — ually I shail wy Ca and have can bave a number mailed direct from this office ie. re ne | some plants to prolong their periods of bloom tisfaction scale ernie, have more ’ will be abundantly covered with feathers, The | the sound of the revelry was hushed, and it ing on 5 i] uer, Duorer, Lucas von | i to do than any other thing in nature in giving | jj is in fashi i > | geen is wai | “On that particular and datey” J | © the one he wishes to canvass, saving the trouble Sure Antonio, Gulteiae, the | inte the night and then decay So een bans once oS eae lightest tulle is in fashion again for young girls’ | seemed that this waif of thestorm had brought |_| “On par precise j H = Ar 7 and wear, and the great novelty will be skirts of | in with it all of the gloom and coldness of the | *y | of carrying them from piace to place. engravers of Ruben's school, Van Dyek, Bem- | Dos dulf, 6 se especially of Ireland's winter, a savor of some- u i ookin, mit “Yee; that will be the twenty-fifth anniver- | brandt (a superiativels becutifal tuprension | CO! er thing better than desolation complete,” ‘Their | jafi0us shades of tulle one above another, | warring elements. Goskin, mixing Led cheer: | sary of my leaving. ‘When I stood in the Buti. | very subscriber sent in by an agent or clube t Preaching”) and other great complacency as they gather npon castle walls, | ‘Thus over a skirt of white tulle there will be | hot egg-1 , advanced and remarked on October 26, 1864, I | the jagged heights of crumbling ruins, or wa go te Nowe Tork eit! | raiser te entitied to @ premium, which will te one of pink tulle and then one in sky blue, the | ily: weacactic within the lofty windows cf gloomy towers, fatto coe The effect ip clearer a) OT eeu 2 pe: and make some money, and in mailed to his or her address if asked for when the : as if conscious of comprising all the “Mark an enthusiastic dresemaker declared in my man drained the cup, smacked his lips, | ® guarter of acentary I will come back. It is pression of the Sistine ‘Madonna), &e. Of ‘Tapleys” of the air, win for them a certain Rearing, “quite poetical” Fle pobeney weg! ” | a fad of mine to keep promises that I make to | name is sent in—otherwise none will be sent, a inodern European work the etchings by Tur- admiration and respect. The sparrow is here, | | many do wot wish them. Subscribers seut in at aoe acne. er, Beymour Haden. Rajon. Unger and others, as it is everywhere, with its vicious. bickerin; nd the lithograpls by Mcusel) Feckert and | Los ways. And the sable, graceful hosts of eve. on Smemptennt Man.” Young woman. of « trpe that may properly be | club rates can get the Pocket Atlas also by eur | described as “stately.” She was a dence : ve From the Atchison Globe, Lesalle are especially noticeable. American busy lives. the black birds, seem to make of ; From th 4 lime-engraring is nobly represented by a proof Ireland the continent's Our idea of great man is one who can quit | belle and heiress of ‘one of the rich manufac- | “losing 10 cents extra for postage. eal $3 impression of Durand’s *Ariadn LACK wintr 5 smoking without an effort. There are plenty Goskin’s tarers of that great little state. Hammond now desired divisions of the exbibiti they feed chiefly upon the berry of the | of them who can do it; they seem to have buen “3 ‘occupies the fig Xulee house on Connecticut | _PUrwer Particulars can be hed if "= = 9 ere votes eraving: snd ~ = hat and holly, but never upon the black | better made than some of their fellows. We ee a mansion op Columbia | writing « postal or letter to this office. representative 0 wiBorne 5 beapehes of artistic activity whic have given hawthorne sloe. Though full of wonderful eo- | Once know man that naturalts dideverything | stores bi us a standing with the best the world over. centricities, they are ever songless in winter | pet ye a eet rue you aske +d | tion the first thing that came into his mind The division of wood-engraving begins with here. Along with these are the wren and the = ¢ naturally did the honorable ‘Dr. Alexander Anderson.and reaches down tothe The f r has into | latest works of Cole. Johnson. Kruell, Closson, Hel py eed a Rage and alwars avoided saying or doing ; of man in almost ev Tiny, hardy, | thing thut would plague him in the future. Wo ‘Teel, Jucngling, Hoskin, King aud brave, it is friendly yet timid withal, od war Apts mostiy in esamples familiar to aie apiecsmis te mid witha Gnd whl Le oy paganent flan henge A ha ‘the pages of the Century and with some human souls, most Piteously alone ee ee erties oy when closest those whose love ‘ ot the Dateh etchers: the great French portrait gn- gxavers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Strange. Sharp, Mueller (a fine im- | to be highly interesting and exciting. THE EVEN. 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