Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1889, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C.. a a a JANUARY 10, 1889. WRECKED BY MIGHTY WINDS. | be is still missing. 1t is feared that he is dead. | OSGOODBY AFRAID OF MOBBING. WHY THEY DON’T SPEAK. Two Hundred People Buried in a Fall- ing Mill at Reading. FROM SIXTY To EIONTY OF THEM THOUGHT TO SAVE PERISHED—SEVERAL LIVES ALSO LOST AT PITTSBURG AND MARRISBURG—A SERIES OF APPALLING DISASTERS. A storm that was appalling in its results swept over portions of Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon. At Reading a silk mill was wrecked, killing and injuring a large number of em- Ployes. At Pittsburg a new building. not yet finished, was blown down, and many workmen and others crashed to deathor fearfully man- gled. At Sunbury the great chimneys of the nail mill were blown over on the puddling de- partment of the mill, crushing it and killing two menand wounding several. At Harrisburg | a large school was unroofed, causing a panic among the pupils, three houses were unroofed and other damage done. At Williamsport, Car- lisle, York, Philadelphia, Camden, N. J., and Brookiyn, 3 the effects of the storm, which extended over a wide area, were more or less seriously felt. THE DREADFUL DISASTER AT READING. The wind storm which wrecked the silk mill at Reading followed a rain which had been falling all day. At 4:30 the sky cleared and the sun came out. Half an hour later the sky was suddenly overcast again and a terrific wind arose from the west. Then came a funnel- shaped cloud close to the earth, which swept through the country, destroying everything in its path. its track was not over 200 feet wide. Honses, barns, and outbuildings were unroofed and trees uprooted. ‘The first building struck in the city was the Mt. Penn stove works. a portion of the roof being taken off. Several dwellings were also unroofed before the storm struck the paint shops of the Reading railroad, where the first serious damage was done. ere about thirty men were painting passenger There were eight or nine cars in the building, built at a cost of $6.000 each. The ding was struck in the middle, the cars turned topsy-turvy, while the men were buried under ebris. The chamber of each of the already filled with gas, as they e ready to be taken outon theroad. These exploded with the fearful bung of a cannon. ‘There was gasoline in the building, and this added fuel to the flames. A sheath of flame shot heavenward with the roar of musketry. Some twenty of the men had a chance to crawl | out of the debris, but four were enveloped in the flames and roasted to death. Their names were John Kahler, Albert Landberger, Shriden Jones, and, Geo. Schaeffer. It was rumored that others had been killed, but these are the only ones who it is known have lost their lives. Aaron Dewalt, another employe, had his arm broken, and Geo. Knabb was injured inter- nally, no doubt fatally. The loss to the rail- road company i 000. Meanwhile the storm swept on with fearful ost deadly work yet remaining to tly in its path, ‘at the corner of streets, stood the Reading about 175 girls were work- ing. building was substantially built, four stories in height, and had a basement besides, It oceupied an entire block and was nearly 300 feet in length and about 150 feet wide. It was surmounted by a massive tower. The funnel- shaped cloud struck the building directly in the center, on ite broadest side. which faced the west. It fell to pieces as if composed of so many building bocke, A FEARFUL SCENE. At once cries of agony and horror arose from the unfortunates who went down in the ruins. Girls with blackened faces, bruised and broken limbs, their clothing tattered and torn, dragged themselves from the ruins. So probably sev- enty-five to one hundred escaped, or were dragged out by their friends. Those, of course, worked on the upper floors, and were thrown near the top of the debris. At some places the bricks were underneath these lay all last night scores of human bodies. The alarm for relief was im- mediately sent out and in a short time thou- sands of citizens arrived. By this time dark- ness had set dhuge bonfires were built. The fire companies left the burning paint shop sisted in the reseue. The entire police as called ont, as well as the ambulance ief corps, and a thousand people were ag the debris working with eager hands to relieve the misery of the unfortunates. All night this work was kept up, but the best efforts that could be put forth were painfully slow as compared with the demands for aid that came from every quarter. Up to 2 o'clock t morning fifteen dead bodies and about eighty five injured persons had been taken out of the ruins. Clerk Aulenbach stated at midnight he believed that fully eighty bodies were in the ruins under the three floors, His list of employes is lost. 2nd owing to the confusion in taking out the injured he was unable to furnish a list of the killed. George Grimshaw, jr.,one of the proprie- tors. was in the mill, upstairs, writing a letter. He went down with the wreck. He was badly hurt about the back and limbs and received a ash in the hend. He gave it as his opinion, jate last night, that sixty persons were still in the debris. A conservative estim: of the killed is eighty. ber of those in the mill at the time it collapsed places it between 250 and 300. TRE STORY OF A SURVIVOR. Augustus F. Rescup, a foreman in the mill, gave areporter the following story: “It was about 5:20 o'clock when I went to the second- story to turn on the electrie lights. After I had done this I stood looking about the room for about ten minutes. Suddenly I heard a loud, rushing noise which I thought wasa eyeione. The building then shook. I was standing in the southern end of the room, and before Teould look out of the window, I felt the building sink. Quick as lightning the por- tion of the room I was in went down. The girls rushed about me erying and screaming and calling for help. It seemed as if the cen- ter of the building was struck first. Our end of the building went down first, and while the floor was sinking it seemed as if the girls in the other part of the room were on top of a hill. ‘That was the way it impressed me. While we were going ‘down I saw the other portion of the floor fall. In two minutes all was over. The screaming of the girls was heartrending. I was knocked down under heavy timbers and held fast by my foot. Icould move every other part of my body excepting my leg. I managed to reach down with my knife and cut the shoe off my foot. In this way I succeeded in arising. I called to the girls as loudly as Icould. They were all terribly excited. Many of them heard me and worked themselves toward me. 4 das if the floor was closed 1 the girls would creep ‘3 some places it seen mass, a around this, crawl over the machinery and » on their hands and knees until they got to the opening where I was. The machinery saved many from being crushed to death, and left a space between the floor and debris to crawl out. I believe that fully 100 persons es- eaped with me.” THE PITTSRURG CALAMITY. At Pittsburg the storm came up with aston- ishing suddenness. Suddenly in the center of the city there was a terrible crash, and the cen- tral fire alarm bell sounded a call from Dia- mond and Wood streets. Hundreds of people hurried to the scene, when it was found that the cyclone had caught the new buildin, Diamond street, owned by C. L. hurled-it to the ‘earth, co > of mangled human bodies. hailding was thirty-six by eighty feet in dimensions seven stories high. The frontof the building had not yet been put in, The high walls of bri recking dings. The main force of the ernshing building was | thrown against Weldin & book store, on Wood street, and the barber shop of Fred. Schemaker, at No. 41 Diamond street. The rear end of Weldin’s store was crushed in and the front of the buildings was forced out into Wood street. The barber shop was completely demolished. The leather store, next to the Willey building. occupied by W. H. Thoma, was wrecked. The rear end of H. Wait & € book store was crushed in, while some of the falling structure struck Joseph Eichbaum’s building. fronting on 5th avenue, breaking the windows and injuring a number of employes, A portion of the wall of a millinery store next to Thoma’s was caved in, and the windows an doors ins number of surrounding buildings re broken. The building of Rea Brothers & Co., stock brokers, on the corner of and Wood streets, was partly wrecked. WORKING AMONG THE RUINS. Despite the heavy rain falling at the time, a piled 20 feet deep, and | The latest report of the num- | 4A BRAVE PRIEST'S NARROW ESCAPE. Rev. Father Canevin, who was helping to rescue the victims, narrowly escaped being killed. About 4 o'clock Jos. Gochring, an | errand boy employed by Weldin & Co., was dis- covered among the del He was heard to call for water. They were about to let it down to young Goehring through a smali gum hose when a wall fell. covering up Father Canevin and three others, When Father Canevin heard | the wall crackling he threw his arms around a pillar, so as to prevent the air from being cut off from young hring. Fortunately he was not much hurt, and when rescued was able to go home unassisted. THE NUMBER OF KILLED UNCERTAIN. ‘The list of dead identified up to 11 o'clock last night was as follows: Samuel Stringer, | aged sixteen years, printer; Thos. Jones, brick- layer; Chas. Fritch, aged sixteen years; Geo. Mason, carpenter; colored boy named Tergge, bootblack in barber shop; Geo, Kersch, barber, aged eighteen years, Inspector of Police McAleese stated at a late hour that he was of the opinion that from fif- teen to twenty-five persous were yet in the ruins, and he would not be surprised if the death list would be increased to fifteen or uty. cyclone wrought terrible destruction in | other parts of the city. A portion of the foun- dry of McIntosh, Hemphill & Co., on 13th street, was wrecked, as was also a house in Al- \legheny. At Wall's station, on the Pennsyl- | vania railroad, a large brick building owned by | the Westinghouse company was partially de- molished, and at Wilmerding a coal tipple was wrecked. At McKeesport houses«were un- roofed, trees blown down, and windows | Smashed. Three houses in course of erection | were blown to pieces. On the rivers a number of boats were torn | from their moorings and cast about like corks. The velocity of the wind was 50 miles an hour, | the highest recorded for years, DEVASTATION IN OTHER PLACES. ‘The crushing in of the Sunbury nail-mill, by the fall of the big chimney-stacks upon it, | killed two men outright and injured seven. | One of the latter may die. Four other em- | ployes were still missing at the latest report | last night. many of the children in the school-house at Harrisburg which was unroofed by the storm were injured in the panic which ensued, none | seriously, however. Three new houses were blown down and others much damaged in the same locality. A large wooden awning near | the post-office, in falling, struck an old man, k ing him insensible. His injuries were | pronounced serious, but not necessarily fatal. ‘The most serious result of the storm in Phil- adelphia was the cave-in of asewer in the northern part of the city, which carried with it about fifty feet of the railroad track. In Camden, N. J., the Eighth Street Metho- dist Episcopal church, at 8th and Walnut streets, was partly unroofed and the back of the structure was blown in. A row of houses on | 8th street was also partly unroofed, and Wilson's ice house was demolished, a portion of the roof being carried half a square. Fully twenty structures in all suffered. At Carlisle, Pa., the government training school for Indians, the Gobbin guards’ armory, and a number of dwellings, were unroofed. At York, Pa., the new brick market house, | just outside the boundary, was entirely demol- jished. Literally speaking, there is not one brick left standing upon another. The loss is 12.000. | _ At Williamsport a large number of buildings wore damaged and a portion of the new Dem- orest sewing-machine factory was blown down | and the remainder partially unroofed. Several | new buildings were blown down and others | were damaged. LIGHTNING CAUSES A GAS EXPLOSION. In Brooklyn last night a tank of the Citizens’ Gas company, at 5th and Smith streets, was | struck by lightning, and the immense structure | at once rose in the air, causing an explosion | that was heard even in New York. At once the flames loomed up, and Brooklyn was lurid for | several minutes, when suddenly all became dark. The people ran from their houses, think- ing that an earthquake had occurred. A num- ber of houses were injured. All the gas lights | from Atlantic avenue to the bay were ex- tinguished. Another tank was connected with the one that first exploded, and it, too, caught | the flame and exploded. A third tank was by the watchman turning off the gas, tizens’ Electric Light building, 2 miles | away, had its tin roof torn off and thrown into | the street. No one was killed. ——+e0—______ Our Most Northern Territory. From the Omaha Republican. Among the territories certain to be admitted to statehood as soon as the republicans come into power is Washington. Owing to its re- moteness comparatively little is known about this territory by the majority of the people east of the Rocky mountains. Washington territory has an estimated population of 143,- 000, an increase of 16,000 in two years. Ex- elusive of railroad holdings its taxable prop- erty is over $50,000,000, an increase of 22,000- 000 since last year. Its agricultural, stock- raising, mineral and lumber interests are de- veloping with remarkable rapidity, while its Imon fisheries yielded during’ the present season over 2,000,000. The bo serra that, being so far north, it has an inhospitable cli- mate, is erroneous, The ameliorating influence | of the Pacific creates for it a genial and salu- brious atmosphere. On the average it is little, if any, colder than Nebraska. In fact, going still further north, where it is generally sup- posed thaticebergs make up the ensemble of the landscape in our Alaskan possessions up to Sitka, the isothermal lines idicate a climate not more — than in Sweden, Norway and Scotland. 00. Facial Expressions of Various Workers. From the Herald of Health. A man’s occupation or condition has a good | deal to do with making his facial expression. | Intellectual pursuits, like studies of the schol- arly professions, when coupled with temperate | and moral habits of life, brighten the face and give a person a superior look. Magnanimity of | nature, or love of studies and arts, will make a | bright, giad face; but, contrary to this, a man may have a face that does not please anybody, because of a love of self to the exclusion of all | others, notwithstanding his learning and | worldly shrewdness. Soldiers get a hard, se- vere look, overworked laborers constantly look tired, woe pear look inquisitive, mathemati- cians look studious, judges become grave, even when off the bench; the man who has had do- | mestic trouble looks all broken up. An exam- ple of the ludicrous side of this subject is to see | @ third-class lawyer stalking around a police court looking wise as an owl. The business !makes the face, I say. There’s the butcher's | face. the saloon keeper's face, the beggar’s | face, the ministerial face, the lawyer's face, the | doctor's face, the hoodinm’s face, all so distinct | each from the other and singly, that I seldom | fail to recognize those callings showing through the faces. And what city boy cannot recognize a genuine farmer on the street as a farmer the moment he sees him? ———-+ee______ The Church Rounder. The New York Observer describes thus accu- rately a familiar type of persons: “In every great city there is a multitude of people who may be called ‘rounders,’ who go to church when it is convenient and are on hand early and late to get good seats. Thay have no church ties and care only for the pleasure of sitting with well-dressed people and listening to the music and the sermon. They take no part in the services and often sit half upright in prayer and show by irreverence and conver- sation that they have no sympathy with the iritual worship and teaching of the place. ‘hese persons fill the places which rightfully belong to the reverent and piousstrangers who are in every city on the Sabbath, and it is in a large measure due to this class of at- tendants upon public worship that christian Visitors find such scant accommodations. It may be said that they have souls to be saved minds to be instructed, but in many cases it is takimg the children’s bread and giving it to spend effort and eloquence upon them. They live in the city and there is no reason why they should not identify themselves with a congregation, bear a part of its burdens and do some of its duties, but this they do not desire. They will be found whenever a fa- mous preacher from abroad is to h, and on all church festivals they come in crowds to the special service or the decorated church just as they would fill a music hall or theater if it cost nothing.” { wards, of Ellaville several days and The couple then went 0. the home Robert Patten, a mutual friend, cited, Gane. Paton family and e i in the » laughing sitting meng ween the door the room. i L ik the bride’ i A RE i if = iF a ik 7 i f | goodby was the author of the letter. Author of the Murchison Letter Will be Here at Inauguration. A Los Angeles correspondent of the New York Times tells an interesting story regard- ing the man, Osgoodby, who wrote the letter which called out Lord Sackville’s famous re- ply. The correspondent first met Osgoodby on October 26, when he went to Pomona to see him at the request of prominent Los Angeles republicans, The newspaper man’s visit was for the purpose of doing all in his power to get “Murchison” to consent to make his true name public. This was four days after the corres- pondence had been published. The country was excited. The correspondent learned that the town was full of San Francisco detectives and ne’ per men, and “Murchison” was frightened so badly that he took to his bed, and had not eaten a mouthfal for two days. Only three persons in Pomona knew that met them outside,when he managed to hobble, and every possible argument was used to in- luce him to consent to the use of his name, but he flatly refused. The meoting took place in a dark spot under some trees, and it was im- possible to get a good look at his face. He trembled so from fright that he could hardly talk, but the correspondent managed to get the following oeeinans ont of him: MURCHISON’S STATEMENT. “I don’t want my name given to the public for several reasons, In the first place, my health is so poor that Ifear the excitement will killme. In the second place, my wife's parents are from the south, and they are the strongest democrats yon ever saw, and if they Jearn that I have done this thing t#Mr. Cleve- land they will take her away from me, My God! I never had any idea that the publica- tion of that Sackville letter would raise such a row. Had I dreamed of such a thing I should have burned it. No, sir; I will never give w my name anyway until after Mr. Clevelan: goes out of ofice. Why did I write the letter to Sackville? I don’t know. I thought it would be a good joke, and when I received the answer tomy letter I showed it to Mr. Bell, who induced me to give both of them—for I had kept a copy of my letter—to the Los An- geles Times, That's all; but don’t say a word in the papers about this meeting place.” The correspondent did not again see Osgood- by until three days before the election, when he and Col. H. G. Otis went out to Pomona to bring “Murchison” to Los Angeles, as it had been given out on good authority that the dem- ocrats had learned the name of Murchison and were The ORGANIZING TO MOB HIM. They arrived at Pomona late in the evening. It was raining quite hard, and no one at Pomo- na noticed them when they left the train. Col. Otis had never met Murchison, but he had made up his mind to bring him to Los Angeles and secrete him until after the election. Col. Otis secreted himself in the outskirts of Pomona, while the correspondent took a circuitous route and found himself at ‘*Murchison’s” front door. A sickiy-looking little woman answered his knock, and when he told his business he was ushered through anempty room and came face to face with Osgoodby, who had a big shotgun in his hands @hd demanded in a gruff voice what was wanted. Os- goodby recognized the newspaper man’s voice as soon as he spoke and lowered his shot- gun. Poor “Murchison” had not yet gotten over his fright, and in explanation of his sin- gular actions stated: “I keep this shotgun ready all the time for the reason that I have made up my mind not to be taken alive if the democrats come for me.” The situation was explained to him, and he consented to go to Los Angeles, He was brought to Los Angeles that night and was kept concealed until after the election. He lives in a small cottage on one of the — streets of Pomona and is known to almost every citizen of Pomona, * He is slow of speech, and no one would take for @ man of education at first, but after y taik to him a while you will see that he is well posted. Qsgoodby's father, who is eighty years old, does not think his ‘son acted honor- ably in making Sackville’s letter public. CLAIMANTS TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE LETTER, Owing to the fact that certain politicians in Pomona and Los Angeles claimed to be the au- thors of the letter and have importuned Gen. Harrison for office on the strength of those claims, it was decided, some time ago. to re- veal the name of the author to the President- elect in order to protect him against imposters. This wasdone in a long communication on New Year day, over th4 signature of Harrison Gray Otis, editor of tite Los Angeles Times, and W.F, Fitzgerald, member of the California republican state executive committee. Osgoodby did not want his name made public until the 4th of March, but it leaked out at a dinner at San Juan by the sea a few days ago. A newspaper man, who was present, at once gave it toa Los Angeles paper, which pub- lished it. Osgoodby was in Los’ Angeles yes- terday, but locked himself up and refused to see newspaper men. He expects ¢o be in Wash- ington on the 4th of March. eee $4,000 a Yea at Organ Grinding. Frou the New York Graphic, The business of grinding hand organs is rapidly earning a fortune for an Italian family in this city which owns several very superior instruments of the “piano” variety, such as are operated on light-running handcarts. These are pushed around the city by pairs of young and pretty maidens, dressed in the picturesque costumes of the Roman peasantry, who serve as performers. One of the two, in each case, turns the crank of the huge music box, while the other manipulates with deft fingers the sweetly jingling tambourine. The girls are all sisters, daughters of an ancient brigand called Grosse, a mender of the fiddles and things of the profession, and the tunes they render, a majority of them from light French operas, are so melodiously given as to set the most unmusical person a dancing in spite of himself. And when one of the said organs, on its winding way through the business quarter of the town, pauses to strike up in a side street or alley, ali the clerks, counter-hoppers. office boys and other employes in the neighboring blocks quit work at once to skip round and throw pennies out of the windows. So it is not surprising from the players themselves that they average $10 per day a piece for their work, This is a trfle more than $4,000 a year—including Sun- days—for each machine’ and its attendants, Pretty good pay, is it not? — - se A Wite’s Education. J. Scott Russell. It is for the woman whose husband works hard to earn money that I propose this special and superior education to enable her to spare and spend his money as well and wisely as he earnsit. It is most necessary for the poor man’s wife to know the value of money and the nature of money's worth. The cost, value and wise way of using her fuel is to her and hers a first need. The first principles of cookery are to her vital conditions of existence. She above all, should know how to select good food, to cook it wholesomely and nutritiously, to mix good drinks, to buy cheaply, and to get good measure and exact quantities of all she wants; to make all her markets wisely and well; tobuy all of the best, and all ata moderate price; that is her special wisdom. How to clothe her chi dren, her husband and _ herself with good, lasting, warm stuffs; to select them herself, to cut them herself, to sew them herself—there is occupation, enjoy- ment, virtuous work. Then to beable to teach her children all she knows; to be able to train t to be wise, virtuous and useful like her- self—there is work and also happiness; and then to be able to receive from them grateful help in return—there is reward. Then look at the poor man’s leisure in a home illuminated by such an educated woman; look at an even- ing fireside where books can be interestingly and well read aloud; where songs can be sung correctly and well in in which all can join; where stories can be well told and es of intelligence played, and where each can benefit by another's knowledge. See how the evils and gloom of a humble lot vanish before the sunshine of an educated mother’s home organization. Itistothe poor man that the educated wife is the great prize of life. Uses of Prison Walls. From the Philadelphia Record. Missionary (in prison)—*‘My poor friend I suppose you regard these walls with hatred, bat——” them with hatred? No them with gratitude. The: Iam in for bigamy, and furious,” Daviy M. Pascoe Acgurrrep.—David a “« with the The Man on Whose Death He Made Pools Didn’t Die. ‘From the Chicago Mail. An actor who has recently been playing an engagement here in town told mo a ratherneat story the other day, We were lunching together after the performance and chatting over our Tepast when suddenly my friend glanced-up, stared hard at a man just entering the restau- rant, then his eyes and laughed — to himself. I followed the direction of eyes in time to see that the newcomer looked back at him with a stern gaze, but without a sign of recognition in his ey: “Yousaw that man?” queried my friend, sub- ing his mirth. “You noticed he didn’t re- me? Well, ten years ago he were the best of friends, room-mates in fact, and le companions, and the trouble between us occurred because I didn’t die when =~ Sloe me to. Impossible? Oh, no, not a “You see Thad the typhoid fever, brought on by dissipation, for I was a wild lad in those days, and he at frst felt very anxious about me. Then the doctor said recovery was impossible, and he sort of gave me up, but I got better in spite of the doctor, and finally got so I could sit up. The nurse was cautioned to watch me very carefully, as a relapse would certainly prove fatal. One day the nurse left me alone, and I got blue and lonesome, so I shook off my blankets, crawled feebly into my clothes, and got down onto the street and around the cor- ner to the little saloon where the boys hung out, They were, of course, surprised and de- lighted to see me, and fixed up a chair near the stove,and the barkeeper insisted on making mea hot toddy. Well, I took it. and then one or two more, with the result that when I started for home I didn’t know con thing. The hot liquor had knocked my weal ened aystem out of time, and as I afterward learned, I fell on the ae of my boarding place, and lay there for fifteen minutes, with the rain and sleet beating down into my face. Naturally I had a relapse, and a bad one, and during this time my room-mate went out and sold pools among the boys that I would die inside of three weeks, He took all the bets he could get, until he stood to lose over three weeks’ salary, which, it is needless to say, he lost. “So be has never been friendly with me since this happened. He naturally resented my doing him out of so much money. I don’t blame him particularly, but it is hard on me to _ me responsible for a little mistake like that,” ee Ribald Wit at Oxford. AN UNDERGRADUATE RUSTICATED FOR BEING TOO FUNNY. From the London Telegraph. A kind of revolt, on a small scale, of the hall against the common room seems to have broken out unexpectedly at Oxford. An undergradu- ate, belonging to New college, which, by the way, dates back to the days of William of Wykeham, and is one of the oldest colleges in Oxford, has, it appears, had the audacity to in- dulge a ribald wit in the pages of a local maga- zine, and to make fun of “dons and other pass- ing events,” Dons, or in other words,collegiate tutors, have been called many hard’ names in their time by discontented students and others who have failed to understand the difficulty of their position; but to designate them as fo ing events” is in itself almost contempt of the vice-chancellor’s court. For this offense he has been summoned before the college authorities and has been ‘‘sent down,” and, in spite of a etition signed by 200 of his colleagues plead- te that he be forgiven, the edict has been car- ried out. f No doubt some sarcastic observations on Dons and their manners have been published in the different humorous magazines which have at odd times cropped up both at Oxford and Qambridge. “The Light Green” at the lyptes university contained admirable parodies o} jnds of poetry and prose, and good- natured hits at nearly every academical insti- tution; but the authors were never rusticated. Perhaps they were excused for the sake of the exquisite humor which appeared in such paro- dies as that of Bret Harte’s ‘Heathen Chinee.” The Cambridge version of the story was enti- tled “The Heathen Passee,” and told how sus- picion attached to an undergraduate, during an examination, for finishing off his paper too soon—a suspicion only too well justified. be- cause “Engraved on his cuffs Were the Furi and Fates, Anda delicate map Of the Dorian States; and er? found in his palms—which were hollow—What is frequent in palms—that is, dates.” é — ee Primroses at Night. THEY HAVE OTHER THAN SENTIMENTAL REASONS FOR BLOOMING AT NIGHT. From Harper's Magazine. Our evening primrose does not bloom in the dark hours for mere sentiment or moonshine, but from a motive which lies much nearer her heart. From the first moment of her wooing welcome she listens for murmuring wings, and awaits that supreme fulfillment anticipated from her infant bud. For it will almost inva- riably be found that those blossoms which open in the twilight have adapted themselves to the crepuscular moths and other nocturnal insects, This finds a striking illustration in the instance of many long tubular-shapednight- blooming flowers, like the honeysuckle and various orchids, whose nectar is beyond the reach of any insect except the night-flying hawk-moth. It is true that in other less dee; nocturnal flowers the sweets could be reache: by butterflies or bees during the day if the blossom remained open, but the night murmur- ers receive the first fresh invitation, which, if met, will leave but a wilted, half-hearted blos- som to greet the sipper of the sunshine. This beautiful expectancy of the flower de- termines the limit of its bloom. Thus, in the event of rain or other causes preventative of insect visits, the evening primrose will remain open for the butterflies during the followin; day, when otherwise it would have drooped perceptibly, and extended but a listless wel- come. I | Bis seen this fact strikingly illus- trated in a spray of mountain laurel, whose blossoms lingered in expectancy nearly a week in my parlor, when the flowers on the parent shrub in the woods had fallen several days be- fore, their mission having been fulfilled. In the house specimens the radiating stamens re- mained in their pockets in the side of the blos- som cup and seemed to brace the corolla upon ita receptacle. These stamens are naturally dependent upon insect agency for their release, and the consequent discharge of pollen, and I noticed that when this operation was artificially consummated the flower cup soon dropped or withered. pee CO How Johnny was Won Over. From Harper's Young People. Little John is just turned six, and has begun to attend school. He has sat asilent observer rather than an active participant ever since in the a, b—ab, trying to make up his mind if school was “any good.” Johnny is the soul of loyalty, and he could not look with friendly eyes upon his teacher aslong as he was not sure that the trees, the dogs, the robin in the hedge, and Jim, the cat, his old playmates, were not lonesome without him, and had not | fost cause for complaint against the teacher jfor keeping him from them. Besides there was the apparent clash of this new thing with the previous claim of the Sunday school, which Johuny had announced sententious|; was “enough If a boy learns about God,” he argued wi mamma, “what's the use of readin’ and writin’?” His boyish mind troubled with these unsolved —— Jobnny had sat unreconciled, but not unobserved, in the class until Friday, On that day he astonished his teacher ws suddenly holding up his hand in the middle of the Spsliing lesson. She saw it and stop) the rehearsal at onge. “What is it, Johnny?” Little cee | sung his head, but recollecting the grivance of his old friends he — up wh and said, resolutely: “I want them to ‘The Old Black Cat.’ . uke teacher! = never ae at the child’s queer fancy she suspen ing and me “The Old Black Cat” gravely with the school. And now she has no more earnest and loyal papi than little John. Of the of Jim, his deserted playmate, which was shadow between him and the school, she had forged a chain to bind him to it, and Johnny fee! at home there now. ‘Tae AUSTRALIAN MeTHop oF Vorine.—The Iading democrscorgnat its" steal on, ann since Fouad si tried the Ai system of votin; the su irs of the suc- cessful ticket liked it so it they passed a resolution it, with a recommendation Hiviadaren? | we A STUDY IN STILL LIFE. The Camera as a Means to Assist a Drunkard to Reform. AUCTION SALES, From the Indianapolis Journal. : The camera in the hands of & has served many uses, but ifs value as 4 tem- perance advocate has never been fuily tested. A few days since a couple of enthusiastic pho- tographers, with an instantaneous pocket in- strument a little longer than a sardine box, appeared at one of the city hotels and informed the clerk that they came to photograph & friend who had been taken violently drunk the day before, and who was still largely under the in- fluence of the ardent. | OVED PROPERTY. _BELN BMICK, Xo O10 f STRERT NOON, 3 CR OOLOCK Ube eastern, Inquired of as to the reason for wishing to make a counterfeit presentment of the vinous individual they said their object was to reform him by exhibiting to him, on his next occasion of sobriety, a picture of himself taken in an ad- vanced stage of whisky, and that this exhibit, thus made, would in all probability have the same effect upon him that the sight of the drunken woman had upon the Spartan youth— teactring him the need of moderation’ in his cups, ¢ hotel people, at first disinclined to permit any copying from still-life of the char- acter referred to, were induced to relent and co-operate in the proposed reformation. and the expedition, including a reporter who was taken along to chronicle the success of the new method, proceeded to hunt up its proposed | sub} There was no question of his fitness for that test when he was found. Like Mar- mion, he had fallen in mid-battle. One boot been substracted, but the other remained, and as if to leave no doubt as to the means of his overthrow he had gone to bed with his on. BEING A DIRECT IMPORTATION FROM JAPAN, It required but a moment to supply the few | us details necessary to make the picture effective . | EMBRACING— An American flag draped after the manner of is ciel, teen ® winding sheet a few bottles and tumblers | Wonderful Specimens tn Rateuma Porcelains - Bes Examples in Bronze, Rare Kutani, Kioto, Kase, eping out through its interstices, and the Imart and other five specimens in porcelain arti- inscription, “‘We have given him up for gone, cles of Virtu, Curios, Swords, Embroidered on a tag pinned to his collar, told the whole Screens, ke. &c. story. The instrument. was leveled and sighted. Snap! and with an instant’s opening | of the shutter-valve, the whole scene was per- | mated for all time tocome. If the vietim loes not reform when he gets his copy of that picture, there isno hope for him. pt #HTEENTH, COWARDS WHO DIE LIKE HEROES. P.M. each day. Are they Hypnotized by Sight of the Gate | ,4:34iiton Monday apd Tuesday, January 14th and lows when They Mect Death Bravely? dal0-: __ THOMAS DOWL From the St. Louis Republic. \f aoe EWES m. . Louis . - . ‘The composure of Praflo, whe wea guillotined | “4208 AMD IMPORTANT “ALE OF FURNITURE, in Paris a few days ago for murder, was socom- | ON plete that the statement was made that “the sight of the guillotine appeared to hypnotize him.” ‘This is a suggestion that may account for occurrences that have been attributed to other influences, or for which the cause could not be ascertained. Why is it that nearly all murderers meet death with apparent tranquility? It is not be- cause they want to die or even become recon- ks, Chil aire, Marblo-top ciled to death, for as long as there is any loop- | £:2"'\"iSwiuch the siteudon of private buyer aid hole chance of law through which they might | dealers isinvited. jal0-3t escape they never want to give up the fight in | rprouas DOWLING, Auctioneer. the courts. Nor do they ever, until the last | eGuLAR SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE No. 916 I street northwest, ‘This pi rty is convenient toall street-car lines, and ted. ‘Terms: @5,000 to remain on the cent per annum until Jauuary 4, 180; balance of | purchase mouey in cash. A deposit of $250 required | At sale. Conveyancing, &c.., at. purchaser's cost Terms to be complied with in ten otherwise ‘at reserved to res il at risk and cost of purchaser tier five dare! reba in some newspaper put jed-d&eds notice of such resale "pons | DOWLING, Aucti CATALOGUE SALE OFA SUPERB COLLECTION OF JAPANESE ART TREASURES, N. B—The magnificent Satsuma Vases and Koros were in the Tokio exposition, and are without doubt wonderful examples of Japanse art ‘The sale of this collection will take place at my new art salesrooms, 11th and Penn. ave., on WEDN DAY, THURSDAY and FRIDAY, . SEVENTEENTH and E Voostir Stock uF Hot &e nO! T. t, 1K! 4 ES ET SOUTHWEST, Tn part consisting of Waluut and Poplar Bedroom | Sets, Purlor Furniture, Lou: Sideboard, Walnut and Poplar Extension Tables, Chairs in variety, Safes, | Springs, Mattresses, Cots,” Oilelothe, Euatw Feathers, odd pieces, Beds Bureaus, Stands, Taties, "Het Batks, ‘Children's Chairs, Marble-t0p 5 moment, give up the hope of pardon or re- | at my auction rooms on SATURDAY, JANUARY prieve. fo meet a violent death calmly is es- | TWELFTH, 1g. commen ay O'CLOCK. teemed the bravest act of a hero, But the hero | who thus dies does not develop a sudden forti- tude; he summons the fortitude that has alwa: distinguished him. Murat, standing before | ple Silver- at the ready guns of a detachment of soldiers, | sees and Andre with the rope around his neck, ex- | at TWELVE, O'CLOCK, for the United States govern- hibited courage and coolness that had always | ment (Third Artillery,’six Horses. marked their character. The ambition that | yorses. Coupes, Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, made them risk their lives — them | Carriage Harness, &. ij ja wish to die in a manner to sustain their reputa- RUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPR DRE E But a base assassin, who has no goodorglori-| {¥EEN SIXTH AS ous name to leave behind ye in ory is by virtue ae a acree of the yg! Ay +4 £= a sneaking coward with not sufficient pride to | District of Columb: 90, conceal his cowardice even from his associates, | Bucket 2, we wil sell 3a "front of who trembles when arrested, blanches and | Day, THE reels when sentenced, and cringingly pleads for a pardon, and at the last begs for only a substantial brick and frame few more days of life; i — it that - welling. "The property will ve sold in several par- enerally walks to the gallows and swings off | cels. Sithont sign Of fear? If is not bravado, for the | Me hk nat pg by? braggart always flinches when an ordeal comes. | installments, payable in one and two years It is not a spirit of resignation, for he is never | day of sale, with iuterest at 6 per cent per annua, to ned to his fate until he faces the scaffold. | be pected BE the rrvisissory poten of the punsbaaer It is not despair, for that always shows itselt | Hom. the purchaser, the entire purchase money aug through the window of the face. It is not an paid in cash Ifthe torus of wale MT {pplication to eit of the brutality that saepired | eects tsa fool at theriak and con of te e crime, 9 rope shall be properly adjusted and the death quick, with as little pain as possible. May it not be that, when the generally low intelligence and duli comprehension of the murderer does grasp the thought of certainty of death, all voluntary thought is excluded and the one idea has supreme control? May it not be in this condition, with the impelling aggre- gate force of all the thought of all the specta- tora urging him on, that he feels himself irre- sistibly drawn forward by the terrible sight of | the scaffold, and, so a. is no longer himself, but only the yielding subject of trans- mitted mental impulse? The hypnotized sub- qos on the lecture platform will eat salt, think- ing it is sugar, and fan himself while he sits upon a block of ice. Possibly the eager and brutal joy of the spectators over the opportu- nity to see a fellow man suffer a violent death finds lodgment in this hypnotized subject, and urges him on ina sort of transmuted ec- stacy that, through the absence of emotion, has the semblance of courage. The ignorant and | brutal murderer, who so often has the reputa- tion of having “died game.” possibly has no more consciousness of exhibiting game quali- ties than a blind man has intention of showing his recklessness when he accidentally stumbles down an open cellar door. Dont’s for Good Girls. From the New York Graphic. Don't allow yourself to be under obligations to any man. Don’t discuss your family affairs in general conversation. Don’t give your photographs to ‘men, and don’t ask them for theirs. Don't make yourself conspicuous at any time by loud laughing or talking. Parlor, Chamber and Diningroom Furniture, several fine Mirrors. Office Desks and ‘Tables, Carpeta, « fine assortiuent of Fancy Lamps, afew pieces of New Trip- ple Bilver-plated Ware, together with jous nix sets 10 452, together chase money in | reserve the rpuomas DOWLING, Auctioneer. LEGANT BREWSTER BROUGHAM, WITH ONE COLLINS AXLE, IN PERFECT ORDER, On SATURDAY, JANUARY TWELFTH, 1889, at TWELVE O'CLOCK, in front of my suction rooms, IT shall sell the above-mentioned Carriage, built by e street, New York. Can be seen ing at No. 3101 Dunbarton ave- THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioticer. SE nue. Geos » D.C. Jav-3t ee HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE OF SMALL LOT OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, FARMING IMPLE- NTS, On SATURDAY, JANUARY TWELFTH, 1889, AT TEX O'CLOCK, ‘at the auction-rooms of Thomas Dowling, I shall sell the above-mentioned effects. Ja9-3t MARY McMAHON, Administratrix, I )ONCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. TRUSTEES SALE OF TWO-STORY FRAME HOUSE No. 1158 TWENTIETH STREET NORTHWEST. By virtue of two deeds of trust, recorded in Liber | 2287, folic 457, et seq. and folio 468 et seq., of the land Fecords of ihe District of Columbia, we will © S e SEVENTEENTH DAY OF . 1889, at HALF-PAST FOUR o -M., in front of the premises, all that piece | or ‘parcel of land and premises known and distin- ‘ished on the sround plat or plan of Washington city. District of Colunib: and being pert of lot num- bored twenty-sev cn (27).iu aquare numbered obe hun dred (100), beginning for the same at the northeast corner of said lot and running thence south along the line of 20th strect twelve (12) feet ten aud one-balf (2055) inches, thence west fifty (50) feet eleven (11) inches, thence north twelve (12) feet ten and one-half (103§) inches, thence east fift ) feet eleven (11) inches to the place of berinning, together with all the : ~ way —-4 i wo the same belong y wise appertaining. Terms: One-third cash; balance im one and years, notes to bear 6 per cent it annually,and to be secured premines of all cash at option by di Don't fail to try to always be frank and just | 574200 required at time of sale, Converanc-ne. and generous, and above all womanly. “ purchaser's cost. Terms to be complied with Wotherwise right reserved to resell at risk and days" public publisued in oe | Trustees. \HANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED CO*REAL ESTATE ON 11TH STREET 5. By virtue of adecree of the Supreme Court of the District of Colum cause No. 11224 Equity, wherein Christopher C. McKenney et al-are couplainants, and Robert V. MeKenney et al are de- Twill offer for mae at) ‘of property. » H DAY OF JANUARY, 1 ‘o'clock p..m., the following Uescribed parcels Teal estate aud the improvements thereunt, belong- fh, in the city of Washington and District of bia, to wit of orivi: i Don't wear an evening dress to a quiet after- | 10 ‘ays. otherwise right reserved to. notice of such resale in some newspaj Washington, DC. BURR R. TRACY, | jad-d&ds JAS. P. RYC noon reception; don’t go without a hat or bon- net. Don't write, except when it can’t be avoided, tomen. Make all your notes acknowledging courtesies, &c., short and to the point. Don't feel it necessary to bow toa man you have met at a ball or a party afterwards unless you want to continue the acquaintance, Don’t offer to shake hands when a man is in- trodaced to you, and don’t think it necessar; when he says good-bye, unless he first exten: is, Don’t allow any man to treat you with thing but the greatest respect. “Resent as an impertinence any approach to familiarity of speech or action. Don't boast that you do not read the newspa- pers, as many girls do nowadays. Don't think | gq it necessary to read all the daily or weekly | street east at # paint distant 55 journals contain, but keep yourself posted on | frow the northeast, comer Ay art, literary, social and political topics of the | fect, thence north 1610-100 feet, thence east day. 66-100 feet to said 11th street and place of begin. ie ts Talk of an Undertaker. From the Baltimore News, “Do undertakers ever lose the callousness | }:"lieast commer of xs a which continual handling of the dead brings? | iret‘wide, thence gayt sion. the ibe I should say they did.” ‘Thus spoke a veteran | hence south 5 fect. thence. musubered 8, i me it undertaker. at 2 ‘Also, part of original ‘The average corpse is not like a thing of bered Bei, a aoe life, Death marks it with his peculiar ‘brand, | coPwr of = and the undertaker, the post-mortem physi | cian, or the student in the dissecting room will tell you truthfully that when he detects the presence of that brand it ceuses to mean to his mind what a human frame ordinarily means. “But sometimes death seems to forget to im- a his mark upon one of his victims, and I lieve that in such a case the man most callous under ordit circumstances in the presence of the work of the dread destroyer is more awe- stricken than an inexperienced bystander would be, I was once upon to embalm the remains of a lady. assistant was an ex- rienced woman's form en I myself in. of original lots 14, 15. and numbered 676, beringing forthe, sane re 00 fe My ie EEzSEs bE a Dis Zacee iy reat eet Da’ in suction akan 'D TR of or at » 1R8R al inom ote Eidder- sab tot front to ee side of Water street, Let and ‘ON sAME BAY AT HALE E O'CLOCK in front of the sub 248, 3 2OR147, to. thin mot eliey, ‘mupeoved by three-story frame back ening good brick stable lot, being No. street northwest. ON THE SAME DAY AT FOUR O'CLOOK in of the premisra. lot No. Say in ‘e subxhvision of square No. 242, having a front of feet side of Vermont avenue between ‘on rear the west street and Lowa circle, being No. 1316 Vermont avenue northwest. Terme of sale: One-third in after sale, resale may at the rink the defaulting purchaser after five aud paper publicived wo the city of Wash some news in 2adts yaepHos. WD, _PROPOSALS.__ S D PROPOSALS WILL BE REORIVED BT , my ofice, 1416 F street porthwest, up to 1 WE “CK. NOON, of TURNDAY, JANU- ND, 1kSH, Sd for the follo with the coming Inauguration Harrison 1. The privilege of the use of the various tions fronting» Pennayl from 1 treet to the Capitol, and of erecting ds for seats—the stands to conform to all the Te- rements of the Inspector of Buildings as to 4nd to all the requirements of the Committee om Street Decoration in connection with ite task of street deco- ration—and to effect mo permanent damage to the tives oF aLrubbery, the stands to be remnoved before Marcty 10 and alf Gamage, if any. to tnade vod to the satisfaction of this Coumittee. iv the diiuensious of the several reservations will be uown at my office and any even ‘Uhat may be desired. ‘The privilege of the sale the iting and auspices of this Committee of the Official of Inauguration Day, with such advertisements: such design h aud size as the Committee 1 pprove. Hach bid to be accompanied by ooriged tory SBE gee be teeny ave per cent, “of te be returned if te same be not ‘The rt to reject any or all bids or to waive fects im hereby reserved HENKY A. rman of Com. on Parks and Washington, D.C., Jab. 7, 1880. PROFESSIONAL. CLAY, WON’ X ox rer ty Aetolager and’ Brinitual, Mediums fora with second sight abd veil. Bvery hidden re Yealed.. Recovers lost or stolen propert - Gen treasures. Gives Lucky nunibers rigges. Lirinee 9ey tage 7 ih Uustness, Keiuoves all family troubles and evil tee fluences. Cures sickness, If di jn eft of others, Judge not ali alike, as the Professor can con- Yinice the mont skeptical. ‘Stranse ‘ill save time and’ disappoin only genuibe clairvoyant in this city, as be Where all others fail, and advertises only what be Go, Sites, 500, en ty ou $1. Name, jock of haar, date of Hours 9 ‘Open Sundays trow 1 w 8 p.m, twite> +4 APES GALESEDS Optical Oftces. 925 F st nw, : mn ve your eyes ainined’ tree of va if required ‘have wach Glasses adjusted to your eyes as will be proper to ‘ rectevery optical defect,no matter how vere, “Tiidstrated catalogue containing useful hints regard- ~ 1 asicriaaaaad tree to any upon ap og eames 415-3m 4_¥. LEWENBERG, M. D.. Manager. sitters their names’ in full. Telig how to hold the affection of husband aud lover how to win the one you love All business coufideu- tal. 1112 Gat, n.w. Come and be convinced. dia-Lam* ME. BROOKE TELLS ALL THE EVENTS OF a Lire ‘AU business confideutial Ladies and. eames 50 cents each. 405 L st, between 4th seld-l6w"* MEDICAL, &. EEN CONTRADICTED THAT adverts o00 Bet HAS NEVER BEE! De eRol HEKS ts the cldest-established ing Ladies’ Physician in thie city 5 pusult Dr. Particular attention yaid to all diseases peculiar Indies, married or aiugle. Forty yestw experience, 7m BR LEON, Dic Oidiet ratabtisned and Ouly Reliable Ladier Physician in the City. Can be consulted daily, 464 C st, between 44¢ and Oth ste. nw. Prompt treatmeut. Correspondence and consulta tion mercy. coundential. Separate rooms for ladies, Officealwaysopen, -” ADIES WHO REQUIRE THE SERVICES OF AN Ley jenced fern auould consult Mere. WILSON, 1105 Park be bet Band C 11 and 12th sts. ue. Ladies only. Remedy, @5. n¥4-7 ANHOUD RESTORED BY USING & Moree? pe Bhottiens Invigorating: ull'cure any cane of nervous doiulity amd lone herve-power) It imparts, vigor whole Male or female. 900 Bat. a. im’ EAD AND BE WISE—DR. BROTHERS, 906 B ST. R ¥. red before me and made oath that he is 18 Uidest lished Expert Specialist in this city, and will tee a cure in all cases of private diseases of men and furnish medicine, or no ct tion and free st any hour the sub: scribed and sworn before me by Dr. ‘aioe 5. ©. MILLS, « Notary Public, in and Biserict of Columbian this thasa day of Suly, 1885. = 2-1 ME. DE FOREST, LONG-ESTABLISHED AND reliable Ladies’ Phiysician, can be ted daily at Tenidence 01 1 st &¥. Offce bours from to 9 p.m. with ouly. ay 18-6m* i MOTT'S FRENCH POWDERS ARE THR i “ice, #3 per box. nervous mail For sale dy3l TANDIFO! ‘5, cor. Oth and F nw. __ SPECIALTIES. R. 3. W. HAYWARD, +. W TECTRO-THERAPE! x SPECIALIST ‘in the use of ELECTRICITY for the Will devote his entire time to the practiceof ELEO- TRO-LIBRATION, METHOD, Which is used at home Just as well as at the office, ‘This method hae (roven Ite, hier the scvoress 0 te an inal for dimeuse, ad Lai pre= pared to GUARANTEE & CURE. — treatipent of fevers, NO ONE NEED GIVE UP. Cases abandoved as incurable will do well to call an@ fee me. Tecan guaranter you reli/ and bepeit 1B any Teatimoutisle co application. ‘eatit on ‘saps Consultation DR. J. W. HAYWARD, 1219 I st.now. F eee “fies hour 0:12:25, pasties 10%02 BOOKS AND STATIONERY, COUNTING-HOUSE STATIONERY, | Tae Fost MEAT-FLAVORING STOCK. LIEBIG COMPAKYS EXTRACT OF MEAT. USE IT FOR SOUPS, BEEF TEA, SAUCES, AND MADE DISHES Genuine only with facsimile of Baron Liebig's SIGNATURE IN BLUE INK Across Labe:. Bold by Storekeepers, Grocers, and Druggists, LIEBIG’Ss EXTRACT OF MEAT CO., L’ta,