Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1889, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. e D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1889. at THEN AND NOW. AN OLD LOG CHURCH. Changes Since Gen. Harrison’s Grand- | A Monument of Pioneer Piety That is father was Inaugurated. Worth Going to See. Correspondence of the N. ¥. Telecram. From the Indianapolis News. is no more glaring contrast tobe found| Relics of the pioneer days become more in- ‘than in the only modes of travel available to | teresting as their scarcity increases, Thus it those who desired to visit Washington at the | is that what was once a common feature of time of the inauguration of Gen. Harrison, in| every cross-road’s landscape is now worth go- 1841, and those of to-day. Only a few years be- | ing miles to see. It is the log church. Prob- fore the Baltimore and Ohio railroad had en- | ably the number of such structures to be found tered Washington. The first train was run into | in Indiana at present conld be told on the ten the city in 1837, bringing over a large number | fingers, and most of them are at isolated points of tho military of Baltimore. They were mot | among the hills in the southern part of the and entertained by the citizens at large, and | state. on that occasion the Washington Light Infan- But there is yet one of these dismantled try made their first parade. The Baltimore and | monuments of former days in Marion county. Ohio road had run as far as Bladensburg for | It is seven miles east of the city, in the woods It is a Methodist ~ ebur. time style of hewn Backes’ “tikes Line wet Oran ite | logs, acd the arecks, “‘chinked and, asubed.” Gadsby’s and Brown's hotels with as much dis- | It is ceiled on the inside with matched poplar, play athe tally-ho of the present day. That | 80d was never painted, inside or out. There was the only railroad coming into Washington | #f¢ three windows on each side, containing for years. Tom Scott secured an entry many atelete genie ough, ait tae seal enes.te te ears afterward, but at the time when Gen. o ait A . jarrison arrived there were only two trains a| The pulpit is a huge Foc reson some fre day running to Baltimore and the west by way | OF 8ix feet to the top. which is use page of Wheeling, its terminus at that time. for the preacher. On the inside of the p There was no southern railroad connection | ###bench made fast to the wall, serving Face until 1860-61. A charter was obtained and | %8ts for visiting members and _ presi ing some grading done, but up to the breaking out | €lders. Around the reid on _ outside ~ of the war the road from Richmond, the through | ™ourners’ bench is attached. The = sil line to the south, stopped at Aquia creck and | im the center of the house in the ai 7 the passengers were brought Uy lest to Wasb- either side of which is a row of long a ington During the Mexican war the war news, | benches. The lamps are Prager gen: yr 2 wal Via New Orleans, was brought by pony express, | and center-posts, a andon the arrival of the mail st Alexeudria | front, made of ‘boards. oe aga gory the news was brought by pony express, with | Merly covered with clay ‘ds, but has been relays at Four Mile run, and this was six years Sse 37) It was built forty years ago or after the inauguration of General Harrison, - ‘The Morse telegraph was in operation from | Formerly great revivals and a Baltimore in 1844 om 5 brought the news of Mr. | meetings were held there and everybody in the Polk’s nomination to the then northern end of | B¢ighborhood belonged to the church, but the capital, but it was some years after that it | 2¢#rly all the older members that belonged was extended southward. there are now dead. In those days the church Hi a flourished, but afterward the interest all died i“: Se ee ee out. A lady acquainted with the vicinity says ¢ night travel of that period and for years | she can remember when they had no preaching after was sleepless. For a long time passen- | there, or any place near, and the church was gers for New York or Philadelphia took a boat | Used as a camping place for all, the, travelers : » BOB and tramps that came along, and bir {tere to Philadelphia: then railroaded fo. Ame | 8nd Out of the windows, and everything was boy, and thence by boat to New York. Some | falling into decay. Afterward the old place time afterward, as a speedy improvement, we | #8 Tepaired somewhat and a strong congrega- crossed the river at Havre-de-Grace in a small | ton gathered together under its venerable steamboat, and, on arriving at Philadelphia, | T0f A few years later a new house of wor- drove in omnibusses to the foot of Walnut | ship was built, but the old building, of rongh- street and by ferry to Camden, and so to New | hewn logs, with its primitive bir pager York. Could there be greater contrasts than ‘lee bs lowed to stand as a memento of a recent in the travel of that period and now? The | Put almost forgotten generation. sleeping-car Ley a of, , ——_ Talk With a lan Who Was Hanged. was a rarity and only used in great necessity. 5 ‘The express companies had no existence, street "Sw han tha rope oesipleatened aoe di ashington, it Secu tke rd was not yet born. | ithurts the skin somewhat, My throat and wements. Aleck Shepherd was not yet born. e plans of Gen. ashington’s engineer, | neck were sore and swelled for a week after I Major L’Enfant, slept in the office of the com- | was robbed. But soon as the pressure is on he knows no more about it. I just went to sleep, missioner of public buildings, in the basement and that was the end of it until I began to} of the capitol. ; e postage was i : miles and under 80, ten cents; over 80 to 150 | I just said Thad no dust. The last time, Ij miles, twelve and one-half cents; over 150 to | judge. I was a long time coming to; I guess | 400 miles. eighteen and three-quarter cents, | they thought I was dead. When I woke up, sel over Mb tailes, beende-thee eauaat kind 0° dazed like, I was sitting in the chair, ss 4 dos and they were hunting around the place. Then ee they threw the rope over the beam again, and | Who would recognize in the active but aged | | pointed to a stone in the hearth; they dug | man who moves so unobtrusively among us the | there and got a tomato can full of dust—about | hero of those days, when his name resounded | $6.00. It was getting da: g daylight then, and =I from one end of the continent to the other as| Went off. I sat quiet and stupid till the the “Pathfinder.” Another man who is here neighbors came and put me to bed. his profession as a lawyer was one of Ki ae ngressmen from the newly admitted state of California, He was subsequently one Cigarette-Making in Cairo. THE GREAT NUMBER EXPORTED TO ALL PARTS OF of the governors of “Bleeding Kansas,” and THE WORLD. gave his name to the city of Denver. From the London Lancet. ; In 1564, at the democratic convention in Chi- | The bales are opened as required, and the cago, I met Col. Hum known years before. w War di Porter, whom I had en chief clerk of the partment, and he showed me the old ouse, then standing, where he had rawn the treaty which conveyed the territory of illinois from the Indions to the government of the United States. His uncle, Gen. Port was governor of the territory, and, with the m of some French Canadians, they only white men there. 00 miles of railroad, which was all we could claim in 1841, has gown into nearly 160.000 miles since then. The unknown uutry, then unexplored and generally recog- das unfit for agricuitural pur is now the garden spot of the world. All comparison fails as we realize what has been done since the inauguration of Gencral William Henry Harri- various leaves mixed so that four different priced qualities result, the best kind being that | in which there is the least Smyrna tobacco and | the least percentage of large leaves. If cigar- | ettes are made exclusively of the best leaves, | which are light yellow brown in color and | measure only 4x2 inches, the aroma is very pleasant, but the smoker gets a headache after about five of them. The middle leaves, when dry. measure about 7x4! inches, and the low- est leaves of all are considerably larger. Cairo | air is so dry that the leaves must be damped | with water here before being cut, but in Alex- | andria this is not necessary. English-made | machines ent up the leaves, and on the follow- | ing day the @arettes are rolled by Greek, Sy- rian or Jewish workmen. A clever workman son, ‘Th® gradual growth of railroads in the | can roll as many as fifteen hundred a day. The early days of their introduction is an interest- | cigarettes are then carefully overhauled by an} ing stuc From 1430’ when there were twen- | expert, left a week to dry, and then packed in | ty-three miles of railroed in the country, until | tin boxes for sale. They should, of course, be 3°50, there w t 9.000 miles of road. | smoked directly, instead of being kept, as is too often the casein England. SO MUCH FOR THE TOBACCO, now for the paper. All large Cairo firms em- ploy one kind of paper only, which is made by | a half English company at Flume, near Trieste. | It comes to Alexandria in foolscap sheets, and is there cut up to the required size. It is not | known how it is made, or whether it is chiefly rice straw; but the merchants here all vow that it is the best they can get. If one is right in | suspecting the paper instead of the tobacco, it | might be well to try to get cigarettes rolled’ in | tobacco-leaves instead of paper. The only | other ingredients left to considey is the starch | for joining the paper. This is used with a thin stick by the men who roll the cigarettes. I may say that each workman is allowed to smoke | as many cigarettes (say forty) as he likes dur- ing his work, and is presented with ten every night to take home with him. The first estab- lishment that I visited only came into being | five years ago, but now it has three branc! shop in London and one in Bombay, Berlin, and New York. The proprietors sell only i per cent of their cigarettes in Egypt, but ‘ex- port 600,000 a week to England, besides 400,000 weekly to India. Europe. China, Australia, &c. My second visit was paid to a well-known pur- veyor who exports 250,000 a week to England aione, where I saw ONE HUNDRED MEN ROLLING CIGARETTES, and bales full of the best tobacco leaves, At! the third house I was shown several bales of Jobec tobacco from Yenidje. This consists of specially-selected leaves. and is the finest pos- sible from Turkey. This proprietor sends about 125,000 every week to En land. My | fourth visit was toaman whom I had never | heard of before,‘but who is keenly alive to the | | correspondence in the English newspapers. He | sends every week more than 80,000 cigarettes | to England, and a greater quantity to Germany. | Although in a smaller line of business than the | others, he gets his leaves and his papers from | the same spot as his competitors. There are, | of course, many other reputable establish. | ments in Cairo besides these four, which, as I have shown, supply every week 1,000,000 cigar- | ettes to England alone, and about the same | number to other parts of the world. My | opinion is that no opium or other drug is mixed with the tobacco; and even in hasheesh dens the devotee bu; bit of the cannabis indica extract and mixes it himself with the tobacco. In conetusion, one practical hint from a old Oriental who smokes seventy or eighty cigarettes a day, his wife smoking almost as great a number. Always use a cigarette holder, and in the holder a tiny plug of cotton woo! previously dipped in lemon feos and changed th the cigarette, From 1850 to 1870, the next twenty years. it i increased to 53.000 mi and in the ten gy ap to 1880. the roads had in- creased to nearly 94.600 miles; and in the next eight years, up to January, 1888, the railroads have gone on covering the country and devel- oping it until they have reached the enormous figures of 160.000 miles, Increased labor will be the natural result of the change made in the forty-eight years which have worked so marvelously in the develop- ment of our country. What was terra incognita at that time, and only known as “the great American desert,” is now covered by sovereign ates, represented in the Senate and House of presentatives. The fabled “desert blossoms | rose. Proud cities, enjoymg the uries unknown at that early day, almost | cover the continent. The Rocky mountains, | the western boundary line of our country in 1841, have been brought into the midst of a population which uses its peaks and valleys as places of summer resort. soe Dr. Shrady’s Present. HOW A LITTLE COUNTRY BOY REMEMBERED HIS KINDNESS. Kingston Special to the New York Times, Dr. Geo. F. Shrady, of New York city, dur- ing one of his frequent “runs” in Ulster county, related a pathetic little incident that came under his knowledge a year or so ago. The doctor was in the country enjoying a little | rest and recreation. During a ramble one day he saw a sickly-looking boy of about eight | Years of age resting by the roadside. Near | the child and gazing tenderly at him was a | sweet-faced old lady. whom the lad called “Granny.” The child touched his cap politely to the doctor, and the little wan face fit up ata few kindly remarks that were made by the stranger. A day or two afterward the doctor Was told that an old lady and a Little boy wished to see him. ~I could do nothing to stop his coming,” ex- plained the woman. “‘He says over an’ over, ever since the day he saw you, that you can make him well an’ like other boys. He give me no peace, night or day, an’ so i have thken the liberty of bringing him to you to cure.” The faith of the old lady and her little grandchild was so touching,” said the doctor, “that I resolved to do my very best to effect a cure. and in time the youngster was running about, strong and well as his companions.” Last Thanksgiving Day a home-made box was delivered by express at Dr. Shrady’s home in New York ‘city. The box contained a turkey — @ little note written in a boyish hand. It said: waht t— a ate isfrom the Pained him from the ext inyaclt “TI have often received munificent fees from graefal patients that my skill has helped re- lieve,” said the doctor, “but I was never more touched by a gift inal! my professional experi- ence than when that little country chap’s tur- key, in the rough little box with the words ‘Ex- | presses all pade’ written on every side, delivered to m Res The Mother’s Joke. From the Boston Courier. Mother—“I would not put too much faith in Miss Pert, John.” Son—“Why not? She’s all right.” family M—Don't you think she’s a little flighty, apt | ministered restoratives after he had pro- to change. like a weathercock?” | nounced the sudden sickness due to Poisoning. S—“No. What makes you think she’s like a | Mr. Hazlett was in a low condition at midnight, weathercock?” and the physician said he would likely oN M—“Becanse she’s a little v: The others are sone wis, ‘The poison is sup- pm noe y+ cn theteenen diy to have tal i Defining a Liar. : oa Sean Ae From the Detroit Free Press. iT was A CostLy Frxerat.—The surrogate Unless you know that a man is an habitual | &t Lockport, N. Y,, has given a decision in the | liar you have no right to call him a liar of any | 28P¥t¢ over the bill for the funeral of Mra, Pp Katie W sort. This is a decision handed down by an Ohio court. A man who lies a few times is no more a liar than the man who drinks now and then is a drankard. soe Strange Fatality to a Child. From the Albany Argus. A singular and fatal accident occurred about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon to Nellie Bradiey, the nine-year-old daughter of Joseph Bradley, a butcher, who lives at 294 Central avenue. The child was playing with toy balloon, with boy what you made us and teuder for 1 | Very time A Wxore Famtty Poisonep.—The Philadel- | phia Press says: A Kensington family, consist- | ing of seven persons, were suddenly taken ill last evening after drinking tea, which must have contained some poisonous substance. Samuel Hazlett, his wife, three sons, one | daughter, and one granddanghter sat down to | supper shortly before 6 o'clock, and finished | the meal xbout 7. No sooner had the family | rose from the table than each one had a! strange feeling. Mr. Hazlett was taken sud-! denly ill and fell ina faint. All seven were seized with symptoms resembling that of poi- | ulton was summoned, and found | 4 prostrate condition. He | large stocks of fine plush, silk and hosi oo mp th GENERAL HARRISON’S WEDDING. A Bridemaid, Now Living at Buflalo, Describes the Ceremony. Among the residents of Buffalo to whom the news of the election of General Benjumin Har- rison, of Indiana, to the of the United States was glad tidings was a lady living on Whitney place, says the Buffalo Express, who thirty-six years ago stood by the side of Mr. Harrison's bride while the words were spoken which, in due course of time, will make her the first lady in the land. “It isa pleasant remembrance to me, and I will tell you all about it on the condition that ou withhold my name,” said the bridemaid of t occasion. ‘Mr. Harrison first met Carrie Scott, his destined wife, while he was attending @ boys’ academy at Walnut hills, Ohio, and she was a pupil in a girls’ seminary at the same place. He was about nineteen years old then. and she was a girl of seventeen. Later on they both removed to Oxford, Ohio, where he be- came a student in the Miami university, and she busied herself with the household duties of the family. home. Her father was John W. Scott, who at the time of her marriage was the rincipal of a young ladies’ seminary at Oxford. ‘he family lived in the seminary boarding house, a two-story building just across the street from the school, which was managed b; Mrs. Scott. About thirty of the girls boar at the place. x “Carrie was a bright, vivacious, witty gt rather —_ in figure, with snapping black eyes and pleasant features. She was -_ Po: ular and many admirers, but none of them received any encouragement except ‘Ben,’ as she called him in those days. She was some- what inclined to be sarcastic, but she used this dangerous gift with such kindness and judge- ment that no one ever suffered therefrom. I am inclined to believe that her father,who was a stanch Presbyterian, did not look with any degree of favor upon the match, for Ben was chockful of politics even then, but I have no doubt that the old gentleman, who is now eighty-nine years old, and hasa position in the Pension department at Washington, when he looks out of the window upon the building where the inaugural ball will be held on the = of March, is fully reconciled to his son-in- Ww. “The wedding took place during the vacation season, when most of the penis were at home, and only a few of the teachers lingered at the boarding-house. The ceremony was performed at about 10 o’clock in the morning by President Anderson, of the university, in the parlor. ‘There were only about thirty persons present, most of them intimate friends and kindred of the families. The bride wore a simple white cashmere and veil, and looked very sweet. The bridal party came in from Mrs. Scott’s room adjoining, and stood between the windows while President Anderson tied the knot. In those days it was not fashionable to give wed- ding presents. After the ceremony we all sat down to a wedding breakfast in the dining- room of the boarding-house, and as soon as this was over Mr, and Mrs, Harrison were driven to a railroad station 12 miles away, where they took the train for North Bend. President Anderson, I remember, was going to Cincinnati the same day, and some one asked him why he did not ride to the station with the | wedding party. His answer was: ‘I'd as soon ride with a keg of nails for sociability as to ride with a bride and groom.’ “Mr. Harrison in those days was a struggling young lawyer, his only property being about $800, which was left him by an aunt in Cin- cinnati. T! to live. They rem: time and then went to Indianapolis.” soe Cardinal Newman. The Old Age of From the Churchman, In February John Henry Newman will have reached his eighty-eighth birthday, and will be the oldest of the living theologians in Europe. Dr. Déllinger is pressing hard upon him in point of years, Dr. Park became an octoge- narian in December. Dr. James Martineau has reached the same age. Dr. Hedge has entered upon his eighty-fifth year. Dr. Shedd is younger, but is already beyond three-score and ten, These are chiefly the old men among living theologians. Their names are as famil- iar as household words to the religious public, and their writings are still endued with vital- ity and power for thoughtful men. Cardinal Newman has written almost more than = two or three of the others put together, thor Dr. Dillinger and Dr. Martineau have pub- lished nearly as much. At least five years ago he completed the authorized edition of his writings and set his house in order, but apart from the natural feebleness of old age he is to-day as well and pastas as strong in his intellectual life as he was forty-three years ago when he left the An- glican for the Roman communion. Two-thirds, if not three-fourths, of his writings were pub- lished before he conformed to the Church of Rome, and essentially the whole bent of the | thought of the best years of his life was Catho- lic rather than Roman in its spirit and purpose. It has been impossible for such Anglican lead- ers as Mr, Gladstone and Dean Church to with- draw their friendship from him in his Roman years, and the cardinal himself, in rebuke of some of the sharp passages in his later writings, has again and again shown that his Anglican work and friendships still have a large place in his heart and in fa memory. This is one of the most beautiful things about his old age. He stands, as it were, between the two commu- nions, or, better, between his own past and his own present, and the glory of his life casts its brightness upon both; and he seems to like to have it so. ‘Toward no living leader in the re- ligious world does there go out a larger per- sonal affection from those who have personally known the man or have been spiritually moved by the most inspiring English prose-writer of | the century. “eee How Long Swearing Off Lasts. From the New York Star. It does look as though vows taken on New Year's day were more fragile than at other times. I heard the proprietor of a popular cafe talking about his experiences with the “swearing-off brigade” yesterday, and he gave a glimpse of buman nature in his remarks, “The first week in the year,” said he, “is a trying one for men in my business. The see- ond is just a little better, but we don’t pay expenses. During the third week in January our gentlemen customers begin to drop in, and it’s amusing to hear them talk. Of course they have been out of the city since New Year's ‘to see their mother-in-law? they have had ‘a funeral at their house,’ or they themselves ‘have been under the weather. I just close my left eye and keep silent. During the last two months of the year there is more wine consumed than at any other season. Then a new leaf is turned over, but it flops back again before February, in nine cases out of ten.” ——eer. Swindling the Ladies. A TRAP FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR BARGAINS IN DRY Goops. i shrewd scheme for swindling people who are looking for bargains in dry goods and hosiery has been unearthed at St. Paul, A letter from J. O. 4. Campbell, editor of the Bellefontaine, Ohio, Republican, which was re- ceived Saturday, inquired as to the reliability of C. H. Warner, who had sent him a proposi- tion for adver 8, to be paid for by check on demand. Mr. Campbell was suspicious and de- sired information. The advertising matter offered was in the shape of reading notices to the effect that Wood, Sepang Co., im of Londo: New York and Francisco, pure! ata (< sacrifice in London, and would sell it in limited quantities to individuals in this coun- try at prices away below actual cost. No goods would be sent C.O0. D., but the cash must ac- ny the order. orders must be sent to . Warner, a om aprtchnae gd whom e Zoods would be promptly shippe: No such firm as the one mentioned is known either in San Francisco or in New York, and it cannot be found in the books of the business meen: was found that Warner had an office, which he took a week ago. A great deal of mail was delivered there, His was entered Saturday, and forty-eight letters from various parts of Ohio, In: Missouri, Wis- consin and Kansas were foun iting his 7 H E ] : i i pt i i F z | SERVANTS OF MANY KINDS. An Old Employment Agent Tells How Help is Being Paid. From the New York Prees. A communicative and affable member of one of the oldest employment agencies in the city, in 4th avenue, tells a goodly number of the ins and outs of the servant question, especially as regards the wages of waiters and porters at hotels, and of cooks and nurses and coachmen. “Head waiters,” said he, “get all the way from $50 to $75a month, that isif they are good ones. During the summer season they often engage for the whole season. some of them getting ashigh as $300, although 2225 is a fair average. jored waitefs seem to be pre- ferred. In private families here in the city the butler gets from #40 to #50 month. He re you canran over my books and see how the prices run.” A glance at the book showed that the butler in one particularly well-known house in 5th avenue got $60 a month for his se~vices. Others ran from $40 to $50. The second waiters re- ceived wages from $30 to $35. ‘Waiters in hotels,” the proprietor went on, “get about the same as the second waiters in our wealthy families, At Delmonico’s the price averages about $35. You didn’t think ne t so much and that they depended almost who! for a living on tips? No. But you see the waiters have to furnish their own’ dress suits, and that is an item to be deducted. They are a thrifty lot though, most of them, and they are as smart as steel traps, They learn the art of being slow when they have a customer who is known to be chary of his tips, and they man- age to make life so uncomfortable to such a man that he is either driven away or changes his habits to more liberal ones. In this way, of course, the hotel waiter, like all others, for that matter, manages to swell his $6 or 39 a week to from twice to five times that. The bey remain about the same as they have been of late. Are there many waiters idle? Well, yes, a good many. There are many servants of all kinds idle now, but more among the women than the men. There are so many young girls trying to get positions that the number of un- employed is greatly swelled. I don’t know the cause, I am sure, unless it is the slow year we have had in business which has made it neces- sary for them to seek some kind of employ- ment.” “How do wages of porters average?” “Well, they run from €25 to #40. You see this requires strong men and pretty active ser- vice. These prices remain about as they have ean. “Do cooks get as good wages as they have been receiving the past few years?” “Well, yes, the cooks hold their own, You see here in my book how it is, Here is a lady in Connecticut whom I supply Baten’ You see, she pays pretty high, #45. That is unu- snal, but she has to have an unusually good cook, Here they run, you observe, at #30; here's one for $25. As we supply some of the best people in the city, as you will notice from the names, it is necessary for us to send good cooks. Of course there are some good cooks who gradually drop down in price as they learn to drink more and more; but we carefully avoid all such, From $25 to $35 is the igs price. Here is a lady, a leader in society, who pays $40 for her cook; and here is another who has been giving $35; here's one at $30, and $25. You see. they jump back and forth here at $25, $30, &c., with occasionally one dropping to #20; but none below on this list. This book is confined to servants sent to or coming here from well-known people of wealth,” The subject next took in coachmen, and a rapid turn of the leaves of the book showed what some of New York’s well-known men pay monthly for their family jehus. There were a great many #35 and £40 entries, with a goodly sprinkling of $458. Here and there a $50 entry came to view. “That $50.” the agent ex- plained, “stands for a good coachman, such as a leading family of this city must have. There is nothing mean about that kind of a coach- man. He is a fine looking man. carries his head well up, and handles the whip and the reins in style. These men who get enerally married men who sleep at home. The single men generally have a bedroom fitted up over the stables. They don’t get as high wages, probably #40 or $35, or even as low as $30. A real swell coachman, however, would be shocked at the mere mention of $30 a month, “Now, out in the country a coachman can be hired for less. You can get a real good one to 0 there, if he will go at all, for #25. You see e has his board and lodging both there, and that makes all the difference.” When it comes to nurse girls the indications are that they can be had for almost any price, and for this reason—they were not scheduled in the book of reference kept by the agent. “A girl is never so young,” said the agent, “that she does not think she is old enough to mind a baby. Consequently the market is flooded with nurse girls. I can’t give you any price. Well, say $8 or 310 a month. “If the: can get their board and lodging and a few doi- lars extra a month they jump, at the chance, For $6? I presume you could get one for that, They are as plenty as leaves in autumn.” Belles and Beaux of New York. N.Y. Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal. I will say this for the New York girls, they are natural, whether beautiful or ug; ou can depend upon their being what nature intended them to be, and they do not try to improve upon nature by artificiality. To the initiated there is a mark about the society woman of the dear 500 which is unmistakable. It is the ab- sence of all affectation either in dress or man- ner. Her charming naturalness, both in face and speech. On the other hand, there is another class of women who imitate the burlesque actress, that is so plentifully seen on Broadway. Their style isso different in dress, manner, walk, and general get-up, that it is positively painful to 4 person of refinement and taste. With their painted faces, lurid eyes, which stare every man they meet out of countenance, that is. if you could stare a New York man out of counte- nance, and generally bold ways, they make one bless God for the occasional days when it is possible to see fair, lady-like women on our thoroughfares who are unmistakably of gentle birth and breeding. While we are on this subject of Broadway I would like to draw attention to the men who frequent it, as well as the women. I wish I could speak as well of the society men of this town as I can for its ladies, A more con- ceited, posing, self-sufficient lot it would be im le to meet anywhere. What their wives, sisters, and daughters lack, they make up in affectations. They pose to be looked at and admired, about the theaterf, hotels and street-corners, or stroll with what they fancy to be a most fetching air, lazily uy and down a few blocks. The old-time gal- lantry and manliness we read about has en- tirely departed from the New York man. I sometimes imagine that they have caught their manners from the burlesque actress, also, and, in sheer disgust, the sweet women of their families have dropped afféctations of every sort. Certainly these are the traits most no- ticeable among society folk now to be seen upon our streets. + ——-_9e_ How One Bachelor Lives. From the New York Graphic. Mr. Peter W. Gallaudet, the Wall street ban- ker, sat in a restaurant taking lunch the other day with a party of friends, The discussion turned upon bachelcr life in New York city, “I know a man,” said Mr. Gallaudet, ‘who has plenty of ope f and seems to have made a suc- cessful study of life in New York for a single man. The gentleman pat reveal bought a large house up town and it thoroughly fur- nished. He has four servants, a man and his wife as cook and cham housekeeper, and two girls Should sa denice com) wea 5 H Hi Ht eg if 5 4! i if ii i EDUCATIONAL. CLASSIC AND SCIENTIFIC GEORGETOWN GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. G. T. Kes SECOND SESSION OPENS MONDAY, FEBRUARY ‘RANCE 4 EXAMINATIONS FOR ENT! * TAILOR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2. to the Preside: APPAE EVs HERVERS RICHARDS 8. 3. os MEDICAL, DEPARTMENT, Georestown | Medical School, 920 H street northwest. 1851. a G,L. MAGRUDER, M.D. Drax, | 5 lt Watoant onsams meee, H. D. Ban. LAW DEPARTMENT, town Law School, cor Arn ei Georget 7 cor IMPORTER AND TAILOR, a YEATMAN, Secretary. Eres ot Stee 8. 4 Just arrived, Bev. a HAVENS RICHARDS 8. J, Kroror, oa ‘fits all garments made in hie GHORTHAND IN SIXTFEN SIMPLE LESSONS. S Classes daily. Tuition by mail a specialty. Cail or 1111 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. send for pamphlet. ‘Type-writing taught free Washington, D.C. cha % Head school Acme Phonography. 21 F hw. a mhi7 LLEGE, COR. = ‘ = on central ; ¥ appointments complete. ‘ ‘More n 50,000 young men and women have been trained 1889. for business fn’ ‘the i Colleges of A for Warrenton, Day and night sessions: “Tuition fees, moderate Five ng. and Stations courses: Gourse Shorthatid and it ing; Practical English; Spencers’ Papid, Writing Reading and Oratory, method. Business men furnished with competent employes, “Tlustrated an- een RT Ee SARA A. SEENGER Vice-Prinet- pal; HENRY C. SPENCER, LL.B. Principal. ja? ., HIGHER MATHEMA- by successful college teacher; private or clase Miss T, oral dam o830p ac Seat ke 8 i 330 pm. 225 - '. puy ERMAN LESSONS tween Lync le, Greensboro, Raleish, Colum ken, Augusta, At Riaciicerk yarn soem an vew Yor 5 care Atlanta to Mont ” Pullman Sleepers Mout to New Orleans and Mann Boudoir Sleepers Blooper Greensboro te Gal inbia and Augusta. Solid easbora te Seiie = Bona {rains Washington to Atlanta. “Does not counect for C_& O. route - ‘Sunday, for Manassas, GIVEN BY AN EXPERI- enced North German ; testimonials from former it? ES-ONS IN CRAYON, TAPESTRY, AND OIL Painting by a teacher of large experience from the north; s very low; will teach at residence of Pupil when desired, ‘2032 st. mw. "paseo .RENCH LESSONS. —MADAME CHEVREMONT, Diplomée de l’Académie de Paris. Special classes adults. Ad- je24-1m* 2:30 P. M.—] Strusburg and intermedia 230 P. M.—Western Express Daily for Warrenton, Gorionsville, Charlottesville, sville, Sachast, ex for chi nD \y. Evening classes for dress 1512 13th st. Dw. Noomvengy its Soxt soenioa Fe commence its next seasion Fel catalogue and terms address WM. Ht D,, Frederick, Ma. IANO {— wm Ralete®, Asheville, Charlot! i en, August Montgomery, New Jeans, Texts and California, Pullman Vestibule Sieever Washington to New Orleans via Atlanta and Mont- ery. Sleeper, Washington to Augusta, Vathtngcton and Ohio division leave Wash- 1d $:45 PM NAI LLL 1889. For PURNELL, LL. LESSONS — MISS CLARA HARRISON, ‘Win. Mason, N. ¥. 1234 4 NG AND PAINTING—INSTRUCTION IN every branch and for. rivate or in classes, at THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF FINE ART! D4 Est. Call and see the wonde: Progress: rudents. Ja21-28t" M's concerts, & = me : <a ASTER OF ARTS, WITH HIS ON ITY trained lady assistant, has Day and Evening Classes for civil service, high school and colleze pre} ration. Successful record in charge of New E1 high and normal schools. Address F. E. 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For Pittsburgand the West, Pollman Vestibuled Cars, at fh daily | Line, 9-50 a.m. daily, to’ Cincinnati and St. Louis, | ‘with Sleeping Cars from Pittsburg to Cincinnath, and Harrisburg to St, Loui: to Chicago, with Shoewt a Cloud Buildin, Piano, Organ, Vo advantages. IRIVATE LESSONS STRICTLY C to persons whose early edi Elected or forgotten. | 8. W. FLYNN, ute, Southwest cor. Sth and K sts. n. OO® 15TH STN. W. The MISSES KERR'S School for Young Ladies and Little Girls, ‘The Second Term begins FRIDAY Feb. 1st. $a26-to7 fe ND POTOMAC RAILROAD. ASHT N SCHOOL OF ELOGUTION AND daigua, and Rochester, daily ; for Buf- Oratory, 904 M st. n.w., Mrs. M. STEVENS | faloand Niagara, daily, except Saturday, 10-00 p. HART, Principal. Voice culture and Natural Expres- with Sleeping Car Washington to Kechester, sion carefully taught. Lock Haven, and Elmira, at 9:50a, STAMMERING ly, ©: ‘Sunday. Thoroughly cured. References to patrons, _ ja5-1m* eg RCE and the Fait, 720. 9-00, 12-00, and RT STUDENTS’ LEsGUE, SUN BUILDING bee 200. 4:10, 10-00; asak 1317 Fst. Day and Evening classes, Drawing | Sundays 9 be Saga 2-00. 4 Pultonan z Parlor and Painting in Oils and Water color from life. Class2s ‘9.40'a.m. daily, an be daily, except Sunday, aud 3:45 ee m. daily, with Dinin Car. as . For Boston without change 2:00 p.m. eve: For Brooklyn, N. Y., all th sity with boat: Instructors—A. G. Heaton, E. C. Mes- W. H. Holmes, and 8. ND, ‘eacher of Elocution. Correct (deep) breathing Voice Culture, Oratorical and Dramatic Action, at 1317 13th st. u.1 431-3m 1, JOHN'S COL: ANNAPOLIS, MD. Eight departments and four courses of reparat 100] attached. | SPECIAL A1 ION GIVEN TO } PREPARATION OF CANDIDATES FOR | THE NAVAL ACADEMY. ident, THOMAS FELL, A.M. 1100—-1104—1116 M STREET am. and 4:40 p.m. daily, except Si AND 1128 117TH STREET, | Foy ARDaralie 1 20ent 2.00 yu 12:05 apa 4:40 BOARDING AND_ DAY aoe SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES “ND LITTLE GIRLS. Thorough instruction in all branches in with the best modern methods. Commodious new schoo! building, bested by steam and having abundant sunlight and fresh air. For further information apply ‘HJ.SOMERS.d1- ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL- WAY, AND Z xa ND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON to the Principal, Mrs, ELIZABET CADEMY OF THE HOLY, chusetts ave—Thoro: usic on the Piano, with Harp, Guitar and a Special attention hormony and thoroush bass classes; also to Course ‘in “Englis! usc of Technicon,Onvan, ve ven to rocal. A RUSINESS ED ATION- BOOK-KEEPING,PEN- manship,Commercial Branches, Type-writing, Elo- cution ; rapid pro . Low rates. Est. 1885. atter 4:30. WOOD'S COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, 407 4 eens ‘Jal. (28 BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES un 7 ‘Terms begin now. ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. | Schedule in effect Dec. #th, 1888. | au29 723 14th st. nw. jashington from station corner of New Jersey ENDS’ SELECT SCHOOL—A PRIMARY, LN- termediate, and High School for both sexes! 8 au29-6m i 9:05 pan. ait aud Bt'Youls, express, daily, 3 and | p.m, For Pittsburg and Cleveland. vestibuled limited ex- Dress. daily. 8:50 a.m. and exprons, 9:03 pan. m1 |" For Lexinton and local stati: 10 For Bal day: ‘6:30, | in America.” Splendidly equi; oe ea ee ped. ‘The largest wud most commodious building fh he city devoted to business training. Catalogues tree on application, Colored students not_ admitted. FRANCIS G. MARTYN, President. - C. By A.M. CE, Principal, HARVARD GRADUA’ | singly or in small classes _se19-6mo At Sanders & ROF. 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War eres JOHNSON BROTHERS, ‘Wharves and Rail yards, 12th & Water sta. Southwest. ‘Sdand mw. ot. m, w. at. Bow, 2 Ww. ave. nw. 2. Ww. ale of w mF A AR oe aE Sr A FER BoA Fk re i 4. PB kee EOE Set 2 In presenting THE EVENING STAR in its new dress and improved form, attention is called to its Peculiar merits as a news and family paper, as well as to the extraordinary advantages it affords to advertisers, aligh professional authority—which in this in- Stance only expresses public sentiment—has de- clared that “THERE IS NO BETTER EVENING NEWSPAPER IN VHE UNITED STATES” than THE STaR. But even more than this may be justly claimed for it. In all that relates to the compost- tion of a first-class journal, devoted to news, busi- ness, family and local affwirs, it takes rank with the very best in the world, and in the special qual- ities named it is not surpassed by any. 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It is, in brief, wholly untrammeled by any other interest or consideration than that of serving the public, and securing as far as possible the wel- fare of the family circle, 4nd of society as a whole. With these general objects in view, what ‘te Star specially concerns itself with, and that Which it gives its best efforts, may be briefly de scribed as THE INTERESTS OF WASHINGTON AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. To these the paper has been unswervingly devoted since , iw present management assumed its direction, and this policy will characterize the future career of the paper as prominently as it has marked its ‘past history. 48 AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. ‘The EVENING STAR claims to be, and can com- Clusively establish that it 18, the best looal advertis- ing medium tn the world! NO OTHEM PAPER PRINTED CIRCULATES SO MANY COPIES IN THE CITY OF ITS PUBLICATION, IN PROPORTION TO POPULATION. 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