Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1889, Page 7

THOSE RAILROAD TRACKS. An Important Conference of South Washington People Last Night. COMMITTEES OF THE CITIZENS’ PROTECTIVE ASSO- CIATION AND THE CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED AYE A HARMONIOUS MEETIXO— PLAN FOR A UNION DEPOT AGREED UPON. The people of Southwest W: are hopeful that the long-delayed removal of the objectionable tracks in that section is near at hand. Fors long time their prospects have been somewhat blighted by the existence of two different movements toward that end, the antagonism of which furnished the friends of the railroad with food for argument. Now, how- ever, the breach between the two has been bridged, and harmony prevails. These two or- ganizations are the citizens’ protective associa- tion, representing, almost entirely, the inter- ests of the St. Dominic church congregation, and the citizens’ Committee of One Hundred of Southwest Washington. AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE. Last night a conference was held at the resi- dence of Mr. J. Harrison Johnson, 709 C street southwest, between a committee from each as- sociation, for the purpose of uniting upon a harmonious of action the railroad evil The ittee of Hundred was represented by J. H. Johnson. 0. T. Thompson, N. Z. Seitz, H. K. Gray, and Andrew Archer; and the ive association by Rev. Father Donnelly, of St. Dominic’s church, N. H. Shea, David Murphy, John Brosnan, T. T. 5 opened the meeting by stat- ing that is bad become necessary for ited ac- tion, and attention to some printed maps that were distributed, SHOWING THE PLAN PROPOSED by the Committee of One Hundred for the solu- ion of thequestion. This plan is identical with that published some days ago in Tae Stanashav- ing been adopted by the Protective association. According to it the union is to be located on the squares south’ of the capitol the roads to enter it by way of K and ‘anal streets and a e south- ihe ‘iver, which te $0 bo erosel Dy «now the river, which is to be by a new ridge some squares south of the Long bridge. connection between the depot and the K-street track is made by way of Delaware . This plan was immediately recognized Protective association people as identi- cal with their ows. There was some discussion as to the of the conference acting alone in the matter, the question being whether or not it would be better for the two committees to go back to their associations and induce action there. Mr. Seitz remarked that the fact that there are two movements in Southwest Wash- ington is being used with effect in Congress by the railroad, and so it should be strongly repre- sented that ALL DIFFERENCES HAVE BEEN HEALED, and that the two organizations are working together. Yet hethought it better for each association to keep its main organization and to do all in its | a by itself to further the plan adopted in the conference. He asked that the meeting be formally organized, and Father Donnelly was elected chairman and Mr. Thompson secretary. Upon motion of Mr. Gray the plan for the union depot set forth was unanimously adopted as the one suitable for both organizations, and a committee of two from each association was appointed, as follows, to present it to Congress: ather Donnelly, chairman; Messrs. Johnson, Seitz, Shea, and Kane. AGAINST “TEMPORARY” TRACKS. The committee was also instructed to take all necessary steps, both before the Commis- sioners and Congress. to prevent the granting of permission to the Pennsylvania railroad to lay extra tracks in the streets for “temporary use during inauguration time.” Mr. Thom} son called attention to the fact that the tracks that were laid “temporarily” in 18385 are still in the streets and are in daily use by the com- pany. Mr. Seitz thought that the company now has ample track room for all extra at the time of in- auguration, their facilities having been nearly doubled in the four years. He sug- gested that they fight the granting of the rivilege upon the safest ground of necessity. ir. Thompson said that every one knew that if a track was once laid it uever came up, and urged that the committee exert all its efforts to prevent the granting any privileges whatever. Ee. Sehacens suggested that THEIR EFFORTS BE DIRECTED IN CONGRESS, since the Commissioners have already granted indefinite permission to the company to lay tracks. The select committee of five was also in- structed*to learn the moore the Leora and Ohio le as the proposed plan. It was ine quand opinion that the Baltimore @nd Ohio company would favor it. Father Donnelly said that this ally would be the strongest element ant figh’ peer duty was final) it upon committee's ders, that of p Marlee the local press with ali proper information the progress and success of the movement. The press, said Mr. Seitz. is a strong factor in such a fight as this, and the better it is informed the more chance there is of winning. The meeting then ad- journed. ee a eee Fast Driving in the White Lot. To the Editor of Tux Evexrve Stan: Will the editor of Taz Star inform an anx- ious subscriber by what right or upon whose authority the circle (called. I think, Executive avenue) back of the President's is converted into a racing ground? A day or two since my horse was so frightened by the rushing past him three abreast of the racers that it was with diftieulty I could control him for the short time it required to leave the grounds, If these gentlemen drivers have entered into any ar- rangement for the use of the circle for this purpose I would suggest the taking away of the notices, “Fast driving forbidden on these grounds,” aie elincoarnact The Clayton Assassination. WHAT REPRESENTATIVE GALLINGER SAYS UPON THE SUBJECT. The Clayton assassination was the talk of the Capitol yesterday and there was nothing but regret for the occurrence and acry for vengeance upon the murderers, Speaking of the sad affair, Representative Gallinger said to a Star reporter: “Tt is high time that some method was de- vised to put an end to political murders in this country. What a travesty it is for Con- as and the people to be hysterically assert- that the honor and dignity of the govern- ment demand that the insult to our flag (a ieco of bunting) by the people of Samoa must Tosecasted, oven to te en , whet THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. THE SAMOAN IMBROGLIO. Secretary Bayard Defends the Course of the State Department. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS TO BE SENT TO SAMOA— BUSHING WORK ON THE CRUISER CHARLESTON— CAPT. LEARY, OF THE ADAMS, TELLS HOW HE CHECKED GERMAN AGGRESSION. In @iscussing the latest news from Samoa last night Secretary Bayard said that the State department had received a dispatch from Con- sul Blacklock stating that war had been declared against Mataafa and that martial law had been proclaimed by the German consul at Apia. He did not know whether the state of martial law referred to included all of Samoa or only Apia. Referring to criticisms on the Department of State, Mr. Bayard said he would like to have the gentleman who made them point out a sin- fs instance in which the department had it. There has been a great deal of misrepresen- tation, but Mr. Bayard said he felt confi- dent his countrymen would, in time, dis- cover that all had been done that could be done. No American had been injured or any of their rights sa defined by law and treaty teken away in Samoa. “Our jolicy has been fixed and steady in the Birection of the preservation of American rights. The German government has con- stantly given assurances that Germany wouid not violate = American right, and Prince Bismarck in his last letter to Count Arco Valley renews his assertions that Germany will scrupu- lously et these rights. The department cannot stop the fighting in Samoa; we cannot prevent rivel commercial companies quarrel- ing and fighting. It is not for us to try and give every country a stable government. Secretary Bayard said that he had not yet re- ceived the proposition which Count Arco Val- ley had informed him Prince Bismarck had sent foraconference between Germany and the United States in regard to Samoa. He for an entirely new negotiation or for arenewal of the conference suspended about a year ago, at which the Secret said he had endeavore: to bring about an understandin; many and the United States to dition of the unhappy. natives, It is reported that the German government has ordered Lieut. Eckardstein to report at once to the German legation here as military attache. Germany Will Send Reinforcements. Berlin dispatches say that it is not expected that German military operations in Samao will commence until sufficient reinforcements are sent to the islands. At present there are at Samoa three German warships, with an avail- able landing force of 300 men. 4 FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT EXPECTED. A “White Book” on the Samoan question will shortly be presented to the reichstag. The National Zeitung announces that a friendly set- tlement with America may be expected, based upon Prince Bismarck’s proposal for a joint discussion. between Ger- tter the con- RUSHING WORK ON THE CRUISER CHARLESTON. It was published in San Francisco yesterday that the Union iron works had received a dis- patch from Secretary Whitney ordering them t the cruiser Charleston ready for sea within twenty days, if possible, at no matter what extra cost. The working force on the Charleston has been largely increased, but whether owing to instructions from Washing- ton or not is not stated. There are at present four hundred and fifty-men embloyed on the vessel Her engines and machinery are all in and her boilers are being cemented. When completed the Charleston will be taken to Mare Islaud to have her armament placed on board, . This is much heavier than that of any German man-of-war at present in Samoan waters. It was not expected that the trial trip of the Charleston would take place before the middle of March, but the present activity in- dicates that she ‘will be ready considerably sooner, Superintendent Dickie, of the Union iron works, was asked how soon the vessel could go to sea in fighting trim if necessary. “Well, she might get away in thirty days if it was absolutely necessary to have her ready by that time.” The cruiser San Francisco, now builing at the Union iron works, will be completed ina much shorter time than was the Charleston. | The superintendent estimates that it will re- quire eight months to complete this vessel. The Pacific coast papers are devoting a great deal of space to the Samoan question, and gen- erally demand that American interests on the islands be fully maintained at whatever cost, if only on account of American shipping interests in the Pacific. CAPT. LEARY'S BOLD COURSE. Commander R. P. Leary, of the United States steamship Adams, which arrived at San Fran- cisco from Samoa via Honolulu, Wednesday, in an interview Saturday said: “There was a great deal of commotion when I was at Apia. I went down there with all kinds of orders suited toatime of peace, but when war broke out I threw the orders to the wind. They would do in time of peace, but were not applicable to the condition of affairs then. Phen I saw Brandies, the German minister, leading 500 natives in support of Tamasese T wrote him letter asking hia to desist. I said: ‘I am here to protect American citizens and American property, and I will not wait idly by and sce you ing the country into trouble. when their live ce ae ty may be destroyed. If you do tot desist I shall take such measures to ae them as I deem the circumstances de- mand.” “He sent word back that no American nor American property would be molested. In a little while. though, much the same tact atthe meeting I said tothe Germans: ‘Now, just let the natives fight it out between them- selves.’ Oh, no; they could not do that. They said that they had proclaimed Tamasese king, and er not leave him nop to fight alone. en I said I would take a hand in this. ‘If you persist in aiding Tamasese and fighting for him I will participate,’ and I pulled the Adams in ahead of the Adler, aud would have done my part in the fray if the Germans had decided they must have it. I had made up my mind that the Adams could throw some shells too. At this they eased down and prom- ised that it should be shands off.’ “Next there were notices posted by the Ger- Mans stating that the bridge over the river at Apia and separating all the back country where the natives were would be taken up. I tore these notices off. I suid there should be no de- molition of bridges. Then I ordered my car- penters up the next morning, and meantime, word having got out all around, scores of na- tives came to aid in repairing and maintaining the bridge. I also threw some marines ashore to protect it. It is not necessary to say that the bridge was not destroyed. The Adams left Samoa December 7 and was not present during the recent battle between the Germans and Ma- taafa’s forces.” The Samoan Times, which has been sup- pressed by the Germans, was published by an nglish subject named Cusack, and was re- ‘ded in San Francisco, where many copi it were taken, as fair and unbiased. The Times, however, placed the blame for the battle of December 17 on the Germans, and the latter disliked him in consequence. On one occasion he was compelled to seck protection in the British consulate from the Germans, COMMANDER DAY'S EXPERIENCE IN SAMOA. Commander B, F. Day, who recently returned from a cruise in the South Pacific to his home in Warren, Obic, had a hand in the Samoan matter, and im an interview yesterday said: “I went there ia May, 1886, as captain of the M after Tamasese set him- self up Malietoa, the rightful king. Tamasese’s government was iy a German torate, and the commander of that coun- ix hundred, which was en- on the beach 9 miles distant, This was e the night following. _ I had ex- | spon, mer pe with Malietoa that there was to no bloodshed unless I guve the signal, which was to be a cannon shot on shipboard. My cal- overawed by the force and readily capitulate. Malietoa’s army of two thousand men moved wn as planned, and at daylight Tamasese found himeeif nicely surrou: We got the Tamasece's own to cut off his espe ty onion ‘amasese’ wn to cut water, and arrived there about ten o'clock in the fore: GERMANS SUSPICIOUS. “As soon as the ship was steamed up the Ger- mans had their suspicions aroused, and they forthwith dispat:hed a mounted messenger to "8 ca. $ F roken the law or permitted others to violate | could not, therefore, say whether or not it was | ‘lastingly whip Tamasese, as the latter was | ever! in rebellion the then - ernment. This would have forever ended’ the difficulty, as Malietoa could have cut to pieces Tamasese and his followers, “Well, there they were, with Malietoa ready to start his battle at my signals Returning on board ship I found one of head chiefs anx- iously waiting the word to go ahead. By this time some of the others arrivedand the English consal served me —— Protest. aie name of the queen, my ipitat a conflict, while the German consul earnestly ei treated me not to start the affair. The Unite: States consul sided with me. We then all went back, allowing the toretain their situation, and tried to have the consuls hit upon something.” The consuls did so, and an agreement was signed by them and Malietoa’s and Tamaseses’ | chiefs promising to keep the peace for ever. This peace lasted till about August, 1887. In concluding his talk, Commander Day referred to the fact that the Germans have supplied Tamasese with armsand ammunition, and said: | “If our government intends to assort its rights there and prevent the Germans getting full control of those islands the wisest move that could be made would be to send out to Ma- taafa a supply of arms and ammunition. With these he could hold his own against any force the Germans can send against him for some j time. I have an i that it is going tobea very serious complication.” TALKATIVE YOUNG LADIES. Girls Who Don’t Give a Fellow Oppor- tunity to Say a Word. From the New York Mail and Express. Opposed to the silent type is the young Amer- ican lady who is a victim of the talking habit in its most virulent form. Her companions leave her society feeling very tired. She is most vivacious and bright. Her friends say of her: “She has a wonderful flow of language.” Her enemies, especially the vulgar ones—and all enemies are vulgar—say that she can “talk the hind legs off a mule.” See how different the point of view can be! When her friends hear what her enemies have said they politely won- der if she has talked off their hind legs. But why repeat these spiteful recriminations? This young lady is fond of retiring with her victim into secluded corners, where she enter- tains him with the history of her abnormally gifted family for several generations back. She never loves a dear gazelle, to glad her with his bright, soft eye, that she does not impart to him anecdotes culled from the family history. There are episodes of her own childhood which also must be told, and to which the family’s prowess was merely a mild prologue. Naturally, these reminiscences of a promising past spur her companion to emulation. He re- calls remarkable evidences of genuis which decked with amaranths his brow of youth. He burns to tell them. He chafes to enter the arena, As he pauses breathless he cuts in with: “Yes, yes; very funny. That reminds me of when I was a little chap —!” “And it was two years after that,” she medi- tatively interrupts, her eyes fixed in a stare of working memory on her foot, “that I fell through the ice out skating. It was one of my most horrible experiences,” &c. She takes the bit firmly between her teeth and canters proud- ly off. He succumbs, but waits his time. At the end of her recital he makes a spring for the silence and clutches it with: “As I was about to remark, when I wasa little chap, not six years old—my mother has often told me the story —” “Six years old!” she murmurs, raising her eyes to the chandelier in the deepest reverie; “when my brother George was six years old he wrote a Spanish poem, which was considered very remarkable. He was a wonderful child.” She drops the words ont lingeringly, but he sees with Roxror that she is warming with her subject. Opening vistas of recollection of | George's distinguished powers stretch ‘away before her mental vision. George is on the carpet for the next fifteen minutes. He holds his advantage bravely. The Spanish poem was followed by a Greek one at eight anda Hebrew translation at ten. It is very hard to | vie with George’s opulent genius. Her com- panion is gradually swamped by it. Like the queen of Sheba before the giories of Kin, Solomon, “there is no more spirit left in him. He only sits and waits patiently for the happy time— When silence, like a poultice, comes ‘To heal the blows of sound. MIMICRY IN NATURE. Grasshoppers and Their Harmony of Color with the Soil. From the Atlantic Monthly. Go tothe seashore and observe the grasshop- pers among the beach grass. They fly up at your approach, whiz off a rod or so, and alight. Can you see them? They arecolored so nearly like the sands they live upon that detection of one at rest is almost impossible. On yonder grassy bluff, a stone’s throw away, you will find none of them, but other kinds equally, or almost equally, lost to sight by their harmony with their surroundings. What chance of life for either if they suddenly change places? They would be so conspicuous that every pass- ing bird or other insectivorous creature would sight them. Of course these protective colors have been gained by slow steps, Ever hopper that found ‘its preferred food among the sands was liable to be eaten. In the long run just those would be eaten which were most easily seen. Onewhichvaried in coloring in never so small a degree, 80 as to be less easily seen than his brother, would live to perpetuate his kind, and his brother come to an untimely end; the progeny would show the unfortunate variation and be more likely to be spared to transmit in increased volume the probability of the happy coloring. Given, then. a brood of grasshop- pers that find their preferred food in sandy spots, and unless other and more powerful forces act upon them it must result, from their liability to be eaten by creatures fond of grass- hoppers, that in time they will resemble in col- oring the sand on which they live; it is impos- sible that they should not. Any creature not specially protected by nauseausness, or habit, or special device of some sort, must in the very nature of things, if it is to live at all, have some other protection, and that afforded by color at pattern is by far the most common. The worll is made up of eaters and eaten, of devices to catch and devices to avoid being caught. We may apply the same reasoning to two kind of butterflies subject naturally to the same class of enemies—that is, living in the same re- gion and flying at the same time. If one has the slightest advantage over the other in the fight for life, by being, for instance, distasteful to one class of common enemies, so that these forbear to attack it after experiment or by in- stinct (the result of ancestral experiments), and there be among the lessfavored flock here and there an in ual which, under cireum- stances favoring it, such as distance or shadow, may more often than its fellows be mis- taken by the enemy for one of its dis- tasteful neighbors through its possession of a little more usual of acertain tint on a part of the wing, a little larger spot here, or more of f | the semblance of a band there—how small soever this difference may be, it must, by the very laws of natural selection, be cherished, perpet- uated, increased, by slow but sure steps. "Nor is there any limit to its increase except its ab- solute deception of the enemy. there is the slightest advantage in variation in a definite position, the gig se for existence will compel that variation. Knowing what we now know of the laws of life, mimicry of favored races might even have been predicted. “ Ams At Atlantic City yesterday the new iron pier at the foot of Massachusetts avenue was sold and brought $16,000. This pier originally cost $65,000. It has never been a success, and debts to the amount of 840,000 had been contracted. The National district assembly of machinery construction, molders, ttern-makers and boiler-makers, Pittsburg, Pa., numbering 8,000 members, have decided to leave the Knights of Labor and form an independent order. ‘The judiciary committee of the Pennsylvania house of representatives has decided to report against the passage of the granger bill pro- hibiting the importation of ‘dressed beef into at state. Gov. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has signed the resolution passed by the legislature to submit @ prohibition amendment to the people. ir. C. J, Kenworthy, health officer of Jack- sonville, Fla.. reports but 22 deaths in January, and not one from fever of kind. The u- lation is 85,000. SA nike So long as bis h said he regretted that treaty with the United torn had been re- —_ her rights under the gonvention of 188 un- some satisfactory re-adjustment is arranged. total warplus of Scie unis over'ch tibtee ry jas It is stated in New York that the Vat derbilts Penn rail- have acquired control of the South road, and will fara It over to-the PB railroad. Mayor Grant has asked the civil-service com- missioners of Ni fons i r aystem will soon FAMOUS PUNSTERS. Instances of Mem Who Showed They Had There is a pleasant article in the January but some are new to us, The “bracket-need- ing” and “word mangling” classes of puns are dismissed as unworty of notice; but here is an example of each: “The great heat of the cape must make Kaffir (make s fur) coat quite un- nes-hairy.” Sometimes, however, ‘‘one comes across a specimen of this kind, which extorts admiration for its perverted ingenuity, as the answer to the query. ‘What flower is likes healthy Irish lad out driving? A Rosa Japon- ica (a rosy chap on a car).” The } sae master of punning is Hood, and bees wing is given as very artistic speci- men: ~. temples throb, my pulses boil, "'m sick of song and ode and ballad; 8o, Thrysis, take the midnight oil, And pour it on a lobster salad. My brain is dull, my sight is foul, cannot think on what I’ve read; Then, Pallas, take away thine owl, And let us have « lark instead, Here again, is a little piece by Frederick Locker, which by its grace and neatness of expression presents the same deceptive look of ease: He cannot be complete in aught Who is not humorously prone; A man without a merry thought Can hardly ha fanny bone, Conspicuous, also, in this class is Porson’s celebrated pun upon the Latin gerunds—a sub- Ae set him, it is said, in answer to his boast at he could make a pun on anything: When Dido saw Zineas would not come She mourned in silence, and was Di-do-dum. “Both Hood and Hook—perhaps we might add Porson, were all panilers by profession. But there are puns extant by unknown authors which either ge have felt a pride in owning. A Cambridge fellow, walki with a visitor, met by chance the master of St. John on horse- back. “Who is that?” mquired the visitor. ‘That,’ replied the other, ‘is St. John’s head on a charger.’ Here is a first rate pun, of which the speaker's name is as completely buried in oblivion as the author's of the famous witicism against Berkeley's theory, a pun which puts into a nut shell a whole system of Philosophy: ‘What is mind! No matter. What is matter? Never mind.’” as in other departments of But in punning, ingenuity, women can well hold their awn, and none of our author's stories are better than the following: “A plump Adonie of forty, who was looking at a house, asked the servant, an extremely pret girl, whether she was to let with the establishment. ‘No, sir,’ was the answer; ‘please, sir, I’m to be let alone.’ Here is a pun which hits with both its barrels. Each of its two ee rag a@volume; the one informs the querist it his admiration must not be expressed too warmly; the other, that an eligible offer is not likely to be ill received. Was ever greater weight of meaning com- pressed into two words?” Finally, we are given instances of puns which have only one defect—they are too witty to be used. Thus, “the heir to the duke of Pen- thiexre died in 1764, ruined by an attachment to an opera singer, Mile. Mire. The wits of Paris made his epitaph of five notes of music— ‘Mi re I’a mi la’—*Mire has brought him there.’ Such an epitaph has the great defect that it is far too witty to be used. In that point it re- sembles many others; as that suggested for a cricketer, ‘over;’ for anauctioneer, ‘Gone!’ or, for a billiard-marker, ‘the long rest.’ However apt the application, the effect of these bas no solemnity. Indeed, the suggestion that a pun may claim a place in serious literature—in poetry itself—may strike some readers with al nee and it is true that in our language no such thing as yet existe,” seo LATE FOREIGN NEWS. The country house at Ramslade, near Wind- sor, of Mr. Henry White, secretary of the American legation in London, was entered by burglars Wednesday night, and jewelry valued at $35,000 was stolen. The burg! made their escape. Lord Tennyson is feeling so much stronger that he has resumed his literary work. It is said that he is writing a new play for Mary Anderson, founded on the story of “Robin Hood and Maid Marian.” When the steamer Celtic, from New York, ar- rived at Qeenstown Thursday, she was boarded by detectives, who arrested a passenger named Roineck. He is an American bank clerk who is charged with forgery. Owing to the strike of Clyde seamen twenty steamers are detained at Glasgow, it having been found impossible to secure a sufficient number of seamen and firemen to work the vessels, Prince Bismarck has been a most profitable dealer in wood, which his estates furnish in vast abundance, on account of the special rates — tohim by the railroads. The other erman wood-cutters have at last struck against this favoritism, and the prince will now have to compete on equal terms. The rumor that England is about to with- draw from the blockade of East Africa is un- founded. Owing to the obstructive tactics of the op- position, causing scenes of disorder in the chamber daily, the cabinet has requested the king of Spain to prorogue the cortes until April 2. At Paris Panama canal shares were weak, cs at 97.50, a drop of 12 francs since Tues- y Acipher dispatch announcing the death of the King of Holland was received on the Berlin bourse yesterday. No confirmatory advices have been received. A Frenchman, M. de Pressense, has published a book on England and Ireland from the union up to the present time, in which he states that “though he began his work with a decided bias in favor of English supremacy in Ireland, when he ended he was SAisga 4 converted to home rule as defined by Mr. Gladstone and accepted by Parnell.” Nationalists are greatly agitated over the treatment of Mr. O'Brien in his Irish prison, It is stated that he was severely injured on the body during the struggle with © warders, and that he is still much prostrated. He wears only a shirt, refusing to put on the prison garb. John O'Connor and Thomas Condon, mem! of —— for Tipperary, were yesterday sentenced to imprisonment for four months, without hard labor, for inciting tenants not to pay rent. They appealed. Esau’s Terrible Temptation. From the Youths’ Companion. Increasing age does sometimes cause us to appreciate more fully the temptations of oth- ers, Little Madeline was eating broiled partridge for the first time and great was her delight at its flavor. “It’snicer than an: Tever tasted,” quoth she, ‘‘and I don’t blame Esau a bit, “What has Esau to do with it?” queried her mother, “Why, you know, mamma,” said the little one, in grave a at sueh ignorance, “he sold his birthright for a meas of partridge! gee ee Early Promise. From the Pittsburg Chronicle, Wife—“Dear, what do you think baby will be when he grows up?” Dear—“A man, I suppose.” Wife—“Oh, you're very witty, aren’t you? But I mean what profession do think he will adopt?” 5 Dear—Well, from the appearance of new silk eg which you gave him > pay qith, this afternoon, "I think he will be o ni * BUGGIES, WAGONS, CARRIAGES, HARNESS, ke. ATTEN OCLOGR: will be sold Seis aie esses ee wabad ans sorer sreEeane: it Auctioneer. DOWLING, Auctioneez, SALE OF HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS AT SALES-ROOMS.. On SATURDAY, FEBRUARY SECOND, 1889, Cl and in (*y of ay TEN O'CLOCK 4. MC. within ent, ALso. oak Qne large Pool Table, with balls, cif lots Pholstered Cots, in Prtd Horses, Carriages, Wart ae fagons, &c. Terms THOMAS DOWLING, 31-2t PPT ioe, F[AOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. CATALOGUE SALE OF MISCELLANEOUS AND CLASSICAL BOOKS, MANY OF THEM FINELY ILLUSTRATED, (ALSO A LOT OF MEDICAL BOOKS AND INSTRU- MENTS RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR CATALOGUE,) SURGICAL CASE AND ONE DISSECTING CASE, AxTE AVI AT HALF-PaA: N ‘AND FOLLOWING EVENINGS, AT MY AUCTION ROOMS, ELEV! x AND PENNSYL- ESD AY, FEBRUARY FIPTH, 1889, OTR ST SEVEN Locke TERMS CASH. CATALOGUES READY. 1s" _ THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. SMALL LOT WELL-KEPT HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS AT AUCTION, Qn MONDAY, FOURTH FEBRUARY, 1889, at TEN O'CLOCK A. M., at 132 Maryland avenue south- west, ite Botanical Gardens, I will sell without reserve a lot of nearly new furniture all in good condi- on, = Wamet Book-Cnses, = Cabinets, Book Racks. Lis andsome ~ideboard with Mirror. ime low Hangings. Wainut Extension ‘Table, Hefrigerstor. Bentwood Dining Chairs. Invalid and other Chairs, Howe Sewing Machine. ery ine Electric Clock. Walnut Bed-room ~uites. Jystget Wardrobe and Cheffonter, leating Stoves, Range, China and Glassware. Requisites, kc. Gas Stove, Kitel Terms $030-dts THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. Wetter B. WILLIAMS & 00., Auctioneers. INVESTORS, ATTENTION. PEREMPTORY SALE OF NINE WELL-BUILT NEW TWO-STORY BRICK DWELLINGS ON NORTH F PIEKCE STREET, BETWEEN NORTH ‘OL AND FIKST STREETS WEST. UESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY FIFTH, ¥ K, we will self, in front of the prem= 3,4, 4, 6,7, 8 and’ of Dutty & McGuire's subdivision of original lots 15 aud 16, block 620, fronting 126 feet on Pierce street, by a depth of 73 feet, to a 20-foot alley, and improved by ine two- story brick dwellings, each containing 6 Tooms and hall, water, gas, and sewers. ‘Terms: Gne-fourth cash; balance in 1, 2, and 3 ears; notes to bear interest at 6 per cent, per annum from day of sale, and to be secured by deed of trust on remises sold oF all cash at option of purchaser. In- engst payable semicannually. A deposit of fity (50) dollars will be required on euch parcel on day of sale. Conveyancing, &c., at cost of purchaser. If the terms of sale ure not complied with in ten (10) days from day of sale the property will be resold at the risk and cost of defaulting purchaser after five (5) day#" public no- tice of such resale in some newspaper published in Washington, DiC. Sart ibs_ WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Aucts, JUNCANSON BKOS., Auctioneers, HANCERY SALE OF IMPROVED PROPERTY, STORE AND DWELLING, NO. 2251 EIGHTH STREET, COR. GRANT AVENUE, ALSO THE EAR PART OF LOT NINE. IN’ WRIGHT & COX'S SUBDIVISION OF MOUNT PLEASANT. 1 FRAME HOUSE THEREON AND LOTS IN “MONTELLO.” By virtue of a decree and supplemental decree x: ra ate by the Supreme Cor gf the District of Colum) in Sees No. 10270 (Peters vs. Brookes, et al), we will offer for sale at public auction in front of the respective premiece, Qn WEDNESDAY, THE SIXTH DAY. OF FEBRU. ARY, A. D. 1859, at HALF-PAST FO! O'CLOCK P. ‘M., lots numbered 133 and 135, in square numbered 5, in the village of “Montello,” as the same appears of record in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia and described in the original bill in this cause, as parcel No. 3. ART, AD. 1808, AT FOUR rt the background’ of the lot numbered nine’ (y) Wright : Pleasan Ing a wid! Frame house, being 0 ribed in the first e eae t poy the Supplemental bil ia tae bore oates 6 SAME DAY, AT HALF-PAST FOUR P. wundred .. M., lot "numbered two — hi (219) in Maria Roberts’ subdivision of seventy-four (74) in J. B. Hawes’ of Mount Pleasant, as house numbered 2251 8th street, corner Graut ave- nue, as same is described in the second paragraph of said supplemental bill. rms: One-third cash, to be paid on day of sale on ratification thereof by the court, balance years, with interest from da rts? AY HORSE, 7 COWS FRESH AND SPRINGERS, Bot 100 CHIGRENS (LEGHORN AND OTHER BREEDS), PLOWS, H. ROW, CULTIVATOR AND FARMING IMPLEMENT! On MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY FOURTH, commencing at ONE O'CLOCK, we will sell on the farm ft) on “B" road near intersection of 14th and 7th street roads, Brightwood, the above- mentioned stock, which isin fine condition, Terms cash. DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, ja29-5t* PROPOSALS. ‘PRoPosars \FOR TAKING DOWN FENCES.— War De- Office of Public Buildings and Grouads, ent, Washington, D. january 21, 1 Bealed poy in duplicate, will be Pecelved at this Office untit NOON MONDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTS FIFTH, 1889, for taking down the iron fences around Lafayette and Franklin Squares. Forms and specifi- be obtained ut this The Cuited cations can ol in at office. States reserves the right to reject any and all pro- posals. The attention of bidder invited to the acts of Congress. approved Februa: 1885, and Feb- S19 Statutes at Large.” SILSON, Golda Statutes a U.8. Army. 3620,30,31,01,22,.23 HOUSEFURNISHINGS. Wart Purens, Daarrers, 1 HOUSE AND FRESCO PAINTING, REX FURNITURE POLISH. THE P. HANSON HISS MANUFACTURING co., 815 15th st. n.w. Baltimore House, 217 N. Charles st. all. Cooxxa By Gas. A full line of GAS COOKING STOVES On hand and for sale. mb31 WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPARY, MEDICAL, &. READ WISE— Honand nfrice tee ot any nour of gaara “ : Binglt ot Colum dis isa Say of july 2see" > ‘ESMERISM AS HEALING EN’ with wouderfal sande tn the testsoait oP ah ith is ear ate Rea D2 Bike eetsuianed and Only Raliahle Ladion the a (Can be consutted daily, 4 uc ra tigmeutcuy eouBuantisk"Bepanste soouss for Office always open. Rep Cars mm Virema.—A Ham} Va., peg Me ag special to the Baltimore amerinan ayer AV | 2 ‘001 Rw. Office hours ay Clymer: hete ernie Poses tion Soe BEEN eS ‘ity count wi con of W. H. Bonaparte, on tral for the of | Lor deat estab = D. C.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1889. LADIES’ GOODS. We BO reat 180 at, Rew York, Saratoga, Long Branch end St Augustine, Mevoqqened Ghatr Bund, Boum, 015 15h 0. ©, (Por two weeks only.) ‘With a magnificent stock of DINNER AND BALL GOWNS, EALSKIN G. PLUSH OOK" s, at : * 49636 E st. a, Mas. M, A. Coxxerzr, OF 331 5TH AVENUE, NEW YORK, ‘Has Opened « Branch House at 1504 H STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 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