Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1889, Page 7

WHAT THEN? The Social Revolution Achieved. From Leisure Hours, | Tt wns the evening of the last of the terrible days of the social war in Paris. The smoke of the fusilades still hovered over the roofs of the houses. For three long days the little soldiers of the line and the ouvriers of the faubourgs had been engaged in mortal combat, and the dead bodies of one and the other now lay peaceably side by side, Bnt this time it was the people that had con- quered. The palaces, the government offices, the Hotel de Ville, the Bank of France—all public buildings were in their hands. Capi- talists, proprietors, masters, merchants, shop- keepers had disappeared; many killed in the conflict, others massacred in cold Se and those who were not in concealment fled from the doomed city. The remnaut of the troops, unable to cope with the vast hosts of their assailants, had been withdrawn beyond the barriers. In the de- serted streets and the empty mansions one only see groups of grimy workmen, niostly excited with drink, but some of them talking together with bated breath. as if under some vague fear from their very triumph, thad mounted to my bachelor lodging in a quiet suburb, and was just going to sit down to my evening meal, when there was a loud knock wt the door, and, before [ could open, I beheld three workingmen enter. The oldest of them, who had a venerable beard, handed to me an order from the “Social Commune,” assi, to them a lodging in my a e' “For to-night?” I asked the paper. “No, he calmly replied, for a permanence.” | Then, seeing that th.s announcement made me dumb with amazement, he added, **The Social (Commune has had prepared a statistical record of apartments, and as the rich have too great xecommodation, and the poor too little, it has been arranged that each person shall have right toa place. You have four rooms, and live alone. Therefore you must give lodg- imgs to three persons, my two comrades and myself.” ‘There was nothing to say in respect to this arithmetical statement. A seruple, however, occurred to me. “My rent,” said I; “willtyou pay three-quar- ters of it also?” “Don't trouble yourself about that, citizen, said the man who appeared to be ¢he lead “There will be no longer any rents to paj Rents, hirings, interest for nroney—all that suppressed and abolished from this day hence forth.” “Ah, then. Isee,” I, “that the benefits of the social revolution reach even to me. Make yourselves at home. fellow-citizens; and as your requisition, I expect. imposes on me the obligution of boarding as well as lodging yon, if you will share my supper I invite you willing! They needed no pressing, and as I had met them from the first in as pleasant a way as I could assume, they soon relaxed their severe aspect, and, after drinking some of my wine, they began to be even merry. I thought that 1 might, therefore, enter into more close con- versation with my new con, ions. “You ought to be satisfied.” I said to them; “here is the social revolution accomplished. Nothing of the old system of society is left standing. What will you do to-morrow?” “Nothing,” answered the youngest of the three; “we shall do nothing ‘to-morrow, and not more on the days following.” “And upon what will you live, then?” said I. “Ab, bah! Why at ‘the bank of France we have more than two milliards (two thousand million francs—s0,000,000 pounds sterling), and then there is everything in the houses, w: houses, shops, cellars, granaries and every- where. Everything belongs td the people— food, drink, clothing—for it was the working class that produced all these riches. In taking them we only take back what is our own.” 1 appeared to listen with great attention and courtesy, and when he had finished I said: ~But all this would not last very long among so many. The two milliards in the bank of France, divided among the thirty-eight mil- lions of Frenchmen, would give scarcely fifty franes per head. And as to the money and the provisions in the shops or in private houses, that might last for a week, or, if you like to say it. a month, and there would be an end of it. The wealth of a country is not at the bottom of wells, from which it can be always and at any time drawn: it isa water which runs, and re- news itself at every instant. Work or industry is the source of a country’s wealth; if the foun- tain stops only during eight days the river will soon be dry. If ina few days, or a few weeks at the very utmost, work is not resumed every- where. we shall ail die of starvation, as in a be- leaguered cit The young workman answered nothing: he only seemed to eat and to drink more hur- riedly; but his comrade now spoke. “We have not made this revolution, sir, in order to live in idleness. My comrade has spo- ken like a child. We kuow very well that we must work after, as we did before, the revolu- tion. Only instead of working for the benefit of a master, we shall now work for our own profit. Our wish is to work as men, free and all equal, but not te worf like slaves. We wish to be our own masters, and that is why we have made the revolution.” “Where have you been at work?” I asked the second speaker. “I am an engineer in the compan of the P. L.M. (Paris, Lyons and Marseilles) railway.” “Then,” said I. “by the revolution you have come to be your own master. You Will start your engine when you like, you will take it where you like, at any speed you like, and you will stop at whatever place you like on the journey. I only hope you will have the good- mess to let me know when it is your turn to drive, that I may take another train.” “Citizen,” said the engineer, knitting his | eyebrows, “I beg you will not make me seem | to talk nonsense. “I know that in the manage- ment of railways, as in every other collective enterprise, there must be regulations. I merely mean to say that we should be much more disposed to obey some man who is not our superior merely beeause he has more pay. or has been able to pass the examination of the Central school of engineering.” “But,” said I, “there must be always some one to give the orders. If it is not a manager or an engineer named by the company it must be one appointed by the state. Even admit- ting that you took your chiefs by voting them from the ranks, I am not sure that you would be more ready to obey a former comrade than #a engineer from the Central or from the Poly- technic school. In fact, obedience among those who consider themselves all equal is rather the harder to observe. At all events, it is not possible to make a complete revolution even in the management of a railway Industry in our day is like an arm: in masses, and in order that the vast number of men who co-operate in a collective enter- prise should do anything useful. it is necessary that each should know and obey the counter- sign and maintain an inflexible discipline, an iron solidarity, which makes each individual like a wheel in the machine.” There was silence when I had finished. Let it be remembered that these men were not of what are called the criminal classes, as some suppose all socialists and communists to be. They were decent workingmen, misguided by the teaching and plausible statements of theor- ists and demag: The olgest of the three, who had first addressed me, but had since kept silence, now spoke. ‘Sir. excuse these young men; they are not yet well informed in the social question. What we seek is oe to free ourselves from the speculators aud parasites who, under the name of masters and capitalists, suck from us the ebief part of the product of our labor, and leave to us only enough for bare subsistence. it is that we may obtain the entire product of our labor that we have made the social revolu- tion, “You imagine, then, that you do not obtain the whole of the product of your labor?” ‘ said he; ‘nothing is more certain. We . one thousand workers in a factory, who xet 1.200 or 1,500 francs yearly as salary; our patron, or master, gains perhaps 100,000 francs. a what way do you think he can take 100,000 francs. except from the salaries or payments nt. bearer of the due to us?” “You suppose, then, that by the reckoning you have made, if you could extinguish the ‘ou could divide among you the 100,000 Which he puts in his pocket?” ry, “But 100,000 francs divided among 1,000 Workimen would only make 100 francs jitional “Not a cent, at least, if arithmetic is to be f 3 =, a i Hy H Exe if Hl 3 HE THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1889. longer r to Pay. ent, would supply all ital we require, and would give it terest.” tis— wil “But the power to make capital drop from Heaven, like the manna in the wilderness. The state never has any money except what it takes from those who contribute to it. To give you two millions of francs it would be necessary for the state to take two millions more every year out of your ‘kets, after which, as it would be necessary Po aeal with all on the principle of equality, the state must take from your pockets the cap- ital required for your comrade socialists. There are. therefore. Very many chances that the state, under the socialist regime. would take “from your salaries much more than you now grumblingly see your master, or employer, re- ceive. So that then, much more than now, youcould not retain the totality of the pro- duce of your labor. “A thousand millions!” exclaimed the young man, with @ somewhat emphatic addition of speech, “If you have to work as hard before, and obey as in the past, and gain nothing more by it all, then, of what use is the social revo- lution? He accompanied the declamation with so vigorous a thump that it woke me from my dream. For I was in my bed, and there had been no revolution in Paris, nor in my quiet apartment. ‘There was only upon my tablea copy of the Journal de Petroteur, which I had the impru- dence to read before going to sleep, and which had given me the nightmare! = - 6oe Southern White Republicans. ADDRESS FROM A SOUTH CAROLINA CONVENTION s WHICH CAUSES A SENSATION. Charleston, 8. C., Special to the Baltimore Sun, A genuine sensation in politics has been caused in this state by the publication of an address to the white people of South Carolina, which appeared this morning. The address was issued by a convention held in Pickens county on Monday last, and has been sent to most of the republican papers in the north and west. The convention was composed of white men. The resolutions state that, ‘whereas the carpet-baggers and bourbons continue to claim now, as they did twelve years ago. that all the native white ple in South Carolina are dem- ocrats and the colored people are republicans, thus publishing to the world the falsehoods that the white and colored races, respect form the so-called democratic and republican ties; and whereas we wish to annihilate that false claim; therefore be it “Resolved, That the progress of the state is greatly hindered. immigration and capital prevented from coming among us, the system of public education is very unfair, large sums of the people’s money being annually appro- and Se a favored few, while the masses are very poorly pikes for, and the constitutional guarantee of American citizenship is outraged to an extent thatseriously threatens the peace of the commonwealth. Under the present sys- tem of elections a large majority of the voters are practically disfranchised, forced to bear the burdensome taxation levied upon them while being virtually wi representation in the affairs of the govern- ment.” The address declares in favor of protection to American industries, and that it 1s the in- tention of the party to affiliate with the national republican party in its efforts to secure honest elections, establish good schools and bring material prosperity to the south as it has done tothe north. The signers declare that they have over 12,500 white voters with them, independents and old-line Union men, and call upon the liberal whites to join them. This is the first effort that has been made in this state since the war to organize a white republican party. The organizers hope to get with them the farmers’ party, which made such a vigor- ous fight in the last campaign. sos Pulled Down by Glidden & Curtis. FAILURE OF THE OHIO AND WESTERN COAL AND TRON COMPANY—ITS TRAGIC HISTORY. | The Ohio and Western Coal and Iron com- pany filed an assignment in New York Monday to James A. Hall without preference. The deed of assignment conveys to the assignee all the lands, furnaces, buildings, and appurte- nances of the company, subject to a mortgage to the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust company. The failure of Glidden & Curtis, of Boston. last Week, caused the assignment.” The company was incorporated under the laws of New York, October 25, 1883, with a capital stock of 5,000,000 and bonded debt of $8.500,000. According to the company’s annual report on January 16, the liabilities were 3,309,000, of which the bonded debt was $2,399,000, and other debts, with collateral security, #910,000, The assets consist of 7,000 acres of coal land in the Hocking Valley, valued at $400 to #500 per acre; about 300 houses, three large stores, 400 railroad cars, four miles of track, three coal mines fully equipped, four furnaces and a large amount of miscellaneous equipments. ‘The faiiure has created excitement and un- easiness in the Hocking Valley,*where the property of the company is located. Saturday was pay-day with the Ohio and Western, but the men received nothing. The shutting down of the Ohio and Western Coal and Iron com- pany will throw from 600 to 700 men out of em- ployment. A strange fatality has been connected with the property out of which the Ohio and West- ern grew. James L. Burkey, who committed suicide ina St. Louis hotel, was harassed to the last by thoughts of the fortunes he had lost among the Hocking hills. George -Lee, who had killed himself in a New York hospital, Was haunted in his dying hour by the spectre of ruin in the coal fields of Ohio. Royal M. Pulsifer, the founder of the Boston /eraid, took his own life eome months ago, and though he had many other business complications to pull him down, he too, had sought the fabled pot of gold that was said to be buried at the foot of the western rainbow. The Standard Coal and Iron company, out of which the Ohio and Western grew, was a colossal affair with a capital of $75.000.000. Mr. James G. Blaine was connected with this company. 7 Paresis is Fast Spreading. SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THIS INSIDIOUS DISEASE OF THE BRAIN. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. “Paresis is perhaps the most wide-spreading disease of the present day,” said a well-known physician yesterday. “It is becoming more prevalent than it used to be; in fact I feel safe im saying that it has increased twofold within the past five years. Itisthe malady of our civilization, rather it seems to advance with the nation’s progress, “It is largely due to the high tension of the average business man’s mind, and it ultimately breaks down the brain tissue and leaves him a helpless wreck. Just watch him! He is always on the go, never stopping in his planning and scheming out some new ventnre that he hopes will bring him independent fortune and place him above his competitors, That is the sort of strain that wili disorganize almostany brain. Such a man’s mind is never at rest even when he sleeps. His sleep is unnatural, and he ix apt to be harassed by dreams, and he wakes up in the morning more tired and worn out than he was when he went to bed the night before. “Just now I recali an instance of a man who contracted ‘esis simply because he tried to force himself to accomplish a feat that was mentally beyond his power. He is George Knight, the actor, He had a fair amount of success playing light, spontaneous parts, when he conceived the idea that his abilities ina more substantial direction, and studied the character of Baron Rudolph, altogether un- suited to his talents. He studied hard and con- scientiously, and was determined to overcome all obstacles by persistent work. It wore hin out, and before his friends were aware of it he was a wreck from paresis, ————ee. Valeutine Memories. From the Chicago Herald. “My kid struck me for a quarter before I left home this morning,” said # board-of-trade man as he was lunching with a friend yesterday noon. ‘‘He said he wanted it to buy valentines with. Do you know I'd almost forgotten all abont valentines, and when I was a youngster I counted the days from New Year's until Febru- ary 14th. Wonder if the kids do the same way as bea pet i we peat ang ‘comics’ “prettys.” used to spen most all their money for deacon but ‘they'd always hold out enough to buy’at least one = tty’ for their best girl This operation was ways a study and the verse was selected with more than ordi care. That ‘rose-is-red-and- violet-blue’ gag used tobe the favorite. My chum and I used to buy a of ‘comics.’ In each gross there were seventy-two du it and di ‘em. STEVENSON’S NOMINATION. The District Bar Dissatisfied. Washington Correspondence Baltimore Sun. The nomination sf First Assistant Postnias- ter-General Stevenson for the vacancy on the District bench, caused by the death of Judge Merrick, is universally disapproved of by the bar of the District. The objection is tainly on the ground of unfamiliarity with the Dis- trict courts, for ae in every on respect is recognized as re le 1e nomination was made out on fast Friday, to be sent to the Senate on that day, but the Presi- dent was induced to withhold it on account of the very vigorous protest made personally to him by a distinguished member of the bar. gentleman ed into the President's office, and without any cone f told it would be anout on the bar the people of the District of Columbia to put another west- ere man on the bench, He said the adminis- tration of justice had been seriously obstructed, and the bar and suitors subjected to the most serious embarrassment and inconvenience by the total ignorance of the District procedure of the two western men the President hadalready put upon the bench. The President expressed pina to hear this, and then remarked that Mr. Stevenson was a man of ability and char- acter and he thought ought to be acceptable. The gentleman replied that he had no criticism to make on Mr. Btevenson’s character or his ability, but if these western men were so able, as was alleged, he did not see why they did not stay at home and become judges there. He repeated that the two western men already put on the bench by Mr. Cleveland were so totally unfamiliar with the laws and the procedure of the local courts that it was absolutely pitiable, and to put on another equally deficient in this respect would be practically equivalent to blocking the entire judicial machinery, He used language much stronger even than that quoted, and further said that exclusive of these considerations it was certainly due to the Dis- trict that one of its own citizens should have this appointment. He spoke of the great ability and fitness of Judge Merrick, and how his ambition and strict sense of duty had im- pelled him to sacrifice himself to make up for the deficiencies of his colleagues. Much more was said, and the President's visitor then left with the idea that he had made some impres- sion. It is understood that Judge Merrick had spoken of Mr. J. J. Darlington as a man most suitable to go on the bench, and had intimated if he did not recover he would like Mr. Dar- lington to be his successor. Mr, Darlington’s name was presented to the President indorsed by many influential citizens and members of the bar, and on Saturday Representative Fenny hill handed to the President a paper in hi favor signed by the entire South Carolina dele- gation. He is a native of South Carolina, but has been practicing in the courts here for a number of vears, and is thoroughly conversant with the local code. Other names, some of them well-known members of the bar, were brought to the President's notice, but after waiting the two days he has seen fit to adhere to his original intention. Senator Edmunds, the chairman of the judiciary committee, said Mr. Stevenson was a good man, and then shook his head in his peculiar style to indicate that Mr. Stevenson would have to be satisfied with that compliment. Of course there will be a deal of log-rolling in favor of Stevenson's con- firmation, but it is not in the least likely it will sneceed. The republican Senators are not & ing, at this late stage of the game, to put a emocrat into an important life-office. and the bar of the District will with unanimity ask that a majority at least of their judges shall know at least something of the requirements for the position. Lord Dunraven’s New Yacht. London Special to the New York World, February 9. ‘The carl of Dunraven is trying to make a great mystery about his new 60-ton yacht. He refused to tell the World correspondent whether he intends to sail her in American waters or not. Mr. Dixon Kemp writes in to- day's Field: “It is said that the 60-rater build- ing at Fay’s yards for the earl of Dunraven from a design by Watson is to have a center- board, or plate, or fin, or whatever the new nomenclature will term it. Mr. Burgess’ cen- terboard boat, which is building in America, will, we understand, have the board housed under the cabin floor, and each yacht will have a heavy lead keel. rivate peer eae Pat’s Prompt Reply. A REMARKABLE BUT DISAPPOINTING GEORGIA ECHO, From the New York Star. Echo was a monntain nymph in the old po- etic days, but modern realism has changed her intoan Irishman. At least the guests of a Georgia colonel must have concluded so, Col. Ogeechee has a very remarkable echo on his place a few miles from this city; one, in fact, which would clearly repeat whole sentences, ‘The gentlemen to whom this assertion was made were interested, but incredulous, states a contributor to the Savannah News, and ar- ranged to accompany Col. Ogeechee home the next afternoon to test the wonderful echo. The colonel found, on getting home, that in the heat of the discussion he had claimed more than the facts justified. Determined not to be beaten he called his Irish laborer. “Pat,” says he, ‘some gentlemen are coming home with me to-morrow afternoon to hear the echo, Now, I want you to go across the river before time for me to arrive, so you can an- swer back whatever we may call out. “You mane for me to play ikker, scrr?’asked Pat, grinning. “That's it exactly,” said the colonel. “Now do you thoroughly understand that you are to answer back exactly what we aay.” , 8orr; ye can depind on me en- toirely, Next afteM{oon the colonel took his friends to the river bank, and all were ready for the ex- periment.” Making a speaking trumpet of his hands, the colonel roared: “Are you there?” Back came the echo with startling distinct- ness: ‘orr; o’ve been here since four av the ———_——-+ee_______ Death from a Cat’s Bite. 4 FARMER EXPIRES IN GREAT AGONY, AND HIS WIFE IS NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE. A special to the New York World from Mon- roe, Ga., February 9, says: The news of the terrible death of Henry Womac, a young farmer, who lived six miles below Monroe, from a cat's bite, is now followed by the state- ment that his wife is dying from the same cause, Saturday, a week ago, Mr. Womac was sitting by the fire with one hand hanging down, when suddenly one of the house cats sprung upon his hand and fastened her teeth in one of his fingers. He slung her loose, and, seizing a shovel, killed her immediately, The wound in his finger soon healed. Last Saturday morning, just one week later, the other cat suddenly showed signs of fight, and with bristles raised ran under the bed in which Mrs. Womac was lying. When she got up and her feet struck the floor, the cat bit her on one heel, Her husband, hearing her screams, rushed in, choked the cat off and killed 1t. About noon his finger began to swell and pain him, and at night he was at- tacked wi ener which continued until he became so wild that his friends were com- pelled to fasten him up in a room by himself, where he died a most terrible death from what is pronounced hydrophobia, Mrs. Womac's foot is swollen to three or four times its natural size, and she is not expected to live until morning. ee #7) AREA Mrs. Beem’s New Husband. SHE IS THE HEROINE OF A MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY AT CHICAGO. London Special to the New York World, February 9, Mrs. Lulu Beem, the widow of the late Gen. Beem, of Chicago, will be married here next Wednesday. It is only a few months since society at Chicago was startled by the announce- ment that Gen. Beem had attempted to kill his wife and had then blown his own brains out under the impression that he had murdered The circumstances lusion arrived at was that the widow's version of the tragedy was the true one, and no hindrance was made to her de- while traveling in Ge: meta us cloth merchant from London who Fon in love with her. A few weeks ago Mrs. Beem came to London, and the was arranged to place here on Wednesday. The matter was kept very secret, even from friends who had known i who A Ghost Causes a Divorce. ‘MBS. MARTIN'S FEAR OVERCAME HER LOVE, AND 80 SHE LEFT HER HUSBAND. | From the Birmingham (Als.) Age. ; Aghost has caused a divorce suit and broken up a once happy family in Blount county. Jas. Martin, a well-to-do farmer, is the owner of one of the oldest homesteads in that county. The Place has been owned and occupied by several generations of Martins, andthe mansion, a large frame affair, is s very old om a worse for age and want of repair. Al ive years ago Jas. Martin marriot sv idios Noel, one of the belles of the county. The couple went to live at the old Martin home and all went well until about one year ago. Mrs. Martin, naturally very timid, heard a ghost ramoling through the old honse one night and was badly frightened. She told her husband about it, but he could hear nothing, he said. The following ht Mrs. Martin heard the ghost again, and from that time it became a nightly, visitor at the Martin home. Martin wanted to leave the old house at once, but her husband objected, declaring the strange noises heard were made by rats. Sev- eral times Mrs. Martin saw a white-robed figure wandering through the wide halls and ‘k rooms of the old house, and soon her nerves and health began to give way under the strain, She begged and pleaded with her husband to move away from the haunted house, but he still refused. Mrs, Martin was finally pros- trated by her fear of the ghost, and went to the home of her parents to recover her health and strength. Her relatives and friends joined her in appeals to her husband to os up the old house, but he still refused, when fear of the ghost overcame love of the husband, and Mrs, lartin refused to live with him agai Martin tried in vain to induce his wife to return to the haunted house to live, but she refused, anda few ee pe ago he filed a suit for divorce on the ground of abandonment. 1 SS A Preacher Describes the Waltz. Rock Island Special to the Chicago Herald. Another religious attack upon the social pleasures of the day was made from the pulpit of the Broadway Presbyterian church by the Rey, W. S. Marquis last night. “It is no acci- dent,” he said, “that the dance is what it is, It mingles the sexes in such closeness of personel approach nd sontact as is nowhere else toler- ated in respectable societys It does this under & complexity of circumstances, which con- spire to heighten its impropriety. This pic- ture may be seen: It is evening. The hour is late. There is a delicious intoxication of mo- tion and music—perhaps of wine—in the blood. There is a strange, confused sense of being in- dixidually observed among so many, while yet the natural noble shame which guards the purity of man and woman alone together is ab- sent... Such is the occasion, and still hour after hour the dance whirls its gay kaleidoscope around. bringing hearts so near that they al- most beat against each other, mixing the warm breath together, darting the fire of electricity between the meeting fingers, tlushing face and lightening the eyes with a quick language.” see The Roman Looters. THE VALUE OF THE PLUNDER THEY SECURED PLACED AT $75,000. The value of the plunder secured by the mob in the recent riot in Rome is estimated at $75,- 000, The government possesses evidence that the anarchist leaders fomented the agitation. Prime Minister Crispi blames the commis- sioner of public safety for culpable lack of presence of mind, He announced that he had given stringent orders to prevent all meetings of workingmen, The government, he said, was warned some time ago that the present agita- tion would occur either in February or March. Hinting that the socialists were at the bottom of the trouble, Signor Crispi said that the gov- ernment would know how to do its duty. The radicals of Milan made an attempt Sun- day to celebrate the revolt of 1858, They were forcibly dispersed by the police. ps picentanin( eo wen Fresh Information. From the Burlington Free Press, De Smith—twirler is certainly one of the greatest pitchers in the country. He is ambi- dextrous, you know?” Dh, ves! and I've heard it said that he could pi hand as he can Gradually Decreasing. From the New Orleans Picayune. The widows of Brigham Young continue to die, By-and-by they will be as rare as the Washington body servant or men of the Old Guard. or a Her First Telegram. From the Philadelphia Record. “Be sure to telegraph me as soon as you ar- rive,” said a young husband to his bride at the Broad Street station yesterday. She was start- ing on her first trip home to see her mother. Her mother lives about ten miles out. “Iwill,” promised the young wife sweetly; “put I don’t know whether I have money enough.” “Oh, send it ‘collect,’ Good-by.” “Good-by.” “Good-by.” The young husband gazed longingly after the train as it steamed out and then he sadly returned to his place of business, In half an hour a messenger boy presented the following: Frog Center, Pa., 2p. m.—George Wash- ington Blank, No. 43 Blank street, Philadel- phia—My Dear George: I have just arrived safely without any accident at all, not the slightest. ing and whistled, but I don serious was the matter. It made my heart jane to think how you would feel if anything ad been the matter, you know, but there wasn't, nota thing, so far as I could find out. I got to thinking of you and might have been carried past my station if cousin Will, the one you used to be so jealous about, you know, hadn't been on the train. He is Visiting at mother’s, and is handsomer than ever. He says he hates you; but, of conrse, that’s only fun, you know." I forgot to say that my trunk came through allright. It was no trouble at all. Cousin Will took my check and arranged to have it (the trunk, you know,) hauled up to the house. Ie will have to be taken around by the mill, because the other road is blocked up, you know; but, you know, that will only take a few minutes longer than by the other road— the one that is blocked upI mean. Well, I must close this dispatch, because telegrams have to be short, you know. Your loving wife, ANN1£ BLIFKINS BLANK. {Collect $10.] Now don't forget. t think anything soe. He Would Return the Visits. A GEORGIA PATIENT'S IDEA OF A SURGEON’S PROFESSIONAL CALLS, “He was as humerous a fellow as I ever saw, in his way,” said Capt. Ben Elliot, as he smoked acigarette and warmed his long legs before the fire in the business office of the Rome (Ga.) Tribune. He was relating reminiscences of steamboating twenty years ago—steamboating in its halcyon days, That was before the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad was completed, and Talledega and other towns below got their freight at Greensport, where it was left by the steamboats, The Coosa river steamers dida tremendous business, “Bill Cornelius, he’s dead now, but he’s the humorous man I am talking about. He went through the war, and in one of the battles a rifle ball went into one heel, and cut in two the toes of his other foot. He came back home, and his foot hurt him so bad that he decided to have the injured toes amputated. He went to bed and sent for Rome’s most distinguished surgeon. The toes were amputated, and after- ward Bill got well and returned to his duties, One day a bill was sent to him for amputating 80 many toes so many dollars, and for so many visits so many dollars. I don’t recollect the amounts, but I think it was $40 for four toes, Bill said to the collector: “ ‘Here's $40 for the four toes, and tell Dr. —— I'll return the visits.’” “And he never paid the bill for the visits up to the time he died.” A ician who understands human nature, who Pi + Shes the baby, makes friends with the chil n and listens to the woes of the good wife and mother, is the fellow to whom the The train slowed up at Jinks cross- | TRE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. The Most Recent Opinions of Eminent English Medical Men. From the New York Sun. A very important discussion upon the physi- cal effects of the drinking of alcoholic liquors has recently taken place in the Pathological society of London. It was continued during several meetings, and among those participat- ing in it were some of the most distinguished men of the medical profession. The moral side of the question was not touched upon at all, the inquiry being asto the pathology of alcoholism, and the excessive use of alcohol in its concentrated forms was treated of almost wholly. In opening the debate Dr. Payne gave an historical review of the subject, from which it appeared that up to the sixteenth century there are very few notices in medical litera- ture of the influence of inebriety in causing disease. In the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies they are also rare, Harvey's lectures making no direct reference to alcoholism, though he described. certain cases of liver in the period trom 1700 to 1850 they begin to be frequent, the earlier part of that period having’ bees marked by the introduction of distilled ee as a beverage. In 1724 the College of Physicians made a public represen- tation as to the evils of spirit drinking, and earnest efforts were undertaken by the profes- sion to check the rapidly growing practice. From 1850 to the present ‘time, the era of the rise of pathological histology, or the depart- ment of medicine which concerns itself with the effects of disease on the animal tissues, the subject has assumed a leading importance, As the result of such pathological investiga- tions, Dr. Payne and all the speakers treated alcohol as a veritable poison; but he explained that he used the term poison not with unquali- fied condemnation, “but as meaning something capable of producing injury, though not nec- essarily doing so,” since‘it would be as absurd to condemn alcohol as to condemn common table salt because a large dose of either of them might be fatal.” He described it as favorin, the accumulation of fat, acting as a function: | stimulus, or, in larger doses, as a functional poison on the nervous system, especially on the brain, and working as a tissue poison, a3 destroying the vitality of some tissue elements and setting up inflammation in others. The coating of the stomach, the liver, and, in a lesser degree, the kidneys are injuriously affected. A very important fact brought ont is the frequency of tubercular disease in subjects of alcoholic paralysis, for the free drinking of whisky has been defended as a meansof ward- ing off consumption. But Dr. Owen was in- clined to think that tne consumption of alcohol hada tendency to check malignant disease, ‘The old theory that it prevents tubercle hav- ing been overthrown, there would be some set- against the mischief alcohol does if Dr. Owen could be proved right, and the stimulant could be shown to ward off cancer, for malig- nant disease seems to be on the increase. Dr. Dickinson also observed during the discussion that as alcohol does so much harm, it surely must do some good. The changes worked by it on the brain Dr. Payne described as generally like those of old age. Excessive drinking’ seems to diminish the fertility of both sexes, especially the m: The preponderance of testimony is that it not a frequent cause of Bright's disease. The organs of respiration suffer, obstinate catarrhs of larynx andbronchi being common; drinking habits make such skin diseases as psoriasis and eczema inveterate and sometimes quite incur- able. So far as statistics obtained by the Bri tish Medical Association show, alcotiol has no influence in inducing apoplexy, diabetes, and pneumonia, though in don last Misenne prelim- inary drinking habits impair resistance to its ravages. Different diseases are induced by different forms of the stimulant, gout bemg rare in a whisky-drinking country and common in a beer-drinking. In summing up the debate Dr. Payne said that it had been shown that the action of al- cohol had more resemblance to the action of mineral poisons than we have been accustomed to think, and that those injurious effects wero produced in a preponderating degree, if not almost entirely, by concentrated forms of al- coholic drinks, The harmfulness of an injuri- ous quantity of alcohol, he therefore concluded, is, “in almost direct proportion to the degree of concentration in which it is ingested.” starsat wonders cei Exceedingly long patient—“I say, doctor, are you going to put that mustard plaster on my feet to draw the pain from my head’ Doctor—Yes; why?” “Well, I object. I rather have it where it is than draw down through 6 feet 5 inches of new territory.”— Harper's Weekly. * It is said that very fewcan recognize their own voices when reproduced by the grapho- phone. Is it not probable that a great many would fail to recognize their real characters were they to see them as they are? It is the very few who know precisely whut manner of creatures they are. Even the best of us have defects of which we have never so much as dreumed.—Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. A woman in the waiting-room of the 3d street depot the other day had a great deal of trouble ith one of her two children—a boy of seven or eight—and a man who sat near her stood it as long as possible, and then observed : “Madam, that boy of yours needs the strong hand of a father.” «Yes, I know it,” she replied, “ but he can’t have it. His father died when he was six years man and failed. He get.” —Detroit Free Press. Thomes Axworthy,.the city treasurer of Cleveland, Ohio, who decamped last fall after appropriating half a million dollars, has bought a large block of real estate at Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, n't have what 1 can’t BESS AKER. oo mo fempetent. Fine cutter, fitter and draper, Bex Tue Faxors WATCHSPRING CORSET. WILL NEVER BREAK. GUARANTEED TO OUTWEAR ANY CUSTOM-MADE CORSET. MAYER, STROUSE & CO., Mfrs., 412 Broadway, N.Y. _ oe2no 2018 2 ayy Warr, Howarp & Co, 2o West 16th st., New York, Saratoga, Long Branch, and St, Augustine, Have opened their Branch House, 815 15th st. n. w. With the most magnificent stock of IMPORTED COSTUMES DINNER AND BALL GOWNS, WRAPS, BONNETS, &c., Ever brought to Washington, and which will be sold at ate _LESS THAN PARIS f7. Mu M. J. Praso, 1329 F st. n.w. (Mrs. Harrison's, FINE FRENCH HAIR GOODS, Also, A special selection in SHELL, AMBER AND DULL JET ORNAMENTS. SHAMPOOING, Hair Dressed and Bangs Shingled. Ja4-2m* i ea fy ee MODEL RIDING HABITS EVENING AND RECEPTION COSTUMES ja5-2m* 1446 Qat._ DY, FORMERLY CARRYING ON DRESS. Anstine i NewYork, would like the pa of Washington ladies. prices and perfect fit. Cutting and basting aapecialty. 7 Ost- wer dit-Dwe FEDORA DRESS ARE PRO- Mounced by Mesers, WOODWAID & LOTEROD as the best in ‘stock. have no equal. For sale everywhere, Jal 9-00 Mes. M. A. Coxxeux, * OF 331 5TH AVENUE, NEW YORK, ‘Has Opened a Branch House at 1504 H STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, D. ©. She has tmperted, this, an Ele- be er te VS 2S RE AE arene ee Barr & Co., 8t. of age, and I've done my best to get another | disease evidently produced by that cause.@ But | BEEC CrrECTUAL oad EPILLS=s tobea PILLS, taken as directed, will WEAK STOMACH; IMPAIRED they ACT LIKE MAGIC:—« few doses jon yee ned : ‘These are “facts” WILL MAIL BEECHAM’S PILLS ON RECEIPT OF PRICE 25 CENTS A BOX. Orne aaaap ienaedomaiee DIGESTION; will work wonders 367 Canal St., New Ppt —F ____AUCTION SALES. __| AUCTION SALES. AUCTION, E street northwest. ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY TWELFTH. Commencing at HALF-PAST SEVEN P.M., we shall ledges, conmsting: sell at public auction all forfeited pi of Watches, Jewelry, Diamonds, &. All parties interested will please take notice. GROCE & WILLEY, Successors toJ. W. La Tourette, _C. A. ROOT & CO., Auctioneers, TO-MORROW. fTPOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, IMPORTER’S SALE. FRENCH MARBLE CLOCKS AND BRONZES, aT STORE NO. 1214 F STREET NORTHWEST, ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY TWELVE, ar f STOCK, COLLECTION or FRENCH MARBLE CLOCKS. FINEST FRENCH MOVEMENTS, ENCASED IN RICH, ELEGANT FRENCH MARBLE AND ONYX FRAMES. ALSO, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF FRENCH BRONZES, ! ARTISTIC AND BEAUTIFUL, i THE MOST IMPORTANT SALE OF GOODS IN { THIS LINE EVER OFFERED AT AUCTION IN THIS CITY, OFFERING GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO BUY, AS MY ORDERS ARE POSITIVE TO SELL WITHOUT RESERVE, ON EXHIBITION MONDAY AFTERNOON AND | EVENING. A GREAT THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE ON ACCOUNT AND BY ORDER OF THE HARTFORD SILVER PLATE COMPANY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATUR- DAY, FEBRUARY THIRTEENTH, FOUR- ‘TH, FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH, | | AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK A. M., TWO AND HALF-PAST SEVEN 1P. M. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SALE OF FRENCH CLOCKS AND BRONZES ON WEDNESDAY A. M., AS ABOVE, I SHALL SELL ALL THE SURPLUS STOCK OF SILVER-PLATED WARE BELONGING ‘TO THE HARTFORD SILVER-PLATE CO. A VERY LARGE STOCK. 000 WORTH OF SILVERWARE, CON- OVER ¢ | SISTING OF ALL KINDS USUALLY MANUFAC- TURED BY A FIRST-CLASS FACTORY. AN EXAMINATION OF THE STOCK IS INVITED, THE GOODS ARE FIRST QUALITY, MANUFAC- TURED EXPRESSLY FOR FIRST-CLASS JEWELER TRADE, AND ARE POSITIVELY TO BE SOLD REGARDLESS OF PRICES. N. B.—LADIES INVITED TO ATTEND THE SALE. SEATS PROVIDED. BY ORDER OF THE HARTFORD SILVER PLATE COMPANY. R. P. CHAPMAN, Treasurer. THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. 18-7 (poomas DOWLING, Auctioneer. POSITIVE SALE BY CATALOGUE OF AN EXTENSIVE AND RICH CONSIGNMENT oF TURKISH CARPETS, RU AND HANGINGS, EMBRACING ABOUT TWO HUNDRED PIECES, IN WHICH ARE ABOUT SIXTY LARGE CARPETS AND A NUMBER OF RARE SPECIMENS IN ANTIQUE AND MODERN RUGS, PORTIERES AND EM- i BROIDERIES. Mr, Dowling has been instructed by the importers to close this consignment out without limit or reserve prior to their leaving for Turkey. The sale of this SUPERB COLLECTION will take | place at my Auction Rooms WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and FRIDAY, jar FEBRUARY 153, 14and 15, 1889, At 11 a. m.and 3p. m. each day. EXHIBITION, MONDAY and TUESDAY, RY 11 and 12. N. B.—In order for parties to examine this superb collection thoroughly, I have given two days exhibi- tion; therefore, parties interested should take advan- tage of the opportunity. 16-6t THOMAS Auctioneer. jeed of trust bearing date and duly recorded in Li- 0, on, on the prem SiH Day OF ch was conveyed Ben. 'r. Suttle. tn trust by di ied Apr | of record in the Lai Records for said ch said farin Contains three hundred and / Tes of land, more or less, and improved by | a sinall farm-house and some outbuildmes. “The fara | is well watered and adapted to gardening and farming | Purposes, and is composed both of arable aud. w [ind and it also lias a'fine stone quarry, the saine ‘be- | ing Within one mile of Aquia creek, Virginia, | ferms of sale: One-fourth of the purchase’ ‘money to | be paid in cash within five days from the day of sale, ‘of Which one hundred dollars is to be paid as a deposit at the time of sale, the balance of the purchase money fo be paid ih three equal installments in six, twelve and eighteen mouths from theday of sale. for which the purchaser will give to the trustee his three several promissory notes with interest, to be secured by deed $f ust ou the property, or all cash af the option of | the purchaser. “If the terms of sale are not complied | with within seven days from the day of sale the Prop- Ufo be Fonold atthe risk and cost of defaulting pur- cfinser, 19, pm tate B. pusazame, bing yi cllowg Building, Washington, D- Seoaeiaiols USTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED PROPERTY, SIEUATED NO. 302 INDIANA AVENUE NORTH: irtue of a deed of trust, dated April 18th, 18: and duly resoried it Liber Non Ose toler aoe seq{., of the land records of the ‘Dis a ee 2 oe juest of the jersign un Fiala eteite? Hates OPES TH! ¢ y ARY, A.D. 1889, O'CLOCK P. ti = BROS, Auctioneers, ‘RUSTEES' SALE BY CATALOGUE OF. INGS, ETCHINGS, WATER COLORS, O1L PRINTS, AND ENGRAVE TER HANDS OF THE WORLD- BO! AN SRILA TINO) AN tt MAI Rt agit: . E EE TRUST, RECORDED a 1 DISTRICT OF AT AUCTION, AT. BROS, 9TH ANI ‘RSDAY AND. PRID t N OF OIL P. OLL PRINTS, ETC. SALE. SHOUL SALE SHOULD N OF PARTIES LN OF ART. IN EX. MAND SEARCH OF ‘Thomas Venners, her tackle, apparel, furniture and engine, 1 will sell at public sale for cash, at the boat-bouse of GW. Gray, at the jume- tion, of ‘the Chesapeake ont, Gate canal ® a creek, in G wn, AD istrict, on i HIRENTH DAY OF FEB Y, 1880, ¥ N O'CLOCK A. M.. “the a her A i VAR PLEVED mana Thomas Venners tackle, apparel, furniture and en= one - ALBEK' WILSON, U. 5) Marsbal, D.C. eatin HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. FTE: 'H, 1889, e * at HAL 82. wine 25 fect Pol ball 25 feet 8 inches by #0 feet, b Sis No. 1211 10th st. n.w near M street and iss Terms; One-third Dalance in 1 and pith "nokeg beqring isxereat and mg is deed of cash at option of purchaser @100 Fequiied at the thos of sale All convepunseg ent Fewrding at purcluser’s cost “16-dkds "_ THOMAS DOWLING, Auct. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & 00, Auctioneers. EXHIBITION AND SALE Gf, Exquisite Hemarvue and Arust Groot Pichings, Enerevings.’ Photowravaren, dc ail of ae framed in the latest styles of White and Gold, Silver, rouRT: mI ming st 8 Svclock? other fanc THURSDAT FEBU ANY . 6. D at THREE O'CLOCK PM. rem 4 Continuing daily . cor. ner 10th and Pennsylvania avenue, until all are sold. Ou account of in the owner's business rangements, be has taken this means of sale as the best way of disposing of them rapidly, and aunounces that bo limat of reserve will be pia ux in the collection. Ti USHNELL & CARUSI, Keal Estate Brokers, 1008 F street northwest. SALE OF NEARLY NEW DUELING HOUEE, O} MARION STREET, BETWEEN 33 iH STREETS NORTHWEST, KNOWN No. 16038, AT PUBLIC AUCTION. virtue of @ deed of trust, recorded in Liber No, 1 folio 28, of the Land Records for the District of Columbia, we will fi f the cae, - MONDAY i TeENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY. A. D. 1860. at MALE. x FOUR O'CLOCK - ‘lof ground P.M, the of ‘sit. uate in the city of Washinaton, D.C. No, 124, in, Eureue Carust and, Willian 3- Mullery trustees’, subdivision in juare No. 444, as in the office of the Strvesur of the District of Colum- an Book 14, page ‘The lot is improved by 2 nearly house, containing seven rooms, including bath room, hot wud cold water, gas, rauge and latrobe stove, cun- crete basement under whole of house. terms: One-third cash: balance in one and two years. Purchaser to give his notes for the deferred payments, b interest at rate of «ix per cont . yeu of rust upon the chaser. $100 EUGE G ROCERIES FOR THE READY CASH.— I celebrated Oregon Patent Process Flour, white and delicious, 86.60 per barrel. I guarantee it (ube satistaltion gr mioey 5 fami veries. Teruis cash. ries Ow Peszzoxe Warsxy (PURE RYE). For the Sideboard it is the BEST, As it creates no Headache, For the Sick-charuber it is withouta, RIVAL, Asit is easily Digested. THOMAS RUSSELL, 1213 Penna ave, Ey per 3 EST GRANULATED SUGAR, 7ige. PER LB. Best Rio Coffee, 25c. Ib. er Te | Mochi and davay Soe, Mi {exceline all) SOc. per. Best Suan i hec. per Ib; Best Cured dere, ib, “star of the East,’ +, Fy? ‘process $8.75 per barrel; #17 per SDM, mack? "Old Family Flour, $5. & 5 1.50 per . per Ib; quod coun ter, 2c. Wirkish Prunes for Boe. 12 ibe, Buctwhest 6 gts. Hominy for 25e. Schad postal card or call and ece us if convenient, A5B IE. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878, BAKER'S BREAKFAST ©00OA. ‘Warranted ABSOLUTELY PURE COCOA, from which theczcons of Ol! baa been removed. It ae tae nes ‘Cocos mixed ree times the strength of Cx arith Starch, Romcal, costing less than one cent @ cup. itis deli. sdinirably ‘sdapted for invalids ss well ae for persons ja29-3m_ Coa: Coxz: Woon: JOHNSON BROTHERS, ‘Wharves and Rail yards, 12th & Water sta Southwest, 1515 7st 2 w. 1740 Pa ave. ow. 413 10th st. aw. 1202 Fst nw. “LAROCHE )ORATI N OUINA