Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1889, Page 7

EDGERTON HITS BACK. He Writes a Very Sharp Open Letter to the President. TELLING MR. CLEVELAND THAT HIS POSITIVENESS AND THE BELIRY IN HIS OWN DESTINY LED TO MIS DEFEAT—CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM VERSUS THE WILL OF THE PRESIDENT. Ex-Civil-Service Commissioner has Shade public his reply to President Cleveland's brief letter of dismissal. “Twas indebted to you,” he says, addressing the President, “for the only appointive office I ever held. You now declare by your action that you regret the appointment. I, with equal right, can say that I regret the acceptance. Your regret was never made known to me by you in any word or utterance or action until now at the close of your administration and onthe day before my removal, If you had any just or unjust cause of complaint against me you had not before that time made it known to me. You have never asked from me an expla- nation of newspaper or other statements and charges reflecting w me which may have come to your knowledge. If any of these were ever made known to you such knowledge was withheld from me. No intimation was ever made to me by you, or by any one acting for you, that ty opinions or actions were not ap- proved by you. f certainly could not be ex- pected to make inquiry of you coucerning changes of your opinions, which were never disclosed fo me. Of course, if you believed me unfit for the position or neglectful of duty, you should have removed me long ago, but I presume there were PRUDENTIAL POLITICAL REASONS why you did not make the removal until after the election. In this regard it would almost seem as if you were willing to play false with the mugwumps to enable you to win with the demoerats, And here permit me to define the term- ‘mugwamp’ as referring to a class of political reformers who have the spirit of re- jormation without the common sense and good udgment to reform. as reforms are not affected ¥ unjust personal denunciation, but by reason. ‘The result of the election placed you in a di- lemma from which few people would have known how to extricate themselves. You found “man on your hands whom the mugwamps had declared war upon, an enemy to their civil service reform theories, and your plan of be- SS = representative in the future would be weakened or defeated if some assur- anee of your fidelity to their cause could not be seeared. Accordingly, it appears that you decided upon the removal of the head of the commission; and, deeming Mr. Thompson Good ENOUGH MUG@WUMP for them, you therefore demanded my resigna- tion that you might appoint him, apparently as an atonement for your previous inaction.” He then quotes from the President's letter transmitting the annual report of the civil-ser- vice commission to Congress. July. ‘88, to show that at that time the President pretended to have contidence in the commission as consti- tuted. He asks if he was included in the com- mendation of the commission, and, if so, what has transpired to give cause for his removal. Mr. Edgerton then, with refreshing frank- ness, says: “Mr. President, with due courtesy to the high office you hold, allow me to say that you are a very peculiar man, a positive man, posi- tively wrong or positively right. and, there- fore, an unsafe man to trust; and that element in your character, I believe, led to your defeat. Pope says: ‘The most positive men are the most eredulous, since they most believe themselves and advise most with their fellow flatterers and worst enemies.’ Being one of that kind of pos- itive men yourself you have kept some men of like character around you who are positive only in their malice and conceit. They flatter you and have the conceit that would magnify themselves and the malignity that would de- tract from others. Juvenal says: ‘There is nothing a man will not believe in his own fa- vor.’ You were credulous enough to believe that you were elected President by the mug- womps, and therefore you permitted them to malign your real friends and to flatter you into 4 POLICY WHICH LED To YOUR DEFEAT. “You are a man who would not permit your real friends to admonish you with freedom and confidence, and as a result you have suffered for the want of friends, and your wrecked and wretched greatness has discovered that there is { public uo true success in life without the power and blessing of friendship. You believed that your will and power to enforce it was above all powers, but the will of the people, expressed | m & constitutional way, has taught you that | there was a wiser and better way than that chosen by you. Men are wrong for want of . e been wrong in many things connected with the crvil-ser commission. but I will say that I have consistently and in- sistently maintained the civil-service law, and never made an utterance against it. Having sworn to support it, it has been my constant effort to do so, but I never did swear to support & mugwump interpretation of it based ona | monstrous assumption that the commission was independent of law. fortunates have been denied the advantages and benefits of the law by questions never con- templated by it. and how many expenses have been incurred through unnecessary and devious requirements and practices it is‘not my pur- | pose at this time to state.” SAYS HX HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY MISREPRE- SENTED. He complains that he has constantly been mis- represented by“‘certain persons connected with the commission.” He reminds the President that in asking his resignation the request had been upon no other grounds thau that it was desired to secure Mr. Thompson's confirmation on the gommission. He asks: ~Was it a faith- fal execution of the law to appoint a commis- sioner and then not to ask him to any confer- ence of consultation concerning its business?” * * * “You must not, and I presume you do not, claim any immunity from censure, neither can you be indifferent to it, even from members of your own party, to whom your in- difference is past understanding: neither rust you expect that truth and justice will remain inactive. You will be sured and condemued use You put no trust in your own party, but believed yourself to be better than your own and greater than all parties. He goes into the question of civil-service re- form, and explains his attitude. His idea is that it can properly be of but slow growth, and does not believe in forcing its development more rapidly than the country is prepared for it. He has, he says, opposed its too rapid ex- pansion. CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM VERSUS THE PRESIDENT'S WiLL. “You cause to be placed upon the Congress- ional Record this announcement of a uomina- tion by you tobe confirmed by the United States Senate: ‘Hugh S. Thompson, of South Carolina, to be civil-service commissioner in the place of Alfred P. Edgerton, removed.’ I do not ask you to give any reason for this act. I know, and so do you, that the only one you could give would be that it was your will, for if you attempted to give any other your own previous words would prove it to be untrue. In my in- terview with you before the removal you ex- pressly disclaimed having any reason for it ex- cept my refusal toresigu toenable you to make Mr. Thompson's nomination. He refers to an article on the work of the ad- ministration published in the Baltamore Sun, ond says: “This is the first time in the history of the government that an outgoing President has found it nec-ssary to advertise through the 4 pers his particular work during his term of office, and his claims upon his party and the country for approval. Between the lines can be read THE SPECIAL PLEA FOR RE-ELECTION. 1 can point to another removal than mine be- youd @ parallel to go down through history when I shall be forgotten. * * * But to the case of er ante must —— an important part of the history of the country. i was on the floor of the House of apenas tives during the time the votes of the electoral a were counted and heard the announce- ment of the result—that Benjamin Harrison was duly elected President of the United States—but the words that burned deep through the empty boxes of the administra- tion could not be added, though known to be rus, ‘in place of Grover Cleveland, removed.” and for what cause, removed? The ‘ing made in every home, in and history will in- rds. point out what he calls the President and want of a) ions to the il How many poor un- | PIGMIES OF THE ANDAMANS. The Fiercest Little Savages in the World at Last Won by Kindness. | From the New York Sun. In the Bey of Bengal is a chain of islands knownas the Andamans, whose inhabitants have long been famous for their extreme fe- rocity, their diminutive stature, and the atter failure of missionaries who have labored among them for twenty years without making a single convert. It has been ‘almost certain death for a stranger to set foot on some of these islands, and it may now be said for the first time that, through the exercise of long and patient kindness, these little folks have been infused with some measure of confidence in the outer world. A large part of their coasts may now be visited without inviting the trage- dies of which we have often read as occurring there. We find that the pigmies of the Andamans, like most misunderstood and little known people, are not so black as they have been painted by every writer from Marco Polo to this day, and that their ferocity was due to the inhumanity of Chinese and Malay traders, who improved every ig eng ag drag the natives into slavery. Col. Cadell, Mr. Man, and others who have known them best, say they are good natured and ese people to meet when once their contidence is gained. It was long before the idea dawned upon these people that the whole world was not ne- cessarily hostile to them. In Little Andaman, for instance. every shipwrecked crew or casual visitor, until a year or two ago. was killed if She taliven onal get at them. Every friendly overture was answered with showers of arrows. At last this persistent hostility has been over- come, and the most intractable of savages are on good terms with the white race. penal colony on South Andaman. The white officers in charge of it resolved to try upon the fierce dwarfs of Little Andaman the policy that had won for them the good will of many other islanders. A while ago an expedition, assailed as usual when it landed with arrows and battle’ axes, took three women and six men prisoners and carried them nearly a hundred miles away to Port Blair. They were treated with the utmost kindness, and after a while began to think they were among friends. In two months they were restored to their island loaded with ail the presents they could carry. Upon the next visit of the whites the réleased captives came to see them, and in a few days men, women end children fearlessly visited the camp, aud even ventured on board the steam launch. Some of them have since visited the white settlement on South Andaman, and, though tact and caution are still required in dealing with them, it is believed that soon shipwrecked crews will be able to land on Little Andaman with perfect safety. As far as we know, the Andamanese are one of the smallest races of men that ever existed. The average height of the men, Prof. Flower tells us, is 4 feet 9 inches, that of the women 4 feet 6 inches. They are about the same size as the South African Bushmen, and we know no people smailer than the Bushmen except the Akka of Central Africa, Evidently of Negrito stock, the isolation resulting from their fierce- ness has kept them a pure and primitive race, still in the stone age, forming their huts of boughs and leaves, and presenting to ethnolo- gists a most interesting field of study. Only one tribe of these wild people has thus far proved wholly untameable. The Jarawas of Great Andaman keep their arrows sharpened for any whites who pass their way. Some of them have been taken captive, honored with the kindest attention, and finally sent home loaded with presents, but the hatred they cher- ish for the white race is still as fierce and vin- dictive as ever. ae caer Newman on the New South. HOW THE BISHOP WOULD SOLVE THE RACE QUES- ‘TION AND OTHER PROBLEMS. Roanoke, Va., Special to the Baltimore American, Febrnary 18. Bishop Newman addressed one of the largest audiences last night ever assembled in this city. His theme was “Religious Education in the | South.” He said: “The purest blood in America flows through the veins of the sons of the south, and he did not know but that ey ought to thank God that they were born south of the Potomac. In the north the native-born citizens wpre engaged in a death grapple with a danger®&s foreign element, with ideas an- tagonistic and dangerous to our form of re- n government, This element was ob- taining a foothold in Congress, in'state legisla- tures and iu municipalities, and the day might come when the south would have to march forth to preserve our dearest national institu- tions from foreign encroachment.” With reference to the race problem the bishop said that recently, while visiting the governor of South Carolina, he said to him: “If the people of the south will commit the settle- ment of this question to me, I will dispose of | it quickly. I would draw a line of distinction, | placing upon one side the educated. intelligent and patriotic, without regard to race or color. and upon the other side the ignorant. without regard to race or color. Then I would permit intelligence to rule. and bring the influ- j ence of religious education to bear upon the | ignorant.” | ‘The bishop declared that were it not that he | might be arged with betraying a political | secret, he would whisper to the people of the south on authority thet the great and good an elected to the presidency would uot be the | President of the south or west, east or north, | but of the whole of the United States; that his | administration of the affairs of the government would be wise, conservative, safe and for the best interests of all sections, and that for the offices in the south he would select the very best men of that section. coo Her Life Spent in Sleep. SHE GREW FROM CHILDHOOD To WOMANHOOD IN THE LAND OF DREAMS. Chattanooga Correspondence New York Sun. ‘The strange case of Mrs. Ewing Althouse, whose very recent awakening from a sleep of over thirty days has caused consider- able newspaper comment, had a more than equally strange counterpart right here in Ten- nessee, the difference being that while Mrs. Althouse slept days, the Tennessee woman slumbered ud grew from a child of ten toa woman of thirty-two while she slept. father of the girl still resides near Troy, the county seat of Obion county. where he is « small farmer. His name is Henry Godsey, His family was larg Among the younger children was Susie. who up to her tenth year was the brightest and prettiest.of the whole lot. Just at this age she en ill, and a physician was called in, | He visited her a namber of times, and finall: administered a dose of some medicine whic! gave her a severe chill. From this she passed | into a deep sleep, and continued so for some jays. The family thought her dead, but close | investigation saved her from being buried alive. | After a few days she awoke at sunrise and remained awake probably half au hour. Sh was perfectly rational, ate, and complained of no pain, but dropped asleep again, for months she awoke about the same hour dail when she was given food. “Her physical con- dition during this time was apparently excel- lent. But after a time the regular waking ceased, and it ocenrred at varying intervals and the periods of wakefulness also varied in length. Generally they were of but a few min- utes’ duration. A, and au hour and f, but this was seldom, and on the whole her hours of wakefulness grew fewer. Her return toa comatose condi- tion was marked by a hiccough, a spasmodic jerking of the head and shoulders, followed by asneeze. long enough for her to reach her couch, All jorts to keep her awake failed, though noth- ing suggested was left undone. Electricity was applied in many ways. In the course of time wakened every five or ten miautes, day and night, but never to exceed two minutes. iually a purse was raised when she was about fifteen, and her father took her to St. Louis, where some of the best physicians ex- perimented on her. They fairly blistered her with electricity, made her flesh raw, punctur- ing it with ‘8. aud sent her home worse than before. She continued in this condition untibher age was thirty-two, when she died while asleep. és During her life she was visited by thousands, and her ral attracted an immense multi- tude, who —— —_ Ca Aen to catch & parting glimpse of one wi! grown from gir! to womanhood while fast asleep, ————— 00 ___ Ex-Conoressmax Ackiex’s Luck.—In the contest over the will of the late Mrs. Acklen- Cheatham, of Nashville, Tenn., the jury in the case rendered a verdict in that city last week against the will and all of its ils, This makes ex. Acklen, formerly of Lonisiana, an equal heir with the other three children to the €350,000 estate left his Bora rish bat looky. go one ef she ecules ssone of 10 } | | | j } } ! : i the recei Dr. i Bu Fr F i F Fee ¥ 5 i i t i g he Indian government has long maintained | After that | ‘in they extended to an hour | These premonitory symptoms lasted | LATE FOREIGN NEWs. The Cologne Gazette finds in the Samoan “White book” striking testimony to the wis- dom and moderation of Prince Bismarck. It holds that the reports of the German consul at Apia prove that the action of the Americans was and ing, and that the ea Germany was peace to King Otto of Bavaria is now declared hope- lessly insane. The king had reéently shown such signs of improvement that hope of his ultimate recovery was entertained. The French senate has passed a bill provid- ing that press offenses, especially that of in- iting public Aas shall be dealt with by the correctional police tribunais. One of the fancies of the king of Wurtem- is to ascertain whether the moon is in- habited, by i an on ad to be taken of that luminary and then m: Sige ges nega- tives a hundred-thousand fold. e pictures produced by this process show nebule with lit- tle dots, and the king declares the dots to be men and women. He hopes eventually to get some of them into distinct shape. The king of Holland has had a relapse. His condition is critical. The striking seamgp at various British ports ‘e signing the cot mise articles ef agree- ment offered by the employers. Efforts are being made to get upa rowing match on the Thames between Australian, American and English crews of eight. Several leading English oarsmen will participate, and correspondence has been opened wit! ree sentative American and Australian scullers. Big prizes will be offered. Charley Mitchell, the pugilist, and his father- in-law, Sain Moore, were thrown froma conveyance while driving in London Sunday | and both sustained bruises and scratches. | Archbishop Walsh in an address at a Catholic | school in Dublin said the government ought | to treat the Irish Catholics in a more liberal | | manner, but it be pire that legislation on the | subject could not be expected unless the de- mand therefor was backed up by violent re- | sistance to the law. | The people of old Servia are greatly agitated over recent raids by Arnaut brigands. The outlaws set fire to villages und kidnapped all | the girls in the village of Gradatz. Other vil- lages were looted and girls and cattle stolen, A famine prevails in the interior of Russia. | Tho distreas is greatest in Orenburg, where | many persons are dying of starvation. eee A Diamond Among the Marbles. From the Cleveland Plaindealer. Early last spring Mrs. L. C. Abraham, then living on Euclid avenue, lost a diamond which was one of a pair of earrings, the pair being valued at $1,000. The diamond when lost was | incased in a gold ball. More than ten months passed, and, as there was no response to the advertisements, it was given up as lost. But, strange things’ happen in this prosaic world, | and . Abraham is again in possession of her diamond. It was returned to her last Friday, and it came about in this way. Last spring, about the time the stone was lost a workman named John Scott happened to look into the gutter and there saw the small golden ball. He Picked itup and the next day showed it to some | of his fellow-employes. He even offered it asa “ft to the workman at the next bench to him, | ut he said: *‘What do I want with the thing? It's no good, ev | a brass plaything.” So Scott took it home and gave it to his children. The little ones had a bag of marbles, and they added the golden ball to the collection, rolling it about the floor. This sort of thing was kept up for 10 months. One day last week a woman ihe’ in the neighborhood calied on the Scott family and the youngsters were rolling the golden bail about the floor, The woman picked it up, examined it closely, and said: “Why, there's a crease right around the center of it.” The two women went to work on it until the gold ball was opened, and right in the center of it was a dazzling and precions gem. A consultation was held among the neighbors and Scott took the diamond down to Chafer & Becker's and showed it to Mr. Becker, who advised him to advertise it. Finally the advertisement was read by Mra. Abraham, ber husband went down to see it, and could Sy believe his eyes when he beheld the sparkling gem lost by his wife nearly a year ago. He gave the finder a re- ward of 250 and restored the missing earring to his wife. ee ——— Gros-Grain and Grog. THE STORY OF ADMIRAL VERN: AND HIS FAMOUS: GROS-GRAIN COAT, From American Notes and Queries. The word grosgrain, as applied to heavy silks, is a well-known word in commercial cir- | cles, but it is not generally understood that there is a direct connection between this wordjand “grog,” which is thé sailors’ name | for @ mixture of rum and water. The facts are as follows: Edward Vernon, of the old Staffordshire house of that name, was put by his father, who was secretary of state to Wiji- iam and Mary, into the British navy, and after | distingnishing himself under Sir George Rooke and Sir Charles Wager, both in the | West Indies and the Mediterranean, and rising to the rank of rear-admiral, he was suddenly appointed vice-admiral of the blue while a | member of parliament from Penryn, near | Falmouth, and selected to command the | great expedition which was sent out in 17: to break up the power of Spain in the Carib- | bean and the Guif of Mexico, He attacked | | Porto-Belloon the 20th of November in that | year, and after a furious engagement, | | Which lasted two days, took the place with all its treasures and munition of war and | two Spanish line-of-battle ships. A number | of American colonial troops served under | him, and the great victory made him popular in the American colonies as urope. i i The seat on the Potomac, afterward owned and ocenpied by Washington, was named Mount Vernon in honor of him. He afterward quar- reled with the government and was strack from the lists of the navy, as was alleged, for his too great severity toward his men, though really | becanse of his too small respect for the lords | of the admiralty. In the British navy he was adored as the chief who first ordered rum and water to be regularly served out to the crews of his squadron. He began this practice on board of his own ship, the Bedford, his flagship at the capture of Porto-Bello, and as he had acquired the nickname of --Old Grog” from his habit of walking the quarter-deck in a “gro- | gram” cloak, this endearing epithet wes be- | stowed by Jack ‘far on the new beverage. “Grogram” was the English corruption of | | “gros-grain.” the name given in France to « | heavy stuff of silk and’ wool with a rough | | knotted surface: the same name that now is given to heavy silk. -e@e Don’t Toss the Baby. A VERY RISKY GAME TO PLAY WITH THE LITTLE CHERUDS. | From Harper's Bazar, ‘The throwing a baby into the air and catch- ing him again is alwayé a risky practice, cere tain though the tosser may be of his quickness | ot eye and sureness of hand. A sudden and | unexpected movement of the child in his mid | air fight may result in a cruel fall. oung father snatched up his baby boy ing and tossed him to the ceiling Twice the little fellow went flying through the air and came down safely into’ the waiting jarms, The third time the excited child gave a spring of delight as his father’s hands released him; plunged forward and, pitching over the. father’s shoulder, fell, head downward, to the | floor. When the poor baby came out of the | stupor in which he lay for hours, it was found | that, although no bones had been broken, the brain had sustained an injury that would, in all probability, render the child an imbecile. Another baby snatched from the floor and tossed into the air received a fatal wound in | the top of the hgad from the pointed orna- ment of a chandelier. Still another child slipped between her father’s hands as he caught at her in her downward flight, and although his frenzied grasp on the baby’s arm | bor desired by women?” | incident, says: “Not a doubt of it. | Europeans—they are so much alike with th | side, | the panes of glass, we are enveloped by an en- Mr. Stead in Truth about Rusia The Emperor Alexander the Third is, in many respects, a model autocrat, He has two great for the discharge of the difficult duties of his ess and cour- age. He is not a ity man. He is sober, sensible and sedate. He is not rash or ipi- tate. He is slow in forming a resolution, but when he has mastered a subject and has the facta at bis command,“his decision is made once for all. His one anxiety is to do right, and whbn he has come to a conclusion that a certain course is right, he acte upon it regard- less of danger. “Our emperor” said one who knows bim well, “is somewhat of an enfant terrible. When he sees what he thinks he ought to do, he goes to his object like a bullet from a gun, He does not ask what is in the way. Public opin- ion, censure of the press, all these things are nothing to him more than the croaking of frogs in the pond. Pressure, as you under- stand it, will never make him swerve a hair's breadth from his course. If you want him to change you must not bring pressure to bear; you must pursuade him. Once convince him that anything is right and he will do it. Other- wise he will not, no, not though all the voices era in the world, were denouncing The faith of the Russian peasants in the czar has its counterpart in the faith of the emperor in the ezardom, Often faith lingers among the rustics when it has died out in the objects of their devotion. In Russia the czars believe in the czardom, the present emperor at least xs much as any of his predecessors, Not that Alexander I] is an optimist. It is some- what difficult to be an opthnist on a throne to which yon have been called by the bomb of an assassin, A saying of his is repeated in St. Petersburg which sheds a ray of sombre light upon his character, One of his brothers was talking to. him once about the inextricable tangle of hu- man affairs and expressed very emphatically a similar opinion to that which ‘made Alphonso of Arragon famous. If he were ruler of the universe, for instance. he would alter many things, and, in short, reconstruct the affairs of this world on an altogether new and improved pattern, The emperor listened to him for a time and then said: ‘I do not think so. As God made it otherwise Ho must know best. | But for my part if He should end it all to-mor- row I should be very glad.” ~~ 00 New Gowns at Court. Special Cable to the New York Mail and Express, The queen has made a new rule for presen tations, which will serve to regulate the pecu liar etiquette to which her majesty adheres with more certainty than heretofore. She has consented that ladies, who, by reason of illness or infirmity of advancing years, are incapaci. tated from wearing the usual court dress at h majesty’s drawing-rooms, may, on permission being obtained through the lord chamberlain, appear in high court dress, These gowns must, however, be made on a certain model which the queen has approved, and which will allow a small portion of the neck to be visible, the sleeves coming to the elbow. The princi- ple reason for the new regulation is to secure uniformity in the ladies’ toilets. Formerly, by obtaining a physician's certificate, u lady might wear a high neck and short sleeves, or, in fact, cut her gown as she chose. Now, all “high neck” gowns which are allowed to be worn will be alike, and, as the regular court dress is never varied, a general uniform will be attained. No change is permitted from the rule that the veil, plume and gloves must be white. ———+e+_—____ A Woman’s Logic. From the Boston Journal. After the woman suffrage hearing at the state house on Friday a lady approached Ar- thur Lord, who has conducted the case for the way he might never have found out what she | with a fine line of Rogers’ cele- remonstrants, and said: “Mr. Lord, did you | meant. He left wee coarse aa : Bg me, a Spoons, Carving % i s in this | Selected the words herself, wrote it all out, anc with pearl, iv wd buck baudies a ee are ae ns many Disone Sih ai ete Oe Ae to attend, as seste will be | state classes of young women earnestly study- | in his desk and it was all mght. Last week he | Provided for their comfort. Out-of-town purchasers ing ee economy and methods of govern- | got atelegram from her. It consisted of one | cau have thelr goods packed. ment to fit themselves for the duties of po- | word—“Laugh.” He laughed. It scemed to | litical life?” “Yea,” was Mr. Lord's reply. “Iam aware of it. Do you know anything about Smith col- lege. in this state?” “Oh, yes,” answered his interrogator, “anda very worthy institution it is, giving our young women a splendid training, and in’ just’ those very matters.” “And did you know,” continued Mr. Lord, “that the senior class at Smith college has just voted that the ballot is not degirable for “They're nothing but ignorant school-girls and ought not to be heeded,” was the comment of the Indy, with instant change of front. And the conversation ended at once. — soe The “Glare” of Our White Skins. From the London Globe. Nothing is more common than for Europeans to complain of the difficulty they have in indi- vidualizing men of dark races who to the eye of the white man seem all more or less alike. The natives of India have apparently exactly the same difliculty with white men. Some men of the Lancashire regiment stationed at Benares recently broke loose and raided a liquor shop in a neighboring village. Some of the cniprits were so drunk that the authorities easily dis- covered them, but in order to spot the remain- der the regiment was paraded, and the vil- lagers were asked to point out the guilty men, They absolutely failed to do so in a single case, whereupon a native paper, commenting on the One of the most diiticult feats under the sun is to identi r jond, glaring white color. We wonder whether their friends and relations are at a loss as to who's who?” 2 soe Soi Why it is Cold on the Mountains. ‘The Story of the Heavens. Go into a greenhouse on a sunshiny day, and we find the temperature much hotter than out- The glass will allow the hot sunbeams to enter, but it refuses to allow them out a; with equal freedom, and consequently the tem- peratare rises. Our whole earth is in this way to be likened to a greenhouse, only, instead of ormous coating of atmosphere. When we are on the earth’s surface we are, as it were, inside the greenhouse, and we benefit by the inter- position of the atmosphere; but when we begin to climb very high mountains we gradually get through the atmosphere aud then we suffer from thecoid. If we could imagine the earth to be stri M ed of its coatof air, then eternal frost would reign over the whole earth as well as on the tops of the mountains, . mod — Just Like Her Brother. From London Tid-Bits. A young gentleman took his sister, a wee miss, the other day to see a family in which he isa regular caller. The little girl made her- self quite at home, and exhibited great fond- ness for one of the young ladies, hugging her heartily. “How very affectionate she is,” said the lady of the house. “Yes, just like her brother,” responded the young lady, unthinkingly. Paterfamilias looked up sternly over his ape young gentleman blushed, and It is the wise remark of a popular writer, who keeps his eyes and ears open, that this is to be permanently a nation of cities. The At- lantic slope is already urban. The day is not distant when the shores of the great lakes and the valley of the Mississippi will rival in the number and magnificence of their cities the valleys of the Nile and the Euphrates when the civilization of the east dazzled at the saved her from falling to the ground. it wrenched muscles and sinews so cruelly that the girl's arm was shrunken and practically useless to her all her life. These are extreme cases, but the fact of their occurring at all ghould be enough to warn one from the habit of relinquishing one's hold ona child when t ossing it. —————ce0______ The Law’s Inconsistency. Record. From the Philadelphia Mr. Noedie—‘Wall, it do beat all how the laws work, one upsettin’ another right along.” Friend—‘Wah's wrong now?” “Wall, there ain't much that isn’t Here I've been makin’ a good livin’ as a jury- zenith, Already the cities dictate to the towns bh their pulpits, benevo- lent organizations and religious newspapers i ie convictions of home of Peter Gahide, a shoemaker, for adop- child. The baby grew up here and worked in nurse. $15 amonth. On Wednesday a detective ar- rived in this city in search of the girl, and on Thursday he found her. erring father died recently in Kansas, leaving $40,000 to her, which she will soon receive. finding the girl. and reported <3 be worth $100,000, THE BODIES TAKEN this city regard as a mishap to their cause the building of a crematory on Swinburne island, down the bay. under ordinary circumstances every additional temple for the incineration of human remains would be considered a gain. the now crematory is deplored by promoters of the new method is that the bodies to be burned therein will be those of persons who have died of contagions diseases, mostly paupers, Swin- burne Island is the site of *t! maintained by the quarautine commission. is these officials who have built the crematory at government expense, cessful test. American Cremation society to make incinera- tion fashionable. The chief advocates believed that every example of a rich or celebrated per- son choosing to bave his remains disposed of in this wa: hand, they bave all alon; of the procesa by public institations because they feared that it would degrade it in the matory a year ago, to take the place of the pot- ter's field; had they not listened to the appeal of the cremation society not to do so. quarantine authorit From the San Franciseo Chroni: very rich man, bat a millionaire will alw: make up a telegraphic code to save money. would be nothing to him if she sent a hundred words, but he will always get as much as he can for nothing anyway. aud he wiil have a tel- egraph code. he thought she might take as many words to say a thing by telegraph as ladies ordi in conversation, and that would bi: niillionsire, Let us say by confining her to one word he Boulanger Not Her Suitor. Paris Correspondence New York World. Showers of telegrams and cablegrams from the United States have been raining in upon Mrs. McLaren Luces at her temporary resi- dence, No. 45 Rue De Clichy, owing to the un- founded ramor published in certain western papers as to her alleged engagement with Gen. Boulanger. Mra. McLaren Lucas is a hand- some and amiable widow who has just arrived at Paris, and she can not understand how the rumor started. She may meet Gen. Boulanger. but she will never marry him even if he should ask her, being on principle to the in- Appetite. Shi ternational marriages with ention girls “* - have been making latel, Left a Fortune by Her Unknown Father. Kalamazoo, Mich., Special to the Baltimore American. A poor family of this vicinity has fallen heir to $40,000, In 1870 a girl baby was left at the they ACT the mu: M and arousi tion by a girl of sixteen and an old man. They ‘These are refused to give any reason for desorting the the city with several respectable families as a In 1887 she married Fred Moore. a farm hand, and they live in Texas township on His story is that her The will set forth the ciues to be followed in i Her mother is still living. Many of ‘emember the the older residents of this cits incident of 1870. 2 Sebo ce Making Cremation Unpopular. FROM ‘W YORK'S PEST HOUSE TO BE IN ERATED. A New York special to the Phlladelphia Times says: ‘The advocates of cremation in This requires explanation, for | S07! low The reason why est hospital It It consists of a furnace and its appurtenances very similar to those used elsewhere. The body of a sheep has been incinerated as a suc- Now, it has been the aim of the other well-kn oxydized silv wins new adherents, aud, on the other dreaded the adoption merit and uew di opular mind. The charity commissioners of EPERG ew York would have established a large cre- But the movable, o8 Were imi see —— nd Oyste! Her Cable Cipher. rapin v 1 His daughter was going to Europe. He isa it in new colors, many other sing: I don’t know thongh. Perhaps | © rily do | akrapt 4 economy. | Let us acquit him of would understand what she telegraphed, | whereas if he lett her to express it her own | be something quite pleasant. His code was at | the house. He went up there in the best of | humor. He got out the code and he read: | “Laugh—send me . He Had Been There. From the Philadeiphis Times. Teacher—*‘How many pounds in a ton?” Scholar. Fifteen hundred.” Teacber—“Why, Tommy, where have you been?” Scholar—Down to pa’s coal office.” AUCTION SALES. THIS EVENING. pos AS DOWLING, A cig £18-6t PHOS. F. TRUSTER’S 8. OF VALUA WEST, Sc ION OF Sinproved 'T FXTRAORDINARY. AUCTION SALE o CLOCKS GREAT.ENG MEDICINE er vous Disorders, Fulness, and Swelling after nd all Net MINUTES. and they wilt BEEC “SPILLS, taken as directed, will quickly restore females’ K STOMACH; IMPAIRED DIGESTION; DISOR pike MAGIC :—a few doars will work wonders sy restoring long-ium ™ ;, bringang vasing wih xe ROSEGUD OP IELIN wes tees to the Nervous PATENT MEDICINE Prepared Sold by Drugg: Agents for the U BLOOKER’S “Dutch” COCOA. Choicest, Purest, Best, MADE INSTANTLY whih bolling water or milk. NO COOKING ENQUIRED. Sold by a!l leading grocers aud druggists at $1 per lb, Entree Dishes—Lobster and ( made in silverware for the DAY AEECHAM: =<PILLS ortness of Breall vous and Thi de. Ti with the cts” admit States, jo. un. SAL naakers in hi er-pluted ware. leaigne, ‘urreens, F. ‘act, may equa alar and beaut: antel Ornaments, WALTER B. WILLI e ov YIN D NOR EE ¢ FEBRUARY TWE a i. i will therea: by fm oat » BF. ALL who, (if your WILL MAIL BEECHAM’S PILLS ON RECEIPT OF PRICE 25 CENTS A BOX. eee Dizziness ivenes, Scurvy, ted by thousands, in all iN THE WORLD, Pull directions by THOS, BEECHAM, St. U.S. DEPOT, 35 MERCER ST., NEW YORK. a “AUCTION a FUPURE DAYS, ES. W421 TEE 5. WILLIAMS & 00., Auctioncers, ATTRACTIVE AUCTION SALE. By order of the Taunton Silver-Plate Co., Rogers, and | n. daily. large collection contains many pieces of real S$ AND GOLD-LINED CENTER-PIECES, (Tea-sets, Urns, Waiters, all sizes.) Swing. ite to be found SATIN CHINA FRUIT AND BERRY BOWLS, Golden Blue, Old Red and Blue, lifelike Terra AMS & CO., Auctioneers, al Estate Auctioneer, TAN ESTAT! THE NORT THEAST SEs ¥-F 1 FIRST AT 2 front of ed in. square A street AND. ZES THOMA: NG, Atictioneer, ¢ aud 1644 ih st eee TRE GREAT AUCTION SALE my A i pauare 117 part of lot 26 in pered L. 3 ard 5, and K agreets Manufactured by t rihwe anality. Will c ‘Terms day of sale, 5 evemug, at 11 « THOMAS E, WAGGAMAN, 116-4 A Ne T THOMAS DOWLI TO-MORKOW. WEEKS & 0... Auctioneers, 637 Louisiana ave., Opp. City Post-Office. FINE SINGLE AND DOUBLE CARRIAGE, COACH | AND BUGGY HARNESS, INCLUDING sevERAt | VERY FINE SETS OF SsoLID MOUNTED BUGGY HARNESS, ALL HAND MADE AND OF MOFFETT’S LEATHER, COM- PRISING ONE OF THE FINE OF FINE HAND-MADE HARNESS EVER EX HIBITED: ALSO, A LARGE SORTMENT OF CARRIAGE KOBE! RUBBER ST ASSORTMENTS AND FINE the purchaser. of sain, Cc be complie | | IN FUR, PLUSH, AND CLOTH; MORSE COVERS, BOTH | © SQUARE AND CUT IN GREAT VARIETY; | “Histon, D. TRAVELING TRUNKS, &., AT ee POSITIVELY WITHOUT LIMIT, WITHIN OUR SALESROOMS, FEBRUARY TWENTIETH, AT TEN AM, AUCTION, WEDNESDAY, j \ £16-3t [PENCANSON BHOS., Auctic meers, FINE Ss. HLA rded, i sell EBRUARY at TEN OC ins OK, wt west, the eutire stock nia avenue nortl ubove will first be offered ax re, and if a iactory bid is not obtained it wi vIRT! pepe | k's office | 10 within one ‘erms of sale ch one hu nd cugine, sell at" pubiic sale for cush, at the boat-house of G. W, Gray, at the june- Uon of the Chesapeake and Ob: anal with Rock het i Geonretown, uy said District: on. AL THE FIGHTEENTH DAY OF FE AT ELEVEN -O'CLOCK. A. Sth to be p: and edghteen m the pure of trast on the haser. Thon ve ray her tack: vi ie.” "ALBERE A. WILSON, U.S. °%-THE ABOVE SALE 18 POSTPONED WEDNESDAY NEX1, the TWENTIOAH ur and place. ou accoun MMALBERT A WILSON, U. _fe1s-atdis JUNCANSON BROS, Auctioneers. UNTIL eee ther! 8. Marshal D, Cs a FEBRU and plac fel s-cote ANSON BROS., Auction: STORE, CORNER OF wal of recor ses. and is composed both of und it also hi ser will give to the t Promissory notes with iterest, to be sec Property, or all cash at the If the t Bi 19, Kell ae eistin bs OCCT THE ABOVE SALE TS POs’ UARY TWENTY-EIGHT, 1i ce. K LRTENDED THSEST trust duly ree: in & DU je 1 SOLue Mewspape < SCIS Ht FRANK BIRGE of trust bearing date | Aduly recorded in Li- | ne of AND POME- d in Liber us of ual instalments: xiveu, bearing at the rk and rafter five days’ public T published in f the Land Rec- oD EEN LOCK A. M., the x ted to ardent a fine stone quarr} mile of Aquia creek, Vil co nudced dollars is to be auce of the onths trom the d bore rms aveyed by Benj. T Suttie im trust by deed dated April Land Records for said | fourth of the purcl be prid ineash within five days from the day t nx and farm: rable aud wood the same be- pia, *4 mon of wale, deposit rhase money paid as @ re din three equal installments in six, twelve day of sale, for which tee his th several ured by deed ‘option of not comphed y of sale the prop- the risk and cost of ROOKE BYWILLIAMS, Trastee, builds, Washington, D.C BROOKE B. WILLIAMS. defaulting par- NED UNTIL at @ame hour mM ACCOUNT OF WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Lange Lot SPER TARAPLINCE ere, EADS, BLANKETS, COMFOLTS, LAMBEE: “AUCTION ON THURSDAY MORNING, Twi “FIRST, 1889, COMMENCING WE WILLS! WITHIN virtare of Ass? and iy 8 end di in pice es! direction of aa JHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. VALUABLE UNIMPRO' DIAN ‘a deed of trust dated aly “ae AT 4:30) tuate BILL At avcriOn 0% MERE sth A Se pases thereby, Such af Wind and Pain in thy and druggist A Gold ¢ earnest! Medicine—“Worth health, Fore 1 e Ick ie Maem edge a ‘classes of eaciety, snd one of the beet one Pits nave THE LARGEST SALE DF AMY cach Box. NewYork, Sate with . Holons, Lameachire, 4 C6. 368 and 367 Canal St AUCTION SALES. FUTURE DAYS. [eouss DOWLING, Auctioneer, CATALOGUE SALE or A FINE COLLECTION ~or— MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS Comyrising j HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL, i SCIENTIFIC, AND GENERAL LITERATURR, Many rare Americana, and also scarce works oa economic subjects, Also A FINE LAW LIBRARY, To tate vlace at my Auction Roome, Fleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. C, MONDAY, FEPRUARY TWENTY-FIFTH, 1889, AT HALF-PAST SEVEN P.M, AND FOLLOWING EVENINGS. THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. _ | | £19-6t h-class electro aud WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO... Auctioneers. | HANDSOME ROSEWOOD CASE UPRIGHT PIAN HEAMILY (CARVED MAMRLE TOP BUPPER, } w EXiE TABLE AND DINING: ROOM CHAIR RY TABLES, WRITING | Desks, TWO BOOK CASES. MIRRORS, {| covcies. Pr ¥. ce HOLSTERED HOLST DULLES. ASE BEDSTEAD, ETS, BRUSSEL alk MAT TRESS, 8i ' On MONDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIFTH, at TEN O'CLOCK A.M. we I se pt No. S10 12th street Horthwest, the sbove collection household effects worthy the attention of buyers. _f19-dts WALTER B. WILLIAMS #00! Aucts— BogXrE, & cancst, Real Estate Brokers, 1008 F street northwest. | SALE OF NEARLY NEW PYELLING 200s, oN | MARION STREET, BETWEEN AND STRE NORTHWEST, KNOWN AS No. 1603, ) _ AT PUBLIC AUCTION. ; wirtue of & deed of trust, recorded in Liber No. | folio 28, of t d Kecords for the District of of shunt, We will of out of ‘the premises, TEENS H DAY OF FEB for wal Square No, . as PCO vor of the District of Colut new brick dwelling cluding beth room, latrobe stove; con ov TH third cash, balan Purchaser to give bis notes on the property 100 Lown at WiLL chaser. : 456 Louisiana avenue. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO, Auct. fo-dda $7 THE ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED UNT! THURSDAY, FEBRUAKY TWENTY -EIGHTH, samme hour aiid place. “By under of the Trusteos 15-diede | FFXHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioncer. | OFFICE OF THR COMMIS: | TRICT OF COLUMBIA, Wasuux i TRAY. — Ne ie" hereby give | lay March Ist, IRN, the lease W hart ana Fish stalls, in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, will be ‘sold by pr tern from March At * in_ the bidder, Terms, at 3 o'clock e day on B st., between 7th and mt of the fish is of (Center) all rights and privileges granted laws of the Corporation of establish wharves or docks for a fishin the city of or dock shall be deemed w.. & Lighest bid Terms: Gue huw- red dollers to be paid on the day of sale, and the nidue to be puid within hve days from the day of sale, jer of the Board of Commissioners, District of B. WEBB, 8. E. WHEATLEY, ©, W. mers. 115- FAMILY SUPPLIES § AWAY GET A ‘a you ever boughs G sa Hyavana, WEST AND NEW YORK MADE SEGARS Just Received. Prices Very Low. PEMBROKE PURE RYE WRISKX, ‘The Milk of Kentucky. The Finest Bourbon Whisky. CHAMPAGNE WINES, Al Brands at Lowest Prices, ‘THOMAS RUSSELL, 1213 Pennsylvania avenne, * “Gat La ave. Tig. PER LB, iD. of ‘the fancy patent process Fi per barrel; ; E 1.75 per % bbl sack; “Old ily Flour, $3. So yerkis s1ibo Pe he roll Butter, bs. Lard for #1. C country, hoice country rvll Butter, Fe, u— ATTORNEYS. _ DATENTS. W. X.STEVENN, a 5 Estabivsbed in 1802, 705 G st., opposite U. 8. Patent Oftice. A personal interview is the best ineans to Sot @ man's ability to serve you. Please call. |] AW OFFice oF e7-3m* = AVID A. GOURICK, } (Formerly of the Philadelphia. Au 3 | Siam eh Saoeahy asereotec th AMPBELL Law, jz | ARQ Ay THVIGORATING 0 PERUVIAN BARK, IRON, 0 PURE CATALAN WINE. !