Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1889, Page 7

D.c., TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1880, A YOUNG MAN SUED FOR $20,000. SCIENCE OF GROWING OLD. Charged With Jiitt Girl Who Had | Some Sage Precepts as to Diet, Exer- Procured Her Trousseau. cise and Medicine. A Middletown, N.Y., special to the Philadel- | BRAIN WORKERS ARE OFTEN MISLED AS TO THE phia Press says: Ferd Sherwood, a rich young PEYSCAL EXERTION THEY REQUIRE—FOLLY merchant and miller of Livingston Manor, Sul-| OF RESISTING THE MARES OF THE YEARS— THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, THE GRAND ARMY RATES. All Hopes of a Farther Reduction Given Up by the Milwaukee Committee. The Milwaukee ‘citizens’ committee on the Grand Army encampment has finally given up allhope of obtaining « further reduction in STAR OF THE CAPITAL. ‘Whereby the Average Washingtonian Steers His Boat. THE ALPHA WASHINGTONLE OF THR JOURNAL- LISTIO HEAVENS —THE SUPEREXCELLENCE AND POWER OF THE WASHINGTON STAR. THE STONE AGE AT MT. VERNON, Indian Antiquities Found Around the Home of Gen. Washington. A recently issued bulletin from the National museum contains the following report by Prof. Otis T. Mason in relation to the relies of sbo- PAINLESS, EFFECTUAL ‘Weabington Correspondence Philadelphia Record. Wasutvetox, D. C., Aug. 9.—Everybody in Washington reads Tae Evextxo Stan. That is to say, everybody who can read at all. I sup- pose there are now about 225,000 people in Washington and the rest of the District of Columbis, of whom 75,000 are colored. Some- thing like 150,000 of them are supposed to be able to read, if not to write. Now the present circulation of Tux Stan is a little over 30,000, 50 that, estimating as usual five readers to each buyer, or the five-in-a-family theory, it is as plain as plain can be that everybody in Wash- ington who reads anything reads Tax Star. ON THE AVENUE aT 4 P.m. If we had the statistics we should have the seme facts by the most cursory observation. Walk down the Avenue at 4 o'clock with the procession o: ited clerks any fair jl ne You Ber far away Pom 4 the saion Df “Bran boys session of “1 pm Tae waiting by the mar- bie building at 11th and the avenue for “Tue 8ran papers” which the fast presses have been throwing off for the past hour. See how Tux Stans are snapped Bee ladies—buy ticians, business men, tourists, ‘the clerks—res, even some of 1) them, the more prudent clerks walking on Gown to lith street and going to Tae Stal Office to buy a copy for #wo cents rather than give the svewry | three. If you see any one who does not buy you may be sure that he or she gets ite delivered alittle later by the carrier. Finish your stroll, than which th: ean be none more interesting, at the foot of the Capitol. BREAD AND THE “STAR” AS NECESSARIES, Take a long herdic coach and ride up toa residence quarter, buying Tax Stan, like your fellow travelers, from one of the newsboys who board your herdic at every corner. In the summer weather ? hodbboog see the residents sit- ting at their win or on their porches and front ste Wherever they are they are read- ing Tax Stan—yes, even as they walk along the street. “Bread and the ora gm says Dr. bon ony ee necessaries of life duriug the war.” and Tus Stax are necessaries of life every evening in Washington. THE WASHINGTONIAN’S APPETITE FOR POLITICS. Washington has no politic id yet it has all Politics. There is no city in tlie United States So vitally interested in polities. Everybody is directly or indirectly, personally, profession- ally teoeyeme / affected by politi: changes. The rise fall of a party leader in far-off Cslifornis may not interest » hundred people in Philadelphia, but it may interest ten thou- gend in Washington. So everybody in Wash- ington wants to know as soon as possible what is going on in the world of politica. “Who will “What will the ity be im the next House?” and “who will er?” are questions which stir our hearts as the guesses at the crops and the markets stir the hearts of Chicago and NewYork. Nowhere else lam convinced are newspapers read so eagerly aud earnestly as in Washington. Tue Eventxe@ Star is simply devoured. A SPLENDID FIELD FOR NEWSPAPERS. There are very mauy people, of course, who read other newspapers, local and foreign. More newspapers are read here in proportion fo population than in any ocher city, not only cause we are all so nearly interested in Politics, but because we are, many of us, so Mauch interested in all the other affairs of this world, This is really a splendid field for Bewspapers, but they must be d news- papers. Yet, with all the large circulation of all the other local papers, and with all the circulation of out-of-town papers, it is still true many people never see any other Rewepaper from the lst of Jauuary to the Sist of December. 4 THEIR ALL IN ALL. And it isall their current literature, too, save a light novel now and then. Meeting them in the evening they entertain you with news, opinions, advice, scientific theories, literary gems, jests and jokes, all gathered from the evening encyclopedia. ' I have again and again listened to conversations where no idea advanced had come from any other Poli- of be nominated for President” majo: source than that evening’s Sraa except those which came from Tae Stak of the evening be- fore.- While I was listening I replaced each idea in its own column, for I, too, read my Srag with thorough care. THE POWER OF THE PAPER, Now, inasmuch as Tae Stan, though very gen- eral, having the news of both press associa- tions, to say nothing of its “special is also very local, its peculiar position in thiscommun- ity is easily accounted for. Peculiar and re- markable it is. for there is no other city of like size in the United States which is so influenced by one newspaper as Washington is by Tus Stan. Its power is simply incalculable, going as it does into every home, read as it is by every reader and taken as guide, philosopher and friend by so many. It will not say that nothing can suc- ceed in Washington without Tur Stan's help, but I hazard little in saying that nothing can succeed against its will, for it is one of the few modern newspapers which really “mold public opinion” directly and persistently. its brief editorials, never all together exceeding a col- umn and often not stretehing much over half a column, make up the minds of many Washing- tonians, and its statements of fact affect the minds of us all. It would be foolish to say that it always uses its extraordinary power aright. It is fallible like the rest of ws. But its aims are right, and itmakes acenter shot oftener than most of us. THE ORGAN OF WASHIXOTON. Its great aim is to represent Washington, and this it does, on the whole, very faithfully and accurately. Independent in politics, it is the organ of Washington and of Washington slone, having perceived at its beginning the vanity of trusting in politicians, and having intrusted its future to the le. It has the fruits of wisdom. I need say that Tux Star is the best piece of y in the District of Columbia. No one ows how much it is worth, but everybody knows that it cannot be bought. It is gener- ally supposed to be netting more than 10 per cent on $1,000,000 every year. When you re- flect that everybody takes it and everybody advertises in it, it seems probable that its net fmcome may be much more than this. It is very modest though, in this as in other mat- ters. It has very little to say about itself, cousidering how much it might say with truth. CIRCULATION OF THE STAR, It does announce that whereas the average Circulation in 1885 was 22,507 copies, it is now 80,241. and whereas its new advertisements Were 19,528 in the first half of 1885, they were $1,978 in the first half of 1839—all upon oath; ikewise that its books are o to inspection. jut it is only lately that it has added an ad- Yertisement of itself to its numerous advertis- ing columns. The fact is Tux Stam speaks for itself to any one who keeps his eyes open in Washington. THE STAPF OF “THE sTAR.” Tue Stag, like every other successful news- Peper, isagrowth When it was bought by its present owners, a score of years ago, for Jess than its it net income it was the to begin its devel ment, and they have never ceused. “It paid tor iitselx bee ase gob two, and has gone on ri pr ever since. Mr. Brocby 5. Noyes, ho had been the editor of of large experience: and We Geotge if nee ex , and Mr. 3 s -known Washington correspon: 5 the managing owners. who soon bought out their partners, including Gov. Alexander R. Shepberd, and made Tux Stan what it is. Mr. Noyes has been editor-in-chief from the first. Mr. Adams — fy of the company and lisher till several years ago, Adams had nosons, but Mr. Noyes and Mr. eo~ Mr. Rudolph Kauffmann is acting as edi- cupy other posts, where experience and Washington will have a ‘Taz StaR 150,000 circulation. Mr. Crosby Noyes and Mr. 8. H. Kauffmann rigines found on the Mount Vernon estate: “The estate of Gen, George Washington comprised 6,000 aares of land, lying along the Potomac river 14 miles south of Washington, and bounded on the south by Dogue or Ipsa- wasson creek and the land of Lord Fairfax. Jobn Smith, in his exploration of the Potomac river, mentions the Indians living in this neighborhood and a few of their occupations, Having spent my youth upon this estate 1am able to recall the resources of the region as they existed in the seventeenth century. In the winter the inlets and water courses of Mount Vernon were thronged with wild fowl, white rabbits, squirrels, quails. and deer abounded in the woods. On the approsch of spring the num- bers of shad an ne that thronged the waters were simply incredible to one who never saw them-in the early days. Later on sturgeon and other fishes took the place of thi migratory shoals, while the woods abounded in fruits of all kinds known in this ion, Add to all this the fact that these Indians were corn planters and had some knowledge of rude ag- riculture, and we are ready to study the stone implements found on the estate. “Trpose who have examined the region care- fully are not wholly agreed about the contin- Uance of man on this area. We have along all the water courses excellent stone implements, with soapstone vessels and fragments of pot- tery. On the hills back from the waters the tery disappears and the stone artefacts are Recidedly ruder. On the western side of th Mount Vernon estate, upon a high hill two miles back from the Potomac river, lies the Wood- lawn mansion, the home of Nellie Curtis, Wash- ington’s favorite ee Here is found what may almost be called the Woodlawn ‘eRe of ax,so rude is it, a flattish oval pebble, barely chipped at one end for an edge, and having the least possible working at the haft- ing place. No pottery or arrow heads or other finely flaked implements occur here. All the jieces are coarse and many types are wanting. e two theories that confront us are these: First. There were two waves of population that swept over this area, the later being that of the John Smith Indians, the former running back some say, into paleolithic times. Second. The shore collections stand for the dwelling places of the Indians, while the pebble-abounding hills farther back were the work shops of the same people where they fabricated their imple- ments ak where they abandoned chips, spalls, cores, broken artefacts, and such as could not be satisfactorily finished. A SWITCHBACK WEDDING. A Romantic Couple are Married While the Train is Rushing Down the Descent. A Mauch Chunk special to the Philadelphia Press says: One of the most romantic incidents that has ever occurred in that most romantic of spots, the Switzerland of America, occurred on Saturday night on the Switchback road. Mrs. Theodore L. Mumford, wife of the proprietor of the Switchback, had announced and made preparations for a moonlight ride over the novel road, and twenty-five or thirty guests had been summoned to take the ride and enjoy a spread at the summit hill. The early after- noon trains on the Lehigh Valley road brought in the guests, and when they had assembled there were present Mr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Mumford, Mr. Henry Mumford, business manager of the Switchback; Mr. Leon 0, Mum- ford of Binghampton,. Miss E.Wartman, Miss M. E. Buch of Philadelphia, Miss Nellie Finn of Binghampton, Mrs. Walter C. Quevido of Brooklyn, Mr. John J. Barton of Philadelphia, i etta De Young, Miss Carrie Brown, Mr. and Mrs. H. Morris, she O. Jarrard, Harry lie De Young, Mr. Robert ‘ohn Losier, Mr. Joseph Caffrey, all . and Mr, and Mrs. H. Griswold of Susquehanna. The party was about starting on the home- ward journey down the mountain side when two genslemen and a lady approached Mr, Mumford and asked permission to return with them. Said one of the gentlemen: ‘This (i troducing the blushing woman) is my prospec- tive bride. About ten years ago we agreed that when we were married we would have the knot tide on the Switchback. We had a lovers’ quarrel and I went to San Francisco. About a year ago we began corresponding again and last night determined to carry out our romantic intentions, We were going to wait until tomor- row, but what's the matter with our having it done by moonlight? Permit me to introduce you to my intended bride, Miss Nellie White of New York city. My name is John T. Longley and Iam at present residing in Philadelphia. My friend here isa justice of the peace aud his wife and family are at present stopping in Mauch Chunk.” The a party thronged about the happy pair and a return was made to the ban- quet, where all hands enjoyed an antenuptial supper. Then all boarded the car and the pros- pective bridegroom shouted: “Now let her go.” While the car was going at the rate of a mile in thirty seconds and making its circuitious dash along the edge of the precipice fair Luna looked down and smiled on the fastest marriage on record. Jolly Theodore L. Mumford was maid of honor, Mr. Henry Mumford was brides- maid, and Mr. William C. Morris gave the bride away. As the oak climbed down the hill to lower Mauch Chunk the newly-wedded pair were cheered to the echo and the first Fightaing marriage of the Switchback was put on record. ———— +e __ ___ HOARD STIRS UP THE CLERGY. Wisconsin’s Joking Governor Lectures the Preachers in Dead Earnest. Gov. Hoard of Wisconsin stirred up the clergy at Monona Lake assembly a few day ago by aiming his address directly at them. Among other things he said: “I recognize in the pulpit one of the great forces of progressive civilization, yet it is a force which is moved upon as much as it moves, aud in one sense this is the secret of its success. Itis one of the mouthpieces of pub- lic conviction. It will shrink and wither like a plucked branch whenever it ceases to stand by the people. Hence @ strong pulpit must, in the best sense, be a popular pulpit. It is a preacher's duty toreach out after the hearts of the people. He is a narrow and withered specimen who considers himself only as a par- tisan of a church or creed to promote chureh growth and not public growth. He may help the church but not the people. “We greatly need a larger infusion of the spirit of citizenship among our clergy as a class, Any system of religion must be met by intelligence in the masses if it be kept pure and wholesome, for, like all human agencies, it is bound to take color from its surroundin; rates from the railroads. A report was made yesterday to the executivs committee of the encampment by the subcommittee, in which it is sid: We visited Chicago on Tuesday last and held aniaterview with Mr. Blanchard, chairman of the Central traffic association, and Mr. Abbott, chairman of the Western States passenger asso- ciation. Messrs. Blanchard and Abbott made statements giving at some length the reasons which had brought about the adoption of the single-fare rate for the double journey as a minimum for excursion fares, They claim that the adoption of that rate an absolute necessity on the part of the roads to save them from financial loas, and that the same business prudence which had dictated the original agreement demanded that no concession be made, even in the exceptional circumstances ing, a8 one exception would inevitably Socmand for others which it would practically impossible to resist. They expressed their willingness to bring the matter again before the managers of the West- ern passenger association, butas it wouldrequire @ unanimous vote to consider the previous de- cisions they could not give the slightest hope that such reconsideration could be effected. We were reluctantly compelled to the conclu- ion that there is no hope whatever of unani- mous action on the part of the association to change the rate of transportation We are in- formed of various rates of fare now prevailing in the central and eastern districts which fur- nish rates of transportation even less than one centa mile and, of course, it is quite possible this lemoralization of rates may spread further in course of the next few weeks and thus lessen the charges from other parts of the country. ————— cee A MAP BY TELEGRAPH. One Can Send Manuscript or Pictures by Electricity. From Scribner's Magazine. The fac simile telegraph by which manu- script, maps or pictures may be transmitted is a species of the automatic: methods already de- seribed in which the receiver is actuated syn- chronously with its transmitter. By Lenoir’s method a picture or map is outlined with in- sulating ink upon the cylindrical surface of a rotating drum, which revolves under a point having a slow movement along the axis of the cylinder, and thus the conducting points goes over the cylindrical surface in # spiral path, The electri circuit will be broken by every ink mark on the cylinder which isin this path and thereby corresponding marks are made in a spiral line by an ink marker upon a drum at the receiving end. To produce these outlines it is only necessary that the two drums be rotated in unison, This system is of little utility, there being no apparent demand for fac simile transmission, particularly at so great an expense of speed, for it will be seen that in- stead of making a character of the alphabet by a few separate pulses, as is done by Morse, the number must be greatly increased. Many dots become necessary to show the outlines of the more complex characters, The pantelegraph is an interesting type of the fac simile method. In this form the movements of a pen in the writer's hand produces corresponding move- ments of the pen at the distant station and thereby a fac simile record, — see ASSUMING OFFICE IN DEMING. Eccentricities Connected With Chang- ing Postmasters in New Mexico. From the New York Sun, It happened in Deming, N. M., at the thriv- ing town that lies at the junction of the South- ern Pacific and the Atchison, Topek: and Sante Fe. Politicos had been red hot for months there. The opposition, headed by Bill Carnis, eleadex with ‘‘a pull,” wanted to oust the postmaster. The postmaster is the boss of the town in New Mextco, The Carnis party made things hum in their campaign, and, with the aid of two newspapers that Carnis ran, they succeeded in their fight. The victors calleda conference in the biggest art gallery that the town boasted. The great question was who would take the postmastership. The defeated man traveled with a bad gang, who were mad clear through about the defeat, and who had shooting irons galor> and weren't particu’ careful about the way they let them off. « eee owe better take it, Carni: the “‘bhoys.” ‘What, me?” ‘Yes, b’ hevins, thes Properly represent us. ‘But I’ve got my uewspapers to edit.” ‘Let'em run theirselves, and step in and whoop the post office up.” Carnis saw there was no use declining the honor, and so he said in a dovpairing tone that he’d see avout it. He had a band of friends himself who weren’t used to standing monkey business with meekness, They were the gamblers of Deming. They had taken a shine to Carnis ever since he had said that the sheriff of the adjoining county was a horse thiet in disguise and proved it despite the sheriff's threat to blow his head off if he didn't retract the impolite insinuation. He told the gamblers that he was going to interview the postmaster, The announcement tickled the gamblers. The leading gambler said he would go around and see that there wasn’t any monkey business. The defeated postmaster was sitting in a bank, the office of which he used as postal headquarters. Carnis started in right off: “I've been appointed postmaster.” “Heard something about that story, but I don't believe it.” “{'m going to take the office. Perhaps that Will prove it.” “You can’t have it, that’s all.” The head gambler of the town broke into the interview at this juncture, “Say, we'll give you just twelve hours to step out of office. “Ah, you don’t say so.” “See here; I don’t want any nonsense. We're peaceful, but don’t get our mad up.’ “Suppose I give up, Carnis, where are you going to take the post office?” “Dickinson's.” Dickinson's was the rival bank at the other end of the town. It was a sweeping move. In Deming wherever the post office was located was of necessity the business center of the town. Its removal would mean great injury to the eligible real estate clustered about the old post oflice headquarters. The defeated post- brows contracted with consternation, a damnable notion,” “Justso. We'll call tomorrow and get the Good day.” ain't no one else as can postmaster’s friends had been Religion among the plantation negroes of Louisiana today is as much Pagan as it Christian; mere blind worship will never cor- rect this. The growth of ge | and the expansion of reagon alone can do it. The growth of justice in the hearts of people has taught the church many useful lessons aud has shown it where it bas made many grievous mistakes, “For that reason Iam not a believer in that same divine idea of clergy, pulpit or church which seems in all ages to os found lodg- ment in the minds of so many. The preacher is needed today just as much and more than ever if he will only, like his Master, seek his field. To the and ignorant Christ came first. Today they are served last. It will do the preacher a world of good to broaden his understanding of human nature in this aon te ss did his Master. Too much is the simplicity of the Gospel covered up with the purple of ambition. Pride of intellectual display on the part of the palpit and aristocratic exclusive- ness on the of the congregation cause men of the world to ask in all bh: ‘Is this the religion founded by Jesus Christ?” pene’ Kip on denen SY Poisoned by His Collar Button. From the New Haven Palladium, Jas. Petrie. employed at Fenn's shoe store, is suffering from @ severe attack of blood i801 which was caused b; con col button. The oe its course all the way around the back. very busy during the interview giving vent to their chagrin. When Carnis got outside he saw @ rag figure stuck up on a pole over a gro- cery store, with old tin cans tied to the tail of the old coat around the figure. It was an effigy of Carnis, labeled ‘‘The New Postmaster.” The boss gambler boiled over with rage when he pag sight of it. He called agreaser over to him: ita nt to make a dollar, Charley?” “Yes.” og aed tear ae thing bee : e gambler gave the greaser a silver dollar and went beck to his fair den. The effigy was still there three hours later when he strolled back. Charley was there, too. “What in h—— do you mean by taking my dollar and not earning it?” the boss roared, ““They said they'd kill me if I touched it,” The boes gambler pulled a big shooting iron and took up his place in the roadway directly opposite the effigy. : “Charley, you go over there,’ said, “and tell those sneaks that if they move I'll blow the daylights out of the first man that stirs.” “Yes, sir,” said the greaser meekly. — you come out and rip that down.” “Yes, sir.” The saw the boss gambler in the road- way with his shooting iron drawn and received the yg. ay the deference due an official edict, stood close together and with crestfallen faces watched the despised - orgs shin up a ladder and tear the effigy win, “Gentlemen, I’m aman of few words,” the boss ibler shouted in through the grocery doer Bt he cowed pune, “The next man who at baton 3 it up dies with hia boots on, Don’t anybody it” Sets Se oe and it ensive Order.—Mr. Hyde »SViaiter—“Will zo gentleman haf table d’hote or 8 la carte?” a ‘ae . Hyde—“Bring me a little of both have "em put lots of gravy on it'"<-Puck, His Innocent Client.—Great In ae 4 to tell me candidly, did you really et livan county, N.Y., has been held in bail to an- marriage, Rachel Fredenburgh, the nineteen- year-old daughter of Henry J. Fredenburgh, a respectable mechanic in moderate circum- stances, Young Sherwood is the son of the late Henry Sherwood, the well-known hotel keeper and heavy weight (470 pounds) of Jeffersonville, who died not long ago, leaving $100,000 and large tracts of farm and wild lands in Sullivan and Delaware counties to be divided between his two sons. Young Ferd was paying atten- tion two years ago to Rachel Fredenburgh. It is alleged a marriage engagement was entered into, which was to have consummated in June of last year. procured her bridal trous- to Miss Fredenburgh seau, Damages amoun' demanded, 810, ————_+or —__—_ HE WASN’T A DETECTIVE. But He Could Give Them Points and Beat Them. From the Chicago Mail. ‘The detectives over at the central station are great admirers just at this time of George T. Baker, 8 North Side decorator. The reason is that Mr. Baker started out to catch a thief and caught him, Mr, Baker is of a very confiding and big-hearted nature. So when « plausible young man named Schowers came into his em- ploy some time since and showed a disposition to behave himself Mr. Baker boosted him from time to time and then took him into his own family to 1 He even took the young fellow on dishing trips with him, and in a number of other ways manifested great confidence in him. The young man repaid all this kindness by rifling Mr. Baker's safe and skippit out with the money. Inasmuch as this sort of thing has occurred ‘to Mr. Baker several times he thought the signs pretty right for turning loose the lion of his wrath, so he notified the police and a couple of detectives were sent out on the robber's trail. But Mr. Baker wasn't satisfied to stop there. He joined in the chase himself and after dodging about from town to town down in Indiana for about a week he — up with his man, borrowed a pair of handcuffs, clapped them on him and dragged him back to town and into the central station as modestly as though he had just rounded er lost dog. I believe it has since developed that the young man whom Mr. Baker thus keel-hauled has several wives, isa forger and is an all-around smooth party. There are detectives, it appears, who are not in the detective business, IT WAS A DAY OF REST. Despite the Threatened Violence We Enjoyed It. From the New York Sun. It had been a close game and it had been full of those close decisions which both clubs and their backers think wrong if the voice of the umpire is against their wishes, Finally, in the tenth inning, When the bases were full and only one run was needed to win, the um- pire decided the striker out. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. The losing club rushea at the umpire with shrieks and curses, and but for the prompt interference of the police he would have been butchered then and there. The excitement was | pies gone The angry masses surged back and forth and every man on the ground but one was ina fu-y. That sol- itary (ied pi thatone calm and unrufiled man, was the umpire. His imperturbable patience and suavity at- tracted the attention of a reporter, and when the mob had exhausted its violence against the protecting cordon of police and the umpire was at length able to leave the field in safety, the reporter accosted him. “Well, you've earned your money today,” he remarked sympathetically. “Ob, I don’t know,” said the quiet man. “That wasn’t much. I’m just off for my holiday and resting myself.” you, sir.” inquired the reporter if the scene of today strikes you asa holiday rest, what may be your regular business?” “Certainly,” replied the strange, calm man. “Iam the complaint clerk in the gas com- pany’s office.” ——_—_.60 Fair Oarswomen on the Hudson. New York Letter to Savannah News. Many yachtemen and pleasure seekers on the North river have noticed these bright summer afternoons a six-oared barge showing a flutter- ing blue and white pennant and manned by young girls all dressed alike in white serge gowns with white fishermen’s caps and blue sailor handkerchiefs knotted under their chit Sometimes a young man in a blazer displaying the same colors has the stroke seat and oc sionally there isa young man or two in the crew, but though the pressure to be admitted to this athletic coterie on the part of young persons masculine has occasionally been de- clined the barge skims on its way propelled in the best of form by oarswomen. Last Satur- day the boat was around in the Harlem and elicited much admiration as it spun past the club house, under the 8d avenue bridge and almost down to Hell Gate and return. The stroke seat was occu- ied by a girl with fluffy yellow hair hanging joose under a snood of blue velvet ribbon. She had been ont in the air enough since April to be sunburned andthe smooth coat of delicate rosy brown over face and hands was just the rich biscuit tint which the true summer girl re- gards as so swagger this season. The ls of the crew were sunburned also and were, as they sat, blonde and brunette alternately. ‘Those who passed the barge close enough for observation reported that its seats had blue serge cushions, the shade of the ribbons and that a white canvas cloth was stretched along its floor. No such aquatic outfit has ever brightened these waters before and the story is that it belongs to the daughters of a rich Ghi- cagoan who is summering’at Inwood for busi- ness reasons and whose girls with two cousins and one school friend make up the charming blue and white crew. oo —_____ A Great Bait for Rats, From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, An interesting, not to say valuable, discovery has been made by Capt. Weeding. in charge of the zoo. The building is infested by rats, and how to get rid of them has long beena perplex- ing question. ‘Traps were used, but nothing would tempt the rodents to enter. In a store room drawer was placed a quantity of sunflower seeds, used as food for some of the birds, Into this drawer the rats gnawed their way, a fact which led the captain to experiment with them for baitin the traps. The result was that the rats can’t keep out. A trap which appears to be crowded with six or eight rats is found some mornings to hold fifteen, They are turned into the cages containing weasels and minke. The latter will kill a rat absolutely almost before one can see it, so rapid are its movements, The weasels are a trifle slower, but not one of the rats escape them. ae Going to Sea in a Dory. Sydney M. Henman, who agme short time beck successfully sailed a seven-foot dory from Boston to Brooklyn, is again about to tempt the fates by making a voyage from Brooklyn to Key West, Fla, a distance of over 1,500 miles. The craft is 10 feetlong, 3 feet-wide and is 20 inches above the water line. It will be fitted with » mainsail and Neversink. ib, and has been christened the le will start on his trip September 4. ——— From the Toledo Blade. . Lawyer—‘“Now, Mr. Costello, will you he the goodness to answer me directly and cate- gorically a plain questions?” Witness—“Certainly, sir.” 4 thea eipen thee Known in fae avighs ent living with you w! in the borhood as Mrs, Costello?” ‘thoi’ 1qiga,on your oath, do you maintgin her?” swer a charge of betraying, under promise of VaRIRTY DEMANDED BY THE HUMAN STOMACH. From Macmillan's Magazine. Half the secret of life, we are persuaded, is to know when we are grown old, and it is the half most hardly learned. It is more hardly learned, moreover, in the matter of exercise than in the matter of diet. There is no advice so commonly given to the ailing man of middie age as the advice to take more exercise, and there is perhaps none which leads him into so many pit- falls. This is particularly the case with the brain-workers. The man who labors his brain must spare his body. He cannot burn the can- dle at both ends, and the attempt to do so will almost inevitably result in his lighting it in the middie to boot; the waste of tissue will be so great that he will be tempted to repair it by the use of & too generous diet. Most men who use their brains much soon learn for them- selves that the sense of physical exaltation, the w of exuberant health, which comes from a Seay strung to its full powers by continuous and severe exercise, is not favorable to study. The exercise such men need is the exercise that rests, not that which tires. ew f need to wash their brains with the fresh air of heaven, bring into gentle play the muscles that have been lying idle while the head worked. Nor is it only to this class of laboring humen- ity that the advice to take reise needs reser- vations. The time of it delights soon Passes, and the efforts to protract it beyond its natural span is as dangerous ag ridiculous. Some men, through nature or the accident of fortune, will, of course, be able to keep touch of it longer than others; but when once the touch has been lost the struggle to retain it can add but sorrow to the labor. Of this our doc- tor makes a cardinal point; but, pertinent as his warning may be to the old, for whom, in- deed, he has primarily compounded his elixir vite, it is yet more pertinent to men of middle age, and probably it is more necessary. It is.| in latter period that most of the mischief is The old are commonly resigned to their ; but few men will consent without a strug- gle to own that they are no longer young. And ially is this friend of man to be for his warning against that most pes- tilential of modern heresies, the bicycle or tri- oa or whatsoever its accursed name may be. derly men, he says, should eschew this un- natural mode of progression. Most cordially we hope that the warning is superfluous, The Spectacle of an old man, writhing in the un- gainly contortions necessary to the proper mt of this “agonizing wheel,” were, indsel, one to mnie angels weep. We have our- selves no gr passion for seeing even the young take their exercise in this fashion. They ad far better trust to their own legs if a horse is beyond their means. No donbt they can cover more ground that way, and to do the most possible in the shortest possible space of time appears to be one of the necessities of the age. But we are well persuaded that the coun- try walk that was found good enough for our fathers will serve their sons’ turn better than this insane careering over hill and dale. The former refreshed mind as well as body; bat what of all the pleasant sights and sounds of our fair English landscape do these young Ti- tans enjoy as they go staggering on, With deat re and labor-dituined eyes, Revarding neither to right Nor lest? cas There is one point we are surprised to find our friend leaving untouched. Perhaps he con- siders it included in the warning that no herd and fast rules for diet can be laid down; but he might have done well to be a little more ex- plicit, We allude to the necessity for frequent changes of diet. All things are not good to all men, and all things are not always good to the same man. This was a point much insisted on by the wise minds of old. Bacon especially commends the advice of Celsus (whom he somewhat sarcastically observes, must have been a wise man as well as a good Physician) that “one of the great precepts of health an lasting” is “‘thata man do vary and interchange contrar: The man who confines his studies Within one unchanging groove will hardly find his intellectual condition so light and nimble, so free of play, £0 capable of giving and re- ceiving, as he who varies them according to his mood, for the mind needs rest and recreation no less than the body; it is not well to keep either always at high pressure. One fixed, unswerving system of diet, with- out regard to needs and seasons, or even to fancy, is not wise. One man has not always the same stomach any more than all men have the same stomach, What is grateful and nour- ishing at one time may be found insipid and even unwholesome at another. Within the lines marked by experience it is well that the love of change, which is natural to all men, should by given full play. A too servile ad- herence to a system which has been fouhd once beneficial in certain conditions may diminish or even destroy its value when those conditions return. The great secret of existence after all is tobe the master and not the slave of both mind and body, and that is best done by giving both free rein within certain limits which, as the old sages were universally agreed, each man must discover for himself. Happy are the words of Addison and happily quoted: “A continual anxiety for life vitiates all the relishes of it and casts a gloom over the whole face of nature, as it is impossible that we should taks delight in anything that we are every moment afraid of losing.” One of the best methods of avoiding that pitiful anxiety—that blood- thirsty clinging to life which 1s, after all. per- haps, not confined to the English middle class— is fo learn within what limite we may safely in- dulge our desire for change, and then freely indulge it within them. PATENTS AND PROGRESS. Marvelous Changes Wrought by In- ventors in Half a Century. From the Inventive Age. One need not be very old to have a distinct recollection of his daily life, its conditions and environments, fifty years ago, when the patent system of the United States was in ite early in- fancy. Then the country was almost entirely agricultural, for our grand career in manufac- tures and the industrial arts was just begin- ning. It virtually began with the patent sys- tem—the creation of the patent office—and it has actually kept pace with the development of thatsystem, so that this magnificent pro- Gress stands as the indisputable result of the system. In other words we owe our splendid achievements in manufactures and the arts to the stimulus that the patent laws have given toinvention. ears ago most of the le of the ta oe clothed from* ihe products of the domestic spinning wheel and hand loom. The itinerant shoemaker went from house to house, setting up his bench and ing his vocation in the farmers’ kitchens, ere were no planing mills; no shops for the manufacture of doors, sashes and blinds. All the work of the builder, including carpenters’ and joiners’ Werks tas done by band. 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