Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1889, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR: OLD AND NEW SHIPS. A Strange Contrast Between Two Mod- els at the Navy Department. ‘THE OLD SHIP OF THE LINE PENNSYLVANIA AND THR MODERN ARMORED VESSKL—HOW NAVAL FIGHTING WAS DONE BEFORE TRE LATE WAR— THE GUNS TO BE CARRIED BY THE MAINE. The methods and means of conducting naval Warfare have undergone great and radical bhanges in the past twenty-five years. The ex- erience of other nations, added to the failures and successes of our own country during the late war, have caused almost a transformation in the system of attack and defense on water. New inventions have come into the field to aid the progress and today the ship of war of a modern make is as totally unlike her sister of a quarter of a century ago as the latter was dif- ferent from the Roman trireme. There has been a constant warfare between the makers of armor and the makers of guns during the past two decades, a conflict for superiority, m which the gun makers have endeavored to build en- gines that would pierce the thickest armor, while their opponents have striven as eagerly to find the limit at which a vessel can be coated with metal to ward off blows without impair- ing her speed or efficiency or endangering her floating capacity. There is, no doubt, such a limit to the advance in this respect, both in armament and gunnery, for while the destruc- tive or staying qualities of a vessel are of high importance her agility and dexterity are still greater considerations. THE PROBLEM IN SHIP BUILDING. So that this is the present problem in war ship building, to construct the fleetest, longest enduring, most destructive vessel possible, each element being brought to the highest point without impairing the others. The wonderful difference between the old and the new navy is nowhere shown to better sdvantage than in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, where two models form one of the most attractive centers of interest in the great building. Visitors are apt to overlook the sec- ond model in their admiration of the first,a glit- tering mass of nickel and steel,a perfect beauty, but those who do look over into the window corner and study the old vessel will find in it, or im the contrast it offers to the new model, an essay on improvement. This older model is of the ship-of-the-line Pennsylvania, and its more modern, much larger rival is of the armored cruiser Maine, now being constructed at New York. The former model is less than one twen- tieth the size of the latter, and it isconstructed in the rough jack-knife carving style of old sailors, while that of the Maine is a perfect likeness of the D peepee vessel, every detail being reproduced in exact proportion down to the smailest item. THE OLD PENNSYLVANIA. The Pennsylvania was launched at Philadel- phia in 1837 and was burned at Norfolk in 1361. She was built of wood and followed the lines of ship builders of the day of her birth. She rose out of the water several fathoms and presented the appearance of a great floating house. She carried a complement of 1,100 officers and men, a small army. This was in conformity with the elder ideas of naval warfare, in which the boarder, with his cutlass and pike, his dare- devil spirit and his paralyzing yell, swarmed over the gunwales of his own ship and upon the decks of the enemy, cutting, slashing, fir- ing, throttling until he had driven the foe be- neath the decks or had been swept back upon his own. Marine murder was performed by sheer force of numbers, while the guns and small arms added to the general demoraliza- tion. Eleven hundred men on board a man-of- war fighting and half insane in the excitement of battle must certainly have been in one an- other’s way, offering fair targets for pistol shots, food for the bursting shell. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY GUNS. This old gessel carried sixteen eight-inch guns and 104 thirty-two pounders. 120 guns in all, presumably smooth bores. This gave her & broadside battery of sixty. muzzles, capable of pouring forth a most destructive fire at short range. She had a displacement or measure- ment, as it was then called, of 3,241 tons, a large ship for that time, and’ she cost the gov- ernment $694,500. She was a sailing vessel, a full-rigged ship, carrying an immense amount of canvas when under sail, -_ showing alee wildering maze of spars and ropes when stripped of her cloth. A single shot pao do tremendons damage if sho were in motion, and under almost any circumstances would proba- = inflict « telling injury. Her wooden sides ered but little resistance even to the com- paratively weak guns of that day, and in an ac- tion she would probably have soon presented the ance of a sieve. With 120 port holes fiddling her sides, the least heeling caused by the recoil of a broadside, the blow of a shot or the action of the waves meant the shipping of water and, if severe enough, her foundering. But she was never in action, and in 1861, when the confederates fired the Norfolk yard, this hulk, which would today be but a play- Sing before the guns, rams, and torpedoes of the modern vessel, went up in smoke. This model was made by Commander John Watters of the navy, and wes presented by his family this year to the government. THE MODEL OF THE MAINE. ‘The contrast between it and that of the Maine is rather confusing, for the dazzle of the newer toy is apt to bewilder the observer so that he neglects to draw parallel. Acard hanging on the great glass cage covering the newer model tells the story. It describes the Maine as an armored cruiser $10 feet long and 57 feet beam, of 6,643 tons displacement. She is ex) ted to steam 17 knots an hour and to develop 9,000 indicated horse power. She will be driven by two screws, propelled in turn by the most modern engines. She is heavily ar- mored and bears three masts, two of them full rigged. Her spars and,ri re reduced to the lowest possible limit and everything about her is kept down to the-range of actual neces- sity. She will be a terror when afloat, with ber battery and ammunition aboard. HER ARMAMENT. Her main battery consists of four -10-inch breech loading rifles and six 6-inch, and her secondary battery will be composed of four 6-pounder rapid fire guns, four 3-pounders, four ‘emillemeters revolving eannon, nine 37- millemeters, 4 gatlings and seven torpedo tubes. This makes, exclusive of the tubes, thirty-five guns, most of which are little more than hand guns, capable of firing at great speed. She will carry two tor lo boats to be launched at short notice from her decks. A fight between the old Pennsylvania and the new Maine would be altogether one-sided. The latter, with her 400 officers and men, could lay a couple of miles from her antagonist and drop explosive shells upon her decks with tive precision, while the other's smooth- Dore guns would be roaring and belching in a frantically futile effort to reach her enemy, Her thousand men and more would fail on every hand like sheep. and at last here would come the monster dashing ahead at five times the of the sailer, and, keeping up the fatal from long guns and rattling small cannon, she would shoot out a strenk of foam from her bows; a few seconds of waiting, a terrific ex- losion aud the mass of wood, ropes and Loeatty would ascend to the skies in the agonies of destruction. 4 COMPARISON OF cost. On the other hand are two lines of figures. ‘The Pennsylvania cost $694,500 and the Maine destructive qualities she will be one hundred times as powerful and serviceable, showing the result of the workings of busy brains and busy hands during the past quarter century, tt A A A He Was Mistaken. ‘From the San Francisco Argonaut. A Chicago undertaker, whom we will call Mr. Z, is avery sympathetic man, and one who sincerely mourns when it becomes his painful duty to take charge of the obsequies of his friends or acquaintances, One freezing cold SEE UW ; H ge i E . set BEE ir } f 5 Written for Tan Evenine Sram, ATTRACTIVE HOMES. A Number of Pleasing Changes in Fur- niture and Decorations. THE ROTATION OF STYLES—RESURRECTING OUR FOREFATHERS’ FURNITURE—PRETTY TABLES AND CONVENIENT WRITING DESKS—HANGING BOOK SHELVES, SIMPLE AND EFPECTIVE. Though the city is dull and deserted toa great extent there will soon be an infusion of new life. September is almost here and that means an end of vacation and idleness to most people in this work-a-day world. Families will soon be coming home from their wanderings, The man of the house will be at once @sorbed in his acenstomed business cares and the house wife, will also find plenty of work awaiting her. The work will probably be partly pleasure, too, for if there is not a new house to be made into a home the old one will need more or less re- furbishing. This will give her woman's taste an opportunity to display itself. In anticipa- tion the shops of all descriptions are getting ready for the hoped-for rush of the next two months. The furniture stores are beginnin; already to show many attractions. The sm: tables are so irresistibly pretty that they need only to be seen to be bought, even though one may not be a real necessity. |A place can always be made for anything that appeals so strongly to one’s fancy. THE CHARMING LITTLE WICKER TABLES are always attractive, even in the natural state of the rattan, but with painting and gilding they are doubly so. The white and gold ones look as if made for the display of the dainty wherewithal for afternoon tea. The pale blue ones with the braided edge touched up in sil- ver are waiting fora place in boudoir or bed room, where this lovely color is always more or less in favor. Others are made with little trays and are suited to the embroiderer's needs—one tray to be filled with soft-tinted flosses and an- other large enough to accommodate a piece of work. Other tables there are in all the fash- ionavle woods, with their highly-polished sur- faces and varied forms, One of old oak is es- pecially pretty. It is low, with a round top of good size, and the legs have a curve that is very graceful. This same table can be ordered in the enameled white finish that is considered so desirable just now. The changes of fashion seem to have a certain rotation and nothing really new appears—only reappears, This fency for white painted furniture is one that prevailed in our grandmother's time, and Isaw the other day a white painted dressing table at least fifty years old. During the time black walnut was the favorite wood and white furniture was ‘out” this same table was ban- ished to the nursery, as many knocks and scratches testify. Now, however, it is proudly brought forth again and will be put in proper condition, so as not to be put to shame by the brand-new set of WHITE BED ROOM FURNITURE with which itis to mate. This white furniture is so extremely pretty and the finish so perfect that it is sure to be popular. The much-orna- mented styles have prevailed so long that the plainness of this is refreshing. The regular set consists of three pieces—bed, bureau and wash stand—but chairs and small tables can be finished to order to correspond. Many odd pieces of white enamel, however, can be found in most of the shops now. The surface will bear washing, as, of course, anything so deli- cate in color should. The oniy ornamentation is in the brass handies and key plates. The prettiest set has the top of the bureau and wash stand projecting six or eight inches be- yond the article itself ateach end. This makes amuch more roomy surface for the many appurtenances considered necessary to the toilet nowadays, To those women who make their bed rooms their special sanctums a writing desk is of the greatest use and convenience, PRETTY WRITING DESKS. The styles are many which are offered this season. The majority of people will not be led off by the white-and-gold craze, but will still cling to the warm-looking cherry or mahogany or the favorite oak in all its shades of antique finish. More pretty desks are made in the [at- ter wood than perhaps any other and certainly more pretty ones that are at the same time in- expensive. The perfectly plain woodén finish of the inside is a most agreeable change from the felt covering, which used always to adorn the writing part of the desk. It was sure, sooner or later, to be moth-eaten or, by being wet, to draw _ from the edges, to the ruin of its good looks and the annoyance of its owner. Now a mat under the inkstand anda blotter under the writing paper is all that ia needed to keep the polished surface from too d wear. A little brass rod, with plush cur- tain hanging from it in front of the pigeon holes, is « pretty addition to any desk. Some- times, however, this cannot be arranged with- out interfering with the opening and shutting of the lid. A woman who has a taste for writ- poy Login | has one also for reading and likes to have her books as convenient as her desk is, HANGING BOOK SHELVES, This, of course, is easily enough managed where one has plenty of space, but in a small room a book case takes up too much of the floor surface. For such needs the hanging book shelves are very useful as well as ornemental, or can be made so by hanging a curtain from a small brass rod at the top. This serves as a protection to the books from dust and adds much to the effect. Oue can sometimes find just what is wanted in the way of ook shelves at the stores, but if not @ carpenter can make what is wished if an idea of size and proportion is given him, A set ordered to correspond with the white furniture spoken of above wouid be charming with a curtain of India silk or plush, in either delicate or decided colors, Shelves of darker woods make avery good showing, too, against wall paper that is enough of a contrast in tone for a background. The bamboo shelves, in sets of various sizes, are used a good deal in this way, both with and without curtains. The wood itself is so light that thin curtains look better than those of a heavy material. A single cure tain, also, is more effective than two. ‘The top may not be very large, but it will serve well to show off some pretty piece of bric-a- brac or a small bust of a favorite author. An apartment of modest pretensions as well as size is being now considered, and a bust does not need to be of bronze or marble to give pleasure to its owner. One of plaster will be quite in keeping with its surroundings and at the same time may be very good from an artistic point of view. As a woman said the other day, “There is no reason why houses should look like barns for want of pretty and inexpensive decoration.” This is especially true of orna- ments, for with so many things to be bought or made at trifling cost there is really no ex- cuse for bare, unattracti rooms. —_>—__ No More Ether for Him. From the Boston Advertiser. Not long ago a young man who had a touch of heart disease entered the office of a Boston dentist. The young man had a bad attack of toothache, also, and in his anxiety to get rid of the offending tooth forgot to inform the dentist that he wished to take the ether slowly and cautiously. Consequently, just as he was about to succumb to the influences of the gas, he re- membered his omission and raised his hand to remove the tube from his mouth. But the ether was a meprp icker than he and his arm fell powerless at his side. He felt a rushing in his brain and a roaring in his ears. He felt, or i ‘k and sudden movement it nothing more. But be continued to think very violently, His brain seemed conscious of existence, but he could neither see, hear nor feel. For all he knew he might have been float i space. He was ignorant wh or merely under he would ha’ where and what seemed to him to be stro’ alive For the space of several hours, he in some way to prove whether he was or dead. A million thoughts of reminis- tion, horror and his br: and then be rose sud. denly with a gasp to find that he was alive, The sweetest sight that he had seen for was that little dental office, wit afternoon's sun P eengrs. in the window, will never take e' r again. ror wonder, antici; yr tien i i 5 i é PS Six ON WHEELS IN FRANCE. A Journey From the Seacoast to Paris on Bicycles. ‘ THE ROAD INLAND FROM DIEPPE—THE MAGICAL EFFECT OF THE NAME AMERICAN—NEGOTIAT- ING FOR BREAKFAST WITH THE AID OF A PHRASE BOOK—PICTURESQUE PEASANT GIRLS, Correspondence of Tux Evanre Stan, Pants, July 22. We were all up bright and early the morning of landing for the invasion of France. The steamer got in shortly after 40’clock and we were soon engaged in the full practice of our “poll-parrot” French. A lot of flowsy-looking gendarmes stood around to see that none of us missed the customs inspection, which was soon over with and we were free to give our attention to coffee and rolls, which we success- fully ordered and devoured, Our bicycles were admitted free of duty upon our “captain” exhibiting his cyclists’ touring club member- ship ticket. For some French reason, which we do not understand, duty is charged on all bicycles coming in by way of Calais and Bou- logne, the other two ports through which the traffic from England generally passes, but not at Dieppe. The road book directed us to around the harbor and turn to the left,” We went around the harbor uutil, like the rat, we found our- selves going in the same hole we “came out at.” Then G—, the most skilled in the language, braced up and sprang some of his best on a blue-bloused workman. The experiment was repeated several times on various other work- men, each time a little more cresvendo than the one preceding and with the addition of a few more words to the dose, But, some wi either G—— couldn't understand them, or they couldn’t understand him, and we seemed no nearer to finding our way out of the town than we were before we began our examin: the natives. At last, after a series of g tions on both sides, punctuated here and there with aword or two, we found the road and bowled away up the valley Parisward. The landscape was quite American, not having that well-kept appearance which generally ch: acterizes the English. The lar tree is in- deed a pop’lar tree in France; for it lined the road and dotted the landseape all the way to aris, 4 DISTANT VIEW OF PARIS, Ascending out of these villages we reached the main road on a high ridge, from which we meadows and fields o! quilt appearance to the picture, which was soft- ened and all its beauties fully brought out by the mellow light of the sun, then close ap- proaching the horizon, On our arrival in the outskirts of Pontoise, the Eiffel tower, fully twenty miles distant, at Paris, became plainly visible, standing ou ainst the sky like a church spire.amid a thin cloud of smoke over- hanging the city. At the hotel in Pon- toise we encountered the first Eng- lish-speaking person wince _leaving Dieppe, a young man whose vocabulary bei insufficient to describe the Swiss roads, he fell back on snorts and gestures, the former indi- cating that they were very bad and the latter that they were simply a succession of hills, In honor of our arrival at Paris—for we were prac- tically there—we treated ourselves to such a swell dinner that G—, after dreaming the usual line of horrible things and nearly falling off his perch several times, awaking with a start on each occasion, finally descended to the floor, where he spent the night in compara- tive comfort, ‘ain, giving @ crazy- THE PEASANT GIRIS, We feel in duty bound to say right here that any one who thinks that the pretty “peasant girls” in “The Chimes of Normandy” and other operas are fair samples of the genuine article had better come over here at once and see the beautiful creature in its natural state, Come and see it with its Chicagos encased in wooden shoes, out of which il NEGOTIATING FOR BREAKFAST. Fifteen miles out from Dieppe, at the village of St, Vaast, we concluded we would fortify ourselves with some more breakfast, as we had gotten a very early start and it was now only 8:30. Dismounting ata typical French country inn, we stood around outside while G— vainly en- deavored to rake together a sufficient quantity of “parle” to bring down something to eat, H— chaffed at this delay, and was for going at once and “ordering something to eat, French or no French. we stole in and ranged ourselves on a bench at one side of the table, while madame, with short skirts, a white cap, and what was intended for a benign smile of welcome, advanced from the other side. With a French-English pocket dictionary and Harper's phrase book we, with much stumbling and frequent reference to our codified French, embarked upon the hazardous task before us. Bread and milk, cheese and a bottle of the cheap country wine was what we wanted, and we ordered them—or thought we did,’ But something was wrong. Madamesmiled blankly and chattered at us. There was a screw loose somewhere in our French. So we tried again, changing the words around and varying the accent, a little, This was Oy scat several times, until a ray of light dawned upon madame. MONSIEUR BECAME SOCIABLE. During this lengthy conversation monsieur, the landlord, who generally sits around all day chatting and drinking patrons while madame manages affairs, was seated at the op- posite side of the room deeply engrossed in a game of dominoes, which, at least in this sec- tion, appears to be a more popular game than cards, Monsieur in the present instance was a short, pudgy old fellow with clumpy wooden- soled Asam blue overalls, of the order vulgarly known as ‘high water, supported by « strap around what would ordinarily have been the waist, but which in his case was a broad ex- panse; a pipe, glasses,a short scrubby mustache, a little cap perched on top of his head as apex to the whole. His guest departed, monsieur arms, its horny hands, its expressionless face surrounded by an unsightly cap, or none at all, striding along with a step like an elephant, and you have a true picture of the only realization of the fair peasant maiden of our visions. She, with the older members of her sex, seem to do the lion’s share of the work in the fields and of the carrying of loads, either slung on her back or hung from the ends of a yoke across her shoulders. So far as we observed, the men do not generally carry loads, except possibly on Saturday nights. The French seem to be afraid of water, and the cheaper wine, with Normandy cider, are very largely consumed in this section. fifty cen- times (10 cents) per bottle, the prevailing price for that ordinarily used, is cheap enough, but some of the stuff encountered is dear at any rice. The cider is not as bad as it might be. ‘or strength and flavor it goes away ahead of the wine, which isn’t saying much for either. In the matter of vehicles there is an even greater CLINGING TO TWO WHEELS than in England. One is almost led to suppose that there is a scarcity of wheels, the bodies of so many carts being as long and as large as those enerally put on four wheels in America. itching in tandem rages violently, and three or four horses are commonly harnessed to carts in this manner. From our point of view there is a great, injudicious and wastetul use of horse power, which needs remedying. The horses are uniformly good-sized, plump, sleek-looking animals, of considerable spirit, guided usually by whip and voice. In this portion of France, at least, the blue blouses of the working class is a prominent feature. This “blue blouse” re- ceives the attention of everybody who writes anything about France, so we mention it lest some one might think it escaped our notice, We found it in large quantities and various shades of blue, some very blue and some old, hitched up his high-water marks, and ambling over in our direction entered into conversation, which speedily became laborious to all concerned. H—— tried to have him point out in our dictionary what he wanted to say, but the dictionary was too deep forhim. In response to some remark of hi as to our being “‘Ong-glay” (English), tered a disclaimer with the information that we were ‘“‘Americang.” His increased interest meee this announcement gave us a pointer which we have ever since used to advantage in provincial France. A courteous indifference as long as the supposition remained that we were only “English” (for it was not natural to suppose that Americans would co: here to knock about the country in ner) was without exception changed into active, friendly interest upon learning that we were from the great sister republic across the water. After doing full justice to our repast some of us sprawled out on the benches and went into a doze, monsieur and madame going about as softly as circumstances—a brick floor and wooden shoes—would permit, so as not to dis- turb sleeping America. Upon our departure madame beamed on us from the doorway while we shook hands with our jolly host and wished them all bon jour—as near as we could get it. After passing through a succession of little vil- lages and towns, the housesin which were for the most part of stone, and the streets narrow and without sidewalks, we reached Forges-les- Eaux, a town of considerable cy akon where we stopped for dinner. Our hotel was designated, according to our English transla- tion, as the “Golden Mutton,” so we ordered mutton chops to see if there was really anything in it, A large sign informed us that English was spoken there, but we failed to dis- cover the person who ran the English-speaking department. Weconcluded that the sign meant that English was spoken there when English- speaking people were staying at the house. By unanimous consent it was left to G— to in- form the proper m of our desire to wash before dinner. G—, after due consideration, said something to the man, who immediately went into a brown study. Thereupon Von mur- mured “lavare” (laver, to wash), going through the motions of rubbing his hands over his face. This comprehensive French secured what we wished in short order. AN ENCHANTING ROAD, The road from Forges-les-Eaux to Gournay- en-Bray was beyond doubt the most perfect in all respects that we have yet encountered: Wide, with a surface hard and smooth as asphalt and lined with tall poplars set closely together, it stretched away for miles withouta bend. As it led over a rising, undulating coun- be we could at many points see it for miles in vance or to the rear, disappearing from view asa white thread against a dark green back- ground. The hedges and walls, which had | ‘r served in a measure to obstruct our view until this point, were now absent, giving usa clear outlook from all sides, Plenty - long coasts, patched and faded, with im enough blue re- maining to be still classed as blue. We hope that the people between here and Dieppe have recovered from our pronunciation of the names of the towns and villages they have known since childhood, but which they failed to recognize when mentioned by us, We fell to pronouncing as unlike the way the words looked as ible, and in that way managed occasionally to get within a few hundred yards of correct nunciation. It was fun for us and we think it must have been for =. ———--+—___ AMIABLE BARBARIANS, Anecdotes Told About Tolstol and Meli- koff. Theodore Child, in Harper's Magazine. From the czar down to the humblest mujik the Russians are more or less barbarians froin the point of view of the refined west, but cer- tainly most amiable barbarians so far as for- eigners are concerned. Their hospitality knows no limits; no trouble is too great when itis a question of obliging a foreign visitor; but, charming as they are, you are constantly being reminded of the wildness of their real under- lying nature by the strange contrasts of deli- cacy and brutality, of civilization and bar- barism, which their daily life offers, To hear the Russians talk about the unwritten conte: porary history of their social and national life is like listening to the stories of the “Arabian Nights.” The true narrative of Skobeloff’s career and death, and the true narrative of the circumstances of the assassination of the late czar, are for more thrilling and extraordi- nary than print has ever told, Asanexample of the strange contrasts of real Russia we will cite two anecdotes that were related to us by a distinguished official, whose intention was certainly not to throw dust in our eyes, or even to astonish us beyond measure. ‘The conversation happened to turn upon Gen, Loris Melikoff, the famous chief of the dreaded “third section.” The emperor, we were told by our informant, had given Loris Melikoff un- bounded power to act against the nihilists and had virtually created him vice emperor, as Melikoff himself used to say. Now, Melikoff had discovered that one of the leading nihilist chiefs was in the habit of frequently visiting Count Tolastoi, the novelist, and one day he went out to Tolstoi’s country house. Before the visitor had announced himself Tolstoi ree- ognized him and said: “You are Loris Melikoff, chief of the third section. Do you come to see me officially or as a private man? If you come officially, here are search; open everything. You aro ‘I come not officially,” replied Melikoff. “Very good,” answered Talstoi; and calling two ane ak to them, “Throw this man ouse!”” eter ol Tolstoi to the letter, and off to woot his treatment, for in this way Tolstoi is a mightier man even than a father — czar.” In the eyes of oy people he 1s an exceptional being, ibe menten af Lv Malte teeaght mention 0: 6 Q anecdote, : a i: ih Estes AUGUST 31, 18 Cad gpeld theme ago the | The AMONG THE GLACIERS, An Interesting Description of the Won- ders of Alaska. A WASHINGTONIAN ON HIS TRAVELS—SITEKA AND TTS OFFICIALS AXD INHABITANTS—THE LAXD QUESTION AND THE MINING IXDUSTRY—TEE WONDERS OF GLACIER BAY. Correspondence of Tae EvExrxo STAR. Graces Bax, Atasza, Aug. 11, 1889, We have “done” Sitka, tne capital of the “district of Alaska,” as this immense acquisi- tion from Russia, nine times as large as New England, is called, in the enactment approved May 17, 1884, which has given it all the civil organization that it possesses. There reside the governor, judge, marshal, district attorney, clerk of court, (who is ex officio secretary, treasurer and recorder of deeds), collector of customs and one of the four United States commissioners on whom devolves the adminis- tration of affairs according to the laws of the state of Oregon, which were extended over the district by said enactment. We spent part of two days in Sitka and met most of the above- mentioned officials and they appeared zealous in the discharge of their duties, but greatly — for want of sufficient appropriations and further enactments by Congress to meet the needs of the increasing population and the A rok encies of the various interests that are @ foothold here, THE LAND Laws that prevail in all the states and territories where the government has public domain do not extend over this district except in respect of mining claims, whence we have the unique fact that at the dateof Gov. Swineford’s last annual age there were only twenty-one per- fected titles to land, embracing lesé than 100 acres in the whole of Alaska, and these existed at the time of the acquisition, and no provis- ion has yet been made for surveying any por- tion of the public lands. The population a year ago was estimated at 6,500 whites and 44,- 500 natives, including about 5,000 Aleuts and Creoles, and the export of fish, oil, ivory, furs, lumber, gold and silver for that year, at over $9,000,000. ‘MINING INDUSTRY, The work of mining the precious metals has only just begun, and “prospectors” are report- ing new “finds” in many localities and are the forerunners of a hundred new mining camps soon to spring up. The act ot Congress organizing this ‘“dis- trict” prohibits the importation, manufacture, and sale of intoxicating liquors except for medicinal, mechanical or scientific purposes, and the collector, with such assistants and such facilities as are allowed him, is doing his utmost to enforce the law, if we may judge by the seizures made by them on our ship, and by the fact that we have not seena drunken white man or Indian during our trip. Though Sitka has but about 1,500 or 2,000 inhabitants, two- thirds of whom are Indians, it has.a great deal of history and no little of romance associated with it, SITKA. It is situated on Baranoff island and looks out on a beautiful bay, dotted over with thickly- wooded islands having fringes of rich, yellow moss at their bases, the whole being overlooked by Mount Vestovia and Mount Edgecomb as guardians of this Alaskan acadia, In the fore- ground stands the now deserted “castie” where in | income days resided the Russian governor and whose wails have witnessed many soones of gay and gorgeous feast and revelry. Near by are the governor's residence, the barracks and Custom house, and beyond stands the double-domed Greek church, the one preten- tious edifice of the place and in which the cus- todian showed us, for the consideration of half 8 dollar each, richly wrought vestments, bejew- eled mitre and crowns, and some meritorious paintings lavishly overlaid with silver and gold ornamentation. We also visited the mission boarding school where are being educated about one hunderd and thirty Indian and four or five Russian youths of both sexes, and wit- nessed their exercises, including a creditable performance by a brass band. Almost as a mat- ter of course it rained night and day during the whole of our visit at Sitka, for the record of fifty years shows the average number of days per annum on which rain or snow has fallen there to be 198, while some years it has been as high as 264, the amount of precipitation being about eight feet, with a winter temperature scarcely, if ever, below 15 degrees above zero, and ranging from 48 degrees to 76 degrees in summer, IN GLACIER Bay. Leaving Sitka yesterday afternoon and stop- ping only at Killisnoo, where, in the evening, the Indians, in rich home-made blankets and full paint and feather, improvised a war dance for our benefit. We found ourselves at day- light this morning feeling our way through the ice-flow that fills upper of Glacier bay, and a little later were delighted, to use the mildest expression, when the rain ceased and the mists cleared away, so that we have had a fay ble day for seeing, clambering upon and wondering at the great Muir glacier, one of the largest in the world accessible to tourists, and compared with which those of the Alps are like ms forces and the “Mer de Glace” is but a baby sleeping iu the arms of Mount Blanc. I will not attempt a description of its magni- tude and beauty, but will only say that before landing we sailed up to within a few hundred yards of its deep blue face over a mile broad and nearly three hundred feet in sheer height and watched huge masses of solid ice come kh down from its bold front like the falling of immense cathedral towers, then heard the sound like deep peals of thunder and saw the water beneath splash its spray high in mee = = boil and surge as the great fallen , weighing hundreds of tons. came slowly to "the ay From some of these bergs we replenished our imal high enough over its moraines and out onto its margin to gain mio se of observation from which to overlook its ridged and broken surface, with lakes of clear water in vast receptacles of tur- quoise or lapislazuli formed by its Soup Sevures and to hear the rushing of sub-glacial rivers deep down under our feet. From the meas- urements made by Prof. Wright, who spent the month of a in explorii gla- cier, it appears that the average move- ment of this immense ice-stream was forty feet (seventy feet in the center and ten feet in the in) and the amount of ice and sediment carried by it each day into the waters of the in- let was about 140,000,000 cubic feet, In the sights and experiences of today the jleasure and wonderment of our trip to ve culminated, and we shall now turn our faces towards other scenes well satisfied that 8. B. B, The Man With a Grievance, From the Journalist. As regularly as the seasons roll around and summer succeeds spring we hear from the man who believes the American press is going to the dogs. He willtob up in Wi New York or elsewhero as certain as Hf 8 E E Hy E 4 H F & 8 F j = un SESE tr z é i 3 j i sete [ ; i i F x F i i i d FE) i 7 | t it eee ey he ees gars 89-TWELVE PAGES | HOME MATTERS. SEABORABLE SUOGESTIONS FOR PRACTICAL HOUSE Frames and fittings, brush them with camel's hair brush wet in water in which onions have A Few Daors or Anmonza in a cup of warm rain water, carefully applied with a wet sponge, will remove the spots from paintings and chro- ‘mos, Put Tea axp Corrrz Awar in air-tight recep- tacles as soon as they are brought to the house. They lose much of their flavor by standing un- covered, Ir 18 4 Goop PLax To Go Over THe BepstEaps before beginning any of the cleaning, as delay in these days when the sun has become strong is apt to increase the trouble there. Praster Busts axp Srarverres May BE Cixsxep, when it is not desired to paint them, by dipping them into thick liquid starch and drying: ; and when the starch is brushed off the dirt is brushed off with it, Morus ane Vexr Destavcrive to the cloth and felt used ina piano, and may be kept out of it by placing a lump of camphor, wrapped in soft paper, in the inside corner, care being taken to renéw it from time to time. Curt Savce.—Twelve tomatoes, poeled and chopped fine, six peppers, one large onion, one cup of cider vinegar, three large spoonfuls of sugar, one large spoonful of salt and one table- spoonful each of cinnamon, cloves and all- spice. Aut Kxow How Soon Cuerse dries up and is unfit for the table, but this same waste cheese can be made as good as new and very nice looking, by grating it fine ona horac-radish grater. Prepare only as much as is needed for immediate use, and it will be found good enough for anybody. Bnrowxep Hasuxp Potators.—Pare six good- sized potatoes and chop them fine, put them in baking dish, just cover with milk, cut a table- spoonful of butter and put over the top, season With a teaspoonful of salt and a salt spoonful of biack pepper, bake in a quick oven thirty-five minutes, Powprrep Borax Mrxep Wirs a Lirrie PowbrRED Svcan and scattered about in spots will prove certain death to cockroaches and to ants, and if that is not handy a few drops of spirits of turpentine sprinkled here and there Will be as effective in the case of these nuis- ances as it is in the case of moths, Waex Lixex Has Turnep Yeurow cut upa pound of fine white soap into a gallon of milk and hang it over a fire in a wash kettle or boiler, When the eoap has completely melted put in the linenand boil it half an hour, have ready a lather of soap and water, wash the linen in it, after which rinse in two cold waters with a very little blue in the last. A New Beproup (Mass.) Womax Reports a new and, it is claimed, a successful cure for diphtheria, A little nephew of hers was sick with the disease and the child’s mother was told to give him a tea made from the bark of the root of white birch. She did so and the white coating of the throat and mouth began rapid to loosen and come off, an entire recovery fol- lowing. The tea may be used as a drink or a gargle, or held in the mouth, Iris Sam Tuat a Prece or Crora Satur- atep Witu Torrextixe hung in a closet where there are moths or ina room where flies are troublesome will kill the moth-miller and banish the flies. Twenty drops of carbolic acid evap- orated from a hot shovel will go far to banish flies from a room, while a bit of camphor gum the size of a walnut held over a lamp till it is consumed will do the same for the active mos- quito. Owe Cay Have a Nice Gass or Sopa Water at home any hot evening. Thus: Put intoa cool glass four or five tablespoonfuls of fruit jelly (plum or cherry is very nice), then dis- solve twenty grains of tartaric acid in a half glass of jelly. Next dissolve twenty-five grains of common soda in half glass of cool water and pour into the glass containing the other ingre- dients, and over it will come, effervescing as lively as could be wished. Lame Cumexevs Suoutp Never pe WasnEp in soapsuds or clear water. If acloth wet with alcohol was used for this purpose, or what is much cheaper and always at hand, kerosene oil, there would be a perceptible falling off in the manufacture and sale of pchimneys, It is really surprising how seldom chimneys will break and what a fine ish will be given them by cleansing in kerosene or alcohol. Poacuep Eoos Ix Purr Paste.—Poach four to six eggs, trim and let them get quite cold. Prepare the following mixture: A teaspoonful of anchovy paste, worked smoothly into some thick double cream, as much cayenne as will lie on the top of a five-cent piece, and a squeeze of lemon juice, added slowly, so as not to curdle the cream. Work the ingredients into thecream mixture, inclose each egg. with someof the cream mixture, in cover of puff paste, Sauce Piquanre.—Pound together in a mor- tar a tablespoonful of capers and a tablespoon- ful of parsley; then a tablespoonful of freshly made mustard and the yelks of three hard- boiled cogs pound these until they are prop- ly mixed; wash, bone and force ha eve half — — anchovies; to _ ida tablespoon: vinegar, two or olive oil, a pee porno y very fine; add these to the former ingredients, and when about to be used stir them all into half « pint of drawn butter or strong beef gravy. A Dexiciovs Desert.—Sponge cream fur- nishes a very delicate and easily made dessert. The ingredients are: One pint of fresh milk, three tabl mnfuls of Cox's gelatine, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, three eggs. Put gela~ tine into cold milk, let it stand a little while: put on stove and bring milk to boiling pvint; then add the sugar and yelks of eggs, which have been well beaten together. Remove from the fire and stir in the whites, which have also been beaten stiff. Add a little salt and flavor to suit and pour into mok et first, so the cream will turn out easily. To Keer Icz mm Tue Sick Room, cut a piece of flannel about nine inches square and secure it by ligature about the mouth of an ordinary tumbler, so as to leave the c depression of flannel within the tumbler to about half its depth. = the — cup 80 sage ag ae of ice may be preserved many hours, if Page ed flannel from four to five juare be used as @ loose cover to th cup. Cheap flannel with comparatively open meshes through is ferable, as the water easi it dnd the ice is kept quite ary-, To Crystattize Pracues.—Take the yellow cling, pare and cut them in half to free them the ‘tnet Machines, be Al rian wh Cte, A st Al Taw: No. 1304, folio 496 et By August 17, 1806, and. feepectively in Liber 1 District of Columbia. 1 as the . FOUR xe described real estate in the city of to wit: Origiual ‘bese houses will be wold trict of Colm! im square Ko. lot ‘attached, and a vacant alley houses fronting ak PCR eae i + AN Pear witaerks ‘Virtue of two deeds of REE TWO-STORY BRI MW STREETS Sc T. TO WIDE ALLEY, trust, dated respect! 14,1888, « bern folic 19 et seq. the land recunde for 1 as surviy Tr Surviving Trustee and V Wises wit SOES0 oud tn Seaton ‘Terms of sale: One-third of (or all cash at option of purchaser.) ‘Terms of sale to be complied within ten day of ise resell and cost be offered tor sale ‘twenty ac Yilage ot F well watered consider and neo a never-tai Fond, churches and echout for aby one who may W small lots, ‘Terms: One-fourth of purchase time of execution of paj payments, one, two an otes to bear of trust on the property. on day of sale. Cost of conveyance to purchaser, E Trustee reserves mght to Purchaser in default VALUABLE TRACT OF REAL STATE WI e ‘tion at TWELYV wore or less, te centrally is Church, Va, improved outbuildings a ing days from at risk F. HOLTZMAN, Trustee aud Surviving T 1521 F st nw, r L THIRD DA\ 01 jand. consisting of od in the ube ta tial beautitully, property i tract pring, | Thi one of the most des:rable locations in the corporation of Fails Church, bein convenient to rail- and affords a» rare c to subdivide and sell im to be paid at rm, and balance in three equal three years from day of legal rate of interest, secured b sale. deed #100 to be paid ax» bonus paid by the ALa0, at TE! au2s-or* FPHOMAS DOWLING, auctioneer, OF A COAL YARD AT AUCTION, EM. FECTS BRACING ABOUT SIXTY REE GOOD EF COAL, TH CARTS, DAYTON W WAGON, FOUR SETS On MONDAY MORNT commencing at TEN O'CLOCK, on SAME DAY, all the raonal property consisting of Household and Farming implements, tot of Hay, and “im x © . hot here mentioned. Mor Mi ~ly wing Machine, =} ALMOND BIR: Palle Church, Ve TONS OF CHESTNU WORK Z EPTEMBER | 1889, at TEN O'CLOCK, I shall sell, at the coal y 10th-street wharf, the entire contents, without ree serve. Messrs, Clarke & Son, who are reti from business, represent the above stuck to be in fine coudi- Terms: Cash, auls-dts tw ____ THOMAS DOWLING, Auct,_ HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, NINE FINE YOUNG DRAUGHT HORSES, ONE GOOD DRIVING HORSE AND FOUR" FIN YOUNG MULES, BEING THE PROPERTY 1 MESS. WITH, QUACKENBUSH & ©O., SEPTEMBER THIRD, 1889, AT M., at the stabk of Beckwii ween 26th ‘and Suu Quackenbush & Co., P street between Streets northwest. f wil ine Young Draught + Fine Yount Mules. 1 Fine Young Drivi ‘This stock is A No, “ats eu jorses, Horse. » and will be sold without re- Serve, present owners having, ‘Terms cash, no further use for them, THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. F[HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. “ TRUSTEES’ SALE OF CHOICE SUBURBAN REA’ ESTATE, TWENTY-FIVE FEET ee c 8T By virtue of a di of the District of Columt Retain Pa sitet ing -descri entate, Hall and same is of record in the of Colum! T, MERIDIAN HILL eed of trust recorded M. in Liber 1236, folio 202 et seq., one of t . to wit Lot numbered eight (8), in block numbered FRONT, 0; "eo ‘will well at public EDNESDAY SEP TEM O'CLOCK P.M. th The west one ivan's subdivision of Meridian Hill os the ¢ surveyors office of the District Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase money in cash, balance in two equal months from date of sale, ymente in sit and twelve sorbear interest at 6 ber cent per annum, to be secured by deed of trust on said Lot or all cash, at 8100 at the th option une bly with the terms of of the purchaser. . A deponit of je. If the purchaser fails tocom- wale within ten days from the te the property will be resold at his risk and comt, after ten days wotice of such resale in s newspaper: published in said oe S TOWNSEND) 2, HELLEN, § Trustees, 8019.23,94,30,318e2,3,4 HUMAS DUWLING, Auctioneer. TRUSTEES SALE OF bw iG HOUSE ALUABLE LOT LLIN No. 1600 SIXTEE! STREET NORTHWEST. By virtue of a certain deed of trust dated the 9th re of August, 1888, and duly recorded in liber No. 1330, folio 346, ope of the land recorus of the trict of Columbia, and at the in frows of the promioam, 83 'the in saleee, to the THURSDAY, THE TWELFTH DA be Issey, at VE GOLOCK P.M piece or parcel oa tyes. sud being tn the city ington, and described upon the said city as lot number subdivision plum bia, and being known mud plat or pi one in John run- ning thence west along the north side of Q «treet 110 feet to the east line of au alley 10 feet wide, thence north with the east line of the said alley 34 feet to the northwest corner of the said lot, thence cast 110 feet to the west line of Sixteenth street west, and south 34 feet to the bee: ‘The aus house with of the within ° usual modern conven! erms of sale: Fifteen thousand dollars purchase money in cash on the day mu (10) days thereafter, and the balance in ‘@ bandsome brick dwell- oF two equal installments, paysble within one and two years trom the day of respectively, with interest Usereon at the rate of six (Gy percent yer annum from said date, and sec: All couveyanci cost. Adepont of $500 will be requi property is sold. Ifterinsof sale are by a first deed of trust on hase money iuay be y ot ame. within ten (10) days after the day of ssle the trustee reserves the right to resell the property at cost and days’ ms of defaulting purchaser atter avo JORN GOODE, Trasteo, Vesiape BROS, Auctioneers, RUSTEE'S SALE OF MEST BRICK DWE WO-STORY AND Ba‘ NO. 612 PENNS! fuly recorded in Liber ANIA AVENUE EAST. By_yirtue of adeed of trust ai No. 77¥, folio 192, one of the Land Rec for ict of Colunbia, 1 will sell on TUESDAY, TH. THIKD DA’ PAST FIVE eacribed City of Washington, District of Columbia, to wit. Lot r SEPTEMBER, A. D. LOCK P. M., in front real 18d9, at HALE. of the estate, situated in the numbered forty-one (41) of Marceron's subdivision of jot 7,in ware numbered ei; « hundred and seventy- i three (873), torether with all the improvements, way easements, ' rights, appertaining. Ti privil hereditaments to the same ‘avenue and cs. appui rtenances a lomxing or in auy wise Lot ts improv & two-story, basement Brick Dwelling, aud. has s front om Pennsylvania Terms: One-third notes to bear 6 per cent int ally from day of sale, trust mises sold, or tou, D.C, GUL, 8,15,22,28,29,30,31 afrout on C street cash ; balance in one and two yeara, and. to be accured by dieed of kee 23 ADIES WHO REQU} Des Fetablished can be coealted dally, 404 Cnt, betveen Prompt treatment. tial, s nage _MEDICAL, & Dw. Consultation strictly contden- for ladies, 85. Toums: . Kemedy, ¢ ry THE SERVICES x yancian wuld it 6, bet. i arse 436 and Cth Sop. m.; with