Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1889, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDA % 2 3}, NOVEMBER 2. 1889-TWELVE PAGES. : The Social Side of the Contest for the Speakership. enna Sketches of the Women Upon Whom Important Social Duties May De- volve—The Helpmeets of the Men Who Are Candidates For the Chair. —_—.__. For the first time since the adjournment of the Forty-third Congress on March 4, 1875, save for the brief interim of the two years of the Forty-seventh Congress, the constituent assem- bly of the people in the national legislature has fallen under the domination of a republi- ean majority. The control of the organization will therefore pass into the hands of anew set of leaders. The biennial race for the speaker- ship, which has been a matter of preparation and speculation ever since the verdict of the People settled the political complexion of the House, is about to begin in earnest. The individual preferences of members have al- Teady singled out the men who will reccive support in the republican caucus, where the Bominee will be chosen. The public services of the gentlemen who stand within the range of probability in the selection of a speaker are ol p onaomaylmalyrh family and social sur- roundings they interest the world of fashion- able life at the capital, as the presiding lady of the household of the Speaker iv regarded as the leader in the social circle of the Kepresenta- tiv. a tant state of Maine had occupied the r’s chair in the person of James G. laine for three Congresses, and for six sea- sons Mrs. Harriet Stanwood Blaine had done the honors of the Speaker's home, when the gavel passed into the possession of ‘the demo- erats. and Michael C. Kerr of Indiana received it from their hands as Speaker. It is the wish ofalarge share of the republicans of the House that the gavel will go back to Maine in the person of Thomas B. Reed, who has had the repeated complimentary vote of the repub- lican misority. MRS. REED. The name of Mrs. Reed is not new to the fashionable life of the capital. Her distin- ished husband entered the arena of national gislation in the Forty-fifth Congress after various service in his native state up to the post of attorney general. During the twelve eara since her husband entered Congress Mrs. Reed has passed the winters in Washington, and while not very aggressive in her social methods she has enjoyed wide popularity among her lady acquaintances. Mrs. Reed. whose maiden name was Susan Merrill, was born in_ Center Harbor, Me. Her father, Rev. S. H. Merrill, was one of the most eloquent pulpit orators of the Congregational ehurch in that section of New England. The brilliant mental gifts of his daugnter gave her father great pride, and it was one of his pleas- antest tasks to give his personal attention to her education. In 1870 the talented Miss Susan Merrill became the wife of Thomas B. Reed, who, from a distinguished career at the bar, had just entered the office of attorney general of his state. Their marriage took place at Portland and that veautiful city on the shores of Casco bay became their home. Mrs. Reed is exceedingly well read, and with her cultivated and refined nature, happy flow of conversation and ready adaptability to social situations and emergencies, would adorn the social side of the chief office of the House of Representatives with great success, At the drawing rooms of the ladies of the hotel in which she has long resided Mrs. Reed has always been prominent, and particularly on account of the wide fund of information which enlivens her conversation and for her kind- Ress of manner. Mrs. Reed is a woman of me- dium height, with dark hair and eyes. Her beautiful daughter Catherine. or Kitty as she is affectionately known, is a sweet girl just en- tering her teens. The family and surround- ings of the Representative of the Portland dis- trict of Maine are a reflex of the very best phases of American home feeling and rational social enjoyment. MES. M'KINLEY. When the war for the Union began Wm, Mc- Kinley, jr.,entered the twenty-third Ohio volun- teers. When he left the service at its close he wore the straps of a captain and carried the honors of brevet major. Hewas then just twenty- one yearsofage. He begancivil pursuits by the study of law at Canton and started forth in his career as aman, which in the space of twenty- three years has made his name worthy of con- spicuous consideration for the first place in the gift of the representatives of the people in the popular branch of Congress. m the very beginning of his career Lawyer McKinley made Ida Saxton. one of the bright- est young ladies of Canton, his wife. Her grandfather, John Saxton. for sixty years filled the editorial chair of the Ohio Repository, which he founded in 1815, It was mentioned with considerable — of long venerable editor that in Septer announced to his readers the defeat at Waterloo which led to the downfall of Napoleon I, and in September, 1870, the defeat at Sedan which led to the overthrow of Napoleon IIL The late James A. Saxton, the father of Mra. McKinley. was alsoa man of influence in poli- ties and financial and business circles, being a banker. The joys of early wifehood were overshadowed by the loss of two children. The shock to one of Mra. McKinley's sensitive nature was too great. Her health gave way and for some years she has been a confirmed invalid. The devotion of Willian McKinley to his invalid wife presents an interesting picture of the tender instincts of the man. Owing to her inability to undergo the exer- tion required by the activities of fashionable ayeties Mrs. McKinley never goes into society. fier lady friends, however, do not fail to enjoy the sunshine of her lovable character in the retirement of her own apartments. Although she never appears in public she takes an ab- sorbing interest in public affairs. In her girl- hood she was carefully educated and inherited from her grandfather a keen interest in news- Papers, and is probably one of the best posted women in Washington in current information as weil as in knowledge gathered from books. Mrs. McKinley when in the bloom of health was @ very beautiful woman. Her delicate figure and poetry of manner, together with her mental vigor and information, seemed to fit her for social leadership. But even in her ill- health she bears all the traces of her younger loveliness. MRS, CANNON. Joseph G. Canuon is the senior of all his com- petitors for the sperkership in point of con- essional service. He acel the House in ¢ Forty-third ( and has been a prom- inent figure in its deliberations ever since. Mrs. Cannon was born in Canfield, Ohio, in the old Connecticut purchase. Her father went there in the early days with the Whittleseys, Wa worths (her mother’s name) and Bostwicks, who led a colony of settlers from Hartford. Her maiden name was Mary Reed. Her ancestors settled at the place of her birth. One of her father’s companions in his youthful days was Elisha Whittlesey, who represented the famous Connecticut reserve district in Congress, and was succeeded by Joshua R. Giddings, then by honest “Old Ben” Wade, and after him by Gar- fiel T1862 Mr. Cannon, who was then state's attor- ney in Illino’ rried Miss Reed, whom he met while she was visiting relatives in Illinois. Mrs, Cannon has taken an active part in Wash- ington social life ever since her first arrival with her husband as the Representative of the Champaign Llinots district, sixteen years ago. In her social duties she is now assisted by her two beautiful daughters, Ellen E. who graduated at Wellesley in 1886, and Frances M. Cannon, who graduated at one of the best finishing schools at Washington in the summer of 1885 and made her debut last season. Mrs. Cannon is a handsome woman and her daughters are among the most attractive young ladies in official society. They are much sought for in fashionable circles, MRS, BURROWS. At the Kalamazoo, Michigan, academy less than thirty yearsago was a teacher by the name of Julius Cesar Burrows, who came from Erie county, Pa., where he was born. Among the pupils at the academy was a pretty, bright, vivacious young girl named Mary Peck. Her father, banker, settled in Kala- mazoo county in '1837, immediately after the admission of the territory of Michigan into the Union. The outbreak of the rebeilion found the teacher at the academy casting aside his books and buckling on his sword in defense of the Union. Atthe close of the war he entered the practice of law and was made prosecuting attorney in 1865. In the same year he married his former pupil. In 1873 Representative and Mrs. Burrows made their entree into Washington life, the one in the arena of congressional debate and the other among the ladies in the circles of official life. Mrs. Burrows’ striking beauty and her eculiarly winning manners at once won for er great popularity. Mra, Burrows is tall and slender, with luxuriant, soft, wavy hair, spark- ling eyes and a rosy, brunette complexion, She is one of the brightest conversationalists in the polite circles of the capital and with vivacity of language she has a winning animation of manner. During the intermission of a Con- gress in their residence at Washington the ab- sence of Mrs. Burrows was as much regretted in society as was that of Mr. Burrows in the House. In addition to her social traits Mrs. Burrows possesses much artistic genius. The produc- tions of her brush possess great merit. Her | work on canvas is beautifully executed. Her | touch on plush and art materials is also much admired. Much of her art work has been con- verted into contributions to the charitable terprises, in which she takes a great interest. Mrs. Burrows holds weekly drawing rooms dur- ing the gay season, which are always thronged by the representative ladies and gentlemen of the highest classes of official and unofficial society. De. B.B.K. ae HOME MATTERS. SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS TO PRACTICAL HOUSE KEEPERS—HINTS FOR THE DINING Room, PANTRY AND KITCHEN—ECONOMICAL IDEAS AND PRACTICAL RECIPES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. To Crean tHE INstpe or Fryina Pans rub with a hard crust of bread and wash in hot water, mixed with a little soda, Pur Tea anv Corree Away in air-tight re- ceptacles as soon as they are brought to the house. They lose much of their flavor by re- maining uncovered, Strong Jars ron Larp and greasy pie plates can be cleaned by boiling them for two hours in a kettle with ashes or sal soda, Let them cool in the water. For 4 Covan boil one ounce of flaxseed ina pint of water, strain and add a little honey, one ounce of rock candy, and the juice of three lemons; mix and boil well. Drink as hot as possible, No Marrer How Lange the spot of oil, any carpet or woolen stuff can be cleaned by apply- ing buckwheat plentifully andcarefully brush- ing it into a dustpan after a short time, and putting on fresh until the oill bas all disap- peared. Is Oyster Srew or anything where one wishes to use the liquor let it come toa boil so as to take off the scum. Never boil oysters, as it toughens them, simply let them come to the boiling point. It should simply boil around the edges. Warre Hewrorroret Perrume.—Vanilla, one and one-fourth drachms; orange-blossom oil, ten drops; cherry-laurel oil, five drops; musk, three-fourths of a grain; benzoine, six drachms; rectified alcohol, one pint; mix, let stand two days. Wauen Decanters axp Carares become so discolored inside that shot or fine coals will not cleanse them fill the bottle with finely chopped potato skins, cork tightly, and let the bottle stand for three days, when the skius will fer- ment. Turn out and rinse. The bottle will be as bright and clean as when new, Srarxs From Taste CLorus.—Diluted oxalic acid, if applied and washed out quickly, will remove the stains without injuring the fabric. If allowed to remain but a moment after the acid is applied the table cloth will, of course, be ruined. For washing out the acid use clear, cold water, Wuew Liven gas Tunnep Yetrow cut up a pound of fine white soap into a gallon of milk and hang it over a fire in a wash kettle or boiler. Wheh the soap has completely melted put in the linen and boil it half an hour, have ady 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, Rice 4 La Macanont.—Arrange in a baking dish a layer of boiled rice, season with salt, pepper and bits of butter, then athin layer of grated cheese, and so on alternately, using cheese for the top. Moisten well with rich milk or, still better, cream, and strew the top with rolled crackers. Bake for twenty minutes or until the top is alight brown. Asout as Goop a Way as Ayr to clean black silk isto take ammonia and alcohol—one part ammonia to three of alcohol—add half as much hot water, and laying the silk over an old sheet fold in four thickpe: rub with a black rag or sponge dipped ih the mixture. Have ready some old broom handles, curtain poles or other round, smooth sticks, and wrap the silk on them as tightly and smoothly as pos- sible. Let it dry in Position, it will need no ironing. Vian axp Macaront Pare.—Chop two cup- fuls of cold boiled macaroni fine. Mix with it a beaten egg, and line « buttered mold—a plain one—with the macaroni. Inside this place the remains of cold veal, chopped small, well seasoned and moistened with gravy. Spread the macaroni over the top of the meat, cover the mold tightly, —— itinapot of boiling water and boil an hour and @ half. out in a platter and pour gravy or drawn butter over it. ~ A Gneat Dear or Atreytron should be given to the proper airing of the mattress every morn- ing, and at least once a week a stiff brush should remove the dust which will accumulate, even in the best ordered house, under the tufts of cotton, or the bits of leather, or whatever used to tack the mattress with, Attention the dressing room dust cannot be avoided, but it may be at least changed, and it need sot be allowed to accumulate. “A Womax Can Turow out with » faster than ® man can throw in with a shovel,” and perhaps there is an equal amount of truth in this, “Economy counts nowhere so well as in the kitchen.” On this basis a crumb of bread, ouly one possibly, is saved ina stone jar thor- oughly sweet and clean. In a day or two will be more crumbs from the loaf in slicing, or there that will surprise the thrifty keeper when she views the accumulated a week. f ROADS ABOUT WASHINGTON. George Alfred Townsend Proposes That the Government Build Turnpikes. THE MARYLAND BERKSHIRE HILLS—HOW THE NA- TIONAL CAPITAL I8 ISOLATED FROM THE RICH AND PICTURESQUE REGIONS ADJACENT TO IT—THE MILITARY IMPORTANCE OF GOOD WINTER ROADS. The important subject of opening winter roadways north and west of Washington city, which is now agitating many minds, caused Star writer to see Mr. George Aifred Town- send, who has been active in the concerns and growth of this capital and region for twenty years and who has written several literary works, such as‘‘Tales of the Chesapeuk aty of Catoctin,” “The Entailed Hat,” and “Wash- mgton Outside and Inside,” to extend the pub- lic’s acquaintance with the Maryland section beyond the District of Columbia. Mr, Townsend is nearly forty-nine years of age and has been thirty-three years connected with affairs, literature and the press. He weighs 205 pounds, rides horseback and drives long distances and has his principal enemy in the gout, wnich does not affect the flow of in- formation, suggestion and depiction in his work, Last summer he traveled from the mouth of the Loire, in France, to Stockholia and St. Petersburg, and has been, since his re- turn, looking at Washington with the fresh eyes of one rho took up its battles nearly alone of hee correspondents when it started out of the slough of despond seventeen years ago. THE UPPER MARYLAND COUNTRY. He was asked the following pertinent ques- tion: “Do you ee as much reason to expect 1m- provement in the upper Maryland couniry as you claimed would be the improvement of this capital city when you formerly lived here ?” “More reason, “The artificial obstacles which embarrassed the growth of Washington no longer exist. The chief of these were complete indifference to the capital by the nation or hostility to any congressional expenditure here and the want of a metropolitan population to replace the old southern society. The whole country 1s now interested and proud in its capital and turning toward it with the instinct of a nation. No Senator. Representative or President will now get any support at home by oppressing Washington. None of the local holders-back of its destiny can ever again have the momentary importance they assumed when it was striving like Laocoon to De from its coils, The treatment of Washington was long like that of the son of Louis XVI by the inhuman Jacobins: because he was the only heir by law they mocked him in his mother’s name and apprenticed him to a cob- bler to be starved, but his sorrows made more friends than if he had reigned. I saw ia Europe this summer the principal stirrer-up of the sensation against Nastingion —a sad, wandering quantity. I saw last summer Mr. Hugh J. Jewett, who presided over the last of the three investigations of the District of Columbia, riding in his carriage through the highland parts of Maryland, where he has come to make his only home. I also saw in Europe Mr. John G. Moore, the surviving partner of John O, Evans, who was the chief quantity at- tacked in 1873, become nowa leader in the York exchange and finance and prosperous everywhere. Men who live by pulling others down must. of course, fall underneath, The three old opponents of Washington were envy, blackmail and sensation. Every j man now sees that its plan of improve was the best, because it is now the most beau- tiful of our citics and the most relatively at- tractive. Butitis not finished because it is not yet connected with that great and pros- perous free section which defended it in war and subsequently adopted it in fond faith. It has no winter access to the nearest turnpike or macadam roads which commence in the lime- stone region of Frederick and Washington counties, Maryland. It is still liable to military isolation, as it was in 1814 and 1861. Only a single track of railroad connects it with the west and no railroad whatever with the north. The other two railroads lines run east.” “How can the common road connection be obtained?” “By help of Congress, asa matter of mili- tary sense, expediency and foresight, just as Congress subscribed for the United States to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, now destroyed, or passes bills to build stone roads to so many of the national cemeteries.” “‘How many of such bills have been passed?” “Twenty-six have been introduced and a number passed. Every state in the south has asked for them, and California. The reason for building them is as cogent in the case of # military road from Washington to Gettys- burg and'to Antietam. The old roads were im- passable to get to the cemeteries,” ANTIETAM MILITARY ROAD, “Has there not been a national piece of road put down this year to Antietam cemetery?” “Yes, the finest three miles of road in all Maryland, sixty feet wide, with double side- walks, the whole graded and filled with broken stone. It will last forever with small repair. I think too much money was probably appro- priated there—about $25,000—but that is the figure asked for at most of the cemeteries, Still, as the government went to the expense of carefully collecting and burying these dead it was improvident not to furnish a passable way to the grave yards, The old laue from Antietam station to Antietam cemetery, about three miles, became dangerous for wheel and beast on Decoration and Memorial days. The mili- tary road now reaches to within three miles of the Potomac at Shepherdstown and it has sup- Plied the suggestion for a national pike from Vashington to Antietam and Gettysburg.” “In what way?” “Tne abundant Shenandoah or Virginia val- ley, with a good system of piked roads, heads up at Shepherdstown. From Sharpsburg, on Antietam field, are good pikes to Hagerstown and Boonsborough, the latter on the old ional pike, which proceeds from Baltimore to Cumberland. A military road from Wash- ington to Antietam would loop on to both those systems and connect this capital with the mar- ket garden, granary and commissary supply of the whole mighty valley between the South and the North mountains, a valley which fed the revolutionary army at Newburgh and the rebel army in the war till Sheridan destroyed its mills and barns. During the rebellion two good marching roads, open all winter, would have saved this government immense railway bills for keeping the roundabout railway to the Relay house and Point of Kocks open. All re- member the slow and difficult marches from Washington to ongage the enemy at Antietam, Gettysburg, South Mountain, Ball’s Bluff and Monocacy. Had the government ’ever been beaten in front or flank of Washington in that northwest direction only could it have re- treated, and in that direction also fled Presi- nent Madison and the government after the foreign enemy burnt the capital in 1814. The future requires provision as well as the past. A capital city like this is liable many a time again to be sur- prised and cut off. But for the purposes of peace such a military road would also conti- nentalize this insulated capital, give its impris- oned teams and equipages outlet to agreeable landscapes and multiply its market supplies, We have no Appian road; we are the only ruling city in the world perfectly winter bound to carriages, equestrians, herds of animals and vegetable and hay supplies. If this government by any convulsion should Cal ipee anti- quarians would wonder if its inhabitants did not enter and leave it by tunnels or balloons, for they would see no vestiges of wagon roads,” THE SITUATION IN MARYLAND. “Is the Maryland district adjacent to Wash- too poor to make turnpikes?” “Both poor and lethargic. It has no towns which are large enough to concentrate a public spirit and promote intercourse between each other, When you get to Urbana, which is in the direction of Frederick City and perhaps 85 miles from Washington, you reach the a road. The ‘most southern pike Poh id so Potomac is from Fi to ‘efferson. pining Smpsiymc ine army tore all and the two bridged this ade st aarpors Bessy, an 6 two bridges this side of ‘se a at Point of Rocks and Berlin, were burns Ts 1864; the former only has been rebuilt, and during the present year. I consider that the government, for the relief of its own district and in consideration of the Union character and loyal behavior of western Maryland, which greatly suffered in the war, as well as upon military account, might as well this near outlying zone with a roadas to build a gov- ernment roadway to Mt. Vernon through the state of Virginia, which I also am in favor of, and which been authorized already by Con- gress to be surveyed, Aroad by the govern- ment from GEORGETOWN TO THE MONOCACT at the Sugar Loaf mountain, only 30 miles of the District of Columbia 4 retroceded and the federal territory a mutilated square; the Maryland of the District has never given any trouble to the government.” “What is the Loa? mountain?” “I examined it the western base week, having driven to it from west. The Sugar Loaf mountain can seen from Georgetown and the Washingtot 4:nonu- ment. It is a at military mountasy with four summits, the highest about 1.%/ above tide and 1,000 feet above the st “’ound- ing country. Two miles or less wes bold ridge like a redan or crescent, anyjin the nature of a counterscarp wall, springs §}p and defends the passage of the Monocac’ The Sugar Loaf is the nearest mountain % tide- water south of New York bay and as pict} esque as the Catskills. A strong stream call/@\ Ben- nett’s creek winds around its northe: and flows into the Monocacy.with frequ@it cas- cades. A pike road from Georgetown g» this mountain would make it the coaching, Bleigh- ing and carriage resort, opon all winter §where now only these hard concrete streets Hermit winter driving.” “How far is it from the Sugar Loaf Pnoun- tain to Antietam cemetery?” “About 23 miles, crossing the Monogicy at the new iron bridge at Greenfield Milgs, and through Adamstown and Jefferson and cross the Catoctin and Pleasant valleys—the? same course as was taken by the sixth corps ‘ 1862 to fight the action of Crampton’s gap.” THE COURSE THE ROAD SHOULD TAKYs “What is your general notion of the gourse | of a road to both Gettysburg and Antietsm?” “It might cross the Sugar Loaf moyntain and divide on the western side thereo!*seud- ing one arm up the east side of the Morveacy, which would be a military road just with'n the fosse of that river. and at the Urban-, pike bridge, some seven miles farther up, th* short arm would connect with the whole Fr: jierick City system of already piked roads, wh h ox- tend to the Pennsylvania line and ne$rly to Gettysburg. Or the national road mighe forx about Clarksburg and inclose the Sug Loaf mountain in its arms. one arm going tog\utie- tam and the other to Urbana. The eff€ct of building these 75 miles of pike road at $2,000 a mile would be to bind this capital to thf turn- pike system of the entire land. for the solid roads from New England to P Wheeling and Staunton, Va., within the tain rim which is so near us and paralleljt) the seacoast, ‘The only poor roadless distr(:: lies between Georgetown and the Catoctin 'noun- tain, 40 miles off, This is the region twhich will separate Washington from its destiny until the government will span it, and fhen a great, new, active world beyond the first jnoun- in line will at once become suburlfan to Washington. A settlement of villus like, those in the Berkshire hills will give to this icity a summer and an autumnal season.” 3 THE BLUE RIDGE AND THE CATOCTI#. “Do Gettysburg and Antietam lie upén the same side of the Blue Ridge?” “No. Gettysburg is east of the South Moun- tain or Blue Kidge, but in full sight of it; An- tietam ficld west of it. The Catoctin mountain is a range six or seven miles east of the South mountain, The Sugar Loaf is ten miles éast of the Catoctin mountain, a peak isolated and no doubt to hold some great. useful relation to this capital and nation some day. It is the Kenesaw mountain of Maryland. “How shame- ful that, being in sight of ex-President Cieve land’s house at Georgetown, it is as far from us sour drives and excursions as if it were in Georgia. I repeat that the government ought to span that little region between with a broken stone road and let itself and us out to our pos- sessions. The influence upon the intervening people who make the underlying race stock of W. gton would be like public schools and new raiment.” “Would you suggest that Maryland and Penn- sylvania co-operate in this slight expense?” “It would cost more to stir them up than to quietly present them with the job, forin Mary- land it is put down, as in France. that broken stone pike costs oniy $200,000 the hundred Saks, the Washington clothier,said tome yesterday: “That is what government willdo with this surplus after it gets done monkeying with the pensions; it will improve its military common roads like all other mod- ern nations and especially around this capital,’” A BAD DISTRICTING. “To what do you impute the want of local self help in these old Maryland districts?” “Partly to a bad political districting; they ought to have the New England town govern- ment system, with small divisions, frequent town meetings, and that public spirit which coming together engenders. The Maryland districts are large and sprawling and do not improve themselves, Hostility often exists be- tween neighboring counties, like secession. They want to be strongly and well advised by newspapers like Tar Star, for Washington is nearer to them and more their fellow citizen than Baltimore. Washington is twenty miles farther in the west of Maryland than Baltimore; it is as far west as Elmira, N. ¥. In the revo- lutionary war General Charles Lee, offering to the British a plan of treason, proposed to con- nect Annapolis and Alexandria by a good mi tary road. and with strong detachments upon it to completely separate the southern and north- ern states and whip them in alternate sections. The issue of roads is before the country power- fully; not railroads, but roads. For want of good roads and picturesque access to each other we spend $100,000,000 a year at least in Eu- rope, the Christian continent of good roads and cheap drives, With the sum of $100,000 this capital can in one year be clasped to the South mountain or Blue ridge, where the summer ros- idence of the executive government ought to be, within telephone reach of the depart- ments,” are noun —_.____ Written for Tae Eventno Stan, Keep Off the Grass. A Real Incident. A weak old man, whose faded dress Procluims the nation's ward, Strolling in feeble idleness Beside the emerald sward. Beyond the belt of living green Ho sees a floweret blush. Along the way-worn years between How childhood’s memories rush! Cnheeding rules and warning signs ‘The old man’s steps are bent Across the green forbidden lines On nearer view intent. He breathes the fragrance of the bloom, And all the struggling years, War's bitter blight and misery’s gloom Dissolve in memory’s tears, How fair the scene, how bright the hour Dewed by that magic rain As bending o'er the Inwly flowers He seems a boy again. “Come off that grass, there; can’t You see?” Cries one with cruel zeal, Who owes, perhaps, to ~uch as he The power he makes him feel. ‘The gray head droopsand meekly turns ‘The languid step away, ‘The fire of youth no longer burns In the ashes of today. A little thing? Yet all our lives Are made of little things. A simple flower a blessing gives; Aword new sorrow brings; And, ’mid the weary cares that ban ‘The few bright sands that fall, “Man’s inhumanity to man” Is chiefest of them all! M. A, MoMaxkin, Washington, D. C., October, 1889. sae potedi's iteleinas The Telephone and Ear Troubles. From the British Medical Journal. As civilization advances new diseases are not only discovered, but are actually produced by the novel agencies which are brought to bear on man’s body andmind. The increase of in- sanity throughout the world is unquestionably due to the “storm and stress” of our crowded modern life, and almost ry addition which science makes to the convenience of the ma- jority seems to bring with it some new form of suffering to the few. Railway traveling has its amaria aliquid in the ve of slight, but pos- sibly not unimportant, r iting of the nervous cen! 3, the electric light has already created a form of ophthalmia; and now we have the telephone indicted asa cause of ear trou- bles, which react on the spirits, and indirectly on the general health, has observed, not in women only, but in strong-minded and able-bodied men, symptoms of what we may call “aural over- ie = by the Pesolnn of ean constant strain of e au Ty apparat which who use the mone much ear sharp tinkle of th aa esp op fea le of eo or nearness of sounds conveyed through the oe a state of over-sensitiveness w! made it in- tolerant of sound, as the eye, when inflamed ss yess nang eremanednrd the tient WITH BICYCLES IN ITALY, The Washington Wheel: Land of the Casars. apiece was reasonable enough. Once more we started, but soona new scheme dawned upon the robber manipulating the oars and he again suspended. This time he pointed to the three | bicycles stacked in the middle of the boat and said, “una franc dis.” We were now becoming a little impatient with our friend and promptly announ to him that we couldn't see it, tha! he might take us back to the steamer anda great many other things that would be out of lace here. “Allright. You go back da ship,” e said, we started. We yelled at other boatmen “Quanto?” (How much?) bat they all divined the situation and paid no attention. Encouraged by this our prodigy raised on us still more, saying, “Una franc da piece, Sex franc.” Butwe were determined to go to In- dia before we would consent to be robbed by this brigand or any other Italian. After row- ing back and forth awiule and perceiving that we were immovable. he wavered in his pur- | pose and said, “You go custom house | see tariff” (i.e., the schedule of charges per- mitted). We replied that we thought it a good nd were soon at the custom house land- ing, where we paid what we found to be the maximum charge, one lira per person, includ- ing and parted with the companion of Seruise about the bay, first be- achunk of advice touch: ‘e conduct toward “America: in the A QUEER HOTEL IN COMO—EXPERIENCRS 1x ‘MILAN AND GENOA—WHERE COLUMBUS USED TO LIVE—A TRIP ON AN INDIAN STEAMER—A BRIGAND FOR A BOATMAN. Correspondence of Tar Evexrxe Stan. Narues. Iracy, September 4. We crossed from Switzerland into Italy at the Swiss town of Chiasso, and just over the border found Italian customs officers awaiting us. It required an hour's debate to settle the question that we must pay eighty-four lira (about $16.89) apiece refundable duty on our | bicycles and must elect, then and there, at what point we would take them out of the country. ’Iwasa pathetic, impressive scene. this debate. The other side took the floor first, then our side went into action, and so on to the end advances to the assault and retreat, | with exhausted ranks following upon each | otier in interminable succession, In vain the | Italian host strove to penetrate our understand- ere was a crowd ready with information | ing. Again and agaia their chief orator, a : yield y es eee hort little fellow with a kindly expressic aside, and. passing out throu he custoin short ise tellow, with = Kindly oxpreasion, | Soo S oes ine street, rode away bound for the planted himself betore us, repeated with arm- az j beat incasured accents the facts he would have | "ins of Pompei, so. j understood, but only to retire to the main| THE TKLEGRAP: body diseomfitted. A few moments’ con j | tion and he again emer, Now, tHen! once more! a ray of light—nol all is dark, that don’t- | An Old Railroad Operator Talks to a understand look again! and he sinks helpless Star Reporter. | into his sympathetic comrade’s arms. The French on both sides of the question was| tocomorive EWOINEERS axD Taxm wars—a | equally bad and didn’t seem to ma Wl losses nih powh Qhabn ab aman oh well and we reached no conclusion until a fel- quo nagragggecticcae | low arrived who could speak German, As we] THOUGHT A SIGNAL WAS SHOWN AS 4 J0KE— | mounted and rode away H—,who until thismo-! GETTING “TIME” FROM THE OPERATOR. j ment had been too stupefied with amazement to expre=s himself on the subject, recovered his presence of mind and addressed to the | group of officials a few remarks concerning Italy. We forbear to mention what he said, | but the officials, not understanding English, | mistook the tenor of this farewell salutation and politely touched their caps in response. A HOTEL EXPERIENCE. it was derk when we reached Como, three miles beyond the border, and felt our way down a winding descent into the city. The first place we found that looked at all promis- ing asa haven for the night was a “trattorio con allog: a sort of combined saloon, restau- rant and lodging house. In we went and after waiting around for a long time in the back room (a rendezvous for the rubbish and odda and ends of the establishment) were summoned to supper unwashed, dusty and dirty from our The telegraph operator stopped after taking a press dispatch describing a railroad accident and chatted with Tur Srar reporter. The news that had been coming in over the wire brought up reminiscenses of the days when he had been in charge of a little station on 8 railroad. “A railway telegrepher,” he said, “is brought into close relationship with other employes of the road, but between the engineers and him- self there exists a friendship that dates back from the first time the engineer has signed an order at hisoftice or by the motion of his hand, as he flew by the office, asked for time when he had exceeded the maximum speed. “Several years’ connection with a railroad long day's ride. This red to be the | Md in the companionship of these men has | Italian way. Our arrival created quite a com- | °°@¥inced me that a more brave, nervy. reck- | motion inthe houschold. We scemed to have | less, dare-devil and kind-hearted set of men do | taken them completely by surprise, They had | not exist. Block signals and traveling train | ré have eliminated the reckless part of | | their nature to a great extent, but the nerve, bravery and kind-heartedness still remain and | will uutil the end of time, as only men of this | caliber make railroad engineers and stick to the business. FLYING DOWN THE GRADE. “Some ten years ago,when a boy of eighteen, Iwas located as night operator at New Free- dom, on the Northern Central railway about 50 | miles north of Baltimore. The signal tower | was situa’ at a point called Summit, where | the road was down grade about 9 miles south, never had guests of our description before and hardly knew what to do with us, There must have ‘been much to be done to render our rooms habitable, for even after leisurely dis- | posing of our supper and going for a stroll we Were still obliged to watt. At last we were ushered up several flights of stone stairs by a little dwarf whose deformity gave him the appearance of a parenthesis and stupidly shown into the wrong place, the room of a young lady, who thereupon relieved our parenthetical guide of command and set us right. Our rooms, bare and cell-like, but re- deemed by great’ windows extending to the floor, eh a > sly | #tmost to Parkton, the next telepraph station, cae ees es coors. see and about eight miles north to Glen Rock, the | there were two sets of doors, outer | 2¢%! telegraph station in that direction. At that time empty engines, known as “pushers, and inner, the latter double and ironclad and were sent out from York, 20 miles north, to locked with an enormous bolt. The next morn- - ‘ x “e y push heavy freight trains over the Summit, fol- eligi eran iene Deere gcd ceria Tow on to Parton and push a train north, It house to serve such fare—very plain and sim- | these “pus and the through freights too, to lay to at my office, get to give them five or seven minutes, that is, say they had left that length of time before, and then ‘fall’ down the hill to Glen Rock or Parkton, as the case may be. Time innumerable did they make the ‘fall’ at the rate of a mile a minute, but the given time saved them from censure. A MEMORABLE RIDE, “One evening a pusher’ was lying at the tower awaiting orders to go on to Parkton and finally received them. The engineer, a man named Beard, as usual asked me for as much time as possible, and, after I had given him seven minutes, he invited me to take a ride along with him down to Parkton and back. The day operator happened near and volun- teered to work for me until [ returned. Jump- ing up on the box, on the fireman's side, I pre- pared myself to enjoy a fast ride on a locomo- tive. That ride will never leave my memory. The engineer pulled the throttle open and away we went. Talk about ‘falling,’ we were doing this in every sense of the word. To add to my anxiety the engineer left me to watch the track, climbed down to the tender and en- gece in pte, | match with his fireman. ‘ind you, this was done while the engine was fairly flying over the rails and rocking from side to side with such violence that 1 expected we would leave the rails at every curve. This was not recklessness, it was downright fool- hardiness, yet that engineer was never burt, but left the road several years later to settle down to a more quiet livelihood. A FRIGHTENED BRAKEMAN, “One night Barney Riley—a better man never pulled a throttle—(I think he is a passenger engineer now) came south on athrough freight. He had for a front brakeman a man from the country districts surrounding Marysville, the northern end of the division, who was making his first trip and knew little about the trials of railroading. As the engine swept by Barney held up his open hand asking for five minutes, which I duly credited him with. How fast he went down the hill that night will never be known to a certainty, but it must have been like the wind, as I learned afterward that he induced the operator at Parkton to give him additional time, and that the poor brakeman left his train at that station and returned home on the next passenger train, vowing that he had all the railroad experience he desired aud solemnly declared that it took all his energies to hold on to the car he was on, and that had the train left the track it would have kept going for a mile at least across the country. HE THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE, “The engineers and operators along the line at that time, said the operator, were continually laying jokes on each other and the idea that was joking came very near costing an en- gineer hislife. It occurred in this way: Block signals were not in vogue at that time and our ple, too—as we wished, and our meals were procured from the larder—we think it may ave been the leavings—of some more angli- cized establishment. All this luxury cost us much money, as we found when the returns, the bill, came in, TO MILAN AND BEYOND, We were now bound for Milan. T’was hot and dusty, and the road bad; even the foot path, to which we were obliged to :esort much of the time, was bad. There was nothing to see save dust-laden grass and foliage on either side of the road. ‘The towns aud villages were quite similar in general appearance to the Italian- Swiss towns, but the tinted stucco-covered walls of the houses were more disfigured with grime. Of water we found practically none that was accessible, and oh! we were so thirsty. Fruit, however, was quite plentiful and cheap. Watermelon we had at the rate of one cent a slice, while little, ragged. bare-headed children stood about and scrambled in the dirt for the rind we threw away. We -eached the city early in the afternoon, and certain it is that never before had we attracted so much attention, Everybody stopped to stare, and if we paused but for a moment there was a crowd around us, Our chief recollections of Milan are that we de- voted a large part of two days to regaining pos- session of that bane of our existence, our extra baggage; and that when we were about to de- part even the cook of the hotel mercenarily came out of his den to bid us good-by. This latter preceeding went away ahead of anything we had yet encountered, but we got off without serious loss, IN COLUMBUS’ OLD HOME. Our wheeling thus far in Italy had not been 80 replete with joy but that we felt we could dispense with much of it without experiencing any great feeling of regret. To Genoa we went by rail to consult the American consul there with reference to our difficulties with the cus- toms regulations as applied to our bicycles, Genoa is always associated with the name of Columbus. There is a monument erected to him which represents him ina standing posture, with America personified by the figure of a woman seated or crouching at his feet. , Amer- ica seems to have just been discovered and to be trying to make up her mind what she had best do about it. Until quite recently a house, duly marked, was customarily pointed out as a former dwelling place of the great navigator, but the owners became conscience-stricken at last and took down the sign. So one must now content himself with examining the photographic copies of our national discoverer exhibited at the city hall. The originals are under lock and key and not to be seen by the ordiuary tourist since one enterprising Ameri- can managed in some way to get at one of the letters and surreptitiously tear off and carry away acorner of it. Four hours1n a hot, close railway car compartment,from Milan to Genoa, orders only called for the holding of freight trains five minutes apart. Our signals con- sisted of red, white and blue. Red to stop, blue to run slow or caution and white denoted a clear track. The blue signal was seldom used, ifatall. The engineer in question came north on a regular freight schedule. Ahead of him was an extra freight. The extra had passed my station, but about a mile north, down the hill, had stopped to take several cars off the siding. In doing this several minutes had been consumed. Immediately after they had passed the tower I lowered the red signal as usual and kept it down the required five minutes. I had observed the lights on the extra’s caboose away down the track and diyined its purpose. To display the white light to the next train north t had a perfect right, as the extra’s aie was supposed to be outside my juris- iction. “The extra, having concluded its shifting, pniled out and the lights of the caboose disap- peared around the bend. As they did so the regular train north came into sight around the bend south of my office and some sudden im- ulse made me lower the blue light. Now, as have before remarked, this blue light was never used, and when it was flashed in the eyes of this engineer he took it as a joke, and as he was a “‘leetle” late proceeded to go down the had made us of one opinion, that we should not care for more of that mode of traveling than we could avoid. We were glad of an op- portunity to go to Nuples by a steamer bound for India and hastened to avail ourselves of it. Incidentally in going aboard we found the “Genoese navigators” to be a still thriving and enterprising race. The representative who took us and our bikes in his boat out to where the vessel lay at anchor was eloquent in his petition for more money than he had bargained tor—a failing common to his kind, it appears, AN ORIENTAL SCENE, Our slumbers on the steamer were shat- tered in the early morning by a thump, thump, thumping on the main deck directly over our state room. We held # grudge against the knave responsible for the disturbance and went on Nock to seek him out and crush him with a look if nothing else was handy. It was only a gaunt, lathy, sickly looking Indian—not one of our American “Indians,” of course, but the genuine native of India—pounding with an iron pestle some curry ingredients in a rude mortar, There were about a dozen of these Indians on board who seemed to be employed in some capacity or other. All were very sim- ilar in appearance, of exceedingly slight build, barefoot and wearing loose, once white, trous- ers and jackets, with little round skull caps, he din composed of a mixture of eight or nine different ingredients stewed toy ee seemed to be their only article of diet, around a curve about half a mile south the congiomerstion had been Prepared, srery | Cf iain erie hays te at teens th lomeration mm pre) eve! this ol 6 extra, who, not one pitehed in for himself and deftly Aipped | expecting’ the selene So foe extcw who, not balls or clods of the stuif, which he formed | heels, was only a few yards from his with his fingers, down his throat. The spec- The whistled for brakes, tacle was not very edifying, but rather amus- | reversed his e je and turned to take the step ing nevertheless. to jump when he found the little door leading THE BOATMAN GAINED HIS POINT. to post of duty had gerry en | 1 ’ steaming | the of reversing the engine. Before it A Pleasant twenty-seven hours col be opened the crash came and the engi- along the coast and among the islands, pass- | neer found himself buried under the debris of torNepleg The tank of wining a bargein with | out but auehiy braised dad thant ft for The task of a with | out but sli an lor saga iuis emmarees beckabes oupiewerian neon He afterward told me he Ri ig ed nny ty mye hor fell to G—'s x- perience with the Gen boatmen, it was blue signal penegige ares we fellow nailed at one en fs gyno f fro the ae of the auceraune and ourselves in Giacimo’s craft and set out for charge was the See =e 's us Pp a about “‘fifty centimes Pierce’s Pleasant tng tally sho creme eat ieee of Be. any omer pill mercy we now were. ‘account mark was in English, . ‘e-4 en man,” wish y-4 told him he and all dis- ~ Lay fm liver, the. foot of the Tehins satbaridc, aecorting 10 cluded that after RAILROADS. Apt SCENERY AGNEFICENT EQUIPMENT, SEPTEMBER 30, 1 ASHINGTON. FROM STATION TH AND BSTRELTS. AS 9 West, Chicago tibuled Cara at IX of Pullman ¥ Past Line, 0:5 Louis, with Si 1% re de ram te bute S. = jeeper to Pittsburg and Pitt BALTIM D POTOMAC RAILROAD. For Kane, Canandaivun, hochertet ant ane Falls dally. except Sumas}. Shree, For tr venter daily; for Baf= nF 2 for’ For Willian mm. da: FORVHIL O08, lle breseot Pullman Parlor Care 8 140 s.t5 nee cpt Sunday, and 3:45 pom. daily. with Diniae FOR PHILADELPHIA ONLY. -Expreas § Peta dayeand S10 nam. desig, at change, 0 and 11 ex c # New York ¢ 1100, and at 1240 am.weets 0, 8.10, 9-00, 9-40, 9.59, 05, 2:10, 250, BAG, iot 4 m 0 and 9:00am. 12.05, 4.20 and vexcept Sunday. Sundays, 90d KIA AND FREDERICKSBURG KATIe XD ALEXANDAIA AND WAbdING LUM IN EFFECT MAY 1° Fo Alexandria, 4-30, 6 30 am LAAD WAL A kalLw i ¥ Du Suuday » 10:57 am, 235, G01, Accommo for mi, Week days. 7. Quantico, 7:45 3. For iichmon: a.m. Nui apd the hout 21 p.m. dail; datly, and 6 Trains leave Alexa 8:00, 9:10, 3-18, 5:10, m. On au rulers can be lett t ation frum hote Par General Passenser Agent, D Owo Rairxoan, UNE Ya, Isnw dC treet, est. Vestibuled Limitedes rene 9 ‘ont and fudianapolia, expres jwveland, Vertibuled Limitedexe 1:20 am. and © * a. For Wheeling, Parkersburg GB mal Line, express daily" e m. ‘or Lexington and Local Stations t For Luray, ox 00, 10:30am For Baiunio: 0, 30 s minuten. 1-15, 2 0 to pm i 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 9:00, For Way stat NOTe, 5:00, 6:90. 5:30 1330 pam. Sundays, °S: 0p aa. : #2 ‘Trains leave Baltamore for Washington, week « | 5:10. 6:9, G0, 7-15, 4-20, 8 Oe aS = 8 4 40, - Sundays 6 4 r 8:00, 10:05, 14 Butter), 20 3S, 800, 10:00, 10-40. ia, 6:40 and 8:3) am.. 12-10, 4:24 ‘Ou Sunday 0 Mp. 4:55 ps m, O40, 4 > 22:00 pm For Aunapoll and 6:.0 Leave Aunt 6:16 p,m. Pun For Stations $10:30 a.m, $11 110-30 am. 14 “ Bem, tor pemespal 30) aid $29 ::800 vat nd Way Rtations +435 p.m. Od intermediate punta, *9-000, “0 Pt 7 termediate stations, 17:00 p.m, ™ train Jeaves Washington on Sunday at 1:13 P.w., stopprng at Metropo.itan Brauck, Fer Frederick BU WL, TSU, TEU By i 10 aan, D PHILADELPHIA DIVISION Ne & et Parior « Bleeping Car on the 10:00 5 ‘The 4:0 b.1m, tran does uot dor Fhiladelp nis, ~4:00, 18:00, *y 250, *1 00 a.an., te points between Baltimore and U @m., *2 BU and 14:50 p.m igr Wasuluctou, 3 Wh 2d MSc15, "O00U pam. Yaius Teave Philadciplia for Washingt 8:45, "Ale wm, 11a, “45, “Due 7:30 p.m, dor Atiantic City 4:00am. and 12, days 4:00 e m., and 12.00 noo Except Sunday. “Daily. $Sunday only, Except wage called for and checked trom hotels and Tesidences by Union Irauefer on orders ieft as See ee OD and La ee ce eens a yt SHA SS ven. Pass, 3. T’ODELL, Generel Manager wit PE PMONT AR Line, ‘Schedule in eflect. LPTEMBER 29, v5 8:30. m.—Fast Tennessee Mail, dally’ sor Warrene =, oe “ye Charlottesvidie, Lynchburg, a» ni ous between Alexsudria aud L5'ucl.vurg, iowa bristol, Kuoavalie, Chattaicora aud Memphia Poll: uan Sleeper Wasuington to Metupius. 11224 a in.—Fust mail daily tor Warreuton, Cuar- Jottesville, Stations “Chesapeake and Uulo ‘lwute, Lynchburg, Koc ‘ky Mount, Danville aud Stsucus tween bebbure aud Danville, Greeusburo , A= ‘igh, Asheville, Charlotte, Columbia, Auwxusta, AUante, Birmingham, Moutgomery, Ne’ ‘Orlenua, Texas and Calltornia, "Pullin w Mura to pulebe parlor cary “Atl *Puliman Jeepers Monteomery New Orleans.’ Puliuam Sleeper Greeushoro’ to Columi8 and A: te Pull | epee Washington to Cinciuust vis ©. aud x:35 p. m.—Duily, except Sunda . for jury and untermediate stationm” wasp 7:20 DP. s.—Daily via Lyueuburs, Bristol and Chat- Fullman Vestiowle bicepers Washington © > coLmecUle thence for ali Arkansas pointe; = i. woe to New Urieans, daily M 40 p.m.—Western bap res for a S Culpeper, Oraiwe, Charlottesville, Stauuton, Lowe ville, at. Pulluan Vert 1889, eiruk Wasnt: per tor Luuieviiie. Souther t-rpress dail ey JMaleiwin Anbevilie, Charlot a. Atlauta, Moutgomery. New U: “ 10x, gad Califorma. Pullz.on Vestibule Car Waskington te New Oricans, Vis AUanta and Montwomery Pula Siceper Wastingtou to Birminghany Als., Via Atlaute and Georia Paciic Katiway. ‘Lraiua on Washington and Ohio division leave Wash- fucton 9-00 au. daily oxceps Sunday, aud "445 pum @aily; arrive Round Hail 11:0 aud? pa returuiy leave Round Hull 6.00 aily aud 12:2 pu. daily except Sunday, arriving Wasuington 83 uu. im. and 2:53 p.m, ‘Through trains from South vis Charlotte, Dam Villeand Lyuchbury arrive iu Waruiugton 6.55 am and 7:1) pm. 2 2 Vit East Tenpessee, Bristol aud Lyuch- ure at 8:03 am. aud 10:40 pin.; via Chesapeake nd Obio route aud Cusrlottesville 8t 2.30 pau. aud Eo vam and 6:3 aaa Strasbung local at 40:23 ing-car reservation and information Checked at office, 130 Peum ue, and at Passenger Stabe, Pennsyivar Gth and B streets. JAS. L. LAL LOR, Gen. Pass, Agent, POTOMAC RIVER BOATS, Mot VEKNON. wea Steamer W. W. CORCORAN, Lt leaves 7th st. whiart daily cexcopt Rapdey) for Me Haat Wee ui lgrton abu Daux Noworx Lose OLD POINT AND THE iy of the Lake, from 6tb-wt ‘Toes. + and Sunday, 5pm 61 ‘> @th-et. whart, Wi ere stop at Kibey Point Fare, 61. a may’ JOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. NEW IKON STEAMER “WAKEFIELD” Leaves 7 th-strect whgrt on MONDAIS, 1HUKSDA) FUBAT Oana em. Meturnine, 1 URS Dgt S and SU . th, touching at PRD AS sod SUSDAYE. bop, wa ‘a. Dt. Cle! Leouardtown, Md. Connects with bese! pherds. sce schedule, JOHN B. CW. KIDLEY, Manager, . OCEAN STEAMERS. | y ROUTE TO LONDON, SOP RERDDEC TECK LLOYD 8. 8.00. To Sout 3 a Havre), see etree py are toe, 7:30 am. ‘Wed, Nov is, yam. be Nov. 16,1) am.; ireve, ov. 20, 3 p.m; Fulda, Sat., Nov. 23, 6:30 a.m. ten te Paes: ct -. * upward a ‘according to locaton ; adult, steerage at iow rates, Apply ok. BL S28 Pena. ave. 0031 *