Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1889, Page 14

14 ae eee, THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. P. C. ALES aee Vel en a URGLARS ktON— ‘Copyrighted 1889. Written for the Evexrva Sraz.} {CONTINUED.} “1 don’t see how a man conld help makin’ wistakes with that school teacher's umbrella | whanging away at his knowledge box, but I Wasn't goin’ toleton. ‘She ain't no Jew, nuther,” | says I, ‘and she’s your daughter, too; you needn't try to play no tricks on me. Pay me my money and take her away as quick as you can, that’s my advice, or before you know it | you'll be nabbed.’ ‘Pay ye!” he yelled; ‘do you think I'd pay you anything for that little | Jew? ‘She's justas much a Christian as you } are,’ mys L ‘Ain't you a Christian, little gal? | and isn’t this gentleman your father? and ain't You surprised that he wants to give you back to be put in the bag? Iseid this hopin’ she'd | have sense enough to say he was her father so’s | to get rid of me. | “The wretched gal had been clean dum-| founded when she was took out of the bag, and | badu’t don@nothin’ so far but biubber and ery) and try to get away, which sho couldn't, ve- | cause Theld her frock, but now she ups and | screams he wasn't her father and she'd never | seen him before, and then he storms and swears and tells me to take her back where I | got her, and I tell him I'll see him hanged first, | sud what I want is my money; she screams, | and he swears he'll not pay me a cent,andI/ squares off and says that I'll thrash him out of | his skin and then he calls in his coachman, and j they both make at me. and I backs out the door to get my cabby to d by me and I found that he'd cut out, havin’ most likely got fright- ened, afraid of bein’ mixed up in trouble Then 1 seed on the high road, some half a mile away, some men comin’ gallopin', aud the gent be looked out and seed ‘em too, and then says he to me, “You'll jist take that little gal back where you got her from; she’s no use to me; I'm goin’,” and at that I hollered for my money and made a grab at him, but the coach- man he tripped me over backward, and before Icould git up agm they was both off with the horses on a run. “Iwas so mad I couldn't speak, but there wasn't no time for foolin’, an¢ i badn’t made my mind which door I should cut out of, when the fellows on horseback went ridin’ past as hard as they could go. They must have seed the carriage drivin’ away and thought for sure it had the gal in it and they was after it, lickety-split. len they was clean gone I looked round for the little gal, but couldn’t see her, but all a-sudden she came out of the fire place, where she'd been hidin’. She'd got over her crvin’ and over her scare, too, judgin’ from her looks. | ‘I'm glad he gone,’ says she. ‘and I'm mighty glad, too, that Mr. Haskins and them other mei didn’t see me." ‘Who's th neighbors,’ says she; * they'd took me back.” ‘I didn’t want to go with that 1 know him and I hate bim, but go back to that school. I hate it worse than anything im the whole world. You haven't no idea what a horrid piace it is. They jus: work you to death end don't give you half enough toeat. My constitution wont stond it. I've told pop that and he thinks so too, but marm,’ she don’t believe in it. and my stayin’ here is all her doin’, Eve been wantin’ to get away for ever so long, bat [ didn’t want to be took off im a bag, but now that I'm out of that horrid hole I don’t want to go b: and if youll take me home to pop I know he won't let me go | back, and he'll pay you real handsome besides,’ | =. | thought some | down of yourn?’ ‘Here it is,’ says I, and then she took it and looked at it up and down, with her head cocked on one side. ‘If I'd somethin’ to cut that bag with,’ says she, ‘i could fix myself up so that nobody'd know me, don’t care who it was.’ ‘I don’t want that bag cut,’ says I; ‘it’s an extra good bag: it was made for apart lar purpose and cost money.’ ‘Pop will Pay expenses,” says she; show much did it cost? “It was 4 cash,’ said “They cheated you like everything,’ says she; ‘you could get a bag like that any day for a joller and se’ -tive ceuts. Will you let it go at that’ 1 right,’ says I, for I was uckled to see how sharp that little gal was, aud ten to one I'd throwed away the bag betore we got to towm. So she pulls a little book out of her pocket with a pencil stuck in it, and turnin’ over to a blank page she put down one dollar and seventy-five; then she bor- rows my big knife, and holdin’ the top of the bag up ngin her belt she made me stick a pin in itabouta band’s breadth from the floor; then she took the knife and cut the big clean across, me a-holdin’ one side of it; then she took the top end of that bay and slipped it on her, over her head and shouiders, and tied the drawin’ strings in it round her waist, and it hung arouud Ler just like askirt nearly touchin’ the ground; then she split open the rest of the bag and made a kind of shawl out of it, puttia’ it into shape with a lot o’ pins and pinnin’ it on herself resi clever. She had lots of pins in her belt, and she told me that she never passed a pin in that school without pickin’ it up, and that she had four hundred and fifty-nine of them now in her room which she was mighty sorry to leave behind, aud that these she had now was this day's pickin’ up. “When she got done workin’ at herself you couldn't see not a ribbon nor a hem of her fine clothes; it was all black skirt and shawl, and she'd put up her sleeve, so that when her arm stuck out it was bare. Then she took ail the ribbons and flowers off her hat and crumpled it up, and when she tied it gn, what.a gay she was. ‘Now,’ says she, ‘I can go barefoot.’ ‘Which you won't,’ says I, ‘for you'll get your feet ell “cut, but you can muday your shoes, which she did. 1 pumpin’ on ‘em, ‘80 that the dust in the back yard would stick. Then we starts off across the country, and, upon my word, I was prettily nigh asiiamed to be seen walkin’ with su httle scarecrow. When I bought the tickets at the station she asked me how much they was and putit down in her book, When we got into the cars the people ali looked hard at her and I reckon they kind of a home had been burnt down, and this was one of the orphans that had been saved. Bat they didn't nothin’ and she fixed herself as comfortable as you please, and before long a boy come through the car with fruit in a basket aud then says she to me, ‘I want two apples.’ ‘Zhe boy had gone past us, but I got up and followed him and bought her two upples. ‘How much did you give for them? says she when I come back. hey was two for 5 cents,’ 3 1 -Well,’ he, ‘they do stick you dreadful. Two for cents is all papa or I pays for apples like ” und she took and put : ‘Apples, 3 cent: ery well, miss,” says I, ‘but if you want any more Tefreshment: buy ‘em yoursel r sue, and she went to work eatin’ them two apples, She hadn't mor 1 got through w ‘em when tiie boy » around agin. a banana.’ say ‘lend me 5 cents,’ whic did, and she ut down, cash, Then the béy come up and ‘how much re your banat ts,’ said he, or two? ays he, ‘for one. ays she. ‘I’ve ays . ‘What do you take me bought bananas before. Til give yous ceuts for that one,’ pointin’ to for?’ « | “THERE WAS A CLICK AND THD NIPPERS Was ON ME.” “Who's your pop? says L_ ‘He's Mr. Groppel- | tacker of Groppeltacker & Mintz, covet tad: | ings, seven hundred and something or other, I| forget the number now, Broadway. O, pop | does a lot of business, I tell you, and he's got lots of money. He sends corset findings to South America, and Paris, and Chicago, and Madagascar, and the uttermost parts of the earth. I've heard him say that often. end you needn't be afraid of his not being able to pay | you. A lot more than that man would have | paid you for his little gal, if you'd catehed the | Fight one. So if you take me to pop, and get Me there safe and sound. it will be an awful good speck for you." “Now I begins to think to myself that per haps there was somethin’ in what that little gal was sayin’, and that I might make | something out of the gal after all. I didn’t count on gettin’ a big pile out of old Grapple- | tucker—it wasn't likely he was that kind of a ™man—but whatever [did get would be clean rofit, and I might as well try it on. He | couldn't make no charge agin me far bringin’ | him his daughter, if she asked me to do it, 30 says I to her, ‘Now, if Itake you home to your pop will you promise, on your word an’ honor, | that you won't say nothin’ about my carryin® you off in a bag, and say that you seed me walk- in’ along the road and liked my looks, and told me you were sufferin’. asked me to take you home to your kind parents, where you imight be took proper care of; aud that I said I wasn't goin’ that way. but I'd do it out of pure Christian charity, and nothin’ more nor less, and here you was? And then, of course, you can tell him he ought to do the handsome thing by me.’ ‘I'll do that,’ says she, ‘and I'll tell how you talked to me awful kind for more then an hour, tryin’ to ys me to stay at the school, and it wasn’t till] got down on my knees and weeped that you agreed to take me! to my kind father.” ‘All right,’ says I, -I might . but we'll have to go y railroad and foot it at least two | tailes to the station, and I don't know about walkin’ across the country with a little girl | dressed as fine as youare. I Lamp. get myself suspicioned.’ “That's so,’ ‘says ‘we might Meet somebody that'd know me.’ and then she | wriggied up her little forehead and began to! | ‘Have you got 2 coppers?’ said she. “Let me se the biggest in the lot, ‘I enn’t do that,’ said the boy; ‘the price is 5 cents,’ ‘I'd like a banana,” says she, ‘but F don't pay more'n 3 cents; take it or leave it,” and with that the boy went on. ‘Now,’ says I, ‘you've gouged yourself out of a banana,” ‘Not abit of it,” says she; ‘he'll be back,’ and in two minutes he was back and said she tight have it for 3 cents, *em.” He said he had, and showed ’em to her. she took ‘em and the banana, and then & him 5 cents, and then she didn't give the change to me, but put it in her pocket, says she, if you'd buy thing be rich in time.” “When we got to the city we took the ele- vated and went up town to 48th street and then walked over to her father’s house. It was a big one, on one of the cross streets. When we got there she told me to wait a minute, and, lookin’ uround to see that nobody was comin’. she slipped off the skirt and the cape she had made and rolled ‘em ina bundle, ‘It don't matter about my hat and shoes,’ says she, ‘but they wouldn’t know me in such duds.’ Then, handin’ me the bundle, she said: -For twenty- five cents you can get that bag mended just as good as new, so you can take it and it will save us $1.50.’ ‘No, you don't,’ says I, for I'd had of her stinginess, -Idon’t touch that and Imade wp my mind that min- ute to charge the old man five dollars’ worth, When the front door was opened the servant so looked as if she couldn't believe her eyes, ut my young woman was as cool as you please, and she had me showed into a room off the hall and then she went up stairs, “Isat waitin’ a long time, which gave me a good chance to look around at tings. The room was real handsome and I took a peep at the window fastenin’s and the lay of the doors, thinkin’ the knowledge might come in handy some time. Right in frontof me on a table was a little yellow mouse and it struck me as I looked at it that that must be gold. I listened if anybody was comin’ and then I pioked it up to see if it really was. I thought I heard the door bell ring just then and shut it up im my hand quick, bat nobody went to the door: and then I looked at the Litile mouse, and if it pods ror one = was he best imitation ever see, so I slipped it quietly in m; nk look at it aguin when I had time.” P°Cket to “Pretty soon old Groppeltacker came in, shut the door, and sot down, ‘So you brought my daughter back,’ says he. ‘Yes,’ says L ‘and you expect to be paid for it,”’ says he. ‘Yes,’ says I, ‘Ido.’ ‘How much do you ask for your services?’ says he. Now this was a sort of a staggerer, for I hadu’t made up my mind how much I was goin’ to ask, but there wasn’t time for no more thinkin’ about it, and so says I, plum, ‘A hundred dollars, and there was some expenses besides,’ ‘Well. well.’ says he, ‘that seems like @ good deal, just for bringin’ a little gal from school. It ' couldn't have took Now.’ that way, you'd eer I, ‘it’s for the Bho There's bona few “Weil, 4 “rh ao whether she’s there or and the busi- ness heavy Hg Fry Don't poor Bewehof amen terse ners aman ‘ ago of difference splittin’, and so, are the 6 “The vey Soe aye he, walkin’ about a little, and then heard the door pee ear and atraid somebody 7 come and call off the old man before ho finished the bargain. -Well,’ saye I, ‘we'll call it eighty-five and expenses, and there I'll stop. “Groppelticker, now he sot down agin and looked hard at me, “I didn't ask you to bring my daughter back,’ says he. morgen gruff, and very different from the way he spoke be- fore, ‘and what's more, I didn’t want her back, and what's more yet, i'm not goin’ to pay you aredcent,’ ‘Now, look a here,’ says I, mighty sharp, ‘none o’ that old man; fork over the money or il lay you out stiff as a poker and heip inyseif. I'm not a fellow to be fooled with and there's nobody in this house can stop me. Old Groppcitacker, he didn’t turn a hair, but just sot tuero, und says he: ‘Before you blow &ny more suppose you twke my little gold mouse out of your pocket and hand it to me.’ I must say I was took back at this, but I spoke back as bold as brass, and said I never see his gold mouse. O, ho,’ says he, ‘what you didn’t sce was the electric button under the table cover which rung a bell when the mouse was picked up, That's what I call my mouse trap. “At this I jist biled over. ‘Now,’ says I, ‘just you hand out every cent yo Your watch, too; not another word.’ jumped up and clapped my hand on my pistol i my hip pocket, and just that minute there Was 4 click and the nippers was on me, and there was a’ big policeman with his hand on my shoulder, Tenant speak I was so bilin’ and so dumbfounded both at once. Old Groppeltacker he just leaned back and he laughed. ‘You came in,’ he said to whe cop, ‘jest the second Irang and as soft as a cat, and the first thing that I want you to do is to take that gold mouse out of his pocket, and Til be on hand whenever you let me know I'm wanted.’ ‘The cop he took the gold mouse out of my pocket, and, says he, ‘I know this fellow, and if I’m not mistook, they'll be more charges than yourn made agin him.’ There wasn't no chanée fight. so I didn’t do it, but I roppeltacker, “Lhere’s my ex- them an % ses; you’ right,’ say marked correct, b; it,” and he laughed a. me off. Well, ladies an& gents, that littl of busin together with some othe: scores, took me to Sing Sing for three y and it tain’t six mouths since ean see for yourselves what | in my line of business somet 5 “Well.” said Aunt Martha, “I don't approve of the Groppeltacker sort of people, but if there were more of that kind I believe there would be fewer of your kind. That story shows you insuch a bad light that i believe it’s tru spoke. “Since you claimed to be a truth-telling bein’” I said'to the st “suppose you tell me why you pted before to break into my hov cousiderable dwelling in this has been ¢ omitted all the burglarics ‘said he. *notmen. Lamm t n did’em all, but those two friends of mine was hever with me before ina b Jike this, “Taint in their | ih with me, bat ‘Y were professions ain't cracksmen; they don’ of business had pals 8. ‘These snow nothin’ about | 1 that’s the niong, you see he 0 give ine away, and thia bout that young gentleman, rtnin curiosity to kuow why t entered when the others wer , “Well,” said he, “I don't mind tellin that was, It was on account of you don't like to crack a house wher pretty smail baby that's liable to wake up and howl any minute and ronse up the rest of the family. There's no workin’ in a house with comfort when there’s such a young one about. L'il tell you what it is all your burgiar alarms and your dogs ain't worth nuthin’ alongside of baby for guardin’ ahouse. If a cracksman n't careful the alarms will go oft, and if he don’t know how to se dogs the dogs will bark. But by George, sir, there ain't no pro- vidin' agin a baby. “He'll howl any time, and nobody can tell when, oI waited til your baby was a little more settled in its ways’ and slept seundl™, and then we come along, and here we are,” Ahoy stasoment very much surprised me, and did not elate it saying so to any one. I had fluttered myself that the burglars had heard of my precautions, and of my excel- lent stock of firearms, and perhaps had got a notion that I would be an intrepid man to deal with, and it was somewhat humiliating to find that it was our baby the burglars were afraid of and not myself. My wife was amazed, “Can it be possible,” she said, that these people kuow so much about our baby, and that George William hasbeen protecting this house?” “It makes my flesh creep,” said Aunt Martha, “Do you know everything about all of us?” ‘Wish I did, ma‘am,” said the stout burglar; ish I'd known about that beastly liquor.” Well, we've had enough of this,” said I, rising, “and, my dear, you and Aunt Martha must be ready to go to bed, and David aud I, will keep guard over these fellows until morn- ing.” At this instant the youngest burglar spoke. His face wore a very anxious expression. “May Lask, sir,” he said, “what you intend to do with me in the morning?” “I have already said,” I answered, “that I shall then hand over all of you to the officers of justice of this country.” “But, sir,” said the Young man, “you will surely except me, I am not at all concerned in this matter, and it would be of the greatest possible injury to me to be mixed up in it or to be mentioned in public reports as an associate of a criminal, I'm not acquainted with the gentleman at the other end of the benck, but I have every reason to believe from what he said to me that he intended to notify you if this Jas. Barlow proceeded to any open act. For myself I beg you will allow me to state who and what I am, and to tell you by what a nge concatenation of circumstances I hap- pen to find myself in my present position—one which I assure you causes me the greatest em- barrassment and anxiety.” “We've had enough story telling for one night.” said I, “and you had better reserve your statement for the magistrate,” Here Aunt Martha put in her voice, “That's not fair,” she said, “two of them have been allowed to speak, and this one has {ust as much right to be heard as the others. hat do you say, Cornelia?” (To be continued.) —see Some Women Are Sly. From the Pittsburg Dispatch, How awfully sly some women are! I was standing in a notion store on Wednesday after- noon when a young woman of fair countenance and modest front came up to the counter, and, after the usual performances, asked the sales- man to show her some corkscrews, adding: “I want a good strong one to open ink bot- The salesman returned with a basket con- taining corkscrews of all sizes, and picking out a little one held it up, sayin; e have them like this—but ‘8 one,” and he showed a corkscrew with a solid wooden handle, “you can get a good grip on.” a The woman never smiled as she said that she'd take the big corkscrew. The ink bottle was never made with a neck large enough to admit such a screw. pia eae? Sra alee The Window Garden in December. expected this month. Care must be taken to see that they do not get too much water, Evaporation takes place slowly now, and ons watering too much a week is them Representative Wilson Says Luck A ways Attenced Him, Representative Wilson, who succeeded Mr. Burns of Missouri in the House, has been a life-long friend of the new justice of the Sn- preme Court. “Brewer,” he says, “is one of the luckiest men I ever knew. We were in Kansas City together when we were both young men. Iknew him when he began the practice of law. He was a quiet. amiabie fellow, not aggressive, but possessing ability, He was then and is now a great chess player, and that quiet attentiveness which is observable in one intent upon that game was characteristic of him, He was never aggressive and did not appear seek anything, but luck always brought good things his way. He can hardly be said to have had any practice at all when he was called upon to take the probate judgeship of Leaven- worth City. From that position, without hav- ing had «un opportunity to go into private prac- tice, he was transferred to the position of county attorney. He bad some practice in that position and tien was appointed district judge of the state court, He next became jus- tice of the supreme court of the state of Kan- sas, Isaw hun afier that and he was seeking the appointment as United States circuit judge. He asked me to write some letters for him, which I did with pleasure. When I saw him again he had got the appointment, I told him then to mark my word, that he would zext be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, and that beiore he died he would be- come Chief Justice. His appomtment to the first place has gone the other will come in time. With apparent indifference he follows his lucky star and it leads him upward.” a <9. i “WORK DONE” BY MOUNTAINEERS Calculation of the Force Expended by a Man Who Ciimbs a Hill. From Iron. The physical energy or force sometimes exerted by the human body under certain con- ditions is knowa to be astounding, but no one has ever taken the trouble to pnt before us that force in figures. Dr. J. Buchheister has now made a most interesting calculation on the “work done” by mountaineers in ascending hwill serve as an illustration, Supposing a mountameer weighing 168 pounds king the ascent of a summit 7,600 feet high from the point of starting, he has to ex- pend an amount of physical force found by multiplying his weight by the height to be as- cended, In the case assumed a weight of 168 pounds multiplied by a height of 7,000 fectequals 1,176,000 foot-pounds; or. in other words, 1,176,- unds have to be litted 1 foot. This is work performed merely by the muscles of the lege; but. besides this, the con- ous of the musele of the heart have to be ninto account, Its function consists, as ‘known, in propelling the blood coll ing in the heart, on the one hand, into tk tories and ou tue other, into the Inngs. ed atan initial velocity of 1)5 which represents in the ca: work of four foot-pounds for « ct. ‘the pulsations of an | per minute, but ‘0 the additional 1g, for the sake of simplicity in enlen- Jation, only 100 beats of the pulse per minute, this would give 400 foot-ponnds per minute, 1) foot-pounds per hour and 120,000 foot- pounds for the five hours supposed to be re- red in ascending a height of 7.000 fect. The rformed by ¢! cles in b i on and traction of th qated at four foot-pou: r, by the ¢ may als: ute is on the ave only twenty a8 a matter of fact, it will be cher in a mountain ascent last- ing fiv of 30.000 foot-pounds. The total work performed during five hours hours, we have toadd further work by a mountaincer consequently amo 1,326,000 foot pounds, In this cstim included the physival force spent in ing the friction on the ground, be made in keeping the body heights and in dragsing heavy boots and foot- irons, nor the loss of muscle power in cutting in the ie kon the work per- d in carrying an icc axe, or the plysical exerted in crossing fresh, loose snow. ig all these conditions into account. Dr. Buchleister acrives at the conclusion that the work done in an ascent of 7,000 fect, lasting five hours, caunot be placed at ‘less than 1,380,000 foot-pounds, a The Ugly London Sailor Hat. From the New York World. The London sailor hat, made of tarpaulin or varnished waterproof cashmere, was introduced to the Newport set of New York society by Mrs, Capt. Paget, the daughter of Mrs. Paran Ste- veus. When Mrs. Pagetcame to town in her trim little reefer jacket and smart tarpaulin Murray Hill went wild. ‘The hat was borrowed aud tried on and orders were rung over the tele- phone to be filled at once. But they were not filled with any such speed anda full month elapsed before the hatter tothe “four hun- dred” could get the proper block. It had to come from the London designer, and the tarred canvas was brought from the other side as well. It cost about $2 to import them and they sold on Sth avenue for $5, and it is impossible even are not ercom- the exertions to ECE now to meet the demand, On the East Side and down among the shops of 14th street a waterproof sailor may be bought for half the money, but itis not the jaunty tarpaulin with the jet-like polish that crowns the heads of the heircsses of swelldom, ‘The shape doesn't begin to have the London set abeut it; it isn’t smart, so to speak, and there is no luting of velvet and no silk head-band to keep the stiff edge from ridging the fair brow of youth and beauty, Then, too, there is a difference in the blocks, and if a lady is determined to have a tarpaulin who hasn't the face for it the brim is narrowed or the crown changed to suit her peculiar style ot beauty. Children, girls, debutantes, belles, young married ladies and mothers with mar- Tiageuble daughters alike affect the tarpaulin, No trimming 1s used but the lusterless band of corded silk, To hold the hair in place and soften the roses that bloom for art in place of beauty small veils of dotted net or gray silk tissue are worn, —$_—$_—_~9——____. Donations to Fairs. From the New York Sun. “Talk about high prices,” said a well-known fair manager a few evenings ago, “you will never know what large estimates business men can put upon the value of their goods until You have seen the list of donations toa fair. A contribution of stationery will be valued at #40, when I can go right tothe same man’s store and buy it for $4. A $50 sofa pillow would be dear at $5, and sets of china marked at $26.50, or something like that, when exhibited in store windows are put down at 3100 when contrib- uted toafair. I’ve heard insurance men com- plain of the way men figure up the value of a stock when they come to make up a schedule of losses after a fire, but that trouble isn’t a circumstance to that of the manager of a fair who is expected to realize $50,000 off of dona- tions that wouldn't bring $5,000 at a sale.” ——— eee Following in His Father’s Footsteps. From the Clothier and Furnisher, Husband—“My dear, ovr boy is positively getting bow-legged, Why don’t you stop it?” Wife—“I don’t want to, When he gets older your trousers will fit him beautifully without any alteration.” ——_—_—+e+____ Lightning in Medical Cases, From the New York Sun, ; The use of electricity in surgery is extending daily. It is now largely employed in England gynecological cases, It has long been known to be capable of relieving neuralgic pain, and ‘has now been applied to cases of ovarian neu- ralgia, the treatment of which presents pecu- liar difficulties, Dr. Aj in giving the iad patients whoeg ovarian rogion tase Grice ie) 80 fal nd tender that they payee not bear the slightest , but who, after a few min- utes application of the jearem current, could eu out = | pressure Lp try ‘Was She Far Wrong? ‘From the Ladies’ Home Journal. THE HEAVENLY BODIES. The Sun’s Eclipse—December Changes in the Planets. From the New York Times. The sun has been gradually slackening in speed as he approaches the winter solstice, the extreme southern limit of his journey, which he will reach on the 2ist, and enters the sign of Capricoraus, in which his northern journey begins, Winter then is fairly begun and will continue as the sun passes through the other two winter signs—Aquarius and Pisces—on his way to the “line.” The days are 9 hours and 35 minutes long at the beginning of the month d 9 hours and 27 minutes long xt its close, The most important event of the month is a tal eclipse of the sun on the 2lst-22d, not isible in our latitude. This is the second total eclipse of the year, a very rare occurrence, for, although they occur occasionally within twelve months of each other, it is very seldom that two total eclipses happen in the same calendar year, and it will not again occur until the year 2057. The total eclipse is important because it affords ® chance to study the solar corona, and as the last eclipse considerably moditied the views of scientists in relation to the constitution of the envelopes encircling the sun it is especially important to test these new hypotheses by still more exact observations, and as there is no other total eclipse of the sun for a period of four years it is all the more important to make the most of this one. Cayenne, the most favor- able poiut of land for observation on this side of the Atlantic, has a duration of totality of one minute and forty-seven seconds at about sunrise. At St. Paul de Loando, Africa, where the Pen- sacola is taking Prof. Todd and his party, the totality will last three minutes and a quarter, and itis at this station that the principal part of the work will be done, ‘The moon is full on the 7th, last quarter on the 15th, new moon on the 22dand first quarter on the 2Sth. ‘Ihe moon will be nine days old, according to the above date, on the first of the year, which establishes 9as the epact for 1890. a Siegel always of more or less importance in calculating the dates on which some of the principal events in the chureh calendar are to e celebrated. There will be conjunction be- tween the moon and Neptune on the 6th. On the 13th there will be conjunction with Saturn: ‘ue 17tu with both Mars and Uranus, The es Venus on the 2ist. meets upiter on the 23d, the last conjunction be- en moon and planet for this year, a8 Will still be an object of interest to ers, although by no means so long in the ficid of view ax she ‘has been during the autumn months, Saturn, also a i morning star, is rapidly com- ing to a favorable position for observation, and can easily be found in the northeastern section of the heavens, uot far from the bright star Reguius, Mars, another morning star, will be found in he sign of the Virgin, and ‘not far, at the month's close, from the bright star Spica, chief of the group. Uranus. the most distant of the mornjpe stars, isalso in the Virgin group, which this montlf as well as last contains more than its fair share of the brillisuts of the heavens, Uranus ean be found more by his surroundings than h individual prominence, and the bri exactn place of this He is in conjunction with the Mereary di r-away pla moon on the 6th. ts the group of morning stars for the remainder of the year Jupiter's guidance as one of ning planets, Jupiter is well kown in the southwest when he becomes visible after the sun sets, and is by non 89 favorably situated for observation as he was ier in the s: he distance be- twoen the p! ing, and early in January the sun the slower. vi be lost to the vi ge to appear just before sunrise some weeks late in the easterly side of the firmament, Although this glorious planet is near the sun and is ata great distance from the earth he still shines with « brilliant luster that will make him a conspictous object almost as longas he remains ab: the horizen, Neptune having been in opposition with the sun on the 25th of last month, has since that date been an ove the group of T little after 11 of the mont ntly lessen- li sweep by ng star and is to be found in wus, reaching our meridian a jock in the evening on the first . and some two hours earlier at its close. iis position is fairly well marked by the bright ctar Aldobaran, The northern star groups for December re- main practically unchanged frou these of No- vember, ich up in the southern skics is the head of tho Ram, which was originally the first of the zodiacal constellations, but the same change which has shifted the Polar Star from the Dragon to the Little Bear has moved the Ram from his former position, Below the Ram 28 the Whale, which was inte din all prob- ability to represent some imag: inary sea mon- ster, as the group suggests rather an animal like the sea serpent, rearing its head above the water, than the great, lumbering mass of the whale. In the eastern section of the heavens we have the Lesser Dog, the Twins and the Chariotter. Orion has passed over to the east- southeast, and above his head lie the principal stars of the Bull. An unusual galaxy of most brilliant starry gems adorns this portion of the sky, among the number being Sirius, Procyon, Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Castor and Poilux. ‘The western part of the skies is not honored by yery many of the important constellations, the Winged Horse, the Chained Lady and the stars of Aquarius and Cygnus forming the most im- portant grot False Hair Again in Fashion. From the London World, Know, fair ladies, that false hair is once more coming into fashion, The charming Louis XV coiffure, raising the hair from the neck and leaving the lines free, does not suit the huge hats that are now worn and chignons and switches are needed to fill up the gaps and augment tne volume of the head on which the hat rests, Such is the edict of those who ordain what is chic or not chic, or, rather, what is fin de siecle or the contrary; for just ’as Darwin has replaced Schoepenhauer since Daudet's Lutta pour la Vie has become the topic of the saloons, so the phrase fin de siecle has replaced chic, pschutt and vlan in the signification of supreme modern elegance. Therefore, Gallo- maniacs will kindly take notice that if they wish to appear in the movement they must not employ the antiquated words above; if they tulk about a chic hat, they will ae themselves an simple- away as utterly as those good tons with whom I crossed the frontier the other day, and who, wishing to pass as French, gave each other the word of order as soon as they ar- rived at Petit Croix: “Bour l'amour ti Tieu, bas un mot t’Allemant!” eee Mr. Gladstone on Divorce. W. E, Gladstone in North American Review. While divorce of any kind impairs the integ- rity of the family, divorce with remarriage de- stroys itroot and branch. The parental and the conjugal relations are “jointed together” by the hand of the Almighty no less than the persons united by the marriage tie to one an- other. Marriage contemplates not only an ab- solute identity of interests and affections, but also the creation of new, joint and independent obligations, stretching into the future and lim- ited only by the stroke of death. These obli- gations where divorce proper is in force lose all community, and the obedience reciprocal to them is dislocated and destroyed. I have spent nearly sixty years at the center British life, Both before and from the be- fats that period absolute divorces were in England abusively obtainable, at very heavy cost, by private acts of parliament, but they were 80 rare Kperhers about two in a year) that they did not “ fect public tone, and for the English le. marriage was virtually a con- tract indbeolable by law, In the year 1857 the English divorce act was passed, for England only. Unquestionably, since that time the staxiard of conjugal morality has perceptib! country and sccndals in, Fespec ti have ber country and sean i come more frequent, aa decline, oA a fact Ikuow to be recognized by persons of soci experience and insight, who in no way share my abstract 0; mus on divorce. I believe it to be due in yation in our marriage for other tegrating The mystery too profound for our com seems now too exacting for our faith. —— eee The Full Dress Undervest. ¥rom the Clothier and Furnisher, ‘The very latest fad in fixings is the undervest to be worn with the dress suit. The shape of I i ous fabrics of high and low and range price from is a com- ete A 7. 1889-SIXTEEN PAGES. AUCTION SALES. a _FUTURE DAYS. EEKS & CO., Auctioneers, GS? Lontriana avenue, Opp. City Post Office. FINE LEATHER GOODS AT AUCTION. SPECIAL AND ATTRACTIVE SALE WITHIN OUR SALES ROOMS On MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER NINTH, at TEN O'CLOCK, of a collection of the Finest Leather Goods, &c., ever cflered to the public, being balance of stock of a party giving up that department of their business, They need oniy to be seen to be appreciated. Wename: All-Leather Gladstone Bars, Sample Cases; Club Dage; Telescopes; Hand Trunks; Tourist Bags; Jewel Cases; Beautiful Dressing Cases; Card Boxes: Writing Tablets; Desks: Flasks; 5 dozen Buggy Whips; Fine Hand Satchels for Ladies and Gente; Cuff Boxes; Pocket Books and Wallets; Traveling Trunks and other Fine Goods suitable for Holiday Presents, to which we call attention of private buyers. 06-2 T N\HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioncer. A CHOICE AND ELEGANT COLLECTION OF JAPANESE ART TREASURES IN PORCE- LAIN, BLONZE, CURIOS AND EMBROID- ERY, EMBRACING SOME OF THE FINEST SPECIMENS EVER SENT TO THIS CITY, COMPRISING Superb Satsuma Koros and Vases of exquisite workmanship, Kutani Kezs, Ariti and Tokio Vases, suberb Cabinet Specimens of beautiful designs, elegant Bronzes aud Cloisonne, superb Table Decorations, such as Plates and Dishes, all sizes of beautiful and artistic desicns, ele- sant Screens and Embroidery, the whole form- ing one of the most interesting and valuable collections ever sent to this city, The Salo will take place at my Art Rooms (the Jnnyest this side of New York), L1thand en TUESDAY AND WEDSESDAY, DE! BER TENTH and ELE ELE A.M. AND THE! ‘On exhibition on Monday, day prior to sale. N.B.—The rooms are well-heated and every comfort will be extended to partes atiending the sale. aG-3t ALTER B. WILLIAMS & CU., Auctioneers, THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL SALR By order of the Taunton Silver Plate Company, at our sales room, corner of 10th end D streets, feciax: Pennsylvania avenue northwest, commencins MONDAY, DECEMBER NINTH, AT ELEVEN A.M, Resuming at HALF-PAST THIEE and HALF-PAST SEVEN P.M. duily until entire stock is disposed of. RICH, ELEGANT AND UNIQUE ELECTRO-PLATED WARK, JH MANTEL CLOCKS. IMPORTED ARTISTIC PAINTED BRONZES, STATUETTE, TABLE, MANTEL AND CLOCK ORNAMENTS. SATIN, CHINA AND GLASS BOWLS AND VASES, NEW DESIGNS AND RICH IN COLOR. FRUIT AND BERRY BOWLS. BANQUET LANiPs, OPEKA GLASSES AND JEWEL CASES. GOLD AND SILVEK-HEADED UMBRELLAS, CRACKER JARS, BON BONNIER DISHES, ROSE JARS, A fine line of TOILET GOODS in CELLULOID, to- gether with a large assortment of the celebrated ROGEUS' TABLE CUTLERY. Ladies are respectfully and especially invited. Chairs provided for their comfort. WALTER B, WILLIAMS & ©0., Auctioneers. 46-108 MPROVED PLOPERTY ON SCHOOL STREET NEAL SIXGH AND D STAEETS SOUTHWEST AL AUCTION. By virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the Disirict of Columbia, passed im hauity No. 11756, Whereiu OliverC. Buick 1s couplamant and Lorin M. dauuders et ul. are detendauts, We will sell at public Suction, in iiunt of tue premises, on TUESDAY, THE diENGH DAY OF DECEMBER, A.D. 1S80, at HALE- PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P. a1, the foliowins described situate in the city of Washing? even (11) in square numbered four hundred asd ninety-tour 494), beginning for the sane ata pomt ob the south sideof Virgiuia avenue tweuty-one (21) fect eleven aud two-thirds (1255) inches from the uorthwest corer of said lot eleven (11), belie the hortheast corner of the part of said lot eleven (11, owned by Louisa Irving, and running thence easteriy on Virgihis avenue nineteen (LY) feet eieven and two- turds (21°5) iuces and thence »outherly with #aid jront width coutuued between and purallel with. the lives of said lot eleven (11) to Union alley, or School street, toget! the Muprovements thereon, derms of rd cash, balance in two equal installments st one and two years with interest wud mecured by deed of trust ou the property sold, oF all cash, at the option of the purchaser. A pomt of one hundred ($10) dollars will be required at time uf sale, conveyancilg at cust of purcuuser, and, if terms are bot complied with in tem ‘*, 7 trustees reserve the rigut to readvertise and at the risk wud cost of detaulling purchaser. SANK nar a Sth st. nw. J. HOLDSWORTH GUKDON, ‘Trustees. 330 $46 st. nw. DUNCANSON BROs., Auctioneers. n27-d&ds it ATCLIFF£, DARK & CO., Auctioneers, v20 Pa. ave. nw. I will sell at PUBLIC AUCTION the personal erty or the late Prof. M. F. Gilbert ou 1USSDA¥ EULX. ING. DECEMBEAE T 80, COMMENCIS PCLUC! parlors of RAT- NNSILVANIA nw of fue Oi (unong whu is » fine a Child), Decorated ud Eauipace, Opera Sewelry. bo. ee MOLTO G. SiMURSOS ‘ds-ds Adm. Estate M. P. Gilbert, HANCERY SALE OF VALUBLE LOT ONO STRELT NOKIHWEST BETWEEN NORTH CAPITOL AND FIMST STREETS. Under decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, ta Eguity chase! No 11: 4u0 tole ot . JoReS et ale), LW pe wuctia front of DECEMBER 0, at front ‘of the prem Ck 4ENTH, 1589, at FO! .. sub lot No. 3o, 1a other ON on T ‘ESDA UR O'CLOCK PM. square the same being 17 feet 2 inches —* aud 135 feet deep, containing 2,317}5 square “Terms of sale: One-third cash; balance six and twelve months, in two equal payments, in es me cured ne Sone of trust on I eceents a purcuaser, Conveyanc aud recoi purchaser's cost and S100 to be depeclted Shee bal accepted. The trustee reserves the rht to resell &. sae et oe Fecal = after Tee ys’ Dol in the Washingto: Lewspaper, ‘Dureliaser fail to comply with the terms cx tale, Chase HONS Truston oh. WEEKS & CO., Auctioneers B20-couds | feltman’ BROS., Auctioneers. [RUSTEES’ SALE OF LARGE BRICK BUILDINGS Ros ae a AND KNUWN IN PART : ‘at the written request of the ‘secu in front of the premises on UESDAY, EENTH DAY OF DECEM- BERK, A.D. 1: AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK a jeces or parcels of land and u ot — FUTURE DAYS. HOS. E. WAGGAMAN, Real katate Auctioneer, Es OF VALUABLE Lor im. ED Bi Fwosront FRAME 1D 438 FP STREET THWEST, GEURGETOWS. D. By virtue deeds: we Ty im Liber No 1218, folio Sand “Liber Ne THOR, fone 459, of the the ot and st the Will well at ou MONDAY, DECEN Be at POUR UCL’ BL, the owing described real extete situate in Georgie teed an follows: Becimning tor the santo acs poaut enstwardly of a live dcawh north 7 ten third cash, balance in te, iu G, 12 ‘and "1S months, £ of purchaser, bearing iuterest trom: secured by deed of trust on property Yakeu, oF ail cash, at option of purchase: $100 will Le required at tins uct terms sale id, will On. nw7déeds JUKN W. PILLING, OBEKT VOSE & CO. VALUABLE REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. Ou MONDAY, DECEMBER NINTH, AT FOUR P, Will offer for sole that valuable estate kuows, 4th street southeast, comprising # lot 22 f front by ¥6 feet & goed pressed Urick House, subsiautially built, havi. ents, aud a Brick Stable tor two" foot alley in the rear. Terms et ‘Can be seen from 2 to 4 cock by sale. $10U deport, day until sale. FINANCIAL, FP A0OMA, WASHINGTON TEKMITORY “SMALL Amounts can be placed here vo as to yield = pret Sttrom 25 tw Ov perceut inside of twelve mouth. ‘There are bo eurer ur saler iu vestinetste BLETBELL, McMANUS & GILLESPIR, NOW. MACAKTNEY, Member 1. Stock Ex, CORSON & MACARTNEY, GLOVER BUILDING, 1419 F ST. ¥.W, Bankers aud Dealers in Governwent Bonds. Deposits. Exchange. Loans. Collections, Railroad stecks aud Bonds, aud all securities listed on the Exchazwes of New York, Puiladelphia, Boston, and Baltimore cought and sold. A specialty 1uade uf investinent securities District Bonds and il Local Kailroad, Gas, Lusurance and Tole ephone Stock dealt in. Awericat Bell Telephone Stock bought and sold. jy 18 ee) PIANOS AND ORGANS. | ALLET & DAVIS elegaut Holid ni Serpe KRAKAUER PIANO” IS A NOBLE IN. strument, edited by all experts Pie and see thei a: KUHN's Temple of Music, 1 the Burdett Onan. rm in every detail. ate prices. SANDERS & Si AYMAN, cw. _Telephone—629. = Fscaee Pianos. ol. instruments rank among the foremost rue > 3 st Teputation. CONNOISSEURS, D DUKABILITY, jen price. Suid on eusy ternun, SANDLAGS & DTAYMAN, O54 F eta. of erente FAVORLD BY RENOW NLD FOE TON LEBER PIANOS. iS tuows the “Weber” as the Artist's the sole a Pianoin Washington, Baltumore and QSTEY PIA J the uae «cuarantee. Beautiful intone. Pally warranted. rices and terins reasonable. SANDERS & STAYMAN, Sd F st ow. iS & POND PIANOS tau the Patented ** " aft Stop.” produces ® reat servic to Piano se Celebrated Pianos im ‘tory of Music at Boston, Dkis & 1A, MAN, StF ot. uw, Conse BAN Cali and examine. QSIEd_ONGANS, Aeautiful new styles for parlor, church and school Use, “Hundsume stop Urean tor @75. Sold Om mouthiy payments of $5. oF etuw * ST Jesldagton, D.C. st iL. ton, D.C. Charles st, Baltimore, Ma. 1217 Main st, Kichmond, Via cl 3m. K K NN N A BS ree KK NNN AA B EK fx NN 4 AA BB EK ic BOM a fixe PlaNORS, UNEQUALED 1} TONE, TOUCH, WoR! Sure ” AND DURABLLETY Oe RMAN oofpeeial attention of “Pure ie invited ew. Astimtic 1a desire EST DEOO TALIS KY, isnos tor reus, repair, will AxpucEAL ENTS ofered Lj icesaud iu ters, wi will be: on BAS! MONTHLY Ino 15 when red. WAL KNABE & CO, ag. 317 Market spaca FAMILY SUPPLIES. _ be ie y Flour, @1. nee. per Tb.; Choice ‘Soap for 4. TD, PYLES, 412 éth st ae Rostxsox & Hexpensox, FINE GROCEKIES, PROVISIONS: AND TABLE LUXURIES, ing located at 1406 P st. n.w. we would be Jans ont iriessaa aad the pabihe general to see our Irie iy. teed, prices low ahd first-clags goods on guaranteed, = Give us 4 call and swlusty yo I Have Just Ovexe, 229-2w* AT 922 LOUISIANA AVE. ¥.W. tire New Stock of Groceries, which we intend sn lies Even etic a Just received two car loads of C ‘Burbank Pote- toes, which we will sell fur Gc. per We also wish to call special atteation to vurJave sand Mucha Cotes, roasted datiy. ae ‘un Pomuer deat at ide Entee’ = ‘Dugars at Cost By o Batters A Have sino just Pocelved eicar load of FM. Walker's Superlative Piour, which we guarantee to be the Finest 4 the city. n9-1m_ {AKLY ROSE POTATOES, 65c, BUSHEL Full Cream Cheese, 15c. Ib. New Prunes, 5c. Ib KY lune Foreign end Domestic Dried Fruit ty full line of Groceries We 5 oc31-3mn ad 44 Louimana ave. v2 MEDICAL, &. ClAlnyoxant Pi Before ane by Dr. sus Say or duly, 2ees. ANHOOD USING & ll ‘Cure ‘any cane of Nervous, Duta ‘and. loos Maisct femde woe benae. pest AbIES WHO LEG! THE SERVICES OF AX ee Dit thien