Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1890, Page 6

_ THE EVENING STAR: a, cITY AND_DISTRICE "A wealthy London merchant gives the secret of his business success as follows: always feel happy when I am advertising, for then I know that, waking or sleeping, I have a strong though silent orator working for me; one who never tires, never makes mistakes, and who is certain to enter the households from which, if at ali, my trade must come.” To secure the services of such an agent as this shrewd merchaut referred to, advertise in Tar Evexixo Stan It is read by everybody m Washington. GOSSIP. Some Substantial Improvements Pro- posed to be Made on F Street. ‘MB. WILLARD AND MR. KENT CONTEMPLATE ERECTING FINE BUSINESS BUILDINGS—ADAPT- IN@ A HOUSE TO ITS LOCATION--OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST. REAL ESTA Que or two improvements of arather ex- ensive character are in contempistion on F street which will add materially to the business facilities which that street now enjoys. It is announced that Mr. Caleb C. Willard is having Plans prepared for a iar; office building. which will be located on the site now occupied by the buildings 1s24.and 1326 F street. The new building is to be similar in design and size to the Hove building and the Adams building. which are located on the same block, and were both built by Mr. Willard. The iron front, which is the feature of these two buildings, will be repeated in the new building. and it Willi be constructed in the same substantial Yuanner which not only characterizes these structures, but al! buiiding done by Mr. Willard. The w edifice will have « frontage of 50 feet, and if it occupies the entire lot it will have a depth of about 160 feet. The first floor, like the Hooe ding, which it will j will be on a ievel with th and will be planned for store purp upper stories will be fitted up for of Poses, Willard is the largest owner of F ati property.and he not only ap- preciates its value. but. as all the property un- der his contro! indicates. he believes in having the improvements in a first-class condition, Now that he is relieved from the management of.the hotel, he is able to give more of his per- sonal attention to his property,and this will be evident from time to time by such enter- prises as he has now under consideration, MR. KENT'S PROPOSED BUILDING. The e Pp ar dividual | THE BIG FLAG-STAFF 18 UP—THE |Z. MEADQUARTER. 12. Commissary OFFICe, 3. NEWSPAPER OFFICES. . DISPENSARY. |S. RESTAURANT. PLAN WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY. d U OF THE CAMP. OUR BOYS IN BLUE. All Things Ready for the Camp at Fort | Washington. RIFLE RANGE AND A WONDERFUL BRIDGE ACROSS THE RAVINE —MATTERS OF MILITARY COURTESY— THE LIGHT BATTERY'S ANNIVERSARY, All things are ready at Fort Washington for the District National Guard camp of 1890 that begins Monday. There may be needed a few fimshing touches here and there, but there still remains plenty of time for that sort of Another rather notable improvement on F | work. The brown-green tinted turf no longer street is im contemplation. Some weeks ago | Soothes the eye with its pleasing monotony; its the building at the;northeast corner of 12th and | Surface is dotted with numerous white patches F streets was purchased by Mr. of Chicago. handsome building to be erected on this site. ‘The building will be adapted to office or busi- ness purposes, «nd wili probably be occupied by some large business house, Mr. is @ wealthy citizen of Chicago, where he is the owner of cousiderable real estate. Like his feliow-townsman, Col. Henry Strong, he sees the advantages which this city affords not only as a place of residence. but for the investment of money. He is now building a handsome residence on M tween 17th and 18th streets, which he intends to make his home. He purchased the F street property as an in- vestment, and while he paid what was regarded as « high price yet he has had offers for the lease of the building for aterm of years at a reutal which wonld net him six per cent upon the purchase money. He came to the conclu- sion that he could do better and now, as stated, he is considering the advisability of ‘erecting a new building. FADY SALG FOR BUSINESS PROPERTY. property. as well as that on the side eu Pennsylvania avenue and New is still occupying the attention of York «veaue investors. There seems to be a ready sale for Pproperty—that is, offered at anything like whas is called a reasonable fignre. Iu regard to a large pmpportion of F street property, dealers say that it is practically out of the migrket. owing to the aigh prices which are asked. ‘Theve have been no recent transac- reported and desirable corners are sale with the promptness that the averag> real estate dealer appreciates when he bas a real live buyer in sight with the money in his pocket. There are various Tumors afloat from time to time, and according to these authorities some almost fabulous prices ‘idney A. Kent | 2nd when the sun sets tomorrow it will leave He has had plans prepared for a | several hundred tents in the dark. Some of the canvas shelters will be ready for occupancy at that time, but the great majority will remain ent | Prostrate until the brigade comes along on Monday and commences camp life by pitching them. A great deai of work has been done at the fort and on the grounds dur- ing the past week and it has been done by comparatively few men. In the commissary department ali is well. and, unless the program unexpectedly breaks down, all will continue to be well to the end of the present chapter. Sergeants Neumeyer, Corvai- zier and Campbell of the general staff have toiled as they never toiled in their lives before, and they feel assured that the number of kickers in this year’s camp will be but a small fraction of one per cent of those who howled last year. On the tables and shelves the tons of crockery necessary have been Placed ready for immediate use; the great cauldrons are in condition to produce soup or coffee at fifteen minutes’ notice; the giant refrigerator—-an old bomb-proof—yawns for the supplies that are coming. ‘The mess sheds are complete and the long rows of seating capacity stolidly await the pressure of a thousand hungry men and the in- creased strain of a thousand men whose appe- tites are fully satisfied. The only new feature around headquarters, uot previously described in Tuk Stax, is the gigantic flag staff that was raised yesterday. Tt isa good deal of an improvement on the pole that supported th: I ; is the regulation article, in fact. fence,that once surrounded the headquarters building has been removec. = THE RIFLE RANGE. . Maj. Pollard’s work on the rifle range has been especially arduous during the past week. have been offered for corner F street property which the owners have refused with the ex- pectation that a little longer waiting would meet with a golden return, TWO & STREET HOUSES. Iwo handsome residences are being built on K street between 16ta and 17th streets frem plans of Harvey £. Paz, architect, They are being erected for Mry. Marz Mc™.-an Burgher and Dr. A. H. McKim. Bota — will be of fronts will being used ‘ough the first story and then in eom- m with brick throughout the remainder (the front. ‘Ihe interior be handsomely figished in hard woods. The builder is Mr. Larcombe. ADAPTING THE HOUSE TO THE LOT. Qhe of the fine residences of the city is that at the southwest corner of 16th and I streets, which was built by the late Lucius Tucker- anv. He was a man of ample means and in sefecting a building site he secured a liberal Portion of the garden which surrounded the residence of the late W. W. Corcoran. In order that he might enjoy his own part of the garden as well as the adjoining por- tion, he had bis house built upon a rather original plan. In brief he put the back of_the house in front, so to speak. This was accomplished by building the main staircase, as well as the servants’ staircase. the pantries, &c.. along the | street front, while the par- Jors, the diniug room and the living rooms had the beautiful outlook on the garden, with the advantages of the southern exposure. The main eatrauce was from I street, but it led by in- closed steps to the large centrai hall, with the rooms opening out from it on the south and also some im the east. There is no indi- cation of this change in the usual plan of an interior house arraugstaent on the outside, ax the windows are used to light the staircases and the other rooms and are as numerous as if the other plan had been followed. Mr. Tuckermann suited his house to the location, Which seems a seusible thing to do. SOME NEW HOUSES, Three new and attractive houses have just been completed on reet between North Capitol and Ist streets and two more are re- ceiving the finishing touches, while four others heer by are under w: Just below, on the southeast corner of North Capitol’ and N streets. five sevea-room houses of modern de- sign and finish are being roofed in and a per- A hundred and one of the annoyingly obstruc- tive littie things that always come up at the iast moment have plagued him. but he is some distance akead now and by Monday morning is expected to have a sufficient surplus of time on hand to expend in watching the brigade dis- embark. Ly that time the targets will be in place on all the ranges and the boys can com- mence shooting as soon as they pitch their | tents. The latest addition to the artificial fea- tures of the ravine is the bridge on which the men will cross to the 500 and 600 yards’ firing points. The structure 1s a combination of nat- ural woods and tenpenny nails and 1s of ample strength. In it have been combined the canti- lever, suspension, trestle, draw and pontoon principles, and it is undoubtedly a success, ‘The greatest depth from the bridge floor to the bottom of the ravine is 31 feet, The course pursued by the bridge is somewhat winding, | butit gets there. It 18 probably the only thing of the kind in all the region round about and the visitors to the camp shouid avail them- selves of the first opportunity tosee what mi | armed with hammer, saw and nails, can do | whon he makes up his mind. It is a thoroughly safe and undoubtedly picturesque structure. CIVILIANS IN UNIFOUM. | tact Wednesday evening. The light battery has been in existence two years and it marked its birthday with a thin streak of carmine no wider than the crimson stripes with which the sergeants’ trousers are adorned, Business |came first. Camp was less than a week away, jsothere could be no waste of time. At 8 o'clock the trumpeter filled both lungs at one [time and then disposed of the surplus by sounding the “assembly.” The battery formed for drill, and as drills for the past three months | have been drivers’ and standing gun drills it ! was thought advisable to give a little attention to foot maneuvers, The fact that it was some- ! where in the neighborhood of 98 in the shade on the asphalt in front of the Arlington did not | abbreviate the drill, but it made the boys per- | spire quite freely. Afteran hour of hard work the command returned to the armory and then ‘indulged in a business meeting. It did not | take long to dispowe of the business and then the battery room was stormed. Here two iong | tables were loaded with good things; so good | that nobody left until the night was. far spent. | Speeches and songs were sandwiched between | the refreshments very successfully. |. There have been comparatively few changes | im the battery since its last anniversary. Capt. | Yates is still in command, striving to keep the reputation of the battery up in the highest ; notch. Lient. Robbins finds himself the senior ‘ first lieutenant. The two other lieutenants are comparatively recent additions. First Lieut. | Winthrop Alexander is a valuable officer. Se | ond Lieut. G. W. Forsberg ix no less valuable, | and shows how easily some people can be mis- | taken, Lieut. Forsberg was a member ot troop | Aand was retired on account of old age; the | artillery, which never allows anything to go to | waste, thonght there was something in the oid | man and they were right, The corps of non- | commissioned officers is a good one; in fact, | everything is good. Sixty-two men rejoice in the privilege of active membership. Very naturally the boys would like to take all four of their guns into camp, butit has been de- cided that the two six-pounder howitzers will be sufficient. Horses cost money and money is somewhat scarce. The command will go to camp on the steamer Excelsior, but will re- turn by the road. GRANTING LEAVE TO EMPLOYES. Business men are beginning to appreciate the National Guard. They have been doing so in other cities for years past, but Washington, happily, has had no occasion to test the fight- ing qualities of its soldier boys. This year a number of the local militia would not have been able to go into camp had it not been for the clear-sighted libefality of some employers. nees are known where employers irmen that they would conunue to pay them their wages while they were in camp. and a number of other “bosses” have signified their intention of paying half wages, anyhow. These men see that the guard is their mainstay in time of local trouble and they very honestly want to contribute a little to the sup- port of an institution that they may be com- elled to call on nobody knows just when. Foard! age hace) wind to be lowe of, tranbio ta securing the consent of employers in New York and Pennsylvania and Illinois, but that day is past. Now the guard is encouraged in every way. for it has been the means of averting bloodshed and has saved the country millions of dollars, THE “STAR” BADGE. Tux Evexina Stax 2A batge. which will be “shot for by the crack shots of the guard, is © being made and will, when complete, be a trophy of which any Zan might be proud. Gold and enamel, clev- erly combined by art- ist and artisan, will give the medal an i trinsic value not to be Last year several company commanders took civilian friends into camp in the guise of mili- | tiamea. The instances of this unofficerlike | condact were neither few nor far Letween. | This year the officer who does that kind of | thing will get himself into a very elaborate de- | scription of trouble. Gen. Ordway bas figured | it out that this abuse was of common occur-! rence last summer and he has taken occusion to | remind those iu command that the issuing of | arms, uniforms or equipments to persons not | members of the guard will result iu a court- | martial and a vacancy, The general is, ag | some of the boys say, in “dead earnest.” | MILITARY COURTESY. Another matter to which the general has di- rected especial attention is that of mutual rec- ognifion by officers and enlisted men. The | camp is purely a militacy affair and every man in the guard ought to know what his military duty is, The comments of army officers on the militia have, for some time past, touched with especial force on the point of discipline. ‘That | is abont ail they can reasonably find fault with, for they all know that the citizen soldiers can | out-drili and out-shoot them, ‘There is no rea- son why the mulitiaman should fall behind in this important matter. Parag: ton’s Iufantry Tactics read BHA Trae mud » few days since fors dwelling ; sentinels will pay the sume compliments to the ou the corner of Ist and N streets northwest. Many of these houses are being erected for individual owners as homes, which is quite a officers of the navy and marines and to officers of the volunteers and militia in the service of aph 784 of Up: | 1 guards and | the United States as are directed to be paid to the officers of the army according to their relative ranks.” The term “service of the ‘Ths paving of New York avenue and North | United States” may be matier for argu- Capitol street is a partof the program of| ment when the relative positions of street improvements which the Districtauthor- | state militia and the army are boing ties propose to carry out this year. discussed, but there can be no two opinions as ENLARGING A DINING OOM. Soph i ee ee : ep graph 754 is concerned, between the army ani An addition is being built to the dining room | So National Guard of the District of Colvaamie. of the Arlington Hotel. The new part will be | Tiat is in the service of the United States and 40x36 feet, with ceilings twenty feet high. The | ofthe United States ouly. Its oificers are Foom will be handsomely finished in oak, the | Commissioned by the President of the repub- * inscoting and mantels of this wood being | lic aud of their status there can be no ques- masie from designs by James G. Hill, who is | tion. It is therefore compulsory upon the of- the architect of thie sew addition. ticers and enlisted men of the army that they ppastpecebiypatany properly recognize the members of the Dix- feature of this locality. Several owners of lots are having plans prepared te build, The south side of D street between 6th and ‘Th streets northwest will by a store and dwelling now in course of erec- tidu for Mr. Henry Eisem: will be of brick, with « fron as a store and the upper stori Purposes. LB. stanley Simuons is the architect. ‘MK. SHAFER'S SEW RESIDENCE. be greatly improved | of officers and eulisted men of t The structure \ militiame ge of 30 feet by a ; ; pth of 40 fect. The first story will be used | CO¥rtesy; courtesy expressed in the military for dwelling | W4¥- All ofticers saiute each other, the junior trict Nutional Guard, and it is just as binding upon the guard to salute or return the salutes army. The idea scems to prevail with a good many The ides is all wrong. A salute is simply saluting first; why should the enlisted man be deficient in this ove particular when he is, in Mr. Chas A Shafer of the Arm of Harris & | °° ether way, such an aditirable soldier? Bisafer, jewelers, has broken ground for a hand- some residence fronting 22 feet on 16th street between Rand 8 streets. The building will be of brick with brownstone trimmings and three Stories and basement in height The interior will be conveniently arranged in the style. oe Met His Match. Frow the Texse S.ftiize. A fellow thinking to appear smart entered a AN ARTILLERY ANNIVERSARY, There was a great anniversary celebration that to salute implies inferiority, | despised. The design is shown in the accom- panying ent. The badge will become at once the roperty of the successful marksman and not e shot for aunually. Anew Stan badge will be offered each year GUARD NOTES. Forty-two members of troop A have prom- ised to go intocamp. They will assemble at the armory tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock and expect to ride into camp about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Every man will be armed with a sufficiency of food to sustain him on the road and unless the weather should go wrong they will probably have a ploasant ride, It has been suggexted that the departments be closed eurly some afternoons during the | coming week, #0 that employes not in. the | guard, but interested in it, might be able to eut dinner and take ar early boat for Camp Washington, A great many distinguished persons will visit the camp. The President and. several members of the cabinet will visit the militia, The District Commissioners, many Senators and | Representatives, aud a large number of army officers will also be there, |, The action of the Light Infantry in deciding | to drop their indopendent seaside encampment | in order that they mizht concentrate. their energies on areal encampment i being very general’: commended. Robert Seyboth wil receive his warrant as sergeant major of the third battalion itmedi- ately after camp clonen Capt, Beck has passed the examination be- j fore the brigade board and will take company | C of the third battalion into camp. | , Gen. Ordway's headquarters fag is ready. | the hatenet is of silver ‘ompbroidered on « bine silk ground, On the letters D, the head of the weapon are G. in crimson, ve been received at headquar- | ters from heads of departments informing Gen, | Ordway that they have excused as many sol- | dier employes as possible, ;, Capt. Peixotto, one of Gen. Ordway’s aids, | has returned to the city, aud will be one of the ; busy men at the fort, | Paberte a oe of absence has been gral oF wles of company | sixth Dattalton. waite aa ogc he four ‘oandidates” who have passed the brigade board and are eligible for conmeleeibas have been presented with their badges. Sergeant H. E, Mitchell of troo} A, who is i the far northwest, bas been relleved from | duty as first sergeant and Sergeant C. B. Hud. — a p gmesmnag = his place. Privat imma of troop A has been aj eee corporal to fill the vacancy canned y the resignation ofCorpora! E. W. Koch, Appointed Expert Accountant. Mr. Wm. T. Kent, who for twenty years past modern | was financial cierk in the office of the paymas- ter general of the army, has been appointed expert accountant in the office of the inspectcr general at a salary of $2,500, under the pro- visions of the recont army appropriation bill. gotion store on 6th avenue the other day and | Mr. Kent will begin work in his new office next said to one of the salesladies: “Ever have any calls for husbands here?” “Oh, yes, occasionally, Are you looking for ————~<eo——____. Mr. John Cosler of Montgomery county, Ohi im moving around a whest field so ames Feaper ‘0 work uncovered a nest from which three quail hens few, reveabag ninety quail cK Mouday. Although these duties have not yet been fully defined it is understood that the; will have to do with the investigation of com- — accounts of disbursing officers, Mr. a The Forty-three Stars in the Flag. The President has decided upon the design for the new official flags made necessary by tle admission of the state of Idaho before Ji a j The old fisg had forty-two stars arranged in ENE of pores strs pee serge} San same arangement exce| one si will be added at the left-band end of the t ia row, and then when anew star is Wyoming Es % e a5 Hie WRITTEN BY FAMOUS MEN. Autographs Collected by a Venerable Citizen of Washington. SAMUEL YORKE ATLEE AND HIS COMMONPLACE BOOK —NOTES AND STATEMENTS SCRAWLED FOR HIM BY THE GREAT MEN OF DIFFERENT PERIODS IN OUR NATIONAL HISTORY—A NOTABLE COLLECTION. Samuel Yorke AtLee is the oldest member of the bar in the District of Columbia, having been admitted to practice in Philadelphia on the day that Andrew Jackson was inaugurated President for the first time, March 4, 1829. He has not been in practice for a number of years, but he can be found every day in office hours at the office of his son, William Yorke AtLee, on New York avenue. Mr. AtLee is now in his eighty-first year. He hasbeen a resident of Washington for forty-six years, but before he came here enjoyed some interesting experi- ences in western states. He walked from Phil- adelphia to Cincinnati and began the practice of the law there sixty years ago. He soon drifted to journalism and was the editor of the old Cincinnati Chronicle tor sev- eral years, He was grand secretary of the Grand Lodge, LOO. of Ohto in 1833 and grand master in 1834, and is one of the oldest grand officers living. He was the first in- structor in constitutional law m the Cincinnati public schools, and a member of the Cincinnati board of education for several years. He re- moved to Michigan just after the Toledo war and was secretary of « constitutional convention held in shat territory in 1836, which refused the congressional proposition to admit Michi- ganas astate if she wonid accept the zreat upper peninsula in exchange for the Toledo strip. A later convention was more complai- gant and Michigan has never regretted the trade, Mr. AtLee is the oldest surviving secretary of the senate of Michigan and was deputy sec- retary of state and deputy commissioner of the state land office of Michigan almost fifty years ago. In i645 he came to Washington and entered the Treasury Department as librarian, In 1848 Postmaster ieneral Cave Johnson com- misstoned him the first postmaster at San Fran- cisco, but he declined the office. being advised by his physician that Mrs. AtLee might not survive the voyage around the Horn, Mr Atlee was for many years in the Treas- ury Department, and before the war was an active District public man, serving as school trustee and member of and president of the old common council. While on the school board he was instrumental, as he had been many s before in Cincinnati, in instituting the ly of constitutional iawin the public schooly of Washington. Twenty thousand dol- Jars was the anvual appropriation for school purposes when he was a trustee. Now the ap- propriation has swelled to many times $20,000. A BOOK OF AUTOGRAPHS. Mr. AtLee is the possessor of a remarkable book of autographs. It is not a collection of signatures by distinguished men to miscella- neous letters gathered by contribution or pur- chase from various sources. Each signature 1s either affixed to a note or letter to Mr. At Lee, or was written in the book by persons who called upon him at various times or with whom he has been on terms of intimacy during his long life, He begun keeping this book in 1834, although some of the autographs in it date back of that year, aud he has signatures of many noted and some forgotten men for every year since he purchased the book. Many of the signatures of men afterward distinguished were given Mr. AtLee before the writers ac- quired distinction. and others were given while the writers were at the hcight of their fame, Mr. AtLee was well acquainte of the Presidents before the war and has had some acqdaintauce with ail the later ones, ex- cepting Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Har- rison, His book contains the signatures of every President from Andrew Jackson to Ches- ter A. Arthur, and also a personal note in the trembling chirozraphy of th: Madison, which, was written but months before his death. The sign Jackson, Yan Buren, Pierce and Linc personal notes, GEN. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, The autograph of the grandfather of the present President was written in the common- place book August 4, 1834. The handwriting is broad, flowing, but somewhat broken- backed. The future President wrote simply: “WH. Harrison, late major general in the army of the United States, was born at Berkley (the wext of ins father, Benjamin Harrison), in the county of Charles City, and state of Vir- ginia, February 9, 1773.” ‘s ‘This was long before Gen. William Henry Harrison was nominated for President. A dozen or fifteen pages further along in the book ap- pears the signature of the only son and father of a President that this country has ever pro- duced. J. Scott Harrison and Representative Harlan of Ohio dined with Mr. AtLee on the date—May 27, 1854—when this autograph was given. In signing his name the second Harrison stated that he ‘vas born at Vincennes, Ind., Oc- tober 4, 1804. e venerable James a few LUCIEN MURAT. The first name in Mr. AtLee’s book of auto- graphs is that of Lucien Murat, and it was written in 1824. Young AtLee had called on Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Spain, at his seat in Bordentown, N. J., and been by him intro- duced to his nephew I.ucien, who was visiting him. Lucien returned the call at the residence of AtLee’s father in Philadelphia the following day, and during his stay at Bordentown the boys were quite friendly. This Lucien Murat was the son of the king of Naplesand the sister of Bonaparte and the father of the late high- priced suitor for the hand of Miss Gwendoline Caldwell. Charles Carroll—the last signer of tue Declaration of Independence—puts bis name in the book iu 1828, In the same year the young studont of Philadelphia who after- ward became Archbishop Wood inscribed nis name in the bouk. During most of the earlier portion of his life Mr. AtLee was a strong democrat, but he became a tree soiler about 1850, and afterward an ardent republican which he has ever since remained. Long prior to his affiiation with the free soil party he had been an abolitionist in principles, and he has preserved with much ride a receipt given him by David Paul Brown in 1825 for a year's subscription to the early Abolition organ, The Genius of Universal Eman- etpation, REPRESENTATIVE MEN, Henry Clay, Thomas B. Benton, Lewis Cas George M. Dailas and dozens of the most dis- tinguished ante-bellum public men; Chase, Seward, Stevens, Speed, Stanton, Dix and the figures of the war period and many prominent men of the years since the war appear in this book. So also there are the names of Wash- ington Irving, Willis and other noted lights of literature, Most of the autographs are at- tached to personal letters. There is a little note from Edwin Forrest, written at Cincin- nati in i883, and another with his signature at Washingtun in 1865, His handwriting had changed greatly between twenty-seven and sixty. Polk was Speaker when he wrote his name and Johnson was Vice President. Mr. AtLee secured many names in advance of the time when their owners were distinguished. For instance, William E. Chandler wrote tis name November 24, 1865, He was then twenty- nine years old. Gen. Grant gave AtLeo a roughly scrawled ! note in lead pencil on a memorandum book mge at Galena in 1865, Prince John Van juren dined with him January 21, 1866, and contributed to the old book. Later in the year he dieden route home from Europe ox the Scotia, ‘The noted Gen, Humphrey Marshall wrote in Mr. AtLec’s book in the summer of 1860 a ort sketch of his life, concluding as follows: * * “Was nominated for re-election to the z House of Representatives in 1859, but declined the candidacy and retired from public life preferring the quiet pursuit of the legal pro- tession to the rapid debates of politics without statesmanship, aud the delights of home to the misery of gilded station in which brass fre- quently counts more than goid.” ROBERT J. WALKERS AUTOBIOGRAPRY, Mr, AtLee entered the Troasury Depart- ment during the term of Robert J. Walker as Secretary of the Treasury, and for many years enjoyed warm personal relations with that dis- tinguished man, In his friend's book the ex- Secretary wrote (August 28, 1867): “R. J. Walker, born at the town of ‘North- umberland, Pa., July.19, 1801; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania. Appointed judge of the supreme court of Mimissippi 1828; de- clined, United States Senator Te36-45, ‘Sec- retary of the Trousury 1845-49; resigned’ Ap- :nted commissioner to China June, jorgery. agen’ United States government by a; tof . Chase (then Sceretary ‘of the Trosmen Europe from Mareb, 1863, 10 N . of ‘5-20 six cent bonds and defeated the second. confederate loan of 15,000,000; co-opercter with others during the same period in various important transactions for federal ernment under 8 d with several | One of the most interesti erogs amie the collection is the Dame “George Cluny.” Cluny is dust and forgotten. He was an Irish Private in the ae oe and he was one of Mr. At Lee's first clients in Cincinnati. The young lawyer secured the old soldier his pension. Cluny wrote that he was in 1744. He was eighty-seven years old when hé wrote his name in Mr. At Lee’s book in i831. These two lives therefore cover the long period of 146 years, NEW BOOKS, A SOCIAL DEPARTURE; How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by Ourselves. By Sana JEANNETTE DUNCAN. x D. Ap New Yors: pleton & Co. Washington: Robert Beall. IN AND OUT CF CENTRAL AMERICA, and Other Sketches and Studies of ‘Travel.’ By “CENT. New York: D, Appleton & Robert Beall. SCHOOL SUPERVISION. By J. L. Pickarp, LL.D, International Education Series. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Washington: Robert a PESTALOZZI; His Life and Work. By Rocer De Gtivrs. Translated by J. Russell, B.A. In- ternational Education Series. New York: D. Appleton,& Co. Washington: Kobert Beall. FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS MIDWAY. A sequel to “Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.” By MARGARET SIDNEY. Company. Boston: D. Lothrop XD ECONOMIC COOK. SONS OF MODERATE 2 By Mrs. Maxy Hiy- York. American Public | MAN ABEL, Health Assoc THROCKMORTON, A Novel. By Mowry Exot SEAWELL. New York. D. Appleton & Co. KATY OF CATOC The Chain-Breakers. A Novel. ALFRED TOWNSEND (Gath). New York: D. Appleton & Co. A LITTLE WORLD A Novel. By Eis Wouti, New York: ‘The American News Co. THE ROBE OF NESSUS, An Historic By DUF¥IRLD OsBoRNE, New Y Company. Romarice. Belford MRS. NGTON'S NEW GRIP-SACK, By B aTON (B, P. Shillater). New York: . A Novel. By “Estelle.” ‘The Minerva Publishing Company. 0” THE ARK By FB. M. ALLEN. ic. THE VOYAGE . Ogit New Yor! JEFEERS Is dolph & English. Washingtor rison, THE NEGRO AS A POLITICAL AND SOCTAL FACTOR. By Faaxk G Rtrety. Richmond: J. W. Randolph & English. Washingwon: W. H. Morrison. | THE WItcr AMESTOWN. A story of | © By James T. Bowyer. | mdolph & English. Wast- OUR DISTINGUL PELLOW CITIZEN. By CanivON McCartuy. Richmond: 4d. L. Hill | Printing Company. rison, Washington: W. Hi. Mor- ————_- The Colossus Knocked Out. From the Paris Edition of the New York Herald. M. Eiffel has rendered a real service to man- kind in connection with the famous Colossus of Rhodes, For centuries that impertinent | statue has been flung, so to speak, in our faces as an evidence of the vast superiority of ancient | over modern engineers, and thousands of un- happy school boys have been compelled to commit to memory its impudent proportions. | Now comes M. Eiffel and demonstrates with slate and pencil that no such statue ever ex- | isted nor never could exist. There never lived an engineer who could have placed a bronze statue standing astride of the entrance to the port of Rhodes, for the simple reason that the yeight of the body would infalli- bly have crushed the legs. Let us hope | that M. Eiffel will pursne his good work | and demolish the aggravating hanging gardens of Babylon and prove the exasperat- ing temple of Diana at Ephesus wae about the size of an ordinary Methodist chapel. We have | been sat upon long enough by the engineering | impostors of antiquity, not one of whom ever | dreamed of making a statue like that of *Lib- | erty Evlightening the World” or a tower like | that built by M. Eiffel. soe —____ j A French Prisoner’s Pets. From Cornhill Mag: i M. de la Tude.a Frenchman who fell under | the displeasure of Mme. de Pompadout in 1749 and was consequently imprisoned in the Baxfi> tile and other fortresses for thirty-five years, tells how he alleviated the tedium of his cap | tivity by making companions of some rats, He was much annoyed for years by the rats, | which at nightfall swarmed into his cell, hunt- ing about for scraps of food, and sometimes | biting his face when he was asleep. They en- | tered by a hole which ventilated his dungeon; it was about two feet above the floor, and under it was two steps on which he used to sit and breathe the fresh air agit cutered. While seated there ona day he ngticed a large rat at the other end of the hole, and threw it a frag- | ment of bread. This was snatched ap and was followed by more pieces until bis supply was ex- hausted, The next day, at the same hour, therat was there again, and bv throwing bread crumbs | so that they fell nearer and nearer to him the prisoner gradually induced his visitor to ap- | roach, until it finally took a piece trom his and. Tu afew days’ time it was so tame that | it would sit on his knee, washing its face and | eating what scraps were given to it. One day | it brought a companion, which became friendly | almost at once, and after alittle while the two rats took up their permanent residence in the dungeon. — They occasionally went out | through the hole, generally returning with another rat, and each newcomer made itself at | home, until eventually M. de la Tude’s cell was peopled by a family of ten of these rodents, He taught them all to recognize the names he | gave them and used to play with them for hours together. number of tricks and showed rivairy inthe way they went through their performances, A Pretty Navajo Indian Tradition. William M. Eadwardy in Harper's Weekly. One day in their desolate retreat they saw at early dawn w bright ray of sunshine beaming upon a lovely verdant hill not far away. Four days in succession this phenomenon was pre- | sented and, bemg drawn by curiosity to visit | the spot, they found a beautiful girl babe. This child was regarded as the danghter of heaven and earth, and they reared her with the greatest care. When she grew to woman- hood the great warrior, who rides upon a white horse and carries the sun upon his arm asa shield, fell in love with and married her. ‘The off- | spring of this union were two sons who,slew the giants who had destroyed the Navajos, and un- |and has an abundance of | and the modern German triumvirate. They learned from ima | quite a spirit of | j tient and grateful THE GERMAN GIRL, Could There be Anything Nicer When All is Said? From the New York Sun. The German girl is not like other girls. She is not so piquant as the American girl, not so stylish as the French girl and not so «ympa- thetic as the English girl She has neither the persuasive magnetism of the Viennese, nor the burning presence of the Italian, nor the versa- tility of the Russian, Her lack of these con- ventional attractions usually leads men who do not know her to imagine the German girl to be @ rather inferior and uninteresting young woman, Men who have been fortunate enough to know thoroughbred continental German girls, however, think differently. Physically the German girl is not so charm- ing as the American girl. Her waist is neither round nor tapering. Her shouldere do not slope, Her carriage lacks spirit, Her face is round rather than oval, and her hands and feet are not strikingly trim, On the other hand she has a well-turned arm, a smooth pink aud white skin, untouched by modern improvements, an abundance of well-kept hair, and a delightful marr § §, 8, mane. & HOUSEHOLD Favorite A young girl here bad been suffering for twelve yeare With blood diseases until she had lost the use of her Tanke and was subject to many troubles incident to the disease The physicians declared her case incurs bie and predicted that her life would come to a apeedy end. After taking 8, SS she ecupersted #o fast that it was plain: that she had obtained a new lease on life, andahe bas continued to grow better until her pers manent cure is assured. Many other pationts in our hospital have obtained signal benefit from 8, 8. 8, and ‘it has become quite a favorite in our house. THE ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL, ==, Highiaud, I, ‘Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed frea, SWIFT SPECIFIC ©O, Atlanta, oo neck. Her figure is full, but not overfed. Her | 4 ae ing lanl geeorere cag ——$$—___ The fine art of fascinating men by infinitesi- mal gestures or suggestions of gestures is not hers, She can not sway feeling by the turn of the head. a droop of the figure, a sinking of the hand or a curve of the neck, She may have an idea or two about managing her eve- lids, tossing her head, plucking apart rosebuds EDUCATIONAL, WISTON HOME SCHOOL FoR LYNWOOD, KockMgham county, Miss ELEANOR C. WHEAT, Principal. Fifth Session »pens SEPTEMBER 10, 1800. and other iike elementary practices, but the | cytndeal’Valey Mauna, Mumehately on the wide world of elaborate feminine coquetry | fui of Vinemia Tt is ren part of the alley without words is beyond her ken. Despite ail these deficiencies the presence of the typical German girl is something of an in- attention oid to the mental, moral and spiration, She does ween gy cnmseno physical traiuing of oung Chiluren, Vivacity nor burden him with highly wrought | [M6 course of studies is co: affectation of attention, She does not mobilize | Terma:Beara, with urtos” sm Fingish, Latin, her face for a campaign of grimaces and ex- i {Instrumental Bi pase 2176. pressions the minute be opens his mouth. She | wegen te tie Morac ehs ban een Bees listens somewhat impassively, though not id. 124 Franklin st. Baltimor., Mi NG AND Day "x Ladies will reopen, Thursday, Spi 18. | ‘Twenty-seventn year, Y1eewIw kins HP LEPEBVRE, Princiy phiegmatically, to all he says, Her repose is natural and sympathetic. It was born and bred im her, is a part of ber, and so is remark- ably refreshing toa man who has worn his way repeatedly through the pantomimic routine of | NQTKE DAME OF MARYLAND. COLLEGIATE tid teterd tote with woulen of ether breeding | AV futstg ter You Lagunsta Prerratsy =a and temperament, Notve Dai EMBLA Po, Iu conversation the German giri is encour- | 21s, nn aging rather than exciting and entertaining. Cate ‘8 SCHOOL FOR GIKLS, S MILES PROM She Goss not try to “hes! ap Ber endl” She} Cotesia, Le een ee nen. Don never “carries on.” She is nog, “sharp, bie Uy rail. ‘Miss Mf “keen,” nor “smart,” nor “great fu airfax county, cannot even “take care of herself” conver- sationally. She does not know all about operas she has never h never studied. ¢ does not adore ~ and is not “awfully fond of metaphysics.” Drawing MAK COLLEGE, W met Send for ca! She rarely generalizes brilliantly concerning novels she has only heard others tell of, aud sie ix far from clever at cribbing colloquial witticiams, She is, however, intelligent and well educated, Ht MUSIC AND AKT x Ee K Lory, te the School for Young Women. KEEDY, Pr L108 L. ___"Mawerstew: dent, Maryland ideas of her Although she knows little Latin and aurly well, & smatter- nish, She is full of in- IN'S | COLLEGE, ANNAPOLIS, MD. partiwents and Pour Course: of study, Preparatety School Attached SPECIAL ALCUNTION GiV EN THE PREPARATION OF CANDIDATES ME NAVAL ACADEMA, For catalogucs address president, jy ld THOMAS FELL, Live GnoRTHANI Acme Phonography sequired in 16 easy lessons. lypewritins taught tree ot charge to Shorthand stu: Sr, sow own, bight L ing of Italian or 5) formation as to the great elector, Frederick | the Great, the iron days between 1807 and 1815, Ph.D. She is well acquainted with the works of Goethe. Shakespeare, Heine and Moliere. She can | positon, mer dere eek gtadeuis Medved & quote by the page from her favorite poet, | las HEAD SCHOOL AC HONOGHAPHY, Feunw. FJ. MULVEY, Priveijal. dy laoe' KANILE 10 TEACH ANY ONE To DKAW a Crayon Portrait im 15 lessons: mo wledge of dra win JW. key Sehiller. In case of need she can follow her | art with her hand and turn off an astonish- ing quantity of sentimental verses ou slight provocation, She loves music, and is familiar with most of the grand operas. The German girl has all these things to talk of understandingly, yet she never sweeps a m: off his feet with flood of conversational pedantry, When a subject she ix acquainted with turns up she talks on it easily without an effort to appear brilliant, or unique, or deep. She is very worshipful of the great masters, but does not exhaust her breath aud vocabulary tosay so, She never uses slang. She speaks her native tongue plainly without availing her- self of expressions liks “ain't,” “hadn't ought” or “like you and I.” Her correctness of speech, however, is not studied, and she never tries to get under cover with a “dear me, I always get . ‘ that wrong.” Her is as sweet as the | 34m: Yashiuston. American girl's “yes,” and her “nein” falls Se wens from her lips with a soft indecision that muti- etre bngion BEET gates half the pain of the refusal, a GEO. G. BI When the German girl has bad her little fing, | 5 “om hecessar OLDS, ¥y; hundred hast, S2Y OPES ALE SUMIIER 804 E 8 for every brapch of Drawing an ratte, With oF Without So.ve Prints, or two days, Wo those Who have never dn NGk¥oop Detir Te AN keopens september 21 _—BEST PLACE an F with Inczeased Faculty NUE FREDERICK FEMALE SiMINARY WILL bewin its 47th year © 10,1890. The location is heathiul ald the appomtusents excellent, ‘Teruis m ite. For catalogues address. HOPURNELL, A. M.,Li.D., Frederick, Md. si LER, A.M, Principal. ~ MARYLAND. ‘ andit is a very little one, her frau mamma gets cutee ian LS9v her engaged, Her new social status is pub- TE HALL CHOOL, st aay oo. Ma. lished at once to the whole world around her. horoteh b trial, Unannounced engagements are unknown to the German girl. The instant she accepts a young man’s proposal every oue knows it and regards her as already half married. She does not court the pleasures of # helter-skelter, fast-and- Miltary using, fu 116th sewion Se) teiuber 1. address KW. SILVESTAM, Princ MeoEN esses ss irerr. 16 MOUNT VEAANON PLACE, BALTIMORE, loose love affair. She becomes all wrapped up | — Mra JULIARTUIW and Mrs. ANNE CABREL wher Fritz, or Hana, or Wilhelm ut onee, | BU“E Panciysis, Igerdiueand Day nchool for Lyabe vere is uo more flirting, or corresponding. of | twenty. ‘Reopeus Sertembec ok YUP, Ba skating, or dancing with other men. She ioves Bonaire WALL, FoR BOYS AXP YOURS her fiance with an absorbiug devotion which is St. George's, wear Balti Md. Prot. J.C. seldom duplicated on this side of the Atlantic. I AM., Principal A school of She gets no special pleasure Eeleet ‘Fepuratjon. thorough abd safe. e200 to @27 5a year, him, teasing® him, exciting hie. jealousy or . a leading him on.” Ali she wishgs is to have | JOHN@ HOPKINS UNIVEKSITY, him right at hand all the time, holding ber hand while others are present and her when BALTIMORE alone with him, This unswerving faithfulness 5 ‘ and childlike devotion continues well along into —_ her married life, and usually to the end. The quiet, responsive, undemonstrative, trastful DieRta tical mie this edi nabliesabh German frau is only @ natura! development of the well-bred German girl, iyenb inate weilay anh Gen teent ox The German girl has many other miscel- laneons accomplisiments and virtues which + application, j12-lawitt are little known, and, if known, are misunder- stood by her foreign critics, ‘She does not drink beer or eat blood sausage. She never takes a cigarette into ber mouth and does not jong to be a man. She does not drop her hand- A) first year. Piano, Organ, \ Free’ VASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF Good Teuplar Hall, 43 id glee, Viol B. BULLAKD, dVautages, O. kerchief or fan to see a man pick it up, andshe | J)" BERLITZ SCHOOL Cr LANGUAGES. | does not hurry of her admirers on impossible Gpen all Summer (suminer prices > errands just to show what she can do with then She does not accept ali the presents that the men of her acquaintance will give her, and she does not teli white lies when it is just as convenient to speak the truth, She never flirts in the street. She always draws on both gloves before leaving the house and does not remove them before returning indoors. She never annoys her escort by staring surrepti- tiously at other men and asking who they are, and she does not cut duty dances to taik with her favorite. She never tells a calier “he is quite a stranger,” does not wear a big hat at the play, and does not giggle and whisper dur- ing the opera, She is appreciative of small favors, believes tiat young men have a few rights that young women are bound to respect, and acts up to this belief. In short, the German girl is warm-hearted, well educated and well bred. She is kind, pa- he is too sensitive to do a rude act and is too full of ideals to do a mean one. She may lack. as her critics say, consum- mate brilliancy and beauty and art. but all the reparing tor Colege a petits Branches in 1 doston, I tuladelphia, Chi- ani, France, Berlin and Dresden, m.1usate, and London, kngiand, 001 Asbury Fark.” m2s-dexth DSINESS OOLLEGK, er 7th aud D ste. nw. r Instruction. rai Shorthand aud Typewriuns, Day and night sessions. F atelogue and Circulare NCE, LL.B, Principal; SARA A ‘pal. eee ECH IMPEDIMEN15, Jens chmes, Cul Nuccess: ree. ECK’S SCHOOL, 837 ae SCHOOL FOR (GIKLS, Mont ry county, Md., reopet mich ti is aimed at. with the iufla- ence, ab far as Pomsibie, of a home ument. The number is limited and eapecial care ix given to the healt of the scholars. For circulars and further im formation 1 adren HENRY C, HALLOWELL, A.M. (Yale), ae Sindy Sprit, Sept. EMINAKY AND LADIES der their protection the world was peopled again. The daughter of heaven and garth finally taken up by her warrior husband and transported to the great waters to the westward, where she was placed in a floating palace, which has since been her home, She is immortal and to her are addressed the prayers of the people, Her water home is guarded by twelve immortal beings, who return periodically to the land to learn what the Navajos are doing and to carry back with them any messages which they may | send. The tradition of this protecting goddessac- cofints for the respect which the Navajos show to the women of their tribe. Among them aman never lifts his hand against a woman, although it is no unusual thing for a squaw to administer @ sound thrashing to the warrior husband who bas offended her, All of the sheep, which con- stitute the great wealth of the tribe, are owned by the women: and in the various families the ne of descent is always ou the side of the woman, ‘The Navajos have little or no idea of future existence, but are firm believers in the trausmigration of souls. For this reason they have great reverence for different animals and birds, which are supposed to be the re-embodi- ment of departed spirits of Nevajos. aa fon Size of a Spider’s Thread. From the Lewiston Journal, I have often compared the size of the thread spun by full-grown spiders with the hair of my head, says a well-known naturalist, For this @ —Fifty-fret year. Offers rure educational rest of the world of attractions is hers, iacilties, Terms moderate. High and healthful, steam cee PEE * Ht ot How to Remove Freckles. en HANLON, D.D From the New York Star. Je14- 3H lent tor I wen! ne The girl who freckles is said to be lovable, | COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF COMMEKCE therefore any girl who freckles should not fret | ~~ Class or private instrnction. Bay gad renting, h > y CE, about it, She always does, however, and for | 2° CK. URNEK, AM, CE, Prim pers, FRENCH LESSONS— ‘Classical and Languages. thi —to prevent the frecki a is reason—to prevent the freckles and the Sslera, Ca vane, Parme fretting. Dr. Anna Kingsford once devoted a long article to the subject, I am going to make an extract or two from it, for the season is AND CIVIL-SERVICE EXAMINATION, upon us when a little talk of this sort is at least appropriate. . fo prevent summer freckles —that is,freckles caused by heat—when going ont in the heat of the day rub a little cold cream on the face and wear a veil, unless you prefer the freckles; and between the latter and its remedy I believe I would prefer the freckles. Cold cream is, however, an innocent and beneficial oiutment, softening and whitening the skin far better than either glycerine or | vaseline. It should be composed of pure white | wax, spermaceti of the best quality, almond oil and rose water, or, better still, cacumber juice. A little oxide of zinc is sometimes to | ul preparation . antormation | reuse ae we FLAN aie iy AZULLE” SAFETIES FOR 6.0, $35 and $52. ALL CLES_THE Bisttertna chuares bulat 4 frat machines end full warranted. Hig Grade Ladies? sud. Men's Satetien 6 ‘CRAWFORD & C0. T1iG bet. SAPETIES, LADY ORGEN ftleman ; 4% pounds .e astic frame | selt-oiline chain ho rattliug, tire can't come off; most graceful Wheel wade, aise eusiest runui #100. ‘ack ICY, 1222 C wt ive consistency to the mixture. This makes ~ perfectly harmless cosmetic, which can be “Lhis week we offer the public a still greater variety in Safety Bu yolos. wrest and small PBEPose T placed the thickest part of the hair fore the microscope, and frou the most accu- rate judgment I could form more than a hun- dred of such threads placed side by side could not equal the diameter pf one of such hair. —— se As soon as the horse cars from Cairo to the Ryramide are completed and the work is nearly lone‘an elevator will be made to the of the venerable piles, so that ascent may be made —. and comfortably to the trav- eler. applied to the face to remove freckles, Pete KING OF THE ROAD,” Lora Wolseley is engaged on life of the | Metin ZAIRUINDEK. 00 ni ty. —_ of Marlborough from a military point of red oe gi 38, ‘The New York supreme court afirmed the in- L B GRAVES & Co, rt t the sugar in 80 as m pronivit the North River agen § wre ag my10-3m_ 1320 14th st. aw, trom disposing of property is ats Sitvcitne kine oat a. hands under the trust t. Sicha wine vz ’ J John R. Brady is talked of as acan- ae for mayor by the leaders of the citizens’ movement of New York. A Chinaman named Lee-Hi has taken to farm- ing near Tulare, California, Off sixty acres of land he cleared $9,000 profit last year. Highest of all in Leavening Power—U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889, Reval * Power