Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1890, Page 14

14 - THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES. DAWN. Tonight God knows what things shall tide. ‘The Earth is racked and tnint— Be Begone sleepless, open-eyed ; do who from the FALSE 33 from the Bari wore made ‘with owr Mother's 4 ve®- tn Durance © MAN will ever know the exact trath of this story, though women may some- times whisper it to one another after a dance, when they are putting up their hair for the night and comparing lists of victims, A man, of course, cannot assist at these functions. So the tale must be told from the outside—in the dark—all wrong. Never praise a sister to asister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first and sisters afterward, and you will find that you do yourself harm. Seumarez kuew this when he made up his mind to propose to the elder Miss Copleigh. Saumarez was a strange man, with few merits, ae far as a men could see, though he was popu- Jar with women, and carried enough conceit to stock a viceroy’s council and leave @ Ittle over for the commander-in-chief's staf. He was a civilian. Very many women took an interest in Saumarez, perbaps because his manner to them was offensive. If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you, but he will take a deep in- terest iu your movomentsever afterward. The elder Miss Copleigh was very nice, plump, win- ning and pretty. The younger was not so retty, and from men disregarding the hint set Forth above, her style was repellant and unat- tractive. Both giris had practically the same figure. and there was a strong likeness between them in look and voice; though no one could doubt for an instant which was the nicer of the vp HEE up his mind as soon as they came into the station from Behar to marry the elder one. At least we allemade sure that he would, which comes to the same thing. She was twenty-two and he was thirty-three, with pay and,allowances of nearly 1,400 rupees a month. So the match, as we arranged it, was in every way a good one. Sanmarez was his mame and summary was his nature, as man once said. Having drafted his resolution he formed a select’ committee of one to sit upon it, and resolved to take his time. In our unpieasant slang the Cop- leigh girls “hunted in couples.” That is to say, you conld do nothing with one without the other. They were very loving sisters, but their mutual affection was sometimes inconvenient. Saamarez held the balance hair true between them and none but himself could have said to which side his heart inclined, though every one eased. He rode with them a good deal and Sana with them. but he never succeeded in detuching them from each other for any length of time. As the hot weather drew nearer and Sau- marez made no sign, women said that you could see their trouble in the eyes of the girls— that they were looking strained, anxious and irritable. Men are quite blind in these mat- ters unless they have more of the woman than the man in their composition, in which case it does not matter what they say or think. I maintain it was the hot April days that took the color out of the Copleigh girls’ cheeks, They should have been sent to the hills early. No one, man or woman. feels an angel when the hot weather is approaching. The younger ter grew more cynical. not to say acid, in her ways; and the winningness of the elder wore thin. There was more effort in it. Now the station wherein all these things hap- pened was, though nota little one, off the line of rail, and suffered through want of attention. ‘There were uo gardens or bands or amusements worth speaking of. and it was nearly a day's journey to come into Lahore for a dance. Peo- ple were grateful for small things to interest them. About the beginning of May, and just before the final exodus of hill-goers. when the weather was very hot and there were not more than twenty-two people in the station, Saumarez gave « moonlight riding picnic at an old tomb sit miles ¥, near the bed of the river. It was a “Noah's Ark” pienic, and there was to be the usual arrangements of quarter-mile inter- vals between each couple on account of the dust. Six couples came altogether, in- cluding chaperones. Moonlight picnics are useful just at the very end of the season, before all the girls go away to the hills. They lead to understandings, and should be encour- aged by chaperones: ¢specially those whose girls look sweetest in riding habits. I knew a ease once. But that isanother story. That picnic was called the “Great Pop Picnic.” be- cause every one knew Saumarez would propose then to the eldest Miss Copleigh. and, besides his affair, there was another which might pos- sibly come to happiness. The social atmos- phere was heavily charged and wanted clearing. We met at the parade ground at 10; the night was fearfully hot. ‘The horses sweated even at walking pace, but anything was better than fitting still in our own dark houses. When we moved off under the full moon we were four couples, one triplet and Mr. Saumarez rode with the Copleigh girls, and I loitered at the tail of the procession, wondering with whom Saumarez would ride home. Every one was happy and contented. but we all felt that things were going to happen. We rode slowly, and it was nearly midnight before we reached the old tomb, facing the ruined tank, in the decayed gardens where we were going to eat and drink. I was late in coming up, and, be- fore lwent into the garden, I saw that the horizon to the north carried a faint, dun-col- ored feather But no one would have thanked me for spoiling so well-managed an cntertuin- ment as this picnic—and « dust storm, more or less, does no great harm. We gathered by the tank. Some one had brought a banjo—which is a most sentimental instrument—and three or four of us sang. You Must not laugh stthis. Our amusements in out-of-the-way stations are very few indeed. ‘Then we talked in groups or together, lying uuder the trees with the sun-baked roses dropping their petals on our feet until supper was ready. It was beautiful supper, as cola and as iced as you could wish, and we stayed long over it. Thad felt that the air was growing hotter and hotter; but nobody seemed to notice it until the moon went out and a burning hot wind began lashing the orange trees with a sound hke the noise of the sea’ Before we kuew where we were the dust storm was on us, ead everything was roaring. whirling darkness, The supper table was blown bodily into the tank. We were afraid of staying anywhere near the old tomb for fear it might be blown down. So we felt our way to the orange trees, where the horses were picketed, and waited for the storm to blowover. Then the little light that was left vanished, and you could not see your hand before your face. The air was heavy with dust and sand from the bed of the river, that filled boots and pock- ets and drifted down necks aud coated eye- brows and mustaches. It was one of the worst dust storms of the year. We were all huddled together close to the trembling horses, with the thunder chattering overhead and the light- ning spurting like water from « sluice, all ways st once. There was no danger, of course, un- Jess the horses broke loose. | was standing with my head downward and my hands over my mouth. hearing the trees thrashing each other. I could not see who was next me till the flashes came. Then I found that I was packed near Saumarez and the eldest Miss Copleigh, with my own horse just in frontof me. I recognized the eldest Miss Copleigh, because she had a pagri round her heltnet, and the Younger had not. All the electricity in the sir had gone into my body, and I was quiver- ing aud tingling from head to foot—exactly as ®@corn shoots and tingles before rain. It was @ grand storm. The wind seemed to be pitch- ing it to leeward in great heaps. and the heat beat up from the ground like the heat of the mr of judgment. he lulled slightly after the first half bour and | heard a despairing little voice close to my ear saying to itself, quietly and softly, as if some lost soul were flying about with the winds. my God!” Then the younger M Copleigh stumbied into my arms, say “Where is my horse? Get my horse. 1 want > go home. I waut to go home. Take me ome.” I thought that the lightning and the black darkness bad frightened her; so I said there Was no danger, but sbe must wait till the storm blew over. She answered: “It is not that! It is notthat! I wantto go home! Ob, take me away from here!” I said she could not go till the light came; but I felt her brush past me and go awa’ it was too dark to see where. Then the whole sky was split open with one tremendous flash, ae if the ead of the world were coming, and all the women shrieked. Almost directly after this I felt a man’s hand ou my shoulder and heard Saumsrez bellowing fm myear. Through the ratthng of the trees and the howling of the wind I did not catch his but at last { heard him say: “I've proposed to the wrong oue! What shall 1 do? Saumarez had no occasion to make this @onfidence to me. 1 was never a friend of his, nor am 1 now, but i fancy neither of us were Ourselves just then. He was shaking as he with excitement, aud I was feeling queer all over with the electricity. I could not think of anything to say except: ‘‘More fool you for Peer ps in dust storm.” But I did not see that would improve the Then here's Edith. ——— Copleigh?” Edith was the younger sister. I enswered out of my astonishment: “What do you want with her?” Would oe believe it, for the next two minutes he and I were shouting at each other like maniacs—he vowing that it was Younger sister he had meant to propose to ali along and I telling him till my throat was hoarse that must have made a mistake! I can’t account for this except, again, by the fact that we were neither of us ourselves. Every- thing seemed to me like # bad dream—from the ws of the horses in the darkness to a= te! sig me a Lard of his loving Edith Coplei, om the first He was still clawing my shoulder and beg- ging me to tell him whore Edith Copleigh was when another lull came and brought light with it, and we sawthe dust-cloud forming on the plain in frontof us, So we knew the worst was over. The moon was low down, and there was just the glimmer of the false ‘dawn that comes about an hour before ths real one, But the light was very faint, and the dun cloud roared like a hull, I wondered where Edith had gone, and as I was won- ‘¢ I saw three things together. First Maud Copleigh’s face cama smil- ing out of the darkuess and moved toward Sau- marez, who was standing by me. I heard the girl whisper, “George,” and slide her arm through the arm that was not clawing my shoul- der, and I saw that look onher face which only comes once or twice in a lifetime—when a woman is perfectly happy and the air is full of trumpets and gorgeons-colored fire and the earth turns into cloud because she loves and is loved. At the same time I saw Saumarez’s face ashe heard Maud Copleigh's voice and fifty yards away from the clump of orange trees I saw a brown holland habit getting upon a horse. It must have been my state of over excite- ment that made me 60 quick to meddle with what did not concern me, Saumarez was mov- ing off to the habit; but I pushed him back and said: “Stop here and explain. I'll fetch her back!” And I ran out to get my own horse. Thad a perfectly unnecessary notion that every- thing must be done decently and in order, that Saumarez’s firat care was to wipe the happy look out of Maud Copleigh’s face, All the time Iwas linking up the curb chain I wondered how he would do it, i cantered after Edith Copleigh, thinking to bring her back slowly on some pretense or an- other. But she galloped away as soon aa she saw me, and I was forced to ride after her in earnest. She called back over her shoulder: “Goaway! I'm going home. Oh, go away!” two or three times; but my business was to catch her first and argue later. The ride just fitted in with the rest of the evildream. The ground was very bad and now and again we Tushed through the whirling, choking “dust devils” im skirts of the flying storm. ‘There was a burning hot wind biowing that brought up s stench of stale brick kilns with it; and through the half light and through the dust devils, across that desolate plain, flickered the brown habit on th® gray horse. She headed for the station at first. Then she wheeled round and set off for the river through beds of burnt-down jungle grass, bad even to rid pig over. In cold blood I should never have dreamed of going over such a country at night, but itseemed quite right and natural with the lightning crackling over head anda reek like the smell of the pit in my nostrils. I rode and shouted, and she bent forward and lashed her horse, and the aftermath of the dust-storm came up and caught us both and drove us down-wind like pieces of paper. I don’t know how far we rode; but the drum- ing of the horse hoofs and the roar of the wind andthe race of the faint blood-red moon throught he yellow mist seemed to have gone on for years and years, and J was literally drenched with sweat from my helmet to my gaiters when the gray stumbled, recovered himself aud pulled up dead lame. My brute was used up altogether. Edith Cop- leigh was in sad state, plastered with dust, her helmet off and br bitterly. ‘Why can't you let me alone?” she said. “I only wanted to get away and gohome. Oh, please let me 0 Copleigh a “You have got to come back with me, Miss Copleigh. Saumarez has something to say to ou.” : It was a foolish way of pee it, but I hardly knew Miss Copleigh, |. though I was play- ing Providence at the cost of my horse, Icould not tell her in as many words what Saumarez had told me, I thought he could do that bet- ter himself. Ail her pretense about bein, tired and wanting to go home broke down ani she rocked herself to and fro in the saddle as she sobbed, and the hot wind blew her black hair to leeward. Iam not going to repeat what she said, because she was utterly un- strung. This. if you please. was the cynical Miss Cop- leigh. Here was I, almost an utter stranger to her, trying to tell her that Saumarez loved her, and she was to come back to hear him say so. believe I made myself understood, for she gathered the gray together and made him hob- bie somehow, and we set off for the tomb, while the storm went thundering down to Umballa, andafew big drops of warm rain fell. I found out that she had been standing close to Saumarez when he proposed to her sister, and had wanted to go home to cry in peace, as an English girl should, She dabbed her eyes with her pocket handkerchief as she went along, and babbled to me out of sheer lightness of heart and hysteria. That was perfectly unnatural, and yet it seemed all right at the time and in the place. Ail the world was only the two Copleigh girls, Sau- marez and I, ringed in with the lightning and the dark, and the guidance of this misguided world seemed to lie in my hands. When we returned to the tomb in the deep, dead stiliness that followed the storm. the dawn was just breaking and nobody had gone away. They were waiting for our return. Saumarez mostof all. Hus face was white and drawa. As Miss Copleigh and I limped up he came forward to meet us, and when he helped her down from her saddle he kissed her before all the picnic. It was like ascene ina theater, and the likeness was heightened by all the dust-white. ghostly looking men and women under the orange trees, clapping their hands— as if they were watching a play—at Saumarez's choice. “I never kuew anything so un-English in my life. Lastly, Saumarez said we must all go home or the station would come out to look for us and would I be good enough to ride home with Maud Copleigh? Nothing would give me greater pleasure, I said. ‘So we formed up, six couples in all, and went back, two by two, Saumarez walking by the side of Edith Copleigh, who was riding his horse. ‘The air was cleared; and little by little, as the sun rose, I felt we were all dropping back again into ordinary men and women, aud that the “Great Pop Picnic” was a thing altogether apart and out of the world—never to happen again. It bad gone with the dust storm and the tingle in the hot air. I felt tired and limp and a guod deal ashamed of myself as I went in fora bath and some sleep. There is a woman's version of this story, but it will never be written * * * unless Maud Copleigh cares to try. Rupyarp Kipxixe, soo MISS BELL A BELLE, Her Fame Is Rung by the Ladies of Two Courts. From the New York World. Miss Ada Bell, the flower painter of London, has jumped with a bound from obscurity to fashion. Her fortune is made. Not long ago Miss Bell succeeded in getting an order from the Prince of Wales for a panel to be placed in a writing desk. The design happily in- cluded the favorite posey of the princess, and when finished was sent to her with « tiny card containing the compliments of the artist. Women are rarely as business-like as this. The courtesy and modesty charmed the princess, and after the exchange of letters came an invi- tation for an audience at Marlborough. The young artist was as pleasing as her flowers. She had her wits about her and her ears very wide open, Among other things she learned of the approaching birthday of the Empress Frederick, to whom the princess offered to present her. Muss Beli went home, locked her- self im her studio and did not quit her paints until had finished a fan worthy of the royal lady's acceptance. Two years ago the empress visited the Children’s Hospital in Ormond street, an institution in which the ar- tist is also interested. The fan in question contained & miniature sketch recalling a scene in one of the sick wards, where the empress stooped to fan the face of a dying child. The foundation of the fan is black lace of violet pattern with encircling hearts, and the sticks of greenfmother-of-pearl shade off to pink. In this delicate background Miss Bell used pearl tints of mauve. pink aud green, producing an effect as exquisite as the Watteau paintings. In the center of the fan appeared a woodland scene showing a sleepingmymph fanned ee sporting cupids that danced ‘ite and purple violets. Sprigs of he: and memory knots were scattered over the pearl sticks, the outer or top one containing « minia- ture ‘trait of the late Emperor Frederick set ina artshaped crystal. ‘This lovely bit of lace, 2] paint was sent to the empress, who nes her appreciation of the Ee and work through « live count. Just before leaving Englund the artist was sent for and ap- peared at Lucki: ress attached ins Bell exhibited queen's birthday, been sold for the benefit pital at a sum several pounds —— ly earnings oung . But Miss at her own price, too, the Children's Hoe- than the Written for the EVENING Stam, TRANSATLANTIC PORTRAITS. Pen Sketches of Marshal MacMahon and Sir William Thomson. E W living men with names as prom!- nent in the history of their coumtry for half a century seem to have so entirely withdrawn themselves from publienotice as Marshal MacMahon--the grand old man of France. And yet, when one notices the ta! military figure that dfring these summer months may be frequently seen riding through the streets gf Paris, accompanied by an sid-de- camp, it is not hard to imagine that the hand- some veteran was for fifty years one of the most famous soldiers in Europe. Eighty-two years have not fallen heavily on him. His ac- tivity, his straight and graceful bearing, and his raddy complexion make him an ideal of robust manliness. The marshal comes from » family of soldiers. His father, Count Maurice, ranked high in the French army, as did his uncle, while hiselder brother was an active leader in the revolution of 1880, which re- sulted in the downfall of the boarbons. The sudject of this sketch—Patrick Maurice MacMahon—was born in 1808 at the castle of ay near Antrim. At the age of nineteen he graduated from the great military acs iy of St. Cyr—the French West Point—teking high honors, and a few years later, subaltern in Africa, began his climb up the ladder of fame. For his bravery at the sie of Auvers in oo he won the cross of the order of Leopold, and shortly after was pro- moted. In 1836 he received his first wound and his only one until forty years later, when he was placed hors de combat at Sedan. The memorable year of '48 saw him a general of brigade and governor of Tlemcen, one of the most important commands in the Dark Conti- nent, In his new post he acquitted himeelf as well as he had already done in the field, andit was thought that he possessed qualities as a statesman equal to those he had shown asa soldi But his greatest laurels were not yet won. The capture of the Mulakoff, in the Crimean war, was his most famous’ exploit, and for his reward he received the cross of the Legion of Honor from Napoleon and was nomi- nated K. C. B. by Queen Victoria, Sebastopol, the great Russian stronghold, had long with- stood the siege of the allied armies—so long in fact that the chief wearied of its protracted- ness and resolved upon a grand assault. Gen. MacMahon was ordered to storm the Malakoff, one of the most important of the besieged towers. After a fierce struggle and in the midst of a deadly fire, he took it, uttering as he entered the fortress the famous sentence that has since become almost a proverb: “J'y suis et j'y resto!” and he held the tower until the Russians wore driven back headlong and Se- bastopol fell. When peace was re-established Gen. MacMahon returned home and was made a senator of the empire, being also intrusted with the command of the entire army of the reserve, The war with Austria gave him an- other opportunity for displaying his military skill, and at Magenta he turned certain defeat into decisive victory. The Austrians were routed, leaving several thousand dead on the field and as many more prisoners, For thi brilliant piece of energetic strategy Gen. Mac- Mahon was made a marshal and duke of the empire, While governor general of Algeria he committed a great blunder in statesman- ship by attempting the establishment of an Arab kingdom, and the failure of this project lost him much’ of his popularity. War being declared against Germany in 1870, he returned to his country and took up his command, at the battie of Woerth, in spite of his bravery, he was overwhelmed by the forces of the crown prince of Prussia. At Sedan, the battle that sounded the death knell of the French for- he was severely wounded and was taken rby the enemy. Being released, how- ever, in the following year he returned to France and retumed command of the army at Versuilles, proceeding at once to Paris to assist in the sup- ression of the communist insurrection. je 873, on the resignation of M. Thiers, Marshal MacMahon was elected president of the French republic, At first, never having given a single moment's thought to the peeeenay, he flatly declined, but yielding at length to consider- able persuasion he reluctantly accepted. But he did not feel at home in the political arena, Long and active service in arms had unfitted him for the intriguing metiods of parliament. The sword and battle field were not 80 easily changed for the pen and portfolio, He bad not the necessary political education, and in consequence he wus, in the opinion of a great many, an indifferent politician. But while he may have been unhappy in council and uncer- tain in decision he still was the admirable sol- dier, It is to be regretted that he found it im- possible to introdvce into his political labors some of those soidierly qualities which made him rank so high asa warrior. He had been & most excellent governor of a colony, no doubt because that office savored largely of the mili- tary, yet, as president of the republic, he felt like a fish out of water. To his ministers, therefore, he left the direction of political af- fairs and reserved for himself the question of national defense. While he was president his renown gave his country great influence in Eu- rope. In France even those who were his po- litical opponents admired him for his patriotic disinterestedness and trusted him for his loy- alty and honor. Since he resigned the office, eleven years ago. he bas lived in total retir>- ment, aud excepting the military organization of his country, has taken but little interest in its affairs. His words to the presidents of both chambers, written on his retirement, reveal his character in a sentence: “LT have the consolation of thinking that dur- ing the fifty-three years that I have carota to the service of my country I never was guided by any other sentiment t that of honor and duty and of absolute devotion to France,” SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, F. R. 8, If the question, “Who is the leading English- man of science?” were put to an average Eng- lish crowd two names would be uppermost on their lips—Tyndall and Huxley, Yet neither of these can honesty claim the title. Merit is not always the standard by which popular fame is measured. Among those who know Sir Will- iam Thomson would without doubt be acknowl- edged as England's foremost man of scionce, and, indeed, some would go so far as to affirm that he is the greatest scientist hying. Wilham Thomson was born at Belfast, Ireland, in June, 1824. He seems to have inherited his mathe- matical genius from his father, James Thom- son, who occupicd the chair of mathematics at Glasgow University, which at the age of eleven William entered. x years later he went to Cambridge, graduating iu 1841 as second wrangler some months before he became of age, an almost unparalieled occurrence. It May seem strange that such a genius Thomson had proved himself to be obtain the coveted senior wranglership, The reason only illustrates aguin the unsatisfactory nature of competitive examinations as a test of merit. The senior wrangler of the year was the late Dr. Parkinson, a most excellent thema- ticiun, but by no means William Tlomson's equal, In 1846 Thomson was appointed professor of natural philosophy in Glasgow University, which position he still holds. He has receive honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Dublin and other universities, be- sides being awarded the Koval Society's gold medal, o [eee honor in British scientific cir- as been president of the Glasgow 1 Association and was also for some time president of the British Association. In 1866 he helped to lay the Atlantic cable and was knighted for his successful labors. Few of the thousands who telegraph to each other beneath the Atlantic waves or who read of the daily events happening across the seas havo any idea of the elaborate and delicate analyses made in Thomson's Glasgow laboratory by the results of which the old world is now 80 closely united with the new. Sir William's researches have chiefly been made in the realms of a plied mathematics and particularly in t! mathematical theory of a Problems suchas “The rigidity of the earth,” “Thermal effects of fluids in motion,” ‘Mathematical theory of elasticity,” &c., have received his close attention and electrical scieuce bas gained incalculable benefit from the fruits of his inves- tigation. While we might with considerable truth say that Edison is the practical and Sir William Thomson the theoretical electrician of the age, yet we must not allow ourselves to} dread think that the latter scientist is altogether theo- retical, On the contrary, William, in elec- trical branches, has been largely practical in his researches. For instance, he has con- structed electro motors to indicate automatic- ally the slightest change in the electric condi- tion of the atmosphere. He nas investigated the electro dynamo properties of metals and in many other ways he hag shown that his knowledge is not alto- gether abstract and limited to paper. ‘The modern man of science is far different from his olden time brother, who used to spendalife time in a gloomy den poring over must; volumes, surrounded by strange utensils ani 5 mysterious concoctions simmerin, pre piowing dese The alchemist of ithe nineteen: century is not supposed to hold secret tete-a- tetes with the a one, nor does he foretell events in the glass or by the heavens, Science today is pod in hand with r tice, a ia Sree eas “dry-as-dusts.” ey mi ror! which their wisdom ove Thomson is deep! no alternative save to atheistic ma- terialism note this fact, t the great men in spplied mathematics and ex- perimental physics have been nearly all sincerely religious men. Witness the names of No F ‘y, Herschel, Clerk-Maxwell, Stokes Thomson, and still more stri! this second fact, that, in spite of the material- |. istic tendency of our time, the three foremost scientific men of the three foremost scientific countries of the world—Thomson in Great Britain, Pasteur in France and Edison in Amer- ica—all reject atheistic materialism, profess “spiritual view of the universe, and one an all declaring that such a belief is not only con- sonant with science, but is emphatically one of her dictates. No man in England today is more figion than ie Englaads: elenties, Sis Wiiaws ion than De! scientist, jam Thomeon, F.R.S. V.L.C. —— —-—_o@9—_-___ NEWSPAPER PICTURES. How They Are Turned Out at Short No- tice for Lightning Presses. THE ‘‘CHALK PROCESS” AND ITS WONDERFUL SIM- PLICITY—TURNING OUT a “‘CUT”"—HOW THE STAR MAKES ITS PICTURES—THE ‘‘ZINO” AND HOTO-ENGRAVING” METHODS, HE illustration of newspapers is a new branch of art. Ever since ite beginning its apprentices have been trying to find out the simplest and most effective methods for the reproduction of draw- ings in order that they might be made with the greatest possible quickness, engraved on metal with the utmost attainable celerity and printed clearly and well at the rate of twenty thousand copies per hour. To such perfection have the processes for this purpose been brought that the turning out of pictures all ready for the lightning presses is nowada; hardly more than a matter of a few minutes’ time. As to the perfection with which they are printed today’s Stax will speak for itself, ig of the processes employed per illustration, from the point of view of simplicity, is what may be termed the “chalk method.” Take a thin bed of smooth chalk laid upon a metal surface and draw upon it witl fine steel point any picture that you may desire. The steel point will cut the lines of thepicture out of chalk to the metal, and thus you will have it in the shape of an intaglio, Make o stereotype from this in- taglio and you ae ae metal plate to print the picture from. Could anything be more simple? DRAWING ON A BED OF CHALK. Such isthe ideaof the chalk process, In applying it instead of pure chalk various mix- tures are used, such as plaster of paris, which is merely chalk in another shape, with a cer- tain proportion of a white Carolina clay. The stuff, pulverized and stirred up with water, is spread over a rectangular sheet of polished steel, as you would spread a slice of bread with butter, to an even thickness of about one thirty-second of aninch. Now you are ready to begin operations as soon as you have baked the steel plate in an oven for a while until the chalk layer has been rendered perfectly hard. It will hardly do for you to attempt to draw your picture directly upon the chalk, lest you make mistakes. The best way is to make your sketch on a piece of paper and then, laying it down upon the chalk surface, go over the lines witha pencil point, which will indent the paper and leave marks beneath upon the chalk. Lift the drawing and you find under it, in the chalk, its reproduction. Now you apply Your steel point directly to the chalk, cutting all the lines of the drawing down through the chalk to the surface of the steal plate. When you finish this operation the dark steel of the plate shows through the chalk in all the lines of the sketch. And these lines are per- fectly clean and sharp, thanks to the keenness of the kmife-like steel point employed. All you have to do for the rest is to pour molten lead oter the chalk surface ina mould and let it get cold. The lines that are cut out of chalk will be reproduced in relief upon the lead and thus you willhave your metal engraving to print the newspaper picture from, mounting it for the pu poee on an iron block thick enough to make it level with the typa. ZINC ETCHING, Though so advantageous for its simplicity, the chalk method is not so good for fine work in the way of sketches and portraits as the “zine rocess,” 80 called, which Twx Stan employs for its pictures, The former, however, by rea- son of its cheapness, is most useful to pro- vincial newspapers which cannot afford the comparatively expensive photographic plant required by the latter. In the zinc process, to begin with, an ordinary photograph reduced to the required size is taken with acamera of the pen-and-ink sketch drawn on cardboard by the artist. Next a smooth plate of zinc is “flowed over” with an albumen solution that forms sensitized skin on the surface; the gla tive of the picture is laid upon this zinc piste and the two are put together in the sunlight, What are to be the black lines of the printed drawing are, of course, white and paneparen in the negative. The sunlight goes through wherever the negative is transparent, and has the effect of hardening the sensitized skin beneath, so that it clings tightly to the zinc. It requires only one minute to perform this operation, Now the ziuc plate is taken and given acoating over the sensitized skin of lithographers’ ink, rubbed on with a roller, after which the plate is washed. Inall places where the sunlight has not strnck the zinc, owing to the opacity of the glass negative. the sensitized skin readily washes off, together with ink that covers it, but elsewhere it clings. ‘Thus, after the wash. ing. the perfect drawing in ink remains upon the zinc plate. ‘Yo make the ink lines harder the plate is brushed with powdered dragon's blood. Then it is plunged into a bath of acid, which eats away the zinc wherever it is not protected by the ink, so that, when it is taken out, the lines of the drawing are found all raised above the rest of the surface of the plate like a ae for the blind, and when mounted “type high” on a metal'base you have your “cut” ready to print from, Such is the zinc process, by which the pi tures in today’s Star were made. Processes’ have infimtely multiplied within the last few Years—so much so, in fact, that the student of engraving is aghast at ‘contemplating their variety, At present, however, the zinc method seems to be the most available for journals of the period. At all events, it is em- ployed by a majority of the big news apers of the country. A THIRD PROCESS, Considerably used for newspaper illustration is that of photo-engraving, which somewhat resembles the zinc method, A glass plate, however, is used instead of a metal one. ‘This glass plate is covered with a thin layer of sen- Sitized gelatine, which is permitted to dry. Then the photographic glass nogative of the drawing, made with the camera just asin the other case, is laid over the gelatine and the glass | aoe and the negative, with the gelatine layer between them, are put in the sun for half an hour. The light hardens the gelatine, and makes it cling to the glass plate whero- ever it strikes through the negative, so that the glass plate subsequently put into water all the rest of t! latine comes off, leaving the drawing on thi glass in gelatine lines. Moist plaster of paris spread over the plate next and permitted to harden; when it is taken off itis a mold of the drawing. From this mold a plaster ‘“re- lief” is made, and a reproduction of metal in this oe by stereotyping is the plate to print wit ‘These are the three methods by which news- pe ers produce the pictures which go so far to tighten up and help out the interest of the columns of the daily press, Dahomey’s Able Amazons. Paris Dispatch to the London Deily Telegraph. Considerable interest is taken in tho famous Amazons of the King of Dahomey since hostil- ities began between France and the dusky po- tentate. Some time ago it was reported that the warriors in petticoats—or, more correctly, in smocks—had inspired the troops sent out from the mother country with a horror which they could not overcome, but that the red- tunicked Senegalians entertained no such and met them boldly in the open field. In all likelihood this was a libel on the courage of the French Tommy Atkins, buf from the account just given of these women there certainly would have been much excuse for him if he had disp! = fo some hesitation in trying conclusions with so curious a foe. One of King Behauzin’s prison- ers, who fortunately has survived to treat nis compatriots to a thrilling narrative of his ad- ventures, says fe warriors—4.000 in number, who form the bodyguard of the Dahomeyan monarch—are models of strength, Whether they are old or young, handsome or the reverse, they cannot fail to attract atten- tion, as they are splendidly set up, and are as muscular ag the most stalwart veteran, ‘Their drill is simply perfect. Drawn up ina triple circle without a gap, attired in with their guns and their knives all for immediate use, they obey Fh on tha Target ‘their chief, i ENGINEERS FOR THE GUARD. What a Corps of Sappers and Miners Has to Do. ‘MEN WHO DON'T HAVE TIME TO DIE—TRE MANY DUSIES OF AN ENGINEER SOLDIER DESCRIBED BY MR GILBERT THOMPSON — BUILDING BRIDGES AND MAKING SURVEYS. PEAKING to a Stan reporter of the Proposition to organize an engineer corps asa partof the National Guard of the District, Mr. Gilbert Thompson, chief geographer United States Geo- logical Survey, who served throughout the late war as an engineer, told what an engineer corps was when he was in the service, “To be- gin with,” said Mr. Thompson to Tax Star re- porter, ‘the different character of the work that engineer officers and soldiers may be called upon to perform is only limited by their intelli- gence, courage and physical endurance, The primary duties of the engineer are principally the construction of permanent fortifications and other means of defense, the examination and mapping of s country as the scene of fu- ture military operations, and aside from this they take up branches of work which are purely scientific. Engineer officers are called upon to perform astronomical and geodetic work, andasan instance of this it may be stated that the first railroads in this country were laid out by army engineers. As the methods of war are every year becoming more scientific and involve greater and more exact knowledge of the physical sctences, it is apparent that our engineers must keep pace with such progress. In time of war the staff of the commanding general always has upon it one or more en- Bineer officers, whose duty it in to make an examination of the country for mil- itary operations, direct the location and con- struction of field fortificatior the examina- tion, opening up and keeping in order lines ot communication for the arm! and in actual battle selecting the positions for the troops while they judge of the capabilities of defense and possible advance. The engineers guide troops and put them in position; very often they direct the location of batteries and al- ways muke detailed examinations before a 4 important enterprise. In fact. it may be sai that the list would be really too long to give in even a condensed way the duties engineers may be called upon to perform. Engineer soldiers are organized to. superintend and carry out the details of such work. They are drilied in the evolutions of infantry and act as such in case of emergency, although engineer troops not considered as part of the fighting force ex- cept in case of absolute necessity or in their own defense. AN ENGINEER SOLDIER'S DUTIES, “Among the duties of the engineer soldier of the present day may be mentioned torpedo practice, signalling, telegraphing and photo- graphing, the construction of Tmanent and field fortifications and may include the mount- ing. putting in position aud working of heavy artillery. They survey the routes of march of troops: they draw, map and reproduce military maps. Sapping and mining is also mentioned as an important duty and construction of advance works preparatory to assault. Engineers often- times make up a portion of the column of as- sault as whether en masse or a8 a forlorn hope and as such carrying scaling ladders and tools for clearing away obstructions in front of t! enemies’ works. The construction of bridg: of all kinds and make-shifts for crossing streams; the selection of fords and keeping thi same in order. The special branch of bridge building, known as pontoniering, also falls on them. This is the bridging of streams by the use of boats. This, ina rough way, may be ac- complished by the use of boats of commerce, as canal boats, schooners, or any vessels of draft, or by a completely equipped train of pontoon boats, These trains may be styled the light and the heavy train, one accompanying the main army and the other the cavalry, and those who travel lightly and move quickly, The ex- co of the late war proved that@hat is nown as the wooden batteau is best adapted for the former purpose and the canvass boat for the latter. A form of trestle bridge is also used and engineer troops are required to be drilled in its construction, Some of the duties above mentioned, as torpedo practice. signall- ing and telegraphing, ina large army may each become a special branch of work for a special corps of men, while the construction of roads, xeon them in order or obstructing the same in the face of the advance of an enemy may be | ging by the pioneer a Therefore, it isseen that an engineer officer or soldier is what might be called a jack at all trades and good at each one, ADVISING THE COMMANDING OFFICER “From the foregoing it is evident that en- gineer soldiers must be ahigh grade of men both in mental and physical capacity, because they not only have to carry out the immediate orders of their superior officers, but superin- tend large working parties and they are often- times placed in very important and responsible positions. ‘They must be men of character and will, because when in charge of such work they are for the time being superior to any officer of rank and really are amenable only to the commanding general of the army. It is not considered out of place for a non-commissioned officer in a proper way to give his opinion as to the carrying out or to the improving the method of performing any work in which he is engaged. The records of all armies will show that a great many important sugzestious have come from non-commissioned officers of en- gineers. “Ifany one will read the record of the English engincers in the Crimea or at any period of their history he will find that they have occu- pied places of responsibility and trust, and al- though at times the infantry are chaffed by their push and enterprise yet they have their adiniration for the engineers, “The question has been asked, ‘Why is it a sapper and miner never dies?” The reply is, ‘He never has time." “-It was a common occurrence during the war to have a non-commissioned officer in the after- noon lay out the lines for the field fortifications, at dark begin its construction with a working party of from 500 to 600 men and when com- pleted the next day make a detailed survey of it, draw the same and turn it in to the general headquarters that evening. MILITARY SURVEYING. “It may be mentioned that in this country atleast two-thirds of the engineer soldiers should be accustomed to riding’ and the packing of animals, because they may be called upon to accompany a cavalry column, Now another duty, that is peculiar to engineer troops is military surveying. Two or more skilful men are accompanying each column on the march, carefully mapping the route trav- eled, and in case the lines become engaged to give as accurately as possible the line of battle and the positions of the troops. It was not an uncommon occurrence to have such mil: topographer surveying just behind th é mish line, and he was consequently often under “The permanent force of our engineers should be particularly well drilled and intelli- gent in view of possible increase of the military forces, when they would be called upon to take the places of officers and instructors, THE PERSONNEL OF A COMPANY. “My idea of the personnel of an ideal engi- neer company is as follows: One captain, two first lieutenants, two second lieutenants, one company clerk, who shall be a stenographer, two photographers, four electricians, ten signal men (first and second class), ten topographers, draughtsmen and surveyors; other assistants to include axemen, steam engineers, sail makers, blacksmiths, carpenters and a couple of men who understand the packing of ani- mals, besides forty others miscellaneous. There should also be a mechanician for the ir of instruments and a lithographer versed in re- production of drawings. “A company should number about one hun- dred men, as to construct a pontoon bridge re- quires a working detail of ninety men, and on such an occasion every one has to work at this task and to go into mud and water like a duck, without any squeamishness whatever, “Whether the organization of such a com- pany as the one I speak of is practicable here under the usual circumstances attending the recruiting or organization of militia may be considered doubtful. But taking everything into consideration it does seem feasible to or- ganize a small company of engineers which would satisfy the usual requirements of our eapoye number of troops. As the usual num- wr of engineer troops to other arms of the service is as one to forty, fifty or sixty men would be a good proportion for the this District. If occasion required this num- ber of skilled men would form a basis suffi- & SUMMER RESORTS. ATLANTIC CIty, J. CAMBRIDGE, aansecrs, Ne SSA Bick ete of the beat. LE Proj Wis, cal Coxeness ATLANTIC CITY, ¥.2. ‘The coolest point op the island fecing inlet and ocean Accommodation 500 guests, Superior table For circular address =. ra UDLEY ARMS, e ) Pouuay vatia'sve. end Pacific. Atlantic City, ¥.3. Now open. Spacious and plessaut verandas. All modern ra conveniences. M.LUNGER. myl5-e03m 070 ATLANTIC CITY. NJ, as is Season and stop at the MI. VERNON. Pacife ave, near Ch ‘ocean overlooking th: MILTON. _ Apown HOTEL . Cy eg 20 @Y per item, & MOON. rooma Large piazza Leuisine. @8 to 819 per week, #1.50 y. No finer house onthe islaud si these ra for cut of house and partic mb15-5m ular, JAMES wae Hot IMPERIAL, MARYLAND AVE, ATLA Yic_ City —Directiy on the beach Open ali the year. Handsomely furnished . heat, cas, electric belia* were unex w= wd én G3 oy — le: eu r wee ‘to © patronase solicited, © mo. Washington KENDKICK. GEIA, ATLANTIC ClTY, Open all the year; close terms nadie, Nd. to beach; ocean fromt; ‘ea, Atlantic em, JUSEPH ENGLY, Pro WALLER. + NGLE, c ON. ATLANTIC CILY, D. ted. ___ JAMES STOKES, Proprietor. DE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Opens July i. Washington Patronage Solicited. Popular Rates, Per week—€10.50 to $15. ‘The house renovated in every department. New Dining Koom, Kitchen aud Office, New Carpets, Matting and Beda, UNDER WASHINGTON MANAGEMENT. 919-2m __4, ©. BINES, of the Elsmere, MPHE ELKTON, OCEAN END KENTUCKY AVE Fon all the yeaktinnte Cis, Nd — Mrs F. WILE. HE LEHMAN, ATLANTIC CITY, NJ., OCEAN end of Peunnylvania ave. . eniaied, improved, and Beated by hot water, Open all Bo. Tea SHE MI EQUA, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Pacific ave. Detween Arkansas and Missouri aves Central location. Keturnisued. Under new manage: ment, Everything Gret-class. Write tur circular. my20-3m Cc. A. BROWNE. Mik UNITED STATES HOTEL, ATLANAIC CITY, N.3. pineet modeled, | Enlarged. Returuisbed. ry ‘on the coast Row oen. W. 8. ANDERSON, ‘Mauaxer. the yeu LEHMAN, ASBURY PARK, SBURY PARK, N. J. = TEMAS HOUSE, Directly on the Beach. The Leading Hotel, now open. For rates, diagrams and information apply to LPH, Prop an9-eotoau25 Asbury Park. SBURY Paki ave J. HE BKIGHTON, ON 3D from ocean ; lanwe, weil- grooms; periect sabitary nd was throushout the house ; special terms for June ahd Septeinber; also tor parties. Address) Mra, HAMILION’ HUNT, J916-w&s-2m* 213 FIRST AVE, Jarge io, oan 9 WHE ST. CLOUD, SUMMER _RESORTS._ complete: te! bathe of mineral AD ipyueuee swimming pool, temperature All rat food musia, ne lawn, shady Walks and reunbies ins NO BAR. Kates reasousbie. Circulars and sl! information st A. & Pret & Soa’ office, OF on application to & 8. PRATT, Proprietor, ___ Bock non Springs Va SBE COUNTY, W.VA for tte excellent and coumodations in the two Vineienas Thee pont le ines and cottseos are he yal t We their — struction, —. itutude over feet hort and’ emutltul rive from stauou am é-borse ee. Terme reduced to bi werk, Sho Re moth Bend for pamphiow No al CART: 2oL tay 17 -cosen. | NEE GRAND HOTEL F. TER Wi — by Va, near Warrenton, via sodland th formation, circulars apd rooms at Hotel Arno, Washington, D.C. Term: mod 14 etm - COUNTRY BOARD. Atak S a DAKD RM HOUSE, TWO MILES FR Predert FS “ay —- i healthy i porches. ; 3, Frederick. Ma. aul@-tatheede MOUNTAIN BOUSE-A FEW by r= mmodased oo ret Septenber, Are JOS Ove joun county, Va, LUE Boarders can be accom: ~athe of August apd As, Suickerevile MOUNTAINS MARY- Ferry), opet. throughout the th, convetiences avd comfort y CLAKK, Keep Tryst. Wentays sul Slim’ MFOKT RESO! laud (near Harper fall; uueaceiled for 86 per week. W. ton county, EQh BEST {FOCR LARGE Room! ue Summer Kevidence uear Hex: lawn, tera moderate. sor ful Dire. KAYLOK, College of Ges MANOR, AT FOKERT GLEN, a Mb, odate afew more Boariers:’ verms mod erate, location beautiful and healthy. For imtorme- ton Te, »AVID LAWRENCE, Forest Gie:, Md. or J. K. HERTFORD, 1418 G ot, au I VAKDEKS WANTED N us ou Lich point. 6 blade ig pavilion sad piano Address J BALD WIN & BKO., Paxson P.O, Loudoun co, my 14-wee, Sin SMMEK BOAKDING NEA use HE MOUNTAINS shade we daily Cur OAKDERS — Fiat View, five minutes’ flewty of pure milk and “ore re JAMES GANLEY, Boyds, Ma. Boake ts PRIVATE FAMILY Loca te ox Tatil Potomac river one mile from Piney Point. Hotel, eras €1 per cay, @5 per week. MLM. COLE Propries tor, Piney Polat P.O. Ma Zw POTOMAC RIVER BOATS OTOMAC KIVER LANDINGS ot hAMER *. ion 3 Monday and Friday, at Noman and Leonardtown, far as and Lodge. Freight iow cali deleph -AMER “WAKEFIELD” * Tihs. whort on MONDAYS, THURS- it San, 2B. . touching at interme ‘Fasvenger accommodations first-class.” ae Geveral ; ANYLAND AND VIRGINIA STEAM oad ‘Company's Steamer ig ne Capt. John A. Ketchum, ror Baltimore en@ le:dings on the Potomac river. Kvety Mouday at 4 o'clock p.m Apply to STEVENSON & BRO. Telephone 745-3, Gevt-tm] 7th et. whart, EY COAST. REXTON VILLA, CAPE MAY CITY, N.J. EN- Jarged aud improved. Near the beach, largo Jnazzas; in full view of the ocean: near the Iron Pier and bot and cold seawater baths. Special rates to i F season, Mra J A BIYEKS. Cape Mi my] -co,4u 3 LOCKTON 7 hs) CAPE MAY, JAY, NJ. REMODELED AND FURNISHED. @ aid appointments of the Highest Order. F. THEU. WALTON, J GBELDON HoUsE, OCEAN GROVE, N.J, New Management, Convenient to Lake, Camp and Ocean. Special Price to Families. 3y19-1m ©.C. LEFLER. SEA-SI DE-MISCELLANEOUS. Bx Mder BoTEL, Bay LING, MD, HOLL OPENS JUNE 14. Location unsiat First-class accommodaa- tions. Transient rates $2to $35 per day. Weekly Fates $12 aud upward. Special rates for tauilies. Wiblias MiZica, Superintendent, 2stoau20 jay Ride, Ma, HERBY-STONE COTTAGE —BATHING, BOAT ing, Fishing, Oysters, Crabs, Clams, Fish. "No Mos- Quitoes; no Malarin. Cold. pure, sott Water, "Si twice daily from Old Point to Cape Charle: Cheriton station: bus to cottage. Terme & Gay: 910 per wesk; G35i0r6 yooks 2m Cherry-stone P.O., Northampt PROM WASH- offers for the COLOSIAL BEACH, VA, 68 MILES ington, ou the Lower Fotomac, no month of August special reduced prices, from #8 to @12 per week. Fishing, crabbing, boating, dancing Sod other amusements. “Also the iiuest ish diuuer to s ‘50e. 7 tose Ty d. CRUMP, Proprietor. HT HOUSE, REHOBOTH BEACH, DELA- will reopea June 18.1800. Address im? WALTER BURTON, YGEIA HOTEL — OLD POINT COMFORT, VA. Unsury IM appolmlinenis, table d general at- tention. “Terms, less for the accommodations, enter- taunmeuts and amusements wiveu that at any resort of its prestize im the United States, Music twice & day by the celebrated Fort Monroe Band, nixhtly bope. st delightful sur? bathing on the coast; wood sailing, fishing snd driving. Frequent presence of foreixn and Awerican ships of war, deily im tions, drills, parades, cannon at ee A broad expanse of nds Old Porat Comfort, hence there U zes, DO malaria, no bay fever, no oppressive heat. The evenings ate de- Hightfal and the nights coolanud refreshing. The most charming re aa iu the world. Send tor de- > T F.N. PIKE, Manager HE. BALTIMORE. SPRING LAKE BEACH, \.J. block from ocean. Open during Septeinber. resort in the Alleghanies, Pure ing water. Bi Sott spring beds.” Good Je ebundantly supplied.” Bowlins alley, te croquet. No tows. no hay fever. no mosguit at Star office for circulars or address J. Proprietor. yt (CATSKILL MOUNTAINS, SARATOGA, LAKE GEORGR ADIRONDACKS. On and after SUNDAY, JUNE 22. express trains on West Shore railroad will run to and from the Jersey City Station of the Penusylvania railroad, making close connection with fast trains to and from Wasb- ington. CATSKILL MOUNTAIN EXPRESS.—Leave Wash- ington 11:20 p.m., Jersey City Station Arrive Hotel Kastervkill, via Kiugstou, 3:43 Grand Hotel, 3-09 p.m. : Phosnicis, -2-20'p. cars Philedelpiis to Hobart and Jersey Cl'y to Grand Hotel Station. ‘ SARATOGA AND CATSKILL MOUNTAIN EX- PRESS Leave Washiuctou 11-20, tua. Jersey City a.m, Kaaterskill, via 25 p.m; Pha Polenvilie, mm. Afrive naratoge 5:50 Dp. Caldwell, Lake George, 7:39 p.m. Parlor care from Jerees City for Hotel Kaatei Grand Hotel Stati Caldwell SAKAIOGA AND CATSEILL MOUNTAIN SPE- Gate Washington 9:00 am., see, City Ste Noxgous axp otp port, FARE, €3 ROUND TRIP. Steamers Leave 6th street wharf at 5 p.m. Toss @sy, Lisuredsy aud Saturday” Sunday et 10:00 em Further information Lelephone Cau 1850. Landa at Colonial Beacu Saturdays, aud Piney Point each trip wo. und returning. 3 my¥-6m (PO NORFOLK AND FORTRESS MONKOES Steamer GEO. LEAKY, from 7thst, wharf day, « ECTION WILK b STEAMERS. Fare: 2 1551 5 Forkave. bor information inguire at company's office, ob tbe . seleppoue call 640-3 WM. F. WOH, Su Gen. Agt au OLOMAC TRANSPORIATION COMPANY. For Baltimore and River Landings Steamer 6! Capt. Geowhegan, lesves Stephenson's wharf ever punday at 4 o'clock Pan For further information ay W ashi STEPHENSON & BRO. mhs-Om . ib Street Whart OCEAN HOKT KUUTE 10 LONDON, DOMDUECTSCHER LLGYD 8, @ 0a PY Fast Express Steauers. To Southampton jon, Havre), Bremen. Fulda, Wed. Aug. 13.5 p.m. ; Werra, Sat, Aug. 16,4 Saale, Wed, Aux. 20, 0 s.1u.; Kaus, Sat., Aug, ‘ m.; irave, Wed, Aug. ¥7, 2um.: hubs, bat, Aug. 3 . 3 p-th. Couforiabie. state rooms, excellent table, luxurious seivon appointmenrs, Prices: Jet cabin, $75 and up- Ward u Lerth, according to location; 2d cabin, 650, adult: rage ut OW rates Apply to '. DROOP, 925 Penn.ave. oul CUSARD LINE-STATE ROOMS CAN BE RE- yeerved at the Washington agency; Sret-class ao. commodations from ®6U up; second Clues, @35 and 40: steerage, B20. CHAS. L. DU nkers, Sole Axenite, 631 sis TT GRE EFF EEF ss, T H Ee FF FF fst 7 OH kee FF Prize Medal Paris kaye 200 first 2 | indorsed by over }0U niusic schools aud colleses { | durability. Old Pianos taken inexchange The oly {t 1 take the place uf e Gran FFiR & CONLITE, 5) di. cit ow, gavixe Axstecuents. DECKER Bkos. Weise te FISCHER Est iVEKs & POND ESTEX ORGANS. FSTEY ORGANS, MODEKAT: PRICES, EAs\ iEKMS. Old instruments taken in part payment, Tuning end Kepeiripg. Wecloee at b sfclock during July and August. @ close at 8 v'clock during July an BANDEKS & STAYMAN, PIANOS no kK pe Ee a Ps P s. UNEQUALED IN TONE, TOUCH, WORKEMANSEIP AND DURABILITY. Special attention of “Purchasers” 1 invited to their “New Artistic Styles," Buished in designs of HIGH= Est DECOKAI.VE ART. Pianos for rent. OND-HAND PIANOS — A large assortment, comprising almost every well-known make iu the country, ib thorough repair, will be closed out at jow figures. SPLCIAL INDUCEMEN 1s offered | 4m prices aud in terms, which will be arranged MONTHLY 1N51 ALMEN LS wien dented. WM. KNALE & CO. as S17 Market svace, —— 7p Lees Dine ilsee vetavrisned and onty Reliable Ladiog Physician iu the City can be consulted deily, 404 ©» Prompt treatment, Cousultation strictly contidem- tial, Sep vous for Ladies. ifice Separate Toole ways open. DE POKRST, LONG-ESTABLI Felabie come AG ry can be consusted ther residence, mice houre to pms, with Ladies ouly vita EAD AND Br WISE.—DK. BROTHERS, 900 red belure mie and wade oath tht be i Arrive Hotel vn 4 a., Ob on, b Motel sao rm chase | jie ckert heublished baer Syecaiat 7:48 tain House Station, 7,59 p.m. ; Palen- | $/c willeuar yy ville, mi. Arrive Sarators 9:25 pa. ‘Parlor | {men sud Turia meateine. hare , comeulter cars from Jereey City for Hotel Kaatersktll, Grand Fy tT a, Dr Becki — ‘Station aud Washington to Sarstoga without FaNUEL c MILLS. « Notary bul ay Sa Furchase tickets at Penneylvania railroad sand poe Colmiia, Ue Ju day of duly, 188, connect in the Jersey City Station for of —_ a a saticced.. Pati checked | 71 HAS NEVER BEEN CONTRADICIED THA® threat. Cc. E. - 1 Ur. BROT BENS ts the obicceananioee ‘advertise Je:25-to sel r Agent ‘ork. | iw Ladies’ Physician iu thus city. you EMT. HOUSE, WASHINGTON CO. MD, | coutdently cousult Dr. Bud teith, os 328 now oj Rooms may be ensaged by applying uy ya a 7" etter pre person to J.B. SHANSOS. 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HARP LP aaa et renovated; fine Views from ail windows; iceleut table: freab milk; terme 86 per Week. myld-3m MoT ISTA, = Summer H in the Allechanies, A Seiith fine view of mountains THROUGH SEPTEMBER, ——— MONTE vista 20 Oakland, eu7-: ne * HILL—BFAUTIFULLY SITUATED iaine of Vi Fruit, Spring Pe Biya Saddle Horses. ‘Tebhs Deutd hore k —_- DaLthtke den SPRINGS AND BATHS. ere eae vEee, the Alleghany hg pd gy Sg vg} —— 1- KOFESSIONAL MASSAGE CAN BE OB) Fe best of medical reference by apply’ “a mn De Prep ee — particulars for Hope Care, SS KROUSEFURNISHINGS. Cooma Br Gas. A full line ot GAS COOKING STOVES (On band and for sale wh31__ WASHINGTON GARLIGHT COMPANE. SPECIALTIES. Mi btaee AS Toure 100 8. LF