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14 of “tarrote.” This game is derived from the Arabic and the game was originally connected with religious, neeromantic and scientific asso- ciations. ‘The ancient terms for cards as “Naypes” in Spain and “Naibi” in Italy also of Arabic etymology and signify fortune telling. marks upon the suits of cards are sup- posed to have been originally intended for a symbolic representation of the four different classes of society, hearts, according to this supposition, representing the clergy. the nobility. clubs the serfs and diamonde the citizens. ‘The figures originated with military and historical associations. ABOUT PLAYING CARDS Something of Their Ancient Origin and History. POPULAR WITH ALL NATIONS. ‘Written for The Evening Star. ARDS, LIKE THE game of chess, are sup- posed to be of Asiatic » origin, and indeed seem ures of chess having appeared also in the cards used in the orient. The universal Christ- mas custom of the olden time was playing at cards. Persons who at any other time never touched a card felt bound to play afew games et Christmas. ibitory statute of Henry VIT forbade playing eave during the Christmas holi- days, but this prohibition extended only to persons of humble rank. TT TN BaTOATTEDNH UN EP ee 7 NET MEXICAN CARDS. In all probability cards were introduced into Europe by Arabs, Hebrews and other oriental races, before the thirteenth century, the Sara- ceris especially naving made the game popular in Spain and Italy, whence taste for it read into Germany, France and England. The first historical evidence in Germany is in the stadtbuch of Augusburg of 1275, where it is stated that “fudolph I amused himself with laying cards and other games.” As early as ThSatteenth century an active trade eprang up in Germany and was chiefly carried on at Nuremberg, Augsburg and Ulm, but no sooner bad cards become to be generally used in Europe than they were prohibited by several governments, partly from moral considera- tions, the first games in France and Germany being games of chance. : ———— FUNNY TOYS OF JAPAN. Some Examples of Them Exhibited at the ireau of Education. HERE ARE NO PEOPLE 80 FOND OF toys as the Japanese. About one day out of three isa holiday in their country and even their pilgrimages to temples of worship are performed in gala costume, with dancing and sports by the wayside. Play is, from their point of view, the object of existence, work be- ing the means to the end, because it is nece sary to earn pleasure in order to find it enjoy- able. Americans, of course, know better than this, having ascertained that the purpose of is labor and that fun in any shape is waste of time. The Japanese have the most perfect kinder- garten system inthe world. In fact, they origi- nated this method of instructing by entertain- ment instead of by punishment inflicted. Their lay apparatus for such purposes is elaborate, at all of it isadapted to the infant mind, which it is designed at once to amuse and to inform. The little ones of that nation even be- s come somewhat interested in mathematics by @ prett; ing @ cone, gourt suits bemg the the king and his vizier. eeaper inder is, when Gut out of wood ‘The king is variously represented, but the dis. ‘elathe. They make outlines of solid fig- mark is the royal umbrella over | ures out of straws, with green pease dried to ‘The vizier is mounted either om a} hold the joints together, and for the instruc- amel or a tiger. tion of the blind flat blocks are provided, with - the Japanese characters raised upon them. SACKEVERELL CARDS (QUEEN ANNE). Primero was the fashionable game at the court of England during the Tudor dynasty represented Henry VIII playingat it with the Duke of Suffolk, and Fallstaff says: red since I foreswore myself Noddy was of the old English and there seems to be no doubt ancient “noddy” was the modern Edmond Hoyle, the celebrated writer of treatises on games of chance, inclu ing among others whist, quadrille, piquet and backgam- mon, has become so familiar as to be immor- talized fn the well-known proverb—“according to Hoyle.” Going alittle further back into the history of piaying cards we find that-in Hindostan card ‘were called “tchatar-tass,” signifying or four kings, the popular name j,” or “tas.” There is no queen, the 4hose who play with them. One sort of play- ing cards bas printed upon them 100 scraps of classical poetry by which the rudiments of the art of versification are expected to be incul- cated. Another set embodies a collection of old Japanese parables, by which the sylla- bary of the language and moral maxims at the same time are to be trught. Another set is of natural history cards to give instruction in the names and forms of — er — set cially intended for girls, affords ex- aes po dao who have been celebrated for their virtue and noble qualities. All these things can be seen in the museum of the bureau of education, at 8thand G streets, of the existence of which few people in Wash m are aware. In the collection there, which includes all the educational appliances of civilized countries, is a most interesting as- semblage of Japanese toys. Many of them are types of playthings which the youth of western civilization has adopted from the east. For example, there are kites, but no Yankee boy ean fly such kites, in the shape of birds and monsters, as can the urchin of Japan. There are tops also, but the Ameri- ean school boy has never got ferther in this play art than “peg-in-a-ring,” whereas his Jap- anese contemporary is acquainted with the scienge of spinning many toy ether, of whistling tops, and soon. So far as both tops and kites are concerned the young Caucasian is an ignoramus compared with his oriental rival. QUEER MECHANICAL PLAYTHINGS. Among the babies’ toys from Japan at the museum is s mouse that feeds from a bowl when CuINESZ CARDS. ‘The Chinese call their cards che-pae or paper tickets. They have thirty cards in a pack, three suites of nine curds each and three single cards, which are superior to all the others a little bamboo spring is touched, lowering his head and long tail in quite a lifelike manner. 2 Another is a small cylinder, into which one = blows through two small reed tubes, three bails : of pith being kept bobbing in a bit of a cage er the cylinder by the breath, while a cut in one of bes produces a shrill whistle. Another is a little man that is made to jump upalong stick by a bamboo spring, and snill another is a wooden | ep who rides along between two wheels, being attached to the axle with a heavy base. A toy jinricksba is one of the more expensive playthings, show- ing a foreigner being drawn inahand buggy by a native between the shafts. Further de- in China is very ign is drawn upon a piece when ready for printing ‘on a smooth block of by means of a sharp 9 jock with the characters in the printer, who performs vices for toy purposes are kuleidoscopes, boxes with glass tops filled, liked cupboards, with va- rious household utensils in miniature and bags filled with shat for tossing. ee “The Ideal Wife” Described. From the London News. Whether with a view to give precision to “the young man's fancy” at this pairing sea- son, or merely to keep the gentler sex in- formed regarding the demand in the matri- monial market, our Young Man,” has been inciting its define “the ideal wife.” ‘The replies appear to agree that this perfect person must strive to exist splely for her husband's pleasure, profit and convenience. One tersely. if @ trifle un- “There should be the piano says: compact between ing machine, so that the of labor’ ts not superseded the dignity of art, but each contribute to the domestic felicity.” Another, w ic form: “One whose life says ‘m:; Woizeend cad act madtny ena JAVANESE PROVERES. In Japen playing cards are made quite @mnall, being sbout two inches wide and three inches long. They are painted with different bat hiv fin- are as Mezican cards seem to be clubs represented as coy eR as correspondents the ideal wife “has skill enough So cdl n geet, aionar withent bcbg were ful, taste enough to dress well without extravagant, tact enough to know when an how to speak;” and that moreover she must be “one whose love prompts her to do what she can to make a home on earth a stepping stone tos home in heaven.” One matrimonial monopolist even goes so far as to say that must “prefer the company of her husband to that of any other man, and let people see it.” We had always thought that “letting people see it,” in such Cases, was considered rather manners ———_+e-—_— A Mine for Entomologists. ’ tomologist shot » male king bird in this vicinity a few days ago and on king it up was surprised to finds nearly wooden ones i THE i F He contemporary, Ha _ made possible, of by | thousand hours. STAGE REMINISCENCES Tnoidents in the Lives of Noted Ao- tresses of Many Years Ago, BEAUTIFUL AVONIA JONES. by Forrest in Plug Hat—Stephen A. Doug- las Fails to Produce = Corkscrew and the Result—The Great Moon Hoax. ‘Written for The Evening Star. AM INDEBTED TO AN OLD FRIEND, Mr. Edmund D. Saxton, for some most inter- esting reminiscences of the long past, snd his knowledge enables me to correct an error I made some time since, when speaking of that most talented actress, Avonia Jones, whose debut here was the event of the day. Her family resided here for a number of years, while her uncle, William H. Topping, held a position in one of the departments of the government. My impression was that she had died in Aus- tralia, but Mr. Saxton says she died at the family residence at New York in Bond street. She married Gustavus Brooke, the tragedian, who died on board of steamer going from Melbourne to Liverpool, and the news of his death reached his wife while on the stage ia a London theater, where she was playing an en- gagement. The telegram or letter was banded her during a pause in the play and on reading it she fell prostrate and remained insensible for many hours. She relinquished her engage- ment at once and returned to her home in New York. Her first appearance here was at the little theater (Carusi’s saloon) and was an ova- tion. Her mother, Mrs. Malinda Jones, was an actress of very decided talent, who had starred through the country and had playedacceptably im the London theaters. Her father, George Jones, whose eccentric performances of late years as the Count Joannes rendered him st actors of his day. Mrs. Jones, the mother of Avonia, played an engagement here at the little theater, fitted u} by Mrs. Timm, in the old ware house on 6 street next to the St. James Hotel, which had been transformed into a i Mrs. Jones played Bur Burke’ mirable. THE LITTLE THEATER ON SIXTH STREET. Ineome former notice of theatricals I have spoken of Mrs. Burke as one of the most versa- tileactresses of her day. She could and did Play Mrs. Haller in the “Stranger” and Nan in “The Good for Nothing” in the after piece. Could any greater contrast be witn: At this little theater she played “Lucille,” a s of the heart, a beautiful drama founded on one of the tales in Bulwer's “Pilgrims of the Rhine,” and #o exquisite in pathos was her perform- ance that the memory of it lingers with one yet. Mrs. ‘Timm was a comedienne, who, with Taylor, made the fame of Mitchell's Olympic at New York, and became a great favorite here. The little bijou of a theater was the resort of the best people of the city. All trace of this theater is obliterated, and those who made it so enjoyable have gone, too. Mr. Saxton in- forms me that the father of Mrs. Jones, Mr. Top- ping, wase wealthy builder and contractor, and is house was the resort of men of prominence in that day. It was there Mr. Saxton met Louis Napoleon, while in exile here, on more than one occasion. Mr. Saxton has retained some mementos of that very talented girl, Avonia Jones (Mrs. Brooke), and among them two familiar notes, one of ‘them original in style; a dainty sheet of note paper with en- fraved beading and “yours very, truly,” and instead of siguature her photogaph, a tiny one, but # capital likeness. A NOTABLE QUARTET, Mr. Sexton is the last of a very well-known quartet which for some years had their head- quarters at the New York Hotel, Judge Samuel B. Smith, Col. Beverly C. Sanders and Beverly Tucker. Judge Sam Smith was for years a res- ident of Washington, where he is most kindly remembered. He was one of the pioneers of California and occupied the bench for some years, and was the law partner of Justice Field of the Supreme Court. He was one of the most genial and kind-hearted men that ever lived, and though a great sufferer from the gout and attendant ills no one ever heard him Utter @ complaint. Col. Beverly C. Sanders was a Baltimorean, where for years he con- ducted a large business house. He was one of the early collectors of the port of San Fran- cisco, and at the expiration of his official term he engaged in busiuess there as a banker and president of a» great Rus- sian company, in which capacity he visited St. Petersburg and received from the czar the most marked attention. Beverly Tucker, whom we allknew so well and whose re- cent death wassosincerely mourned, wasunother of this quartet. They were inseparable until death invaded the little circle and claimed them, one by one, Beverly Senders being the first to pay the debt of nature, then Sam Smith and not long after our old friend Bev. Tucker fol- Jowed his companions of years into the other eo Juliet, and Claude Melnotte to Mrs. ine, and the performance was ad- 8 A Correction ss to Her Death—A Play Killed World. ‘The sole survivor, Mir. Saxton, seems likely to remain with us to instruct with his marvelous memory of men and things which have long since drifted into the space where memory, except in rare cases, refuses to follow. He hgs fortified his recollection by slips cut from the papers of the long ago, the Courier and Enquirer, Watson Webb's paper, and the earlier numbers of the Herald. KILLED BY A PLUG HAT. At this period one of the reigning favorites on the stage was Josephine Clifton. Her name is legendary, but I remember her very well. Mr. N. P. Willis in one of bis letters to the National Intelligencer, of which he wos the ‘ew York correspondent, speaks of her with enthusiasm as supporting Forrest in a new play, ““Ihe Patrician’s Daughter,” at the Bow- ery Theater under Hamlin in 1843. The ply was of the present century and the modern cos- tume of that day killed the play. One of Leary's Intest plug bats, which. as the hero, Forrest wore, was too ‘realistic, and the play was damned by the everyday costume. Josephine Clifton was an admirable actress, a very Jano HOW HE DID Ir. but | TmE sPecz ror UPON aise cA'LINE SIXPRON—TEE ‘DUFFERENCE BETWEEN 4 MAN CONJURER AND A WOMAN CONJURER—SPRING LIZARDS AXD SNAKE Sxins. Written for The Rvening Starby Joel Chandler Harris. [Oopyright.} “Thear talk how you been ” said Chloe. as Uncle Remus took his seat in the kitchen one morning recently, “Who sesso?” inquired the old man emiling “Dat what dey tells me,” said Chloe, with a serious air. “I hear lots er folks sesso. Ob, you kin laugh, man, but ef dey git atter yer right straight dey'll make you Jaugh on t’or side er yo’ mouf. Dey-eert’n’y will.” Uncle Remus rubbed his chin thoughtfully and shook his head, but continued to emile. “Dey tells me,” Chloe went on in » louder and more emphatic tone, ‘dat de time when wuz sick tuck’n, fi y shoe at {fine Ga'line Sinrpeon, an’ cho got mand an’ went ona! come Inerenced, an'now sbe gwine “a bear tell so,” said Uncle Remus, serenely. “She say I'ma white folks’ nigger anyhow, en darfo’ she gwine ter ring inde sperrete on me. Hit come right straight. ain't no hear say "bout it. “Bhe donenerso.” her she showed him the ment with the heirs, stermieds ie Soot Tens Lan to toeiso ead fled with the;document to Chicago from St.Louis, where the case was being before a com- m , Row @ resident of this city, ~ ‘The proj ‘over $300,000. DOUGLAS WITHOUT A CORKSCREW. I met a well-known resident doctor after reading this case, which contained all the sen- sational circumstances of a dime novel, and asked if he remembered the case, and strange to say he had attended Robinson in s hotel in Louisville. After his recovery F. W. Thomas, the poet, who will be remembered by our older citizens asa resident here in the carly fifties, told the doctor who his patient was, and at the opening of the Orange and Alexandria which was celebrated by an excursion with its concomitant attendants, the doctor met, among the many distinguished guests, Mr.’ Hoxie. Te was on this excursion Judge Stephen “A. Douglas met his fate as 9 president ndi- date. Before reaching Brandy station, a sug- gestive name in connection with this incident some one produced bottle of brandy an asked Judge Douglas for a corkscrew. He said he did not have one. “What,” said this gentle- man, “no corkscrew! Well, that settles your chance for the presidency. ’A man who tra match a crowd an this “without a corkscrew can never be President.” Every other states- man aboard the train produced a corkscrew and the omirsion on the part of Judge Douglas roved fatal to his hopes. This murder and the “remarkable trial of Hobinson, recalled by these legal proceedings, created the most in- tense excitement throughout the country, but was long since forgotten until brougnt up by these legal proceedings. ‘THE OREAT MOON Hoax. Another resuscitation from a long past age, brought about by a talk with o friend who has made some study of astronom) and the hope he entertains of the discoveries which will be made when the large tefesco) Mount Wilson, southern im was to be 46°inches. The telescope at the Lick observatory is 42—the largest, I believe, in the world up to this period. ‘This talk on a sclence of which am profoundly ignorant, but love to read and talk of, brought up the “moon hoax” of Richard Adams Locke, which so puzzled the most scientific men in this country and Europe. Lord Rope had ordered the largest telescope in the world, I think 96 inches, and the scientific world looked forward’ to the discoveries ex. pected to be made when this instru- ‘What I skeer'd un?” inquired Uncle Remus, with a show of indignation. <Dat ar nigger “oman ain't got none de "vantage er me when it come down ter old-time cunjin. Ef she is, whar she git it? My mammy talked wid rete, an’ my daddy walked in his sleep. come I can't do mo’ cunj'in’ in one minnit dan what she kin do in a mont’? “Man, I b'lieve you—dat I does?” exclaimed Chloe, edging away from Uncle Remus and re- garding him curiously. “I want ter ax you dis,” the old man con- tinued, “is dat nigger lean?” “She so fat she skacely kin walk,” replied Chloe. “Well, den,” said Uncle Remus, “how she gwine cunjur’ anybody? Tell me ‘dat. Ibin seein’ cunjur’ folks ever sence I want no big- iv dan a skin’t rabbit, en I ain't never see no tun yit. Dey er all so lean dat it look like der skin done swunk on der bones, en when dey grin you kin see der yaller toofies. Now youdes watch um. “Go ‘way. man!” exclaimed Chloe. “De Lord knows I don’t wanter see none un um, much less watch um. “Wid de men folks what do de cunjin,” Uncle Remus went on, “is diffunt. De ‘oman folks is lean, but de men folks, day er lean er fat ez de caso may be. You can't tell de cun- Jar, man lew'n you watch his eye right close, he show too much er qe eyeball, en de; streak er red splashed roun’ de cornder, you Tow |i ‘oman fat, er is she | will THE SOCIALIST IDEAL. Very High Order, Lawrence Gronlund's lecture to the First Nationalist Club on Wednesday evening last importance to socialists of being clear as to their ideal—what it isat which they aim—so that they can take the right position in regard to questions as they come up and events et they transpire; also that they may be true in- terpreters of coming events. “Especially 0,” he said,” “if I am right in holding that the way for us in carrying it out is first to persuade the People to embrace this ideal—to adopt social- ism in principle—and thereafter, step by step, to realize fe" Mr. Gronlund continued: “What, then, is in ite essence, the socialist commonwealth at which we aim? It seems to me that many good socialists have notions about that which are Burely snarchistic, and on the other hand that Lon peel pnp Sohn tomas men have only to me en: the for’ socialism, “Once I asked 8 socialist of twenty years’ standing about it an an- owerel, ‘ify Ideal ina ebciety where T can have all my wants satisfied without taking thought of anybody else.’ That is also the ideal of Oscar Wilde when hesays that socialism will lead to individualism. Isay no, no! this is all Wrong, as a definition, and it is fearfully egoistic. But the altruistic uefinition is no in which te lopiy the miserable, the gnorent wi ¢ low ral are raised up.” ‘Phe definition, in fact, that identifies socialism with the labor movement. Thold that all this at bottom is disguised an- archism. ‘I of course do not deny these claims. affirm them as much as anybody, but I say that as definitions they lay stress on'what they should not and ignore on purpose what should be emphasized. ‘The true ideal must be much higher, something new,and embrace both adn altraism. ‘This is the contrast: Anarchism makes the individual the center. Socialism make society the center. 4 WEAKNESS OF THE ANARCHIST VIEW. ‘Before I proceed to show why the socialist ideal is the true one let me show the inherent weakness of the anarchist view. I will only mention the fearful loss which the egoist would cause, for he discards self-renunciation and, to © great extent, 2; y. Bat ¢ egoist and the altruist want. to”'make the individual more and more perfect. Yet the ideal must be in the future, not in the past. It must be something grander than has ever appeared or even could have been imagined in former times. Is it notafact that the ideals of individual perfection lie behind us? Jesus and Buddha, morally; Socrates and Aristotle, intellectually; Homer ‘and Shak care, artistically, are not eals, rns, which we can 0: try to imitate at a distance’. "I shall. but touch upon another thing: To make myself more and ment was mounted at the Cape of Good Hope, under the direction of SirJohn Herschel. For nearly year this anxious expectation had existed, when suddenly, in August, 1€35, the New York Sun, of which Mr. Locke was one of the editors, came out with a long story, Er porting to have come by the last mail, snd to an extract from the Edinburgh Joarnal of Science. It announced the discovery by Sir John Herschel that the moon wasinhabited and gave minute descriptions of the inhabitants, vegetation and architecture of our satellite. It | it was technically accuraze in the use of the astro- nomical terms, and so ingeniously ¢ that the public were convinced of its truth. Nothing was talked of for days but the great Giscoyery. Among those whom it deceived was Horace Greeley. He demonstrated to doubters that it must be genuine and with him werea great body of the most intelligent people of the time. Some idea of the boldness of Locke's imagination and his scientific attain- ments may be obtained from extracts from the long detailed account he gave. He described the construction of the great telescope and then he proceeds to the thrilling moment when watch tar ‘What de name er de Lord { want ter watch ‘im fer?” asked Chloe, nervously. “I ain't gwine to be watchin’ no conjur’ man. I"boun You Tgot my work ter do.” e bin had de sperience un it,” the old man continued. “I done bin see um work der tricks, en I dun larnt all der signs.”” “Well, don’t come projickin’ wid me,” Yo’ eye look red now—dat kin turn dat ar broom dar on de eend, en name it fer you,” said Uncle Remus, pursuing the subject, “en you'll hatter pack up yo’ duds en leave here. I’kin fling it down in de flo’ en ef you step ‘cross it, you'll hatter min’ eve'y wordIsay. Ikin take de same broom en “go out dar in de yard en sweep your track away, en you'll hatter leave "fo sundown. Ikin go out dar en pick up de san’ what you done make your track in, en fling itin runnin’ water, en you'll hatter travel ez fur ez de water does. You see Ole Remus settin’ here like he got no sense. You better keep yo’ eye on ‘im, mon!” “What de name er de Lord isldone ter you?" cried Chloe, stopping short in her work, and staring at Uncle Kemus. “You comes en 7ou,goea en Lain’ s never pester yon sence you ona man an’ I beens ‘oman. J dunner what make you keep onatter me. Ef you wanter com conjin’ anybody you better conjur dat ar nigger ‘oman what ‘low she gwine lay a spell on ter you. te. i soul, chile!” exclaimed Uncle Remus with a chuckle, “she done bin fixt. I ain't mo’ dan gitde word dat she gwine trick self in motion. En now whar me dat? Wharboats is she?” “Is she done daid?” asked Chloe in a sub- dued tone. jo down dar whar she been. livin’,” said Uncle Remus, with an air of mystery, “en ax wharbouts is she, en den come back en tell me what de folks say. You mayn't b'lieve me, but you bleege ter b'lieve dem. Ef youax me wharbouts is she, I'll upen tell you she's gone; ef you ax t'er folks wharbouts is she, dey’ll up ‘tell you she’s gone—no mo’, no less.” What ‘come un her?” inquired Chloe, with open-eyed astonishment. “Hit'sdes like I tell you.” replied Uncle Remus solemnly. ‘She done make he disap- pearans “Is you done cunju'd her?” asked Chloe. ‘Not what you might call right straight up en down cunjin’,” said the old man. “I des sorter wunk my’eye en shuck my finger, en de nigger ‘oman wenten ax'd her ‘quaintances good- T look like I ain’t much, en I don’ You des watch me!” You hear me now—you watch the 10th, the moon having then advanced within four days of her mean libration, that the astronomer adjusted his instruments for the inspection of the moon’s eastern limb. SAID TO HAVE BEEN SEEN THROUGH THE TELE- SCOPE. “Small collections of trees of every imagina- ble kind were scattered about the whole of the luxuriant area,and here our magnifiers blessed our panting hopes with specimenso‘ conscious existence. In the shade of the woods, on the southeastern side, we beheld continuous herds of brown quadrupeds, having all the characteristics of the bison, but more diminu- tive than any species of the bos genus natural history. * * © It had, however,one widely distinguished feature, which we after- ward found to becommon to nearly every lunar quadruped we have discovered, namely, a re- markable fleshy appendage over the ’cyes, crossing the whole breadth of the for head and united to the ears. could most distinctly perceive this hairy veil, which was shaped like the upper front outline of a cap know to ladies as Mary Queen of Scott's cap, lifted and lowered by means of the ears. It immediately occurred to the acute mind of Dr. terschel that this was a providential con- trivance to protect the eyes of the animal from great extremes of light and darkness to which all the inhabitants of our side of the moon are periodically subjected. ‘THE MAN-BATS DESCRIBED, “We were thrilled with astonishment to per- ceive four successive flocks of large winged eli,” said Uncle Remus, ‘tain't no mighty long tale. Atter dat nigger ‘oman make her brags dad she gwine cunjur’ me, she had de x | the more perfect involves making comparisons and inevitably leads to the accursed Pharisaism that thanks God it is better than others. Again, with human nature, weak as it is, it sometimes, when convenient, will make the individual develop himeelf at the cost of others. “While anarchism would develop the indi- vidual socialism would make society perfect. It considers » perfect humanity or, so long as that is yet impracticable, a perfect nation, e summum bonum. This difference has do with the opposing intellectual views of society. The anarchist-socislist looks upon society as a heap of grains of sand; the true socialist looks upon it as.an organism. There is a vast difference between the two concep- tions and the difference in resulte is tremendous, indeed. It is on the one hand we, coming into the world, each for the sake of himself, really unconnected with others, and, on the other hand, we, as integral parts of society, whose welfare is the prerequisite of our well-being as the cells are dependent for life on my living body. Which now is the true ideal? Evidently that of the socialist. Furthermore it is the only view that will truly moralize that regard for self which a man can crush out as little as he can jump clear of his own shadow. It is more than right, it is his duty to care for self, if the self is un integral part of humanity. He cannot love his neighbor as himself without caring for self. ‘Selfness’ then becomes a necessary element of morality.” THE ITALIAN INCIDENT. Mr. Gronlund, by way of illustrating his argument, referred briefly to the present diffi- culty of our national government with that of Italy, arising out of the state sovereignty of Louisiana, which preventa the nation from ful- filling ite’ treaty obligations. It is his idea that for very shame. will have to pase an act providing for a proper settlemen® of 1@ case, or at least for similar cases that may arise in the future. And such an act to rotect foreigners against local riota would be jogical and unfair if it did not at the same time protect our own citisens in the event of state governments failing to protect them in their legal rights, He referred especially to the 4 eee of colored citizens in the south. The lecture was followed by a general discus- sion for the most part in sympathy with the views of the speaker, though there were some dissentient voices belonging to pretty thor- oughgoing socialists, too. The Old Man Sings. ‘There's awabble in the jingle anda stumble in the meter, And the accent might be clearer and the volume ‘And here’ mignt be much improvement in the mi stress and intonation, And a polish might be added to the crade pronun- ancl creatures, wholly unlike any birds, descend with a low even motion from the cliffs on the wostéen side and alight upon the plain. Now they were noticed by Dr. Herschel, who ex- claimed: ‘Now, gentlemen, my theories against your proofs, which you have often found a pretty even bet, we have here something worth looking at. I was confident that if ever we found beings in human shape it would be in this longitude and they wou'd be provided by their Crestor with some extraordinary powers of locomotion. First exchange for my number ‘This lens being soon introduced gave us a tine half-mile distance aud we counted three parties of these creatures of twelve, nine nd fifteen in each, walking erect toward a sinall wood near the base of the eastern precipice. Certainly th had disap inshurance for to come ter my house. I was settin’ down by de fier, me an’ William Henry, when I hear her come in de nex’ room en pass de time er day with my ole'oman. I raise my finger at William Henry so he'd be still, en den beckon ‘im ter come clore, eve'thing I tell ‘im ter loud en say, I know right whar it make 'im set down. Isay, ‘I want you ter ketch me sov'n spring lizzuds.’ He low. ‘Yasser, I know right whar dey at.’ De folks in de nex’ room stop oat en I know'd in reason dey wuz lis'nen. x ‘William Henry! He \oller back, ‘Suh ‘I say, I want you tor git me ¢wosnake skins.’ He low, ‘Yaser, I know right whar dey at.’ De nigger oman kep’ on lis'nen. Den I holler peared end their attitude in walking was both | OU! erect and dignified. * * * We introduced | _ ‘ ‘William Henry!” He holler back, ‘Suh man beings, for their in form and face. She created in London a furore and was accepted as an admirable actress of the old school. A younger sister of hers, Missouri Miller, a very beautiful adopted by Mr. Topping and educa Willatd’s celebrated school at Troy. Sho ap- red upon the stage under Hamlin’s Managment and was a great ; ber beauty and talent crowded theater. Sho died suddenly in the ‘very zenith of her success at Mr. Hamlin’s house. The notorions George Washi i concerts here and readings,and then undertook toperform the feat Capt. Barclay in London had ible, m7 @ thousand miles in ed to d@here at Aj terious character, and news; lew which he charged the lin. A large mob gat head of the police and a quelled the riot. This lous sheet attacked josephine Clifton, and Mr. Saxton has a of her defense dated Astor House, July 6, 1 It was published in the Courier and Enguit subsequently married the manager of the theater at the L, was at Mrs. Ww Orleans and withdrew from ‘4 CELEBRATED LAND svIrT. Mr. Saxton, from his remarkable collect of slips and newspaper cuttings, bas given me, | it ‘the legal proceedings inacase that may be Seeok eeigest to tin eebanted Mile Jewels wurder, wi! occurred in 1836. Richard P. Robinson was indicted for the murder and the ‘most conclusive circumstantial evidence In wife he left i i E E A ? é i 5 i H i if : i u H au n i tha Ey lr i i i l : fF 13 E of 4 5 k | |. Z., which brought them to th T aay, ‘I want you ter fetch me two toad frogs.” ect of : He low, “‘Yesser, I know right whar dey at.” fically denominated them the Vesperi “T sot dar en’ waited a little bit,en denI homa or man bat: they are doubtless innocent | hear de nigger ’oman say she bleege ter go, en and happy creatures, hes that | de nex’ day word come dat she done move some of their amusements would but ill com- Coe Aiea lig tiselk of teller “a ith terrestrial notions of de- : had rem = 2 Wo" afteroued : aisore:| Sxposted something someationsl eon hen pre- ered an equi-triangular temple, built of song carnal yh shocked. The disappoint- ished sapphire or some resplendent Bice shun ypuiok ties tbc dcmees | {Doss yencall et Seah?" dbs esslaliue a myriad points of golden light, twinkling and | #ornfully. scintillating in nbeams.’ Our canvass though fitty feet in diameter, was too limited tosecure more than a sixth part of it at one view. We instantly reduced our magnitude so as to embrace the whole structure in one view. * © © It was open on each side and seemed tocontain neither seats, altars nor offerings; bat it was a light gnd airy structure, nearly hundred fect Ligh from its white glistening floor to its glowing roof, and it stood upon & round green eminence on the eastern sido of valley.” As this was before the days of steamships and ih cables it took good while to ocean telegray disprove the hoax and the papers of the doy discussed it \garnedly, and generally it was be- lieved. Mr. Locke was one of the most bril- liant men of hiv day. He was @ man of scien- title attainments and a graceful writer. ‘There is not much chance of a repetition of this h and cables for! Joux T. Corus. —— A Valuable Duenns. you want to be conju'd?” ord dons Cons you Ga aetna in’ ion't want you in’ er ell, den,” said the old man, ‘don't be so bigh-stringity in yo’ talk: Fus' news you know, foul wish dey want no conjurments, You bin idin’ pie fum me dis long time, en folks what hides pie ain’t got no kinder sho cums ter hard-down cunjin' “Well, de Lord knows, man, I don’t ' bin savin’ ou no’ pie. 8 r Jou.” hice ited Pg seem brought Remus, “did I pie?” Bat there's music like a harper played before the ient kin, When the old man takes the fddle and goes teel- iug for the strings, ‘There ig laughter choked with tear-drops when the old man sings. And we form a ring around him, and we place him in And he hugs up to his withered ‘the poor ol broken tddie, sear And a smile comes on his features as he hears the ‘And he a = th ‘songs’ of with sings the Jong faltering intonation; ~ And_a phantom from the distant past his distant music And trooping from thelr dusty graves comes long- forgotten things, When hefunes te ancient Qadie and the old man We Jet the broken man play ‘upon the broken And we press around to hear him as he sita there ‘The sound of man bells as 80 maby wedding bells in all the music we hear thelr clamor smothered by the sound of funeral di *Tis the story of his lifetime that in the music And every life's @ blind man’s tune that’s played ‘Andso we at in alence ‘hile the old man si 20 We wi <W. G. Foss. “I am so happy!” said the young honse- “We haven't a roach in the fiat now. “How did you get rid of them?" “We didn’t doa thing. The ants drove them out.”—Har- per’s Bazar. If cont and leisure are the mother of wisdom, Aurelius will have to look carts throught out streets begin to write eit carte our streets reflections.—St Paul Globe. 1 CARE FOR THE LOYAL DEAD. Uncle Remus Gives His Ideas ef Oon-| As Explained by Mr. Gronlund It ts of =| It Costs About Sixty Cents n Month to Guard Juring. @ Union Soldier's Body. It costs the United States about 60 cents a month to take care of a dead soldier who lost his life in the service of the Union. The sun- ry civil bill passed by Congress at its inst session appropriated $100,000 for expenses of the national cemeteries during the fiscal year. In addition to this there was the sam of €76,- 000 set aside for salaries of superintendents of these burying grounds, and there were also some odds and ends, amounting to several thousand dollars, for supplying headstones where they were lacking, and so forth. The government takes charge of all these cem- eteries, which are ‘under the directcontrol of the Sighty-two of thers in ull includiog an exgre: a includ SS nde it 's uff, where twenty-five Tederal wantions are interred, only ‘one of them identified. The next smallest is the old battle ground on 7th street in this city. It would be much cheaper to remove the bodies Testing at both these to other locations, but sentiment accords to them a claim to Te- main where they fellin brave fight. So, al- though only forty-three are buried at the battle frouEd. @ ‘superintendent is maintained there charge ata salary of $60 month and with ahouse free for his occupancy. The superintend- ents, as decreed by law, ore all disabled vet- erans, none others being elegible for the posi- tions, and their pay is, according to the size of fhe cemeteries they have charge of, 60, £65, $70 and $75 a month. Thus they are divid into four classes. Tho biggest of the eighty-two national ceme- teries are at Andersonville, Ga., with 13,702 dead; Arlington, Vs with 12,620; Md., with 12,1; Nashville, Tenn., ~ with 12.132, and Miss., with’ 16,620. Of the 527.179 interred, 174,225 are known and 148,954 unidentified. About 9,300 of the entire number are confederates. pactay se Ce HOME MATTERS, Everyday Hints and Seasonable Suggestions to the Practical Housewife. New Tixs Ssovty Be Set Oven ree Fine with boiling water in them for several hours before food is put into them. ‘Tur Juice of Har a Lemox in a teacup of strong, black coffee, without sugar, will often cure a sick headache. Soren Wat Paren Mar Br Curaxep by first brushing the dust off and then rubbing down with pieces of light bread. Tar Uxrceasaxt Sarit of newly painted apartments may be lessened by setting pails of fresh water around on the floors. Arrer Cirayixno Crosets sprinkle borax around the edges of the shelves and floor and you will not be troubled with roaches there. To Remove Rust From Kxives cover the blades with sweet oil for a day or two and then rub with a lump of fresh lime. Fon Sire Hoanseness takes fresh egg, beat it and thicken with pulverized sugar. Eat freely of it and the hoarseness will soon be re- ved. A New axp Dexiciors Darstr is prepared by taking the stone either from dates or prunes and substituting a bit of the kernel of an Eng- ish walnut. Coven Harr « Peck oF Lure with cold water and when it slakes dilute to the consistency of thin cream and stir ina small cupful of salt and you will havea good whitewash for out- side work. Wars Your Face axp Eans burn so terribly bathe them in very hot water—as hot as you can bear. This will be more apt to cool them than any cold application. To Remove Parst take eight parts of slaked lime and one part of soda, add water till mixture is of the consistency of paint. Put at on with an old brush and the next day you can scrape off the paint quite easily. Hor Caxes, Pres, &c., need not be removed from the pans in which they are baked, if pre- caution is taken to set them up on small sup- rts, so that the air can circulate under them. This effectually prevents the moisture frou steam in the bottom of the pan. To Mex Cuocotate, break it in a few pieces, then melt it in a small dish set in the top of the teakettle; it is not necessary to grate it. Do not put a chocolate mixture into a tin mold, as it will become discolored from contact with the Not Aut, MayKxow Tat a Hor Inox—poker, if nothing better—run around window glass will loosen the putty, when it may be easily scraped and the broken pane removed. The new pane may be inserted, putty neatly and carefully laid on and the work is dong. Saxpwicues Mane Wirn Gratep Ham, which may be potted and kept on hand, are easier to digest than when made of the sliced meats. The lean part of the ham should be grated like cheese and flavored with mustard, pepper and a little vinegar. A little olive oil or cream mixed through at the last will be found a great improvement. Inox axp Steet Goons of all descriptions are kept free from rust in the following manner: Dissolve one-half ounce of camphor in one pound of hog’s lard; take off the scum and mix ‘as much black lead as will give the iron color. Iron and steel good: well as machinery of all kinds, rubbed with a linen cloth, will keep clean for months. If the ma- chinery is for exportation it should be kept thickly coated with this during the voyage. Ix Onpen to Have Anrictrs or Foop that are cooked in boiling fat free from even a sus- picion of greasiness it is absolutely necessary to have in the kitchen plenty of soft, white paper, such as bakers use. Croquettes, frit- ters, &., should be taken from the wire basket in whack they are cooked, placed in e dripping lined with this paper and allowed to vtani fr the oven for a moment; then they should be laced on a hot platter containing a nicely inged napkin of the same paper. The French Navy. London Industries says: The estimates for the French navy for the year 1891 amount to 218,767,702 francs (£8,750,708), of which 50,- 000,000 francs (£2,000,000) are reserved for the construction of new vessels or the alteration of existing ones. During the present year there will be in course of building in the government dock yards six ironclad battle ships. two first- class and four second-class cruisers, two tor- pedo cruisers, two transport avisos, two tor- pedo avisos, one second-class transport steamer and one sailing frigate, and of these nearly one- half are expected to be completed during thé year. The vessels under construction in French rivate yards include two ironclad battle ships, a armored cruisers, two third-class cruisers, seventeen first-class Sree vedette boats. HOW THEY GOT RID OF MAMMA. RAILROADS. J ALTIMORE & ONTO RAILROAD. BAT pain elec Mayo iam. ‘Leave Washington (rom station corner of New Jersey erenne and C atree ‘Dail; ‘Lynecht Parise cuivaren fo Warr a ears = Sites aa Lee with Ror aa jem, W3 ie South wi connete bur Salem, and the “= ‘; in Auge tor Knoxville via Askville and Hos hpeee S:30.s. mn, apd 2°20 p. my Uelly chee fo Sirti nd nition watoue Ze SSD Paddy. mw Dele for Charlotte seca ag Roanoke, iristol. Knogvige, Cbattanoaye, Neste and Arkansas polite a tieaper es pace sohingten to $40 p.m. —Daily—Weshington and Veatibuted Lanited-oa oy Veatibuied Paine 4 =~ servation Cxteer tbe teat 5 = luxurious Buffet % sg eter Roe ah Ree te [A+ OMEAD nervy, 2A SE a ee tee Ba Wiry hl Magaivicust 1 EQ TRAINS LEAVE COKNER OF 6TH AND B Jor Pittsburg and the wae BALTIMORE aND Fortine, Coss is nang ‘alo ana Nimans See Est " A re eee or “Kenan ‘with ienvina Out ow. os gad hs aon “720and 9: ® or oi RR SERS SSE, age oat w asurNgToN, RaILwar. Po, Alenandra 4: Pa? ory SiS; 6:45 ae Bids ge dally. ‘Trains leave Sr. 810, 5:00. Soa Los pm iis ee: ro werot 1bth street ae cap POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. jm LKEBS MUNKUR, NOKFULK, noth steel propeilers Washington and Bostolkt S. gee eS att amax, Fs, wonngt some a ee