Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1891, Page 7

MISS TEAGUES BEHAVIOR. WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY EB W. HORNUNG. CHAPTER L WH" THE ELDEST MISS TEAGUE got engaged to be married she startled the parish and delighted a greater number of Persons than are usually affected by the hap- pinees of one. Also it looked as if she had broken « certain undesirable spell; at any rate the second Miss Teague was wooed and mar- tied within that year. Now, the Missos Tengne's father—the re- spected rector of Kiz—might or might not have been able to teil you, off-hand, how many Miss ‘Teagues thers were. All he cared to remem- Der was that he bad one son to succeed to the Uving. His future was assured, and indeed he wasalready « rector in bis own right, else- where, for the time being. But what future had the girls, if they did not marry? They bad no money of their own; neither they nor ad any notion of their making any; scch notions do not travel to places like Rix. They bad no mother. They saw ver few young men. It was really wonderful bo: one of them had become engaged and another actually married. But the younger ones did not follow suit; and the younger ones were not yet all they did was to pla: fennis very hard, dance whenever they coul have the greatest fun among themselves in the school room and tak t all points less se ously than their eldest sister, who was in fore long engagement. Mise Tengue—whose name was Caroling—was ps & thought too serious, but then shebad Serious responsibilities to fulfill. It had been girlhood. She kept house the organ in cburch, and n the rector himself. to describe Miss ber beauty was largely spiritual. It isy in her large clear gray éo kind, trustfal and sympathetic. You could lock through and through her, at least » keen Judze of human nature could. ' Thinking well of everybody she had no reason for con- cealing her thoughts. She didn't know that she was +9 honest. harmony of her nature was like the song bird's melody—poured out rather machine She was one of those women who find it easier to trust peo- than doubt them. And yet Caroline was not void of physical grace and beauty. Tall, slender and with an exquisite complexion, « duty to restrain them. Caroline's thoughts absolutely startled her. She had never beiore fallen into such a train. The blood rushed to her pale cheeks, for to her it was a species of disfoyalty to Noel to have had these thoughts. She had such confidence in him, born of her deep and unselfish love for the man. there was no need for her to beantify herself. Ho had never noticed ber gown, never spoken of their becomingness or their lack of it. He knew how absolutely and com- letely her heart belonged to him. He must ave been blind indeed not to be able to read those great, dear, calm, clear gray eyes—ao full of tenderness, so very beautiful and soulful when their long dark lashes shut out the grower light of day and gave the glow of her ui a chance to be seen and felt! she would not beautify ker person any more than had been her wont. It would be to admits lack of confidence in herself, more than that, a iack of confidence in Noel! But she would leave nothing undone to please hin, nothing which @ thoughtful and considerate fiancee should do. Hence, rhe began to devote herself most assiduously to her music, she Practiced the songs he admired, learned new Ones and was erpecially careful to provide her- elf with a number of duets so that they might sing together. ‘To Caroline song was far more than it was to the ordinary worldly woman, and when Noel sfull deep resonant voice chorded with hers {t seemed to Ler « proof that their lives would melt into «harmony as their voices i CHAPTER IL Bet she thonght of other things, too; things not quite so poetic and ethereal; her tennis, for instance, and set to improye her game, for be played and—in private again—in that favorite outdoor retreat of hers; in fact, sbe read through the whole accumulation of his letters from the very beginning of the engage- ment, ‘bis romantic task ocenpied her from morning till night—the night of his arrival. It was long since she had looked et the earlier we letters, “and they pleased ber not so sensible as late on apy means, but they were rather m. flattering, und indeed they had come oftener than twice « week in those days. Caroline lingered over these old letters, and though those of the last year were wise and witty and kind, the former sppealed most strongly to her present: mood, loaves whispered to her as she read and dreamed, the bi ng all around her, for thie haunt of here was ere seat. & worm .eaten And on the latter uext morning \ sat togetber—at opposite ends of most sensible manner ituaginable. Their conversation ulso showe: “It isa charming spot,” said the Rev. Nosl Pennyman (certainly they bad beeo sitting ard trifle pale, perhaps, but strangely white and pesfoot, «great wealth of dark cbestnat hair and teeth unusually free from blemish or de fect, all these added to that charm whi Ia in the trustful gaze of ber large gray eyes. Tt need hardly be said that she was much liked in Kix and that she was devoted to the people. Te mags long engagement certainly. Caro- line bud become used to ber engagewent before Farny met her fate at the county tour- nament, and Caroline caressed Fanny's baby, as Mise Teague still, with shapeless feelings, which she herself but imperfectly understood. She hed been engaged three years and for eighteen months she had not seen him. yman, too—the Kev. Noel Penny- & pedigree, I believe, but it would have been better if he had possessed some private means. As it was, he had taken @ curacy at the other end of England, where he was working very zealously in » busy, grim; city. His letters came regularly twice a weel to the lazy, rustic rectory at Rix—lettere from another world. They were always interesting nd amusing and written with in Penny- man’s pretty, scholarly hand; and Caroline, though so alert and practical, had her own spot in the old garden, where she used to read em, three seasons out of four; while ¢ happier hours were spent in ber own room at night in answering these letter. 0, We re going to wait till Noel has lfv- ing,” she need firmly to reply to inquisitive friends. “We're perfectly resigned, thank you. It would te miserable to marry tow on the little he has—I mean it would make Noel mis- should like to know the le he is among, certainly; ke tells me ail Sbont them. Tknoy their names, but I should like to know them. Tt will all come right in the end. Noel is very sensible about it—you don't know how sensible he is—so surely I can be, too. You see, we are neither of us i He was too sensible even to with the irritating eet of circumstances kept them spart for eighteen months. He wrote his neat, entertaining, sensible letters the whole time, end one. at the end, that brought tears of joy to Caroline's wise gray eyes. She took it to told hiza, very simply, come, if they coul: that at last Noel would do with him. Of course they could do with him; and the prond old ym, leasing back from his oak, Yiased bis den ene” ea be, bor t, dear me,” said he, “how long it is since be was bere—what a time he been up yon- der! Beally be ought to be getting comathing Detter; he deserves it, Iam sure. Do you think be looxs out enough?” “Dear father,” said Caroline, in her gentle way, “he ie very fond of his work up there; he loves it and people, and, of course, they ere devoted tohim. You know we look at it sensibly. You shall marcy us some day!” “Tam ready when you arc, my dear,” said the rector, dryly; bis spectecles were levied at the buttercups and daisies through the open window. Hv» wasrather serious. “And I must say I shall be glad when you are ready. You ave been engaged three years, it is aloag dusiness. I shail miss you dreadfully, Caroline, and there is 0 one to fill your place—I realize that But want to see you happy, my child— I do want to see you happy.” “Father! I can never be happier than I am pow!” cried Caroline, with ber whole heart. But she left the rector stili thoughtfully re- arding the unshora lawn. He was looking at his own case, perhaps; he had married en scuracy, and s poor one, long before bis succession to the family living; im his day—in fact, as he remembered i:—young people who wanted one another had not been so sensible. Caroline had told her father she could never be happier than sho was then, and perhaps the fortnight that intervened between the re- ccipt of Noo! Pennyman’s delightful news and Yat young clergyman’s actual arrival was the happiest time she had ever known. She spent it in the cloudiexs nook of anticipation. — He was coming agair, the man tt was her pride to Jove, and sic had ‘not seen him for year and & Balf. She wondered how the time bad passed, Row she looked back upon it. She shuddered at the thought of another such term of separa- tion and divited labor and patient waiting and faith and hope. Yet her home life was par- ‘ularly full. interesting and responsible. Her love scded luster to a life already shin- ing with s kindly light. It beamed upon those privileged souls who peopled ber little Lappy world. It made the large voft heart of Caroline ‘Teague softer and larger yet It Widened her sympathies, it broadened her mind. It gave to ber fingers, even on the organ kers, @ tender, soulful touch which Some loving Leteners discovered that they had Missed in her playing hitherto. Now that he was coming again, after so Bu absence, these kind signs increased ‘Were intensified. But Miss Teague did some gis reok things im private. “She surveyed oreelf in the glass repeatedly, one might may exhaustively. She gave more thought to her Gress than she bad ever given before. Hitherto tae idea had scarcely ever ted itself to Miss Teague that a woman co’ ¥ & careful end intelligent study of her com- xion aad fizure, of her peculiar ctyle, as it tritely termed, increase the charm of her personality. she would have been loath to Bdmit that a young woman had any right to attract @ man's attention by leading him was of either in reality jon in any form or to any degree, no matter how slight, was sbhorrent. Even to gain a fortune or a gan’s love she could not have brought herself fo lend her skin an additional softness and whiteness by -tusting it with powder. me But whem ber thoughts reverted to her be- throthed it suddenly floated upou her mind that posubly he had changed, possibly during many months be had been thrown among so-called fasbispable young women, who study modes with » real intensity of application, who w the styloa, who are thoroughly informed as to every usw discovery in the art of decorat- ing and beaufring the person, for the Sirst it occurred to her that she was what is Commonly denominated a plain girl while he and that fra; there some time), “it really ie “I am glad yon like it TI love it,” Caroline added, a little sbyly: “and you know why. “Why?” asked Mr. Pennyman, innocently. “Because—because it was here that you. “Ab! I remember. May one amoke in it, Cer.? That I forget.” “Of course you may,” said Caroline, burt at bie asking. It took bim some moments to fill his pipe and some nore artfully to light it. ‘Ihe perform- ance claimed his undivided attention. And Caroline watched him from under ber expan- sivesun-hat. He was s handsome, soldierly feliow, with fine features, dark eyes and a mus- tache. Sitting here in flannels lighting his pipe he suggested any type rather than that of the British curate, which he represented. Yet he was decently grave and, in point of fact,a sufii- ciently zeslous and earnest young priest. He was as ardent and idealistic as ever about bi work, # Caroline bad found out from the mos! fluent talk they bad yet had, which bad peen on this subject. In other direction: Jess eloquent, less enthusiastic, than of old; Caroline was burt at more than his asking tosmoke and pretending to forget that it was bere be bad f “I remember,” added Caroline, after a pause that broke the point of the remark, “that you used not to ask permission te smoke last time you were here.” ‘Ab, last time I was here!" ager ego. isu't it?” She produced» smile. He mentioned the number of months, which we know. | His pipe was behaving beautifully. “I hope it will never be £0 again! imed Caroline impulsively. = He regarded her refleotively from the other end seat. There was @ look of pain in his eyes which she saw and remembered. Then buke, half in regrety, “you know exactly bh ithas been. The Tenigth of England is ed us, and last year when I took my holiday I was obliged to go tomy we nearly lost her. As loug ea Lam up Tdon't see how we ee | but then T ahan't be there’ unother sear, y begin now to hope for a living! And f shall get one, you'll seo: and—and itil "die sald Kindly, though haps, i$ kindly, though no ine was of copra, teh ea at much moved. She slid to his side and caught bis han: cried, peering strenuously into Riseyon “Will it?” His face iilied with pity and compassion. S3God grant, it may,” he hoarsely whispered, and be kissed her forehead once. “I will give my life to you, Caroline.” Ghe never forgot how be said this, And the days of Pennyman’s visit passed on very pleasantly, on the whole and on the sur- face. The interesting pair were a good deal ther—entirely together—yet not so much as bad been an: |. Indeed they proveda singularly unobjectionable pair in this and sim- ilar respects. They were sensible to a degree. Noel moreover made himself extremely agree- able to the younger girls, escorted them round the country side, played hard sets with them snd sang charmingly in the school room. If they caught him sometimes looking worried and perplexed, as more then once one or other of them did—they put it down to the shortness of his holiday and the uncertainty of hisand Caroline's fature. The sume applied to Caroline, who was remarked (in the school room) to be getting rather glum. This wa odd, certainly, with Noel in the house, but na- urally she wished to be married, and now that he was bero today and off practically tomorrow most likely for another year, the engagemert might well seem interminable. That there could be any other ground for unhappi- ness never entered those pretty. frivolous heads in the school room; that there was some- thing wrong somewhere—something delicate and deep and vital—they were incapable of suspecting. he two were continually together; that was enough for the girls. Ifthey were not happy it was their own fault; they ought to be. ‘The younger Misses Teague had no sympathy with people who made themselves unhappy. But the younger Misses Teague were not keen observers, either; or toward the end of the week they must have noticed in Caroline signs of too little sleep—which even the rector observed, though he held his tongue. On the Sunday evening Pennyman bad prom- ised to preach; he was shut up for hours on Savarday writing his sermon, and secretly glad to be able so toseclude himelf. While he'was busy Miss Teague took the opportunity of vis- iting some of her people, who, of course, knew ricctly well who wasstaying attherectory. She Roce not seem to have struck her foll us ‘being particularly jubilant, “considering.” And to all di those who asked her, as no doubt when it was to be she appears to bave answer. in s manner variously described. T may never be married at all! Certainly the engagement had dragged on « very long ti time. On her return to the rectory, however, Caro- line T sought Noel Pennyman, her betrothed, and was with him when he finished his sermon. She rose and bent over his shoulder, as be flung down the pen, and asked, wistfully enough, if she might look, but Penny- man pushed bis manuscript aside. ‘No, Car,” said he, without turning his head; “I'd rather you didn’t look, if you don't mind.” shady pisedhigr though obe hed’ colored ta not hel) ing, lored behind he beck: f wa will hear i¢ all tomorrow, my dear i. “Ab, I am looking forward to that; only— only I'should have to hear a little of Car,” be answered, er the good of tg ing Your sermons one day.” let us be sensible!” exclaimed Penny- and chafed her. was a tail, ha man, very lit on the writ Hike what his would" lead one hands supported his head. She was still stand- to suppose kim to be, and, mo doubt, | ing his chair, 20 he never knew of too, he was popular with women. How could| tears. There was merely « Wbe otherwine? Hi; men were sure to | calm—she have been = be fiattered and feted and made much of. It| inquired if it was avery deep theological often spoiled them, too, for they were, in spite | course. of their tension to stronger ves- “There is very little theology in fei quite ae weak, quite as susceptible to flat- said be, “it is about—' Rvedlooll saponin Boca wiAbet doing duty!” said Ponnyman, jte ae prone to by excessive com-| “About one’s Eeadation asthe weaker yeoscl in face, oves | witha king off fhore so, for the reasou that their fancied se-} ‘“W. everything—and applies wurity afforded them by their stronger minds | to us all!” feally made them rash more quickly inte dan- “Tous all!” he repeated bitterly. mr. And yet Were but mortal, born of| 4A light ‘bed lain fora moment on his woman, with noteven woman's lofty sense of | shoulder; it lay there ancther moment ra‘ ther heavily. “Noel!” she murmured. He felt ber breath upon his check, bat nothing more; sbe loft him sbruptiy, "withous fiubing " het sentence—without beginning it, indeed. CHAPIER UL On the Monday Pennyman was going to Ox-}. ford—a Sabbath day's journey from Rix—to look Up some old friends there. He was to stay balf the weok, returning to the rectory to finisb his holiday and to preach another sermon for Mr. Tengne. He preached the first with such effect that the congregation kept awake to listen, a compliment they paid old Mr. Teague only on the coldest Sundays in winter. The personality of the young clergyman was striking and his method anti-narcoticund now to Rix, am afraid, but be had « special interest in the eyes of parishioners as the betrothed of their beloved Young lady. ‘The church was quite exception ally crowded, and after the sermon it was mitted—on the strict hypothesis that any mere man could be in the least worthy of that angel—that this handsome young divine, with the pale face and earnest voice, would be bud to beat for the place. He was certainly very pale tonight, and his ice was peculiarly earnest. The lights were lowered in the old church when the young man knelt in the pulpit, and the bymn was over and Miss Teague, in the organ loft, bsd driven home the stops. The four evangelists on the chancel window were but half faded against the summer evening sky; the church was filled witb a bluish dus\—stabbed at the pulpit by the flames of fou. candies, which shone downward on the preucler's papers apd upward into his face. He was, indeed, very pale, and Caroline, in- tently watching bit from the loft, heard every word of that sermon, which was the turning point of her life und his. It was about doing one’s duty, ashe had said,and the well-worn theme was not treated with any striking de- gree of originality. But the preacher was in striking earnest, thong he did read his lines. He seomed to feel personally and acutely ever: entonce he uttered, aud when he introduce as only curates can, the inevitable quotation froma modern poet (parishioners thought it was Pennyman’s own) he seemed to feel that, toot shonor stood, Raniah untarthinl Lope hiss falsely tro, He was speaking, you understand, of the dif- floulties of duty, the two-edged difficulties, and so on, and he was «peaking just then in rinj ing, tremulous tonea. He worked in the Ten. nyton quite naturally, though God knows why he worked it in at all, unless he thought of this way. But he had never spoken so sincerely, 80 strenuously in bis life, and parishioners envied bis congregation in the north of England, where they actually supposed bespoke like this overy Sunday of bis life. Miss Teague played the people ovt of church, walked home with Pennyman and her father (who would talk of nothing but the sermon and congratulated them both on it), eat through the usual Sunday supper (an elaborate and animated ment) at the rectory, was ontirely her amiable, unselfish self until she went to bed, which happened euriy. She did not kiss Noel when she said good-night to him, but the others were there and it was notorious how sensible Noel and she were on such points. She did, however. give him a kind smile and a generous hand, though now she knew that he ioved her no longer and bad not the moral courage to tell her so plainly, ‘She fought it all out in her room that night. On the very evening of his arrival, in their first talk together—nay, in the first glance he had given her—she had missod something; and now she knew what. He hac been kind and 008, even gentle, with all his coolness, but he joved her then no longer; had he ever really loved at all? She looked once more at his earli- est letters, and, weil, if he had not loved her then, he had cheated and worked himeel’ into a coun terfcit passion, which atleast had all the warmth of the sucred fam. This is what I say; but Caroline kissed those early letter and blot- ted them with her tears. ‘The later ones dried her eyes, though they powerfully supported her resent conviction. They were too clever x too sensibie for love letters, i @ sermon! And did he guess that she bad translated ‘him? Would he do his duty yet? Did he know his duty? She remembered— she would never forget—how he had said under the trees the other morning, “I will give my life to you, Caroline." She did not want his life. She wanted his love. Next to the knowledge that he loved her she would have bad his own brave, voluntary confession that he did not love her. ' She wonld have given everrthing th: it, everything still to nave admired, as she bad admired him, the man she had loved, the soul she must love forever. In the dead of night, and in the silver of the summer morning—motionless on her knees and rocking to and froin her ebair—Caroline Teague wrestled with her grief as best sho might, placing her humble spirit in the hands of Hin to whom she walked And the following foreno e found the rector in bis study at his desk. Shi “Father,” she murmured, “I have seen him off! ‘The rector did not raiso bis eyes. “Well, my dear, he'll be back in a couple of days,” be remarked cheerfully, his nose in his papers, “No, he is never coming back at all.” The rector raised his head, pushed up his spectacles and gazed at his daughter in dire quarrel *No—no quarrel.” “What then, Caroline, in beaven's name?” “J have given him up,” said C Mr. Teague sprang u “You have jilted him—Noel Pennyman—the man you have been engaged to all these years?” “I have jilted him ! The rector made her repeat it more than ‘May J ask why?" he inquiredat length. ” Caroline hesitated. Becanse— you can't marry without love on both sides. This has been a cruel, a wicked mistake from the very beginning. "Thank God have diseov- ered it in tine!" “You mean for your discovery that you do not cure for him?" cried the rector sharply— more sharply than he had spoken to her in all her life, Caroline bowed her head. “Yes—I mean Teague mtdown at bis desk and leant on lishand. “Lam ashamed of you, . said ie, ina broken voice. “I am ashamed of my daughter.” But now Miss Teague could bear no more; she fell upon her knees at his knee end burst ssionate tears. Allthat she now said ch of it was rent. “Ob, do not be hard on me. I have no one left but you. I will help you as it has been my delight and pride always to help you, so will I help you tothe end. My happiness’ made no difference to my work, did it? My unhappinoss shall make no difference either. Father, it is better than if he had given me up, isn’t it? ‘The world is more lenient, Iam sure, in this one thing, to the woman than tothe man, And you will be less hard on me, won't you, than you would have been on Forgive me, father, 1 have only you.” ‘The reotor laid his trembling hand upon her hair. t up, my darling. Iam not 7 lay he forgive you—and may God! Yet, Caro- line, Caroline! I had rather it were the young man who had done this thing—not my daugh: ter!” our judge. Miss Teague arose and went away drooping, for now, indeed, her heart seemed broken. She weut to that little place, her favorite Ince, where Noel had proposed to her—where Noel had seemed vexed at being reminded of that proposal—where she had opened his let- tera. Here, also, she buried all that and set her spirit toward what was to be. ow the Rev. Noel Pennyman, saved by this strong soul froma humiliating duty, which it is still but fair to believe he might bave Sa formed in the end, has never appreciated Sliss ‘Teague’s magnanimity. For she vowed shedid not love him, and though, in doing so, she snatched similar words from his mouth and re- lieved his soul, hia vanity carries the scar to this day. She loved him, in fine, so well that she managed in that walk to the station to oon- vince him that she did not love him at all. 80 { his friends in the north, andeven Miss Teague’s friends, consider that poor Mr. Pennyman was treated abominably. Why are women s0 stanch? us ——— A Classic Cut, A BIG BREWING ESTABLISHMENT. NATIONAL CAPITAL BREWERY. ‘A Bastnose Enterprise That Has Been Very Successful In Washington, TF W 4 MOMB PRODUCT ENTIRELY OnOANIZED AND OFFICERED BY LOCAL MEM AND EVERY SEARB OF ITS STOCK OWNED HERE—a Tau? 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This is the new home of the National Capital Brewing Com- pany, and it is by long odds one of the most subatantial and imposing buildings of the sort to be found anywhere. Although it has been completed hardly more than © month, it bas about it already that well-kept appearance and air of bustling activity that always denote pros perity following upon enterprise. This fine new building, standing aa {t does in a yery desirable location for such a business, with almost an entire block of ground about it, is a five-story structure of brick with handsome stone trimmings and aurmounted by a graceful enpola, Itcoversa plat of ground 94 by 136 feet, and owing to the unusual height of the several stories the building itself is quite as high as an ordinary seven or eight-story build- ing. Attached to the main building are several roomy and substantial outbuildings, includ- ing an engine house, stable and cooperage shop, all pleasing’ in appearance and forming a handsome group. To make a good pure quality of beer for local use #0 that it can be drawn from wood and not adul- terated with any chemicals whatever in order to make of ita “beer that k ” this is the purpose of the National Capital Brewing Company. They do not make beer for ship- ment, and hence their beer is not treated with any talicylic acid or deleterions substances that are somotimes used with bottled beer to keep it clear and lively. Pure beer is generally considered a health? il drink. The president of the National Cupitel Brewing Company told # Sran report tual say person with a proper interest ir the matter might take the keys of tba entize establishment at any tims. go through it thoroughly, and & be found any- thing a: all used in the’ making of their beer that was not pure and wholesome the company would give him $1,000. Beer drawn from the wood is almost certain tobe purer and better quality of beer than the bottled. ‘The National Capital Brewing Company does not botile. It serves its custom- ers fresh every day with beer that has reached its prime in the immense cooling rooms of the . B. HL Finley & Son, the bottlers, however, have @ contract with the company for 20,000 barrels a year of thetr pale exten beer, and this they bottle and serve to customers in Washington. They get their beer early every morning, as needed, 60 that people who buy the bottied variety of the National Capital Co pany's beer are using beer that left the buge casks at the brewer: that Met f di J. ¥. Hermann & Son, Wm. H. Brinkley and Jas. A. Bailey also acts as agent for the com- A Star reporter, accompanied by Mr. Carry, presidéat of the brewing com: pany, recently made a complete inspection of the buildings of the brewery, »peuding several hours seeing how beer is manufactured from the time it comes in in the form of malt and the raw materials until it leaves the build- ing # clear, cool, foaming bevera, cloved “in ‘stout’ kegs aud ceske,” How much beer there is that leaves the building may be judged when the state- ment is made that the company uses 10,000 kegs and barrels of all sizes simply in suppiying Washington trade. Nine huge wagons aud thirty big horses are used steadily in carrying beer from the brewery to the consumers. In | | trath this ts no amall business. Bos what striker the visitor, be hes casual or ap inter- ested one, first and most forcibiy of all is the absolute Cleanliness and neatness that prevails everywhere. The walleand stairways, for the mort part of stone and iron—for the building is fireproof throughout—and the floors are all of iron or concrete and immaculate. On all sides there is hot andeold running water, and in- deed the wards of @ hospital could scarcely be cleaner and more orderly thas the various de- partments of this brewery. There ere no secret chambers into which ene may not &. Everything is open and above board, and the fact ‘that the company bas ue objections to the beer consumer examining every branch of {ts manufacture is pretty good sign thet they know that everything is honest and fair. Ase proof of this the company intends giv inga public reception at the brewery next Tuesday, July 28, from 8 to 8 p.m., when every- thing wilt bein running order and every! 4s invited to, visit the brewery end inspect ft thoroughly from cellar to roof. A handsome luncheon, consisting of all the delicacies of the season, will be spread. Everything will be free, and the National Capital Brewing Company ih tend to prove that they reas literal in their hospitality ag they are enterprising in their business. It is needless to vay that beer will be plentiful and none weed go to bed thirsty Tuesday night. Connecting the mate building with the en- gine house is a handsome arched gateway lead- ing into the bigcourt yard, where the wagons stand while they are being loaded. The en- trance to the offices is through this gateway, The offices consist of a number of connecting rooms on the main floor in the northwest cor- ner of the building. They are handsomely fin- ished in oak, and are fitted with the most im- proved office furniture for the convenience of the officers of the company and the corps of bookkeepers and clerks required to transact such an immense volume of business. Opening from the main office and adjoining itis the ice machine room, containing an ice machine with a refrigerating capacity of fifty tons and an eighty-horse-power steam engine, used for grinding and mashing malt and for general hoisting purposes. ‘The ice machine on that hot summer day wes almost covered in with ice and snow, and in fact the temperature of the larger part of the brewery is kept down in the neighborhood of freezing poiut all the time. On the second floor is an immense re- frigerating room, and separated from it by an iron door is room for cleaning and automati- cally weighing malt, and arranged on the prin- ciple of a grain elevator ia a.store room for malt with « capacity of 20,000 tons. On the third floor is a great copper kettle holding 300 barrels of new boiling beer. The fourth floor is used for hot and cold water tanks aud above is a tank for fire purposes. After boilin, in the kettle for seven hours the beer is pumpe up, strained and left to cool in a big flat tank under ‘the roof, where » cool current of air blows constantly. To the rear and on the fourth Boor is a big store room and a patent cooler. The beer from the tanks above runs down over coils and is cooled to 40 degrees. This and the rooms below are all 76x% feet and feel like a cold day in midwinter. On the floor below is the fermenting room, and here the beer stays for two weeks in sixty-five tubs, each holding veventy barrels. Afver the beer is through fermenting it is iped down below into huge vats, each of a barrel capacity, aud here it staysin the Test casks for three or four months, four months old being about the best. On the floor below a little new beer is added to give the neces- sary foam, and after being given about three weeks to clarify it is sent by air pressure into the filling room, where it is run into barrels and kegs ready to be loaded onto the wagons. Ina neighboring room a dozen men are busy all the thme cleaning, vashing and scouring the kegs so there 16 no chance for any impurities to mur the flavor of the Golden Eagle and the Capuciner beers. ‘The National Capital Brewery Company isa combination of the firms of Albert Garry, Roby ert Portner and the Robert Portner Brewing Company, the latter selling out the Washing- ton branch of the business. The capital stock of the company is $600,000, all paid up. The company has been in operation since last No- vember, but has been supplying fcom ite ne brewery only since June. officers of the company are as follows: Albert Carry, presi- dent; C. A. Strangmann, secretary and treas- urer. Directors: Albert Carry, Robert Port- ner, John L. Vogt, John D. Bartlett, Charles Carry, C. A Strangmann, Frank P. Madigan. POISONED BY HER TEMPTER If This Story is True Wilkesbarre Harbors the Champlon Scoundrel. Frank Heibish, a machinist residing on Jack- son street, Wilkesbarre, Pa., says s special to the New York World, appeared before Alder- man Davidson this evening and bad « warrant issued for the arrest of George Mable, ayoung mau living near by, on » charge of try- ing to poison Heibish’s wife. ‘The statements he made revealed a most astonishing and un- natural state of affairs. On Sunday evening a quart of ice cream was sent to the Heibish house. Mra. Heibish and her little daughter and her neighbors ate some and were immediately taken very sick. The little girl was st the pomt of death for some time and was saved only by the strenu- ous efforts of @ physician. Last night a large cake wus sent to the house. Mrs. Heibish was suspicious and examined the cake. Sprinkled over the cake she found 9 green wider. She took the cake to Dra. Fell and and they pronounced the stuff to be §Paris green. An investigation was made and it was fonnd, it is said, that the cake and cream had been sent by Mable. Up to six months ago, it isalleged, Mablo and Mra. Heibish were engaged in an intrigue. It was discovered by her husband, whohad Mable arrested. | Mrs. Hoibish promised a and pleaded for forgiveness, which was gran’ and the case against Mable was not pushed. Since then, it is further alleged, Mahle has been endeavoring to induce Mrs. Heibish to resume her former relations with him, but abe has re- fused to listen to him. The warrant for Mable's arrest was placed in the hands of « constable, but up to alate hour tonight he had not been found. Written for The Evening Star. Singing Birds and English Sparrows, ‘The mocking-wren and oriale today Are hushed—it rains and skies are cold and gray; But, rain and cloud, this beneft ye bring, Though these melodious minstrels do not aing: Ye still the tedious English sparrows, too, ‘That impudent, base, tuneleas, chattering crew. I would some storm to their ancestral home ‘Would blow them all across the Atlantic foam! —W. L. SHOEMAKER, STRIVING FOR MILLIONS. Dr. Claflin of Chicago One of the Moss Earn- est of the Edwards Helrs, Dr. Claflin of Chicago has been summoned to London by a cablegram from his solicitor, Her- bert Gladstone. Dr. Claflin is a brother of Vic- toria Woodhull and Tennie ©. Claflin, who, afteran extraordinary career as spiritualiste, publishers of @ sensational paper and stock brokers, went to London, where Mrs. Woodbull married Mr. Martin, a banker, and Miss Claflin became the wife of Sir Francis Cook. Dr. Claflin's mission is one of great im) ance to his family. His wife, Mary Claflin. is one of the many heirsto the great Edwards estate. This estate includes about sixty-five acres of property in the heart of New York city and is estimated at $200,000,000. The New York land has been held on a ninety-nine years’ lease and the lease expiring this year the heirs are preparing to possess themsel\ very ves of valuable property. Herbert Gladstone, who tereste in For some time represents the Claflin families’ in England, and T. M. Charlton, Dr. Clafiin's local solicitor, "have aging details,” and the : sponse to a cablegram from Mr. Gladstone, left for New York last night and will take the first steamer for London. Dr. Claftin expects to receive the greater part of the vast estate. 3 In order to secure still more, the of his sisters have, with Dr. Claftin, bought ap the claims of many of the minor heirs, so that it is probable that the Claflin family will secure considerable more than half of the enormous Publication was made in San Francisco on Thursday of the fact that a bundle of Yorce case,are in the hands Mrs. Sarah Mit the of Newland’s confidential agent, Charles Livi: in said that the ‘woman wants 650, for letters, as she deciares they are worth that money should she oe to Althea. She hints that 7, reveal many compromising transactions case, especially the Sena- tor’s death, but young Sharon and Newlands both assert that no such letters are in existence. ease ak sttention because of the ‘around the Sharon bun- on Edwards ‘Bear Admiral P. &. Ros tn the Cuited Servion, Prof. Roscoe Warren Lucy has left St. Lonis sud the Western Conservatory of Music, 2645 ‘Olive street, of which be was professor and manager, ls closed. He quitted the city about twe weeks ago, ostensibly to go on a visit to bis mother, who, be claimed, wee very i] im Boston, but in reality, ivi said, Be went to Chicago, St Paul and other large cities for the purpose of bettering bis @uancial condition. A friend who was very ‘intimate with Prof. Lucy says that because of bis failure to meet certain debts the professor was forced to leave the city. Prof. Lucy and wife saye © 6t Louls dis patch to the New York Times, came from Kan- ‘as City Both were handsome and accom- plished musicians. They both found ments with the eboir ef the Church eof the Holy Communion, Prof. Luoy being retained as Organist and cboir master, while bis wife was employed as the leading soprano of BRAR ADMIRAL BOB'S accOUET OF 4 THRILLING EXOIDEN? OF TEE WaR—cOUAAGE axD @coD GRAMANGEIF THAT OFEXED CEB Wal Rew ‘WASEINGTON To THR ozs URING THE SUMMER AND PALL OF 1961 the confederates hed effected the eom- plete blockade of the city of Washington and the Potomac river. Not an ounce of provisions or munitions of war could get inte Washington except by railway from Baltimore and under- going transshipment at that place. The Poto- mac tiver was closed and the rebel batteries could only be passed bye fow smal! craft of night. The doop-of-war Pensecole hed been &> ting for sea at the Washington wavy yard for nearly # year past, and in the month of Nevern- ber her engineers pronounced ber ready. The|the sboir. Sometbing over © year ago rebel battories swept the channel of the river = Moye oo ge, gpd aod fur- through a distance of nine miles, and this was x ip the neighborhood of sixty pupils, who were ucted twice a week on the pigno, and his bed about thirty who received vocal les~ tone of €1 was charged for each lesson. Berides leaving an indebtedness some of the pupils say Lucy carried off with him the tuition money of a number of bis scholars who had paid in advance ip sccordance with the tules of the institution. The departure of the professor was unan- mounced and created considerable surprise. Hie wife said he had gone to Boston to sce bis mother. but when questioned by the reporters she eaid be bad gone toSt Paul to secures posi- tion in an aristocratic church, and that she had told the Boston story so that the church people might not know that be was dissatisfied. A story bas been circulated to the effect that a man found dead irs botel in St. Paul closely resembled the professor.and the tm: ion wae created that be had committed suicide. Inves- tigation shows that there was no euch suicide. It developed today that the profesor bad con- tracted a number of debts which he could not meet It also developed that many rumors have been afloat concerning both the professor and bis wife, and coupling their names with other persons, particularly « Mr. Brown, the basso in the choir of the Church of the Holy Communion. Mr. Brown bes doneall the talk- ing to the reporters, passing as the friond of the family. From bim it was learned that Prof. Lucy bas an aged motber living in Boston known to be very wealthy and that lately she bas been near death's door. The professor left, #0 it is oid, for the purpose of attempting to obtain €15, which is said to be the amount that his children will inberit upon the death of their grand- mother. It was Prof. Lucy's intention to take and use the interest of this sum to assist in mecting his debts. Mre. Lucy says she has had but one letter from her husband since he left. She hae handed in her resigmtion from the choir, and she says she will go toher mother in Indianapolis, the gauntlet the ship was to run if sbe was to Join Farragut’s fleet below New Orleans, where the was ordered to rendezvous. The confederate officers of this long line of batteries on the right bank of the Potomac had Possession of the coast survey charte and they were thus enabled to train their guns accurately on the mid-channel of the river, not very wide at this place. The elevating screws of the guns were made secure after the aim had been care- fully adjusted and nothing was left for the gun- ner to do but to watch until the ship should come to the line of fire and pull lock ows Nine miles of batteries seemed to aoe ‘the destraction af the chip » pretty ware ng. ‘_EADrvo Down. On © star-ilt November night, Just as the ‘moon was sinking in the west, the ship, which had been lying at anchor off Alexandria, got under way and headed dows the river toward the batteries and to try the fortune of war John Walters, the only navy yard pilot who re- mained loyal to the government, stood by the con to steer the ship through ber dangerous course. Two navy yard tuge were secured along the off-shore side of the ship to belp the ship's own engines and to be ready to assist in ie nt of their being disabled. It in impossible te describe or to understand now the intense interest excited by this at- tempt to break through the rebel blockade of the federal capital, not only in Washington, but sbroughont the country, and especially in the confederacy. That night, therefore, but tew people in Washington went to their beds to sleep, as they listened to the booming of the great guns on the bunks of the Potomac. Pres- nt Lincoln, Mr. Seward, the Secretary of and indeed nearly or quite all the mem- ra of the cabinet, embarked in a steamer at the navy yard and followed in the wake of the Pensacola down the river, until she arrived of Shipping Point, where’ the frst gun was fired from the rebel batteries. There they stopped mgine and peered through the night at the receding bull of the ship, amid the flashes and booms of guns. Never, per- haps, in the history of our navy bad so much d so intense am interest been eentered upon —————se0_______ THE POPE AND THE POWERS, Matter: of Interest Kegarding the Vatican Administration. It is stated on high authority, says a dis- patch from Rome, that the holy see will not give its consent to the projected American Ke- view, which it was announced was shortly to appear at Rome under the title of the Roman Messenger. The journal was to muke a special feature of articles solely devoted to the various religious questions in the United States. The promoters of the enterprise are undaunted, however, and continue their labors with every belief in their ultimate success. ‘The Vatican declares the reports published in the European press to the effect that the pro- tocol of the new triple alliauce would contain a clause concerning the next conclave of cardi- nalsasincorrect. At the beginning of last winter Signor Crispi sounded the allied cabinets as to their probable attitude at the next conclave. Signor Crispi pretended that the sacred college was hostile to the triple alliance, and that in the event of s vacancy it would nomi- nate a whose election would constitute a direct protest against the triple alliance. At the same time he organized # brisk campaign in the official journals against the Vatican, trying to demonstrate that it was the policy of Italy to endeavor to control the next conclave. The fall of Signor Crispi upset his plans, and the SILENT UNDER FIRE. Orders from the Navy Department had been {ssued tothe captain of the Pensacola that no reply should be given to the rebel batteries, It was the mission of that ship to pass through the fire of the enemy af awiftly and ax salclyas possible. Think of being under the fire of an enemy's guns for one hour or longer and for- bidden to fire back! The grand old pilot, Walters, understood his business. The throt- tles of the engines were opened wide: the tugs wore only to Keep speed with the ship, and give neither sight nor sound to the ene: by a fine, trick of seamanship and pilot ing the Pensacola was near to the very edge of the channel nearest the batteries, on the right bank of the river, and every shot d just over “the smokestack,” and plunged’ in the mid-channel water not the length of the ship from the bull, There were times when the Pensacola’s keel had not an inch of water under itand a lump of sand or a big stone lying there would h: sured the grounding of the ship und rebel batteries and her certain destruction. was bold seamanship for night work, but it wit early deviight the Peamcole rece At ear! ht Ia received the last shot fro the It m the enemy off Aquia creel iuis di Rudini, his successor, did ‘not show Thich fell short and tcl fa Nhe woe | Eres pecsseien acts martinesis mice ut ft was Teceived by her with- when Mgr. Gulim- passed of the project. Accordingly, outa fierce reply. The batterics were a nuncio st Vienna, got wind of and the ship was safo. the scheme, he did not encounter much disi- But, though no shot was fired from the ship, | culty in preventing the introduction of the hata victory this was for the Union cause! | proposed clause in the new treaty. The confederate government at Richmond. in ite ignorance and wrath, blamed tho men and officers of the batteries and accused them of culpable negiect of duty. The best mev in its service were dismissed, degraded, courtmar, tialed and tho gunners distributed ¢ declarations made in the British parlia- ment by Lord Salisbury on the subject of the mission of the Duke of Norfolk to the Vatican, showing that England, before opening nego- tiations with the pope, informed Signor Crispi of her intention to do so, have produced a most unfavorable impression in high ecclesiastical circles. The holy see would never accept such asituation. Itis maintained that the Vatican should be absolutely free in her relations with the powers, and if the principle that all rele- tions between foreign powers and the Vatican must be first submitted to the Italian govern- ment were to be admitted it would place these relations on a false basis, - The declarations of Lord Salisbury also con- firmed the ideas of Cardinal Manning, who, in his letters to the pope, always coutended that official diplomatic relations with England were impossible or, at dangerous. Cardinal —— in his letters, supported the views of Cardinal’ Gibbons and op Ireland, holding that the aa rere the natural lees sentatives of the an see. These democratic fleas continue to make wach progress at the Vatican. It is asserted that the secretary of state has made known to the pres- idents of the various Catholic national con- gresses that Catholics should, before every- thing, watch the interests of the people aud gease to occupy themselves with dynasties. The administration of St. Peter's pence is continuing its inquiry into the regime of Mgr. Folchi. ‘he inquiry is heid insecret. The re- sults, however, will soon be made known. The Vatican has been requested to publish « full of- ficial statement of the position of the fund in order to tranquilize Catholic opinion, which is at present much agitated over the recent revelations. It is reported that Mgr. Folchi ill shortly publish a pamphlet justifying his Dosttion in ceepect to the fangs. “At the Wasi. the war. The batteries, erected at great mse and labor, were ioned and the lockade of the Potomac was utterly broken. The federal capital was once more free and the pathway to the ocean was clear. SAVED FOR NOBLE WoRK. On the morning after the passage of the ship, ‘# lady of Alexandria has told me, she wason the streets of that city, and on the sidewalk met a group of colored boys in animated discussion over the great event. Throngh the night they bad heard the distant thunder of tke rebel ns. Armed with brok: i jeard one of them say: the rebel guns, and thar’s the river, and thar’s whar she's got'to go!” and he brought his stick down on what he supposed was the channel of the Potomac river. For all that the seaman's wit and courage saved the ship, and on the 24th day of April, 1862, she led the advance column of Farragut’s fleet in the tremendous battles of Forts Jackson and St, Philip and the Chalmette below New Orleans. “During that night of one of the greatest naval engagements known to history the Pensacola led the “forlorn hope” of that magnificent conflict. Capt. Honry W. Morris of New York, one of the “old- navy captains,” command Pensacola, and Lieut. F. A. Roe, also of New York, and the writer of this paper, was the ex- ecutive officer. During the administration of President Arthur the heroic pilot Walters applied at the | Can it is thought to be exceedingly improbable Navy Department for position at the navy | that Mgr. Folchi will commit such an error of aslaborer or watchman. He was very | judgment. Fresh trouble has arisen between the pope and the Italian government. The government has closed several parish churches, which, hay- ing had their sources of revenue ‘confiscated, found themselves no longer able to provide the Secret could find no place for this man agd he wea iets to fight out ‘the But I am glad to record this of him, that. inan hour of the direst need of the nation he was the ithless ” | expenses of public worship. It is expebted e one “faithful among the fai found.” | expenses of public x BLUE LAWS TO BE ENFORCED. is action. Connecticut Has One of Its Periodical Fits of ‘The Cordelia Explosion. Murphy—““Me b'y Danny iscomin’ home Mr. B “I Vought it wus for foive years he was sint up?” Mra. “He waz; but be got s year off — "An if must be Ryley- sure, PX sad gomfort fer ye tohave a good 'y loike PHASES OF THE SON DURING A TRANSIT eo8 An Asbury Park special to the New York World says: Rev. A. E. Ballard, the vice presi- dent of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Asso ciation, has got himself into a peck of trouble Decause of an alleged attempt to kidnap bis two-and-e-half-year-old child on Wednesday night. The domestic relations between Mr. Ballard and bis wife have been anything but pleasant for several months past. ‘They lived with Mr. Ballard’sson Prank on Broadway in Oveam Grove. But domestic felicity was « stranger fm the bonsebold Finally Mrs Ballard lefe ber husband and rented a cottage on Main avenue This was in the latter part of Jans. When Mr Ballard learned of his wife's ection be was incensed and at first refused to live with ber. Finally be was pacified and went to the bouse rent by bie wite. He war not, however, in a very mood, demos that time, as ix alleged, bas re wed to converse at any length with his wit, tat would simply answer the questions asked bim, Matters ran along in this way, and ff was common report that Mr and Mra Ballard were not living « life of dom» have one child, a little Teparing supper, ber husband entered the joure and shortly afterward left, taking the child with him. Mra Ballard did not see bi come in. Leoking around afterward and Snd- ing that ber litde daughter was nowhere about, she became alarmed. She was told by nei bore that Mr. Ballard been secn afew minutes before carrying the child in his arms and making hastetoward the residence of bis on on Broadway. When Mrs. Ballard beard this she wasalarmed and started after ber husband. She found bimg near Broadway with the child in bis arms, When she guestioned him ac to what be was doing be said be was simply taking the child outfor an airing. This story didn't seem to satisfy Mra. Balinrd. It is believed by all whe are acquainted the circumstances of the cone that it wa the child to hi 3 ed to the house together after the husband's eapposed inten- tions had been frustrated. Mr. Ballard then Upbraided his wife. He said he bated her and used other lan, that abe of neighbors who overheard In the meantime Mr. Ballar Gardiner, who vecupies = site the Ballard cottag, over and was Matters were hour or two the neighbors visited Mre, and comforted her. When the partially restc y Mr. Malle that he war ge id make arrangements for the of the annual camp meeting there, which takes place the last day in Jui; President of the association which controls these meetings. A World reporter found Mre. Ballard at her home on Main She was surprised 9 learn that the story had ga . city. She was ay, and, being « frail to wee that her nervous sya severe shock. Nhe refused to say much regarding the unfortunate affair. “i believed at dirst,’ sbe said, “that my hus- band’s intentions were to abduct the child. I then screamed for Mrs. Gardiner, who came over to the cottage.” She admitted that her relations with her bus- band were not altogether amicable, Dut was hopeful that « rec 1d be effec Dr. Ballard returned homein the evening. Be denied that he hud attempted te abduct the child. He claimed that he only took it out for awalk. He said that his wife was subject to fite of mental aberration, and it was while ip this condition that she thought be was trying w abduct the chil ——+e-—__—__ Best. Mother, Isce yon with your nursery light, Leading your bables, ail in white. J cannot help tears when I see them twine | Their potions yours, and their oryrht catts etine Ou your wart Ureest; | But the Saviour's is purer than yours or mine— Hie can love vest. ‘You trembie each hour because your arms Are Weak; Your heart Is wrung with alarms, And sore oppren My Garlings are safe out ol reach of harms, ‘Aud that is best. You know over yours may | Pain apd disease, whose fu) Naught can arrest; Mine in God's gardeus run to and fro, ‘And that is best, ‘You know that of yours your feeblest ope And dearest may 1i pas Laoved. unvlest; are cherished of salut» around God's throne, } And Unat is best. You most dread for yours the crime that sear, Dark guilt unwashed by repentant teat, es, ‘Mine entered spotiess on eternal years, ‘Uh, how much the best ug even Bow iling slow ‘More than the rest; But I know that, as well as them, for me God did the best. Hikvex Hort Jacnsem, ———eo______ SAVED BY AN INCUBATOR Medical Science Brings the Fuliness of Life to s Human Being. From the New York World. The doctors a$ Charity Hospitel, on Black- Well's Island, have just hatched out « bright, plump baby boy. The little fellow was taken | out of on incubator yesterday morning and has been laughing and gurgling ever since. Dr. Mallett says there isn't boy in all New York whohas a better show to live toa ripe old age ‘than this tot who, in later years, can boast of having bad an eventful carver before he fairly | existed. The babe hasn't been christened yet, but he is the son of Mrs. Eliza Dunn of No. 187 Mul- berry strect. Mrs Dunn is of suture and is the picture of health. The child i now two mouths old. It was born prematurely and weighed only four and s half pounds. month of its premature existence has spent in the incubator with the result now weighs something over eight Though at first weak und fragile and fair in its unequal struggle, it i La i healthy and tly proporuoned. This ie how the Govtere Resched the | blue-eyed little in- fent. 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