Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1891, Page 3

FOR_SALE—LOTS. FULL OF GOOD THINGS STORY BRICK HOUSE KR SALE—A WO STORY BRICK Hu teh st. 6.) si zooms and GOOD TWO-STOR muse on Delrees st Rent printing office. always rented to good partion; ws ¥ Price and on easy term. GEO. A. JORDAN. 1 E-OR WILL TRADE FOR A FARM— roperty and dweiling in the Dis- Tall on OF address E.NUC} F®= SALE 1a soc imaar. of fie Property on ‘oftee for buierin THOS. E. WAGGAMAN. SOK SALE-STH ST. N. sath ‘eal $2500, D: STOSE, wo F st TRADE ON PROF- brick residence near pow sale Geai_on wii vase Cacchos Scocpine gasd oti: Me ee SME NID D. STONE, 806 F ot. v.w. ED HOME FOR Se bee bien and | 2, ‘so batt. nicely SAO DAVID D. STONE, 506 F ot. ¥F = WELL -LocaT 93,500. bay-wins on 4 pantriee, 19 ft. chance to secure 5 . 244 Sth st. De. ce, electric bells; uand- 4¥-WINDOW PRESS BRIK BL ter ae Kae SJESTER, eh and F yk SALE_INDIASA AVE. N.W. FOUR-STORY Wh ies aes Mageee Seceege Toveusn's, speaking tunes, electric bells, &e. Wi me. “Gikky w. DowyIxe. oe ERS jOvE- mitanid quick. OM BRICK HOUSE ON A ST. ROOM BRI ‘monty: price $3, D.3. OHAKE. 1006 F SALE—NEW BRICK: MOD! ;Fenting for $15, ‘This is a If you are looking for a delicbt- et this ENDID HOUSE, SIX ROOMS lag % bet. 6th and 7th sts. ; jot convenient tocars; only 6 aw. «GAIN IN A HOUSE 0: NEW EIGH beta, Nel oc ralance ean OP? & CAHILL, si0 F st. * Pol SALE—s3,000 — TWo_aDioi LoTs, each Wallv, vue improved by coud frame dwelling z hh. ua. b- uence Tuguire ALE! Ts 1305 N st. Apply to O' Sbetory and basemen: DsoMl dwelling. INGO 19th st. a. ‘all latest improvements. earetuil; built ‘OUF yersonal supervision and List-class in every House open tor ins) 1708 10TH ST_N. W. ‘and a cabinet mantels, cular ; terms ADS BY. ‘100m F yom ‘us +, colmplete in every ‘a JOR SALE—HOLMEAD “ANOK, MT. PLEASANT, ieantifi ecttace sites, 30 feet front; convent mt to Titi se Sable, epet eround in, the Distr new cottages; urev and shate trees: Price ee fe bp SCE Eis OS =“ POR SALE—LOT ON BST. SN. E be eb e lot to erect a B23 toot alley ; wil Vegoid cheap Boek It SALE_@1. FASY TERMS, FOK A NICE [a EEE Lincoln Park. WM! B. SAUNDERS *. 7OR SAL—LOTS ON 7TH aT, § swath of Kenrlall Green. East front: 80x80 0 10+ aigy, whole or pare will fa nol at Wc. perfoot.” Block Ey aaa yf” SAUNDERS & CO. au6-2 1407 F POR SALE_RFAUTIFUL LOT, 50X137 ON 14TH Fa Beat Kenesn ave < omly Zoe. et foot; cans oaie ot an ‘curbed and cou- Greted: ED. J O'HANE, 1000 Fst. a6 avenue. just. south Kenesaw a1 vuzht of very easy terms. Keuesaw ave., s.¢. cof, 62x wast side i:ith st. just jot i) 7, Omtered at Swecrigee Only exception- Ally woot Outleo! ee and very conventent to new cable being constructed on 14th st. Apply at once to at POR SALE_LOT 19 BY 84 FT. New Jersey ave, nw. between Li Of lot 9, aq. 557; easy terme. Only 8 Jot. -room house iS pet month. Thus valuable Fic lot, renti erty offered at SCOT Sis den OR SALE—A FINE LOT 0 on Florida ave. n. ob Tot alone worth more. RUSH aub-tt THE N.W. Cok. 285270. offered at uiake money ; ele- we o fant business corner. RUSH & CO. 516 Oth st, new. JOR SALE—9i,200, EASY TERMS, WILL BUY A Piet init ecaare north of Lincolu, Park wide parks “street care Cohvenient, and ‘nproveinents Koi WM. H. SAUNDELS & CO. 1407 F at. on ubewa tt ,OR SALE—LESS THAN ONE DOZEN LOTS RE- uaining in the HOLMEAD subdivision of MOUNT. PLEASANT. Most of these lots are located where yuses are built, Louses Leing built and tobe ‘built, together with the hmprovemenis to the streets and jots now gous On, ke these lots ver bie for investunent oF loca for houses. The 7th st. Care nnd the 14th st. cars either side sive easy com GBunication to: Whitney’ aves+_ the fashionable euvur- Gentes and the withers tou 7 forms easy. ADpIY for plats an WA SAU aud-w&ter i SALE—FINE LOTON COLUMBIA HEIGHTS ear lath st. : 722145; to prompt purchaser at leew 48; peste PH Gens kb rHERFORD, 1907 F et. sation to 140 Sith in egutet the world's broehs of the Uvinols Central Kr acs eraing pase ter? fen minutes. ‘The property is also accessibie by elec t vade. The lots are now offered for the first time. . "Torias, 450 cana and go0 every thres months unthi paid, abstract of title 1 free. Apply without delay bet. 4.and 5:30 p.1u. to Belge ee RU Oth st. nw. FOE SALE BEAUTIFUL LT, 19 FEET FRONT to wide alley, on north side Q st. n.w. near 7th st. ; ieichborhiood ; quick down town transit, Apply aw. v2 LOTS—$ ADJOINING ne $1.05; nin 214 1th st. terms. “OWNER, B13 E. Cap. st. Saturday's Sixteen-Page Star and s Few of ‘Ite Features. Saturday's sixteen-page Stam will be un- usally attractive. Each page will have eight columns and every column wiil be bristling with good things. Midsummer is supposed to be the dull season, but a glance at Taz Evex- 1x0 Star shows that there is no let up in its good work. Special pains are taken to make Saturday's issue exceptionally interesting, and to this end arrangomonts have been made to Publish in Tue Stan ashort continued story by Richard Harding Davis, who has probably achieved greater success and fame in a short time than any recent writer with the exception of Rudyard Kipling. The first installment of the story of “The Reporter Who Made Himself King” will appear in tomorrow's Stam. The following are some of the features that may be anticipated with pleasure: COUNTRY HOMES (Illustrated). ‘The attractive residence on the Noyes farm, “Alton.” ROADSIDE SKETCHES (Ilustrated). More pleasant walks that may be taken about Washington. MEXICAN NEWSPAPERS (Illustrated). How the editorial and the essay crowd out the telegram. By Frank G. Carpenter. THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING (Illustrated). The first installment of an interesting story iks jaid; we invite inspection. DSOK & SON, Owners, 1503 Pa. ave. FO® SALe-Lors. PALISADES OF THE POTOMAC LAND IMPKOVEMENT COMPANY. MAGNIFICENT VILLA SITES—OF ONE O& MORE ACRES— TERMS, in every case, TO SUIT THE PURCHASER. j.Setbe ot our choice Uullding lots cam be bought a ~ a $25 CASH, BALANCE IN SMALL MONTHLY PAY- MENTS. SEVERAL FINE RESIDENCES ARE NOW BEING ERECTED ON PROPERTY ALK! ADY SOLD. THOSE PURCHASING NOW are sure to REALIZE HANDSOME, 3 PROF tind freight house und geod b Fort house ‘or formation inquire of CAPTAIN OF STEAMER SUE Sceauety Arrowamit and Suestop ating whart) oF THOS MILLEL, lide post offlce, Bt Mary's FOE SENT_AT BRANCHVILLE, ON THE B. AND 3 ar row house, just completed; font only #18 50 per mont: “Also at Hyattsville, one of Behe hoate the teatadituly iocated, sf bet aA Gis ith et. aw. |FOH SALE_SEVERAL CHEAP FARMS. "GA arcs 2 ules from ct W OODSIDE Pike, facing the raufuad ou the went aad te pike oo cing the railroad ou the w ie pike ob Rhevcast and sop fioward both he dra ‘en posit vision and to the west of it about three- @ . “Executive uvenue extended be eastern botindary of the Nat guustihute, when competed, the nearest Lots tor sale on easy terms and lower than in any other subdivision cf shuilar advantages. For pists aud particulars a} 3y24m, FASS: FARMS: FARMS! FARMS! I HAVE ta nuuaber of valuable farms within 10 miles of Wash: prove Lue investinents. DRS, U6 12th at. uw. GRAY HOUSE. FIVE YEARS roadster Also ai upriht piano, ¥ jetused- Will sel cheap. “Can be seen at aid Stine ne % oer ~ sa Foe SALE_965 WILL BUY Goop Bay HORSE, harness and side-var top buxzy.; must be sold at ouce burgain ; owner leaving ety. 211 11th st. m-We a i SALE-ALWAYS ON HAND THIKTY TO ity horses: suitable for all purpose and Teasonabie, ani warranted to Le as Fepre- sented. NU SCHLEGEL, 44G Stu st. uw. au early ew, $55 cS (CTO SAFETY BICYCLE, Lamp, ~ CAND fruit sure: a rare = manufacturing Petioper with small « king = good business i yelling attached. ees. good Oth ant C se ke, opposite herdic CALIGRAPH. HAM: Wail and World Type Miriters a baswaicis TivEWRITER EXCH uk SALE A « “never beeu Used iE AND BEAND NEW Patent solicitor's MOKRIS, Canton, MONKELS, FAxRKOTS, CANAKIES, sae lstves and patternes 4th ayivanaeve ae. Wit TL P0k SALE_ BICYCLES Py¥eHu mal lade OF gentlente dg. werotd hand apd pore Trak Chere oO. 208 SALE THE SPRING © comidnes the streuxta of meta: With the elasticity ee paruculam X. Sut aw ‘OFTO" GAS ENGINES, band, any sige. Send for BALLUE Agt, 281 ith sta. ROPODISTS. Mal. See general & 90D. sue Agent, B15 2: leet references, 4 GhOlGks & SOX. Parlors, 1115 Va. ate. uw Danone and ingrowity and cub balus QELY 5 AND 10¢. : TARE SOME lak Ue tree. Cop yFgiut miueie PMOaSON'S wUNte ST Ucae Sit teh STORAGE AT NO. 490 PENN. AVE 1 he toumeaid Soest and tres its miu ‘om. sa SEPARATE meee QOR SALE—-CHEAP—ONE CHEST KAS, 7th st. road uear Whitney TO SALE_A ‘3 AUCTION KOOM! % furday, Sth fustant, at 19 » two stylish ses: good in saddle oF harness, the property o Of Use and without HP. Clarl Y PONY, FIVE YEARS perfectly” sound, kind and J. A. K., Star office, aud-st™ 1 surreys, one close cou TREMOST STABLES, Ind. ave. aud 2d st JOR SALE_SPIDER PHAETO! ¥ LE used; built by Flandrau & New York; will be sold for less than half cost very stylish tors phy- ‘Apply at DUWNEL'S STABLES, teu bak aw aul-lw" Fe SALE, HIRE OR EXC terms, new and second- carts and wagons of all Bess. “Call aun! see stock. F GEYER, 406 Pa, JOR SALE_TW: HEAD OF HO! Just arrived from Lexington, Va., suitable for all pur- 16 Lauds high. paces and kind and w nile in 2-40. sous 1 broke; Suitable for lady to drive. be seen at JOHN SIMMONS" SALES STABLES, SLL 12th st. nw. ay Fol AL_CAMMIAGES, WAGONS AND BUG: F terine. ‘ofdered Flies on easy, work Asa RUE Bitended to” COUR Ba be SVG M st, eat Washincton. : a a Limited Monarchy. From the Youth's Companion. The system of responsible ministries, the in- troduction of which into our own government has been advocated by certain theorists, would make of the President of the United States much such a functionary as is « monarch in a constitutional country of Europe, s0 fluence with his own administration cerned. An aurasing anecdote is told of Louis XVII of France. ‘The inoffensiye monarch took breakfast gue morning. Then ‘his ministery called upon =p said the king, “how are the public ‘Getting along very nicely, sire,” said the tMum' In that cage," said the king, “Ithink Iwill and take a walk.” Text warning after breakfast the ministers by that successful young writer, Richard Harding Davis. JAPANESE FOLK LORE (Iilustrated). How the oriental artists relate legends with their brash. OUT-OF-DOOR COSTUMES (Illustrated). Some effective combinations suitable for summer resorts. MONSTERS OF FICTION. Some chimeras dire of the deep that have been exploded. SEA DEVILS AND OTHER RAYS. A curious tribe of fishes with weird charac- teristics. OUR VISIT TO CARNAC. A Washington woman's interesting account of an interesting trip. LIFE BY THE BIG SEA. Some of the fuany things found by a Star man at Atlantic City. JOHN FORD, CLERK (@ sketch). His sad life and his glimpse of happiness. PEARLS MADE TO ORDER. Gems of the ocean of any size turned out by artifice. WHEELING IN EUROPE. & Washington boy's bicycle trip over tho Cheviot Hills. NEW LIFE IN NICARAGUA. What is done in that republic to encourage mmumigration. ACTRESSES AT REST. How the queens of the footlights pass their summer vacations, NEW YORK NOTES. What the people of Gotham are thinking and talking about. OUT-DOOR SPORTS. What is going on in the rowing and base ball worlds. AT OLD SIASCONSE7. Unique railroading on old Nantucket Island. THE NAVAL MILITIA. The fruit of the efforts of Assistant Secretary Soley. JOHNSON'S IMPEACHMENT. How Senator Grimes came to vote for ac- quittal. By John F. Coyle. A QUAINT OLD TOWN. ‘The city of Concepcion, Chili, is full of sur- prises. By Fannie B. Ward. ATTRACTIVE HOMES. How this month may be utilized by those in the city. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. A feature in house building that is sometimes neglected. SNATCHED FROM DEATH. A survivor's narrative of the events following the Samoan naval disaster. FROM THE RED MAN'S HOME. A Stan reporter's interesting letter about the Indians in South Dakota. —_——__ THE BICHLORIDE OF GOLD CLUB. Composed of Chicagoans Who Have Tried the New Cure for the Drinking Habit. From the Chicago Trilane. The Chicago Bichloride of Gold Clubeffected @ permanent organization last night. The members met. in club room 4 at the Grand Pa- cific, with Opie P. Read presiding and Col. Nate A. Reed as secretary. Of the 125 men present, all graduates of the Keeley Institute at Dwight, there were many Prominent in professional and business life in Chicago. Letters of encouragement were read from various parts of the country. ‘The charter was read. It recited as the ob- jects of the club, “to bring graduates of the Leslie E. Keeley Institute into closer relations, to further good fellowship and to render assist- ance to worthy men and women needing the bichloride of gold cure and to the end that they may be induced and aided to receive the relicf it affords.” ‘The incorporators are Louis A. Rexford, Nate A. Keed, jr., W. Grant Richardson, Homer H. Bovington, Frank A. Moore, Opie P. Read and Wm. A. Standiford. ‘Ihe constitution was adopted. It provides for active, auxiliary, life, and honorary members. Among minor clauses was one to the effect that any member who re- turned to the old drinking ‘habits or engaged in the sale of liquors should be suspended b the directors. A badge or pin was adopte consisting of a circle inclosing a horseshoe, with the fetter “K" in. the center and the in- itials “B. G. C.” winding round it. Leslig F. Keeley was made honorary president for liteana Opie P. Read president. Addresses were delivered by Maj. Judd of Keeley Institute, Geo Smith and Messrs. Wood, Lowe and Sutton. Nate A. Reed, jr., getting the floor said: “Mr. President: I desire to. present to the club for election as our first honorary member gentleman who has been the foremost of any in the investigation of the merits of the Keeley gold cure. He found that it was a genuine affair—a certain cure which had been tested, He at once npToceeded to give the world the Vencfit of his investigations. He kept the col- umns of his paper to the graduates of the institution to tell the stories of their wondrous cures, and through that publicity hundreds from all of the country have been induced to visit ht and be restored to sobriety and manhood. Many of us owe to the Chicago Trilune the knowledge of the wondrous power of bichloride of ‘and we are only doing = small honor to Mr. Joseph Medill when we place im on the records of the Bichloride of Gold Chub as its first hon member.” The motion was carried with a rising vote. 208 — ‘In Death Divided. Fam the Galignani Messenger. An old widow lady, named Martin, originally from Toul, and, daughter of a former mayor of that town, has died at Vincennes under rather Peculiar circumstances. She wasa person in independent circumstances and was thought to be possessed of a large fortune. A fow dayq ‘ago her neighbors missed her and when the called again. “Well, how do the public affairs get on today?” asked the ki “Very badly indeed, sire,” said the minis- ters. “Hum !" exclaimed the king, ‘in that case, I think I will—go and take a walk!” - ‘Wiha Une become of my aaistey tel tho iT tins eect ote cr = attendance, palliameut bes taraed out tho “said tho king. ‘then it is they who hove taken a walk this time, ¢+?” commissary of police wassentfer she was fond dead from heart disease. Among her papers a will was ipo et hee ee — Property, estimated at f Toedve alty. She has left 1.200 francs for the Sra ber funeral at Vincennes, but ex; Soe C. W. Williams thas sold to W. H. Huegel of N — dam Miss Radmee, risen Bs SOCIAL MATTERS. What is Going On in Fashionable Circles— Personal Notes of Interest. ‘There was a quiet wedding last night at the rectory of St John's Church, West Washington, when Dr. Regester unitedin marriage his ni Miss Nellie Middlcton, dauzhter of the late Col. Richard Middleton, and Mr. Richard R. Beall, formerly of Rockville. The bride was dressed in a pretty gown of white cloth and carried a bunch of roves. After the ceremony the happy couple were surrounded by the company, whic consisted of their near friends and relatives, at s hospitable wedding supper. Mr. and Mrs Beall will spend the rest of the summer at For- ‘est Gien and in the autumn retarn to this city to reside. Yesterday Miss Margaret Blaine, who was so seriously injured ina runaway accident, con- tinued to show every sign of improvement and the anxious suspense in which ber family has been since the accident last Saturday great measure relieved. Representative Bowers of California, during his recent staf here, selected a house for his family, to which they will come next December. His family consists of his wife and two daugh- ters, the eldest of whom is an unusually clever girl. In addition to other changes and improve- ments making upon the Korean legation = porte-cochere fias been builtand makes a hand- some finish to the Vermont avenue front of the house. Mr. and Mrs. Ye are now out of town for the rest of the summer. Mies Annie Dwyer of Capitol Hill and her niece, Marie Leffler, have gone to Boyd’s sta- tion, Md., for the month of August. Muss Nellie J. Lain has gone to Mountain View, Md., toremain until October, the guest ot her cousin. Miss Ethelwyn B. Hall has gone to Cam- bridgeboro, Pa., for a few weeks to recuperate from her recent severe illness. Mrs. N. Adams and son left the city this morning for Ocean Grove, where they will spend the remainder of the summer. Mrs. F. F. Whitehead and her daughter, Miss Christopher, have left the city for Lake Ge where they spend a week before sailing for Europe. ‘They contemplate remaining abroad year or more, spending the winter In Paris, where Miss Christopher will continue her mu- sical education. Mrs. C. A. Metcalf and Miss Gertrude Met- calf are stopping at the Summit House, Har- per's Ferry, during August. Mrs. J. E. Sickels and daughter have left their country home for Long Branch and other summer resorts and will be sway for the re- mainder of the summer. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwoad will gives house- warming this evening at 619 F streot. Mr. C. B. Beall and family, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Ergood, Mr. and Mra. Wm. E. Hill and children, Mrs. Susan Fowler, Miss Minnie Fowler, Mrs. W. R. Handy and children, Mrs. and Miss Gillis, Dr. and Mra. Richard Dean, Mise Bingham, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Chalmers, Mrs. V. Chalmers, Mrs. Kiernan, Nir. and Mrs, J. C. Lotz, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. ML Gibson and son, Mr. and Mi M. 8. Story, Mra. Wm. G. Boggs, H. M. Bell, Mre. M. 8. Watkins, Father O'Brien, Capt. and Mrs. Johns, Miss Berry, ‘Miss Nourse, Mias McMillan, Misa Sadie Drown and Miss Carrie Flynn are at the St. Charles Hotel, Lerkeley Springs. Mr. William Sinclair of the Treasury t- ment, accompanied by his daughters, Margie, Evalyn and Edith, left for Atlantic City this morning: Mrs. James Sayers and her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Messer, of South Washington and Mrs. Ed- ward B. Lafferty left today for a few weeks’ sojourn at Atlantic City. ‘The Misses Stocks of New York avenue and the Misses Fletcher are at the Waverley, Hamilton, Loudoun county, Va. The Pleasure Club gave their first picnic at Highland station yesterday. Those present were Misses Edith Parrish, Fanny Calvert, May Stuart, Grace Conley. Josephine O'Hare, Carry Moss, Annie Smart, Mabel Miller, Annie Fur- long and Mary Connell, and Messrs. Wm. Foley, M. O'Connor, Joe Hill, 'U. Giddings, Geo. T flinger, Wm. Clancy, Louis Flynn, Pretty, E. J. Sweeney and W. L. Kimmel Mrs. Samuel Polkinhorn, daughter and son are sojourning at the Waverly, Ocean Grove, for the month of August. Major and Mrs. J. A. Long have returned from a pleasant visit to Col. §. W. Garys, Nor- folk county, and are at their new home, 910 23d street. Miss Mamie Connor of 1439 P street left the city last Monday for Maine. She first to Castine, where she will spend some time with her uncle, Dr. George A. Wheeler. Later she will go to Bar Harbor and other pisces, slong the coast, and will be absent in all about two moni was ine HORKORS OF THE, GANGES. What a Traveler Saw While » Hos: of Na- .tives Were Buthing. From the Times of India. The road to each bathing ghat on the Ganges at Cawnpore during the great holiday was filled vith a stream of natives in their gayest dresses going to or returning from the bath, which is the first religions duty of the day. Men,women, children, horses and dogs were all in the water together, while on the banks were devotees, en- gaged in prayer and other religious offices. Scarcely » hundred yards above the bathers and at the edge of the stream was a group of six large vultares and two long-legged scavenger birds. The vultures were pulling at an object which appeared above the water, while tho other birds looked on. The object, on close examination, proved to be the body of full-grown man, who had very probably died of cholera on the same morning and had been hurried to the river without the ceremony of burning. A hundred yards below the bathers was another fresh and unburnt body, stranded some three feet from the water's edge, with its attendant party of vultures, which were just beginning to feed. Half-way | between this body and the bathers iay a partly burnt body that had been in the river for some time. It seems to be nobody's business to re- move the drifting bodies from the neighbor- hood of bathing places—the Vultures and the crocodiles are supposed to do all that is neces- sary. Hodies of persons who had died of snake bite are also put in the river without burning, owing toa belief that the Ganges water may possibly revive them. Cholera is busy in Cawn- ore at present, and as all the victims of this isease are put unburnt into the river the peo- ple seem to be doing all they can for the spread of the disease. A single cholera body, dis- sected by vultures at the edge of the river, and immediately above a large crowd of bathers, is likely to send cholera germs very freely among them. The bathers not only wash their mouths in the water, but drink and in many cases carry it home for constmption. An analysis of water taken from among the bathers on this occasion might have revealed some surprising truths regarding the sacred river, or, more roperly speaking, sewer, that runs by the most Important towns of the northwest provinces. In India the sacerdotal character of a river does not resemble that of a priest in the matter of permanency. In a few years the Ganges will cease to be sacred and the Goomtie will as- sume the title with all ite honors and ceremo- nies. It is satisfactory to think that what the Ganges loses in sanctity will be more than com- pensated by what it will gain in cleanliness, for, as no advantage will accrue to the dead by being thrown into it, their numbers will be considerably diminished. ———_e+—____ : Hints to Travelers. Know your route before you commence your journey. Have as much money as possible, but keep little of it in sight. Read your ticket carefully; it may be your | his bath t guide. Avoid useless questionsand others will usually be anawered politely. : ‘Ba on time; trains and boats wait for no cne. Keep youreyesand ears open. Guard against If you have not your ticket read; the gate don't get flustrated. ip and look for it ly; it eaves time. If _you have several parcels put them all into | is then one strap. They are easier to carry. Don't stand so as to obstruct the way of oth- ers while saying good-bye to your frionds. —_ As Shown, From the Chicago Tribune.” “Music,” said the eminent pianist, as the re- porter to whom he had kindly accorded an in- terview ran his pencil rapidly over the paper, “is the most elevating of sciences. It moves the deeps of one’s nature, refines the sensibilities and pero ey heart Is— what were you about to x “T should like to know, sir, how you virtuoso, Prof. von ep count ety. keyboard show at the cold. THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. FRAY, august 7 1891. SHOOTING STARS. ‘The higher class of military decorations come under the head of glitering Generalities. Baltimore's new industry gave rise to the following toast: “Tie Bessemer steel plant—long may it blos- som.” After his “summer vacation” the average burnt cork artist looks as thin as some of his jokes. Ono of the hardest things in all public affairs is to keep the brass band from mistaking itself for the entire procession. ‘ GENERAL RECIPE FOR RURAL DRAMA. Poor old father; pretty girl, mah with mort- gage (homely churl); handsome lover (not # cent) wants to pay the poor girl's rent. Land- lord will not be denied; pretty girl must be his bride. Young man takes the farm’ borse out; says he'll trot beyond s doubt; has him putinto race. Wins on him for straight and place. Cows and horses (live stock draws) country reel with great applause. Husking bee; big red ear; girl gets kissed in spite of fear. Hand- some lover comes with cash all the landlord's hopes to smash; joy succeeds the great sus- pense—Family Circle, 50 cents. “You don't seem disposed to cultivate my acquaintance,” said Biffton to Miss Pepperton. “Really, Mr. Biffton, I don’t remember hav- ing been presented to any acquaintance of yours who presented a deficiency in cultivation that I felt equal to supplying,” and she sailed out of the room, leaving Biffton sorry he spoke. “There is a practical joke with some depth to it,” said Smotty as he shoved an acquaintance off the pier. 1f young men grow each day more With fear 'tis contemplated That this big county, by and by Will be de-pop-ulated. ~~ . Occasionally it is alittle difficult to tell ex- actly what occurred in a convention, but the following lucid presentation enables us to eee | in just what the committee of the whole in the total gbstinence convention has been doing. It ie presented as an example of rare succinct- nese: “The committee appointed by the committee of the whole then made its report to the com- mittee of the whole and the committee of the whole rose and referred to the convention the report of the committee of the whole upon the report of the subcommittee of the committee of the whole to the committee of the whole. After this was done the convention adjourned to meet again at 2:30." It is presumed that the adjournment was for the purpose of giving the reporters present a chance to get their bearings completely before they tackled another report. ALEXANDRIA. THE SCHOOL BOARD'S FINANCIAL MEETING. The city school board met last night and Hon. W. H. Marbury was called to the chair. The law requires that “at the annual meet- ing in August in each year the school board shall compare the warrants issued by the board with those issued by the superintendent and report the result to superintend- ent of public instruction.” The board also examines the treasurer's accounts. It was for this work that the board held ite meeting last night, and on the pre- sentation of the reports they were examined in the presence of the board by Trustees Sweeney, Mankin and Thompson, and reported as cor- rect. It appeared that there was three cents in the treasury at the opening of the year and a deficit of $975.58 at its close. There had been received from the city $11,000 and from: the state #6,390.28. ‘The treasurer had paid out for teachers’ salaries $14,248—to white teachers $9,045 and to colored teachers $5,200; janitors, $1,148; treasurer and clerk,’ €400; fuel, 3649.04; interest on debt, $475.88; books ' for indigent children, ‘914.70, and the residue of 15,336.36 in insurance, water rent, repairs and other expenses. The board proved the report. In consequence of the raighteried finances of the schools the annual increase of salaries of all teachers who reccive less than the maximum. pay will be suspended for the present and all the teachers will receive next year the same salaries paid them last year. ‘THE SOUTHERN SEWER. ‘Messrs. Benson & Benson have been awarded the contract for the proposed covering in of the old tan-houso drain and its converson into the sewer for the southern section of the city. ‘This stream drained originally almost the whole town west of Columbus steeet, as well as all south of Prince street, except the hill east of Royal street. Its covering in was begun in’ 1817, when the city authorities built the sewer ou Henry from Cameron to Duke street. Later arches have been thrown across it at Alfred, Columbus, Wash- ington, St. Asaph and Pitt and’ Royal streets and bridges at the other streets. It is now proposed to cover in other large portions of’ the stream. When this is finished it is not unlikely that some lateral sewers to connect with it will be madc. A pipe sewer from the post office building running out St. Asaph street to this stream was constructed about close of the war and is still used. DEATHS IN ALEXANDRIA. Anumber of deaths of Alexandrians are re- ported this morning. Mre. Wm. T. Herrick died at her home on upper Prince street; Mrs. Caroline Cox, widow of the late Cornelius Cox, died at her home on St. Asaph street; Hugh Eamsay lost an infant child, and intelligence was received here of the death of Mrs. Steele, the daughter of the late fsasc Buckingham, at Providence Hospital, and of Mr. W. C. Milburn of Alexandria ate farm about ten miles from this city. ‘NOTES. Messrs. J. R. Young, G. E. Overton, J. 8. Pe- tersen, E. B. Hay, J. R. Fisher and other Wasb- ingtonians bave obtained a charter here for the “Public Service Company,” with a capital stock of $50,000, designed to publish a news- paper in Washington and to do a general print- ing business there. ‘The steam launch Gracie has been sold by Mr. Rogers, its owner, for $300 and sent to Lynchburg. “The board of trade has presented the Colum- bia Fire Company with a play pipe and a set of handsome lamps. ‘The Morning Sponge Esth. Dr: Robert Walter in Laws of Health, Cold water is a narcotic, as alcohol is. It = deadens the sensibilities of the skin, and heace prevents the sensation of cold. It relieves the disposition to chilliness because of this dead- ened sensibility, and as colds and catarrhs are due to hyper-sensitiveness of the skin, we read- iy see that the cold morning bath prevents the cold by reducing the sensitiveness. But the cold morning bath does something more. It arouses nervous activity by calli upon the vital system for heat. ‘The contraction of the vessels due to the cold is followed by a relaxation of them, ex- jlained by the principle of reaction, 80 sonia tiie och’ Voth wollen ana reecien ore estab! which frequently give delusive ex- citements fo the victim. The tepid or warm THE SIXTH BATTALION. ‘Their Practical Instruction in the Camp at Bay Correspondence of The Evening Star. Camr Crcrt Cray, - Bay River, Mp., August 6, 1891. ‘Today's: weather at Bay Ridge has been sim- ply perfect. Beautiful clear sunshine, a balmy breeze and a bine sky overhead have left noth- ing more in this respect to be desired by the department boys. Late in the evening, how- ever, there were some indications that rain might be expected before the night was over. The visit of Col Cecil Clay yesterday re- sulted in some very interesting experiences for the sentinels on guard duty last night. Dur- ing the early hours of this morning the colonel, with Maj. Bartlett, Adjutant Mc- Dowell and Quartermaster Parsons, accom panied by # detail of men, made the rounds of the camp and visited the different guard posts. The sentinels were found alert and watchful, agin rom | , but with some ble deficiensies in. tho iter of sharp utter- ances of the cautionary words and in m- ergetic pose and action so essentially necessary to the making of a perfect sentinel. A great improvement in these particular features may be expected as a result of last night's insyec- ‘RIFLE PRACTICE IN EARNEST. Rife practice commenced in earnest today, company B, Treasury Guards, being the first to go on daty at the firing point. Sergts. Marsden and Buell of this company have the distinction .gf being the first two men in the commund to ‘fre at the two targets of the rifte range of the sixth battalion at Camp Cecil Clay. Lieut. Vale, inspector of rifie tice, is fairly well pleased with the result of the shooting today, some very shots having been The lieutenant is very particular in the issue of the bali cartridges necessary for the practice, him- self counting them out one by one and Foquir- ing the men to return him the empty shell for every ball cartridge expended. e butts are well constructed and afford ample protection tothe scorers. If accidents are to be avoided in this department of military instruction Lieut. Vale is. the man to be relied upon to Brevent them, if it is possible for human en- The } policing of th is admirabl: ici of 16 Cam} imi iy per- eal ea the grounds ate kept in excellent condition. Everything is in order and is maintained in that condition. In every re- spect the rules which obtained at the brigade encampment at Fort Washington last summer the government of that oamp have been adhered to at Camp Cecil Clay as closely as the different conditions existing would permit. In point of fact Maj. Bartlett is desirous that when his command returns to Washington no one will be able to say a word of criticism as to the behavior of his officers and men or of the military conduct of the camp. It is reasonable to suppose, considering the personnel of the command and the general intelligence of the men composing it, that Mot lott’s efforts in the particulars named will be crowned with success, THE OFFICER OF THE DAY. Guard mounting was performed in the usual satisfactory manner this morning, Capt. Fred. TT. Wilson of company C, War Department Rifles, being the oft- cer of the day and Lieuta, Smoot and Mecauley of company A, Post Gtice and terior Guards, the se: ior and junior officers of the guard respect- ively Gen. C. 8. Carroli, major general. 8. A., retired, visited the camp ‘yesterday, ac- companied by Com- mander Nicholson, U. 8. N., retired. Capt. Riley’ of company B, fourth battalion,served with Gen. Carroll in cart. witsox. the twenty-first United States infantry, reguler army, and the meeting between these officers was an’ interesting one. ‘They were pleasantly entertained at headquart- ors. Adjt. Gen. Long of the District National Guard arrived yesterday afternoon and will remain for some days. Strict orders have been issued by Maj. Bart- lett with refence to the conduct and visiting of sentinels. ‘This feature of guard duty is re- ceiving much attention. afternoon e The arrival of Taz Stax every causes s healthful feeling of excitement in camp. The correspondent will give some in- teresting reviews of camp life during the week in Saturday's issue. BAYONET THRUSTS. ‘The surgeon of the battalion is absolutely overpowering and resplendent in his new white duck suit. A special photographer has been busily en- gaged during the week in taking views of the camp and its life, which will appear in Satur- day's Stan. ———— 4 STEANGE SCENE, Where Tender Words and Tearful Plead- ings Fail Money Succeeds. From the Philadelphia Times. It was in the corridor of the sixth floor of the city hall. Time, @ little before 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Spectators, a group of reporters. Speakers, a middle-aged, neatly but poorly dressed female, accompanied by a younger woman, evidently her daughte:. She had inquired several times when Magistrate Cole would arrive. They impatiently paced the corridor in front of the hearing room. Before his honor arrived a man, whose pearance showed plainly that he was partial to the amber-colored beverage, joined th couple. “Don't do it, Mary; don’t do it; please don’t do it,” entreatingly said he. . “Iam tired of your abuse and Iam going to have you arrested,” remarked the elderly woman. “Just give me another trial,” he begged, “and I'll never strike you again.” “You have said that before, but you did not = to ges cgay 1 “Try me, oh, try me!" he persisted. “I mean it this time: indeed I do.” By this time there was quite a crowd around the speakers—though they were not near enough to interrupt the dialogue. “You will find me a different man after this,” he pleaded; “there, that will prove it,” and he kissed her. ‘The kiss did not mollify her. She appeared to be deaf to his pleading Probably she did not sce the tear that was in his eye. But he kissed her again. “Yes, I mean it, sob. “Then here,” drawing’ a wallet from Seabee ‘took a good lookat it and then 2 wat: ” it will be chicken today, but air tomor- row. But hand tt over, Jacoby I'll give you one more trial.” They then passed down the corridor to the elevator, he with his arm around her waist, both apparently on the best of terms with each ether. ihe young women Sellowed. \ Mary," he said, repressing a | How on Energetic Woman Obtained a Sum- mer Cottage. PAID FOR IX THEEE YEARS AND THE FAMILY ALL BENEFITED MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY — ANT GOVERNMENT CLERK CAN TRY 4 SIMILAR ‘RXPERIMENT—SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. Correspondence of The Evening Star. St. Swrraix's Lopor, perplexing one. As this un- healthy month for city children is closing in Perhaps my experience for the past twenty years in taking family out for the summer may vedi ma assistance to some of the younger clerks and trades just enteri: ge People § tering The first necessity is a healthfal location. Under the advice of skilled physicians I aban- doned seashore resorts, &c., near Washington, ss the malarial influences under which we suffer here is only aggravated by the dampness of sea air. So mountain air I went in quest of. Tve enjoyed the White mountains (when I had but one baby—no tickets); the nearer Catskills, with ite health-giving, cooling breezes (when Ihad two): spent several sum- mers in the Biue Ridge, Pen Mar and Baena Vista, gaining health and strength with every fried chicken. I had also tried North mountain and Rock Enon and vicinity; South mountain, with its grand scenery and grand associations of old soldiers, old memories and old houses and old, quaint 0, Was as health-giving as any resort I ever found; but, alack and alas, the babies wouldn't stay babies—they would grow. The same genial, gentlemanly conductor on the railroad them on year after year, as they grew bigger and bigger, while my husband held ‘out his two tickets for six of us, and I could see him squirm in his seat for ehame. When the oldest son's head was as high as his own he vowed be couldn't do it any longer and bought three tickets. Then the girls did stretch "0 x was no use to try and work them off for half fare—it would take four, yes, five tickets, and that ended it. Twelve, fourteen or sixteen- hundred-dollar clerks cannot send families way for the season, with necessary changes apparel, and purchase eix tickets. A DRIVE OUT SEVENTH STREET. Discouraged, but not oast down, I looked about me. I sighed for Bar Harbor, but I hired a buggy and drove out 7th street pike. At Silver Springs I got the first fresh pure air, Jaden with sweet health-giving aroma of chest- nut blossoms and clover, but I went on. At Sligo we began to climb—those Sligo heights are merely the foothills of the Blue Ridge. Up and up I climbed, or that livery horse di Burnt Mills was glorious; above on the Coles- ville pike the scenery grew equal to anything in the Alleghanies. “I found the water sweet and what is more, soft, clear and cold. Well, I came back to town end informed my husband that I was going to buy an acre of beautiful ground on a hill top nearly covered with fine oaks, with a fine spring of water, and build a summer residence. Hegasped—a sickly smile crept over bis face as he suggested that the grand spring I bad represented tohim must have hada very strong flow, and wanted to know if I had left the little common sense I usually bad rushing down the moumtain stream that sweeps pass Burnt Mills. And he sighed over his inability t@buy six tickets and Pi7,Nz fares at even tho cheapest of summer rding houses. Well, in the first place, there was an income of 250 from an old soldiers’ claim that had ." said I, ** "tis all I've got, and it will have to build a home for us.” BUILDING & COUNTRY HOME. In the first place I had found a good-natured farmer that said I could take the said acre at a valuation of $200, to be paid for at the expira- tion of five years. Of course my improvements would be his security, and I extolled the health- fulness of the location, principally based on the fact of a fine spring, au excellent orchard and the watermelons and sweet potatoes growing hard by. The farmer referred me to a country carpenter who would build me a good two-room cottage, one large room down stairs (eighteen by sixteen) and one upstairs, without chimney, with seven feet deep veranda to both stories, put tin roof on and good French windows in, with four large closets. for my $250. “I'm just going to turn the children loose under the trees,” I said to my husband. “We shall need no new clothes, for myacre is out of sight. Iam going to simply rest avd let the children swing in ocks or dig in the dirt. ‘The money we usually spend in getting read; to go away for a season, with the tickets ad will buy you a horse and buggy, and when you = get the horse this big boy of sixteen will call it a picnic to haul out a load of boards build what will answer for a stable.” Well, my cottage was ready for us on July 1 and we moved out, taking with us only the common pieces of necessary furniture and stor- ing the rest. My husband took his thirty days’ leave and devoted a share of it to putting up a lean-to kitchen with about @5 worth of mate- rial and dividing the chamber by “board and paper” partition to make two chambers for the children, and we now indulge in the luxury of & ten-dollar floored tent for a sitting and recep- tion room. Near the expiration of his thirty days’ leave my husband purchased a livers. stable-run-down horse, unfit for letting, with an old buggy aud harness, for $120, and that, too, by paying €30 a month. RESULT OF THREE YEARS. ‘The horse at the end of three years is much better than when purchased, indeed cool, sweet air in a good pasture summer nights is just as beneficial toa horse as to any other of God's creatures. The buggy, with a coat of paint and $2at the bi: ith’s, is just as good as whe we boughtit. Myacre is now (the third summer at St. Swithin’s) a large strawberry bed and raspberry patch, with thirty different fruit trees just coming into bearing. I have an excellent little Jersey cow that. one-half main- tains my family through the six months I spend here, and my neighbor keeps her through the winter for her milk and gives me pasture in summer. I find the largest incidental expense is the horse. I also find him the greatest com- fort. He costs $6 a month to feed and in the six winter months we add $5 stable room, but he has never failed us one day in the three years, ride morning and evening become one of the delights of life for the poor, tired-out clerk, whose life of close confinement and of twenty years’ service in the department had made this enforced out-of-door exercise the gratest blessing that could have befalien him, and for six months, m I will close by telling how long it took to pay for the acre of ground. When I moved to our summer house I was saved a rent of $30 per month. I four Soc i (i Hl i | i i i E i Hl ite i Hf i é I i Ht i i bi ae ili | i der shad: their houses in town to go back and forth Sa hocns pete af seeing sees thom eat all the ing and such work. To such let me aay our best pikes for twelve $7o Comparatively ae full of clerks going fice as F strect is at 8:40, in vehicles of alt de- scriptions, from the summer boarding house t Darton to one-horee buggies, going to nearest station, and driving all the way. They all take up passengors at about $5.0 month. ave many ways in which we can give our children the benctits of pure country air for the summer if the effort i# only made. Bat don't w.it, ike poor Pillicody, for something to turn up. Just turn scmething up youresti. DAS = oo A PETTY BUT ComMON FRAUD, Selling “Substitutes” for Well-Known Ar ticles. From the New York Times. Much unfavorable comment bas recently been aroused by @ swindling which is being Practiced upou the public by some retail drug- ists. The practice complained against is the sale by the druggist of « “substitute” for the pro- prietary article which the customer may have asked for. Itis a very common thing for re- tail druggists to reap, in this way, the result of the advertisement and excellence of some well-known article. A customer asks for some medicine which he may have beard bighly recommended, or which may haye been used before in his family; at any rate, he wishes that particular medicine, and any one would sup- Pose he had a right tohave his desire gratitied. Nothing i more common, however, than for the druggist to say: “Well, I bave sold my last botile of that, but hore is something of my own make witich is very nearly the same thing, much cheaper and fully as good,” the customer, unaware of the general practices of the draggist, almost always falls into the trap. ‘The druggist is, of course, supplied with the article required, aud would we sue cavded in finding it bad the buyer insisted om having it. ‘The prevalence of this method of substitat- ing an uvknown thing for oue that has been put on the market at perhaps a great expense, aud in the sale of which the retail druggist has already probably often made his regular profit, has called forth more than mere remonstrance from the proprietary medicine people. ‘The abuse has included not only the attempt to un- dermine well-known medicines, but also to push aside familiar soaps, perfumes and other articles, which have been protected by patent, for some particular quality or constituent The movement to put a stop to this sort ot thing is joined in, therefore, by all the inter- ests mentioned, and it is likely will take a deti- nite shape for self-protection. ‘This matter was called particularly to the at- tention of the public recently by an address delivered in St. Paul before the Editorial As- sociation by A. Frank Kichardson of this city. In an interview a short time since “People bave no idea how extensive this sys- tem of petty swindling bas become. I ad- Visedly say swindling, because that is just what itis. “Take all the concerns whose preparations have become household words. They have be- come popular for two reasons. First, they Possess merit, and second, hundreds of thou- sands of dollars have been spent in advertising them. Millions of dollars are invested in their business. The druggist has some unknown article which has not sufficient merit to bear the expense of becoming known and palms off the worthless preparation on his confiding cus tomer.” But even the statement of the retail arug- gist, in hundreds of ca when says he has a “preparation of bis own. There fre manufacturing establishments which make & specialty of putting up “substitutes.” These “substitutes” they sell to the druggists through- ont the country with a label and wrapper very similar to the original, but with the mame the retail droggist on them. Another From the New York Tribune. Something over a weck ago we printed short account of an ice cream festival at Shel ton, Coan., which produced great scandal from the fact that straws were placed in the lemonade by the young scamp who #t- tended to the making of it. The Zribune, of course, circulates largely at Olympus, as clewhere, | ang the | article was read by everybody of any standing in the village. Divers views were taken of the occurrence, but in one person only arose the sinful desire to emulate or exceed the example of the dishonor- able “Ike” Carpenter of Shelton. This was Deacon Plumley's boy, popularly known sa “Bill.” No sooner did bill read the account of the Shelton affair than he deteriained that he must do something to distinguish himself at the coming ice cream festival at Olympus. Bill knew that neither he nor ahy other boy would be trusted to make the lemonade since the Shelton exposure in the Tribune, but his secret delight was unbounded when he found that bix mother had been sppo'nted tor that task. Bill knew that be woul: be called upou to carry the water from the well to the parsonage. Saturday evening lound something over fift reons seated around the tables in the big, old~ Scandal. joned munister's - ice cream and were firet passed around, and thea Mrs Plumley and a cauple’ of assist- ants came in cach with a (ray of lemonade in demure tuxnblers. “There ate no straws in ” said Mrs. Plumley, ' too,” added one of the young lady assistants. on Hargrave was the first to taste the Jemonade. He started slightly, tasted again, smacked bis Imps and began’ winking vio- tasted. Others tried it aud Deacon Hargrave Pissed ap lis glass for more. Some of the ies thought it tasted a little peculiar. Mrs. Plumley said it was because the water was low in their well—she thought dilin it tly Ht ee : tt Fite f i if f it { F she Hi a i 4 ze ij r q | 4 ij i ! i ih r E H # i ae | Hi rf 2 i fF i i alt f Hy f i fF i ae