Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1892, Page 7

SISTER. Weary Seton Merriman in Black woo's Magazine, T DOES NOT MAT- ter where it was. Ido not want other people— that is tosay, those who were around us—to self. It ix not likely that she will see this— and Iam not sure thet she knows my name. Of course some one may draw her attention to a this paper and she mey Temember that the name offixed to it is that which I signed at the foot of a document we At the foot of this paper our names stood ore | Deneath the other—stand there still, perhaps, in some forgotten bundle of papers at the wai office. Tonly hope that she will not see this, for eb onsider it a breach of professional eti quette. and I attach great importanee to the| Opinion of this woman, whom 1 have only seen once in my whole life.’ Moreover, on that oc- easion she was sabordinate to me—more or less in the position of a servant. Suffice it to say, therefore, that it wae war- nd our trade was what the commercial papers call brisk. A war better remembered of the young than of the old. because it was, com- paratively speaking, recent. The old fellows seem to remember the old fights better— those fights that were fought when their blood was still young and the vessels thereof un- el It was, by the way. my first campaign, but I was not new to the business of blood; for Lam no soldier—only a doctor. My only uniform— my full parade drese—is a red cross on the arm of sp old bine serge jacket said jacket being much stained with certain dull patehes whic! are better not investigate rt in war—doing the know that things are All who have t damage of repairing not done in quite the same way when ball cartridge is served ont instead of blank. The correspondents are very fond of reporting that the beketier of the men suggested a parade- which rimile it is to be presumed was borne in upon their fantastic brains by its utter inap- i ‘The parade may be suggested be- Fore the real work when it is a question of marching away from the landing stage, but | after the work—our work—has begun, there is | remarkably little resemblance to a review. We are served with many official papers which we never fill in, because, on the spur of the moment. it is apt to suggest itself that men’s | lives are more important. We misappiy a vast | 7 argical supplies, because the most important item is usually left behind at headquarters or at the seaport depot. In fact, we do many things that we should leave undone, | and omit to de more which we are expected | | (Officially) to do. For some reason—presumably the absence of better men—I was sent up to the front before | we had been three days at work. Our hospital | by the river was not full when [ received orders | to fellow the flying column with two assistants | and the appliszices of a tield hospital. Ont of this little nucleus «prang the largest | depot for sick und wounded that was formed | during the campaign. We were within easy | reach of headquarters, and I was fortunately allowed a free hand. Thus our establishment | im the desert grew daily more important, and! recognize Sister or my- | made out together—namely, a return of death. | matter than I personally or officially cared to Tie handed mea Decanse he had nothing but a J . with which instrament he could not make f legible. Tt struck me that he was suffer- ing from a plethora of assistance and wae anxious to reduce his staff. Trent my enthusiastic asistant to the nurses quarters with a message that they were not to report themselves to me until they bad had a night's rest, and turned in. At midnight I was awakened by the orderly and summoned to the tent of the officer in com- This youth's face was considerably linen. He was consulting wi | his second in command, a boy of twenty-two or thereaboute, ‘Aman covered with sand and blood was sit- ting in a hammock chair rubbing his eyes and drinking something out of a tambler. jews from the front? ceremony, which hindrance wi nsed wit seems and bed news.” : It certai was not hearing. Some one mentioned the word disaster, and we looked st each other with hard, anxious eves. I thonght if the women, ost decided to send them I of his bed, and sent full gallop through the moonlight across the desert to headquarters, and the officer in command began to regain confidence. It was necessary to get my men to work at once, but I gave particular orders to leave the nurses undisturbed. Disaster at the front meant bard work at the rear. We all knew that, and endeavored to make ready for a sudden rush of wounded. The rush began before daylight. As they came in we saw to them, dressing their wounds and packing them as closely as possible. But the stream was continuous. They never stopped coming: they never gave us a moment's rest, At6o'clock I gave orders to awaken the nurses and order them to prepare their quarters for the reception of the wounded. At 6:30 an army hoepital corps man came to me in the ward. “shockin’ case, sir, just come in,” he said. “Officer. Gun busted, sir.” ‘Take him to my quarters,” I said, wiping | my instruments on my sleeve. Ina few minutes I followed, and on entering | my little room the first thing I saw was a pair of yellow boots. There was no doubt about the boots and the | white duck trousers, and although I could not see the face, I knew that this was Sammy Fitz- Warrener come back again. A woman—one of the nurses for whom he had pleaded—was bending over the bed with a sponge anda basin of tepid water. As Ien- tered she turned upon me a pair of calmly horror-stricken eves. “Oh!” she whispered, meaningly, stepping back to let me approach. I had no time to no- tice then that she was one of those built | women, with perfect skin and fair hair, who make one think of what England must have been before Gallic blood got to be so widely disseminated im the race. Please pull down that mat from the win- dow,” I said, indicating a temporary blind which I had put up. She did so promptly and returned to the bedside. falling into position as it were, await- | ing my orders, | I bent over the bed, and I must confess that | re gave me a thrill of horror, | what [ saw ther which will come again at times as long as I live. I made a sign to Sister to continue her task of sponging away the mud, of which one ingre- dient was sand. Both eyes,” she whispered, “aredestroyed.” Not the top of the skull,” Eeaid; “you must not touch that.” | fact. jence in time PRESS TELEGRAPH. How the Press Associations Gather and Distribute News. PRESS AND PRIVATE CODE. ' News From the Four Quarters of the Globe— Acquaintances Made by the Telegraph Key—Friends They Never Meet—Tales From the Telegraph Wires Full of Humor and Interest. OW MANY OF THE Stam readers compre- hend and fully under- stand the intricacies of the telegraph businoas as a branch of the news- paper? Not many, and yet it is full of interest and of the utmost im- | in the telegraph within | the last five years look- ing to the betterment of the news service, and now hardly a day passes without startling feat being performed in 1 | | faster than he is ‘rid of them won't worry Rim.” When the file gets 100, big he will the chit operator, and that important indi aportion of them away meaiacs header oomeree But, if the jensage: to ula his duty to. “wi ’em up,” and unless the other man is ambitious,too, pretty qnick. ‘THE STEADY MAN WINS. The receiver will break a good deal, and di- rectly he will observe, “Oh, dt b in ach a bloomin hurry; a wont gt ur salary raised tt way;” and the sender, being young and fresh, will reply to the effect that the receiver is a “ham” and will advise him to get a relief. Then he will snap ont the figure “4” perempto- rily, which is tha arbitrary + stan for “Where shall I go ahead?” it although he may hurry and perspire, he won't send as many messages asthe steady old fellow during the day. On the press circuits it is different. Only the best operators are employed arf, no matter how poor the characters may be sent over the wire the 0] tor is supposed to be a good esser and what don't come he is reqni to | fill in out of his head. But the good, steady sender, even on the press wires, is appreciated | and often makes better time than his speedier brother. Operators laugh over the wire, or rather they convey the fact that nag? omg —— They = this by telegraphing “ha, er amusement is indicated by suniing ‘2 SY afowiy and repeating it several times, and a smile is expressed by sending “ha” once or perhaps twice. Transmitting it slowly and repeating it tells the perpetrator of the Joke at the other end of the wire that the listener is leaning back in his chair and laughing long and heartily. which Father Time figures as the vanquished. To illustrate this point the reporting of the recent hanging of Deeming in Australia may be cited. He was hanged in the morning in Mel- bourne at one minute past 10, and yet the morning | | papers in this country annownced the | This at first sight seems incompre-| hensible, but the telegraph has anmhilated both time and spacey Chronologically speaking, the news of the execution reached this country before the event really took place. ‘The differ- between Washington and Mel- bourne is about ten hours, that is to say, one hundred and fifty degrees of longitude. Fifteen degrees of longitude.are equal to one hour. Suppose the news was flashed from Melbourne Monday morning at ten minutes past 10 and that there was no delay over the land lines of telegraph from Australia and the cable the dis- patch would reach Washington a little after | midnight Sunday, apparently ten hours before | Deeming was hang A few weeks back a bright sketch appeared in one of the telegraph papers wherein Prof. Morse is pictured as coming back to life an his great wonderment at the marvelous devel- opment of his cherished discovery. He, of all men, would have the most cause for surprise, as his crude instraments form curiosities today, while the compact improvements upon his orig- | inal ideas look business-like all over. INCREASE IN THE DAILY REPORT. Five years ago the average news report don- sisted of 5,000 words to the afternoon papers | and 7,000 to those that came out in the morn- ing. Today the press association is slow that cannot furnish 10,000 words to the evening Papers and 14,000 to the morning editions. The uidizing of typewriters in the press telegraph business is for the most part responsible for this advancement. The taking of the regular service of news from the wire when the ma- chines were first tried proved such an easy matter that abbreviations were introduced. | This innovation, while it improved the speed, | brought the story to this city, one of the oper- | and stubborn and was in for an all-night strug | gle. | cludes with the veraciousstatement that when the | clock, and th: | noying occupation there is, When the feeling between two operators in two cities, instead of being that of gentle affec- tion, is that of strong dislike, the fact can be made just as apparent as though they were within a few feet of each other. No personal collision can occur, of course. That is one of the drawbacks. Buta man can call names and make threats over a wire with almost the same facility ae by word of mouth. One of the favorite resorts when two operators are quarreling is t professionally known as “fighting circuit.” jot much is accomplished by this, however, for | when two operators strive at the same time to | call names over & wire neither can succeed. FiuHTING CIRCUIT ALL NIGHT. Telegraphers have an old story about “fight- ing circuit.” James Austin, who is located on Newspaper row, who 19° a Canadian by birth, ators in the story being located at Toronto a the other at Buffalo. After a snecessful ex- change of uncomplimentary remarks they be- gnn to fight for the circuit—that is, they both tried to send epithets over the wire at once. They fought for some time. Neither would 1d. The man at Toronto, who was old and astute, saw that the man at ' Buffalo was young ‘he Toronto man looked around for « He found it in the clock wire, which ire attached to the clock’s pendulum, swaying of which acted to open and close the circuit. He connected the Buffalo wire with the clock wire and went home to bed, leaving the B man valorously battling with the tick-tick, tick-tick of the clock. ‘The story con- Toronto man reached the office the next morn- | ing he heard the Buffalo man_ still fighting the | when the former disconnected the clock wire and closed the circuit the latter snapped out triumphantly, “I downed you at last, did “Fighting cirenit” is probably the most ai The very impo- tency, the very futility of it is maddening. A Man Who Rides a Wheel Talks Enthusias- tleally About Them. THEIR SMOOTHNESS, ATTRACTIVENESS AXD SPACIOUSNESS—THE OLD WashINaTgy con- ‘TRASTED WITH THE NEW—THE TRANSFORMA- TION EFFECTED BY EX-GOV. SHEPHERD—THE ROADS ABOUT THE CITT. “Clean, spacious and attractive at all times the streets of Washington are conspicuousl; beautiful in summer,” writes Frank L. Dyer of | this city in Good Roads for the present month. Mr. Dyer is chief consal of the local division of ‘the League of American Wheelmen and writes, therefore, from the cyclist’s standpoint. “Ample foliage,” he continues, “broad lawns and attractive buildings, public and private, serve everywhere to attract and interest the visitor, and lend pleasing gontrast to the smooth, gray concrete roadwaf and the clean brick sidewalks which run in all directions through the city. These streets, and some of the beautiful suburban driveways into which they extend, have added to the fame of an| already famous city. They present an almost | surface for all kinds of wheeled snd link: tops clusters much of the tragedy American history. | “These same streets, 80 scientifically cone structed and so perfectly maintained, are best a modern institution, and should the visitor of today bave had the misfortune to be quartered in Washington during the civil war, when heavy, black southern mnd prevailed in every roadway, when a paved resident street was almost unheard of, when cows, pigs and hens were allowed ‘the freedom of the city,’ and when a sluggish, dirty little stream, called the ‘Tiber,’ flowed ginterraptedly past 'the patent oftice, the transformation which he now obwerves might well be considered marvelous,” THE OLD WASHINGTON. After discussing briefly the origin of Wash- ington, Mr. Dyer «a; On May 16, 1800, President John Adams is- | minor employes and official delphia (which had been the capital since 1790) tothe new “federal Vashington was | then called, but it is surmised that something must have been known of its unattractiveness, | both from an esthetic and froma hygienic stand- | rosident’s order was carried out. In a cestain | sense, therefore, Washington was first inhabited by compulsion and not by choice. Being for the most part below tide water, and located in an extremely swampy section of the country, | the condition of its streets, if such they could be called at that time, can well be imagined. In those days there was in Congress a philo- sophical member from Connecticut named | Andrew Wolcott, who, filled with misgivings re- garding the policy of the government in tryin, to create a mushroom city as the city of federal affairs, celebrated the anniversary of Inde- pendence by writing a letter to his wife on July | 4, 1800, in which occurs there words: “Ido not perceive how the members of Con- | gress can possibly secure lodgings unless they Will consent to live lik~ scullers in a college or monks in a monastery, crowded ten or twenty in one house and utterly secluded from societ; The only recourse for such as wish to live com- fortably will. I think, be found in Georgetown, three milesdistant, over as bad a road in winter as the clay grounds near Hartford.” Viewing the city as he did then it would have | required a mind more prophetic than his to | foresee the ultimate destiny of the capital. | | whi | "THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, “JUNE 18, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. and Snopes! ‘covered that a stone priate for the mall and urban éffects of trees an From quar applied it waa it was traffic (of which there in Washington), and to- condi- the to be more aj Up re hagaabd the sub- flowers were height- ened by the use of a smooth gravel road surface, But the greatest suceons of all was obtained | from the asphalt, in which was found a pave- *0UDd @ package of crooked-cut ment par excellence. Perhaps for some cities | having heary traffic such a pavement might be in a degree unsuitable, but for Washington it | p, has filled eVery possible want. Its durability is unquéstioned, since there is but moderate t fic, and that ix made uj vehicles, owing to the strictly a political and social and not a mann- | facturing city. | phalt pavements is yielding to a certain extent the noises: princi f pleasure Since the surface of these as of hoofs and wheels are almost en- | tirely muffied, while a pleasant and agreeable footing is offered to horses. The climate of Washington so = cool is exceptional a ke im winter lly well suited for weather is neither as to them, nor so warm in summer as to seriously melt them. It is true that in some summer days the surface of the road vehicles | slight degree, but this is only su ther many points about which | any holes or ‘bare places to y softens toa cient to allow be filled up. Ina and romance of | certain sense, therefore, these concrete streets are, in summer, self-repairing. Up to July 1, 1 phalt 9, there were 2,052,529 square vards of as- vement in Washington, embracing sheet | asphalt, coal tar and total length of abont ninety-two miles. | streets, with but one or two exceptions, are in | the northwestern section of the ci North Capitol street, sphalt These north of the mall,and in this section there are not more than ven streets having which are not “‘asphalted,” with the exception | of 7th street, whicl length of less than two mile is paved with granite block from one end to the other, perfect repair is enormous, and in the single year ending July 1, 1890, $772,000 were expended in street improvements. Owing to the efficient system used in Washington for cleaning these streets sued an order directing the removal of the , they are really immaculate, and since thie work records from Phila- | is done at night the streets in the das always free from dust. THE WHEELMEN AND THE ASPHALT. ‘The most ardent advocates of asphalt streets of Washington are the many wheelmen who re- int,forit was not until the next October thatthe side here, and whose number, conservative estimates, is fully 16,000. Of the | he wished to form a club of five for the pur- | «i according to 250,000 people who constitute the population of | Washington, probably 150.000 are white, and of | these there ‘are possibly 000. or one person out of every four, who ma ey de sai noiselessly master of the “silent steed. | everywhere, propelled along, and, in contradistinction to the conditions in other cities, constitute not so much an clement of pleasure as one of neces- sity and at night use of the Business men ride stores in to morning, wheels, and given their offices returning by the the rare the on their wheel luxury to some of spending the noon hour, or a good portion of it, t their homes, Some of the more courageous ladies do their shopping awh id too, when eel, speeding gracetully and fearlessly in mong the myriads of carriages and wagons h line the bi iness streets. In the evening, the air ixcool they ride over the country roads with husbands, sweethearts and brothers, perfect examples of health and happi- ness. The smaller element is by no means in the background, and little boys and girls inthat lawn mower also, having given €2 for mounted on their wheels spin over the smooth the privilege to Whiskers, whom he crack | Dlock, making a} v, weet of | aie- — best suited | He Purchases It on Shares and Has e Dismal | What They Are Experience. 667 HAVE BEEN BUYING ALAWN MOWER ‘on shares,” said Noodles last night at the | Platypus Clab. “Judging from my own expe- rience it is not the plan I would be disposed to recommend.” handing not?” inquired cigarettes, Teplied Noodles, pausing to light one, | reason why my wife bought that little ouse of oursout berond the Boundary was that it had such a pretty bit of grase in front— | not quite a lawn, you know, but a pleasant | ereen spot. We wanted to keep it looking | nicely. anid finding it expensive to have it cut every week or so we wished that we hed « “Well, ‘one ower. “Why wouldn't a sickel do?” asked Binks. “A sickel is not a genteel nor a labor-saving | implement,” said Noodles. “Besides, in using | | it one is obliged to stoop, and I cannot ao | that with ease any longer. According to mj | observation the first sigh of approaching age is |found when one is no longer able to tumble | down without hurting one'sself; the next comes when stooping begins to be uncomfortable. | Possibly the intter may have something to do | with getting fat. Sniffkins there, who is con- stitutionally a skeleton with only fat enough to | grease his fornte, is built for doubling up.” “Why, certainly,” assented Sniffkins “As I was saying,” continued Noodle, “we wanted a lawn mower, but we found that a good ‘one cost $10, and the investment didn't seem worth while for such a little patch. Accordingly we were rather pleased with a proposition made to us by an old man of very respectable T ance with greenish-white whiskers, who dwells in a remarkably small house around the corner from ours. has garden about ten feet square, in which he practices farming after the ‘intensive’ method, as I believe it is called. That is to say, he has four little beds of finely powdered black soil, kept moistened — wit manure water by perforated tin cans filled with stones and buried beneath the surface, and his Fegetables, of which be raises in that an astonishing quantity, sprout im fancy patterns.” “What's that got todo with the lawn mower?” ded Binks, “It shows what a frugal and ingenious old buffer this greenish-whiskered person. is,” re- sponded Noodles. *‘He came to me and said that } | chase of a lawn mower, which we might all | sess in common, each ‘one making use of convenience. Having already secured three of | our neighbors as subscribers to the scheme be would be glad if I would make, with himself. a fifth. An assessment of $2 all around would buy the machine. Naturally I was delighted with the idea and at once paid my €2 The Jawn mower was bought by the old man, in his cellar, and I was allowed by bim 1 asked Sniffkins, Noodles, lighting a fresh cigar- "tlong before the grass needed again and I went to get the mower. It to be bad, because the old duffer with green whiskers was off cutting grass with it by the job. If I tried once more to get the use of my property I tried a dozen times, but the ma- chine was always occupied elsewhere. I told | the story toa neighbor of mine named Jones nd he informed me that he was a shareholder in and the Chances of Turming, ‘Them to Account. GPRASSHOPPENS HAVING BECOME TF troublesome recently in Kansas and alae where in the weat.the Department of Agrecul ture has been trying to find out what creatares Prey upon these destructive insects If some of their natural foes could be encourage! to multiply or could be artificially propagated. it the infested regions. Among them are several kinds of birds—for example, the butcher bird, small birds, lizards and other prey that it esp tures on thorns. These feathered executioners dira, . of which in acage has been known to eon- sume 120 of the insects in a «ingle day. Unfor- tunately neither of these birds is very numerous im parte of the country that are exposed to the plague. THE FENCE LizaRn. ‘There is a small reptile out weet known ar the fence lizard, which catches and eats a great Many grasshoppers. The species is very com= mon in the infested regions. Skunks are most act enemies of the insectand have been known to ascend trees for the purpose of cateh= ‘ing them. For obvious reasons it will hardly be practicable to encourage these particular mammals, but no such objection would apply to toads, which are apt to swarm wherever the “hoppers” are, gobbling the latter duly. Many planters’ in California employ ot turkeys for the purpose of freeing their orchards and vineyards of gramhoppers. One turker will destroy an almost incredible number ip = ingle dav. Incidentally, the birds are fattened at the cheapest possible rate. They are so fond of such food that sometimes they devour wo many and die of indigestion. Common barnyard fowls are likewise very f= ficient destroyers of graschoppers. In one case referred to by a special agent of the Depart- ment of Agriculture an almond orchard con- taining 360 acres was attacked by migrating swarms last vear. The house and barn were ‘situated in the middle of the orchard, and the chickens browsed around them over an arca of X or eight acres, which, by August, looked like a on oe in the desert, the where ving been stripped of their leaves by the voracious insects, A WASP THAT KILLA, Among the predacious insects the species which probably destroys the grestest number of grasshoppers is the black wasp. The female digs her burrow in the earth and provisions it ‘with “hoppers,” which she catches on the wing, stupefying them by repeatedly thrusting her sting into their bodips. The victim being this ralyzed the wasp gets astride of it, seizes it the antenne and drags it to her burrow, ving placed it in the bottom of the burrow the deposits one or more eggs upon it and then ith her fore fest Alle the burrow up with earth. yas, wi eggs batch out the young will find plenty of nutritious food. So° busy does the wasp occupy herself in this useful nn So simege evans te weject @ have panyi -~ animal ve Per] r oe ith the ease and abandon of ex-| addition stated sum weekly for having his Little could he have imagined that there would | P&Vements with thi e - y - y them and kill . finally superseded the hospital at headquarters, | For we both knew that our task was without | did not work the operators harder, and the | Here is a mai bea time like the present, when Georgetown, Pers antaid Pobticians and statesmen cast aside | gram attended to. nothing malig of their corpses finally but We had a busy time, for the main column had | hope. greater of leas extent ure all the swe etteedte | to kick him.” They may be separated. by thou. | Which was then oueof the most important cities | Beit dignity for the nonce and obtain that reo- | toon, ae cenit a now closed up with the first expeditionary | Te have said, I imew something of Fita- | greater or less extent upon all the news circuits | sqs of miles, ‘The practice of calling hard | of the country, would be overshadowed by and | Tangs ‘ee = “That's what I understood,” been gathered for the <a? ating force, and our troops were in touch with the | Wurrener’s people, and I could not help linger- | today. Walter P. Phillips, au old operator and | Tithe, “ig not’ infrequent, posible, fee haa | finally added to tho “village,” which was so “Bet by inguice ba the mischief among their xy Living enemy not forty miles away from m ing there, where I’ could do no. good, when I | now the general manager of a successful news | “Fighting circuit” "has several times | #Mall that it could bardly supply lodgings to SINCE SHEPHERD'S TIME. Siarnish Aotaniony ch maede cae: cones have been placed with the infected bodies In the course of time—when the authorities | knew that I was wanted elsewhere. fiation., is the author of the code. and to | Griven’ men to the verge of frenzy. ‘There ia | the legislators of the United States, and that | Since the time of Alexander Shepherd the who were let in on the ground floor by Whiskers | cept "e, ant, when, thay ave bee learned to cease despising the foe. which is Suddenly his lips moved, and Sister, kneeling | him is due the speedy handling of news matter. | the archives of the Western Union | the road. scornfully referred to as being as bad | improvements of Washington and its streets | at #2 cach afte femunias wae beat onl others will be treated like- little failing in British military high places—it | down on the floor. beut over him. To illustrate. An item starts tivnn- | office in New York the tale of an excitable |% the “‘clay grounds near Hartford,” should |p.” sndliis teceuch. “a ih lands | paid for. Doubtless th — The | Wise, | Finally, numbers of the diseased insects was deemed expedient to fortify us, and then, | I could not hear what he said, but I think she | derstood that the Ps operator, who, after a long and unsucceasful | develop into the magnificent Pennsylvania ave- | 5#¥¢ gone steadily forwar vecathnin, wast | working of the speculation seemed to he tnt | Wil bescattered in the @elds with o view te in addition to two medical assistants, I was al- | did. I saw her lips frame the whisper “Yes” in | tomorrow evenin: Fateaagie ty aie something mean toa man in { #2, one of the finest streets in the world, hay- have been eliminated with few exceptions, most | ‘nese eencinies coe iiling to hire him | {Preceding the complaint. How effective thie lowed three government nurres. This last | and over her face there swept suddenly » {:) Albany whom he hated, and who at the same | 388 width of 160 fect, and with » surfaco as | of the streets are asphaited and are in perfect | ove *ubecribers who were willing to hire hhim | method will be remains to be seen. piece of news was not hailed with so much en- | look of great tenderness. ;_ Pr—President ing, | time was trying to say something mean to him, | Smooth as. billiard table and as clean as chis- | condition, costly houses are everswhere seen, | ©? cut their grass at vo much a REMAREABLE BUGS. thusiarm a+ might have been expected. I am| After a little pause she rose and came to me. . w York; tmp Dm vening. | suddenly arose from his chair and darted from | led tone. and the American citizen points today with | Wherever they wanted to mow Some apprehension bas been felt recently in not in favor of bringing women anywhere near | “Who is he?” she asked. While the man at the ke nding this item | th, operating room in New York city and ran'| | Mr. Wolcott's colleague, John Cotton Smith, | pride to Washington as a fit and beautiful capi- mower was e1 One evening, about a | certain parts of the west respecting the large the front. They are. for their own sakes and| “Fitz-Warrener of the naval brigade. Do| ata forty-word per minute gait, running the | down the stairs into the street. also adds his complaint regarding the new city | tal to the enterprising nation. fortnight after the pare! ot Oe we -7 for the peace of mind of others, much better | you know him?” din reality up tosixty-tive wordsa mingte, |" "Tiere he gazed wildly around, locking for | in an article written a little later, in which he | Mr. Dyer directs attention to some of the Fee eae creep archase of the machine, I wingless insects known as “western left behind. If they are beyond a certain age io, X sever heasflct kita. Of course * * *; the cpetiters, st the receiving. ‘points coolly | .40 chiect on which to vent hi anger. “Meer Instead of recognizing the avenues and | hi ' in the vicinity of the city and eulo-| YO Suvirined toeeco Whisk which have their home in the sage-brush region, they break down and have to be sent back at it is quite hopeless?” ee re te rae Oe Se fy eee. | Aten a pagocabls, malld docking. geutieracn gas wed on the plan of the city, not | gizes the Conduit road. the Fort Myer road and | Ls their distribution over the Great Salt considerable trouble—that is to say, an escort} “Qui From this it can be seen that a grest edvantage | isting his boots polished. The uhappy oper: | ON€ Was visible, unless we except a road with | the roads within the ‘Soldiers’ ‘Home grounds: Lake basin into northern ‘eastern Weab- andan ambulance cart. of which latter there) She returned to her position by the bedside, | is secured through the use of the code and the fys08 313 Doe his, struck him in the teeo ead | t¥o buildings called New Jersey avenue.” These, in combination with the city streets, ‘ington, western Montana, and occasionally into are never enough. If they are below the cli-| with one arm laid across his chest. | *7pewriter as adjancta to the speedy telegraph. | Shouted, “Blank, blank you, youre always ear PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE IN OLD TDNES, Present, he ‘ays, unequaled facilities for the western Wyoming. These remarkable 4 Seer ob the de eit ne? cause | - Presently be began whispering again, and at/ | Other ueefal abbreviations in the codeare:| ile’ voce boots blacked.” Het that wae’ intino | ‘The Penmylvania avenue leading, as laid | Hbeelmen. In conclusion. he writes: “But to move over the countrr in immense Groves mischief of another deseription and the wounded | intervals she answered him. It suddenly oc- | K—out of th i ix—great excite-| cid days, a es ibeca iis ‘i 4 the man who has accomplished all this, to him sheep sometimes, although usually they are are neglected. for there is no passion of the | curred to me that, in hiv unconsciousness, he | ment: Ckx—committed suicide; Huc—Honse | Ue meer mesuaere iameanan jown on paper, from the Capitol to the Presi- | to whom all credit should be given, Washington found wandering about singly or tn pairs an@ human heart so cruel and selfish as love. was mistaking her for some one else, and that | committee: Ute—nnder the circumstances; | Not always, bi have ditt . 2 dent's mansion, was then nearly the whole dis- | has paid but poor tribute, and today be feeding upon the scanty vegetation of the erid “I am sorry to hear it.” I said light- | she, for some woman's reason, was deceiving ee ground that, &c. Not always, however, have differences arising tance a deep morass,covered with alder bushes, | outcast from ail, toiling under the scorching or semi-arid regions. Asa rule, each epectes ie hearted little Sammy Fitz-Warrener, of the | him purposely. it is the proper thing nowadays for all the | over wire been without a bloodless termina- | which were cut through the width of the in- Mexican sun, striving to regain the fortune confined to a somewhat limited area and = naval brigade, who brought me the news. Ie a few moments I was sure of this. + Prominent papers, THe STAR among them, to | tion. It has been the case on a number of oc- | tended avenue during e ensuing winter. The | Which was lost in the city he loved so well.” peep een = ny yy Sorry to hear it? Gad! I shouldn't be.| | Itried not to look, but I saw it all. Iaaw | take the news service of both the big press'as-| casions that the insultes has boarded a train for | roads in every direction were muddy afid un- = Ain't you a shareholder in the machine?’ he | 2° of the different bave thus fer bees The place has got a different look about it when | his poor blind hands ‘wander over her throat | sociations, thereby missing nothing that is) the town of the insulter, and that upon the in- ere: Viewing the city as it riow is it is ‘A Mighty Feast. a studied at all as to their habite and life A there are women-folk around. Th and face up to her hair. worth having. s sulter being pointed out to him the two have | indeed difficult to even imagine the condition | From the London Glut ““T thought I was, but I obtain the and most of them as yet pessess no jolly clever in their ways—worth ten of your | _ “What is this?” he muttered quite distinctly, | While the methods of both these organiza-| Come togcthel in au alfser, Dat seh trates | of affairs described hy thee nites on aition At Fischhausen, in Germany, a wedding feast | use of it.” anaes ey Ted cross rnfBans. Sith that tone of self-absorption which char- | tions sre eminently successful. their modes of | are exceptions, Even though a man may board | The roadways running between the imaginary praia : : yd * ‘Well, P've had to and that’s 50| ¢.12 "Pecies of these crickets vs ampe eo the cane nt ebeky (ansyered, breaking | acterizes the sayings of an unconscious man. | gathering und disseminating the news are dif- | 4 train fall of thought of vengeance, it is likely , street lines which extended in the early dave of | Of Homeric proportions recently took Wem | cents all round, heomeenea ph genet emerge! to oom own open the case of whisky which Sammy had | “What is this silly cap?” ferent in many respects. Atany rate the two | out after a few hours’ ride, and the’| the city are said to have been little better than | ‘The 168 guests got through one ox, three pigs, oak a ‘oe sd Tea - |, ODe vast swarm, that spread over the en- brought up on the carrisge of his machine gun | _ His fingers wandered on over the snowy linen Sete re Gecenahly corned ead fo 0 | deep quagmires—the legitimate result of the | four calves, eighteen chickens, ten geese and so oak ie eo fire region drained by the Malade river, cover- for my private consumption. until they came to the strings. small fish. metaphorically speaking, that slips unhappy position of the city itself. They were | ducks and pigeons in proportion. Four hogs | chit, sre Until yon de, he po dee ane” | ing « tract nine miles long by three miles wide. He was taking this machine gun up tothe | As an aspirant to the title of gentleman I felt | through their nets. Dotromlows and. wholly without sustaining | heads of beer, forty quarts of rum and fifty of | "= -Old mac''T edie ie icine coolly. | They laid eggs, and fears are entertained lest front, and mizht d he was of it. like running away—many doctors know this BESULTS OF INCREASED FACILITIES. a telegrap) surface which in any way qualified them for | ticle cana Sade: |e gions bos birt romean So cosntey wil be exposed to further “A clever guu,” he called it; “an almighty | feeling: as a doctor I could only stay. ” Expressions areoften heard, coming from the | |, They tell a good story up at the big Western | even the limited trafic which the necemsities of | other, liquids served to wash down the solids. | of presuming t iipis te cae mee tions by their progeny during the year. lever gun. His fingers fumbled with the stringn Still! jor generation, that the w ae Gath Union office on 15th street. One of the night | the city required at that time, and old-time | The 1! le of Gargantua should rejoice at this | ST’ on far te cae ya time As with mapy other insects when develop He had ridden alongside of it—sitting on the | Sister bent over the bed. Perhaps she bent an | Mer generation, caters eg | men was sending press to Richmond. ‘The | residents compare the streets of early Washing. | 2Oble feat. paid = AL ag 4 = in excessive numbers, the desire to move in top of his borse aa sailors do— through seventy iach or two nearer. One hand was beneath his we every day —_ Apts ene when | operator at the latter place said: ton history with those encountered by the rt ab viene At eee SS seems to seize these crickets at miles of desert without a halt: watching over | neck supporting the poor shattered head. they were young of so many terrible crimes What's the matter? You come s wy | Union troo] ‘irginia during the civil war, s "aren’ . * eleven per- | times. At such periods they move toward cen- it and tending it ax he might have watched and| He slowly drew off the cap and his fingers| and daring robberies. ‘That is it exacily. og = Oey | es it (eos aia hemes too ee ordinary | From Puck. sons outeide of the original combination, put- | tral points and gather in amazing numbers, tended his mother, or perhaps some other | crept lovingly over the soft fair hair. | When-they were young, or even fifteen | responded the operator at the | howitzer a few weary miles each day. The ides Ec have vou done that" Pocket. By what | after which they strike out in « body in some woman. | “Marny,’ he said quite clearl: ago, the facilities for gathering the news were mend of the wire, “Waita second.” | of grading these strecta was unheard of, and icluccaee ea ree particular direction, When moving they turn ‘Gad! doctor!” he exclaimed, kicking out hia | your hair up, and you're nothii very crude and asa result one-half of the ne’ Washington might be said to have had as many un apabansie teen ve a right to | neither to the right nor to the left, but keep on sturdy legsand contemplating with some satis | girl, you know—nothing but a lite girl.” | of the world circulated only in the immediate ups and downs to its surface as to its varying oi a in it as I choose,’ replied the | in a direct line, even into streams faction the yellow hice top boots which he had | I could not help watching his fingers, and yet | vicinity of its origin. Today the younger gen- | fortunes. a “en 4 which happen to run across line of travel. ht at the army and navy stores. I know | I felt like a man committing a sacrilege. eration is not ouly told on the sume day of a! ‘The White House and Capitol were fifteen and mice ne ip out : consent of myself and the | When such streams are encountered, if not too the boots well. and—avoid them. “Gad! doc-| “When I left you,” said the brainless voice, | lynching down south, a train robbery ply | Binety feet respectively above tide water, while | Of the machines ey ais ar, eho are owners | large, they are soon filled tosuch an extent that for. you should see that un on the warpath. | “‘you wore it down your back. You were a little | western states, a terrible mine explosion up in! from the Washington ‘man, and even the relay | ia avenue, which contects ‘them, petioory machine equally with yourself!’ I pro- | the oncoming hordes are enabled to cross over ‘Travels as light as atricyle. And when she | girl—you are a little girl now. the coal fields’ of Pennsylvania, the doings of | and sounder exchanged smiles, ‘Two hundred and sixty rods west ' Saw 7 on the bodies of the hosts, It is anid Degine to Glk + + * my stars! Click * *| And he slowly drew a hairpin out. One long | the Canadian parliament and the idioavncrasies | “"ywonty or toente nee ne have made great | of the White House was Observatory Hill. ninety- beg your pardon,” he rejoined. ‘that they can be driven “just likes drove of Sgtck oS click * * © Forall the | lock fell curling to her shoulder. | She never | of the royal families of Europe, but the fullest | changes for the tebe raphers. Inthe old days | #ix feet above the tide, and connecting this with | neste sheep” when they have singed to Seah, onl st world like steam launch’s engine—mowing | looked up, never noticed me, but knelt there fached to his favorite paper and he | an operator was an individual to whom a great | Capitol Hill and extending slightly northward ate cack times thos are aften " qurtces PAT all the time. "No work for you there. | like » ministering angel—personating for a time | knows as much about the particular incident a | interest was attached. aud around whom Seca | War a ridge having an elevation of 108 Toot Whe an vee gale and fields of grain. It will be no ue you and your stalactites prog-| a girl whom we had never seen, those who were on the «pot and witnessed the Then he received a salary | Shade trees were scarce, and these were nr- Biclag hy tae nee ee aes Ging about with ékewersfor the bullet. Lock | “My little girl,” he added, with low laugh, | occurrence. = : hich was deemed haudsome for what waa ap- | Fanged in the most imperfect order; the side ope Pa beeece iy Angst ion 33 1 fat the other ride, my boy. and you'll find the | and he drew out another hairpin. Another feature —n feature indecd-—for which | parently such light work. Ina boarding house | Walks were only crude imitations of the real viet on eee ee . beauty has just walked through them.” In a few moments all her hair waa about her | all newspaper readers have reason to be thank- Railroad passes were | article, and no attempts had been made toward dh + get excited,’ said Whiskers, “Be “Sods or plain?” Tasked in parenthesis. | shoulders. I had never thought that she might | ful for the improvement in the press telegraph, e“was fre. | bettering the condition of ‘the public roads in tl won't be calm? I “Soda. Idon't like the flavor of dead camel. | be carrying such glory quietly hidden beneath | was the magnificent reports received during the , and when | Mall and parks, Cows roamed at large over the 2s ee, Pade rnold ‘This isa A bie drink, plesee. T feel as if I were lined | the simple nuree's cup. past week from Minneapolis and will come from not given to him Le sometimes took it. | Whole city and browsed in the front yards of rodtimfernal, bald-headed, groem-whiskered with sandpaper. ‘That Chicago next week. THe Stax had its special | But now—well. the old-timers asdtrt that the | the citizens, Pigs wallowed in the muddy Wrra eo my €2 back.” t night in the little shanty built correspondent on the ground: the two press a#- | buginces bas gone to the dogs. One drawback | Streets, causing even the President to turn out aprinmeadt—aht ft Sra weer + hid ye of mnd, and roofed chiesy with old palm mat sociations each had a corps of news gatherers | has been pointed to aa preventing their ad- | for them, and hens and chickens cackled and os oer Age ae be which was the head surgeon's Present and, as a result. the Washington read- | vancement i. the fact that they are very clan- | #ratched and wandered every where. id, reflectively, “and that couldn't be done ere knew as much and frequently more about| nish. ‘Their working houre-are, of course, THE TIRER. Tithost the concent of oil the other sinc 5 hesitated one moment. the convention as did the residents of Minneap- | spent in the company of other operators, but] Running down from the northwest into the holders. 1 tell vou what I will do for the sake Sammy and | had met before he had touched | _ ‘Yes, dear,” she said softly, “I am your own | olis. How many thousands of words of press | share thers lemare hove, Tot ae eat eee, |, Running do Pepin of accommodation. Iwill mow your lawn for srope or Lascalpel. We hailed from the same | Marn: j have been and will be created by the two con-| to care io circulate among people of other | P'*iness Portion of the city, where the finest part of the country—down Devonshire way With her disengaged hand she stroked his | ventions will be a hard matter to get at exactly, | pusiuesees, This, of course, 18 not the case with | 8t0Fes now stand, was a sluggish, muddy creek, and to limited extent we knew each other's | blanching cheek. There was a certain science | but the tolls therefor wili not fall far short of) all of them, but it is with a ver; at first dignified by the classic name “The which little phrase has avast meaning | about her touch, as if she had once known | quarter of s million dollars. | sequence is that many know practically | Tiber,” but soon reduced to the commonplace —— men do cor “Ie ‘hooe — ing of — ——— ae < . ot eocla —p a yes mete poner! Hl nothing of matters or people outside of the | and oe = of serving as a natural 0} fe in pretty early—I on « hospit vingly ai wly the smoke-grimed | operatore—st is known by the general | telegraph class, sewer for the surrounding district. “The | France ie nalia ie: Dat Sam would not go | fingers passed over the wonderful hair. smooth- | reader. They form strong friend:hips over tha | ‘this henicap works to prevent them from | Tiber” is. supposed te bane recent ite mane cashes Gn ek aoe to sleep. He would lie with his arms above his | ing it. Tune, fletaphorically they shake hands cor- | realizing a desire which moner or la‘er enters | from one of the early settlers named Pope, | dongs te Deel Socenen, Lx wee ich is not an attitude of sleep) and talk | | ‘Then he grew more daring. He touched her | dially twice day—when they begin work and | the heart of every telagrepher: to get intense | whose ntation on the top of the hill where the + etl perme se (en pence en about that everlasting gun. | exes: her gentle cheeks, the quiet strong lips. | when they end it. When busines is dull they | business where there a poseibility of advance. | Capitol now stands was Rome, iz the be- py gg oo cack would Leap may Ques grofty. rian of, do the murmur of his voice expa- | He slipped to her shoulder and over the soft | hold conversations, wi.h hundreds of miles,per- | ment, Dut when he looks over the, helo if te | Hel. that in. the. course of “thre aeons pheis a ee en” ee, tiating on the extreme cunning of the ejector | folds of her black dress. xis. separating them, as two friends | gets beyond the mere. yearning be sees that | capital greater than the Roman would ariee on seb pw Oh li gently nd ger dg and awoke to hear details of the rifing. “Been gardening?” he aeked, coming to the dinner table. Sometimes they | fe will have to accept a much smaller mcome | the site of his poasestions. The entire western “= it cf cay ty I nan We did not talk of home, as do men in books | bib of her nursing apron. tell of their hopes and fears and ambitions and | than he is already receiving, and that settles it, | section of the city, extending from the river to when lying bys camp fire. Perhaps it was| It was marvelous how the brain, which was | He continues to yearn, but he takes no action, | Meridian Hill and Rock creek, was for the Janet ta coidee eG ‘hat picturesque ad. | laid open to the day, retained the conscioumess | whom they have never seen, but generally the | He finally becomes like & man who has been | greater portion « trackloss. tuarck, sad trmeee to a soldier's life. We talked chiefly of | of one subject so lo topic is horse racing or base ball. It is a known | jong in the government service. He stays in a | the oldest inhabitants recollect today that years clever gun, and once, just before he fell| ““Yes—dear,” she wi Fit that telegraph operators and printers are | rut,’ In the telegraph business the comfortable | 4g0 in rainy weather the mules and horees pass asleep, Sammy returned to the question of the ‘our old apron is all wet!” he said reproach- | the greatest cranks on tho national game in | herthy are for the very few. That condition | ing ee Pennsylvania avenue would often sink to nurses. fully touching her breast where the blood—his | existence. Of course, all these exchanges take | obtains more there than in any other business, | their inthe mud. There were no con- “Yes.” he said, “the hegd sawbones down | own blood—was slowly drying. place between those who have been in communi- structed sewers, neither was there water nor gas there told me to tell you that he had got per-| His hand pasted on snd as it touched her 1 | cation constantly for some time. OUR MANY YACHTS. in that whole great section which today consti- 75 tovend you three nurses. ‘Treat ‘em | saw her eyes soften into such a wonderful ten- TALKING AT MANY MILES DISTANCE. saris ar tutes not only the business section, . deck, for my sake. Bless their hearts! | derness that I felt asif I were looking on® part! There ure pairs of men who have been in| The ‘Sbictcg»,cacaam| oe Sensi aos of the 4) of Sister's life which was eacred. 7 silscitacs “with gdap's has’ nde dad ep Sin si pone pha the conditions that awaited the — and left me thinking of | Teaw alittle movement as if to draw back— | @#ily comm: — = i : of Alexander R. Shepherd, w! €2.00 his words and of the spirit which had prompted | then she resolutely held her position. But her | “me telegraph wire for years, and who have | From the Century. took making | eves were dull with anew pain. I wonder—I | never seen each other. Ench is well acquainted | It is safe to estimate that there is at least one | should be and what it no "said Noodles, t morning t4. The | have wondered ever since—what memories that | with the oth temperament, his moods, his | yacht to every 10,000 people in the land, and | ful city in the world.“ ‘Then I ex- a Dlast disposition and his sentiments. “Telegraph in-| that an average yacht will carry at least ten Smith, struments and telegraph wires are unfecling “No, dear. “pve eat right now, Marny. The bad and stolid Yet, through them | @ man is able to convey emotions of sorrow or almost as plainly as they may be expressed Wlsally. ‘The fact le perfectly palpable to the persons. This means that there are at least 6,000 yacht owners in the country and that 60,000 people may participate in pleasure sail- ing; a large number, surely, to be dovoted to a sport which is necessarily confizted to localities h i it it 8 8 Hl it og