Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1892, Page 10

FAMINE PEASANTS AT RELIEF TABLES. ‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6. 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. {ha best of times consists of little | which are sunk six kettles, which will each hold an cabbage soup, rye bread and pota- | about of finid and in which wero | toes. He gets fat on pumpkins and cucumbers | boiling the evening ration of soup for the men. and knows but litie of meat. He has now and | Some of this soup was of beans and another then a piece of dry fish and hig religion gives | kettle was of cabbage, while in a third hogs- him many fast days, when ho does not dare to | head buckwheat mush'was steaming away. [ | drink milk or eat butter. tasted all of there, eating bit with « wooden THE GOVERNMENT WORKS. spoon out of the great ladies handed me by the Isco everywhere the work of the Russian | €°OK*, and I did not find them at all bad. In s another part of the kitchen were stacks of government in behalf of the famine sufferers. | grout loaves. of the black bread which tha Ido not think that tho machinery of the czar mts eat, and as we looked at this U asked | in managing his people is by any means perfect. | for the bill of fare of this 9-cent eating house. | Lthink, in fact, it-ise far from being so, and | The reply was that exch man got four meals for there is probably as much oppression and cor- | this sum, two of which consisted of cold bread ruption going on in the government here as in | and water and the other two of which were hot. any government in christendom, Still, I be- | Each man received four pounds of bread » day | lieve in giving the Russians ezedit for the good | and the meals were taken in the following they are doing and for the millions they are | Order: At 7 in the morning, after work- spending to help the people. In Nijni-Novgo- | ing three hours on an empty stomach, tho rod, where I first struck the Volga, I found | men eat a breakfast of bread and water. “At 11 | about six thousand men’ at work widening the | they knock off for dinner, and at this time they | reads and laying out public parks under the | sit down at long tables and have some of this | Sovernment surveyors, and I was told that their hot soup and bread. At 5 p.m. they take an- | wages came out of the government appropria- | other lunch of bread and water, and at 8, after |tion for the famine. Along the Volga at they are through with their day's work, they | poing the road thafruns below the city of Nijni | have more soup, with a little of this buckwheat [is about thirty feet wide. It is being widened { mush. In his soup each ian gets thi nar- |to about 100 feet and the hills are being | ters of a pound of moat,and.the rations all told | chopped down and substantiab walls built. for the sum of 9 cents are better than can be | These thousands of workmen receive about 25 had anywhere else in the world. They are | cents a day and board themselves. The streets of | far superior to what the peasants are accus- i cked full of men wanting work and THE DOCTOR SOLD.) A Story That a Visit to the Treasury | Brought Out. COUNTERFEITING LONG AGO. Ostensibly Practicing Medicine, the Doctor | ‘Was the Head of a Gang—How the Case Was Worked Up by 2 Good-Looking De- | tective. Written for The Evenine Star. PIN THE TREASURY Department there is a collection of curiosities | which is often over- looked by sightseers: yet it is one which for | most people possesses a SF } Said Mr. Jncob Mueller, n German of means FAMINE ON THE VOLGA The Relief of Nijni-Novgorod and the Situation in Samara and Saratov. AMONG RUSSIAN PEASANTS. ‘Where the American Corn Was Sent and How It was Used—Cholera and the Prospects forthe Winter—The Famine Relief Kitchen ‘Which Supply Two-Cent Meals. Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. Samana, Russia, July 6, 1992. AM NOW IN THE heart of the worst of the famine districts of Rus- sia, I entered them about Moscow, and I , passed through bun- dreds of miles of famine territory in coming to the Volga. The hunger and sickness was greatiu Kazan and Nijni, which provinces I visited on my way to Samara, and all along this great river from here to the Caspian sea there are today mil- lions who are dependent on the supplies they get from charity. ‘The typhus fever has, tow certain extent, subsided, but the report has Just been received here that the Asiatic cholera, which has been ravaging Persia, is steadily marching into the regions about the Caspian sea, and that it is already at the mouth of the Volga at Astrakhan. The fright here regarding it is terrible, and should it make its way north- ward, as it in all probability will, the horrors of the last winter will be «um fall. These millions, who have been half starving for months. are not in a condition to fight with disease, and the cholera can bring ‘but one result—the death of millions. The au- thorities are doing all they can to prevent such a terrible dienster, Dat the trade of olga is so great’ and its travel so immense that it is hard to see how they can succeed. Nearly the whole Asiatic trade of the empire is dependent upon it, and its thousands of boats move up and down it in a vast unending caravan of ships and a A few miles above here at zan all ES may be called the great trade artery of uropean and Asiatic Russia, which sends out branches toevery part of this vast empire. QRASSHOPPERS AXD DROUGHT. At this writing in July the people are fearful ‘as to the present crop. Grasshoppers have be- gun to make their appearance and there is anger of drought. A few days of good rains May turn the seale and bring everything out all = but a continuance of the present weather Tuin the prospects of a good harvest. I saw today a vast assemblage of peasants going ‘out with the priests into the country to pray for rain. They were bareheaded and bare- footed and they carried the sacred banners of ‘their churches, on which were painted pictures | of the Savior and the saints, and they marched with their heads down themselves as : iggest Russian ehurch of Samara that this procession was women and children standing about the door stopped rang out and from all quarters :he people assemble. There came hundreds of omen in short red dresses and long red aprons, handkerchiefs about their heads, and PRAYING FOR RAIN. inbow. ‘There came hundreds of barcheaded pve and tgirls, and haif of the barefooted. releggel women had Darcheaded babies in (heir arms, ‘There eame andreds of barefooted with their hats in their hands or with no hais at sli, and through this motley mass marched a number of bare- headed priests. in black = gowis with Jong bleck = bsir hanging down Backs. ‘These entered the and presently came out with the holy be: : As they did fo mauy of the people fell prostrate a the ground and some bumped their heads agninat the cobble stones in adoration. Every man and woman, boy and girl made the sign of the cross many times over. and as the priests Mored onward the thousands of bareheaded, barefooted people went with them, crossing ‘themselves and praying ax they did fo. In this ‘way they marehed throughout the town, and ther will now go to some shrine in the country ‘and there reveut their prayers for rain. I saw @ similar procession at Voisk the other day and Lunderetand that the people are praying for fain all along the Volga. They are as a class ‘very devout and they offer more prayers in proportion to their population than any other People in the world. HOW THE AMERICAN CORN WAS USED. ‘Much of the American torn and flour came to Samora and Ihave had taiks with the men who hvd charge of it and who aided. in its dis- tribution. Tam now traveling with Br. J. B. Hubbell of the American Ked ¢ros Society and we have visited many of the districts to which our supplies were rent. far ag Tean find ever, bit of the American gifts have been wisely and conscientiously distributed, and hhere at Samara the authorities would not give even samples of the corn to them for planting, but wl condition. ‘lications, if they wished from the peasants by gi other food or an equivalent for them, but tha this corn | ctme from America, ‘for th and f it out pecially active in ‘are of the American food, but failed to get 8 i i e i c i i | believe in Te- tnt HI ae t f by those of the | Siberian trade enters the Volga, and this | to photograph them, when the | opie who wanted » were not ina ‘There were many such Dut all were refused with the t that ther coukl get such samples 2 should | into: to see an Engtish- | i fascination that miles of | patent models and | bushels of old letters | fail to arouse. It is | tomed to at home and they grow fat on them. ads sleeping and loafing along , lee fing al MOW THE PEASANTS BAT. funder the blazing san, Men bare-| 7 gon’ f , headed and barelegged Iny with their faces up- |, 1 40n't know whether this pensant boarding turned, sleeping on the cobble stone street next | owe contractor furnishes the dishes or not, living in Saratov, who has devoted both his time and money during the past winter to the famine: “The American supplies saved the lives of our people. They came just ut the | but I suppose he does. I watched a meal of the the collection, confis- | it time. ‘there was just enough of them to| workmen and the extra expense in this regard ted to the govern- help us out and not « bit too much. It secmed could not be large. ‘The men ate as I have seen D5 § ment by agents of the of dies, molds and implements the peasants in many places where they are served with dinners by the famine relief peo- ple, aud in fact Just as thoy eat in their own jomes. The only dishes were wooden bowls the size of those in which the ordinary Ameri- can family chops its hash or the farmer's wife works her butter. ‘Those bowls were about three inches deep and they were filled with a thick soup. ‘The tables were knocked up, only of rough planks, and were two fect wide and 109 feet long, with benches running along both sides of them so as to form seats for the men. Thero was no cloth upon them, bat the white surface of each table was marked off with charcoal into squares, and exch square ha number up to ten, and at the end of the ten sguares a second series of ten numbers began. Each man had thus his own square place at the table, and one of these bowis was set in the cen- as if the good God had managed it through you for us.” IOWA CORN SPOILED IN TRANSIT. A part of the Iowa corn reached Ry very bad condition. One compartment of the | hold was filled with corn which had heated and | it was steaming when it was taken out. There | was no place to be found in Riga where the corn | could be dried and it was put into the cars and rushed off to the famine districts. Care was | not taken to keep this corn separate from some | of the good corn and a number of carloads were | spoiled. Some of this spoiled corn came to Samara and another lot of it went to Saratov. | : The best of it was dried and given to the people | WORKING AT TWO CENTS AN HOUR. for food and the rest was used for the cattle. | the river at_ midday and women with bags on THE FAMINE AND LIVE STOCK. their backs and staffs in their hands wandered | through the streets asking alms. Here and secret services for the making of counterfeit mone: graphs of noted counterfeiters, their weapons, | tools and specimens of their work, There are | reproductions of our coins: there aro bank notes which are marvelous works of ort, executed | with pen and brush or by skilled engravers and photographers, which have been made in strange Places at times when others sieep and by ex- pert, daring men, who are frequently not ordi- nary criminals, but worse—men whose ab should have made them useful members of ciety : ‘There is something uncanny in themysterious, solitary lives of these lawless men, stes!chily working in the secret hours of ihe night, or living double lives, one in the dark, | ina} Plas oo bein on stock of all kinds | tire along the roads were bread peddlers, who | ter of each gang and contained enough for ten | another fn the annlight, after the gruesom been terrible. ‘is province of em is | sold big loaves of black bread as large as a dish Ciao ee ad ie = acup orasanecer, | manner of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. t is each man had in his “ about as large as the state of New York. to a large extent stock raising conntry, and | the people depend upon their hors : sheep to furnish them their livelihood. the past six months they have and a spoon of yellow wood whieh would hold about twice as much ax the ordinary tablespoon, and the men took their | turns in dipping their spoons into the soup and carrying it to their mouths. ‘There was a rigid pan to suchas could bay. Every loaf sold was weighed first and parts of loaves were sold at so much a pound. In company with the architect | of the government I visited the relicf works and the men at their labors, They worked trange,” eaid the young man of a party | who was looking at these relies the other day “The very name of counterfeiter has an inter- esting sound, like that of ‘moonshiner’ or irate.’ He was examining the tools as if sheep, 600,000 horses and at least 500,000 cows. any laborera I have ever seen and | order about the whole and there wag no chance | with a view to making some if the wrong man ‘When the famine was at its wor had ked as to the hours they pat in for | for a man to getaspoonful more than hisshare. | shonid be elected and the country in conse~ nothing to feed their stock, and they tore the Seontse day I was told that the day was | As to this service, however, not one of the hun- | quence ‘go to ruin. ‘I remember when it was dred long-bearded men at the table objected, and the majority of them would not know how | to handle dishes of porcelain and knives and forks, LIVING ON LESS THAN 3 CENTS A DAY. The above is,as I have said, fat living for these people. They are furnished it by a con- tractor, who makes some money out of it and who is dependent for his custom on the excel- leney of his board. The famine relief kitch- ens, which are supported by the government and charity, give dinners for 5 kopecks piece or 253 cents aday. During the worst part of the winter dinners were given for less than 1 | nta meal, and during the famine one such meal was given daily to thousands who could not even pay this amount for nothing. ‘There was one of these kitchens, at Nijni Novgorod, which was serving hundreds of th -cent meals to ull who paid for them and giving them to snch as could prove themselves destitute, For this a bowl of soup, with a bit » palm of your hand and a and a half of bread, and on fast days eh took the p! e of the cus- toms in regard to this d m seemed to bean excelient one, and if eating rooms on a ar plan could be established in America it wouid be a good thing. This custom was the iving of beggars meal tickets instead of ‘The proprietors of the establishment sold twenty of their dinner ticke ct 1 Russian laboring day durfng the sum- “And what was this?” f naked. ‘From4 o'clock in the morning until § o’elock at night,” (Was the reply. thatch off their huts and kept them alive for months on this sort of food. The peasants’ hit has a kind of box-like room ander this ridge roof of thatch, and this could be done and » equal to that of ‘spook’ for gi crawly sensation up the spine.” ‘THE BUSINESS MAN'S STORY. ‘The business man had put on his pees and was closely examining the photographs, Xo, [don’t find it,” he said, folding up his eyeglass, rubbing it carefully and putting it back in its ease. “I was looking,” he con- tinued, “for the face of a counterfeiter [ once knew; but, however, that was long before the was in existence. He lived in our town and was arrested there for counterfeit- ing,” he raid slow! “T shall never fi a great sensation ev a the country was new and mi happ Twas just a bo: presei vill never be effaced.” ‘this was the story he told: “I had canght th estern fever and with a | purty from Pennsylvania had gone west and stopped in wha the land of chills and fever. Of course I had not been there long before my teeth were rattling like and when dose after dose of quinine failed to quiet them we had entirely exhausted our med- ical resources, so one of the boys startéd out for a doctor. “When I saw the man he brought, I sure that with my lact shake the in amount of gray matter which nat Is longed to my noddle had not been dislodged and rattled out entir: Dr. Putter as little, dark man with a heavy beard, which seemed to grow all over his high upon his checks. a raw, cold day e had on a broad-brimmed thes straw hat. The thin coat which he wore wa: the part of the beggars.’ | wrong side out and he had waded through the A RUSSIAN GOVERNOR ON THE FAMINE. | mud and slush ina pair of old carpet slippers. During a lunch which Dr. Hubbel and myself | _ “Well, I was too sick to object to anything, so took with the governor of Nijni Novgorod we | z Meee ihre mph pines pen no mere than m, | had a long talk about the famine, and as Nijni 3 basa raat | Norpieod: was one of the first districts to ta th only a few words of direction he turned 4 this peciple Hk ‘of the sin, | Abruptly, left the house and waded back again. ing mea nice the story, for it created in those days when strange things then, and the im- And | ' not HUT SHOWING HOW THATCH WAS USED. long day, approached b gave them ticl That seems to me tobe av Although it was comparatively sheltered place for the | ly. The animals ate this thatch greedily. It is made of st and itis on houses fully eig’ was not too old it fo: food, but the snpply was that’ hundreds of thoawands of were almost dead before the gras ¢ spring, and the ploughing had to be horses would pull the plough for « used at the Vodka prevented fraud on could not, of course, | shops or saloons and the “they don't have two houra off at 100) Still this gwe tho mon f . and ax I looked at them cling. while the sweat rolled down’ their ally patting in this time at less t# an hour F could not help thinking | measures ; 4 and then line down almost dead tired in the rkmen, who aze hardly satisfied with | ation was interesting. This N wernor saw | "Jim sidled up to the bed and said by way of furrough, and it would a half hour reight hours of similar work. Still 25 | (uQh tay interesting. | bennd ody epone Henman | SPol0g: : “They told me he was the best one before they could up to ceuts is good wages here, and you can hire men | ‘Phe crops had beer. bad for eeveral years, and |i the County. “Mighty queer acting, but I stagger on for another few 1 then He | in good times for this sum. as far back as Mav, 1891, he sent for reports | Stes he's all right. down. Both cattle and hor: killed by A RUSSIAN CONTRACTOR'S KITCHEN. from the various districts of his province and | |“, You don’t feel like he'd give you pizen or the people for food. and_ in horses he "rs found that out of eleven, which comprised it, |™¥t#ing, do you” he added, rather anxiousl the works at the time that the 8 A the men stopped work. as as light as midday in America and I see these thousands of workmen, in xed I was were sold for a dollar apiece for which the peo- le coukt have gotten $50 and 2100 the sumn fore. Germans came in and bought hor: on speculation, and much stock was shipped | ., out of thecountry. In Scratov half of | the horses which’ the prov ad last vear have disappeared, and throu t the whe the famine regions there has b only two had enangh to ‘carry them. through | THE STRANGE DocTOR, the w ‘This isone of the greatest grain| “I did not care o1 jcenters of Russia and the governor at once | sentiments on that point with so: | bought a lot of grain on his own responsibility, | ¢hat Jim backed off without. dri frenzy, as he usually did, by my tongue. ‘That was not the last of the doctor's +h emphasis ing me toa ing to look at ts, by “It is said that the way to win a man’s heart is to allow him to do you a favor, and in saving my unworthy life he certainly did allow me to step into his good graces, to a certain extent, at least. “Graff and eccentric alw: doctor. “When I finally became convalescent he woul take me with him when he would drive into the country to visit his patients. He had a larg in many parts of Russia throagh which I hav: traveled the er 2 i rernment or ontside help, The horses of Rnssianre among the world and the meat of the coun? favorably with that of a. however, such horses ns i see show the ef | of the fa dvou ean count ti on the cattle in fields. The loss almost sullen he was at 8, yet we boys idolized that In this regi | has been killed or «old. THE RUSSIAN PEASANTS. I find it hard to give an idoa of the fx situation in Russi liferent in eve rate his ability, honesty and integrity were un. questioned, and people generally had, like my self, the most implicit confidence in him. They would end for him miles away and wait for hima in preference to any other doctor fs inquired once abont a patient whom we had 2 the peonle of | rest of the world. dy, | "7 ? visited together the da; ‘ore—-a nice old [a ane prrcecnad aitnenshy auc ihe = N INCIDENT OF THE FAMI Quaker gentleman, His astonishing answer on ad m their affairs “f wa I won't mention the place he named. warm toda: . “How I did enjoy those rides as the weather | became plensanter and I grew stronger. ‘The doctor was an interesting companion, being finely educated aud well informed on ail sxb- jects, Once I said: ‘Doctor, how did y pen to settle down in this wild co: “He did not answer. Leaught a glimpse of ‘He will probably eat breakfast in It's too alico pantaloons, trooping | and before he had even notified the side with their picks and chased ds. Each man had to take ed of his province, ls, and those who used | minisier of the interior for a loan for his peo- had to take the iron wheels of | ple and got £500.00 or about 1.000.000 roubles. not di He closed the saloons and stopped the grain would be stolen, 4 speculators who were trying to make a corner i ho crossed himself and muttcred | in the market and raise the prices; and finding er, and as they eame ap to where Esiood | that according to the constitution of the vil- | | many of them ig. L wondered | lage that the government. loan was bei his Teck agit taver caced to repeat the ques- i who was with | by the well-to-do as well ag the starving he! tion, Tt was my firstand last personal inquiry. %. they are praying now. ‘They | changed it and made different-laws, so that the | tig oddities were very amusing to me. : ag God that the day isdone, To-| men who got the mozey and not the villages | stance, on a warm spring day he would appear morrow morning they will again thank Him | were responsible for the loan. Already this | Svosed as if for midwinter: ina heavy boars r. | when they begin work, and they will pray | provinee of Nijni, which is half as large a8 Ohio | coat-fur cap and gloves ‘and. wrapped. ina water | again when they stop for dinner. Thoy pray | or Kentucky, and which has ns many people as | buttalo fobe. On an anusually. bright day he some of | and thonk Godall the tine, and whon they havo | the state of Michigan, has had about $3,000.000 | ould go prepared for rains One day he aps In | a choxce:to steal anything they even thank God | for the famine “from the government | Feared Sa the street with all his beard shavtd of this provinee of ante a | then for giving them the chance. ‘This is rather and the governor tells me that this | Pitt a little tuft ‘under each eye, which dof dri bit_of | hard on th an peasant, but thore is w grain ) amount went to xbout 600,000 people. Tt was | gave hit a most hideous appearance,” rye, and Ihave een specimens of this, The | of truth in it notwithstanding. The people pray | all given to non-workers, and no one between | ®"\ire never invited me nor any one. else to his ‘ the ages of fifteen and fifty-five was aided by it. | house, but back of and at sone distenee from These were in general supposed to be able to | tho house were his stables, surrounded by a work for themselves, and such of them as were Dene atete : not were generally supplied by private and not | had progressed for some time, Lrenkived tenor to go. by government charity. In addition to this ho derstood bought a great quantity of grain and hay for the x onde strictly. io his own ection on ted others to do the same, and visiting boys, stock of his province and made such arrai their sorrow, sometimes met with a very Inrid ments with the government that he thas hed from 8,000 to 10,000 men working at cutting | reception. At times, however, he astonished a who ventured on the to ask Wood in the government forests. Last De- | pegdat: cember he received #150,000 from the govern- | numbly fora few ponnies, by giving hima V, but perhaps: iis man toe he appeared he would be lucky. to @cape rhe bad it to the the | from the ehirts and had been t weeks. 1 they each got one ada day api amounted day 400 people for Catholie Germ half pounds af L this furnishe he : g used | such kitch all’ th ing aman on 60 or 70 & you get an idea of how living — during gave them 1¥e with & meal of cabbage soap, s e districts they did nat e | a and 7 ment to employ his mont needy in the making roads, and so he ne on through ti : whole of the famine watching the interests of et pene ple and doing the best eat ed ee ccanaee who stood in holy terror of the doctor's wrath, officials in the famine districts, ‘Many of thé vernors have not done so well, and it, would indeed strange if in the bandling than half a billion of dollars some of it had not stuck to the hands of thousands of men who came in contact with it "Tad, however, that works are going on in most of these prov- | ROT ices and believe that ase general thing the gor- icedinp etd spelt ¢rnmiont money haa been fairly distributed and | 1°ror netniect tov ees supplies. have | ge, gone to those for whom they were intended and to those who needed them the most... Faaxx G. Camrenten. BREAD PEDDLERS. ., tame sort of bread was made in Kazan and] so sooch that they do it Nijui-Novgorod. A decent American horse | though there is great ‘turn up ite nose at it. In parts of the people thore is more superstition nnd the dead cattle and horses were made imt than real intelligent piety. j i i HE i { ii 5 5 i i # Hi Re i q TG | picturesque stsle pec! | it | on and no clue appeared to the guilty party. | genial fe | one of his chi. ee and especially | iota and jerked out my | of stock which will re: Fears to any means, for I was very sick. For weeks no replace. The weal and “the loss one but my mother could have watched over a of the stock naturally planting of sick boy more faithfully and tenderly than he | | a mach smaller ac~eag> thin usa, and thoagh cared for me. jes, and | | throughout the famine Ji havo | practice and was undoubtedly an able physi- | amounted to many millions in m and in cian. His eccentricities were well known and | some of the districts fully half e stock regarded, perhaps as a mark of genins, Atany | the church. After her death kind-hearted neighbors offered to care for the child, but her. Bat the father had curtly declined all and attended to her like 2 woman until che old enough to take caro of herself, and this was soon able todo, It was not long before she was cook, housekeeper and companion for her father, and the very apple of his eye. Sho learned in some intuitive way to make her own dresses, and they were always fashioned after a ly her own, but they were wonderfully becoming. Even as a child she had never.aesociated with any of the village people. Indend, the children «tood in whole- some awe of her. J remember once. as she was passing along the street, rhe saw a boy teasing a forlorn-looking kitten. Some one set a pail hot water down beside him for # moment, mischievously dipped one of the cat's In an instant she across the a Like a little fur "sarm and planged his ba waier until he owled with pain, ‘Well, how do you like it?” she said, and took the kitten up tenderly in her arms and carried it home. She never seemed to be lonely, although her father was «away much of the | time. “He would be gone oceasionally for days ata time and Yinne would reply to inquir- ies for him that he ha called away on basiness and it was a_he won return, No one what and where this understood to be in rep i Ly usiness was, but it w rd to his horses.and ex- ited no comment, for every one knew and pod-naturedly humored his _peculia ‘ell, I think Thad been in the village ab when there were rumors coming frc incinnati of counterfeit money in ¢i | and it was even hint that suspic ,, the photo- | quite witho a great joke by ter gradually were or town people. the c jently becoming bolder as time went JON, THE HARNESS MAKER. “About that time there came to the town a young man whom every one knew as Joe—a harness maker by trade. He wasa handsome, was soon a favorite with the whole com “Of course the doctor having many horses was Joe managed to have to the stables and frequent erra in the he emed to him with a cer 1 soon noticed that f coming down to the epring » be there, and no matter fell into a habit when he buy how we with her ‘and sa: | knew so well how to “It was a new experience for her, poor girl! obably the fi her big brow | Anyway, che began to train b | which alw | che dreste | how pretty | thing wen! eyes were beautiful. ck her short hair, r head, inna fell ‘deat in love think he cared asm as he could | care for a I this time he was becoi ing more |hhimeelf in his favor could have dc What was my | when I saw him enter the | After that he bec v 1 scerned to be eet liber a to take more . and at the firs of his harness shop opportunity he dispo= and announced that he was going south to sell orses for the doctor, whore practice was sing uninterruptedly, although his mys- us absences became ‘more frequent and | prolonged. Joe came back nicely dressed, stayed at the doctor's a few days and went away ag This occurred many times. Bat Iwill never forget the evening of his last re- turn, JOR’S Last VISIT. | “All of the men were away and I was prondly | taking care of two or three horses which bad | not been sold. As usual I was loafing around the stable, when Mi | T swear I could altrost | elf in the ver like a firefly and laughing and chatting with n abandon whol! to he . Minua, what on earth is Are you go razy or— n thought struck me, ? paused, looked she said, ‘i'm going to just to show you how much ‘on, only you masta't breathe a word of it'to a living soul until—well, until it is over with; promise me, now, dead sure,’ she demanded. "Of course 1 promised, only the promise didn’t amount to much. It wasn’t long before it was indeed ‘all over with.” And she told me then thut her father had sold his prop- | erty, horses and every to some one in Ken- | tucky and as soon as th came and the | papers were inade out rhe and Joe, who was expected that very evening, were to be married and they were ali guing away ‘to live forever and ever, che conelnded like a child. finished when Joe appeared. been to the house and not » out to look for her, m.and as they came toward aging on his arm, looking up es adoringiy; and I never saw 4. prettier | ittle scene. He was a magnificent-looking fe | low, and he never appeared handsomer in hi life than he did at that moment, with his cap off and his head thrown back, his eves sparkling and his face animated as he smiled on Minna, re expression W men pos- ing alike tomen and women. No While we were f@ shook hands wd, ike Minna, seemed nearer g out of his chrvslis than ever before. of his singularities were noticeable that ening, but he was to ali appearances simply a | courteous, well-bred, upright gentleman. After taiki while he turned to Minna and 1 tind T must goa I wich you would pack up some ¢, for I may be gone several days.” to be a matter of sur- ¢ betrayed no concern | tier with you | Ladded as a sud going to get Fstraight at’ me, | tell you somedhi | I think of i | kina again toni; thes foz prise for | whatever. f | .y Mnexpected news to him, turned and sauntered toward the shook ¥ a Fes never left 1's hand fall nerveieasly by er face paled as she gazed into | her lover's countenance with wie | filled with a vague terror and apprehension, a3 it with a woman's intui | ment of coming evil. p toward the doctor, who was ing leisurely away, wholly unconscious of the drama enacted in those few seconds behind . then hesitated, wheeled suddenly | around to Minna, and. cla*ing both her uands, ge a — a dramatic, he pressed ris lips together as if to suppress 2 groan. ‘Minna,’ he said hoarse’ “God | nows I would spare you if I could. Go to the house, child, as quick a& you enn’—this almost beseechingly. You are safe, whatever ; 1 will take are of you.’ But she did not move. THE DOCTOR HANDCUFFED, “Joe stepped up to the doctor, touched him significantly on the shoulder. With a deft movement he sn: and with a shrill, prolonged whistle summoned his assistants, who came running from the hotel with half the village loafers at their heels. If the heavens bad iallen I could not have been more amazed. I stood like one i comprehending in the least what ‘There was utter silence for an instant. The doctor looked deliberately around him int each man’s face; his eyes met those of the de- tective; his face was deadly pale, but he showed nota tremor, It was what one might have ex- “ sold!” of him—game to the last. “That was all he said, But Mi + hous off his arm and hi with i f aes j £ f i i ag & j Bee # | nience, bia, lies partly m_ the gtate of Vir ak | partly in ‘that of Marsland. and was ceded by S's ¢ a | a rising gronnd, FS ‘or | into houses, theaters, de. twenty fect deep. The city being sitaated upon | The P m eyes, | she ielt a presenti- | INSECTS MAKE T “There was not a man who dared to follow | SHELLAC, the warning eame too late. ‘They were too well known and hed been tracked ico TAttle Createres Whose Wonderful Wark Jong to escape. They were all finally captured, Benefits Mankind. and I suppose it was as tough ® sei of mon @& | Prom the Reston clo were ever banded together. It | What makes your derby enuff the connterfeiter had no caping that night and wa. wholly but Joe could afford to at that late hour—the bi with a vory long cord —a! Shellac. 1 the denonement came before he was prepared for it. When the | t+ 16 the house was searched, Im t colar, af who existe |» ft te Pr “§ nce no one bad even rusyected Sent 20 th ond foand the most compiete counte - had over been taken. it wa ‘ ! all o the pen see TON raw ag. HOW WASHING LOOKED THES, ‘The Federal Cliy as Deserihoa by Gazetteer Nearly a Hundred Years Ago. tained is are ‘There was not much to vity of Washing- lore Plvte ton in 1797, but it had great prospects, The tect is xd city, or rather the plan of the city, is in an interesting way in a book published in th year and now in the possession of a resident elope: ton. «The book ie “The Universal npon this juice, dorive their i _ ” azetieer of the Known World.” by Jobu po it gee within it ublin im 1797. Tt swys: baw . North America, now the metropolis of the United States, It is seated at the janction of ¢ os Pot macand the Eastern branch, extending about four miles up each, including a tract « tory scarcely to be excecde ealubrity and bes This terri After the ms mass 4th ng bur mothers t. th throngh the des urface of t those two states to the United States of Am ica, and by them established to be the seat of government after the year 1800. The plan not only combines convenience, regularity, eleg..nee of prospect and a free cireulati everything grand and beaut tl troduced into a city. It is or grand divisions by streets runni and south and east and west, wh ground work of the plan. However, from the Capitol.the President'shouse and someof the i portant areas the ci run diagonal «! . from one material object to another, which not ly produce a variety of fine prospects but remove the insipid sameness which some other great cities unpleasing. devised to connect the separate an tant objects with the principle and t Funally the ered with at When the Bodies form 1 comb, Asa te ents young twigs ck, hard, ils I ult of decom i a bewutifal loaded with th the countri mont dis- > preserve h the whole a reciprocity of sight. These t leading streets are all 160 feet wide, in- ling a pavement of ten feet anda gravel walk of thirty feet planted with trees ch side, which will leave eighty fect of paved <tre for carriages. The rest of the atre. general, 110 feet wide, with a few only feet, except North, outh and streets, which are 160 fect. Th streets’ are named after the respective composing the Union, while those run rth and south are, from the Capitol eastward, named t Ist street, East 2d «treet, and so forth, and thove west of it are in the same man- ner called West Ist street, West ‘hose running east west are from Capitol northward named N end those south of South B street, divisions of 0. The contain from ided into lots of from forty t, and their depth, fre about 110 to 300 feet, according to the size the square. The irsegul o by the d ronal streets al . but generally in valuable situations. Their act nints are ail to be cut off at forty feet, x0 that ho house y will have an acute corner. All the houses must be of brick or stone. The area of the Capitol (or house for legislative bodies) is situated upon the most beautiful eminence in the city about a mile from the | | Eastern branch, and not mach more from the | Potomac, commanding a full view of the city, an weli as a cousiderable extent of the country jaround. The Lresideut’s house will stand upon ot far from the banks of the | Potomac. affording « fie water prospect, with a view of the Capitol and some other. material parts of the city. Due south from the Presi- | dent’s house and due west from the Capitol run | two great pleasure parks or malls, which inter- | sect and terminate upon the banks of the T'o- | tomac, and are to be ornamented at the sides | by a variety of elegant buildings, houses for | foreign ministers, &c. Interspersed through , the city, where the most material streets cross each other, are a variety of open areas, formed | in various regular figures, which in great cities | are extremely useful and ornamental. Fifteen | | of the best of these areas are to be appropri- | ated to the different states composing the | Union: not only to bear their respective names, but as proper places for them to erect statues, Obelisks or columus to the memory of their favorite eminent men, for these infant republi- jeans are not yet clear of the old aristocratic bagatellerics. Upon a small eminence. where | a line due west from the Capitol and due south { A ‘ | from the President's house would interacct | lion or some other pigment being mised with it tobe erected an equestrian statue of Gen, [f° Color. All of the varietion uf sliellar ere Washington, late President of the United | franslucent. and some of the finer vw = | Staten. “Places are marked out for other public | sheets as thin ws writing paper. | buildings, asa marine hospital, with its gar- wah tonto dens: # general exchange and ite public waik ity hall, church houses, colleges, market The President of the | United’ States, in locating the sent of the « prevailed upon the proprietors of the soil cede a certain portion of the lots in every situ- ation tobe void by his direction aad the pro- ceeds to be solely applied to the public build- ings and other works of public utility within the city. This grant would about 5,000 lots, and will be suitic mil to rect the public buildings, but to dig # canal, conduct water through the city and to pave and light the streets, which will save a heavy tax | that arises in other cities, and render the lot cous | Eastern branch of the Pi safest and most commédiour being aafliciehtly deep for the urgest abips for about four miles above its As it is ¢ strikes the * It form: into th these stick The ire on nate The liquid im which The squares amount to squares gene i a r indicate the qu shade in soldiers of this purple dye. ot this The Burm: f male Assur, is 1 to 5,000. The best js that winich ism pletely freed from it Aw roaches nearest to a light orange-br { the coloring matter is not all washed resin is often vers different varieties, ice of the trees is ets; 80 that if any one shellac ix “ta resin” he ix not correctly line is not the simp f the tee, but is the result of the action of the inserts apom the juice or rosin. Shellac containg several peculiar rosins, The great value of shellne ix its mse m account « imparts to the varnish, tion made of this mate lacquer with which brass and other metals are corted to preserve their potivh. Tn olden times common beeswax was need for sealing envelope The wax was miged with $ enateriahe to give it consistency, It wax "ult to preserve it, howe heat tended to soften it. Late king etn was intro sealing The purest wealing wax that aud is made al ntirely of slella, vermil may be mxtn given to Chinese worksof art by the us Inc. Some b molded of ix weft ped into boauti these works thas ornan beautiful that even in Ch nt of she vant and is abundantly capacious. This river co: tains thirty and thirty-five feet to near the up- | COMEN perend of the city, where it is eight a MOENING, ad Mystery Which an @ Unable to Sol Time the great post road, exactly equidistant from the northern and southern extremities of the Union, and nearly so from the Atlantic ocean tothe Ohio river, upon the best navign- tiou and in the midst of the ricuest commercial lived « territory in America, omims ng the most he ‘tensive internal resources, is by far the most litle in this world that I< eligible situation for the rexidence of Congress, |} don't know. but and itis now pressing forward by the public | aoe ee a terine spirited enterprise noi only of the : ee eS United States, but also of foreign The in~ | YeArs. more or land navigation of the Potomac is so farad-| “What's that!" interrogated Gane vanced that craft loaded with produce now | was but yet a bogmner. | come down that river and ite several branches | «Wali, my son, it’s this: I don't & and from upward of 180 miles to the Great Palis, |» o> rhosegnphae " eiuldinis Unies dehdhean aetnet ta ole don't believe I ever winall, why it is that wh in gets home nt 3 nd Little Palla, with | and finds he hasn't bis might key in he can ring *he bell and thump the throw pebbles np against the wi turb the whole neighborhood, and | ing it for three-quarters of wu hour or fore he wakes anybody in the house: tw i there at Sin the morning ¥ in bis pocket und Hips it tute te still ax a mouse and turns it witho: and creeps g) in his sock fee! 9 stall as a cat and gets into his room as notseln « stars go to rest he not only wakes u, | but the next morning everybody in the house is| |orking him what he means by congue in that hoar of the night, and if be snyet come then why doren't he make leas racket and distorb the whole country. The old man, in an excess Fron the head branches will produce a |cormunication by water between the city of Washington and the interior of Virginia and Maryland by means of the Poto- mac, the Shenandoah, the South Branch, Ope- can, Cape Capon, Patterson's creck, Conoo- ‘and Monocacs for upward of 200 miles, through one of the most heaithy. t and the city of Was sixty miles below, are innumerable miles Potomec, are freestone, of the of which the f i Ha R, Fe what I don't know, young man,” went on, “and I'd like to live until you lived just as long as I have, to ser if vou aed i 't really believe you “Dll try.” briefly remarked Gaymaliel, ‘those who know Gamaliel have a sublime f i F ii F 2 g iH i | | i i eli il Fa Q ety fi 3 Fi i i HE 5 i H ' 3 F & fi id i f i 1 ! oF ‘4 i 8 # oe? in his paper’ Lobelia.” sores charpeeen) Tampucy you, my dear.” don't you offer: fot ‘me some muney.