Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1893, Page 8

8 CONCERNS OF THE STATE. Matters Before the Les January 16, 189% ken in on the early that the firet real of a Vaited States morrow afternoon. lodge’ election on usinese will be the An earnest cing made to cut down the length of the = A legislative by the Inet le a They have 4 that Maseachuset it has an an- ual sone te legislature, has the k ume basiness be- unless all and for mpan’ these two cor- the West i travel iges or ctlett. annual The re- ihe organi- 2. The % was mostly in the wed. dent, Secretary the eve long one, and | A. A.| THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1898—TEN PAGES. A STENOGRAPHER’S ADDRESS. THE STUDY UF DREAMS. HOME FROM THE SOMALIS. Mr. David Wolfe Brown Gives Some Sug-| Amazing Display of the Imagination When | Capt. Dandas’ Pluck—Unarmed in a Crowd gestions to Young Reporters. ‘The members of the Stenographers’ Associa- tion, students and professional reporters, as- tembled in the cast parlor of the National Academy of Fine Arte Saturday evening to hear a lecture from Mr. David Wolfe Brown of the official reporting corvs of the House of Repre- sentatives on the subject “Hindrances to Speed in Stenograp! Mr. Brown's address contained nothing of the formality of a set speech. Though be had before addrossed the association on one or two pleasantly remembered occasions, he bad never expressed bis ideas on what be considered the hindrances to speed. These he divided into several sections and among them he spoke of a | thorough mastering of the principles or what is called the corresponding style, stating that t the ability of s man who tered the fundamental | utlding withont much atten enced reportiag expedients” than who had skimmed over the rudi ho style and con: ated hie attention mainly on arbitrary the Body Sleeps. Frederic Greenwood in the New Review. The poet's inspiration comes as if delivered by word from without, and the philosopher's | too, though in either case a mental picture fol- | lows in the thousandth part of « moment if the thought has to do with concrete things. The dream revelation is almost invariably cast in dramatic form. There isascene or scenes in which it is acted out. But the drama, which stage but this of the human mind, also begins and ends ina flash. With all ite epeeches and events and changes of scene it takes no Jonger in transaction than the poet's whispered word. On any theory of dreams this is a wonder no less worthy of serious inquiry than such mat- | ters as the atmosphere of Mars; on the theory that dreams are produced by imagination work- ing without the guidance of the reasoning powers it is a wonder that may be particularly informing as to imagination itself. For it seems that that first of faculties, freed from control in sleep, finds ite onn way to do as SA henek a ram much as the mind can do in its harmonious en- Tain inhest capettoess ns dactof the | Hrety, and does itwith such a. prodigiously rf, rudimentary or advanced, can be ignored. | ™4pid Use of splendid but apparently tedious fc ceneee ar sing, when and how it| Means that the mind in its harmoniousentirety 1 be learned and practiced, was dwelt | CAnnot even understand how it is done. a also the ements of the fingers and | ,1 most flelds of investigation the discovery oss the paper, steediness of nerve, | ® power like this would suggest that other igot” cr want of confidence and | “mazing displays of power may not be quite Lin is and metheyls of practice | Hlusory; and I do not know why philosophy ; vracticing “in ‘a rut," | Should reject the suggestion here. And sup- vB genrscong * | posing the above named theory true, the won- nt rtenliness of nerve, which | det must be carried further: for dreams like Jc eutgeowth of ““s sound mind in | that in which Condorcet solved a mathematical rs Brown exhibited a postal | Problem that bailled him awake have to be con- nid words bad been written by | Sidered, und there have been many such. Now, w Hampshire eighty | if isa common experience and u general belief > ‘a letter written by | that (as the aforceaid theory implies) the facul- int how he had maintained ; tis most necessary for the work of solving ‘ ve to so advanced an age | diiticult mathematical problems are those that he used the following language: “I use no to- | &F@ least active in sleep, or eygn dormant. If Uaceo, drink neither tea nor coffee and never | 9 it would seem that Condorcet’s free imgina- tonch intoxicants, and. besides, enw my own | tion solved in a flash the problem that was too wood and sift my own ashes.” Mr. Brown | uch for the whole laborious combination of (hought this, barring the wood sawing and | Wakeful faculties best fitted for tho task. If tubes sifting, a quod rectpe for enabling the | thas ie what happened the inference is that im- i ation i be | agination, when freed from restraint in aleep, e. wachort cromsire of questions the pro- ate ay of more than the power of filling the coedings were coneluded by a short address by | Mind in an instant with stories of word ‘and m= hh Gan of the officers. of the | deed that could not find admittance in a thou- Stenographers’ Association, in regard te its | fd moments when the mind is awake and'ap- | purposes and work and a welcome to all those | P*Fently most open to impressio Itfurther appears that in dreams imagina- tion can assume the functions of other and very different faculties, and doin a moment what they, whose proper business it was, failed to accomplish by hours of labor. Is not that worth thinking of in a serious, speculative way? But it may be that this theory is not of univer- sal application, and that there are dre: Condorcet’s being one of them—in which the mental faculties are employed just as they are when awake. If so, their workiug in sleep is us | much to be regarded as their working at other | times; and, however sirange the product may be, it demands attention as much as a great deal else of admitted and acknowledged wonder in the field of our mysterious corebro-spinal centers, who desired to become members, quite a| number availing themselves of the opportun- itr Mr. Brown's address and others to be de- livered in the future will be published in ampliet form, together with other matter of terest to stenographers, for distribution | | among members and friends of the association. seco eat HYATTSVILLE. | correspontence of The Evening Star. Hvartavitie, Mo., January 17, 1893. Gelden Rule Ledge, No. 45, L. 0. M., of this place met at Mechanics’ Hall last night and | conferred the first degree upon Drs. S. C. Cox | Alfred H. Wells and Mr. Edwakd A. Fuller. newly elected officers will be installed at the next meeting. The funeral of Mr. Robert Wright will take | place from the residence of Mr. J. C. Robinson tomorrow at lo'clock p.m. and the remains will be interred at Glenwood cemetery. De- ceased was a member of the Masonic order of | this pla Dre and Mra A. ML 10+ EDITOR CLUGSTON. He Meets an Emergency and Once More Shows His Grit. From the Chicago Tribune. ‘The bustle and roar of preparation for lauuching upon an expectant world another weekly issue of the Spiketown Blizzard rang through the office of that paper, and the high, intellectual brow of Mr. Mortimer Clugston, editor and proprietor of the same, was sick- lied o'er with the pale cast of thought anda smudge of printer's ink. “Is the paper up, Rufus?” he asked of the young man who officiated as foreman in the absence of the proprictor. “Almést.” anewered Rufus, “but not quite.” ave you run in that dead sewing machine ick will give a birthday party to their son, Lonny. this evening at their | residence ou Johnson avenue. | shave been issued to the wedding s DP. Wine nd Miss Elizabeth h will take place at Trinity Re- urch, Gettysburg, Pa, on the 25th | ieaeat Mr. George Mish Smith gave a card party to | his friends st his residence on Jobnson avenue last evening ning eystem of this village still re- improved, and it is difficult for the | to find their way through the streets ‘There is some talk of holding an over the matter. Ts of Bladensburg is a can- | te seustor, subject to the demo- ting convention, and ix being hed for this position by many 1 1 potiticians, nd the colamn of magazine ad “d slugged em ali out to fill up the Have you run in the double-leaded six lines about correspondents writing communications on one side paper only?’ “Yes, that ont se of Jo! 3 mae Editor Clugston, leaning over the imposing January 16, 1893. | stone and inspecting the furn . rliving about eight| Got that in, too,” replied tuiles from here, was robbed on December 1 of | or six places.” E bat the fact baa just leaked out with the | ‘Where ts4he item about the considerable citer of a reward for the recovers of the money, | @@oUnt of money still outstanding on subserip- tions und badly needed at this office?” | It is feared that great damage will result from That's at the top of the fi | the ice when it breaks in the river and bay. By | riul page loaded with pica slugs.” actual measurement the ice in the channel of | ““Um—yes, I ee. Isn't there anything on the river 1s ten inches thick and near the shore | the standing galley you can use twelve, and it is enfd thata horse and sleigh | ve got everything in except the pi.” 1d be driven down the river on the ice with || ‘‘How much more do you need?” “About half or three-quarters of a stickful.” — ER MARLBORO’. ae 6 in.” the aragraph about the new ufus, “in five Hundreds and hundreds of men who worked 1 the bay. rivers and creeks as oyster dredgers 8 to this freeze are now thrown out of nent, and there are many cases of suf- and hardship beard on every hand. | This is the coldest weather that has been ex- need in this country for twelve years. In r of 1880 all the fruit trees, that is | peach and pear trees generaily, were killed on | jthe Delaware and Maryland peninsula. the greatest reach growing belt in the world. In| ¢ following fall hundreds of thousand of | ang trees were set out to take the place of | er since that time the peach | ion has been gradually going proved himself to be a journalist of resources. “I'll soon fix that,’’he exclaimed, the light of a sudden inspiration shining in his eye and irradiating bis pale cheek: and he sat down and te the followin ‘Owing to an unexpected pressure on the ad- vertising columns of the luctantly compelled to crowd out a lagge quan- tity of interesting matter prepared expressly for this week's iseue. This shall not happen again, even if wo havo to enlarge the Blizzard to meet the demands of the advertising de- partment. In the future, nsin the past, the Spike- town Blizzard will alwaya be found ready to meet the expectations of « generous public and toshow forth in its own prosperity the thrift and enterprise of the growing young city in which it has cast its lot.” “There.” said Editor Clugston, wiping the perepiration from his forehead, “set that up, siup the forms on the press and ran off the regula: copies. It's time the subscribers were getting their paper—darn ‘em!” 7° A SATISFACTORY t announcing the marriage of « Hutchins to Miss Mollie J. h of Friendship, Anne Arundel | comnty, which will take place on Wednesday new { onging to Fred Bill of Groto n in use on the Was! Point Lookout railroad, has | : shipped on its own wheels to Gray's Fer fevsrs. Wilson Co., from whom it was RIMENT. has been arrested for selling license at Florencesille, this ynty Sheriff Dove and is held in 250 bail. He Had an Experience in the Art of De- fending Himself. a Detroit Free Press, hear that you thiak of taking a series of boxing lessons,” remarked a Detroit insurance agent to a bank cashier the other day. “1 do, sir.” ny particular object?” “Of course, I'm out late o' nights, and quite apt to run up against loafers. I don't want to An Odd Fellows? r tanquet. 1 Association gave quet at the National Hotel °, on account of . W. Dannenbower, | ellows’ Vete axth leat night. Thre nova goo aiendance, aban onectnd | SHEE 4 Fov0ler, but Ido propose to have some «. After the menu had received due | Protection. eres n nts were given and responded | “You'd defend youreelf, eh?’ “Certainly.” ‘Now, my friend, before you throw away any money on boxing come over to the gymnasium with ine and make an experiment.” we: “Ihe Subordinate Lodges,” W. grand representative: Foseph Bu F. A. Stie representative, | excellently rendered. Mr. |" “What sort of one?” rt $ réang “Star of My Soul.” by | «et some one tap you on the nose and see if Bir. J. W. Bischoff. and as un encore gave “Love | you have any sand left, I dou't believe you've ng.’ He was accompanied by Dr. | got the grit to engage in a fight, and I’ think choff on the piano. Miss Mattie Wade | gave a soprano sole, which was much admired. Miss Clara Kosafy gave a soprano solo, accom- anied by Mr. Douglas Miller on the flute and ; ertha ¢ on the piano, and received | re. ‘Ibe entertainment was greatly en: jor: A with the winging of-"Auld DangSyne the meeting adjourned until next year. — h of Mrs. Lucinda Chase. J run after being tapp ‘You do, eh? Might as well call_meacow- Til go over with you right off." ‘They scrap occasional was a scrapper there who #aid he'd put on the mitts to accommodate the gent. He did so, and at a proper moment he did the “tapping” |act witha left-hander and knocked the gent into the sawdust. The victim lay quiet for about fifteen seconds, but then jumped up with nee in the arms of her son Sunday | yell, pulled off the gloves, jumped over two | afternoon, was oue of the best-known colored | chairs and clattered down stairs without coat or women im the United States. She was born in| "“" Well." said the other as he overtook him, Alexandria, Va., and married Wm. H. Chase, | “you got about half what « loafer would give * sleading business man of this city. you, and what do you think?” Her husband was shot accidentally in 1363 and | “i think I'll take lessons in running, and be- | the was left a widow with sig small children. | gin this very evening,” was the prompt reply, | The oldest is W. Calvin Chase, the editor of the | as he eat down on the curbstone to hold a wet Ber. Mrs. Chase educated her children in the | handkerchief to his swelling proboscis, , and there vablic schools of this city L ree daughter, | ——— --- cee ra. E. V. C. Williams, 18 Tn Abbeville, 8. C., | Badly Broken Up. principal e of the leading schools in that | From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. ‘inte. She left there yesterday to be present at ‘Some very amusing testimony was introduced a few days ago in one of the numerous “‘side walk casee” against the city being tried before a re- feree. ‘The plaintiff, who had slipped on an icy | sidewalk some time during last winter and had re- | ceived quite sévere injuries about the neck, was | wcolored man, and one of the witnesses wasn Wines the Betts Foos Freee. companion of his, ‘This witness, it seems, had “You're pretty small,” said the man who was | assisted the plaintiff to §is home after his fall, engaging some men to go onan exploring ex- and bad also assisted in nursing him back to pedition with bim. | health. At the request of the plaintiff's attor- “P'm not very tall,” admitted the little man. | Ney the witnass gave something of a detailed “Not mach over five (get, I should judge.” | Seren tue muvied sheeted ene “Very little over that.” “ ber mother's funeral, nesday aiternoot which takes Wed- &t 2 o'clock from the Fif- terian Church. She leaves her property in this city and New York to her daughters. > Sufficient Proof of Endurance. i asay the plaintiff was injured about the > XS “That's what makes me hesitate,” said the | back?” tte bes je guest of the sesceiat “Lehoulkin't think you tad enough , sir.” end an effort is being made to have bim ince to stand ——-" “What was the appearance of his a ae Unive lub on thefoliow- Fodurance!” cxclaimed the little man.| “Well, sah, his back was all black and blue.”” ' 4 « ¢ sent out request- | “Why. rir, I've got # record for that.” “Well, yes, I don't doubt that,” remarked fap of Greduites of Prinses the ase nol] “foe ne” the attorney, as he looked at the dusky face of already members of the nssociation to send | pot, in a whole afternoon at a foot ball | the plaintify, “but hie injuries. What did their names ai \iresses to Mr. Henry (. | game in the rain with a girl six feet tall and | consist of. "That ix, Bow extensive were they?” Btewart, jr.. the secretary, 620 Lith street. id the umbrelia over her head. If thatdoesn't| ‘‘Well, I hain’tno doctah, sab, but I should like to know—— like t say bis injuries consisted of show endurance I should Shes anh, ‘Thew nnmeared to me that compound. way. would take hours and hours to present on any | Everything's up except the editorial | type. latest styles, just received,” | ‘Then it was that Editor Clugston once more | | | Blizzard we are re- | 2 room on Monroe avenue! | cultivated bacillus, the subcutaneous inj: of Threatening Natives. Capt. F. G. Dundas of the royal navy, who has just returned to England from his expedi- tion up the Juba river, telis of the danger he faced nmong the Somalis, who are perhaps the most inveterate enemies of the white race in Africa. The captain ascended the river for 360 miles on the little steamer Kenia. It ig the first time this journey has been made since Angust, 1865, when Baron von der Decken attained the same point. His vessel was wrecked there and the baron and five of his European colleagues were murdered by the Somalis, only two of the party escaping. When the British admiralty was conducting soundings and mapping the coast line of east Africa the indomitable Somalis eat by the thou: sands along the beach, silently watching opera- tions and making no hostile movement unless the white men undertook to land. On such oc- casions the Somalis they landed they would be Killed toa man. It was the sate people whom Dundas and his lit- tle party encountered as he ascended the Juba river in July last., When he reached Berdera his furthest point, he found the whole bank swarming with natives. His crew, in terror, begged Dundes to tara back. He made the boat fast, however, to the right bank and sent a Somali interpreter to talk with the excited crowd. The natives rushed down to the land- ing place brandishing their spears and threat- ening to kill the interpreter if he came ashore, So Dundas ordered him to return to the vesgel. That night the explorer heard that a large body of natives waa to ettack the vessel in a few hours. He accordingly pushed his vosrel out from the shore and anchored in midstream. At 11 p.mo. a large number of natives was seen on the shore moving among the trees. Sud- denly they dashed into the fiver and swam to- ward the vessel. Just as they wore clambering on board, intending, doubilere, to kill every man in the party, Dundas fired a sound signal, the novelty of which he hoped wonld intimidate the savages. The signal was most offecti It burst in midair with «loud report and the natives made fcr the banks in terror. Next morning Capt. Dundas adopted an ex- Pedient which probably uot one man in many thousands mould care to carry out. He sud- denly laniBh among. tho Somalis ut their’ bi town. ‘The interpreter was with him and_bo! men were unarmed. He pushed through the threatening crowd to the sheik, expecting half dozen specra through his back’ every moment as the natives pressed around him with weapons poised. He walked upto the shiek, who Peared too astonished for words. “Amant said Dundas. ‘The word meant “peace.” told his interpreter to tell the chief that fe meant him no harm and wished to be a friend. “How dare you come among us unarmed?” said the sheik, sternly. ‘Do you not know that you are completely in my power and that I can easily make an end of you?" Capt. Dundas replied that he might do so if ho liked, bat he had dore the chief and his people ho harm, and why should they not be friends. If the Imperial East Africa Company had desired to seize the Somali country he would have come with a large force instead of a handful of men. ‘The chief was apparently dumfounded by tho hardihood of his visitor. After a few minutes he eaid there should be peace, at lenst until be consulted his fe bade Dundas go on board his veseel and await the result. At the end of five hours the chief eent a present on beard asa token that they would be friends. He said he did not like white people, but he rather liked Dundas personally. After some days they became great friends. Capt. Dundas went up the river a few miles le to the rapids, where Baron von der Decken’s | ill-fated vessel, the Guelph, had been wrecked tweuty-seven years before,” He found her lying ou her starboard side, the funnel still standing and two trees growing up beside ft. Dundas says the Somali people are extremely proud and that they do not on any account show the slightest astonishment at anything. Not even when the engines and Maxim guns were shown to them did any expression of wonder cross their faces. ‘They were all armed with a loug epear, a short stabbing knife and a smail shield. Capt. Dundas says the climate is excelent, and he regards the country as admirably adapted for cnitivation and Enropean enter- prise. ‘The population along the river has in- creased to an enormous extent. Where for- merly there were only a few hamlets there are now small towns with 600 to 1,000 people. At one village he saw cotton growing and men spinning it with a wooden loom and shuttl The Somalis are very strict Mohammedan ‘The younger girls and women are mostly pretty with large black eyes. They ure jealously guarded by the men, and Europeans aze hardly permitted to look at them. ——_—_-o+____ NEW THEORY OF CHOLERA INFECTION, Two New Cholera Bacilll Discovered by Russian Doctors, From the London Standard. Our St. Petersburg correspondent writes: ‘A new theory of the origin of choleraic infection has just been expounded ata special meeting of the Russian Medical Society of St. Peters burg by Prof. Nensky. This gentleman, although not widely known, even in Russian medical or scientitic circles, has for tho past two years been investigating the subject trom all conceivable points of view and under very propitious circumstances, for he is director of the bacteriological laboratory at the. Insti- tute of Experimental Medicine which belongs to his highness Prince Oldenburg. This in- stitute dispatched four physicians to Baka and Astrakhan while the cholera epidemic was at its height in those cities, with instructions to open a bacteriological station in each for the purpore of experimenting op the eubject of cholera, its origin and cure. ‘These are the cities in which, while the doctors went about preaching the’ necessity of killing the bacilli, the people were still more zealous and enthu- sinstic in propagating the necessity of killing the doctors, and one of the latter, Dr. Blostein, deserves great credit for the calm industry and energy with which he persevered in his invexti- gations till he arrived at what now se ms aeatis- factory roqult, calculated to impart a new aud fruitfal direction to the efforts of bacteriologists to discover the best means of doing battle with the cholera, “Whenever Dr. Blostein inoculated animals with cholera infection by injecting an infusion | of Koch's bacilli under their skin they con- tintied to live and enjoy themselves as usual, justas Pettenkofer and so inany of the op- onents of the bacilius system did after they ad swallowed whole colonies of Koch's cholera bacilli, But whenever, instead of the artificially ction consisted of a portion of the patient's dis- charges, x speedy death with all the usual symptoms of Asiatic cholera was the result. Now, as Koch's bacilli were present in the former species of injections, Dr. Blostein ar- gued that, seeing that they were like- wise active in the latter kind of im- jection, it followed that something else, robably some other kind of bacillus, must present in the discharges to account for the difference of result. And it was to de- termine the value of that algebraical ‘x’ that he next directed his efforts. After a time they proved successful, and the persevering investi- gator discovered to his joy two'perfectly new micro-organisms, the influence of which he very soon determined. Whenever he inocu- lated an animal with supposed cholera ‘virus.’ consisting either of Koch's bacilli alone or of the two newly discovered organisms, the inocu- lated animals went about their business as usual without a hitch, and seemed as little affected as if he bad’ given them a lump of beet-root sugar instead of cane sugar. But he had only to united all three bacilli in one infu- sion, injecting this under the animal's skin, and the latter sickened and died of Asiatic cholera ina vory short time. The conclusion would seem to be that Asiatic cholera is the result of the ravages of the different microbes, which must be mt in the human body sim- ultaneously. Hence Pettenkofer, Emmerich, and many others swallo with impuni whole colonies of Koch's bacilli unaccoi nied by the other two; hence also Khay- tin’s inoculation of patients was absolutely fruitless. “Experiments are now being made for the rpose of discovering whether inoculation, if ‘the subcutaneous injection contains all three ‘mic nisms together, will guarantee the tient from infection, and, if so, for iow long. The results of these ex} ts, which may possibly mean the final extirpation of Asiatic cholera, are looked forward to with impatience 1m the medical circles of St, Peters- burg and Moscow.” The Wear on Kails. From the Denver News. ‘Taking the length of the permanent ways on the surface of the globe at nearly 60,000 geo- graphical miles, with a daily average of ten trains, it is estimated that the total 4oss by wear and tear suffered each day by the of the earth is about 600 tons. fine in fractions. | advise tainly told them that if | “BEN” BUTLER AS A SCHOOLMASTER. Why the Big Boys Did Not Throw Him Tato a Snowdrift. From the New York Tribune. When a man dies everybody who ever knew him begins to remember everything that he ever knew about him. There are many people jast sow who remember Benjamin F. Butler as | asoldier,as a lawyer, as a politician, as a yachteman, and there are a few who remember him asacchoolmaster. The writer is not pre- pared tosay how many times or in how many places “Ben” Butler taught school, but he cer- tainly did teach school once im a little town in Maine, and he made an tmpression on the munds of some of his pupils. It was one of the good oid-fashtoned country schools which gathered together for a few weeks in the winter the half-grown men who worked on the farms in the summer, the little children and the big girls, and tried to drive into their heads and rivet there some scraps ot intelligence suchas might seem adapted to the individuals, without any thought of classifica- tion of intellects. The place of master in such A school was one not likely to be sought except by aman who bad genuine neod of the little profit that was to be gained by it, eapecially Since the big bovs had’ the habit, common in many a New England school of ‘the time, of standing the master on his head in a snowdrift about the second or third day of his incam- beney. In this particular school and in this parttcu- lar winter three or four masters had been served in this way, and the place was vacant for the fourth or fifth time. Then one of the trustees bethonght him of a young kinsman of his own who was in a college a few miles away at Water- villeand who he thonght woutd do for the place. The reason why he thought he would do was that he was a small, slight, frail-looking boy, and he believed that the ruffians of the school would be ashamed to offer violence to one of his stature. “The young man was sent for, the place was offered to him, he was warned of the dangers, he disregarded them and he took it, His name was Benjamin Butler. On the fiat morning when he entered the school house he made a little speech in regard to the discipline which he proposed to main- tain, and he accompanied the speech by a terri- ble fook, east in some direction or other, but in what direction nobody could ever with cer- tainty find out, Assoon as the boys bad a chance to compare notes on the subject every boy declared that the master was looking straight at him. This disagreement was caused 5 visual defect in the master himself. Butler was a good teacher of every- thing but arithmetic, and of that he seemed to know nothing whatever. It was the cus- tom for each pupil to “cipher through the book” for himself, doing every problem and troubling the schooi- master only when he noeded help on a pecu- Marly hard one. When a problem was brought | to Butler for an explanation he fas perfectly helpless, but the trustee who was so happily related to him was most expert in mathematics, so Butler would put off pupil who ques- tioned hi@, saying: “Iam busy; I can't attend toit now: come to me in the morning and I will explain it to you,” and then m the evening he would call on the trustee and ask for a solu- tion of the problem. He would get a most ex- tensive and elaborate one and at the end he would know just as much about the problem as he did before, but he had a marvelous memory and he would commit to it every word and every figure of the explanation, and the next morning he would deal it ont like clockwork to the puzzled pupil and get the credit of a most lucid unfolding of the problem. For a few days Butler's stature protected him against the rufianly tendencica of the big boys, but they became impatient and decided at last that the new master would bave to go intoa snowdrift, like the others. They formed their conspiracy and seta certain morning for the execution of their purposes, But the big girls were on the master's #ide, and one of them over- beard the plan as it was discussed by her brother and others. and she determined to warn the master. She dared not be seen talking with him, lest she should be charged with treason by her brother, but she passed Mr. Butler on the without turning her hend «he said: “I wouldn't come to school tomorrow if J were you, Mr. Butler; the boys are goingto put you in a snow- dritt.”| To this Butler replied, alko without turning bis head: ‘Don’t be afraid: they won't put me in a engwarift.” ‘The next morning the whole school was eager toxce what was to be done and what show of resistance the master would make, if, indeed, he should dare to make any. He entered in the midst of a dead silence. He took off his over- coat and hung it on the peg behind the desk. Thenhe reemed about to sit down at his desk, as usual, but suddenly he went buck to where his overcoat hung. as if he had forgotton some- thing. He reached up to the right-hand breast pocket of the overcoat, took cut a huge pistol and put it into the inside breast pocket of his under coat. ‘Then he reached up to the left- hand breast pocket of the overcoat, took out another huge pistol and put it into the inside breast pocket of his under coat. The silence deepened yet more, the master eat down at hie desk and the exercises of the school wogt on, as usual. There was not another murmur of rebellion that winter. Butler said afterward that he could scarcely keep from laughing while he handled the pis- tols, because they were a pair which he layed with when he visited his uncle in the wnasn boy. He had loaded them with ashes then and they had never been unloaded since. When he heard of bis danger he went and bor- rowed them, trusting that they would protect hisa as well as a battery. Ss The Care of the Complexion, From Godey's. Since feminine beauty is the topic upon which poets, painters and novelists alike love most to dwell, it is not unnatural that every woman should desire to be beautiful. As to what con- stitutes beauty no definite rule can be laid down, for each dis.inct type is most beautiful when viewed in contrast with other types. Regularity of feature is not beauty, for a little irregularity will sometimes afford a charm which the most perfect face—faultily fault- | less, ieily regular, splendidly mall” —falls far short of possessing, and wiil impart an indi- vidnality of character that will otherwise be lacking. It is generally conceded, however, jthit beauty can be absolutely perfect only waen it goes hand in hand with perfect health, and that an erect carriage, sparkling eyes and a clear complexion possess attractions which are not found in mere fauitlessness of feature. Too much stress canuot be laid on the value of the bath as askin beautifier, and a Russian bath, taken every week, will be found of incal- culable benefit. “A fact greatly in its favor is that it is less exhausting then the Turkish bath, as the perspiration it induces is moderate and natural. The idea that cold water is beneficial to the skin isa very mistaken one. a cold bath being really harmful to'many persona, particu- larly those who suffer from any kind of heart trouble. A hot bath twice a week and a warm sponge bath every morning should be the rule, and the face and neck should be bathed thoroughly ever night with hot water anda little good soap, a flannel wash cloth being used, The face should be dried gently with a soft towel, the rubbing being always in an op- posite direction from the wrinkles, Harsh rubbing should be carefully avoided, as it in- juries the cuticle and induces inflammation and any number of skin disorders. Undoubtedly food has a direct influence upon the complexion, and it should therefore be of the simplest and most wholesome description. It should also be perfectly fresh and properly cooked and should be eaten slowly. Too much meat tends to redden and coarsen the rkin, but fish, fowl and game of all kinds may be eaten with impunity. Ripe, fresh fruit is in- valuable and should be partaken of early in the morning, before bi fast. Fresh vegeta- bles of all kinds are admirable skin purifiers, besides being delightfully soothing to the nerves, and salads are also beneficial. These should be served with a simple French ressing, properly ee with @ shower of sugar nnd vinegar. Sweets and try, if eaten at all, must be used very spar- ly, and hot bread, pancakes, and rich greasy food of all kinds should. be studiously avoided. Although these rules may at first appear unde- sirably stringent, it will after a while be found quite easy to curb one's appetite sufficiently to resist all ap to self indulgence, partic- ularly when good results begin to be noted, The March of Science. ‘From the Boston Courier. Hiram—“Well, Si, I heard ye bin daown to Boston.” Silas—‘Well, ye heard right, Hi; I wuz ther’ nigh onto a week.” i they got enything dif- 2 Hiram—“Well, hev ant ther’ from what they've got dsown to nos Silas—'“Ditrunt! Well, yer ought ter go ther’ onto a hundred and they pull em reound with a leetle wire no bigger'n a straw.” Capt. Robert Stewart, a wealthy ship owner, died of heart disease Sunday night ai his home in NJ. ° FOR CONSTIPATION road ax both were going home from school, and | ELEPHANTS IVORY AND ITS USES. How This Costly Material is Carved Into Manifold Shapes. From the New Yort Sun. When Mr. Whitelaw Reid was in search of workman to decorate apartments at Ophir Farm with rich and beautiful antiques brought over from Europe h@ found that there was but one man in America who could do such work and he lay sick, Had Mr. Reid been in search of skilled ivory carvers he would have found them almost as scarce. There are not above three or four ivory carvers of approved skill in New York and hardly #o many in all the rest ofthe country. The men who do such work are paid high wages the year round whether busy or idle. ‘They are Frenchmen, Germans and Italians. Of the threo the Italians are perepe the most skillfal, since ivory carving been an art ina high degree of perfection among the Italians for centuries. The most famous ivory carver living, however, is a Frenchman, Moreau Vauthier. Few ‘of bis masterpieces have been seen in Ameficn, though two were sold at the famous Morgan art sale of a few years ago and two more, held at a great price, are now iu the possession of a noted Amorican jeweler. ‘The ivory earvers of this country do little or nothing in thg East Indian or Japanese man- ner, nor do thsy occupy themselves with figure work. Their chicf employment is in producing decorative toilet and stationery articles. The rage for stained and carved ivory is of recent growth in the United States, and the demand for such articles is not large, as they are more costly than the same articles in silver would be. They were produced to tickle the jaded wsthe- tic palates of the rich and luxurious, and only those who muy trifle away what they will in- dulge themselves to any considerable degree in carved ivory. In all such articles the cost of the rawmato- rial is small in comparison with that of the Inbor. Billiard balls are costly because they contain large quantities of the finest ivgry cut from the best part of the tusk. The labor cost of billiard balls is trif_ing, as they are turued by machinery and rapidls. ‘Thus it often hap- pens thatasingle small article, richly stained and carved, will cost five times as much asa Dillinrd bail containing ten times the weight of ivory. The carvers of ivory use much the same toolsas the wood carvers, but of light and more delicate make. The werk 1s extremely tedions and laborious. ‘The carving is usually done in low relief and the subjects are such as are suitable to this treatment—Persian designs ties of paim, and hints caught from those marvelously simple but ar! ‘o bring out the design and is to absorb moisture, which it readily docs, in newly manufactured articles of ivory. The art of staining ivory is a secret guarded well by Some notion of the cost of ivory carving may be bad from the fact that while a hand mirror in delicate curves, the cactus, with some varie- Alaskan Indians. The ivory order to give’ it that fresh look common in the carvers. $12, a mirror in carved ivory may cost $100 or more. The small articles in carved ivory cost from $5 to €25, and a toet set in. that ma‘ fal may fetch as high as $500. The Ameri climate, with its extremes of heat and cold, very trying upon ivory, and ivory back mir- tora of European manufacture almost invariably craok across the back afterafew months of use upon this side of the Atlantic. The American mannfacturers have bit upon the expedient of leaving a space between glass and frame in order to allow for contraction and expansion. arly all the ivory brought to the United Stites is bought in the great London market, where the price is knocked aboat by buils and bears, who corner ivory as ther corner wheat or corn, ivory, is brought to this country, thongh one of the largest tusks ever seen in this market, that of a sacred East Indian elephant, has just been mounted in oriental style as a trophy of the chase. The tusk ‘measures more than feet in length and — retains it bore when worn by the ncred beast to which it belong to the predatory apd murderous industry of Tippu Tib and his black Zapzibaris the supply of ivory has kept ace with thé increased demand resulting from its extended use in this country, and the price for thé raw material has not permanently ad- vanced. Few tusks of more than five fe length come to this country and mans than four feet long. Many of the tuska reach |here after hating been buried in Africa for ars to save them from thievish enemies of the wage owners, Every tusk must go through a process of seasoning. long or ehort, according as the process is natural or artificial, before it made up into articles of ornament of use, is difficult to obtain a perfect slab of ivory more than six inches in diameter, as the upper end of the turk, which is the thickest, is hollow, and the material is coarser than that in the solid wart of the tusk. From the latter are made | From the coarser parts are made poker chips, | buttons and a hundred small articles. Every | partof the tusk is put to use. Even the chips and sawdust are converted into ivory black by burning. ee —_______ DERELICTS AT SEA. A Periodical Government Chart to Give News of Their Whereabouts. From the New York Sun. The two greatest dangers at sea for navi- gators, irrespective of storms, which as a rule can be guarded against, are collisions with other vessels and derelicts floating at random on the broad ocean. The chance of collisions between steamers plying from the ports of New York and Boston and European ports has been greatly reduced, | if not almost entirely obliterated, by the adop- tion of ocean ianes, promoted and carried for- ward by the hydrographic offico of the Navy Department. All transatlantic steamers on the foregoing routes now strictly confine them- selves to these ocean Innes, which are, after |leaving port, nearly fifty miles apart, thereby rendering it almost impossible for steamers ing in opposite directions to come together. But the subject of derolicts has not as yet been so effectually dealt with. Although very few in number compared to vessels under control, yet each one of these derelicts is a much greater danger to x se: going vessel than another manned vessel can | be, owing to the fact that they carry no lights, are absolutely without control, and ia_ many j cases of sufficient bulk and weight to sink the | lurgest steamers, in case they should be collided | with. This may especially be said of water- legged, lumber-laden veasels, ‘The pilot chart issued by the hydrographic office gives the track as well as the latest kuown position of every derelict that is reported by seagoing vesselsand in that way a great deal of the danger 1s avoided; vet the only sure remedy against these obstructions on the ocean js theit destruction. The great number of them which are sighted by vessels at sea during the daytime is an indica‘ion of how many vessels pass very {close to destruction at night without being aware of their danger. According to the pilot chert the month of January, 1893, no recked and water-l vessels are at present floating in the direct lanes plied by steamers. Although vessels are wrecked in all parts of the world, many of which are abandoned without being’ destroyed, yet the most dangerous of them are those ‘wrecked near our own const. Owing to the gulf stream and ing winds they drift northward and then rd and right into the tracks of many vessels. Recently the ship Fred B. Taylor was cut in two by a steamer and each ee aes a dan- erous obstruction to na portion Fritted “ashore bu. the coast of Maine.and the other on the coast of New Jersey. It ig not un- common for a wreck to be sighted by at least just issued for than eight twenty vessels, and one, the Wyer G. Sargent, witha of mahogany, has been di since 1891, and has been reported thirty times. Boston Her Standard. From the Boston Globe. The following story is told me of a little girl who spent some weeks in « visit among reln- tives in this city not lo@§ago. When the days of her visit ended she a glorious future home. strain herself longer. she “Let's bi framed in plain ivory may be had for $10 or | ‘The African, rather than the Asiatic | It} illiard balls and the most beautifully carved | Jarticles for the toilet and the writing de-k. AUCTION SALES. THIS AFTERNOON. JP URCANSON BROS.. Auctioneers, EXCUrORy gg05 OF STP STR EGAD ¥ a BOOee ae "| 1 ‘ nF Eis ot te ea eutand 9” ANAT AST PORTANT Lei oy Ue bhi tice A Senn see peri ee eres =| pee (21) ‘cet five (5) inches from the northwest corner of SEEN AAT TEEN TH, 1804, said lot ou F street south and rann:mg thence east on the line of F street fourteen (14) feet. thence sou h sixty-eleht (68) feet to a eirbt (8) feet x a) TEN AM a thence wes alone line of fourteen (14) feet, | * Le thence ort sixty-eight) font ho tne piace of be- | Nit) sell tows igvode, Terps cual NOT ro q ‘Tocether with all the improvements, wars, ease Lgpete— Act iinere, ments, rights. privileces, here — pareensmcen UNCANBON BRO, Auctiogeers nctag'st'is sav wise apeer- | ID’ auctions ditaments to the saine bel hand Det aw taining: balance in one year, note to Terms: One-half on: TRUSTEES SALy OF val | bear 6 recent interest from day of sale, RT ON THE Fable verianntally, and tote sccured ty deed ot | ATREET REP PFN reat} orf must on premises so'd. or all x a. ys of pur- TFENTH STREFTS NOKRTUWES1 pi Bo ee ie ietwith in fifteen days, Gate October A, AD, wer Vie . Teserved to resell at *he risk ing purchaser after five days’ Liver No. 1529. folio da ot of the District of Col tam Eonale in sone uewepaper pabieshed ma. | farty, nected ther tv -. be TIMOTHY J"GoRMAN. | rection, op WEDNESDAY. 38 Executor of last will and testament of Catharine | PENTH. AD. 18h, FOUR OsLonk py ‘Cormeam, deceased SSUEGS™ | fchiowina Gewcrtheal Cece an parce’ ot lana zs = SS | Raine tn the rity of Washineton, B nd being ail of lot nammberes THIS EVE? $25,000 others’ sabalivisicn of lor WORTH OF DIAMONDS, GOLD E06. oper pies, rereréed 0 Liter soul folio 101, of the records of the office of the surrey ab | goods trom Marstons oth oiiee Teer Se EEE, | Of the District of Columbia, ugetber with thet | Sik? Anctiouecr, O11 Pa: ave under Metro'n Motel, | Paevements cherenm feale, One-thin of the rurchese money te be neil in cash. the balance int 4 vone, {wo shd tres eRe ie __ FUTURE Days. THOMAS DOWLING & SON, Aucts. 612 Et | } is nal tas papchaeer ctberwine trustee. reserve Property at the risk abd cost of default ve Gaye’ adver teer: repaper published Jn | ALDIS B. BROWN Pur timer uch remale 18 moe Wesh ington, P< ON ASHEORD, ¢ ‘Coupon Bo? FS | Tramtens Stock Ivanhoe Mining Stock Perfection Heat and Ligh! Stock J: hnscn I umbeg Cotten ¢ Stock American Milling and Mb Stock Grove Riectric Co. of Phi whirl Cassa Grand band ‘and x0. ‘Stock Tresury Consolidated Gold Mining Co. Stock Jiguit Purifying Co. Stock Car, Break and Motor Co. of San Francisco. Stock Angamar Motor Co, of New York. ‘K Petroleum Syndicate Certificates. ‘Mining and Tunnel Co. ‘Automatic Works. ¥ Show Mangfacturing rocks Standard Milling aud Ventilating Co. of Ma, Feiipse Electric Co., also $2) div. from Co. Sanoita aud Santa Cruz Laud and Water Co., | Btocks Volta Flectric Light and Power Co. | Stocks Leadville Consolidated Miniue Co. chtccks Standard Gus Mactine and Port. Gea Lamp ‘Rtocks Shellabarger Li: TY-FOURTH INST. . m the iaition to tee Senate bil 980 to om: 7 xtend North Captiol street tot W DOL@LAss. J. WB *. SNELL, Commissicners, District of Columbia, DDUNCANSON Bros. AUCTIONEERS. SALE OF IMPROVED ¥ KNOWS SES NO. Ts IN THE CITY TNGTO | of a certain deed of trast, dated the 16th IML. and duty led | ‘safety, comfort and (0. 141, approved June 1°, Ye neteamed therefor. the © that they the roustroction of the ioe taterested et Nu | ceive: objections © Sorks from all part OCLOCK 7 east of square four hundred and sevent: rd din Liber 12. folio 170, ‘Of the surveyor’s office of ‘th . improved by a valuable tw nz house. Thus of xale: One-third of the purchase money to din cash, of wh cP d dollars | #100) mean a jes of the purchaser, made fa undersimmed. trustees at Fears. respect vo v,from the date of sa. St the rate of Op per anumui w tip Bie semiann ic m errs MOBBISEDT HOUSE Now 0 a J ‘Cor. 14h and H si THOS."MOKKESETT. Propristor, Im 2 ___ Wastsington, DLO. : 9 K 8T__THE IRVINGTON seal Ui 416 4 ‘Trust Season of "2 aud Wh, KB. sMrtu, { Trustees. Js.now open for reception of «uesta, Roome en suite ore ws reaecna sie. AUCTIONEERS, betes | PHOMAS DowrING \Wutws norer,” CHANCERY Sal ALU, Lot. r- PROVED. BY HREF_ STORY » BACK Pa. ave. and 14th st, TLDING BRICK DWELLING, EAST PTSOL STREET. By virtue of « decree " Washington, D. @. EBBITT HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. c. es WINTER RESORTS. ONVE x. seed by the Supreme ©: of the District of Culumbia in Faulty Cause 14300, wherein Tinodore Mosher and others & e< pl inants and Lee B. Mosher is di i tion in front of, LO" LOCK | the Pie oo AN o tweuty-eieht | G6) feet wes MGINIA AVE NeAR J, steam beat and rw chs, thence nor:bone hundred and twenty-seven {R22 fort etcht and one-half (nie) inches, thence. want fteen (15) feet eleven (11) inches and. ihenee, gouth Col, JOHN M. CLARK. a SS Ra SIDE HOUSK ATLANTIC ciry. Ng og nod Gee -story and back butldin brick dwel for, &c.; cow wares. ‘Terms of sale as prescribed by the decree: One-third cash and the balance tn one and t of sale. with interest annum until paid, pa ho yUrcha~er to be 10 be secured by deed of trust on property #0: he purchase money tay be pal in cash. at o CHAMLES £VANS, 3a10-1in Mie Vises Bec, V THE. PRINCESS ANNF, 18 MILES FROM NORFOLK, OPENS JAN. 1. 3 Lor ption of irebaser A wept Will's req Ted et hue | | Accombination of ocean and fine forests maken fale, Ait coaveyancdne, Botarialfeeand revo | antec! uy helt mmr, with's {oniealeeaege st pu chasers cost ‘aren. com eclimate Fam ws ducking snouts at Upper wilh within ‘tan days after day of sale the trustee | of Currituck Sound. "Address re-erves the right to reel, at risk and cost of defaulting mer So 8. E. CRITTENDEN, Proprietor. ee nt REESE ween | annnase Jad-dkabe 462 Louisiia: HE PENNHCRST, *@- THE ABOVE SALE_IS_ POSTPONED ON MICHIGAN. AVE: NEAR THE OCEAM, eee Siphiecmonm wet SATURDAY GASUARY ale * BBAMUEL MADDOR, Trastes, ALi & CO.. AUCTIONEERS, RATUIFE, PARE & PENNS AVE. SW, CATALOGUE SALE OF 4,000 HOLLAND FLOW: BULBS ‘BY AUCT “THE FLOWERS TH4T BLOOM INTHE SPRING,” EVERY VARIET COLOR AND KIND. TULIPS. Dot ND SING! ty Corapletely remodeled and refury | Open ail th year. JAMEM HOOD. CONSULT. THE ONLY / clausin Washinetou, Dre. pear forty-five years at 206 B xt ‘ec the sive of tne 2) HYACINTHS, SINGLE AND D A di-ect uuportation of first-class bu'bs. | TOBE SOLD aT OU! ih | VATA AY! Tervoas | FRIDAY, JA ‘ach, Kidney | AT FIFTEEN MIN >PHERS IN CORDIAL 14 | a RATCLIFFE, DARR & CO. ties for, Nervous Xouraigia, Sere fie geresy — | ere weak. tines thareic, siveny, ‘lack of aint np pe amines FaREY, MULE, PRDUCEDS ASR con | | ON Se | Wastitre: H Over twenty five yea | BE ictme ce SURGEON SPECIALIST et seg., one of the land records for Washineto On Diseases of the | and ty dtrecstou of the 3 BLADDER AND KIDNEYS, S XTH. ALD. INA AT BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES, ‘K A. M., in front and within the auctic of Walter B. Wil fame & 0... co-ner LOti and D streets NERVOUS DEBILITY. northwest (facing Pena sven) the goods ScurNTiric, SKILLITL, stccessreE pgetyonr TREATMENT GUARANTEED, COMBINATION | _ Dr. Car'eton is positively the only advertising Sam OLVING DESK, TWO MAND<OME | goon Specialis: in the United States who treats tie 20) MILK CANS” ONE 200-GA1. | $p°r" troubles on recognized Sctewtific primciplgs. CLOCK, MEASURES, MILE JARS, | Hess mace their succomsful treatment « life study. FICE HOURS: 9 to 2; 4 to * Sumday—9 to 2, ALSO, On the same day. AT FOUR O'CLOCK P. M., we will sell at F. nprinstuan's wagon \ ard on D street between. South Capito street aud De aware cvenue southwest, the following articles in schedule marked ""A" an- FIGHT MILK AND CREAM Na R CHEESE FESS TARGE THON. ABER ati Prompt treatment. akabs_W. = ROFESSION: MAS E. WAGGAMAN, Pp. ‘Dest (THOMAS E. Tint Estate Auctioneer. widest SALE OF 7! HE bak PLLINGS oe SoCTR SIDE OF MINTS SIRELIS NORTHWEST ee AND see tt of GENS. TAKE NOTICK Dus BROTHERS Sy i 3 7 i any a ‘