Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1894, Page 7

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It bas been given in thousands of gases, and im every instance a perfect cure hi followed. It never falis. The svstem once { prestated with the Specific. it becomes an utter Impossibiitty for the lignor appetite to. exist SOLDEN SPECIFIC CO., Props., Cinciunati, Ohio. Barticulars free. To be had of, &, WILLIAMS sts. n.w.; S. F. WARE, under eel agi a tu, th,eSm* ‘Mouse. W. | 28 were registered today. have seriously taken the suggestion made ONE RATE. FARE The Railroad Terms for the Com- ing Pythian Encampment. THE LOCAL KNIGHTS ARE’ GRATIFIED Echoes From the Rooms of the Busy Committees. THE CASH COMING IN The railroads have come to time and the Pythians are jubilant. This action of the railroads testifies to the power of Pythian knighthood, and tells of what a glorious success the coming Pythian event will be: The information that the Trunk Line Pas- senger Association had done the right thing by the order was received over the wires lest evening by Chairman G. W. Heisley of the transportation committee, and nearly at the same moment General John E. Smith, secretary to that committee, re- ceived a dispatch from one of the leading railroad magnates at New York, setting forth the glad tidings. By order of the committee a telegram was at once sent to | General Carnahan, commander-in-chief of the Uniform Rank, at Indianapolis, offi- cially notifying him that the wishes of the Washington executive committee had been granted, and the hopes of the Pythians, who are responsible for the successful issue of the encampment, had been realized. Ore of the committee men told The Star man that the good news had caused his heart to leap to such an altitude as to threaten him with cardiac strangulation. Chairman Haisley banged the reporter on the shoulder and shouted, “Pythianism has got there,” ard General Smith twisted The Star man’s hand out of the socket of the shoulder, and, hanging his hat on the ceiling, yelled, “One-rate fare triumphant.” Several of the other committeemen did a song-and- dance act, and cried, “Glory, hallelujah,” in 2 war-whoop style. One-Rate Fare. What the railroads have concluded to do | is to place tickets on sale at all points cov- ered by the Trunk Line Passenger Associa- | tion, which reaches all the northwest terri- tory, the most important railroad region in the country, on August 23, sales to con- tinue till August 28, and tickets to be valid for return trip until September 6, at the rate of one single trip fare for the round trip. This about as much of a conces- sion from the railroads as they could well have been asked to make. These rates are as low as those which prevailed in favor of the Grand Army encampment, the Knights Templar conclave and the inauguration. It is believed to show that the roads have realized two things—first, that the great mass of American citizens have a desire to visit Washington, and that throngs of them are coming, and, second, that when | the mighty order of Pythianism wants a thing, it wants it. Chairman Heisley and Secretary Smith told the reporter that they were perfectly satisfied with the course of the roads in the matter of rates,even though they might have done better by setting a penny-a-mile rate from all points. The fare fixed upon is about one and one-half cents per mile, and this is low enough, it is thought, to insure a great attendance at the convention and encampment. There is one mistake which will be rectified in due time. The time limit for return must be extended, as the Supreme Lodge will be in session till September 6. The Pythians de- sire that the tickets shall be good for re- turn till September 11. This will be readily acceded to, it is said, by the steam lines, and will give the throngs more of an op- tunity to see the wonders of wondrous ‘ashington. The Speechmakers Considered. It is not a certainty that the Supreme Lodge will complete its work by the 6th of September, and it is possible that it may continue in session till the 7th or Sth. These matters cannot be positively prophesied. ‘When the lodgemen are as well treated as they will be here, there will be disposi- tion to go it slow on business and take in the town. Then there is the contingency of long speeches which must be taken into ac- count. There are some representatives of the Supreme Lodge who can make speeches of real senatorial length, and these eight- day Ciceros are very much to be feared. However, there will be no trouble about having the ticket limit extended, so that the speeches of these delegates shall not be sawed off by a locomotive whistle. The public comfort committee had its hands full of callers today. Women were in the majority. The landladies of the city are beginning to grasp the fact that the en- campment will present first-class opportu- nities to rent rooms, and they are besieging headquarters in bevies. They are coming not singly, but by battalions. They talk to Secretary Percy G. Smith with that same gentle air which landiladies always display toward a candidate for rooms and withhold from the roomer who doesn’t pay his rent. Accommodations for several hundred room- Several ladies in The Star of a few days back, and are bringing in diagrams of their premises, | which Secretary Smith promises to place on file. The Opera Benefit. Headquarters was besieged this morning with knightly callers, who came to verify the rumor they had heard about the actioa of the railroad, and then to join in the chorus of cheers, which shattered chasms in the plaster, and almost attracted the notice of the police. One of the main things talked about at headquarters today was the presentation of | “The Mikado,” last | that musical novelty, night, at the Academy, the repetition of the show tonight, and the matinee performance to be given tomorrow afternoon, when the general admission will be twenty-five cents, with the same sum extra for a reserved seat. The compliments which were bestow- ed upon the National Ideal Opera Company by the people at headquarters, several of whom had seen the “Mikado” before, were flattering to the artists. The audience was not so large as the Academy might have held, but that is to be accounted for by the weather. The sale of sests was large enough to insure a reasonable profit. The Pythians expect a big turn-out tonight, as more than one division is to attend in uni- form. Fiscal Advocates McClintock and Donelly reported the following new subscriptions this morning: Independent Ice Company, $30; W. A. Clark, $5; Edward L. Jordon, $10; W. E. Douglas, $10; Charles A. Eckstein, $10; George S. Craft & Sons, $10; James Katlher, $5; Fred R. Miller, $5; Louis Faber, $5; Charles Weser,$5. The following pledges are on the subscription books to which no amounts have as yet been appended, but which will be within the next week: Pabst Brewing Company, Rapid Transit Messen- | ger Co., Great Falls Ice Co., Hygienic Ice Co., National Capital Ice Co., Metropolitan Railroad Co., Belt Line, Capt. E. S. Ran- dail, Myron’ M. Parker, Hotel Varnum, Wormley’s, American House, Hotel Belve- dere, Maj.'H. Biscoe, B. F. Guy & Co., R. C. M. Burton, Hotel Elkton, Dexter Steam Laundry, Albaugh’s Grand’ Opera House, L. H. Schneider, Washington News Co., Washington Times Publishing Co., Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., Columbia Phonograph Co., L. Moxley, Julius Lans- burgh Furniture Co., .Charles Schneider, Bartholomew Brewing Co., _ Elphonzo Youngs, Yale Steam Laundry, Boston Steam Launary, J. Orville Johnson, Lutch & Bros. Benjamin D. Cramer, Hugo Worch & Co. and Morrisette Hotel. From the Committee Rooms. The committee on press met last night at headquarters, with a full attendance. All the press people sizzled with enthusiasm, and bubbled over with roseate prophecies. It was decided to get out a daily bulletin of encampment news for the benefit of the Associated and United Press. Communications were received for quar- ters today from the following: J. H. Hoff- man, second Indiana regiment; G. M. Fish- er, Cleveland division; G. J. Newbert, Kan- sas City; Capt. N. Levy, first New York regiment. Chairman Notley D, Anderson and Sec- reary McNab of the committee on camp and camp ground are at work today on propositions to light the camp with arc lamps. The ways and means committee will meet this evening, and there must be a full at- tendance, because of the things of impor- tance which are to come up for considera- tion. The Pythians say that now that mat- ters have been so well advanced within the past two weeks, that there must be no putting on of brakes, or pulling back on the tongue-straps of the car of progress. The steam railroads centering in Washing- ton have not as yet sent in their subscrip- tions, but are expected to do so within a EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. n reasonable length of time. Mr. Hege of the | Baltimore and Ohio road is with the knights on this matter and believes that the rail- roads, which will be mainly benefited by the travel, should shell out a goodly sum and give the committees a lift. ee TO LAY A CABLE. The Columbia Railroad Asks the Com- missioners for a Permit. President H. ¥. Baker of the Columbia Taiiroad has addressed a letter to the Com-/ missioners, in which a permit is asked to construct an vnderground cable for his| read. He says that he has good reasons to believe that if the desired permit is granted that the work will be completed by the 1st of January next, s He writes as follows: “Referring to my communication to you of the 1st instant, in which I made application for a permit to en- able the Columbia Raiiway Company of this District to change its motive power from horses to an underground cable I have to say that the application relates to a change of motive power on the company’s entire line as defined by the first section of the act of incorporation as follows: ‘Commenc- ing at a point on the eastern side of west 15th street, on New York avenue, thence eastwardly along said avenue to its intersec- tion with north K street, thence along north K street to its intersection with Massa- chusetts avenue, thence along Massa- chusetts avenue to its intersection with north H street, thence along north H street to its eastern termination with the Colum- bia turnpike gate, with the right to run public carriages therecn, drawn by horse power.” “The right to make the proposed change in its motive power is claimed by this com- p. 797): ‘That any company law to run cars propelled by horses within the District of Columbia is hereby author- ized to substitute for horses electric power by storage or independent electrical bat- teries, or underground cables moved by steam power, on the whole ¢r any part of its roadway.” “The compaay proposes to construct underground cables moved by steam power, and it has good reasons to believe that if the required permit be granted the work will be completed by the Ist of January next. I respectfully request that an an- swer be given in writing to this letter, and to that of the Ist instant, in order that the company may kiow what, if any, objec- tions exist to the change proposed to be made along the company’s entire line. If there is no objection to the general plun herein outlined, the plans in detail will be quickly prepared and submitted.” On the recetpt of the letter it was im- mediately referred to the Engineer Com- missioner for his consideration. THE ECKINGTON R.R. Another Proposed Extension of the Tracks of the Company. Pi Mr. McMillan today introduced a bill in the Senate to amend the charter of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railway Company. The amendment makes the route of the proposed extension to run as follows: “Beginning at the intersection of 5th street and Louisiana avenue, thence by single track to 6th street, to B street northwest, thence west on B street to 9th street, to D street, thence east to the point of begin- ning, at the intersection of Sth street and Louisiana avenue.” The route that is thus changed was first ordered to run from this corner “southwesterly on Louisiana avenue to a point to be located by the District Commissioners, east to 7th street north- west, returning by the same route to said point of beginning.” The bill provides for the use by the Eck- ington Company of the tracks of the co- inciding lines, upon terms that may be affirmed, in se of dispute, by appeal to the District Supreme Court. There is also @ paragraph authorizing the company to increase its capital stock $0,000 for the purpose of making the extension, and the time for completion is extended three months from July 5, 1804. + ee DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Alley Gates Necessary. Health Officer Hammett, in a letter to the Commissioners today, reports that Draper's alley,between 12th and 13th,B and C streets southwest, is well paved, but has no sewer traps or catch basins to receive the sur- face drainage. There is no water main in the alley, therefore the owners of property abutting thereon cannot connect with the sewer placed at each end of the alley run- ning north and south, which is necessary for the public health. Defective Pavement. The Commissioners today received a ‘as from Geo. E. Emmons calling their ®ten- tion to a defect in the pavement in front of premises 1533 New Hampshire avenue northwest, which, when the warm weather sets in, will cause serious nuisance. Should Be Cleaned. Health Officer Hammett reports that foul and offensive odors emanate from the sewer | trap at the northeast corner of 16th and| O streets northwest, and recommends that it be cleaned out for the public health and comfort. | An Assessment Hearing Wanted. Abram Frey, No. 1343 Corcoran street, through Senator Proctor, has requested | the Commissioners to give him a hearing on the bill changing the present laws for special tax or assessment for laying water mains ard fire plugs from 11-4 cents per sqvare foot to $1.50 per linear foot. Mr. Frey objects to the bill for the reason that should the same become a law without change or amendment it will offer a pre- mium to persons who dishonestly or other- wise fail or neglect to pay their taxes and assessments when due. Hundreds of prop- erty owners in the suburbs having lots exceeding 100 feet in depth are and have | been owing for the laying of water mains | for years, some of them back to 1879, when the law went into effect taxing lots other than tho:e in Washington and Georgetown, whereas, he says further, for those who have paid all taxes and assess- n:ents promptly there is no relief. To Repair Sewer Traps. The Ccmmissioners today issued orders to repair the defective sewer traps in the alley in square 457 and that the work be done next week. Barnes & Weaver have requested the Commissioners to include Elm street, now known as U street, in the plan of street extension. They ask that it be extended from its present terminus at 5th street northwest westward to 7th street nerthwest. Protest Against the Railroad. Several indignant citizens of South Wash- irgton appeared before the Commissioners and asked them to revoke the permit grant- ed the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Ccmpany to construct a switch into square 79, which is located between K and L, 3d and 4th streets southwest. It was repre- sented by the gentlemen that the street is now entirely taken up by the railroad tracks, and a further encroachment upon the street would be an imposition. The res- idents along that street are even now sub- jected to great inconveniences on account of the railroad, and wagons have to stop | squares away when goods are to be deliver- | ed in that square. When any one dies the funeral is made up some distance away and the coffin has to be carried to the hearse. If the present switch is permitted it will be a menace to life, and a great in- jury to property. The permit was issued to the railroad company under the act of Congress ap- proved January 19, 1891, and sets forth that it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to grant the Baitimore and Potomac railroad permission to lay and maintain a side track or switch whenever they consider it a pub- lic benefit. The gentlemen when this act was pointed out to them stated it was not a public benefit, on the other hand, a posi- tive detriment to the public. Capt. Flebeger | was Instructed to examine the situation | and report immediately. —__. A Cause of Heart Disease. From the New York Tribune. The London Lancet thinks that, as a mat- ter of caution, persons with weak hearts should be watched and not allowed to re- | n.ain too long in the hot room of the Turk- | ish bath, nor should they enter when | wearied and excited. But notwithstanding this, it is not to be assumed that such a | bath should not be employed in any case | where there is disease of the heart, the fact being shown by attested records’ that patients suffering from well-marked val- vular disease have, in many cases, derived considerable benefit from its use, and the | records also of more than one lunatic asy- | lum prove that the influence of the Turk- | ish bath in varied forms of mental disorders | and cerebral disease has been most bene- | ficial; in fact, in dropsy from heart disease, | as ip dropsy from kidney disease, in al- | buminaria and mania, the Turkish bath has proved @ very potent agent FORTY YEARS AGO An Account of President Polk’s Last Public Reception. ROOMS AND CROWDS MUCH THE SAME Mrs. Polk Sternly Suppressed Cards and Other Frivolities. CELEBRATED WOMEN SEELEY An odd copy of the Ladies’ Repository was picked up the other day from a pile of old papers and was about to be consigned to the waste paper basket when the head- ing of an article, “A Trip to Washington,” caught the eye. It was found to be a de- scription of a reception at the White House and was printed in September, 1849. The account is the third in a series of arti- cles “By Jonathan” and is as follows: A levee was held by President Polk at the presidential mansion on Wednesday evening of the last week of his administra- tion. We had never witnessed one of these occasions in our own country and were somewhat eager to attend for the pur- pose of paying our respects to the retiring President, as well as observing the display of republican court life at the metropulis. Before the hour of reception we went to see the exterior of the mansion and its adjacent grounds. The “White House” is one of the metropolitan “lion: Every visitor must, of course, glance at it, and it 1s really well worth a visit, for, notwith- standing some croaking critics, its position is beautiful and the structure itself not, a little Imposing. The mansion is constructed of white free stone. It consists of twe stories—is 170 feet in front and eighty-six deep. Its northern front presents an imposing portico of Ionic columns, -beneath which the carriages of visitors drive. Spread out before the portico is an ample inclosed arena, well planned with gravel walks; but the chief attraction of which is a spirited bronze statue of Jef- ferson that stands in the center. It is con- sidered one of the best specimens of art in the country. The figure is defined with minutest exactness and skill, the likeness is said to be quite accurate, and the attitude and expression are remarkably appropriate. The great democrat stands on a pedestal, holding in his right hand a pen, while from his left depends the “Declaration of Inde- pendence." The moment represented by the artist is that in which the document was finished; and the expression of the face and whole figure is true to the time. There is on the countenance a spirited yet serious and determined air, such as we may justly Suppose to have sat upon the brow of the statesman at the moment when he com- pleted the renowned paper, which was des- tined to influence so much the history of the world. The whole declaration is legibly en- graved on the bronze scroll, with a fac simile of his autograph appended. This fine work was executed in Paris, and pre- sented to the country by Capt. Levy, who is now owner of the house of Jefferson at Monticelio, Late Hours Even Then. The southern front of the ‘“‘White House” ccmmends a prospect which comprehends the gardens of the mansion, with their meandering gravel walks, and a near view of the Potomac, that widens and curves here in grand and graceful beauty. There is, in fine, a mixed air of roominess and grace, of solidity and lightness, about the | whole mansion, which cannot fail of pleas- ing effect. The levee began 8 o'clock in the evening, though the fashionable hour of arrival at the mansion is 10 o'clock. We went early, that we might have full oppor- tunity for our observations. We entered a large hall from the portico on the northern front, and were directed by the servants— the ladies to the right and gentlemen to the left—into small apartments, where our cloaks, hats, &c., were to be deposited, not | without risk of extens!ve exchanges before midnight. Meeting again in the hall, we fell into the current which had already be- come dense and strong, and were borne by it into the reception rocm, so called, though the President and his lady were receiving the throng in the next apartment. We passed out of the procession here to look around us a few minutes. The paper of the apartment attracted attention by its peculiar beauty. It is peari white, with a delicate gilt figure. The whole garniture of the apartment is in fine taste. The carpet is wreught with figures of baskets of flowers on a fawn-colored ground. The center table is of white marble. The frame of the pier table is richly gilt, und covered with a white marble tcp. The chairs and sofas have similarly gilt frames and are covered with blue and white damask and the cur-| tains are of the same material, lined with red silk. he mirrors and a grand chan- delier give a beautiful effect to the whole at night. Not a Great Change. Stepping again into the procession, we were carried along into the nex¢ apartment, known as the “green room.” It is square, some thirty by twenty-two feet. Gilt again predominates in the furniture, and white and green damask in the curtains and cushions. The floor is covered by a dark Wilton carpet. Mirrors and a_brilliant chandelier enhance {ts beauty. This was the reception room for the evening. Pr dent Polk and his lady stood on a line with the doors of entrance and exit, shaking hands with or bowing cordially to all that passed. They entered heartily into the task, and a most onerous one it was; for it is estimated that at least five thousand per- sons passed through the apartments during the evening—the largest’ number, probably, that ever visited the house on one night. The President looked remarkably well overflowed with spirits and cordiali is advancing down the “vale of years. hair, sleekly combed behind his ears, is quite gray, though it was black when he entered the Executive residence. There is a certain staid, if not stern, expression about his fea- tures which resembles much the aspect of the old orthodox divines of New England, as seen in their portraits. He would pass well for a sound, steadfast, orthodox clergy- man. Mrs. Polk has earned a distinguished reputation by the propriety and grace with which she has presided at the presidential mension. None of her predecessors have excelled her. She is a lady of high accom- plishments; and these are enhanced by strictly Christian sentiments and habits. Though, from her religious scruples, she banished dancing, cards, and similar amuse- ments from the Executive residence, yet has she really rendered it more attractive than ever by the perfect amenity and social and He ease which she has introduced into it. She/ was richly dressed on the present oc:asion—/ too much so, we thought, for her dignified position, which, certainly, needs not an aristocratic display of finery and wealth to secure it respect. ed by the utmost ease and heartiness, and the crowd pressed about her with such af- fection and eagerness that it had to be bar- ricaded off by a stout chair. The apartment rang with the warm compliments and adieus which were poured forth upon her frem the | passing multitude. Glory of the East Room. Falling again into the promenade, we were carried along into the East room, a mag- nificent apartment, eighty feet long, forty wide and twenty-two high. The carpet, manufactured expressly for the room, is figured with the American eagle, and woven | of orange, crimson and brown colors. The chairs and sofas are of mahogany, covered with splendidly flowered worsted. The cur- tains are of crimson damask, hanging from rich gilt mountings. Three’ large chande- Hers light it, while the black marble man- tels, the large and richly gilt mirrors, the vases, marble tables, &c., form one of the richest interior tout ensembles we have yet seen in this country. The apartment re- ceived by one door the procession of visit- ors from the preceding rooms, and allowed them exit by another into the vestibule or hall, and thence into the portico. A company of Indians in costume, and with painted faces, held their levee at one side of the room. A young and rather pretty squaw imitated the Presidentess, and re- ceived the salutations of the visitors with not a little grace. The crowd in this apart- ment presented specimens of the w’ motley assembly—the young in their sim- plictty and grace, the decayed fantastic in | thelr attempts to disguise the effects of age, the military or naval officer in uniform, the starred diplomat, the dignified cabinet sec- retary, the grave judge of the Supreme Court. the white neckerchiefed clergyman, His | Her manners were mark- | Indian savage—nearly all European and American nations were there represented. We twice promenaded through the series of rooms, and were glad at last to escape into a freer air. . . . . . Two Celebrated Women. I have referred to several of the dis- tinguished personages at Washington. It would be unpardonable to pass by two who remain from the “good old regime” of the early Presidents, and are still flourishing in the social society of Washington. Mes- dames Madison and Hamilton are united by the memories of the past, as well as by the warmest friendship. Both are con- sidered almost indispensable attractions in the society of the national metropolis, and their houses are open daily for the recep- tion of visitors, however humble. No in- vitation or introduction is necessary; you are admitted, and your homage received as a matter of course. Mrs. Maddison is certainly eighty years of age; and though her parents were Quak- ers, and she educated in their tenets, yet is she as gay a social companion, and (sub rosa) as much given to the usual feminine tastes for dress, and effective accomplish- ment as any young belle of the city. Mrs. Hamilton is in her ninety-second year, but exceedingly active. She is small in person, vivacious id minutely polite. Washir gton does not afford a greater con- verser, except, it may be, in the person of her own accomplished daughter, who at- tends her with filial fidelity. The veteran lady dresses with taste, is noted for het charities to the poor and the sprightly en- tertainment she invariably affords com- pany. She has resided most of the time in New York, but has now taken a house on Capitol Hill and become a permanent in- habitant of Washington. Her protracted life has had its dark eras; not only her husband, but one of her sons, fell in duels. TYPEWRITERS. Opinions About Them Dictated to On: of Them by aa Accomplished St: ographer. From the New York Sun. More trash and nonsense are written about typewriter girls by people who do not understand what good typewriting is or how to dictate to a typewriter than about any other profession or any other business in | which either men or women are engaged to- day. The fact of the matter is that type- writing is worth anywhere from $5 a week up to $20 or $25 which is sometimes paid as a weekly salary to expert typewriters who have no knowledge of shorthand. It is no unusual thing for typewriters to earn at folio work from dictation by stenographers | two dollars an hour and over and the finest experts are worth every cent of that amount of money. Among stenographers one dol- | lar an hour is the ruling rate; and for that | one dollar a good typewriter with an expert dictator will transcribe from thirty to forty folios an hour of testimony. In some cases even forty folios an hour of solid matter have been dictated. Forty folios is two col- umns of the Sun; and, of the men who write about dictating to typewriters as though they knew about it, there are prob- ably not half a dozen in the country who can dictate so much. Many years ago, the writer was employed as shorthand amanuensis by George Alfred Townsend, well known as “Gath,” who ha- bitually dictated to him in shorthand two columns an hour, and did it every day in the week two hours a day for months at a time, indicating every full stop, semi-colon, quotation mark and paragraph. If “Gath” dictates to a typewriter now and has one of the best in the business, no doubt he can dictate from a column and a half to two columns an hour of original matter, and the writer knows of no other man who can do that. Of course, there are plenty of incom- petents, who pose as typewriters and who bring the business into discredit by their been thrown in contact with expert type- writers in his business as an official stenog- |rapher. In view of the many gibes and poor work. For many years the writer has| | sneers, in which newspaper writers indulge on the subject of typewriter operators of the feminine gender, it is a matter of simple justice to say that the women with whom | he has been associated in his business have been without exception well educated, re- fined, capable of doing rapid and accurate work, who attended strictly to business and did not waste time with frivolous remarks. It seems unfair to judge of any business or profession be the weaklings engaged therein, whether the work be law, medi- cine, the ministry, shorthand or typewrit- ing, and any one who cannot accomplish twice as much dictating to a good type- writer operator as with a pen is unable to do that either because he does not know how to dictate or because he has an inferior | operator. It took just eight minutes to dic- | tate this article to a typewriter, who does not claim to special expertness and whose | charge was twenty-five cents. (The above was not altered in any respect by the editor, and the printers were request- ed to follow copy. The reader may tnere- fore judge of the accuracy both of the dic- tator and the typewrite: oar NIGHTINGALE TIME IN ENGLAND. | Sir Edwin Arnold Discourses Sweetly on the Sober-Coated Bird. From the London Telegraph. This is the month of the nightingale. In those parts of the country which for some mysterious reason he favors now is the | time when the most musical being of the natural world may be heard at his self- taught symphonies. It is not at all uncom- mon to hear him in the daylight, but the jevening hour {s that which ‘“Philomel” chiefly chooses tor his song, and his favor- ite concert room is a close, dark thicket, | generally near the water. |"'In the stillness of such a shadowy and | dewy retreat he will often begin before sun- set and carry on his music late into the quiet night. Is it his professional jealousy as a musician which makes the nightingale | thus select the stillness of the evening and the midnight when he is not likely to be interrupted by his diurnal rivals, the thrush, |the blackbird, the chaffinch and the lin- | net? Certain it is that the song of the bird | of darkness never sounds so effective when it is listened to among other choral notes the woodland. It wants no orchestral mpaniment; it is best as a solo, deliv- |ered from tie moist gloom of some garden | border or holly coppice, amid the per- fume cast upon the sullness by those blos- |soms which ornament this month—the | white and pink may, the lilac and the sil- | very spikes of the chestnut. But you may far more frequently hear the |nightingale than see him. Many a poet who has praised this small chorister has, | perhaps, never cast eyes upon it, or, if he | has seen it by chance in its solitary habits, has not known that the slender bird which he beheld was that which countless odes and endless poetical laudations have uniied with mythology and tradition to make the | most famous of lower living things, The nightingale, when you do catch sight of him, is sober in dress to the point of Quakerism. The upper part of his slim | body is a rusty brown, tinged with olive; | the lower portions are of a pale ash color, fading into a dull white at the belly, In | the somewhat hastily constructed nest the | hen, which is still more plainly attired, lays from four to five olive-green eggs—those miracles of nature of which Tennyson said so well that “the music of the moon sleeps in the pale eggs of the nightingale.” What mystery, indeed, can be greater | than that by which generation after gen- |eration of the immortal bird catches up | faultlessly and by inheritance the melody which has charmed the race of poets from |Sappho to Keats, and which cannot be beand evan by the rudest ear without | tention and admiration? Is it, as sdme nat- | uralists hold, a long love song which the male bird pours forth to his nesting wife? Or is it some natural hymn of the joy of fe which nightingales interpret in their own fashion, and which is for them an act of worship, love and rejoicing, all in one? ‘The song of the nightingale has been trai scribed into all sorts of verses and versions, and some have found it full of such mourn fulness as to justify the old classical be. lief that the little “maestro” sings with a thora in his heart. | —_————+-22—____—_ | _E. 0, Whitmore, a prominent business | man of Ransom, Ill, was shot and killed by a robber last night as he was about to close his store. much from cance: In 1886, my son, suffered of the mouth. by advice of physicians, an eration was performed, extending from the jaw. bone, which they scraped but the can- cer returned and grew Fapidly Finally, after trying many remedies in vain, I commenced to give him S. S. S.; after seven botties had been taken the cancer dis- appeared entir elyandthough T years have elapsed, there has been, no | return, and I have ever | reason to believe that he is permanently cured. His ' cure is due exclusively to S. S. S. J. R. Murpock, Huntsville, Ala. ‘Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases Mailed Free. t SWIFT SPEOIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. The Star’s figures of the changes in the Interior Department, printed in the issue of Tuesday, have attracted the widest at- tention. The list of appointments, etc., contains much other valuable information, which, however, must be dug out by the slow process of scrutinizing each item. Among these entertaining facts may be classed the changes in the census office, where a vast majority of the employes are beyond the range of the operation of the civil service law. Since the 4th of March, 1893, to the date of the report to the Senate, there have been 474 dismissals from and 277 appointments to the census office. The dismissals were apportioned among the states and territories as follows: The District, 69; New York, 54; Pennsylvania, 45; Ohio, 39; Virginia, 29; Maryland, 27 Iilinols, 21; West Virginia, 18; Kansas, 17: Connecticut, 14; Indiana, 13; Michigan, 10; Wisconsin, 10; Minnesota, 9; Missouri, 9: Towa, ¥; New Jersey, 7; Nebraska, 6; Maine, 6; Massachusetts, 5; Vermont, 5; Tennes- see, 5, Alabama, 4; Louisiana, 4; North Carolina, 4; South Carolina, 4; Oregon, 4; Colorado, 3; Kentucky, 3; Khode Island, 3; Nol Dakota, 3; Texas, 3; California, 2; Florida, 2; Indian territory, 2; Delaware, 1; Georgia, 1; Mississippi,1; New Hampshire, 1; South Dakota, 1; Idaho, 1, and Arkan- sas, Nevada, Washington, Wyoming, Mon- tana, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Alaska, 0. On the basis of these fifty-one states and territories the average number of dismissals was 9 1-3. Ap) ments, During the same period there were 275 ap- pointments fo the census office, divided as follows: Georgia, 43; North Carolina, 22; the District, 22; West Virginia, 17; Virginia, 16; New York, 15; Tennessee, 12; South Carolina, 12; Pennsylvania, 12; Mississippi, 10; Maryland, 8; Illinois, 8; Ohio, 8; Indiana, 1; Kentucky, 7; New Jersey, 6; Alabama, 6; Texas, 5; Louisiana, 4; lowa, 4; California, 8; Missouri, 3; Massachusetts, 3; Connecti- cut, 2; Flomda, 2; Idaho, 2; Michigan, 2; Maine, 2; South Dakota, 2; North Dakota, 2; Wisconsin, 2; Arkansas, 1; Colorado, 1; Kansas, 1; Nebraska, 1; Oregon, 1; Rhode Island, 1; New Mexico, 1; Oklahoma, 1, and Delaware, Minnesota, Montan: Nevada, New Hampshire, Vermont, ‘ash Wyoming, Arizona, Indian territory, Utah and Alaska, 0, These fifty-one states and territories give an average of 5.43. It will be noted that in the matter of dismissals the state of Georgia is 8 1-3 below the aver- age, and in the matter of appointments it is 37.57 above. shed NEW ELECTRIC RAILROAD MOTOR. Heilmann’ Peculiar Application of Electricity to All the Wheels. From the London Telegraph. Of the many schemes for the utilization of electricity for railway engines that which has new been brought into practical opera- tion by Mr. J. J. Heilmann of Paris is one of the most curious. In it the ordinary rules for the economical employment of energy appear to be disregarded. The power of @ steam engine is not applied direct to the wheels, but is used to produce an electric current by means of an im- mense dynamo, the energy being retrans- ferred in its new form to electro motors on the axles, The loss which at first sight might be Supposed to follow this roundabout method is said to be compensated by several prac- tical advantages. The ordinary steam loco- motive often has to work under wasteful ecnditions, as, for instance, in running up an incline, where the maximum of steam Is necessary, while in the Heilmann machine the interposition of the dynamo between | the work to be done and the steam engine enable’ the latter to produce the power re- quired by driving the dynamo faster, which can be done with an economical consump- tion of steam. Again, in an ordinary express locomotive, the driving powe® fs centered in one or two wheels on each side, and the portion of the engine's weight carried by these is all that is available for traction purposes. In the new engine, however, all the wheels, and therefore all the weight, can be utilized, without coupling rods, each axle carrying its own motor. The engine is us curious in appearance as in its principle of working, and may be roughly compared to a London and Southwestern tank engine, with the driver's cab stretched out until it is as ng as the boiler. It is mounted on two trucks, each having eight wheels about the size of those on an ordinary tender. The cab contains the dynamo and its driving en- gine, and the locomotive runs, so to tender first. It is 52 1-2 feet long over all, and 18 feet high, and weighs 100 tons. The length is about that of an English express engine and tender, and the height does not differ much, but the weight is a quarter to one-third greater. 1 oo- The Judge Knew What Was Coming. From the ‘Sentinel. Ki “I shall never forget,” said one’ of the oldest members of the Marion Cornty Bar Association, recently, “a spirited little af- fair which occurred many years ago in the Clay county court while Judge Bowers was on the bench and the court in session. The participants were Daniel W. Voorhees and Solomcn Claypool. Scimcthing had been said in argumer.t by Mr. Voorhees which had aroused the anger of Mr. Claypool, who, when he secured an opportunity, heaped the bitterest anathemas upon his’ antagonist. Attozney Voornees immediately sprang to- ward Attorney Claypool and struck him in the face. Then the trouble bec»me alto- gether demonstrative. They clinched, goug- ed, tore each other's clothes, tipped over chairs and tables, utterly lost to the gravi- ty of the situation in which they had placed themseives in the presence of the court. Suddenly and simultaneously they appar- ently came te their sober senses, and look- ed up to the bench. They were somewhat astonished to find the judge, with his back to them, innocently engaged in reading a newspaper. They began to apologize, when they were calmly interrupted ty "judge Bowers with the remark: “Why, you need make no apology, gentlemen. I saw evi- dence of an oncoming difficulty, and consid- eed it best to see no more. The court had arisen.” +o+__ George W. Ho vice president of the American Railway Union, has telegraphed employes of the Pullman Company in the St. Louis shops to strike as suon as they wish. 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