Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1895, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR. aise puccectane nie hea PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, no lvanig Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The ryening tae Newspaper Oompany 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Prest. Rew York Ofice, 49 Potter Building, ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers to the elty by carriers, on thelr own account, at 10 cents Bek Week,.or 446, per month. Copies at the counter cents each. By matl—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postaze (presald--60 cents per cuth. Saturday quintupl» Steet Star, $1. sclth forelgn’postze aude, $209.0 000 OF Tear Entered at the Post Omiee at Washington, D. O., as second-class mall mattes.) QAI! mall -abvcriptioas must be paid in advarce tea of advertising made known on application, Part2. Che £Lven i Shar. Pages 9-20. = WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. AUGUST 24, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. ——= ' Printers’ Inf, che fittfe scfoofs master of advertising), saps: JE is cfoime>d for the Washinsfon Star, and profabfp ftrufSfuflp cfoimed, Bat no offer newspaper in fhe counfre goes info so farzz a percenfage of aff fhe Bouses wiffin a radius of fwenfp mife from fBe office of ypublfication. THE PUSH CART MEN How the Venders of Bananas and Cheap Candy Do Business, REGRET THEIR CHANGED LOCATION Don’t Sell So Much Down at the Market. EXPRESSIONS OF FEELING There are numberless people whe know what it is to “live in their trunks,” but not “many business men have experienced the sensation of keeping their stock of goods on a cact and never knowing wicre they will be allowed to locate the curt. But this fs the condition under which the banana venders, the dealers in oysters and clams, as well as the purveyors of cheap candy, exist from day to day, and who now are permitted to “keep store’ along the south side of Pennsylvania avenue near 7th street by the will of the Commission- ers, and who pay for this privilege $25 per annum. Sent to the Market Space. Not long ago the street venders were al- lowed corsideratle freedom in disposing of their wares along ‘the avenue, and they naturally chose the north side of that thoroughfare on which to do business. As the crowds passed by the bananas tempted many @ hungry young man and urchin, A Late Lunch. and trade was thriving, notwithstanding the dull times. But a mandate came that fairly tonk the breath away from the ven- dere. The triumvirate at the District building decided that the north side of the street must not be blocked by the little push carts, and the barana, candy and clam men were given the choice of locat- ing along the iron fence surrounding the parking in front of the Center market or of going cut of business. They went across the avenue, a sorry set, rot so much be- cause of the location, but because they were all obliged to keep together and work in the immediate vicinity of other venders. Before that the banana men had used their ingenuity by d'stributing their carts so that they might enjoy a monopoly of trade of the square on which they stood, or at least they could congregate in numbers at a point which was passed by great num- bers of people. Now they stand daily in a Ustless fashion along the iron fence near the transfer station at the corner of 7th Street and Pennsylvania avenue, One Expression of Feeling. But the venders blame no one for the en- forcement of municipal regulations which fre framed to best subserve the good of the greatest number. They bear no ill will toward the Commissioners. One of these Italians, and they are all of that national- ity, confided his feelings to a Star reporter joday: “Comishners very good mon,” sald the son of Italy, moa,” and he seemed afraid that were he Very Dull. to utter any other sentiment he would be swept from the face of the earth, or at st would be relegated to a corner of the t where bananas would rot in the sun without the chance of a single pur- chaser. Then he lookel across on the other side of the avenue with longing glances and remarked as he pointed with his finger: ke that sella the banan. Mucha peoples eata banan over there. Younga mon, leetle boys and girls eata_banan over Here, ah, no much, Banan rot, he said, pointing to his stock in ‘turna black. Why Times Are Dull. The fruit bore silent testimony to his as- sertions that it had been purchased two days previous, and that it stuck to the stand as if it had been glued there. Men and boys, the usual customers of the fruit venders, were hurrying by, but they didn’t stop. One of the banana men, who is some- thing of a philosopher, gave an additional explanation for the duliness of trade on the side of the avenue near the transfer trade, on walka along street no hurry, but atcha car mighty quick.” said the vender. Mon thinka somethin’ happen if miss a car when he getta transfer, but he loaf hour when he getta home. No time buy the banan over here.”’ Long Hours Kept. The fruit venders are at their posts early nm the morning apd can still be found here at midnight, when most of them seek their homes, taking their push carts along with them. They make a queer procession as they gush along across the avenue in a line, for they all appear to live in the same place. It Js inconceivable how they live, for one ani ail assert that they are making no money, and that the frutt rots before they can sell It under present conditions. It was all right for one or two carts to be located on the south side of the avenue, but “very good mon, very good’ when it comes to having them all, eight or nine of them, confined to that locality they say the question is altogether different. The venders are all looking forward to the time when municipal regulations may - Going Home. be relaxed so that they may seek the best Places for trade regardless of any -special restriction, even if they have to keep their carts moving, as was the case at one time in their career. ——_.—___. MAN AS A MACHINE. The Work He Does Reckoned in Mechanical Terms. From the Electrical Review. If the human heart be considered cs a pump, it can be shown that it does 124 foot-tons of work in 24 hours; the work spent by the muscles in breathing amounts to about 21 foot-tons in 24 hours. If these figures, which are given in a contemporary, are correct, a few interesting,though other- wise useless. deductions from them may be made. The power of operating the heart is then equivalent to 3.89 watts, and that of the lungs to 0.66, making a total of 455 watts. This amount of power would develop a light of about two candles in an incandescent lamp; a man ts, therefore, continually, day and night, doing an amount of work necessary to keep him alive at a rate equal to that in a two- candle-power incandescent electric lamp. If the luminous efficiency (or, better, ineffi- elency) of the incandescent lamp is 5 per cent, this amount of power, if converted into cold light, would represent forty candles, which would make every man, wise or otherwise, a shining light, and would supply all the light necessary for him to live without artificial lighting; or. in other words, if he kad some organ simi- lar to that in the firefly, he could, by ex- erting the same power as it takes to cper- ate his heart and lungs, surround himself with a flood of light. As man power is usually rated as about one-ejghth horse-power, which is equal to 98.3 watts, his efficiency, when “fully load- ed,” considering only the internal losses, would, therefore, be about ‘5 per cent, which is remarkably high, especially when we consider that he is supposed to have been designed many thousand years ago and to have been degenerating ever vince. But this does not take inte account that both heart and lungs will work much harder when he is performing cxternal work; the good result 1s, therefore, crly apparent, and not real. Nevertheless, s»me men are most efficient when dolag tread- mill work. As we do not know the foot- pound equivalent to the food which he eats, nor the amount, it is not possible to carry these useless figures any further. It is of interest, however, to note in this con- nection that Prof. Thurston considers man a very efficient machine, by which, we sup- pose, he means as a converter of the energy of food into mechanical power. —___+e+____ Gunpowder and Religion. From a Paris Letter. The firing of a small mortar by way cf attracting a congregation hasbeen the original expendient to which a preacher known as the Pere Joseph has had recourse in his missions in the rural districts of France. When he made his appearance at a village a certain quantity of powder was burnt by way of announcing hfs ar- rival, and if the people did not flock in sufficient numbers to the place at which he was to hold forth, the proceeding was repeated until the air resounded with the reports, as if a small army had taken up its quarters in the locality. Unluckily, this mode of operation was not devoid of dis- advantages. Accidents will happen in the best regulated families, and the worthy preacher ang his mortar proved no excep- tion to the rile. Four years ago the mortar burst while Pere Joseph was visiting a Py- renean village, but a neighboring rector not only replaced it, but invested capital in another for his own use. On this par- ticular occasion no injury had been done to life or Iimb. This, however, unfortunately was not the case a month or two ago, when the worthy preacher started to convert the inhabitants of a small town in the department cf the Hautes Pyrenees. Here the mortar was in great request, and the frequent report was heard, probably for the reason that the cit- izens were more inclined to remain at home than to listen to the eloquent periods of Pere Joseph. Be this as it may, the pow- der spoke nearly as often as the missloaary at the closing ceremony, that of the erec- tion of a cross in the local cemetery. On that day a youth of seventeen had been intrusted with the duties of gunner, but whether owing to his inexperience or to the fact that the mortar was in a bad condition, a terrible explosion occurred, and one of the spectators of this martial demon- stration, who was standing about thirty yards off, was hit and mortally wounded. The good preacher was in great distress of mind and did all that was to be done under these trying circumstances, but the poor man died. The Pere Joseph snd the youth who acted as amateur artilleryman have just been tried on a charge of man- slaughter. The preacher has been sen- tenced to a fine of $40 and the young ran has been practically acquitted. ——_—+e+___ Both Equal to the Occasion. From the Loutsville Post. A well-to-do gentleman of middle age said to me, several days ago: “Do you know that I had rather shell green peas than do al- most anything else? My wife says that it demoralizes the servants to have me do it, but I'm not living for the servants, “The other day I sat down on our back porch with a pan of my favorite vegetables in my lap and was enjoying myself in great shape, far from the madding crowd, for my wife had some swell callers. 41 of a sudden I heard a woman’s voice ‘Oh, I inust see your cute back yard; e heard so much of it.’ “Then the window fiew open and out pop- ped two pretty bonneted heads, “I turned mine away, and my wife was equal to the occasion. “ ‘Patrick,’ she said, ‘you must remem- ber to mow that grass before Mr. comes home.” “*Yis, ma’am,’ I replied in my best brogue, and all was well.” +00 No Doubt of It. From the Atlanta Constitution. “The late editor's wife is something of a humorist.” “Indeed?” ‘Yes; she took a line from his original salutatory and placed it on his tombstone.” “What was it?” “We are here to stay.” THE NATIONAL GUARD Arrangements for Sea Girt Are Now Complete. ABOUT FIFTY MEN ARE GOING Revolutionary Changes in the Re- vised Manual of Arms. HEADQUARTERS HAPPENINGS —___+—__ New Jersey National Guardsmen propose to play the host next Skturday night in a manner more formal perhaps than has been evident in their hospitality in times past, and orce more District National Guardsmen will be the guests. A reception has been tendercfi to visiting riflemen at Sea Girt, and especial stress is laid upon the Dis- trict invitation. The Jersey sharpshooters have twice been entertained in this city, and in February last they went down to Savannah, where the Georglans took care of them; therefore this reception, which is said to be largely in honor of the Georgia and District of Columbia teams. The event will come off in the club house of the New Jersey State Rifle Association, and will undoubtedly be a pleasant sort of an affai But Jersey need not expect to reap any benefit as the result of the placing of the reception ahead of the week of competition instead of after, for the members of the District National Guard team are not given to indulgence in those liquid combinations which have wrecked a great many men, who, but for the indulgence, might have been good riflemen and good citizens. In 1891, at the close of the first Sea Girt meet- ing, the members of the litale District of Columbia detachment marched to the gov- ernor’s cottage for the purpose of receiving the prizes they nad won. Refreshments were offered, and when Gen. Spencer saw that fourteen men out of sixteen were drinking only lemonade, while the other two were not drinking anything at all, he said it was no longer surprising to him that the District boys could shoot. The person- nel of the District team has changed con- siderably since 1801, but the same principle is as active now as it was then. Yeparture from this city for Sea Girt will take place Saturday next, the 3ist instant, at 12:15 o'clock, over the Pennsy!- vania road. If everything goes well, the District detachment will reach Sea Girt by Cots and blankets will be issued as soon as the camp is reached, supper will be eaten, and an hour or so later every- body will go to the reception. Sunday will, as usual, bea quiet day of rest. Mon- day morning the competitions will begin, and during Monday and the five succeed- ing days there will be continuous struggle for the many prizes offered and for the reputation that may be achieved. There is absence of definite information @s to the appearing at Sea Girt of several state teams that were expected. New Jer- sey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and the Dis- trict of Columbia. will, of course, be on hand, but Mafne will almost surely be an absentce. New York will also. be away, and so, perhaps, may be Connecticut. Definite Instructions. Lieutenant W. P. Vale, team adjutant, has sent to each guardsman who has de- cared his intention of going to Sea Girt a circular, of which the ‘following is a copy: The detachment of the District of Co- lumbla National Guard ordered to the en- campment at Sea Girt, N. J., will leave this city over the Pennsylvania road at 12:15 o'cleck p.m., Saturday, August 31, arriving at-Sea Girt at 5:57 p.m. Each member of the detachment will wear the fatigue uniform of the District Na- tional Guard, with campaign hat, leggings, web belt, and will carry a rubber blanket. Shooting blouses will not be worn. but will be shipped with baggage. It is essential that the detachment shall present a_sol- dierly appearance, so no excuses will be received for fallure to comply with the re- quirements herein stated. Each memoer of the etachment will be allowed to carry only one gun. Extra guns —whether the property of the District Na- tional Guard or of individuals—will be boxed and will be taken on the same train as the detachment. All extra guns must be in the armorer’s room at the brigade arm- ory before 7 p.m., Friday, August 20. Wip- ing rods will not be furnished by the ord- nance officer. Railroad tickets for persons not members of the brigade or regimental teams may be had of Capt. 31. Parmenter, team quar- termaster, at second regiment headquar- ters, brigade armory, Friday evening, Au- gust 30, from 7 to 9 o'clock. Baggage must be turned over to the team quartermaster or his representative at the Pennsylvania railrcad station, 6th and B streets northwest, on the morning of Sat- urday, August 31, not later than 9 é'clock. The baggage must precede the detachment on an early train or it will not arrive at Sea Girt that same evening. Only the smallest possible amount of baggage should be taken. Hand baggage must be tagged plainly and turned over to the team quar- termaster at Sea Girt railroad siation. Members of the detachment will not be permitted to carry hand baggage into camp; trunks and satcheis will be trans- ported from Sea Girt railroad station to camp by che team quartermaster, Members of the detachment should notify persons with whom they are likely to cor- respond while in camp that the post office address is box 200, Manasquan, N. J. Here Are the Regimental Teams. The regimental teams have at last been selected and reported. They are composed of the following named officers and en- listed men: First regiment—Lieut. T. 5. King, team captain; Private Geo. Sneeden, company A, first battalion; Private F. N. Wells, com- pany C, first battalion; Private W. E. Crist, company B, second battalion; Pri- vate W. E. Colladay, company B, second battalion; Sergt. W. D. Hadger, non-com- missioned staff, second battalion; Lieut. F. E. Gibson, I. R. P., third battalion. Second regiment—Capt. James E. Bell, team captain; Col. Cecil Clay, commanding second regiment; Lieut. John A. Kirk, I. R. P.; ‘Lieut. C. H. Blair, quartermaster sixth battalio1 mgt. A. 8. McClain, com- pany B, sixth’ battalion; Capt. W. H. Moyer, adjutant second regiment; Lieut. George C. Shaw, I. R. P., fifth battalion. Engineer corps—Lieut. G. B. Young, team captain; Lieut. A. O. Hutterly, Private Maurice Appleby, Corporal R. P. Carleton, Private G. E. Cook, Private 8. B, Weth- erald, Sergt. C. W. Dickey. ‘Those members of the guard who have up to this time announced their decision to ac- company the teams as volunteers are as follows: Private A. A. Birney, company A, engineer corps; Private J. M. Coit, com- pany C, enginecr corps; Private F. L. raham, company A, engineer corps; Sergt. P. J. Haltigan, company C, first battalion; Lieut. H. W. Holt, adjutant engineer corps: Sergt. George W. King, company B, sixth battalion, and Private E. A. Wright, com- pany C, engineer corps. The New Manual of Arms. In the new manual “carry” is eliminated entirely. From order arms the recrult comes to present arms, and from present arms to “order.” From order ho can go to port arms and return; from port arms to “present” and back. From “order” the piece can go to “right shoulder.” At “right shoulder” the barrel {s up, trigger guard In the hollow of the shoulder, From “right ht to “order,” or to left shoulder I.. Here it is: “Be- ‘ms, carry the left The rifle salute is no’ ing at right shouldeg hand smartly to the small of the stock, forearm horizontal, palm of the hand down, thumb amd @ngers extended and joined, forefinger against the plece, (2) drop the left hand by the gide.” The first motion of the salute is made six yards before puss- ing the officer, holding the hand at the small of the stock until the salute is ac- knowledged or the officer passed. Indoors the salute is made frome the position of or- der arms. Carry the left hand smartly to the right side, forearm horizontal, or near- ly so, palm of the hand down, thumb and gers extended and” joined, forefinger against the piece; (2) drop the left hand by the side. The rifle salute is prescribed for individual soldiers with arms, except sen- tinels, who salute by pigsenting arms. ‘The fix and unfix bayonets are changed and in marching the bayonet is fixed or unfixed in the most expeditious and con- venient manner, and the piece returned to the position in which if was when the cr- der to fix or unfix was given. Charge bay- onet can be given from the order aris, port arms or right shottider arms and re- turned from such positions. - ‘The loadings and firings are, of course, completely changed. In stack arms three pleces are used; other pieces are called loose pieces. Secure arms and sling arms are also in the manual. Col. Mosher {s engaged in the prepara- tign of an abridgment of the new. manual, for use with the Springfield rifle, now in service, for the District National Guard. Transfers and Discharges. During the week the following trans- fers have been ordered: Sergeants Thomas Chick and James W, Connover, company D, fifth battallou, to the ambulance corps as privates; Private John |E. Brooks, com- pany D, sixth battalion, to the ambulance corps, and Private Clarence E. Davis, com- pany B, fourth battalion, to the first sepa- rate company, The following have mn honorably dis- charged on their own application: Private W. J. Parker, company €, engineer corps; Private E, A. Nelson, compiny A, second battalion; Private Alfred: B. Claxton, com- pany A, third battalion; Private Joseph Bishop, company C, third battalion; Cor- poral Joshua Carr, company C, third bat- talion, and Private Ernest W. Traynor, company C, third battalion. Because of removal from the District, Privates P. A. McMahon and Andrew En- gle, both of the corps of field music, have been discharged. z Similar action has been taken in the eases of Privates Willlam ‘A. “arson and John L. Noland, company D, first battal- ion, in the interest of the service. Those named betow, all privates, have been dishonorably discharged: W. J. Mack, corps of field music; Oscar E. Bartels, company B, first. battalion; Robert L. Grav company B, fi battalion; Frank K. Newcomb, company B, third battalion, and William H. Bar; ugen, Colorado Dal. Jas, Frank M. Howard, J. in Thomp- son and Charles Wiles, all of company D, first battalion. Before the Brigitde Board. The brigade board of txamnation, at a meeting Wednesday evening fast, interro- gated First Sergeant TH , company D, first separate battalion, as to his quali- fications for commission ag second leu- tenant of that compdny., Quartermaster Sergeant C. Curry Dyer algo Sock the ex- amination for candidate‘Second@ lieutenant. Captain Harry Walsh andy Ifeut. Beatty will conduct the practices extminatien of Sergt. Thompson, while Capt. Jenkins will determine the capabilities pf Quartermas- ter Sergeant Dyer as regards commanding a company. Notes. Second Lieutenant Arthur Carr, company C, third battallon, has tendered his resig- nation. An honorable discharge has been granted First Sergeant Clifford R. James, acting second lieutenant, company D, third bat- talion. Captain J. M. Walsh, company D, fourth battalion, declares to he without founda- tion the rumors that his command will be mustered out. According to Captain Walsh the company is in a flourishing condition. The organization of the company which is to be assigned as company C, fifth bat- talion, is progressing satisfactorily, and those interested in the venture report that everything will be in readiness for muster in by October 1, The proposed encampment at Colonial Beach of the officers of the provisional regiment, which indulged: in a week's out- ing last summer, has been postponed unt!l next year because of the inability of many of the officers to leave the city at this time. A meeting of the first separate company will be held this evening to determine upon the details of the outing of certain of the troopers next month at Marshall Hall. It is understood that Captain Barbour will, in the near future, request permis- sion of General Ordway to recruit the troop to one hurdred men. This proposed en- largement will necessitaté_an additional first lieutenant and an additional second Neutenant. The days of clock-like precision of evolu- tion and drill are past and are to be rele- gated with the prize drill to the retired list, says the Military News. We now need less of the “manual” and marchin, and correspondingly more of alert, hones field work and rifle firing. There is such a thing as tco much deliberateness. Time will be more and more an element as we advance, Mr. C. F. Cook, who was captain of the original Morton Cadets, and before that time was first lieutenant of the High School prize drill company of 1890-91, has been recommended for commission. as first Iieu- tenant and quartermaster of the third bat- talion. ——.__. An Ape’s Superstition. From the Philadelphia Record. * Chief Utan, the auburn-haired orang- outang at the Zoo, Is very. superstitious, and his convictions with regard to straws are not limited to the mére fact that they tell how the wind blows. Tha chief be- lieves that chewing a straw with certain supernatural qualities: will bring his din- ner around before 1 o'clock, the regular time, and he daily tries t) put this theory into practice. From among the heap of straw in his cage he gelects with great care the longest and stratghtest, and after having placed ‘it in his mouth fe goes to the glass front of the , shading his eyes with his hand, peers to the right and left ir search of the keeper with his dinner. If the keeper ig not im sight the chief throws the straw away a8 not pos- sessing sufficient “charm,” and selects an- other. This performance fs repéated over and over with the utmvst gravity until the meal arrives, ——+e+___ Hadn’t Stopped for Good. From Life. “Jones, we miss you lots. You haven't been to the club since ydur wife died.” “Well, don’t® worry. shall marry again.” - : What He Dréaded. From Puck. Lea—"Great heavens, old man, I have suffered three days and nights of sleepless agony from this raging toothache!” errins—““Why don’t you get it pulled?” ‘I would, but I’m afraid it would How She Liked It. From the Humoristtische Blaetfer. “Ices are so delicious in summer. Don’t you like ice, Heutenant?” “Yes, when a bottle of champagne rests on it.” WHAT WILL HE DO? Lord Salisbury’s Immense Majority and the Probable Legislation. A LEAF OUT OF BEACONSFIELD'S BOCK Reform of the House of Lords and Loca! Self-Government. DEFECTION OF WHIG NOBILITY Specia! Correspondence of The Evening Star. LONDON, August 17, 1895. ‘The arrival of the election returns from the Orkney and Shetland islands, off the north coast of Scotland, brings to an end the most remarkable parliamentary elec- tion of the century and definitely fixes the numerical majority of the new administra- tion. The election will be memorable in the Political annals of the United Kingdom for the immense majority given to the party in power, for the fact that that ma- jority has been given exclusively by Eng- land (the predominant partner, ag the unionists delight to call her), Scotland, Ireland and Wales all sending a majority of liberal or at least of anti-administra- tion members, and lastly for the fact that the great whig nobility, who have been among the most redoubtable champions of liberalism during the last hundred years, have, with one or two exceptions, finally cast in their lot with their hereditary po- litical opponents. The majorities given to Mr. Gladstone in 1868S and 1880, and with which he car- ried through the greatest of the legislative measures with which his name is identi- fled, were 118 and 116, respectively. Only in 1807, when Great Britain was standing almost alone against Napoleon, and in 1832, when the anomalous condition of their rep- resentative government, if such it could then be called, together with the opposition of the house of lords to any adequate meas- ure of reform, brought the people of Eng- land to the very verge of revolution, have larger majorities been given than that with which Lord Salisbury and his cabinet find themselves sustained. Of the 405 rep- resentatives of English constituencies only 116, or barely one-fourth, are liberals. So far, therefore, as England alone is con- cerned, Lord Salisbury has a majority of 233, suffictent to overcome the nationalist majority of 61 sent by Ireland and the lib- eral majorities of 6 and 14 sent by Scot- land and Wales and still leave him the largest net majority seen in parliament during the fifty-eight years’ reign of the present sovereign. England, however, is naturally conservative. Even to Mr. Glad- stone's great majorities in 1808 and 1880 she contributed only 28 and 37, respectively, and it is scarcely to be wondered at that the unexampled activity of the Mquor in- terest, the zeal of the state church party, the apathy of a section of the Iberals AXhemsetves’and a diminished confidence in the political capacity of the Irish, owing tu their incessant feuds and their readi- Ress to sacrifice national to personal con- siderations, should have resulted in this overwhelming liberal defeat. Great Houses Become Conservative No sympathetic observer of the liberaliz- ing of England can witness without gen- uine regret the conplete alienation from the liberal party of the great heuses of Russell, Cavendish and Fitzwilliam. The Russell family, at the head of which is the Duke of Bedford, gave up one of !ts inost distinguished sons as a martyr to the cause of liberty as long ago us 16%, and with the exception of Mr. Gladstone him- self no English statesman of the present century has: done more for the advance- ment-of civil and religious equality than the Lord John Russcli who carried through the great parliamentary reform bill of 1832 and the abolition of the iniquitous laws that excluded Jews and other non-adhe- rents of the established church from cer- tain important political rights, Similarly the Cavendishes, although one of the greatest ducal families in Great Britain, and owning the far-famed Chatsworth snd other princely domains, have, for more than two hundred years, been.found main- ly on the side of the people in their strng- gles for political equality and the correc- tion of political and ecclesiastical abuses. The liberalism of the Fitzwilliams, too, bas been of the most thoroughgoing and pro- gressive character, and the scions of that noble house have always been ready to take up.the standard of the people and wave it in the thickest of the fight. The county of York has been the scene cf many famous political struggigs, but none is better remembered by the survivors of a past generation than that in which the ri- val candidates were the eldest sons of the Earls of Fitzwilliam and Harewood, and popular feeling found expression in the lines: Milton forever and Lascelles down th’ river With a knife in his heart and a fork in his liver! The Influence of the Nobility. At the recent election, however, the en- tire influence of these and many other peers of liberal antecedents and hitherto of liberal sympathies was thrown into the scale in favor of the conservatives. Amer- icans can hardly realize how great that influence can be, even in the absence of any attempt at coercion. Except where the land owner has forfeited the respect of his tenants by unjust exactions or a scan- dalous life, that his grace or his lordship, as the case may be, favors a particular candidate is sufficient to insure for that candidate from 75 to 9 per cent of the voting strength of an estate upon which possibly thousands of people reside. Nor is this the result of fear, of toadyism or even of an enlightened self-interest. It is merely the outcome of that extraordinary hold upon the respect, and, in not a few instances, upon the affection, of the rural classes which has been acquired by the English nobility. Should the defection of the whig peers prove as permanent as now seems likely, the liberalizing of the rural voters will be one of the most difficult tasks ever undertaken by a political party, and a liberal majority in England itself will come only as the result of some pow- erful appeal to the public conscience, voiced by some Russell, Bright or Glad- stone of the coming years. The country has now recovered from its astonishment sufficiently tp realize that, unless all indications fail, the new minis- try and new parliament will be among the longest lived in English history. Certain- ly, the administration is starting out in a way that challenges the admiration of friends and foes alike. Although the re- election of the speaker of the preceding parliament, without reference to his politi- éal affiliations, was in accordance with custom, the fact that the original election of Mr. Gully was so recent and had been secured by so “narrow a majority would have gone a long. way toward justifying a arty flushed with victory in setting aside fis claims. His re-election, therefore, with- out a dissenting vote, is almost as mag- nanioy us an act as would have been the Te-el jection of Mr. Reed by a democratic House of Representatives or that of Mr. Crisp by the republicans, the only differ- ence being that the speaker of the house of commons makes no speeches, initiates no legislation and is assumed for the time being to be a member of no political party. The Commander-in-Chief a Surprise. A far greater surprise is, however, about to be sprung upon the country in the ap- pointment of Lord Wolseley as commander- in-chief of the army. It has long been understood in well-informed circles that in view of the rapid growth, as was supposed, cf democratic seatiment in England, the queen would insist on retaining the su- preme command of the army in the hands of a member of the royal family. Her third son, the Duke of Connaught, having held several important military commands and attained—no matter just how—the rank of a full general, has been looked upon as the Intended successor of his great uncle, the Duke of Cambridge, and the fact that he is only forty-five years of age has made it seem only too probable that the country was doomed to a further long period of official incapacity and of opposition to much-needed reform. That his appoint- ment would have been in accordance with the queen’s most cherished desires is un- deniable, and it may be regarded as equally certain that her majesty has acceded to the appointment even of so distinguished and popular a soldier as Lord Wolseley only on the strong recommendation of a favorite minister at the head of a cabinet of more than ordinary moral, intellectual and political strength. What Disraeli Would Have Done. Had Lord Beeconsfield lived to be the head of the present ministry, he would probably—that is, if the cabinet would have allowed him—have given Ireland home rule and made sweeping modifica- tions in the constitution of the house of lords. He would once more, as Lord Derby expressed it in 1867, have caught the lib- erals bathing and have run away with their clothes. We need not look for any such outbidding of his political opponents on the part of Lord Salisbury, but we shall Irest assuredly see more or less preten- tious legislation, designed to remove both Ireland and the hevse of lords from the field of political controversy. It is al- ready whispered at the clubs that a re- ferm of the house of lords will be under- taken by the ministry in the shape of a limitation of the hereditary principle and the adoption of a provision for the crea- tion of peerages limited to a single life. But it is safe to say that the bishops, al- ‘ways the determined opponents of pro- gress and freedom, will not be excluded, nor will the power of the upper house to practically block legislation be in any- wise modified. As for Ireland, she will be relieved of a small portion of her some- what disproportionate annual contribution to the imperial exchequer and she will get a system of county councils that will be intended to serve as a safety valve for political fervor. She may even get rome sort of national council at Dublin, with an exceedingly rescricted range of au- therity. On the other hand, should there be a redistribution of seats--that is, a re- apportionment—dtring the preseni par- liament, Ireland will certainly lose 20 to 21 of her 103 representatives in the house of commons, and no new privilege that is likely to be granted her will be regarded by her people as anything like an equiva- len; for such a less. After all, then, the Irish qvrestion will not down, until, as Lord Rosebery expressed it a night or two ago, Ireland is goverened in accord- ance with Irish ideas. Legislation in the Right Direction. Liberals who think more of the welfare of their country than of the fortunes of their party will not seriously demur to this piecemeal and Inconclusive legislation, so long as it ts in the right direction. They will not greatly concern themselves over the fact that a reform of the house of lords and a correction of abuses in the establish- ed church, however inadequate such meas- ures may be, may indefinitely postpone the thorough overhauling of the one and the putting an end to, as @ political institution, of the other. They will, however, resist ‘the establishment, as suggested by Mr. Chamberlain, of a geher2} pension system for the aged, that would virtually pauper- ize a very numerous class of people, or would at least render them less dependent than they should be upon ¢heir own in- dustry and thrift in early and middle life. The party of progress will also oppose any fostering by the government of denomina- tional schools to the detriment of the un- sectarian system, and they will certainly oppose to the very utmost any attempt at the imposition of a tariff on any of the nec- essaries of life, even though it should have for its ostensible object the drawing more closely together, politically and commer- cially, of the different portions of the em- pire, by_ the exemption from its operation of the British colonies and dependencies. But that, as Mr. Kipling would say, is an- other story. ——__—+e+ KITCHEN PHILOSOPHY. Amusing Incidents of Servants as Re- lated by the Mistresses, From the Philadelphia Press. f we had no servants,” said the wo- man in the corner, “‘we should have no con- versation or stories to tell.” “Yes,” agreed the woman on the right, “I know an old maid who sald she gave up going into society because, as she had neither husband nor children to discuss and did her own work, she had nothing to talk about.” “What were you going to tell?” I asked the first speaker. “Oh,” she replied, “I was only going to tell about my coachman, who married recently. The bride was hideously ugly. ‘Heavens, James,’ I said; ‘what made you marry such an ugly woman? ‘Why, Miss M’ay,’ he replied, ‘I jes married her for What she was and what she wasn't.’” “What philosoph; murmured. “That reminds me,” said another, “of my housemaid’s Ictter to her sweetheart, Who is reputed to be a flirt. I act in the humble czpacity af cmanuensis for her, you know, and the other day when I was writing a letter for her she said, “Tell him he’s lak de mocking bird—he talks with many tongues.’ ” The woman on the left laughed. “Last summer,” she said, “I tock my children’s black mammy with us to Chicago from New Orleans, and she was much annoyed by the menu card. She couldn't read, and I asked how she managed. ‘Lord, honey,’ she sald, ‘I diin’t let on to them stuck-up mothers I couldn’t read. I jis shoved it away, and I says, “Look here, man, I ain’t got no time to be a-readin’ yo’ books. I got to ‘tend to dis chile. You jis bring me Hoenig to eat, quick, or I'll bus’ yo’ cad." f ———_+e+____ Grief in Animals, From the London Spectator. Dutch was a brown retriever of ad- vanced years; Curly was reputed to be a Scotch terrier, but his appearance sug- gested some uncertainty in his descent. Dutch was chained to his kennel, and Curly, who enjoyed his liberty, evinced his friendship by frequently taking bones and other canine delicacies to his less for- tunate friend. One morning Curly pre- sented himself at the house, evincing un- mistakable signs of grief by his demeanor and his whines. A visit to the kennel, where poor Dutch was found lying dead, showed the occasion of Curly’s unhappi- ness. We buried Dutch decorsusly under a vine in the garden, und supposed that Curly would forget the incident, but we were touched to see him in the capacity of faithful mourner frequently revisit the spot where his old friend was laid, taking with him, by way of offering, choice bones, which he carefully buried by the grave. This practice Curly continued for two years, when we left the house. e+ The Editor's Word for It. From the Chelan Herald. Owing to increased household duties in consequence of the arrival of a new boy, added to the Fourth of July celebration, the Herald does not get out until Saturday evening. Our readers are assured that these accidents do not happen every week, and we will endeavor to be on time in future, His Choice. From the Indianapolis Journal. “What kind of a doliar air you in favor of?” Mr. Everett Wrest asked in a mo- iment of idleness. “The old twenty-beer kind is good enough for me,” replied Mr. Dismal Dawson, in a tone that implied he had no more interest in the subject. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Facilities of Communication Between Virginia and the District, CONDIMION OF THE RENPAL MARKET ———— Problems in Connection With the Development of the Suburbs. SOME IMPROVEMENTS ‘Those who are interested in real estate fu Virginia, or who are more broadly con- cerned In anything which tends to the de- velopment of the city and its surroundings, lave heard no doubt with a great deal of interest of the proposed completion of the electric road from Alexandria to the end of the Aqueduct bridge. In connection with this bit of information it is also stated that it is contemplated to revive the road to Arlington, and that the Aqueduct bridge piers will be used for street ratlroad tracks. If these plans are carried out and the ex- pectations are realized, there will be es- tablished between the Virginia side of the Potomac and the Washington side a rapid &nd easy mode of communication. It will be the realization of efforts which have been made for a number of years past, and no doubt it will result in as much benefit as the projectors and advocates of im- proved facilities of communication between Virginia and the District have always maintained would follow their adoption. Virginia, as, indeed, all the territory con- liguous to the city, will be benefited as the center of population expands. Virginia as Well us Maryland. There seems to be no reason why the overflow of population from this city should not find its way ‘nto Virginia es well as into Maryland. Already the sub- urbs of Washington extend for a long dis- tance into Maryland, and also to some ex- tent Into Virginia. It is believed that the advantages of a home in Virginia, as well as of owning property there, will be more highly appreciated by the residents of this city when there are definite methods of communication which are rapid and at the same time inexpensive. To those who are not familiar with the development of the city in recent years it might seem to be somewhat presumptuous to expect such an expansion of population as would require room fer growth in the adjcining states, but, nevertheless, the pop- uletion which belongs to Washington and is dependent upon this city has al spread itself out over a large area of Virginia and Maryland, and it is very evi- dent that this movement will continue in the future. The Rental Market. As a rule, the present month. {ea rather dull one in.real estate circles,.and this sear is no exception to the general rule. How- ever, according to the statements made by real estate brokers, the demand for houses has begun rather early this season, and from the proportions already reached It ts ‘predicted that the market for rented houses is going to be an aetive one. According to the calendar, as well as cus- tom, the month when houses are usually rented is September, but it seems that peo- ple are making their preparations for the winter earlier than usual, and, as a re- sult, there are quite a number of houses being rented. It is, however, only the be- ginning of the season, as it were, and any Prediction as to the activity of the market must be based on the present indications. It 1s not claimed by real estate dealers or any one else that there is going to be a great boom this fall, but it is the opinion of men of conservative judgment that the fall season will show a volume of business much larger than for the corresponding period of last year, and one, in addition, that will afford a reasonable basis of hope that the spring season will be one of marked activity. Suburban Development. A good deal of attention is being paid by investors and others to the problem of su- burban development, and how best the de- mands of a growing population can be met. It is recognized that a large proportion of the population of the city have an ambition te own their own homes, or at least if they do not aspire to ownership, they wish to secure houses for the use of their fami- les which will be as comfortable and as well located as their means will permit. If they can do better for the same amount of Money in one part of the city than in another, it is well known that the tide of Population will soon set in that direction. The same principle, it is believed, applies to the suburbs and constitutes one of the most important elements in the creation of suburban communities or centers of popula- tion, The problem is much the same in cities. Washington, however, is exceptional in an important and vital particular. Here the contrast between the city and the coun- try is not as great as in other cities, for the resident of the nation’s capital enjoys wide streets which are shaded by trees and interspersed with parks and adorned with ccol, fresh lawns. City vs. Country. Here there is no special emphasis to be laid on the advantage of getting away from the close, crowded and unhealthy streets of the city. In other cities the people are al- most willing to pay more in order to be rid ef such disadvantages. Here the attrac- tions of city and country are so evenly bal- anced that in order to persuade those who have no inclination to live in the country to make their bones chee ‘an appeal must be made to their pockets. It must be shown that people can acquire homes in the country at a less expenditure of cash than could procure the same ac- commodations in the city. There is no trou- ble in making such a showing, but it is be- lieved that if greater emphasis were given to the financial feature of suburban devel- opment the progress would be more pro- nounced than it seems to be at present. An Apartment House. Plans are being prepared by Meyers & Anderson, architects, for an apartment building to be erected on Ith be- tween Clifton and Roanoke streets. It is proposed to have it eight stories in height, with an interior court and a roof gardet, The construction is to be fire-proof. Three Fools. From the Somerville Journal. There was a busincss man who failed ‘To win the longed-for prize Of riches and prosperity; He did not advertise. There was a lover once who died wretched, I suppose, pouuse ail through his fife be was Too bashful to propose. There was another man whore ways ils nelghbors greatly pained, Because he dida’t know enough To go in when it rained. All three _were fools, but worst of all ‘To eversbody’s eyes Was be who Was x business man ‘And didn't advertise. ——_— A Woman's Question. From Life. “So, sir; you went to that disgusting ballet!’ “Yes, darling; I-—"” “You ought to be ashamed of yourself; but did you see anything that would be @ good design for a bathing suit?”